Essays on Invention

Economic Implication of Prescription Drug Coverage and Generic Drugs

The prices of drugs have been increasing over years. The increase has serious but different economic implications to individuals and the health care system.

Individual Point of View

The prices of prescribed drugs have been increasing at a faster rate than the rate of inflation (Congress Watch, 2003). Thus, the drugs put excessive pressure on consumer disposable income. The increased cost of medication reduces the money available for spending on other products. Thus, prescription drug coverage has a negative impact on the economic wellbeing of the people. The generic drugs are priced at a lower price. Thus, they provide a viable alternative to ...

Plaintiff (π): Association for Molecular Pathology et al.

Defendants (Δ): Myriad Genetics, Inc. Appellants: Myriad Genetics, Inc. Respondent: Association for Molecular Pathology et al. The important facts of the case: BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes were discovered by Myriad Genetics, Inc. These genes were found to increase the risk of breast and ovarian cancer substantially. Myriad Genetics Inc. was involved in developing several tests that could detect the gene mutation leading to the increment in the cancer risk. In addition to this, Myriad took the patent on those genes and took the exclusive rights that could prevent others from

Researching on the topics related to those genes

Conducting tests and establishing labs to conducts the test ...

Introduction to the Product

Takata is an airbag manufacturing company. It manufactures and supplies airbags for all kinds of vehicles. The company is a B2B concern and deals with the small and big corporations in the automobile sector. The products of the company protect the people riding all types of vehicles from injuries and loss during road accidents. The business is top ranked among the companies spending on innovative systems and research and development in Japan. The operations are not confined to Japan only. It is a multinational concern now supplying the air bags systems to the other countries of the world. The ...

Introduction

A prescription drug is that pharmaceutical medication that requires a medical prescription before use. There are many processes involved when introducing a new prescription drug. The process usually begins when a lead compound is identified. Various factors determine the research and development costs for innovative new prescription drugs. The research process includes the pre-clinic research on different microorganisms and animals, clinic trials, and finally getting the approval to sell the drug to people.

Preparation Process

Industry Overview The pharmaceutical industry is of great importance to many economists as it is highly competitive. In the recent years, the industry has been brought ...

The prospect of there being human rights that have to be enforced by governments has been discussed and elaborated by various scholars, researchers and opinion leaders for many years. Human rights have always remained to be quite important if not dominant instruments that have been used by the society members when it comes to attaining social justice. Leading thinkers like Karl Marx and Richard Ford have offered their views that portray both the contradictory and similar ideas concerning their perceptions regarding the role and place of human rights in the society. Views expressed by the two distinguished individuals only ...

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Enter Name of University Here Introduction Evernote is an app which allows the user to organize literally anything, such as their emails, school notes, daily task lists, clipping articles or images from the internet, collaborating with other users to share ideas and among other features (Evernote, 2016). There are three different levels of memberships, in which the active user who could not help but to upgrade to since it offers more features and overall workspace. Although it is a very impressive app that could be utilized on platforms like the iPhone and Android, the company has to take appropriate ...

Impacts of Telemedicine

Impacts of Telemedicine The continued research and use of technology in medicine have seen the growth of telemedicine where the use of telecommunication helps to share information on healthcare. This approach has had several impacts on the operations and patient satisfaction from the use of telemedicine. This literature review intends to demonstrate some of the specific impacts that telemedicine has had on the healthcare practice. Some of the impacts to be addressed include the cost of healthcare, the quality and access to healthcare by the patients. The analysis seeks to demonstrate how the three aspects have changed with the ...

I. Introduction According to the renowned French criminalist Edmond Locard, “every time someone enters an environment, something is added and something is removed from it”. What Locard meant was that in every crime scene, there is some physical evidence left behind that can help identify the unknown suspect (Kalyan & Waghamode, 2014). Since people commit crimes one of the most common types of physical evidence that is left behind id biological material or materials produced by the human body. Indeed, one of the oldest forms of biological evidence that criminalists and police have used in crime investigations is the fingerprint. ...

