Decline Research Papers Samples For Students

FIXED TELEPHONE SUBSCRIPTIONS

annual decline rate=current landline subscription-initial landline subscriptionsinitial landline subscriptions×100
2007 to 2008=11,000,000-11,000,00011,000,000×100=0%

Indicating no growth or decline in landline subscriptions in 2008 from 2007

2008 to 2009=12,000,000-11,000,00011,000,000×100=9.09%

Indicating a 9.09% growth in landline subscriptions in 2009 from 2008

2009 to 2010=12,000,000-12,000,00012,000,000×100=0%

Indicating no growth or decline in landline subscriptions in 2010 from 2009

2010 to 2011=11,000,000-12,000,00012,000,000×100=-8.33%

Indicating an 8.33% decline in landline subscriptions in 2011 from 2010

annual decline rate=current penetration rate-initial pentration rateinitial pentrattion rate×100
2007 to 2008=1.5-1.51.5×100=0%

Indicating no decline or growth in penetration rate from 2007 to 2008

2008 to 2009=1.6-1.51.5×100=6.67%

Indicating a 6.67% growth in penetration rate from 2008 to 2009

2009 to 2010=1.5-1.61.6×100=-6.25%

Indicating a 6.25% drop in penetration rates from 2009 to 2009

2010 to 2011=1.4-1.51.5×100=-6.67%

Indicating a 6.67% drop in penetration rates from 2009 to 2010

FUTURE PREDICTIONS FOR 2012 TO 2016
- Based on the average annual decline and growth rates for fixed landline subscriptions, ...

Introduction

Over the last one year, the global oil price has declined rapidly by approximately 50 percent. The drop in the oil prices may have largely been as a result reduced global growth prospects. Analysts argue that the rise of the U.S dollar in relation to other currencies played a significant role in the oil prices decline (Energy Information Administration, 2014). The decrease in the global oil prices has led to a significant impact on the U.S economy. In essence, the price drop has reduced the cost of living while increasing the real consumers’ incomes. The real income gain has ...

Crude Oil Prices: Market Supply and Market Demand

Abstract
The primary purpose of this paper is to understand how supply and demand factors contribute to a consistent decline in crude oil prices across the globe. Furthermore, the paper seeks to understand the impact resulting from the fall in the U.S and the global economy and implications of the same. In the introduction, the paper starts by acknowledging the importance of crude oil to the world economy and the fact that it is an ordinary commodity whose price is influenced by the market forces. Oil prices are renowned for their instability in the market, an aspect that is ...

That fact that the American labor movement has been on a sharp decline is not in question. Statistics released by the US Bureau of Statistics in the year 2013 on the summary of the unionization in the United States, the union membership stood at a paltry 11.3 percent in the year 2012. This was a level lower than in the year 2011 when the union membership was at 11.8 percent. The plummeting of union membership and the labor movement in general in the United States has been phenomenal in the last fifty years when it was at the peak with over 30 ...

Art-related disciplines are critical to educating citizens and students of every age. Nevertheless, the arts have declined significantly in schools and public participation. According to a recent study by Rabkin and Hedberg (2011), fewer eighteen-year-olds in a 2008 survey reported receiving arts instruction in their childhood than a similar age group surveyed in 1982. The research suggested that the provision of arts education dropped from 65% in 1982 to about 50% in 2008 (Rabkin & Hedberg, 2011). Moreover, it included survey data gathered in 2002 and 1992 with each successive period indicating a severe decline in Americans’ access to arts ...

Abstract

The labor market in the United States has changed significantly over the years because of the changes in the global market and the impact on the work force in the country. The changes have led to diversity in the way people live and work. For many people, the loss of jobs causes structural changes in the ways that people live as these people are no longer able to finance their way of life. Mortgages also have been affected by the changes in the labor market and people have now become more aggressive in securing their homes. In addition, the ...

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Abstract

In the recent past, there has been a tremendous decline in the use of the newspapers. The trend seems to be accelerating everyday and it is estimated that the use of the newspapers could hit a decline in 50% in the year 2020 as compared to its use in the 1990s. Many factors have been associated with the decline of the preference and the use of the printed papers. Among the most significant one is the latest developments in technology that has brought the introduction of Internet accessible to over one billion people across the globe. The larger ...

