Essays on Downside

Galaxy International operates in a niche market; this is because skiing is only possible in very specific areas, and only a limited number of the population skis regularly anyway. Despite this, the company has performed outstandingly well to be achieving the level of sales with a small staff. This being said, Galaxy International needs to raise capital quickly and in an efficient way to successfully continue expanding to fully capture its full market size. By offering a unique product that is flexible yet tough, Jeremy is likely to continue to increase the volume of his sales and therefore the ...

Business Problem

Abstract In today’s business world, customer service is a crucial part of the business practices aimed at growing the company and increasing overall effectiveness in the supply chain. Customer satisfaction is an important factor when it comes to customer service and it relates to the customers being satisfied with the services they get in terms of availability of information, speedy responses, and overall convenience. Many companies today have not been active in providing efficient customer service. This is because they rely on traditional communication channels and strategies such as the use of e-mail services and landline phone communications. ...

Introduction

This is a blog post which provides a critical evaluation and marketing recommendation on the Red Baron Pizza. The procedure of evaluating the product will include an application of the marketing mix and other variables relevant to the qualities and features of the frozen pizza. This will use the tools and techniques of marketing and they will be applied in order to identify whether it is a good product to buy or not. Ultimately, the research will culminate in the presentation of a recommendation on whether the product is ideal or not.

Product Description

Red Baron Pizza is a product of ...

Ida Jean Orlando is one of the renowned nursing theorists who proposed that the nursing process should involve effective interaction with patients as it leads to successful interventions and positive outcomes. The main objective of Orlando’s theory is that planning of care and accomplishing interventions without obtaining the mutual consent of the patients is unprofessional (Alligood, 2013). In other words, the theorist states that nursing professionals should seek the mutual understanding of patients before appropriate planning. After testing Orlando’s theory in several health care facilities and settings, nursing professionals have been supporting its implementation as the theory ...

Various researches have been carried out in order to be able to address the issue of nursing shortages as a cause of an unhealthy working environment for the nurses and this then reciprocates in harmful effects on the patients as a whole. In this paper, I will critically analyze the research that was carried out by Leslie Vaughan and Trisha Slinger was aimed at ensuring that the issue of shortage of nurses is addressed and able to provide the solutions that may enable the institution, government, and the society as a large(Vaughan and Slinger, 2012). With this research, ...

Movie Summary: The Big Short

The Big Short’, truly a magnum opus, is undoubtedly the best movie I have ever seen in the recent time. Directed by Adam Mackay and based on non-fiction book, ‘The Big Short-Inside the doomsday machine’ by Michael Lewis, the movie is based on the real life incidents revolving around a group of four individuals with parallel yet unconventional story of making millions by going short on the mortgage market. Here, the term- ‘Short’ refers to a financial term when an investors foresight the downside potential in an asset class and place investment on it with the intend to gain ...

Responses to Classmates’ Posts

Response to Post on Question 1: The information shared on the rationale for managing risks are enlightening. There were useful insights which provided valid reasons for managing risks from Galai, Dan, & Crouhy (2014) especially in terms of asserting its importance in tax reduction as well as for ease of control in managing the organization’s resources. One affirms that, although not explicitly stated, the relevance of managing risks are evidenced by the increase in net profits of the firm, which would prove overall profitability and sustaining competitive advantage in the long run. As emphasized in an article on managing ...

Market Segment Two

The market segment comprises of structured needs such as in the sales and car dealership industries allowing for easy customisation of a solution. Further, the market serves millions of customers in New Zealand which provides a huge market for the products that the academy shall be offering. The customers in this segment have expressed their need to be trained which illustrates existence of a ready opportunity. The market segment comprises of unique sales people who are market-oriented and as such may be willing to pay a higher price for the training making it an attractive investment segment for the ...

Introduction

Joseph Dunn, the proprietor of Dunn’s ski emporium intends to acquire the deli across the street which is owned and run by George Atkins. Joseph intends the merger and acquisition to be part of an expansion to his ski emporium business. The challenge for Joseph Dunn is that he has no experience in running a deli. It would therefore be critical that Dunn involves George Atkins in running of the deli during the transitional period before he takes over the deli fully. The report is therefore intended to interrogate and come up with a suitable organizational structure to ...

