Essays on Disclosure

The provision of quality healthcare whose value matches the health and safety needs of patients remains the biggest challenge for most health care organizations and centers. With dynamics in the healthcare sector and the introduction of healthcare legislation such as the Obama Care Act that emphasize on the provision of quality and equitable healthcare to consumers of healthcare services, most healthcare organizations have had to device strategies and come up with initiatives for ensuring quality in healthcare delivery to patients. Višnjić, Veličković and Jović (2012) define quality healthcare as one that meets and satisfies that health and ...

Database systems use different varieties of Structured Query Language (SQL) to administer, query and operate database systems such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. In order to provide dynamic responses to queries, web applications can interact directly with databases in the back end by dynamically building SQL statements. An SQL injection attack is an attack that is aimed at subverting the originally submitted SQL statements by submitting attacker-supplied SQL statements directly to the back end database . A successful SQL injection attack can have far reaching consequences on both organizations and clients depending on the web application and the data ...

Abstract

The importance of social media websites is constantly increasing. Now they play a significant role in the daily life of every individual. Businesses are also involved in the social media, as these websites represent many opportunities for them, such as advertising, promotion, customer relations, receiving feedback, and etc. Due to the significant importance and time consuming of social networks, there appeared many issues related to them, e.g. the use of social media websites in the workplace, work productivity, and changes in the employer and employee relations. Nowadays employers face many issues with the use of such websites by their ...

On January 21, 2010 the Supreme Court ruled in the Citizens United vs FEC case

in a 5-4 decision in favor of Citizens United. The decision effectively eliminated the ban on corporate spending in elections. It ruled that campaign donations and campaign spending constitute free speech and that corporations are people (Barnes). The Citizens

United ruling also stipulated that people can contribute up to $5,200 per candidate per

election cycle ($2,600 each for both the primary and the general election) and make unlimited contributions to single-candidate super PACs on top of that.(Levy 1).

Speech Now vs FEC

Two months after the Citiznes United vs FEC 5-4 SCOTUS decision, a unanimous nine- judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit decided in Speech Now vs

FEC that Congress could not place limits on donations given to organizations that make

expenditures independent ...

Interpersonal physical violence (committed against women and children)

Human trafficking and concomitant criminal sexual exploitation of women and children in the XXI century is becoming the fastest growing and highly lucrative activity for transnational organized crime. Statistical data of different sources irrefutably specify on the tendency of increasing human trafficking in many countries of the world. It is necessary, to mark that this crime is not a problem of one state and an issue that has gained an international dimension. The danger of human trafficking is that the buyer gets as a result of the deed of sale full control over the victim and may dispose of ...

Introduction

The law mandates accurate reporting of financial statements as a way for companies to provide correct information to its stakeholders. The accountants and auditing firm need to be knowledgeable and cautious in presenting financial reports. However, it is sometimes inevitable to encounter issues that may affect the financial report in the process of its preparation. The Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF) is an entity established in 1984 tasked to assist the Financial Accounting Standard Board (FASB) in identifying, deliberating, and settling accounting issues to help FASB become more efficient in addressing issues on implementation and others through the guidance ...

There are many approaches that companies in the hospitality industry can use in improving performance in business. Of all the approaches available, expansion into new markets is one of the most common ways through which business is expanded. With the potential expansion into the Chinese market, it is necessary to access the expansion plan to avert any risks that come with entry into a new market.

The hotel has some alternatives in entering the Chinese market. The first one is licensing, where the company will allow a Chinese company to use the Swiss hotel’s expertise and trademark in ...

The sensitive nature of information security demands that ethical stun approach is given to the handling of personal data information. It is always critical to emphasize on ethical values to safeguard the integrity of information on the observing personal privacy. However, many people have been subjected to unethical practices either demanded by their professions or ignorantly (Ulltveit-Moe, 2014). The primary concerns of such practices are the dangers they expose these people to and the levels of vulnerabilities they become susceptible. There are obvious dangers that unethical behavior such as exposing personal information can lead. The discussion attempts to unearth ...