There are numerous schools of thought as to the role of religion in the Northern Ireland conflict. Institutionally, religion has different levels in the indirect contribution of the Roman Catholic Church and the direct one of the Orange societies. Other levels include the covenant tradition of fundamentalist Protestantism, the level of relational beliefs, level of cultures produced, and the interface between relational religious and national-political beliefs. The way religion connects to politics and conflicts is different for the each of the two dominant blocs of interest. The role of the Catholic Church takes into account. Majority of the past ...

- Introduction
Estonia is a lowland country that borders with Russia and Latvia and is washed by the Baltic Sea ("Official Gateway to Estonia" n.p.). According to BBC (2013), Estonia is the most northerly of the other former Baltic republics. The country is surrounded by forests and is rich for water sources like lakes and rivers draining into the Gulf of Finland. The official name of the country – Republic of Estonia ("Official Gateway to Estonia" n.p.).
The country is small having area 45,228 square kilometers of population of 1,340,415 as of 1 January 2012. Its ...

Introduction

Honeybees which have its origin based in South East Asia came into USA via European settlers in 1600s. Honeybees are extensively used in the US for the production of honey and pollination of a wide-ranging variety of farm grown crops including vegetables, fruits and nuts. But in recent times starting from around 2006, honeybee populations in the US have dwindled by 70% and the afflicted colonies showcase similar uncanny symptoms of a consistent reduction of worker bees. Since the sustenance of hives without worker bees is not possible, eventually all the bees including the queen and brood die. The collapse of ...

Conventional versus Islamic

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Abstract:
The current paper relates financial analysis of commercial and Islamic banks in UAE. The aim of this paper is to evaluate financial performance of commercial and Islamic banks in UAE and make appropriate conclusions regarding comparative advantages and disadvantages of the two groups of the banks. The evaluation between commercial and Islamic banks was carried out with the help of financial analysis. Analysis of financial ratios was used as the main technique of financial analysis in this paper. There were four groups of financial ratios analyzed, namely: liquidity ratios, solvency ratios, ...

Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors That Explain The Decline And Six That Do Not. Experience by Steven D. Levitt

The entire criminal activities in almost all parts of United States experienced heartening drop in the late 1990’s. According to Levitt experience, the year 1999 witnessed the least rate of reported cases homicide for the past 35 years. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reports highlights that in 1998, property and violent crimes declined by 29% and 34% respectively. Levitt states, “homicide rates fell in nine of the ten years in the decade of ...

Introduction

In some ways, we all develop in almost the same ways, yet in other ways, we all seem to develop rather uniquely. We all have a lifespan during which a pattern of changes occurs from birth until death. In the field of study known as lifespan development, these patterns of development that takes place during the whole lifespan of a human being are examined. Human development is what lifespan development emphasizes on. Most life development studies emphasize on comprehending how principles of development vary around the world, and how the process of development is influenced by cultural, ethnic, and racial factors. Moreover, ...

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International Management
Abstract
The film and music industry have both evolved drastically during the past decades. From vinyl records to CD’s to digital mp3 files in the music industry, and from cassette tapes to mp4 files in the film industry. The evolution in both the film and music industry is most likely a result of the practicality demanded by the society. Individuals often seek easier and cheaper alternatives. In both of these relevant industries, the most practical solution is of course to have instant access to demanded content that is merely software and requires no type of disc. ...

Unions’ Response to Neoliberal Globalization

The Unions’ responses to neoliberal globalization have not been positive. This has been evident from their poor performance over the last decade. The concept entails a set of policies that guides the global operations of business organizations. Specifically, they entail the regulations as to the labor costs incurred businesses to ensure employee social growth. The main aim of introducing the neoliberal globalization was restore profitability of the firms as well as economic restructuring over the radicalization period. Additionally, they were related to the labor policies whose main goal was to make the trade unions weak and ineffective. The effect ...

Following the death of Phillip Seymour Hoffman in February of 2014, media outlets in America and elsewhere filled with news of it. Alongside this news were claims that there was an uptick of heroin usage in the United States. Virtually all media centers seemed to point to the possibility of an uptrend in the use of heroin in contrast to that of its relatives in the opioid group. The media claimed that there were new warnings from health officials in the US of an impending confirmation on a heroin epidemic. According to some of the health officials interviewed, the heroin ...

