Essays on Aldridge

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The technique of high-frequency trading has been around for years, but especially close attention and a new surge of interest in it arose after the sensational release in May 2010 of the book by Michael Lewis “Flash Boys”. In fact, it is hard to call high-frequency trading methodology a revolutionary or even new. Although now, talking about it, everyone remembers high-performance computers and automatic programs with elements of artificial intelligence, but if to leave these technological “tricks” and the terms out of the brackets, everything becomes much easier. Actually, we are dealing with a business model, when using a ...

Organizations in the health care industry give an extensive variety of medicinal services and social administrations through healing centers, specialists' work places, nursing homes, outpatient surgery focuses, and different offices.

The WHO states:

“There are 9.2 million doctors, 19.4 million medical caretakers and birthing assistants, 1.9 million dental specialists and other dentistry staff, 2.6 million drug specialists and other pharmaceutical work force, and in excess of 1.3 million group wellbeing laborers across the globe.” (World Health Organization, 2011)

The worldwide health awareness framework is progressively overburdened, with climbing quantities of individuals experiencing perpetual maladies and lifestyle-related conditions. Use ...

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Market failure implies a situation where the quantity, pricing or the quality of a product supplied by the suppliers does not equate to that demanded by consumers (Aldridge, 2005). It can also imply a situation where free markets fail to allocate resources sufficiently, there are missing markets, information failures, unstable markets among other issues that influence the supply and purchase of goods and services (Aldridge, 2005). Aldridge (2005) asserts that failure to conduct adequate and relevant research prior to the release of a given product in the market often leads to market failure. The recent decline of mobile devices maker, Blackberry is a classic ...

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A teacher’s database for their compensation is a significant component to fit the State information systems for education (Aldridge, 2007). The module is an examination of Alabama’s teachers’ salaries and making a clear comparison with that of other states in addition to an overview of the general US teachers’ salaries for the financial year 2011/2012. It is however, difficult to make teacher’s salaries comparison has every state pay its teachers under various conditions and considerations. Since the cost of living in US differs from state to state the annual salary that a teacher receives is not a good measure for ...

2015 Tyrone shooting The tiny community of Tyrone in Shannon County, Missouri is a close-knit town with most of the inhabitants related to each other. Their town’s population was 50 prior to 26 February 2015; after that day, they lost nine of their inhabitants in a related set of events. Eight were lost to gunshots from a .45 caliber handgun and one to cancer. The events have been documented sequentially based on the case files. The usual trigger that upsets the balance in the mind of a serial killer or a mass murderer is the end of an important relationship. The trigger ...

When palliative care was first introduced in healthcare, the focus of care delivery was exclusively on cancer patients and their families, but it eventually expanded to other types of terminal illness (Zimmermann et al., 2008). At the moment, the World Health Organization (WHO, 2014) defines palliative care as a multidisciplinary approach to healthcare for patients that are diagnosed with life-threatening conditions. A different definition describes palliative care as an intervention aiming to mitigate suffering instead of curing an illness (Becker, 2008). All definitions agree that the purpose of palliative care is to provide relief from pain, enhance the quality of ...

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The paper focuses on presenting strategies about the problems that are present in the historically black colleges and universities. Strategies like funds allocation from the local public, training and development programs for the students and awareness campaigns for the student groups in the colleges and universities. Strategies for improving this situation are presented in the paper.

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The paper will be discussing about the problems associated with the historically black colleges and universities and how can proper strategies help these colleges in overcoming these issues. The most uncomfortable reality about these colleges that are known as historically black colleges and ...

Hospice is a multidisciplinary approach to family-centered and holistic care for persons nearing the end of life. As such, patients receiving this type of care have terminal illness and are certified to have a life expectancy of six months or less (Crozier & Hancock, 2012). The focus of hospice care is to enhance the patient’s quality of life through symptom management and comfort measures. The patient, caregiver, and family also benefit from psychological and spiritual care, education, coaching, and grief support (Batchelor, 2012). Because of their life stage, pediatric patients have hospice needs unique from adults. Thus, pediatric hospice aims to ...

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Modern science and medicine have influenced the healthcare industry in many ways. Modern science believes in the intervention rather than focusing on the spiritual factors that are associated with the disease or illness. It is important that the modern medicine realizes the importance of spiritual healing. With advancements in spiritual healing over the last 3 decades, spirituality has been introduced in modern intervention. General physicians and healthcare professionals are seeking more focusing on the spiritual needs of patients. Clinical studies have found that spirituality when combined with modern medicine improves the quality of life and increases the survival rate ...

High speed trading is an illegal practice by some firms that involves the acquisition of useful information in investing, prior to knowledge of the same by other equally important market players. It usually involves the masking of information such that some participants are unaware of such information hence discriminating them from any financial benefits. It may involve the creation of an illusion of rampant activity in the stock market through placement and cancelling of transactions. This may give the impression that such a market is lucrative to a potential investor. This significantly affects the exchange. Potential investors who are unaware ...

