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Business

Restatement of Problem
The topic of consumer buying behavior has researched by a number of scholars, and each one of them has illustrated what are the possible factors that influence or guide consumer behavior. Therefore, when organizations plan their strategies to ‘guide’ consumers, they do so by studying these factors and using them to design and market their products or services. This involves the participation of all stakeholders in the planning and strategizing process. The stakeholders could include the design team, the production team, finance, marketing, purchase and stores to name a few, and it is the collective effort of ...

Business

Thesis Statement
Consumer buying behavior has been researched a number of times and there are enough research papers available that focus on consumer buying patterns. This paper takes a different perspective to address what guides consumers to buy a product or service. The difference is that it is easy for marketers to understand what influences consumers today and work out strategies to address them. However, understanding what guides consumers is farther complex, and to understand this, a number of theories and articles by scholars are researched, and a few governmental efforts in place to guide consumers are evaluated and added to show how ...

Business

What influences a consumer’s purchasing behavior? A few factors that come to mind are brand awareness, product knowledge, advertisements, and references. To understand the depth of this intrinsic behavior, this paper explores the various factors that contribute to a consumer’s purchasing pattern. A very powerful tool that guides consumer behavior is word-of-mouth advertisement. Barry L. Bayus, writing in a column in Journal of Advertising Research had this to say on the indirect effects of marketing; “The business community is well aware of the power of word-of-mouth on consumers, and they are also equally aware how catastrophic it can be if ...

Patient access

Scheduling / pre-registration;
This step allows for collection of client’s data and admission to the correct department.
Insurance verification/authorization;
This step allows the hospital staff gauge the client’s ability to pay for the medical services they are seeking
Time of service registration;
This step evaluates the time and type of service a client is seeking; these factors play a role in determining the cost of medical care.
POS collection: Point of service collections feature allows for the identification and billing of all billable services even at their point of care, but in a clinically ...

Introduction

The United Transitional Care Center was created to cater for the increased need of specialized care for patients released from hospital on their way home. This programme intends to act as the intermediary between the hospitalization period and the rehabilitation into the society period. the center provides its patients with the chance to acclimatize with the conditions expected at home while trained nurses attend to them and offer specialized care in the managing of the variously ailments they suffer. The center is specifically important to people of advanced age as they have slow response to medication and would require ...

Introduction

As myriad of changes continue being experienced in the health sector, several challenges prevent effective implementation of healthcare services. These challenges include limitation in healthcare services, inefficient skills, unskilled personnel, poverty and huge gap between the number of skilled healthcare providers and number of patients seeking services. These problems further intensify in rural areas whereby the distance between patients and healthcare facilities prevent timely access to healthcare. This explains why several federal policies target problems facing the rural poor. Studies further show that more than 15 percent of healthcare beneficiaries reside in rural areas (Thrall, 2012). These patients depend ...

Research questions:

Main Question: How has the current aftercare program in Kuwait impacted on inward FDI in the country?
Sub-question 1: How successful is this program?
Sub-question 2: What can be done to improve the current aftercare program?
Survey Questions
Questionnaire 1
Respondents: IPAs offering aftercare services in Kuwait
1. Background Information
- Where is your organisation located?
- When was your organisation formed?
- Is your organization a private or public (government owned) agency? Yes { } No { }
- How many employees does your organization/agency have?
- How does your organization source ...

Introduction

The supply chain management involves interplay of many other management processes. In this document, the spot light is on the two main subsets of the supply chain management namely the logistics and transport management. The three are essential in ensuring that the supply elements involved in the supply of a good or service interact appropriately to achieve the end goals of each business (Frazelle, E., 2002).

Supply Chain Management

In the supply of a good or service, there are normally a number of individuals between the supplier(s) and the customer(s) (Frazelle, E., 2002). This demands a management system to ensure a smooth coordination between the ...

Introduction

Value is defined in the oxford dictionary as something that is held dear, important, something of worth or of usefulness. Value can be relative and in monetary terms it can be compared in terms of the price of something. Economic value is just but one of the many possible forms in which we can define and give the measure of value. There are may be other types of value but economic value are very useful when economic choices are to be made.

People measure economic value based on the priorities and preferences or opportunity costs. Economists therefore believe that ...

