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An essay exploring the effect of the macroeconomic environment in Italy and Russia as it relates to Proctor and Gamble’s international economic activity. Procter and Gamble [P&G] is the world’s top producer of household products. P&G manufactures a wide range of products from toilet paper and sanitary products to food and cleaners. It can be said that the company produces everything a consumer could need to stock their homes comfortably. June 2014, P&G reported over eighty-three million dollars in revenues during that fiscal year (MarketLine, 2015). P&G’s headquarters are located in Cincinnati, Ohio but the massive ...

The Olympic Games are very popular today; thus, many countries do their best in order to get a chance to host it. There are both positive and negative impacts of the Olympics on the host country. In the following essay, I would like to discuss the statement that the Winter Olympic Games is a good investment for the hosting country. In my opinion, there are different factors that prove the benefits of hosting the Olympic Games, which are economic and cultural advantages. In fact, it was found that although countries should invest a lot of money into new buildings ...

At the commencement of the twenty-first century, societies witnessed a rapid increase in the levels at which the world’s reliance on information technology and computer systems grow. Concurrently, while nations continue to rely on the networks and technological advancements with which the global environment maintains the world economy, there is still concern that the same advantages have an equal capacity to cause harm. To that end, there are limitations to the current perceptions on the grounds on which terrorism and the virtual environment relate: the fact that people fail to recognize terror activities amid the many different forms ...

Take Away Messages

A cancer registry is an information bank developed for collation, management and interpretation of data pertaining to persons diagnosed with malignant or neoplastic disease. Three primary types of cancer registries include hospital registries, state registries and special cancer registries. Cancer registries gather, store and assess the data from cancer patients. They serve as an information bank for cancer research and offer information to aid public health officials and agencies. For instance, physicians access this data to gain more information and understand the cancer better prior to diagnosis . Cancer registries utilize coding applications and manuals to collate and abstract their ...

In Low and High Income Families

In Low and High Income Families The last quarter century has presented a new and very challenging epidemic that seems to have an effect on every population group throughout most of the modern world. Obesity, and more specifically childhood obesity, has become almost as detrimental to world health in developed nations as any other disease. In fact, childhood obesity, which almost always leads to adult obesity, typically plays a role in every natural cause of death, from heart disease, to cancer and especially diabetes type 2. If we want to continue to see newer generations outlive those that came ...

Introduction

The book “Country of My Skull” has been written by Antjie Krog, who strives to include her own as well as other individuals’ stories about the creation, development, and conclusion of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The truth and reconciliation commission was in charge of uncovering past wrongdoings in Africa and was established to bring the perpetrators and criminals to justice. The books have been the center of much debate as the author has not followed any clearly defined chronological order but rather, the fragments of the testimonies of survivors, victims, and criminals have been included. History, personal ...

Executive Summary

The purpose of the paper was to assess Canadian market for the ability of CBT, the UK-based supermarket chain, to enter it. Environmental analysis was made taking into account political situation in the country, economic overview, legal aspect and socio-cultural perspective. It was found that CBT is going to have more opportunities than threats. Competitive analysis showed that supermarket industry in Canada is monopolistically competitive. The characteristics of such market were properly described. In general, there are three main CBT’s competitors and numerous small, therefore, the company should enter Canadian market with some competitive advantages. In order to ...

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Source: Law Office of Shawn M. George <http://www.smgapc.com/practice-areas/california-three-strikes-law/ Every generation in the United States has seen new tactics designed to continue the oppression of racial minorities, abjuring the rights the Founding Fathers deemed necessary and irrevocable for all people in the nation. Many African Americans were denied their right to participate in the growth of the new nation. Centuries later, the United States is still far from being called a true “egalitarian society.” Racial segregation and bigotry have been evinced in a number of forms; over the years, these forms have changed and evolved but the ...

In this final paper, I would like to summarize all the previous information about handoff process. First of all, it is necessary to remind the definition of handoff. “Handoff - is the transfer of patient care from one health care provider to another or from one health care facility to another” (Medical dictionary, 2009). There are many kinds of patient handoffs, including: “ physicians transferring responsibility for a patient; physicians transferring on-call responsibility; nursing shift changes; temporary responsibility for staff leaving the unit for a short time; anesthesiologist report to recovery room nurse, nursing and physician handoff from the emergency ...

