Control Term Papers Samples For Students

There exists about 300,000 plant species on earth, and every individual plant hosts one or more endophytes. However, it is just a few of these plants that have been researched relative to their endophytic biology. Hence, the chance for isolation of new, as well as, interesting endophytic bacteria in plants are important. Endophytic bacteria can be referred to as bacteria that can be isolated from tissues of a surface-disinfected plant or bacteria extracted from inside of a plant, which cause no visible negative effects to the plant. Almost every plant is populated by varied bacteria referred to as ...

The mechanism used by the United States to curb matters pertaining to international relations has raised questions with some individuals referring to it as the world police. U.S after the civil war that occurred and destabilized some of its important pillars such as the economy resorted to maintenance of order in every occasion thus contributing to their dominance in international relations (Hook&Spanier, 2013). Every ethnicity, religion, country of its capability has the mechanism that it can use to quell violence suppose such circumstances arise. Because of its ability to suppress violence and reinstate order in most countries in the ...

Journalism over the years has been commercialized in that it has shifted to become a profit-oriented business. It has become a venture where the owner’s main aim is to maximize the profits they earn at the expense of the quality of news they air leading to deterioration of the quality of the news.
Many companies now edit their stories they air to the public as they strive to maximize views at the expense of airing real information. The companies try to edge out each other out the competitive market where entertainment news were discovered to generate more profits. ...

Introduction

Bureaucracy as a management of an organization by non-elected officials has long been there in society and firms since 20th century. This form of organization is prevalent both in the public and private sector. The evidence of techno-management or technology management being usurped by bureaucracy is plentiful. For example, techno-managers need for control and domination is evidenced by their language at work by use of words and phrases such as “how many people work for you?”, “subordinates,” “my people” and “staying on top of things,” etc. These indicate the necessity of separating bureaucracy from techno-management; while doing so, one ...

There are creative and surprising applications of 3D printing. As the prices of this printing are decreasing and technology is getting accessible, it is becoming a part of different manufacturing, designing and development processes. It is never an alternative to mainstream manufacturing.
3D printing emerged as an alternative to prototype production in the early 1980s. Today, 3D printing finds its application in manufacturing and prototyping. Moreover, it is being used in many other fields like architecture, automobile industry, film industry, marketing, construction and aerospace. The technology is becoming common and its usage is becoming widespread. According to statistics of ...

Imogene Thompson

JERSEY COLLEGE SCHOOL OF NURSING
THERESA REBOLI
Abstract
The issue of malaria and its effect on the world is one of grave concern. Many organizations have come together to find ways to eradicate the mosquitoes that cause this deadly disease. Nearly half of the population in the world is at risk of contracting malaria. However, most of the fatal cases of malaria occur in the sub-Saharan Africa, while countries in Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East record a smaller number of deaths from malaria. The statistics are alarming, and with the advance in travels, war, and changes in ...

Introduction

The information system that is used in HSO has several security flaws which need to be corrected. There is also lack of information technology security policies that have been set to guide and protect the users from the flaws and damages that can occur. This paper will focus on the remedies and steps that should be taken in the HSO in order to correct the situation that has been presented in the hospital. With the suggested steps, there are many benefits that the hospital will benefit and will get in order to improve the situation that has been presented ...

Activity diagram

- New order
- Fulfilling order

Sequence diagram

New order
Closing order
Statechart
Application architecture of the system
Menu Hierarchies
For Reliable employees
For nursing home employees
Dialogue steps
When the nursing home employees want to enter new data to the system, there are systems that they have to follow in order to achieve this. The first step in this process would be to enter the login information for the employee in the nursing home. This is the authentication process that is required for the person to use the system. This is a step that is required in order to have ...

Introduction

Siemens, the international German engineering and electronics manufacturer, agreed to pay $ 800 million in December 2008 after admitting violations to the provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. This action was preceded by an investigation which was focused on allegations of bribery of about 1.3 trillion Euros between 2002 and 2006. This paper investigates the allegations that were levelled against the company, the specific provisions of the Foreign Corrupt practices act and those who were affected by the scandal.

