Essays on Significant Improvement

Introduction

This study analyzes the financial performance of Sports Direct Company in the last three years (2013, 2014, and 2015). However, to determine the company performance, the paper will further conduct an internal and external analysis of the company. Some of the significant tools that are used in the analysis include profitability, asset efficiency and market ratios among other important attributes. Sports Direct Plc is a UK based company that engages in the retail of sports and leisure clothing, footwear among other significant attributes like sports equipment. According to the 2015 annual report, it was noted that the firm’s ...

Introducing Azure

Overview The paper aims at expressing the need for employing different business intelligence tools to help solve diverse business challenges. To achieve the study objective, the paper outlines how Azure can be introduced to "Your House, Your Design Company" which is a business company with significant issues in data management. The paper starts by appreciating the vital role played by information need to companies and the need for proper administration of the same. Furthermore, the challenge with data management at Your House, Your Design Company is explained in detail with an explanation on how the problem can be solved ...

Business

Financial Analysis The financial condition of the company, which is evident from balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement, is indicative of the fact that the financial strength of the company is satisfactory. The horizontal analysis of balance sheet of Lowes Company is also showing improvement in performance of the company. Such as it can be seen from the Horizontal and vertical analysis that account payable of the company has increased, which means that there is improvement in payment of debts, and total shareholder’s equity of the company has also increased. Similarly, the horizontal analysis of income ...

Business

Assignment 2

The financial statement for the last seven years of the company shows improvement in earnings or revenue of the company every year. From 2009-2016, the revenue of the company showed significant improvement. This fact is also evident from ratio analysis of the company. The profitability of the company has increased from 2009-2016, return on equity in percentage has shown improvement in seven years, and in the same manner return on invested capital in percentage has increased. Further, return on assets in percentage has also increased, and interest coverage has also shown remarkable improvement. Growth has also been ...

Meditation has many desirable effects for an individual’s quality of life. According to studies, meditation improves not only the mental health of its practitioners, but also their physical health (Shaku, Tsutsumi, Goto, & Arnoult, 2014, p.406). Because of its known beneficial effects, meditation has been used as intervention or therapy for various clinical and non-clinical cases. Meditation, for instance, has been used to improve the quality of life and attention span of adults with mental issues and is also proven effective in easing depression and anxiety of patients suffering from terminal diseases such as cancer and HIV (Kim, Kim, ...

Lean Manufacturing

The article is very informative in terms of lean manufacturing. Due to its thorough literature review the process and principles of lean philosophy seem clearer (“Principles of Lean”). Firstly, it explains what forms waste or muda. The activities that absorb resources, but create no value should be referred as to waste. It can be defined only by identifying customers and defining value of a product to them. For every process this waste may be composed of different activities from different spheres. Secondly, the process mapping is crucially important for being able to see a product or service from the ...

Virtual reality (VR) refers to any interactive, computer-simulated environment using 3D graphics, complex interface controls and multi-user capabilities; it recreates one’s physical presence in the actual, real or even imaginary world. Virtual reality augments lifelike experience of the ‘as if’ but ‘not quite’ of the real (sometimes, even mixed with the fantasy) world. Multi-modal VR technologies make it possible to engage multiple senses (that is, sight, touch, sound, and smell) for a broad range of applications, for examples, in entertainment, military, corporate, financial, scientific, especially, in medical and educational arenas . It has been claimed that VR brings a ...

Communication in Nursing

The basic communication elements are (1) the sender, (2) the channel, (3) the receiver, and (4) the message. All of those elements need to be unambiguous to achieve effective communication, which means that the sender must send a clear message to the receiver through an appropriate channel. Effective communication is critical in healthcare because it affects patient safety, treatment outcomes, conflict resolution, and job satisfaction. However, various factors other than the basic communication elements affect the quality of communication in healthcare. Those factors include the organisational structure, leadership and management styles, organisational culture, staff motivation, and the organisational goals.

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Music and its association with the medical field

There is a substantial amount of evidence based on the therapeutic benefits of music, some of the evidence dating back thousands of years ago. Many civilizations such as India, China, Egypt, Greece, and Rome have documented the role of music in the medical field. It was during World War I and II where the first ever clinical setting based on music therapy was conducted. The study was based on the therapeutic effect of music in soldiers to relieve pain after trauma from war-based injuries. These studies led to the foundation of music therapy in different fields of the medical world. ( ...

