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What business unit within mostcompanies produces the periodicreports, statements and analyses,such as annual reports, that aredisseminate to investors? |
Accounting |
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Requiring students to use a combination of a numeric passcode and their CatCard to enter alocked door on a UA dorm is an example of approach for security control? |
Defense in Depth |
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Allowing individuals to file tax returns, renew driver’s licenses, and obtain various permitsonline is an example of what type of eGovernment? |
Government to citizen |
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Which of the following actions would be considered a biometric authentication? |
Requiring a user to scan their fingerprint |
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On the balance sheet, total assets minus total liabilities must equal what? |
Owners equity |
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Sending phishing emails that demand users respond immediately or risk losing access to acritical resource, such as email, is an example of what? |
Social Engineering |
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The password “Ar1zon@ ” hashow many variables |
4 |
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“ticker symbol” identifies what? |
Traded Company |
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Market Value |
Determines the allocation of resources |
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Book value |
total assets of a company |
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The Gainesville Police Department P2C (Police-to-Citizen) website uses visualization toolsthat allow citizens to help themselves in what way? |
Map crime incidents |
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What action did Stacy Snyder take that resulted in her losing her job? |
Posting a photo of herself at a party on her personal social media account |
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Approximately what percentage of applications for jobs are rejected by potential employersbefore the interview due to public information posted online by the applicant |
60% or more |
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What free service delivers emergency information to registered UA students, faculty and staff– as well as their friends and family – via their cell phones, mobile devices and/or emailaccounts during a campus emergency? |
UAlert |
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In class, we discussed how digital photos now include “metatdata” (embedded informationalong with the photo). Metadata about the latitude and longitude of where a photo was takenin the digital image file is known as what? |
Geotagging |
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As discussed by Dr. Gilliland, David Myers’ (former controller of MCI/Worldcom) statement “Istill don’t know that one point when I started to cross the line...”, is an example of how small,incremental repeated compounding of unethical decisions can result in what? |
Ethical drift |
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In our discussion of the “Democracy Online” framework, what group should take responsibilityfor providing information about positions, candidates, and advocacy efforts, and work toinvolve supporters through online interactive spaces |
Political organizations |
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In the business world, how would a company use the ethical survey you completed in class |
Integrity testing job screening |
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What type of authentication about the cardholder (you) occurred when you swiped your UofACatCard to record your attendance as your entered the MIS 111 Exam today? |
Something a user has |
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Dr. Jay Nunamaker, Regents Professor and founding chair of the MIS Department, describedMIS as a discipline focused on doing what for business |
solving real problems |
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In the video case regarding tracking customers while they were shopping in a store, howwere the customers’ movements being tracked |
Using WiFi connections to customer’s cell phones |
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In the video case that discussed a recent market crash that was caused by high-volumeautomated stock trading computer systems, what action caused the sudden stock sell-off |
A false news “tweet” was posted on Twitter |
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How are social media screening services such as companies like “Social Intelligence” used inthe hiring process? |
Employers use these services to perform non-discriminatory background checks |
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What financial reporting document provides a financial snapshot of a company at a givenpoint in time with respect to assets, liabilities, and shareholder equity |
Balance sheet |
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A stock’s “beta” provides an investor what type of information about the company’s stock |
Compares the volatility of the stock to the market as a whole |
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What normative theory of ethics focuses on the belief that managers actions should beguided by the understanding that they are entrusted with a responsibility to manage andprotect the assets of the company for the benefit of all of those who are impacted by theactions and financial results of the firm |
Stakeholder |
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A company’s “ticker” or stock symbol serves what role on a stock trading exchange |
Uniquely identifies a traded stock |
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As described by Democracies Online, what role does the private sector have in fostering anactive and interactive public commons |
Provide user connectivity, technical support, and open standards to the community |
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The Eller “GoodCat” website that allows for anonymous reporting of unethical behavior inEller classes uses what business model |
Whistleblower model |
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Apple’s introducing iPads as an alternative to laptops |
Product Leadership |
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Adding fingerprint scanning to the iPhone5 product |
Customer Intimacy |
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Microsoft acquiring Nokia’s existing phone products |
Category Renewal |
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Governments being more effective using online systems |
