Essays on The Contents

Post-stroke dysphagia, a potentially fatal complication, affects an estimated 23-50% of all stroke survivors. It is associated with a seven fold increase in the risk for aspiration pneumonia. Aspiration pneumonia increases the catabolic demands of the body and in the settings of impaired swallowing leads to a vicious cycle of malnutrition, dehydration, and further infections (Shaker & Geenen, 2011). Dysphagia affects a significant number of patients with hemispheric stroke which is the main subtype of ischemic stroke in the general population (Kumar et al., 2011). The functions of swallowing are subserved by a vast brain network. The inferior peri-rolandic sensorimotor ...

The new media presents new experiences to the field of authorship and the academia. The new media which is the existence of the digital online content has completely changed the interaction of the authors with their audience and readership. The new media offers a faster and accurate communication so that the marketing of published works has become easier than ever before (Manovich, 2001, p. 12). Despite the emergence of the new media it would not be possible to replace the authors and hence they continue to occupy and enjoy their position only that they emerge at a faster rate ...

Overview

Polyvinylidene fluoride is one of the polymers that are used as membrane material. This is because of its outstanding properties. Besides its comparatively high amount of fluorine, the polymer also has a high level of crystallinity. The result of these properties are exhibited in the performance of the Polyvinylidene fluoride polymer. For instance, the chemical stability of Polyvinylidene fluoride in chlorinated solvents and environments that are highly caustic and acidic is very high. Another property of the polymer is its hydrophobicity. This means that it is not compatible with water. This would create challenges if the polymer were to ...

Question 1

This is the National Tourism Development Authority of Ireland working to ensure that Ireland is a highly-favored tourist destination and that it remains competitive in the global market. As the authority mandated with overseeing the performance and running of the tourism industry in Ireland, Failte Ireland's numerous roles are statutorily governed. The agency has such duties as stating operational and service standards of the tourism sector, registration of service providers, ensuring that necessary insurance covers for tourists visiting Ireland are provided, and setting environmental standards to be adhered to by businesses in Ireland. From the view of it all, ...

The key objective of any change project is ensuring that the original goals set have been met. As such, it is crucial that an assessment regarding the development and progress of the project is done to determine whether there are gains or failures in regards to the key agenda of the undertaking. It is worth noting that project evaluation is essential since the results produced are usually credible, timely, objective and relevant (Newcomer, Hatry & Wholey, 2015). The information collected during the assessment course is supposed to be congruent with how evaluation data was collected and analyzed. Another importance of ...

Abstract

The growing demand for the competitive specialists justifies the particular attention and concern to the Malaysian students’ reading comprehension skills from the Malaysian authorities. The introduction of teaching the Malaysian core school subjects in the English language (Yassin et al., 2009) provided the continual attempts and experiments to define the most efficient way to decrease achievement gaps in the reading of Malaysian pupils. Starting from the 5th grade, students extend their vocabulary through reading (Zubairi & Sarudin, 2009). The following research proposes the method of using “Reading Cues’ as scaffolding answering the closed or WH-questions to improve the performance of ...

If the police tap into the local telephone exchange of AT&T to know when a certain phone number becomes active with users without a warrant, the case will face a very difficult suppression motion. There is a safeguard against such processes; the Fourth Amendment. Hypothetically, if the police attempt to stake out a suspect’s location and try to get information whenever someone makes a call from the property, a warrant becomes mandatory. However, it is surprising the courts find that a warrant is unnecessary. The interpretation of the law should coexist along with the context in order to ...

Summary of the Content

The book that is the subject of this paper is entitled Debt: The First 5,000 Years. This book was published in 2011 by book author and anthropologist David Graeber. As the name implies, much of the content was focused on debt. It, however, tackled the said topic in relation to other social institutions and practices such as marriage, friendship, barter, law, religion, slavery, economics, and government management. By putting the topic in line with the very factors that make up human life and society, he basically showed that he considers debt has played an important part in it. ...

Academic Critique: Intergenerational Conflict in Arab Families: Salient Issues and Sale

In Rasmi and Daly article “Intergenerational Conflict in Arab Families: Salient Issues and scale development” (2015) the two authors explore various types of conflicts that affect most Arab families. Sarah Rasmi is a professor at the American University in Dubai, UAE. Over the past years, she has been involved in culture conflict research focusing on the neglected Arab world by other researchers. Together with her co-author Timothy Daly, who is a professor at the United Arab Emirates University, they have published various articles about Intergenerational Conflicts, Conflict Management and Perceived Parental Rejection and Adjustment. In my opinion, the clear ...

