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Article Review

The article Developing Trauma Training for an Indigenous Community: Hopefully Not Seagulls is written by Gail Green concerning treatment of post traumatic disorders among the aboriginal communities in Australia. The article outlines an empirical model that directs individuals to identify trauma responses and various ways to treat the post-traumatic disorders. Green working with the organization Australian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ASTS) seeks to progress in terms of knowledge, policies, and ethical standards promoting treatment of trauma. His model, Conservation of Resources theory, which outlines that, treating stress drains resources, insecurity due to threats and horror, and struggles to ...

Biometrika has fro the last 100 years published over 400 years concerning the subject of Time Series. Time series is a significant feature in Biometrika under the editorship of Professor E.S. Pearson.
These papers grew enormously at a rate of 10% up to the present time. The first Time series paper was written by Gosset “student” and Anderson (1914). Correlation was a new and a crucial concept in Time series. Consider two time series, (Xt) and (Yt) as expressed below
Xt = mt +et and Yt = Mt + Et
Where et and Et are sequences of uncorrelated random variables, mt and Mt ...

Summary of the Article

The article generally speaks of the reality of forgiveness and what it brings to other people in an individual and group basis. It begins with the realization that, according to studies, forgiveness interventions results in decreased anxiety, depression, and anger, and in increased self-esteem, hope, and positive affect (Magnuson & Enright, 2008). These factors show that forgiveness can provide beneficial impacts upon society at large.
The model for forgiveness intervention by Enright and Worthington were first implemented in educational institutions as a social scientific work. However, an emphasis was given on the fact that forgiveness first finds its shape in ...

Article Review on Financial Econometrics

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Article Review on Financial Econometrics
For the article review assignment, I have chosen the article ‘Inflation and Real Stock Returns Revisited’ by Shu-Chin Lin, published in the refereed journal Economic Inquiry in 2009. The article addresses the topic of relationship between real stock returns and inflation, aiming to obtain the empirical evidence of the effect of different dimensions of inflation (including anticipated inflation, unexpected inflation, and inflation uncertainty) on the real stock returns.
The motivation for the study arises from the inconsistencies between the generalized Fisher hypothesis and the empirical findings of the previous ...

Article Review

This article provides a discussion of the application of Object-Level Keyword Search Over Relational Databases (OKSORD). This has been prompted by the difficulties associated with the application Keyword Search Over Relational Databases (KSORD), which makes it difficult for the end user to understand. The procedure discussed for developing an object level data model for the Object-Level Keyword Search Over Relational Databases involves the classification of relation algorithm into four categories. This is then followed by converting a relational database schema to an object-level schema graph. The final step involves generating an object level data graph for the object level schema graph.

Self-Tuning of the Relationships among Rules’ Components in Active Databases Systems

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Discussion 2

This article seeks to provide solutions to three specific issues concerning the application of information technology in enterprises as they relate to ISCA (Information system of control and auditing). These issues include maintenance of information strategy goals and businesses objectives, efficient resource utilization and control of information technology related risks. The authors propose the improvement of IT governance to address these issues. The IT governance needs to include responsibilities of Chief information officer and chief financial officer clearly defined and ensure that overall planning is detailed.

Discussion 3

This paper explores the issue of inaccurate data in relational databases. Problems of ...

It is important to study about language and verbal behavior because it helps understand other people in a better way. Language or verbal behavior is defined as an operant behavior, which is strengthened by other people’s mediation (Skinner, 1957). This can be well explained as a practical relationship existing between the behavior of a person speaking, as well as the conditions in their environment. However, in this relationship, an important question, on how reinforcement between the speaker and the other people occurs arises.
According to research, it is clear that children acquire a number of language skills mainly without any instructions. ...

Article Review

Article Review
Dutch (2013) used the contingency model of strategic human resource management to construct a new framework of human resources, strategy and culture in an organization. The current perspective of the contingency model involves aligning human resource management practices with themselves and with organizational strategy. The article posits that though this view is theoretically sound, there are challenges in its practicality. They fault the contingency model for failing to address the issues that affect both the HRM and strategy. Further, the article indicates that some of the HRM practices might be affected by strategy and vice versa. This ...

In recent years, the simulation studies were given much importance; huge number budgets have been devoted for the simulation studies. There are three types of simulation studies; continuous, discrete event, and monte carlo. This article analysis about the different indicators used for selecting the best discrete event simulation software. There is huge number of simulation software available, the user has to choose the best suitable simulation software among the huge number of packages. Hlupil and Paul has presented several criteria for the evolution and comparison of the simulation package with the levels of importance for the particular purpose. Tewoldeberban ...

