Essays on Micro-

Institutions

The Fallacy of Microfinance Microfinance has been billed by many as a solution to the persistent problem of poverty. This is as result of the fact that it has been hailed to create and expand micro-enterprises and in the process improving the socio-economic situations of those that own the micro-enterprises, who generally tend to be women. However, according to Banerjee, Duflo, Glennerster, & Kinnan (2014), microfinance does not necessarily lead to people rising out of poverty. The argument held by Banerjee, Duflo, Glennerster, & Kinnan (2014) gives credence to the apprehensions some have had about the romanticized stories on microfinance. I ...

The term ‘macro-environment’ refers to the set of forces that influence the functioning of all the businesses at the market (Dibb and Simkin, 2008, p.26). In political terms, the fragrance market is likely to be impacted by the major trends in international relations (e.g., the conclusion of international agreements, openings and closings of markets). Similar, given the fact that the Middle Eastern producers of fragrances tend to export them to the markets of other countries, the state of the economic relations between the Middle Eastern countries and the rest of the world is highly important for exporters. Moreover, the ...

For example, a micro-theory in ethics could be described as ethical issues faced by an individual, like situations that provide conflicts of interest due to differences in beliefs and value systems. An individual who, due to his or her cultural orientation, follows a religious teaching that prohibits eating pork. As such, micro-theory examines the factors that could create ethical challenges for the person to defy or violate this belief. In so doing, the research should take into account his or her own ethical stance while conducting the study, as well as the well-being of the participants. Another example is ...

What is data mining?

Data mining is the evaluation of large data sets to discover patterns. The process involves the intersection of statistics, database systems, artificial intelligence and machine learning.

What is micro-targeting?

Micro targeting is campaigning strategy, which borrows from marketing, which utilizes voter information and demographics to recognize and identify the particular interests in an election campaign. The aim is to get groupings of like-minded individuals and influence their responses and actions.

How is data collected?

The campaign organizers build a big list of supporters through e-mail acquisition or through getting people to sign up as volunteers.

How is data used?

The information from email leads to an avenue where the campaign ...

Introduction

Racism is the ideology of racial inferiority/superiority at the individual, cultural, or institutional level that influences the perceptions and behavior of members of different racial groups towards others (Pieterse et al., 2011; Hoyt Jr., 2012). Research on the issue of racial prejudice has led to the association of perceived racism with poor psychological well being and psychological stress. Racism is an important concern in the present society due to the current prevalence of fatal violence against African Americans on the streets and even in church. It raises questions on the true incidence and impact of racial prejudice in the ...

The following literature review evaluates scholarly research on the challenges of entrepreneurship, project management and sustainable development in Africa. Based on the discussion meaningful implications and suggestions are mentioned towards the end. Africa is a land of magnificent natural sceneries and resources but even in the 21st century it is still considered the Dark Continent, bearing metaphorical meaning. It is the least developed continent in the world. Despite major efforts in improving the lives of Africans there are many challenges that face the continent.

Sustainable Development in Africa

Africa has immense natural resources and precious minerals. For decades the practice of finding energy ...

Segmentation

1. Segmentation is a process of ensuring division or partition in accordance with needs. The objective of segmentation is to achieve simplicity (Williams & Curtis, 2007). Further, its purpose is to ensure innovation, diversification, nurture, defend, re-launch, keep, and repositioning of the product. There are several segments in the industry according to the specific domain. This can be considered from an example that the software can be divided or segmented by the product’s nature, customers, and locations etc. There are two approaches that are widely used in segmentation; they are macro segmentation and micro-segmentation. In macro-segmentation, organizational size and ...

Fall Risk on Med/surgical Unit: A comparative Study of Using 5ps of Micro-system Framework to Deming Quality Improvement Theoretical Framework

Introduction

In the current health care environment, people are increasingly aware of the care quality of different health facilities. Therefore, hospitals and other health organizations take extensive efforts to enhance the quality of their overall health outcomes. In a medical/surgical unit, the issue of patient fall can adversely affect patient recovery, and hence, the overall health outcomes of the organization. This paper will compare fall risk on med/surgical unit using 5Ps of micro-system framework to Deming quality improvement theoretical framework.

