Essays on Trends

Renaissance refers to the process of rebirth and it took place in many ways. Dating back to 1350, parts of Northern Italy experience the beginning of this rebirth process. It took place after the country underwent a period of ravaging from the Black Death, which swept away a third of the Italian population. Among the earliest pieces that represent the renaissance took the form of art and architecture. In the art, literature also appeared as a form of presenting this new birth. Decameron by Giovanni presented the renaissance in literature between 1313 and 1370. It presented the tale of ...

Healthcare is a dynamic sector and continues to experiences changes that aim at offering better service to the citizens. There are changing trends that health organizations need to put into consideration when they are formulating policies in the state, local and national level. The policies formulated at of these levels determine the effectiveness and efficiency of care that the patients receive. The future seems to have many transformations in healthcare. The current formulation and implementation of Affordable Care Act represent many changes that are yet to come to the healthcare industry.

The healthcare reimbursement program is due for a ...

1. EDUCATIONAL THEORY

Introduction to Brain Based Learning & Eric P. Jensen

Principals of Brain Based Learning Eric P. Jensen’s home page is entitled Game Changers on other connected pages he offers Principals of Brain Based Learning, some of the principals he views as most important and other tools that might be important to someone looking into his theories on brain based learning. Jensen also has several pages devoted to his workshops books, and other presentation materials. It is primarily addressed to the general public, instructors and policy makers.

Teaching with the Brain in Mind, Revised 2nd Edition

Eric P. Jensen was considered a pioneer in brain based learning when he released the First Edition of ...

The consumer market in the UAE is affected by different trends. One of the trends that have significance to Abu Dhabi Airport Company is that the consumer expectation for luxury goods and services is growing. Abu Dhabi Airports Company offer services to consumers in the transportation industry. There are thousands of people that visit the UAE every year and, one of the places that create a first impression is the airport. The Abu Dhabi has a world class airport, and the company should capitalize on this opportunity to offer world class service. In the UAE, people like expensive things, ...

Business

Management Information System is an electronic system that is used to provide necessary information in order to manage an organization effectively. The design of MIS is very important as so it should be designed in order to increase the communication between employees. MIS supports the strategic goals of the organization. A well-defined MIS not only shows the current situation of business but also shows the reasons why business is going up or down. Some of the Management Information System used by organizations is discussed below. (Shelly, Cashman & Vermaat, 1999)

Transaction processing system introduced in the 1960s is designed to ...

- Business Summary: Meggitt PLC is one of the foremost companies which engage in the design and manufacture of components and sub-systems for various sectors like aerospace, defense, medical, energy, industrial, automotive and other specialist industries and markets.

- History of the company: The Company was founded in the 1850s in the United Kingdom. It started operations as a machine tool business. The company went public 1947. Over the years the company has expanded its base of operations by acquiring various other businesses and companies. By using this strategy Meggitt has not only been able to increase its presence ...

Introduction

The comprehensive CPR system is a tool that provides its users with critical examination of trends in the long run and a review of an agencies performance following the outcome measures. The CPR Dashboard has three major components.

The Major Components of the CPR Dashboard

The CPR Dashboard system provides numerous critical performance measures including statistics for various organizations and agencies The performance management application is one of the main constituents of the CPR Dashboard (Brown, 2003). It enables the system backend to collect data input which can then be accessed and published at a later date.

The performance management application can therefore provide for essential reports and statistical data for various entities.

Dash board/Analytics tool is the second constituents of the ...

The paper addresses dive behavior of loggerhead turtles which are threatened species, and are distributed in temperate ocean basins. Within Pacific, loggerheads commonly comprises of two different genetic stocks; a South Pacific stock mainly originating from breeding sites within New Caledonia and Australia, and a North Pacific stock mainly originating from breeding sites within Japan.

Advances within satellite transmitter technologies have enabled researchers to gather geospatial data on loggerheads within different oceanic and coastal regions. This information have offered more understanding on turtle ecology, which have provided a way to explain migration trends during their life stages. Previous findings ...