Is the U.S Southern Border patrol Effective?

Abstract The primary role of the United States border patrol is to detect and prevent illegal aliens from getting into the country. Furthermore, it also plays a big role in preventing human trafficking. All kinds of people with ill intentions do find their way into America. Such individuals are a threat to the security of American citizens. They participate in acts such as smuggling, robberies, homicides and murder cases. In fact, a significant portion of the prison population in America is composed of illegal immigrants. Moreover, these people become a burden to the government since they increase capital expenditures ...

Business, Ethical and Legal issues

Business, Ethical and Legal issues

Rob's situation with Dusty puts him in a dilemma. The community, customers and board members of the firearms company exert pressure on him to relieve Dusty of his duties owing to his past as a criminal record after the exposure by a local publication following a tip from Dusty's former crime mate T-rex. On the other hand, Dusty has been exemplary in his job and has even been an important figure in the community owing to his voluntary service. Furthermore, Rob is aware that he has reformed and has already atoned for his crime ...

Problem Solving

GDRC (n.d) argues that problem solving process involves six steps that include problem definition, problem analysis, generating possible solutions, analyzing the solution(s), choosing the best solution(s) and planning the next course of action. I will adopt the six steps in order to resolve my problem.

My problem is to decide the best alternative of growing my income. I enrolled for a Bachelor’s degree with a view of increasing my chance of a promotion. Now that I am writing my final exam, I have received an offer from a competitor that leaves me in a dilemma. I ...

Assignment 1

Dedicated Fixed-income portfolios                             1. What are the fixed income investments we should consider? Why?

A. Cash

Among all assets cash is the most liquid, that is, there would be no required intermediary to convert the cash, as it is considered legal tender. Moreover, cash is easily accessible and disposable. However, cash has its downside. Too much cash or that is saving too much is costly. There exists an opportunity cost. With current low level interest rates, cash that is kept at the bank will depreciate in value due to inflation. Inflation rates are higher than interest rates, thus the purchasing power ...

Introduction

An arrangement similar to the EU and Euro is being envisioned for North America and preparatory actions are already underway. A union for North America is a highly contentious proposal. Understanding the upsides and downsides of being in the EU and adopting the Euro provides insights into the potential of having a similar union in North America.

What are the advantages of being in the EU and adopting the Euro?

A primary political advantage of membership in the EU is the prevention of war among neighboring member states. EU member states are discouraged from goring to war because the mechanisms of cooperation and integration are likely to result to drawbacks for all ...

The introduction of technology to the world brought about significant changes in how people work. Industries and companies placed huge budgets on manpower and equipment necessary in creating their products or completing their work. At the time, what they received as returns were enough to sustain them though it was quite hectic. Technology made most of the processes easy to complete and automate. On a downside, it affected the job opportunities for most of the employees as it replaced their spots in the different companies. In recent years, the adoption of Information Technology in companies is on an increase ...

Introduction

Business Process Outsourcing has been helping big companies and businesses in generating their products and services worldwide. The idea is that companies hire a BPO company to reach a wider and accurate set of potential customers in order to keep their business alive. The key for the success of any outsourcing company is the effectiveness of their customer service function. One of the biggest question these days is about who provides better outsourcing or customer services, is it the trained and flexible customer representatives or the advanced and convenient avatars, which are designed software or technology to deal with ...

- 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 ...

Introduction

The advent of technology has occurred very recently. The society, prior to the advent of innovative technology, was not this fast and easy. It was a bit complicated and involved some amount of labor. Continuous research and innovation made it possible. The technology has enabled us to be instantly in touch with everyone at the same time. Be it the simple texting and messaging systems or the access to social media from the cell phones. Today everything that can possibly go digital and what cannot go digital today will go digital tomorrow! That’s the new reality and digitalization ...

