Essays on Cumbersome

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Numerous types of color processes in film has been witnessed throughout time. It is evident that some color has been more successful in film than others. As a matter of fact, some colors have remained dominant for an extended period while others fade away quickly if not required. In the future, the film industry will go ahead to experience advanced technology that will enable filmmakers to use more attractive and sophisticated colors. Probably an essential point to remember is that the evolution in film has been undergoing a gradual transformation since time immemorial. Like a century ago, people thought ...

Management in Sporting Industry

Management in Sporting Industry Sports industry has been prominent in recent years, making it possible for people who are naturally attracted to sports to pursue sports-related courses in various fields that suit them. To make it even more interesting, women have also been involved in internationals sports particularly football, drawing more attention towards international football. The fact that women are also engaging in international football is a positive aspect to all people across the world especially women, to see that they can actually do what they love and what they are most passionate about. On the same note, even ...

There have been far too many headlines lately regarding a dangerous phenomenon that has become all too common. Police Officers caught in the act of treating suspects in abusive, inappropriate and lethal ways without any reasonable provocation. This shocking problem has existed for some time, but as technology increases and video is difficult to avoid, it is now only making it to the general public. Instances like these have inspired horror, anger, protest and, in many cases, retaliatory violence against random officers. The people all across the United States are losing their trust and faith in their police forces ...

Terrorism is a global threat that involves acquiring individuals especially the youth to carry out terrorist and violence attacks for various reasons. Recruitment into terrorist groups is a process met by both successes and failure by the recruitment personnel. The positive side involves the fact that the terrorist groups can attract new members, and consequently the terror groups can acquire approbation to help them carry out their activities. The downside of the terror groups involves high chances of the arrest of the terror suspects and offenders and compromise of intelligence chattels. There are various techniques used by terrorist groups ...

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Stainless steel is an alloy with iron as major part and chromium with at least 11% by weight . Stainless steel industry grew rapidly during the 1989-93 period . This paper analyzes stress corrosion of stainless steel along with prevention measures and selection methods for stainless steel. After carrying out the study, it would be established whether stainless steel is an effective alloy or not for major uses in steel industry through adopting various selection parameters. Stainless steel is called stainless due to the resistance to rusting and corrosion .

Stress-corrosion in Stainless Steel

In order to reduce various occurrences of intergranular stress-corrosion cracking and severe ...

A referral system is a system used in health institutions to transfer safely patient care services across different departments, such as referring to a specialist, conducting assessments and treatments, and coordination of services for complex patients. An automated referral system is online. An electronic form is filled out with information about the patient and the primary care provider and the reasons for the referral request with relevant exam results and case history. Upon getting the request, the specialist reviews the form and begins to manage the case. The speciality aims at ensuring that the patients get the needed care ...

The use of social media in epidemiological studies remains an area that is viewed with skepticism. Epidemiologists often track disease trends following tip-offs and concerns gathered from traditional channels of information (Garrity, 2011). In this study, the researcher will use social media as a tool for gathering information about the eating and exercise patterns of the participants. The researcher will track the updates and photos put up by the participants on Face Book.

The inclusion of social media as a source of data is hinged on the following reasons: social media attracts millions of young people across the world. With ...

How the technology of electronic records has altered healthcare administration and patient care

Over the years, there has been a lot of growth and development in various industries, particularly in the twenty first century, especially, owing to the fact that among the areas that have synonymously developed in the past years include the information and technology front. As a result, there has been improved efficiency in service delivery, accuracy, timesaving and also speed in carrying out of various tasks, and in bulks. However, the development of the technology department has had both positive and negative impacts, especially, with its implementation in the medical field.

Previously, especially in the earlier and mid parts of the ...

- Evaluation of the Company’s Objectives

The corporate objectives of Aztec Catering, a company providing catering services to businesses, schools, colleges, hospitals and retirement houses in the United Kingdom are the following:

These corporate objectives of the company require substantial work to refine, extract and direct the company towards profitability, sustainability and growth. The first step in refining the corporate objectives of the company is to be familiar with what a corporate objective is. Faucett (2012), defines corporate objectives as ”statements of intent that provide the basic direction for the activities of an organization in pursuit of its mission.” This means that a corporate objective is a broad, ...

The paper has outlined Hannibal's tactical manner of combating its enemy the Romans during the second Punic War (Gabriel, 2008). Punic war was one of its kinds. Enmity and grudges Hannibal and Scipio were the main reasons for antagonism between the two rivals. Hannibal was the commander of the Carthagena while Scipion headed the Romans military. Hannibal was an exemplary military commander and regarded as the most intelligent in history of the Carthaginian military. “Barca” was a title earned by the Carthaginian troop and general which meant lightning (Gabriel, 2008). Scipion as well was an outstanding military commander with robust ...

