Likelihood Reports Samples For Students

Summary

In this article, Carrell and Bales explores the impact of economic recession on global economic activities. These authors further explore different collective bargaining methods used to address conflicts between employees and employers during these unfavorable economic times. Indeed, these authors admit that the employment sector is one of the most affected industries due to the emerging economic downturn. The most prominent economic recession occurred in 2007, leaving severe impacts in public and private sectors. This unfavorable trend has forced several governmental institutions, and private entities to exchange ideas and negotiate them, to address negative challenges such as reducing tax ...

Information security threats and cyber attacks are problems that companies must deal with on a daily basis. Financial losses, customer dissatisfaction, and brand threats are only some of the consequences that can result if a company’s information system becomes compromised and is exploited by hackers or users with malicious intentions. As such, it is important for every company to assess the security threats that exist in the company so that these risks can be promptly managed.

In this regard, this paper discusses the security risks that exist in Logistix, Inc. In particular, this paper identifies and describes three of these ...

This report aims at providing an analytical view on GFA’s plan to invest in mineral mining in two West African countries (Mauritania and Senegal) and afterwards give a recommendation on the company’s status on the next move. The report will examine the status of the company, prospects of the proposed investment and finally the conclusion and recommendations for the company partners to undertake.
The company’s plan to carry out an economic feasibility in the area is wise. Since the last exploration was done during the 1950’s. The company requires new figures and up-to-date information on ...

Introduction

According to Christopher Blake, the former secretary of labour in New Zealand, the country has been gradually but continuously changing (Cited in: Masgoret, 2009). This is evidenced by the fact that one in every four New Zealanders has been born in a foreign nation. He notes that New Zealand has been built through immigration and that migrants, whether permanent or temporal, will have a major role in the economic progress of New Zealand. The government has a role to attract and retain migrants with skills and talents that will be critical in developing the country. Understanding the difference between ...

Introduction

The advancement in computing technologies has been accompanied by increased exposure of the users to ethical violations including software threats, immorality, legal issues, confidentiality, and trust. The use of computers affects people’s decisions as well as how they make them. Computers persuade, facilitate, and enable various human cognitive processes, attitudes or processes while inhibiting and discouraging others. For example, while performing an internet search, internet search engines usually prioritize and provide information in a given order. As such, they influence what internet users see. These technological artifacts become “active mediators” because they shape people’s actions and perceptions, ...

Introduction

The advancement in computing technologies has been accompanied by increased exposure of the users to ethical violations including software threats, immorality, legal issues, confidentiality, and trust. The use of computers affects people’s decisions as well as how they make them. Computers persuade, facilitate, and enable various human cognitive processes, attitudes or processes while inhibiting and discouraging others. For example, while performing an internet search, internet search engines usually prioritize and provide information in a given order. As such, they influence what internet users see. These technological artifacts become “active mediators” because they shape people’s actions and perceptions, ...

Introduction

Businesses today operate in a highly global business environment in which potential hazards seem to appear at every turn. A single bad decision or poorly managed endeavor can result in loss of revenue and damage to the company's long-term brand image. In addition, factors outside the company's control can often have a very negative (or even disastrous) impact on its operations and profitability. This could be an economic upheaval, introduction of strict labor laws in a supplier nation or an inability to obtain necessary raw materials. Dealing with such issues is one of the principal problems that business executives ...

Abstract

Background: Police need to rely on the members of the society in order to be effective in keeping law and order, and hence securing communities. According to the theory of planned behavior, attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control make their relative contributions to the prediction of behavioral intentions depending on the behavior and the population being investigated.
Aim: Although the theory has important challenges, it performs reliably well in the prediction of intention. The present study was designed to investigate the ability of the attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control to predict the intention to cooperate with ...

I. Introduction
a. The Site:
The site that is accessed is BP at this URL: http://www.bp.com/ . It provides access to various information about BP including company information and historical background; as well as portals to products and services, sustainability, investors, press, careers, and the Gulf of Mexico restoration .
b. The Goal of the Company:

world in a safe and responsible way” . As such, it was also indicated that through the products and services produced by BP, the organization is enabled to “provide customers with fuel for transportation, energy for heat and light, lubricants to keep engines moving ...