Half a century ago, every American man was being entitled to what Sociologist RW Connell refers to as a “patriarchal dividend”, which was a lifelong affirmative-action program for men. The size of this dividend generally varied according to class and race but all men were certain that women would be excluded from all the available desirable jobs or promotions in their line of work, therefore due to this disparity, an average high school male graduate could earn more than an average female college graduate working for the same number of hours. This was also the case in most of the contemporary American ...

- Scope of the problem
Poliomyelitis which is also referred to as polio or infantile paralysis is an infectious disease that mostly affects children. It is caused by poliovirus. It affects the nervous system resulting in paralysis and in some instances death within a couple of hours. Polio mostly affects children who are under the age of 5 years but it can affect individuals of any age. In poor countries, polio is transmitted via the faecal oral route while in rich countries it is transmitted via the oral- oral route. The symptoms of polio are often evident in less ...

This article is published by the associated press on The New York Times of 4th September 2012. The article talks about the declining production levels in the manufacturing sector as a whole. This includes statistics on manufacturing businesses as well as construction industry. As expected, the drop in manufacturing has also led to a drop in employment levels and as such, firms and businesses have been employing workers at a lower rate. The article also attempts to give reasons as to why the drop in manufacturing numbers has occurred. The paragraphs that follow review the specific components covered in the article.

The ...

A major economic depression that engulfed the world during early thirties of the twentieth century is commonly referred to as ‘The Great Depression’. Wikipedia defines depression as a sustained decline in the economic activities of one or more economies. The general characteristics of a depression are substantial increase in unemployment rates; credit crunch, mostly due to impact of depression on the banking system; and increased volatility in currency’s relative value. It also has a deep and devastating impact on the financial system of a country. Depression is an extreme form of long term downturn. Sometimes, it is also described as recession of a ...

The Effect of the USA Economic Collapse on the Saudi Arabia Economy

Chapter 1
The foundation of the Saudi Arabian national economy is the petroleum market. As early as 1986 Saudi Arabia (SA) linked its riyal to the US dollar (USD) (Sultan 2011, p. 237). The US economy as the leading economy in the world can have a deep impact on the Saudi economy which is a leading oil exporter in the world. The United States experienced a global financial crisis which caused a domino effect of economic problems throughout the world.
The crisis spread to the world’s economy; having a special effect on the Saudi Arabian economy. Affects on the Saudi banking ...

CONTENTS
CONTENTS 2

Preparing and Interpreting Statistical Reports 4

Well-Designed Statistical Reports 4
Considerations for a Report 4
Preparation: Background, Uses and Users 4
Structure 4
Language 4
Informative Titles or Headlines 5
Key messages 5
Context 5
Interpretation 5
Standards for Statistical Reports 5
Condensing Data 5
Stages 5
Measures of Central Tendency 6
Mean 6
Mode 6
Median 6
Measures of Spread or Variation 6
Standard Deviation 6
Variance 6
Presenting Information 6

Reference Tables 7

Charts 7
Bar Charts 7
Line Charts 7
Pie Charts 8
Population Pyramids 8
Scatter Plots 8
Maps 8
New and Other Ways of Visualization 8
Dynamic Visualizations 8
Animation ...

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CRJ301 Week 2 Assignment
Youth Gang Activity
According to the information provided by the Juvenile Court Statistics 2010, there has been an increase in the caseloads involving the youth between the years 1985 to 2010. These caseloads involve offences to the person, offences to property, drug offences and public order. The following chart shows a comparison of the offences committed by females and males in the year 2010 alone.
According to juvenile justice factsheet, however, there was a substantial decrease in the rate of crime by the year 2010 as compared to the earlier years but the survey ...

Introduction

Research undertaken for this paper looked at a number of views on this topic. The objective was to determine if the American family unit is at risk, and if it is – why that is happening.

The Research

1. “Family Decline: The Findings of Social Science”
Vitz (1999) published this paper based on research which he claims highlights “the serious family decline of the last few decades.” Although his paper examines a number of factors contributing to that perceived decline, his opening remarks place the largest portion of blame on the shoulders of fathers – men who have “abandoned their role in the family.” ...

Comparison and Contrast of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s responses to the Great Depression and Barack Obama’s responses to the Great Depression

Efforts undertaken by the US government to save itself from the effects of the Great Recession have been compared to similar policy measures undertaken during the Great Depression. Undeniably, Obama’s inauguration in early 2009 is comparable to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s infamous one hundred days in presidency. While the later offered a package of New Deal policies aimed at digging the US economy out of the Great Depression, the former’s economic policies were aimed at saving ...

