Essays on Bayer

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Global Breakout

In the overall context, the revenue per day has grown 9.066% from $96,976 to $105,768. The contribution of revenue from Domestic segment has increased by 9.98% while the International segment grew by only 2.4%. On a quarter to quarter growth basis, the JFM quarter revenue for 2016 is $66,119,977 and the April to June quarter ...

Introduction

The Bayer AG is a German multinational chemical company that deals in pharmaceutical and was founded in 1863 by Barmen. As a chemical and pharmaceutical company, Bayer AG was the first company to produce aspirin in large quantities at a time when it was considered the best cure in the world. From this point, Bayer AG has strategically placed itself from this time to control the cosmetics and pharmaceutical market in the UK and other reading partners that interact with the UK. In terms of business, Bayer AG has invested in doing research and coming up with new products ...

Rancho Solano

Rancho Solano Private School (RSPS) is a private school founded in 1954. Until 2013, the school continued to open educational establishments across the country. However, after 2013, the economic recession started to take its toll on the educational industry. In 2014, the school started announcing closure of several of their schools. These closures have continued over the past two years. At the same time, school enrollment is increasing across the country. In Arizona, K-12 enrollment is expected to grow by 23% by 2023 (Oke, 2015, p. 3). The RSPS campuses in Arizona closed in 2014. It is a necessity ...

Introduction

The child welfare organizations are objectified on assessing the prevalence of child abuse among the referred cases in order to prevent the occurrence of future abuse among the children who are identified at a high risk of neglect and abuse. The child welfare authorities are also focused on determining the prevalence of assessing the consequent neglect among the children with the history of being abused (Enosh & Bayer-Topilsky, 2014). The assessment by child welfare organizations are incorporated by the risk assessment tools in which the explicit criteria and undeviating approaches are used to derive the results. These results are derived ...

Introduction

Globally, an alarming increased rate of diabetes diagnosis has been reported with over 380 million diabetic cases reported in 2015. Diabetes has been found to cause death, stroke, amputations, or kidney failure. The increased rate of this global epidemic has been fueled by urbanization and lifestyle. It is projected that by 2030, over 600 million people will be suffering from diabetes (Henderson & Barry, 2014). Based on the findings of the American Diabetes Association that examined the cost of diabetes treatment released in 2013, an estimated total cost of the diagnosed diabetes rose to $245 billion in 2012 compared to $ ...

Values Clarification and Ethical Legal Case Analysis

Values Clarification Values dictate the way people function both personally and professionally. In nursing practice, having clear values is essential in achieving moral competence (Jormsri et al., 2005). In completing the value clarification exercise, forty-two items were answered. Of these forty-two items, 15 responses were “mostly agree” and another 15 responses were “mostly disagree.” Six responses were “somewhat disagree”, three responses were “somewhat agree”, and the final three responses were “neutral.”

In a cluster that relates to issues raised by advanced technology, I had some agreements and disagreements. Giving extraordinary medical treatments to patients is essential, particularly when the ...

Juvaris BioTherapeutics   

Today in the world we have many new forms of diseases. Cancer is the most dangerous and insidious scourge. To treat cancer we should spend plenty of time and money and there is a great field of work. Juvaris BioTherapeutics, Inc. is a company, located in Pleasanton, California, which develops novel, adjuvanted vaccines and immunotherapeutics to treat infectious disease and cancer and helps both human and animals. Company was registered in 2001 with total amount of employees approximately 50 persons. It provides JVRS-100, a cationic lipid-DNA complex and adjuvant that improves the efficiency of present vaccines, as well as ...

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Theories of team behavior that might assist GS in taking on his new role The position GS finds himself in is a tricky one, since he is tasked to implement a new service charter. In order to succeed, he has to perfectly understand several theories of team behavior. First, he should learn to develop and promote trust between the various players involved. Trust can only be enhanced if the workers in the organization are given the freedom to prosper and put their thoughts in work. It is also as a result of believing in the capabilities ...

According to Introduction to The Scientific Method (n.d), scientific methods refers to a process whereby scientists provide the world’s representation in a reliable and consistent way collectively, over some period of time. It involves asking questions scientifically and performing experiments after making several observations. There are several steps involved in the scientific methods. They include initial objectives after making observations, constructing a workable hypothesis, recording the collected data, testing the hypothesis by performing an experiment, analyzing and summarizing results, drawing discussions and conclusions and communicating results (Spellman & Price-Bayer, 2012, p. 230). Observation is where the chosen problem is ...

