Essays on Patent

An appropriate research design is necessary in solving the research questions. In this study, the researcher seeks to answer two fundamental questions as set in the problem definition. The researcher seeks to know how LUSH products can be advertised to people between 18 and 35 years. On the same note, the researcher wants to know the types of techniques that can be sued to reach out to older groups of people. It is clear that from the problem definition that the targeted market for these products are adults from the age of 18 onwards. Thus, a descriptive research design ...

Introduction

The KASP is a Saudi Government-funded scholarship program initiated in 2005 under King Abdullah ("King Abdullah Scholarship Program"; "Patent Program"). KASP has been launched in response to Saudi Arabia's increasing need for more qualified human capital, particularly in light of Kingdom's dependency on foreign labor (al-Shayea). The first KASP cycle was launched after late King Abdullah's and former U.S. President George W. Bush's agreement to increase numbers of Saudi students in U.S. ("King Abdullah Scholarship Program"). The Saudi Government invested SR7 billion and awarded 9,252 male and female students U.S. scholarships in first phase ("King Abdullah Scholarship Program"). ...

I. Introduction Cyber or computer crime refers illegal acts in which a computer or computer network is a: target of the act, a facilitator of the act, or platform on which the act occurs. Regardless of the category, computer crimes as a whole is one of the fastest growing areas of criminality. Moreover, as the world moves increasing online, computer crimes are likely to become one of law enforcement’s primary challenges. Law enforcement must take steps now to understand the threat that computer crimes pose. A better understanding will allow police to make the necessary preparations so that ...

Ethical conduct remains an issue of great importance in any form of work done. Development of maintenance drugs for chronic illness such as hepatitis by the pharmaceutical companies remains a burning issue with the libertarians. The libertarians have the great desire to see several medications for the illness rather than the maintenance drugs. However, the pharmaceutical companies persist on manufacturing such drugs for the disease. Such a scenario has developed a hot debate that needs long lasting solutions. Chronic illnesses are very sensitive and require proper attention from the pharmaceutical companies. It is not true to say that the ...

Negotiating is a communication process in which parties discuss issues, offers, or problems and attempt to reach a solution, resolution or another certain outcome. Negotiations occur every day, in life and in business, formally and informally. Negotiations occurring in everyday life take varying courses due to several factors such as the style of negotiation being employed, the stakes involved in the conflict issue, the strategies adopted by the negotiators and the mediators among others. There are different negotiation strategies and styles, such as positional bargaining, positional bargaining, principled negotiations (integrative negotiations), competing, collaborating, compromising, avoiding and accommodating and so ...

Andrew J. Wilhelm in his article “Complex Litigation in the New Era of the iJury” raised very important and urgent problem of modern American court: the effectiveness of jury court system. As it is stated at The Official Website of the Massachusetts Judicial Branch: “jury service is truly “government in the hands of the people”. Even john Adams named the jury as “voice of people”. These two statements reflect the American altitude to the jury system. Americans are proud of their existing possibility to dispense justice. For its long history the jury court system has proved its effectiveness. But ...

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[Date Month Year] W.R. Grace (Neemix): A Case Analysis I. Context: History, Circumstances, and Possible Ethical Issues It was not until 1959 when the powerful insecticidal effect of the Neem trees in India received notice from a German entomologist who observed it spared from a swarm of locust that devoured all nearby foliage (Marden 283-291). Farmers, since immemorial time, had been using the Neem emulsion as crop insecticides. Researchers in India and certain parts of the world identified the active ingredient as azadirachtin, which is not toxic to humans. Researchers in the United States innovated ...

Abstract

The legal business environment, including laws and regulations formulated to control the conduct of business activities is one of the most important external factors that affect major commercial decisions by business organizations (Pathak, 2013, p. 96). This legal framework influences decision making by businesses right from registration, workplace safety of employees, decisions on employment or dismissals, product safety, business agreements, to financing and marketing decisions (Campbell, 2009, p. 154). Businesses enterprises, according to Miller and Jentz (2011) must always operate within the purview of this legal framework as they make decisions on the various commercial activities, processes and operations ...