The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of the impacts of the iPad in a typical workplace. Several technological advancements have hit the workplace, but it is important to delve on a specific technological improvement. The main emphasis of the report is to highlight the significance of adopting the iPad in today’s workplace. The report will focus on the benefits, and challenges, if any, that may arise out of iPad usage in the workplace. The complete report will seek to convince companies to implement the use of iPad in the workplace owing to the many advantages ...

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

The Name of the School (University) The City and State where it is located

In this assignment, I am going to look at the impact of online education. In order to explain my argument in depth, I am going to do some research regarding online education and how people are reacting to the service currently. Furthermore, I will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of online education. 2.0 Online education: Online education also known as E-learning is a form of distance education. Online education can be provided in two different ways; it can be over the internet or ...

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Abstract

Virtual machines technology is the latest technology for resource allocation in any company’s computing environment. One major benefit of virtual machine environments is the capabilities to support different operating systems on a physical computing system’s hardware and gracefully accommodate system upgrades and migrations depending on the company needs. With optimum allocation of computing resources in a computing environment, there is the need for companies to implement virtual machine technology in their computing systems. This paper explores the benefits and challenges of virtual machine technology implementation in an enterprise including the services offered by such implementation. It also ...

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Safety versus Economy – 4 Work Safety Hazards – 6 Accountability of Engineers – 8 Conclusion – 10

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Introduction The accountability for the safely of workers during construction has been largely shouldered by contractors that hire the workers involved. However, there is a growing consensus among the public and policy makers that designers should have an increased accountability to a project’s overall safety. It should be noted though, that unless an engineer or architect have been tasked to oversee the project, their role is more on the design process and not on the management of the project. For the ...

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According to the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, a third party logistics provider denoted as 3PL/TPL is a firm whose main objective is to provide services to their clients (third party) who outsource their services, as well as their supply chain management functions. The TPL entails all aspects that involve the management of the manner in which resources were transported from where they are produced to the end destinations where they were required Bhatnagar & Viswanathan, 2000. That implies that the third party logistics major in incorporating operations, warehousing, shipping, and other services that might as well be sorted out by ...

Production, manufacturing, processing and packaging Companies can benefit greatly from the application of Radio Frequency Technology. It can be deducted that, the entire supply chain substantially benefits from Radio Frequency Identifiers. Operations management in business refers to the management that center stages business operations. The operations involve all activities that encompass a business environment. Operations management further entails the production of goods. Similarly, it incorporates supply of the goods in the context to a supplier. Production of material often requires supervision hence because the incorporation of multiple managers in an institution. In the production of a product, it is fundamental that raw ...

Introduction

Litigation is a process of dispute resolution that is considered to be cumbersome and very expensive. It involves going through the courts and this process is usually tedious especially because courts have several pending cases to handle. In this regard, many institutions find it preferable to make use of other Alternative Dispute Resolution systems (ADRs) which tend to be less time consuming and even less tedious. 1 A. The systems of alternative dispute resolution other that can be used by the employer other than that of litigation are such as that of mediation, that of arbitration and minitrials. These ...

Executive summary

With the introduction of information systems, there has been easy management of information and automation of business processes. Research has shown that the users of Margaret Thatcher library have been experiencing massive difficulties due to lack of computers and e-learning materials in the library. A lot of time is wasted by students trying to look for books in the shelf. The key contributing factor is the fact that it is cumbersome and tedious to arrange the books. The management of Margaret Thatcher library is proposing an integrated library management information system that will assist students in both locating the ...

It has become a very pertinent question whether to use credit card or pay by cash. On one side you have traditionalist who want to pay by cash. And on the other hand are people of new generation who prefer carrying credit. We will look at this issue objectively, and compare and contrast the pros and cons of both to reach a conclusion. The thought process will be to look at both of them from standpoint of convenience and long term financial situation of household. People are using credit card more often these days for purchasing everyday items like groceries ...

Human resources management (HRM) has its own set of challenges in each different environment; even in other countries, a sense of organizational justice is often missing. The nation of South Africa is no exception; in order to understand the impact that organizational justice would have in HRM settings in South Africa, it is necessary to learn the politics of the practice as it pertains to South African municipalities. A number of political factors come into play that impact, for good or ill, the effectiveness of HRM to create a safe and productive work environment for municipalities. Service delivery is one ...