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Even with cyber security systems and measures in place, company cannot think themselves safe, for there are always some loopholes or vulnerabilities left in the defense system. Their exploitation may affect companies in many ways, with impact making itself felt through reputational damage, the loss of delicate information, and expenditure associated with the deployment of additional cyber protection mechanisms. Companies incur heavy financial losses estimated at hundreds of thousands of dollars. The US-based AWS Inc. is the company that should not deem itself as being invincible, as big companies are the first in line for a big-scale attack. To ...

A Summary of

The reviews on Africa’s solar based enterprises are quite recent and cover a majority of related topics. He has reviewed the factors that provided an impetus to solar power based enterprises and the existing opportunities. However, the need for some more reviews on the reasons addressing slow development in the field is evident. Nevertheless, it is successful in drawing the readers’ attention on the gaps existing in the current review of scholarly works. The three basic research questions raised in the study clearly underline its problems and the purpose. Through these questions the author seeks to address the ...

Legitimate power, otherwise dubbed positional power, is a form of power granted to an individual based on their relative duties and position within the organization. As seen in the discussion, legitimate power has historical roots in nursing. The concept serves to protect the recruitment and retention interests of registered nurses in practice. The legitimacy arises from both formal credentials upon certification and organizational structure. In essence, the DNP-prepared nurse’s legitimate power comes from their legal authorization to coordinate care given the licensure of their specialty. This paper compares the influence of legitimate power on micro-, meso, and macro-levels ...

Introduction

In the current era of healthcare management, hospitals need to consider a wide range of factors to make sure that its quality improvement programs are in compliance with national and state health policies. This paper will critically evaluate how national and state health policies impact implementing quality improvement programs at the macro-meso-and micro-system levels. The paper will also discuss what actions an individual nurse/nurse executive can do within an organization to promote such quality improvement initiatives.

Quality Improvement

It is identified that health policies designed by national and state governments can significantly influence the implementation of quality improvement programs at the ...

Forecasting is an important aspect of a business that aims at reducing the area of uncertainty that surrounds management decision-making. This is with respect to important aspects such as costs, production, waste reduction, profits and so on and offers guidance using history, experience, and knowledge as markers (Das 217). Forecasting essentially employs the micro and macro forecasting models. There is an important distinction between micro-forecasting and macro-forecasting. Micro-forecasting model is a detailed product unit forecast while macro-forecasting involves forecasting the market in total. McDonalds’ forecasting can be on areas of sales, product mix, and stocks or product availability. The ...

The viability of all the concepts that were brainstormed were all checked out and all the differences and advantages were put into consideration. The environment and the work suitability was checked together with the required specifications that each concept brought into place. Decision matrices were used to outline the suitability of the selected concept. Notably, concept B was the most preferred. Some of its advantages that made it a better choice over the other concepts was due to its security payload, speed indicators and stability. Therefore, concept B is expected to show better results in the Development of Product ...

In resonating with the residents of the Tenderloin in San Francisco, my personalities have over the years been influenced by my unique environment similar to the Tenderloin thus shaping me into an individual with diverse and affluent values and beliefs. I come from China, Asia and this makes my environment unique similar to that of the Tenderloin. The residents of the Tenderloin are known to have a unique background with many racial groups and people of different walks of life. As such, factors such as race, gender and poverty are issues common to the region with the region also ...

Introduction

There are different perspectives that are being peddled concerning fracture processes, this has led to confusion on what actually this term means. In this review, a deeper understanding is sort by analyzing different aspects of the nomenclature of the fracture process. In order to gain a deeper understanding of the failure processes several aspects are put in consideration key among them will be discussed below and include; the energy of fracture, macroscopic structure path and microscopic fracture mechanisms.

Energy to Break

The toughness of a material is the measure of the absorbed energy during and before fracture. The toughness of the material ...

Social issues cut across a large spectrum of our daily lives, cutting across from human to local area development. In the exploration of considering topics to research on, the researcher looked at the topics which are most relevant to this generations and future generations and settled on these three areas: these are potential topics that were looked into

Child Abuse

Teenage Pregnancy HIV Child abuse The first topic was Child abuse which is a term used to refer to mistreatment and acts of affliction on children. These are acts conducted by caregivers, guardians and parents of the child that often results ...