Introduction

The Petrochemical industry in the ministry of energy has been focusing on the oil prices change and how it influences the economy. The oil demand comes from the petrochemical industry whereby energy generation helps in manufacturing and production industries. These industries help in economic transformation through improving country’s GDP. As the source of energy, oil in the petrochemical industry has been influenced by inflation and unemployment, interest rates and exchange rate. These factors influence the government spending, hence affecting the importation of oil from the producing countries such as Saudi Arabia. The oil prices as a result of ...

(Comparative Analysis on Canadian Market and US Market)

Introduction 2

Analysis 2
Communism and Capitalism Approaches 2
Corporate Governance 3
The Trade Union and Political Alignment 4
Collective Bargaining Approach 5
The Gini Coefficient Impact 5
Job Exportation Effect 6
Union Contribution Effect 6
Transparency in Union Operations 8
Conclusion 8
Recommendation 9

References 10

Introduction
Are unions still relevant today in Canadian labor market? This is one of the fundamental questions at the heart of the Canadian workforce. Apparently, it has been highly speculated that the Canadian workforce, especially among the young workers, does not see the need for strong trade unions. ...

Introduction

Wal-Mart is the world’s largest retailer with more than 4,300 stores in the United States and over 8,000 worldwide, with global sales topping $400 billion in 2009. It is the largest retailer in the U.S., where more than half its revenue comes from grocery sales. This paper considers some of the retail giant’s negative impacts.
Since opening its first store in Bentonville, Arkansas in 1962, Wal-Mart has steadily spread from its base in the South and Midwest to dominate the suburban and rural retail market across the U.S. Wal-Mart is addressing the first obstacle – store ...

Myths and Realities of Aging

When a person hits the age 60, they tend to have various reactions as to what they feel about reaching this point in their lives. Some would say they have a long fulfilling life and its time for them to retire, enjoying the free services meant for elderly. Others would slightly fear this time as they do not know what to do with their spare time and fear boredom consistently, but there are a few who are scared of this time of their lives because of the various myths surrounding aging which influences how they accept this period in ...

Introduction

Conducting an internal and external analysis of a company is very important to properly plan and execute medium and long-term strategies. Internal and external factors analysis help determine a company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, strength which are useful in identifying strategies. This paper will analyze the internal and external factors of Domino’s Pizza, one of the leading providers of pizzas in the world. It discusses the pizza industry, the competitive environment, and the sound strategies for Domino’s Pizza.
The report used extensive desk researches, qualitative, and qualitative analysis. The premise is that Domino’s Pizza may be ...

Introduction

For numerous decades, oil has been an important source of the commercial energy throughout the world. The oil industry has always been a vitally crucial industry due to its contribution to the global economy. For this reason, oil is in high demand at all times. Just like the other commodities, the price of oil is determined by the market forces of supply and demand. The oil price fluctuations greatly affect the national economies differently. For instance, while the net exporters of oil suffer economically when the prices decline, the economies of the net importers benefit. Consequently, as one of the ...

Decay of the US Motor City and its current status

*Title footnote: Name, address, and email address for the corresponding author; acknowledgements, credits and research grant information
Cities are often considered the heart of every great nation or province as it is the center for politics, economic and social development. Many cities were made to commemorate the historical significance of the location, while others were established to mark the changes that has originated from the location. People would often flock these cities in order to conduct business or sometimes, settle for their families. However, in recent years, there is a growing concern rising around the globe regarding cities which ...

The recent legislative problems in Wisconsin prompted their Governor to tell the nation that that Unions are costing them too much and their power to collective bargaining needs requires facing out. Simply he says it is time to do away with them. The Unions facing challenge include those representing teachers, firefighters, police officers and other municipal employees. General Motors echoed this same sentiment when they entered Chapter 11 Bankruptcy and went through their reorganization process that they just completed. Over the last forty years, there has been significant decline in number of people joining unions. In the early 70s, ...

Juvenile crime is a form of crime conducted by a person who is under the legal age of adulthood which results to juvenile arrests. While much has been hypothesized on the scope of juvenile arrest, which have increased significantly in the recent past, poor parenting is the most comprehensive factor that has precipitated the rise of this concern. Children lacking a complete family tend to be the victims of these crimes as they lack role models in their lives. These crimes have been witnessed in various parts in the world and they vary in nature (Paludi, 2011). Some of these crimes include ...

