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The affordable Care Act 2015 formerly christened as Obamacare is one of the major reforms in the health sector. Obamacare seeks to expand and improve health care access to a majority of Americans by curbing costs of healthcare through taxes and regulation. The primary focus of this policy was to provide more Americans with access to health insurance, improved quality of health insurance and health care, reduce healthcare expenditure in the country and more importantly regulate the insurance industry. However, the policy has received support and opposition in equal measure. Proponents of the policy call it a monumental legislation ...

There are some approaches to natural law. The first conception assumes that it exists independently and does not need to be recognized, found by anyone or declared. On the other side, the positive law has to be approved according to certain procedural standards. The positive law is limited, while the natural law of God or of Reason is limitless and universal (Silving 477). In other words, they are of different origin and have different power and procedure of adoption. These concepts fit into my understanding of the role of law in the community. Thus, it is well-known that there ...

The use of skin care bundle among hospitalized adult sick people can reduce the risk of skin breakdown compared to standard care of practice Pressure ulcers are a common problem in acute care hospitals, specifically among obese patients in intensive care units. Pressure ulcers or sores are common, serious but preventable health issues in the healthcare system. Pressure ulcers are associated with low quality of life, increased expenditure, increase hospital stay, and poor health outcomes (Bhattacharya & Mishra 2015). Hospital-acquired pressure ulcers (HAPU) are preventable if repositioning and turning techniques. However, the evidence on the effectiveness on these techniques is ...

In each of the following situations, please select which mode of transportation studied this week would be the most advantageous. Explain your answer. [8A, 8B, 8C]

Sending 350 40-foot containers from Shanghai, China to Los Angeles, California.

Maritime transport is the best for these kinds of shipments because ships can fill a given container or what is known as full container load (FCL) (Rushton, Croucher, & Baker, 2014, p. 391). Additionally, container ships can accommodate stackable cargo, which will be prepared using a stowage plan (Rushton, Croucher, & Baker, 2014, p. 393). There is also the possibility of reduced damage in products, which may be caused when using other types of cargoes. ...

Most of the poem is a speaker's account of a woman who is undressing. The speaker calls and entices the mistress to come into bed. Further, the speaker believes that he will only be in content if he engages in coitus with the mistress. The next lines describe the act of gradually undressing the woman piece by piece. He compares her pieces of attire to different things such as her girdle, which he compares to elements in the heavens. He tells of the woman's beauty and compares his exploration of the woman's body as that of the exploration of ...

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The businesses today have identified the need to focus more on customer and the key to retain customer is through development of customer relations. CRM or customer relationship management is based on the idea that loyal customers are profitable for the company. The loyalty has been identified by several researchers to be linked to the level of satisfaction of customers. Organizations require attracting the customers, developing relations so that satisfaction is ensured and retain customers by maintaining the relations. Due to intense rivalry and competition, businesses require focusing on building stronger customer base by promoting goodwill and providing them ...

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Cerebral Palsy Cerebral palsy is a physical disability that results from damage to the brain during development that negatively impacts the functional development of children14. Characteristics of cerebral palsy include an inability to control the body’s motor functioning with a potential to affect speech, learning, environmental exploration, and the skills required for independent living. In addition, these patients have delays in reaching milestones for gross motor development with problems moving such as weakness, spasticity, and impaired selective motor control27. Children born with the disability have varying levels of impairment, and while it usually develops by age three, it ...

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Living in the modern world with well-developed technologies and complicated relations, it is important for people to mention all innovations and follow the principles, which may simplify their lives. Taking all of it into account, people, who deal with marketing, pay a lot of attention towards the abidance by corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies. They follow those policies at the time of building a brand image of any enterprise. There are some guidelines for proper structuring of the brand in order for it to develop correctly. This paper is to show the relation between CSR policies existing and their ...

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Change is a process that impacts all organizations. As observed by management expert, Kurt Lewin, “group life is never without change, merely differences in the amount and type of change exist” (Burnes, 2004, p. 981). Most change initiatives, however, fails because of the tendency of people to resist change. People, according to management experts, fear change and so they tend to revert back to old ideas and practices even if the change is for the better. This tendency of the individuals to resist change affects the organization as a whole. Also, the longer the ...

