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Jack Nietzche

Promotion is one of the most effective tools that helps to motivate the workers, and subsequently, promote the employees' productivity. This case study provides an insight of a scenario where an employee, Jack Nietzche, is putting an extra effort to acquire that promotion, but the director of the project is reluctant of that incentive. As a result, the dilemma arises as to whether to tell Jack about the situation or not while bearing in mind that this might affect Jack's emotions and might adversely affect the project. If Jack inquires whether the new assignments were made, it is essential ...

Twitter before anything else a tool of communication, which large companies, such as airlines for example, use to improve the relationships with their clients providing them with a follow-up or additional customer care service. However, there are numerous ill-made decisions and misuse of the Twitter potential in terms of branding and upholding the image of the company.

Discussion

The companies that drew attention to their proficient skill in using the Twitter platform are American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines, and United Airlines. It is obvious that the general principles of use are similar. However, each company has a specific ...

{Author Name [first-name middle-name-initials last-name]} {Institution Affiliation [name of Author’s institute]} Behavior and substance abuse related issues are also a challenge to the every section of the society. The problem of substance abuse has been common across all the cultures and occupations as well as nursing profession. The data suggests that one out of ten nurses may be impaired, taking drugs or has been a drug addict. According to the calculations of the American Nurses Association (1997) 10-20% nurses have the problem of chemical impairment or substance abuse and 6% to 8% registered nurses are the victim of ...

Video in Opera Stage

Introduction Advances in technology and the corresponding creation of digital technologies have significantly impacted the performing arts (Poole & Ho, 2011). Opera has not escaped the technological advancements and as such, new forms of opera have emerged in both digital and virtual formats (Symonds & Karantonis, 2013). Salter (2010) explains that since the 1990s, the scenography of opera has emerged with technological advancements transforming stages into video and monitor accompaniments. The obvious payoff is an enhanced experiential, virtual reality of the opera’s stage. The new technologies blur the lines between the opera’s stage and the motion picture common in ...

The demographic profile

As it has been indicated by Kumar et al (2014) in the scope of their study, the lion share of the statistical data on demographic profile of epilepsy from both developed and developing countries may be referred as a retrospective one. It means that there is an insignificant number of the studies, which pertain to the selected age group – children in the current realities of the 21st century (Garzon et al 237-245). As it was indicated by Garzon et al (2003), the core limiting factor in this case is the access to the professional health care services in the ...

UTI presents with pain when urinating, a strong and persistent urge to pass urine, cloudiness in urine, strong odor in urine, pelvic pain, colored urine and frequent passing of urine in small quantities (Foxman, 2014. Presenting with the above symptoms is confirmation for the presence of a UTI. However, in other cases, a similar, yet close disorder named IC (interstitial cystitis) may be present. Both conditions present with fever and chills, colored urine that is cloudy, abnormal frequent urination, itching when urinating and persistent urge to urinate. In order to differentiate UTI from IC, a physician may request for ...

Dementia is a package of signs and symptoms which include personality change, impaired intellectual functions, and memory loss which come as a result of trauma to the brain or disease (Godbolt et al. S247). Unfortunately, these changes severely affect independence, relationships, and daily living. However, they do not count as part and parcel of normal aging. There are numerous forms of dementia which include vascular and mixed dementia but Alzheimer’s disease happens to be the most common type (Mitchell 443). A person affected by dementia portrays a noticeable decline in remembering, learning, communication and problem-solving. Often, these changes ...

Diabetes is a chronic metabolic disorder, which is based on the formation of insulin deficiency and an increase in blood glucose levels. Among metabolic disorders the diabetes occupies a second place after obesity. In the world about 10% of the population suffer from diabetes, however, when one considers hidden form of the disease, this figure can be 3-4 times higher. Diabetes develops due to chronic deficiency of insulin and it is accompanied by disorders of carbohydrate, protein and fat metabolism. By interfacing with other diseases endocrinology highlights symptomatic (secondary) and true diabetes. Symptomatic diabetes accompanies diseases of the endocrine ...

Literature Review

Overview The research question is essential for any study; as it will enable the researcher to focus on a particular subject to do research. The research question for this study is the effect of direct communication between the CEO and the employees when it comes to Job satisfaction. The question allows the researcher to focus on the concept of job satisfaction, internal communication the roles of both the CEO and the employees, and the factors that influence communication enhancement. Internal communication is the frequency of interaction between the upper level of management and the lower level of management (Bloom, ...

