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Financial Analysis: Microsoft

Introduction:
For the purpose of the project and adhering to the requirements, we have selected Microsoft Corporation as the company to be analyzed. The company is a renowned name in the computer industry around the globe and is listed on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol of ‘MSFT’. Headquartered in Washington, the company is primarily involved in manufacturing and distributing of computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers. Microsoft is the world’s largest software maker in terms of revenue and is also one of the most valuable companies in the world. Below are some of the products of Microsoft ...

Coca Cola is the number one beverage company in the world. The company, since its origin, has not only provided an incredible product but has continued growing over the years into a leader of innovation, social responsibility, and diversity. Let us begin with a brief background of this remarkable company. It all started in 1886 when a pharmacist by the name of John Pemberton whipped up a batch and took it down in Jacob’s pharmacy and began to sell the glass bottles at 5 cents a bottle. The drink was an instant hit and was given the name ...

- Part One: The balance sheet
- The summary of the three largest assets for the three financial years (2009, 2010, and 2012) are explained by the first tab in the excel sheet with the tab name 3 largest assets. The largest asset for three consecutive years was from the category property, plant and equipments. The respective values for the years 2009, 2010, and 2011 were $17,225 million, $17,899, and $23,627. In 2009, the property, plant and equipment comprised 32.4% of total assets. The other two years it comprised 28.3% and 33.2% for years 2010 and ...

Apple Inc. Financial Analysis

Apple Inc. is an American company that specializes in the manufacture, design, and marketing of personal computers, portable digital music players, mobile communication devices, consumer electronic products, and other third-party digital content and applications (Datamonitor, 2012). Apple’s business strategy entails being committed to the delivery of the best user experience to the targeted audience through the delivery of high quality and innovative products. Primarily, the company targets individual consumers, small and medium sized businesses, governments, education, and enterprise markets (Datamonitor, 2012).

Revenue Analysis

In the FY2010, Apple Inc. recorded revenues totaling $65,225 million while the revenues for the FY2011 ...

Introduction

Automotive industry plays a key role in the development and engineering in general and transport engineering in particular. Automotive industry world is capacious and very important sector of the world economy and international business, it's not only the cars, but also a variety of goods on car servicing, as well as, to a large extent, the market for the production and sale of spare parts. Car Market has a number of related markets and industries from the most closely adjacent (market parts and blocks of cars and the oil industry) to the less obvious (roads, production of accessories for ...

International trade is the skeleton of Brazillian prosperity rests. Free trade system have created a high competition in today's open market. It is marred with continuous innovation and leads to better products, well paid jobs, fresh markets, and increased profits and investment. Free trade lets the cotton growers produce more products to reach international consumers at lower prices, thereby hugely increasing their standard of living.
Moreover, the benefits of FTA extend well beyond borders. Free trade helps to spread the value of freedom, reinforce the rule of law, and foster economic development in poor countries. The national debate over ...

McDonald’s

The McDonald’s Corporation or how we all are used calling it simply “McDonald’s” has grown into a multinational company, the world’s largest chain of fast food restaurants serving millions of people daily in over 100 countries of the world. So it may be hard to imagine that this “giant” has grown out from a small barbecue restaurant opened by Richard and Maurice McDonald in 1940 in San Bernardino, California. Later in 1948 their business concept was reorganized into a hamburger selling place very much close to what we know it is now. And in 1955 the ...

Research paper

Abstract
In the end of the previous century the New York City administration decided to enter the 2000's with a new, absolutely computerized and automated timekeeping payroll system; the idea that was originally incepted to change the only used standard system that was completely relying on good old pen and paper.
So, in 1998 the story of CityTime starts, with $63 million of initial budgeting and several years to complete; with it intended to be servicing 81 municipal agencies with their 165,000 workers. What began as a regular, but essential IT project for the "Big Apple" did turn ...

Abstract

The main aim of this study is to conduct a research about the artificial methods of storing water in California while considering all the financial characteristics. This research will include two artificial (Manmade) methods of storing water in the state of California which will include; surface water such as Cisterns, Dams and aqueduct. Underground water will include pipelines, aquifers, canals and reservoirs.

