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This paper looks at how within only two generations; Hong Kong has established itself as a model of stellar economic growth. This paper will attempt to uncover the 'secrets' of Hong Kong's success, and strive to provide a greater understanding of this very unique and dynamic area.

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This paper is a research project, which uses anomaly intrusion detection to determine if there are any abnormal patterns and, hence, intrusions in the provided log files. The author stresses that a statistics approach seems to be the easiest and most straightforward approach. The paper relates that a common practice in IDS software is to incorporate different techniques to detect intrusion so that other methods such as hierarchical clustering can still be included in the system to search for suspicious/ known data patterns such as viruses. The paper includes charts, graphs and a screen-shot.

From the Paper
"Since we are not building a new system, we will try to implement and base the report on existing work. Viewing sequence algorithms for intrusion detection helps to determine which patterns look like patterns of intrusion. The statistics technique is discussed but will not be programmed at this current time. We will also attempt to show manually how this algorithm will detect the patterns using previous research as it correlates to this specific data using logs provided and some data mining algorithm."

Tags:algorithms, tree-like, clustering, pattern, ids

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This paper studies the concept of market efficiency as it applies to the United Kingdom. The paper begins with a definition of the Efficient Markets Hypothesis, followed by an analysis of anomalies to this concept. Empirical observations about the January effect and the weekend effect are offered. The paper concludes with a comparison between the concept of market efficiency in the UK and other European countries. Market Efficiency January Effect Weekend Effect Anomalies and the Efficiency Market

From the Paper
"Market Efficiency could be defined as a concept of Efficient Markets Hypothesis. EMH follows that stock prices reflect information. The basic concept is that if markets are efficient then information of abnormal nature could be reflected simultaneously into the market. As a result of this effect, prices are also effected. On the other hand if markets are inefficient newly generated information will have a slower effect into the market thereby change in prices is also slow."

Tags:stock, London, England, weekend, January, efect, prices, sales, inefficient, capital, corporate, funding

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Hong Kong has been, for most of its history, something of an anomaly. For most of the territory's history it was a British colony, but it had almost no British colonialists in residence, with its population in the 1970s being 98% Chinese. Moreover, although it was a British territory for 140 years, its "significant history" dates from 1949 when the Communist Revolution in China utterly transformed its political, social and economic character. This anomalous aspect of Hong Kong will be highlighted in this essay, which will explore the economic transformation of Hong Kong in the modern period. The thesis will be argued that this anomalous aspect of Hong Kong played a critical role in its economic transformation in the critical post-war period as it allowed the Crown Colony/city-state to neatly straddle the primary ideological, territorial, cultural, political and economic demarcation lines in Asia. In this regard, it was not only able to draw upon diverse sources for its development, but its value to all major players in the region was such that everyone had an interest in Hong Kong's continuing success and development. In this regard, its anomalous character represents Hong Kong's critical strategic advantage in its modern economic transformation.

From the Paper
The Transformations of the Hong Kong Economy In the Post-War Era Introduction Hong Kong has been, for most of its history, something of an anomaly. For most of the territory's history it was a British colony, but it had almost no British colonialists in residence, with its population in the 1970s being 98% Chinese. Moreover, although it was a British territory for 140 years, its "significant history" dates from 1949 when the Communist Revolution in China utterly transformed its political, social and economic character. This anomalous aspect of Hong Kong will be highlighted in this

Tags:hong kong, economy, growth

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This paper examines fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD). It discusses the causal relationship between alcohol and FAS and the effects of FAS on the child. The paper discusses three criteria of effects - growth deficiency, clustered anomalies, and damage to the central nervous system. Finally, the paper looks at the economic costs of FAS and the moves to prevent its occurrence.

From the Paper
"In the three decades since Jones and Smith named a cluster of anomalies as a syndrome, the presence of fetal alcohol syndrome has shaped legislation, redefined public policy, and generated millions of dollars in research and study. And still, it remains a condition that is at once very hidden from view and very public. Hidden are the social and cultural variables that are at the root of FAS, the attitudes towards alcohol and the female body that continue to be hedged always in ambiguities and hypocrisies. FAS is preventable, and yet we as a culture seem unwilling to take the necessary steps to eradicate it once and for all. And the reminders of this failure, both personal and collective, is evident in the faces of those who suffer the affects of their mother's drinking, those who remain forever the public face of a syndrome that we have the power to control."

Tags:FASD, growth, anomalies, alcoholism

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This paper thoroughly explains database normalization and views it as a series of steps designed to deal with ways in which tables can be more complicated than necessary. The paper contends that the purpose of normalization is to reduce the chances for anomalies to occur in a database.

From the Paper
"In 1970, Dr. E.F. Codd's seminal paper "A Relational Model for Large Shared Databanks" was published in Communications of the ACM. This paper introduced the topic of data normalization, so-named because, at the time, President Nixon was normalizing relations with China. (Date, 1990)"
At first glance, Database normalization seems fairly simple. It's a technique used to ensure that there is only one way to know a fact. This is done by removing all structures that prove more than one way to know the same fact as represented in a database relation table. So, the goal of database normalization is to control and eliminate redundancy. One of the more complicated topics in the area of database management is the process of normalizing the tables in a relational database."

Tags:database, normalization, anomalies, relational, model, computer, information, systems, technology, digital, information

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This study examines the media coverage of juvenile crime, focusing on the 1924 murder of a 14-year-old boy, Robert Franks by two older teenagers, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb. The paper follows the coverage among the many newspapers in Chicago at the time. An examination of coverage by the major papers (this study focuses on The Chicago Daily News) makes clear at least two central elements-- the boys were anomalies of human nature and their behavior should be seen as unacceptable.

