Essays on Defective

Errors involved in digital image capturing and processing can either be systematic or random. Systematic errors are classified into geometric distortions, spectral errors and distortions. Geometric distortions are caused by sensor-Earth geometric variations which affects the position of a pixel relative to other pixels,. In digital images, the pixel position is compared to the other pixels in the scene and the absolute position of the pixel relative to real coordinates in latitudes and longitudes. Geometric distortions can render the image and the information expected to be derived from the image as useless,. This is because the image is sometimes ...

What defense might be raised in this case?

In the case of Dr. Nalwa, the defendant can raise the defense of primary assumption of risk. The defense in commonly brought up in sporting activities where a participant voluntarily and willingly chooses to take part in the game despite being cognizant of the fact that he or she may be injured or incur some form of loss(Owen, 2014). Dr. Nalwa willingly and voluntarily chose to engage in the sport of bumper car riding. No one compelled her to participate in the same. By dint of the voluntariness, it is presumed that she was aware of risks inherent ...

The CEO,

As you are aware, I am discussing with Chip Manufacturer Company (CMC) about the following issue. Please find my action plan detailed below for the same.

Current Issue

Preparing for Negotiation I prepared for this negotiation by initially identifying the goals. In the present scenario, my goals are to 1) not ruin the long-term relationship with CMC and 2) not take losses in the present transaction. To proceed further in the negotiations, I have to determine if CMC is also interested in a long-term relation or not. I try to find shared interests and I will try to identify things that ...

Product Liability

The Precession Tools Corporation’s case scenario raises issues of liability of manufacturers and suppliers of products. The law of product liability provides for Strict Product Liability which requires the claimant to prove the product’s defect and that the defendant was engaging in it sell. The product must be dangerous for use, and physical harm must be occasioned to the plaintiff (Miller, 2010). In the case of design defects, occurs where necessary alteration could reduce the foreseeable anomaly. The product is defective when foreseeable risk could prevent by providing additional warnings. As sellers of products, all that Procession ...

The case involves a guest of the hotel in Jamaica, where a guest was severely injured while working out in the fitness center of the hotel.  

Issues:

What jurisdiction and law should apply for the case? The jurisdiction and law that should apply here is the Jamaican law, in Jamaica. The US law in Miami cannot apply because, as stated in 28 U.S.C subsections 1391(a), a US court only has jurisdiction in such cases over the defendants where at least one defendant is domiciled in the particular judicial district. This principle has been affirmed in the case of Steven ...

1. Biot’s respiration named after Camille Biot is an abnormal ataxic breathing pattern, where rapid series of shallow respiration are followed by a period of apnea. In order to known how AMP kinase, knock down leads to Biot respiration in mice; it is necessary to known how AMP kinase affects respiratory rate. AMP kinase is a metabolic sensor and is activated in response to stretching of the lung alveolar cells and other stressors. During respiration, the lung goes through cycles of expansion and contraction (Budinger et al., 2008). When the alveolar cells stretch during expansion, the 5′ AMP-activated ...

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Introduction Gene therapy is a genetic technology in which genes and nucleic acids (RNA or DNA) are used for the cure, treatment, or prevention of a disease. This technology can be accomplished by replacing a defective or mutated gene with a healthy copy to reduce the problem; removing or inactivating a mutated or defective gene to reduce or eliminate improper functioning, and/or introducing a new kind of gene in the body to help in the fight against disease. Initially, the technology was used for orphan diseases such as primary immunodeficiencies, but with the passage of time, ...

Introduction

The human resource management department in every organization plays an imperative role in ensuring the health and safety of every employee because they are a prerequisite of a safe and conducive work environment. Workplace security is viewed from two dimensions, namely the exposure to workplace violence as well as the physical factors that can cause harm to the staff. The organizational management should ensure compliance with the standard safety and health measures to avoid legal consequences as described by the government legislation. This paper seeks to establish security and health measures that the management at Beer store should adopt ...

Introduction

Statements made prior to making a contract, as a rule, are not binding for the parties. At the same time, false or misleading statements made with the purpose of inducing another to enter into a contract can be found invalid, giving an innocent party the right to various remedies under the law. Under the common law, a victim of misrepresentation may be entitled to rescind the contract. Legislation, such as Australian Consumer Law, sets a pecuniary penalty in the event of breach of any of its provisions relating to consumer guarantees or false/misleading statements. Thus, the relevant case law ...