Introduction

California’s water management system is arguably among the most innovative and complex artificial methods of storing water in the world. In California, colossal amounts of water are confined, stored, and then delivered through manmade features to ...

Iron and Steel Overview

The demand for steel highly depends on both global and national economies. Development and enhancement of sophisticated technology has improved both quality of product and productivity of work. Integrated mills require very high capital requirements and all mils are greatly affected by commodity prices. Another major force and focus for steel and iron industry include environmental regulations, which check the environmental impacts coming from mills (L e e, 2011). Advancement in technology have greatly reduced the demand for labor, with some Canadian manufacturers reducing the number of man-hours required to produce a ton of steel by 90% over the ...

2014 midterm elections
November 4, the main opponent of President Barack Obama - the Republican Party - won the majority of seats in the Senate in the midterm elections in the US Congress; moreover, it is not only maintained but also reinforced majority in the House of Representatives. Thus, the newly elected Congress, which will begin work in January, next year, will be fully controlled by Republicans.
The upper chamber of Congress - the Senate - the first time since the beginning of the Obama presidency fell into the hands of the Republicans. Out of a hundred seats they ...

Introduction

Financial statements are formal reports that summarize the key financial transactions and resources owned by a business. They are usually prepared on an annual basis. This paper seeks to evaluate and compare the financial statements of two companies in the beverage industry; Coca cola Company and Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc. The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission has listed both Coca cola Company and Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc. under the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) number 2080; which is the code for the beverage industry. This paper seeks to list and explain the long term assets of both Coca ...

County of San Diego CAFR and Budget for the Year Ended June 30, 2012

Introduction
The County of San Diego is ranked second as the county having the largest number of people residing in the state of California. San Diego is identified as being part of the Southern border economic region. The region of the southern border is described to be the highly diversified in terms of economic development in the entire state of California. The county is a tourism destination for surfing and the mild and attractive climatic condition. The county of San Diego is regarded as being the in second position in the Cruise ship industry. This industry earns the county ...

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Abstract

Public transparency is important in that there is increase in the level of trust from the public. There are various ways of understanding and demonstrating public transparency one of which is the ability of the public to know who is responsible for what act within the government. In this research paper, the learner takes a closer look at budgeting in the office of the president. Specifically, there will be focus on four select departments within the national budget. This will include the U. S. Coast Guard, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, U. S. Secret Service and ...

As you all may have known by known, our company (M Inc.) has been locked in a long-standing litigation over a specific patent infringement matter. In the end, after an initial hearing and an appeal hearing at the Court of Appeals, the decision turned in favor of M Inc. Nonetheless, even though the amount that M did not lose the amount it was set to lose if the decision had gone in favor of W INc., this trial still cost the company considerable amount. But then again, regardless of whether the expenditures related to the trial are considerable or ...

Abstract

This research paper was had one objective: to investigate the circumstances that saw the Kuwait Gulf Bank survive a financial crisis. Kuwait Gulf Bank is one of the largest financial institutions in Kuwait and, therefore, one of Kuwait’s major lenders. Before the financial crisis, the Bank had been very successful in its operations. It first became operational in 1961 after having been established in Fahad al-Sahem Street the previous year. Its headquarters were, however, later moved to Abdulla al-Sahem Street three years later. In the years following that, it has continued to grow and has been able to ...

Abstract

White Collar Crimes may have different definitions, but it is accepted that these crimes came into existence with the dawn of an industrialist and consumerist society. Present day criminology in general rejects a restraint of the term “White Collar Crime” by reference; rather it categorizes the form and motive of the crime. Following is a discussion of two kinds of White Collar Crimes, Environmental crime and Bribery.

White Collar Crime

Introduction
'White-Collar Crime’ may be defined as a non-violent form of crime committed by someone, typically for financial gain. FBI (1983) defines white collar crimes as "those illegal acts which are characterized ...

With the modernization of American society, several norms and values have been transformed. Among them is the traditional family culture, which has now become more or less of a single parent family culture. There has been an immense increase in the number of single parents in America since 1960s. This was a result of increasing rates of divorce and births by unmarried women, as they have to look after their children alone without any financial or moral support from fathers. On the other hands, there has been a significant number of divorced and unmarried single fathers too in contemporary ...