Section One

Question 1 Disclosure of Environmental and Social Information A large number of companies disclose their social and environmental information for attracting new investors and customers to the business and for creating positive image in front of their customers. It has been reported that the companies with more than 500 employees need to disclose their environmental and social information on regular basis (Aldrugi and Abdo, 2014). It is important for the companies to disclose their environmental and social information in order to promote accountability and sustainability in their business activities. Moreover, it is also observed that it incurs a huge ...

Executive Summary

The case relates to the lawsuits filed against Amgen in Ventura. Amgen is an American multinational company headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California. The complaints were brought by former employees who were fired from the organization. The employees complained that the reason for firing them was disclosure of wrongdoing of an organization in front of leaders. Shawn O’Brien was terminated as a result of retaliation for informing the company about the problems and reported complaints of the drugs distributed in the market. He was a senior project manager, and his job was to improve compliance processes with high risk ...

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 ...

< Conceptual Framework> < Lecturer’s Name and Course Number>

Financial reporting’s conceptual framework defines the concepts involved in financial reporting. The purpose of reporting is stipulated in the objectives of financial reporting. These concepts of the framework give guides on how to identify the boundaries of financial reporting, selection of transactions, representation of events, recognition and measuring of reports, and how summarizing and reporting should be done (Greuning and Terblanche 2011). The conceptual framework is mainly founded by the objectives of financial reporting. However, the framework has other aspects which include statements of finance, measurement and recognition, ...

When people die from an unknown cause, the mind will be triggered for an investigation on the disease. It will start from gathering information about the disease. The information will come from symptoms, the medical history of the infections, the laboratory findings and any recent case and treatment attempted for the disease. Surveillance entails the investigation time by the epidemiologists (Bls.gov, 1). It will have the demographic information, the way in which the symptoms come and the health care consciousness. It will go further to reviewing the autopsy reports of any unexplained death. As a physician handling a delicate ...

What seems to be the cause of the conflict?

The core of the conflict is a toxic organizational culture, which has been allowed to emerge over overtime. An organizational culture comprises numerous aspects, key among them being communication, leadership, collective values, mission/vision, practices, diversity management, regulations/policies, place, and organizational narrative. The leadership failure created by the past operational manager, particularly his appointment of supervisors without a moral authority over the employees, resulted in a complete breakdown in leadership, which when coupled with the lack of formal policies (and best practices) in issues such as the use of radio and stringent recruitment checks, resulted into conflict, ill motivation, belligerency, ...

Introduction of the Problem in three different Paragraphs

According to the Frontline report, an investigation has made over Montana Anti-Corruption Law that has violated by the Western Tradition Partnership, which has changed American politics by keeping money and politics secret. The video shows boxes full of documents that have found in the Colorado house which started an investigation of the fundraising issues. These documents contain politician’s name that Mark has found in the stolen car. The boxes have given to the "Commissioner of Political Practices" in Montana for further investigation. In which Julie Steve an investigator has told Frontline that Western Tradition Partnership has worked directly ...

Sources of Law and areas of Law in Common Law Countries

Notion of common law and its features Common law has its origin in XI century and now exists in the USA, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand. This system law is regarded uncodified and is based on the case law as the main source of the interpretation of the rules. This statement implies that cases considered by the courts in the previous years should be respected and taken by the followers as the examples of notorious behavior accepted by the society. Therefore, the system of common law accepts the pivotal role of the precedent in the society. Besides, the common ...

- Put the following assets in order of liquidity: accounts receivable, inventory, cash, and marketable securities.

Current assets which include cash and other assets that could easily be converted into cash within the operating cycle of a business are usually listed in order of liquidity (Keown 4). All assets have the ability to generate some cash in some way but other assets are more liquid than others. The above mentioned assets would be listed in the following order:

- Cash- No other asset is more liquid than cash. Cash is how a business meets its obligations which range from ...

The advent of HIPPA Act in 1996 provided for security and provision of health electronic record (EHR) or personal health record (PHR). PHR are records entered by patients through certain software and hardware (Al-Ubaydli, 2010). PHR are different from EHR where the latter are used by health care providers while the former used by patients themselves. Hence, this presentation will discuss the data ranges, solution types, and benefits of PHR in advancing information security of a hospital in accordance to the HIPPA act.

