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Question 1

Yes, the genus Phoxinus exists. The common species of the genus is the minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus). Minnow is a small freshwater fish with dark spots forming an attractive banded effect. The fish has a small mouth, small scales, and large eyes. During spawning seasons, male fish develop bright red colors which are spectacular to attract the female. Minnows feed on plant debris, molluscs, algae, insects and crustaceans (Farrell 567). The existence of this species in a river indicates the availability of oxygen content in the riverbeds and streams. The feeding behavior of the fish involves shoaling and schooling. The ...

Colonization and infection

The population of elderly adults has been on a rise within the US, and this has been attributed to the improved healthcare system and especially on increased access to care for these populations. Within this perspective, life expectancy has increased and today the healthcare system is dominated by consumers within this category of elderly citizens (Koyano et al., 2014). Their risks of illness in this population is attributed to the aging mechanisms of tear and wear which therefore means that their systems and organs and particularly the defense mechanism tends to lose its agility with age. The one of ...

The Ritz Carlton Hotels & Resorts partners with Sea Turtles 911

for the Conservation of Sea Turtles

Introduction

After conducting an analysis and assessment of corresponding scientific literature and recent updates in the news, it is possible to make a statement that the concern of sustainability and environmental protection is a rather urgent one on the international scales. At the same time, insignificant attention has been paid to the effect, made by the planned events on both built and natural environment. For instance, such events usually involve creation of the new infrastructure in the locations, which may be referred as environmentally-sensitive ones. In such cases, there is a need of transporting ...

Cases of inappropriately handled evidence are of common occurrence. The custodians of evidence in law enforcement agencies are often to blame for the mishandling, misplacing, loss, and destruction of evidence. Sometimes, the custodians do not take the appropriate care of their property rooms. Consequently, problems arise from the lack of accountability for evidence from the initial process of evidence collection through to the documentation process. Hence, it is crucial to document as many details as possible to avoid scrutiny of evidence during the trial process.

Evidence Collection

Collecting evidence in a systematic and careful sequence is crucial. The initial step in ...

Assignment 1

The first task of successful learning is setting right targets. In order to accomplish this task, we will provide a 30 days lesson plan due to Scaffold targeting. Scaffolding differs from other learning technics. It is important to provide material gradually. A teacher can use different strategies but the main thing is ‘to relate things’ (Pilcher, 2012). In scaffolding, there are two main objectives to achieve – pupils have to be able to describe and explain the material. Learning here is represented like a ladder and lesson plan is a set of steps pupils take on this ladder (Pilcher, 2012). ...

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The current environmental regulatory regime led to widespread dissatisfaction. This is because the centralized command-and-control environmental regulation does not offer a reliable method for determining the optimal amount of pollution or finding the most efficient means of achieving the desired pollution level. This has resulted in various reform proposals and policy changes to increase environmental quality. One of the proposed reforms includes abandoning most of federal environmental regulation and returning to the common law environmentalism. This proposal has however received harsh criticism from most stakeholders in the environment sector who believe that the failure of state common law is ...

The first task to perform in the SD case was to Create New Customer and this essentially involved creating the master data for a new customer record. Basically, there are two types of customer data stored i.e. accounting data and sales data. However, there is also the issue of general data about a customer (names, address, email) which is common in both types of data mentioned previously and thus the customer master data was created in three different views (groups) i.e. general data, sales data, and accounting data. New customers can be centrally added such that all data views ...

Introduction

Trials for criminal cases is important to know the level of guilt or innocence of the accused person. It involves the enforcement of public codes of conduct as represented in the rule of laws as supported by the government’s prosecuting institutions or individuals. In general, the criminal case trials, there are efforts to bring criminal charges against the individual who allegedly committed a crime against another person or group of persons. However, the trial process itself is not as easy as it sounds. There are procedural steps that are normally being followed in a criminal trial, which will ...

The social scientific question analyzed in this paper is the influence of the family size on the process of socialization. Socialization is the process of integrating into a particular group and imitating the patterns, behavior, and worldview established in this group. It is influenced by the family, day care, educational institutions, peers, community, and mass media (Persell, 1990). The family plays a significant role in making a child involved in the community. From the first days of his or her life, the child is surrounded by the family members. The relations inside the family, traditions, upbringing methods, moral principles ...

Introduction

Change is a perpetual in today’s fast paced world. What is modern today becomes obsolete tomorrow. New technologies mean a change in the way on thinks, learns and gets his information or uses it. Any organization may feel the challenges brought about by those new technologies and why they need to implement them within their culture. Any change within or outside an institution is sure to incite mixed reception and perception among its members and clients. The essay applies a change theory to an organizational-based on Kotter’s change model and plans a change process. The change process ...