Introduction

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has always been a big issue for the last several decades. It has been established from Europe and the U.S. consecutively over series of reckless actions from Multi-National Corporations (MNCs). Since the start of the new notion, international firms have upgraded their ethical regulations and code of conducts so as to demonstrate to their shareholders that they are a liable and responsible business unit and that the profit availed to the stakeholders are not from unethical activities (Heinz, 2014, p.49). CSR entails multiple stakeholders, including employees, shareholders, media suppliers, consumers, the general public and even ...

Political Science

Univeristy 1 Severity of Civil Wars: A quantitative analysis report 1.0 Introduction Civil wars are brutal and cruel wars: but other than those two realities not enough is known about internal conflicts on many levels. The characteristic length of duration for a civil war is about six years (Fearon and Laitin, 2003). Black (2003) and Fortna (2004) explained that the children under the age often suffers the highest mortality rates Lacina (2006) asked the question why the number of deaths is higher in some civil wars than others. Lacina (2006) used data from the years 1946 to 2000 to ...

The justice system recognizes several procedures based on which the judgment can be delivered. Among all, the jury trial serves the role of the significant instrument for the consideration of the merits of the case and the delivering the opinion of the public over the particular matter. In this regard, the jury trial should be understood as the trial proceedings within which the jury is responsible for the examination of the facts presented in the case and decide over its effect on the possible order. According to the UK legislation, the jury is usually compound of 12 persons, which ...

Introduction

Bayer is an international healthcare and agriculture oriented organization, which has had a strong presence in the pharmaceutical industry for 150 years. The company aims to cater to the pharmaceutical needs of the society while simultaneously protecting the interests of all stakeholders. The company previously followed an organizational structure in which function departmentalized the different operating aspects. However, as the company grew, the management felt a strong need to adopt a relatively flattened organizational structure, with clearly defined business divisions, and shift some management control from the parent company to the subsidiaries (Borkowski, 2015). In this respect, the company ...

Mergers, acquisitions and takeovers have been a vital part of the business world for many years. In today’s tough and dynamic economic environment, many companies are in most cases faced with decisions regard this particular actions with the aim of maximizing profit and shareholders value. Through strategies such as takeovers and mergers, a company can develop a competitive advantage and consequently manage to increase the shareholders’ value. This can happen through various forms such as two or more companies combining efforts, partnering on a given product, or even one company outright acquire the other company thereby taking over all it operations including ...

According to Bayer Health Care, the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system becomes activated when the specialized cells of the distal tubules known as macula densa detect the decreased concentration of sodium and chloride ions. The reduction of NaCl concentration of the blood is a result of the presence of low blood pressure in the body. Once the decrease in blood pressure has been detected, the juxtaglomerular cells found in the kidneys will start discharging renin (an enzyme which breaks down proteins into shorter fragments). However, it is important to note that there are also other stimulus for the release of the proteolytic enzyme ...

Final Report

Background of the Study The research majors on immunization of newly born babies and children aged below 5 years in Canada, New Brunswick. Children below the age of 5 are prone to infection by contagious diseases. Vaccines come in handy as a preventive measure that reduces the chances of infection for this vulnerable section of the population in Brunswick. However, the administration of the vaccines is only possible after the children’s parents given their consent. The primary objective of administering vaccines is to attain global health for children all over the world. Vaccinations are secure and effective ...

Motorcyclists and passengers requirement to wear helmets

With the increasing prices of fuel around the globe, motorcycles are seen by many as a perfect alternative to automobiles due to its fuel-efficiency, agility and easy parking. Most countries around the world, including the United States, have a huge motorcycle following due to this efficiency. However, while these alternate vehicles are indeed practical, the statistics of deaths related to motorcycle accidents have increased greatly each year especially in cases where in both the rider and the passenger are found without helmets. Where is society headed given the growing trend of motorcycle related deaths as many still prefer this alternative mode ...

Child labor is a major challenge facing the world. Such children fail to enjoy their years of childhood to the optimum. In addition, some miss schooling opportunities owing to the devotion of time to work.

Negative publicity

With child labor in Bayer Company, there is negative publicity. The use of this child labor is criticized at the international platform and by other organizations in India. This aspect of weakness in child labor is exhibited through bad picture portrayed. This farming is viewed negatively owing to the vice that children miss their studies and engage in cotton farming. Failure to educate such children ...