Information Technology Management

Management Concepts and Models IT portfolio management IT portfolio management is the efficient management application to deal with the investments, activities and projects of the department of information technology (IT) in the enterprise. It is the application of all the IT resources including planned and current to provide a framework for the planning, analysis and execution of portfolio of IT in the organization (Casco-Arias et al 2012).

Business/IT alignment

Business-IT alignment is a vibrant condition in which the ability of the organization begins to use information technology (IT) for achieving the objectives and purposes of the business. It is the capability ...

Football is one of the world’s most watched sports with most players dedicated to win the eye of their coaches. For that reason, most players work hard in the training sessions to ensure they get the first team chances. Mostly, the demands for football are influenced by the match analysis and the psychological measurements during the play. The myriad of factors affects the needs of a player that include the player’s physical capacity, technical qualities, playing the position, tactical role, and style of playing (Randers, et al., 2010, PP18). Moreover, the ball possession, the opponent strength, importance ...

Walmart Stores v. Cockrell (2001)

Issue: Does the shopkeeper's privilege protect Walmart from the liability under the circumstances of the case?

Rule of Law: Given the notion of the shopkeeper'e privilege, this rule allows the supermarkets to detain, stop or conduct the investigation of the shoplifters in case of any suspicion exists. In this case the supermarket does not responsible for such false imprisonment if there are reasonable grounds for the denetion of such a kind, within reasonable time, while the investigations of reasonable person is provided in reasonable manner (Cheeseman, 2014. p.88). Analysis: At first, the Court considered the elements of false imprisonment. It stated that Cockrell was detained by the officer of Walmart ...

Marketing

Hoover’s Market Position (PESTLE) Political – The company can expect a long-term advantage in terms of political stability in its major markets in the US and UK. Both major markets for the brand is far from facing political conflicts that might impact Hoover’s business continuity. Economic – The leading markets for Hoover’s line of vacuum cleaners are in stable condition, which poses no apparent effect on the consumers’ buying power in the US and UK market. On the other hand, the rest of the European markets for the brand are facing economic uncertainty given the perceived negative implications ...

The West underwent through an era of prosperity after the Civil War. It is worth noting that the population growth in states, especially California led to tremendous consequences. Some of the key areas of focus include farming, living standards, western landscape, the growth of India reserves, subjugation of Indian people, as well as railroad constructions. On the same note, America was involved in the Pacific region in the late 19th century due to commerce. There is a relationship between the population increase, Civil war, and economic growth. In the general perspective, it is evident that after the Civil War ...

The Pros and Cons to a Pharmaceutical Company to Investing in Vaccines, Devices, and Biologics

A weak initial public offering market, uncertain credit situation, and multiple groups of investors took their toll on the biotechnology sector. Forty-five percent of every civic listed biotechnology organization is engaged in their operations with not more than one year of monetary reserves. Forecasts for biotechnology initial public offerings showed the decreasing trend in 2009 through taking into notice the scenario of vulnerable 2008, which developed only a single initial public offering that improved $ 5.8 million according to a report of Bio world . This is in relativeness to forty one initial public offerings that enhanced 1.899 billion dollars in ...

1 While much has been hypothesized regarding the true meaning of the term idea multiplication, it is essential to note that it refers to all the processes involved in the use of existing ideas to develop newer ideas that are more important. These processes do not occur in isolation, but calls for brainstorming of the existing ideas with the sole aim of restructuring the existing idea by adding or removing certain feature. Notably, idea multiplication is advantageous in a number of ways. Above all, it is often easier to devise new ideas from existing ideas. In addition, it suits well ...

Industrial revolution inventions and urbanization

Industrial revolution refers to the period of rapid transition to new manufacturing processes that mainly took place from about 1760 to between 1820 and 1840. It mainly involved a movement from hand manufacturing to machine and chemical manufacturing. The revolution saw a shift from water power supply to coal power.

During this period, several inventions were developed which had significant impacts on humanity and urbanization. Nicholas Louis Robert invented the Fourdrinier, a machine that could make continuous sheets of paper on a wire fabric loop. The machine could produce rolls of papers which became the basis of production of paper today. He ...

What is photography? How is it used?

