Quantifying individuals ’ trade-offs between privacy‚ liberty & security: The case of rail travel in U.K. Abstract Public transport systems have been targets in several terrorist attacks‚ notably in recent years‚ resulting in tight security measures worldwide. However‚ individuals ’ privacy and liberty often conflict with efforts towards safety and security‚ making it difficult to assess the benefits of security measures balanced against the costs (e.g. citizens may be stopped‚ searched and asked
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Title: “Got to Get You into My Life: Do Brand Personalities Rub off on Consumers?” Authors: Ji Kyung Park‚ Deborah Roedder John This report is a study of brand personalities and how they can “rub off” on their consumers. This is how the consumer perceives themselves after they use that brand. This article is important because it shows how a brand can affect the consumer. If a brand can capture a personality of a certain person‚ the more likely that person will stick with that brand. Brand
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It is typical for people to be prejudiced‚ yet prejudice can cause major misunderstandings and problems. Significant prejudice occurs in Nadine Gordimer’s story‚ “The Moment Before the Gun Went Off‚” based on Marais Van der Vyver‚ a white South African farmer in the time of Apartheid who has a secret – a black son that nobody knows about. As the story progresses‚ we realise how many misunderstandings are caused by his secret and the negative effects the misunderstandings lead to. When Van der Vyver
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models created a correlation behind the indication that humans do read off signs. It will also endeavor to outline the importance behind Roland Barthes’ theory‚ where it can be argued that meaning is interpreted differently through culture‚ past experiences and previous knowledge to the individual who is receiving the message. This essay will conclude that knowledge of how a sign is conveyed is individual. Although we do read off signs that are presented before us‚ context is imperative as it can alter
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y ANALYSIS OF RISK AND RETURN TRADE OFF BY LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO MAJOR LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES SYNOPSIS SUBMITTED FOR REGISTRATIO N OF Ph.D RESEARCH WORK R.T.M. NAGPUR UNIVERSITY 2011
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human personality‚ it is both distinctive and enduring. Imagine a Harley- Davidson tattoo on your arm; would you perceive yourself to be more muscular or less muscular than before? In the article‚ the authors revealed that brand personality do “rub off” onto some consumer who hold certain beliefs about their personality- entity theorist in particular. In this paper‚ I will be discussing the research topic and the methods used and explore the practicability of the article. Park and John investigated
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Would we be better off without our emotions so that all of our knowledge and opinions were based on reasoning? “There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth‚ yet until we have felt its force‚ it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul”. Arnold Bennett there is a strong belief that decision should be based upon reasoning rather than emotions but where does this reasoning come from? Emotions are always primary‚ after one sorts
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Approach to Credit Risk: Risk-weighted Off-balance Sheet Credit Exposures 1. This Guidance Note and its Attachments set out the procedures and requirements for calculating the risk-weighted amount of an authorised deposittaking institution’s (ADI’s) off-balance sheet credit exposures under the standardised approach for capital adequacy purposes. Scope 2. The risk-weighting process used for measuring an ADI’s off-balance sheet credit exposures covers all the ADI’s off-balance sheet business‚ including
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COVER PAGE SCHOOL: BON AIR SECONDARY SCHOOL OUR TOPIC: COMMUNICATION SATELITES‚ NETWORKS‚ EXTRANETS DATE: 08/10/12 CLASS: 3:3 SUBJECT: COMPUTER STUDIES TEACHER: P.GRANSAM GROUP MEMBERS: KYLE‚ ISAIAH‚ NICQUAN‚ HANNAH‚EMMANUEL COMMUNICATION SATELLITES A communication satellite is an artificial satellite sent to space for the purpose of telecommunications. Modern communications satellites use a variety of orbits including: geostationary‚ molniya orbits‚ elliptical orbits‚ and low (polar
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Direct to garment printer recent market conditions analysis The Economist magazine believes that 3D direct to garment printer printing technology represents new development trend of manufacturing industry‚ it will promote the implementation of the third industrial revolution. Currently two 3D printer worldwide manufacturing giants‚ respectively a Stratasys and 3DSystems‚2012-year‚ Stratasys shares doubled 3DSystems shares have increased almost twice‚ and the Nasdaq composite index has only risen
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