The horror of the Piper Alpha disaster happened about two decades ago. Explosion and fire ripped through the Piper Alpha oil production platform in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland. About 167 workers were killed as a result of the Piper Alpha Disaster.
Several investigations were made but most of them were hindered by a lack of physical evidence. However, an eye-witness account made it known that light hydrocarbon got released into the surrounding when a pump was restarted after maintenance. On that terrible day, the day shift maintenance crew were said to be on some of the pumps ...

Introduction

Supply chain management is a term that is very common in many businesses enterprises. It is a term that has been subjected to a variety of definition but in its simplest form, supply chain management is a management philosophy whereby manufacturers or service providers utilize various integration and partnership efforts with suppliers to reduce the cost and improve quality and delivery timing. Terms such as integrated logistics, supplier integration, integrated purchasing strategy, supply chain management, value chain management, Just-In –Time (JIT) logistics, supply chain synchronization and lean production are some terms that are often mentioned alongside supply chain management. These terms usually represent ...

Summary of Main Points

The article entitled “How to get paid twice for everything you do, part 2: Value appropriating innovations” written by Roos (2011) presented main points that focus on business model innovations. The model is more comprehensively evaluated in terms of finding out how business practitioners could create value from determined ways of innovation. As such, the business model was apparently examined through the identified four observable platform choices, to wit: device-centric, service-centric, telco-centric, and aggregate-centric . Concurrently, the author further expounded on the constituent parts of traditional business models; in conjunction with the reported business-ecosystem view of the world.
Roos ( ...

Article Review: Free Beer Always Tastes Great

The article by John Greathouse (WSJ, 2014) discusses the ways of developing a successful freemium business model, which becomes increasingly popular among on-line service providers, and on-line startups in particular. Greathouse argues that many entrepreneurs who enter the online market frequently employ this model, but mostly fail to implement it properly. They fail to provide coherent information to their clients about the proportion and difference between free and paid services, or completely miss the appropriate timing for communicating these aspects. To avoid this problem, Greathouse suggests four simple yet effective ways: communicating early, upselling logically, offer temporarily free services, and ...

According to Kotter, major change initiatives that intended to improve the culture, boost quality or meant to generate lukewarm results may fail miserably. This lies with the fact that Kotter maintains the notion that most of the people in management positions tend to forget that transformation is more or less a process and not an event. This implies that for transformation to occur, several stages of transformation must be arrived at. Most people who are in those management positions accelerate the transformation process and hence ending up failing. Therefore, transformation to take place, the people in management positions should follow ...

The nature, causes, symptoms and diagnosis of psychological disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), are not clear and highly controversial. Two different models namely the Sociocognitive model and the Posttraumatic model are put forward explain psychopathologies, diagnosis, and disease etiology associated with DID. The Sociocognitive model suggests that DID, as a psychological disorder, is a product of social and historical circumstances. In contrast, the Posttraumatic model explains that DID disorder occurs because of severe traumas.
According to Spanos (1994), the number of patients suffering from multiple personality disorder increased rapidly over the past 20 years in North America. This diagnosis offered a ...

The development of landowner-farming contract is crucial. The main idea is the focus on transaction cost approach, which is essential on issues of contact choice between land owners and farmers in the modern agriculture. The model begins from focusing on the contracts that are found in Midwestern agriculture. The model stresses the various incentives that are associated with the contacts, as well as elaborating on the choice between the cash-rent contracts and cropshare contracts. The initial domain of developing the model focuses on the farming in Midwest, which entail ownership of equipment and ownership of land. The issues of ...

The “Equity premium,” written by Eugene F. Fama and R. French (2002) describes how to estimate equality premium using both dividend and the growth rate of earning to predict the rates of expected capital gain. The equality premium is important in making decisions on portfolio allocation and in estimation of capital gain. The expected market return is estimated using the returns on portfolio of stocks. To estimate the stock return, the dividend and earnings are used along with other evidence to determine if the expected return is higher than the realized average. In this case, the average stock return ...