Allegations and relevant statutes

According to the filings made in a federal court against Siemens, the company was involved in a systematic practice of ...

A flying aircraft requires some control. The control can be delivered by a human or a computer. In this case, a computer is much safer, faster and reliable in controlling a flying an aircraft than a human being. A Stability Augmentation System manages the control surfaces of an aircraft and alters their movement as necessary to make the aircraft more stable at all times. SAS is used to eliminate unfavorable effects such as short period oscillations, Phugoid oscillations, Dutch rolls and spiral modes. Stability Augmentation system together with a rate control system constitutes a flight management system. Rate control ...

Introduction

According to Alpers et al. (2013), for every 100 adults in the U.S., there are currently 101.5 guns privately owned (both legally and illegally), which puts the U.S. at the top of world rankings for gun ownership (178 countries). In the last decade or so, the number of deaths in the U.S. from firearms has risen from almost 29,000 to over 32,000, equating to over 10 per 100,000 people. So does that extent of gun ownership and homicides mean that more laws are needed to control not just gun ownership but also their use?
And do ...

The idea of gun ownership in America might be said to originate to the second amendment of the United States constitution. The second amendment reads that “a well regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state, and the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed”. The argument here is that while the people have a right to bear arms, the state also has a right for regulation. Unlawful uses of guns, psychos that go on shooting sprees with licensed guns, and hunters that use the gun for the sake of ...

The twentieth century marked a number of changes in several aspects of women’s lives, from domestic to public sphere. Women’s movements were formed to put emphasis on equal rights advocacy. This century also marked the emergence of a new generation of female professionals, photographers and artists. This led to the transformation of the traditional patriarchal structure worldwide. There was further development in these social shifts as women entered the workforce and became exposed to political situations and professions that were initially dominated by men.
There were a number of significant issues that women were fighting for in ...

Introduction

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are computer programs which are used in monitoring and controlling operations which are remotely located. The process of monitoring is unknown to those who are undertaking the operations. This is becoming a problem to governments, individuals and private practitioners. This is because with these silent operations, there is a possibility of obtaining private and confidential information regarding employees. There is also the possibility of interrupting with operations. SCADA systems are known to control some vital and critical infrastructure which is found in industrial settings. The range of the industries includes oil and ...

Internal controls are applied in companies to reduce fraud and prevent other financial losses. According to Moore, Palich and Petty (2006), internal control is a system of checks and balances that is significant in protecting a company’s assets through ensuring accuracy and reliability of the company’s financial statements. Further, internal controls assist the company to achieve its business objectives and to ensure compliance with financial and operational requirements. The procedures implemented in internal controls enable adequate safeguarding of a firm’s assets. This plays a crucial role in ensuring the financial information provided by such an organization ...

Data security is an important aspect in the life of information systems. Because of these numerous security models have been presented. One of the most effective security model and the simplest to implement is the use of the Access Control Matrix Model (ACMM). This model focuses on restricting access of different users to a specific application. Basically, the matrix is used to provide a description of users who have access to specific objects. It is compose of four important parts which are the listing of objects that are to be accessed, the listing of subjects of the people who ...

I am going to interview Kindo Jones about his views about happiness and how he has or has not experienced happiness. Kindo is my college colleague and friend. Though we do not have tight relations with him, I know him fairly well as a Soccer fan and player. We used to go play together in childhood and his family and our family are well conversant with each other.

Interview with Kindo Jones

Question: Hello Kindo? Kindly explain what is happiness to you and in your own words?
Response: Hello. Happiness is a conditional state that depends on a number of factors such as ...

The article addresses how insanity is used as a defense in the courts. Insanity refers to a situation whereby an individual has a mental problem hence is affected psychologically. In this case, the individual cannot be responsible for his/her actions. An individual has to prove to the court that he/she was not responsible for the criminal activities because he/she had mental problems.
According to the article, judges are aware that the insane individuals can claim insanity as a defense. In that case, the insane person is said not to be guilty. However, when a jury is involved the results ...

