Essays on Latitude

Impact of globalization on human resource management practices

INTRODUCTION Globalization is the process of integration of several economies with the goal of increasing economic interdependence and mobility of factors of production across the world economies (Lechner, 2009). Globalization has caused an increase in the number of multinational corporations across the globe. Globalisation has had implications on the operations of multinational corporations including especially in human resource management. Some corporations have been forced to review their human resource practices to adapt to the challenges associated with globalisation. Companies have several motives to go global.

Companies globalise for different economic, social and cultural reasons. These motives vary from one ...

at Rex Hill Winery

Management of Rex Hill Winery has been highly concerned about climate change. They have heard about the Solar Sprint campaign to go solar now before the federal tax credit expires at the end of 2016. They also knew about the other incentives available on installation of solar electrical systems. Considering environmental benefits, they desired to install a PV solar panel system at their property. However, they wished to take a final decision on the project based on a feasibility study. As Rex Hill’s consultant, I have been entrusted the job of preparation of a ...

Question 1

Guthrie (2001) mentions that for the sustainability of an organization, having appropriate level strategies that are coherent to the mission, aims, vision and its niche is significant for the attainment of the entity's objectives. Various enterprises such as the Latitude Financial Services utilizes the strategies in planning and creating yearly operational plans. A notable organizational level strategy for the company would be to assess the existing external environment that the company conducts its operations. Here, strategizing the manners in which the trends and opportunities of the company can be harnessed and, on the other hand, finding ways of mitigating ...

Geography, GIS and Mapping

As the world grows warmer and the population of the earth battles climate change, the tools of the geographer are becoming vitally important in the search for knowledge about our climate and energy demands. Geovisualization, which incorporates many geographical tools, is an important weapon in the geographer’s arsenal in the fight against climate change. Following is a description of the elements which are used to create geovisualizations to provide extensive information for decision makers. Geography is the study of places, landscapes, environments and people. Whether those places relate to the landforms which they comprise, the development of urban ...

Why is there not an opportunity to launch a satellite if the launch-site latitude is greater than the inclination?

The Angle between the projection of the initial orbit plane and the north direction is referred to as the Launch Azimuth, (Dux et al. 2011, pp. 1-16). The Azimuth has several implications to the activities of launching a satellite. It creates three possible windows of launching. The launch window refers to the time during which a launch can be done directly from a specific site into an orbital plane. The window duration is affected by factors like the fuel requirements, safety, and the desired points of injection. The launch window is always at the center of the optimal launch ...

Laissez-faire is a style of leadership in which the leaders leave the workers or their subordinates to engage in their work using their own developed rules and policies. In Laissez-faire style of leadership, the leaders leave the responsibilities for their subordinates to execute them without the involvement of their seniors. Furthermore, the subordinates are left to choose the means in which to accomplish the tasks as there are strict rules, policies and regulations germinating from their superiors. The laissez-faire leadership is characterized by a deliberate abstention from interference or direction, and there is individual freedom of choice and action. ...

Introduction

If a job is well-designed, it may foster employee well-being and engagement, and therefore contribute to work performance that leads to customer satisfaction (Bakker et al., 190). Job design provides a description of the way “jobs, tasks, and roles are structured, enacted, and modified and what the impact of these structures, enactments, modifications, are on the individual, group, and organizational outcomes” (Grant et al., 318). For a period spanning over half a century, job design theories have played a significant role in guiding scholars and practitioners to offer descriptions, explanations, and effect changes in the work experiences and behaviors ...

The correlation between climate and vegetation is evident in Africa, where, despite the rapid destruction of natural vegetation by humans and animals, there are still vast areas of natural vegetation. There are two main zones in Sub-Saharan Africa.

AREAS OF EQUATORIAL FOREST

The rainforests cover just under 1000 km in latitude and approximately 2250 km from west to east, from the Cameroon coast and Gabon to the eastern borders of Congo - Kinshasa (to the mountains flanking the Rift Valley to the Ruwenzori, the Virunga Mountains and Ugoma (northwest of Lake Tanganyika). The equatorial forest has a wide variety of trees (very high ...