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Introduction
The Opium Wars refer to two wars fought in the 19th century between Imperial China and Britain initially, then the combined forces of Britain and France with the support of Russia and the United States. The Western powers emerged victorious while China, as the vanquished party, signed treaties favoring the West. The war’s name is somewhat a misnomer. Although the opium trade triggered the wars, Eastern and Western civilizations fought in the wars for other issues deeper than opium like free trade (Allingham, 2006).

Background to the Wars

China was the richest and most populous nation in the ...

The Role of Emirates Airlines in Indian Economy

Introduction
This paper relates analysis of Indian civil aviation industry and examination of the role of Emirates Airlines in the national economy. The paper contains a detailed analysis of the industry and Emirates Airlines to make conclusions regarding contribution of the Company into the development of the industry. The research was conducted using both qualitative and quantitative methods. The research methodology includes telephone interviews, on-line survey, questionnaire, and analysis of primary and secondary data. The research paper contains vast statistical data offering enough information for making appropriate conclusions. Recommendations were developed with regard to practical implications of the research ...

PepsiCo Inc. is a publicly traded multinational corporation in the USA with its headquarters in New York, USA. PepsiCo Inc. is the consumer goods industry. PepsiCo manufactures markets and distributes beverages, snack foods and other products. This paper seeks to analyze the long term debt of PepsiCo Inc. This paper also seeks to analyze the debt-to-equity ratio and the times interest earned ratio of PepsiCo Inc. for the last three years, and compare the respective ratios with the most recent industry ratios. Information on the long term debt, debt-to-equity ratio and times earned ratio was obtained from the annual ...

The COSTCO Wholesale Corporation reported back-to-back record sales and earnings in the past two fiscal years, despite the turbulent and weak economic conditions in the world and the U.S. In fiscal 2011, the company’s net sales increased by well over 14 percent to $87,048 million. 1This was however attributed to the inflation in prices of gasoline and the stronger foreign exchange rates in the markets of Canada and Asia.

Operating income of the company is determined by its operating expenses. Over the past three years, the company has recorded a significant increase in operating income. Despite the ...

- Introduction
- The Grand Canyon in the State of Arizona
- Scope of paper
- Investigative review of published literature
- Geologic Time
- Time as a Relative Measurement
- Time is experienced by humans through daily events.
- Geologic Time is a deeper scale of time, spanning millions of years.
- Formation of the Grand Canyon
- Geologists agree that the Grand Canyon was carved by the Colorado River.
- The oddities of the Colorado River
- The Colorado River did not divert its course through an uplifted plateau.
- The Colorado River disregards fault lines.
- ...

Analysis of Financial Statements of Goldman Sachs

Introduction
A world renowned company, Goldman Sachs is an American Multinational Corporation that deals with the institutional clients offering investment banking, investment management and other related financial services. The following report will analyze some of the crucial items of the financial statements of Goldman Sachs including Earning per Share, Cash Flow Statement, Tax Deferrals, Share based compensation, Employee Compensation Plans. We are sure that by the end of this report, we will be able to have a comprehensive overview of the company’s financial statements.

Amount Disclosed
Footnote Information-Deferred Taxes
Note 24 of the Annual Report is related to ...

- Apple’s success
Apple has a market capitalization of $ 557 million dollars. Apple is scheduled to make an announcement on their 4th quarter earnings and considering the hype surrounding the company, the report is expected to be a huge success. The California based company earlier on released their 3rd quarter financial results for the 2013 financial year. In the article, Apple earned quarterly revenue of $ 35.3 billion and a net profit of $ 6.9 billion translating into an earnings of $ 7.47 per each diluted share of the business (Scott, 2013). In the same quarter last year, the firm made $ ...

Financial Management

Financial management comprises of the set of activities including planning, organizing, controlling and directing the enterprise’s financial activities like utilization of funds and procurement. The Sydney Opera House is an Australian cultural icon and a heritage asset. It is crucial to Australian tourism infrastructure and by extension to its national income. This is because over 8.2 million domestic and foreign tourists. For example, according to (Opera House Trust., 2012), in 2011-2012, over 1,808 performances were held in the Opera house, attracting more than 1.3 million people. The Trust obtains 85% of operational funding from commercial as well ...