Strengths of Sofitel Hangzhou Westlake 4

Weaknesses of Sofitel Hangzhou Westlake 6 Opportunities which Sofitel Hangzhou Westlake can Exploit 7 Threats to which Sofitel Hangzhou Westlake is Exposed 7 3.0 Strategy Proposed 8 4.0 Critical Evaluation of the Problems Identified 8

Using Six Hats Thinking Approach for Problem Solving 9

Blue Hat 9 White Hat 9 Red Hat 10 Black Hat 10 Yellow Hat 10 Green Hat 11 Application of Mintzberg’s Theory at Sofitel Hangzhou Westlake 11 Interpersonal use of Managerial Skills 11 Informational Role of Managers to Solve Problems 12 Decisional Role of Managers for Dealing with the Issue 13 5.0 Conclusion 13

References 14

Strategic Management Analysis of Sofitel Hangzhou Westlake in China ...

Background

The Chinese market is characterized by a population, which is vibrant and large enough to facilitate and ensure the growth of businesses in China. The coffee consumption market is one, which has been on an increasing trajectory in terms of increase in the number of consumers for the product. The culture of the consumption of the product was increased by the presence of Starbucks a western franchise that delivers coffee in various parts of the world, and which has been the highest force of competition for Maan Coffee franchise. However, the greatest problem affecting the business entity associated with ...

Two main challenges can be identified from the video. Firstly, the teaching faculty individual fails to provide comprehensible information to the nursing student. She is in a rush to provide instructions to the student, who is clearly anxious about her first clinical experience. The vague information leads to the student to wander around in the busy environment at the hospital. Secondly, the nurse preceptor is very busy and thus dismissive of the student’s situation. She fails to provide guidance to the student during her clinical experience. The above issues can be effectively dealt with from three perspectives; from ...

Educational affiliation

Abstract Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethics The paper analyses the role of the ethics and corporate state responsibility in the terms of the automotive industry. The study is to evaluate the role of the local ethics and the Corporate Social Responsibility in the process of the international development of the automotive industry. The key objectives are to evaluate the roles of these two concepts, find out the role of the customers’ awareness of the unethical behavior, and describe the patterns of change. The study validates why the car industry should focus on the ethical considerations and the CSR. This ...

The Christian Bible and Islamic Quran chare a surprising number of similar themes and ideas as a result of their shared religious heritage and birthplaces; an example of this is found in the Bible’s “Sermon on the Mount” parable from the Mathew Gospel and the Quran’s “Lord of Mercy”. It is important to note that the Lord of Mercy referenced by the Koran can include a number of passages, as Allah is directly references as the Lord of Mercy many times; unless specified otherwise, this report will refer primarily to the opening of the Koran for simplicity. ...

<<Student Name>> <<Professor Name>> <<Course Title>> <<Date>> Branding Strategy: The Company plans to invest and efficiently manage its branding strategy to achieve its growth objectives. The core of the company’s success lies in implementing a relevant and coherent branding strategy. Defining each and every element of the branding strategy will enable management, customers and employees to understand what the brand vision is and what the company aims to achieve. This is really important if the company has to fight and grow in a competitive market place. ...

Executive Summary

The proper analysis of both micro and macro environmental factors of a business is important since it keeps any particular organization ahead of its competitors and also ensures that operations are stable. The environmental analysis provides the business framework upon which the organization leverages for its strategic plan. It is important that companies keep in touch with various environmental changes that take place so as to improve the sustainability of their operations. The hospitality industry is among the sectors that face frequent changes in the environmental factors thereby triggering the need for global companies such as Hilton Hotels and ...

Achieving optimal staffing levels of nurses especially in the cardiac unit is a huge milestone that would help in minimizing adverse events, increase job satisfaction among nurses and ultimately foster quality outcomes. Hence, this emphasizes the need to develop a comprehensive implementation plan relating to the proposed solution in order to ensure that the intervention is properly integrated into the organizational system and subsequently enhance care delivery. The project is based in a cardiac care unit and shall involve various stakeholders including: the senior hospital administrators, nurse managers and the general nursing staff. Thus, it is important to obtain ...