Introduction

Most of the people go the cinema really often. They drive theirs cars to the desired movie theatres, maybe stand in the line to get tickets, head to the bar, and then finally find themselves in comfortable seats, waiting to be immersed by another story. Yet, I bet few of them know of numerous detailed and complex patterns which lie behind that immersion – and who exactly executes them. Essentially, these patterns sprout from the director’s vision of the film, production designer’s creative contribution to it, and are supported by the work of the art director. These elements ...

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December of 2014

Opiate abuse in the 21st century is on a huge problem, and there doesn’t seem to be much slowing down either. Opiates are derived from opium plants, and can be seen in a plethora different street and pharmaceutical drugs. Some of these include heroin, codeine, oxycotin, vicodin, methadone, and many others. Normally. People take these medications to relieve pain, and most of them are only available via a doctor prescribing them, but once a tolerance is built up to the drug internally, the individual must use higher dosages to achieve the same effects. Also, obtaining these drugs illegally ...

Abstract

The study investigates different aspects of the Mirphak star. The Introductory section explains that the star occurs in the Perseus constellation and is the brightest star in the night sky above the Northern horizon. The paper has a section that describes the various names and myths linked to the star. Moreover, the paper traces a Greek’s mythical story that gave the constellation its name. Under the section on properties and position of the star, the study examines the changing coordinates of Mirphak. As a result, it outlines the star’s coordinates in J2000 and J1900. Other features examined include Mirphak’s ...

Introduction

Ciproflaxins (or simply Cipro) are a known second-generation of fluoroquinolones. Fluoroquilones, or more generally quinolones, are known as potent chemical agents against Gram-negative bacteria, widely used as a treatment of bacterial infections (Ball, 2000). Ciproflaxins have a wider spectrum of in vitro antibacterial activity and are effective in the treatment of many types of infection associated with Gram-negative bacteria, specifically respiratory tract infections. It is also known to treat anthrax in people (Hilts, 2001). In a livestock and other animals, a drug which is chemically similar to Cipro is commonly used, known as Baytril. The primary target of Cipro and Baytril and other ...

Introduction

African trypanosomiasis or simply sleeping sickness is a vector-borne parasitic disease. It is also abbreviated as HAT, which stands for Human African trypanosomiasis. Sleeping sickness has two forms, depending on the type of the parasite that caused the infection (WHO, 2014). The first type is Trypanosoma brucei gambiense. It is found in 24 countries in west and central Africa. It accounts for over 98% of the reported cases. It is possible for someone to be infected with this type of the sleeping sickness for long durations without major signs or symptoms. When major symptoms do emerge, the patient would ...

IKEA IN USA: Future of Swedish Giant

Introduction This report focuses on the IKEA which is the furniture retailer Swedish company in Sweden and as january2008 is the world’s largest furniture retailer. Regarding the competitive analysis the home centre is company’s biggest competitor but this Swedish company has done far better than the home centre. This has been very brave when it comes to the marketing strategies. The new promotion strategies have been followed by Te Company to push their customers to the furniture’s and thus about 20, 0000 coupons were distributed all about adu Dhabi and were dropped in the raffle ...

Goals and objective

In emergency preparedness, there are four main objectives to be considered while preparing the action plan. The first objective is to ensure that the resources for the mitigation process are available. The in charge personnel should ensure that there is adequate provision of resources in order to achieve the mitigation process. This entails organizing for technical experts required and interested members from the community affected (Godschalk, 2009). The next objective is to assess the risks. This entails identification of characteristics and the prospective consequences that may be caused by the hazard. The effects of a particular hazard and how ...

Introduction

The concept of ethics in the healthcare industry has evolved over time and every stakeholder in the sector should strive on improving services delivery and attaining maximum patient satisfaction. Ethics in the healthcare industry involves making the good decisions and judgments that are universally acceptable. The code of ethics in the healthcare industry expresses the responsibilities and defines rules that every health care worker, physician, and nurse must follow while attending patients. These people undergo health education that makes them understand legal and ethical concerns, patient confidentiality and informed consent (Baum, Gollust, Goold & Jacobson, 2007). The following discussion analyzes ...

