Essays on Reisinger

I. Introduction The ubiquitous presence of mobility devices, including most notably smartphones, highlights how mobility has come to be integral to everyday life at workplace, college and home. The major focus on mobility is, given current coverage, is on applications and cloud platforms. Less reported still but is, probably, of much more significance, as shown later, is wireless licenses and applications which enable much of current mobility operational efficiency, if not operability at all. As is always common in ICT innovations, user interface applications and platforms more often than not draw ICT community's attention, a community focused more new ...

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Literature review Russia has a very large number of hospitals, physicians, and health care workers as compared to any other country in the world. In spite of this, the medical care fraternity has failed to offer standard and acceptable health care services to its people. Russia has faced a health care system crisis for an extended period since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Significant transformation in the social, economic, and political environment has adversely affected the health care system (Britnell, 2015). The poor health care system in Russia has been precipitated by the lack of medical and technical ...

Introduction

Microsoft is recognized as one of the leading competitors in the global technology market(s). The company currently licenses and manufacturers products and services ranging from consumer operating systems, cloud computing solutions, mobile tablets (e.g. Surface Pro 4), smartphones, and enterprise software/hardware solutions (MarketLine, 2016). Microsoft grew its sales revenues by 7.8 percent from 2014 to 2015 (MarketLine, 2016). Although the company’s sales revenues increased in fiscal year 2015, Microsoft’s net profits decreased by 44.8 percent during the same period (MarketLine, 2016). While the substantial decline in 2015’s net profits can largely be explained by the ...

Global market research firm TrendForce presented the results of the research of the global smartphone market in the first quarter, which shocked the world. According to analysts, in January–March 2016 Apple released 42 million iPhone, which is almost 44 % less than three months old ("TrendForce Reports Global Smartphone Shipments Reached 292 Million Units in First Quarter with iPhone Plunging 43.8%", 2016). That strong quarterly fall on the market of the US corporation is being experienced for the first time Falling incomes of most expensive companies in the world led to an impressive decline in its market capitalization – Apple ...

Executive Summary

Facebook is a company and an online social networking service that is based in Menlo Park, California. It first was launched in 2004 by its founder, Mark Zuckerberg along with some of his classmates in Harvard University. The initial membership of the site was limited to Harvard University students, and then spread among ivy league students, and later on to the rest of the world (Carlson, 2010). The number of views to the site reached 1 trillion in 2011, and became the world’s second-greatest accessed site after Google (Fernandes, 2011). The analyses performed in this paper resulted in ...

Intellectual Property and Innovation

Intellectual Property Intellectual property comprises of new creations that are legally branded as property. Various legal tools exist to safeguard property rights, and they include patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets (Andersen, 2006). The legal right accorded to properties facilitates the owners of creative works and inventions to earn a living and at the same time improve the well-being of the society. Owners of property rights may be individuals or institutions recognized by the government. There must be checks by the regulatory authorities to help strike a balance between the needs of the intellectual property owners and the society. ...

The United States possesses a fascinating history pertaining to substance abuse. Even though there are many theories as to why substance abuse exists in the United States and why that substance abuse is taken to the extreme, there is one theory that greatly stands out above the rest. The United States is too protective and puritan in many ways. This is not a statement meaning to disrespect the United States; however, it is a relevant comment to explain why such a substantial rebellion from the youth in the 1960’s transpired with regard to substances and culture in general. ...

The War on Drugs arguably has been a war against the puritan ideals within the United States versus those who want to consume drugs. To be forthcoming, I am not advocating the use of drugs recreationally; however, I feel that where the United States has committed a major error is by not allowing drugs in because what has transpired as a result is the creation of bodies of crime that have caused a great deal of violence. To call this a “war” is a gross exaggeration. The reason for this is that a “war” involves the Untied States combatting ...

The Cross-Cultural Behavior in Tourism

Executive Summary This essay explores the cross-cultural behavior in the context of tourism, including the issue of social contact and its measures, cultural shock, cultural values and the cultural model of the conceptual relationships. The subject of our research was the book Cross-Cultural Behavior in Tourism by Yvette Reisinger and Lindsay W. Turner. The essay seeks to identify how different factors influence social contact and actors in the tourism context. This information will be used to deepen the knowledge about the interrelations in tourism and to identify factors which can make enchase the process of intercultural communication.

Part one: the social contact in tourist encounters.

The intercultural ...

Executive Summary

The research report elucidates the importance of cultural competency in the tourism industry. For instance, cultural competency may be applied in the training of the service employees to enhance their service in cross-cultural encounters as well as dimensions. The tourism business also will benefit in marketing its cultural and historical destination to the clients that will likely see its growth. Besides, cultural competency is a crucial element in developing a sense of ownership to the facility, hotel, or restaurant, its manpower as well as the residents who could be an asset to the firm. The information generated will offer ...