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History of dengue

Dengue is described by the World Health Organization (n.d.) as a fast emerging pandemic viral disease with worldwide prevalence. The viral disease was initially traced to the epidemics in Java and in Egypt in 1779. Some literatures trace back the virus and its vectorsto the Chin Dynasty. It was hypothesized that the disease occured in the Western hemisphere in the midddle of the 17th century and believed to originate from tropical America. However, some researchers would point out that the accounts of dengue outbreaks were traced back during the 18th and 19th century in Southeast Asia.The dengue outbreaks in ...

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Abstract Every speech is embellished by metaphoric expression, despite its context, content, and tone. In different fields the application of metaphors may vary, yet still they are applied regardless the situation consciously or unconsciously. In the speech of adults, metaphoric expressions play pivotal role serving as the instruments of persuasion, simplification, and demonstration. There is less evidence that explain the utilization of metaphors by children. Some scholars insist that children use metaphoric expressions unconsciously, while the other researchers imply that they implement the metaphors due to their symbolic perception of the environment. There is certain inconsistency in the results ...

The Expanding Roles of Advance Nurse Practitioners

The roles of advance practice nursing have continued to develop around the globe in response to the need for specialized nursing care offered at advanced practice levels (Kleinpell, Scanlon, Hibbert, Ganz, East, Fraser, Wong & Beauchesne, 2014). Kleinpell et al., (2014) also acknowledge the development of roles for advance practice nursing to encompass components such as to perform diagnosis, prescribe treatment regimens, prescribe drugs, perform and interpret tests to aid in diagnosis. These expanded roles are also recognized by the International Council of Nursing (2013). Their definition of advance practice nursing is the practice by a registered nurse who poses ...

Introduction

In all the three spheres of development namely language, social and academic there seems to be four dynamic groups involved: hearing parents with hearing children; hearing parents with deaf children; deaf parents with hearing children; and finally, deaf parents with deaf children. This paper seeks to explore how these groups interact and affect the development of children. It also expounds on the disparities that exist among the four groups. While it is clear that these children do not have much difference developmentally, the parents have to devise unique ways to ensure their children are not disadvantaged. Language forms the ...

Regarded as one of the most successful technology-led initiatives in a public service delivery setting, Big Data and CompStat served as a revolutionary remedy holding back the escalating crime rate in New York City and helping the police adopt a preventive and proactive approach. With its recent shift to Web 2.0, strategic plan to include the police officials and general public in integrating the features of social media and Big Data should be prepared. The plan aims to increase public accountability towards crime reduction and helps establish collaborative ties between the public and the police in making the city ...

Good morning class! I want to start by asking you some questions, before we even look at the painting I would like to share with you. If the answer is yes to the question, I am going to ask you to stand up. Then please sit down so I can ask the next question. Thank you. Ok listen carefully: Who here has ever wanted to be a painter? [Be sure to allow response time. This will also allow for involvement of children who are more kinesthetic learners than simply aural learners.] How about a writer? Has anyone ever wanted ...

Florida National University (FNU) is a higher education system, where the purpose is to “contribute to the education of a population of diverse, presently predominately Hispanic, cultures,” (Mission Statement). The purpose of the university is to make it easy for Hispanic immigrants to have access to higher education and prepare them for employment in the United States. It offers classes on mainly on the business and medical fields. There is a large program in the university that teaches English as a second language to further help international students get situated in the United States. Because of this, the university ...

At the commencement of the twenty-first century, societies witnessed a rapid increase in the levels at which the world’s reliance on information technology and computer systems grow. Concurrently, while nations continue to rely on the networks and technological advancements with which the global environment maintains the world economy, there is still concern that the same advantages have an equal capacity to cause harm. To that end, there are limitations to the current perceptions on the grounds on which terrorism and the virtual environment relate: the fact that people fail to recognize terror activities amid the many different forms ...