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Selling Defective Products

The first ethical dilemma that Stanton Wong faces is on the issue of selling products that are defective. If he chooses to disregard the defects, he would have knowingly participated in a disobedience of the company’s policy that requires test failures to be reported. His decision to report the problem or stay silent has profound consequences for the military service and the civilians as well. If a missile misfires, U.S. servicemen and innocent civilians could die.

Going Against The Boss

The second ethical dilemma is going against the instructions of the superior officer in the management of the company. As a ...

Daytime TV reality shows have become an important part of our society’s entertainment, legal and education system. They give us an impression of how exactly the real courtroom would look like and what we should expect in case we get embroiled in similar law suits. While some of the TV court shows are not real and involve fictitious characters such as judges, litigants, and court clerks, most of them like The People’s Court and Judge Judy involve real characters. The People’s Court TV Show, for example, has real parties who have instituted a civil case in ...

Critical Thinking in Action

2016-06-29 Critical Thinking in Action

Introduction

The issue of the providing safety of employees is quite important in the enterprise. It should be noted that safety technique is a set of rules and regulations designed to ensure safe working conditions and carrying out different kinds of work. In our case, it concerns the production shop. The list of all the safety regulations, aimed at meeting the requirements of labor protection is usually presented as the special instructions for employees. It should be noted that each enterprise should have management system that provide an appropriate safety level for employees in the ...

Writing Experience

Writing Experience

Background Introduction

The paper is a report on the experience of coming up with a topic in unit 1102. The focus is on applying narrative devices in writing. In particular, the paper explores the application of settings, characters, and theme and plot elements. These elements make the difference in making a paper average or exceptionally presented. The way a writer applies them can be either shallow or it can be deep, which tells the story in vivid imagery. This applies in the descriptive presentation of subjects, personalities, and places or events. In preparation for this presentation, Oliver Sacks ‘The ...

The purpose of this paper is to review the etiology, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, inheritance patterns, and recent advances in disease management of cystic fibrosis. Cystic fibrosis is a progressive and lethal disease resulting from an autosomal recessive gene (Singh, Rebordosa, Bernholz, & Sharma, 2015). The major problem associated with cystic fibrosis is the repeated lung infections that over time severely damage the lungs, scar and widen the passageways and limit the ability to breathe (Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, n.d.). As of 2013, there are an estimated 70,000 cystic fibrosis patients globally with 33,000 of them in the United States ( ...

Introduction

Huntington’s disease (HD) is an inheritable and neurodegenerative disease. It is characterized by progressive psychiatric, cognitive, and motor symptoms. It is significant to familiarize with the phenotypes since patients can present with one or more symptoms of the disease. Loss of balance and chorea are the first symptoms recognized by the patients. However, the families always notice personality or cognitive changes before first symptoms. The disease is most common in races from northern Europe. This paper is set to discuss the etiology and risk factors, pathophysiological processes, clinical manifestations, complications, as well as diagnosis of Huntington’s disease.

Etiology and Risk Factors

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The 1979 Sale of Goods Act is the most comprehensive pieces of legislation on commercial law in the UK that governs, inter alia, contracts for the sale of goods, implied terms in sale of goods, rules governing the transfer and possession of property (goods) and also provides some of the remedies that purchasers (buyers) may have against sellers for defects in goods or otherwise (Dobson, Dobson & Stokes 2012, p. 10). This Act thus ensures the effectiveness of the legal relationship between businesses and customers, for it contains rules and regulations that seek to protect the rights of buyers and ...

Application of Set in Order

The 5S has been useful for the industrial process in a bid to minimize time wastage as well as enhance efficiency in the workplace. In the industrial process, Set in Order is often used to help employees establish where every necessary staff is located to limit time wastage (Ward & Sobek II, 2014). It is important for the employee to get the things they need right away. However, when the tools are returned, they should often be on the place so that others can also find them when needed. The step asserts that everything should be set in a place ...

Material Facts

Jodee acquired a mobile phone from Right Phone Pty Limited. The phones that are supplied by Right Phone are usually manufactured abroad and then imported into the country by a company known as Viking Pty Limited. Right Phone then acquires the phones from this importer and supplies them to consumers. In supplying the phones, Right Phone requires consumers to sign a contract where they agree to pay a certain figure (the price of the phone) and a network connection fee which is paid monthly. The consumer after acquiring the phone pays for services such as phone calls on top ...

Toyota Motor Manufacturing, U.S.A., Inc.

