Essays on Operators

5 Forces Case Report: The Air Express Industry Case Questions

Introduction

The air industry in the US dates back the early 1970s and its growth and development was gradual and based on numerous factors. In the initial period of operation, the industry particularly dealt with small packages and the entry into the industry was challenging due to the environment characterized by significant regulations. It is essential to understand the primary factors which led to its growth and development to its current status. First, the deregulation in the industry is attributed with significant changes, which allowed Federal Express, which was among ...

1. Since food and beverage experiences are very personal, how do food service managers design programs that will please customers and keep them coming back? Ans. The primary purpose of food service managers is to ensure customer satisfaction. They ensure that the quality and standards of food and service are up to the mark and the programs are designed in such a way that the customers keep coming back. The programs should include proper training of the employees, effective and efficient supply change management, monitoring the methods of preparation, portion sizes and presentation of food, ensuring the safety measures, ...

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Introduction

Technology advancement is a requirement for all public systems where users come in large numbers. One such critical functioning system is the Air Traffic Control system of the America. America’s Air Traffic Control (ATC) system had been running for the past 40 years and catering to the burgeoning traffic at the airports. At any given time in the United States, approximately 7000 aircraft are flying in the country’s airspace. The country’s air traffic system had been catering to the ever increasing demand. However, it ...

The choice of an appropriate repair station is essential to aircraft owners, operators, and clients. These facilities are certified by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The facility certification process is stipulated in Title fourteen of the Federal Regulation Code. Repairing an aircraft involves maintenance, alteration, and inspection (Landry, 2012). Certificates are issued to repair facilities outside or inside the United States of America. Rising demands of air maintenance and travel have led to the proliferation of repair services. Therefore, it is essential to understand processes involved in the certification of aircraft maintenance station. It begins with an initial inquiry ...

Management: What Must be Improved?

At the present time, the use of Global Positioning System or GPS, is becoming significant in various applications. Through the use of satellite systems, this technology is able to pinpoint the location of a certain object or person (Wickens, Mavor, Parasuraman, & McGee 90). The accuracy was proven to be high, making it suitable for communication and surveillance. Moreover, it can also be used for navigation. When using a set of satellites, GPS can determine a certain way to reach the other locations, as long as the satellites are within the range of the distance of the designated places (Wickens, ...

Introduction

A country’s economic and security prosperity highly relies on the aviation system that is operating efficiently. The existence of weak security poses a threat to aircraft safety and those that are boarding it. The hostile nation-states, criminals and terrorists have been viewing the aviation sector as a target for exploitation and attack. Successful airport attacks inflict grave economic damage, mass casualties and negatively affect the airline transportation system. The air transport sector should adopt appropriate ways of managing different incidents and threats. Intelligence and Threat Assessment play a significant role in mitigating numerous risks in the aviation industry. ...

Introduction

A report following a global study of 44,000 people in the tourism sector by TripBarometer Connected Traveller report states that China is among the few top ten nations with connected travellers and categorises 49% of the Asians as connected travellers as most of them use a PC or mobile for booking trips . TravelBurma App targets the Chinese travellers, local business travellers, and other foreign travellers in the age group of 21-50 years. As Myanmar is a business district unit, people often prefer travelling there than any other part of China. During the year 2015, more than 4.68 million ...

IE 309 - Human Factors & Ergonomics

Industrial Engineering Department Project (1) 1. Introduction 2. Problem statement 3. Proposed solution 4. Data gathered 5. Data analysis 6. Conclusion Dr.

INTRODUCTION

ERGONOMICS AS A CONCEPT Ergonomics is applied as a science to fit the workplace conditions and job demands to the capabilities of the working population. The goal of the current paper is to make the workplace more comfortable and to improve both health and productivity. To meet the goal stated above, the capabilities and limitations of workers and their tools, equipment and furniture are considered in conjunction with how they relate to particular tasks. Ergonomics when it ...