In the past, cyber-crimes were few and far in between because the computers used were mainframes and they were rare to come by (Greenbaum, 2015). Today, computers have infiltrated almost every aspect of life and most offenses are accompanied by the involvement of computerized devices directly or indirectly. Nearly every individual in the world today has an automated electronic device such as a smartphone and a computer (Greenbaum, 2015). Further, the internet has made the use of computerized devices to commit crimes easier, and all types of offenses can be perpetrated online such as fraud, theft, solicitation, malicious mischief ...

Background

Pepperidge Farm is a United States bakery located in Norwalk Connecticut. It was established in 1937 by an American, Margaret Rudkin, who named it Pepperidge after a tree that is located on their property at Fairfield Connecticut ("Pepperidge Farm® – Heritage and History"). The bakery specializes in Milano, Nantucket cookies, varieties of bread and goldfish crackers. The business was born out of her attempts to bake a preservative-free bread for her third born son who was asthmatic and thus allergic to commercially made bread that was laden with preservatives. She ended up making bread so good that her son’s ...

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GERD: Introduction

“Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a syndrome wherein the stomach’s contents of those in the small intestine constantly move up into the esophagus. The rearwards motion of the contents is called a “reflux.” This condition results in the person being subjected to episodes of heartburn, a stinging sensation felt under the sternum part of the chest, is the initial symptom of heartburn; this is traditionally felt after the person has a heavy meal, or lies down or lifts a heavy object immediately after eating. If a person is consistently experiencing bouts of reflux and extreme heartburn, then ...

Introduction

Customers and businesses have realized that flexibility in communication is among the best ways of reaching out to each other. The need for improved relations has contributed to organizations changing the way they do business in efforts to accommodate interactive platforms for responding to customer inquiries in real time. Online marketing is key to promoting effectiveness and efficiencies of how goods and services are offered to customers in ways to improve brand and customer loyalty. Among the major benefits offered by online marketing is the ability to easily reach out to global markets without incurring many costs in advertisements ...

Response to an Audit Report Inquiry

Dear Dominique, I am writing this email in response to your request for clarification and explanation on the different types of audit reports. Generally, audit reports give an appraisal of a company or business’s financial performance and status during a specified period of time. These reports are usually completed by an independent accounting professional (internal or external), and cover the company’s assets and liabilities. Audit reports represent the auditor’s assessment of the company’s financial position and future status. In many countries, audit reports are required by law if the company is publicly traded or operates ...

Abstract

Steven Dewayne Bond was a passenger on a Greyhound bus when a border patrol officer squeezed his luggage after conducted an immigration check of the passengers. Bond allowed the officer to open his luggage when asked, and a brick of methamphetamine was discovered that was wrapped in duct tape and rolled in a pair of pants. Bond was charged with possession and intent to distribute as well as conspiracy. In pretrial matters, Bond’s attorney filed a motion to suppress the methamphetamine claiming that the search conducted by the officer was unreasonable and in violation of the Fourth Amendment. ...

The Purpose of the Study

The study was an isometric fieldwork study. The aim of the study was to test impulsivity. Impulsivity is a construct in an individual that entails the tendency of a person to follow whims (Baumeister & Vohs, 2013). An impulsive person displays behavior that shows little regard for the consequences of the actions. The behavior of an impulsive person also shows little evidence of reflection and forethought (Baumeister & Vohs, 2013). The focus on impulsivity as a concept is based on the long-term effects of impulsive behavior. The fact that impulsive actions are not conceived with the benefit of objectivity means that ...

On December 2, 2015, the usually peaceful city of San Bernardino in California went through turmoil as 14 of its residents were killed and 22 others seriously injured in what seemed to be an unprovoked terrorist attack. Although the suspect and his foreign-born wife were eventually subdued in a gunfight that ended in their deaths, another battle took place in court as the tech giant Apple and the FBI locked horns over the issue of prying into the contents of the gunman’s iPhone. What the investigation agency wanted was for Apple to write a code that would allow ...