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Introduction

Non-Disruptive Road Crossings are manuals which outline unifying and standardizing measures of Road Engineering Practices. The significant objective of the project is to enhance the management, planning, design, construction, maintenance, and operation of all roads and related infrastructures to ensure a safe and uniform operational and structural capacity throughout the road network in Dubai. The complexity in road construction and to some point other engineering projects leaves very little to be argued about on their significance with respect to the influence they have on the environment. It is a fact that projects like roads, bridges, and dams ...

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Figure 1: Map of Jamaica (Source: en.wikipedia.org) "Jamaica is in the position of a drowning man, treading water to keep afloat, but slowly drifting ashore."—Professor Kari Levitt, University of the West Indies, Jamaica Although the above statement has some validity to it as it relates to some criteria related to the core developmental issues concerning the economic and social progress of Jamaica, the recent report conducted by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has revealed that Jamaica has made certain improvements in its Human Development Index (HDI) values and rank ...

Aluminium is produced from bauxite. Al2O3. This is referred to as Alumina, or aluminium oxide is extracted from the ore. After the extraction, electrolytic reduction process is used to transform Alumina to Aluminium. From every two tonnes of alumina, one tonne of aluminium is produced. The bauxite consists of ferrous oxide, titanium oxide, earth silicon, and alumina, approximately 40 to 60%. Bayer process is used to separate pure aluminium from bauxite (Habashi 16). This process involves heating the ore in an autoclave that contains caustic soda. Cooling then takes place, in order to separate the solid residue that is ...

Introduction

Global events threatening security of huge numbers of people are recognized as important triggers for introducing changes to the systems of international and national law, so that in the future similar events can become preventable. The brightest example to confirm this thesis is introduction of the UN system and development of international humanitarian and criminal law after the World War II, which was associated with lots of events, which are currently being classified as crimes against humanity, genocide and war crimes. Apart from influencing the international law, World War II had variety of implications on different spheres of life ...

Summary

Bayer CropScience is a pesticide producing company in West Virginia. It is independently operated company within Bayer Group, which is its pharmaceutical parent company with its headquarters in Leverkusen, Germany. The company operates in three markets, Bayer CropScience, Bayer HealthCare and Bayer Material Science. Bayer CropScience is a global provider of crop protection agents such as herbicides, insecticides and fungicides for both commercial and private use (Monheim, 12). On 28th august 2008, two workers were fatally injured when a waste tank having the pesticide methomyl aggressively blasted, destroying the Bayer CropScience chemical plant processing unit in West Virginia. The accident happened ...

GMO is the abbreviation for genetically modified organisms. An organism is said to be genetically modified when there is alteration of its genetic constitution through genetic engineering methods. Micro-organisms such as mammals, insects, fish, plants, yeast and bacteria are some of the organisms that have been genetically modified in today’s world. Monsanto is one of the major companies that involved itself in the production of GMOs and it also controls the biggest and widest share of market of GMO crops in the world . The following are some of the products that Monsanto produced. Firstly, they produced RoundUp soy-beans ...

The commencement speech given by Steve Job at Stanford has made an impact not only on the Stanford graduates, but on all people, who had a chance to listen to it. It was posted almost immediately on a variety of online channels, such as Youtube, where it attracted millions of viewers all over the world. The secret of such popularity was not onlythe content, but also the ability of the speaker to connect to the audience and to convey his message in an easy and a comprehensive way. This effect was achieved by the use of storytelling that helped Jobs to share ...

Discussion of the case

The case study is about the major incidents in the United States of America in October 2001. The country experienced a series of physical and biological terrorism acts. This created fear and tension among the citizens as they sought protection from the terrorism activities. The physical attack involved destruction of property and death of people due to the bombing by the Al Qaeda group. The biological terrorism involves an outbreak of anthrax disease in the United States. The two terrorism activities took place in the month of September and October in 2001. There was an attack by the Osama Bin ...

Introduction

The development of technology has affected the complexity of social development. Technology is intruding into our daily lives. Even though we argue that it has greatly simplified many processes that we normally go through in life, it is important to remember that it has also affected the social developments. There are many issues that have developed that affect the way we live our lives. We are left wondering whether the innovations on technology are enhancing our lives or invading our privacy. This paper will focus on the many technological fixations that have been seen in the world. Technology has ...

