Alternatives Research Papers Samples For Students

Mental Illness Among Criminals

The prison systems have been over populated by many criminals in our country. The increasing rate of prisoners who have been diagnosed with mental illness is increasing. Many criminals have either been diagnosed with mental illness before being arrested and put into prison or they were diagnosed with mental issues after being incarcerated. The inmates with mental illness while committing crimes may have done so because of their illness. The people who were incarcerated and then diagnosed could have had mental problems because of the prisons system they are now living in. It can cause inmates to become depressed, ...

Executive summary

In the past, we have seen a considerable number of children born prematurely succumb to death shortly after delivery (Koletzco, 2014). This is most prominent in the developing countries for obvious reasons where infant mortality rates are more pronounced. Babies born underweight or premature are in dire need of someone to come up with innovation to bridge this gap. The innovation of infant warmers would go a great mile to help these infants. An infant warmer is a sleeping bag for infants which serves the purpose of an incubator. One thing about the infant warmer is the fact that ...

Introduction

Managers are constantly making decisions that affect the operations and the bottom lines of the business. Such decisions could include the stocks in which to invest, when to introduce a new product into the market, how to optimize the profits of a firm, how to assign employees to various tasks, and when to venture into new markets. Managers require information to make correct and timely decisions. Managerial accounting and financial accounting are potent sources of the information that managers require when making decisions. Managerial accounting entails the identification, measurement, and communication of the economic information that is needed by ...

Month Day, Year

Introduction
This purpose of this report is to an analysis different market structures in my local city. The report will assist my mayor to know the kind of businesses in the city. I will analyze the four market structures that I learned in class and then relate them to my local city. The market structures include monopoly, a situation in which there is only a single firm in a particular industry. Oligopoly is the second market structure, where there are a few enterprises and many buyers in a certain industry. The third is monopolist competition, whereby many sellers offer ...

ABSTRACT

The juvenile crime rate has made a significant increase in America as children as young as eight years old are committing violent crimes. The juvenile justice system was first created to keep children out of adult prisons and to rehabilitate the children so that they will become productive non-criminal adults. This system has not been effective. Children are impacted by many factors when faced with decisions in today’s society. They are not as developed and lack the reasoning capability like adults. Thus, new approaches to juvenile justice must be instilled throughout the country in order to prevent more ...

Introduction

MasterCard Incorporated is a multinational financial services provider listed on the New York Stock Exchange. MasterCard provides electronic payment cards and other financial services for banks in the United States and around the world. This report will focus on the business environment within which MasterCard operates and how its internal and external environments interact to define its current status as financial service provider. This will include the company analysis which will be an inquest into the internal elements of MasterCard and its activities. The competitors and competition processes faced by MasterCard will be considered. Then the research will provide ...

Introduction

Documents, though they contain useful information, have not been used as a data sources traditionally before the advent of XML. By enabling labeling of each part of the document with the type of data it contained so that more document-centric applications could be developed. XML can be seen as an object serialization format for distributed object applications or as a data exchange format. Due to the importance of XML and Database Systems (DBS), they need to be integrated for storage, retrieval, and update. By enabling this interaction, the business data and legacy application data that exists in the DBS ...

1. Introduction and statement of the problem
Europe and European Union are facing one of the biggest migration and refugee problems after the history. The influxes of the migrants that are fleeing from the Middle Eastern and North African countries are risking their lives to reach the old continent. The deteriorating human rights, civil war, insecurity and abuses are forcing people to risk their lives on boats and long journeys. The majority of them are coming by boat which is increasing the threat of drowning that has reached alarming rates in the recent past. Based on the United Nations ...

Introduction

The history of the Chinese women can be categorized into two parts: before the twentieth century and the modern period of liberation. The Chinese society also consisted of two groups: those that were oppressed and those that were oppressive. Traditionally, Chinese women were regarded as incompetent and weak. However, they were just victims of a patriarchal system, and for that reason, they were occasionally oppressed by men. For instance, the old women were regarded as parasites. Because of these challenges, the communist government aimed at liberating the Chinese women from the yoke of feudalism, especially Post the twentieth century.

Challenges that Faced the Women in Pre-Communist Regime

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Inventory management and customer satisfaction

Inventory Management and Customer Satisfaction
Introduction
Inventory management primarily ensures businesses maintain products at affordable cost and still achieve the goal of having sufficient and steady supplies to promote continued operation (Mpwanya, 2005). Importantly, enterprises prioritize inventory management since they want to realize a reduction in costs, offer standard services, ensure products are available and make sure their customers are satisfied. Managing inventory is critical to business since it impacts customer satisfaction, which in turn affects the financial performance of a company.