Photographs are remarkable. Through photography people preserve history, photographs are used to recall important events. Photographs evoke the essence of places or things that people would like to venture in or should never forget. With photographs, one can transcend someone virtually to where the photograph was taken even without them physically being there (Flusser,2013). Moreover, photography has become a career to many people who are doing digital photography for economic purposes. Photographic essence is not defined by the use of powerful, expensive equipment. It is a skill and thought put in the photography that matters the equipment only ensures that ...

Now that technological progress has made it possible to apply medical innovations for saving human lives, there has appeared a measure of dissonance between the advocates and the adversaries of patents. Patenting means a person is granted a monopolistic or exclusive right to scientific achievement, which is purchasable for a certain financial reward that recoups the disclosure. However, patents imply zero availability of medical procedures to both patients and doctors, which places human lives in jeopardy. The point is that there is a need to protect intellectual property and the need for medical technologies to serve ethical purposes of saving human lives.

Is It Ethical to Patent Medical Procedures

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Many stakeholders are increasing pushing for more relaxation of intellectual property rights. The common argument among these stakeholders is that relaxing the intellectual property rights, as well as corporate knowledge on intellect and knowledge, will be in the society’s best interests. This argument has been dismissed by many of the current content intellectual owners who desire or want to maintain their ascendancy and resist sharing out the intellectual property which is in many cases their main power source. There is however some little bit of evidence that seems to suggest that the relaxation of property rights monopolies may ...

Patents denote the protection rights granted to the owner of the invention that prevents other inventors from using, making and importing as well as selling invention of the owner without his/ her acquiescence. This kind of patents design it may be a procedure that led to producing a new technical solution or merely a product. Similarly, patent can be a new process of doing things, a technical improvement on how certain product works and it may make of composition of new products. Once is granted by legal law the owner can enjoy patents rights for twenty years. Therefore, protecting copyright is not acceptable in ...

Nucleon inc. had a competitive advantage over the competitors in pharmaceutical development technologies. Availability and exploitation of resources are based on high improved and advanced molecular biology and immunology. The competitors’ firms in the microbiology research in pharmaceutical enterprises were Elililly, Merck and Hoffman-LaRoche.

Presentations of values of Nucleon Inc. are on extensively doing research on CRP-1 molecule through studying genetic sequence. It has provided opportunities for the firm to become most competitive in pharmaceutical. The concern is on the development of technologies used in achieving the original results that helps in gaining patent right. The successes in research ...

Plumply’nut has been well received since its release. So far, it has been successfully serving its purpose of combating the worldwide problem of malnutrition. Most notably, it has started to affect one of the less industrialized countries and considered desperately poor in the world, Nigeria. Anderson Cooper from CBS News, together with the Nobel Prize awardee relief group Doctors Without Borders, featured the region. They stated that it was the worst and most rampant site of malnutrition. Two years later, it was claimed to have the lowest malnutrition rate (CBS, 2007).

Despite this, there are still millions ...

Intellectual property is abbreviated as IP, is a legal terminology that denotes creation that has been conceived by mind. Examples of IP include literature, invention and innovation, music, designs, artistic work, words, symbols and phrases. In the intellectual property law, individuals who own intellectual right are allowed to have certain special rights. There are different forms of intellectual property rights also abbreviated as IPR. These rights include trademark, patent, copy rights, and industrial rights; trade dress, and in some countries or jurisdictions trade secrets are also recognised under IPR. Since the IP law cover a wider area of rights, this paper ...

Introduction

Apple Inc. is a leading company that has recently discovered a gap in the innovative process. The gap was seen to emanate from the lack of slowness in creativity when it came to their products. Apple has always enjoyed the spot of being a technology giant but realized that a new plan needed to be fostered. There have been questions about the creative future of the company, which has a responsibility to give quality products to its consumers as part of its ethics and need to increase profits

One of the strategies that would work for the ...

- Identify and discuss the various functions of law. Why are these functions important from a business’s or corporate perspective? Provide examples

The law is defined as a set of rules that governs a society. The rules are in most cases enforced by threat of penalty. In essence, the law helps in regulations which help in governing the conduct handling disputes and dealing with criminal activities. The law performs numerous roles in both the society and in the business world. These roles are classified into three broad sections which include the criminal and civil law, Substantive and Procedural Law and public and private Law.