Technology Trends in the Hospitality Industry

Introduction Technology is a major driver of all business in the world today. The mechanization of services leads to short lead times and eventual savings in operational expenses. The savings in turn lead to an improvement in business profits. Technology is also a major driver of the current global nature of business. In particular, developments in the transport and communications sector play an important role in globalizing business. The connectivity of the world means that potential customers learn of new services and products as they arise and expect them wherever their location. Consequently, new technologies spread quickly and the ...

Introduction

In its initial stages, the hotel industry provides renting space for people who were travelling from one place to another. The industry has grown exponentially into a flourishing service sector with revenues of billions of dollars (Prasanna, 2013). The hotel industry has improved its products. While it offered accommodation and food in the earlier years of the hotel industry, the hotel industry in the contemporary environment offers theme parks, conference facilities, lodging, cruise line, restaurants, and transportation among others (Prasanna, 2013). The classification of the hotels using the star system is also partly based on the products, services, and ...

QUESTIONS

The Vodafone’s key performance indicators (KPI) table reflects that recession has made some impact on their performance during 2009 when compared to their prior performance report of 2007 and 2008. The economic downturn has affected Vodafone’s performance in the areas of service, data revenue, and operating profit. Both service and data revenue keep declining even though the number of mobile customers has increased by 42.1m. The lower growth in the usage and decrease of new customers from 39.5m to 33.6m could have reduced the service and data revenue by 0.3% and 25.9%. However, Operating profit has increased ...

The standard operating procedure for security department has been prepared to provide a response framework to different emergencies at the Phillips 66 Company. The purpose of reporting Crisis Management (CM) Notifications is to ensure that the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) is aware of crisis incidents and potential impacts to the company. It delivers complete information about standard operating procedure of security department of the company. It identifies the strengths of ELT and shows the team’s approaches and capabilities to control the security system effectively.

Procedure

The team has created efficient plans to take immediate actions against any emergency situation ...

[City and State]

Introduction

Structures such as large buildings can create its own unique internal environment that can significantly impact the comfort and health of its occupants. After many years of investigating and studying building infrastructures, engineers and designers have increased their understanding and knowledge on the environmental conditions that exists within the building in relation to its physical properties. For the same reason, a solid background in building physics is an integral part of a building’s design, particularly in this modern era wherein green buildings are the rising trend. Most modern buildings integrate building physics prior to construction ...

Introduction

Tourism has many definitions, which include traveling for pleasure purposes. Tourism, according to World Tourism Organization, is defined visiting and staying places away from our normal environment for a period exceeding one year for leisure or other business purposes. Tourism can be either domestic or international where implications are on both the host and source countries. Today, tourism is among the major sources of revenue for most countries and has a great impact on the economic growth and development of nations. The hospitality services, transport services, entertainment venues, as well as goods bought by tourists are among the sectors ...

Today, manufacturing processes are a major part of most businesses. It provides employment for organizational workers and is the only way to bring science to life. Thus, there is a need for organizations to improve their performance so as to create significant value for their businesses. This is made possible through manufacturing excellence approach that helps organizations to adapt to new as well as changing markets. Manufacturing excellence ensures that a rigorous assessment is carried out on the overall performance of organizations so that it is in line with the financial impact expected for the organization as well as ...

Ok Tedi Copper Mine

The Ok Tedi Copper Mine is located in Papua New Guinea. It is an open-pit gold and copper mine, named as such because it is near the Ok Tedi River. Mining gold and copper out of the pit have caused widespread social and environmental harm to the atmosphere around the Ok Tedi Copper Mine. Located near a river, the discharge and runoff of the mine have negatively impacted the lives of tens of thousands of residents in over one-hundred villages living downstream from the mine. The people are now suffering because of the placement of the mine, but also ...

Overview of the Industry

Over the last five years, the Singapore taxi industry has seen tremendous changes, most of which have resulted from the development of private app-taxi companies. The introduction of the taxi bookings apps in 2013 was marked by an explosive growth of the demand for the app based taxi services from the main global players that is Uber and Grab car. Over the years, this has continued to affect the traditional taxi operators; according to research, the advent of the taxi app companies has reduced the regular taxi earnings by 20 % (Lee, 2015). This has been the main concerns for ...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This is a case study involving a situation where a textile manufacturer and exporter has received an order that was placed by one of their good customers in the early days of the off-season period. This offer presents equally awarding benefits but also poses a real threat in the event something goes wrong in the production process. Benefits vary from increased profits to customer satisfaction. The main danger in this offer package is late delivery which would lead to the client deducting the amount payable to the company or the manufacturer being stuck with goods that are immovable at ...

