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Sarbanes-Oxley Act is an act by the United States congress in 2002 aim at protecting investors through corporate disclosures accuracy and reliability. It mandated strict reforms aimed at improving financial disclosures and possibly prevent accounting fraud. The scandals of early 2000s such as Tycoon, WorldCom and Enron predicated the enacted of SOX. These scandals shook investor confidence, and an overhaul of regulatory standards was required. The SOX Act outlined rules as well as enforcement policies, which amended or supplemented existing legislation. There are two key provisions of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act which are section 302 and section 404. Section ...

Following HRM practices contributed to its business performance:

EXTRA-ORDINARY TALENT
The success of Microsoft could be attributed to its ability to recruit, motivate and retain extra-ordinary talent. Microsoft has always hired the brightest and best candidates for recruiting for various positions. Bill Gates believed that the acquired knowledge was less important than the smart ideas available with talented and ambitious people. Microsoft always believed in hiring people who were smart, hardworking and knew how to get things done.

RIGOROUS HIRING PROCESS TO HIRE ONLY THE BEST

The hiring process for the developers was quite rigorous with a detailed interview and a technical interview in which the prospective candidates had to write code for Microsoft products and ...

Facebook has become a popular networking tool over the years. Initially, it was widely used by teenagers and young people but even older people have joined its use because of the numerous advantages associated with Facebook. Facebook has become a powerful tool for strengthening relationships amongst families, as opposed to the belief that it causes family dysfunctions. For instance, Ms. Van der Spank was able to hold healthy conversations with her children after she joined Facebook and became friends with her children. She was able to understand what was happening in her children’s lives as opposed to the initial response ...

Domestic violence is a behavioral pattern that one or both individuals in any relationship use to maintain or gain control over one another. In most cases of domestic violence the incidences reported include physical, emotional, sexual, psychological and economic abuse. An individual may intimidate, frighten, manipulate, terrorize, humiliate, blame or wound their partner in order to gain influence over them. This was clearly brought out in the case of Barbara Sheehan, who was acquitted of the murder of her husband. The couple, which had been married for 24 years, was said to have had unhappy 17 years of marriage full ...

What are the specific financial, social, cultural, and other issues mentioned in the article that are impediments or barriers to Ms.Kaur receiving the care she needs for her eye condition?

Primarily Ms Kaur is denied treatment due to the fact that she is an immigrant and comes from India with her earnings level above that of Medicaid putting her in a complete quandary which is grossly unfair. The American healthcare system with all its complexities is also a huge barrier to Ms Kaur’s eventual treatment as she suffers substantially from discrimination even though her earnings are higher than the poverty ...

Lately, Microsoft board of directors has experienced various oppositions from dissenting ideas on the strategies used by the management to run the company. In August 2013, Steve Ballmer who was the chief executive officer of the company announced his intentions of stepping down and in February 2014 Satya Nadella took over as the chief executive officer. However, the efforts of Ballmer towards saving the company have not been successful as it is clear that Satya took over a company that is stumbling ("Should Apple Buy Microsoft?"). For instance, some products such as Microsoft Surface, Windows Phone, Windows 8, and ...

Analytical methods to evaluate seed dormancy in legumes

Abstract
Legumes are known to have multiple health benefits. The seed coat in particular contains a number of bioactive compounds which possess antioxidant activity. Of great interest is the relationship between the chemical composition of the seed coat and its role in seed dormancy. Modern technological approaches are currently used to further identify these compounds and determine their role in seed development; these include NRIS FTIR, mass spectroscopy, electron microscopy and chromatography. The following review describes the constituents of the legume seed coat and their respective roles in dormancy and other stages of seed development. The review also highlights ...

The delay problems arose from the failing of the software. A system that worked well with one team or one project could easily fall when used on a different team. The waterfall approach was also to blame for the delay problems. The system relied on the mass launch rather than a sequential launch of the software (Bright pg 2).
Why has the Waterfall Method "stuck around"? i.e. why is it still in use?
The Waterfall method has stuck around since waterfall method mostly offers the stepwise approach to any problem. It shows the developers the steps and the ...

Organizational structure has been widely used as a business strategy to cope in the current competitive world. In the past two years, Microsoft decided to transform their company by having four separate divisions, representing operating system, apps, cloud, devices instead of having competing divisions. Microsoft decided to transform their organization in order to make them compete successfully with their competitors in the technology industry such as Apple. This is in line with other technology companies that are trying to look more alike in their organizational structure to get thousands of their employees to collaborate more closely.
The organizational transformation ...