Body

Inventory management
Inventory management is a wide subject, and various researchers define it differently. Arnold (1998) describes ...

Winnipeg, Manitoba is a thriving Canadian city whose economy is to an important extent based upon cultural industries. After the 1970s economic crisis, the city started to reduce its manufacturing industry and to invest more in services and in cultural businesses. The city reinvented itself following the downtown rehabilitation process. This project included the rejuvenation of the Forks, a historical site which now attracts millions of visitors each year. The city also invested in its digital media educational programs in order to form skilled workers for the newest technological companies in the fields of film production, advertising, graphic design, ...

Abstract
Internal controls form an important part of the process of protecting an organization’s resources. They directly affect the allocation and use of an organization’s resources and therefore ultimately impact on the overall performance of an organization. One of the resources useful in an organization is information, and this paper seeks to explain the relationship that exists between the process of information system development and the internal control function of an organization.

The relationship between internal control and the systems development process

Internal control forms an essential part of accounting. It is one of the benchmark processes upon which the success of the accounting function and ...

From a rather general point of view, I’d like to begin this work by giving a brief description based on the aspect of patient assessment. It can be defined as the process which involves gathering information about a patient and it is normally done by the medical staff. The information may include a number of aspects for instance; the sociological, physiological, spiritual and the psychological status of a patient(Stroud, 1963). In this particular case, the discussion shall largely comprise the aspect of assessing a patient’s spiritual and cultural needs.

Part (a)

It is a fact worth noting that we live in a world comprising a diverse people ...

Waterboarding, once used as acceptable form of torture by many countries during war times and for other purposes, is today considered a form of torture by the United States. Though it was used to coerce prisoners of war to give information, it has been widely regarded as inhumane and too harsh, even in the more strenuous of circumstances. When interrogators in black sites began giving firsthand accounts of waterboarding, it was realized just how unacceptable the act was. Coupled with psychological data suggesting the any form of torture is too severe to illicit any true information, it was clear ...

The involvement of the youth and juveniles in criminal gangs particularly in the United States is becoming an increasingly an issue of concern to the criminal justice system. Thus, a plethora of criminal justice programs have been suggested in order to reduce the destruction of property, crimes and violence caused by street gang members. According to Kent, Donaldso and Smith (2000), various programs and policies have been implemented in a bid to help reduce the rate of gang related crimes. However, not much attention has been paid to the effectiveness of evidence based practices and programs. Moreover, the general ...

There are so many diseases, conditions and disorders that can negatively affect human beings that are inconvenient, problematic and, some can be fatal. That said finding treatments and cures for these ailments is paramount, but not everyone is comfortable with the many different chemicals and drugs that are supported by physicians and the pharmaceutical industry. Some people have, do and will continue seek out different treatments, outside the traditional medical approaches. These different approaches are called “alternative medicine.” Alternative medicine can include choosing medicinal marijuana instead of prescription pain killer, faith healing and acupuncture. However, many argue that if ...

The procedure followed by the Samsung Electronics is exceptional in the cautions that it takes for capital planning. According to the statement made by the President and CEO of the Company, there were record speculations of around 1.3 billion in the company for conveying development in the long haul and had a focus on crosswise force arrangement. This is spread through three stages of development and plans so that a total of 1.7 billion can be allocated in different areas to focus on extension of edging and development.

Strategy for the supplement of conventional routines

A number of strategies are available for the supplement of conventional ...

The current growing dependence on electric infrastructure accompanied by a rapid change in generation side as well as demand-side technology ensures a reconsideration of the mandatory design principles as well as the operational concept of the grid (Kok and Steve 38). In its current state, the grid is accompanied by central generation connected with high voltage transmissions and one-way power flows along distribution feeders, providing electricity that meets transportation and the need for additional personalized energy options hence creating the need for more resilient as well as modular design and agile operational impression. The dramatic decrease in prices of ...

Global issue: Food insecurity

Today, the world suffers from numerous issues; from the security of life and property to the security of food and water. With the gradual but persistent rise in global temperatures, food and water resources in certain parts of the world are getting scarce and hard to conserve. This is problematic as with the passage of time; these resources are bound to get scarcer and lesser in amount. Moreover, poverty is another factor which makes it difficult for masses to get hold of nutritious and abundant food resources. When the factors of money and lack of resources are combined together, ...