Aviation terrorism is the act of unleashing violence on airliners with the aim to harm or intimidate the victims. The occurrence of terrorism has increased with the rise of aviation as a mode of transport. The first known incident of air terrorism was carried out in 1930 by Peruvian insurgents who hijacked an airplane to scatter propaganda leaflets. This practice subsided in the subsequent two decades due to the effect of global factors such as world war two. Modern terrorism started in 1968 when three Palestinian gunmen hijacked a passenger airline of the Israeli Airline El Al on a ...

Product Market Analysis

Product/Service Mix With an experience in the airline industry of over four decades, Southwest Airlines has polished its low fare flying policy. Economy flying across various United States destinations is SA’s main product that has become an eponymous for the company (Southwest Airlines official website, n.d.). Its product mix includes rapid check ins, two free checked pieces of luggage under specific sizes and weight, no reservation policy and a friendly crew that engage travelers during their flights, which is SA’s personal signature (Southwest, 2014). Southwest product differentiates from other airlines’ products because it comprises the largest Boeing ...

Abstract

Eye movement tracking and analysis has gained popularity as a critical tool for evaluating interfaces and visual display. Existing tools and methods that are used in analyzing scan paths and eye movements are to a greater extent limited in the nature of tasks that they support. In particular, the tools used have been found ineffective in tracking large amounts of data that has high variations. Eye movement analysis has been used in psychology, medical research, advertising, and cognitive science. Today, using CCTV cameras, human eye gaze, and eye movement and blinking is relatively recorded with ease and with high ...

Abstract

The Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) industry plays a crucial role in developing an industry approach to risk management in the area of air medical transport. The aviation sector has been known to manage risk at very high levels, but the current state of HEMS, given the many accidents, needs higher level risk assessment. An analysis of the risks involved in the HEMS industry would allow operators to maximize their opportunities and minimize probable threats. While some risks are uniform to most HEMS operators, there are some risks that are unique to an operator. For this paper, Air Methods ...

The origins of the supermarket system in the UK can be traced to 1850s. Since then the industry has been rapidly growing with the number of stores dramatically increasing. Such rapid development was largely driven by the development of marketing and featured products through refined representation, as well as evolution of advertising techniques and brand names. The situation when the supermarket market is controlled by a small number of big operators essentially leads to the state of oligopoly with all its advantages and disadvantages. When a number of big operators controls a market, they have significant influence on the ...

Self-Organized Network (May 2016)

Abstract—In the form of a literature review, this outline is a brief outline of the intricate, yet fundamental elements of Self Organized Network (SON). The author takes an in-depth account of research studies and basic writings of this telecommunications platform and weighs in on the writings of subject matter experts. In doing so, findings indicate that the technological demands that are placed on telecommunication networks is directly related to the economic chain of supply and demand. Indirectly, there is are environmental concerns that are ignored in meeting such demands that address waste and emissions. While SON may fix ...

Assignment 7: Distribution & Pricing Decisions

1. State your product idea and target market. The product device that looks like a kiwi bird that will help tourists navigate through New Zealand while it provides tourists with fun facts, history, and tourist information. The device plays the role of tour guide and further serves as a marketing (advertising) device. The product is GPKIWI that uses GPS technology to detect location and nearby places. Information fed into the device will be used in relation with GPS location, in order to provide relevant and accurate information. The target market for the device includes travel agencies, tour operators, independent ...

Introduction

Safety Management System is a tool of management for the oversight of safety by an organization that is carried out following an approach that is both organized and orderly. Additionally, the Safety Management System approach represents a formal, top-down approach that is adopted by businesses and organizations for the management of safety risks. It includes an approach that is systematic regarding the management of security and considers the necessary structures of the organization, accountabilities, policies as well as procedures. According to Russel (2016), the notion that the implementation of a Safety Management System is complicated, time-consuming, and expensive is ...