INTRODUCTION

Fatal car accidents are going to disappear in a few years because the zero-death car may be invented. In the article ”Volvo Works to Scale ‘Death-Proof’ Car Effort Using IT,” writer by Kim S. Nash indicates that the future plan of Volvo is to make sure that all of their vehicles that travel on the road never cause fatal accidents, and what efforts Volvo is making to reach that goal. Nash shows why this innovation is important and describes in detail just what Volvo is doing. Nash tries to tell the readers about this death-proof car by just giving ...

INTRODUCTION

Fatal car accidents are going to disappear in few years because the zero-death car may be invented. In the article ”Volvo Works to Scale ‘Death-Proof’ Car Effort Using IT,” writer Bykim S. Nash indicates that the future plan of Volvo is making their all products that runs on the road never cause fatal car accidents, and how Volvo makes an effort to reach to the goal. Nash shows why this innovation is important and details of what Volvo is doing. Nash tries to tell the readers about a death-proof car with just giving some informations. He uses logos and ...

First, employees act on behalf of the employer, who in this case, is the company. It follows that all transactions carried out during the working hours are not personal but belong to the firm. In this regard, unless the sender is the owner of the company in which case the emails and content may represent both personal views and those of the enterprise, any other employees’ communications are impersonal. Secondly, the communicator uses resources of the firm. In this respect, it implies that the contents send via emails would only concern the company. For instance, the workers cannot send ...

26th of April 2016

The appearance of Kabuki is attributed to Izumo Okuni a servant of the temple, which, according to the available documentary evidence, headed a predominantly female troupe that in 1603 staged presentation and light scenes (dance, comic sketches), choosing the parched bed of the Kamogawa River in Kyoto as their stage. Gradually, this company has gained national recognition and the plays by Okuni (and subsequently the entire genre) came to be defined by the term "Kabuki". Its basic meaning (literally – the technique of singing and dancing) was supplemented with a hint of "extraordinary" and "shocking" nature of the action. Kabuki ...

Critique

The following is the systematic critique of the article titled, “Implementing a Competence Framework for Administering Medication: Reporting the Experiences of Mental Health Nurses and Students in the UK” (Hemingway et al., 2012). The nursing critique has been done in accordance with the guidelines provided in the article title, “Step-by-step guide to critiquing research. Part 2: qualitative research” (Ryan, Coughlan and Cronin, 2007). The research article is published in the journal of Issues in Mental Health Nursing, which is a peer reviewed journal. The research article by Hemingway et al., 2012, is a qualitative study that employs an assortment ...

Introduction

Staples.com is an online store for office products and a source of other office solutions. It provides furniture, affordable copy and print services, office supplies, technology to offices and boardrooms through its online ecommerce site which was created and operationalized in 1986. Since its inception, the firm’s internet sales have reached $25 billion and rank behind Amazon in terms of online sales (Staples.com, 2016). Staples.com has its headquarters in Boston United States of America. Today it has presence in Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia meaning that the firm serves diverse customers of different demographic profiles. This is a ...

Intermodal Containers

Introduction The intermodal container is one of the most common sights in ports, harbors and docks. It is so common that its importance and significance to modern logistics is often overlooked. But despite the seemingly simple design of intermodal containers, its universal usefulness in transporting goods could not be undermined that it can be considered as one of the most important development in the field of transportation and logistics. Despite its importance in commerce and logistics, the intermodal container is also at risk of being utilized by the lawless elements of society. Without proper security, containers can be used ...

One of the introductory visions in the Book of Revelation is written in chapters 4 and 5 that the Lord Almighty is the one seated on the heavenly throne. The vital theme of chapters 4 and 5 is the own vivid and personal experience of the prophet. It implies that the statement has the element of truth and it has the substance of apocalyptic declaration that is totally associated with the life of the visionary individuals to the present generation of believers. However, at some point, the visionary process separates from the conscious or subconscious imagery of human thinking. ...

Featuring in TEDxManhattan 2013, Hirshberg Gary’s video “Why Genetically Engineered Foods should be labeled” offers a glimpse on an array of issues aligned with labeling of genetically modified foods. The same sentiments are evident in the current article “Genetically Modified Food Controversies.” While it is true that the contents of genetically modified (GM) foods are similar to those of conventional foods, there are various reasons supporting the need to label genetically modified foods. Consumers have the right to know what is in the foods they purchase and consume. Knowledge of the contents of genetically modified foods would give ...

