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Surviving cultural shock is key to working abroad: Contrary to what you may think, the hardest part of working abroad isn't finding a place to stay or learning the language. It's learning to cope with the cultural shock. The anthropologist Kalvero Oberg first coined the term cultural shock. He reported that cultural shock was caused by the "anxiety...; Tags: cultural shock, Geoff Choo, Kalvero Oberg, Lara, shock; Technical articles 2003-07-28

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Shock Calendar (exe): Shock Calendar is an utility for the users that frequently check the clock and the calendar. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: Calendar, Shock Calendar; Software downloads 2007-11-13
New Scientist: Shock tactics to destroy torpedoes: THE US navy wants to protect its warships with a system that will destroy incoming torpedoes by firing massive underwater shock waves at them.This post originally appeared on an external website by Jay Garmon; Tags: Navy, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Jay Garmon; Blog posts 2005-10-17
New Scientist - Shock tactics to destroy torpedoes: THE US navy wants to protect its warships with a system that will destroy incoming torpedoes by firing massive underwater shock waves at them.This post originally appeared on an external website by Jay Garmon; Tags: Navy, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Jay Garmon; Blog posts 2005-10-17
New Scientist Shock tactics to destroy torpedoes: THE US navy wants to protect its warships with a system that will destroy incoming torpedoes by firing massive underwater shock waves at them.This post originally appeared on an external website by Jay Garmon; Tags: Navy, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Jay Garmon; Blog posts 2005-10-18

TV Shock (exe): TV Shock is a free program for watching and browsing TV and radio channels from Turkey. There is no need for a PC TV card because the TV channels are streamed through your Internet connection. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: TV Shock, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment; Software downloads 2008-09-26
Beyond ITIL: The Cultural Dynamics of IT Service Management: ITIL the IT Infrastructure Library is the most widely accepted approach to IT Service Management in the world. ITIL is a framework that outlines accepted best practices for IT Service Management. One of ITIL's biggest benefits is that it brings a common vocabulary across the organization. In fact, a closer...; Tags: Information Technology, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Service Level Management, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations, It service Management; White papers 2006-03-01
Shock 4Way 3D (exe): In order to improve notebook users small screen, it provide 4 virtual screens. Shock 4Way is an easy to use virtual desktop manager which will provide you with the possibility of handling up to 4 virtual screens at once. Version 1.15 includes unspecified updates.; Tags: Screen, Notebooks, Desktops, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets; Software downloads 2007-12-18
Bridging cultural divides in the workplace: Cultural divides exist everywhere, from country to country, from region to region, even from workplace to workplace, but sooner or later you have to take responsibility for how you come across to the people who work around you. by Toni Bowers; Tags: Workplace, Kentucky, Divide, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Toni Bowers; Blog posts 2008-08-28
Sony develops liquid airbag for hard disks: According to a report by Techworld, it appears that Sony has filed for a U.S. patent on a liquid airbag technology for electronics, in particular, hard disks. While the use of liquids to absorb shock has been suggested before, Sony's engineers are confident that their version is...; Tags: Shock, Sony Corp., Hard Drive, Paul Mah; Blog posts 2007-07-03
Shock Sticker (exe): Shock Sticker is a desktop sticky notes program that offers a full range of features including full rich text editing, alarms, passwords, and quick notes transfer to other users of the program. Notes can be hidden and retrieved from the tray icon or minimized to small floating icons on the...; Tags: Icon, Shock Sticker, Desktops, E-mail Servers, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software; Software downloads 2007-11-13
Implications of Cultural Variety for IT Codes of Ethics: IT organisations are growing along with the international businesses they service. Driven by globalisation, the world is becoming a single workplace and marketplace. Like all professionals, IT professionals who work within these organisations regularly face problems of an ethical and moral nature. In making decisions, what...; Tags: Professional, Culture, Information Technology, Ethics, Business Ethics, Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Leadership, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2001-03-11
Digital Library Design for Usability: During the last decade, software designers have made progress in developing usable systems for products such as word processors. Less attention has been given to usability in digital library DL design. In this paper, we discuss two forms of DL usability - interface and organizational. While the Human-Computer-Interaction research community...; Tags: Usability, Digital Library; White papers
A Low-Cost Linux Based Graphics Cluster for Cultural Visualisation in Virtual Environments: The authors use visualisation technology to engage people with cultural heritage in much the same way that story and song have for millenia. The Internet has not yet lived up to its potential to distribute these high-fidelity, visually stimulating virtual environments. This paper describes the approach of using the traditional...; Tags: Internet, Environment, Graphics, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software; White papers 2006-06-13
Electric Dog Collar: I want to get a remote training collar for our 8 month old black lab, Rose. We want to be able to take her in the yard without a leash but it will be a while before we can afford a fence.I've seen on Ebay these collars that are supposed...; Tags: collar, training, sound, effective, dog, electric, ultrasonic, humane, Tink!, off-topic, leash, shock; Discussion threads 2006-06-23
Learning About Technology Bridges Cultural Divide in Israel: Information and Communications Technology ICT can be a gateway to social inclusion and equal opportunities within a society. By providing access to information and the employment market, knowledge of ICT can empower people to help themselves and their communities. Based on the Cisco Networking Academy Program, the unique Net@ scheme...; Tags: Israel, Cisco Systems Inc., Information And Communication Technology, Strategy, Management; Case studies 2006-08-01
Siemens White Paper: Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: In 2002/3 the apparently stable and successful US corporate world was rocked to its foundations by the news of the collapse of not one, but two, of its largest corporations. The telecoms company MCI filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in July 2002 then, just as the corporate world was...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance, America, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Siemens AG, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Telephony, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Networking; White papers 2006-09-01
The Use of CRM Core in Multimedia Annotation: Cultural heritage institutions are fantastic resources of multimedia content. Rich metadata structures, able to capture the diversity of the media, the subject matter and the context around each information asset, are required to make this content accessible. This paper describes how the CIDOC CRM Core format can be used to...; Tags: Multimedia, CRM; White papers 2006-04-07
A Cultural Community Portal for Publishing Museum Collections on the Semantic Web: This paper presents a deployed semantic web application in the cultural domain: the semantic portal MuseumFinland. It is a demonstration of a community portal and a publication channel by which heterogeneous collection database contents of different museums can be published on the Semantic Web. By semantic web techniques, it is...; Tags: Semantic Web, Portals, Internet; White papers
Learn Chinese Daily Life & Business Culture (exe): Do you have Chinese friends, or co-worker? Are you doing business with Chinese company. Could you tell the differences between the Chinese and the people of your own country. If you want to send a Chinese person a present, what color of wrapping paper should you use. Do you know...; Tags: Relation; Software downloads 2007-01-08

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