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Executive Summary 3 Introduction 4 Discussion 4 Conclusion 7

References 10

Executive Summary Quality education is not always equals to a higher budget. This kind of education can be achieved by maximizing the readily available resources and optimizing human resource skills, and using modern technology at human advantage. When environment and human resources, and modern technology are properly used, an excellent quality of education is possible without the fear of workers’ strike and student protests. This study wants to present a possibility of a cost less quality education among the leaders and administrators of St. Vincent Community College. It is a ...

Information Technology Project Management

The relationship between organizational culture and project management Organizational culture has a great impact on the performance of the project because it influences strategies, structures, systems, cultures, and behavioral processes of the organization. Efficient execution of the project requires planning, organizing, and control that form the basic part of organizational culture.

Types of culture that promote a strong project environment

An effective project must have a strong project team culture. According to Schwalbe (2016), a culture of co-operation between the project management and line management helps strengthen the project environment. Moreover, the effective government creates a positive project environment by making sure the organization’s engagement and interest ...

Executive Summary 3

Introduction 4 Theoretical Background 4 Brand Love Scales 4 Definition of Love 5 Personality of Brand 5 Image of the Brand 5 Brand Love’s Elements 6 Brand Romance 7 Brand Attitude 7 Brand Loyalty 7 Fashion Brands Love 8 Brand Love in Cell Phone Industry 8 Brand Love Creation by the Companies 8 Apple/Samsung/Huawei 8 PepsiCo 9 Benetton 9 Conclusion 9

BIBLIOGRAPHY 10

Executive Summary Brand love is a relatively new phenomenon actively discussed by the scholars and marketing professionals. Brand love is necessary for the modern companies to successfully attract and retain their customers. Moreover, it helps to convince ...

Patient name: Be than, Beta

Data source: patient Chief Compliant & ID: Mr. Be than is a 24 y/o had visited a doctor six months ago complaining persistent headache History of Current Illness This 24 years gentleman had visited a doctor six months ago. The man states he started having headache and shivering two days before he visited the doctor. He noticed that a headache was becoming more persistent although he only experienced the shivering in the evening hours. A headache began from the cerebral part and radiated with time to the entire head. The patient states that he started experiencing the headache one evening ...

EDU 100: Issues in Education

Choosing a major is very difficult. In many cases, it determines the activity that a person will do for the rest of his or her life. Students have to consider some important aspects when deciding what the emphasis of their college studies and further career will be. This is problematic in many respects. In this sense, Koeppel (2004) affirms that the main factor that influences the decision-making on a college major is the age of students. He states that, since young adults are in the midst of self-discovery, making such an important decision puts an incredibly heavy pressure on ...

Step1: Patient situation:

The first step in clinical reasoning is to describe the patient in the context of the clinical situation. Ms. Melody King, a 36-year-old female was presented for an emergency laparoscopic surgery for a ruptured appendix. She has a medical history of asthma and depression. Her medication list includes Ventolin, Seretide, Sertraline. Postoperatively, Melody developed peritonitis and was treated with antibiotics and analgesic. The biopsy results of Melody’s sample revealed the presence of adenocarcinoma. Melody will need to undergo a few most test, and till then continue her stay at the hospital. The diagnostic tests: CT scan of chest, ...

Abstract

Most organizations and businesses have reported a loss of billions of money while others have become bankrupt leading to closure. Security breaches have propagated most of these events due to the kind of technology implemented. Mobile devices and Internet connections have been on top of the list. As technology keeps on evolving, different convenient methods of communication and accessing information keeps on improving. This evolution leads to new cybercrime activities which have posed to be a significant threat to financial growth in different economic sectors. However, there have been the implementation of new methods to curb the security breaches ...

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to analyze the relationship between social networking and face-to-face communication with respect to their influence on the social interaction skills. The first aim of the research has to determine whether there is a causal relationship between use of social networking tools and face-to-face communication behaviors. The research aims to investigate the hypothesis. There will be a statistically significant difference in change/gain scores for communication behaviors between the experimental group and the control group; Face-to-face communication is associated with the students’ social media networking habits (i.e. time spent on social media networking). There will ...

<<Student Name>> <<Professor Name>> <<Course Title>> <<Date>> Marketing Mission: The mission of the company is to create a separate niche market in the travel kit category by launching new variants of kits with exciting combinations of high-end products. The products will be highly valued by the target customers and will have a novelty value at the right price. The company aims to target customers through various channels. Primarily targeting travelers who are high end, the company will use distinct strategies to reach the customers and promote the ...

