Once you have come up with an idea for a new business, it’s important to think about protecting any original aspects of your concept that could prove invaluable to its success. This is known as your intellectual property. The main reason for guarding this is to prevent others from using your key business ideas without your permission. Failing to protect the intellectual property of your business can mean that ideas vital to your product or service could be used by competitors, and this could severely affect the performance of your company in the future. Your intellectual property could be rooted…
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Business processes consist of activities whose coordinated execution realizes some business goal. These activities can be system activities, user interaction activities, or manual activities. Manual activities are not supported by information systems. An example of a manual activity is sending a parcel to a business partner. Conceptual Model and Terminology The business process modelling space as laid out in Chapters 1 and 2 is organized using conceptual models. While the terms mentioned have been used in the previous chapters informally, the concepts behind these terms and their relationships will now be discussed in more detail, using conceptual models. These models…
Growing up in a home with four children and parents on a tight budget, my siblings and I quickly learned that if we wanted something, we’d have to figure out how to make it ourselves. Our bedtime stories consisted of books like Robinson Crusoe, Swiss Family Robinson, Little House on the Prairie, and Tom Sawyer. Whether they had a home in a treehouse or a raft for adventure, the heroes in these books made what they needed. So when, as a twelve-year-old, I wanted a sword, I found a book on DIY blacksmithing at the library and built my own…
Introduction At the dawn of human civilization, when the concept of furniture was not yet known, man, driven only by the need to make life easier, in a natural way used various objects made spontaneously by nature. A trunk of a tree felled by the wind or rock served as a place to sit (Fig. 1.1), a flat stone block served as a base for performing a variety of common work, and soft moss or woollen skins served as a bed. Over the years, as a result of the creative activity of humans, artefacts began to be made which replaced…
We will take a look at how to create a new Android application project inside Eclipse, how that project is structured and organized in the Eclipse Package Explorer, how Android uses XML mark-up to define data structures, project parameters, OS permissions and user interfaces quickly and easily, so that we don’t have to do this in Java, how our new media assets are named and stored in predefined logical resource folder hierarchies, and of course, how the Java programming language bootstraps and pulls it all together via Android Packages, Classes, Methods and Constants. Android Development is definitely unique. Android Application…
Laser treatments have long been widely used by beauticians and dermatologists to smooth wrinkles; now research reveals why the treatments work. Susanna Dams, Ph.D., describes the process in her biomedical engineering doctoral dissertation for Eindhoven University of Technology. The principle of laser therapy involves introducing heat under the skin with precision. Dams first tested the effect of heat on cell cultures by giving them heat shocks of 113 degrees and 140 degrees Fahrenheit without a laser, to exclude possible effects generated by the laser light. Next, she conducted similar tests on pieces of excised human skin. Finally, she heated pieces…
Almost immediately after the news had set in on September 11th TIA President and CEO Bill Norman began to consult with members of TIA’s 15-person executive committee and a Travel Industry Recovery Coalition was formed representing 26 sectors of the U.S. travel and tourism industry. A message and battle plan quickly followed. We knew where we had to go and we had a plan to get there. Our message platform was clear and simple: “Travel is a fundamental American freedom. We as an industry have a duty and responsibility to preserve and protect that freedom. We support the government’s efforts…
What Is It? Intelligence is the global ability of the individual to think clearly and to function effectively in the environment. This definition of intelligence is based on the thinking and writing of the clinical psychologist David Wechsler (1896–1981), author of the widely used Wechsler Intelligence Scales. If we examine the definition clearly, several important points emerge. First, intelligence is, to some extent, global. This means that it has a general quality that has an impact on many facets of life Intelligent Is as Intelligent Does One of the first people to attempt to measure intelligence in an objective manner…
The above examples of the ways students think about the learning process reveal that learning takes place under many conditions and in many situations. Although learning takes place in school, it is clear that much—perhaps most— learning goes on outside of the classroom. Indeed, the learning process affects almost everything we do. Learning is a more or less permanent change in behavior, or a behavioral tendency, as a result of experience. There are several points to be made about this definition. First, learning is “more or less” permanent. This suggests that although learning tends to resist change once it is…
Once you’ve decided that you do, in fact, need to pursue some form of digital marketing, the next step is to actually sit down and define your strategy. Unfortunately, there is no ‘one size fits all’ strategic panacea here. We don’t have a magic recipe to ensure your digital marketing success, and neither does anybody else (despite some of the online hyperbola you may read on the subject). Defining your digital marketing strategy can enable you to gain better merit and success in your digital marketing initiatives. It is recommended to get in contact with a reputable digital agency that…