Compensation strategy of an organization is essential in ensuring a competitive advantage over rivals. In the contemporary business world, companies face increasing pressure to offer high-quality products and services. Compensation strategy is important to employees and employers. Workers often depend on salaries, wages, as well as benefits for income provision. Compensation practices differ in various companies. Managing compensation is a primary mechanism for decisions in the job market. Proper compensation management is crucial in improving organizational performance. Most companies adopt compensation strategies that enable employees to produce high-quality work. Companies such as Baker Hughes have a strategy aligned with ...

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Xbox360 Controller is the predecessor of the original Xbox controller. The first original Xbox debut with its Xbox console in the year 2001, the first gaming console launched with the Microsoft. Xbox360 gaming console is a big success for the Microsoft Corporation after their first debut with Xbox original in the year 2001 (Andrews & Baker, 2006). Xbox 360 controller is by far the best gaming controller of the Xbox gaming console generation. Since then, Microsoft made improvements to their gaming console and introduced to the market Xbox360 in the year 2005, completely built from scratch, not just an improvement ...

Nursing: Critiquing a Quantitative/Qualitative Study

A quantitative assessment of patient and nurse outcomes of bedside nursing report implementation

Introduction

This quantitative research critique encompasses an evaluation of the research problem and purpose. An evaluation of the hypothesis and research questions will be undertaken too along with an assessment of the literature review and theoretical framework. The entire methodology will be reviewed. Quantitative research studies unlike qualitative apply statistics in explaining a phenomenon. These features of the research design will be fully explored. Study # 1: Sand-Jecklyn, K., & Sherman, J. (2014). A quantitative assessment of patient and nurse outcomes of bedside nursing report implementation. Journal of Clinical

Nursing; 23(19 - 20); 2854–2863

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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 ...

Nobody has contemplated precisely on the complicated phenomenon why English has become so widespread and common all over the world. The ability to communicate in English fluently does not awake the feeling of surprise or pleasure on the foreigner’s faces. However, it is a rational and logical issue that English seems to be an international language or a lingua franca. From the historic point of view, one should mention Latin and its role all over the world. Many centuries ago, Latin was considered to be a lingua franca as well. However, after the Roman Empire lost its power ...

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Our company, here in referred to as Greene’s LLC, is suing Jennifer Lawson, a former employee for breaching a confidentiality agreement signed during the course of her employment and subsequently breached after being dismissed from the company. Jennifer Lawson has subsequently countersued Greene’s LLC for wrongful termination. The substance of the matter is that Jennifer Lawson was summarily dismissed from the company by the HR officer Lisa Peele. Lawson subsequently went on to seek employment from a competitor, Howell Jewelry World, a competitor to Greene’s LLC. The bone of contention for our company is that in ...

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The health of individuals and communities is dependent on many factors defined by the environment and circumstances. Among the environmental factors affecting the health of the people are disease and illness beliefs of some cultures and communities. The type of health and illness belief found in a specific group of people influences the outcome of the disease assessment process. The United States continues to experience high population growth rate leading to increasing diversity in the delivery of health care. Therefore, health care providers need more knowledge and skills on how to deal with people from diverse populations to increase ...

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The Lawyer-Client Relationship The lawyer-client relationship should be based on trust and confidentiality. Under no circumstances should a client lie to his or her lawyer as well as under no circumstances should a lawyer incriminate his or her client for telling them the truth. A problem in trust and confidentiality will result to poor lawyer-client relationship, which could significantly impact the outcome of a case. Trust and confidentiality problems arise when the client withholds some information from his lawyer for fear that his lawyer will back out. There are clients, for instance, who are guilty of doing ...

In Human Resource, the selection is nothing but picking the right person for a particular task having the expertise and knowledge (Mathis and Jackson, 2010).

Importance of Selection in HR

The importance of selection refers to recruit any candidate for a vacant position. This importance has a certain requirement for education, skills, knowledge and expertise for any industry to be fitting to the desired job. It is explicated by using two fundamentals of HR: “As tough the criteria, easy to go.” Testing from every end at the time of selection, make understanding for a candidate to the required output by an industry. “Wrong choice, ...