Critical review of “Differential Effects of Normal Aging on Memory For Odor –Place and Object-Place Associations” and “Inhibitory Control of Memory in Normal Ageing: Dissociation Between Impaired Intentional and Preserved Unintentional Processes”

As medical advances and healthy lifestyle choices allow people to live to longer, age-related changes in memory are of particular interest to researchers. In their article “Differential Effects of Normal Aging on Memory for Odor-Place and Object-Place Associations,” Gilbert et. al. (2008) describes an experimental study that used associative memory tasks to assess the ability of young and aged individuals to remember odor-place and object-place associations. In ...

The Islamic Golden Age is a historical time that lasted before the 1258. It is an Abbasid period in existence before the Mongolian invasion and conquest of Baghdad. Islamic Historians trace the beginning of the period to the 8th century. It lasted between Muhammad’s eras in 700 AD to 1200 AD. It is one of the most important periods in the Islamic history in which developments during the period brought about an Islamic Renaissance and contributions to the uncivilized period. The Abbasid Caliphate (Muslim religious leaders and a succession of the prophet) ruled over the Muslim subjects in Baghdad, a new ...

Outline:

Essay topic: The Nayar of India
Abstract: summary of the whole essay
1. Introduction
a. Definition of who the Nayar are and location
b. Brief summary of the Nayar’s political system mode of subsistence, kinship and social organization.
c. Statement of thesis
2. Body
2.1 Mode of Subsistence
3.0 Political system
4.0 Kinship and social organization
5.0 Efffect of the mode of the Nayars way of life: Political system and culture.
6.0 Conclusion: Concluding statement on the impact of the subsistence mode of the Nayar of India ...

Samsung Electronics

The name of the company is Samsung, which is a multinational conglomerate company. The link to the original website is www.samsung.com.

BACKGROUNG and HISTORY

Samsung is headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul. The South Korean multinational conglomerate has numerous subsidiaries and affiliation with several businesses. The largest chaebol of South Korea was founded in 1938 by Lee Byung-chul. The business started as a trading company, but the group expanded itself by diversifying into areas such as textiles, insurance, retail, securities, and food processing. In the late 1960s, the company stepped in the electronic industry. Samsung was separated into four groups in 1987 following ...

The Decline and Fall of Apartheid: National, Regional, and Global Factors

Introduction
The struggle for independence in the Republic of South Africa was weakened by certain policies and directives that were passed on by the then ruling Afrikaans. Apartheid was the biggest obstacle that these freedom fighters were to face. It was characterized by racial segregation that gave preference to the white people while the black people were not viewed as equals. Racial segregation was seen in many other areas such as health care facilities, schools and places of work such as mines where the black people were forced to work. The Apartheid regime came to an end and allowed ...

Sustainable Tourism: the Importance of Destination Tourism Indicators

Question 1
Tourism lifecycle is a concept proposed by geographer Richard Butler in “Canadian Geographer” journal in 1980. According to Butler, any touristic destination has its own lifecycle. It starts from a moment when a place is unknown to tourists and stays aside of touristic routes. Then mostly due to a word of mouth popularity of the destinations starts growing, local residents become involved in the process of hosting guests and corresponding infrastructure appears (hotels, transport, catering etc.). At certain moment local tourism infrastructure becomes developed at maximum level, at which it can host peak number of tourists. And ...

About the paper

The paper is commissioned to conduct financial analysis of Jaedan Industry. As part of this analysis, we will be calculating the free cash flow of the firm for the year 2010. In addition to this, we will also run the financial figures for the year 2009 and 2010 under the microscope of financial ratios to unearth the strengths and weaknesses in the firm’s organizational architecture.

Income Statement:

Balance Sheet
Cash Flow Statement
Calculating Jaedan’s Free Cash Flow
In order to calculate the free cash flow of the firm, we will be using the excerpts from the ...

Describe how NBC’s programming, economic incentives, business strategies, foreign and domestic distribution, and use of technology changed from 1980-2010.

Introduction – Boom of Television
The 1970’s was the era of exploration, but then in the 1980’s a boom of television began. The cable television gave replaced the limited amount of traditional channels and brought out more channels. The three channels were replaced with sixty and later two hundred channels. The rapid growth of the channels compelled the channel owners to think hard about what they were going to show to the people, as television was gaining immense attention of the audience on a daily basis . Their main purpose had to be to show something so engaging that it ...

