Essays on Render

Errors involved in digital image capturing and processing can either be systematic or random. Systematic errors are classified into geometric distortions, spectral errors and distortions. Geometric distortions are caused by sensor-Earth geometric variations which affects the position of a pixel relative to other pixels,. In digital images, the pixel position is compared to the other pixels in the scene and the absolute position of the pixel relative to real coordinates in latitudes and longitudes. Geometric distortions can render the image and the information expected to be derived from the image as useless,. This is because the image is sometimes ...

Q. 1 Constructive possession implies that illegal drugs have been found to be in place over which one has control and knowledge, such as drugs being found a warehouse store owned by a trader. Actual possession, on the other hand, refers to a situation whereby illegal substances have been found in the person, hand, or container that an individual owns or control. An example is where drugs are found in one’s pockets. Knowing possession is where one possesses an illegal drug with knowledge that it is a prohibited substance. Mere possession is physical possession such as possession of ...

Business

Business The investment is spending money with expectations on return. Typically, the decisions with higher return expectations require certain risk, the options with moderate risk rate are characterized with medium risk, and the low-return decisions are the most reliable. Therefore, the investment decision is based on the investor’s expectation about the return, probabilities of success for different options, and willingness to take the risk (Dwivedi, 2010). Hence, a manager has to be aware of all the options and make the decision basing on reliable scientific tools. These tools are the decision tree and payoff analysis. The decision analysis ...

Analysis of the People Dynamics of the Construction Project of New Century Global Centre, Chengdu, China

Introduction Chengdu was designated by the Chinese government to become a major convergence point for trade between China and the rest of the world. The New Century Global Centre in Chengdu is the world’s biggest building and was constructed between 2010 and 2013 as a major project by the Chinese government in the Sichuan Province. The building has a floor space of 1.7 million meters square and covers a floor area of over 170 hectares. The purpose of this essay is to critically evaluate the human dynamics of the project management that transpired in the construction of the ...

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Introduction

Projects are carefully planned and designed works, either individually or collaborative, that, are intended to achieve a particular aim. Projects have life cycles and aren’t meant to last forever that’s why detailed planning with, schedules, timeline, tasks, tasks dependent on those task, resources, and etc. are clearly very important. Determining what breaks down into these life cycles is how projects are successful or not. Beginning with conceptualization, the development of the initial goal and technical specifications, then planning, or the cycle where all the detailed specifications, schedules, etc are developed. Then comes the ...

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The Lawyer-Client Relationship The lawyer-client relationship should be based on trust and confidentiality. Under no circumstances should a client lie to his or her lawyer as well as under no circumstances should a lawyer incriminate his or her client for telling them the truth. A problem in trust and confidentiality will result to poor lawyer-client relationship, which could significantly impact the outcome of a case. Trust and confidentiality problems arise when the client withholds some information from his lawyer for fear that his lawyer will back out. There are clients, for instance, who are guilty of doing ...

International Student Adjustment

Introduction International students experience a variety of adjustment concerns such as academic problems due to new educational systems, personal issues, cross-cultural problems, adjusting to new social norms. This project is specifically designed to integrate the international students. Interaction with host students and spending leisure time with American’s could be highly interrelated with international student’s perception of their relationship to American’s life. The biggest barrier considered during international student relationship was the lack of opportunity to interact socially and there is a surprising fact that many international students do not make friendship with an American friend. This ...

Operations management contributes to organizational efficiency through the streamlining of its goals and objectives. The proprietors of profit making venture establish businesses in the hope of maximizing revenue. However, the organization can only realize returns if there is proper structure. Many ventures are created with goals and objectives that are stated through company vision and mission. In operations management, the executive utilizes the tenets of the OM in administrative and management areas which include planning, coordination, staffing and direction to realize efficiency. OM enables the organization to establish long-term strategy what in most instances is referred to as strategic ...