Introduction

It is important for every mobile robot to possess the ability to navigate in target environment. Navigation can be described here as the robotic system’s ability to identify its own position in an unknown area with respect to some reference point and then move to its target position. In order to navigate in its environment and reach target position correctly, an efficient control system should be designed. The aim of this project is to design and implement a mobile robot localisation and control.The mobile robot is developed with the ability of:

Localisation System

For a positioning system, it is required ...

Social issues cut across a large spectrum of our daily lives, cutting across from human to local area development. In my exploration of considering topics to research on, looked at the topics which are most relevant to this generations and future generations. Settled on these three areas: this is potential topics looking into

Child Abuse

Teenage Pregnancy HIV Child abuse The first topic was Child abuse is a term used to refer to mistreatment and acts of affliction on children. These are acts conducted by caregivers, guardians and parents of the child that often results to real problems and harm to ...

Introduction

Apple Inc. is an American multinational firm that provides computers, mobile phones, tablets and software and miscellaneous electronic items to the consumers. The top selling and most famous items of Apple include iPhone, iPod, Macintosh, MacBook series of laptops and iPads. The company has a global presence in more than ten large economies through the state of the retail art stores. The origin of the Apple Company goes back to 1976 when it was formed by two co-founders namely Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. The company was founded in a garage in California. The company was incorporated as Apple ...

Cohabitation is an arrangement that involves two people, who are in a romantic relationship, living together as a couple without being formally married. Current trends show that cohabiting is becoming either a type of family system or a pathway to forming a traditional family through marriage. According to Finer and Philbin (2014), there has been a “growing delay of first marriage, which has been offset by increasing levels and duration of nonmarital cohabitation” (p. e272). Smock (2000, p. 3) states that the occurrence of marriages preceded by cohabitation between 1965 and 1974 was only 10%, whereas the occurrence of ...

In contemporary society, having children is no longer associated with families like it used to be. It is important to note that Blackstone (2014, p. 68) distinguished the terms childless and childfree because each term refers to the differences in motives for not having children. Childless families are those in which the parents want to have children but do not have them, whereas childfree families are those in which the husband and wife agree to skip parenthood. The term non-parents can be used to refer to both childless and childfree parents. The first trends of increasing childfree families can ...

ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY

External Environment Assessment Businesses operate in a complex environment. Strategic management has to do with making decisions and taking actions which ensure business success and survival in a competitive environment. Before making decisions, companies first carry out external and internal environmental assessment in where it competes. This paper is going to look at the micro and macro environmental analysis of Apple Inc.

Micro-Environment External Factors

Micro-environment is the immediate environment which has an impact on the business of Apple Inc. The micro-environment factors which can affect a company include retired employees, trade unions, local community, local government, suppliers, marketing intermediaries, customers, competitors, ...

In addition to the direct physical manifestation of swarm phenotype –increased length and number of flagella, swarm cells often produce wetting agent, usually a surface of some type, for instance, the surface in Serrtia (serrwettins) and Bacillus (surfcatin) (White, 2006). In both cases loss of surfactant dramatically decreases swearing proficiency in Bacillus as well as strains of E. Coli do not make surfactants, which is probably why they are such picky swimmers. Surfactants act mainly to maintain surface wetness, which in turn allows cells to swim in every shallow layer of fluid on the surface. Research findings indicate that ...

Social Influences and Individualism

The early research carried on by Goffman seems to suggest that (removed from a social framework and social context) individuals do not have a genuine ability for self-expression however, later theorists believe there is a link between a desire for authenticity and individualization. The following will carefully examine these theories by looking at the work done by Erving Goffman and Harold Garfinkel, two of the most prominent researchers in this area (Travers, A 1994, 5). An interesting aspect of Garfinkel’s work is that he controversially suggested that sociology simply didn’t exist. He believed that it should be ...

Reflections on How I Became an Entrepreneur

Introduction We live in societies of high unemployment and low real wages and therefore it is inevitable for the economies to increase the demand for labor and create a set of new sources of income. This can be so by encouraging the creation of new firms, thereby generating not only profits for the owners but also new jobs (Bridges, O’Neill, & Cromie, 2013). This is a context that encourages the economy to benefit from the individuals with entrepreneurial abilities to practice such traits and become entrepreneurs. A critical aspect of this process is that the policy option of encouraging ...