Summary of Crossing Borders: The Globalization Debate

In “Crossing Borders: The Globalization Debate,” the author provides an overview of what globalization is, the benefits of globalization, and the downside of globalization. Globalization refers to a phenomenon of national economic integration signified by the movement of experts, ideas, social customs and trade products across these national borders. Additionally, the conquest of relatively empty and fertile land, international trade, and technological as well as institutional innovations has sustained globalization. Reduced transportation costs as well as developments in ICT have boosted international trade.

The benefits of free trade form the basis of globalization. The competitive advantage accelerated by free trade ...

Question 1

Why is brand tracking so important? Additionally, why would a large company, such as Proctor & Gamble want to use brand tracking.

Response 1

As per statement of Peter Drucker that, “If you cannot measure it, you cannot manage it” . The easiest and most effective way to determine whether a campaign is worthwhile, a promotion is successful, and the brand achieves its full potentials is Brand Tracking. Only 10 percent of brand managers rely on the brand tracking and confident enough on their standing and brand planning. Brand tracking is a powerful method; the value to the integrity of any brand is indeed beyond its measure. ...

Business Cases: Questions and Response (1)

Chapter 7: Social Venture Partners - What are the advantages for a donor of participating in a venture philanthropy organization versus traditional philanthropy? When the care for human value is being talked about, it is always good to work along with others. Relatively, the point of giving assistance to others is often noted as somewhat distinctively dedicated to making sure that human value is recognized accordingly not only for the sake of one but a group of individuals living in a community. In this case, it is assumed that the works to be completed are too numerous to count. With such ...

Perhaps the most popular of all presentation software is Microsoft's PowerPoint. The software has been in use, and continues to be used, by teachers, students, employees, and just about anybody looking to make a presentation using a simple, easy to use interface. Since its creation in the 1980's, PowerPoint has become synonymous with presentations. However, as is the case with just about any software, PowerPoint has its pros and cons. More specifically, since an equipment upgrade is anticipated in the company, it is necessary that all the employees be fully informed about all the details regarding the upgrade. PowerPoint comes ...

International Finance Management

Reference list . Introduction Increasing participation in international trade exposes companies to the exchange rate risk. That owes to the possible loss of value in the amounts that are to be received for exports or the increase in the amount that has to e paid for imports. In that respect, companies need to apply strategies to manage the risk through various available techniques. In that view, this report presents a demonstration of those techniques’ application with reference to a company involved in payments and receipts of foreign currency. The report presents an analysis of the forward, swap arrangements and futures ...

Executive Summary

The beginning investment portfolio was composed of ten Dow Jones Industrial 30 stocks that totaled an investment of $498,598. A hedging tactic was applied in order to have the capacity of liquidating the put options at prices that are close or in the money on the present Dow 30 portfolio. This tactic is applied in order to reduce the potential of risk in the event that the market goes flat or in the declining direction during the next year and a half. The selling of the put requests against the value of the beginning investment at strike values that ...

MEM 695

Abstract The purpose of this research paper is to introduce the different types of energy resources utilized worldwide. This paper discusses the history of the different resources used, starting with the utilization of conventional fossil fuel based technologies, the emergence of nuclear power and finally, the commercialization of renewable energy resources. The main objective of this research paper is to provide an insight on how these energy sources are accessed, utilized, distributed and developed. The paper also seeks to impact of the utilization of these various energy resources on the environment, especially the effect of continued utilization of ...

The rapid advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) against Iraqi forces represents yet another critical milestone in Iraq’s turbulent recent history. The policy options available to the United States are complicated by the regional dimensions of the conflict and the divergent interests of key players, most notably Iran, Syria, Russia, a loose coalistion of Western countries and Sunni-regimes in the region. While most of the policy options may be framed as a search for the “least bad” policy to address this quagmire, there may be a path worth exploring to transform the situation into a rare opportunity ...

Let us try to picture the following scenario. As the sun slowly starts to fade and its heat marginally subsides, the front doors open one after the other as all the children charge towards the local park, their parents trailing behind, hands held by the youngest of the children. The air suddenly fills with the shouts and laughter of the kids. On reaching the park, all the children run towards the play area while the parents gather in one place to resume their previous day’s merriment. Everyone seems happy and relaxed, and each person has a reason to smile. ...