Introduction

We all know how difficult it can be to express you and ensure that we are understood by those, who surround us in our professional environment. Business environment demands respect and high level of tolerance from all of us, outlined by the corporate rules, strategies, culture and the expectations, which are we as peers and our superiors have in this situation. Such expectations make communication process in a way, more structured and easier to adjust to the existing norms and formal rules, set out by organizational hierarchy and cognitive and emotional behavior regulations. Politics and diplomatic tone in our ...

There is a considerable population of Africans in Europe. It is estimated that close to 4.6 Africans are permanent residents of Europe with France being the most-African dominated country in Europe followed by UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Portugal, Switzerland and Turkey in that order among other countries. Nearly 8 million Africans are seasonal occupants of Europe. The following literatures evaluate African’s presence in Europe through different lenses. In his works, Ivan van Sertima give a historical perspective of how Africans found their way into Europe and their role in world civilization. In this book, there is major ...

Introduction

The degree that digital terrorism is a threat to people’s safety is amongst the most challenging of themes in the twenty first century. To a limited extent, this is a result of terminological question . More far reaching originations of digital terrorism as any type of online terrorist action obviously have a tendency to be connected with a higher evaluated likelihood of the risk's emergence than accomplish more prohibitive records (Cassim, 2012). In the meantime, as itemized further underneath, contending risk evaluations stay regardless of the fact that we limit our centre to smaller understandings of this idea (portrayed, ...

Introduction

Statements made prior to making a contract, as a rule, are not binding for the parties. At the same time, false or misleading statements made with the purpose of inducing another to enter into a contract can be found invalid, giving an innocent party the right to various remedies under the law. Under the common law, a victim of misrepresentation may be entitled to rescind the contract. Legislation, such as Australian Consumer Law, sets a pecuniary penalty in the event of breach of any of its provisions relating to consumer guarantees or false/misleading statements. Thus, the relevant case law ...

Business

2016-07-28

Introduction

This paper is devoted to the company Nissan Motor Company Ltd. and its management system. The great attention is paid to the operations management, supply chain, inventory management and other aspects, which can significantly impact on the company’s effectiveness. Nissan is currently demonstrating a steady growth in terms of volume of production and sales, as well as developing its technologies in different fields. Nowadays, the company Nissan produces cars in twenty countries around, which include Japan, USA, England, Spain, India, Brazil, Mexico, Russia and others. Sales are conducted in more than one hundred and sixty countries. Company ...

Values Clarification and Ethical Legal Case Analysis

Values Clarification Values dictate the way people function both personally and professionally. In nursing practice, having clear values is essential in achieving moral competence (Jormsri et al., 2005). In completing the value clarification exercise, forty-two items were answered. Of these forty-two items, 15 responses were “mostly agree” and another 15 responses were “mostly disagree.” Six responses were “somewhat disagree”, three responses were “somewhat agree”, and the final three responses were “neutral.”

In a cluster that relates to issues raised by advanced technology, I had some agreements and disagreements. Giving extraordinary medical treatments to patients is essential, particularly when the ...

Render et al. (2015, p.79) revealed that the use of decision trees actually vary from the most simple to a more complex decision. The reason for this is that it not only graphically represents the decision points but also enhances the alternatives of each chosen decision node (Render et al., 2015, p.80). The additional value of a decision tree is that probability percentages are assigned to the decision point while payoff values are forecasted for each alternative (Render et al., 2015, p.80). In the business field the decision trees can be primarily used in terms of stock investment decisions ( ...

Executive Summary 3

Introduction 4 Decision Making 4 Decision Table 4 Figure 1. Decision table 5

Decision Making Under Uncertainty 5

Figure 2. Uncertainty decision 5

Optimistic 5

Pessimistic 5 Criterion of Realism 6 Equally Likely 6 Minimax Regret 6 Expected Monetary Value 7 Figure 3. EMV when no additional information was gathered 7 Figure 4. EMV with a favorable result from the additional information 8 Figure 5. EMV with an unfavorable result from the additional information 8 Figure 6. EMV from the additional information 9 Conclusion and Recommendation 9

References 10

Appendices 11 Analytical Experience and Plans 13 Executive Summary Management decisions have always been considered a difficult task especially ...

