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An Analysis of Ted Bundy through the Lens of Information-Processing Theory, 2002.
This paper is an in-depth analysis of the motives of Ted Bundy prior to and during his serial murders. The analysis uses a sub discipline of Cognitive Theory- Information Processing theory to examine Bundy's motives prior to and during his murders.
2,600 words (approx. 10.4 pages), 7 sources, $ 78.95
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This paper is an intensive examination of serial murderer Ted Bundy and the motivations behind his killing spree. In order to analyze this murderer, the paper uses a sub discipline of Cognitive Theory- Information Processing theory to examine Bundy's motives prior to and during his murders. It not only examines the man himself, but also looks at his victims, his family life and other environmental factors that may have led to his transformation.
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"This cognitive representation of pleasure does not end with Bundy?s first sexually motivated encounter, instead, this becomes a continuum in which another stimulus is introduced. The third stimulus, which is the actual murder, essentially strengthens Bundy?s need and desire to rape and brutally sodomize women. Bundy?s predisposition to sexually violent behavior was finally released. By breaking the barrier, Bundy?s pathological processes overcame his inhibitions, which led him to crave more. Bundy had made the final decision to kill, solving his problem, he now lived uninhibited by any moral dilemma, and would keep murdering for the sake of self-gratification. It is really quite sickening to imagine that by mutilating, torturing, raping and murdering one could experience pleasure. Not only did Bundy experience great pleasure, but derived satisfaction and motivation to keep killing."
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Ted Bundy: A Lost Resource, 2007.
A discussion on how Ted Bundy's life story could have provided a fascinating and valuable resource for criminal and psychological studies today if he had been allowed to live.
1,979 words (approx. 7.9 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 62.95
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This paper examines how Ted Bundy, the man who violently stole the lives of more than forty women, does not easily fit into any compartment of criminal theory. An outwardly intelligent, responsible and gregarious person, Bundy's killing spree went unchecked over a period of years, because his personality and lifestyle did not fit with any previously established profile of a serial killer. It contends that Bundy, had he lived out his life in prison, may have provided the world with extraordinary insights into one of the most perplexing criminal minds in American history.
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"In Dr. Charles Whitfield's 2004 book, The Truth About Mental Illness, he demonstrates a very strong link between mental illness and childhood trauma. Complex childhood post-traumatic stress syndrome is an area that is being explored in depth during this decade. However, during Bundy's incarceration, although childhood trauma was considered as a factor, it was not well understood. Born in Burlington, Vermont in 1946, Bundy was the illegitimate child of a woman whose family was so ashamed of his mother's unmarried status when she gave birth, that his grandparents claimed him as their own child. They led Ted and others to believe that his mother was his older sister. When he was thirteen, a cousin proved to Ted that his "older sister" was actually his mother. "
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Ted Bundy: Study of a Serial Killer, 2004.
This paper analyzes the life of the serial killer, Ted Bundy.
3,390 words (approx. 13.6 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 119.95
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This paper analyzes the life of Ted Bundy, the serial killer. The paper considers how his childhood molded him and what his patterns as a killer can tell us about serial killers in general.
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"Ted Bundy is perhaps the most notorious serial killer in American history. The fact that Bundy was an intelligent, good looking and charming young man stunned the public as he did not fit the standard image of a serial killer that most people held. However, it is important to consider Bundy's childhood and background in order to understand how a man like Bundy could become a cold blooded rapist and murderer."
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Ted Bundy and Forensic Science, 2005.
A look at how forensic odontology helped to incriminate murderer Theodore Robert Bundy.
1,865 words (approx. 7.5 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 59.95
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This paper examines how although forensic odontology has taken a back seat in the public eye to the notorious DNA, it was at the time, the only forensic technology available during the trial of the notorious rapist and murderer Ted Bundy. It looks at how his heinous fetish of biting, in conjunction with forensic odontology proved to be the most crucial role in "Florida vs. Theodore Robert Bundy".
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"Forensic odontology provides physical evidence and gives the judicial system the ability to place, or not place an individual at the scene of a crime. The theory behind forensic odontology is that no two mouths are alike (even identical twins are different), and that teeth, like tools, leave recognizable marks. Thus leading one to believe that, "for a positive identification, only one point of concordance be unique, similar and individual" ( ). "A bite mark, however, in all reality is not an overwhelming accurate representation of the teeth. A lot depends on the mechanics of jaw movement and use of the tongue. Inside the mouth, the lower jaw (mandible) is movable and usually delivers the most biting force, the upper jaw (maxilla) is stationary, holding and stretching the skin" (1)."
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Serial Killer Ted Bundy, 2001.
Scope & nature of his crimes; his deviant behavior, personal history, environmental factors, theory of causation, his victims.
