Near Case Studies Samples For Students

Contactless payments such as the use of near field communication (NFL) have been developing over the last few years and have evolved into reliable and secure methods of payment which are gaining acceptance from both buyers and vendors. The contactless mode of payment uses a short range frequency identification chip (RFID) to transfer data embedded electronically in microchips attached to a mobile device such as a mobile phone or a personal digital assistant or a credit or a debit card. The major difference with the contact based mode of payment is that in the case of contactless payment, the user of the technology does not ...

Introduction

In May 2012, English couple Mick and Mairead Philpott made the headlines for surviving a fire that killed their six children and destroyed their house in the Allenton area (BBC News, 2013). After publicly claiming to be lucky for surviving the fire, the Philpotts won the sympathy of people who felt sorry for them for losing six of their children and most of their properties. However, after a month of investigation, the Philpotts were accused of committing arson and murder, and by 2013, they were convicted of manslaughter for deliberately starting a fire that killed all six of their ...

Concert Hall

Walt Disney Concert Hall is not only a home for the Philharmonic Orchestra of Los Angeles, but also the pearl of this city. The building project was created and financed with the participation of wife of the world famous animator Walt Disney. The architect of Walt Disney Concert Hall was Frank Owen Gehry - one of the main ideologists of modern deconstructivism.
It is worth noting that deconstruction is a style, which is characterized by a complete repudiation of the typical geometry of living space. This architectural style denies monotonous lines and boring multistory office buildings. Architects of this ...

Lowell Bray, The Plaintiff, filed an appeal in the Douglas County District Court asking for damages for injuries protracted when he skidded on ice on defendant's grounds. In its adjusted answer, the defendant, Kate Inc on behalf of Stockade Restaurant & Lounge, denied the petition's allegations and alleged that plaintiff was contributory negligent in failing to keep a proper lookout and in walking in such a manner that he lost his balance. It additionally claimed that plaintiff willingly presumed the risk of whatever hazardous condition existed.

Evidence presented by the plaintiff at trial illustrated that the Millard area in Douglas County, ...

Video in Opera Stage

Introduction
Advances in technology and the corresponding creation of digital technologies have significantly impacted the performing arts (Poole & Ho, 2011). Opera has not escaped the technological advancements and as such, new forms of opera have emerged in both digital and virtual formats (Symonds & Karantonis, 2013). Salter (2010) explains that since the 1990s, the scenography of opera has emerged with technological advancements transforming stages into video and monitor accompaniments. The obvious payoff is an enhanced experiential, virtual reality of the opera’s stage. The new technologies blur the lines between the opera’s stage and the motion picture common in ...

Ok Tedi Copper Mine

The Ok Tedi Copper Mine is located in Papua New Guinea. It is an open-pit gold and copper mine, named as such because it is near the Ok Tedi River. Mining gold and copper out of the pit have caused widespread social and environmental harm to the atmosphere around the Ok Tedi Copper Mine. Located near a river, the discharge and runoff of the mine have negatively impacted the lives of tens of thousands of residents in over one-hundred villages living downstream from the mine. The people are now suffering because of the placement of the mine, but also ...

Introduction

The outcome of the treatment process in health facilities is dependent on several factors among which is the safety of the facility. There is a need to ensure that all the systems and facilities in the health facilities are safe to enhance the treatment procedures, services delivered and the quality of care. The principles behind the accreditation process are very influential to achieving the status described above. The purpose of the accreditation process is to ensure that the health facilities can not only identify but also formulate resolutions for the problems identified. The accreditation process also aims to inspire ...

Final Case Study Project

Introduction
In this paper, we will describe and discuss the application of statistics and probability theory to a real-world problem. Our task is to study the impacts of a variety of factors influencing house prices in Prescott, Arizona. As it was mentioned in the previous studies, there are five lakes in the Prescott metropolitan area that provide a number of benefits to those who live or spent their holidays in this area. These benefits include scenic beauty, recreational opportunity, clear water, fresh air and so on and so forth. It is assumed that the property prices should depend on ...

About the case:

Rodney Chu, the managing director of Sierra Capital Partners is interested in purchasing 60% equity interest in Arcadian Microarray Technologies, a biotechnology firm founded in the year 2003. At present, Sierra Capital Partners have offered $40 million to Arcadian for selling their equity interest. This amount will be used for expansion of the firm. While Arcadian management have forecasted an optimistic projection for their firm’s performance over the period of 11 years, however, Sierra’s projections reveal a conservative outlook. Therefore, Mr. Chu is interested in ascertaining the terminal value and discounting the cash flows and the terminal ...