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I would like to begin the essay, by conveying that I do not in any way support gun prohibition because it has been ruled unconstitutional. The second amendment of our constitution clearly states - "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." (Amendment II, United States Constitution)
But what I am aiming through this essay is to, discuss some opinions on gun rights and evaluate the various points put across both in favor and against gun control. Gun ...

Police procedures for responding to calls involving special situations

Police officers as the principal public safety persons respond to a host of emergency situations, some ordinary others quite unusual (Ortmeier, 2006). In each of these situations, the responding officer is expected to either solve or at least contain the situation. Inevitably, an officer will be called or while on patrol respond to a situation they have never experienced (Ortmeier, 2001). In other instances the situation may be usual but requiring special attention owing to the circumstances. These situations are referred to as special situations and there are corresponding procedures for each situation.

Responding to natural disasters

Natural disasters bring a lot of ...

Abstract

Access control lists are a set of commands that are imprinted on a device. This device usually acts as an interface between the computers and other devices across a network. The access control list help manage a network in many ways. One of the main ways ACLs are used is for safety. When applied to the immediate interface of the network to the external connection, ACLs can limit access to the internal network. ACLs are also used to limit network traffic within an enclosed network by limiting certain traffic that is not meant for the internal network. ACL can ...

I. Introduction – The Suez Canal became the subject of a major world crisis in 1956 when Egypt made it under their control. Being the only direct way of travel from the Mediterranean en route to the Indian Ocean, it was a vital path to the movement of trade for Europe, US, the Middle East and Asia. Before, it used to be a free passage to all countries engaged in trading, but later, Britain and France decided to control it for their commercial shipping and to colonize the area. However, the Egyptian government reacted to their move by taking the ...

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The smart grid system makes use of digital information technology to transmit and distribute power. Hence, the operations of this system rely on the complex computer networks coupled with communication technologies that are available in the global information technology network domain. This is the leading cause of the vulnerabilities of the smart grid system.
This paper will focus on the vulnerabilities of the system that are evident in SCADA, substation security, communication networks and wireless networks security. While proponents of the system tout its ability to increase efficiency, it cannot be denied that the smart grid system is far ...

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Outsourcing developed a very high dynamics among the small companies in the 21 century “In the United States, payroll is already outsourced 46% of the time and tax 30% of the time” (Hagel, 2013). According to WTO, “The novelty of 21st trade lies in the quantitative dimension. To illustrate what is really new, it is useful to put 21st century trade into the broad context of globalization” (2011, Baldwin, p.4). There comes a question why should the companies outsource and what they should not outsource? The answer to this question lies in many dimensions with the key tendencies in ...

A team of Argentinian hackers calling themselves Team Hacker Argentino recently hacked and defaced more than 40 Chinese educational websites in an ongoing online operation in support of Syrian president Bashar Ul Assad. The operation is code named #OpFreeSyria. The hackers left a defacing message on all the websites including an audio and a message defending the Syrian government and asking other governments in the world not to interfere with Syria.
All the targeted sites were educational owned by the government and the private sector. It is still a mystery why the Chinese educational sites were the target yet ...

Every organization is developed through formulation of a plan. The plan can be either arbitrarily present in the mind of the founder or well documented by a panel of experts after due deliberations. The size and operational level of the organization determine the extent to which expertise are applied for the formulation of the organizational plan. An organizational plan forms the basis of an organization through defining its mission, vision, values, structure, size, type, processes, resources and strategies etc. The organizational plan for a fictional company named zRock Inc. is developed in this paper that requires detailed considerations to ...

1. Balanced Scorecard Approach and its Perspectives
Balanced Scorecard (BSC) is a radical way of appraising organizational performance and the concept was officially unveiled in the year 1992 by Robert Kaplan and David Norton. BSC, born in the Harvard Business School, was a radical concept at its time. Prior to the origination of BSC, only financial measures were used for organizational performance evaluation. However, BSC was the first concept ever which went beyond pure financial measures for evaluating an organization’s performance. This concept was the first to use a holistic approach toward performance evaluation of organizations as also ...