Introduction and Background Information

Identification procedures, line ups and show ups form some of the most important and fundamental elements of criminal procedure that help in the investigation of crime and bringing to justice to those suspected to have committed an offence. An identification procedure normally involves the identification parade or line ups whereby a victim or witnessed the commission of a crime is allowed to single-handedly pick out the individual they allegedly saw at the scene of the crime or in the actual act. On the other hand, show ups enable witnesses of crime commission to decide whether one is a perpetrator ...

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Why Hire a Real Estate Professional?

“Oh, dear home buyer (or seller)—we know you can do it on your own. But you really, really shouldn’t.”— Stults, 2016, para. 3 (accessed through her Twitter account, @rachelstults) The above statement, which was made by Rachel Stults a senior writer and editor at realtor.com, advises persons in her article, “6 Reasons You Should Never Buy or Sell Without an Agent (the link for which is provided on her Twitter account, @rachelstults),” not to venture in purchasing and selling real estate on their own without the assistance of a real estate professional, such ...

The situation that HMO’s pharmacy faces happens because there is fault at some stage of the pharmacy service. It is necessary to analyze the process and define the difficulties, faults and errors. First, the HMO’s pharmacy process map has to be performed. This is the sequence of the processes in the pharmacy (Figure 1). Figure 1. Process flow diagram (Think Reliability, 2011). Therefore, the process has five stages. The error, fault or malfunction can happen at any stage due to human- or computer-related, or random factors. There are common cause variation and special-cause variation. The common cause ...

National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) serve to improve patient safety. The reason why NPSGs are important is that they provide important tools for preventing the occurrence of medical errors, which are a major threat to patient safety. The patient safety enhancement tools are focused on issues such as patient identification, staff communication, use of medicines, use of alarms, infections, patient safety risks, and mistakes in surgery (The Joint Commission, 2015). There are several goals that are relevant to my practice. The first one is the improvement of the safety of clinical alarm systems that are directly relevant to patient ...

Introduction

Environmental degradation is not uncommon. In fact, it is one of the most talked about topic in international conventions and forums. Apparently, the degradation of the environment is not only a local concern. Environmental problems such as climate change, deforestation, pollution and many others are perpetrated in a local and national level and yet it has global ramifications. However, despite the fact that there are international agencies that creates environmental policies, the effectiveness of these policies and regulations largely depend on the propensity of a particular nation to implement it. The nation’s territorial powers and sovereignty make it ...

British Petroleum (BP) is an energy company, ranked as the third largest in the world. It undertakes oil exploration, refining, and the sale of oil products. The energy industry exposes the company to numerous risks and uncertainties in the exploration, extraction, refining, and sale of products (Bamberg, 2000 p.34). BP has however managed to maintain its top position in having a 100% oil reserve replacement for 17 years. Despite the efforts to maintain safety precautions, unfavorable events have followed the company’s operations. One instance is the explosion in the Gulf of Mexico where the company was drilling in ...

The NAB company name and its significance

The name of My NAB Company is “Ice Crystal”. The significance of the beverage is for everyone who enjoys the taste of ice cold and crystal clean water. The name is easy to remember it will stick to your customers. It clearly reflects the main goal of the product – refreshing and healthy experience from the ice cold and crystal clean water.

The Company’s Mission Statement

Our Mission is the production of environmentally friendly non-alcoholic beverages using advanced technology and quality standards. We are committed to providing enjoyable, healthy and refreshing experience for each customer.

Trends in the non-alcoholic beverage industry

In general, demand for mineral water is seasonal. The ...

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Question 1 The results of the Commission on Inquiry Report are somewhat depressing and dismal which is not the objective of a hospital or health care institution. The complaints from the report were as follows: assaulted, neglected and left to die patients under grave conditions; uncaring healthcare providers; and lack of sufficient care for patients who need more than medication. These are clear indications of the hospitals’ lack of concern to the welfare of their patients and lax and sloppy hospital administration. However, there are times that the administrations of ...

Vista Aerospace case

In most general terms, risk assessment can be defined as an examination of factors that can harm people in course of one’s activities. Most important issues to be considered in terms of choosing supplier include the suppliers’ capacity and their experience in producing electronic equipment in general and aviation equipment in particular. These factors can particularly influence supplier’s capacity to produce quality equipment and, in turn, passengers’ security and safety. In case of Essilor (Brazilian supplier), an important risk deals with the fact that an extent to which the company is experienced in producing electronic equipment. Furthermore, ...

