Essays on Field

ASSIGNMENT 2: ASTRONOMICAL IMAGES

For each Micro Observatory Robotic Telescope Network observation:

position: RA= 13h 24.9m Dec= -7 degrees 28 minutes located in constellation: Libra Distance= 600 million km (33 light minutes) at closest to the Earth Field of view: Normal Exposure time: 15.00 sec. Filter: Grey (ND4)

Hour Angle: -1h 40.4m

Comment on quality of observation: Micro Observatory is run by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Question: Why are some of the targets listed as “not up tonight”? Micro Observatory Robotic Telescope Network observation: Target name: Jupiter Type of object: Planet position: RA= 13h 27.3m Dec= -7 degrees 39 minutes located in constellation: Libra Distance= ...

Abstract

The real estate industry is widely known to be stressful for its professionals, and especially for those working in New York City. This paper will examine causes for stress in the real estate field and how this stress could be exacerbated by working specifically in NYC real estate. In particular, this study will focus on the concept of burnout in the work place, relevant to real estate professionals. It will also address some of the physical and psychological symptoms that work stress can bring about in an individual.

Introduction

Stress is generally understood to be mental or emotional strain, brought ...

Introduction

A family is a residential unit in the society. Gender roles are a significant contributor to family dynamics. They establish stability in the family. Since the past, it has been known that the man is the breadwinner of the household and the women are the caregivers. In the recent past, this aspect has drastically changed. Today women have become empowered to attain a status almost equal to that of men. They have dared to live an independent lifestyle and support the men in some cases. Some men on the other do not consider the importance of family in the ...

The following is the outline we had to follow for our paper, the part in yellow is what I need you to complete for me please. The rest I have already done and the content I wrote can be found below.

1. Background (description of the problem or initial assumptions) a. List up the different aspects of the company’s background. b. Precisely identify the problem or challenge to be solved. c. Describe the initial assumptions for the elaboration of the plan. d. Presents a well-founded starting hypothesis, clearly written. 2. Company / Organization internal analysis. a. Develop a ...

InstitutionDate

I began my higher education studying business management at Lebanese American University. Upon entering and choosing to study business with a concentration in management, I was unsure if it would be for me, but the two subjects had always fascinated me and I wanted to learn more about them. Fortunately, I knew immediately I had made the right decision, becoming so enthralled with both the business-mechanics, and management side of each subject I was sure about my future. I knew I would go on to pursue a Master’s in Management in order to take my professional career an ...

Basketball is one of the most popular sport games. To date, this game has more than 200 million registered players around the world as well as hundreds of millions of fans. Basketball has been around for more than a century, and during that time, the game has acquired the status that allows it to be an important part of the world sport. In addition, there are various levels of this sport game: i.e. amateur, professional, and educational. The rules of this game are extremely simple, allowing everyone to understand them in a short time. But at the same time, ...

Milestones in Public Heath Informatics

There are several milestones in public health informatics history and one of them is specialization. The health field is vast and has many fields of concern to help the patients recover from various health complications and illnesses. Initially a doctor was supposed to be able to handle any health complications regardless of any aspects. Currently, the various areas that medical practitioners can specialize are such as disease prevention, epidemiology, laboratory health informatics, epidemiology among others (Yasnoff, O'carroll, Koo, Linkins & Kilbourne, 2000). With specialization in different fields and progress in information technology, the various areas of health concern can be ...

The Asian American community has long been referred to as a “model minority" which is a term used to refer to non-white ethnic groups in the US and the perceived notion that they can to find success and adapt to the American way of life seamlessly. According to Yen (2), the model minority is one that has achieved economic and societal success. They can blend into the ideal conservative lifestyle that Americans hold ideal such as strong family ties and hard work. Moreover, the Asian Americans are expected to attain success in the academic field and the entrepreneurial field ...

Sociology: Assignment 2- Field Observation at Starbucks

Research Design, Problem, Hypothesis and Operational Variables Research Question: What symbols in one’s environment stimulate involvement as a customer? Hypothesis: People, color of buildings, quality of products sold create identity among customers forming a social group with common interests. Problem: This Starbucks that was visited is typical of all stores across the country. A menu board was mounted. It displayed traditional brand drinks such as Coke, Fanta and Pepsi. Special drinks also special foods that are on sale for the day. There were six tables for patrons to enjoy their goodies and interact with each other. The floors ...