This article, compiled by Brenda Morrison in February 2002 at the Australian Institute of Criminology, has critically analyzed bullying and victimization in schools especially in elementary and high school levels not only in Australia but also in many other parts across the world. The main idea that Ms Brenda Morrison has tried to bring out is that bullying in children that mostly take place in schools has both short term and long term effects, with effects affecting both the physical as well as the psychological wellbeing of the child both in his young age as well as later age, ...

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5 Big Data Technology Predictions
Olavsrud, T. (2014). 5 Big Data technology predictions for 2015. Retrieved 25 March 2016 from http://www.cio.com/article/2862014/big-data/5-big-data-technology-predictions-for-2015.html

Article overview

The article by Olavsrud (2014) is dedicated to five major trends in the field of big data technologies. Before investigating the trends, Olavsrud (2014) claims that new big data initiatives continually move from test to production, especially in cases it can be used in the real time. The first development, mentioned in the article under study, is that the data agility becomes a key focus of big data technologies, because usual databases and data warehouses are ...

The article entitled, “Live@Edu grows, evolves into Office 365 for Education, leapfrogs Google Apps for Education,” by Christopher Dawson.

In 2011, Microsoft Corporation; the largest software developing corporation in the world launched “office 365 software” that has unique and advanced features and applications for students, teachers and educational systems. Dawson, points out that Microsoft Corporation had organized a cloud computing campaign called “we are all in” before launching office 365 software in the market. However, most people did not believe that the plan was going to work, but the introduction of office 356 has proved them wrong. The author articulates that office 365 provides students with a powerful platform for sharing information, ideas, opinions, and educational researchers; an idea that ...

Summary

Article One: New Consoles on the Way, but Gaming Isn't the Same
Physical and console sellers form a significant value as it regards sales that entail stock. In this case, they make approximately thirteen percent of all the sales made in a year. However, this trend does not come from the blues; it originates from efforts garnered by console sellers. However the case, their activities are frequently hurdled by the existence of arising instances of overstocking. It is in response to this that research has been developed, and efforts towards curbing such instances have been placed in the scope so ...

Analysis and Response to “Stepping Stories”

The writer of the narrative essay, Kimberly Parker, details the extraordinary academic successes of her students during the first two years of her high school teaching career, and she concludes by asserting that her students’ exemplary successes can be replicated. Although Parker’s essay may be considered primarily narrative in its style and structure, it has very strong argumentative qualities; furthermore, the essay converts to full argumentation toward its conclusion. The principal argument that Parker makes in regards to setting the academic bar higher, encouraging the students, and their subsequently succeeding is analogous to the famous line from the classic ...

According to the authors, there are three main considerations that business units ought to be privy to concerning the ecology. In a sense, businesses must be fully incorporated into the basics of the ecology and must tailor their activities in tandem with the ecology. In this strain, the ecology is described as facilitative rather than appreciative. However, the main rider is the organization in question ought to recognise the trajectory and state of affairs in the ecology and so tailor its programs, even the most mundane in consonance with the strategy.
The three limbs of strategy are productivity, robustness ...

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Mayer, J., Wilson, R., and M. Hazlewood. “Personal Intelligence Expressed: A Multiple Case Study of Business Leaders.” Imagination, Cognition and Personality 30(2): 201-224.

Summary

This article acknowledges the wealth of intelligences that can lead to success in many different areas of life, focusing on the ways in which personal intelligence (PI) can influence life expressions. Defined as “the capacity to reason about personality and to use personality and personal information to enhance one’s thoughts, plans and life experience,” PI can increase one’s interest in one’s own personality, and the personalities of others, inspire the creation ...

The article of Angeles F. Estevez "Improving Delayed Face Recognition in Alzheimer’s Disease by Differential Outcomes" contains the analysis and the description of an experiment that was constructed and carried out in order to find out whether the differential outcomes procedure (DOP) will affect the results of the patients with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) completing a delayed matching-to-sample task. For the accuracy of the experiment the participants were divided into two groups, eight people in each. The first group contained AD patients in phase 4 of Reisberg's deterioration scale, the second group were healthy controls (HC). The main purpose of ...

1. Demand and Supply

Pepitone reported that coffee futures had dropped due to favorable coffee-growing weather conditions (n.p.). Coffee lovers now enjoy 1.6%-6.0% cut prices on several popular brands including Maxwell House, Smucker, Folgers and Millstone. Interestingly, the prices for coffee products had increased for 10-20% several months ago. Smucker had increased prices for its coffee products for 10% in February and then an increase of 10% followed in May. Starbucks had upped the price for 17% for the package of coffee in the U.S. retail stores. In accordance with Wall Street Journal, key coffee producers were having the largest harvest of ...