Essays on Jiffy

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Introduction

In the past two decades, the growth of the internet has been paramount, providing one of the most important mediums of communication. Through the internet, users can send, receive, and share information. According to Statista (2016), the internet has 3.174 billion users as of December 31, 2015. Users have increased exponentially since 2010 with internet connection becoming a necessity for businesses and homes. However, growth in the number of users poses numerous challenges to Internet Service Providers (ISPs), who face a large number of traffic traversing their network. Some of the challenges include Denial of Service (DoS) ...

Jiffy lube is a fast oil change company formed in 1979. It operates over 2000 stores that offer services based on quality and speed. The company serves an approximated 21 million people in North America annually and is a distinguished brand in the quick lube category. It offers oil change services (“About History and Mission”) and other car preventive maintenance services. Jiffy lube is a subsidiary of the shell company. In a competitive market environment, companies become affected by external factors that affect their normal operations. These could be economic, cultural or regulatory practices that hinder their full productivity. There are also ...

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CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY

The term “culture” is very broad based as it represents a whole gamut of thought process that influences the behaviour of a person, whether acting individually or as a part of the group. Kroeber & Kluckhohn (1952) state that “Culture” consists of patterns, explicit and implicit, of and for behaviour acquired and transmitted by symbols, constituting the distinctive achievements of human groups, including their embodiment in artefacts; the essential core of culture consists of traditional (i.e. historically derived and selected) ideas and especially their attached values; culture systems may, on the one hand, be considered as products of action, on the ...

1. Factor Analysis Factor analysis is a statistical procedure utilized for data reduction (Bartholomew et al., 2008). This reduction is reflected in lowering a large number of variables that have similar characteristics, into smaller factors (dimensions). Specifically, based on data reduction, factor analysis is conducted to identify the unobservable and underlying structure of a set of variables which are correlated with each other. These variables are coherent but independent of one another. By coherent it implies that the variables are very consistent and relate with each other harmoniously while independent denotes that the outcomes or the results of each variable are ...