Introduction

While this crime has happened decades ago, it still haunts the minds of investigators, experts, and historians. The assassination of John F. Kennedy is one of the mysteries that has remained unraveled until these days. Myriads of conspiracy theories linking together the CIA, FBI, KGB, Cuba, and Lyndon B. Johnson, were the result of, as experts admitted, an ambiguous and negligent official report. The assassination of JFK was particularly sudden and shocking for the American people, which required a close and meticulous examination. On November, 1963 President of the U.S. Lyndon B. Johnson has created a special commission for ...

With advancements in computer and information technologies, criminals-terrorists in particular have devised new ways of committing crime through the internet sometimes without being detected, but with devastating impacts. A common type of digital crime that is used by internet hackers and terror gangs to compromise government and private organization information systems is cybercrime. Digital crimes are crimes committed to compromise the integrity, confidentiality and availability of computer systems or data (Jewkes & Yar, 2013). Digital criminals normally modify, alter, impair or interfere with the access to a digital or computer information system. Criminology theories such as rational choice, social disorganization, ...

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In the connection of distributed computing, the administration list is an indispensable and basic part of the distributed computing engineering. A cloud administration and mobile services include:

Contains an arrangement of cloud services that an end client can ask for (typically through a web self-service gateway);

Has a self-managed interface; that is, it gives the capacity to choose administration offerings from the cloud administration inventory and create administration solicitations to have cases of those offerings satisfied; Acts as the requesting entryway for cloud end clients, including estimating and benefit level duties and the terms and conditions for administration provisioning; Is helpful in creating suitable cloud-based arrangements, ...

Find and explain three advantages and three costs of utilizing websites like Alibaba to export and import.

Benefits “E-commerce, by changing the way companies around the world do business, makes trade easier and cheaper” (Daniels, Radebaugh, & Sullivan, 2013, pp. 560-562). You or goods will be publicized especially rapid through Ali’s engine. No matter that you are ‘Not so great’ in Information Technology, what you do are simply provide your information and images, and then the remainder will be arranged and accomplished through Alibaba. Promptly you will have your website and what more? You and your goods will spontaneously be in the Top World Class Search Engines others search tools links that you still never understand ...

#1 - The agencies that are included in the National Intelligence are Air force Intelligence, Department of State, and Federal Bureau of Investigation (Office of the Director of National Intelligence, n.d.). The purpose of USAF is to provide intelligence derived from space, airborne, and cyberspace sensors, while the Department of State is the one that handles the collected reports, to which it acts as the focal point within the intelligence community. On the other hand, the FBI is accountable for understanding various threats against the national security. #2 - The changing demographic trends that affect the policing are jurisdiction, ...

Introduction

Australia is among the most flourishing and high open economies in the world. The country’s robust economy is facilitated by its economic and trade links with the developing economies as well as transparent and open investment and trade environment. It has a robust industrial sector and large service sector. The other important sectors in this country include the education sector, agribusiness sector, and tourism sector. The present paper delves into the state of the Australian economy. Particularly, the paper discusses the measurement of the Australia’s macroeconomic performance, its economic performance from 2012 to 2015, the major factors ...

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The Wounded Warrior Gym is an affiliate of the CrossFit Inc., a consortium of over 13, 000 affiliated gyms which nearly half of them are located across the United States (Kelly, 2014). Greg Glassman and Lauren Jenai established the consortium in 2000. The first original gym was CrossFit in North Seattle, Washington. The company is decentralized but it runs a large number of privately affiliated gyms, law enforcement units, fire safety departments, and military organizations. Corresponding to the intrinsic mantra of the CrossFit, Wounded Warrior espouses a philosophy of physical exercise and provides a diverse series of physic fitness ...

Introduction

Social learning theory is a comprehensive theory that encompasses interrelated concepts about human behavior. The first to develop this theory is the American psychologist, Albert Bandura, in the 1960s. Bandura theorized that people learn behavior through observation, which he proved through his ‘Bobo doll’ experiment. Social learning theorists believe that human behavior is not just a product of the ‘cause and effect’ phenomenon as what behaviorism suggests, but rather, human beings processes information from the environment and learns their behavior over time. According to Bandura, man is a thinking creature; that he is not helpless to the psychological and ...