Abstract

This paper is on the topic of hazard management system for the construction company specializing in rebuilding and renovating in Renovabuild. The first section of this paper will discuss the hazard management system for Renovabuild. The second section of this paper will discuss the type of hazard identification required for different phases for renovation. The third section of this paper will identify and access hazards and choose the controls of hazards pouring concrete decks at the roof of storage building. The final section for this paper will indentify the hazards and determine the consequences of hazards. Also, it will ...

Abstract

This report discusses the causes and the negative effects of the insurance market crises. Using some case studies, it suggests a number of solutions to help eliminate or at least reduce the damage caused to global economic crunch and insurance market crisis.

Introduction

The aim of this research is to examine the causes and effects of market insurance crises. This work takes a comprehensive analysis of past crises while exploring how these disasters affect the entire insurance industry, and target market such as increasing liabilities underwritten by insurers. The paper proceeds to explore how the crisis affected insurers’ performance in several markets ...

When someone is obese, it means that he or she has accumulated so much fat in the body that it negatively affects their health. A Body Mass Index of between 25 and 29.9 is considered over weight. If the BMI is 30 and above, then the person is obese. Childhood obesity occurs when the weight of a child is above normal for his or her age and height. This exposes them to health problems such as diabetes, high levels of cholesterol and high blood pressure. Childhood obesity is a serious public health problem in Australia and globally. It has increased at ...

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Abstract
In modern business world characterized with competition, acquisition and mergers are dominating main company’s games. In fact, major companies in such as food sectors and banks are acquiring smaller firms in order to ensure that control competition and assets are strengthened. Just like numerous other decisions, there is need for careful prognosis and study before taking this important step in analysis of assets in a company, business performance, and acquisition overall viability. Embry Investment Group is a company that is exploring for a company to qualify for acquisition. This report is aimed at gaining a deeper comprehension on the viability ...

Investment Appraisal

Investment Appraisal
This report presents the critical investment appraisal of the new coffee shop venture to be initiated by Tesco Ltd. The report includes a thorough analysis of the café market and industry and also attempts to evaluate the target market and market segmentation. Towards the end, the report also includes the appraisal of the investment and financial analysis of the five-year forecast of the venture.

The British coffee market has grown considerably in the past few years that is evident from the fact that approximately $8 billion was spent by Britons in coffee shops last year. In 2015, ...

Executive Summary

Over one million children in Australia are victims of domestic and household violence. Children become victims of family violence both directly and indirectly. Family violence is worse among the minority groups such as the Aboriginal community and the Torres Strait Islander societies. Culture plays a major role in breeding or tolerating domestic violence to continue taking place in the society. The government of Queensland does not have adequate policies and legislations to ensure the safety of children in the society. Accessibility to resource centers is limited for children victims of domestic violence. Functional institutions, employers, media and the government ...

Executive Summary

Video gamers have been with the society for a while, and they are associated with certain positive implications for individuals who play them. Video games enhance social skills since they can be used as a bonding activity and people interact over the internet when playing video games. Video games also improve social confidence which improves social interactions between individuals. Learning of subjects such as mathematics can also be enhanced by playing video games. Soldiers, surgeons and pilots can also improve their performance at work by engaging in video games. Management skills such as strategic management, planning and decision making ...

Abstract

This paper is about the investigation of Parkinson’s disease, and in particular is involved with the examination of its symptoms, stages, causes, prevalence, diagnosis and treatment, and social impacts. Finally, the paper analyzes and evaluates two ongoing on Parkinson’s disease researches, which are also examined in respect to their impact on Parkinson’s disease patients.
Key words: Parkinson disease, Parkinson disease causes and impacts, Parkinson disease symptoms and prevalence, Parkinson disease diagnosis, and Parkinson disease ongoing research.

Idiopathic Parkinson disease (PD) is a progressively evolving disease with main manifestations resting tremor, muscle stiffness, slow movement and loss ...

In the past, a good number of individuals opted to list their own homes or other residential properties on internet websites to enable visitors looking for an accommodation to stay to do so conveniently (Krotoski, 2014). Visitors or guests included students from neighboring universities and colleges, people on short business related travels, regular travellers, as well as tourists. As such, the associations between guests and the host were not only human and intangible but also palpable. Then organizations like Airbnb and VRBO also known as Vacation Rental by Owner entered into the sharing economy, more specifically, the rental accommodations ...