A trend of high level of non-compliance with treatment regimens among Hispanic patients has been observed in our organization over the last three months. Many Hispanic patients attending the facility fail to observe the prescriptions given to them. This lack of compliance is mainly common among the Hispanic patients suffering from diabetes type 2. Non adherence to treatment regimens is a serious concern to nursing care in various ways. First, people who fail to adhere to medication regimens are more likely than their counterparts who comply with treatment recommendations to be readmitted to the hospital. Secondly, it is important ...

The purpose of the paper is to answer the questions of the case study after having the analysis of the case study “Midwestern: Contemporary Art”. The case consists of two parts Part (A) and Part (B). Part (A) contains five questions and part B contains three questions. The paper answers all eight questions in sequential manners.

Part A

Conflicts are the part of the workplace and common in multiple organizations. There are two major types of conflicts include cognitive/task-related conflicts and affective/person-oriented conflicts. Cognitive/task-related conflicts deal with the differences in thoughts, ideas, and opinions. However, affective/person-oriented conflicts include the sense of ...

Introduction

The use of physical restraints in the care of psychiatry in-patients has been prevalent for centuries. However, in recent years there has been a call among nurse practitioners to reduce and altogether eliminate the process which is in contrast to the goals and ethical practices of the nursing professions which states that all human beings have the right to autonomy and the right to be treated with dignity. After examining the existing research on the use of restraints, it is proposed that a reduction in restraints is beneficial to patients and improves quality of care. This paper will present ...

Successful planning, construction, and completion of a large scale project like the one undertaken for completing the One World Trade Center is not easy since it requires a strategic focus on the construction plans in a realistic manner. Project leaders need to give external reviewers an opportunity to have an outside view of the whole project and suggest ways that can ensure completion within the stipulated time while avoiding deviations from the initial budget. The delays experienced during the construction of the Freedom Tower create the impression of how ineffective functional operations can lead to major changes in designs ...

BODY AND SOUL RELATIONSHIP FROM GREAT THINKERS

Body and Soul relationship The relationship between body and soul has been the main concern for many thinkers since the beginning of the history of philosophy. In this paper, we will be exploring this relationship from the perspective of three great thinkers: Plato, Aristotle, and Saint Agustin. They were all interested in this relationship, and as they do have common views, they also differ in many areas. The main concern that these three thinkers have is that the humans are made of both body and soul. They can see and touch the body, but they cannot touch the soul. ...

Introduction

Windows operating systems provide certain advantages over other operating systems in specific environments. However, for certain operations such as those required by Linx LLC new research and development group, a new version of Linux operating system triumphs Windows operating system. It is imperative to point out that Microsoft no longer offers support for Windows XP operating systems. Also, it is worth noting that the new research and development group for Linx LLC has several computers and systems running and operating on Windows XP. Given the lack of support by Microsoft in addition to other factors such as security issues ...

Question 1.

(a) Describe what you think is the best way to respond to the store managers behavior. Describe how you would model positive leadership behavior. The store manager's behavior had a negative effect on the managers and lower level staff. One of the fundamental principles to practicing Emotional Intelligence is the ability to not only remain calm but being able to calm down others. I would first analyze and filter my emotions of anger before approaching her about the situation. The next step in responding to the manager would be to meet on common ground. That is, to communicate to ...

Introduction

The 21st century has seen tremendous improvements in technology, making it the current leveraging factor in the completion age. Since websites provide a way through which most businesses sell their brands it is only prudent that they embrace internal hosting as it enables direct oversight as well as control while guaranteeing maximum reliability especially when everything is properly set up and maintained. In this paper, I aim to address the dynamics that is associated with website migration mainly using the SDLC in the implementation of the project.

Building the Web Architecture

Since the company already has a running website, then the first thing ...

Abstract

Battles are either won or lost because of a commander’s decision. As a leader of his team, the commander is the central authority when it comes to the military decision making process. But underlying these decisions are his subordinates who are often tasked with making plans and course of actions. These courses of actions are often laid-out by subordinate officers, which make them highly influential in the outcome of a commander’s decision. Over the years, standard procedures have been developed and observed when making decisions in the military. Of particular interest is the seven decision-making steps outlined ...

