Essays on Ahn

Introduction

The use of social media enables the American and the global society to communicate through social networking. Additionally, individuals have been able to actively participate in different activities relating to their lives such as leadership. Various internet platforms such as Facebook and Twitter have significantly contributed to the capacity of individuals to make effective communications with the social world (Ore 12). However, the use of social media has caused various problems to the American and the global society as a whole. This paper will focus on the discussion of some of the common and potential problems that are currently ...

Assignment 2: Middleville Regional Healthcare

Assignment 2: Middleville Regional Healthcare

The Governing Board is objectified towards determining the organization’s strategic direction by means of identifying the external challenges and opportunities and utilizing the internal resources in such manner that it enhance the outcome and efficiency of the organization. The strategic initiatives are incorporated under the strategic plans that are developed by the board members which encompasses the strategies, budgets and responsibilities that are further delegated to the respective departments. In this manner, the continuous analysis of market and the forces that effect the organizational efficiency and productivity takes place and the Governing Board ...

Financial Planning, Management and Decision Making On Project and Corporate Levels

Every sound decision-making process within an organization requires detailed information to eliminate any elements that might result in losses. At the very heart of a company’s success is its strategic planning and finances. Management teams depend on the financial muscle of an organization to thrive, but the strategic plan is more essential in creating a clear roadmap for operationalization of the goals of an organization. The strategic planning element is an essential aspect of decision-making owing to the fact that it depends on analytical models to create a realistic view of a firm (Blank, 2013). The financial plan ...

Meditation has many desirable effects for an individual’s quality of life. According to studies, meditation improves not only the mental health of its practitioners, but also their physical health (Shaku, Tsutsumi, Goto, & Arnoult, 2014, p.406). Because of its known beneficial effects, meditation has been used as intervention or therapy for various clinical and non-clinical cases. Meditation, for instance, has been used to improve the quality of life and attention span of adults with mental issues and is also proven effective in easing depression and anxiety of patients suffering from terminal diseases such as cancer and HIV (Kim, Kim, ...

Define HIPPA. Why is it important in this digital age?

The acronym HIPAA is used to stand for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (Wu, Ahn, & Hu, 2012). It is a law in the US which is meant to offer standards of privacy aimed at protecting the medical records as well as other information regarding the patients, which is availed to doctors, health plans and other providers of healthcare. The importance of HIPAA is that it readily allows patients to access their medical records and it also extends the control of the patients concerning how their personal information on health is disclosed and also used. HIPAA levels the federal ...

Issues

This case concerns the analysis of the validity of the offer and its acceptance under the terms and rules of the contract law made in different forms by virtue of the advertisements in the newspaper.

Contractual relations are comprised out of two primary pillars as the offer and acceptance. In fact, the one party to the contractual relations should provide the other one with the offer. In case the second party accepts this offer this implies that these people have entered into the legal and binding relations. Given the merits of the case, one may see that Philip plays ...

Health Belief Model

In the past century, many health-based models have been developed and implemented in order to help nursing professionals to identify and incorporate key factors in improving patient-centric services and health outcomes. The Health Belief Model (HBM) is one such model that is associated with the psychological and health behavioural change model associated to change and predict health-related behaviours. The HBM was developed to be incorporated and adopted by healthcare services (Dardis MR, Koharchik LS, Dukes S. 2015). The HBM was developed by key psychologists in 1950 in the US. It is one of accepted theories in the US with ...

Social media and technology are the two of the commodities which as they gain further popularity are instilling more and more concern amongst the people regarding its less than favorable manifestations. Do we have reason to worry about the negative consequences of the social media; most definitely. The answer has to vary though when we are choosing in between whether the social media and the technology, in general, are more harmful or useful. This paper is going to present all the reasons which reveal to us nothing but the benefits of these two conveniences. The social media is an ...

Organization today are more focused on hiring and staffing skilled personnel that are able to provide quality service leading to the realization of predetermined objectives. This is done through developing hiring and staffing metrics to measure the quality derived from these processes used in obtaining skilled employees (Phillips and Stanley 40-76). This paper will therefore address matters on having measurements for staffing and hiring, providing definition of the measurement, establishing a target, identifying the balance scorecard category, connection to a corporate strategic objective metric and identifying the stakeholders. There is no one specific metric that can be used to ...

Introduction

At times, industries require the temperatures to be kept below the ambient for some processes to be effective. To do so, they must design ways to eliminate the excess heat generated by machines and introduce an artificial room temperature lower than the ambient. They must effectively eliminate temperatures above the ambient. A refrigerator is thus required in these operations. This refers to a device that can maintain the temperature below the ambient. The primary objective of a refrigeration process is to lower the temperature through heat removal. Since its invention, refrigeration has seen used in many industrial and household ...

In short, not everyone who experiences traumatic episodes is diagnosed with PTSD. It is really a situation that depends upon the individual. Some individuals, for example, can go through a traumatic episode and never experience symptoms of PTSD. At the same time, some individuals can experience what many would consider to minor stress related issues in life, yet encounter PTSD with a vengeance. When many people encounter a traumatic experience, they will feel sad, frightened, disconnected, or possibly anxious. These feelings are quite normal within the span of human emotions. For many people, these feelings will be short lived ...