5,625 words (approx. 22.5 pages), 5 sources, $ 135.95
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"Theodore Robert Bundy was, as serial killers go, at once a stereotype and an exception. White, male, above average in intelligence, adept at donning a misleading mask of sanity and charm- all of the characteristics typically associated with serial killers- were well embodied in Ted Bundy. And yet, the scope and nature of Bundy?s crimes indicate that this particular predator was unique. More efficient and elusive than others who have shared his perversions, Ted Bundy was a confident killer; he chose high-class victims and moved with seeming effortlessness in elite circles among those that were unable or unwilling to perceive the depths of his depravity(MacPherson..."
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Information Overload and the Role of the Librarian, 2008.
An analysis of the impact of information overload and how this impact affects the role of the librarian or information professional.
5,054 words (approx. 20.2 pages), 25 sources, APA, $ 127.95
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This paper defines and discusses the concept of information overload. It analyzes what constitutes information overload and looks at how individuals display information seeking behavior. The paper then analyses the impact that information overload exerts on information seeking behavior. Finally, the paper discusses how this impact affects the role of the librarian or information professional.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Research Questions
Information Challenges
With the Beginning of the Human Race...
Review of Information
Securing Information
Excerpts from a Barrage of Information
Information Seeking Stages
Information Overload: Fact of Life
Counters to Information Overload Challenges
Frustration Fallout
Ten Stress-Relief Tips
Questions to Counter Information Overload
Personal Perspectives
Conclusion
Harvesting Positive Results
Constant Threats of Information Overload
No Easy Answers to Information Overload
Making the Best Choices
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"Making the best choices regarding which jobs to complete concurrently, when one has to work on securing information for more than one project, proffers one answer to better managing information overload. Also, as Lewis (2007) notes, when an information seeker chooses to eliminate distractions (email; phone; visitors, that he/she does not have to immediately deal with, helps him/her better manage information.
"In the end, considering the source of information, as Behreandt (2005, p. 27) recommends, also constitutes a primary key to helping ensure information overload on information seeking behavior and the impact it exerts on the librarian/information professional proves to be more positive than negative. After all, information in and of itself does not have any value, as Nelson (2004) notes. Instead, the communication and sharing of information and its meaning gives it value."
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Information Policy in the Healthcare Environment, 2002.
This paper presents information about managing information policy in the healthcare environment and focuses on the electronic patient record.
715 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 25.95
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This paper states that information security in the healthcare environment is critical to its ability to maintain the confidentiality of sensitive information and ensure the reliability of that data. The paper points out that configuration management, which ensures that the system is continually assessed to determine the impact of changes, is an integral component of security management. The paper discusses that healthcare IT is increasingly moving to more interactive, Web-based services to better meet the needs of patients.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Problem Statement and Goal
Relevance and Significance
Barriers and Issues
Approach
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"The accuracy, security and privacy of all medical records are some of the most important objectives, as the healthcare environment moves forward in utilizing the electronic patient record. Rules of behavior policies are created and users agree to sign a confidentiality agreement prior to a user being given access to the system. The rules are based on the needs of the various users of the system. The security provided by the rules is only as stringent as is necessary to provide adequate security for information in the system. Such rules are clearly designed to demarcate responsibilities and expected behaviour of all individuals with access to the system."
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Information Technology and Education in U.K. Colleges, 2004.
This paper is a complete thesis, using a literature review and a questionnaire that takes information from teachers in all different types of disciplines across Coleg Gwent college about the use of information technology in U.K. colleges.
11,920 words (approx. 47.7 pages), 23 sources, APA, $ 231.95
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This paper explains that the conventional simile of an institution of higher education as a self-enclosed community is opposed as knowledge turns out to be extensively obtainable on the Internet, and teacher-student and student-student conversations are not compelled by spatial borders. The author points out that quick transformations in the orderliness of information, labor, and equipment in all the disciplines make it more essential for all the students to develop into permanent learners. The paper concludes that an educational environment in which information technology is created by principled assessment regarding higher-level learning is said to increase the values of academic and technical aptitudes.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Literature Review
The Impact of Information technology on Education
Background
Market
Workplace
Mirror Image
Transformation of Students
Transformation of the Systems
The Impact of Information Technology in Coleg Gwent College
Key Themes Emerge
Information Technology Augments Learners? Student Inspiration
Encourages Support and Teamwork amid Learners
Discussions Become Profound and More Inquisitive
Utilization Supports Educator-As-Catalyst Way
Encourages an ?Equilibrium of Authority? amid the Teacher and Learners
Learners Demonstrate More Determination in Unraveling Problems
Promotes Diverse Techniques of Evaluation
Allows High-Quality Educators to Effort Efficiently with Different Learners
Promotes Augmented and Enhanced Verbal and Written Interaction
Allows Prospects for More Profundity of Understanding
Gives Augmented Prospects for Inter-Disciplinary Examination
Creates Classroom Performances More Genuine and Appropriate
Collecting The Prizes
Affect of Information Technology on College Education
Scholarship
Course books
Libraries
Methodology
The Approach Utilized
Data Gathering and Utilizing Method
Comments on the Validity of the Data
Questionnaire
Evaluation of the information
Results
Discussion
Conclusion
Recommendations
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"Consistent with the educators, the knack is to equalize the squad. For example, the teachers cannot have two computer experts in the similar group or they will clash for direct. Teachers, on the other hand, assert that bringing together a group where students' aptitudes and educative methods balance each other and manage with each other's powers and flaws is a much more appropriate technique in modern classrooms. It assists if the teacher arranges the grouping so all students add their personal specific aptitudes."