Marketing

2016-05-20 As we can see, nowadays, marketing events play a crucial role in the almost all companies, which work with the end-consumers. One can say that such activities as show-business, fashion and related industries are based on the marketing activities and events. In this case, marketing events during the annual Eurovision Song Contest can be relevant theme for the blog. The Eurovision Song Contest is a great event that can be considered as the most meaningful for singers not only from Europe, but from other regions also. As we know, representatives from Turkey, Australia, some countries of Africa also ...

Air Cargo Ships May Soon Alter Global Supply Chains

Air Cargo Ships May Soon Alter Global Supply Chains

Abstract

Most companies across the world applying sophistication in their supply chain designs are engaging in the use of air cargo as a competitive advantage regardless of the costs incurred. These aspects occur with the reflection that air cargo being perceived expensive in terms of an alternative method for supply chains that rely on ocean transportation. However, the focus on air cargo does not emerge on the basis of the accidents or even crisis situations in the incorporation of logistics strategies to global manufacturers. Research indicates that the focus on air ...

Smart watches

It is evident that smart watches have revolutionized the contemporary and highly technological world tremendously. However, the current use of smartphones only offer a glimpse of what smart watches can do in the future when its application is fully embraced. Consequentially, the application of smart watches is postulated to stretch beyond its current range of use that merely involves the retrieval of data from other devices and the collection of information from both external and internal sensors. Given, smart watches are invaluable wearable gadgets when it comes to the collection of personal information including blood pressure and heart rates. ...

Aircraft Cabin Safety

Accidents are complex systems that happen when multiple failures and factors accumulate and finally blow out of proportion. The failures and factors that accumulate are jointly sufficient to cause various types of accidents. Aircraft systems are complex systems that have the potential multi-causal conditions. The conditions rarely arise but when they do they create a possible trajectory for an accident. Most of the factors that cause these accidents are always present way before they are triggered and an accident occurs. Additionally, most of them are actually triggered by the organization of the system itself due to its design, the ...

Integrative Research Project

Abstract This research project aims to establish how the organization can increase its competitive advantage by requiring supply chain vendors to meet ENOC’s standards. A qualitative research methodology was used, and the research design is to carry out semi-structured interviews over the telephone. The semi-structured interview allowed interviewees to expand on their thoughts and experiences while the researcher guides the conversation to say on the topic. Interviews were performed over the telephone with employees at ENOC and employs with ENOC’s supply chain vendors to collect data. The data analysis was carried out by evaluating the results of ...

Benefits of Green Schools in Kuwait

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION Kuwait is a country located in the Middle East, which is a region characterized by severe water shortages as its located in the middle of a desert. Also, nearly all the electrical energy consumed in Kuwait is generated from fossil fuels such as natural gas and diesel. This situation poses several challenges. For example, the lack of enough clean water for domestic use could lead to serious problems such as waterborne diseases, such as cholera or typhoid. Also, water shortages can affect businesses such as agriculture and hospitality businesses. On the other hand, over reliance on ...

Section

A commercial flight or a common carrier one is expected to exercise the highest degree of care in its undertaking, in contrast to contract carrier operators who are only expected to perform their duties with the care expected from an average person. Thus, to prove that it is not liable, it has to show that indeed it exercised extraordinary diligence. Is the assumption of risk defense available to an airline to defend against lawsuits brought by injured passengers or the survivors of passengers killed in an airline crash? Why? No. the reason behind this is anchored on statistical evidence. ...

Description of Taxi service market structure in NSW

In this description, it is important to note that the taxi service plays a pivotal role in the transport industry in the NSW. It complements various other means of transport offered for the members of the public in the NSW region. The convenience of their almost spontaneous response and their ability to deliver door to door service to the public makes them very convenient (Abelson, 2008). The market in NSW is characterized by free entry into the market with the government only intervening in licensing of the taxis. According to the review of entry strategy to the market adopted ...