Answer 1

The car seat problem has incurred due to run ration of Toyota Motor Manufacturing Plant in USA that has resulted in a shortfall of about 45 cars in a single shift. Moreover, the cars were need to be completed before they could be shipped; therefore, off-line operations has become necessary. However, the major contributing factor to the problem is the car’s seat defect where the cars went on the company’s assembly line with all the defective seats. Moreover, there are two causes of car seat defects, i.e., flaw in materials and inappropriate ...

Sometime in 2015, the German automobile manufacturer Volkswagen was caught up in an ethical scandal concerning a violation of the American Clean Air Act. The issue had been flagged by the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA), who detected that the Volkswagen car brand had the defective software. The details had revealed that the software installed to govern the engine could sense whenever the vehicles were being tested and subsequently activate emission reduction from the equipment. The same could later turn down when driven regularly and result in emissions that were way above the allowed limit as per the environmental standards ...

Difference between Six Sigma and Lean

Six Sigma can be explained as the philosophy of management that is highly focused on the achievement of organization's objective, data collection, and examination of the outcome of the entire process to ensure the quality service and decrease in product imperfection. Sigma is a Greek word that is rarely used to indicate the difference from a standard but in the philosophy of management, Six Sigma is used as a methodology to eradicate faults from the manufacturing process to ensure the best quality of products. Six Sigma is classified into two parts namely, Six Sigma DMAIC and Six Sigma DMADV. ...

Zulily and its History

Zulily is an American company which is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. As a publicly traded company in the United States, Zulily markets home products as well as clothing and toys. The target market of Zulily are those young mothers that are technology savvy and are consistently looking for new as well as innovative products for their children. Founded in 2009, Zulily has been operating in online retail industry of the United States. Zulily tends to serve the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, North America and Ireland. Despite the fact that Zulily’s website reflects that the management holds no inventory, ...

The inventive mechanism which complements the imagination and the will is what the Capricho refers to his artworks. They have irrational unsystematic and psychological and most important are not bound to the rules of art. Nonetheless, there is detrimental impulse that produces defective results. Capricho dictates that the defective natures of his arts are a mental form created by illusion. Both the idea and the image are independent as a result of sense perception and intellect. It is the motivating concepts that refer to artistic principles of design. Capricho also stimulates erraticism in his works of art. For instance, ...

Section

Business Law

• Regal finance Company, Ltd. and Regal Finance Company II, Ltd., Petitioners, v. Tex Star Motors, Inc In the case at bar, TexStar was a used car dealer. Every time it sold cars, it allowed buyers to pay in installments, thereby extending credit to them. In turn, it sold these notes with full recourse to Regal. Regal would pay the amount of the note, effectively the loan amount, less $750 which would be deposited in the reserve. Should the buyer default in its payment, TexStar would be obliged to repurchase the amount of the note less $2,000. ...

Question 1. How do morality, ethics, and leadership play a role in shaping good and bad business?

Answer. With Enron and other similar scandals flummoxing the corporate world even now, the significance of morality, ethics, and sincere leadership automatically comes to the fore. There is no debating around putting the business into ethics or putting ethics into the business. Literature endorses that sustainable and fruitful business enterprises share values with the societies they operate in. The absence of this trait may put them under legal scanner or render them insignificant in the eyes of stakeholders. Statistically speaking, 59 percent of respondents, in a survey conducted in 2006, rated their school programs as good for integrating ethics ...

Summary: In the article titled, “Abnormal Cortex Plasticity in Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy”, the authors investigate the role of defective motor plasticity in the pathogenesis of Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy (Strigaro et al.). Prior to this study, JME was linked to motor cortex hyper-excitability and to the abnormal function of thalamic networks. This study, identifies a new mechanism that can cause JME, a common form of generalized epilepsy seen in children. The motor cortex plasticity was studied using an interesting technique called the Paired Associated Stimulation (PAS). The details of this technique are discussed in the methodology section. The role of ...

Introduction

Supply chain management primarily entails the coordination of functions within an organization as well as tactics used to execute those functions. Also, it involves tasks’ coordination across the partners participating in the supply chain with the principal objective of ensuring improved organizational performance. The definition of the supply chain clearly depicts the nature of the coordination between the partners involved in the business and appreciates the primary purpose of the supply chain management. Apparently, this approach aims at improving organizations’ as well as the individual performance (Lee et al., 116). There are two main components of the supply chain, ...