Operational Excellence |
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Which of the following is true about folksonomies, taxonomies, tags and hash tags (such as would be used by Twitter users when posting a comment)? |
Tags are words selected by users to describe a user’s view of the concepts in a posting and Hash tags are terms used to create groupings of unstructured user posting |
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In a vertical cross-functional business process diagram, the orderof items in one column (from top to bottom) shows what relationship among these items |
Time |
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A “Fishbone” process analysis diagram is also known as |
A cause-and-effect diagram |
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In the video case discussing how governmentscould leverage web 2.0 technologies, the speaker described an emerging era of “data-driven government” that had helped the state of Maryland identify where children were at risk. What approach was used for this solution? |
Overlaying maps of children in foster care with maps of person convicted of crimes |
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n Thomas Friedman’s discussion of globalization, he described the process of globalizationas being realized through action that were first defined by your country, then later defined bymulti-national companies, and finally, in the most recent age of globalization is defined by: |
Individuals |
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As a possible password, how many variables would the password MIS111ExamPassword(just the underlined string of characters) have when assessing its security strength? |
3 |
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As discussed by Dr. Gilliland, the classic values conflict with “Who Am I’” represents whattype of ethical dilemma? |
Integrity vs. loyalty |
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The “Porter’s Forces” model deals with what aspect of globalization? |
comepetition |
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Market capitalization is determined by multiplying the stock price by what? |
Number of common shares outstanding |
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What business model has been developed to assist consumers to manage the complexitycaused by multiple vendors offering products directly on the web? |
Reintermediation |
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As discussed in class, what company was founded in the Globalization 2.0 era based on thebusiness model of selling discontinued product lines directly to consumers by using an newtransportation infrastructure to reach a geographically distributed customer base |
Sears, Roebuck & Co. |
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Although globalization has been underway for many centuries, digitization, networking, andconnectiveness have dramatically increased what? |
Pace of Change |
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The Democratic National Committee used a software tool called the Voter Activation Networkto classify voters considering whether a voter is likely to cast a vote and the party affiliation ofthe voter. Which category of voters was considered by the DNC to have the highest returnon investment of campaign resources? |
Voters who always vote, and support candidates from both parties |
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When a company purchases standard commodity products available from multiple vendors,what purchasing technique is often used to obtain the best (lowest) price for the item? |
Reverse Auctions |
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In Michael Porter discussion of the “Porter’s Forces”, what industry was described as anexample of a “zero-star” industry where all of the competitive forces work against profitability? |
Airline industry |
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n MIS 111, clickers are used to collect information about your opinions, domain knowledge,and attendance during class. What advantage does collecting data with a clicker have overusing written documents, such as scantrons or printed answer sheets |
Clickers have a lower transactional cost per response than a printed paper form and Clickers allow students to self-evaluate their responses against their peers during class |
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Non-invasive medical tools such as an MRI or CT Scan |
Product |
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Henry Ford’s automobile assembly line |
Process |
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Commercial sale of military jeeps (vehicles) |
(re) Positioning |
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Invention of the electronic transistor |
Paradigm Shifts |
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Accessing the internet using UAWifihas what advantage over using UAPublic |
Information transmitted over UAWiFi protects privacy through the use of encryption .Your connection speed (bandwidth) on UAWiFi is higher .Ports are not blocked on UAWiFi, allowing access to a greater number of service |
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What term is used to describe a market-oriented mechanism for advancing the value proposition of innovation? |
Entrepreneurship |
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In MIS 111, clickers are used to collect information about your opinions, domain knowledge, and attendance during class. Which of the following is NOTan advantageof collecting data using clickers during class |
Clickers allow students to answer skipped questions later in class |
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What ethical framework considers an action ethical if it provides the most good or does the least harm for customers, employees, shareholders, the community and the environment? |
Utilitarian approach |
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The Democratic National Committee used a software tool called the Voter Activation Network to classify voters considering whether a voter is likely to cast a vote and the party affiliation of the voter. The GOTV (get out the vote) was specifically targeted at what demographic? |
Democratic voters who sometimes vote, and support Democratic candidates |
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What eGovernment next generation application allows citizens to request that they be notified when specific documents are posted or actions related to attributes such as geographic region, personal interest, or specific policy issues occur. |
Personalization |
