Some of the main threat categories are: 2.1: Hacking or intrusion: This category includes attacks whereby an intruder gains access to some area or set of resources that are intended to be off-limits. ... A network firewall serves as a primary line of defense against external threats to an organization's computer systems, networks, and critical information. ... Proxy/Circuit Level Gateway Firewalls - This technology serves as an intermediary between the user and the system. ... Such a proxy is the FTP application proxy, which serves in examining a user's requests to verify confor...

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NAFTA continues to gradually reduce tariffs on set dates and aims to eliminate all tariffs by the year 2004. ... It is set up on the basis of free trade zones and eventually to lead to a common market. ... It was set up to adopt a common trade policy with nations that are not a part of the market and to set up a fixed common external tariff for all to follow. ... These free trade agreements serve to promote unified movement within the EFTA's economic relationships and to strengthen Europe's international trade alliances. ... The work of NAFTA has also served to benefit Mexico's ...

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I would like to explore how Fassbinder effectively employs the concepts of contradiction, contrast and exploitation in this film, i.e. concepts which are fundamental to an understanding of his work and world and which serve to provoke and unsettle the spectator. ... One is Emmi's local grocer, who refuses to serve Ali because he supposedly does not speak good enough German. ... For example, the grocer, who by that time has refused to serve either Ali or Emmi, decides that aversion must give way to business sense and welcomes Emmi and her custom back with open arms . ... It is Brecht&#x...

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In every culture there is a set of people who have common and shared values; customs, habits and rituals; systems of labeling, explanations and evaluations, social rules and behavior; perceptions regarding human nature, natural phenomena,, interpersonal relationships, time and activities; and symbols, art and artifacts. ... The disabled singers perform songs such as "Let the Children Stare" to convey the message that nothing beneficial , and certainly nothing is served by ignoring disabilities. ... These models have set standards in which we react or treat people with disabilities. ... In e...

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The Federal Reserve under the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980 sets the reserve requirements. ... Required reserves are a fraction of such deposits; the Board of Governors within limits prescribed by law sets the fraction "the required reserve ratio ". Thus, total required reserves expand or contract with the level of transaction deposits and with the required reserve ratio set by the Board; in practice, however, the required reserve ratio has been adjusted only infrequently. Depository institutions hold required re-serves in one of two forms: vau...

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2.1 Recapitulating the findings The thesis set out to demonstrate what had seemed initially to be a simple truth: Extensive reading is good for L2 vocabulary development because you will run into new words often and this will help you learn them. ... Nonetheless, we found a repetition effect for the small set of uncommon words that did occur often in a narrative text. ... Other attempts to locate frequently occurring words resulted in lists consisting mostly of very common items: In our experiments with Dutch and German texts, we found that the set of items that occurred one time only in the t...

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She portrays it as something almost satanic, which can only serve to disconnect people with reality and lead them to misery: "Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. ... Perhaps this serves as an explanation as to why it is considered so essential to possess an identity or Self. ... In his book, Heracles" Bow, White speaks about "constitutive rhetoric", the discourse of social life which not only serves the function of resolving disputes but also, and most importantly, is used in creating an identity ...

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The situation becomes problematic when the organization or entity was created to serve the needs of others. ... To these ends, the organization opened a half-house facility that would serve as a mechanism to offered continued services that also included making employment and educational services available to those reentering the community (OrianaHouse.org, 2012). ... Unfortunately, the agency now faces a number of issues that are now hindering the ability to serve the masses of people dependent to drugs and alcohol. ... Problem Analysis After researching the issues and problems that the Ori...

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While the commonplace approach of analysing the novel would be to place it within the context of its time of publication and/or the time frame the story is set in, this paper seeks to determine its current-day relevance in terms of how racial issues are treated within the American judicial system. 3. ... This part will look at the three most salient racial points raised in the novel and compare them against today's reality in Mississippi where "A Time to Kill" is set and other southern US-States. ... In an instance that also serves to establish Jake Brigance's view on the ...

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Businesses do not serve the same goals as other organisations in a pluralistic society; they are distinct because their sole focus is on economic behaviour. 2. ... Secondly, regarding Friedman's "tax argument" Desjardins and McCall point out that the word "tax" often carries with it a negative emotional charge and that rational argument is better served by adopting the more neutral terminology of "costs." ... The presence of costs so imposed cannot serve to distinguish between the moral standing of these opposing approaches to the responsibilities of management. ...

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Thus, he began to accelerate the transformation processes set in motion more than three years ago. ... The company's largest subsidiary, APS, served more than a million customers across Arizona. ... During 2008, APS served more than a million customers in Arizona. ... It served us well - people are comfortable with it, but it is costly and not as responsive to change....

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It's tempting to let this generic diagram serve as the customer's value chain, but it must be tailored to the particular customer. ... To perform the external value-chain analysis, team members should ask the customer a set of getting-to-know-you questions. ... Suppliers set up satellite offices next door to the most convenient procurement center. ...

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Later in the war he served with the Army's General Staff in Vienna working on economic problems until released in 1918. ... He also served as the Director of the League of Nation's Austrian reparations Commission for two years. ... Instead, socialist planners, who arbitrarily set the prices of resources, determine their income. ... Hayek serve as Manager. ...