Abstract

A balanced scorecard refers to the management system and strategic planning tool used broadly in industry, government and nonprofit organizations across the globe. Its application seeks to better align operations to the specific strategy and vision of an organization, to improve both external and internal communications and to monitor an organization’s performance alongside those strategic objectives. The scorecard was first was introduced back in the early 1990s by Norton and Kaplan of Harvard School. More than half of the key companies in the US, Asia and Europe currently employ the scorecard approach, with its use on the rise ...

Overview of the restaurant industry

In the contemporary context, the restaurant industry can be defined as an industry that involves professional restaurants, bars and other providers of food services structured to allow in-service deliveries. It can be considered as a network or a collection of professional food service companies which operate restaurants and other eating places in both at the country level and at the global levels. Hyun et al (2011, 30) assert that these companies operate in services, which include includes full-service restaurants, quick-service restaurants, cafeterias and buffets, and snack bars, among other services. It is one of the largest professional industries in ...

Nowadays, in the era of globalization, rapid technological innovations and globalization of information, it is already impossible to imagine our life without modern technologies. Technology and electronics, including personal computers, exist in each area of people’s life, and play a very important role. They make life more convenient and sometimes even easier by offering new opportunities that were not available before. This paper will focus on personal computing particularly and on its role in the contemporary society with a specific focus on education, social life and health care system in order to understand, whether personal computing is necessary ...

Hepatitis type B viral infection is a common and serious disease that is caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV). HBV is a DNA virus with partial double strands and belongs to the Hepadnaviridae family. One-third of the world’s population is believed to have been infected by HBV of which 6% have chronic HBV infection. Depending on the rate of infection and carrier rate, the world is divided into low, medium and high endemicity regions (Franco et al. 75). The HBV resides in the bodily fluids of an infected individual and is transmitted via the same (Aspinall et ...

Abstract

A balanced scorecard refers to the management system and strategic planning tool used broadly in industry and business, government, as well as nonprofit organizations across the globe. Its application seeks to align operations to strategy and vision of an organization, improve external and internal communications, as well as monitor an organization’s performance alongside the strategic objectives. The scorecard was first was introduced back in early 1990s by Norton and Kaplan of Harvard School. Currently, over, half of the key companies in US, Asia and Europe apply the scorecard approach, with its use increasing in those regions and in ...

SLIDE 2

ADULT SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ABUSE This presentation has been designed to assess the impact of sexual abuse on those who become victims to such a heinous act. We rarely discuss the implications and consequences of the act that is committed so shamelessly. The survivors are subjected to the injustice of being deprived of any help or counseling that they could otherwise receive, and those helping them are stymied my innumerable social factors. At ...

Capstone Project: Healthcare Administration

Introduction

Capstone project also called culminating project, the capstone experience, senior exhibition, and the likes. It refers to a multifaceted assignment serving as the culminating intellectual and academic experience for students during the final year of the academic course being pursued. It resembles a very great extent a college thesis, but capstone project has a wide variety of forms. The most common feature is the handling of long-term investigative projects culminating in a final presentation, product, or performance. Usually, students are to choose a topic, a social problem or profession of their interests. They conduct researches on subjects selected, maintain a portfolio of the results or ...

1.0 Introduction to Risk Analysis Risk analysis in an IT environment defines the procedures used to study or investigate every system of IT to identify threats and to determine the possibility of their occurrence, identify vulnerabilities as well as the determination of the effect of loss in the case where either one or several vulnerabilities are conquered by the possible threat. The possible threats include threat to information integrity, confidentiality and information availability. It comprises of risk assessment planning, risk assessment performance, reporting and verification and reporting of IT assessment risk to the risk agency (Commonwealth , 2014). ...

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Abstract

IT addiction is the dependency on technology that is currently extremely prevalent in the society. Smartphones are now a major part of our life and have a major role to play in the onslaught of IT addiction. With Smartphone enabled social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat, many young people find themselves, more on their smartphones. Smartphones have revolutionized how people interact and socialize and simultaneously has posed serious health and socio-cultural hazards. The use and dependency of Smartphone have gone to the level of addiction. ...

Introduction

Innovation refers to the commercialization of new ideas. Innovation refers to the process of bringing in new ideas and commercializing them in order to earn higher economic returns. Innovation may exist in the form of a new idea that helps design a new product, a new technology or even a new process that can help improve efficiency or increase utility (Tidd, et.al., 2009).

Approaches

There are several approached for innovation management. Several organizations attempt to bring in innovation in different forms and this helps them achieve better growth and development in all areas (Ahmed & Shepherd, 2010). The most sustainable techniques include integration of innovation ...