Reducing Bottlenecks, a case study of Starbucks

A supply chain is determined by bottlenecks. It is only after recognizing this fact that cash flow can be increased. In a supply chain, a bottle neck implies to resources that require the longest operations time of the supply for particular demand. Insufficiency and inventory increase are some of the associated with bottleneck. Insufficient materials and excess inventory do not occur always because of inconsistent fluctuations ( Bhalla, 2011). Bottlenecks determine the supply chain’s throughput. An improvement in the capacity of a supply chain’s bottleneck will increase in throughput. Non bottlenecks have an operating rate is one hundred ...

Introduction

Hart Hospital Equipment, Inc. manufactures and sells care medical equipment, surgicenters as well as emergency rescue teams. Hart’s philosophy is to develop very innovative products as well as excellent services. This has placed Hart in a strong position both in the monitor as well as in the defibrillator market.

Sales Force Strategy

Hart’s main vehicle for production is the field force. Hart’s sales force has proven to be among the best in the industry because of the high customer review in regards to product awareness, acceptance as well as the excellent quality services. This strategy has attracted customers as ...

There can be three pricing models that can be applied to pricing for airline services.

The peak pricing model : A high price is charged at the peak time when the demand for the good or service is high and a moderate and low price is charged in the off peak hours .

Price Discrimination: Different prices are charged for different group of consumers .

Cross subsidization: One group of consumers pay a price higher than the cost of service another group pays a price lower than the cost of service. The first group is the subsidizing group and the other group is the subsidized group.

We choose one flight and discuss which pricing principle will be applicable for that flight.

The Monday Morning Flight from Chicago to New York: This is a case where the peak pricing principle can be applied. ...

While Machiavelli wrote many different works, ranging from plays and biographies to histories, and was deeply involved in Florentine politics, he is certainly best known for his greatest work, The Prince. In fact, it is from this work and this author that we get the term "Machiavelli and," which describes a person or situation that is cunning, deceitful and (most of all) expedient. This essay will examine the relationship between the concepts expressed in The Prince and the character of Tony Soprano in television's The Sopranos. It will be demonstrated below that on some occasions Tony Soprano (as a ...

Discussion One

Evaluation is a crucial and important process that needs to be done in an effective and timely manner. Evaluation entails the process of determining whether the goals and objectives of a project have been achieved or not. Therefore, before settling on the type of evaluation method to be used, the project managers must ensure that the method is not expensive and time-consuming (Nutbeam and Bauman, 2006). Some of the questions that can assist managers to establish the effectiveness of an evaluation approach include

How many individuals will be needed to undertake successful evaluations?

What is the time span of the evaluation process? Discussion Two The evaluation findings are curial ...

Victor Frankenstein and Captain Walton are similar in many regards. Both are attempting to push the boundaries of the natural world, though in different ways. While Victor's creation of the Monster was done so in pursuit of the advances of natural science, Walton was attempting to push the bounds of human exploration. In this way, both were attempting to further mankind but, at the same time, were blind to the ambition that alienated them from their families and loved ones. Throughout the book, Dr. Frankenstein is constantly lacking in his acknowledgment of the needs and concerns of those around ...

Analysis of alcohol abuse from sociological perspective

Annotated Bibliography Kissin, B. (1983). The biology of alcoholism, Volume 6: The pathogenesis of alcoholism psychosocial factors. New York, NY: Plenum Press. The book of Benjamin Kissin (1983) examines the natural history of alcoholism. The author defines the reasons and factor that cause or can lead to the alcoholism. There are various factors that can contribute to the contemporary social issue, such as “moral turpitude, willfulness, and role modeling, urbanization, environmental, stress, oral personality, genetic predisposition, and biochemical defects. The source will be very valuable since it makes the connection between the poverty and alcoholism. causes of the alcoholism ...

Sustainable management in the hospitality industry is not a new concept. In the past, the industry has been focusing on the importance of sustainability. This supports hotel development and its operations. Moreover, environmental, socio-economic, and cultural impacts of the industry have been emphasized. Sustainable development denotes concepts that currently spin around every industry globally. In the past, the hotel industry had a spectacular environmental impact especially through power and water usage, consumption of durable goods, waste generation-solid, as well as liquid wastes. Energy is consumed during HVAC operations, general lighting, fuel, or normal power requirements. Water is similarly utilized ...