Buying a car is usually a hard choice to make. Many people want and have a car. However, it takes them a while to decide which car is worth their time and money. Lately all-electric cars have been added to the vehicle market. Not too many people have trust in them, but there are people who still make these eco friendly purchases. Personally I would not be a fan of such a vehicle. I am a traditionalist in the car purchasing. Even, though, the all electric cars have been occupying the market, they are not seen as trustworthy in ...

Industry Summary

The Wireless Telecommunication Carriers industry entails the operation and maintenance of transmission as well as switching facilities in order to provide direct communication via cellular networks that are based on radio. The services included in the definitions of operation for the Wireless Telecommunication Carriers industry include paging services, phone services, wireless video services and wireless internet services. The main activities carried by this industry include: the provision of wireless network communication long distance, local and international calls, renting out equipment for wireless telecommunication, the provision of messaging services like multimedia messaging services and short message services, the sale of ...

Wilson explains that the relationship between technology and science is a perception of knowing how and why respectively. The relationship shows that high-tech art does not always indulge in science. Rather, it helps in understanding the various forms of art that relate to research (Wilson 13). A review of insights by Kranzberg and Pursell defines technology as the means by which human beings can cope with their physical environment in natural and artificial forms. Additionally, the authors suggest it is how man uses his imagination and resourcefulness in making use of the available resources (Wilson 13). In the modern-day, ...

An appropriate research design is necessary in solving the research questions. In this study, the researcher seeks to answer two fundamental questions as set in the problem definition. The researcher seeks to know how LUSH products can be advertised to people between 18 and 35 years. On the same note, the researcher wants to know the types of techniques that can be sued to reach out to older groups of people. It is clear that from the problem definition that the targeted market for these products are adults from the age of 18 onwards. Thus, a descriptive research design ...

The Cotton Gin

The cotton gin was an invention that contributed largely to American history. 1793 was the year when Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, the machine designed to remove the seeds from the cotton plant after it was harvested. The cotton gin was a very simple invention which did not require much effort on the part of the human workforce because the machine did all of the work. The agricultural South in America consisted mainly of farmers and slaves who worked in the cotton fields and were responsible for the harvest and production of cotton. Farmers knew that the cotton ...

Introduction

The KASP is a Saudi Government-funded scholarship program initiated in 2005 under King Abdullah ("King Abdullah Scholarship Program"; "Patent Program"). KASP has been launched in response to Saudi Arabia's increasing need for more qualified human capital, particularly in light of Kingdom's dependency on foreign labor (al-Shayea). The first KASP cycle was launched after late King Abdullah's and former U.S. President George W. Bush's agreement to increase numbers of Saudi students in U.S. ("King Abdullah Scholarship Program"). The Saudi Government invested SR7 billion and awarded 9,252 male and female students U.S. scholarships in first phase ("King Abdullah Scholarship Program"). ...

I. Introduction Cyber or computer crime refers illegal acts in which a computer or computer network is a: target of the act, a facilitator of the act, or platform on which the act occurs. Regardless of the category, computer crimes as a whole is one of the fastest growing areas of criminality. Moreover, as the world moves increasing online, computer crimes are likely to become one of law enforcement’s primary challenges. Law enforcement must take steps now to understand the threat that computer crimes pose. A better understanding will allow police to make the necessary preparations so that ...

Literature Review

Theoretically, it is believed that wars including World War I and World War II have led to the development of technology. Warfare has made it possible for nations to test and implement new technologies. Humans have a history of creating weapon that date back to years before world war. According to Harrington (2009), technological weapons were first noticed in the 14th century. During this Century, most weapons were gunpowder and innovators were thinking of creating better weapons. In World War 1, poison gas was also employed, but the results were shocking leading to its ban. Woods and Woods (2011) ...

Ethical conduct remains an issue of great importance in any form of work done. Development of maintenance drugs for chronic illness such as hepatitis by the pharmaceutical companies remains a burning issue with the libertarians. The libertarians have the great desire to see several medications for the illness rather than the maintenance drugs. However, the pharmaceutical companies persist on manufacturing such drugs for the disease. Such a scenario has developed a hot debate that needs long lasting solutions. Chronic illnesses are very sensitive and require proper attention from the pharmaceutical companies. It is not true to say that the ...