Ahmed, Sofe (2012). Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory Oedipus complex: A critical study with reference to D. H. Lawrence’s “Sons and Lovers”, Internal journal of English and literature Vol. 3(3), pp. 60-70.

Summary Annotation

One of the most often argued critical and debatable questions of modern psychology and literature is definitely Sigmund Freud and his Oedipus complex. Introducing his theory in the field of modern psychology and literature trend, Freud initiated the confrontation of opinions. However, there exist a lot of other valuators, according to which, Freud’s concept of Oedipus complex should be treated with great respect. Outstanding ...

Holder, M. D., & Klassen, A. (2010). Temperament and happiness in children. Journal of Happiness Studies, 11(4), 419-439. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10902-009-9149-2 The article under discussion focuses on personality traits as predictors for happiness levels in children: the authors seek to clarify the correlation between the EAS model of temperament and happiness in childhood. The primary large-scale purpose of the research is to clarify relations between temperament and happiness following the pattern of similar researches in adulthood, identify personality traits, which are especially important for happiness and, by this, contribute to efficiency of programs improving children’s wellbeing. The findings illustrated in ...

Public Health

Public Health Today, many diseases, which emerge can be transmitted to a large number of population in different parts of the world. Everyone is vulnerable, even though technology and other health care informatics are evolving every day. However, there are efforts from different professionals in the medical field to address all health concerns and diseases that target the human species. In 2015, the Zika virus disease has been identified as a local transmission in Brazil and continue to spread through different areas of the United States. In the following year, travel-associated cases have been reported to increase. In addition ...

Abstract

Scholars across the board have been persistent on the need for the near perfection of the concept of vital signs monitoring. Prior contributions to this field of knowledge all seem to bend towards correcting the wrongs that at times overwhelm the nursing practice, while at the same time constructing updates and ingenious suggestions towards the bettering of methods of monitoring vital signs. This paper cuts across the dimensions of nursing practice as applied in a reflective situation, and the evaluative outlook into the perks of vital signs monitoring as a physiological assessment process, its outcomes, and its repercussions both ...

Interview Response for Marketing Executive at Target Corporation

Interview Response for Marketing Executive at Target Corporation

I have never doubted my passion for serving customers as I love to share and interact with different people. Due to my prowess in languages, and my special ability to communicate effectively with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds, I find the advertised marketing executive position in Target Corporation a perfect chance for career growth. My decision to apply for the opening in your organization is also tied to my desire to utilize my interpersonal abilities, which I perfected when I worked as an intern in another organization called Joy’s Ltd. ...

Introduction

Nowadays, Math is comparatively accessible discipline to everyone, who is eager to master it, and has some basic logical skills. It is because of the wide range of contemporary textbooks, hundreds of helpful websites and numerous highly-qualified teachers and professors, who are not only acquainted with the discipline itself, but are also talented in the art of teaching. However, the situation was not so bright in the old times, when the books on Math could not have been comprehended by a common person. Moreover, many theoretical and practical issues still had not been resolved, which complicated the teaching process ...

Purpose

This paper intends to investigate how well the Pakistan pharmaceutical industry’s supply chain system performs. The thesis aims to achieve this purpose by examining the transportation, outsourcing, logistics management, and government regulations, and how these factors influence the efficiency and effectiveness of the pharmaceutical industry of Pakistan. In particular, the paper provides insights into the performance related practices used in the Pakistani pharmaceutical industry. Consequently, it points out the need for more research aimed at capturing dynamics and specific operational characteristics of local networks for development and improvement. Further, by denoting the relationship between system practices and SCM ...

Chapter 7

My general observation is that the society considers nurses as people who enhance the healthcare experience, while the real credit of serving healthcare, are taken by the physicians and the administrative staffs. Probably, a person admitted as an inpatient or admitted to the ICU would have realized the true value of nurses, but in general, the services of the nurse are often unappreciated and unrecognized. Though nurses engage in important healthcare activities, they are treated as subordinates and not as leaders of healthcare. Nurses rarely participate in decision making and in making a health plan. Lack of clear guidelines ...