"Global Warming is Eroding Glacial Ice" by Andrew C. Revkin.

The article talks about the various ways on which the mountain glaciers have over the time become an indication of the global warming phenomena. These activities has greatly been influenced by humans disturbances on nature. Important to note is that the natural climate bears some responsibility in the rise in temperature of the entire world .The two phenomenon which are life threatening to planet earth needs to be advocated in order to change this life threatening trend which may deplete life on earth.

Currently the observed rise in temperatures ...

The concept of predictive profiting is that it is a method used to assessed and categorized potential for criminal or terrorist methods and operation. Rae (2012) in his article Will it ever be possible to Profile the Terrorist, mentioned three different types of profiling- Racial, gender and age profiling, pathological and psychological profiling and socioeconomic profiling. Racial, gender and age profiling is considered as the crudest and most egregious method of profiling terrorists because it is based on racial characteristics. The concept of racial profiling is to associate ethnic characteristic to possible (typical) criminal behaviors. The concept of pathological ...

Summary

This is an article based on exclusive research on increases in the relative abundance of mid-tropic level fishes concurrent with declines in apex predators in the subtropical North Pacific between 1996 and 2006. The topic of study is based on a sample of 13 most profuse species caught in the deep-set Hawaii situated in the long-line fishery for the past decade from 1996 to 2006. This is aimed at provision of evidence of a change among the top North Pacific subtropical predators.

The catch rates for apex predators like blue shark, bigeye and albacore, spearfish, as well as striped ...

Introduction

The economy is never steady and it never follows a predetermined course. There are various factors that influence the functioning of an economy and thereby force it to experience period of boom or recession. The various securities that are traded in these markets, whether government or private, also get influenced by these factors and experience fluctuations in their stock prices, in the case of shares, and in their yield, in the case of government bonds and securities. In most cases, it is easy to analyze and understand the cause behind the trend that emerge when one studies minutely the ...

Assignment Outline

The economy is never steady and it never follows a predetermined course. There are various factors that influence the functioning of an economy, and as such the functioning of a financial market, and thereby force it to experience period of boom or recession. The various securities that are traded in these markets, whether government or private, also get influenced by these factors and experience fluctuations in their stock prices, in the case of shares, and in their yield, in the case of government bonds and securities. In most cases, it is easy to analyze and understand the cause behind ...

Problems, And Change

Humans have various beliefs and ideas regarding numerous things. Its about our perception and how we feel things in every other manner. Humans have a unique way to evaluate and assess each other.There are various ways through which we can assess our natural identity and our natural perception about each other. One of the most common modes of beliefs is how we think and judge about our fellow human beings (Santiago, 2011)

It is genrally believed that humans are kind and are of good nature and moral character. We have a natural tendency to help each other out ...

Question 1

The following areas of Sydney have high rates of unemployment: Central West and Inner West (the rate of unemployment 9-13%); Gosford-Wyong and eastern part of South West part of Sydney (the rate of unemployment 7-9%); southern part of Gosford-Wyong, the part where Sydney Inner, Inner West, and George Sutherland are crossing; southern part of Sydney North West region and the part of Sydney Central West crossing Sydney North West (the rate of unemployment 5-7%). Almost all of the territory of North West region and Sydney South West are having low rate of ...

Globalization in the 1990s was tremendously welcomed in the entire world. It is worth noting that various trade theories were used to elaborate on the benefits of market liberalization and free trade. However, by the end of 20th century, many voices of dissatisfaction began to rise from North America to Asia. This was a clear indication of the changing trends in the global economy, and how globalization was not influencing everyone positively. The current trends in globalization has been profound and brought about by sweeping technological changes, advances of globalization, as well as the emergence of powerful and new ...

Psychosocial development incorporates the behavioral advancement of an individual from childhood to adulthood. According to Erikson, personality development is based on the attitudes developed by each individual. The concept displayed by Erickson shows that two people in the same age group can present completely different character traits while reacting to similar life situations. Moreover, the manner in which a person carries himself through one stage determines the success of the succeeding stage. Erickson asserts that there is a crisis at the end of every stage as a person transits to the next stage.

