Essays on Dutton

Digital image analysis is a method of extraction of useful information from digital images by using various digital image processing techniques. A digital image is a two-dimensional matrix that consists of great number of smallest addressable elements – pixels. Each pixel has its own digital characteristics, such as address and color representation. Digital image characteristics have two main measures: spatial resolution that is focused on capturing details and tonal resolution that is used to measure color, dynamic range and bit-depth. Higher tonal, spatial, and color values mean larger sizes of digital image file. (Peterson, 2005, pp. 1-2) The appropriate method ...

Lord Gardiner’s statement is a wonderful example of legislators recognizing that precedent may stifle the appropriate outcome in a legal dispute. Comparisons can be made between other Western countries; for example, the US Supreme Court has reversed precedent that it set itself decades prior, such as the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education. Just like these countries, Lord Gardiner believed that Britain should not limit itself to decisions based solely on decisions in the past because the modern day situations that arise often require a more complex and systematic methodology for determining justice. In addition, but not ...

In the 1970s, domestic violence came into view when feminist groups revealed the complicity in women to be compliant, even with men lifting their hand against them. Women who were maltreated were given refuge under the women’s movement, while health and social workers were being trained on how to handle women who were maltreated. By the 1980s, international organizations had declarations defining violence against women and children as “an unacceptable violation of human rights [and] a source of tragic consequences” (Romito, 2008, p.1). This, however, may have proven to be fragile, especially in certain parts of Europe wherein ...

Judith Butler wrote the article “The Values of Difficulty” as a response to the article “Language Crimes: A Lesson in How Not to Write, Courtesy of the Professoriate” written by Denis Dutton. Butler defends her position in her essay and states that academic writers need to use complex terminology in order to express themselves and to shape the meaning in the right way. She believes that there is a connection between the language and the meaning and that a term could be misunderstood if simple language would be used. I agree with Judith Butler because she proves her point ...

Introduction to James T. McCoy –Flight Line Manager at Peterson Air Force Base (PAF)

James T. McCoy works as a flight line manager at 41st AMU (Aircraft Maintenance Unit) of PAF (Peterson Air Force Base) in California. He is a USAF (United States Air Force) veteran, who has served for 27 years. After getting retired, he continued serving USAF for the last 10 years as a civil servant. James is responsible for keeping all his seven allocated aircraft ready to glide as per the schedule. He is deeply associated with the HR in order to ensure the successful hiring of sufficiently qualified personnel and also responsible for supervising the delivery of efficiently executable ...

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This article will highlight some of the effects that social media has on employment, given that a vast number of people across the world, both young and old spend some of their precious time on social media. Social media is very interactive and people tend to make friends worldwide, but the question is, can social media affect a person’s employment? The article will also analyze some vivid circumstances on how social media affected the employment opportunity of various people, and the reasons behind the causes. Since social media is very common across the world, the way people use ...

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Domestic violence has adverse impacts on the development of a child. In fact, the emotional turmoil created by growing up in such an environment heightens the chances of the infant engaging in rebellious activities such as drug abuse and other denial behaviors in their youth. With this in mind, it is worth appreciating the fact that Susie’s exposure to childhood molestation at an early age contributed to her drug problems and overall response to his abusive marriage. Since she witnessed her mother withstand the abuse she received from his father, she felt obliged to keep up with his ...

Nutritional Assessment for the Elderly

The 10-item Eating Assessment Tool (also called EAT-10) is a self-administered questionnaire meant for dysphagia screening, having every item score from 0-4. The EAT-10 was developed specially to solve the clinical demands for quick, self-administered and initial score questionnaire for assessing the gravity of dysphagia symptoms. Also, it has been validated to have outstanding criterion-based validity, consistency and testretest reproducibility. First, EAT-10 is independently linked with the nutritional state once adjusting for age, setting and gender. Second, the EAT-10 score is independently related to nutritional status and activities of daily living (ADL) after adjusting for age and sex (Dutton, ...

Introduction

People face difficult situations in their daily lives and therefore, counseling is important to assist these people go through life smoothly. Among the many difficult situations, that people experience is domestic violence. Domestic violence affects not only the partners involved but also their children and society (Dutton, 2006). The partners may not notice the harm they cause their children when involved in violence but it actually affects children psychologically. When clients of domestic violence appear in counseling sessions, a counselor needs to observe the necessary legal and ethical issues in dealing with the situation. The counselor may experience several challenges ...