Introduction

There are a lot of ways to tackle an existing or a relatively new disease and one of the most effective ones is by proper conduct of infection control procedures. Infections are most common in hospitals where even the health workers (what more the patients) could be affected. According to an article published by Medline (2011), a lot of people die inside hospitals simply because of poor infection control SOPs. A result of poor infection control often results in a spread of infection.

Objectives of Infection Control

Every individual is vulnerable to suffer from serious illnesses especially the ones that are contagious. One ...

American Public University

Introduction
Economic systems aim at developing a sustainable economy that is expected to satisfy the needs of the citizens in the country. An efficient economic system produces the maximum amount of goods by using the production factors at the possible highest productivity level. Productivity is one aspect in an efficient economic system. The other aspect of an efficient system is to distribute the economic production fairly and efficiently among the citizens. The equality in the distribution influences the productivity level of the country.
Considering that the citizens of the country are the entrepreneurs, the workers, and the consumers in ...

1. Suggest a methodology to supplement the traditional methods for evaluating the capital investments of Johnson Controls in the emerging markets to reduce risk providing a rationale of how risk will be reduced.
The nature of the specific risk and projects usually determine the methodology to be implemented for the evaluation of capital investments. There are several traditional methodologies that management uses to measure the effectiveness of a specific investment. The three most popular methods for the evaluation of capital investments include; payback period, internal rate of return (IRR), and net present value (NPV). For further specificity, NPV and ...

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Nepal Airlines DHC-6 Twin Otter lost the radio contact during scheduled flight between Pokhara and Jumla in Nepal on 16th February 2014.The aeroplane was discovered on the following day with the crew members and passengers dead with total fatalities of eighteen. Many incidents that took place in the recent past including Caribbean Airlines, Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501, and Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 that was indeed mysterious.Accidents in the aviation industry can occur in various forms, but irrespective of the nature of an accident, it is probably caused due to faulty equipment, pilot error, aviation administration, as well as ...

The History of Quality Management

The roots of quality management can be traced back to the middle ages where skilled workers were responsible for evaluating and inspecting work completed by apprentices and journeymen to ensure the set quality standards were achieved in all aspects of the final product. This was done to ensure that customers were always satisfied with the product quality. Since that time the history of quality management has undergone several changes and this research paper seeks to give a sketch of the history of quality management, from its materialization in the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries through to modern day. ...

Introduction

Operations Management (OM) is a broad area involved with the comprehensive research, planning and execution of all activities in an organization that lead to a creation of value for its stakeholders. One of its foremost goals is increasing the efficiency of operations through the reduction of waste, and delivering precisely the value that a customer has paid for. An important part of functional operation management is resource planning and resource scheduling activities that ensure a continuous production of services and/or goods, eliminate excess inventory, and deliver the required value at precisely the location the customer wants at ...

The auditor shoulders the responsibility of determining any deceptive or erroneous occurrences of the financial dealings of a company during a particular period so as to avoid the organization from misquoting its position in its financial statements for any fraudulent purposes. An auditor thus ensures the conformation of the company’s accounts to the adopted accounting standards and reports on the company’s financial statements and its internal control system. The role of auditors therefore needs to ensure that the final statements of the company are free from any misstatements arising due to either fraud or unintentional errors.
The ...

Individual Rights

Individual Rights
Individual Rights vis-à-vis Social Order
Individual rights pertain to the liberties and freedoms embraced in the human rights of every person. These rights are validated, confirmed and guaranteed by the Bill of Rights and the Constitutional amendments. These rights include the freedom to practice (or not) religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, freedom of petition, right against self-incrimination, right against self-incrimination, right to due process, and other rights granted in criminal proceedings (US Constitution). In democracies, such as the United States, individual rights play a significant role in society. Social order, ...