Introduction

Laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) has gained significant popularity as well as extreme attention over the last couple of years due to its benefits and positive attributes. LA-ICP-MS has been extensively used in the analysis of biological samples, chemical samples and gemology. The technique of laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry is a significant technique for quantitative chemical analysis (Becker, 2013). Due to its numerous advantages such as rapid and direct analysis of samples, high sensitivity and high spatial resolution, it has been applied in numerous applications in different fields apart from chemistry. The use ...

Citizen by Claudia Rankine

Claudia Rankine, a Jamaican born poet, is the author of several popular poems which were recognized widely across America. She also writes essays and has written two plays to her credit. She holds the high position of Chancellor at the Academy of American Poets. Her latest title winning works include, “Citizen: An American Lyric” which brought her to the finals of the National Book Award. It also made her the winner of National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and two more awards. She won several other awards for her other works as well. The poem “Citizen” is the ...

Abstract

'Gothic' term represents medieval art that carries a strange history. The style of art developed in Northern France and spread to the rest of Western Europe. Late Gothic art expanded well into the 16th century before getting consumed by the Renaissance art. Gothic period carries splendid examples of sculptures, stained glass, fresco, panel painting, ivories and illuminated manuscripts. The essay offers a perspective on the popularity of Gothic ivories and how they encouraged the devotional practice. The ivory diptychs were used as sophisticated tools and were seen as physical vestiges of the divine. Gothic ivories were the visual cues ...

PART A

Question 1 An adaptive seller is a person who uses a selling strategy in which the way that is used to present a product or service varies according to the buyer viewing it. Adaptive selling takes into consideration the particular situation in which the commodity is presented, the demographics of the buyer, and the direct feedback received about the commodity. That is why the characteristics are associated to agile.

Question 2

Value exchange in the professional selling process refers to one of the four main attributes of a product or service. They are economic value, use value, production and sell, as ...

The main theme which is discussed in the articles “Spreading the Wealth” and “The micromagic of microcredit” is the poverty of the developing countries and how it is affected by a variety of economic phenomenas (globalization and microcredit, respectively). In particular, the authors of first article discusses the globalization and the standards of living in poor countries. The second article reveals the features of microcredit and how it affects the lives of poor people in Africa. It is difficult to compare the two articles thoroughly, since both of them describe different concepts, however, it is easy to see that ...

What is pneumonia?

Pneumonia, or as it is called - lung inflammation, is the infection of one or both lungs which is usually caused by bacteria, fungus and viruses. Until the moment when penicillin was discovered, every third sick person died from the infection. Despite all the achievements of modern medicine, pneumonia remains a serious and dangerous disease. 5% of the patients with pneumonia die.

How can you get pneumonia?

In some cases, the disease is transmitted drip-virally. A sick person sneezes; his secretions contain bacteria and micro-organisms which, getting into the lungs of a healthy person, cause inflammatory infectious processes. In other cases, pneumonia occurs due ...

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Abstract

Nutrition is the intake of food which is necessary for survival. A healthy nutritional diet is essential for a healthy body and mind. A balanced diet helps in growth and development, strengthening the immune system, executing the all-important chemical and hormonal activities as well as cell reproduction. Food is further categorized into types and components that play a significant role in processing the biological mechanism at a very minute level. There is six main type of food that includes grain, milk products, Meat, fruits, vegetables, and oils. Water is the most important part of ...

Introduction

The present report delves into the expansion of Carrefour, a leading multinational retailer in the world, into the United Kingdom retail market. The first part of the report describes both the micro and macro environmental factors, which this multinational retailer ought to take into consideration to reduce its risk of failure in the UK market. The second section explains how the UK government policies on mergers and acquisitions can have an impact on Carrefour’s growth strategies in the United Kingdom. The third part elucidates how Carrefour’s management can utilize Kurt Lewin change model of unfreezing, change, and ...