Statement of Purpose and Academic Motivation

Intercultural management practices and competence has been poorly explored by the academic community from the perspective of multicultural Finnish professional life (Weber, Festing & Dowling, 2013). In spite of the fact that various cultural issues in the employment context have been studied from the purely managerial perspective, the majority of these studies relate to either migration of the highly skilled professionals (Thomas & Peterson, 2014), reflected common international trends (Van der Vijer, Hemert & Poortinga, 2008) or evaluated financial performance of the institutions, which significantly attracted employees with different cultural backgrounds (Smith, 2004). This research, however, pursues a number of unique objectives, ...

Diane Sawyer’s presentation, dubbed Waiting on the World to Change revolves around the documentation of life in Camden City, a territory that earned the title of the United States’ poorest and most dangerous in 2004 and 2005. Concurrently, the interviewed subjects include Ivan and Billy Joe, both of whom are residents of Camden without proper and sustainable access to the necessities one needs for a quality and healthy life. First, the families of both boys lack adequate shelter as the houses in which they live are either someone else’s property or are of poor condition. For instance, ...

Introduction

Money is a means of payment for services and goods. Money can also be defined as anything that allows us to purchase goods and services (Stanford 2008, 189). Money serves number of functions like measure of value, means of exchange and store of value. These functions often contradict each other and these contradictions may lead to economic crisis.

Function of money

Money: In ancient times, barter system was used for payment of services and commodities. It was difficult to put exchange value on commodities or services rendered. Trading in barter system was highly inefficient, as seller had to find a buyer who ...

Abstract

There are a plethora of challenges that pertains to the learning of the second learning. The process of foreign language acquisition that is often a second language is characterized by certain difficulties that narrow down to individual attributes. It is worthy to understand the various factors that make it easy for students or some people to learn a second language faster than their counterparts. It is important to note that despite similar learning conditions, there are possibilities that different people will take different periods of time to understand and learn a given language that is not their first language. ...

Background of Study

Every business provides a service or products in a given industry. For a business to survive and grow, it needs to expand its share of consumers in the market within which it operates. There are several tools that are utilized to examine and review a given market. This includes the Porter’s Five Force analysis which examines and critiques the key players that can influence a given industry and the relative strength of each group to dominate and control the market. This competitor analysis method defines the extent to which the players will change and influence the industry in ...

The person I would like to tell about is Myra Yvonne Chouteau, born 7 March 1929, who died of congestive heart failure on 24 January 2016 at the age of 86. She was a famous prima ballerina of a Native and French origin, famous as one of the “Five Moons”, the five prominent Native American ballerinas of Oklahoma. She became a part of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, the widely reputed classical ballet company, since she was 14, and a part of the Oklahoma Hall of Fame at the age of 18 (Lee). A few years ago I ...

Hip-Hop is considered to be of the largest and the most popular cultures in the whole world. It took its roots in the 70s and had undergone a long way before gaining its popularity and becoming one of the most influential cultures. Afrika Bambaataa, DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash are known as the founding fathers of hip-hop music. Their talent and dedication to what they were doing definitely brought hip-hop on a new level. All in all, it is essential to learn their history in order to understand the process of the development of hip-hop culture. Surprisingly, but it ...

Restrictive covenants are agreements that ensure that buyers take certain actions or abstain from certain actions. They are common in real estate transactions. They are legally binding obligations that clearly stipulated in the title deed by the seller’s property. They are usually complex and simple. Land developers apply them when subdividing property in residential developments. They involve restrictions on the nature of constructions in the areas so that it conforms to an overall plan of the area. For instance, they may restrict construction to residential single-family house or one storey houses. Another common restriction is setting a minimum ...

Australia, being recognized as a vibrant democracy of a free market has always recorded economic progress for the last twenty-five years without encountering a recession. The economy has hugely benefitted from the entrepreneurial development which has been facilitated by an efficient governmental system, a legal system that is functioning properly together with an independent bureaucratic rule. All through in 2014, the economic growth of Macquarie environment has been below the long-term trend. Being driven by the sector of the resources, it experienced a declining value as the prices of the commodities also declined. This meant that while the country ...