Theoretical Explanations of Two Prominent Pre-Industrial Civilizations: The Mayan Civilization and the Roman Empire from the Lens of Joseph Tainter and Arnold Toynbee

Introduction

Civilizations have characterized much of human history and have laid the groundwork for several innovations on human organization. As humans have learned to congregate in societies, they have developed their respective ways of living based on their understanding on the natural and social environment enveloping them within a given geographical area. Human organization inevitably comes into play, in which positions of authority are recognized and tasked to maintain and improve the political, economic and religious affairs of ...

Is ‘Play’ on Its Way Out?

Is ‘Play’ on Its Way Out?

Introduction

The paper addresses two questions in service of the overall query, “Is ‘play’ on its way out?” The two questions are:
- Do children play less than they used to?
- Why should we be concerned?

Do Children Play Less Than They Used To?
Two research efforts have concluded that children do indeed play less than they used to. Hofferth and Sandberg (cited by Gray, 2011) compared 6 to 8 year old children in 1997 with children of the same age in 1981 and found a substantial decrease in time spent ...

Introduction

The rapid increase in oil prices demonstrates that global oil market has entered into a period of oil scarcity. It is expected that rapid growth of oil demand in emerging economies and decrease in oil supply is the main reason of oil scarcity. Oil is an important factor in the production and transportation and it is the most traded commodity in the world. In general, oil prices follow the economic law of demand and supply. According to this law, when demand increases over the supply, the prices will increase that influence both the supply and demand (Cashin, et al, 2012). ...

Profitability

Angi’s income statement indicates a steady growth in sales and gross income since 2008. This is an indicator that the firm’s management is effectively using the resources at its disposal. A better analysis of the firm’s profitability can be established using the ratios below:
- Returns On Equity
The returns on equity = net income / share holders equity

For the year 2012 for the year 2011

(52894) / 5,319 = - 9.94 (49837) / 45037 =-1.17
This ratio indicates how profitable a firm is for the shareholders; the Angi List Company is currently experiencing a decline in its equity ratio. The huge difference shows ...

Abstract

Memory refers to the process of encoding, storing, as well as retrieving information. Three types of memory are sensory, short-term and long-term memories. Memory loss is one of the things that people have to deal with as they age. Various theories have been formulated as to why memory decline as they age. There are also reports on the way people hold pessimistic views concerning the effects that aging has on many psychological constructs such as memory, intelligence, and other cognitive.
Memory is the process of encoding, storing, as well as retrieving information. Encoding permits information from the world ...

In the book The Decline of Men, Garcia instigates his discussion of the American male’s loss of power precisely at the Burning Man Festival. In an eye-opening exploration of today’s American manhood, Guy Garcia elaborates on how the majority of the men are so much struggling to actually redefine the true meaning of being a man in today’s world is. Packed with informed pop culture and startling statistics and illustrated in the entertaining style for which Guy Garcia is known, he comprehensively sheds light on a problem that has seemingly wreaked havoc on the American family urging both ...

The observed depreciation of the Australian dollar can be attributed to several factors. The primary factor is the slowdown in the economic growth of China. For many years, the Australian growth has been driven by the exportation of goods to China which is actually Australia most important trading partner. Some of these exports have included commodities like agricultural products, coal and ores. This trading venture has often been accompanied by relatively high prices for commodities. However, China has been experiencing a slight slowdown in the expansion of its economy and the ‘Chinese commodity boom’ has been rapidly declining (Financial Review, ...

It is a normal occurrence to a person nowadays to see around them people smoking in the streets, restaurants, or even at homes. While many are aware of the health impacts of smoking, people still smoke because it relaxes them and it is a vice that could not be easily removed from a person’s system. As a result of this impassive behavior, the trends of smokers and those who are inflicted of smoking-related illnesses continue to increase each year with deaths recorded due to chronic smoking. However, there have also been cases wherein smoking is seen as a remedy or even cure for several ...

Korea was bisected at the end of the Second World War, as a response to the differing political climates which each half of the peninsula espoused – North Korea preferred the communism of the Soviet Union, while South Korea was more in line with the policies and politics espoused by the west, the U.S. in particular. During the early fifties, hostilities between the two halves of the country reached breaking point, and the Korean War broke out, with the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea attempting to reunify the country by conquering South Korea, and the American army attempting to ...