In the first stage the baby ...

This client oversimplifies issues and does not deal with feelings. The client views just the most obvious issues. This surface evaluation leads to conflicts with others. The client cannot resist drama in part due to her lack of adequate openness to experience and her view of herself and the world. Because of her overly narrow focus, the client misses subtle nuances of social situations. Her tendency to overlook nuance leads to a low tolerance for uncertainty and so she favors simple solutions and structure. The client has an ability to organize her inner life and emotional availability. This client ...

Negotiation styles among different groups are entrenched in their customs and background. Negotiations are used by different groups to arrive at a common ground on certain issues and problem (Lewicki, Barry & Saunders , 2010). The negotiation depends on different variables such as people, circumstance, time and position of power. People in high positions of power have a high probability of getting aggressive on their negotiation platform.

The Americans have a tendency of picking up the phone and immediately starting the negotiation. The direct mode of negotiation may scare away clients who would see their mode of business as aggressive and ...

Target market

In our marketing efforts the group of customers that the company has identified is women particularly overweight women. In the marketing strategy, a well defined target market is what the objective of the company management is. The success of Muffin Tops is a well defined marketing mix that is composed of four variables that include place (distribution), product, price, and promotion.

The Company aims to use this marketing mix so as to make muffin tops the number one priority among our esteemed customers. To construct a solid foundation for our company, the company targets wishes to target a niche ...

Section 1: Explain and discuss the various oil and gas price drivers and make a clear recommendation of the trend you believe prices will follow and why.

Economic cycles of boom and recession have a major impact on oil and gas prices. Demand for oil is significantly affected by the two economic cycles. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (2012) observed that studies have shown that there is a very close link between global GDP growth and oil demand. This link has been identified in various business cycles that have been identified as having a significant impact on ...

Colum McCann’s award winning novel Let the Great World Spin published in 2009 contains characters that exhibit a tendency for being in error, making mistakes, and going astray. Readers may see these as the unavoidable result of emotionally distressing experiences that McCann keeps alluding to, such as segregation and the Civil Rights movement that followed the Vietnam War, and others. Even though the characters in the novel seem to hurt themselves and each other, it is arguable that McCann’s novel is more about reconciliation. To some ...

Contemporary culture refers to current cultural values comprising of social, political and economic aspects. Culture is a complex unique issue that comprises customs, beliefs and attitudes and differs from one society to another. Whereas every section of the society determines culture, it is right to claim that studying the trends of the youth will help in understanding contemporary culture. Culture passes on through one generation to another and people in the current generation gets exposed to new developing trends in the community but also exhibit traits and habits from previous generations. Whereas in America, the elderly may prefer homemade ...

Royal Dutch Shell PLC commonly known as the shell is second largest energy company in the world whose registered office is in London. It is oil and Gas Company operating in various parts of the world; to stay relevant to climatic and environmental changes it engages in both renewable and non renewable energy. In addition, it is a vertically integrated oil company which engages in all oil activities from exploration to refining and marketing. Apart from its core activities, it has entered into partnership with various international organizations to preserve the environment. The company shares are listed in London ...

Demographic trends all over the world have a big impact on the development of the world. These trends are responsible for various changes in different countries and economic industries. Demographic trends are characteristics of the world or a country’s population that manifest themselves when determining issues such as industrialization and employment.

The increase in the number of the working age population, in many countries in the world, makes this demographic trend globally important. People aged 15 to 64 have been increasing over time. This trend is common in developing countries where the fertility rate is high. However, this ...

I must say that the assessment test was quite an eye-opener. It required a lot of in-depth soul-searching on my part, taking time to really think about the correct responses, and being as honest as possible regarding my perspectives on the whole exercise. According to my own self-analysis, I rank within the top quartile with a score of 458. I was not at all surprised by these results for I feel I have done quite a lot in improving my leadership and management skills. I have read a lot on the topic and have engaged several people I consider ...