Carlsbad Cavern National Park 2

General Information 2 Geology 4 Climate 8 Wildlife and Biodiversity 9 Environmental Issues and Concerns 10 A Day in the Park 10 The 8th wonder of the earth Carlsbad Cavern lies in the heart of the United States of America in New Mexico. The park has an approximate of 118 caves and attracts an estimated number of 500,000 tourists yearly. It lies in the underground world and provides an amazing scenery to any tourist who visits the park. It offers vast subterranean chambers, incredible cave formations, and unique features. Touring the park will require some walking, crawling and ...

Improve Bus Tracking System

Improve Bus Tracking System The objective of this given memo is to describe the purpose of employing a tracking system in transportation to avoid sector to avoid passengers getting stranded in bus stops, get cold in ice winter-stricken station lobbies without hopes of boarding a bus in the next free minutes. The attached is the methods that prove the effectiveness of an improved bus tracking system – the global positioning system (GPS) service. The methods for testing the service are discussed as well. How an improved bus tracking system, modern technology enables passengers to track their bus and know their ...

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As seen in Table I (above), there are many problems facing the medical device sales team and sales management team. While there are various thought processes regarding best practices for sales and sales management, the proposed solution of CRM for the medical device sales force presented in this paper addresses these problems by providing a centralized method to manage the sales process and focus on outcomes. CRM or customer relationship management is an essential tool that can be used to enhance an organization’s marketing, which ultimately drives sales and increases productivity. According to Winer (2001) CRM ...

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze the medical device salesforce software according to its strengths and weaknesses and to assess it as regards to both sales approach and organizational structure. The medical device salesforce has significant process inefficiencies and current salesforce issues include unstructured sales approaches and haphazard customer information management necessary to properly equip the sales team, all directly impacting efficiency and sales growth. These inefficiencies are analyzed by specifically looking at problems faced by Medical Device Companies with a view of drawing observations and probable solutions. The salesforce inefficiencies faced by these medical device companies ...

What are the main data sources for GIS? Do some research and try to list Canadian sources (with their web addresses) for road data. Geographical Information System or GIS is a database system that have the capacity of analyzing spatially referenced data (ESRI). Any data with spatial attributes can be a source of GIS. Several processes in GIS are encoding, storage, processing and display of digitized maps (Understanding GIS). Some of the Canadian websites that share free data are the Canadian GIS and Geomatics, ESRI Canada, National Resources Canada, GeoBase, GeoGratis, and some other Canadian websites that offer open ...

INTRODUCTION TO GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS

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GIS has been given several meanings over the years in various disciplines and areas of study. Interestingly, all these definitions of GIS attest to the uniqueness of spatial data since geographic locale is an essential peculiarity of strategies, plans, policies, and activities. Below is a sum up definition: GIS can be defined as a computer-based methodology and technology used to collect, analyze, model, manage, and present geographical information or data for a vast dimension of applications (Tyler pg. 210)

Components of GIS

People- Individuals are by far the most fundamental part of a GIS. The procedures and task definitions that are ...

Rome is the capital city of Italy. Italy is located in Europe. Rome is in the central part of the western portion of the Italian Peninsula. The best attraction of this city is the Vatican which the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church.

Rome Italy is located at 41° 54' N and 12° 29' E respectively. The time which is followed in Italy is UTC+. On the other hand, the location of Harrison New York is latitude: 40° 969' North and Longitude: 73° 7126' West. Therefore, to travel from Harrison in New York to go to Rome, one ...

Business management methods have recently come under fire because of the America's waning dominance in the business sector, as China and India have quickly risen and provided stiff competition. In his scintillating work, The Future of Management, Gary Hamel, London Business School management consultant and professor, opines about how technology has permanently altered the way that businesses and organizations operate. Hamel has been touted by many critics to be the most iconoclastic yet influential business philosophers in the world today, as he has worked with many leading businesses on the world stage with regards to management structure. He has ...