Trends for the past two years have shown that there is an increasing interest in specialty lagers. Based on this principle alone, it would be a solid choice to open a gastro-pub that features specialty lagers almost exclusively. Food should be offered with lagers (and really any beer) to show how the chosen beer and food can compliment each other. It is probably best to stay away from becoming a micro-brew, especially without very large investors, because many types of lagers, Eisbock and California Commons for example, need expensive equipment outside of the already expensive equipment for a micro-brew ...

Solar Power Generation

Sustainable Technology – Solar Power Generation Power Generation from Fossil Fuels and Global Warming Global warming, as defined by Lineman, Do, Kim and Joo (2015), is the long-term trend of increasing average temperature of the lower atmosphere. It is widely known that this phenomenon is related to the concentration of greenhouse gases that trap heat in the atmosphere, such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, among others. Activities related to human development such as industrial processes, agriculture, cattle raising for meat consumption, transportation, deforestation and power generation are the major causes of greenhouse gases emissions. Specifically, power generation based on ...

Most of the culture-related problems facing 3rd world countries rely on traditional methods of production such include the participation rate of men and women. Women are not very active in the labor force. There are beliefs that women should not participate in particular jobs thus lowering the number of viable employees (Jiang 190). Education and skills necessary is also a major challenge as far as culture is concerned. Education is a basic necessity to any human. In most of these third-world countries, illiteracy levels are very high, and this mostly has been contributed by bad culture. People from these ...

Introduction

There are environmental chemical processes which require light to react. These processes are called photochemical reactions. Photochemical reaction is commonly initiated due to the absorption of solar energy or light. When molecules absorb energy in the form of light, the atoms are converted in a transient excited state (Larson & Weber, 1994). This transition state or excited has completely different physical and chemical properties with the initial state of the molecule. The excited states also have more tendencies to react since they are considered stronger acids and stronger reductants that the initial state of the molecule. The excited state of ...

DIGITAL MARKETIN CAMPAINGN PLAN REPORT

Digital Marketin Campaingn Plan Formed in 1887, Wycombe Wanderers (WWFC) is the biggest football club in High Wycombe. After spending a few years in the lower levels of English football, the 90’s saw the club promoted into the top-flight football. It currently plays in the third tier of English football, commonly referred to as the league 2. The club plays at the Adams Park, which has a capacity of close to 10,000 spectators. In an average day, however, the club’s stadium is usually half-full, with the number going lower if the weather is not conducive for ...

Introduction

Micro marketing versus macro marketing mainly encompasses things that the businesses do considers as the main commercialization in the popular sense and how these societal businesses are making their decisions concerning the aggregate basis. As it has been reported in many business marketing types of research, marketing is generally a very crucial element to many companies and businesses that aspire to be successful. The author of the Basic marketing says that “the marketing campaigns that are successful usually play very important roles in increasing the products as well as the brand awareness within the target group of people who ...

Abstract

The objective of this project is to create a pair of devices that are capable of cummunicating with each other through the Bluetooth module. Each device would have to send a text, tone and ping to the other and be able to receive the same in return. The Arduino uno Board is the microcontroller that is generally used to control any hardware project. It is very flexible and quite easy to use, which makes it possible for many different tasks to be carried out. For our project, we chose Arduino uno as our starting point because it has 14 ...

Psychology: Exploring the Relations of Micro Expression to Professional Performance

Psychology: Exploring the Relations of Micro Expression to Professional Performance

According to the studies conducted by Albert Mehrabian in 1971, in communication process, around 93% of human communication takes place through non-verbal mode. He divided the communication process into three parts; words (7%), tone of the voice (38%), and body language 55% (Mehrabian, 1981). Among non-verbal modes of communication the commonly used mode is the facial expressions. The face of the person expresses his/her emotions. Yet, some part of emotions is sometimes not clear to everyone. We all are not experts in identifying each and every expression of the ...

Investment Goal:

The overall objective of this portfolio is to earn a sustainable return by assuming average level risk over the period of 10 years. The eventual objective of this portfolio is to fund my post –retirement life, however, I am keeping the time horizon here up to 10 years for now as with me still being in a young age, I opt to assume average risk. However, in order to avoid payment of taxes on my cash inflows, I will solely be investing in mutual funds suitable for IRA investment

Investment Style:

Considering my average risk tolerance and investment period of 10 ...