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Introduction The diversity of students in the elementary classroom posits concerns about providing instruction to embrace multiculturalism. Teaching standard American English takes precedence, and teachers should promote this way of African American students acquiring the language skills. Nonetheless, teachers should recognize their young students’ language peculiarities of Ebonics despite the negative connotations attached to it. Specifically, many people interpret Ebonics disapprovingly due to a corrupt form of English (Ramirez, Wiley, Klerk, Lee, & Wright, 2005, p. 41). This is the reason why both school teachers and ...

Airport Pavement Management Program (PMP) and Airport Signage and Marking Program

Goals: Ensure provision of smooth surfaces with excellent skid resistance devoid of alligator cracks, frost heaving, pumps, ravels, pot holes and wheel rutting which may hinder effectual motion in the airport.

Ensure effectual repair and maintenance of Airport pavements

Ensure proper and clear signage and markings in airports Assumptions and other considerations: It is advisable to submit written suggestions of Airport pavement repairs to the regional Maintenance Engineer who then shares with the Airport Pavement Management Program coordinator in order to ensure good coordination between maintenance and construction initiatives at the airports. Detecting, recognizing and clearly marking runway holding positions and signs in an airport is effectual ...

Introduction

The lean concept has gained popularity in the recent past especially in the globalization of various business operations due to the introduction of multinational organizations. Different lean principles as explained in the paper enable organizations to overcome waste in various trade actions carried out. The concept makes business organizations achieve their objectives more flexibility and profitability, making businesses able to control their operations in the most optimal way possible. Waste, as used in the paper, implies the various activities that limit the smooth flow of business process with no value addition to the commerce. Some of the main activities ...

Eugenics is usually a desire by the superior class of humans to create a society whose members are superior and have supernatural abilities. In the world of certain eugenics sections of the society who are considered defective and do not warrant to mix and interbreed. In an attempt to create a perfect society, the beliefs of the eugenicists took into consideration application of the theories of evolution in outrageous mannerism to thwart the influence of defective members of the society (Allen 314-25). In their quest, they supported the application of Darwin’s theories that projected survival only to the ...

Abstract

In the following case-study, Joshua is a newborn infant presented by his parents Samuel and Rachel to the pediatric outpatient unit of Robertsbridge, Sussex for screening and medical advice for sporadic vomiting at the time of breast feeding and seizure-like episodes. Samuel and Racheal also report sweet odor in the urine and loss of weight. Blood tests demonstrated increased concentrations of leucine and isoleucine. Genetic testing on the skin biopsies reveal mutation at Exon 6, c.659C>T of the of BCKDHA gene with a protein level p. A220V and Joshua exhibits about 1.5 % lesser than normal deficiency in the ...

Introduction

Product recalls by companies in China is a common phenomenon. In recent years, product recalls have affected Mattel toys, Pet foods, baby milk powder, Dell batteries, and baby bibs from Wal-Mart are some of the companies that have been hit by product recalls. In the case of Mattel, over 20 million toys were recalled in 2007. The recall of Mattel Toys came after safety issues emerged concerning products such as tires, toothpaste, and pet food. The recall of over 20 million toys made by Mattel generated several reactions. Blame is placed on the Chinese government, manufacturers, and even buyers. ...

In my view, God actually exists. I concur with the cosmological argument. The universe must be contingent. Human being has been so much curious to understand his existence and that of the world in general. The fact is that the world came into existence, it is contingent, and certain events and beings are casually contingent. The undoubted cause of these facts is the unmoved mover. There must have been a force behind all these, and this force is none other than the creator. In this discussion, my guiding factor is the existence of a contingent being, with an explanation for his ...

Introduction

Multiple myeloma is a rare cancer that is being diagnosed in more and more people every year. Officials are concerned that the current trend and are working hard to come up with ways to keep the condition at bay. There are many treatment options for the condition including chemotherapy, radiotherapy and stem cell research in addition to treatment of other conditions associated with the cancer like kidney problem, bone problems and anaemia.

All the treatment procedures are used either singly or with two or more procedures. Chemotherapy can be used together with stem cell transplantation therapy. Stem cell transplantation can ...

Policies, Procedures, Rules and Regulations.

The aviation industry in its quest and commitment for providing safe and reliable commercial air transport is constantly coming up with policies, procedures rules and regulations to be followed by all industry players so as to be able to achieve this. The industry prides itself with being one of the safest modes of transport but is also prone to accidents and thus the need for rules and policies that not only applies to workers and air transport providers but to passengers also as the safety of a passenger is paramount. Air transport providers across the ...