From the Paper
"The murders took place at a time when the United States was self-satisfied. The First World War was largely forgotten, the Roaring Twenties were in full bloom, peace and economic prosperity were everywhere. It simply did not make sense that juveniles who came from such a happy and successful society (and who in fact enjoyed the very best that that society had to offer, as children of wealthy and powerful families) could become such calculating, cold-blooded killers."

Tags:punishment, criminal, children, youth, trial, citizens, newspaper, journalism

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The paper shows that according to recent research, the earth?s magnetic field has shown signs that it is ready to shift. If this occurs, the magnetic north will point south and the magnetic south will point north and have disasterous effects on Earth. The paper discusses how scientists measure the magnetic field by tracking its history from a gigantic crack in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean that oozes lava. As the lava solidifies into rock, it records the Earth's magnetic polarity at various times. According to these records, the Earth is overdue for another reversal. The paper shows that prior to a magnetic field reversal, the magnetic field typically grows weaker and weaker until it almost disappears. As a result, the poles flip and strong magnetism starts up again. The paper explains how magnetism levels in ancient pottery indicate that over the past 4,000 years, the magnetic field has weakened by about half. In this century alone, it has decreased by five percent. The paper explores theories put forth by scientists that the Earth's magnetic field could disappear in the next few hundred or thousand years.

Table of Contents
Abstract
Introduction
Origin of the Earth's Magnetic Field
Paleomagnetism
Field Reversals
Theories of Magnetic Pole Reversals
Earth's Magnetic Field
The Main Field
Secondary Field
Remanent Magnetization
Electromagnetic Dynamo Effect
Magnetization of Rocks
Curie Point
Processes of Magnetization in Rocks
Magnetic Anomalies
Paleomagnetic Data
Morphology of Reversals
Field Direction and Field Intensity
Field Reversals
What Drives Reversals?
Core-Mantle Boundary Processes
Bibliography

From the Paper
"Over the past three-and-a-half million years, the Earth's magnetic poles have shifted approximately nine times. This estimate has been found through sampling of the magnetic records formed by rocks in the ocean beds and in ancient lava formations.

Scientists do not know how or why the magnetic poles reverse for sure, nor do they know exactly what effect this will have on life, as we know it. Many believe that the magnetic poles of the Earth reverse an average of every 200,000 years, but the time between reversals has varied widely. The Sun reverses its magnetic poles fairly routinely: essentially every 11 years."

Tags:Paleomagnetism, bacteria, Field, Satellite, IGRF, WMM

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This paper gives a thorough overview of the economic theory of Efficient Markets which states that prices of stocks and other securities fully reflect the information available to the investors in the market. The paper investigates why some finance professionals harshly oppose this system as it neglects the authenticity of fundamental or technical analysis. It shows that these professionals claim that if the assumptions of the theory were true, if investors traded their stocks in an efficient market, where prices are a reflection of available information, the buying and selling of securities would no more be considered as a business and it would become a matter of fortune to benefit from a sale or purchase of securities. The paper uses several stock market anomalies to show how the Efficient Market Hypothesis works.

From the Paper
"From the above discussed stock market anomalies, it is evident that the future trends of securities and stocks are predictable to some extent. In some circumstances, the predictability of security prices is inconsistent with efficient market hypothesis. In addition to the above-mentioned anomalies, researchers have also pointed out some other inconsistencies in the capital markets, which bring the authenticity of EMH to doubt. For instance, researchers have found evidences of rise or fall in capital markets in certain specific periods, leading to the conclusion that the capital markets are subject to certain periodic or seasonal effects. Moreover, several studies have also revealed that the price to earning ratios of the firms has a very strong capability to predict future fall or rise in prices (Campbell and Sheller, 1988)."

Tags:corporate, investors, investment, strategy, Monday, Effect, EMH

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The paper gives a thorough description of the anomalies that can occur due to the maldevelopment of fetal tissues with the use and abuse of cocaine during pregnancy. It discusses malformations and medical procedures performed on fetuses and babies with certain malformations.

From the Paper
"In order to understand the negative affects of cocaine on fetal development, you must first understand normal fetal development. Cocaine mostly affects central nervous system development and urogenital development, of which I will elaborate on the urogenital system. The terminal part of the hindgut in the fetus is the cloaca, which is lined with endoderm and is in contact with the surface ectoderm at the cloacal membrane. The cloaca receives the allantois. Between the allantois and the hindgut, the cloaca is divided into dorsal and ventral parts by a group of mesenchymal cells called the urorectal septum. This septum grows caudally towards the cloacal membrane, and extensions of the septum produce infoldings in the walls of the cloaca that eventually fuse together forming a partition. The cloaca is now divided into a ventral urogenital sinus and a dorsal rectum. The urogenital sinus is then divided into three parts: the vesical, pelvic, and phallic parts. The bladder develops from the vesical part and from parts of the mesonephric ducts and the urethra develops from the phallic part. The mesonephric ducts are incorporated into the wall of the bladder and a ureteric bud forms at the base of these ducts. From this bud the ureters are formed and enter the bladder in a different location than the mesonephric ducts. The metanephros at the end of the ureters will eventually form the permanent kidneys. (Moore and Persaud, 1998)."

Tags:birth, central, cloaca, defects, drugs, nervous, system, urogenital