The best way to learn, as is well known, is by reflecting and regurgitating on any new information that have been learnt or acquired. This strategy helps the learner to gain a deeper insight into the concepts that have been newly learnt, and also improves the individual’s ability to apply these concepts. This essay looks at my reflection over the concepts learnt in this module. These are as discussed in the essay below.

It is well known that man is a social creature. Therefore, it means that there must be social studies aimed at understanding this social nature. ...

Information management has been on an evolutionary trend that has become a major determining factor of the success of a company. The means by which a company manages its information will determine the quality of decisions that the company management come up with. In essence, the means by which a company manages its information will highly determine the means of resource utilization. Well utilized organizational resources will in turn result in enhanced profit margins for the company. Proper utilization of information within the organization can prove to be a fundamental asset to the organization. First, proper information management will ...

The course has been an experience to me. I have learnt a lot and experienced a lot of great new ideas during the course. However, there are some improvements that I would like to suggest that would greatly improve the learning experience of the whole course. It will also increase the enrolment to the course. One of the factors that need to be integrated to the course is emerging trends. Most of the content that has been taught in the course for a long time is that of how to use computers and apply the knowledge in normal business ...

Question 1

The dream up product is 500 grams brown bread. The survey question was for this discussion was; how much are you willing to pay for a 500 grams loaf of brown bread? Using four prices ranges of between one and four dollars, a sample composing of ten friends and family members were asked how the survey question. In the excel sheet, the results of how many of the respondents were willing to pay a particular price for each of the four ranges was recorded. A scatter diagram of demand against prices was plotted to determine the relationship between price ...

(Name of your Institution) Thesis statement: Computer games do not solely have a bad influence on youth, they can be utilized for good purposes too.

Paragraph 1: Introduction

Paragraph 2: What is computer gaming and how popular is it? Paragraph 3: The three negative aspects of computer games Paragraph 4: Lack of sensation and repetitive Strain Injury or RSI due to computer games Paragraph 5: Obesity, over eating and inactivity due to computer games Paragraph 6: Negative impacts on communal and academic growth Paragraph 7: Negative impact on academic performance Paragraph 8: Negative impact on behavioural growth Paragraph 9: Hostility and violence ...

The future of American religion is in the “none.” A recent published and publicized survey on religion depicts an undeniable trend in religious association in America. The religious landscape has many people embracing spirituality rather than a tradition religious brand. People are within their democratic right to embrace this form of religion. Some people in the survey refuse to associate with any religion as others make a transition from the traditional authoritative religions and move to “none.” The survey indicates that those respondents on the “none” affiliation do so in a liberal political spectrum. The “none” has gained popularity ...

Burns, L. (2012). The Business of Healthcare Innovation. Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press.

This book provides an extensive analysis of regarding business trends in the manufacturing sector of the healthcare industry. The author provides an overview of the innovative efforts aimed at improving the healthcare delivery. The book considers the effect of innovation in biotechnology, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, platform technology, as well as information technology. Regarding each of the foregoing areas, the author looks at the sources and trends relating to scientific innovation, the regulatory measures employed in every sector and how the sectors carry out their function. Burns further evaluates ...

Strategic Fashion Marketing Assignment

Introduction Fashion industry is a competitive market, which permanently renews and adjusts to the technological innovations and marketing trends. Nowadays fashion brands are applying various marketing strategies for remaining competitive, combining them for delivering an integrated experience for their customers. However, the key to being popular in fashion is to innovate and this implies fashion marketing innovation also. Fashion companies that have the potential to adjust fashion marketing trends, such as creating an in-store home-like environment or developing fashion blogs, to their business are successful now and will be able to differentiate in five years from now from their ...

Article Summary

The article of Baller & Richardson explains that the theory of Durkheim regarding suicide can be attributed to geographic space, social integration, and imitation (Baller & Richardson 873). The risk of suicide is high that can be based on the neighboring areas since it is man’s reflection of how he perceived the behaviour of other people that has a tendency influence his own actions. The replication of another person’s action is the powerful force that will drive another to act in a certain way. The article has shown that the hypotheses of Durkheim and Tarde are correct to a ...