Introduction

It goes without saying that during the last decades a great number of countries face a growing number of diseases, which noticeably affect our planet’s population. The main danger is posed by the previously unknown viruses or mutated forms of familiar diseases. Obviously, treating such serious illnesses require highly qualified staff, modern equipment and implementing of information technologies in healthcare projects. Fulfilling of all these conditions on a regular basis in health care organizations will surely make diagnostics and treatment of a great number of illnesses safer and faster, reducing medical errors. Considering all these reasons, in the ...

One of the most significant issues in the U.S. today is the systemic policies that have led to the U.S. having the largest prison population in the world. A disproportionate number of socioeconomically marginalized citizens are incarcerated and subjected to discriminatory practices by law enforcement and the justice department. The consequences are wide-reaching and inseparable, cutting across political, social, and cultural lines. In order to identify the roots of these interconnected phenomena, one needs to both understand the historical struggle of marginalized groups in the U.S. as well as follow the money. Socioeconomic discrimination, voter suppression, for-profit policing practices, ...

Cancer of the cervix develops in the lower parts of the uterus due to the Human Papillomavirus (HPV), transmitted through sexual intercourse. Treatment involves Radiation therapy with chemotherapy or chemotherapy followed by surgery. However, the best treatment plan can be by stage of the disease, for the stage 0(carcinoma in situ) treatment may include laser surgery or conization, internal radiation therapy that best suits those who cannot undergo surgery and hysterectomy for those who no longer want to bear children. Total hysterectomy and conization work for Stage IA1 while radiation therapy and chemotherapy for stage IB and IIA. ...

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Taxoplasmosis a type of health condition in which the drug Daraprim is used to reduce. Turing Phamarceutical Company is the company that has bought the Daraprim drug and has hiked the prices to the highest margin. Martin Shkreli is the C.E.O of Turing who has attempted to explain and support the decision of the company to exorbitantly hike the prices of the much needed drug by patients and medical facilities. The controversial issue in this paper is the exorbitant increase of the Daraprim drug from $13.50 to $750 by Turing Phamarceuticals.

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The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act require that hospitals stabilize and treat patients in the emergency department regardless the patient’s ability to pay or their insurance status. The Act’s main intent was to prevent the dumping of uninsured patients to public hospital without offering any care. According to the Act, a hospital should provide emergency care to a patient and only transfer the patient to another hospital once the patient is stable. In the situation, the friend had a serious medical emergency; therefore, the hospital was supposed to provide emergency services even in the absence of ...

The healthcare sector applies different strategies aimed at promoting patient safety and patient outcome. Quality and safety improvements are paramount in every health organization, and the management must utilize specific tools that ensure quality and safety of patients. Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) acts as one of the primary tools that ensure patient safety and patient outcome. According to Hughes (2008), CQI helps in developing clinical practices based on the principle that every process and the occasion has an opportunity for improvement. It ensures the quality of health care by making sure the hospital follows legal regulations and is fully ...

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Citizens United successfully challenged the decision of the Federal Electoral Commission not to distribute anti-Hilary documentation during the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries after a decision from the Supreme Court at the start of 2010 ruled in favour of the case presented by Citizens United. This research paper intends to explore the history of the campaign for finance reform in the United States as well as the case presented by Citizens United to the Supreme Court in favour of their argument that corporations have the same rights as citizens. This research paper will examine the influence that unlimited money ...

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Children in Prison

In the definition given by the General Medical Council (2016), the term “children” refers to “younger minors who do not have the maturity or understanding to make important decisions for themselves.” In the same report, the term “young people” is used for individuals who are “older or more experienced children and are more likely to be able to make decisions for themselves.” The law holds that when an individual reaches the age of 16, adolescents have the ability to render decisions regarding their respective welfare and status, though there are differences with regards to legal investigations ...

In considering sentencing guidelines and mandatory minimum sentencing, there are similarities and differences. The nuances of each, when comparing one to another, can be confusing. The inherent intent of both is to ensure fair and justified sentencing when considering certain offenses. Among others, three significant purposes to both are that the punishment does not exceed the extent of the crime; that if the crime warrants, a mandatory minimum penalty should be assessed; and that given the offense, punishment is fair to all who commit a similar offense. Sentencing guidelines for federal offenses (addressed here as opposed to individual state ...