Introduction

Ford motor company was established in the 1900s and has run its operations in an effective manner since then. Its products are wide and varied, and besides manufacturing, it offers credit services, sells vehicle accessories and conducts heavy repairs. Its standardization policy has enabled it to gain acceptance within the social, economic and legal sphere. In the recent past, the company is facing unprecedented competition from both the home and foreign motor manufacturing companies. As such, it has been compelled to make inventions in order to maintain and possibly expand its market share. It has also had to change ...

Natural disasters occur in the planet from time to time. One of the greatest natural hazards that places on Earth can experience is the typhoon. A typhoon is a dangerous natural disaster which could bring great amount of devastation. In 2013, the Philippines experienced a major disaster due to the typhoon named Haiyan, based on its international name, which is considered as one of the strongest typhoons ever recorded. The purpose of this research paper is to discuss the hazard and impact of the typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. This paper also opts to analyze the mitigation strategy and ...

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Islam in the United States

Muslims in America appeared in the early 17th century. Number of Muslims range from 3 million to the most conservative estimates to 15 million according to the Islamic Supreme Council of America.
According to the largest American expert on religious statistics David Barrett in 1900 in the United States lived 10 thousand Muslims in 1970 - 800 thousand (200 thousand of them African-American), in 2000 - 4.1 million (including 1.7 million blacks). The largest and most comprehensive survey - A national survey of religious identification (113 thousand respondents) - was conducted in 1990 by researchers ...

STATEMENT ANALYSIS FOR NINTENDO

Statement Analysis for Nintendo Co Ltd
Introduction
This statement analysis outlines the Nintendo’s financial statements and highlights important information concerning Nintendo’s operating environment, products and services, competitive market, and the overall management structure. These relates the effects weaknesses and strengths of the firm to the company’s investment potential and credit worthiness. Findings from the analysis will be used to offer recommendations and advice on areas of weakness for the company.

Company Overview

Nintendo Co., Ltd designs, develops, manufactures, and sells equipment for home leisure. The company markets and manufactures software and hardware for home video game systems (MarketLine ...

W.H. Auden's poem "Say the City Has Ten Million Souls,"

ABSTRACT
Analysis of the Auden's (1939) poem, "Say This city Has Ten Million Souls" provides the opportunity for connecting the social precepts of place and displacement offered by Aschcroft et al (1989) for explaining the plight of the refugee as marginalized by the host society. In doing so, the poem becomes a lens for understanding the use of Fairclough's Critical Discourse Analysis Model for assessing the three dimension of literature. The outcome of the following academic discussion provides a tapestry of the psychological, emotional, and social, challenges of the ...

Assessing Etisalat Company Strategic Readiness for the Future (2033)
- Historical Background of the Environment
Etisalat belongs in the telecommunications industry in the United Arab Emirates. This industry is under the supervision and control of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority. Etisalat has enjoyed a monopoly in United Arabs Emirates for over thirty years as the sole telecommunications and telephone services provider. The company has enjoyed the monopoly created by the telecommunications industry in most parts of the United Arab Emirates in both personal and business telecommunication services, even if modern housing developments and free zones had been instituted. Since 2006, ...

ARCELORMITTAL

Introduction
AecelorMital is a multinational production company that deals in manufacturing of steel. Its headquarters are in France on Avenue de la Liberte, Luxembourg. It is the world’s largest producer of steel and has an annual production of 97.2million tones. ArcelorMital has the highest number of employees in Luxembourg with over six thousand employees.
AecelorMital offers a large variety of services to its customers including production of prototype steel; this means that they can manufacture a steel product as per the client’s specifications. They have good strategies that enable them to have a high service value that ...