Angela Davis’ analysis of the naturalization of the prison system within American society puts it open that for the most of the time, the multiple ways the prison system permeates our daily lives (morally, economically, ideologically, etc) is not considered (Davis 78). However, we consider it and we do think about it because we are so removed from it. We only understand the prison system in terms of what we see in popular media. In my essay, building from Davis’ notion of the naturalization of prison and her attempts to “denaturalize the prison system” (Cecil 1), I explore the ...

Introduction

Definition of ethical issues
Back ground information on “Volkswagen emission scandal”
Issue of violation notice
Accusations against the company
Discussion
How the problems were addressed by the company leaders
Company denial of manipulation of tests
Company official’s admission of tests manipulation
Recall of vehicles
Announcement of new diesel strategy
Halt of company sales on the affected vehicles
Compensation of VW and Audi owners in the US
Implications of the company decisions
Loss of trust and confidence
Sales reduction
Inconvenience and mistrust
How I would have addressed the issue as an employee of the company
Report the matter
My ...

Assignment 2 Research Essay

Draft 2
The Fast Food Industry
SUNGD1403
2016/3/10
Abstract
The rapid development of world economies has been characterized by skyrocketing trend in consumption of fast foods. The causative variable for the surge in consumption of the said food is largely the need for instant gratification by most contemporary diners coupled with convenience, speed and ease of access associated with fast food industry which complements the need for most workers to save on time. Additionally, the paper looks into cross-sectional studies with regard to the existence of a causative correlation between the increase in the trend in consumption of fast ...

Research Paper

Research Paper
Chronic and terminal illnesses are familiar concepts in the healthcare industry. Different patients have different reactions to diagnoses with chronic and terminal illnesses, which requires the healthcare professionals to be comprehensively prepared to provide relevant care for each patient. Every patient is entitled to an autonomous right, and have the right to choose the type of care that they can accept. Physicians and healthcare professionals are ethically required to honor the rights of the patients while observing dignity and respect of every patient.
When a person is diagnosed with terminal illness, he/she can choose to either receive ...

Race can be seen as how people are taken in respect to any particular social group as well as their differences as noticed from the visual point. As compared to the earlier days, racial issues are less burning in the context of the present-day society amongst American people. Basically, in the contemporary society, a number of racial equality measures have been undertaken in order to make sure that all the people in the United States are resolved as within the single nation ("A Growing Divide on Race").
Introduced as a tool in the fight against racial, ethnic and gender ...

Utilitarianism is the notion that the moral worth of a given action is a determined by its general usefulness in ensuring that utility is maximized. Therefore, this theory asserts that a given action is right if in a given situation, it leads to a greater satisfaction of desires, taking into account all the affected individuals and the available alternatives. Application and relation of this theory with the widely discussed subject of abortion is possible. The subject of abortion has been widely discussed over the past years in various countries all over the world. It is a subject that continues to be controversial and brings about ...

The Pokot is a tribe in Africa living in both Kenya and Uganda. However, most Pokots live in the Northern part of Kenyan Rift-Valley which lies along the Kenya /Uganda border. An interview with Daniel Lotodo, a 78 year old man from the community revealed a lot about the ethnography of the community
The Pokot for a long time are predominantly pastoralists’. Their occupations of cattle keeping has been necessitated by environment factors. The area is semi arid and agricultural produce can hardly do well. However, through barter trade with neighboring communities such as the Samburu and the Marakwet, the society would ...

Overview/ Summary

The ‘Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Oncology Nurse’s Knowledge and Attitudes’ is a research paper whose main purpose is to describe the knowledge and attitudes of a number of oncology nurses on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). The research paper takes the design of a description and also a cross- sectional design. The research used a sample of 850 of nurses picked at random from the Oncology Nursing Societies. All these nurses were RNs who were directly involved with health care. The setting of the research was at a national medical center and research institute. The main variables of the research were complementary and alternative ...

The economic situation in the United States and the world in general is expected to continue its recovery from the recession over the next one year (Forbes.com). Improvements are expected in key economic indicators such as gross domestic product, inflation levels, employment levels and interest rates. It is expected that in the next one year, the high rates of unemployment currently being experienced in the United States will be on the decline which the rate of inflation is also expected to reduce. However, due to the political turmoil in the Middle East, it is expected that the price of ...