Criminal and civil law

This law enables the public, government authorities prosecute the public commitment of crimes. On the other hand, the civil ...

- What are some of the possible services that a link-layer protocol can offer to the network layer? Which of these link-layer services have corresponding services in IP? In TCP?

One of the services is framing. This service is also available in IP and TCP. Another service offered is link access. The third service is reliable delivery which is also available in TCP protocol. There is also a service of flow control that is also available in TCP. Another service that is available is error detection that is available with both IP and TCP. Another service is error correction in the ...

Change Champions for a Professional Development Plan for Staff

As the change champions, the chosen staff members of LMC will be given a number of responsibilities to execute. The change champions will be given the responsibilities of assisting project managers in disseminating the trainings. Additionally attending seminars to advance their knowledge, attend project meetings and participate by offering opinions and ideas, and finally offer support to staff members who work at the discharge clinics.

Change champions will be of utmost benefit to LMC in regards to this project in many apparent ways. Considering that champions commit themselves and earnestly work to accomplish their objectives. LMC is predisposed to reducing ...

As Co-Founder, CEO and Chairman of Apple Inc., Jobs met many ups and downs as a good leader. Throughout Apple’s history, such as when they Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne have just started their business in 1976 in the garage of Jobs’ foster parents, years later, they were a success. It only proves that with the right mix of leaders, they can start a company that will later on live with its vision. Apple Company had since then continued to hire many highly talented, creative, and innovative people (e.g., Mike Scott, John Scully).

With Jobs’ leadership and the highly competent ...

Intellectual property: A Summary

Unlike tangible property, intellectual property is more complicated in terms of ownership and possession. With regard to such complexity, the legal frameworks in place have come up with various provisions aimed at protecting the ownership and exclusive rights of such property. For purposes of such protection, intellectual property is divided into: copyrights, patents, trademarks, and registered designs. Contrary to common misconception, a single product can be protected under all these types. For instance, an iPhone, a product of Apple Inc, can have the company control its distribution and enhancement by use of patents, copyrights, registered designs and trademarks. Typically, patents are ...

The report talks about strategies that a business can use to avoid its competitors from stealing their ideas and using them to further their will and increase the sales of their products. The report gives nine pointers that a company would use that are particularly useful in safeguarding the ideas, strategies and tactics. In the article, companies are advised to protect their intellectual property. Firms should use all legal forums available to them to ensure that the business logo, trademark name, slogans, patent inventions and other measures to protect the product designs are safeguarded and are hard to imitate. In addition, ...

Introduction

Our company is U.S. based that holds a patent on the technology that offers affordable computerized sewing machines so that the consumers can feel an ease in stitching, designing and even in embroidery, and they become able to make different designs at home easily. Further, our company has decided to export the raw material used in manufacturing of sewing machines to Hungry, and license the patent rights to the factory that deal in manufacturing of sewing machines. Once, manufactured, we import the sewing machine back into the United States so that the domestic consumers can also be benefited from their ...

Hodson, Hal. "Leap Motion hacks show potential of new gesture tech." New Scientist 218.2911 (2013): 21. Weichert, Frank, Daniel Bachmann, Bartholomäus Rudak, and Denis Fisseler. "Analysis of the accuracy and robustness of the leap motion controller." Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) 13.5 (2013): 6380.

This paper focuses on the accuracy of the motion controller in the leap motion aspect. The author focuses on the accuracy that is associated with the controller of the leap motion mechanism. This will be important source of information for the paper as the accuracy aspect will be covered.

Xi, Yulong, ...

Several people in different parts of the world in both developed and developing countries go without or with little food every day. This is attributed to the fact that there exists not enough food to supply the needs of the people in these countries. As result of factors such as war, political feuds, poor economic prosperity and poor infrastructure, hunger and poverty are generally witnessed in such countries. Therefore their use of genetically modified food is seen as a source of relief to the starving population. It has to be understood that the use of Genetically Modified food may not ...

Introduction

Computing has gone a long way since the conception of Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine in 1837. Although the original ancestor of today’s modern computers have failed to deliver its intended function, technological revolution have changed the way people use the machine. This evolution of computers also entailed the same changes in associated hardware that changed the way people store information. The extinct era of floppy disk is divided into three generations, the 8”, 5.25” and 3.5”. Prior to the introduction of the floppy disk, storage medium back 1977 is in a form of a tape. However, the 8-inch drive has ...