E-waste is electronic waste, which includes discarded cell-phones, tablets, notebooks and laptops. Electronic waste or e-waste is dangerous because, according to Christina Bonnington (2014), e-waste contain toxic materials such as “mercury, cadmium, lead, phosphors, arsenic, and beryllium” (para. 7). When e-waste is buried in a landfill then these harmful chemicals “seep into the ground” and contaminate the underground “water supply” (Bonnington , 2014, para. 7). Recycling was thought to be the answer to deal with the issue; however, it is becoming increasingly difficult to recycle e-waste. This is because recyclers are having a difficult time taking a part “[s] ...

Introduction

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the lung epithelium. Asthma is a major health risk in childhood, not just in Australia, but also in various developed and developing countries across the world (Calogero et al., 2009). As per the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS 2004), as the most chronic disease among Australian children aged between 0–14 years, asthma has been identified as a common reason for hospitalization. There is thus need for the local council to initiate a public health campaign to raise social awareness about the causes of asthma and the methods for protecting children in Australia from ...

In the semi-arid south-west of the United States of America (U.S.), there exist rare and lush wetlands that form habitat to majority of the US’s desert most spectacular biota. Basic biological concepts confirm that where there is permanency of adequate water at the surface or even a few feet below the ground, numerous diverse water dependent floral communities can develop. In this part of the US, there is the Sonoran Desert Ecosystem. The ecosystem is one of the few rarest and most exquisite habitation in the continental North America since majority of the original riparian habitats has long dried ...

Communication is considered as a constitutive of the social reality; hence it should be regarded as something that is more than just a variable among others, which affect the organization’s performance as well as its life. Communication usually plays a vital role in ensuring that it enhances interactive advertising campaign. This implies that effective communication is always linked with the appropriate promotion skills in order to improve interactive advertising campaign. It is obvious that for a new brand message to be efficient in the midst of the noises, its advertising demands to be clever, visually appealing, memorable and even unique in the ...

Atmospheric circulation may be a very large-scale movement of the air where thermal energy is disseminated on the earth surface. These changes in atmospheric circulation from year to year are due to some factors. Several of these factors are tropical cells, and other pressure systems and mid-latitude depressions.

Global Atmospheric Circulation may be a result of the heating of the Earth by the produced energy from the Sun; nevertheless, this heat may be unevenly distributed transversely on the surface of the earth. Tropical and Equatorial regions receive a large amount of solar energy than the Polar Regions and the mid-latitudes. The tropics ...

A. Prison management is a daunting task due to several factors that has to be considered in order to keep the corrections facility to function for its intended purpose. There are several approaches to prison administration that can be adopted, but each of them has their own advantage and disadvantage. There are three administration approach and models that applies to prison management, derived from different principles and employs a variation of approach. The three administrative approach models are based on control, consensual and responsibility. In terms of the communication responsibility model more informal and it has the tendency to cross the ...

This paper presents an overview of the North Sea area. In addition, it provides a history of the exploration of the area, petroleum occurrence and location of the North Sea. Consequently, it provides a description of the Stratigraphy of the southern Northern Sea, Central North Sea and the Northern North Sea. A brief description of the tectonic history of the area is provided taking note of the four major tectonic events that occurred. These were the Caledonian collision, rifting and basin formation as identified in the Carboniferous, Mesozoic rifting and graben formation and the inversion.

Province Geology (North Sea)

Introduction

Discovery of gas in the ...

The development of Russia had many historical turning points. These changes were mainly connected with such political figures as Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Putin. The Soviet economy depended on mostly political decisions but not economic programs. Although the basic economic system in Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev eras remained unchanged, there were some peculiarities in these periods. The effect of Stalin’s policy had a profound impact on people and the state. In 1928, the Communists instituted the first Five-Year Plan. It dealt with such aspects of development as an industry, consumer goods, agriculture, transportation, communications, health, education, and ...