Research Paper

Research Paper

Introduction

High Technology Corporation (HTC) is an established maker of a variety of electronic components, and it serves an international market. HTC is now fully-integrated wireless communication service for worldwide use. However, to establish its brand in the global market, it has to dominate in its B2B activities. In this regard, it is useful if HTC invests in a global electronic brand in the international market. In the assignment, Apple Inc. has been selected for investment by HTC. The paper would conduct the financial assessment of Apple from a comparative perspective, to provide investment feasibility for HTC.

Background and Industry

Apple ...

“Environmental sustainability is the ability to maintain the qualities that are valued in the physical environment” . Analysts, environmentalists, and researchers had been scratching their heads to predict the outcome of the inconsiderate course through which we are heading, for very long. And each time, the data they receive shows that the news doesn’t bode too well for the future. The population explosion, the environmental depletion, and unsustainable resource exploitation had, almost, depleted the natural balance in our ecosystem. “Environmental sustainability could be defined as a condition of balance, resilience, and interconnectedness that allows human society to satisfy its ...

Introduction

It is remarkable how technology has advanced over the years. Since the industrial revolution that started in Europe in the early 19th century, technology has changed dramatically in almost all fields of human endeavor that it would be quite impossible to enumerate. Despite several drawbacks, technology is generally perceived as beneficial. Some people, for instance, may criticize that computers and the internet make people lazy or stupid, but ironically, the same people who criticize technology are also the ones that are utilizing it. But despite mainstream society’s fondness of technology, all these technological advancements today does not seem ...

Delivery date

Strategic resource management refers to the art and ability to managing and maintaining the capital present in an organization. It entails planning on how to acquire, store, use as well as dispose of the resources an organization uses in the course of doing business. The management is directed towards the achievement of the organizational goals. It helps to deal with quality, commitment, culture and matching resources available to the future needs of an organization. Information technology is one of the resources available for companies to use so as to improve their business. Used in the right way and at ...

Negotiating is a communication process in which parties discuss issues, offers, or problems and attempt to reach a solution, resolution or another certain outcome. Negotiations occur every day, in life and in business, formally and informally. Negotiations occurring in everyday life take varying courses due to several factors such as the style of negotiation being employed, the stakes involved in the conflict issue, the strategies adopted by the negotiators and the mediators among others. There are different negotiation strategies and styles, such as positional bargaining, positional bargaining, principled negotiations (integrative negotiations), competing, collaborating, compromising, avoiding and accommodating and so ...

The technological progress of the last several decades never ceases to amaze. There are many recent inventions that have made people's lives more comfortable and joyful. Yet, along with positive changes, the technological progress also raises a great deal of ethical and practical issues. One of the most argued topics in this regard is the work on artificial intelligence. Humans should not create artificial intelligence because firstly, it might become an extremely destructive means of warfare, and, secondly, intelligent robots might eventually outsmart people, leading to the death of human civilization. One of the most worrying matters in terms ...

Before starting propounding specific ideas and citing specific examples let us define exactly what the “Old World” and the “New World” is. This is especially important as there are different approaches to what these definitions mean. So for the purposes of this paper the Old World is not the part of the world that has had civilization and political entities in its territory chronologically earlier than other parts of the world, but the part of the world that in which concentrated political and social processes we as Europeans know them from history. That being said, the notion of the ...

Nowadays the problem of energy generation has been in the center of attention; for centuries, our ancestors in order to provide themselves with enough energy have been using technologies, which can be no longer useful. Using renewable resources is in fact the best way to both protect the environment and generate enough energy for the whole world. In these terms, the topic of renewable energy is very important to be informed about.

THE CONCEPT OF RENEWABLE ENERGY FOR THIRD GRADE STUDENTS

Children and youngsters are no doubt the future of our world. That is why it is of vital importance to inform pupils and students about the key ...

Andrew J. Wilhelm in his article “Complex Litigation in the New Era of the iJury” raised very important and urgent problem of modern American court: the effectiveness of jury court system. As it is stated at The Official Website of the Massachusetts Judicial Branch: “jury service is truly “government in the hands of the people”. Even john Adams named the jury as “voice of people”. These two statements reflect the American altitude to the jury system. Americans are proud of their existing possibility to dispense justice. For its long history the jury court system has proved its effectiveness. But ...