Introduction

The Cowboys stadium was constructed on the location where the Texas stadium previously stood and was completed on the 27th May 2009. The stadium has a seating of 85000 and this makes it the third largest stadium on seating capacity in the National Football League (NFL). The cost of the construction of the Cowboys stadium was initially projected to be $ 650 million but actual costs of constructing are documented at $ 1.15 billion, making it one of the most expensive sports construction ventures in the United States. The construction was financed both through public and private financing, and this paper ...

P&G is a multinational company that manufactures a variety of products ranging from personal care, laundry detergents, household care, disposal nappies, and prescription drugs. This depicts the fact that this company deals with a large number of client base all over the world. In this case, the paper attempts to know the business potential of the minority market for P&G. The paper in an outline form describes the three minority market, which is the Hispanic Americans, African Americans, and Asian Americans.

Hispanic Americans

Hispanic Americans is a group of people in the US who originated from Latin America, Spain, and Portugal. ...

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 ...

Introduction:

Despite the devastating effects of the 2008 global financial crisis and the subsequent Euro zone crisis, the tourism industry has continued to flourish. Initially, the industry was referred to as a cottage industry but the international travel and tourism industry has evolved becoming a major contributor to economic growth and development in almost every economy in the world. Research has shown that the global increase in worldwide tourist arrivals outperform gross domestic product growth in one out of every two years in the past three decades. Many countries regard tourism as the most significant primary export industry especially the ...

In the studying how the human species evolved, a lot of astonishing discoveries, great public interest as well as a great level of controversy have always been involved. Since the early twentieth century the discovery of new hominid fossils has altered the widespread perceptions held concerning how our species evolved. Piltdown Man and Ramapithecus are examples of these new discoveries (Szpak, 2014). The objective of this discussion is to address Australopithecus with regard to migration and subsistence habits.
With its first appearance being in Africa about 4.2 million years ago and later diversifying into various forms, australopithecines is a ...

Introduction: The Social Security Act has established a number of programs aimed at providing the material needs of families and individuals. It also aims to protect disabled persons and the aged against expenditures from illnesses that can drain their savings. The human services values of Social Security is to keep families bonded together, and allow the children to grow up healthy and financially secure (Organizational History, 2014). This paper outlines the history of the Social Security policies in the US, their effectiveness, the cost of Social Security services programs and SSA funding. This paper also explains about the future ...

The purpose of the findings in the paper is based on the emphasis of the strategic management of H&M with the main research problem being to undertake an in-depth analytical approach to the company's strategy of marketing and how it is being implemented. The paper will begin with a overall introduction with a measure of background information related to the research question with descriptions of the defined processes, benefits and challenges met in strategic management. The practical aspect will comprise of the exhausted analysis of the strength's of the company, its weaknesses, opportunity and strength.

Company Information

Hennes and Mauritz also ...

President Obama and the Republicans are really engaging in a bitter war against both sides when it comes to the topic of health insurance for Americans. This research paper will discuss the major issues that exist between the Republicans and President Obama with the Affordable Care Act. I will compare the pros and the cons of the new law. I will explore who will benefit from this law in which has been nicknamed as “Obamacare”. Why are the Republicans fighting so hard to stop this law? How much will it cost the government?

Republicans’ stand

There were claims that the Patient ...

Technology

The Domino's company began with only one store which was referred to as "DomiNick's". It was purchased by James Monaghan and Tom, who are brothers for an approximate $500 in the year 1960. James Monaghan traded his share of the company to Tom in year 1965, and as the only owner, Tom retitled the company to Domino's Pizza Inc. In the year 1978, the 200th Domino's chain of stores opened, and things certainly instigated. By the year of 1983 there were an approximate of 1,000 Domino's chains of stores, and during the same time Domino's Inc. opened one ...

Introduction

For the last few years, the proportion of aging population has continued to form a large portion of the total American population. This proportion is expected to rise in the near future as more people attain the age of retirement. There are about 78 million Americans who were born from 1946-1964 (Powell, 2010). This group commonly known as baby boomers has began attaining the age of retirement early this year and they are expected to continue in this trend for the next 18 years. For a long time this generation is known for its passion to remain young ...