Summary and Synthesis of the Article, “A Model of Scrolling of Touch Sensitive Displays”

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Summary and Synthesis of the Article, “A Model of Scrolling of Touch Sensitive Displays”

Summary

The article, “A Model of Scrolling of Touch Sensitive Displays” essentially discusses the significance of conducting research on users’ behaviors while scrolling on touch sensitive displays. Zhao et. al. argue that although panning and flicking of touch sensitive displays are similar to traditional scrolling methods used on devices which do not possess touch sensitive displays, they, in essence, require a multi-step method that is not as simple as using indirect input techniques such as “rolling the mouse wheel or dragging the ...

Lamborghini has toyed over the four-door concept car, the Lamborghini Estoque, since 2008. The first sedan sports car concept was unveiled in 2008 at the Paris auto show. This announcement raised interest among Lamborghini fans, but hopes of producing the four-door sedan has remained by the wayside. Since the late 1980s, Lamborghini has maintained the convertible corral and coupe formats. Increased consumer interest in the Aston Martin Rapid and Porsche Panamera sedans raised interest from Lamborghini company executives to venture into the sedan market. Unlike Gallardo, Murcielago, or Aventador two-seat supercars, the four-door Lamborghini was expected to have its ...

Article Review

Summary of modern organization theory
Modern organization theories are based on the fact that any organization is adaptive and dynamic to changes in the working environment. Customer sentiment, competition, technology, market diversity are some of the issues that coarse change in any organization. These modern theories are adaptive, multi-motivated, multi-disciplinary, dynamic, and descriptive, among other characteristics (FAO Corporate Document Repository 2013). Modern theories include systems approach theory, contingency or situational approach, and socio-technical approach theory.

Systems approach theory

Ludwig von Bertalanffy, William Ross Ashby among others founded the theory from the 1940’s to the 1970’s. it view an organization ...

The article, “Predicting Human Brain Activity Associated with the Meanings of Nouns” was written by Tom M. Mitchel, Svetlana V. Shinkareva and their five associates. The article was published in Science in May 2008. It outlined a computational program that predicted which parts of the brain were stimulated and would respond to certain words and images, or certain stimuli. I found several concepts of the article very interesting. For example, the basis of the article’s studies was founded on creating a computational framework subject to linguistics. In layman terms, a grid of the mind was drawn up, based on nouns. Scientists ...

Innovation management

The term innovation has attained the status of a “mantra” in many developed nations. The aspects of innovation and creativity are commonly interlinked, yet confused with each other. Creativity is the ability to rethink an issue in a completely new way, backed by the profusion of relevant and diverse knowledge. Creativity calls for the ability to analyze the situation at hand with rationale. Innovation, on the contrary, can be termed as transformation of knowledge into material benefit. Innovation, therefore, creates new growth strategies, new products range, services or business models that can make the difference, thereby generating significant worth for all ...

Business Modeling

Abstract
The objective of business modeling is to collaborate specific goals for businesses and organizations and forming them as part of a whole of a business strategy. Businesses and organizations, particularly large ones with multitudes of divisions and departments, follow integrated practices, although separately, but work toward achieving the same results. The dynamics of business modeling is set to create a renowned value for an organization’s structure, infrastructure and policies. In theory and practice core values are what form an organization’s rationale such as social, economic, or cultural. Seemingly internal stakeholders are often oblivious to applications as long as ...

Application of Kohlberg’s model of Cognitive moral development at workplace

This one particular incident related to my workplace. I was an HR manager at an oil refinery site. Once, I got a case where a group of 6 engineers, two females and 4 males filed a formal complaint against their supervising manager. Their allegation was that the manager would ‘harass’ the two female engineers by calling them on their mobile phones in the evening. He would ask them to visit his home and play ‘cards’ with him. He would also ‘touch’ the girls in appropriately during meeting. I was in a state of dilemma as the Supervising manager was an integral part of ...

History

Part 1
The Coming Insurrection is a product of the failure of the earlier models. As depicted from the article, the earlier models offered a way of resolving the social conflict, experienced in the society, between the working class and the owners of the means of production. Like explained by Marx in his theory of Capitalism; the owners of production, who consist of the upper class in the social strata, use their economic power to oppress the working class. Consequently, the working class comes together and organizes strikes and other forms of resistance to the exploitation. Eventually, the strike becomes a ...

Developing a Leadership Competency Model

This article by Husain al Ansari and Othman al Khadher highlight the leadership qualities required by librarians and people heading information centers in Kuwait. The study does not only rely on theoretical information but it identifies characteristics which are deemed necessary by actual leaders for attaining success in their tasks. The study has classified leadership competencies into six broad categories; managerial effectiveness, cognitive skills, social skills, motivational, personal, and occupational. These categories are widely applicable to other professions as well but since they have been analyzed in the context of librarians they may not be as important as they ...