Business Decision-Making

Business

Executive Summary 2

1.1 Market Research Plan for UK Launch 2 1.2 Research Methodology 3 2.1 Employee Salary Analysis and Calculation 5 3.1 Sales Projection 6 4.1 Management Information System 8

Conclusion 10

Executive Summary Effective decision making is considered as an important factor in identifying a specific problem, analyzing possible solutions, and evaluating possibilities in order to achieve a long-term goal. In this discussion, a case of a new product aiming to enter a new market is in the process of deciding whether to push the plan through or not based on the results of the market research. The product to be ...

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[Date Month Year] W.R. Grace (Neemix): A Case Analysis I. Context: History, Circumstances, and Possible Ethical Issues It was not until 1959 when the powerful insecticidal effect of the Neem trees in India received notice from a German entomologist who observed it spared from a swarm of locust that devoured all nearby foliage (Marden 283-291). Farmers, since immemorial time, had been using the Neem emulsion as crop insecticides. Researchers in India and certain parts of the world identified the active ingredient as azadirachtin, which is not toxic to humans. Researchers in the United States innovated ...

Abstract

The legal business environment, including laws and regulations formulated to control the conduct of business activities is one of the most important external factors that affect major commercial decisions by business organizations (Pathak, 2013, p. 96). This legal framework influences decision making by businesses right from registration, workplace safety of employees, decisions on employment or dismissals, product safety, business agreements, to financing and marketing decisions (Campbell, 2009, p. 154). Businesses enterprises, according to Miller and Jentz (2011) must always operate within the purview of this legal framework as they make decisions on the various commercial activities, processes and operations ...

History of Solar Panel windows

Human beings had always made good use of solar energy since when the earliest ancestor of man noticed that a line of sunlight was warmer than the shade and that rocks heated throughout the day by the sun continued to stay warm through the night. Ancient structures of the Romans were constructed with south-facing windows to garner in the warmth of the sun. This was passive solar heating, which is still popular today. The only new thing about passive solar heating or solar daylighting is the name (K, Sruthi et al, 25-34). All the early attempts to harvest solar ...

The Class

How the zipper changed fashions Clothing has a long and interesting history. The impact it had on the world, in particular, the United States and its people is impressive. Clothes are often referred to as something minor and not significant. However, clothing caused many historical events which lead to changes in the culture, manufacture, lifestyle, trade, etc. Fashion in world's history dates back to the 14th century while clothes have been invented as long as 650,000 years ago. Simple and primitive, followed by more complex and composite, clothing finally became what it is now. Technical progress and mechanization ...

Information Technology Management

Management Concepts and Models IT portfolio management IT portfolio management is the efficient management application to deal with the investments, activities and projects of the department of information technology (IT) in the enterprise. It is the application of all the IT resources including planned and current to provide a framework for the planning, analysis and execution of portfolio of IT in the organization (Casco-Arias et al 2012).

Business/IT alignment

Business-IT alignment is a vibrant condition in which the ability of the organization begins to use information technology (IT) for achieving the objectives and purposes of the business. It is the capability ...

Football is one of the world’s most watched sports with most players dedicated to win the eye of their coaches. For that reason, most players work hard in the training sessions to ensure they get the first team chances. Mostly, the demands for football are influenced by the match analysis and the psychological measurements during the play. The myriad of factors affects the needs of a player that include the player’s physical capacity, technical qualities, playing the position, tactical role, and style of playing (Randers, et al., 2010, PP18). Moreover, the ball possession, the opponent strength, importance ...

Abstract

Feelings of depression, anxiety and devastation, loss of interest in life, irritability (often unfounded), and a sense of alienation from own child - all signs of postpartum depression. A woman while experiencing a feeling of guilt and worthlessness feels like a bad mother. Depression may be accompanied by loss of appetite and insomnia, but this is mainly because most often in the first few months of a young mother she does not have enough sleep and energy. Usually in a month or two, these feelings, called baby blues, usually fade away, as the woman learns how to deal with ...