Sustainable Tourism

Introduction Sustainable tourism is a concept that was developed to scale the image of tourism a notch higher. Tourism revolves around many activities that are environmental, social, economic and culturally oriented and tourism poses both positive and negative impacts on the dimensions above. It is with these effects in mind that the concept of sustainable tourism emerged. The idea was to see tourism have minimal negative impacts on the said aspects and maximize the positive effects it causes to the given destination. The aim was to ensure that tourism contributes positive developments and experiences in the regions where tourism ...

Foundation Course-

Evaluation Of The Strengths And Weaknesses Of The Current Theories In Explaining Revenge Pornography And The Implications That These Have For Policy And Practice In The UK In the recent past, there have been numerous cases of revenge pornography. Revenge pornography arises when an individual takes photographs of someone else without consent or knowledge. Then distribute the information either through the social media or any media channel (Cowen p.511, 2015).Revenge pornography takes many forms; for instance, through hidden recordings of sexual activity, taking photos of one when he/she is naked, recording of sexual assaults within the environment of ...

Activity 1 Answer

There are various disasters that affect the operation of small businesses in the world today. Firstly, property loss is an example of a manmade threat that affects business operations. It involves loss through theft by employees. It occurs when the business lacks enough security systems to monitor its assets. It is a big threat that may lead to the closure of the business in the long run. Proper inventory management is vital in assisting small businesses to overcome loss property threat. The business also needs to have adequate coverage that helps in determining the loss effects of the business ( ...

Introduction

MacJob is a loose term used to refer to the low paying as well as low prestige jobs that do not demand high skills and has little chance of career growth and advancement. Notably, the term was coined from the fast food giant MacDonald. As such, the term does not take into account the type of employer but the fact that the job is low paying and requires little-specialized skills. Owing to the emergence of technology, these types of jobs are highly growing and replacing the skilled labor across all the industries due to low costs involved in hiring ...

Abstract

United Arab Emirates citizens use various forms of transport. Bus transportation is considered as a form of transportation that can be used for the benefits of the residents. This form of transportation is massive plying 32 routes and transporting over 30 million individuals per day. There are 5 zones in Dubai with each zone having its own bus fare with a carrying capacity of 31 individuals. The advantages of the bus system are that there are cost savings made in terms of energy, money and time. The rapid growth of population in Dubai has led to massive congestion, which ...

Emergency management is facing a lot of risks ranging from political tensions, social and demographic changes and emerging risks. The future of emergency risk is bright but needs to be tuned to feature in that future. In this super digital age, technology is becoming community based (Rubin). It has been designed for communication and collaboration. Therefore, professional operators need to use technology to predict behaviors. Such technologies enable managers to know events before, during and after disasters and how to avoid them (Haddow, Bullock, and Coppola 45). Understanding the economy will enable emergency managers to identify which economies they ...

Emergency medical services can be defined as the medical attentions and services that are dedicated to the provision of treatments and medical care to patients outside a hospital setting. These services are made available at the urgent need and are performed by authorized and dedicated personnel. The role of emergency medical services is generalized being provision of urgently needed medical care to patients with acute health complications; the medical attention provided is aimed at rescuing the patients and thus saving lives of people. Therefore, most emergency medical providers are supposed to be trained in service production to acute medical ...

Statement of the Problem

A new model for availability growth has to be generated in order to factor in the systematic risks that occur before a complex system construction . The new model has to be created because of the new technology to be used in new generation offshore wind farms. The wind farms are supposed to improve the investment options and therefore to be on the safe side to do so, a new model has to be put in place for testing purposes of the systems. There are a number of risks involved in developing new generation wind farms. This is because of ...

What do you think of the CCTV cameras that cover Middlesborough, England?Can you see something like this in your hometown? Middleborough’s has a “talking” CCTV system that allows operators to interact with members of the public and reproach misbehaving individuals to stop via a loudspeaker. A CCTV control room has a set of control and management infrastructure that is connecting and supporting the communication systems of the internal and external partners such as shop security, street wardens, traffic wardens, and police. The system raises concerns about the government’s intrusion into people’s civil liberties. While the system ...