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Executive Summary This business report is about developing a country-specific brand strategy plan for Ovoenergy, a UK-based small energy company providing greener and cheaper energy to households and businesses in the country, in the context of its market expansion to Lebanon. Currently, the company is well-recognized in the UK market for its incredibly cheap monthly energy plans that give particular focus to the promotion of renewable electricity. In addition, the company has been ranked top in consumer satisfaction surveys constantly over the last years in terms of product delivery and customer service. Since Lebanon is ...

As afore-mentioned, knowledge deficit is a major problem facing the management of pediatric asthma. Asthma management cannot be optimal devoid of a proper understanding of various self-efficacy and asthma monitoring skills. This explains why an asthma education program for this patient population is quite promising in terms of addressing the problem. Imparting this new knowledge (knowledge on asthma management and self-efficacy) can be viewed under the lens of the Diffusion of Innovations Theory by Everett Rogers. This theory is pretty relevant and in line with this EBP project since it essentially seeks to transmit new ideas or new knowledge ( ...

Millennials include all those people that were born between 1982 and 2000. It is also known as the digital generation and the first internet generation. For last many years, the debate has been continued about the characteristics, attitude, behaviour and nature of new generation or Millennials (Dauria, 2015). In the same field, the debate has emerged among the researchers that New Generation or Millennials are not very much interested in news as compared to those who born and grew in the pre-internet or digital age. The concerns began when the data finding suggested that the underlying generation is not ...

2015 A

Section B

Answer B1: Branding No matter if the business is small or large, branding is regarded as one of the most significant aspects of a good business. There are products and services associated with every business. These products and services have to be differentiated from those of competitors by providing a unique name, a logo, a slogan which can be simply known as a brand. The brand is basically the identity given to a brand which makes it stand out from similar offerings in the domestic and international market. Customers build their perceptions on brands. The stronger and ...

CDC (2012) defines social media as online communication tools that facilitate exchange of information, interaction, engagement, and sharing of ideas and other content over networks. In the recent past, the use of social has gained immense popularity, and the healthcare industry has not been left behind. Disease prevention through health promotion depends heavily on shared information, as the information empowers the public on issues affecting their health. Information access has been revolutionalized by social media, and as Heldman, Schindelar & Weaver (2013) posits, it is imperative to take the information to the people. 67% of internet users are active users ...

The reaction by a person being told they have HIV is often and very understandably very negative. Most people, even in the most undereducated countries in the world, understand very well that HIV is a life-shortening disease. Depending on a multitude of physical, mental, and socio-economic factors, living with HIV can be a horrendous damnation in which the person is shamed and shunned for the remainder of their life, or it can be another chronic illness among a list of others. In the United States and the United Kingdom, most people today who are the most susceptible consider HIV ...

Management and Leadership

Business Management and Leadership In order to meet the requirements of the given task, I would highlight two aspects of leadership and then incorporate them into my personal leadership development plan. Although there are several qualities of a leader and a leader serves to provide the right direction to its followers whenever and wherever necessary, I will focus on two main areas of leadership which are motivation and transformational leadership.

There could be several ways to provide an explanation for the term motivation. However, the very basic idea about motivation is that it is a driving force which basically ...

Proposal for Extending Business in Chinese Market

Ice cream is a kind of classic dessert in America. Almost, 87 percent Americans have ice cream in their refrigerator. To satisfy the need for ice cream, there are more new ice cream brands in America. Plenty of new ice cream brands give us more competition in the market, and it is harder for us to gain more market share. Also, it is a major concern for our business that profits from the business have started falling. Since our company has been established, we have maintained good product quality and positive word of mouth in the market. Therefore, our ...

Twyla Tharp the daring, original, stylish and high profile choreographer was born on 1st July, 1945 in Portland, Indiana. Her family moved to California when she was about eight years old. From a very young age she started learning piano, ballet, jazz, tap, violin, painting, shorthand etc. (Twyla Tharp Biography 2016). Her mother wanted her to be competent and expert in a number of fields. It was this strict and cumbersome schedule that she had to adhere to, which turned her into a workaholic and perfectionist. She invented the a technique called “Stuffing” in which various movements, including shrugged ...

The Goal is generally about emerging principles in the manufacturing industry. Here, the book discusses the efforts of a manager of a plant in increasing the productivity of his factory. One of the valuable lessons that the manager learns is that like any other firm, his organization has to have a single primary objective that determines the operations within the business. All the departments within the organization are therefore run in a manner that aims at achieving the highest goal that was initially set. Also, the manager finally understands that the efficiency of the processes in his factory are ...