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., with breakfast served cafeteria style and work began at 8:00 a.m. ... For others, the events served as motivation to get back what was once theirs and seek justice. ... This shared sentiment served as a unifying factor and motor behind the Japanese-Americans movement and pursuit to re-establish themselves in society. ...

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Each country is responsible for maintaining and refining their policies to better serve their citizens. ... However, supporters such as NHS Confederation Boss Gill Morgan; defend the policy stating, "We basically have four different systems albeit with the same set of values" linking the four nations goals together despite minor differences in procedure (Triggle, 2008). ... Each UK nation must give and take advice and assistance from one another in order to continually serve their population well. ... However each UK nation has progressed a long way in the past decade refining hea...

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The heated debate of democracy includes the differing views concerning the definition of democracy, controversy over the suitable form of democracy since there are different forms, lack of relevant cases where total democracy was implemented and there are questions on who sets down the agreed levels and standards of democracy as the yardstick which takes precedence over other forms of regimes. ... Thus they argue alongside these lines, and this is because it serves the interests of the people and cares to a greater extent about the welfare of the citizens. ... In scrutiny of his aristocratic ...

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This sets forth the same message that a sexist or racist would hate, because you are not part of my group you are inferior. ... The American Medical Association has devised a set of codes designed to guide researchers in their conduct during experimentation. ... No experiment should be conducted when there is an a priori reason to believe that death or disabling injury will occur; except, perhaps, in those experiments where the experimental physicians also serve as subjects. 6. ... It includes mental, physical and emotional perspectives that can not be covered on a sheet of paper; the purpose ...

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The rules for consonance and dissonance are iconic of this time period, and it sets it apart from the one before and after. ... Other important composers included Ockeghem (1420-1497) who served the king of France for half a century and Busnoys (1430-1492) who served Charles the Bold, Mary of Burgundy, and Maximilian of Hapsburg. ... One of the most influential and characteristic genre of the Renaissance was the Madrigal which is a vocal composition combining homophonic and polyphonic textures that is set to a short poem. ...

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The tale is set behind, and outside, the walls of the Thomaston Penitentiary in present day America; the exact geographic location of the setting, however, remains unknown. ... Though speaking solely from a speculative point of view, I have come to determine that imprisonment serves to have a debilitating effect on both mind and body alike. ... This courageous act initially only serves to confuse Caine. ... The tale is set behind, and outside, the walls of the Thomaston Penitentiary in present day America; the exact geographic location of the setting, however, remains unknown. ...

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In spite of its clear retort to injustice upon inception, Israel falls prey to the very same consequences of oppressive injustice, in that while its ideology comes as a response to injustice served to Jews, in reality this very ideology recreates injustice for others.5 Restitution and reconciliation are topics of the peace talks, and while they go mentioned remain unconstituted. ... A capitalist critique is not of issue here, but what is of issue is the author's claim that Israeli's maneuvered politics into the equation of economics to dominate, exploit, and deliberately set limits ...

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However, this document would set an important precedent for future US interventions into Central and South America, as future presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt invoked the Monroe Doctrine over and over again to "justify" constant marine invasions of countries such as Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, and Cuba. ... Tensions first heated up when the Mexicans, realizing that the Americans soon vastly outnumbered the 3000 Mexican ranchers in Texas, began imposing laws prohibiting or curbing immigration, abolishing slavery, and banning Protestant churches, three measures that the Mexican legisla...

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The Huron Consulting Group, is a global management consulting company offering services in healthcare, education, law, and finance. It was formed in 2002, by a core group of experienced financial and operational consultants who used equity sponsorship from investors. These consultants were led by La...

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Although an immigrant, an outsider in Canadian society, Mistry already understood this condition, for in India he belonged to the Parsi community, whose Zoroastrian religious beliefs set its members on the edge of Hindu society. ... Set in the mid-1970s during Mrs. ... To a degree, the English-speaking world has become his audience, even though the wide reception of Mistry's fiction set in the milieu of a minority religious community and focused on Indian political events does raise some questions. ... As far as Parsi life goes, though, Mistry has some competition, because the Pakistani...

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Although an immigrant, an outsider in Canadian society, Mistry already understood this condition, for in India he belonged to the Parsi community, whose Zoroastrian religious beliefs set its members on the edge of Hindu society. ... Set in the mid-1970s during Mrs. ... To a degree, the English-speaking world has become his audience, even though the wide reception of Mistry's fiction set in the milieu of a minority religious community and focused on Indian political events does raise some questions. ... As far as Parsi life goes, though, Mistry has some competition, because the Pakistani...

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Whereas the American and Australian Senates hold real power that the leaders must compromise and cooperate with, the Canadian Senate serves as little more than an appointed rubber stamp for government policy. ... The term Primus Inter Pares (First Among Equals) is often used to describe Canada's Prime Minister, alluding to a position that serves to lead its fellow officials through the duties of good governance. ... The Prime Minister chairs all cabinet meetings and sets agendas, announces the consensus reached by cabinet and often solely determines orders-in-cabinet, appoints and remov...

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