Impact of Unemployment on the Long Term

The unemployment is defined as the state of looking for a job and not being able to get a job. The unemployed people are willing to be in the labor market; however, the economies cannot produce enough jobs for all the workers. The unemployment might continue the long term, especially after the recession times in the national economies (Krueger, Cramer and Cho 230). The ability to create new jobs is very essential for the national economies. The recession times in the world cause an increase in the unemployment rate, and some of the unemployments are long-term unemployments. The most ...

Parthenon is a Greek temple dedicated to the Greek Goddess Athena. The temple was built by two architects; Iktinos and Kallikrates (Cartwright et al.). The temple was erected with the aim to preserve the monumental statue of Athena. The statue was made up of ivory and gold. The statue of Athena is surrounded by 23 small Doric columns. They are arranged in a two storey. According to Neils (88), the Parthenon is a remarkable building. . The huge construction of this architecture has used mainly the limestone, while the columns are erected in marble. The Parthenon is an exquisite specimen ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is one of the most reputable security agencies in the United States of America. Although there are several other security agencies in the United States of America, the Federal Bureau of Investigation remains one of the most significant as far as the American protection policy is concerned. The Federal Bureau of Investigation however, is a domestic agency which provides intelligence and security service in the United States of America (Findlay 21). Due to its importance and effectiveness, it is mandated with the duty of serving as the United States’ law enforcement agency; it’ ...

Executive Summary

The purpose of the paper was to assess Canadian market for the ability of CBT, the UK-based supermarket chain, to enter it. Environmental analysis was made taking into account political situation in the country, economic overview, legal aspect and socio-cultural perspective. It was found that CBT is going to have more opportunities than threats. Competitive analysis showed that supermarket industry in Canada is monopolistically competitive. The characteristics of such market were properly described. In general, there are three main CBT’s competitors and numerous small, therefore, the company should enter Canadian market with some competitive advantages. In order to ...

Why does Ellison come to New York in 1936? What do you think was his most urgent reason?

Ellison comes to New York because he desires to enjoy the summer season in the city which he considers as a getaway from all his problems in his home in the southern state of Alabama. His most urgent reason is to seek funds for the completion of his final year as music major.

How does Ellison utilize his free time?

Ellison utilizes his free time by exploring the city, making new friends along the way, and enjoying himself with the variety of social freedom that was deprived of him in Alabama.

How do his experiences help explain the appeal of New York for African-Americans during the 1930s?

His experiences help explain the appeal of New York for African-Americans by comparing his life ...

Introduction

In the early 20th century, there were hopes for a new, modern and developed era. With the development of industry, machinery and shipbuilding, people were waiting for something better and convenient for their life. Passenger liners to the "New world" were built together with people's hope for a new life. When the new liner appears, moreover with a reputation of being unsinkable, it is impossible that there would be such an unfair end.

"Unsinkable" Titanic – the ship that defied the higher powers, the miracle of shipbuilding and the largest ship of its time. The builders and owners of the ...

Flatiron, New York City, NY–(10 February 2016) Bandier, an online retailer of active fitness wear, has announced the arrival of Reversible Crop Tank, a fitness top that offers the capability of being worn from sides. It comes with a rounded and higher neckline thus becoming a mortar destination for fitness fashion. The new collection of fitness wear will be convenient to women fitness seekers. The fitness wear incorporates a range of styles thereby featuring an overall print on the body part. It is made of 80% Polyester and 20% Spandex, a combinational design that makes it a world ...

Christianity, after the resurrection of Jesus went through a lot of phases before it was transmitted from Ancient Israel to Europe as the main religion. This period is generally viewed as the era of “early Christianity”. In this period, Christianity was viewed by most Romans as a sect of Judaism as such, it was criminalized with severe sanctions like torture and death for practitioners. Due to this, Christianity was practiced secretly in the underground and many women were involved in it. The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze the role of women in early Christianity. During the ...

On February 2, 2016, I attended a show by Real Big Fish at Brooklyn Bowl in New York. The show commenced at 8:00 pm and it only accommodated people aged 21 years and above (Brooklyn Bowl par. 1). Specifically, Real Big Fish is a U.S. SKA punk music band formed in the mid-1990s. Shortly after its inception, the group gained immense prominence across the nation. The band’s long-term success, as well as its ability to put up an electrifying performance, informed my decision to attend the show. I stayed at the show until the performances was over. The ...