A digital image is a numerical representation of (usually binary) a two-dimensional image. It could be of the vector or the raster type. Normally, the phrase “digital image” refers to raster or bitmapped images. Raster images possess a fixed amount of digital values, which are called picture elements or pixels. Every image has a fixed number of rows and columns of these pixels. The pixels are stored in the memory of computers as raster images consisting of arrays of numbers. These are stored and transmitted in compressed formats (Sprawls, 2017). Computers are able to produce descriptive information about a ...

In every single discipline in the world, one of the most important and vital part of their foundation, is ethics. Ethics, or the set of moral principles whereby a field bases its conduct, is something that is necessary to ensure that the practices exhibited in the field promote moral uprightness. Often times, a field’s code of ethics is something that limits and sets the standard of how and what a practitioner should only do while fulfilling tasks or duties. This is because these principles are made to ensure that the practitioner and other people who would be interacting ...

Benford's law also known as the first-digit law deals with the distribution of natural numbers in which it tends to major into their importance regarding significance. The law states that given any arrangement of natural numbers, the smallest number always seems to be the most significant while the largest number in the collection is always the least significant. Therefore, number 1 appears to be the most significant in any given combination of natural numbers 30% of the times. While on the other hand, number 9 appears only 5% of the times as the most significant number. The law states ...

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George, S., & Thomas, S. (2010). Lived experience of diabetes among older, rural people. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 66(5), 1092-1100.

What is the purpose of this research?

It is allowing insulin dependent diabetics expression of their experiences adopting the self-care management process. What is the research question (or questions)? This may be implicit or explicit. The implicit research question could read, what are the most appropriate self-care models suitable of elderly insulin dependent diabetics. Did the authors describe the research design of this study? If so, give a description. The research design in this study consists of a qualitative unstructured interview methodology. The actual design ...

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Introduction5 Literature Review..6 Conclusion....11 References..12 Abstract Negative (opposing or intimidating) events arouse robust and speedy physiological, rational, emotive, and social reactions. This organization of the organism is accompanied by physical, cognitive, and interactive results that diminish, lessen, and even wipe out the influence of that incident. This array of mobilization-minimization seems to be bigger for undesirable events than for unbiased or positive happenings. Hypothetical explanations of this response form are reviewed in this paper. Further, it will give a verdict on whether negative bias has been helpful or harmful to the process of human evolution. It is established that ...

Level of Education in Nursing

Level of Education in Nursing The nursing profession plays a huge role in delivering evidenced-based, safe, and high quality health care to patients. To be able to this, nurses must have the knowledge and skills that must be updated with the latest development in the medical field (Boz Yuksekdag, 2015). In the year 2010, the Institute of Medicine released a report that contains recommendations for the future of the nursing profession. It technically recommends the nurses’ continuance of knowledge through educational programs (Gooch, 2015). As a nurse, it is important to follow IOM’s recommendations to be aware of ...

Introduction

The advancement of information and communications technologies continues to transform the sports industry as athletes gain new and more advanced ways sporting activities and strategies. Technologies evolve over time and so do sports causing a major transformation of the sports' industry. The study of technology and sports plays a crucial role in understanding the relationship between the athlete's performance in the field and the available technologies to promote such performance. Moreover, the integration of technology in sports led to the discovery of major sports concussion and their causes. The following paper describes the understanding of sports and technology focusing ...

Continental drift is the theory which proposes that the world was originally made up of a single continent. With the passage of time, this continent was broken up, and it drifted apart to form the seven continents that are present today. It was proposed by Alfred Wegener whose hypothesis stands that the continents are made up of rocks that rest on the heavier weighing rocks on the crust, and this is a movement that is mimicked by icebergs on water. The continents move rigidly. Plate tectonics theory proposes that the Earth’s surface is actually broken up into a ...

