Essays on Fixes

Part One

The main purpose of the article is “to assess the concept of grade inflation in higher education institutions in an effort to determine its prevalence, causes, and strategies that can be implemented to curtail it” (Tucker & Courts, 2010, p. 45). The researchers used “A literature review of the problem, as well as several strategies, are presented as possible solutions to restraining the problem of escalating grades in the college classroom” to achieve their objective (Tucker & Courts, 2010, p. 45). The authors established that “The problem of grade inflation has been a topic of concern for over a century and ...

Integrative Research Project

Abstract This research project aims to establish how the organization can increase its competitive advantage by requiring supply chain vendors to meet ENOC’s standards. A qualitative research methodology was used, and the research design is to carry out semi-structured interviews over the telephone. The semi-structured interview allowed interviewees to expand on their thoughts and experiences while the researcher guides the conversation to say on the topic. Interviews were performed over the telephone with employees at ENOC and employs with ENOC’s supply chain vendors to collect data. The data analysis was carried out by evaluating the results of ...

Project Scope Management

At this initial stage, there must be clearly defined the boundaries of the project: the project’s goals and objectives and the deliverables that it must produce are addressed here (PM4Dev, 2007). The goal of the project is to create a new software for the wand product, which is already in the use, in order to comply with the new governmental regulations. An important objective is to incorporate new functionality and software fixes, which are not required by regulations, but are pursued by PROVISION for enhanced quality purposes. The deliverables will consist in:

A new software that respects the patient safety governmental regulations and will be compatible with the hardware (the wand).

Software fixes and new functionality incorporated ...

Introduction

Definition of ethical issues Back ground information on “Volkswagen emission scandal” Issue of violation notice Accusations against the company Discussion How the problems were addressed by the company leaders Company denial of manipulation of tests Company official’s admission of tests manipulation Recall of vehicles Announcement of new diesel strategy Halt of company sales on the affected vehicles Compensation of VW and Audi owners in the US Implications of the company decisions Loss of trust and confidence Sales reduction Inconvenience and mistrust How I would have addressed the issue as an employee of the company Report the matter My ...

Business

Research Paper: Literature review Devising business models that meet the customers’ demands, satisfy regulatory agencies and carrying out business with sustainable methods to alleviate climate change and other environmental problems as much as possible (Boons et al., 2013; Lee & Casalegno, 2010). The types of methodologies addressed here have been implemented at ENOC or in the UK energy sector. At the heart of the management methods is customer satisfaction. Emiratisation, customer satisfaction and operational theory are seen as the potential answer to meeting new management milestones for Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC). Emiratisation is a UAE government initiative to reach ...

The term global finance describes the existence of a financial system that comprises of regulators and institutions that perform various financial transactions on an international front. By definition, the term does not constitute institutions and regulators that act on local and regional capacities. Instead, its primary components include huge financial institutions such as the IMF and a series of national agencies and federal departments. These agencies and departments include finance ministries, federal banks, and multinational private financial organizations. Contrarily, banking refers to the corporate activity of receiving and protecting private money as well as offering financial credit to earn ...

Question 1: Microsoft updates and Performance monitor:

Microsoft updates its software products either using hot fixes or the Microsoft update service. Hot fixes are updates sent as executable file that is downloaded onto the computer and installed by the user. They are used for Microsoft software that use Hotfix.exe as the updater e.g. Windows NT 4.0. The Microsoft updates service updates Microsoft products by downloading live updates from the internet after scanning the computer. These kinds of updates are usually bug fixes and additional features to improve system performance and security. Hot fixes are released to fix specific problems and they come as executable files, while ...

Java’s popularity and portability have brought about detrimental attention from the cracking community (Websense 2) requiring research to plug loopholes. Different versions of Java Runtime Environments (JRE) are under attack. Despite efforts by Sun microsystems, and now, Oracle to patch the holes, vulnerabilities are still present albeit unpublished. The result is that Java based programs are increasingly targeted in systems running Windows operating systems (Oremus) Macintosh Systems with old versions of Java are also prone to attacks. Websense security Labs found that unpatched Java encourages exploits (3). The study targeted 900 million endpoints in their intelligence cloud. ...

