Essays on Vogt

INTRODUCTION

Buddy's Floor Barn closed the books for three quarters (Q1, Q2, and Q3) of the year. However, Buddy’s Floor Barn has 4 major regions (Mid-states, East, West, and South) and about 18 store locations. There is a request to analyze total sales performances taking into consideration 5 product lines, namely (Cherry, Bamboo, Mahogany, Oak and Maple). Sales revenue data provided by the company through the regional managers from these four regions are collected in excel and analyzed using pivot tables and charts to determine the sales performance. Data provided is raw and must be rearranged from the lists ...

Introduction

Can colleges and universities increase their tuition rates continuously, despite the suffering they cause students? This issue can be and has been tackled by economics – specifically; we can use the tools offered by the study of price elasticity of demand to see what colleges take into consideration before raising their prices. The reaction of students to the increasing tuitions and other expenses might be a driving force on the demand side for higher education. If the students believe that higher education’s high costs will not create a value equal to or less than its cost, they might prefer ...

Introduction

Can colleges and universities increase their tuition rates continuously, despite the suffering they cause students? This issue can be and has been tackled by economics – specifically, we can use the tools offered by the study of price elasticity of demand to see what colleges take into consideration before raising their prices.

Let us assume that, in an attempt to raise more revenue, New York State University increases its tuition rates. Will this necessarily result in more income for the university? Not always. As we know, revenue depends on price and quantity of the demanded good or service. In the ...

In summary, the article talks about the significance of the acquired knowledge and the efficiency of the actions taken depending on the quality of questions that are asked. With this, it maintains that questions have the right key required in opening the doors needed for dialogue, as well as, discovery. This means that the questions that have been asked offer an invitation to various breakthroughs and the creativity needed in the development of different sectors. The authors maintain that the questions can sufficiently ignite the much-needed change through the generation of creative insights where applicable. On top of giving ...

Abstract

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the bruising of the brain due to an impact received on the head. The brain injury can be termed as primary if its caused directly by the impact blow or secondary if its caused by reaction processes such as swelling due to inflammation. Common types TBI include hematomas, contusions, diffuse axonal injury (DAI), concussion, and coup/contrecoup lesions. The type of injuries are characterized by symptoms such as dizziness, headaches, amnesia, loss of consciousness, going into a vegetative state or a coma or death in extreme cases. There is no clearly defined body of knowledge ...

Hypothetical study to Paternal Postpartum depression

Introduction Alden, Lowdermilk, Cashion and Perry (2014) define Paternal Postpartum Depression as a medical problem afflicting families i.e. fathers and mothers after childbirth. It is a clinical depression condition affecting both males and females. According to Demontigny, Girard, Lacharite, Dubeau & Devault (2013)the health condition have signs such as sadness, sleeping patterns change, reduced libido as well as frequent irritability. The postpartum depression have a couple of risk factors contributing to the condition for example sudden hormonal change (Demontigny et al., 2013). The condition brings about emotional effects such as parenthood anxiety, identity crisis as well as loss of ...

Religion is an integral component of human history at different stages of its development. The Muslim Reformation fundamentally different from the Catholic Reformation. “As religious regimes both, Catholicism and Islam, preceded and are likely to outlast the modern world system of nation-states” (Casanova 2). The difference lies in fact that these processes occur at different times and in various specific historical conditions. The Muslim Reformation expressed primarily in the revision (or attempt to revise) religious motivations of the various aspects of social life and only marginally affected the proper theological questions. In Islam church and clergy similar to a ...

Behaviors of Adolescent Sex Offenders

Adolescent sex offenders can be classified based on categories of offenders, type of their victims and the manner of their offenses. Valid empirical typologies should show distinct profiles of juvenile sex offenders, and the characteristic of their offenses that reflect the underlying psychological problems or disorders. This is very crucial because this information can be used to evaluate the unique needs of each group relevant to clinical intervention and assessment of recidivism. Recent research has primarily subdivided the juvenile sexual offenders based on the age of their victims, history of delinquency, their personality.

Subtypes Based on Victims Age

Research shows that male adolescent sexual ...

Questions

1. What is the procedure for the approval of a medical device? The FDA's Centre for Devices and Radiological Health executes this mandate. They have the final say on who manufactures, repackages or imports medical devices for use in the US. The medical devices are grouped in classes: I. II and III. These classes depend on the need for controls, exemptions and premarket approval. There is an increasing severity of the regulation procedure from class I to Class III (FDA, September 2014). The following are steps that are followed in the registration and regulation procedure. First, the sponsor (manufacturer ...

“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only.

Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.” Coco Chanel Clothes appeared hundreds years ago. Through this time functions of fashion changed to a great extent. First of all clothes were created to save us from cold. Ancient people that lived in caves did not require any esthetic peculiarities. That is why any of improvised material that could be found anywhere was rather helpful. Parts of animal skin were used to warm the body and protect it from different injuries (Fashion: a philosophy. Svendsen. 2006). ...