Common data ranges of PHR are: family past, daily living annotations, immunizations, Lab ...

Abstract

This paper presents the ideal purpose of adopting a unitary global set of accounting standards to be applied across the globe. It presents the major characteristics of both the dominant accounting standards used worldwide, the IFRS and the US GAAP. It examines whether the IFRS or US GAAP works best for the present and the future needs of a global finance system. The various differences of these two accounting standards were shown. The major applications of the IFRS as the leading accounting standards and principles were also highlighted in the paper. It also provided various guidelines in this seemingly ...

Discussion Question

- Financial Analysis is one of the most important concepts come under the ambit of finance (Eisen, p.12). The applicability and effectiveness of financial analysis could not be derailed from any aspect. John, who just completed his finance course, should take the course of business analysis after completing his course in Finance. Financial Analysis would certainly add value in his educational portfolio, if he really wishes to make his career in the capital markets. Financial analysis would enable John to assess the financial competitiveness of the companies and analyze the investment procedure effectively.

- Economic or financial crisis ...

Interpersonal Journal Analysis

Introduction

Throughout history, one aspect of human evolution that has been subject to intensive study is human interaction and communication. Sociologists and philosophers have for a long time been baffled by the factors that motivate certain human interaction and communication patterns. This has led to the formulation of several social theories that attempt to explain how and why humans behave and in a certain way and why they interact and communicate with each other in a certain way. Therefore, these theories attempt to predict the implications of certain human interactions and their associated modes of communication. This essay will three of ...

Application: The Ethics and Legalities of Medication Error Disclosure

When making an unintentional error in prescribing a drug to a patient, and considering the ethics of disclosure and nondisclosure, there are many implications that can come as a result of such an action. From an ethical standpoint, the ANA Code of Ethics is quite clear; in the case of an error, “nurses are expected to follow institutional guidelines in reporting errors committed or observed to the appropriate supervisory personnel” (2010). From a legal standpoint, errors are equally maligned; in the state of Texas, the Texas Board of Nursing states their belief that “protection of the public is not enhanced by the reporting ...

The importance of accounting analysis was emphasized in the Chapter 3. The authors stated that disclosures of the financial statements are made on the basement of accounting analysis. Also, they noted that understanding of accounting information collected helps use the financial information more effectively.

Chapter 3 of the book highlights three important concepts namely: factors influencing the quality of financial reports based on accounting analysis, the drivers of accounting choices, and incentives of the managers that should be considered when making the financial reports. According to Sarbanes-Oxley Act, CEO, CFO, Board of Directors ...

Introduction

This chapter gives an analysis of the results of the study to derive insights on why insider threats remains to be one of the leading and challenging security issues to deal with. The results of the study present a vague picture of what motivates insider threats in private organizations. The questions of why, what and how will be answered with references to the data obtained from the study. This section also demonstrates the actions taken by organizations and tries to link it with theoretical frameworks and pool of knowledge developed by earlier scholars.

Analysis

The belief that insider threats ...

- Introduction

1.1 Background developments

Traditionally, accounting standards have been developed by different countries on the basis of local legal, economical and cultural institutions frameworks (Elliott and Elliott, 2009, p. 158). As a result, the standard setting was very country specific. With the globalization process at work for the last 3-4 decades and increasing mobility of capital internationally accepted accounting standards have become necessary to facilitate cross border transactions and make financial reporting comparable between countries and companies thereby leading to a greater transparency for investors (Nobes, 2004). IASB has been set up as a private international standard setter with a mandate to create high quality accounting standards ...

In their research paper, Bobkowski and Pearce analyze data to discuss how people share their religious beliefs on social networks. The data was gathered from 2007, when MySpace was still a popular social network and a lot of young adults and adolescents were a part of it, but data gathered from Facebook has the most significance because Facebook is currently the most popular social network in the world. The study also measured the quantity of self-disclosure online, and one of the hypotheses stated that people who have stronger religious beliefs and practice will engage in more religious disclosure online. Other hypotheses suggested ...