Report Plan

Abstract The proper analysis of both micro and macro environmental factors of a business is important since it keeps any particular organization ahead of its competitors as well as ensures operations are stable. The environmental analysis provides the business framework upon which the organization relies for its strategic plan. It is important that companies keep in touch with various environmental changes that take place so as to improve the sustainability of their operations. The hospitality industry is among the sectors that face frequent changes in the environmental factors thereby triggering the need for global companies such as Hilton Hotels ...

Marketing Audit and Plan of QANTAS Airline

Organizational view The airline industry is a fastest growing services industry in the world that is providing air transport services to the traveling passengers and freight. I am very inspired by the industry business, and it provided valuable service to me. I have gathered some information and aware about a leading Australian Airline company, Qantas. The marketing audit is and empirical study of the company that Qantas to understand the global market’s demand and examine the competitors’ market. It also helps the management to investigate the current marketing aspects and set future strategies. I am familiar with the ...

When a company dismisses the employee either permanently or temporarily for several reasons, then it is called layoff. In the past, the term layoff was understood for the temporary dismissal of the employees but nowadays it also includes the permanent dismissal. There can be several reasons for temporary dismissal of the employees like economic conditions, economic cycle, production shifts and several other reasons. The employees who are temporarily laid off can join the organization back when the situation improves, or their behavior improves as per the organization requirement. Seasonality nature of the work can also cause the temporary layoff. ...

A lot of recent medical articles have been written on problematic issues in the context of relations between physicians and patients, nurses and health care consumers. As for the hemodialysis procedure, frequency of treatments depends on the kidney failure stage, but in many cases three times a week are prescribed. Thus, dialysis sessions become a part of patients’ daily life and unfortunately different reports show that the level of non-adherence is very high. Factors which contribute to non-adherence in hemodialysis patients vary significantly and depend on individuality of a patient. It is difficult to analyze all off of them ...

Sports Direct – A Brief Corporate Insight

Sports Direct International Plc (Sports Direct) is a chain of a retail store that was established in 1982. The entity was formed by Michael James Wallace Ashley, prominently known as Mike Ashley, who is also the owner of a football club, Newcastle United. Sports Direct is an origination of the United Kingdom (UK) and has more than 670 retail stores globally (Sports Direct, 2016). The corporate operations are segmented into two divisions namely Sports and Leisure, and Fashion and Lifestyle (Sports Direct, 2016). The Sports and Leisure division offers multiple and popular brands to target audience such as Nike, ...

Stelarc artist is a presentation expert, who is engrossed in involuntary, intimate, as well as alternate artistic occurrences. He has used robots, virtual reality networks, and medical to extend, enhance, and explore the body’s staging parameters. He started by exploring the body visually and acoustically, magnifying his blood flow, muscle signals, heartbeat, and brainwaves, and recording the inner part of his colon, stomach, and lungs (Mura 20). Having conducted experiments with restrictions the physique, Stelarc expanded the approaches to increase the skills, merging the physique with thinking computer systems, computer technologies, prosthetics, and medical imaginings like the virtual ...

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTIONS AND MORAL DISENGAGEMENT

Abstract New intuitions into the genesis and impacts of entrepreneurs’ immoral measures can be obtained through observation to moral disconnection, a cognitive system that disables the self-regulatory process that prevents humans from actions, which are variable with their personal moral values (Gladston, 2016, p. 102). Outcomes that are acquired with a specimen of Chinese enterprises indicate that the trader’s motivation for monetary victory is linked positively to moral disconnection and that similar disengagement, alternately, is linked positively to unethical resolutions. However, enthusiasm to attain self-realization is not connected to either unethical decisions or moral disengagement (Siltaoja & Lähdesmä ...

This statement is in response to the latest email I received from the dean of Fulton school of engineering. The letter accuses me of engaging in examination malpractices. The Dean claims that, according to the academic integrity rules EGR 217, I am guilty of cheating. Going into deeper detail, he claims that I cheated in question number 9 through the use of a mobile phone. This claim has left me deeply saddened and heartbroken. I am a student who values honesty and integrity, and as such, I would never even think of committing such an act. I have been ...