If someone has made an invention to make life easier or to alleviate one’s living condition then the security of the patent for that invention is needed. According to the World Intellectual Property Organization, a patent is an exclusive right of a person for producing something that offers a new solution to a problem. Furthermore, a patent provides the maker with protection for their invention, and this protection usually lasts for 20 years. One privilege of a person who has a patented invention is that the invention cannot be sold, distributed, used or commercially made without the inventor’s consent. This right is usually enforced ...

Executive summary 1

Statement of problem 2 Controlling Authorities 5 Possible Solutions 6 Solution 1 6 Diversity in Expertise 7 Professionalism and Ethics 7 Increased Goodwill 7 Big Costs 7 Option two - hiring an in-house counsel. 8 Minimal costs 8 Accessibility to the documents 8 Shared Ethics and Value 8 Lack of Professionalism in Specific Areas 8 Continual training inadequacy 8 The legal model for XTRA Technologies 9 Conclusion 9

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Executive summary The majority of business analysts agree on the idea that legal compliance is ...

Social entrepreneurship is where a business aims to achieve a certain social goal other than that of making a profit. Social entrepreneurs are usually concerned about making a positive impact on the society other than their objective of making a profit. For instance in the video entitled “Tom’s shoes”, Blake Mycoskie focuses on improving the lives of the children in Argentina. He observed that most of the children in Argentina were walking bare footed and made it his priority to change this situation.He was keen on making a profit on his sale of Tom’s shoes but also wanted to make a contribution in ...

RFID is an abbreviation for radio frequency identification which means the tiny electronic devices consisting of a tiny chip and a radio extender or antennae. The latter is able to carry two thousands bytes of facts and figures or below. RFID can be used in business in several ways which include the fact that it enables business firms and organizations to create uses or applications which lead to some important value. The major use of the technology is the tracking of assets (Matt 81). Firms can put the RFID tags on assets which get lost or stolen; those which are not ...

Arguably, health care is very crucial in every country. As a matter of fact, health care conditions and health care funding have some correlation in South Korea. Currently, the health care funding is approximately 2.59 % of the private GDP. This funding include health expenditure on private insurance, direct household spending, as well as charitable donations. The total of health care expenditure is 6.5% of the GDP. In this percentage, approximately 58% of 6.5% GDP goes to government expenditure, while 42% is from the private expenditure. Per capita health care expenditure in South Korea is approximately US$ 1439.

South Korea has ...

A patent is an exclusive right given to a person by the state for an invention and it grants the holder the right to exclude others from making or using the invention without the patent owner‘s consent( World Intellectual Property Organization). For an innovation to be patented, it must meet relevant requirements such as novelty, non-obviousness and usefulness. This essay shall discuss on patent number 6070147 named Customer Identification and Marketing Analysis Systems. It was invented by Brent Harms and Kurt Johnson and was patented on May 30th 2000 (United States Patent and Trademark Office). This invention relates ...

Inventory management system

Introduction Information management systems have been on the rise. With computer use and automation on the rise, the need to have information systems has been seen to be one of the greatest trends in the world. Inventory management is a significant information system that helps to track stock in an organization. Most of the users and people who install inventory management systems want to achieve the need to have an understanding of the flow of stock in their organization. This paper will focus on an inventory system that will be used in a clothing store. The system is to be ...

Hurricane and tornado control device

Part 1: Patent ownership This patent is called hurricane and tornado control device. Andrew Waxmanski applied for this patent after he invented it in 2001 (www.google.com). The application number for this patent is US O9/985, 284. The patent is owned by Andrew Waxmanski.

Part 2: Function of the product and why it deserves a patent

The hurricane and tornado control device was invented against the backdrop of a series of death and destruction of property attributed to hurricanes and tornados. This device proposes a method in which direction of the weather system can be affected. It consists of audio generators. These generators project sound waves in the direction of a weather system. The ...