Nominal interest rates comprises of a risk free interest rate and a risk premium. The risk free interest rate is the interest rate at which a security that does not have any risk will attract. In other words, it is the interest that is paid on risk-free assets. The asset that is commonly assumed to be risk-free is government securities. Although government securities may not be entirely risk free they inherently have very low risk. Therefore, the interest rate on government securities is often assumed to be the risk free rate. Risk premium compensates investors for assuming additional risk. ...

Executive Summary

Introduction Discussion and Analyses Market Analysis Financial Performance Product profiles Customer Profiles Communication Practices Conclusions Recommendations

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Chipotle Health Issues E. coli Outbreak Executive Summary The loss of organizational trust within the market can render a business volatile. A case involving food contamination in Chipotle Restaurants led to the infection of 55 people. The company loss its credibility to function properly and closed some of its branches after the loss of revenue and decreasing value of shares. This report has evaluated some of the issues that has affected the company in order to establish a reliable solution for future expansion ...

English

Fairytales are much often made of stuff related to fantasies and fancies. Fantasies of a child and possibly that of a child who never grows up continues to exist in an adult body in the form of imaginative figments. Such imagination is so lucid that it translates almost to reality, maybe the surreal and the virtual reality. Princess Bride is also a story of fantasies that have occasionally gone wrong, but again, the imagination is so fertile that it is apparently very close to the reality. The main character Billy believes in certain amount of reality behind wild imaginations. ...

Abstract

With the increased competition in the airline industry, especially in the low fare segment, Ryanair, the initiator if this segment in Europe, is faced with various pressures, coming from its competitors, external environment or industry trends. While the company has the resources to manage the challenges of the 21st century, which tops with the necessity to become a global brand, it also requires a sound strategy. This report starts with analysing the internal and external environment of Ryanair, in order to identify the strategic directions that it can pursue in its globalization approach and it further proposes a global ...

Sherry Turkle in the article “Stop Googling, Let’s Talk” argues that the technology has drastically impacted healthy development of individual that leads to communication and self-reflection problems and should be reassessed and addressed to change the way it influences our lives. The author uses effective inductive arguments and backs them up with facts, personal observations and fragments from his interviews and studies that are reliably acknowledged. The purpose of the essay is strongly persuasive, as the authors proves the drastic impact of technology and calls for social reaction. The central argument is the need to fight long-term effects ...

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Source: Law Office of Shawn M. George <http://www.smgapc.com/practice-areas/california-three-strikes-law/ Every generation in the United States has seen new tactics designed to continue the oppression of racial minorities, abjuring the rights the Founding Fathers deemed necessary and irrevocable for all people in the nation. Many African Americans were denied their right to participate in the growth of the new nation. Centuries later, the United States is still far from being called a true “egalitarian society.” Racial segregation and bigotry have been evinced in a number of forms; over the years, these forms have changed and evolved but the ...

Discovery of DNA Structure

Introduction Discovery of DNA was a landmark period in science history that generated further tremendous discoveries. Thanking to this groundbreaking discovery, it was possible to explore the impact of genetic information on the diseases, behavior, and personality. While there are a lot of disputes around the link between DNA and personality features or the ability to create lively beings with the help of DNA mapping, the discovery of the double helix structure opened the doors to the unimaginable dimensions of scientific abilities. It is believed that DNA has been discovered by James Watson and Francis Crick in the 1953, ...

Land changing is a major activity of how people are believed to be civilized. Since the beginning, very many years have passed and some people have converted the natural landscape which is the area having many people. Motivations which are typical for the change in land are the cultivation, the occupation and also other cultural and the economic pursuits. All through the time the earth’s surface has been the mosaic of the natural and also the culture landscape. Every path of this mosaic, forms part of a very diverse and also the interconnected sets of the landscapes which ...