Arson is the crime that involves setting fires to buildings, vehicles, forest or wild land areas, or peoples’ other properties either intentionally or with deep-seated malice (Swanson et al, 2012, p. 510). A person who engages in such a malicious act is called an arsonist, and their intention is normally to damage property. It is distinguishable from other causes of fire such accidental electric fires on buildings or natural wildfires that erupt in forested areas due natural causes. The main differentiating aspect of arson is that, a person deliberately sets fires on property owned by others to destroy it, or owner ...

Executive Summary

The oil industry is one of the most dynamic and robust sectors that contribute to the economic growth of a country. Due to the lucrative nature of the oil industries’ production performance, oil producing organizations have continued to attract a wide array of personnel. Employers have the obligation to provide remunerations that are commensurate with the demands of the job. Since oil industries have been identified to be one of the most hazardous, risks have to be assessed, managed, and appropriately controlled.
One of the largest and most productive oil organizations in the world is Saudi Arabian Oil Company (ARAMCO). ...

Background Information

Saudi Arabian Oil Company (ARAMCO) is a state-owned oil organization of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Figure 1) . Saudi Aramco was founded in the early 1930s with headquarters at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The President and Chief Operating Officer is Khalid A. Al-Falih since 2009. A total of 3.4 billion barrels of oil were produced in 2013 or 9.4 million barrels per day (bpd) . Forbes ranked Saudi Aramco as number one in the list of the world’s biggest oil companies .

Aramco Operations

There are different stages in oil operations. The current section expounds on oil exploration, production, refining and marketing, and finally, ...

Introduction

Malware is a short term for malicious software. It is a term used to refer to any software that disrupts normal computer operation, gathers information and accesses private material without the consent of the owner. As such, the term malware can be used to refer to a number of unwanted software such as viruses, phishing software (spyware), adware, worms, and Trojans. Malware can manifest itself as active content and scripts on websites, executable code (.exe files) and other forms (Bergman, Stanfield, Rouse & Scambray, 2013). Malware can be harmful and annoying. Harmful malware is that which can leak sensitive information from a computer or ...

2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami

Introduction

The Tohoku earthquake that occurred in the Pacific Ocean on 11th March, 2011 at a shallow depth of 32 kilometers is by far the largest earthquake ever recorded in the Japanese history and the fifth largest in the world. The earthquake was of 9.0 magnitude with its epicenter located 130 kilometers off Sendai, Honshu, the largest city in the Tohoku region. This earthquake set off devastating tsunami waves travelling like a jet plane at the speed of 700 kilometers an hour (Sorkhabi, 2011). The waves that reached the altitude of 40.5 meters travelled up to 10 ...

There are several ways to improve the volley ball serve and increase the likelihood that it will result in an ace or a serve that cannot be returned and results in a point for the offensive team. The main goal when seeking to increase the likelihood that a serve results in an ace is to minimize the time the ball spends in the air and increase the speed of the ball. This will reduce the amount of time the opposing team has to react, forcing them to react faster than their normal reaction time would dictate. In this analysis of the kinematics ...

Work engagement is a complex multi faced concept practiced in one’s daily life. It entails many practical, emotional and physical variables which create a combination of notions influencing decision making and final outcomes. The four preliminary variables of which work engagement is based on are hope, resilience, optimism and efficacy. Each variable is associated in a slightly different way manipulating the way of thinking and final outcomes. Work engagement is commonly defined as "a positive, fulfilling, work-related state of mind that is characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption" (Schaufeli and Bakker, 2004: 295).
Psychological capital is a key term shaped by hope, ...

Type 2 diabetes is increasingly becoming prevalent form of a disorder among children. This is largely driven by lifestyle factors that could lead to increased body weight, just like in the case of adults. Genetic and family factors, environmental factors like maternal gestational diabetes and intrauterine retardation in growth and lack of physical activities during adolescents and childhood have resulted in an increase, in the levels of insulin resistance that are considered crucial in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes among the young. Type 2 diabetes is linked to microvascular diseases with an indication of greater nephropathy risks as opposed ...