Costs

The OECD guidelines are meant to guide companies and other enterprises on the way forward while conducting their businesses. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as it is commonly known is defined by the European Commission (2010) as, “a concept whereby companies integrate social and environmental concerns in their business operations and their interaction with their stakeholders on a voluntary basis." Davis (1973) states that it not merely enough for companies to have economic concerns but they should go beyond that and better the community around them. Although it is clear that these stipulations are voluntary, and no one firm can ...

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This paper will discuss the emergence of national security policies and laws in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Prior to these attacks, there was relatively little coordination between different government agencies and branches with regards to counterterrorism. But the 9/11 attacks led to significant changes. All three government branches are highly involved in national security measures and interests. Congress responded by passing very important statutes to augment the government’s authority to conduct and investigate terrorist threats and apprehend suspects. These statutes reflect the practical difficulties of apprehending and prosecuting terrorists. Terrorism is unique in that if ...

Identify the last three paramount leaders of the People’s Republic of China.

At the moment, Xi Jinping is the paramount leader of the People’s Republic of China. Three last paramount leaders that held the posts of General Secretary of the Communist Party and President of China were as follows: Hi Jintao (2002-2012), Jiang Zemin (1992-2002), and Deng Xiaoping (1978-1992). All of them contributed to the development of China as a key international player. Nevertheless, the leaders-successors after Deng Xiaoping used to have less political control and weaker charisma. So the political system of China became more balanced. The new paramount leader Xi Jinping began to strengthen his power and therefore ...

Introduction: Smartphones and computer tablets are commonplace among nursing students, nurses, physicians and other healthcare providers. It has made communication less complicated and replaced other outdated communication technologies. A significant proportion of U.S population uses smartphones. People rarely think about its ethical and legal implications. Many healthcare providers have policies that enable the protection of their client and practices from harms caused by the use of these devices. (Thomas, McIntosh and Edwards, 2013) The scenario about the leak of a celebrity photo, through the smartphone of a hospital staff, that was presented in the classroom, is an example of ...

Identify the last three paramount leaders of the People’s Republic of China.

The last three paramount leaders of the People’s Republic of China are Jian Zemin (1992 – 2002) who has continued the work of Deng Xiaoping on reformation and managed the flourishing period in Chinese history, Hu Jintao (2002 – 2012) became the head of state throughout the years of growing political influence outside China and led the country’s domestic economic growth. Lastly, Xi Jinping (2012 – present) is the current head of state of PRC. His initiatives include the promotion of the ‘Chinese Dreams’, promotion against corruption, and the continuation of the work on the market’s reformation (Foreign Policy ...

Business proposal Research Tools

Business proposal Research Tools This paper evaluates different business research tools, summarizing the major contents of the materials and the effects thereof to business performance.

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The article evaluates the different forms of firm ownerships and the inherent benefits thereof. The subject of the research compares hedge funds to private equity funds and there implications to the stakeholders. From the article, it is important that ownership structure changes alter net returns markedly. For example, there is an abnormally positive result from trading when the firm is under equity partnerships compared to other structures. Mietzner & Schweizer, (2014) concludes that private equity ...

Discuss ways to involve the patient in health care improvement CQI:

Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) programs describe a system that enhances the provision of health care by assessing problems, executing and monitoring remedial action and studying its efficacy (Sollecito and Julie 4). The system ensures that a particular health facility adopts a structured procedure in identifying sections of the healthcare that require improvement, and when such areas are identified, the medical staff develop and implement improvement approaches and strategies. An important element of the CQI is in the monitoring of critical, high volume, or difficult-prone aspects of health care. Such areas include patient involvement in improving healthcare, access to health ...

MONITOR AND CONTROL FINANCES

Budget variation report The budget variation report (on Excel) indicates both favourable and adverse variances in revenue and cost items. The full year’s sales are 3% less than the budgeted amount. Greater variations were seen in quarters 1 and 4 when the actual sales were 20% less than the budgeted sales. Quarters 2 and 3 saw an improved performance with favourable variances of 20% and 7% respectively. There were no variations in direct wages since they are based on contracts between the employees and the company. The favourable variance in commission expenses was due to the variance in ...