There are a number of ethical dilemmas in this discussion. The most imperative issue is related to Mega-Mart itself because it’s ethical responsibility is to ensure that the suppliers’ requirements and product implementation conditions are equally feasible, as well as, executable for the vendors and does not produce any unnecessary hardship. Another ethical issue is related to the responsibility of suppliers towards their employees. If there is an option that the organization can avail to assist its employees, it should certainly bring it on. That is because keeping employees conversant and informed will help them to perform better ...

Like any other change process, the implementation of new technology will be faced with resistance. It is inevitable across the work environments that any intention to implement or introduce a change will have to be subjected to scrutiny and criticism which if not well managed will lead to poor results and losses will be incurred especially if the new systems are not utilized to meet the optimal expectations (Cresswell & Sheikh, 2013). The common practice across the work environments is that such resistance to change is generated by the feeling that the change process will significantly alter the status quo ...

Performance management encompasses three important facets such as observation and judgment, feedback process, and organizational intervention. This aspect performance appraisal serves the purpose of improving the employee’s work performance and empowering the employees with information in making work-related decisions. Performance management involves appraisal that serves relevant purposes such as providing formal and legal justification for employment decisions where promotion of outstanding employees is concern. In addition, appraisal also enables the management to weed out marginal performance to be transferred for further training and to justify merits for increase or no increase. Testing validation is another purpose of appraisal ...

Proposal Recommendation

Executive Summary Over the last decade, our school district has done an excellent job in keeping up with the latest in all of technological trends, accelerating the knowledge and computer skills of our students. Such knowledge and computer skills have afforded many of our schools with high rankings, as is compared to our closest counterparts. We have been known to set a trend that is not always the most popular. Yet in spite of such lack of popularity, we are able to account in a compensatory manner. For example, our choices have always tended to prove to be the ...

US 311: Business Law I

You are the manager of Acme Fireworks, a fireworks retailer who sells fireworks, puts on ground display fireworks, and large aerial display fireworks. The company started in the owner’s garage two years ago and now has 15 employees that you manage. The company started as a sole proprietorship, and the owner has never changed the entity. The owner has informed you that the company has received inquiries from several large businesses wondering if the company could create several fireworks displays on a regular basis. The owner told the inquirers that the company could fill such display orders, and ...

Marketing Memo

According to the marketing survey done using the Survey Monkey online utility, people within 25 to 34 years represented the largest cohort of the business’s customers. Representing only 22.76% of all customers, they did not represent an overwhelmingly isolated case. They were immediately followed by those in the 45 to 54 year cohort at 20.69%. The remaining portion of customer base was shared fairly at close ranges among cohorts of 18 to 24 years (11.2%), 35 to 44 years (13.10%), 55 to 64 years (16.55%), 65 to 74 years (11.03%) and 75 and older (4.14%). The female gender ...

Mid-Term Break is a lyric poem written by an outstanding Irish poet and playwright Samuel Heaney. The poem is autobiographical as it is written in the first person, so the narrator coincides with the author and is a participant of the described events. In his real life Samuel Heaney got over a death of his little brother that formed the basis of Mid-Term Break. The author seems to be reserved about his own feelings, that is why the poem is full of polysemantic words (with several meanings), symbols and contrasting situations that are aimed to to convey the feelings ...

Costco’s compensation and workforce practices employ various operations management concepts. The first concept that Costco applies in the treatment of employees is making the employees critical stakeholders for creating value to their services. The company has established that it is through having satisfied employees that it is able to effectively reach its goals. In conceptualizing the concept of operations management, firms have to create value for their goods and services (Heizer and Render 4). The activities that are intended create this value need to be strategic and efficient in their operations. Through the efficient handling of their staff, ...