Problem Statement

Most medical scientist and psychiatrists have defined depression as a mood disorder that often results to incessant feeling of extreme sadness and loss of interest in most activities that one used to enjoy. Depression has various references; the condition could be referred to as major depression, major depression disorder or clinical depression. Depression results to a variety of emotional and physical problems because the condition affects one’s thinking and behavior. Depressed people find difficulty in doing everyday tasks and experience severe hopelessness. Depression affects 19 million adult Americans, meaning it is the leading mental disorder in the U.S. Studies ...

The Importance of Information Technology to the Federal Government

On an annual basis, the federal government spends billions of dollars on improving information technology while ensuring speedy accomplishment of targeted administrative missions. Like commercial investments, the government organizations have utilized IT in managing research and information systems. With the introduction of internet and particularly the World Wide Web, information technology is emerging to be the main government approach of communicating with the populations and other shareholders. At all administrative levels, the government is formulating new approaches of utilizing information technology in order to provide public services to individuals and businesses. A significantly large amount of information from the ...

ABSTRACT

Supply chain management is an emerging concept in the construction industry in UAE. SCM tends to provide the organizations in the construction industry with an opportunity to improve cost and time consumption. Moreover, the effective supply chain management provides the organization with an ability to improve the quality of projects as well as the satisfaction level of the clients by meeting the requirements more accurately and precisely. Although the benefits associated with SCM implementation are quite high in the construction industry but the lack of knowledge and limited perspective of the organization has significantly transformed the benefits into ...

Abstract

With more than 340 million recorded cases worldwide, depression is one of the most common psychological disorders today. Women are at a high risk for developing depression, especially during menopause because their hormone levels fluctuate and personality traits may worsen vasomotor symptoms associated with menopause. However, besides biological and psychological factors, lifestyle factors are important determinants of depression symptoms in middle-aged women, and modifying those factors is associated with significant improvements in depression symptoms. For example, transitioning from a sedentary lifestyle into a physically active lifestyle can reduce depression moods and improve the quality of life. The purpose of this paper is ...

ABSTRACT

Supply chain management is an emerging concept in the construction industry in UAE. SCM tends to provide the organizations in the construction industry with an opportunity to improve cost and time consumption. Moreover, the effective supply chain management provides the organization with an ability to improve the quality of projects as well as the satisfaction level of the clients by meeting the requirements more accurately and precisely. Although the benefits associated with SCM implementation are quite high in the construction industry but the lack of knowledge and limited perspective of the organization has significantly transformed the benefits into ...

Yoga is a system based on Hindu philosophy that was developed in ancient India. While the spiritual background in which it was created defined it as a method for attaining a peace of mind and union with the divine, yoga also incorporates several physical and mental practices that are associated with improved physical health and emotional well-being. A posture in yoga is called an asana while a breathing exercise is referred to as pranayama. Both types of practices have been introduced to the Western civilization and popularized during the late 20th century. Since then, yoga has been adopted as a lifestyle by several groups. ...

This paper highlights the financial performance of General Motors Corporation in the last five years (2007 to 2011). It includes the revenue and stock performance trends, the earnings per share, accounts receivables, liabilities, assets, and sources of capital over the period. Finally the paper compares the finances of GM with that of Ford. Over the last five years, General Motors has significantly improved in its performance. Every performance indicator reflects a growth over this period. The company has also lowered its cost base and restructured the operations in various markets. This has resulted in an impressive reduction of expenses, ...

Critiquing the paper analyzing impact of Orff’s musical learning approach on spatial-temporal reasoning in children

The soothing effect of music on the human mind is by now well established. Music, from ancient times, has been accorded a high degree of respect in the socio-cultural context of human existence, being seen alternatively as a link that binds humanity to the divine or as‘food of love’ in literature and so on. The claim that music instruction has an impact on the cognitive abilities of human beings, since early childhood, is more recent and is still being analyzed by various researchers. According to French researcher Alfred Tomatis, listening to music helped healing and development of the brain. ...