Epidemiology forms the foundation of public health and nursing in its entirety. As such, understanding the demographic patterns, causes as well as effects of a disease enables the nurses to make appropriate decisions, identify the risk factors and subsequently come up with evidence-based intervention strategies to mitigate the effects of the disease. The purpose of this paper is to identify a communicable illness in Ghana and describe its history as well as its pathophysiology. Additionally, the paper will discuss the demographic patterns of the illness, risk factors of the illness and the evidence-based approaches that have been used to ...

Although Canada is recognized for its embracing policy and as the first country in the world to adopt multiculturalism, the creation of Multiculturalism Act was not inevitable. The Multiculturalism Act became an official policy of Canada during a highly significant period in the history of Canada due to the presence of Canada’s ethnic diversity, the search for economic development, and the political leadership of Pierre Elliott Trudeau. The country has been cited for its successful integration of different cultures and ability to manage the cultural diversity using a federal law (Gagnon, Raska, Van Dyk, & Schwinghamer, 2015). In this ...

Diversity Challenge in Walmart

Walmart and Diversity Challenges: Wal-Mart Sued for Alleged Anti-Gay Discrimination – Smithson was denied spousal health insurance coverage from 2008. In January 2014, the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission determined Wal-Mart's denial of insurance "constituted discrimination on the basis of her sex," because Smithson would have been covered if Cote was male . Brian Nick (Walmart’s director of national media relations) says that before 2014, the company allowed insurance to same-sex couples in places where state law required it. In 2013 Supreme Court announced same-sex couples as legitimate and allowed all federal benefits to them. Walmart changed its policy as ...

The European Union represents one of the most important economic and political force in the international relationships of different kinds. Being constituted from a great variety of different countries-members, the EU obviously needs sufficient political force in its attempts to integrate and unify the nations living within its borders. In addition, it is important for the government of EU to effectively control the activities and status of each of its members; therefore, establishing and maintaining common internal and external policies regarding each member country and the Union appears to be vital for its functioning. Correspondingly, it is also worth ...

The lack of a tort of privacy in the UK emphasizes the conceptual fragility of the right to privacy, as well as the importance and inadequacies of the equitable remedies of confidence, various torts associated with the intentional infliction of harm on other people, and administrative law principles governing the proper use of police powers (Bloy & Hadwin, 2007; Webb, Jones, & Walker, 2006). Article 8(1) of the European Convention of Human Rights provides for everyone’s right to respect for their private and family life, their home and correspondence. However, courts in the country reject the equation of Article ...

Abstract

The advances of modern science have made a lasting impact in the field of criminal investigations. Forensic science now allows police and other investigators to discover evidence and other clues left on persons and at crime scenes that were once invisible and undetectable to the naked eye. During the commission of every crime, there is always trace evidence transferred between the criminal and the victim. There are many types of trace evidence ranging from soil and paint chips to blood, and body fluids. Before forensic science, it was much easier for criminals to get away with horrific acts and ...

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The developing and the least developed states have been most impacted by environmental and other calamities. Many governments have proved inefficient in tackling this problem, by imposing burdensome regulations and simply lacking proper expertise. This has led to the emergence of the failing framework essentially aimed at addressing disaster risks. The Public Private Partnership (PPP) has become an optimal solution for state authorities to handle such catastrophes in partnership with private actors. The cooperation includes construction of proper infrastructure and provision of public services for the purpose of enhancing their quality, and based on a contractual agreement. The principal ...

Community Resources in Corrections

While organized crime can refer to any hierarchically structured and excusive association of people governed by specific rules, who carry on criminal activities for financial gain and who show a willingness to use violent or other illegal act in order to perpetuate their existence; in the United States, organized crime is most commonly linked to the Italian-American mafia (Abadinsky, 2010). To be sure, although there are a number of organized criminal networks operation in or against the U.S. that include a range of ethnicities and national origins, such as the Russian mafia, the Mexican drug cartels, and Chinese triads; ...