Walmart Stores v. Cockrell (2001)

Issue: Does the shopkeeper's privilege protect Walmart from the liability under the circumstances of the case?

Rule of Law: Given the notion of the shopkeeper'e privilege, this rule allows the supermarkets to detain, stop or conduct the investigation of the shoplifters in case of any suspicion exists. In this case the supermarket does not responsible for such false imprisonment if there are reasonable grounds for the denetion of such a kind, within reasonable time, while the investigations of reasonable person is provided in reasonable manner (Cheeseman, 2014. p.88). Analysis: At first, the Court considered the elements of false imprisonment. It stated that Cockrell was detained by the officer of Walmart ...

Executive Summary

Marketing concepts represent valuable resources that can support marketers in designing marketing strategies for their products. The case of Ted Baker retailer in Leeds indicates how marketing strategies, such as marketing mix, segmentation or differentiation can impact the performance of its product, Ted Baker Bowicon Large Bag. This reports analyses the marketing mix used for Ted Baker Bowicon Large Bag, with the purpose of identifying if the utilized blend of product, price, placement and promotion is suited for the examined product. Based on the identified marketing mix, the report further discusses the targeted segments and their compatibility with the ...

The anti-Semitic sentiment set in motion by Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta and the near Satanic equation of Barabas had buttressed the plan of a play Shakespeare conceived in the commercial town of Venice with its life-loving gentry. The gentlemen of Venice who paraded themselves in gondolas in the romantic canals and waterways were instantly cut out for popular sympathy and affection, as the very opening seems to suggest. The dolour of Antonio and the volley of indulgent comments and cajoling coming in response proves it beyond doubt. To add to it are the fancies of the wastrel ...

Marketing

Hoover’s Market Position (PESTLE) Political – The company can expect a long-term advantage in terms of political stability in its major markets in the US and UK. Both major markets for the brand is far from facing political conflicts that might impact Hoover’s business continuity. Economic – The leading markets for Hoover’s line of vacuum cleaners are in stable condition, which poses no apparent effect on the consumers’ buying power in the US and UK market. On the other hand, the rest of the European markets for the brand are facing economic uncertainty given the perceived negative implications ...

August Deaton’s Great Escape

One of the most recent and well-known works in the sphere of economic is Angus Deaton’s book called “Great Escape: Health, Wealth and the Origins of Inequality” for which the author was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. This fundamental work of his life deals with the issues of poverty and its impact on economic welfare of the state, in particular on concrete economic indices, such as GDP per capita, number of states which have to be provided with appropriate finance support, level of income which has to be fixed in a state willing to be called ...

Question one

The Captivity by Mary Rowlandson is a narrative that reveals how she was held captive during the reign of King Philip. In essence, the book written by Rowlandson was the first American bestseller, and it marked the start of the famous genre of captivity narratives. Precisely, Rowlandson's work influenced both narrative books and Western films of that time and subsequent years. Mary Rowlandson was a colonial American woman whose original country of birth was England. Of note, the actual name of the narrative was A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson. It is also referred ...

In this essay, I choose to write on the printing revolution. My love for reading, motivated me to choose this topic. Without the printing machines, access to books would be costly and difficult. Printing, helps to amplify information and distribute it to the masses. It is the corner stone, to the development of mass communication. With the revolution of printing press, knowledge became easily accessible. Printing was instrumental in bringing changes, in political, religious and scientific arenas. (Library.manchester.ac.uk) Before the invention of printing machine and the following printing revolution, it was very rare to find people who could read ...

The West underwent through an era of prosperity after the Civil War. It is worth noting that the population growth in states, especially California led to tremendous consequences. Some of the key areas of focus include farming, living standards, western landscape, the growth of India reserves, subjugation of Indian people, as well as railroad constructions. On the same note, America was involved in the Pacific region in the late 19th century due to commerce. There is a relationship between the population increase, Civil war, and economic growth. In the general perspective, it is evident that after the Civil War ...

Importance of Health and medicine

Introduction The topic area of health and medicine is wide. In general, health and medicine are two areas which are vital for the survival and well-being of human beings. It is through this topic that a number of areas have been explored by experts and helped in improving the life expectancy of human being. For the last century, there has been a number of advancement in medical field. These advancements have been motivated by the urge to promote health and have health individuals (Hughes, Joshi, and Wareham). The advancement ranges from how the diseases are treated to coming up ...