Marketing is a process that facilitates goods and services to be transported from where they are produced to where they are consumed. On the same note, marketing involves creating awareness of the product or service, increasing the likeness towards them, and creating a desire for people to purchase them. Therefore, marketing involves the use of the 4p’s of marketing to ensure that goods and services reach the consumers from where they are produced (Jobber & Ellis-Chadwick, 2012).

The 4p’s are as follows;

Product Price Place Promotion However, many people across the globe misunderstand marketing with other functional areas of business, and this discussion will ...

The company (TinD) uses many information systems that make its core. The three key ISs include Jidoka, Poke Yoke and T-WINS LS in relation to the identified situation. Jidoka’s purpose is to stop in a safely manner in case of normal processing. In addition, it enables the machine to detect the issue and stops automatically through andon (Toyota Motor Corporation, 2016). Moreover, the purpose of the Poka Yoke is to make issues visible and act as fuel for the Kaizen Teian (Obara & Wilburn, 2012). On the other hand, T-WINS LS helps to manage warehouse and logistics centers of ...

Entrepreneurial Intentions and Moral Disengagement among Business Students

This study evaluates the relationship between entrepreneurial decision making and moral disengagement among business students with the objective of assessing how far students are willing to compromise on ethical values to achieve financial gains and self fulfillment. This study is expected to contribute substantially to the existing literature on entrepreneurial intentions and ethical decision making by getting an insight into the organizational behavior of would be entrepreneurs. Instances of ethical aberrations by high ranking officials from companies like Enron and Goldman Sach, who were business graduates from reputed institutes prompted Cory, S.N. (2015, 2) to undertake a research to ...

Integrated Marketing Communications Plan

Industry/Company review CBU Airlines is a company based in Riverside, California. The company has the entire infrastructure necessary to become a prominent player in the airline industry, including jets, employees and terminals. In light of this, the company needs a new integrated marketing communications plan (IMC) to enable it to compete effectively with other airlines. The U.S. domestic airline industry earns in excess of $158 billion in revenue each year. Furthermore, the industry has been experiencing growth because of increased business and consumer spending as the country recovers from the 2007-2009 recession. In addition, the growth in the industry ...

What are the problems facing SG in 2010?

Scientific Glass is a provider of specialized glass equipment to a variety of organizations which include research laboratories, pharmaceutical companies, and testing facilities. The company faced inventory management problems in 2010 and it is these problems that are the focus of this write-up. As of January 2010, SG noted a substantial increase in the level of inventories (Wheelwright & Schmidt, 2011). The implications were that the company noted increased levels of tied-up capital. The debt to capital ratio rose beyond the target level of 40% meaning that the organization could not use the capital in other areas. Further, the company’ ...

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The hospitality of a people is a welcome and pleasant asset in a fast-paced world. Of course, one thinks of the hospitality industry when considering the term. However, true hospitality, as will be defined in this document, cannot be duplicated because of the aspect of generosity, without expecting anything in return. Having lived in the country of Ireland, between the areas of Ballintober County, Roscommon, and South Dublin County, it was learned that the people in the country of Ireland possess a sense of hospitality that has a warm effect on those who experience it. The hospitality of the ...

Is Public Relations an ethical profession?

Introduction Public Relations has been defined in many ways over time and across industries. The Institute of Public Relations in USA defines it as the deliberate, planned and sustained effort that goes into maintaining a mutual understanding between an organization and its public consumer. Edward L. Bernays defined it as the method of information persuasion and a method employed to develop public support for a cause, an activity, a movement or even an organization . Herbert M. Baus proposed yet another definition that Public Relations was a combination of many subjects including philosophy, sociology, economics, psychology, journalism, language and communication, ...

With no doubt, management system is one of the crucial determinants of a company’s successful performance. One of the main issues in every company is to balance different, and often converse, interests of all stockholders: owners, employees, customers and suppliers. Actually, the aim of a company is to increase its value, i.e. increase the wealth of shareholders. However, this crucial to understand, that the way to high profits is built not by shareholders only: with no motivated workers, fair suppliers, and finally, with no satisfied and loyal customers, the successful activity is impossible. Moreover, these elements are interconnected, ...