Overweight is described as excessive amount of body weight that may come from muscles, fat, water, and bone, obesity, on the other hand, is having excessive amount of adipose tissue. Obesity and overweight and result from energy imbalances. The body requires a certain quantity of calories from food to maintain necessary life functions. Weight is maintained when calories consumed equals the number of calories the body burns up. If additional calories are eaten than used up, energy stability is tipped toward overweight weight gain, and obesity. Environmental, Genetic, socioeconomic factors behavioral, and can all lead to overweight and obesity (Overweight ...

ABSTRACT

Brand image or identity refers to the view or perception of a brand not only based on its offerings and services, but also on its values and culture as perceived primarily by consumers. Organizations may utilize brand image to accomplish its goals or objectives by structuring an image that is interesting and acceptable to customers. In recent years, one of the ways that organizations consistently market or advertise their brand involves social media. The primary objective of this research study is to explore best practices in social media marketing towards brand image or perception management. To obtain data, the researcher ...

Abstract

This research proposal outlines measures to be undertaken in exploring the unintended consequences of unemployment. The researcher wishes to advance the assumption that unemployment is inevitably linked to serious economic and social dysfunctions occurring within the confines of Social Structure. Many of these irregularities are obvious, but others are rather insidious and concealed. Together they define the unintended consequences of unemployment. Unintended consequences of unemployment from the perspective of this researcher embodies a conceptual framework explaining all psychosocial factors, medical elements and subsequent descriptive emergent variables that adequately represent a sequel of events for which unemployment is inevitably the underlying force. ...

California Lutheran University

Rayan Azhari
Chapter I

Introduction

Succession planning is the process of identifying, recruiting, and training employees of an organization in order to equip them with skills necessary for enabling them to take up future top management positions. It entails training and evaluation processes to ensure that the respective employees are capable of effectively and efficiently handling all the management and leadership issues, they may face in the course of duty.
Succession planning is an important part of everyday organization activities and, as a result, all organizations whether small; medium sized or even large must prepare for future succession possibilities. ...

Chapter I

Introduction
Succession planning is the process of identifying, recruiting, and training employees of an organization in order to equip them with skills necessary for enabling them to take up future top management positions. It entails training and evaluation processes to ensure that the respective employees are capable of effectively and efficiently handling all the management and leadership issues, they may face in the course of duty.
Succession planning is an important part of everyday organization activities and, as a result, all organizations whether small; medium sized or even large must prepare for future succession possibilities. Effective succession planning ...

Executive Summary

China is a very attractive gaming destination in the Asia Pacific region. This city attracts a large number of tourists and international visitors. It has also seen a rapid growth in the establishment of large gaming companies, ever since liberalization for gaming operators in 2002. This must have actually spurred economic growth, and boosted SMEs, which are the economic growth power engines. This paper explores the role of SMEs in an emerging economies, the role of manpower in SMEs, as well as understanding the key success factors of the SMEs in China.

Introduction

SMEs are the growth engines for any economy in the ...

AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS OF SENATE BILL 863

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ABSTRACT
California’s (CA) legislature has passed a series of Workers Compensation (WC) reforms during the past 15 years; the most recent, Senate Bill (SB) 863 passed on August 21, 2012. SB 863 was introduced and presented to the California public as a reform bill that would ensure better coverage and easier medical access for workers injured on the job. SB 899 passed during the early 2000s was shown to be better for California’s workers, than SB863. ...

The laws and ethics of maternal decision making

A .The violation of pregnant women rights
B .The long technical procedures
2. The general opinion
A. A summary on the recently addressed legal cases.
B. The ethical principles that are established purposely to handle these issues.
C. Reviews of the underlying
3. Maternal decision making legal approaches

A. The failure to take in to consideration a pregnant woman’s entitlement to integrity and consent

B. Recognition of medical knowledge on limitation available to a prediction of possible results in obstetrics
C. Victimization of candidate of addictions and psychiatric problems
D. Women facing a threat to be dissuade from their duty of parental care
4. Recent cases

A. Charges of a woman refusing to undergo cesarean delivery – march 2004

B. January ...

Abstract: A Bright Star Declined

Over the past 2 decades, IBM reach heights of unprecedented success, down to failure, and up to success again. In 1980, they were lagging in the personal computer business but by 1985, they had taken over 40 percent of the market share (Kanter 46). By 2005, IBM made its exit from the PC business and switched to consulting (Kanter 47-8). This is a drastic shift indeed for a company which provided virtually no consulting services in 1990 to becoming one of the largest services companies some 20 years later. IBM today is now an exemplar of how a company ...