Introduction

The case study dwells upon the implementation of the Sustainable initiative and "Green Thinking" in the Spectrum Sunglass Company, working with direct consumers as well as retail sector distributors. My role was to develop, get the buy-in from the critical mass of stakeholders and implement the initiative to develop a special "green" product for our largest retail chain Bigmart, responsible for 30% of the annual revenue of the company. As the Director of Product Innovation within Research and Development (R&D), I am a strong believer that "green thinking and product" is the future of the forward-thinking companies and is ...

The short story of Franz Kafka “A Hunger Artist” is a vibrant masterpiece of classic literature. It penetrates deeply into the readers’ minds and sets a challenge to recognize a unique grandeur and understand a great mission of this text. In his “confession” story, Franz Kafka touches upon complex and serious themes of art, death, isolation, asceticism, spiritual desolation and disharmony of human and the world. Therefore, it triggers an exceptional interest on how the readers treat and interpret the text, what thoughts, feelings and emotions come into their mind, how they perceive the main character and what they ...

Dear Dean,

RE: PETITION AGAINST DISMISSAL FROM THE COLLEGE OF NURSING This is to present my petition following my dismissal from the college of nursing as a result of failure to meet the standard grade of C in the course NR226-Fundamentals-Patient Care. I admit this failure on my part to meet this standard grade and wish to declare my interest and commitment with the course. I believe that I am a naturally focused person and persistent in pushing for my goals and objectives. However, this has not been the case with this course and I have failed to remain focused and ...

Abstract

This article provides a brief overview of the journal article by Elizabeth Simpson and colleagues. In their study, they tested his efficiency of human face recognition about animals. Their primary goal was to establish whether same species received more allocation of attention. Their results indicated that human faces are more identifiable than those of other species. The study stands in sharp contrast to previous studies that had indicated that animal faces registered a higher recognition amongst animals than human faces did among humans. This paper also outlines the strengths and weaknesses of the study by Simpson and colleagues. Perhaps ...

A.) Daisy can file an unfair dismissal complaint against her previous employer, The Chopping Block. As an employee for 14 years with the company covering the years 2002 and 2016, there was no justification for her dismissal based on the grounds of for lateness and rudeness to staff and customers in February 2016. In fact, Daisy was not given a fair notice that the question of her dismissal for incapacity was being considered by the employer, and she was not afforded an opportunity of being heard or to explain her side. The reinstatement of the discharged employee is the ...

Many a time have people heard about politicians who do plenty of talking. However, verbal rhetoric is only meaningful when backed by actual deeds aimed at the improvement of what politicians oversee, which is society and its welfare. The incumbent Senate President of New Jersey, Stephen Sweeney is one of such politicians who may be said to utilize his legislative authority to its limit. He has showed his aptitude in areas, such as education, property ownership, taxation, healthcare, and the protection of different social categories. Of course, as with other prominent politicians, however renowned, Sweeney has made some controversial ...

Introduction

What role do information systems play in an upcoming organization? Information system plays a crucial role of transcending information from a person or one company to another. The information is mainly meant to aid the business in meeting the transactions or decisions that the executive board needs to make. To perform this, there must be a format or chain to be followed so that the information can flow as required. The chain needs to be hierarchical so that the information can be passed from one head department to the other. In today's economy, failing to embrace the culture of ...

Threat not addressed

Weakness Opportunity not taken V. Strategy Formulation (Chapters 4-9)

Strategic alternatives

Alternative evaluation Alternative choice VI. Strategic Alternative Implementation (Chapters 10 - 13)

Action items

Action plan Exhibits Presentation Slides Introduction Strategic Profile & Case Analysis Brandi Barnes Upon analyzing of Lockheed Martin’s historical strategic direction it is important to take notice of a few key facts. These facts or assumptions can easily lead to the series of analyses and scenarios depicted. The assumption for Lockheed Martin’s differentiation strategy and primary product choice comes from events during WWI when the U.S. government began focusing on acquiring military aircraft, which boosted industrial growth. ...