According to Christopher Bader, Joe Baker and Frederick Carson Mencken in Paranormal America: Ghost encounters, UFO sightings, Bigfoot hunts, and other curiosities in religion and culture (2011) research shows that “more than 2/3 of Americans have paranormal beliefs with this being manifested in their penchant for movies with paranormal themes. This statistic is not alarming since evidently the paranormal and the supernatural have been a part of human culture since the beginning of time. In fact, in most religions paranormal experiences are either commonplace, or show up without alarm to the persons practicing that particular religion. While persons without ...

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The case dwells upon the situation, in which a new Major Accounts Management, Zain, who recently joined the organization Zoro Stationary, found himself, ones trying to adjust to the new environment. The reality demonstrates that the previous experience of this professional, which encompasses over ten years in one of the major regional clothing and household retailers allowed good insight into the purchasing and customer behavior. The challenges, associated with the change of the industry, corporate culture and personal diversity, however, built on a number of difficulties in adapting his skills to the new role. The learning process within the ...

In the first place, telehealth services increase the access of the general public to various health care facilities. For instance, on introducing the remote healthcare services in my organization, rural people can easily obtain specialty care in various departments. Particularly, women with small children need not come all the way to the hospital by travelling long distances (Werner, 2012). In light of our organization’s strategic location amid several originating sites inhabited by medicare beneficiaries, we look forward to doing sizeable telehealth services. Cardiovascular and trauma care we currently specialize in can save lives of many patients who have ...

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A wedding dress, or a wedding gown, is an elegant clothing which a bride wears to her wedding ceremony. Usually the wedding dress is white, but the bride can actually choose any colour she would like to. There is also a variety of style solutions to the wedding dress depending on fashion trends, the festivity of the wedding ceremony and the choice of the bride. The style of the fashion dress depends on the cultural traditions of every particular country, but in the Western tradition it is accepted that a white dress with a veil is the most classic ...

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Gun control refers to as laws and policies that have been enacted to regulate the manufacture, transfer, possession as well as the use of guns by the civilians. Gun control in the United States came at a time when massive shooting, killing, suicide, and gun related violence was on the rise in the United States. It is because of this that President Barrack Obama and his committee decided to propose the gun control policy. The annual review of public health statistics shows that gun related deaths tally to approximately 33,000 annually (Wintemute and Garen 9). For information on ...

TD is a 4-year-old boy who was brought by her mother for routine check-up. According to the mother, TD had a poor appetite was a “picky-eater”. The boy has a liking for processed beverages and sweetened snacks and that is what the mother has been feeding him since that is what the boy prefers the most. While the boy was within the normal growth and development percentiles, tests revealed HCT- 29% and HGB- 10.0 g/dL. Guided by the objective and subjective findings, it is apparent that the boy was suffering from iron deficiency anemia. As Baker & Greer (2010), assert, ...

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The John Hopkins hospital is a premier teaching and research-based institute base in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. It was founded in 1889 by John Hopkins. It is one of the leading hospitals in the US known for its strong scientific and innovative background in multi-special therapeutic areas (Pronovost, et al. 2013). It specializes in neurosurgery, cardiology, endocrinology, and paediatrics. It is one of the only institutes in the US to have a full-fledge medical college that houses students from 30+ countries. The quality of care and management at John Hopkins is of the highest standards are recognised globally. Quality Measures ...

Chapter 2: Literature Review

Chapter 2: Literature Review

Introduction

The chapter contains details of the information regarding special education and challenges associated with it. The chapter is divided into four sections to facilitate the users of the study. The theoretical framework comprises of theories and definitions of key terms mentioned in the study. Another section contains the material extracted from past studies that provide clear evidence on the arguments. A conceptual framework is also included that represents the selected approaches from past studies and elaboration of the definition. The summary is also provided at the end of this chapter to provide a concise view ...