Well connected cities mean efficient sharing of resources. The new circumstances today are amplifying cities as new platforms for sharing housing, food, transportation and other goods. New technologies and needs encourage supply and demand at the peer-to-peer level.1.1 SHAREABLE TRANSPORTATIONShareable transportation is a smarter way to lower pollution and utilize transportation resources fully.1.1.1 Car sharing solutions lower economic and environmental costs and some examples are Car sharing companies, Ridesharing, and Public Bike sharing, that are an efficient and economically feasible solution. Carsharing vehicles should be given car sharing parking zones near public transit facilities and exemptions to parking limits ...

Definition of the microcredit

Microcredit is the main tool of the microfinance concept, which is considered to be invented by the Professor Mohammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. As it is stated on the Crammen Bank web page, a microcredit is a program of small loans, offered to the poorest people so that they could generate income through self-employment projects (Grameen Bank, 2012). Microcredit can be also defined as a small loan to poorer households or small entrepreneurs, that lack steady employment and a verifiable credit history. In most cases microcredit does not require any collateral, as its target audience ...

Dick Smith foods is well known for its patriotic marketing strategies. It is an incepted from “Buy American” and similar movements in economically advanced countries. It is part of a response to the growth of global trade and the outsourcing of production (Baker, 2015, p. 8). In Australia, Dick Smith made excellent use of the Micro and Macro environments to set up a successful food business (Chan, 2012, p.14). Micro-environment: Dick Smith’s key value proposition rested in the fact that its suppliers were Australian, using one aspect of the micro-environment to build and maintain his brand and exert ...

[Client Name] Water is a colourless and odourless liquid, and is very important for human development and survival. It covers 75% of the earth's surface and is mostly found in lakes, rivers and seas. In addition, the human body comprises 78% of water. Water is an interesting molecule and consists of one oxygen atom and two hydrogen atoms. It is covalently bonded and possesses a very interesting characteristic, i.e. polarity. Polarity ensures that water is an effective medium for the dissolution of other polar compounds. In so doing, water is an enabler for many biological reactions (“The Chemistry of ...

Insurance Rating

Companies are rated according to their risk of defaulting credit. Credit rating agencies such as S&P and Moody use many criteria to assess the likelihood that a company will default on its debt payment. The ratings of these companies are important because it gives valuable information to potential investors, issuers and the corporations themselves. A good credit rating enables a company to raise money easily in the financial market. S&P assesses a lot of criteria before giving a rating to any company. Some of the criteria used to evaluate the companies include micro and macro regulations, ERM and the ...

Juhudi Kilimo is an enterprise that provides technical assistance and asset financing to medium and small sixed agro-businesses and smaller farmers throughout Kenya. Juhudi operations are mainly throughout the rural areas of Kenya. This gives smaller farmers the access to the resources and tools they need in order to succeed. Juhudi Kilimo invests in startups companies and work with them in order to make them major participates in the market. This helps develop the opportunities and networks for smaller farmers throughout rural Kenya. Juhudi uses a comprehensive approach in order to create long term gains in regards to productivity ...

Introduction

It is important for the organization to train their nurses and explain the different types of patient care activities that could result in hand contamination. The advantages and disadvantages of hand-washing should be explained to the nurses in order to make them more efficient in their nursing practices. I have reviewed three articles in this direction so as to justify the arguments put forward.

- KuKanich, K.S., Kaur, R., Freeman, L.C., and Poweel, D.A. (2013). Evaluation of a Hand Hygiene Campaign in Outpatient Health Care Clinics. AJN, 113(3), 36-42.

- Why did you choose this article? After ...

Twitter Inc. headquartered in San Francisco is a popular micro-blogging site, was founded by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass in the year 2006. The micro-blogging site is one of the most visited website around the world with 500 million registered users by the end of July, 2014. Also known as ‘SMS service of the internet’, the users of this micro-blogging website are allowed to receive and sent short messages of upto 140 characters known as Tweets. The company filed its legal documents for its Initial Public Offering with Security and Exchange Commission on September 12th, 2013 ...