The Pros and Cons to a Pharmaceutical Company to Investing in Vaccines, Devices, and Biologics

A weak initial public offering market, uncertain credit situation, and multiple groups of investors took their toll on the biotechnology sector. Forty-five percent of every civic listed biotechnology organization is engaged in their operations with not more than one year of monetary reserves. Forecasts for biotechnology initial public offerings showed the decreasing trend in 2009 through taking into notice the scenario of vulnerable 2008, which developed only a single initial public offering that improved $ 5.8 million according to a report of Bio world . This is in relativeness to forty one initial public offerings that enhanced 1.899 billion dollars in ...

This paper is a response to the views of a university professor; Seyyid Hussein Nasr, who tried to explain to his student the relationships between the biblical and scientific points of view about God’s creation, and especially the negative effects of what science has brought to the world. The paper also explains my point of view about Professor Hussein’s explanations. I totally agree with Seyyid Hussein’s point of view. Foremost, he talked of the retreat taken by the different religions especially the Christians, the Hinduism and the Muslims, whereas science has taken few steps ahead. This is ...

1 While much has been hypothesized regarding the true meaning of the term idea multiplication, it is essential to note that it refers to all the processes involved in the use of existing ideas to develop newer ideas that are more important. These processes do not occur in isolation, but calls for brainstorming of the existing ideas with the sole aim of restructuring the existing idea by adding or removing certain feature. Notably, idea multiplication is advantageous in a number of ways. Above all, it is often easier to devise new ideas from existing ideas. In addition, it suits well ...

Part A: Your Marketing Plan

Executive summary Business operations are dependent on effective planning. Admittedly, the most fundamental facet is marketing plan. As such, a marketing plan generates an overview of the approach that an organization will inculcate in ensuring brand growth, awareness and sales within the market of operation. Marketing plan necessitates an effective blue print that an organization incorporates towards sustaining profitability, shareholder returns and necessitating returns on the investments made. Accordingly, from the evaluation of AHA beverage company, a marketing plan forms a plausible tool towards the launching its AHA vitamin water. Thus, through the inculcation of the marketing plan, the organization will ...

Industrial revolution inventions and urbanization

Industrial revolution refers to the period of rapid transition to new manufacturing processes that mainly took place from about 1760 to between 1820 and 1840. It mainly involved a movement from hand manufacturing to machine and chemical manufacturing. The revolution saw a shift from water power supply to coal power.

During this period, several inventions were developed which had significant impacts on humanity and urbanization. Nicholas Louis Robert invented the Fourdrinier, a machine that could make continuous sheets of paper on a wire fabric loop. The machine could produce rolls of papers which became the basis of production of paper today. He ...

Business

Executive summary Marketing is a fundamental process within the operational mandate of any organization. Accordingly, through marketing, businesses manage to generate product awareness through extensive approaches construed towards both product development and reach to target customers. Encompassing four facets of product, place, price and promotion, marketing is a holistic tool towards sustaining sales and market growth of an organization. Hence, through the inculcation of the diverse principles within the marketing facet, organizations reap successful outcomes. Most specifically, a marketing plan is directed towards developing an effective product policy statement in regards to vision, mission, goals and various approaches towards product launch ...

What is photography? How is it used?

Photographs are remarkable. Through photography people preserve history, photographs are used to recall important events. Photographs evoke the essence of places or things that people would like to venture in or should never forget. With photographs, one can transcend someone virtually to where the photograph was taken even without them physically being there (Flusser,2013). Moreover, photography has become a career to many people who are doing digital photography for economic purposes. Photographic essence is not defined by the use of powerful, expensive equipment. It is a skill and thought put in the photography that matters the equipment only ensures that ...

Introduction.

Definition: Technology is the is a division that majorly focuses on creation, usage and the familiarity of machines, tools, techniques or modes of organization in an effort to unravel a lingering problem or execute a specific task. It is also an entity of knowledge and skills that deals with the design and the application of technical methodologies and their interrelation with the existence, the surroundings as well as, the social order. It brings in disciplines such as industrial arts, pure and applied sciences as well as engineering.