A country’s global and wealth effectiveness relates to the way the educational system operates. Dishonesty in the academic realm weakens the high standard of education. Moreover, dishonesty does not work in favor of the academic system’s goals, which is to produce respectful and responsible people in the society. The standardization of academic cheating conducts impacts the soon-to-be decision makers of the land. Thus, the students’ practices and notions concerning academic integrity influence their business ethics as well as their individual values. In recent years, there had been a growing interest in studying the ethical behavior due to ...

An ever increasing number of people make use of airports on a daily basis. It is therefore inevitable that the level of security in the airports is much higher when compared to other areas and installations that do not experience as much traffic. As a result, a number of techniques have been devised to detect any potentially harmful objects and/or persons that may put the safety and security of the airport and its users as risk. It is especially the case given the rapid spread of the global terrorism phenomenon which has made air travel a primary target. It ...

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This paper explores the concept of Marketing Mix as it applies to the effective selling of used textbooks. This product has been chosen because of its wasted earning potential for students who need to adapt to the rising cost of education. The Four Ps of Marketing – Product, Price, Place, and Promotion – are discussed in this paper as the application of each marketing component is vital to success in the sale of used school books. Like the four legs of a table, the four Ps complement each other and as such, weakness in one component can cause a collapse of ...

The case of Meredith Kercher’s murder in Perugia, Italy became a very sensationalist story due to the involvement of an American young woman, Amanda Knox, who represented both America’s sweetheart, being young and beautiful, and Italy’s black widow, due to her associations with sexual promiscuity and drugs. While no clear evidence was ever found to ink her and her Italian boyfriend to the murder, they were imprisoned, together with a Black man, Rudy Guede, whose drug-related activities quickly turned the media against him. In this high-profile case, the issues of privilege and diversity had a great ...

Central Issue:

Why did Google and China choose to negotiate a partnership, bearing in mind what was at stake and the difference in their individual objectives? Google would risk going against one of its principles (do not be evil), whereas China would need to rethink its censorship policy.

Recommended Course of Action:

Business institutions and states should look at the best option (negotiation) to ensure that they fulfill their needs as much as possible. Therefore, both parties should be ready to make compromises, but ensure that they do not end up on the losing end.

Basis for Recommendation:

I chose the arbitration option because both Google and China ...

Guided by the findings of both the objective and subjective assessment of the 3 year old, the differential diagnosis that could be derived includes; iron deficiency anemia, thalassemia or lead toxicity. Each of these conditions is associated with microcytic hypochromic anemia as a classical feature. Both thalassemia and lead toxicity can be excluded from the scenario on the basis that thalassemia is a genetically inherited condition that runs in a family and no other member lives with the condition. Lead toxicity cannot predominantly feature in this case since from the subjective assessment, there is no likelihood for lead levels ...

1. Introduction This section defines a systematic approach using tools and techniques of research to carry out a research project (Jha, 2008; Kothari, 2004; Newman & Benz, 1998). 2. Research Approach The research aims to base the underlying study on quantitative approach for data collection. Quantitative methods will be utilized for the collection of theoretical data? A statistical analysis (linear regression analysis) will be conducted to achieve this purpose with the help of the secondary quantitative data relating to chosen economic indicators in India. Past studies can also have some numeric information and inference as well. This way, the study ...

Discounted cash flow is one of the valuation methods of performance used by a company to pick on a favorable and attractive investment opportunity (Baker and Powell 105). This evaluation analysis method uses future cash flows that are to be discounted to find the estimated present value of the project’s potential to invest. Business evaluation entails a well laid out set procedures employed in the estimation of the owner’s interest economic value in business. Financial market participants use business valuation to arrive at the price they are willing to receive or pay out for the sale of ...

Russel Baker frequently uses the word ‘junk’ in his article, either referring to buildings or the results of work performed at workplaces by ‘market analysts’ or “data processors”. What the author is hinting at is not only the fact that “the machines that make things make them in such a fashion that they will quickly fall apart” (Baker 431), but also that no matter what is it we do, it makes no sense at all, it has no value. It is as useless and as senseless as junk, an absurdity that does not add value to the world. How ...