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Health Information Portability Accounting Act (HIPAA), 2005.
This paper discusses the impact Health Information Portability Accounting Act (HIPPA) has had on employers and on the confidentiality of health information.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 60.95
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This paper explains that the Health Information Portability Accounting Act (HIPAA) creates federally mandated requirements regarding protected health information (PHI) that can impact any employer, regardless of its size, location or industry. The author points out that employers who sponsor group health plans are affected depending on whether the employer (1) is fully insured or self-insured and (2) creates or receives Protected Health Information, defined to include all individually identifiable health information held or transmitted by a covered entity or business associate electronically or in other forms with the exceptions (a) that the Privacy Rules do not apply to employment records, including medical information employers use to comply with various disability laws, such as American Disabilities Act (ADA), and workers' compensation, or to administer workplace disability policies or substance abuse rules and (b) health information useful to the employer in administering their health plan. The paper relates that the act allows adolescents access to confidential care for contraception and sexually transmitted diseases and other services.
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Introduction
HIPPA Privacy Rules
HIPPA Compliance and Employers
HIPPA and Consumers
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"In connection with implementing a compliance program, group health plans are exempt from these requirements if they provide health benefits solely through an insurance contract with a health insurance issuer or an HMO and they do not create or receive PHI except for summary health information, or information regarding the status of an individual's enrollment, or disenrollment from the HMO or health insurance issuer. It is important to note that employers must consider their activities not only in the context of use and disclosure of PHI between the group health plan and the plan sponsor, but also in the context of any disclosures of PHI to a third party. A disclosure from the group health plan to a third party administrator would require adequate assurances of confidentiality, and would require a business associate agreement under the Privacy Rule before PHI could be disclosed."
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Information Technology Management, 2004.
An extensive analysis of the challenges facing the management of information technology systems in organizations.
4,049 words (approx. 16.2 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 109.95
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This paper discusses one of the most important aspects of information technology in today's digital era - information technology management. The paper contends that organizations can only succeed and ensure their solid future through the development of an in-depth understanding of the organizational and management processes that underlie information technology-induced organizational change. The paper examines the necessity for the development of conceptual and practical knowledge in the areas of managing change, knowledge management, systems analysis and design, information technology strategy, problem-solving methodologies, project management and e-business.
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Introduction
The Challenges of Information Technology in Organizations
Information Technology Objectives
The Implementation of Successful Information Technology Systems
Case Study 1: Background
Case Study 1: Successful Information Technology Practice
Case Study 2: Background
Case Study 2: Successful Information Technology Implementation
Information Technology Risk Management Overview
The Management of Information Technology Today
Conclusion
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"The management of information technology systems in organizations has emerged as one of the most important aspects of information technology in this digital era. Although problems with information technology systems are not a new phenomenon, their impact seems more pronounced. The organizations of today face unique challenges in the information technology systems area unlike those of the traditional project management of the past. The incessant continued drive toward eBusiness means that information technology has become ever more critical to the success of the organization as a while. As a result, information systems project managers face more pressure and visibility over failed initiatives. Organizations are typically dealing with chaotic, technology-influenced projects that generate knowledge. The quality of knowledge-generating projects is also most heavily affected by the skills and intellectual capital of the project team. "
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Releasing Health Care Information, 2004.
This paper discusses the administrative, ethical, and legal aspects of releasing health care information.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 31.95
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This paper explains that the entire health care system in the United States is predicated on a well-established system of careful control of medical information that is afforded the highest degree of privacy and privilege. The author points out that the release of information pertains to all medical information with a personal identifier on a document of any sort, which can take the form of traditional paper-based medical records and forms, digital output stored in a hospital?s mainframe or a clinician?s desktop, and X-rays and their interpretations that are subject to release of information privacy protections. The paper concludes that, notwithstanding the ethical considerations involved, failure to exercise adequate security of such personal medical information or to comply with requests for information should carry serious consequences.