The Value of Culinary Education: Evaluating Educational Costs, Job Placement Outcomes, and Satisfaction With Value of Associate Degree Culinary and Baking Arts Program Graduates by Jean L. Hertzman and John Maas
This article tries to evaluate the educational costs, job placement outcomes and satisfaction with value of associate degree graduates. It tries to ascertain whether the job in which a person is placed satisfy his or her educational qualification. It also tries to know the cost of an associate degree in culinary or baking and pastry arts which varies significantly on whether the program is housed in public, private, ...

Abstract

Early childhood education is a concept used to refer to the act of teaching a child outside his or her home with the help of a teacher or a tutor. Early childhood education takes the form of schooling the child in a formal setting away from home. Early childhood in most nations is undertaken at the age of below five years. Assessment on the other hand refers to the process of planning on how to equip a person with knowledge, attitudes and skills (Highscope, 2009). Early childhood education system requires assessment to determine the suitability of the various topics being taught and how they are ...

Affiliated School;

The article is; A MODEL FOR DEVELOPMENT AND EVOLUTION OF COMPLEX MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURES. Published in 1991, the authors are;
- ATCHLEY, W. R – He was the head of Department of Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7614
- HALL, B. K.- He was in the Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4J1
The purpose of the article is to show the complex morphological structure of a mammal, how it develops and changes with time due to evolution and the factor of adaptation for better survival. The model is based on the premise ...

Article Review

Introduction
MIS professionals have shown a substantially high rate of turnover which reached up to 20% in 1987 and is double of the average for business managers and professionals. Such high turnover can prove to be dysfunctional to organizations due to the shortage of experienced MIS employees and high costs associated with the training of new employees. The trend in turnover has made it very important for MIS managers to recruit, hire and train qualified MIS employees.

The purpose of this study is to test an integrated model of turnover intentions among MIS employees. The test involves using a structural ...

Analyzing an Article by Sara L. Rynes, Berry Gerhart, and Kathleen A. Minette

Thesis Statement

The paper of the statement can be summarizes as following: There are varying influences on motivation of workers and money is the most important one for the workers. The journals read by the professionals claim that the money is not the most influential motivator at work place. The study by Rynes, Gerhart and Minette claims that the professionals think that money is a motivation tool however they underestimate the power of money on workers’ motivation.
The HR specialists believe the surveys to understand whether the motivators ...

Analysis of Two Articles

Analysis of Two Articles
Interestingly, in his conclusions Kay (2006) outlined challenges for strong brands stating that following the logic of strong brands is the wrong way for decision makers because this is an easy way to be misled. The main conclusion drawn by the author was that a strong brand should be built according to certain brand logic that it tight to the meaning assigned to this brand. Porter (2008) did not draw any conclusions, but he ended his article with a concluding paragraph emphasizing the importance of careful analysis of industry structure and competition and stating that these are two the ...

Article Review Report

Kornmann O, Dahl R, Centanni S, Dogra A, Owen R, Lassen C, Kramer B. Once-daily indacaterol versus twice-daily salmeterol for COPD: a placebo-controlled comparison. European Respiratory Journal 2011; 37(2):273-279.

Why are you looking at this journal?

The European Respiratory Journal is a credible source of information because it is peer-reviewed. It is an official publication of the European Respiratory Society. My interest in the journal lies in the focus of the articles it publishes. The journal publishes experimental and clinical work on all aspects of respiratory medicine including the biology of lung cells, pathophysiology, epidemiology, immunology, thoracic imaging, thoracic surgery, occupational medicine, pediatric pneumology, intensive care, ...

Research Article Summary

Mouchawrab et al (2011), published an article in the journal of IEEE on transaction software engineering which was entitled “Assessing, Comparing, and Combining State Machine-Based Testing and Structural Testing: A Series of Experiments”. The main focus of the article was on the cost effective way of testing state machine on fault detection which is model-based in comparison with structural testing. The study uses controlled experiments and review of the previous findings to reach its conclusion. Uniform modeling language UML is the main focus in the study as a method of testing. UML according to the study is the most effective ...