Abstract

This paper explores how research methodologies can be used to resolve organizational issues. Using Starbucks as the company of focus, this paper discusses the qualities of qualitative and quantitative research and how they can be used for investigation and analysis in an organizational setting. It is hypothesized, for instance, that the decline in Starbucks’ sales as well as the poor performance of some of its stores is due to poor customer service. The concept of customer service, however, is too abstract to measure directly. However, this hypothesis can be determined using qualitative research methods as opposed to the quantitative ...

The demographic transition model and how it was developed by the demographers

Demographic transition is a model describing change in population over a particular period and it is based on two demographic characteristics; birth rates and death rates. The model was developed by Warren Thomson, an American demographer, after observing experimented changes of various countries’ birth rates and death rates over the last two decades (Wilson, 2007).

Four phases of demographic transition model

The four phases of demographic transition are; pre-transition, early transition, late transition, and post transition. During the pre-transition phase, population growth is described to be low. Crude death rates are higher than crude birth rates and so population is declining. During the early transition ...

Saudi Arabia is the world's largest exporter or crude oil, with the country exporting 68% the product to the Asian market. The nation enjoys a market share of 40%, enabling the government to fund a significant proportion of the budget from oil revenue. Consequently, Saudi Arabia was able to accumulate vast financial reserves in the years preceding the current low oil-prices when the price per barrel stood at $120 (Baumeister, & Kilian, 2016). However, the state of affairs has changed in the last couple of years following the drastic decline in oil prices. As a result, the country has experienced ...

Business Risk

This risk or uncertainty concerns that an organization may witness decline in profitability or might suffer from losses in any financial accounting period. Business risks originate from different uncertainties such as changes in consumer tastes, change in preferences and buying behavior, modifications to government policy as well as increase in intensity of competition etc. business risks also stem from those unforeseen or unexpected events that may cause a business to fail in future .
Business risks are not just related to an organization as a whole. Different departments of an entity face numerous business risks that are unique to their ...

The modern world is changing up so quickly, and getting connected with a really crucial speed. One of such sufficient processes is globalization. Globalization in simple terms is usually known as the process during which the world is transformed into a single unified system.
At the end of the last century, globalization has become a hot topic for debates all around the world and it has not yet stopped. However, globalization is not a new process, since it implies the integration of the economic, cultural, political and religious spheres. Today globalization caused both positive and negative consequences and this ...

Marketing

Introduction
The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association represents the majority of the wireless communication industry in Canada with members ranging from wireless data and voice service providers to global smartphone brands. In order for the organization to better represent the telecoms industry to consumers in Canada, a market research of the top smartphone brands was conducted to determine the current market conditions of the three smartphone brands namely iPhone, BlackBerry, and Nokia. The analysis of the three brands involves gathering important information about including financial performance. In addition, the study will also determine what the customers are saying about the ...

The article Samsung Makes Aggressive Play for Emerging markets by Jonathan Cheng appeared in the wall street journal on April 6, 2016. This article addresses the steps that Samsung has made to stay ahead of its competitors in the global market, and especially within the Asian continent from where Samsung products are manufactured. The electronic company is winning back customers by cutting down most of its products prices. The South Korea's tech giant has focused more on cheaper gadgets to reach a wider market. The company has set out to compete favorably with Micromax Informatics Ltd, an Indian company ...

Abstract

Teenage pregnancy is a major problem affecting teenagers around globe. This is serious problem since it forces young girls and boys to drop out of school. Chances of these teenagers getting back to school after giving birth or later in life are minute. Thus, the dreams of these teen advancing to college and securing white collar jobs with sustainable income are shuttered. As such these girls and boys are forced to become young mothers and fathers at tender age while doing two to three jobs to have enough income to take care of the baby. Additionally, this problem does ...

INTRODUCTION

With the intent to evaluate the financial
As an established manufacturer of a line of fully-integrated wireless communication products serving an international market, New Technology Incorporated (NTI) is looking to start a partnership with outside entities for a long-term software security venture. After a competitive technical product evaluation, it has been determined that MicroStrategy, Inc. (MicroStrategy), a Virginia based corporation, represents the best potential candidate for this venture. This analysis will review the income statement trends, balance sheet trends, cash flow trends, and three key financial ratio trends for the years of 2013 – 2015 to determine if this merger ...