A Quantitative Study of Preschool Teachers' Beliefs and Attitudes toward Diversity, Diversity Experiences, Ideal Vision of a Diversity Curriculum and Implementation of a Diversity Curriculum in their Classroom

ABSTRACT

This quantitative study with forty respondents, examined preschool teachers’ beliefs towardsdiversity, diversity experiences, ideal vision of a diversity curriculum, and implementation of a diversity curriculum in their classrooms. The study examined the kinds of curriculum (traditional or multicultural) that preschool teachers use throughout the year and what are the factors that serve as barriers to their use of a diversity curriculum with a focus on
race/ethnicity, if any. This study will show the impact of cultural ...

Differences between National and International NGOs -

A Case Study of the US, Bahrain and India
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References

1 Introduction
Non-Governmental Organizations or NGOs have become influential actors of societal development and change on a national as well as international scale. Beginning as non-governmental consultants to the United Nations, the number of NGOs across the world has witnessed exponential growth since the 1980s. Although most people understand what an NGO is - the name itself makes it very clear that these are organizations that are not government run – there is little consensus on what may be described as key characteristics of an ...

The perceptual process involves detecting stimuli in the environment. The stimuli in the surrounding can be detected by use of five senses which include; sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing. The five senses allow as interacting with the people and objects around us thus resulting to making up a conscious experience. The perceptual process leads to the creation of perception through the utilization of the five senses. The process cannot be into being without the surrounding or the people and objects that interact with human beings. In this case, Mistral products are the objects that have to interact with people. ...

One of USSOUTHCOM priority mission is Countering international organized crime (C-TOC). Describe and discuss the future requirements of Counterintelligence in C-TOC

Introduction

Counterintelligence refers to the known business of always distinguishing and managing foreign postulated threats directed towards the country. Its fundamental concern is the sagacity administrations of foreign states and comparable associations of non-state performers. A good example in line with the stated fact is the transnational terrorist cohorts that are out to hamper the desired harmony in nations. Counterintelligence works out both as a guarding measure that ensures the country's mysteries and holdings against foreign brainpower entrance and as a ...

The economy of Canada is among the largest economies in the world in relation market exchange rates measured in US dollars. Canada is therefore one of the wealthiest nations in the world. This country is ranked eleventh largest economies in the world and it is one of the members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).This country is also a member of Group of Eight called G8.The service industry dominates the Canadian economy like the rest of the developed nations. The service industry in Canada therefore employs around 75% of the Canadians. The Canadian economy has also ...

Abstract

This research proposal explores shortage of nurses in United States of America. After a concise literature review, a methodology will be explained. This embodies a descriptive quantitative research design. The instrument used for data collection would be a questionnaire designed and accessed through survey monkey. Responses will be gathered from a population of serving nurses and those who have left routine bedside nursing practice now functioning in other higher adjacent capacities such as advanced nurse practitioners. Representative samples of the population will be drawn using simple random techniques. A comprehensive plan of this research is outlined in the following document and a system of how ...

Mobile technology has changed the ways in which people with each other. The latest innovations in the field of mobile technology have brought tremendous changes to the health care industry. With the invention and implementation of mobile health technology in various aspects of health care, the world has been progressing to see a bright future in the field of health care industry. Mobile health is a division of electronic health practice. Mobile health is defined as the medical practice that is supported by the use of mobile technology, which includes mobile phones, wireless devices, patent monitoring devices and many others .
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Western Governors University

Abstract
This research proposal explores shortage of nurses in United States of America. After a concise literature review, a methodology will be explained. This embodies a descriptive quantitative research design. The instrument to be used for data collection would be a questionnaire designed and accessed through survey monkey. Responses will be gathered from a population of serving nurses and those who have left routine bedside nursing practice now functioning in other higher adjacent capacities such as advanced nurse practitioners and educators. Representative samples of the population will be drawn using simple random techniques. A comprehensive plan of this research is outlined in the ...