Communication

A relationship cannot work without the communication pillar; it is through communication that one couple understands one another. Self-disclosure in a relationship is a vital ingredient that spices up the relationship. Self-disclosure is about being open to our partners; secrets have led to break up of many solid relationships Self-disclosure is a prove that partners can trust each other on all issues evolving around their lives. Partners who are free to disclose their issues to each other are able to achieve a satisfactory relationship, they are free to communicate to each other about their needs, what they like and dislike, it also saves ...

Now that technological progress has made it possible to apply medical innovations for saving human lives, there has appeared a measure of dissonance between the advocates and the adversaries of patents. Patenting means a person is granted a monopolistic or exclusive right to scientific achievement, which is purchasable for a certain financial reward that recoups the disclosure. However, patents imply zero availability of medical procedures to both patients and doctors, which places human lives in jeopardy. The point is that there is a need to protect intellectual property and the need for medical technologies to serve ethical purposes of saving human lives.

Is It Ethical to Patent Medical Procedures

Some experts ...

Abstract

This report includes the example of Deutsche bank in which the bank is accused of publishing a poor audit report with false figures and inadequate material to made analysis. The paper talks about the importance of the Risk, risk management, disclosure of the risk and the ways to disclose the corporate risk to decreases the impact of it.teh report includes the way through which the display of the information in the report affects the performance of the company. There are many ways through which good reporting can be achieved with even poor digits. The importance of the discloser in the ...

Executive Summary

This dissertation deals with the disclosure obligations of the Charities in the UK in regards to the executive remuneration to the public and stakeholders. One of the means of disclosure is the annual report of the Charities also known as the Trustees’ Annual Report to be submitted to the Charities Commission which is the authority charged with the oversight of the charities in regard to their compliance with what is known as SORP. There were criticisms in the media about the excessive remuneration being paid to the CEOs of the leading charities in the UK. Therefore, this study gains ...

The bearers of the title Certified Management Accountants (CMA’s) have professional rights and responsibilities that they must adhere to as part of their career. In addition to these rights and responsibilities, there are ethical responsibilities and obligations that are expected of them by the society and, more so, the Institute of Certified Management Accountants. This paper endeavors to focus on the ethical responsibilities and obligations of CMA’s and how they differ from the obligations of financial accountants.

Confidentiality is one key ethical responsibility needed of a Certified Management Accountant. Accountants rely on the private information that concern ...

Acknowledgement

Executive Summary The relationship between ownership structure and firm performance has gained substantial attention of in the finance literature. The present study investigates the ownership structure of firms as a corporate mechanism and its impact on firm’s performance. An empirical analysis of the firms listed on NYSE and NASDAQ belonging to different sectors has been conducted to investigate the relationship between ownership structure and firms performance. The objective of the research is to identify how the corporate governance and corporate identity influence firm’s performance on the basis of three research questions provided in the following.

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SLIDE 2

ADULT SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ABUSE This presentation has been designed to assess the impact of sexual abuse on those who become victims to such a heinous act. We rarely discuss the implications and consequences of the act that is committed so shamelessly. The survivors are subjected to the injustice of being deprived of any help or counseling that they could otherwise receive, and those helping them are stymied my innumerable social factors. At ...

AS 39 is used for an in-depth analysis and dictation of the principles that measure financial assets and liabilities. It also recognizes what contractors would use for the transactions involving assets that are otherwise not financial. IAS 39 for financial instruments came to be as a result of the international accounting standards board. Ideally, a financial instrument is identified when a contracting party becomes allied to the provisions of the instrument at a given time. The IAS 39 comes into play as a measuring factor for the value of such an instrument. It classifies the instrument into the respective a category that is dependent upon ...