Narrative point of view refers to the position of the narrator in relation to the story that one is narrating. As such, when evaluating the point of view of the narrator, one focuses on the relationship between the narrator and the characters in the story. There are three major points of view that narrators can adopt while narrating a story. These are first-person, second-person, and third-person point of views. Either of the foregoing points of views have different effect on the understanding and believability of the characters or the story being told, as is evident from O Pioneers! and ...

Introduction

For a fact, the success of a website is primarily based on its usability. In fact, the lack of a user-friendly interface deters people from using or revisiting a web page. According to McNeil (2010), the usability of a website provides the users with not only comfortable browsing experience but also encourages them to visit the site continuously. As such, it is imperative for web designers to focus on the presentation of a website through integration with efficient navigation tools. This is mainly accredited to the fact that some users are not concerned with the overall approach used in ...

Description of the Class

The prenatal class was interesting. It covered various childbirth classes and their benefits. The study was presented in a clear and comprehensive manner that made the topics easy to understand. The professor used a lecture as the teaching strategy that entailed the interaction of two students and the instructor. The teacher was good at teaching, and I believe that she did an excellent job.

Benefits of Attending a Childbirth Class

In childbirth classes, one can comfortably air out their fears and concerns regarding labor and birth. They provide a relationship where one can reach out to the childbirth instructor with particular concerns as one prepares ...

Abstract

As a staffing consultant for the prestigious Sincere College, we have been assigned the task of setting up a recruitment plan for a vacant position. The position is for the Associate/Assistant Professor for the subject of Business Ethics at the Davis Business School. We have been provided with the job description and on the basis of it, we have recommended advertisement as a powerful tool for attracting applicants. Screening, short listing the candidate followed by formal interview sessions has been mentioned in detail. Elements included in the employment confirmation letter have also been included in this paper. Training becomes ...

Introduction

Super Bowl events offer large firms a massive opportunity to improve their market position through reaching a massive number of customers to offer memorable awareness campaigns. Companies are able to make significant impact among millions of viewers across the globe and, hence, in the long run, it becomes possible to expand market scope easily as well as retain the current customers. However, there are several drawbacks that include the cost involved in purchasing advertisement time, time constraint since an ad only takes place within a short time and aggressiveness among consumers who are unmoved by memorable adverts.

Advantages of Advertising during Super Bowl Events

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Q 1- Current event

Locate a recent news item (less than one month old) that deals with an issue of Data Security. Summarize the data security incident and then state what principle(s) of data security was violated or ignored. Include a link to the news item. (http://blog.alertsec.com/2011/03/new-data-breach-incident-at-leicester-city-council/) Data Security: Data security is very important as it ensures that data of a given company or institution is protected against the deliberate or accidental access of data by unauthorized people. Breaching of data security can bring a company or an institution down to its knees. Care should therefore be taken to ensure that data security is taken ...

1.1 Introduction Construction forms are necessary since they provide a detailed history of the construction process from the planning stage up to the completion stage. The contents of these documents highlight the decisions and activities that together comprised the construction process. Therefore, when properly prepared, these documents provide an accurate history of construction projects. In essence therefore, construction documents facilitate monitoring and evaluation of construction projects. In addition, they can be used as evidence when disputes and litigations arise (Hyland, 2005, p.68). 2.1 Application for payment 2.1.1 Explanation of the Form Once in the construction phase, ...

Task One

The project I did was a research project into the civil war of Nigeria also known as Biafra war. I was to research the war based on how the war happened, in a chronological manner, the causes of the war and the impact of the war on the current Nigerian people and to an extent the whole world. To sufficiently research on this topic, I was able to set out certain objectives and research questions regarding the paper. My objectives were to comprehend the nature, degree and consequence of the war on the Nigerian people, to investigate the nature, amount and ...

As human beings, we are constantly surrounded by things whose origins we cannot fully comprehend, not even explain. It is interesting that we at times take part in some of these things without a slight realization they are the very phenomena whose origins we are seeking to explore. With regard to all the mysteries in the universe, the mystery of creation has remained one of the most common one among people in the whole world. So many individuals, scientists, researchers and artists have come forward to give their impression of what they think or perhaps believe it is. Despite the ...