Japan: Location, Geography and Climate

Geography Japan is bordered on the north and east by the Pacific Ocean, by the Philippine Sea and the East China Sea on the south, and by the Sea of Japan / East Sea on the west (p. 1). Its coastline expands through 29,751 kilometers (18,487 miles) (p. 1). Japan's area can be compared to California or Germany. Its northernmost islands are located on similar geographical latitude as Milan or Portland, while her southernmost islands are on a common latitude as the Bahamas. More than half of the country is mountainous and covered by forests. Japan is ...

- Introduction The subject of this study concerns some of the most serious pavement deficiencies: alligator cracking, bleeding, and potholes. Alligator cracking and potholes can often shorten the pavement’s lifespan. Bleeding more often impacts road safety; bleeding causes reduced friction which, in turn, can cause skidding for drivers. The case study focuses on alligator cracking, potholes, and bleeding in an effort to explain their impact on pavement, as well as how they are remedied. In an effort to better understand the detriment these issues cause, a local two-lane road was studied for evidence of distress and damage. ...

#1. Observations Human beings are morphologically diverse. Compared to other primates, human beings show less variation. We differ considerably in our external appearances (eye color, hair color, skin color, hair texture, skin texture, blood group types- A,B, AB and O, height, build, facial features, etc) and our physiology. However despite all these variations, the genome of each and every human being is 99 percent identical (Lai CQ, 2010). It is also interesting to note that humans and chimpanzees share 98 percent of the genome. The study of these genetic variations is very important to geneticists. The allelic ...

Abstract

The workplace of today is not the workplace of even a decade ago. As electronic communications and applications change the way companies do business, employees also change behavior that have not been previously addressed. For instance, the ACM and IEEE computer societies have a common goal of promoting computing and their members by providing resources and behavior guidelines. Each society established a Code of Ethics to address legal and ethical questions that may arise in the pursuit of computing professions. While employees adopt ethical behavior, companies face the need to monitor the behavior. Data theft, irresponsible access to sensitive information, and ...

Annotated Bibliography

Cline, Duane A. Navigation in the Age of Discovery: An Introduction. Rogers, AR: Montfleury, 1990. This book provides an analysis of the tools used by navigators during the early days of the discovery age. These includes the challenges faced by the early navigators in their attempt to understand the rough waters and overcome the challenges of a rough and dangerous voyage.. Koeman, C. Flemish and Dutch Contributions to the Art of Navigations in the XVIth Century. Lisboa: Instituto De Investigação Científica Tropical, 1988. This book provides some of the major contributions of the Dutch to ...

Introduction 2

Nature of Hurricanes/Cyclones 2 Variations of Hurricane Development 5 Considerations on Hurricane Response 10 Conclusion 11

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Introduction For the past couple of decades since the onset of the Industrial Revolution, scientists have slowly began a campaign to raise awareness to the changing state of the planet. Records of high temperature changes, onset of diseases and erratic weather patterns have been reported worldwide, each change becoming more severe as the years progress. When it comes to erratic weather patterns, scientists highlight the now common occurrences of natural disasters such as hurricanes or cyclones. Although skeptics stress that ...

Introduction

Management entails finding solutions to the problems in an organization by creatively using the resources in an organization is a manner that meets the established missions and objectives. An organization’s style and systems are very critical to this process. This is because the synchrony of the organizational style and the systems in place either impedes or enhances the efforts of organizational management. This paper highlights the crucial relationship between organizational style and systems, using Google as a case study.

Organizational style

Google is an iconic brand world over as evidenced by its top products in the media and technology industry. The organizational ...

Why The Earth Axis Is 23.5°?

As everybody knows, there are four seasons on Earth: spring, summer, fall, and winter. Many people believe that the seasons change because the earth's orbit is elliptical and the distance between the earth and the sun keeps varying. It is not absolutely wrong, but the season changes over time are mostly caused by the rotation axis of the Earth to its orbit. The earth's rotation axis is not vertical to its orbit; it is tilted at 23.5 degrees to its orbit. Knowing the difference of each area’s biome and seasonal differences have been irrelevant to most people in ...