Importance of Motive in Criminal Investigation

Criminal justice usually does not deal with motivations of the crime, but only the crime. The judge does not ask why the crime was committed, but only whether the crime was committed. The question of motivation related to ‘why’ a particular crime was committed (Steinberg, n.d). Although, it does not make much of a difference in courts of justice, but for criminal investigations, it does. Particularly, in case of homicide, the investigator does seem to form hypotheses about various people around the victim regarding the possible motives for which those people may have committed the crime. Even though, this does not ...

[University] A fund manager with a portfolio worth $50 million that has a beta of 0.87 whose employer is concerned about market performance must first evaluate the current market index position. Since the employer is concerned regarding the performance of the market over the next two months and plans to use three-month futures contract on the S&P 500 to hedge the risk that evaluation must consider financial exposure as well as projected performance rates. Financial exposure is the amount of money at risk in an investment. All investments carry a degree of risk that goes beyond the potential for the ...

Real Estate Securities, Portfolio Construction and Down-side Risk Analysis

Securitized Real Estate Market In Malaysia: The securitized real estate market in Malaysia is dominated by listed property companies and the REIT(Real Estate Investment Trusts). Since the real estate market is still emerging, the size of the securitized real estate market is small and most of the research findings on the securitized real estate market of Malaysia have indicated that the securitized real estate market is an ineffective investment and offers unfavorable return. Hence, considering the poor performance of the Malaysian securitized real estate market, Malaysian Government has taken several steps to improve the performance of the ...

About the Report:

The report is based on financial and fundamental analysis of four leading supermarket companies, i.e. Wal-Mart, Sainsbury, TESCO Plc and Kroger. Important to note, that, the conclusion at the end will be based on the individual analysis of each company and not by comparing them.

Wal-Mart:

Wal-Mart is the most renowned supermarket chain in the world and is also the world’s largest corporation providing employment to over two million employees. Founded in the year 1962, the company is still run as a family business with Walton family holding over 50% share in Wal-Mart through their holding company, Walton Enterprises. The ...

Introduction

Wireless electricity conduction is a fascinating subject. Such technology is still in its early stages, but the importance of its development will be significant to humanity worldwide. Statistics indicate that the world population is increasing by the day. Many nations are constantly trying to improve the quality of living of their citizens. These trends only serve to reveal the growing demand for energy globally. Wireless electricity is a modern technological concept of transmission of electrical energy to devices without the use of wires. With this technology, it is be virtually possible to power or charge gadgets, without wiring them to a power ...

Everyone in the world is very familiar with the “word” unemployment and what it means as well as what it can mean for people who get hit with it quite unexpectedly. Coincidentally, people know about the basics of unemployment that is a person who does not have a job or employment of any kind. However, what some people do and do not know is that there are 4 additional forms of unemployment that exists. These 4 are all hard hitting in their own right, and as bad luck would have it, the people they hit are conversely hit even harder; the ...

Portfolio Summary

Executive Summary: The portfolio which consists of twenty (20) stocks from varied industries has been benchmarked against S& P500 index on weekly basis from 8-4-2014 to 29-5-2014. During the period of our analysis, while the S&P 500 index has earned return in the range of -1.43% to 0.43%, the portfolio performance on the other hand has been bumpy. For Instance, in the beginning week of our investment, the portfolio earned a return of 12.37%, by the end of last week; the portfolio earned a return of -10.99%.

Management Discussion and Analysis:

The portfolio consists of twenty stocks and has been benchmarked against the S&P ...

Introduction

Before venturing into any market, an aspiring entrepreneur is required to do some market research in order to understand the market structure in the region of interest. China is among the fastest growing economies in the world. It has a high population of about 1.3 billion people. These would create a significant market for any product. This, therefore, means that any entrepreneur would be interested in the market since there is a ready and wide market for different products. The high population in china will provide an already available skilled labor for the marketability of the product. Any market requires labor ...

Parenthood

This movie teaches a lot on various characteristics that are considered to be essential in marriage and raising children. These lesson re used to shape how people view marriage in a Christian way. People have been known to have various views of marriage and this movie helps paint a picture of it. There are very many people who have gone through marriage and as this movies depicts the challenges incurred which include the issue of divorce , raising the children and how to conduct yourself as a couple. The movie revolves around 4characters whose lives are critically analyzed as we see how their ...

