Essays on Chiang

“If it has ‘science’ in its name, it ain’t (Minnick).” Those words were said to this writer by the smartest person he ever knew personally, a man with PhDs in Mathematics and Physics, a true scientist. He went on to explain that science, if it is science, can be reduced to mathematics and then can predict. “Science can generate electricity or flatten cities,” he said. The problem, of course, is that whenever one deals with the “soft sciences,” political science or economics (the dismal science) or sociology or history or any of the disciplines that are housed in ...

The managers of public sectors are confronted by the dilemmas related to ethics because they effort to select options surrounded by the values set. Ethical problems might emerge from similarly alluring alternatives that may perhaps be defended as the right one in some circumstances (Ehrich, Cranston & Kimber, 2004). The starting of the twenty-first era has shown the profession of accountancy as the biggest challenge to continue. Such task highlighted the need for the profession to make stronger the self-assurance of public in its ethics plus efficiency (Onyebuchi, 2011). The scandals related to accounting that is found out frequently in ...

Business Intelligence and Analytics in Higher Education Institutions

Business Intelligence and Analytics

Business Intelligence and Analytics refers to the process of collecting and analyzing data from internal and external systems to produce actionable information to help in making decisions. The process of business intelligence and analytics is driven by information technology and in modern business; there are countless software for this purpose. The users of the simplified actionable information could be management or the people in operations. The current economy is information-driven; producing what has come to be known as the knowledge economy. Modern business is generally driven by having the right information at the right time ...

Introduction

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 ...

Money and prices in the long run and open economies dictate the financial market. As such, that is why factors such as domestic variables and foreign monetary policies are over-emphasized. Demand for money is thus affected by the domestic variables, which include interest rates, price expectations, and permanent income, among others. As such, this paper explores the financial market to reveal the viable strategies the US can adapt to secure reliable money and prices in an open economy on a long-term basis.

The state of US Financial Market

Over the years, the economy of the US has been in good shape, especially when compared to ...

Introduction of staffing and Performance Appraisal in retail sector context

Staffing in Retail Sector Retail sectors constitute the part of the economic market made up of businesses that sell well to the final consumer. The ultimate or the final consumer is the client who buys goods for personal use and not for business use. The retail sector encompasses various kinds of shops such as small and medium-sized stores and kiosk, large department stores, supermarket chains, mail-order business as well as online businesses. Staffing is an integral and a core process within the retail industry. Staffing includes a range of activities followed in the acquiring and maintaining a human personnel. ...

(Alivan Watch & Accessories Company)

Strayer University

Dr NAME Marketing 500 Alivan Watch & Accessories Company Branding strategy A good branding strategy will be necessary for Alivan Watch & Accessories Company to assist in the development of a triumphant brand to achieve specific goals. The ground rules that were used by companies in the past have been evolving. Thought leadership, content marketing, demographic changes, and social media are some of the factors that are challenging company brands. Thus, forming together with sustaining clientele trust as well as loyalty and confidence have become harder than ever before. Firstly, the branding strategy to be used by ...

Doi Suthep-Pui National Park

Doi Suthep-Pui National Park

Rationale for choosing Doi Suthep-Pui National Park landscape

The Doi Suthep-Pui National Park is considered as one of the greatest cultural landscapes in Thailand’s Chiang Mai Province. The cultural landscape meets the high standards of international criteria on the aspects of its richness in natural aspects since it offers a scenic location of biodiversity besides having both rare and endangered species in its vicinity. The Doi Suthep-Pui National Park is critically a significant venue for a visit as it presents different cultural and natural attractions, for instance, the Phra That Doi Suthep Temple (Sponsel, 2014). Additionally, tribal people have lived in the ...

The Nationalist Party may have lost popularity in China due to its failure in the economy, which resulted in a high level of inflation. Despite the loss of popularity, a proletariat uprising, and a popular revolution were not the main reason for its fall. In 1945, both the Nationalist Party and the Communist Party sought to expand their territories within China through their strategic placement. The nationalists focused on acquiring expansive territories in areas previously controlled by their rivals. They aimed at conquering major cities and fertile coastal regions to reinforce their previous control over the region. The only ...

Trip to Disneyland

1.0 Tourism Distribution Channels 1.1Introduction Travel business and experience is one of the most dynamic sectors of the tourism industry. Visitors want to travel and have an experience of a lifetime. They have formed-perspectives of how they want their experience to be, putting stakeholders in this industry on the run as they endeavour to better performance and conform to the needs of their customers (Tran, Jeeva&Pourabedin, 2016). Customer perspective and the expectations they have is enough to make travel a reality that anyone can wish to engage in. Service delivery in the travel industry is varied before the final ...

In this reading, we see how a mother loved one child more than the other and we get to find the reasons and impact of that. Lady Chiang had two babies. She hated the elder one who later became the emperor of Cheng. The reason the mother hated her first born was that he gave her a difficult time when she gave birth to him. The mother loved his younger brother Tuan of Kung and wished that he should be the successor of the throne. Because of the pain of child birth that the elder one gave her she ...

Introduction

In the contemporary world, the rise of travel and tourism industries has shown a tremendous resilience, which has been among the main contributors to the growth of hotels real estate in various countries. Thailand is among the countries that have been significantly affected by the geopolitical tensions and economic instability. In 2008, Thailand experience violent clashes that resulted in approximately 9 percent decline in average tourist spending. This also resulted in the closure of the international airports, which consequently decreased tourists and investors' confidence. However, over the past few years, the country has experienced tremendous growth in the tourism ...

Introduction

Rapid and extensive constant growth of IP-based networks in addition to increasing dependencies on these networks has made their management and maintenance tremendously challenging. Round the clock monitoring and maintenance of the networks is significant so as to reduce the down time of the network. The increase in the dependencies of Internet Protocol-based network and the importance of their continuous monitoring has resulted in the rapid growth in the application and use of automated network monitoring systems (Chiang et al., 2009). The paper outlines the differences and similarities that exist between two different network management systems: PRTG Network Monitoring ...

Institutional of Affiliation

Chun-Ping Changa and Chien-Chiang Lee research to identify whether presidential approval varies with the economic performance of a country have found out that people approve more of regimes as their economic performance is. This nonlinear relationship identifies that presidents whom the economy performs best when they are in power will receive more approval than those who the economy goes downhill. Due to the recent unemployment rates and recession and raising debts of Americans President Barack Obama popularity had been going downhill, the little unpredictability of the economy results to quick reaction from Americans than any other incident. Voters have ...