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Introduction

Burnside and Machiraju (2013, p. 1) states that the European Commission initiated consultative meetings with regards to possibly widening the coverage of the “European Union Merger Regulations (EUMR) to “non-controlling minority shareholdings.” The conference was simultaneous to the decision of the United Kingdom’s Competition Commission ordering Ryanair to reduce its Aer Lingus shareholdings from close to 30 per cent to 5 per cent. The recent ruling of the UK commission is indicative of the position that rigid policies obstructing EU commerce and trade regulators from intervening in transactions engaging the sale of minority shareholdings ...

Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) has a much-documented history in healthcare. Dating back to 1916, a Boston surgeon, Ernest Codman, established a set of criteria that sought to improve hospital care (Lombardozzi, 2011, internet). The five criteria later evolved into the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, which set minimal standards for healthcare in hospitals, especially surgical departments (Lombardozzi, 2012, internet). The 1970s marked the beginning of a period known as divergence, when non-physician stakeholders, such as administrators, began to "define, measure, and report healthcare outcomes" (Lombardozzi, 2011, internet). By the 1980s, the CQI movement was nearly in full swing. ...

Introduction

Terrorism has an enormous dependence on surprise. As a result, a terror attack has the massive potential of causing damages to an unprepared, as well as, unwitting target. It, therefore, follows that America through its agencies such as NCTC must take appropriate measures to avoid surprise attacks as the September eleventh one. For purposes of securing its homeland, setting up intelligence, as well as, warning systems which can detect terrorist activities before their manifestation has been instrumental towards curtailing the attacks in the United States. In essence, the discussion below will center on NCTC and ways of mitigating the ...

Background information

Nursing is one of the key professions in the nation that needs thorough monitoring from the authority through the career’s regulatory bodies. Lack of effective staff communication in the career is causing problems since it has led to poor planning in various health institutions in the nation, especially in the ER rooms. The transfer of critical information and the accountability for the care of the patient from practitioner to another is an important aspect of communication in the healthcare. Therefore, the critical transfer point is usually referred to handoff. For instance, 43% of patients in Miami express their ...

Criminal Infrastructure and Key Resources

Homeland Security: Criminal Infrastructure and Key Resources The national program has policies to unify infrastructure through enhanced protection under the National CIKR (Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources). The main purpose of the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) is to protect the United States against any possible attempts by terrorists trying to cause damage to National CIKR. Three legislative orders were created, which were the Patriot Act of 2001, the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and the 9/11 Commission Recommendations Implementtion Act of 2007. The goal was to make the United States a safer, more secure and more resilient country ( ...

The Supreme Court of the United States has frequently participated in the concepts of judicial activism and judicial restraint. Many courts have been known to be either strictly activist or strictly restraint. However, recent history shows that nine justices in a single term can use activism in one case and restraint in another. Judicial restraint occurs when the justices rely more heavily on past case law and legal interpretations already presented when making decisions. While judicial activism occurs when justices go beyond interpretations and lean more toward personal preferences and current political trends in rendering decisions. Predicting which theory ...

The main purpose of The Commission on Assessment Without Levels is to not only “set up to provide advice and support to schools in developing new approaches to their own in-school assessment” but to also “ensure they have information to make informed choices about what might work for their pupils, staff and curriculum” (McIntosh 5). The study is, therefore, mainly concerned with both analyzing the current framework for assessment as well as implementing strategies that can help to provide more useful opportunities in the future. This paper aims to demonstrate the underlying importance of developing strategies that can contend ...

I. Introduction Since the formation of the state of Kosovo, there have been disputes about the legitimacy of the state—some do not recognize the international legitimacy of this state to the current day. Kosovo faces a number of issues that are inherited from its long history of conflict; one of the key problems faced by the country and the future leadership of the country is the problem of security. Because of the conflicted nature of the territory, Kosovo faces significant internal and external pressures (Alexander 14-19; Shaw and Štiks 91). The entire region is war-torn, and this conflict ...

Overview

Manojovich, Antonakos & Ronis, (2009) argue that among some of the factors that have the most influence on the outcomes of the patients include ineffective communication or lack thereof between the physicians and the nurses. The scholars emphasize the importance of elements of communication such as openness, timeliness, understanding, and accuracy and the effect they have in patient outcomes. This scenario considered in this paper underscores the importance of communication between the entire health care team, and more so between the nurses and the physicians. The acknowledgement of the influence of followership and empowerment in remedying the inadequacies which cause ...