PREVENTION OF ABSENTEEISM, PRESENTEEISM AND TURNOVERS

Abstract Any business enterprise that fails to introduce strong organizational policies and strategies is bound to face problems. Problems such as employee absenteeism, presenteeism and turnover are some of the problems that these enterprises face. If left unattended, these problems can cause inefficiency, and monetary damage. The consequences of these actions are multifold as they can destroy the image of those organizations and lead to its ultimate downfall. Keywords: absenteeism, presenteeism, turnover, lackadaisical, revolt, motivation Absenteeism at work is failing to report for work. It is considered a violation of a social obligation toward work at a predetermined and predefined ...

“The Impact of Information Technology Investments on Downside Risk of the Firm: Alternative Measurement of the Business Value of IT”

This article was written by Samuel Oimt, Kevin Dow, Jeffrey Wong and Varun Grover. In the article they look into the effects of investing in information technology to companies that publicly announced their investment in the technology (Otim et al, 2012, p.159). They also did a research to determine whether different types of technological investment have different effects on firm downside risk. They found out that investment in informational and transformational technology resulted to reduced downside risk and investments in technology for the sake of competition for instance automating functioning of business procedures also led to a drop in downside risk ...

Renewable energy resources are those—unlike coal and fossil fuel—that are continuously being replenished over time (BBC). Wind and biomass are some of the many alternative energy resources used today. These alternative resources of energy does not produce greenhouse gases thus, they are environmentally friendly. However, both renewable energy resources also have their downsides. While wind has a zero net emission of CO2 the biomass fuel cycle emits a negligible amount of CO2 during electricity production since the greenhouse gas is fixed by plants. At optimum conditions a wind turbine has the capacity to produce at least 500kW of electricity ...

Background

In the early years of the 20th century, owning a car is a status symbol. Vehicle models became essential in shaping the materialistic culture of human. Driving a motor car is a technology that requires the unity of the mind and body (i.e. feet and hand). Such unity facilitates the necessary adjustments needed which is equated to perception—a translation of intentions. The late 20th century marks the link between cars and driving to society and sociality that makes society at the current historical moment. That cars are essential in the transportation is unquestionable. Cars offer privacy as a venue for people to express themselves ...

Abstract:

Technology has become an essential element of social life and it contributes to direct impact on the different aspects of both social and individual life. Key words:

Introduction: Technology and 21st century are two words that go hand in hand. It has crept into the social, individual sphere. It has advanced the manners in which communications are performed, and also the manner in which various other tasks are undertaken. The sphere of technology is not just limited to one particular field, rather it finds it applications in the field of science, health care, sports, governmental operations, nay ...

Analysis Essay – The Myth of Multitasking

Abstract This paper aims to explain to the readers what the article titled “The Myth of Multitasking” is all about. All the ethos pertaining to multitasking stated in the article are mentioned here with the corresponding analysis of the writer. The article clearly defines all the downside of multitasking, and presents evidences that could convince the readers about its value. The article is a source of valuable information about multitasking which is not yet known to many people. By reading the thoughts of the writer about this article, the readers would be interested to know how multitasking affect their ...

- Would you trust an external provider with your organization’s data? Why or why not? What would be needed to raise your trust in the reliability, security, and privacy of the data?

Answer:

Yes, I would trust an external provider with organizational data. This is because external providers benefits from keeping the client information confidential. If they were to be reckless with my organization’s data, they would risk losing most of their clients. An external provider can raise my confidence in its services by guaranteeing that my information will not be accessible to everyone online. They can do ...

Answer to Question 2:

I believe that the decisions made during the exact time (or moment) of crisis is the best decision at that time. There are a lot of instances when we feel that the systems we have installed, both the software and the hardware are working perfectly and are serving our business needs. However, perfectly working systems are never commonplace. In the field of information technology, there is a very high risk for systems to fail. When these systems fail, it is often not a simple case, as failure in a tightly managed aspect of the business creates enormous consequences. While it is true in ...