Introduction

Recently, the problem of corporate crime and ethical misconduct had seriously aggravated. More often ethical misconduct and non-compliance occurs in the field of environmental regulation, health care, securities law, and safety regulations. Nowadays whistleblowing is recognized as a tool of detection and prevention of malpractice and corruption. The motivations of whistleblowers are different including protection of human rights, fairly paly, disclosure of malpractices, human safety, and adherence to laws. Thank to whistleblowers, corruption practices are revealed. Meanwhile, whistleblowers often suffer from the disclosures they initiated because disclosure meets with resistance from the side of corrupted structures. Therefore, whistleblowers ...

Logical and physical topographical layout

A visual view of physical and logical network helps in implementation and also to identify security problems. Network diagrams are best represented in a graphical format expressing varied forms of information. Research has shown that an optimal layout is the one that links all devices together. A map of the network helps in understanding better when a security situation arises. A physical layout as the name suggests, depicts the physical location of all network devices and components (Kosak, ...

All strategies meant to address the risks involved with usage of social media should primarily focus on behavior of the user. This is through training support, awareness programs and policy development. The policies should serve to educate the staff and should flow from social media plan. There will be involvement of key staff in policy and development process. These staff should be especially those who are enlightened on what works well for the organization and those using social media tools (Shirley & Libby, 54)

Too restrictive policies handcuff staff and prevent them from ever making progress and developments on skills ...

- Ethically it is difficult for Ms Ashley to decide whether to report Model’s Inc or not. Moreover, she is now aware that her accounting head of the company, Mr.Viccio and her Senior, Frankie Small are also trying to abate with the defaulting company. Since almost everyone involved in this case is trying to bypass the regulations and show the company in good books, it is now an ethical dilemma for Ms Ashley about whether to accept the deeds or to report them with the concerned authority. According to the Rule 102 of the AICPA Code of ...

The health records and information needs security and privacy so that it can only be accessed by the relevant parties. The health data in most of the time is breached in a number of ways. The first type of breach is when sensitive information of the patients is posted on the website or the social media sites. An example of data breach in health care is the disclosure of laboratory tests of the patients. This is where the public access the electronic data of the patients. The health status of an individual should not be disclosed to the public or ...

Assignment 2: Avon Products

- Determination of Necessity for Change

Avon Company has a 122-year history and experienced fundamental changes. The Company was founded as a door-to-door bookseller distributing free samples of perfume as an additional bonus for the customers. As perfume samples drew more customers’ attention than books, the owner of the Company David H. McConnell founded California Perfume Company. The Company had become a successful global $8 billion cosmetics seller with 10% cumulative annual growth reached by 2005. Avon operated in forty countries receiving 79% of earnings from abroad having excellent financial results. However, the Company faced challenges connected with the decline of operational ...

The HIPAA passed in 1996, protects patients’ confidentiality, ensure people keep their health insurance upon job loss, and assist in controlling administrative costs. The Act addresses three key areas: portability, administrative simplification, and privacy. The law applies to healthcare providers, healthcare clearinghouses and health plans such as Medicare and Medicaid. Personal health information that the law considers confidential include names, significant dates such as birth dates, contact information, social security numbers, photographs and any other unique identifying information. The Act prescribes several medical forms that patients must sign in order to protect their privacy and confidentiality rights regarding the ...

Describing the HIV/AIDS

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) belongs to the group of retroviruses and carries ribonucleic acid (RNA) as genetic material. HIV infection occurs when the virus enters CD4+ T-cells of the host and causes the host cell to replicate viral RNA and proteins, which in turn invade the other host cells. HIV infection may be divided onto four stages depending on the clinical history, physical examination, status of immune dysfunction, signs and symptoms and infections/malignancies. The first stage or the primary infection is characterized by acute HIV syndrome with a dramatic drop in CH4+ T-cells (500 to 1500 cells/mm3). The second stage ...

- Integrated Reporting

Integrated Reporting (IR) is a contemporary social managerial process where organizations get in the process of communicating how they create value including how they create impact economically, socially and environmentally (Busco et al, 2013). In the recent past, the way organizations report their performances is being redefined in the areas of capital creation, accountability and value creation. Integrated reporting defines what companies report, the types of capital invested and its effects, and the audience of such reports. In addition, it includes the social and environmental impact of the organization.

The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) asserts that, integrated reporting has ...