One of the most notable changes that humanity has experienced and has been experiencing for the last decades, is the rapid and vast developments in technology. This has impacted the lives of people in many ways, and has extremely affected the way people function and do things nowadays. With technology, the tasks of people have become easier and more convenient to accomplish. However, one of the aspects that has undeniably been impacted greatly by technology, is the field of communication. Before, message transmission would need a long amount of time to reach its receiver, and even longer depending on ...

Product Introduction and the Market

Technology is developing at a rapid pace. These changes are influenced by the internal organizational strategies as well as an external environment that determines the evolution of consumer demand and expectations. Companies constantly seek for technology-driven solutions to operational excellence and enhanced customer experience (Porter, 2008). One of the most recent trends, driven by technological development are drones and the potential for these devices in the enhancement of customers' e-commerce experience. While academic and business literature outlines the polarization of the views on the use of delivery drones in the commercial market, the potential and attractiveness this service for ...

The theory of continental drift assumes that the earth is composed of one continent for billions of years. It slowly drifted apart to form the seven continents which could be recognized in the modern times. The drifting of the continents is mainly due to the lighter rocks at the surface which is influenced or moved by the heavier rocks beneath. On the other hand, the plate-tectonics theory assumes that the earth is composed of plates or slabs which are shifting or moving away or towards each other. The movements of the plate depend on the condition and chemistry of ...

Social changes refer to changes that happen over time affecting the behavioral patterns and accepted social norms and practices. Marketing as a practice has both a philosophical and practical definition with regards to its applicability in society.it can basically be defined as the activity and set of institutions for creating, communicating and delivery of offerings that have impacts on clients and society alike. By implementing social changes in the field of marketing, the benefits accrued from such endeavors are plentiful and more often end up having long-term social and economic effects. Examples of social changes that have been implemented ...

Business Audit: Coca Cola

Business Audit: Coca Cola

Executive Summary

This report takes a look at the business audit of the Coca-Cola Company. After introducing the audit, a brief background of the company is given. This is followed by a macro-analysis of the company. This analysis deals with the management tool i.e. PESTLE which details Coca Cola’s political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental analysis. This is followed by a micro-analysis i.e. the financial data relating to Coca Cola. The competitor analysis of the company is next in line. This includes the strategic groups in Coca Cola’s line of business. A perceptual mapping ...

René Magritte's oil on canvas painting The Son of Man (1964) has become a very popular visual text in a short period of time. The symbolism and unusual and enigmatic create a holistic picture of the semantic code that every viewer tries to interpret. Although the canvas contains a fairly small number of different details, as contrasted with Bosch or Rubens' paintings, yet there is a deep consisting of several layers meaning in it. The painting contains a number of visual symbols, which have already become some kind of the archetypes of modern society. The Son of Man (see ...

Art Business

Art inspired minds of people throughout the entire history of humankind. From the paintings on the walls of caves to beautiful art galleries, people tried to explain and share their thoughts using creativity and talent. My intense interest in Art dates back to my high school years when I took an Art course of higher level in the IB programme, but Art has always been a passion of mine. I was fascinated about the genius of the people who contributed to the history of art leaving their heritage for the next generations. My family always appreciated the value of ...

When it comes to Human Resource Management, things tend to get a tad bit trickier considering how the HR department’s entire job is to maintain the upkeep of the people to ensure the upkeep of the facility. That being said, there are a few factors the HR department needs to consider before they can perfectly say that have done the best HR planning for the sports complex. For starters they need to make sure there are enough people doing the work and the maintenance of the facility is going as planned. Secondly, they need to make sure that ...

In the recent times the result and outcomes of health care systems, the well-being of patients and quality of health care given to populations is determined by outcome research. Public health research which often involves outcomes research sets to measure the result of different intervention methods and medical treatments that are offered to patients and populations. The study usually utilizes the basic sciences of statistical data and epidemiology with public health, clinical and policy orientation which draws from fields of psychology, sociology, economics and management sciences (Krumholz 2005). It is meant to help the stakeholders in the health sector ...