The relationship between vocational preference and ordinal position has been extensively researched; some family psychologists, as well as sociologists, believe that birth order plays a role in choosing one’s career, and this has formed the basis of personality development theories (such as the Alderian Vocational Theory), which propose that birth order has a significant influence on vocational behavior. However, some researchers have come up with contradictory results, and this puts to question personality development theories linking birth order to career choice. Nevertheless, one thing is for sure; there is need to carry out further research on the matter. Despite the ...

Implementing a Diabetic Education Program for Patients and Caregivers

Introduction Research Questions Background Conceptual Framework Literature Review Abstract Background: Diabetes mellitus is becoming prevalent in the United States of America across all ethnic, socioeconomic, and demographic lines. Precisely, children, elderly people, and pregnant women of childbearing age are at a high-risk of developing the disease. It is the fourth leading cause of death globally, and “currently affects 246 million peoplearound 380 million people will have diabetes by the year 2025” (Ricci-Cabello , Ruiz-Perez, deLabry-Lima & Marquez-Calderon, 2010 p. 572). Purpose: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of implementing a patient education ...

Impact of Technology on Supporting First Grade Students’ Creative Thinking in Mathematics

Abstract: This research provides an in-depth examination of the impact of technology in supporting the acquisition of mathematical creative thinking skills among first-grade student. It examines how technology can be properly integrated with mathematics to promote math’s performance without declining creative thinking skills in mathematics among the elementary students. Social constructivism theory as the method of learning in first-grade mathematics students is advocated; it defines the developmental stages of a child and relates to his or her learning and problem-solving ability. Its requirements can properly be integrated to Computer-aided learning processes. The value and importance of ...

Classroom Rights and Responsibilities: Who Has More?

Whenever classroom management is talked about, it is normally the teacher’s skills that are scrutinized and put under investigation. Being the qualified professional, the teacher is expected to “run the show” and have control over the classroom discipline that fosters a conducive learning environment. This is definitely reasonable but is classroom management solely the task of the teacher? Or can we also speak of students having a role in this task as well? After all, they are the main clients of the school. Shouldn’t they have a role to play in managing the classroom?

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This refers to the attritional decrease in the population of bees. The term has been used by many beekeepers who are crying foe for the adverse effects of a certain fertilizer in the bees’ population. The fertilizer in the center of controversy is a corn fertilizer that is produced by Bayer- a German manufacturer (Rucker, Burgett, & Thurman, 12). In the view of these bee-keepers, the value of bees in the pollination of corns cannot be underestimated. This is because; bees and other flying insects contribute towards cross pollination. Their take is that, should the current decline in bee population continue, then the ...

The word dementia stems from the Latin de meaning “without, absence” and mens meaning “mind”. This disease is characterized by decline of cognitive functions of a person including his or her memory and other mental abilities. It influences the personal ability to perform everyday’s activities. It is a complicated disorder and it can be caused by different factors such as injuries to the brain because of tumors, strokes or head traumas. In this case the dementia is explained by the lack of blood supply. In order to function appropriately brain cells need supply of blood. When injury of stroke takes ...

Genetic diseases are generally caused by abnormality in the individual's genetic makeup or genome. The effect of this abnormality ranges from mild to severe. Those effects depend on the affected genetic components. The changes or abnormalities could be a mutation in a single base to that which could affects the large chromosome. The main forms of occurence are either through inheritance or spontaneous mutations. The basic types of inheritance are; single gene inheritance, multifactoral inheritance, chromosome abnormalities and mitochondrial inheritance. Haemophilia A is a type of chromosomal abnormality associated with a defective X chromosome hence tagged as X-linked disorder.

Haemophilia A

Haemophilia A is a genetic ...

Health insurance plans

Health insurance involves taking an insurance plan to cover any medical expenses that one might incur over one’s lifetime. One is required to pay premiums to cover the health insurance plan. The amount and the frequency of the premium to be paid is determined by the insurance company with the agreement of the person taking the insurance cover (Frum, 2000). The health insurance is kind of a social or private contract between the person to pay the premiums and the insurance company to be paid. The person could be an individual person taking a private policy plan, an employer taking ...

Introduction

There have been various occasions when employees are discriminated against in terms of promotion on the basis that they are not of the required sex, not that they are not qualified to be in those positions. Because of this, class action lawsuit has been formulated to be applied by the victims of promotional or salary discrimination to fight for their rights.

This write up explains the use of class Action lawsuit by the affected people to ensure they are not discriminated against in promotion at workplace on the basis that they are not of the required sex while they ...