Introduction

An organizations aggressive edge lies in its capacity to create provincial and worldwide vicinity while offering and keeping up best administrations at standard or superior to anything opponents. While trying to control a bigger piece of the overall industry in solar energy assembling and circulation, SHIV LLC has three branches, Los Angeles, Dallas and Houston. Remote clients in Los Angeles need to transfer close continuous data to workplaces in Houston without hardly lifting a finger. This will likewise apply to individuals from the official and administration who need to convey administrative parts to branches without much travelling. This should be possible ...

In an action for the recovery of the amount paid to Fast Food, there are various warranty theories that Jane and David can apply. The first of these theories is the implied warranty of merchantability. In this case, the two can rely on the condition that posits that the food or drink sold must fit the ordinary purposes for which it is sold. In this case, the buns fail to meet this criterion because they are not in a suitable condition for making the hot dogs. The second warranty that Jane and David may rely on is the implied warranty ...

The objective of this paper is to understand and debate the arguments presented in the documentary “The Corporation”. After watching the documentary, I have selected three points that I will be exploring. What we find is that organizations get to be immensities. They get to be self-sustaining substances with one reason in life, and that is to develop and survive. It's kind of like that outsider plant in the Little Shop of Horrors - it simply needs to develop, and it says, "Food me, bolster me." Every enterprise has one reason, and that is to give esteem and ...

The central Processing Unit (CPU) in one way or another may be referred as the heart of the computer. It is the part of the computer that receives instructions from the user and processes them. In computing terms, a CPU is a piece of hardware which plays the role of ensuring that the instructions that the computer receives are implemented. A CPU contains several components. One of the components is the arithmetic logic unit (ALU), which serves the function of simple arithmetic and logical operations. Control unit (CU) is the second component. The CU reads and interprets instructions and transforms the ...

Specification of organizational Active Directory design

The organizational Active Directory design is the hierarchical active directory with the president of WWTCO acting as the root directory at the top of the structure. The second level of the structure consists of six different vice presidents at different capacities. The vice presidents (VP) include the operational vice president (VP POR), the North West, south west, north east, south east and M USA vice presidents, all of the United States. Each vice president has the first and the second manager (manager 1 and manager 2 respectively who works under them in the third and forth level of the ...

Is Samsung a Better Choice than Apple?

Introduction Apple and Samsung are two giants in the modern day electronics industry. Apple thrives on innovation and superior product quality, whereas Samsung focus on manufacturing excellence and cost-efficient product portfolio. Samsung offers products starting from $10 to $1000 in smartphone segment, whereas Apple offers its smartphones only at prices over $450 (Edwards, 2014). Apple does not sell its product at a cheaper price; still it is one of the most adored companies among the customers and shareholders alike. It is not easy to decide which one of these two companies is better. This paper upon examining various product, ...

Introduction

Debit and credit cards are used by customers for post paid and pre-paid transactions respectively. They promote cashless society since individuals do not carry their money with them while going to shop. The holder of the cards can use them to either debit or credit their bank accounts at any transaction terminal where the holder will have to produce the card for reading confirmation through the assistance of the system of computer before the actual transaction can be completed. The debit card for instance is a payment method which can be accepted at the terminal of transaction using PIN or ...

Abstract

In the scope of this report, the assessment of the innovational strategy of P&G is conducted from the set of various perspectives: culture and style of innovation; effectiveness of technology: recently-issued patents of Procter & Gamble; innovative approach towards application of the Procter & Gamble’s patents and unique strengths of P&G, contributing to its innovational development. Before succeeding with innovation, the P&G has preferred the working prototype of the factory, afterwards the proliferation of small projects has weighed down the innovation portfolio of this business entity. After conducting an assessment, it was revealed that the integrative approach towards innovation, ...

Introduction

A country, United Federation of Republics, has a population with a low standard of living and high poverty levels. The government is attempting to curb this trend by improving the economy. The methods proposed were on four pillars. The first pillar is to allow markets take over. Abolish previous government price controls and let markets set prices. The second component involves lowering household spending. Lowering household expenses will be accomplished by inspiring families to save instead of devote it to consumption goods. The third pillar entails a reduction of the monopoly of ideas by removing patents for ideas. The final pillar involves ...