An Appealing Answer Defeated by Assumptions

In his book, Think, Blackburn summarizes the major approaches to justifying the existence of God (1999, pp. 152-185). In each case, major weaknesses are identified in the thinking process that makes the final proof elusive. However, the next approach to this problem he presents is appealing. If philosophy cannot develop an approach to convincingly justify the existence of God and support belief in God in that way, perhaps it can formulate reasons for why it is logical to believe in God by examining the various outcomes of believing or not believing. This logic would be useful even without absolute ...

Question one

The major type of risk that Pasiminco faces are: - Interest rate risk- this risk is due to financial market conditions. Pasminco borrowings may be based on a fixed on floating rate of interest. It is obvious Pasminco has debt financing in its portfolio and if they are charged variable interest rates on their loans then there is a risk that the level of interest charged may be unfavorable if market interest rates are high. Pasiminco most probably failed to raise intermediate financing because their credit rating had fallen to warrant the difficulty in raising additional capital from lenders. In ...

Summary of Chapters

Chapter 7: Mathematics of Investing

One of the return measures used includes compounding. Compounding can be done arithmetically or geometrically. In order for one to determine whether to use arithmetic compounding or geometric compounding one has to take into account the future value of what is to be estimated (Evensky, Horan, and Robinson 122). Arithmetic compounding is best used when determining the estimate of the anticipated future return for the following year when there is no other information. The geometric compounding is best applied when determining the anticipated return over many periods.

Covariance

This is applied when investments in a combined ...

INTRODUCTION.3

Definition of Concepts of Advertising..3

Factors that make Advertising Effective5

Elements of Advertising.7 Effective Advertising and Culture..8 Barriers of Great Advertising..9

Creating an Effective Advantages9

Characteristics of an Effective Advertising10 Conclusions..10 References..11 INTRODUCTION Definition and Concepts of Advertising The word ‘advertising’ comes from the latin word ‘ad vetere’ and it means ‘to draw attention’. From this we decipher that advertising is all about drawing a person’s attention to purchase a product or service. Advertising is a paid form of non-personal presentation of goods, services or ideas by an identified sponsor according to Richard Buskirk. Advertising consists of all activities involved in presenting ...

Drug Development Slides

What are some of the major responsibilities of the US Food and Drug Administration? The FDA is responsible for protecting public security by ensuring all foods sold meet hygiene and safety standards. How long does the drug patent usually last? Can you gain an extension? The drug patent lasts for 17 years and one can get a patent if they apply. What are the basic sections of a US IND? - Toxicology and effectiveness during pre-clinic trials - Clinical work that will be carried out in Phase 1 and 2 - Manufacturing and chemistry ...

Bernard, or “Bernie” Madoff is now an infamous figure in the American media, but before he became one of the most famous villains of all time, he was a well-known and well-respected investment advisor and stockbroker. He worked in the financial sector for many years, even working as the non-executive Chairman of the NASDAQ stock exchange for a time (“The Madoff Scam: Meet The Liquidator,” 2010). Madoff formed his own company in 1960, a firm he called Bernard L Madoff Investment Securities. It is rare for individuals who are so powerful in the American financial sector to become embroiled in such ...

Functionalism, conflict theory, and interactionism are the most fundamental theories that explain the mechanics behind social processes and outcomes. While most people choose to agree with and follow a single theory, it is evident that observing a single institution from multiple viewpoints may result in different conclusions. Therefore, when investigating the family as a social institution, its internal interactions, and individual roles, a researcher should use all theories without prejudice to reach an unbiased conclusion. Only when all theories are used, it is possible to utilize the strengths each theory has to offer and compensate for the weaknesses of each theory.

Functionalism and Family

Functionalism observes ...

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Management and Technology

Technology and any business at present time in the world go hand in hand. The absence of technology based solution in any kind of money making business, especially one in which management of store and its delivery is involved, will ensure lack of speed in the development of that particular business. The report consists of two major parts, the first one containing the solved quires about managing controls of a company and the second part deals with the modern tools and methods used ...