Drowning in Debt: How Does the U.S. Solve its Debt Crisis?

Scott Walterhoefer
Abstract
Can the United States solve its debt crisis? That is the daunting question that currently confronts our nation and the manner in which the “powers that be” attempt to deal with this problem will dictate the political and economic landscape for the foreseeable future. The sheer size of this debt (roughly $16 trillion) is so massive and seemingly out of control that it is nearly impossible to fathom. This paper will examine this debt and the factors that caused its exponential rise over ...

COMMUNICATION FROM THE 1750'S – PRESENT

Communication from the 1750's – present
Introduction
Communication constitutes the use of messages that are sent across various contexts, media and cultures for the sake of generating meaning. Communication has been evolving over the years and it seems to be getting easier to communicate and get the meaning in communication. Communication is the basic method in which needs and aspirations that the humans have can be connected, understood and dealt with as time goes. This therefore means that communication lives with the human race.

The importance of communication is what makes relevant and the need for communication is what inspires ...

Abstract

Nursing practice has been revolutionized over the last century with a growing demand for appropriate education and training. This desire has escalated towards nurses becoming specialists in intensive care, obstetrics, pediatrics, psychiatry, geriatrics, anesthetics and even clinical managers. The more diverse cases emerge; equally the need to specialize becomes eminent. As such, education plays a vital role in adequately addressing evaluation and intervention of the nursing process. Accuracy in assessment and appropriate preparation to administer techniques, greatly depend on the level of education among nursing service staff. Hence, the importance that every level be afforded full opportunities to deliver the quality ...

Introduction

Thesis: The registered nurse role has the nurse at its center and how they maintain an effective environment for the delivery of organized patient care services.
Argument: It is important to consider how the registered nurses provide care, how they improve the care environment, and how the people they serve view the care.

Registered Nurses’ Vocational Nursing Job Duties

Nursing is characterized by legal and ethical principles
Nurses are expected to assume responsibility for nursing actions that are within the defined legal and ethical tenets
They take professional responsibility
Harmonious Environment
Involves the interaction between man and the environment
They need to create a supportive ...

Abstract

Operating systems are pieces of software applications that run computer systems. Without operating systems, computer systems would not work effectively, and humans would find no use in them. Simply, operating systems is a collection of software applications that facilitate the management of computer resources and give an interface for computer applications to interact with hardware. In spite the importance of these systems in bridging the relationship between the user and the hardware, most of the commercial OS have buggy code that is susceptible to security threats. Thus, building a trusted OS that can withstand all the security threats in the computing ...

Athlone Store – Android Application Linked with Server

Introduction
Athlone Store is an Android based application that is linked with a Server. The App is based on a Client-Server architecture where the client caters to end users or buyers and the server is the admin part for managing the application data and relevant details. The client in this architecture is the Android App that is accessed by users or the buyers of various product offerings on the App. The buyers accessing the Android App can perform various activities on the Android App client that includes checking product categories, searching products by name, browsing through the product catalog, ...

Introduction

American history is not marked by heavenly lifestyle, but it’s filled with violence and conflicts. One of the major issues that challenge America's democratic setup is their ethnic diversity. After the civil war, the ethnic divisions continued among people and this time the conflicts are based on immigrants. The tensions surrounding immigration peaked from 1875 to 1930 where the US governments during that period came up with so many legislations in swift response to these tensions. In this assignment, we would analyse the important events of immigration between 1875-1930 that caused major tensions and how the US governments ...

Overview

Balanced literacy involves language arts acquisition using a program consisting of word study, small strategy groups, and interactive read aloud, along with shared, independent, and guided reading. These essential components help a learner to understand written and spoken communication by emphasizing on reading, writing, listening, speaking, and viewing. Literacy is an important aspect everyday activities and modern social networks emphasize this, people cannot “Tweet” and comment if they do not write.
Yet even with increasing trends in globalization some children are more advanced, and some need to learn solutions to their education challenges. Balanced literacy instruction supports students’ need by ...