1) Airline Easyjet has developed a significant competitive strategy in order to enhance its overall business strategy. Their company focus can be seen as providing customers with an efficient and easily navigable process that transcends both on and offline. Easyjet have utilised several methods to compete with their rivals and cement their business strategy. Firstly, their instant check-in online option works to streamline the travel process that makes this less stressful for visitors within the busy airport setting. Alongside this, changes can be made more or less throughout the entire process that further solidifies their easy and accessible travel ...

Feelings of stress and demotivation are common in the workplace. According to statistics, 48% of employees throughout the world do not like their jobs, over 80% are stressed by their jobs, and 30% are inspired by their careers. Lack of motivation can be very costly for an organization considering that the result would be a loss in productivity. There are several causes of the feelings demotivation in the work environment which include micromanagement, the lack of progress, job insecurity, poor leadership and the lack of communication. This organization is very developed on account of sales and productivity and over ...

Chapter 5: Findings and Discussion

In all types of organizations, including cross culture project team in all organizations, the concepts of job motivation is crucial since it plays significant roles in impacting the productivity of organization within which they operate. This study was aimed at finding factors that influence project team members motivation and how this affects the project performance within the finance industry in a multinational and multicultural setting. It was also to address factors that motivate project team members at the commencement of projects thus exploring how project managers alter them to influence the team member needs and priorities. It is the ...

Abstract

There are several heart illnesses which cause a large number of deaths from stroke, coronary artery disease, aortic and peripheral illnesses. The treatment of the illnesses requires a huge amount of funds and time. Therefore, there is the need to improvise or innovate new ways to prevent or detect it on earlier. The sophisticated mechanism needs to be put in place to analyze medical data to give signs of the illness through the application of analytic algorithms to provide definite signs. Technology is evolving bringing about significant changes in the medical industry, especially in electronic health records. It has ...

Introduction

In spite of the contribution of urbanization to the economic growth in Zhejiang, its adverse effects far much outweigh the positives since sustainability of the ecosystem and the society is at stake. Environmental concerns, particularly air pollution, are real threats to the ecosystem since they lead to increased atmospheric temperatures which in turn result in climate changes. Urbanization contributes to pollution through higher energy consumption and motorization that have resulted in higher volumes of greenhouse gasses emitted in the air. The shrinking of natural resources is another consequence of urbanization where there is the rampant destruction of natural habitats, ...

Abstract

Medical personnel working in the emergency department encounter many cases of patients suffering from life threatening conditions. It is important, therefore, that the healthcare provider determines the exact extent of the injuries before the patient is committed to specialized treatment. In this case, a patient presents to the emergency department with a life threatening condition, renal failure. Assessing the vital signs of the patient is critical in ensuring survival, in addition to reducing or mitigating the extent of the injuries. The assessment was achieved via a primary survey of the patient, which involved assessing the airway patency, breathing and ...

Programming Assignment

Question one

An itemset is considered to be a closed pattern if all the intermediate supersets lacks the same support as the itemset (Han and Kamber 231). That is, if there is not item x in an itemset A such that each transaction containing A also contain x, then A is a closed pattern.

Maximum patterns

These are frequent patterns that lack the right super pattern. That is, if none of the intermediate supersets of an itemset is frequent, then the itemset is said to be maximal frequent (Han and Kamber 231).

Support

Support is defined as the frequency of the rule ...

Counter Measures to the Bullwhip Effect

Introduction The bullwhip effect is the unexpected distortion of the supply chain. It refers to the “variability of order rates” (Disney and Lambrecht, 2008, p. 3). This supply chain hazard has its roots in Jay Forrester’s Industrial Dynamics Theory of the late 1950s (Goldsby and Martichenko, 2005). Forrester was the first person to introduce the concept and simulate a model in 1961. There are many solutions to counter the bullwhip effect. The reason why there are many solutions to the bullwhip effect is because it is triggered by multiple causes. For instance, the most common cause is overreacting ...

The question of whether middle school students should be drug tested is getting hotter. Some people say that middle school students should not be tested, while others are for the test. I support that middle school students should be drug tested. I will support my stance through giving some pros of drug testing middle school students and then refuting the counterargument. Frequent drug testing of middle school students will help reduce the chances of drug abuse among the students. A survey that was conducted in New Jersey indicated that frequent drug testing makes students less likely to use drugs ...