Technology has with time considerably affected the human and animal ability to adapt and ...

Part A

1a) - An aspect of American life that improved between the period 1870 and 1910 is health. This fact can be gleaned from Document 1, which indicated that infant mortality rate in the year 1870 was 170 per 1000 children below the age of 1. This figure went down to 161 in 1880 and continued to go down for the next 30 years and by 1910 the figure was 117. The implication of this was that the Industrial Revolution brought something that made the people healthier, perhaps better finances to afford more food and medicine, or new drugs that ...

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

Is It Ethical to Patent Medical Procedures

Some experts ...

Many stakeholders are increasing pushing for more relaxation of intellectual property rights. The common argument among these stakeholders is that relaxing the intellectual property rights, as well as corporate knowledge on intellect and knowledge, will be in the society’s best interests. This argument has been dismissed by many of the current content intellectual owners who desire or want to maintain their ascendancy and resist sharing out the intellectual property which is in many cases their main power source. There is however some little bit of evidence that seems to suggest that the relaxation of property rights monopolies may ...

Patents denote the protection rights granted to the owner of the invention that prevents other inventors from using, making and importing as well as selling invention of the owner without his/ her acquiescence. This kind of patents design it may be a procedure that led to producing a new technical solution or merely a product. Similarly, patent can be a new process of doing things, a technical improvement on how certain product works and it may make of composition of new products. Once is granted by legal law the owner can enjoy patents rights for twenty years. Therefore, protecting copyright is not acceptable in ...

When communication is intended to reach a large number of anonymous and diverse audiences with a strategy and purpose, mass communication happens. The channels or medium of mass communication are evolving and increasing year by year and its history may be as old as human existence. Tom-tom could be an ancient mass communication tool. The channels or media of mass communication include newspapers, magazines, books, radio, television, film, sound recordings and the Internet. My colleagues Mitchell, J and Perry M have recently made a presentation on the evolution and future of Books and Internet respectively. The presentations covered the evolution, significance, place ...

Innovation Designing For a Sustainable Future

Introduction Innovation refers to the deployments and applications of newer processes, ideas, and devices that are better, and designed to cater to, and meet, new requirements, inherent needs, and needs of the society. This is achieved through more effective processes, products, technologies, services, and ideas that are prevalent and can be made use of by governments, society, and market. We often confuse innovation with invention that is associated with the creation of ideas or methods while innovation is involved with better and effective use of those methods and ideas for the betterment of humanity. Innovation also differs from ...

Slavick (4) explains that Chicago School refers to building designs in the early 19th Century. Turak (60) claim that Chicago is indeed the birthplace of skyscrapers. In 1880’s Chicago manages to develop architects referred as the First Chicago School (Turak 60). At this time, Chicago is the second largest metropolis with a high population growth in America. People consider building large commercial buildings since low-level buildings are inefficient. Chicago experiences a booming economy and a lot of innovation that enables the building of skyscrapers to allow for more space for business people.

Chicago buildings in this era display diverse styles ...

Nucleon inc. had a competitive advantage over the competitors in pharmaceutical development technologies. Availability and exploitation of resources are based on high improved and advanced molecular biology and immunology. The competitors’ firms in the microbiology research in pharmaceutical enterprises were Elililly, Merck and Hoffman-LaRoche.

Presentations of values of Nucleon Inc. are on extensively doing research on CRP-1 molecule through studying genetic sequence. It has provided opportunities for the firm to become most competitive in pharmaceutical. The concern is on the development of technologies used in achieving the original results that helps in gaining patent right. The successes in research ...

Mergers, acquisitions and takeovers have been a vital part of the business world for many years. In today’s tough and dynamic economic environment, many companies are in most cases faced with decisions regard this particular actions with the aim of maximizing profit and shareholders value. Through strategies such as takeovers and mergers, a company can develop a competitive advantage and consequently manage to increase the shareholders’ value. This can happen through various forms such as two or more companies combining efforts, partnering on a given product, or even one company outright acquire the other company thereby taking over all it operations including ...