Nowadays, a lot of researches and methodologies are directed for improving and supporting the lives of students with exceptionalities. It is obvious that they are in need of special treatment during the process of teaching. In this research, the current methodologies will be provided. The relationship between the research methodology and social change will be described. Also, this paper will propose different ways to create better conditions for such students in order to encourage them to study. In this research, the attention will be paid to such points of improving the conditions as peer support and the relationships inside ...

Introduction

An effective and excellent leader has many skills, both recognized and unrecognized. He or she is a problem solver, the person who encourages others to act on decisions that he or she thinks will benefit the whole, instead of just one person. He or she is sensitive to the needs of others, and he or she makes sure that when faced with a difficult decision that he or she is just, fair, and ethical.These decisions are usually very difficult, and sometimes many people or communities rely on a quick, decisive, and right action. Leaders are not always the popular ...

There is no doubt that the global environment is in need of good coaches. Whether this concern is evaluated from sophisticated management approaches, or from the routine functioning of society, the consensus appears to be relating to people who are conscious about changes, and how to relate with the changes to get work done. There is no single attribute that can be said to describe good coaches, but if the basic explanation offered is relied upon, the description seems to describe good leaders as well. This paper seeks to review available literature regarding the concept of coaching and how ...

The first part of the slides describes the history of developments and inventions of movie production industry. The first steps in movie production have been taken by Marey and Muybridge in 1870s-1880s. They were able to capture motions by taking series of pictures using a single camera. Almost 15 years later, Thomas Edison created first Kinetoscope, where through the peep hole only one person could see the illusion of movement, that was created by showing sequence of images with a high speed over a light source (“Kinetoscope”). In almost the same period Lumière brothers invented a new device ...

IDEO Video Review

According to David Kelley, chairman and founder of IDEO, design tries to put a marriage between form and function. The challenge is to design products that are empathetic to people.

The design process at IDEO is called Design thinking: an innovative approach that incorporates human behavior into design.

In the shopping cart case we see that first the team splits into groups to find out what people who make, use and repair shopping carts really think. What do people do that can help us build a better cart? Observation is crucial. Then, each team shares everything that they have learnt during the day. The next step is what they call the “Deep dive” (Ideo’s brainstorming) The ...

Demonstrate how KPIs and percent changes are calculated when it comes to comp set data.

KPIs for the comp set data are calculated basing on aggregation of raw data for each hotel taking part in this comp set. Therefore, firstly Supply, Demand and Revenue should be combined for each hotel in the comp set. The next step is application of standard Occupancy, ADR and RevPAR formulas to the aggregated indicators calculated before. Percent changes are calculated just the same way as in the case of calculating it for a particular hotel. This means, that indicator relating to the previous period should be derived from current period indicator. The result of this operation is then ...

Overrun Accident of The American Airlines Flight 1420

Abstract The American Airlines accident Flight 1420 is identified as a runway overrun accident. The National Transportation Safety Board conducted an investigation to find the cause. This project is primarily focused on the human factor issue that might have caused the accident. The project explored the Human Factor Analysis and Classification System and used the Swiss Cheese Model to link the chain of events to determine the cause of the accident. The Human Factor Analysis and Classification System was used by the National Transportation Safety Board to analyze the human factors issues within American Airlines Flight 1420. This system ...

Counselling, in most cases, appears to be the last resort that clients take when they are faced with challenges or when experiencing struggles in life. Before resorting to visiting a counsellor, individuals are most likely to have exhausted the different support systems around them. They may have sought the counsel of parents, siblings, religious leaders and other members of the society. The counsellors have an important role of replacing the pessimism that clients have accumulated with hope.

Creating a sense of hope

There are several ways through which counsellors can successfully create a sense of hope and optimism in the client. When a client ...

Importance of Innovation to AutoZone

Innovation is very important for the division and the entire organization. It is for this reason that innovation will be embedded in the core values as well as the mission and vision of the division. The main objective of making innovation part of the AutoZone statements is to help in reinforcing it. This will change the way innovation is viewed. Instead of being seen as just an aspirational concept, the idea is to make it as part of the everyday experience. It has to be embedded in everyone’s job responsibility. It will be used to further positive employee ...

The case scenario provided presents a situation that entails an ethical dilemma. In this case, the decision made by the physician is expected to obey the ethical principles (least harm, justice, respect for autonomy, and beneficence). In the scenario, the physician can take two possible courses of action. First, he can choose to treat the child since the child has been diagnosed with meningitis and failure to act might have serious ramifications on the child’s health. Indeed, such consequences might be life-threatening. Secondly, the physician may choose not to treat the child in accordance with the will of ...