Introduction

Nurses are responsible for delivering quality health care services that are acceptable to the patients. Since patient expectations and standards change frequently, quality improvement is an important part of nursing practice. The aim of quality improvement (QI) is to improve service level and promote patient outcomes. This paper is a quality improvement project that focuses on preventing falls in the mental health unit. Falls are an inherent risk for psychiatric patients such especially those with eating disorders. The objective of this paper is to improve quality of health care services by reducing falls in the mental health unit among patient ...

Chapter 4

Chapter IV: Results
- How do the Ventura Health Agency and the Ventura Library plan for leadership changes?
- What are the challenges of succession planning in the Ventura Health Agency and the Ventura County Library?

Findings Organized by Questions

The significance of this question is to enable the researcher to examine how well most agencies anticipate new leadership takeover and how they plan for the same. The literature review has established that most of the CEOs who head the health agencies in the country are in their retirement age and they stop being actively involved, in matters concerning the agencies, ...

Introduction

Starting an interior design business of your own is considered as one of the fulfilling jobs nowadays. This is one of the best small businesses to start, both in the terms of money and satisfaction. If you have a keen sense of design and color and want to explore more of the interior design, then this is a perfect start for you. The interior design industry is becoming popular these days and by starting an own business is a perfect way to fire up the enthusiasm in your ideas.

Types of Interior Designers

The main objective of interior designers is to improve and ...

Cloud computing (CC) has been receiving great concern in the last few year because of the benefits it provides to its users. CC has remained excellent in matters of flexibility, scalability, virtualization and provision of services. Despite this, many companies remain reluctant to this cutting-edge technology due to security issues that affect virtualized environments, particularly in critical applications where safety and dependability levels are needed. Proposing the architecture of reacting to these threats is the infrastructure for secured data in CC.
Cloud Computing enables ubiquitous network access to a collection of computing resources. With its Infrastructure as a service, ...

Developing a model of brand personality in Sport Industry

Organised competitions such as sporting events have been meaningful and important cultural components of essentially every civilization that has existed throughout history. In an effort to capitalize on this ubiquity, sports media and marketing have been used to connect with customers for nearly as long as sport itself has existed, in one form or another.
People have been engaged in different activities that may be associated with and classified as organized sports competitions for hundreds of years. One of the first examples of modern sports marketing involved tobacco cards featuring popular baseball players of the 1870s .
The ...

Introduction

Organized crime has been a matter of major concern in the United States of America for a long period. Attempts to get rid of this social ill have not been fruitful. Mallory defines organized crime as an activity that is not allowed in the society and deal with illegal substances, and services such as drugs, gambling and stealing (Mallory 2007). Given this explanation, organized crime can be seen as a social institution that is socially disorganized. Organized crime has deemed to be problematic to eliminate from the society, despite the several attempts by the government to curb it. However, there is still ...

Introduction

Crime has been an ever-present feature in the society. Every society has had some deviant individuals who have chosen to engage in this behavior. Throughout the years, the society has come up with various measures that punish those who engage in criminal behavior. The punitive measures have become progressively severe with the hope that criminals who witness the massive punishment that awaits them should they be involved in criminal activities will be deterred from committing crime. The presence of strict and severe punitive measures has to a significantly helped in the deterrence of criminal activities in the society. However, in ...

Acknowledgments

I am especially grateful for the support and guidance of my dissertation advisor, Dr. A. P., provided all through the progression and development on this research study.

My thanks also go to the men and women in blue of Singapore Police Force whom had provided their valuable time to participate in the survey and their willingness to share. I also would like to thank DSP (NS) Azrin Abdul Rahim and SSI Selamat Bustaman for their valuable guidance and insights towards this study.

Last but not least , I would really want to give my deepest thanks to the neverending encouragement ...

Introduction

According to Edwin Flippo, human resource management is the process of planning, organizing, directing, and controlling of the procurement development of the human resources to the end that both individual and societal objectives are achieved (Deb, 2006). Human resource is considered as the most valuable asset in any organization because the human resource function, in a real sense, adds considerable value to the organization (Beardwell and Claydon, 2007). Complete withdrawal of the human resource function would almost imply cessation to the whole organization (Deb 2006). From a general point of view, the human resource function is identified as one ...