Women under the Shadow of Social Safety Nets in Korea

- Introduction
For centuries, women around the globe have struggled continuously to gain similar rights and freedoms enjoyed by men. Women were often treated lowly by men as they believe these women should stay at home and take care of the children. In some regions, these women are prohibited to go beyond grade school and married off once they are literate enough to read and write basic numbers and words. Others are forced to hide their faces and a few even taste the pain brought by constant abuse. Movements have been done around the globe to improve the situation ...

This paper discusses the issue of whether or not marijuana should be legalized in Pennsylvania for recreational use. The new Governor of Pennsylvania – Tom Wolf – has come out strongly in support of legalizing marijuana for medical use (in line with around 80 percent of the voting population of Pennsylvania), and has also expressed support for a move to decriminalize using small amounts of marijuana for personal consumption (“Medical and Recreational Marijuana Advances on Election Day” 2014). With the Pennsylvania state legislature poised to approve medical marijuana use in the state, it is timely to evaluate the merits of approving ...

World War I, also known as the Great War, spanned from 1914-1918. It was also the first major contest of arms fought by large, centrally organized nation-states, which was centered in Europe, since the dawn of Industrial Revolution. It all started on one faithful day of June 28, 1914 when the Austrian archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, were shot by a Serbian assassin in Saravejo. The armies present in the field are 12 million Russians, 11 million Germans, nearly 8 million Austro-Hungarians, more than 8 million Frenchmen and a same number of Britons, 5 million Italians, almost ...

There are many facets of Europe that many foreigners find endearing and appealing: the rich culture, history, tradition, food and unchartered or undiscovered opportunities. While most find Europe the best place to travel and explore, many foreigners find the region to be filled with countless job opportunities that can help them financially and begin a new life. Although host countries, such as the members of the European Union, are open to migrants due to their contributions in their society; the high influx of migrants both illegal and legal is slightly alarming especially in the current financial crisis in the ...

The initials IPOs stand for – Initial Public Offer. This is the sale of the stock that is done for the first time by private companies to the members of the public. It is feature usually associated with smaller companies when they are seeking expansion capital. However, it can also take place in private large companies for the purpose of a public trade. IPOs can turn out being risky investments. As for individual investors, it is always hard to forecast the performance of the stock on the first day it is traded and also in the near future due to ...

WHY GENERAL MOTORS SHOULD EXPAND ITS AUTOMOBILE OPERATIONS IN MEXICO

BACKGROUND
Positive prospect for Mexico calls for greater attention. The recovery from the hard hit of 2009 global financial crises that affected the performance of the industrial sector of the economy has increased greater business prospects. This call for attention is in addition to the GM expansion plan $420 million of investments in the states of Guanajuato and San Luis Potosi. The expansion suggestion is based on various factors highlighted in the underlying suggestion.

ASSESSMENT SCOPE

The proposed suggestion has been based on conducting assessment from the following perspectives:
- GM’s proposed suggestion is based on the assessment of the ...

Capstone Project: Facebook Inc. ®

The emergence of Facebook® as a company has been a rather interesting case study in the business world. Like any other business venture, its beginning was humble, but its robust acceptance and popularity gained grounds to become the leading company in the world, in social media platform. The mission that Facebook® has established is to offer people a platform to share, as well as make the world a more open and connected arena (Harbour & Koslov, 2010).
The vision of Facebook® is more hidden within the precinct of its mission and a clear identifiable vision statement lacks in the organization’ ...

Introduction

There are many ways to assess a company’s performance. One of the oldest yet most effective ways of attaining such is by doing an internal assessment, or specifically, reviewing a company’s financial history. This can be done by reviewing the company’s published annual report for a particular year. The company whose annual report and financial statements will be assessed in this paper will be Polarcus. The objective of this paper is to discuss what has happened with Polarcus financially and internally and what impact their previous corporate decisions could have on the overall condition of the ...

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This research paper examines the topic of drinking water and sanitation, primarily the current global situation with regard to the many people who don’t enjoy either of those two basic amenities, which many regard as basic human rights, and the progress being made under the auspices of joint initiatives by UNICEF and the World Health Organisation (WHO) towards improving that situation by set target dates. The research undertaken first collated and summarized some of the quite shocking statistics quantifying the problems. Then there is some basic advice for individuals who might find themselves in a situation without clean ...