Some places in Rwanda are prone to disasters. The most frequent natural disasters are floods and landslides, and both have a tremendous impact on human lives, property, infrastructure and the environment. For example, in May 2016, both disasters hit Gakenke and Muhanga, killing more than forty people. Rubavu and Ngororero were also hit, and seven people died in these places while others were left injured. Parts of Northern Rwanda are most susceptible to these disasters (REMA, 2011, 45). These include Rubavu Districts, Musanze, Nyabihu, and Burera. Although these are natural disasters, their magnitude is determined by a combination of ...

Summary/Analysis

INTRODUCTION Main idea: Frequent ethical lapses by corporate executives require university administrators and business school faculty members to evaluate study curricula regarding ethics

Specific Section: Ethical Egoism

Thesis statement: Despite the reinterpretation of ethical egoism, as long as it is based solely on self-interest, ethical teachings will be rendered useless.

SUMMARY

Business schools teach students to think critically and equip them with tools to be financially successful and become better contributors to the society. However, recent events in the corporate sectors have seen frequent lapses in ethical behavior. Maybe an evaluation is due regarding the ethics in the curriculums of business schools. Integrating ethical ...

Summary of the Decision Situation:

In the closing days of the first quarter of 2011 (March 28), The New York Times restricted access to its once free-read news website The Times, except for the home page and the front pages of each section (Kumar, et al., 2013). Users who exceed its free 20 articles each month were directed into its digital subscription page, which is referred to as “the paywall.” The test launching, however, occurred mid-way through March in Canada. The goal: to test paid reading acceptance. The newspaper battled for the value of its journalism. The critics decried its short-sightedness. However, the digital ...

Why do people have problems with the life cycle of their goods? Perhaps all of them would like to use the only one device forever not to spend extra money on the purchase of the new technical equipment made to facilitate their busy life. Whose fault if the thing from the market broke the next day? There is the answer to all of these questions. People are too busy to read the instructions of the exploitation carefully. Instead, they prefer to learn everything by touching, pushing and turning different parts of the bought device. If only all customers would ...

In the recent years practically in all corners of the world terrorist activity that is intended to become a global threat has dramatically increased. The most attractive objects for terrorists are vehicles being the very vulnerable. The terrorist attacks on transport are usually accompanied by a large number of victims, paralyzing the activities in the most important spheres of economy and destabilizing the situation in the society. Most often the attacks occur at the air transport entailing the greatest number of victims and representing a minimal threat to the terrorists. The terrible attacks of September 11, 2001, have dramatically ...

Karen appears to have a very positive attitude about her future. She seems to have realized that the end of her relationship wasn’t about her but was about the lack of commitment on her partner’s part. Karen’s strengths lie in the fact that she is positive about her future and that she is making plans for that future. She has an optimistic outlook on her dating future and is committing herself to a gym membership. This indicates that she is moving in a forward direction. Karen could be afraid of the stigma that can be attached ...

It is possible to make a statement that currently obesity is the large-scale problem for the population of the United States. The major argumentation for this statement is the fact that as soon as the obesity is diagnosed, there is a set of complications in terms of achievement of the normal weight by obsessed individuals. That is why, the preventive measures, related to obesity and maintenance of the normal weight among the population, have become the essential concerns for the public health. It was stated by the scholars that one of the most effective strategic options for the weight ...

Summary: The company had established monopoly in the market for the product,large sliding doors. A single customer accounted for ninety percent of the business of the company. Later on there were new entrants into the market. The company faced major competition from a new player who worked seriously to capture the existing market share of the company and lure the major customer. The company president feared that the new competitor might underbid the company and take away the major customer. The vice president was instructed to cut production costs and increase efficiency. The son of company president had ...

Business Strategy

Strategic Alliances: A Critical Analysis of Successful Alliances toward Knowledge Creation and Management Introduction Going beyond the current trends in the business literature on strategic alliances, this paper explores ways strategic alliances are helping organizational firms gain competitive edge, more particularly through opening the access to markets and eventually in the creation of knowledge. This is followed by analysis of issues surrounding strategic alliances, current business examples and challenges faced by organizations that form alliances. Finally, we conclude with a brief take on the future of strategic partnership and knowledge creation research.

The Meaning of Strategic Alliance

Since becoming a trend three decades ago, ...