Abstract

Can female participation in the labor force contribute to economic growth? Is there a causal relationship between female participation in the labor force and economic growth? This paper addresses these questions using the vector error correction model. For this study, an annual time series data for the period 1970 to 2012 for the United States has been used. The results show that there exists a co-integration between female participation and GDP per capita, which is a proxy measure for economic development. The result does not support a two-way causality between the variables. However, a causality running from GDP per ...

Impact of Unemployment on the Long Term

The unemployment is defined as the state of looking for a job and not being able to get a job. The unemployed people are willing to be in the labor market; however, the economies cannot produce enough jobs for all the workers. The unemployment might continue the long term, especially after the recession times in the national economies (Krueger, Cramer and Cho 230). The ability to create new jobs is very essential for the national economies. The recession times in the world cause an increase in the unemployment rate, and some of the unemployments are long-term unemployments. The most ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novels can be perceived as significant and resilient records of the contemporary Puritan society, disclosing the social and religious order prevalent at that time. His novels portray the clash between the individual and moral values and virtues and social goodness and ethical codes. Laurence Sargent Hall says: “The moral problem to be found wherever the individual’s mal- adjustment to society culminates in sin furnished Hawthorne with his major tragic themes. In the main this problem is worked out through some resolution by the individual of his mal- adjustment, an expiation of sin, by coming to ...

Abstract and Introduction 3

Significance of the Study 5
Definition of Terms 7
Review of Literatures 7
IV. Research Methodology 17
V. Limitation/Delimitation 21
VI Data Analysis: 21
VII Data Verification: 24
VIII Summary and Conclusions: 25

Recommendations 26

Appendices 27
Research Questionnaire 27

References 34

Bibliography 35
Abstract and Introduction
Smoking has been regarded as one of the primary causes of preventable diseases and deaths not just in the United States but worldwide according to recent statistical information released by the American Lung Association (2015). In the United States alone, it is estimated that more than ...

In the midst of a globalized world, it becomes vital to appreciate the varying types of economies carried by different nations and cultures. When examining the effects and attributes of capitalism as a whole, it is necessary to understand that not all capitalisms are created equal. Two basic types of capitalism exist: liberal market economies (LME) and coordinated market economies (CME) (Hall and Soskice 2001, p. 8). However, within these two major groupings there are many different types of capitalism, which all have their differences that make their particular brand of society unique. There are several major forms of capitalism: mercantilism, ...

When examining the effects and attributes of capitalism as a whole, it is necessary to understand that not all capitalism is created equal. There are many different types of capitalism, which all have their differences that make their particular brand of society unique. There are several major forms of capitalism: mercantilism, free-market capitalism, social market economy, state capitalism, and corporate capitalism, all working toward the idea that societies run on the exchange of goods and services.
Mercantilism is one of the earliest forms of capitalism, and is mostly identified by the give and take of trade between nations (Aizenman ...

[Institution Title]

Introduction

The best way to describe critical reflection is through a passage delivered by Aldous Huxley in which he said, “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happened to him” (University of Texas, 2012). In the healthcare profession, a health professional is confronted by situations that that requires critical understanding. Some encounters are challenging and perplexing. And because there is a level of urgency in the practice of medicine and healthcare, majority of the time healthcare practitioners does not have the luxury of time to contemplate on their actions. This is unless the incident ...

An Exploratory Analysis of Senate Bill 863

Chapter V
California has passed several workers compensation reform bills in recent years, in both the assembly and senate of the state legislature. Each reform bill has addressed perceived problems in the California Workers Compensation (WC) system depending on the factors present that influenced political agenda setting at the time. Therefore, the research presented here created the following hypothesis. If the processes for injured workers were assessed based on the historical outcomes, a better strategy could be designed. In order to test the hypothesis, the goal of the research was to interpret the complexities of SB 899 and SB ...

An Exploratory Analysis of Senate Bill 863

Chapter IV: Results
Overview
Several workers compensation reform bills have been passed in California in the last fifteen years. The aim of this research was to review, evaluate, and simplify the complexities of the California workers compensation reform bills SB 899 and SB 863. Data was gathered from a variety of sources and organized in order to develop a better understanding of the differences and similarities between the processes instituted. Relevant data was collected for the specific purpose of reviewing the systems in order to design a new system from the ground up; one that would avoiding the pitfalls of ...