Cohabitation before marriage has been a sensitive issue not only in the United State but also in other places in the world. First of all, it is important to note that the institution of marriage is a covenant that has its own regulations and governing rules. Society as whole, in most cases, has viewed marriage as the source of companionship and child bearing. However, the maintenance of the covenant in a marriage is a subject that has been difficult for many couple today. Many researchers both in the academia and within other fields have embarked on research to determine some of the reasons ...

Joelving, Frederik. “Hospitals hype robot surgery for women: Study.” The American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. (2012). Accessed October 29, 2012. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/20/us-hospitals-hype-robot-surgery-idUSBRE86J0UQ20120720 This resource highlights robotic surgery for women and identifies better outcomes. Basically, the article makes a reference to the better result of robot surgery since the approach offers a surgeon a magnified 3-D view with excellent imaging of extremely small blood vessels. While doctors make long incision in an open surgery which makes patients profusely bleed and take time to heal, robot surgery facilitates faster recovery and reduced blood loss. However, the article notes increased operating time and higher cost ...

There is no doubt that Amherst functions as a private health care institution. Speculations advanced by this literature review points toward unfolding the extent it is a private institution. This researcher’s assumption is that the extent to which Amherst is classified a private health care institution depends on an assessment concerning risks and returns exploring concepts pertaining to operations, performance, and talent.

The London School of Economics researchers confirmed that there were distinct factors relating management practices to outcomes as it pertains to financial returns in any health care institution (Dorgan et.al, 2009).Therefore, the ability to integrate risk and return ...

STATEMENT TO BE SIGNED BY EACH STUDENT

1. I have read the section on plagiarism that appears on the reverse side of this sheet. 2. In my assignment I have carefully acknowledged the source of any material which is not my own work. 3. I am aware that the penalties for plagiarism can be very severe, including withdrawal of permission to enrol in the University.

REVIEW ESSAY QUESTION (20% of Unit Marks, 1,500 word limit)

Using the two papers by Rousseau and Sylla, what lessons can be drawn by emerging markets economies from the experiences of the countries covered? In your answer, include issues relating to the creation of a viable financial system (and the ...

1. Aquinas claims that he has five arguments that God exists. Do you think that he really has five different arguments? The first argument has to do with motion and movers, and the second argument has to do with cause and effect. Are they distinct arguments or just variations of the same argument?

There are examples of cause and effect that do not involve motion, so they are distinct.

2. Assume that Aquinas is right and there must be a prime mover or a first cause. Why must this first cause be God? That is, God is traditionally defined as a being that is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnivenevolent. Does Aquinas provide any reasons for thinking that the prime ...

Answering Questions about Management, Accounting and Finance

1A. why is it taking so long to have a Facebook IPO?

According to one of the Facebook insiders there are several reasons why Facebook is taking so long to do an S1 filing. One is that they have not decided yet as to which banks will do the underwriting the offer. As of December 2010 the social networking giant had raised $1.5 billion with an estimated valuation of $50 billion, but co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has does not agree to the idea to rush the company into IPO because as of this time their main concern is to ...

Short Term Benefits

1. Microeconomics and macroeconomics both utilize different scales for managing the economy. Microeconomics deals with how everyday companies and families interact with the market to set a balance between the demand and supply price. Macro economics on the other hand deals with the bigger picture of economic activities. It includes the components of taxes, unemployment, economic growth and inflation. Macroeconomics deals with laying policies in which the micro system functions. The areas of concern in this branch include management of the numerous individual economic units which can be very complicated and contradictory considering the varied interest of each microeconomic firm. ...

Question 1: Recovery strategy for hardware/software

The company, having realized their dependence on computer systems will have to put aside a plan they will follow if the system undergoes a disaster. Many systems that are available in the company include local area network (LAN), database servers, Internet and intranet, and e-mail. The potential loss will be enormous and there should be a contingency plan in place to ensure that normalcy is attained in the shortest time possible (Smith, & Salvendy, 2007).

i. Microsoft Access Database system

ii. ADP payroll processing software

iii. AutoCAD Lite software which is used for reading blueprint

iv. Bank of Maryland system (accessed externally)

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