Abstract

System archetypes can be described as the behavioral patterns of the system. There is always a similar structure for systems expressed by circles of causality. To enable efficiency in changing the system, one should be able to identify the systems archetype and finds its leverage. A system can be drawn as a diagram set up with circles of casualty. These circles include actions, feedbacks and delays. In a system, every action has a reaction that is referred to as feedbacks; reinforcing feedback and balancing feedback. These feedbacks do not always happen immediately since the process might have delays. Reinforcing feedback is also referred ...

WRITING ASSIGNMENT 2: THE X SCENE

Part one Dusk. Pounding sound of heavy rain. Fully dressed, X lies on the bed, gazing at the ceiling. After a moment, X gets up slowly and walks to the dresser. She stares at the mirror, at the woman that she has become. With calculated but daring movement, she opens the drawer and stares at the black, hidden weapon. Almost immediately, with a reflex action that is forced by her emotions, she turns her eyes away and concentrates on making herself look good, just like instructed. With dignified movement, she opens the make-up drawer and selects what she thinks befits ...

Question 1

Social engineering can be defined as the non-technical way in which intrusion to information systems can be broken into with the use of human interaction and tricks that are more of social than technical. Social engineering is a common means in which virus developers will try to break into a system. Social engineering will try to trick the computer user to give some information that will give a hint to the social engineer to break into the system. The social engineer will try to play what is referred to as a con game which is a way in which they will gain the ...

Introduction

Front end, in computer science, is responsible for collecting inputs from various users and processing the data to conform to the requirements of the end user. The front user database is a platform between the user and the back end user. In computer software architecture and design there are many layers between the hardware and the end user. Each interface between the hardware and the end user can be spoken as having its own front user interface. The front user interface is, therefore, an abstraction, which simplifies the core components by providing a user-friendly interface. In the design of the websites, ...

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Introduction Investment activity is risky, as a rule, long-term investment of resources in certain assets with a view to profit. Investments can be divided into real and financial. Real investments are investments in physical capital (current assets, fixed assets, construction, etc.) and intangible (education, advertising, etc.) assets. Financial investments represent investments in the acquisition of financial assets (securities). For many investors, the priority investment is just the financial investment, since it provides them with endless possibilities. Of course, what would be the most efficient disposition of capital, you need ...

Memorandum for Board of Directors

It is common knowledge that most organizations are adopting technological advancements to better their service delivery techniques. Healthcare is no better. Healthcare professionals and personnel are increasingly incorporating and employing technology-based alternatives to support and improve healthcare delivery. Electronic Health Records are rapidly gaining traction all over the world. Information systems technologies are utilized to store retrieve and exchange medical data and information thus allowing seamless provision of healthcare across social, cultural, geographical and temporal barriers. As mandated by my job description as the CIO I would like to comment on the safety of Electronic Health Records in ...

Current Business Problems and Possible Solutions

Abstract The Sugar industry in Pakistan has been forced to face a number of problems in the recent years, especially for those people who are stake holders in them, most notably those of the raw material suppliers, the employees and the mill owners. Government intervention in the form of price flooring and the inability of some sugar mills such as Kohinoor Sugar mills limited in keeping up the technology pace with other larger, more technology suave sugar mills has resulted in numerous problems for the management. This paper explores some of the current problems being faced by Kohinoor Sugar ...

Abstract

The labor unions have provisions and features which allow for more discrimination based on race and ethnicity. They were historically detrimental to minority workers, especially the Blacks. This paper will focus on the historic vulnerabilities of the minority workers, specifically the Blacks and the Chinese workers during the 1800’s. These vulnerabilities pose a dangerous risk to the continued manifestation and persistence of discrimination among minority workers. This paper, therefore, intends to illustrate the ways by which labor unions put the Blacks and the Chinese workers to a great disadvantage in the past. This knowledge would be essential in generating ...

A market is the interaction of buyers and sellers to exchange goods and services. It can also be defined as a system that is used to allocate scarce resources based on the interaction of forces of demand and supply. Market economies range from free market economies where prices are purely determined by market forces to mixed economies where the state controls the price mechanism[ CITATION Duf06 \l 1033 ]. In perfectly competitive markets, prices are only determined by forces of demand and supply. In these markets, prices adjust downwards and upwards to achieve equilibrium between in-coming goods and services for ...