Leadership Articles

Judge, T., Bono, J., Ilies, R., & Gerhardt, M. (2002). Personality and Leadership: A Qualitative and Quantitative Review. Journal of Applied Psychology, 765–780.http://workforceuniverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Judge_2002.pdf
This article makes an attempt of providing a qualitative and meta-analysis, of trait perspectives of leadership. To provide analysis of the perspectives of traits in leadership, the authors have employed a five factor model, which has provided a framework upon which analysis was done. The meta-analysis was carried out through establishing correlations from a sample of 73, where 222 correlations were conducted. The correlations involved neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness. The findings of the study established ...

The Petroleum Industry faces many challenges regularly and one of the challenges is to hydraulically fracture a reservoir that is naturally fractured. The natural fracture systems are essential as they are considered for ideal stimulation. Oil and gas reservoirs use hydraulic fracturing, but using the hydraulic fracture in unconventional gas reservoirs’ is the main challenge as hydrocarbons cannot be extracted from these reservoirs without the fractures. A few factors that affect the hydraulic and natural fracture interaction are the horizontal differential stress, the angle set for the fracture and the pressure that is applied during the treatment.
An observation ...

INTRODUCTION

Breast cancer is a global health threat due to its frequent nature with a frequency of 30% amongst other types of cancer. In women, breast cancer comes second in causing cancer related deaths. Despite these known facts, there are several incidences with the current research showing that it has been increasing for the past two decades. (Suhail, 2012)
Breast cancer diagnosis and its treatment cause numerous psychological and physical effects on women. These include inability to perform roles in the family, social dysfunction, chemotherapy (sometimes with acute consequences), depressive symptoms and negative emotions amongst other effects. When one is diagnosed ...

Subtitle Number 1 : Overview : Explaining the Basic Principles Involved

The article “Critical Success Factors for Configuration Management Implementation” written by Usman Ali and Callum Kidd speaks, as the title illustrates, about the identification of the critical success factors in the configuration management processes, factors that contribute to the improvement and to a better implementation of the process, as practitioners apply them in their work.
After presenting the CSFs in detail (as they have been found in the developed research), the study further develops by introducing a new concept – the CM activity model, defined as a tool used for comparing the existent practices in order to generate solutions for improvement. The ...

Cocherova, Elena, Gabriel Malicky, Peter Kupec, Vladimir Stofanik, & Jozef Pucik. "Evaluation of Resonance Properties of the Human Body Models Situated in the RF Field." Advances in Electrical and Electronic Engineering[Online], 10.5 (2012): 345 - 349. Web. 7 Mar. 2013
Application of radiofrequency (RF) is becoming increasingly common in the development of medical therapies. One of the main concerns is the possibility for unwanted side effects. In this regard, temperature effects are perhaps the most commonly described. These effects are mainly attributed to the absorption of the RF field by human tissues. Estimating experimentally the impact of ...

Research Methods in Human Development:

“Child Care and the Development of Behavior Problems among Economically Disadvantaged Children in Middle Childhood”
Child Care and the Development of Behavior Problems among Economically Disadvantaged Children in Middle Childhood: A Review
The peer-reviewed article is the work of Votruba-Drzal et al. (2010). The focus of the study is to determine whether the level of childcare quality is interrelated to the development of behavioral problems among economically disadvantaged children in middle childhood (Votruba-Drzal et al., 2010). According to the thesis statement in the article, when a child transitions into formal schooling, indications of lower behavioral problem and better ...

An Article Review

Summary and Conclusion
“Why Business Models Matter” is a very good management article on why business models exist and what significant roles do they play in successful business management and performance. According to the author, Joan Magretta, every practical, business organization is founded on a business model, whether or not its founders or managers are cognizant that what they do fit into the components of a business model.
According to the author, the term business model has been cannibalized at the height of the dot.com businesses during the Internet boom, where business models were defined to differentiate the Internet companies ...

The article gives us an insight on the five forces model which was advocated by Michael E. Porter. It goes on to explain how the specific forces identified in the below model can help a firm to create a better business strategy and place a firm foot in the respective industry. The article further analyses the five force model in detail stating the benefits and the disadvantages that come along with it. It further explains it with a case study on IKEA. The article further stresses on the composition of these forces. It states that every industry has a ...

SUMMARY

The article talks about two very important concepts that are gaining increasing importance day by day; the Total Quality Management (TQM) and the Management of Environment (EM). The idea is to design the products while keeping in view the related environmental concerns. Organizations are now determined to make environment friendly products because the customers are very skeptical and they evaluate the organization on the basis of its CSR. Both the concepts are now widely used in every step of production in order to be more cost effective and competitive. These two concepts run in parallel to each other so ...