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Michael Zehaf-Bibeau is a lone attacker who launched a terrorist attack in Canada in 2014. Zehaf-Bibeau is believed to have been experiencing mental issues as well as a drug problem. Several years after his conversion into the Islamic religion, Zehaf-Bibeau became radicalized and started finding ways through which he could join other foreign fighters in Syria. The Canadian government had placed strict regulations at its border which led to the invalidation of his passport, an act which is believed to have provoked him. Following his displeasure with Canada's new foreign policy to deploy its soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan ...

1. The patient is diagnosed to have congestive heart failure. This is a heart disorder resulting to pulmonary vascular congestion with a reduced cardiac output. Among the diagnostic symptoms of the disorder include pulmonary complications, such as pulmonary edema, obstructive sleep apneas and pleaural effusions (Figueroa and Peters 2006). It is also characterized by the main symptoms of orthopnea, fatigue, dyspnea, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea and peripheral edema (Grimshaw, Khunti and Baker, 2001), which are all present in the clinical symptoms presented by the patient Mabel. During the exacerbation of the congestive heart failure, the patient will benefit from continuous ...

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Trauma / children trauma of separation Trauma refers to an emotional shock or wound often having long-lasting effects. This shock or wound could be caused by any accident, violence, or other such incidents, especially in the childhood, when a child feels completely helpless (Kaduson & Schaefer, 2012). Usually, trauma in the childhood is of great impact as the child is unable to use ordinary coping and defensive processes while facing any intolerable danger, anxiety, or instinctual arousal. These situations have such an overwhelming nature that they may result in an everlasting kind of impact on the mind ...

Sermons usually have many ideas, but all of them stem out from the main idea of the sermon. Haddon Robinson, in his book Biblical Preaching, came out with “The Big Idea Preaching”. The Big idea is an organizing factor, and preachers should organize sermons based on it. There are two purposes of using this method of preaching. First, the congregation would have something lasting in their minds after the sermon is over and secondly, the sermon is organized around one major idea allowing for a better understanding of the message the preacher is trying to convey. It is significant ...

Colorectal cancer can be treated to remission when it is detected early. This underscores the importance of screening for colorectal cancer (Miller et al., 2011). There is an increased incentive for screening for colorectal cancer considering that colorectal cancer ranks fourth among the top causes death for non-cutaneous cancers and an even higher second rank when all cancers are considered. Even with these incentives for compliance with screening protocols, Miller et al., (2011) finds that the compliance rates are still low and attributes it to several factors. These findings that are corroborated by Hernandez, Chowdhury, Fleming & Griffith, (2011) who ...

1.0 Abstract Stakeholders are of central importance to every business organization. The success of any business hinges on the relationship that it has with its stakeholders. Disclosure of quality financial reports is significant for the capacity of business organizations to build confidence with their key stakeholders. Corporate governance and the audit quality have attracted the interest of researchers to determine how they impact stakeholders. Additionally, the implementation of IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) has impacted the direction of business organizations especially with regards to corporate governance. The question of whether the quality and extent of disclosure of financial information ...

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AirSec Ltd. aims to become the market leader in the United Kingdom in the sector of technology security systems by 2020. The company targets to increase our sales and revenue for five years from 2015 by at least 10 percent and proportionately cut costs by 5 percent. The company aims to expand our workforce from 120 to 170 in a period of one year and enhance the quality and drive of the workforce through training, development, and reward incentives to attain growth and success. AirSec Ltd also intends to improve customer service by providing superior customer experience and meet ...

The environment is everything that surrounds us. It involves not only the natural elements that the word “environment” entails but also people and the man-made components of the world. Nor is the environment restricted to the outside, it also involves the indoor sections in which we live and work. The environment, therefore, is much more than simply the ozone layer and the ocean. It is the soil, air, water, lands, animals, houses, restaurants factories and all that they contain. Anyone who uses pesticides indoors or outdoors, in a city or a country, needs to consider the way that pesticide ...

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The Rights of an Accused in Canonical Penal Procedures

INTRODUCTION: SUU KYI’S LIFE Born in 1945 in Rangoon (now Yangon), Aung San Suu Kyi rose to political power in 2016 as the first state chancellor of Myanmar (formerly Burma) (Baker and Sheridan 1). She grew in a family with parents deeply involved in the politics of mid-twentieth century Burma. Her father, Bogyoke, founded the modern Burmese army in 1947 and negotiated Burmese independence. Her mother, Khin Kyi, was ambassador to India and Nepal in 1960. Kyi graduated in Masters in Politics from the University of Oxford in 1968, after which she ...