Introduction

Internet has changed our lives in many ways; the information technology has made modern, well-developed and advanced world where life gets easier than ever before. People use internet technology for attaining information in the most inexpensive and easiest way. The study suggests that around 900 million people in the world are using the internet (Masci 1998, 14). This is one of the best medium of communication. However, the question arises, are there any challenges associated with internet privacy or security or not? The internet privacy is defined as a status in which individual’s information is not being accessed without ...

- Answer: In the case concerned, UMDNJ unlawfully put pressure on 12 nurses to participate in abortions or threatening them with dire consequences of termination of employment if the nurses object to take part in the abortion procedures, and when they filed a lawsuit and got a restraining order on the hospital against such forceful participation, the hospital called them to a meeting for discussing possible changes or transfers. However, the New Jersey Court has rejected the request of the nurses to put a restraining order on the hospital in this regard, thereby allowing the hospital to call the nurses to a meeting ...

Personally, I agree with Terri Orbuch’s view on consistent quality communication in marriage. Through consistent quality communication, couples are provided a key to a good marriage. Couples should make a point to find quality time to communicate well with each other; consistent quality communication creates trust and respect. For couples, communication is sharing and thoroughly knowing each other well through the years of marriage. A quality communication is not obtained over night, instead a lifetime healthy marriage adjustments that result to harmony and understanding in a relationship. Happy marriage and self – disclosure is associated in quality communication between couples, the sharing of ...

Question 1

Are there possible criminal aspects of HIV/AIDS? Consider the case law presented in your textbook and elsewhere, and explain. Please provide specific examples.

The intentional spread of HIV is considered a criminal act. Pozgar (2012, p. 362) describes the case of an inmate who knew that he was infected with both HIV and the hepatitis virus. He was also informed of the ways that he can transmit the infection to others. He bit two correctional officers knowing that he can possibly infect them in this way. He was consequently charged with assault and battery. In State of Louisiana v. Schmidt, ...

Abstract

The aim of this study is to look at ethical dilemmas of staff nurses that often arise across a variety of work settings and how nurses resolve ethical dilemmas. Every nurse differs in educational preparation and experience. The impact of the dilemma can vary and influence decision-making, and the complexities caused by legalities often impact the nursing roles during the dilemmas. The role of self, support to patients and families, patient educator and communicator are necessary during the ethical dilemmas.

Nurses face ethical challenges daily when providing quality care and can remain highly dissatisfied in their struggle when faced with ...

Self-Disclosure is a very important concept to practice in a close relationship. Self-Disclosure can be defined as sharing intimate details about yourself to somewhat that you care about that you would not discuss with someone else. This information can consist of secrets, inner feelings, facts about yourself, or any number of other personal details. For example, you could share an embarrassing moment that you experienced in your past with a loved one that you typically do not talk about with other people.

Disclosing personal information like this can potentially make the relationship stronger. It can build trust between two people and make ...

Within practical contexts, ethical conduct of employees is as important in nursing as it is within any other professional field. Nurses are required by occupational guidelines to provide care towards patients in the most ethical manner possible. The basic precepts of nursing ethics emphasize that nurses should not employ actions that will inflict either physical or emotional injury to their patients. This means that employees within a healthcare facility, which include the nursing fraternity, are obliged to uphold high level of standards in creating sustainable relationships with patients. According to Perron and Pronsati (2012), those high standards should be guided ...

The capital is the lifeblood of any company and the major constraint for the entrepreneurs because of the limitation of the sources through which they can raise capital. Raising equity and debt is believed to be the life of the economy. Raising money from the local citizens is a remarkable act but it seems to be miracle to raise money from the foreigners and this is what the globalization aims at. During the recent decades, the cross-border financial flows have been steadily increasing around the world. With the tight integration of the world’s economy, there has been an increase ...

As a professor, it is one of his duties to let the students know of their grades. Having 200 students is not going to be an easy task to distribute their final grades, given the fact that his students were requesting their final grade in different ways. Dr. Saluki’s plan will ease the hassles of grade distribution among students; however, downside of this plan may result to Federal and/or Academic law and policy violations. On the other hand, without the law and policy being regarded, Dr. Saluki’s plan will be easy, fast, organized, and effective way to distribute ...