Purpose of the Study

The purpose of this study is to find the connection between depression and suicide among youth, identify the percentage of young people that are affected by the depressive disorder and the percentage of those suffering from depression that have suicidal intentions. It is important to study this issue because mental illness and following suicide attempts is a wide-spread complicated problem all around the world nowadays.

Research Question/Hypothesis

Research questions of this study are as follows: What is the percentage of young people that suffer from depressive disorder? What is the percentage of depressed youth that have thoughts of suicide? Can depression ...

Roseola also known as exanthema subitum or Sixth disease is a viral infection caused by human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) common in infants and young children. The pathognomonic sign of roseola infantum is the development of acute high fever and febrile seizure. Commonly after defervescence, a rubelliform eruption or rash occurs. A clinical exam is needed to diagnose roseola and the treatment is symptomatic (Caserta, 2014). To patients who are immunosuppressed, HHV-6 is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. HHV-6B can also cause CNS disease in these immunocompromised patients ("Roseola Infantum", 2016).

Pathophysiology

The transmission of the HHV-6 is airborne, ...

Ray WA, Chung CP, Murray KT, Hall K, Stein C. Prescription of Long-Acting Opioids and Mortality in Patients With Chronic Noncancer Pain. JAMA. 2016;315(22):2415-2423. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.7789.

Prescription of Long-Acting Opioids and Mortality in Patients With Chronic Noncancer Pain Wayne A. Ray, PhD1; Cecilia P. Chung, MD, MPH2; Katherine T. Murray, MD2,3; Kathi Hall, BS1; C. Michael Stein, MB, ChB2,3 [+] Author Affiliations JAMA. 2016;315(22):2415-2423. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.7789.

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Abstract ABSTRACT | INTRODUCTION | METHODS | RESULTS | DISCUSSION | CONCLUSIONS | ARTICLE INFORMATION | REFERENCES Importance  Long-acting opioids increase the risk of unintentional overdose deaths but also may increase ...

Abstract

The article “Divorce Trends and Patterns in the Western World: A socio-legal overview”, written by Tony Fahey, contains a profound overview of all the patterns and trends in divorce in the modern world in developed countries of the Western World. It regards the definition of the world “divorce” and its meaning, the causes and reasons of divorce, the legal process, and usual consequences thereof. Tony Fahey has made a deep investigation of marital breakdown in the modern society over half of a century. The author indicates that though the number of divorces has radically increased recently, the reasons of ...

Question 1

It is evident that particulate matter is becoming increasingly concentrated in Asia as reported by WHO. Power plants, dust storms, fossil fuels burning in vehicles as well as various industrial facilities result in highly significant amounts of particulates in the Asian continent. People in countries such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, and Nepal are prone to and in most cases suffer from aggravating respiratory and heart diseases such as emphysema, bronchitis, and asthma. Bronchitis, characterized by coughing up of dry mucus which is sometimes colored, is an inflammation of the lining of the bronchial tubes that carry air to the ...

Introduction

Service marketing is a specific type of promotion of services that a business makes to its customers and clients. It is the promotional aspects that include the techniques that might be used to further and advance the reputation and notoriety associated with that product and/or service. This paper explores the concept of service marketing within eight experiences, and utilizes three service marketing constructs to examine how effectively said companies are marketing to consumers.

Methodology

For this particular research, both primary and secondary data were utilized. Primary data collection was an essential element of this report and was gathered by documenting ...

Diabetes in its generality is a condition that is associated with elevated blood sugar levels. When these elevations persist, the patient may experience cases of disturbance of other body systems and leading to poor functionality and ultimately a chronic condition that affects their quality of life. Type-2 diabetes (T2DM) is the most common type of diabetes whose impact on the health of populations has significantly been documented (Murrock, Taylor & Marino, 2013). Apparently, among the documented aspects of health disparities, T2DM is noted as one of the biggest health challenges for African Americans. The prevalence is even higher among women ...

Business Strategy

Strategic Alliances: A Critical Analysis of Successful Alliances toward Knowledge Creation and Management Introduction In today’s business landscape, creating sustainable value for customers and shareholders requires the initiation of an alliance strategy. Strategic alliances are alternative modes of global business operations that small to large enterprises are considering in order to achieve stronger and more effective market presence. Moreover, alliances are a fact of life for business, which needs to align present and future strategy to current radical technological and structural changes, globalization, and increased competitive pressures (Janczak, 2008). Meanwhile, the issues of trust, partner selection, and the ...