Essays on Grattan

Analgesics and opioids have been widely used for the treatment and management of chronic pain in the healthcare sector. Opioids provide better and faster relief to patients with chronic pain compared to non-opioid analgesics. However, the long-term effects of opioids can be devastating. Cancer patients often require comprehensive treatment with respect to pain management. Opioids is considered as the gold standard for most cancer patients with chronic pain which may relate to improved quality of life and improved patient satisfaction. Opioids have a history for substance abuse and the same appears to be a risk to cancer patients. Based ...

Introduction

Firms in different industries across Australia operate in varying market structures including oligopoly, monopoly, and monopolistic markets. Monopoly firms include Telstra, a telecommunications company that has over the years proved to be the dominant supplier of the internet and mobile services. Grocery supermarkets including Aldi, Woolworths, and Coles operate in oligopoly structures where they have dominance over smaller grocery retailers. Firms operating in the monopolistic structure include restaurants and hairdressing shops where firms aim at expanding their market share through product differentiation. The paper, therefore, uses examples drawn from Australian markets to discuss various market structures.

Oligopoly market structure in Australia

The grocery retail ...

The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill occurred in the location of Gulf of Mexico on April 20th of 2010 due to an explosion which took place on the Deep Water Horizon oil rig. Transocean, the operator and owner of the oil rig, is an offshore-oil-drilling company. However, it had been leased by BP Oil Company. A natural gas caused the blasting which caused a wellhead blowout. The blowout resulted in the worst marine oil spill in the history. Despite attempts to put a temporary seal to prevent the further oil spill, the equipment malfunctioned. The oil the contamination extended spill ...

Business Plan

This Hotel will be built through a small business loan from local banks. Gold Cost Commercial Bank will take care of 60% of the needed amount of monetary capital required to complete the projection while the owners will supply the other 50% of the construction money. The Loan will be repaid in 5 years at 9% interest rate. We are also assuming that the initial operating capital to take care of the hotel will be provided by Mr. Jones and Mrs. Juliet Jones at an equal portion. Additional capital will be injected into the business after one year by ...

8) Wesley Salmon attacks Karl Popper on the grounds that his theory of science does not allow for theory choice based upon past corroboration. Are Popper's responses adequate? Why/why not?

The problem of induction has been a pervasive one that has split philosophers and empiricists for years. Essentially, the issue lies in whether or not inductive reasoning can bring about true knowledge; whether anything can be truly known. The debate is split between whether or not a generalization based on a set number of observations can be true (e.g., since all elephants observed are gray, all elephants must, by virtue of fact, ...