A dream team is a group of individuals entrusted in achieving certain set goals of an organization with much accuracy and efficiency. The team usually consists of professional experts from across many fields in the organization. The dream team has to be very inclusive in its representation in order to be able to achieve the desired outcomes of the given company (Maxwell & John 193). For instance, in the municipality case, the dream team is entitled to formulate the best strategy required to explore the underground water within the parcel of land. The dream team has to formulate a well-designed ...

Software engineering over the past decade has seen a tremendous drop in their level of professionalism. Risk factors associated with the decline in professionalism level are poor software qualities, a high cost of software development, failed deadline, poor implementation, poorly coordinated stages of software development, lack of proper staff motivation, and low return on investment. More surprisingly, a lot of unqualified and inexperienced software developers regularly are being hired to run software development at the expense of qualified software developer who has abandoned the industry and left to ruin. Statistics indicates that over 80 percent of software developments projects ...

Field Research Plan to a Best Buy Store to Determine who will be the Best Customers to Use Sales Mobile Phone App (Student’s Full Name) Field Research Plan to a Best Buy Store to Determine who will be the Best Customers to Use Sales Mobile Phone App

Description of the Space at Best Buy

The location of the Best Buy store that I chose to visit is the store located at Miami International Mall. I thought this store would be the best store for me to check out this store because it has a mobile trade-in center and it sells many mobile phones. Since the ...

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(Contact Person’s Name) (Contact Person’s Job Title) (Company’s Name) (Company’s Address) (Contact Number) (Email id) (Job ID#)

Dear Mr. /Miss _________________

I am writing this letter with the intention of forwarding my humble request to consider my application for the enrollment in the Physician Assistant Program at Miami Dade College. The possession of fundamental knowledge concerning the medical field along with the acquirement of Associates Degree from your revered college has inspired me to advance in the same field. Even though I attained a Bachelor’s Degree in International Studies, I could not feel passionate ...

Introduction

Engineering profession in Canada is self-regulated while in the U.S. it is state-regulated. However, there has been a long-standing debate on whether self-regulation in the engineering profession in Canada has served the public interest in a similar way as the U.S. and other state-regulated regimes. Before engineering was made a self-regulated profession in Canada, there were other professions like medicine and law which were being self-regulated. However, these self-regulated fields had been marred with numerous scandals because they were putting their interests before those of the public. They would increase the cost of professional services and engage in professional ...

Introduction

Leadership is a necessity in any social setup and is more specialized when it comes to the medical setup. This is because it involves various parties, ranging from doctors, nurses, patients, staff and other people within the system. However, nursing leadership stands out as specialized because of the need to have a sense of direction. Leadership in nursing involves the issue of influencing and making people follow instruction as well as adhere to authority and set up social control systems. In this paper, there will be a detailed discussion about nursing leadership, personal perceptions on the values and beliefs ...

Self-Regulation or State Regulation?

Abstract – This paper is about the analysis of the effectiveness of self-regulation and state regulation of the engineering profession in Canada and in the United States. Canada uses self-regulation while the United States uses state regulation. In analyzing the nature, advantages and disadvantages of both of the models of professional regulation, one could recognize that they are equally effective in regulating the engineering profession.

Keywords – engineering, professionals, self-regulation, state regulation, and licensure.

Introduction Professionals are considered as a vital part of the society. Professions such as engineering could be helpful in the society through helping in the building establishments, operating industrial processes and developing new technologies which ...

There are many elements of ethics, integrity and morality that will be very helpful in the area of criminal justice. Humanity needs to have trust in the representatives of the judicial and criminal system. Some of the elements that should be used in criminal justice are consistency, respect to all and telling the whole truth. Criminal justice is a branch that is in charge of people’s destinies. Therefore, everyone should be viewed equally. In this case, consistency will be a very great element to remember and use in this field. It is important to view all the cases ...

The article under the title “Heutagogy and lifelong learning: A review of heutagogical practice and self-determined learning” by Lisa Marie Blaschke is reviewed in this paper, aimed at the revealing of its importance, its strong and, perhaps, weak sides.