An Exploratory Analysis of Senate Bill 863

Finished Chapters 1, 2, 3
ABSTRACT
TOC
TABLES FOR FIGURES AND TABLES
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
AB Assembly Bill
CA California
CCHSWC California Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation
DIR Department of Industrial Relations
DIV Division of Workers’ Compensation

DWC Division of Workers’ Compensation

ER Emergency Room
FEHA Fair Employment and Housing Act
MMI Maximum Medical Improvement

MPN Medical Provider Networks

PD Permanent Disabilities
PPD Permanent Partial Disability
SB Senate Bill
SB 899 Senate Bill 899 on workers’ compensation passed by the California legislature in 2004
SB 683 Senate Bill 683 for ...

Introduction to Personal Budgeting

Families and households are one of the fundamental elements of an economic system. People in families work, earn, spend and save money. Earning an income and consumption of goods and services are an integral part of household economics. People consume goods and services to satisfy their multiple needs and wants. Consumption expenditure of a family / household is the value of the goods and services consumed. On the other side household income, is an on-going flow of economic resources received from legitimate sources. It includes money received through employment, as profit from business activity, by ownership of property, or as a ...

Introduction and Background

Many organizations that try to change their ways of conducting their operations often fail to meet their targets for different reasons. Mental perception of the people involved in operationalizing the transformation efforts is the biggest contributor of the success or failure of these endeavors. The police force is one of the most important institutions in Singapore. Like all societies in the world, law and order is an integral part for any progressive society. Singapore is not an exception. Singapore seeks to spur its economic heights and make life better for its citizens. Unfortunately, the Singapore Police force, which is ...

Introduction

The United States has the best medical care available in the world with its top of the line facilities and experts in the field of medicine. Compared to other developed countries, it also spends the most on health (Barr, 2011). However, despite the high health allocation, the US has “the most costly system by far, with forty-eight million people uninsured, high infant mortality rates, decreasing access to care, quality of care issues, long waits in emergency rooms, [and] insurance premiums escalating faster than the cost of living” (Weinberg, 2007, p.3). The passing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care ...

A Case Study of the British Petroleum (BP) Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico

Abstract
British Pteroleum’s Deepwater Horizon disaster was the worst oil spill in American history. Such was the magnitude of this disaster that its repercussions were felt throughout the global oil industry. In the aftermath of the spill, investigations were conducted into the incident to identify the causes that led to the spill, the reasons behind the poor response to the disaster, as well as to formulate ways in which safety standards could be improved so as to prevent similar disasters from taking place in the future. This study reviewed extensive literature pertaining to the prevalent Health, Safety ...

Abstract

Censorship has been a debatable issue for decades with critics viewing it as an infringement on the rights that have been enshrined in many constitutions of many countries; this is the main reason why the notion of censorship in any sector is met with extreme resistance; however, it is a part of history that those holding positions of power often use this idea to suppress what they feel are ideas that might lead to opposition or other fundamental ideas that might threaten their hold over the people; when it comes to literature it is important to consider the effect that this ...

Introduction

Nanaimo is popularly known as harbor City for several reasons. It is British Columbia’s sixth-largest city and has a series of attractive sceneries. The attractive sceneries serve as the major tourist attractions in the city. The city extends like a long, slant finger which is located beside the east coast of South-central Vancouver Island (Lee and Sainsbury, 2011). Tourism is a significant economic initiator for the Nanaimo area. The economic benefits of tourism are broadly spread all over a network of businesses that sustain the industries with the provision of goods and services. Tourists are drawn to Vancouver Island’s natural attractiveness ...

Motivational theories can significantly enhance the criminal justice structure and profession. The application of these five motivational theories can optimize the delivery of services among the criminal justice professionals while advocating for employee productivity, effectiveness and efficiency in the field of law enforcement and criminal justice system:
The Need Theory of Abraham Maslow provides that there is certain hierarchy of needs; from lowest to highest, that need to be satisfied to keep an individual motivated. The lowest hierarchy of needs according to Maslow include the physiological and safety and security while the highest order of needs are belongingness, self ...