A review of the article by Jankowska, et al., 2008, titled “Reduction of human chorionic gonadotropin beta subunit expression by modified U1 snRNA caused apoptosis in cervical cancer cells” Jankowska, et al in their article published in the journal “Molecular Cancer” demonstrate the expression of hCG-beta in cervical cancer and examine the functional significance of hCG- in-vitro cervical cancer cells by making use of modified U1snRNA to silence the mRNA of hCG-. Silencing of the maturation of mRNA by use of a novel silencing technique results in inhibition of growth and apoptosis of cervical cancer cells. Lipofectamine 2000 ...

Man created machine to semi, or fully, automate tasks that were otherwise resource hungry or redundant. Earlier, machines worked on a specific set of instructions that were hardwired into them. This limitation was outleaped when computer memory came into existence. Today, with the help of sophisticated hardware and advanced software instructions, we can instruct the machine to perform nearly anything. However, we did not stop here and attempted to provide a computer machine additional capabilities. We have managed to manufacture nearly every kind of machine sensor, for example, camera, gyroscope, speakers, microphone etc., which emulates the human sensory reception in a digital ...

Insanity Defense

Insanity Defense Various legal systems provide different types of legal defenses that could be used by the defendants in their criminal cases. Nevertheless, application of these defenses depends on the circumstances and the nature of cases being faced. The insanity defense is one the oldest legal defenses. According to the insanity defense, the accused can avoid prosecution for the crimes committed is it can be proved that at the time when the crime was committed the defendant was not insane hence did not appreciate the quality or nature or wrongfulness of the acts (Fersch, 2005). It is imperative ...

Introduction

The global burden of psychiatric disorders is high and the etiology of these diseases varies between and within individuals. Current studies are focusing on genetic factors associated with each class of disorders. Other studies take a psychological approach to the management of psychiatric disorders.

Article Summaries

Anxiety disorders are the most common psychiatric disorders affecting up to 13.3% of the population in the U.S. Anxiety disorders have been associated with decreased productivity, increased morbidity and mortality rates, and increased growth of alcohol and drug abuse (Bystritsky et al., 2013). Studies have found an extensive presence of comorbidities in patients presenting with symptoms ...

Management

In order to sustain and attain success for a long term period most organizations need to review and accordingly change their existing policies, structures and working climate to accommodate new technologies, processes and systems. The entire literature of organizational change has itself gone through a transformation with management leaders driving change management, purposefully and boldly, either to attain success or failure (Ahn, Anderson & Dornbusch, 115).

Leadership, organizational culture and human resource policies for driving change

There are innumerable real life examples of transformational leaders driving organizations to perform and become leading firms. Leaders like Steve Jobs, Richard Branson, Louis Gerstner and the like have successfully steered change management. There are several ...

Introduction

Arguably, the global pollution is tremendously in the rise. Many people visit the coastal region of Southern California Beach; hence, pollution is increasingly threatening the waters, which individuals play, and swim exposing them to the risk of illness. Studies show that approximately three beaches in Southern California were ranked the most dirtiest beaches in the nation, these included L.A County’s Avalon, Doheny Beach, and Cabrillo Beach. Undeniably, beach vocations form an annual event among many people and families in the United States. As a matter of fact, beachgoers at most polluted beaches in Southern California bring back a lot of ...

Challenges to IT Project Managers: Roles, Responsibilities and Staffing

An Internet Technology Project Manager (ITPM) needs to have many organizational and motivational skills. Probably the most challenging problems in a project are those that have to do with keeping the personnel on track and working towards the same goal. This means the ITPM must have a thorough understanding of what the customer expects from the end product - so that the management of people does not let the purpose of the project become blurred. Familiarity with the needs of the customer and the purpose of the product are the first priorities for the ITPM (Lawlor, 2010). The ITPM must be ...

Schizophrenia is a persistent, debilitating and severe psychiatric disorder which, till date, is still poorly understood. The disease presents with psychotic symptoms such as auditory hallucinations and delusions. It is characterized by loss of contact with reality and symptoms being present for more than six months. The disturbances include disturbances in thought, perception, behavior, emotion and communication. (MDGuidelines, 2010). Schizophrenia has also been described as a group of diseases because the various types of schizophrenia have peculiar characteristics. Benedict Morel was the first person to describe a syndrome which was similar to schizophrenia in 1853 when he termed it demence praecox ...

It is a well-known fact that human culture reacts to the environment very quickly and efficiently. With the help of analysis of artistic works of a certain period it is easy to conclude what feelings and tendencies prevailed in society at that time. When art of a separate country is considered, it is useful to trace economic and overall situation in it to draw certain conclusions about the environment reflection that is observed in the sphere of art. IF culture and art are considered in such extreme situations as wars, riots, occupations, etx., it is clear that art cannot be left outside ...

Cloning has been a particularly intriguing experiment over the years, involving acutely essential milestones and crucial researches. Many hypotheses have been generated; some accepted and others refuted. On 5 July 1996, a domestic ewe, Dolly was born by lan Wilmut and his colleagues. Dolly was the first animal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell (McLaren, 1775). Initially, people, inclusive of scientist, did not believe that somatic cell from an adult individual, could be used to generate a new individual through cloning. However, with the emergence of Dolly, the ideology was disapproved, and, it was with clear conscious that genes could ...