Applicant Viewpoint

Clients are not satisfied due to lack of proper operational mechanisms to follow. It takes long for customers to be notified about rejected applications The staff are inefficient and do not know what they are doing. The Construction Permit and Approval process are tedious and cumbersome. Filling the application form is difficult. There are no clear guidelines to follow and the guideline given does not clearly define the requirements. The government guidelines are not readily available to the applicants explaining the reasons why higher percentages of rejected applications are as a result of incomplete filling.

Clearance certificates from street, water, fire, drainage and security departments take long to be issued.

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In this paper we try to look and examine the Roman numeral system. We shall be able to take a close look at the history, their use and importance that range from the time of their invention to the present day writing. The history of Roman numerals follows the history of the state of Rome itself and it is documented that it started at the Latin Palatine Hill from around the 8th and 9th Century BC and it also traced to its fall in the 2nd Century AD following the civil war, plague, civil apathy and to the rise ...

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System analysis (SA) is the study of sets of interacting entities that are composed of computer systems analysis. Operations research is closely related to this field. System analysis is an open formal query conceded out to help somebody (the decision maker) to identify the suitable course of action (Krippendorff). System Design (SD) is the procedure of defining the interfaces, components, architecture and data for an organization to please specified necessity (Boehm, Barry 2006). Systems Analysis and Design (SAD) is defined as the process of developing information systems that efficiently use software, hardware, processes, data, and people to support the ...

The discovery of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) was in 1953. The scientists behind the discovery are Doctor Watson and his colleague Crick. The DNA is the basic unit of an organism. It acts as a finger print of the blood. There are two individuals with the same DNA on the earth. This includes even identical twins. Since the discovery, of DNA has had a large impact on science. A major impact of DNA is on the field of forensic science. This field of science is involved with solving crime. This is through using various laboratory techniques in testing samples. The techniques have ...

Positive and negative effect in intelligent tutoring system using mathematica

Intelligent system of tutoring is a computer system used to give instant, customized feedback or instructions to students without the help of a human teacher or instructor. Mathematica is software used to carry out symbolic and numerical computations. This software is used in intelligent tutoring systems to give students direction when conducting mathematics related studies or research. The use of mathematica in intelligence tutoring has various advantages as well as disadvantages.

Some of the merits of using mathematica include; the software has been used widely in intelligence tutoring successfully. Many top scientists and researchers from all disciplines of science all over ...

Terra Firma Company has continually been dependent on information technology to carry out its business operation. The information system being used by the company has however continually a number of disruptions and network crash regarding the system inefficiencies and failure. The Company seeks to undertake further investments on information technology to ensure smooth company operation through incorporation of new information systems. The transition from the old to new information system includes the incorporation of Customer Relationship Management and Remote Permanent Technical Support systems. The transition plan outlines steps of implementation, strategy identification and establishment of a time line for the relevant ...

America has been using paper-based voter registration system ever since the 19Th century. In the past, national election results have been plagued with inaccuracies and errors such that there is a need to create reforms in the voting system. Many eligible voters have also been locked out of voting during national elections because of problems related with the current paper- based elections. With the current technological advancements across the globe, the voter registration can be transformed into a more reliable system. Already, some states have ventured into the technologically innovative electoral process but others are still using the paper- based registration. ...

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The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act which was put in place in 1977 sought to address two core issues. The Act demands that accounting transparency from the company’s senior management and prohibits the bribery of the foreign officers. There was a need for the law when in the 1970’s the US security and Exchange Commission through its investigations ascertained that over 400 companies had made illegal payments to people in political power and more so those in foreign governments. American companies had been bribing the foreign officials so that they could change the political and economic policies in ...

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Management involves getting things done through other people in order to achieve desired organizational goals (Witzel 2004). Management is possible through performance of certain functions by managers. These functions include planning, controlling, leading, organizing and achieving. Whether in large or small organizations, these functions are essential for managers at all times because they assist in achievement of goals. However, managerial practices differ in small medium enterprises and large enterprises because of the size and complexity of the organizations. Managers in large firms perform functions of management differently from those in small medium enterprises. The leadership styles in these two ...

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Financial instrument can be defined as any form of contract leading to a financial asset rise on one entity and a subsequent financial liability on another entity or an equity instrument. Financial assets means things like cash, other entities equity instruments, contractual rights to obtain cash or other form of financial asset of other entities, and rights for exchanging financial assets or liabilities with favorable conditions for the entity. On the other hand, financial liabilities involve things like contractual obligation to send cash or other financial assets to other entities, and under the obligation for exchanging financial assets under unfavorable terms ...