Summary of the Article and Author’s Recommendations

The analyzed article gives a reader a short outline of the development in education field: from pedagogy to andragogy, and then – to heutagogy, with a specific attention paid to the benefits of the application of the last element of this hierarchy (heutagogy) in a strong connection with Web 2.0. What is more, Blaschke (2012) has suggested to consider the heutagogy ...

Introduction

The First Persian Gulf War was triggered in August 1990 when Iraq invaded neighbouring Kuwait for their oil reserves and ensuring their debts were cancelled. Iraq’s leader Saddam Hussein claimed that Kuwait were guilty of slant drilling and over production, of crude oil, which significantly hurt the Iraqi economy as they were reeling from the after-effects of a long war with Iran. Different historians present their own reasons for the start and the First Persian Gulf War and factors behind the involvement of the global coalition to defeat Iraq.

Findings

Geoff Simons mentions his book, Iraq: From Sumer to ...

The necessity for the tracking devices in every system that relates to assets continues to increase. Tracking makes it easy to locate the position of an item, especially if one misplaces the item. However, people have diverse views relating to the application of tracking devices in the business environment (Krebs & Duncan, 2015). The tracking devices also vary, and people tend to employ them depending on the performance of the devices. Most devices perform the task better than others do, and that makes it necessary to have a given type of tracking device. The current study will entail the analysis ...

Introduction

Globalization and development of technology brought into the picture significant changes in social and economic environments, shaping new organizational strategies, based on human capital and innovation as central concepts of competitive advantage (Swanson and Elwood, 2009). That said information and learning processes became significantly more accessible, while employment relationships are increasingly complex. Some of the latest trends in Strategic HRM include informal learning and information sharing through a digital environment, unsolicited and innovative approach to job hunting and recruitment and selection, online-based HRM Journals and other important aspects of this body of knowledge. The purpose of this work is ...

The ethical issues do not exist in a vacuum but rather, they evolve, adapt and emerge with the socio-cultural and socio-economic context of a certain society. Over the past years, the field of the professional ethics has gained attention. Most of the discussion on ethical issues began in the 1960s with the blending of medicines, legalities, and ethics that are now known as the bioethics. The emergence of this ethics was to discuss how the healthcare and research regulations and decisions could be made, and the long-term implication they could have to research. The ACA code of ethics has ...

The number of specialized fields in nursing have increased significantly making nurses the largest workforce in US. With the ever-increasing population, the nursing profession requires certification of additional nurses annually. However, the field has called for various specialties that are categorized in respect to different duties, expected salaries, and certification requirement. Although every specialty is equally important when it comes to patient treatment, some specialties are popular than others depending on the duties held by the nurses. This essay will address a few nursing specialties majoring on clinical nurse specialist, the duties given to the nurses, their annual salaries, ...

Informational interview with a University Information Communication Technology (ICT) Director

Me: What amount of formal education is required in your field? Is there any special training or advanced degree required? In your opinion what majors or courses are the best? Director: For one to be an ICT director must have gone through formal training at different levels. At least three degrees (undergraduate, masters and doctorate) are required for the job. Apart from the formal training, one must also have special training in technical areas to enhance the practical skills necessary for the job. Computer Science or Information Technology is the major course for this profession since the issues handled ...

Part A:

Preliminary Field List Employee ID Employee First Name Employee Last Name Home Phone Work Phone Type of employee Reporting Station Physical work location Current Salary Old Salary Payroll date Net Pay Expenses Reimbursed Bonus or extra pay Preliminary table list Employee Payroll Description of methodology for refining the lists: The process of refining the lists above will mainly involve two methods, which are using the list of subjects, and using the mission objective. The first method (using the list if subjects) will involve merging the list of subjects with the preliminary table list. In this case, the list of ...

Why is employee engagement an important consideration for people managers today? Discuss the ways in which employee engagement can impact an organization?

Introduction

Employee Engagement is the rational and emotional commitment that employees have with the company. An engaged employee is the one who shares the vision of the company and finds of belonging to the organization, and also finds sense to the work that he performs for chasing the organizational objectives. That employee is willing to strive voluntarily above of what is asked. The employee engagement actions that are aimed at increase this feeling have an impact on innumerable ...