The Cloud for Digital Photography

CONVENTIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY: STORAGE & MANAGEMENT ISSUES The advent of photography in late 1830s (Roosa, n.d.) has mandated later introduction and development of memory storage methods. The capacity for cameras to preserve in photographs personal and collective memories has made permanency a more urgent issue as photographs became household collectibles. Moreover, as development methods improved, older photographs (developed using outdated methods) required more maintenance during storage, particularly photographs produced by acetate negatives, chromogenic color film, polyester film and instant color print processes (Roosa). The deterioration of photographs by poor environmental storage conditions, poor storage enclosures, inadequate handling and shelving conditions, and ...

Response to Question One

Many United States citizens affected by HIV have received assistance from aid programmes available in the country. People currently living with HIV in New York have received support for their basic and secondary needs. Most of the aid granted to People Living with HIV (PLWH) have been through the Special Need Plan (SNP) (World Health Organization, 2014). Only PLWH and their dependants can join the HIV SNP. SNP provides mainstream managed care to the registered members. It also has the mandate of coordinating various forms of aid and supporting in the best way people living with HIV(Dutta, Wirtz, ...

I prefer the baroque architectural style. Baroque design has attractive features. The curves of the building are determined by circles. The walls are undulating and have concave and convex spaces that are alternating. Light is appropriately applied in the design of the building, and there is great contrast that differentiates light from shadow. The categories of building columns used are solominic. The domes have external ribs and the staircases have interior and exterior staircases that are detailed. Beauty of the design is enhanced through the use of elaborate ornament and illusionistic paintings. There is great integration involving sculpture, painting ...

INTRODUCTION

In its most basic form, counseling is about helping other people to help themselves. Professional school counseling is a specialized form of counseling which focuses on the specific needs of students and helps them to achieve the highest and best levels of their potential. The purpose of this report is to provide a 3-step analysis of the career of professional counseling. It is a final project which synthesizes and presents a practical exegesis into the concept of school counseling and how it occurs in American high schools. This report will be focused on the state of New York and ...

Our Professor took us to the excursion to the New York Public Library on Tuesday. This is the most beautiful place I have ever been to. I cannot help holding my emotions from this trip and want to share my impressions. The New York Public Library is an American storeroom with the best collection of the books over the whole world. It was opened in 1985 in New York City. It contains nearly 53 million of items, and everyone can find something for him or herself. The size of the building is also astonishing with the countless number of ...

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Abstract

The research concentrated on developing a case plan for a neglected child. The introduction helps in determining pointers of child abuse or neglect in the community, as well as, the effects of child abuse or neglect on the child. Finally, the research was also interested in determining interventions for child abuse and neglect, how they could be applied in different ways and their effects on the children. A case plan involved members of a family in the Broward County in Florida. The family was selected after pre-qualification determining that the family was ...

Gender Inequality (Unending Nightmare of Sexual Assault)

According to Roberts, Hite, and Chorev (2015), inequality is present with gender, social status, race, ethnicity, and even skin colors. In this case, inequality focuses on gender discrimination. In this world, this vital social disease has been making millions of women suffer for centuries. The most common ideology resulting to women discrimination is that men are superior over women in every aspect of life. Women in America have struggled for years because of gender inequality resulting to lack and denial of rights. In the early years, women were deprived of so many things like education, right to vote, and ...

Children of Heaven

The film Children of Heaven is Iranian film released in 1997. The main theme in the film is family love and sacrifice they make for each other. The other important themes are dignity in poverty and effort that people make in order to survive as well as the contrast between urban and rural areas. The family is consisted of the parents, a son and a daughter and all of them are good people who happen to be poor and live in a poor neighborhood in Tehran. They are honest, hard-working and represent the society which is selfless and caring. ...

Singapore International Airlines: Strategy with a Smile

Airline industry is considered global because it is characterized by the movement of services between countries, i.e. international trade, the existence of international organizations (ICAO, IATA, etc.), the availability of the natural resource potential in the countries and highly skilled workforce. In general, driving forces of globalization include a new round of scientific and technical progress; the activities of transnational corporations that operate globally and spread around the world uniform business standards; expansion of the Internet as global communications, business and entertainment environments; the activities of international economic organizations; and expansion and aggravation of global problems, forcing humanity to ...

