Essays on EIS

1. The HS2 Railway Network

On November 2013, the Government passed a hybrid bill to Parliament supporting the launch of Phase One of the High Speed Two (HS2) project (DfT 2013). Consultation ended in February 2014 and the Parliament is in the process of appointing an independent assessor to provide an outline of all issues surrounding the project. The HS2 project is a railway network that is part of the Coalition Agreement and the Department for Transport’s (DfT) business plan from 2010 until 2015. HS2 has two phases, which will be launched separately and thus, will be subjected to ...

Information systems (IS) is defined to be the study of complementary networks of software and hardware which individuals and organizations use in collecting, processing ,filtering, creating, and distributing data .This study of information systems merges computer science with business by employing computation and information theoretical foundations.

Before the emergence of the modern discipline of computer science in the twentieth century, there existed a coincidence between the history of computer science and information systems. Generally, information systems mainly focus on processing information within organizations, which largely incorporates the business enterprises, and sharing the benefits with modern society. The circulation of information ...

6.0 INTRODUCTION This section provides discussions on prospective environmental impacts touted to arise from implementing the recommendations under Section 5 (Alternatives Analysis). Officials at the federal, state and local levels and the general public would benefit from the environmental overview provided in this section, as it aims to give a clearer understanding on various environmental impacts that may arise from the proposal to develop Lafayette Regional Airport. The Environmental Assessment (EA) elaborated in the Airport Environmental Handbook, under FAA Order 5050.4A stands as the model from which the environmental overview in this section is derived (FAA, 1985). Of ...

Introduction

There are many approaches and methodologies that can be used to teach English to speakers of foreign language. Each approach and method comes with its own strengths and weaknesses. In this paper, the writer will outline the main approaches and methods that he has adapted to and finds to be the most appropriate for the teaching of English to people who are learning English as a second language. To this end, the paper will provide a reflective analysis of important course readers that have been utilized in the duration of the course and provide an adaptation of what could be the ...

The last a few years have been portrayed by worldwide organizations developing monstrous databases containing machine clients' hunt inquiries and destinations went by; government offices gathering touchy information and extrapolating learning from unverifiable information with minimal motivation to give nationals methods for amending false information; and people who can without much of a stretch consolidate freely accessible information to infer data that – in previous times – was not all that promptly available. Security data warehouse gets to be more paramount as solid and fitting security systems are obliged to attain the fancied level of protection assurance. Huge numbers of the fundamental ...

Abstract

The project deals with the problem of wind energy as an alternative power source. The need for green or environmentally safe sources of electricity is a rigid must these days since the amount of emissions and pollutants require humankind to switch to harmless alternatives that will prevent ozone layer from depleting and global warming from evolving into an unstoppable ecological calamity. The project scrutinizes wind energy production capacities in the leading European countries, such the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, and Denmark, with industry prospects and current energy achievements being given a particular focus of attention. Statistics derived from scientific reports and ...

Part. 1. Inter-organizational systems (IOS) are automated information systems shared between one or more organizations. They are ICT based systems that enable businesses and organizations to electronically perform and conduct businesses and share information across business boundaries (Oz 2009, pp 87). Since the establishment and the increasingly availability of information systems and the internet, there has been few limitations of technological barriers (Schmidt and Jared 2013, pp 59). However, this does not imply that IOS operations are successfully implemented or have no limitations and challenges. The supply chain management has been considered one of the crucial elements ...

The following is a review article on two Environmental Case opinions of two different panels of judges. The first case is related with an expansion plan for a nuclear energy based energy distribution company to which certain Environmental Groups raised issues of inconsistency of data provided by the company for permissions to acquire and keep land for future purposes. The second case is related to a natural gas distribution company that wished to lay a pipeline through United States area, although the pipeline would supply from one Canadian state to the other. The first case (470 F.3d 676, *2006 U.S. App. LEXIS ...

Environmental Policies of the US

For the past few decades, the issue of environmental protection, climate change prevention and the application of alternative programs to improve sustainability had been in the frontlines as countries have been made aware of the dangers global warming poses to each person. Collective and unified action was immediately devised by many nations to combat global warming, while a few remained separated to the collective action on environmental protection. In the case of the United States, its environmental policies both for domestic and international purposes has shifted throughout the years as the US had begun to realize that it was more ...

Introduction

As the business world, including the Information Technology industry, becomes more and more complicated and dependent on technology, the need to organize systems and methodologies turns out to be a necessary requirement in order to develop well-functioning information systems that ensures the users' needs are understood and met with the correct business solutions at hand. Thus, this paper aims to introduce the various concepts involved in systems analysis and design (SAD) such as business information systems (BIS), rich pictures (RP), soft system methodology (SSM), system development life cycle (SDLC), and flow diagrams. In addition, this introductory paper will show how ...

Enterprise information systems refer to the information technology systems that various organizations and business employ as a way of combining a variety of business functions of information into a single data warehouse (Moller and Chaundry, 2012). Organizations that utilize enterprises information systems have the capacity to integrate all the data utilized in the entire organization. In addition, the organization has the capacity to track all of its business operations. These operations include planning, product delivery and quality assurance (Nowduri and Al-Dossary, 2012). The increasing challenges that have emanated because of the information age have made businesses adopt enterprise information system. According ...

It would not be deemed inaccurate to define Qualitative analysis simply as research based on words as against numbers. This gives an overall view of a subject from a sociological point of view. There are various methods employed in acquiring data based on such qualitative methods. All these methods follow the fundamental principle of ascertaining meaning from actions, words and actions of people while treating the subjects with sensitivity. In this article we will explore three methods of qualitative research. 1. Case Study. 2. Phenomenology. 3. Grounded theory or Ethnography. The article aims to explore the methodology ...