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In the “High Frequency Trading” case study, what action resulted in a stock being traded |
Computer algorithms executed orders by identifying opportunities to make profits |
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Based on Google’s tracking of incoming links (weblinks pointing to the source), in what video case was the influence of four bloggers seen as comparable to mainstream media outlinek such as Forbes magazing |
Long tail |
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What student-funded and managed program provides opportunities for students to propose and undertake projects related to sustainability |
Greenfund |
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As discussed in class, journalists have suffered a loss of public trust due by adopting what technology commonly used in the fashion and marketing industry for reporting news events |
Using photoshop to alter photos to match the news story |
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What ethical framework considers all stakeholders related to the decision, such as the company’s customers, employees, shareholders, the community and the environment |
Social Contract |
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With respect to a business model, the value proposition describes what |
How the business’ products or services fulfill the needs of a customer |
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As discussed in the reading on business modeling, a spiderweb (or radar) diagram would commonly be used for which of the following task |
Comparing the relative strengths of multiple strengths of a leader |
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Sustainability seeks to balance today’s needs with future needs by addressing and valuing the interconnectedness of the environment, social, and what other dimension |
Economic systems |
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With respect to a product’s design, who forms (determines) the “mental model” of a design’s system user interface? |
the users of the procuct |
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Developed by the US Navy, a PERT (Program Evaluation Review Technique) chart would help a project manager understand what aspect of a project |
The project milestones and the order they are scheduled to be completed * |
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All of the symbols representing tasks and decisions that are shown insingle columnof a vertical cross-functional diagram are related to the same what? |
actor |
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What term describes the method of doing business by which a company sustains itsel |
business model |
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Which of the following does a Fishbone Diagram typically not inform you about a problem |
The cost of correcting a problem with a process |
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In a cross-functional business process diagram, the order of items in one column shows what relationship among the items? |
time |
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Which of the following types of project management charts discussed inclass would be considered a hierarchical diagram? |
Work breakdown structure |
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The EPEAT program focuses on what issue |
Environmental impact |
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What term related to the goals and objectives of a project describe its direct correlation between the project outcomes and the company’s corporate strategy? |
Strategic alignment |
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What type of feasibility analysis would evaluate the skills and training of our employees with respect to their being about to accomplish a task when evaluating a proposed project |
operational |
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Holding a meeting using a telepresence system as an alternative to traveling to a face-to-face meeting is an example of what type of effect on environmental sustainability |
2nd order |
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In class, we discussed replacing an old, less energy-efficient air handler unit in Centennial Hall with a new, more energy-efficient unit by offsetting the capital cost of the new equipment using what type of savings |
Operational Energy (electricity) costs |
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Occurs in parallel with the project’s “execution” phase |
control |
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Contains all three elements of the “Tripe Constraint |
Gantt Chart |
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Includes project sponsors, managers, and opponents |
Stakeholders |
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Technical, Economic and Operational |
Feasibility Constraints |
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What term describes the ability of a person to effectively evaluate and manage one’s finances in order to make prudent decisions toward reaching life’s goal |
Financial Literacy |
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When evaluating a vendor’s “on-time delivery” performanceusing the SCOR (Supply Chain Operations Reference) model, what are we assessing about the vendor |
The vendor’s effectiveness |
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As discussed by Jack Welch, which of the following supply chain performance improvement techniques focuses on reducing variation and improving quality |
six sigma |
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Which of the following tasks would not be a step the SCOR (supply chain operations reference) model |
test |
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When major airlines (American, Delta, United, etc.) bypass travel agents and directly market tickets to customers from the airline’s corporate website, this is an example of using what type of business sales strategy |
Disintermediation |
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Internet-enabled globalization does the following |
Removes geography as a barrier to relationships |
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As discussed in class, which of the following companies exerts seller poweras described in “Porter’s Competitive Forces Model” using a strategy of maintaining high profit margins by limiting the number of channels that a customer can purchase their products and services? |
apple |
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What dimension of Porter’s Forces focuses on the decision that a buyer makes when choosing among direct,existing competitors when all of the competitors offer the same identical name-brand product (e.g.,an iPhone 6) |
