Word: behavior
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Many banks, fearing the Big Brother aspect of biometrics, have chosen in-depth analysis of customers' online behavior as a backup. Such monitoring can then determine whether a certain customer needs a higher level of security, like a token or an RFID tag. "Some of the most advanced technology we're seeing is those tokens being embedded in something that a consumer is carrying every day, such as a cell phone or credit card," says cybersecurity expert Fran Rosch of VeriSign, a leader in online authentication. "That makes it less likely to be lost." Less likely, but not impossible...
Girls and minority children of both sexes benefit from the academic climate, leadership opportunities, and role models found in single sex schools. Indeed, some recent research has showed improvement not only in academic subjects like math but also in attendance and behavior. Given that poor children of Hispanic and African-American minorities are most at-risk for dropping out, according to U.S. Department of Education’s 2002 report, this is a strong argument for single sex schools...
Boys’ schools take into consideration normal male behavior and design the day around them. They can be counter-stereotypical, providing role models of men who mentor, who challenge, who inspire, sometimes by their evident affection for Cicero or the piccolo, for physics or Sandburg or ceramics. Manly examples of adults who have chosen without reluctance to teach and to pursue a passion that is not rich in monetary reward but, here at least, socially respected, gives children the opportunity to learn “there are many ways to be a boy,” as the Allen...
...running in 2008-09, and says homes and businesses in warmer climates from Indonesia to South America offer great potential for the company. "Our core value is to find solutions that enable people to live lives they live today, but in a sustainable way," he says. "Changing behavior is more difficult than changing technology...
...these insiders, who are “very smarmy, very ambitious, not very authentic type of people,” a stereotype he says he believes is true.“This is a product of my experience at Harvard, a product of me talking to people, observing the behavior of the UC itself,” he says.He points to the average voter turnout in this year’s UC House representatives election, which was under 40 percent, as evidence of the alienation among the voters who fall into the “outsider” category.Hwang says...