China is located in East Asia, on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean. The area is 9.6 million square kilometers, which is slightly smaller than that of the whole of Europe. China is the third largest country after Russia and Canada, surpassing the United States. It stretches over 5,200 kilometers from east to west and 5,500 kilometers from north to south. The most eastern point of China (135 ° 2'30'' E) - the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri, the most western (73 ° 40'E) - Pamir Mountains, the southernmost (3 ° 51'N) - Lydie shallows of the Spratly ...

Tropical moist climates (A): They have high precipitation and an average temperature of 18 0C. Tropical rainforest climate (Af), occur within 5-100 latitudes, average precipitation of 60 mm, temperature may up up to 250C, found in South and Central America. Tropical monsoon climate (Am) has rainfall less than 60 mm during the driest month e.g. South America. Tropical wet and dry or savanna (Aw) has pronounced dry and seasons with rainfall less than 60mm and less than 1125 annually e.g. Mumbai, India and Bangkok, Thailand. Dry climates (B): Experience precipitation less than the potential evapotranspiration. If ...

The Koppen climate classification uses factors such as precipitation, temperature and wind to determine the climate type. There are five major types of climate. They are categorized as A, B, C, D and E (Gabler, Petersen and Trapasso, 208). A is tropical moist climate with high levels of precipitation and warm temperatures averaging over 18°C. It is further subdivided into Af (the tropical wet climate), Aw (the tropical wet and dry climate) and Am (the tropical monsoon). This climate is experienced in places like Caracas (Venezuela) and Mumbai (India). Climate category B is dry with low ...

Dell Corporation has experienced a significant decline in the sales of its personal computers. This has been caused by the considerable increase in demand for tablets as a perfect replacement for PCs. This has prompted Dell Corporation to enter into the competitive market of tablets. It has recently launched its two tablet models, which are latitude 10 and XPS 10.

Description of Its Competitors

In the tablet market, Dell Corporation is facing intense competition from different companies. Its main competitors are HP and Lenovo. There are two tablet models that are being sold by Dell Corporation, which are XPS 10 and Latitude 10. Similarly, its ...

Syrian Chemical Attack August

Introduction Social Judgment Theory (SJT) is a persuasive theory that was proposed by Muzafer sheriff, Carolyn sheriff and Carl Hovland. Epistemologically this theory states that there exists a single universal interpretation (of one truth) on how people judge received messages. Ontologically, the SJT theory is deterministic since individual behavior is predictable (Connolly et al. 2000). Axiologically, SJT is value-neutral since the theoretical propositions remain objective and free from biasness. The theory of SJT explains how individuals judge the messages get. The theory also predicts that people accept or reject particular attitudes and messages (Connolly et al. 2000). Weekley and Ployhart ( ...

The United States of America and Canada are rich and amazing nations and there are numerous interesting aspects associated with them including; their geography, topography, political systems, economic development, culture, animal life and mining industries. The United States and Canada are both very large nations, they share two borders and their bilateral relationship is arguably the most extensive and among the closest in the world. The USA has slightly more land compared to Canada while Canada has a slightly larger territory. As the world’s second largest country and the largest country in the Western Hemisphere, America is composed of ...

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Part 1. Solar Panel History

The history of Solar panels takes it beginning from the 7th Century B.C. Now, the energy sector of economy has the greatest impact on our lives. Power supply is the basis of the normal functioning of any production, and, consequently, the entire human civilization. Heat and light homes, work machines and units in production, traffic and rural suffering - all these many faces of Energy. Various technological advances have already become part of life for us, but they are possible only when adequate and affordable energy supply, due to the development of alternative energy sources, ...

The earth is spherical in nature. The earth also rotates on its own axis. The other thing about the shape earth is that it is an oblate spheroid. This means that the earth’s surface is not perfectly symmetrical. In order to have a clear definition of the different locations in the earth, it is divided into different horizontal and vertical lines. These are the lines that help us to have a clear location of a place. The horizontal lines are called the latitudes and the vertical lines are called the longitudes. These are the angles that uniquely define a point on a sphere. ...