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Objectives
Background and Overview of Release of Information
Types, Uses and Purposes of Release of Information Documentation
Legal and Ethical Considerations and Potential Consequences
Review, Summary and Conclusion
Controlling Federal and Colorado State Law
Explanation of Health Information Policy/Procedure Specific to Release of Information
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"Under HIPAA, all patients have the right to inspect, copy, and amend their health-care information; authorize or refuse to authorize its use; and receive a formal accounting of how their information is used. Infrastructural barriers must be used to block unauthorized access to a patient's medical data. The rule provides for civil monetary penalties of up to $25,000 for each standard violation as well as criminal penalties of up to 10 years imprisonment and/or a fine of up to $250,000. (104) The federal law represents a floor of protection for medical data; stricter state laws are not preempted. In addition to these, many other federal statutes may interact with HIPAA's privacy provisions."
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Executive Information Systems, 2002.
An analysis of current market and applications for Executive Information Systems software solutions plus details of a small company and how it benefits when implementing such an executive information system.
1,212 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 41.95
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The following paper examines how L.L. Bradford and Company, a regional CPA firm, decided to offer its clients full financial services. This paper discusses how such a company that wishes to effectively service their customers and maximize the value of the benefits they can provide, needs to find a software package that can integrate all the existing ?legacy systems? on a relational basis, and allow information that previously had been available only to the auditors through their software to become available to all. The writer also examines how L.L. Bradford chose to buy and customize an off-the-shelf Executive Information System called ?Goldmine?;which allows all departments to have access to the same customer information, allowing for marketing of services, billing, follow-up and other services the company wishes to provide its clients. This paper goes on to prove that the above is a good example of the benefit of Executive Information Systems, as it shows basically what can be done, and how business and communication between business and clients, departments and management, owners and employees can be facilitated to build business and stimulate growth.
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"Internet technologies and applications have grown more rapidly than anyone could have envisioned, even as recently as five years ago. They have opened up new means and frontiers of communication, collaboration and coordination between customers, businesses and trading partners.Executive Information Systems, also known as Enterprise Software is an explosively-growing $23 billion a year sub-industry of software for companies looking to use technology to improve virtually every key corporate function ? manufacturing, finance, sales, marketing, human resources and supply-chain management. Executive Information Systems, or Enterprise Resource Planning software, solutions are software solutions that provide a common, consistent system to capture data organization-wide to integrate information across corporate functions and to provide tools for planning and monitoring the various functions and processes towards a common purpose. To compete effectively, companies are challenged to create new products, maximize efficiencies in service, processing and administration, and increase penetration within existing markets, all the while keeping customers satisfied with high levels of service which may span several time zones. While the profitability of corporations is typically measured in dollars, overall success can be measured in terms of profitability plus the attainment of organizational goals. This success derives from a synergy of inputs, including the work of employees who are dedicated, skilled and knowledgeable, and a management team that understands how to inspire competent and motivated performance through sensitive and responsive management of a continually changing workplace."
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Information and Organization, 2002.
This paper discusses the value of information within the organization.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 8 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper discusses the value of information within the organization. The Information Age and the rapid development it has brought proved that information is valuable to the whole world. It is also highly valued in an organization. An information executive must patrol and channel the use of information and information technology in an organization. And when the organization goes through change, it must provide information to its employees so that they support the organization through change for everyone's benefit.
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Information Society Theory, 2006.
A discussion on the history and definition of the concept of information society, its impact and criticisms.
2,240 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 69.95
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In contemporary society, information is rapidly growing abundant and essential in human progress and communication. Information has been incorporated into all levels of human organizational values with a significant impact on community behavior. This paper examines how this has led scholars to claim that the current social order has evolved into an 'Information Society' where information has substantially affected and determined not only the course of social communication but also the global economic and political landscape.
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Introduction
Information Society: Concept History
Defining Information Society Theory and its Impacts
Criticizing Information Society Theory
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"According to Daniel Bell, information, labor, and production are the most likely elements to progress faster in a post-industrial economy. Pre-industrial societies are dominated by an agricultural mode of production. This can be described by the maximization of natural resources by human and animal means. On a post-industrial scale, the focal point is in processing. More importantly, Bell's theory states that in a post-industrial society, there is going to be a significant shift to services as the main employing sector. Services would be the main source of need in a post-industrial society and Information Technology would produce these particular services."
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Freedom of Information, 2002.
This paper examines the issue of freedom of information in how the state relates with its citizens regarding its possession of information.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper looks at two specific articles and addresses the issue of freedom of information. This paper concludes that the freedom of information is an aspect that involves the complicated relationship between the state and the citizen in a democracy. The state has a responsibility to protect and to gather information, as well as to disseminate it. But it also has the responsibility of allowing access to the people that elect governments. This often creates a conflict of interest, especially when issues of privacy and national security may be involved.
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