HIV is a virus that is unique to human beings. It compromises the immune system by damaging the protective cells of the human body, rendering the body weak and prone to opportunistic infections. The virus multipies in a living cell in the human body. This therefore limits the ways in which it can be transmitted from one person to the other.Unlike other visuses that clear out of the system after awhile, HIV does not clear from the human body.
When many CD4 cells have been attacked by the HIV virus and the body can nolonger fight infections, AIDS sets ...

Homo Erectus

The evolution of the vertebral column has been quite unclear ascribed to limited fossils of Miocene and Plio-Pleistocene hominids. However, the few samples discovered, have contributed significantly to the development of knowledge in line to evolution and understanding of the postcranial skeleton or otherwise the hominids. The distinctive features which encompass dental and cranial pieces avail the earliest evidence of hominids and their existence (Jurmain, Kilgore &Trevathan, 2009). The immediate hominid ancestors, as well as the modern humans, are discerned from apes by more perceptible features than the teeth and jaw dimensions (Jurmain, Kilgore &Trevathan, 2009). Examples of the ...

For a long time, Australopithecus afarensis was considered as the earliest known bipedal hominid. This made this species, which was dated to have existed around 3.5 million years ago, the oldest member of the human clan. However, the discovery of the species, Australopithecus anamensis pushed the age of the bipedal hominids further back by around 600000 years (Tomasik, 2002).

History of the Discovery of Australopithecus anamensis

In 1965, the first fossilized specimen of A. anamensis was discovered by a research team from the Harvard University in the Kanapoi region that lies on the west of Lake Turkana in Kenya. Although at that time the fossil, which ...

Introduction

Saudi Arabia also known as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a country in the Middle East. It borders the Persian Gulf, Iraq, Jordan, Oman, Kuwait, Jordan, UAE, Yemen, and Qatar. In addition, the country borders the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. The kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a large country (the largest among the Gulf countries). The country has an area of 2, 149, 690 Sq Km (CIA, 2014).

People

Saudi Arabia had a population of 24.5 million in 2005. The population is expected to grow by 101% from 2005 to 2050. The population density is 13 per ...

Introduction

History of Enron is a story that started very well. It was a real business with a tremendous reputation. It had created a market for trading. The best people worked there. Enron Corporation was a giant of American energy industry. Prior to its bankruptcy December 2, 2001, Enron had about 22 000 employees and was one of the world’s important manufacturer of electricity, natural gas, communications, and the owner of the pulp and paper companies, with revenues of nearly $101 billion in 2000. In general, who does not hear about Enron? It is the most scandalous president deception ...

Judging by the financial results obtained in 2013, Amazon.com Inc. implemented successful financial management. The revenues grew by 13.4 billion USD in 2013 if compared to previous year. The company moved from a loss of $39 million in 2012 to a gain of $274 million in 2013. The revenues of the company more than doubled showing stable uptrend (Figure 1). As it can be seen from Figure 1, the financial management was not very successful in 2014 because one-year movement of stock is currently in the downtrend. However, one-month movement of stock shows uptrend raining hope for growth in ...

Introduction

Diabetes, which is commonly referred to as diabetes mellitus gives a description of diseases that relates to metabolism. An individual suffering from this disease has very high levels of blood glucose or blood sugars. This is because of inadequate insulin production. The other reason as to why a person may contract diabetes is because insulin may not be functioning properly. Patients suffering from high levels of blood sugar experience frequent urination which is at times known as polyuria. Such patients can at times get thirstier, a condition known as polydipsia, and hungry, which in this case is known as ...

Introduction

Osteosarcoma is a mesenchymal tumor characterized by the production of osteoid malignant cancer cells. Osteosarcoma remains a relatively rare type of bone cancer malignancy with nearly 900 new cases reported in the United States per year (Geller & Gorlick, 2010, p. 705). The reported cases of osteosarcoma represent one percent of the reported cancers in the United States with a peak frequency of 4.4 cases per million annually among the adolescent and young adult population. Although, a rare type of bone cancer malignancy, the demands and challenges to the patients, families, as well as caregivers continues challenging medical professionals. The ...