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The immunological disorders in an individual can occur due to three different reasons. This includes immunological diseases in an immunocompromised individual, or “autoimmune diseases”, or finally an immunological hypersensitivity that can lead to tissue damage.

Immunodeficiency diseases

Immunodeficiency diseases occur due to malfunctioning of the organs or cells in an individual. They are further classified as primary immunodeficiency (PID) and secondary immunodeficiency (SID).

Primary immunodeficiency disease

They occur when there is a direct defect in the immune system. They are further classified into eight groups depending upon the site of the defect. Combined T and B deficiencies. Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) is an excellent ...

Music is the fastest growing form of entertainment in the world today mostly because of its vast audience. It has a great impact on the way we live our lives since it has been embedded in life since time immemorial. For the last few years, music has doubled its popularity especially among the youth thanks to the new technology and innovations that has permitted easy access and its acquisition. Music is easily accessible from CD players, MP3 players, Walkman, phones, iPods, radio, TV and many more and this makes it simpler for people to listen to any type of music ...

Psychology

Literature Review Family is the basic unit of the society, as most people know, this is where social values are developed, which contributes in shaping the younger generation to become better citizens and individuals. However, the prevalence of gang groups involving youth encompasses a notion that family values insinuated by parents into their children is slowly diminishing. Given that parents have done their best to raise their children appropriately, occurrences of youth being exposed and associated themselves to gang groups still emerge. The question of whether the parents are still in control over their children, it is an issue ...

Human beings interact with one another in various situations and social settings resulting to certain relationships. The growth in population of minority groups, coupled with earlier mixing of different races in work and employment places, schools, and other social places and institutions has led to increased interaction among races. This has extended to intimate levels of relations and marriages. There has been an increase in the number of interracial couples throughout time. This is a positive sign of the breaking of racial stereotypes, discrimination and barriers, which is likely to yield to high, race relations especially in United States. The ...

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According to a recent study, Alzheimer’s disease prevalence currently stands at 25.4 million. In addition, at least 3.4 million new cases are reported every year. In every twenty years, this number is said to double. Type AD (Alzheimer’s dementia) is the most common type of this disease. Inopportunely, in 25.4 million people diagnosed yearly, only half of this number receives treatment. Anxiety and depression are the main effects of Alzheimer disease. For a long time now, the importance and prospective effects of music therapy in the treatment of minor cases of Alzheimer’s disease has been known. This therapy ...

What are the characteristics of an efficient market?

Efficient market can be broadly defined as a continuous market without any type of arbitrage, where prices reflect all the information available in the market and relevant for evaluation. The efficient market hypothesis is based on this assumption and suggests that it is impossible to outperform the market and to gain returns in excess of market returns. Efficient market is an idealized concept that provides the framework for evaluating inefficiencies in the existing markets. In fact, no real-life market is perfectly efficient as not all information is made immediately available to all sellers and buyers, hence the price does not ...

Daylight has been used for a long time as a source of light and energy. The science surrounding daylight has evolved over the years. Quite a number of people have ventured into discovering new ways of developing and producing light which could be used any time of the day or night in film and photography industries. Several activities and events take place during daylight. This is mainly because it is considered to be convenient and economical to work during the day than using artificial light. However, as time went by people came up with new methods of producing light which could be ...

Teenage drug abuse

Over the past years, several advances have been made with the aim of getting an understanding of the nature and extent of drug use problem among teenagers. This has resulted to increased awareness of many important elements concerning youth’s drug abuse and the consequences accompanying drug abuse. As part of the awareness, one of the elements has been initial case identification, particularly where it pertains targeting high-risk teenagers for early or reasonably intervention. Following this is the aftercare service, which is seen to be crucial in supporting recovery and avoiding setback. Efforts leading to improved understanding of ...

Peter Malone of Bath, England was born on February 21, 1953 and completed his education at the Winchester School of Art and the Coventry School Of Art (“Malone, Peter 1953”). He is married to Helen who is a picture restorer and they have two children.

Malone is a painter and illustrator. He taught painting, drawing, and design at the Bournemouth School of Art in Bournemouth, England. In addition, he worked as a studio assistant to artist Howard Hodgkin (“Malone, Peter 1953”).

It took Malone some time to realize his ambition of becoming an illustrator. Aside from teaching, he painted mostly for his ...

Impact of Modernity on Islamic Ethics

Modernity refers to the state of being present after a transition from traditional or original status to the current trends. It tends to emphasize on social relations with reference to rise of capitalism. Capitalism is a system in economy in which resources are privately owned and run for a gain. In Islam, ethics and Islam law are one and the same. So we cannot separate the two whenever an analysis is being made (Abdullah, 1987: pp.102). Muslims from time immemorial get the Islamic ethics from the Quran and Hadith. The Quran is a holy book which has several laws that the followers of ...