Animal Farm and the Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution being one of the most recognized events in the world history had been opinionated and criticized throughout many writing pieces. Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, is a metaphoric and detailed novel published in 1956, reflecting the Russian revolution of the 1917. George Orwell the son of a British civil servant, born as Eric Arthur Blair, gained popularity and a boost of financial holdings after publishing the novel; Animal Farm. The novel is an anti-Soviet satire that takes place in a farm where the idea of animalism has been presented to the animals by a pig ...

Abstract

This paper aims at establishing communism in China and its effects on the government, economy, and lifestyle.
Introduction
In world history, communism is often associated with negative points. When communism is brought up, cruel regimes in the former Germany, U.S.S.R, and Yugoslavia and also current regimes in nations such as, North Korea, China and Cuba are time and again thought of depressingly. In addition to that, communism is associated with government control, limited personal freedoms, and a police state. Seemingly, all these curtail civil liberties. Ideally, some nations have tried communism and failed because of the methods they opt ...

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Several drug policies in the United States have been implemented in a move to try and eradicate drugs out of the streets and schools due to their negative effects on the lives of users and family members. The involvement of drugs in the country has been for a long time and the fight to control the vice continues where several government agencies have been mandated with ensuring that the society is free of illicit substances and drugs. Drug abuse has been a menace in the world and there is need to find lasting solution to this problem that affects ...

Comparison and Contrast: Social Control and Social Learning Theories

Introduction
People often think that what motivates criminals to commit crimes is brought about by a need to steal money from others, a mental or drug problem that leads to perpetration of rape or heinous crimes, or even masked fear and anger. Some commit crimes due to repeated exposure to situations that support a negative behavior. Some do it due to inferiority complex in childhood, thus, they strive for superiority in adulthood. There are various other reasons for committing crimes and these can be explained by criminological theories. For the purpose of the presentation, the criminological theories that will ...

COMPUTER SECURITY AND CRYPTOGRAPHY

INTRODUCTION

Computer security is very vital in the setting of any organization. The organizations’ information systems need to be protected from both physical and software attacks. The physical attacks can include: theft, fire and natural disasters. Software attacks can include but not limited to: viral attacks, hacking and any other form of intrusion into the organization’s information systems. Computer security should be prioritized in every organization that wants to be successful in its activities. There are several ways of protecting information and data in the computer systems at different levels. One of the most ...

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Introduction

Perhaps no clause in the U.S. constitution has been so misconstrued and debated as the Second Amendment. In fact, even the Supreme Court could not make up their mind as to the true meaning of “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed”. A decisive interpretation to this clause has been quite elusive. Since its ratification, only a few cases have found its way to the Supreme Court while the court’s decision has not helped clarify the matter more ...

Introduction

Pesticides are substances or a mixture of substances whose main aim is to destroy, repel, prevent or inhibit the action of any pest. A pest is any form of an insect, plant pathogens, weeds, birds, mollusks, nematodes (worms), and microbes that destroy human foods while in the field, during transportation or in stores. In addition, a pest can destroy other human properties apart from food or help spread harmful diseases. Pesticides are classified into five categories: a chemical substance, a biological agent, disinfectant, antimicrobial and a device. Since pesticides find use in both our homes and in farms, they ...

Pandemic Plan

The Ministry of Health (MOH), Guinea on March 21st, 2014 informed the World Health Organization (WHO) about the growing occurrence of Ebola virus disease (EVD). The initial report of the cases derived from Gueckedou, Kissidougou, and Macenta in the overseas district, a vicinity that establishes the boundary with Liberia, and Sierra Leone; and late in the principal town of Conakry. The samples of blood gathered from the early cases and after examination revealed favorable results for Zaire Ebola virus (EBOV) species by RT-PCR at Educational Institute of Pasteur in Lyon, France. The MOH of Liberia confirmed the initial infections ...