The article of David Shonk and Packianathan Chelladurai (2008) carries quality of service in sport tourism as its main theme. The authors researched on the theme with the intent of providing a conceptual model that shows the different essential dimensions of sport tourism that is considered to be with quality. The model that the authors proposed serves as a framework for broader and deeper study of the dynamics of sport tourism by other practitioners in the field.

Research Questions / Hypothesis

This scholarly article (Shonk & Chelladurai, 2008) is based on the assumption that the differentiating factor, which is considered as the competitive advantage, between and ...

Summary

The article ‘Career Development Strivings’ by Dik, Sargent and Steger discusses what motivates individuals during the decision-making process in their career path. Career development strivings are influenced by five dimensions which include outcome expectations, self-efficacy, spiritual significance, sense of calling and materialism . Personal goals play a vital role in the functioning of individuals. The model is advantageous as it enables individuals to identify the different motives which drive them. The model is also advantageous since it is flexible, and therefore highly efficient . These strivings influence the path individuals are likely to use to achieve career development. The model does ...

Tesla Motors is one of the most promising companies in automotive industry regardless of its business struggles in the past. In fact, despite the costly prices of its unique cars, the company has gained strong based of consumers and followers of the brand. With this impressive performance in the market, a study concerning its business strategy through SWOT analysis and Value Chain analysis is worth setting. It is interesting to note the fact that the company has reportedly reconfigured its system and has taken full charge and ownership of its value chain concerning strategy. This is with a determined ...

Abstract

In this paper, I will cover the issues of treating patients with dual diagnosis. Dual diagnosis is a condition when patients develop two disorders, and most healthcare professionals are not able to assist those patients in treating their conditions. A literature review reveals that lack of proper regulations and specialized treatment models are considered the main causes of low recovery rates among patients with comorbid disorders. Other issues include lack of patient motivation, education, compliance with treatments, etc. The available literature mainly criticizes the contemporary situation in healthcare when it comes to treating patients with comorbid disorders, but some approaches ...

Introduction

The article concentrated on acquiring a superior comprehension of variables that impact the E&P venture administration achievement and corporate money related execution inside Petrobras S.A. The goal of the present study is to get a superior comprehension of variables that impact administration achievement and corporate money related execution of E&P activities. The article speaks to contextual analysis in a Brazilian oil organization, depicting basic variables keeping in mind the end goal to gauge venture administration achievement and corporate money related execution (Salazar-Aramayo et al., 2013, p.589). The model created is a hypothetical develop known as an auxiliary and estimation ...

In comparison, both models call for the enforcement of laws during the administering of criminal justice, maintenance and control of order in the society, and protect people from injustice practices. On the other hand, the due process model and the crime control model differ in the following manner. The crime control model believes that anyone charged with a crime is guilty and must be punished for his or her actions. In general, the model aims at controlling the criminal behavior of people with an assumption that it is the most essential aspect of criminal justice. On contrary, the due process ...

Evidence showing that RBA is justified in considering an interest rate fall

At the beginning of the month of May, the Australian cash rate was said to be at 2.75%. This statistic was achieved shortly after the May’s bank rates were cut by the Reserve bank of Australia. This marked the lowest cut level achieved in the last 53 fiscal years in this country. The RBA’s board should consider cutting the cash rate because of the prevailing economic conditions in Australia today. The country’s financial markets are currently trading at a 14% chance of suffering a 25 basis points reduction; this sentiment was echoed by Credit Suisse while advocating for ...

Fostering patient safety with multiple patients

The Ironside et al article is an article about safety in the nursing occupation. The safety of patients is important in any health facility. This research focused on how using experiences of multiple patient simulations affected the competence levels of nursing students. Apart from simulation, the simulation model also assessed how the students’ tolerance for ambiguity, age and grade point average related to simulation outcomes. The results are evidence to nursing educators on how multiple patient simulations impact on nursing students’ competence. The results also show the need to document student competencies inpatient safety before releasing them to enter ...

The article highlights a research that has been done to find out the difference in leadership styles of the managers in Germany and UK. This article talks about how EFQM modifies the leadership role in an organization and makes it more strategic. This model demands a leader to be more inspirational and proactively participate in organization development and expansion. There are three clauses of EFQM that are relatively close to those enclosed in the literature of Anglo American that are; mission and the vision, management of people and the implementation of change. These aspects were previously considered as the main reason ...