Abstract

Historical events have an impact on the lives of people living at the time, and those residing in the future. They also contribute to the evolution of societies in terms of their structure, attitudes, and preparedness for similar occurrences in the years to come. These events can be social, political, technological, economic, and ecological in nature. Nevertheless, one event can touch all these facets on either a minor or major scale. This paper explores some of the events that shaped human history, and their impacts on modern policymaking. The Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 revolutionized the way industrialized nations ...

Introduction

The hydrographic printing is a technology with more than twenty years where a printed layer is transferred to a surface using an immersion process. In 1992 was registered the first patent for the technology and currently there are important companies in United States of America and Germany that have important experience in this field. There is a project to install a hydrographic service in Kuwait to offer the service inside the country taking the advantage to be the only company in the country to offer the service. The characteristics of Kuwait give competitive advantages to develop the business in ...

Question 1

Competitive Advantage The General Manager of the Hotel Van Orange, Noordwijk, The Netherlands explains that the hotel is located in one the most environmentally conscious communities in the Netherlands. The hotel boasts of modern large meeting space and a wellness center. The hotel’s reason to pursue the Green Globe certification was informed by the realization that the certification goes beyond sustainability certification; it involves people, and the hotel values people. The most important strategy relating to people the hotel wishes to maintain is cultivating mutual relationships with the employees and the clients. The hotel has a social responsibility ...

Health abnormlities of several kind require a thorough assessment in terms of management. With the technical advancements, medical field had evolved to simplify the complex assesssment tasks. For instance, medical imaging has come up to make feasible the analyis of body parts through the production of images. There is a need to know much about this particualr area. In such context, the present description deals with a topic Magentic Resonance Angiography (MRA) of the remal artery with a special emphasis on the 3D gradient echo sequencing in MRI. Briefly, magnetic resoannce angiography constitutes a kind of MRI (magnetic resonance ...

Nursing:

Introduction In the recent decades, tourism has emerged as the most far-reaching and the world’s largest industry with an astounding socio-cultural, economic, and policy effects on all of us. According to World Tourism Organization (WTO), tourism as an industry supports at least 215million jobs worldwide and makes up about 6% of the Global Gross National Profit (LePree, 2009). In this context, not only is tourism the world’s largest industry, but it is also the fastest growing industry globally (The International Ecotourism Society [TIES], 2014). Because of this, there has been an ever-growing and evolving awareness of the ...

Environmental laws and regulations are framed to protect the air, land and water environment as well as human health from adverse impacts of industrial or commercial activities. All capital ventures are aimed towards increased production and associated profits, while the surrounding environment is taken for granted. Results of such environmental devaluations are great disasters that lead to severe capital and human loss. Four different disasters that resulted from violation of major environmental laws or led to the development of new regulations are discussed below in detail.

Love Canal

Hooker Chemical Company acquired an aborted canal project area near Niagara Falls called ...

Introduction

The last two hundred years showed considerable social and political transformations and one of which is the substantial change in the role of women in the society. While the status of women in the workforce took a gradual transformation, the changes have surely allowed women to enjoy an enormous gain. From gaining employment rights to reducing the gender wage gap, women have come along way in their role in the labor sector since the onset of the industrial revolution. Understanding the historical role of women in the labor market for the past two hundred years provides a better insight ...

Industry Overview

Senegal is a West African country located along the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Its neighboring countries include Mauritania, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, guinea, and Gambia. The terrain of Senegal is generally low and flat, with rolling plains that rise to the foothills located in the southeast. Senegal covers an area of about 196,722 square kilometers, with a coastline stretching to about 531 km (Global Edge, 2015). By 2014, the population of the country stood at 14.7 million, with an annual growth rate of 3.126% (Global Edge, 2015). About 43% of this population stays in the urban centers. Senegal is one of ...

Video Rental Chain

Video Rental Chain

Industry

Video rental industry has experienced a swift decline in past few years as technology has slowly been replacing the in-store rentals through online downloads as well as purchases. Also, competition experienced from subtitles like cable television together with internet rentals continue to affect video rental chain operators adversely as they try to maintain their relevancy in the transforming market. Therefore, to remain relevant in the industry, there is a need for video rental chains to start offering other services linked to the industry. Market share concentration has declined considerably over the six years with many players ...