Types of Architectures

Computer architecture is a field in computer science used to describe the functions, organization and the process of implementing computer system. Any computer-based data system consists of different elements namely: data element, hardware element, and software element. The data element is the ultimate representation of factual and observatory elements of a computer. Information is processed by the system and produces the data that is deemed useful to the user. Information may assume different forms: image, text, sounds, and numbers. The hardware element processes information and executes instructions provided to the system. It stores data by moving it maneuvering it between the ...

Many things are inherent in product and service design. There are critical junctures, however, at which service and product design part. Product design has straight forward outcomes. There is a standard expectation of the product and success may be measured on how well the product measures up to the standard. Service design is more subjective. The voice of the customer and how they experience the service is key in determining the level of success in design. This is particularly difficult, for example, with a service that requires some level of technical acumen. The designer would have to understand the baseline skill ...

Business Security Posture

Business Security Posture

Communication and Question for the Security manager

In the last two decades, information and communication technology has been greatly used in most businesses, organizations, and institutions for different purposes. Daily activities and business operations are implemented using information communication technology. For this reason, security management has become one of the priorities in businesses. Security managers are tasked with the role of ensuring security of data, information, and other organizational resources (Fox, Henning, Farrell & Miller, 2006). The business security posture is the overall security plan, and the approach that the business takes to ensure security of data and information in the organization. It ...

Introduction

Cloning is a term used to describe different methods of duplicating biological materials. Plasmids can be used to ‘clone in a gene’ and then express a given protein in mammalian cells. The type of protein used here is called AWP1 protein which is associated with PRK1. This type of protein is a universally expressed protein and the AWP1 gene is switched on during the early development of a being. The AWP1 may play a regulatory role in the mammalian signal transduction pathways. The AWP1 posses a conserved zf-A20 zinc finger domain at its C-terminal. When it is expressed in COS – 1 cells, the Myc-tagged ...

Literature Review

ABSTRACT This following literature review concerns the idea of how the adoption as well as diffusion of language translation technology looks at assisting in the identification and analysis of potential business opportunities. This aligns to use of such a type of technology in the most effective manner for society reaping the most benefit from the products created and sold. Society remains the fundamental conduit for diffusing a technologically based language translation products proving the intersection between the two requires adaptation measures for successful interaction. The literature review provides how the patent process, the information technology (IT), educations settings, and in ...

Strategies are aimed at laying out plans that will help achieve the set goals and objectives of a firm. The global strategy involves plans and procedures meant for overseas business operations and to make an overall presence in the international markets. Multinational enterprise and foreign direct investment are some of the commonly used global strategies for companies wishing to operate internationally. The base of the global economic pyramid forms a strategic economic platform that can suit all business groups despite their level of operation. The base of the pyramid mainly comprises of the emerging economies.

What are the most attractive industries for the base of the pyramid?

The base of the base of ...

Introduction

Information security is a very important component of security operational technique. There has been many aspects of the security field that have been affected with the introduction of computers. Before the introduction of computers, there were different techniques that were followed in order to achieve security (Cole, 2011). With the use of computers, there has been the development of many different security techniques that have helped to endure that security has been achieved in the field of computers. This paper will address the security operational techniques in the era of information technology and how things have changed from the era ...

1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Purpose This write up is a proposal for a research-based engineering report on Industrial Control and Traffic Sensors, in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the course EGR 3550 titled Technical Communication for Engineers and Scientists. 1.2 Background The continuous surge in the level of congestion of vehicular traffic on roads is a major problem being experienced in many urban centers with high population density. In 2007, the report as provided by the traffic engineering department of Jordan estimated the total cost of congestion to be 150 million US dollars (Greater Amman Munincipality, 2007). This ...

Is it a Controversial and Complex Issue to Change the Name of Washington’s Football Team?

English Is it a Controversial and Complex Issue to Change the Name of Washington’s Football Team?

Introduction

The clamor at the national level for the ‘Washington Redskins’ to change their name is a source of controversy. Proponents for change cite historical wrongs associated with the name ‘redskins’. Continued usage of the name creates harassment for the young amongst peers. On the other hand, fans do not wish to let go of the name they have been associated with for a long time. Opponents to name change also aver that over-sensitivity and political correctness would ultimately sanitize the entire national framework, leaving ...