Forewords

South Korea is an East Asian nation located in the southern part of the Korea Peninsula. Prior to 1948, the South and North Korea were one nation under different occupying forces. The forces of the United States occupied the south while the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) occupied the north. However, in 1948 after the World War II, the nation of South Korea was established, and the two parts were partitioned. This partition caused unbalanced economic units. This was because North Korea controlled majority of the natural resources and heavy industries which were created during the time in ...

1. What is leadership?

Leadership is usually defined according to the area of usage. In most cases, leadership is considered in social sphere thus the definition is mostly from this area. From sociology perspective, leadership is the ability to have great social influence on people or a group of people to a point that they can pay attention to you and allow you to monitor and control their reactions or mode of operation. This is mostly exhibited by people called leaders. These people are special in that they assume the leadership responsibility and since leadership is in a person, ...

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Virtual Currency

Introduction 3

Types Of Virtual Currency 4
Evolution of Virtual Currency 6
Crypto-Currency 7
BitCoin 7
Virtual Currency Ecosystem 11
Virtual Currency Exchange 11
Administrator 11
User 11
Miner 12
Virtual currency wallet 12
Benefits of Virtual Currency 13
Global cash transfer 13
Cost Saving 14
Universal Currency 14
Conclusions 14

Bibliography 16

Introduction
Virtual and digital currency are often confused and used interchangeably, when in reality virtual currency is a specialized kind of digital currency but not all forms of digital currency are virtual. Digital currencies are represented and stored in digital format, however ...

Abstract

The paper will address the social conflict theory that was instigated by Karl Marx in the 18th century. The theory had been in place since then but has undergone various changes with the changes in the society. The paper will exploit the developmental journey of the theory and discuss what was added or subtracted from the original ideologies of the theory in modernity. Moreover, there will be an examination of how the theory came to be. For instance, Marx came up with the theory after witnessing first-hand the exploitation of the lower class. He developed the theory to explain ...

Introduction

Cyberpunk is a form of science fiction that emerged in the latter half of the 20th Century. This genre of science fiction involves the envisioning of a near future that is characterized by scientific advancement in the form of cybernetics an information technology. This advancement is however coupled with societal order breakdown where chaos and anarchy reigns. Many of the cyberpunk narratives revolve around conflicts between technological experts like hackers or even conflicts between technological mega-corporations. A lot of cyberpunk plots are set in dystopian societies marked by massive cultural rot as well as the use of advanced technology ...

There have been several theories that seek to explain several issues about criminal activities and offenders. These theories explain the reasons behind criminal activities and the drives that make people to commit these crimes. In the criminal justice system, these theories are important since the crime management personnel use them to understand the reasons behind criminal activities as well as means to control these criminal activities. Felson and Clarke are also important contributors to criminal theoretical perspectives. They are responsible for the Crime opportunity theory, which has a subsection referred to as routine activity theory. The crime opportunity theory ...

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This is an article about HIV in the state of Missouri. The article focuses on the challenges of the current status of HIV infection in the African American community. Focusing in St. Louis, this essay examines the cultural, social, and political challenges that affect both the providers of healthcare and the patients. A snapshot as the main problem is the obvious devoid in educational training among the healthcare providers on the dangers of HIV and the cultural stigma associated with the disease. The article concludes with an array of recommendations that would be applicable in finding solutions for the ...

The Southwest Airlines is an airline whose purpose is to provide air transportation for its passengers into the US on schedule. The services are point to point and are lowly priced with a connection into 72 cities and into 37 states in the US. Its headquarters are based in Dallas in Texas, and the company employs a total of 34,901 personnel (Jackson, 115). Management in any organization has functions that include; planning, controlling, leading and organizing. These functions help to ensure the smooth running of the organization and that the internal and external factors that affect the organizations ...

Introduction

Domestic violence has been a common practice since time immemorial mostly against women. Violence against women has been common in most societies and cultures and it has received immense attention from various perspectives. “Domestic violence is defined as a pattern of abusive behaviors by one or both partners in an intimate relationship such as marriage, dating, family or cohabiting” (Grovert, 2008, p.23). The aim of this violence is for the abusive partner to dominate and have control over the other partner. Domestic violence could be physical, psychological, emotional, sexual, and/or economic abuse or actions that influence the other partner. ...