Trip to Disneyland

1.0 Tourism Distribution Channels 1.1Introduction Travel business and experience is one of the most dynamic sectors of the tourism industry. Visitors want to travel and have an experience of a lifetime. They have formed-perspectives of how they want their experience to be, putting stakeholders in this industry on the run as they endeavour to better performance and conform to the needs of their customers (Tran, Jeeva&Pourabedin, 2016). Customer perspective and the expectations they have is enough to make travel a reality that anyone can wish to engage in. Service delivery in the travel industry is varied before the final ...

Abstract

Maintaining a highly effective waste management system is an important part of being a clean and green city. While this may not be the top priority for some countries, especially the developing ones—because keeping a clean and green city can be costly; there are countries that are making long term investments for a more effective waste management system in the future. This can be evidenced by the fact that even countries like Qatar and the city of Dubai are finding it hard to find the political and economic will to develop and enforce environmental law and regulations. If ...

Introduction

The nationwide pipeline system in the USA has been constructed to transport the natural gas, oil, and refined petroleum products. This constitutes about 71% of the refined products and oils are being transported with about 100% natural gas of the consumption in the USA. The three sectors that are involved in the transportation of these energy products are; operators of the gas transmission pipelines, operators of hazardous liquids in the pipeline and the distributors of gas utilities. An approximate of 299,000 miles and 171,000 miles are offshore gas transmission and liquid onshore pipelines respectively. This operates in ...

Business with online customers and intellectual properties are using cyber forensic investigators to deal with electronic crimes and employee’s wrongdoing. PayPal scam is one of the cyber crimes that required the knowledge of forensic scientists. Database and Internet investigators played a tremendous role in discovering credit card thieves. PayPal merchants reported being redirected to mock PayPal site. Forensic investigators discovered that the PayPal accounts were opened using the same IP address. The team used Sam Spade, trace route, and freeware network discovery to investigate the matter. Based on the investigation, there is evidence that could be used in ...

Industry: Online Retailing in China

Industry: Online Retailing in China

Background

Despite the concerns about China’s decelerating economy, the country has remarkable ratings in the online retailing industry. According to McHugh (2015), a recent report released by Forrester Research established that online sales in China amounted to about $307 billion in 2013. In 2014, the Chinese e-commerce giant, Alibaba Group, generated approximately $25 billion dollars in the largest initial public offer (IPO) in the world’s history (McHugh, 2015). According to Fung Business Intelligence Centre (2013), online retailing is rapidly transforming China’s commercial landscape. Fung Business Intelligence Centre (2013) further notes that consumers ...

Congestion in Toronto is a persistent issue of public concern. According to a report published by Toronto Foundation of Vital Signs in 2015, an estimate of $6 billion is wasted every year on productivity loss since people spend a lot of time stuck in traffic. The city is tremendous and navigating through a congested city takes a lot of time (Dunne, 2012). The traffic index ranks Toronto in 47th position of the most crowded cities in the world. In North America, it is ranked eighth and in Canada second among the highly congested cities (Rouhani & Niemeier, 2014). Due to ...

Populist culture has always played a hero in setting the standards upon which people are gauged and measured. According to the article Popular Culture and Populist Technology: The Amateur Operators, Susan Douglass seeks to delve into the issue of the media and popular culture having an effect on the everyday life of all humanity. She especially does that by way of showing how society sets standards of measurement. People are then left to compete with these superhuman heroes who are brought forth as perfect and in possession of attributes that are set as standard. It is interesting that the ...

Q1: The Public Authority of Civil Aviation (PACA) of Oman is the government institution that is the responsible for the air commercial and private air transport of the Oman Sultanate. The PACA does not have any responsibility for the military air transport which is the responsibility of the Ministry of Defense and the Military Forces of Oman . The PACA has created thanks to a Royal Decree of the Sultanate since 2013 with the intention to regulate all the civil aviation activities of the country and be aligned with the security and control requirements of the most important aviation and ...