Industry Rivals |
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The SMED (single minute exchange of die) technique pioneered by Toyota reduced setup time and allowed Toyota’s production process to what |
Have a more agilemanufacturing process |
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What is NOTa factor contributing to the Bullwhip Effect |
Outsourcing |
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Which of the following causes of the bullwhip effect is related toa trading partner intentionallysharing inaccurate information with a company’s future inventory requirements |
Shortage Gaming |
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For companies managing their supply chain business processes using CFAR (Collaborative Forecasting and Replenishment), the process improvements over the traditional ordering process could be primarily considered as animprovement in which of the following |
Efficiency |
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In the SCOR model, competitive requirements such as reliability, responsiveness, and agility are all related to what dimension of a vendor’s performance |
effectiveness |
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Increasing density of digitization (transistors) |
Moore’s Law |
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Measure of the volatility of a stock to the broader market |
stocks beta |
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Increasing value of networks based on connectio |
Metcalf’s Law |
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How products or services fulfill the needs of a customer |
Value Proposition |
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Increases both business competition and opportunities |
Globalization |
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What term is used to describe the information collecteddescribing anaction (i.e., location, time, place, etc.) as opposed to the data itself |
metadata |
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The University of Arizona Green Fund is an example of what type of sustainability program |
Student engagement |
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n the Avnet Tech Trends video case, shutting off personal computer at night is an excellent example of what order of environmental sustainability |
First order issues related to existence |
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When printinga document, which of the following strategies would result in the most significant energy savings |
Printing a document on both sides of the paper (duplex printing) |
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What type of analysis evaluates the trade-offs with respect to making a decision on whether to purchase a new computer vs. continuing running older, less efficient computers |
Economic analysis |
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As confirmed by our in-class poll, what is the most likely action an owner will take with their old computer or cellular telephone after purchasing a new device |
store it at home |
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Internet-enabled globalization does the following |
Removes geography as a barrier to relationships |
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With respect to an individual, what term describes the processof managing one’s earnings, savings, and debtto meet the actual and budgeted expenses |
personal finance |
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Building on its initial success of the Voter Activation Network, the Democratic National Committee moved beyond simply classing voters by whether they are likely to cast a vote and their party affiliation to also include what additional aspect of Web2.0 |
Influencing voters by having supporters use their social media relationships |
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What term is used to describe actions of individuals who use technology to harass or intimidate someoneanywhere, anytime to create an environment when the victim typically feels that no place is safe from harassment |
cyberbullying |
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Planned, recurring expenses that occur on a routine schedule, such rent or car payments that must be paid every month, are examples of wha |
fixed expenses |
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According to the article “How your digital identity will be used” all of the following but one are unchangeable |
passport number |
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According to the article “The Five Most Disruptive Innovations at CES 2016” their most successful prediction is for one company which went on to win best of show the following year and now is in many other booths helping others demonstrate new products. This company is |
Oculus |
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According to the article “Fintech Is Just Getting Started” Bitcoin is an example of a |
Cryptocurrency |
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electing EPEAT-compliant technology with a high rating over traditional, less energy efficient technology is an example of focusing on what sustainability effect |
Creation, Use and Disposalof a product |
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The four Ps of Innovation include everything but? |
potential |
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Walmart’s operating more effectively in the realm of logistics than any of its competitors involves which Innovation Zone? |
Operational Excellence |
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If you were supporting a Democratic candidate, which group of voters could be most efficiently reached using only a get-out-the-vote (GOTV) activity? |
Democratic voters who sometimes vote |
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As discussed in Online Democracymodel, the “Voter Activation Network” categorizes voters as always/sometimes/never voting by using information obtained from |
Government |
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9Substituting face-to-face meetings with telecommuting and online distance learning are examples of how technology produces what order sustainability effect |
2nd–Application |
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Acquiring EPEAT compliant technology is an example of what order sustainability effect |
1st–Existence |
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n Dr. Champion’s presentation, what analogy did he use to describe the safe space for humans between the social foundation and the environmental ceiling |
A doughnut |
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