The risk and crisis management for the tourist involves preparing and managing the effect of the crisis on tourists. There should be adequate measures to mitigate effects of risks in all tourist destination centres. Prevention or mitigation is a major risk and crisis management strategy which may be adopted to reduce the effects of risk. Use of SWOT analysis may help to prevent the risk from occurring. SWOT is an acronym which stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Preparedness is another strategy which may be used in risk and crisis management of tourists. This may involve having a well trained ...

- Discuss in detail the concept of Utilitarianism and its impact on society.

Utilitarianism holds that a proper course of action is one that maximizes utility by reducing suffering and maximizing happiness. The concept of utilitarianism adds that the moral worth appended t an action is solely determined by its resulting outcome. Theorists add that the greatest measure of right or wrong is the happiness of the greatest number of people. The influence of utilitarianism is widespread and permeates politics, law and economics. In law, the concept of utilitarianism justifies the punishment intended to preempt further crimes by protecting the community from the offender or rehabilitating him. In politics, utilitarianism supports democracy as a ...

Methods used to exempt classified, terrorism-related information from disclosure In Criminal prosecutions

Owing to the sensitive nature of terror related information the disclosure thereof is highly restricted. In determining which information to disclose or the extent of such disclosure, a balance is struck between the constitutional right to access to information and the need to restrict the access to information that may compromise national security. This is especially so with terror related information the disclosure of which might have far reaching consequences to the state. The government thus relies on several mechanisms to avoid disclosing such information.

One approach has been the trial of terror suspects through a specialized system. This system comprises ...

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS

The article considers the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to business, especially from an ethical dimension. The author of the article notes that the Act has changed businesses making businesses dialogue about ethics. The article argues that without such ethical considerations, businesses cannot regain consumer and employee confidence. It proposes three practices from which a business can benefit from in compliance to the Act and also to recuperate customer and employee confidence in business. The three practices are fostering a culture of ethics, making decisions based on ethics, and encouraging employee feedback.

In order to foster a culture of ethics, the article ...

Q 1.

I engaged in a talk with this girl from class whom I had spotted a while back. I told her how much I was into her and would like us to be a couple. She looked at me and did not talk for about a minute which made me wonder. She then told me that she was going to think about it. Even after that she told me nothing about her apart from her name I did this hoping that I would gain her trust so that she could believe whatever I was telling her. Well it kind of worked out a little bit ...

1. Reason for the Agency Securities and Exchange Commission Agency plays an important role in providing regulations which govern securities market functioning as well as protecting investors’ welfare in these markets. Nevertheless, this agency monitors the corporate takeovers in the United States. In general, Securities and Exchange Commission is the U.S overall agency whose main agenda is to enforce laws and regulations related to federal securities, stock and options exchanges. This agency was established by the congress in 1934 following the crash of the stock market crash which saw the American economy decline in 1929 (Graham, 1993). Following its ...

Among patients with chronic illnesses such as heart disease, diabetes, renal disease and cancer, mental conditions such as depression and schizophrenia, as well as acute illnesses such as infections, patient adherence to both short-term and lifelong treatment regimens is a common problem (Graziottin et al., 2011). There are several barriers to patient compliance, namely insufficient knowledge about his or her own health condition, the perception that treatment leads to little or no positive effect, unrealistic expectations regarding outcomes, low self-efficacy in relation to self-management, increased frequency of medication dosing, depression, stress and anxiety, poor provider-patient relationship, lack of social support, ...

1. Reason for the Agency Securities and Exchange Commission Agency plays an important role in providing regulations which govern securities market functioning as well as protecting investors’ welfare in these markets. Nevertheless, this agency monitors the corporate takeovers in the United States. In general, Securities and Exchange Commission is the U.S overall agency whose main agenda is to enforce laws and regulations related to federal securities, stock and options exchanges. This agency was established by the congress in 1934 following the crash of the stock market crash which saw the American economy decline in 1929 (Graham, 1993). Following its ...