In the software industry software as a service (SaaS), is an emerging business model that has attracted interests of a number of consumers in the global market. SaaS model works on the same principles like the application service provider model and it has been found that SaaS can provide software to user’s laptops and computers for application processes. Further studies have revealed that the emergence of SaaS has been brought about by the development of the internet know-hows, since these technologies acts as the founding stone for the SaaS business model as well as the main driver and propelling factor ...

ARTICLE REVIEWS

Orlitzky, M., Schmidt F. L. and Rynes, S. L., 2003. Corporate social and financial performance: A meta-analysis, Organization Studies, 24 (3), pp. 403-441. [online] Available at: < http://oss.sagepub.com> [Accessed 13 February 2012]

Article Outline

This study intended to show that sufficient data could be gathered to establish a relationship between CSP (Corporate Social Performance) and CFP (Corporate Financial Performance).

The authors asserted that an organization’s operations and strategies in the non-market and market environment affected the organization’s performance. Despite the inconclusive findings of previous studies on the relationship between CSP and CFP, the authors believed that these studies provided conclusions ...

NMHC is a care delivery model that uses advanced practice nurses to lead practice arrangements for the provision of comprehensive care services to vulnerable populations. Ely (2015) notes that NMHC-centered models associate with colleges, schools, universities, nursing departments, social service agencies, non-profit health organizations, and qualified health centers. Through NMHC, nurses acquire the skills needed to reframe service delivery in primary health care. The building blocks of this model include primary care, chronic disease management, wellness education, as well as care integration and coordination (Ely, 2015).
Various major studies demonstrate that primary care is cost-effective when delivered under nurse ...

Emotional intelligence in Nursing

Emotional intelligence in nursing is the ability to process emotions, understanding and assimilations, and manage emotions. Extensive research outside the practice of nursing has exhibited correlations between significant workplace and measured emotional intelligence and the outcomes of workforce such as management of stress, effective leadership, and performance, retention of jobs, job satisfaction, positive conflict styles and burnout prevention . In a number of nursing research studies, pilot data have exhibited the same results that correlates measured emotional intelligence with nursing performance levels in the nursing leaders and clinical staff, stress adaptation, job satisfaction, professional achievement and some positive clinical outcomes in ...

Article #1: Becker, R., et al. (2011). “Functional dysphagia therapy and PEG treatment in a clinical geriatric setting.” Dysphagia, 26, 108-116.
1). Summary: The article by Becker et al. delves on the outcomes of two Functional Dysphagia Therapy (FDT) with one group using percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG), and another group of non-PEG users.
2) Element: The victims of stroke and those with cerebrovascular diseases have neurogenic dysphagia, 50% and 30% respectively. The result of this study revealed a mortality rate of 19.7%, and lower for the second group of non-PEG users which is at 8.6%.
3) Outcome: Those ...

Review of “Industrial and Commercial Training”

The study indicates that 21% of the companies with at least 500 workers prefer providing online learning opportunities for their workers. The paper expresses that the human resources managements, in general, are still suspicious about the efficiency of online learning programs for the workers. Only 30% of the companies those provide online learning opportunities for their workers express that they have received positive results from the online learning programs, and the rest of the companies indicate that they need relatively more time to make a certain decision whether the online learning programs have positive results (Kirkup, 2014).
The paper ...

Nursing

1.) Title
The title of the article “Evaluation of Hand Washing Program for 2nd graders” describes the type of the study, the major variable and the population to which it applies. It can be inferred from the title that the purpose is to assess and evaluate the hand washing program for the second graders. However, the variable can be inferred from the behavior change and early interventions among children so that they will develop the hand washing as a well-practiced habit (Tousman, Arnold, Helland, Roth, Heshelman, Castaneda, Fischer, O'Neil, & Bileto, 2007).
2.) Research/Aim
A. The purpose of ...

Summary of the Wolfers’s Article

This assignment will first summarize the article published by Wolfers (2016) in the New York Times, about policymakers’ possible response to an economic slowdown.
Wolfers (2016) begins his article referring to an employment report that suggests job growth is slowing down. He brings up the possibility that the economy may suffer a significant slump, maybe even a recession. Wolfers (2016) suggests that the recent economic recovery may have come to an end. Worse, it is hard to think of a time in recent history when policy makers were so unprepared to answer to the challenge (Wolfers, 2016).
If the ...