Before the 16th century, the existence of micro-organism had not been discovered. It was until a microscope was invented that micro-organism become a subject of discussion (Barnett 2003). Microbiology is the study of microorganisms or microbes. Microorganisms are the smallest living organisms that cannot be observed with our naked hence they need to be magnified using magnification tools such as microscope. Examples of micro-organisms are bacteria, virus and fungi. Fermentation in simple terms is the conversion of sugar into acid, gases and alcohol by enzymes that act as catalysts (Pumphrey and Julie 1996). Fermentation is a process that occur takes place in ...

The Grameen Project is a plan to empower people by loaning them small amounts of money so they can start their own business. The plan works in exactly the opposite way from traditional banks. Yunus explains that loan repayment is much easier for borrowers in small amounts. Instead of requiring a repayment of the full loan at a certain date in the future, the Grameen plan requires weekly repayments for one year. In order to encourage women to get involved and stay involved women who have similar goals form groups to give each other support. The groups are self-managed ...

This paper seeks to provide a critical comparative analysis of two companies based in two countries. The companies to be analyzed are Toyota Motor Corporation headquartered in Japan and Apple, Inc headquartered in the United States. Both corporations have been through similar paths of expansion as well as faced similar challenges in their marketing environment. Often, marketing-orientated firms tend to look outwards of the environments in which they operate. This is seen as a way to maximize their opportunities as well as take advantage of emerging target market opportunities, thereby minimizing potential threats that may hinder their progress. Marketing environments do ...

- Introduction

The vehicle manufacturing sector, as a dynamic arena, has undergone various changes, influences and effects, since the advent of the European Industrial revolution, and majorly so, from the input of Henry Ford’s – Assembly line model. Through its involvement in the process of vehicle manufacture, it actively contributes to the global economy, by way of revenue allotment, industry development and employment opportunities, in addition to contributing to varied environmental impacts and effects. It is involved in the development, design, manufacture, selling and marketing of vehicles, motorcycles and mopeds amongst other transport equipment. Pertinent, is the presence of the auxiliary ...

Youths are moved by the products that are somewhat related to their age related conditions. Age is evidently defined by the social and the cultural factors in an individual’s environment. But the two aspects have a unique meaning and a value in respect to each individual. Taking a deeper insight on the social bit, the seemingly growing middle-class age group comprised of an active and the largest population in the two counties in study (China and India). With the help of the widespread penetration of internet which includes the social media, age group seems to be drawn to food and beverage ...

In the article entitled “Economy Is Showing New Signs of Strength” written by the Associated Press and published online in The New York Times on September 5, 2013, the current economic condition of the United States was presented and announced in the light of prevailing external factors. As revealed, the facets that apparently contribute to the strength of the economy stemmed from the following sectors: increased employment opportunities in the service companies, particularly in auto sales; an evident lowering of interest rates due to “scaling back purchases of Treasury and mortgage-backed securities this month” of the Federal ...

Body area networks have become common in medical, military and other uses. An example of a body area network is a wearable watch-like heart rate monitor. Measurements of heart rate reveal important information concerning the muscles and the lungs. The pounding of the heart pumps oxygenated blood to the body supplying the muscles with the required oxygen and removing waste products from them. The more the physical activity of the body, the harder the working of the heart. Therefore, the heart rate determines the effectiveness of the exercise routine in improving the overall health of the body.

The use of heart ...

Health Care Delivery/Integration

Managed Care Managed care, arguably one among the most common emerging trends in the field of health care, is exceptionally controversial as it has impacted differently on people and societies. Managed care is aimed at reducing the costs of accessing healthcare benefits. It lays emphasis on such techniques as preventive care and the use of financial incentives (Wolper, 2004). Looking at it from an micro-level point of view, managed care is associated with conflict of interest on the part of the physician. On the other hand, it makes it difficult for the physician to prioritize the interests of ...

Define the terms ecology, ecosystem, and biosphere.

Ecology may be referred as the study of how organisms interact in their environment including both the physical (abiotic) and the living (biotic) aspects of the environment. Ecosystems endure through the (abiotic) and (biotic) relations within them. It also studies the community and the population, and assesses cause and effects of the reactions of communities and populations to change in environment.

On the other hand, an ecosystem may be referred to as a community of organisms that interrelate with each other and the non-living elements for sustainable adaptation and development to varying conditions. There many different forms of ecosystems that ...