ACTIVIES: Abnormal Psychology. Please complete all activities and include these with your final submission.

In order that you can answer the essay on this area you will need to structure your introduction. First of all you could look up the definitions of abnormality and normality in the dictionary. Write these here:

Normality

Normality is the state that is characterized with normal behaviours that in turn opposed the factors such as deviance or unusual conditions. The normal behaviour is consistent when aligned with other behavioural practices of that individual .

Reference:

American Psychiatric Association, 2013. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM-5®). ...

Disruptive Business Models

Disruptive innovation model, which explains why the world’s largest companies fail with the advent of new technologies, was named one of the most important for modern business. The author of this concept, Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, who wrote the book “The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (originally published in 1997), led Thinkers50 rating of the most notable business thinkers in 2011 and 2013 (Thinkers50, 2013). According to Christensen’s model, at the time the new technology occurs in the market, it is still very flawed, and by most of the ...

Explicitly we can come to the conclusion that such phenomena as political religion and religious politics, being based on the social religion, which creates common values for their supporters, affected the development of the American consciousness greatly as well as nowadays it does the same. It reflects the conservative form of state’s ruling with some features of collectivism, since it is mainly based on the protection of traditional family and other religious values, by sharing of which people are more likely to put all their efforts in order to defend everybody, who belongs to their group – from the ...

Education is the key component of human life that is associated with the implementation process of sharing and gaining new knowledge. The value of education in human life is growing, and so it cannot be limited only to the period of studying in the education institutions. This process is accompanied by searching for new forms and methods that promote the correct formation of the world view and build proficient and competitive society. Nowadays education is a complicated and diverse social phenomenon, the scope of sharing and assimilating knowledge and social experience. Education integrates various types of activities into a ...

This paper was prepared for ENS 215 Research & Writing

taught by Professor The growing conversation over global outsourcing of jobs has been a source of fury and heated debate in the national conversation, particularly in the past 15 years with rise of globalization. In 2004, then chair of the Council of Economic Advisors, Gregory Mankiw made a public statement endorsing outsourcing as a likely plus for the economy, and characterizing in neutral terms (as quoted in Kierkegaard (2004): "Does it matter from an economic standpoint whether values of items produced abroad come on planes and ships or over fiber-optic cables? Well, no, the economics is basically the ...

In Majid Majidi’s “Children of Heaven”, released in 1997, Ali and Zahra lead viewers through the old streets of Tehran, in an adventure to solve the problem of a lost pair of shoes. For western viewers, the film offers the perfect opportunity to become acquainted with the Iranian culture and the Oriental atmosphere of the old streets which pervades many of the scenes is fascinating. The filmmakers create a realistic picture of the Iranian capital and identify both the most beautiful, and the most disturbing aspects of urban life in this country. As the film progresses, the viewers ...

I agree with some aspects and disagree with others. Firstly, I disagree with the definition of break-even analysis. The post defines break even as the point at which the firm is able to cover the cost of purchasing a new equipment. On the contrary, break-even point is the point at which the firm is able to cover all fixed expenses with regard to a new project. Depreciation maybe included and not the entire cost of the equipment. This is because the cost is amortized over the useful life of the project. Accounting for the entire equipment cost in one ...

The learning organization identifies the future and present learning needs of its members, through the structured learning opportunities. The learning organization needs to have its reasons for existence, contributions to the society, past and future goals and actions with the clear vision and ideology set clear (6-10). According to the Senge (1990) a learning organization is an organization that encourages and facilitates learning in order to continually transform itself to survive and excel in a rapidly changing business environment. Organizations are exposed to the continual change in today’s global environment. In order to be successful in today’s ...

Question 1

Technically, a lexicographer is a person who writes compiles and edits dictionaries. According to a comprehensive dictionary of English language, lexicographer is "a harmless drudge who compiles lists of words." (Kaye 129). Therefore, the creators of the Urban Dictionary qualifies to be called the lexicographers. The creators or the authors of this dictionary are required to provide the correct spelling of the word they are creating, example sentence and its definition. With this light, the creators must make appropriate decisions regarding the authentic or proper form of language. Consequently, these self-appointed creators both standardize and record the language used ...