Question 1

Effective supply chain plays a critical role in a nosiness. It is worth noting that the Darden’s restaurant have focused on enhancing supply chain on achieving competitive advantage. Darden’s is a restaurant that has unique supply chains. The supply chain is streamlined towards the menu options provided by the restaurant. The restaurant has four supply chains. Each of the Darden’s supply chain has specific advantages. The first supply chain is the Darden Direct Distribution. The advantage is that it reduced the shipping prices of various small items. This is because a single warehouse has items that ...

Prisoners when in jail fall ill regularly and have to be tended to in the prison. The prisoners cannot be taken out of jail so that they can receive the medical attention required for their illness. However, they may at times get terminal illness when in jail. The terminal illnesses may at times restrict their movement to their cells or in the wards of the prison where they do not get any type of moral support (FAMM 53). Every patient in the world needs some form of moral support in his or her bid to get better and overcome ...

Abstract

Long-term care is rendered to people with varying levels of functional deficit. Depending on the type of the disability and the status of the wellbeing of the long-term care user, the needs vary. Some long-term care users need minimal assistance while others need maximum assistance. Long-term care is meant to help people with functional deficits to live a comfortable life as much as possible. There are various levels of long-term care options that people should select according to their needs. They include among others; nursing home, home care, home health care, assisted living facility, and community-based care settings. Each ...

Research, in as much as it provides information extracted directly from the field, it is performed by human beings who are susceptible to errors or omissions which are sometimes unavoidable. Omissions render the authenticity of the research questionable and thus critiquing (Vance, Talley, Pearce, Christian &Azuero, 2013). This paper will critique a quantitative research paper right from the introduction to the last part where recommendations are given basing on the data garnered.

Problem statement

This research is about nurses’ attitude on controlling pain in patients suffering from refractory problems through palliative sedation. The problem under study as given in the research ...

The apparent claims of alcohol intake being beneficial to some people and groups are evident in Peter DeLottinville’s 1981/82 writing of Joe Beef of Montreal and the 2006 publication of John A. Macdonald and the Bottle by Ged Martin. Based on the Canadian societies of the mid-nineteenth century, the ideologies of both writings seem to point out a single factor: alcohol can sometimes benefit a person and in others, promote a group. By extension, after reading both texts, rather than encounter the expected demerits of “the bottle” in a politician’s life, or the social evils of taverns, ...

Supply Chain for Big Mac

Big Mac is hamburger type provided by fast food companies such as McDonald’s. The company produces the product then distributes to various wholesale and retail shops. For instance, the product can be supplied by the manufacturer company to restaurants and supermarkets. The wholesalers and the retailers’ further sell the product to the final consumer-ready for consumption (Mentzer, 2001).

Supply Chain for Gasoline

Gasoline is distributed via the pipeline mode to ensure safety. However, in most cases gasoline is distributed from the distribution centers using road tankers. The final destination the gasoline product is the fuel stations in which the tankers play a ...

Uber is a car service company that created an Android application that enables anyone to request a car under a few minutes on a short term basis. The creation of the company was in 2009. It all started on a snowing day in Paris, where Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp was having trouble getting a cab to reach their destination. They thought it was too much hustle and wanted to make the traveling experience easy by being able to access a cab from the comfort of your mobile phone at any location. They sought to use technology to give ...

Executive Summary

In view of the issues facing the ABC management, the key solutions identified relates to three issues on cash and budget, innovation and product development as well as theft and fraud reduction. With that, The Cost and budget management solution is meant to enhance the business performance by reducing the excessive and unnecessary use of the company resources. That would be achieved through key initiatives involving effective management of the sales and expense as well as debt management that would cut on expenses and the interest paid on debt by having more responsible personnel overseeing the accounts and their ...

While tobacco use among adolescents has reduced dramatically over the past four decades, its prevalence remains worryingly high. Nearly 90% of all smokers tried out cigarettes in adolescence and 99% first started by the age of 26. An estimated 3,800 youths aged 18 years or younger try out their first cigarette, and a further 2,100 young adults become daily smokers. In 2015, one in three high school seniors reported having smoked a cigarette, while 1 in 15 12th graders (or 7%) reported smoking regularly and on a daily basis. This translates to nearly 450,000 12- to ...