The paper aims to comprehend and document the history of Germany and delve deep into the possibilities and capacity of the nation to dominate the European continent. It requires our understanding that Germany has the potential and power to emerge as the omnipotent force in the continent and an insight into the national history would only reiterate the claim with testimonials and evidences to supplement the view. The country was hit by the March Revolution in 1848 which ended up in being a failed attempt at establishing the German state. However, this called for more liberal state policies, nationalism ...

Many historians argue that the manifest destiny was a concept that was coined in the late 19th century in the United States. The concept of the manifest destiny was based on the idea that America was an exceptional territory that was composed of unique people in comparison to other parts and peoples of the world. According the architect of this term, the American people had a divine responsibility to expand their territory and change both the structure and the governance of the conquered territories. Many scholars have also referred to this attitude as the west-ward expansion (Garfield 47). The expansionists ...

Florida is a state located on the South Eastern side of the United States. The state is located at a longitude of 840 17’ W and at a latitude of 30º 26' N. This longitude and latitude locations position the sun at higher angles over Florida as the year progresses from January to December thus increasing the impact the sun’s rays have in the state. The effect of Florida’s location in relation to the sun, therefore, plays a big role in influencing the warm temperatures that characterize Florida. It is also interesting to note that the state of Florida experiences twice ...

The Earth is divided by lines of latitude and longitudes which are imaginary. The equator marks the centre of the globe; therefore, it is equidistant from the North Pole and the South Pole. Lines parallel to the equator are called parallel of latitudes, and they run from east to west. The prime meridian is an imaginary line used as the zero line, and it passes through Greenwich, England, and it is zero degrees. The maximum longitude is 180 degrees both in the east or west. The prime meridian converges at the poles same case as the other longitude lines. ...

Introduction

Solar heaters have been popularized in recent years for use in tertiary and residential areas. This has happened mostly in the third world countries. The reason behind this encouragement to use solar heaters is the reduction of cost and improving the performance. This has necessitated the use, and testing of solar heaters to produce hot water. The solar heater is fundamentally made up of tanks that act as solar absorbers ad storage bases for warm water. This is used in glazing to profit the green house effect and the insulating cases. The solar heaters can be made from ordinary ...

The photograph I chose was "The Genbaku dome (epicenter of the 1945 atom bomb explosion), Hiroshima, Honshu, Japan" by Yann Arthus-Bertrand for his Earth from Above photojournalism project. The photograph was taken in Hiroshima, Japan. The latitude and longitude coordinates and elevation of the photograph's location is 34 degrees N latitude, 132 degrees E longitude, with an elevation of 14 ft. In this picture, one sees the ruins of a large building that only has a few walls and the frame remaining. However, surrounding it are pedestrians and streets, with freshly-mowed grass and trees surrounding it. One tree that is directly ...

Association Rules

Select a dataset that is appropriate for association rule mining, and perform the following tasks. It is important to prepare and preprocess the data and preprocess the data if needed. In order to start with preparation and preprocessing of the data, it is important to ensure that the right attribute is selected and then by the elimination of an attribute the dataset is made smaller. For this dataset which is houses.zip, the target is to make the function more compact, enhance the speed of the actual running of learning is worth and ensure that the result is comprehendible. Based ...

Introduction

A natural phenomenon is any non-artificial event not produced by human activity but may affect humans. Natural phenomenon includes weather, decay, erosion and volcanic eruptions. Most natural phenomena are termed harmless. Erosion is the process which leads to the removal of material from a section of the earth. Erosion may occur when solids such as rocks are weathered and transported to another place by wind, water, and ice (Toy, Foster, & Renard, 2002). Although soil erosion is a natural process human land use such as deforestation, industrial agriculture and urban sprawl have profound effect on erosion. A certain amount of ...

Abstract

Photovoltaic (PV) systems are one of the next generation’s renewable energy sources for our world energy demand. PV modules are highly reliable. However, in polluted environments, over time, they will collect grime and dust. There are also limited field data studies about soiling losses on PV modules. The study showed how important it is to investigate the effect of tilt angle on soiling.

The study includes two sets of mini-modules. Each set has 9 PV modules tilted at 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 23, 30, 33 and 40o. The first set called "Cleaned" was cleaned every other day. ...