OVERVIEW

An international pharmaceutical company is headquartered in New York, NY and has other six operational locations. The corporate headquarters in New York has 1000 employees while the other centers have a considerable number of employees and remote workers. San Diego has 250 employees, Houston has 750 employees in central research, Madrid has 500 employees, India has 50, and London has 150 while China has 300 employees and 500 remote sales workers. There is a diverse computing department with no universal standard. There is a combination of devices and operating systems in place. There are also different data center centers ...

Executive Summary

Technology is one of the best scientific developments that have brought about economic, social, and political change in most of the world’s economies. Nevertheless, there are varied reactions on the effect of technology on the environment, the economy, religion, culture, and politics among a host of many social, economic, and political phenomena. Conversely, these factors also affect technology in different ways as will be discussed in this paper. Nevertheless, selecting technology for a specific situation depends on a list factors that either support or oppose such incentives.

Introduction

Science and technology are the current century’s most influential challenges ...

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Imperialism is a subject which draws very strong opinions and emotions from historians and it offers a lot of scope for arguments and discussions. Today’s generation view imperialism to be inhumane and an arrogant activity undertaken by a strong nation to exploit the people and resources of a weaker nation. This is mostly true because the conquering European powers did utilize the mining and agricultural potentials of the African and Asian nations, to benefit the economy of their homeland rather than for the welfare of the countries they occupied. But one should not forget ...

Abstract

The American Revolutionary War began in 1775 and ended in 1783. Originally, the war was fought by the British on one side and the Americans on the other side, but developed into a war between the Great Britain on one side and United States, France, Spain and Netherlands on the other side. In 1783, the United States of America and the British government signed a treaty to cease fighting, and this marked the official separation of United States from the British rule; the treaty officially recognized the existence of United States as a sovereign state. From the onset, this ...

The Sarbanes - Oxley Act of 2002 was passed after the corporate scandals of certain companies such as Enron and WorldCom. The responsibility of the senior management was increased to a higher level. First of all the management are supposed to establish and oversee the implementation of the internal controls of the firm (Strawser, 3). They must accept this responsibility. The acceptance of this responsibility must be disclosed in the financial statements. The management is also expected to disclose whether the internal controls have been effective in the financial reporting process. The Act expects the management to disclose the ...

Coliforms

According to Mohapatra (488), coliform is a general term used to refer to Gram-negative, rod-shaped facultative anaerobic bacteria. These coliforms are identified by production of a gas from glucose or other sugars. In addition, the fermentation of lactose acid and production of a gas within 48 hours at 35 degrees Celsius is also another identification criterion that is used. Species that fall under the coliform group include Citrobacter, Escherichia (E.coli), Klebsiella and Entrobacter (Mohapatra 488).

Fecal Coliforms

Fecal coliform bacteria normally thrive in the intestinal tract of humans and other warm-blooded animals. Hagedorn, Blanch, and Harwood (454), classify fecal coliforms as ...

CORPORATE CRIME

Corporate crimes are crimes that are caused by corporate bodies or crimes committed by person acting on behalf of corporate bodies. A corporate crime usually includes; corporate corruption, white collar frauds, environmental pollution, insider trading and tax evasion, misleading information to consumers and workers death. In the recent past corporate crimes have became very rampant in our societies, a day hardly pass without a story of investment frauds, corporate corruption and other forms of corporate crime being reported.1 And mainly these crimes are committed by big companies which are financially powerful and therefore the authorities involved fear to take ...

- Can schools be managed and operated like business?
Management of schools should take a form similar to any other organization that is geared towards achieving certain results. Management, in a general sense, involves several functions that lead to the coordination of peoples’ efforts in a manner that would make them achieve some desired goals and objectives. These goals and objectives are set by the management of these organizations that undertake the coordination of the said efforts. For the coordination to take place, there must be the deployment of certain resources that must also be used in an effective ...