When it comes to weather related hazards, a major problem that my city often faces is that of tornadoes. Now fortunately, this is something that only happens in the spring time. However, when it does occur, major issues can occur. This not only relates to homes being destroyed, but sometimes, because of the tornadoes, there is also flooding too. The reason this happens, is because of the fire hydrants that burst from the impact that the tornadoes end up producing. Moreover, tornadoes can also cause massive gas leaks as well. Now, this all depends on how impactful and large ...

A survey was conducted by Community Foundation for Monterey County (2016) to identify the primary causes of homelessness for women, the needs and challenges that homeless women face, local policy considerations, existing services, and other recommendations. The data was collected from 38 public officials and service providers, and 60 homeless women in Monterey Peninsula. A sample of 60 homeless women generously participated in the study. The measurement tools that were used in the study were interviews, surveys, and group conversations. Also, a policy examination was conducted to find the environmental factors and policies that impact the homeless women in ...

Summary Of Proposed Research

Global drought not only affects the world agriculture and economics, but interactively affects the phenotypic trait of plants across a different diversity gradient. Nevertheless, plants are able to adapt themselves to the drought environment by changing their phenotypic trait. From previous research at Jena Drought Experiment, in Germany, the results show that diversity not only has the capability to increase community’s resistance to drought, but also to increase community’s recovery ability after drought. On the other hand, the results show that the drought environment makes a strong selection on both, the plant phylogeny and functional trait. Yet, ...

Chromatography is a laboratory method or technique to separate various compounds such as inorganic or organic substances for further analysis, evaluation or testing (Chavan et al. 283). It is an important tool since it could be used in numerous fields of sciences. It provides a way for analyzing mixtures or solvents which could not be easily separated through physical methods. It is also an important method due to its simplicity. One of the most important applications of chromatography is its use in forensic science or other types of investigation. This method is often used in analyzing substances which are ...

What is the purpose of this research?

What is the research question (or questions)? This may be implicit or explicit. Did the authors describe the research design of this study? If so, give a description. The researchers/authors stated that they used unstructured interviews to assess patient experiences with the help of purposive sampling. All interviews were based on open questions and the interviews were assessed based on existential phenomenology (Witlatch n/d.). The authors were inspired by the concept of interviewing patients and phenomenology based on French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (George & Thomas 2010). Phenomenology is based on the assessing individual experiences which help in identifying key ...

Introduction

The focus of the research is on determining how the changing role of the field of Transitional Nursing can affect the quality of healthcare that is provided to the elderly population. Initial research has revealed that people above the ages of 50 are considered to be more at-risk for contracting chronic diseases, and also for relapses because of various demographic and lifestyle factors. The focus of this paper is on developing a study design and sampling methodology for the research, as well as formulating flow charts and maps in order to better understand the dependent and independent variables involved ...

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Change Model for Short-Term Change

The planned change is to set-up a website to sell-off long-standing inventory items. This change is small and specific and would involve only a small number of people. For this kind of scenario, the Action Research would be suitable (Weiss, 2016). It has been proven effective for planned change for small to medium-scale change interventions. It can allow implementers to immediately go into planning and implementation through data collection and analysis. The project leader will also act as a change consultant to effect the implementation of the website. His first task is to identify impacts of ...

[Client’s name] [Institutional Affiliations] The article by Hitesh Bhasin is one of the latest news update on the service marketing. The article is directly related to the field of study, and it is very thought provoking. That is why I chose it. It is said in the article that services have zero inventory. This article made to think about the non-recurring services and the peculiarities of the service marketing in this case. Once given services are sold forever. The service business perishes, so the marketing strategy in this sphere should be built accordingly. That is also meant that ...

The chosen theorist is Dorothea Orem, who was born in 1914 and died in 2007. She started her career after earning a diploma at Providence Hospital in Washington DC. In the start of her career, she worked as a nurse staff and then she became a nurse educator as well as administrator and nurse consultant. Also, with the help of her experiences, degree of doctorate level, she successfully introduced her general theory of nursing related to self-care, self-care deficit, and nursing system. However, the main focus of Orem was on self-care theory. Orem has defined four meta-paradigm concepts in ...