The EBP process is accomplished to the fullest when the recommendations and the evidence are utilized to cause a change within the organization. The EBP process is the interplay between research, education and practice and therefore forms a core for the implementation and adoption of change within an organization. It is the process that offers a viable plan to accomplish a change in respect to a particular research question or problem that has been identified within the setting (Dearholt & Dang, 2012). EBP is concerned about the specific interventions to a specific situation based on tangible evidence and data as ...

Individual Reaction to the Advent of Artificial Intelligence

Introduction Through advancements in science and technology, human beings have managed to create machines that work more or less in the same way as the human brain, performing tasks like mathematical calculations and language translations. This is what has come to be known as Artificial intelligence (AI) which is the kind of intelligence that machines exhibit when certain manipulations and programming is done to them. Some of these machines like the IBM computer, Watson, are capable of mimicking or performing certain cognitive functions that are normally associated with the human brain only. Artificial intelligence research thus deals with problems ...

Attitudes and Beliefs of Hypnosis amongst Mental Health Professionals and the Impact on the Availability of Hypnosis Training in Counseling Training Programs

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Nine out of ten general practitioners are approached by their patients for information regarding alternative and complementary therapies, including hypnotherapy, and three out of four GPs provide referalls for hypnotherapy (Hall & Giles-Corti, 2000). A minority of healthcare providers, however, has ever received formal education and training in hypnosis, and a majority relies on lay information from the media and other non-authoritative sources to form its opinions about the merits or demerits of hypnotherapy. Mental healthcare standards dictate ...

Introduction

According to Baker, the American justice system is in need of an evolution, which will bring the courtroom into the 21st century. Baker was speaking about the use of technology within the courtroom, but the availability of DNA has made it quite clear the American justice system needs to look forward to the future and consider all possibilities to improve the system as a whole. This paper will discuss the use of DNA in American justice system helped investigators to detect crime in a way easier than in the past.

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DNA is more formally referred to as deoxyribonucleic acid, ...

The first article analyzed and discussed is Joseph Baker’s “Courts Should Join Information Age; Using Video and other Technology Would Greatly Benefit the American Justice System”, was originally published in the Orlando Sentinel on December 19, 2004, and is an example of the use of old technology in the American justice system. Baker focuses his intentions of the value of television and the Internet, which has provided the ability to portray events as they happen from anywhere on the planet. It is these forms of media, which have enabled users the ability to see and hear real life ...

Every spring, students and professors of the Glendale College, as well as members of the local community, have a chance to enjoy annual concerts performed by the Glendale College Community Orchestra (Glendale.edu, n.d.). On May 22, the Orchestra performed in a huge concert, which took place at the Mainstage Auditorium. Bethany Pflueger was the conductor of the Glendale College Community Orchestra, and, probably, this was the key thing why the performance was so successful. This concert featured Glendale College Concert Singers, and it was also led by Chris Rios and Chris Coulter as musical directors. The Glendale College Community ...

Suzanne observes that; for decades, Hemingway scholars have used the term remate to describe the uniqueness in Hemingway's approach to autobiography and memoir. She also notes that Mary Hemingway's definition and use of the word remate is wrong. This wrong definition necessitates her to argue that reconsidering how we define and use the term remate would change our understanding about A Moveable Feast. She does manage to convince us through her well-dissected arguments, why Mary's definition and use of the term remate as well as that of other scholars is wrong, and that reconsidering the definition of the word ...

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The protection of patients’ information is an inevitable responsibility for the local healthcare system to uphold. This is pegged on the health care ethical standards and the confidentiality levels of holding patients’ critical information with utmost dignity. The initiation of the Electronic health Record (E.H.R.) project should be established on very specific guidelines and regulations to ensure that there is no patients’ information spill over. This system should provide a distinctive watchdog on how the sensitive information of the patients is created, shared and stored (Baker, Wagner, Singer & Bundorf, 2013). Therefore, the health care system must take vital steps ...