Report about Relationship between the age, height, and body mass

Abstract
This research investigates the nature of the relationship between the age, height and body weight. The nature of the relationship between these three variables determines a person’s body health and fitness according to professionals. Therefore, this research will aim at ascertaining the nature of the relationship between the variables and, thereafter, a deduction of its relativity to a person’ health status will be made.
In the literature review, some authors bring in the gender aspect while others do not fully agree that a perfect ratio between body mass and height indicates good health. This ratio is referred to as ...

Introduction

A risk register is a document that records events that might possibly occur and whose occurrence will hinder the successful achievement of the goals and objectives of a particular project (CIO 2012). The register is managed through specific processes and is reviewed as part of the governance of the project at Project and Strategic Board level. Risk registers should be maintained for all contractual activities.
The risk appetite for each activity needs to be determined. This expresses how prepared Justine and Early Engineering, Inc is to accept and manage the risk. The risk elements fall into three categories (Hester, R. ...

Report on Psychometric testing of the two new staff members (A and B)

Introduction
This report presents the result of the psychometric analysis of Mr. Anderson and Mrs. Beatrice, the two staff members who will be working together for the first time on the company’s brand new project. The two staff members will be expected to partner to deliver on the company’s new project which seeks to come up with a plan for venturing into a new market. The team is expected to conduct market research and determine a suitable new market for the company to begin its operations.
This report therefore focuses on aspects of the two staff members and ...

1. Discuss psychological factors that influence whether individuals start to smoke, drink alcohol, or use drugs.
A number of psychological factors influence substance abuse in individuals. One such factor is depression. For some people, substance abuse starts as a way of coping with feelings that are unbearable. People tend to believe that engaging in drug use will make them overcome these unbearable feelings. Two, when people are traumatized, they tend to find relief in drugs such as alcohol and narcotics. Anxiety is also another factor that influences substance abuse. For example, a person who is nervous when going for an ...

Introduction

General and specific deterrence are the two basic categories of deterrence. Broadly, deterrence theory suggests that the actions of humans are rational. What this means is that the action of an individual results from careful consideration of the benefits and costs. As such, an individual only commits a crime if he or she believes that the expected benefits outweigh the likely punishments (Ritchie, 2011). Therefore, the basic premise of the theory is that an increase in the cost of crime leads to a decrease in the number of persons committing crime. It means that any individual will choose to either violate ...

Affectively based attitudes- these are attitudes without any logical backing. They are neither derived from any thoughts nor are they products of a learning experience. These attitudes are mostly from people’s values and feelings. It is very hard to change them.

Cognitively based attitudes- attitudes based on a logical evaluation of the attitude object. People perceive the object depending on its specific qualities and properties. They analyze the different characteristics of the object before making the decision. They rely on facts.
The likelihood Elaboration model explains two distinct ways that can be used to change one’s attitudes. This ...

A report of mental illness

Introduction/scope/abstract
Abnormal psychology is a subdivision of psychology. It deals with the study, clarification and treating of behavior that deviates from the norm. The behavior of concern here is that which is addressed in a clinical context (ICD, p. 144). It refers to a range of unusual behaviors, thinking and emotions that will require an individual to seek the aid of a mental health professional. Abnormal psychology studies mental processes and the behavior of abnormal people (Mangal, 2008, p. 1). Psychopathology is a pattern of behavior that is abnormal and is usually dysfunctional and distressing. This could result in the victim being dangerous ...

Financial appraisal

Query 1
Risk refers to the likelihood of incurring losses. Financial risk results from several events such markets prices fluctuations, foreign exchange fluctuations, interest rate fluctuation among others. There are several ways in which RTE can reduce or extinguish financial risk on the investment of 100,000 pounds in fitting and furniture for the new building. This section discusses some of the ways of mitigating the financial risk they are exposed to.
RTE should first conduct an internal as well as an external analysis to identify the risks facing it. RTE trustees should then understand its relevance ...

Hooning Behavior

Hooning behavior refers to the behavior of drivers who drive in an anti-social manner with reference to the standards set for the contemporary society. It entails the use of a vehicle in an irresponsible manner, which is hazardous especially in public places. The severity of hooning behaviors is assessed on the impact that a particular behavior has on the people involved. In fatal cases, hooning behavior can lead to the loss of lives not only to the driver in question but also to other road users. Due to its prevalence, many people consider hooning behavior an international problem. Owing to this, ...