WTTC’s Blueprint

World travel and Tourism Council is the organization of international significance with the overall aim to bring forward knowledge innovation and outline the critical role of tourism as the driver of national and international economic affairs. Comprised of the top management partners from various international companies within the top 100, the organization built on the sustainable internal capacity and experience, able to deliver the important mission of raising the awareness of the population about the impact of tourism and travel activities on generating global wealth and wellbeing (WTTC, 2016). The WTTC's Blueprint for New Tourism was announced in 2003 ...

What position should Jason Sterling take on European sovereign debt? Why? What are the advantages/disadvantages of using credit default swaps to profit from this crisis? What are the potential risks? Are there any lessons for Jason that can be gleaned from previous crises?
The aim of Jason Sterling is to assess novel information so that he has the ability to trade on prior to the trading close for the week period. This was because the growing debt crisis in the sovereignty of the Europe would be the hot topic or the primary notion that the leaders and representatives from ...

Strengths:

■ The cash flow of the family is positive; the total income is 122,782 USD per year, and the total outcome is 116,024. The net cash flow per year is 6,758 USD.
■ Both Chris and Grace are economically productive. Both are professionals and invest in the education of their sons. That will guarantee a good economic performance in the present and future.
■ The family is the owner of business. Although they are employees, the business gives to the family an increasing positive cash flow.

Weakness:

■ They don't have almost any asset that generates positive cash flow except ...

1.0 Introduction
Operating in a constantly changing business environment is a challenging task. Therefore, those organizations are most likely to develop and expand that take strategic initiative and avail opportunities available to them. However, the expansion could be international or regional where decision is made on the basis of target market and competing regions. This paper overviews case of Southwest Airline and proposes a marketing plan for expansion in a new market.
2.0 Overview of South West Airlines
South West Airlines is one of the largest low-cost airline in the world. The airline was founded on 1967 by Rollin ...

Role of GIS in Promoting a More Sustainable Future in Energy: A case study of theStädteregion Aachen in Germany
In the last decades, the world has experienced unprecedented population growth. Populations in the cities have doubled up with more than 74% of the country’s population live inside urban centres in developed countries. In developing countries, approximately 44% of the population are living in urban settings. With the influx of people in urban areas, there has been an increase in the consumption of energy. With increased use of fossil fuel, there has been constant pollution by gases like ...

b1. Information contained in non-GAAP earnings numbers that GAAP earnings numbers do not give.
According to Harvard (2013), the non-GAAP earnings numbers normally include values that may have either been included or excluded from the GAAP earnings numbers that are comparable directly in terms of the income statement, balance sheet and the statement of cash flows. These numbers include the expected future financial position and performance of an entity.
b2. Merits and demerits of using non-GAAP earnings
The main advantage of non-GAAP measures is that it enables the reporting entity to give more information relating to metrics that are ...

Describe the “problem” that the McCann Agency was asked to solve. (This includes a brief “situation analysis.”)
MT contacted McCann Agency due to own inability to influence the observed level of accidents and deaths, which occurred due the passengers’ reckless behavior. The statistics showed that “serious incidents involving train operations totaled 21 in 2008, 24 in both 2009 and 2010, and 27 in 2011” (Queltch, 2014). The agency was asked to develop an efficient advertising campaign, which would educate people, in specific young and skeptical audience, about safety proof behavior in metro facilities and motivate them to follow these ...

Overrun Accident of The American Airlines Flight 1420

Abstract
The American Airlines accident Flight 1420 is identified as a runway overrun accident. The National Transportation Safety Board conducted an investigation to find the cause. This project is primarily focused on the human factor issue that might have caused the accident. The project explored the Human Factor Analysis and Classification System and used the Swiss Cheese Model to link the chain of events to determine the cause of the accident.
The Human Factor Analysis and Classification System was used by the National Transportation Safety Board to analyze the human factors issues within American Airlines Flight 1420. This system ...

Business

2016-03-24
The current paper is devoted to the company Samsung Electronics and its functioning in the 1990s-2000s. Samsung Electronics Company is a part of the Samsung Group that it the largest conglomerate in South Korea (Official Site of Samsung, 2016). The main business directions of the Samsung Group were electronics, trade and services, finance. There were five directions of Samsung Electronics at those years. One of them is the Semiconductor Business. Let’s analyze this sector and its competitive environment in the 1990s-2000s in more detail, analyze data and evaluate the advantages of Samsung Electronics (Ellet, 2007).

Chinese Firms on the Market of Semiconductor Products

A lot ...

The Columbine High School experienced a horrific turn of events on the 20^th of April 1999. Two of its students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were on a mission that led to the death of 12 students and one teacher. The two teenagers had been planning for this massacre for quite some time. They been collecting guns, ammunitions as well as bomb components that they would use on the day of 20^th April. It is said that they had even created a website which they posted blogs with statements that pinpointed several individual likely to be ...