Tea market is trendy and continually attracting the consumers all over the world. France has one if the popular and biggest tea markets in the world. The French tea market is unique amongst the Western markets. Powerful conventional expressions can be dramatized through product design, print ads, packaging, and outdoor media. This plays a pivotal rule in reinvigorating the business. Major tea importers such as Unilever, and Tetley are active on the conventional market. Every marketing activity, from product design, brand endorsement, publicity and packaging, to CEOs’ words matter a lot. Tea companies have turned their view of publicity ...

In the introduction of “Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion,” Elizabeth L. Cline remembers purchasing “seven pairs of $7 shoes” at Kmart. Lamentation follows and soon thereafter, a wardrobe inventory or stock. When Cline Elizabeth cleans out her cabinet or closet she notices, among other things, sixty one tops, sixty T-shirts, fifteen cardigans plus hooded sweatshirts, twenty one skirts and twenty pairs of shoes, most of which Elizabeth never wore. An earlier quote from ex-Vogue editor Vreeland Diana comes to reflection: “Give ’em what they never knew they wanted.” Fast-fashion vendors like Topshop, Forever 21, and H&M ...

Introduction

The Krona Community Hospital, founded in 1977, is a 60-bed, acute care facility, which is situated in Banconota County. The facility presently offers a full range of care services and maintains a staff of around 400 workers, 100 physicians and specialists and several volunteers. Nouveau Health, which is a private, non-profit health care chain, has acquired the management of the Krona Hospital. The new facility will have 74 acute beds, which are entirely private, four observation rooms, a 24-hour emergency center, four surgical operating rooms, intensive care unit, and maternity department that will have one C-section room. In addition, ...

There are a number of changes that are occurring in the retail sector, and these trends are changing the way that retail connects with customers, suppliers, and so on. For retail organizations, staying on top of emerging trends-- and ensuring that trends are not engaged with too heavily without research-- is important for the success of the organization as a whole. This discussion will center around new trends in retail marketing, and the different driving factors that influence retail marketing and customer service in the industry. In the retail industry, manufacturing and retail are completely separate entities, but they ...

Introduction

For a long, French fries and hamburgers have been the order of the day in most restaurants. This is rapidly changing across many food restaurants. It is not the end of French fries and burgers as such. It is the dawning of an era of quick, affordable and increasingly healthier foods compared to erstwhile fast foods. More precisely, real food is rapidly becoming the new fast food. There is widespread commitment to healthy food choices as a lifestyle rather than a diet. This has developed this new trend where previously fringe foods like vegetable juice, kales and organic produce ...

International Tourism and Hospitality Management

Abstract Hospitality and Tourism Management in an international sense in a multidisciplinary field of study that involves preparation of people with the relevant know-how, determination, and skills for managerial, marketing, and operations positions. It involves the general industry that offers accommodation, food, accommodations, and tourism services to the holiday-maker. Hospitality and Tourism Management as a field of study, draws a lot from other basic disciplines to provide the fundamental and relevant knowledge and skills that are necessary to fulfill the diverse demands placed upon individuals in managerial positions within the hospitality industry. It focuses on the contents of business ...

Introduction

The use of statistics is psychology is important since it helps in understanding ideas, concepts, categories, attitudes and symbols, which are normally difficult to observe and difficult to measure. This allows psychologist to test hypotheses, support theories, evaluate treatments or refute evidence. By testing hypotheses, psychologists can be able to develop new theories and come up with new innovating ideas.

Functions of Statistics

Simplification of complex problems or situations The use of statistics simplifies the complexity of data. Raw data used in statistics or research work is normally incomprehensible. Using different statistical measures data can be made simpler. This may involve use ...

1 a) The research is essential in that it gives new different approaches that the ancestors employed in getting around. As much as this may contradict the initial information available about bipedalism, it gives another insight on how movement was achieved in the ancient times by the ancestors. 1 b) By saying that Australopithecus sediba had a combination of primitive and derivative features, the authors of the article aim to reveal how the Australopithecus sediba had a combination of qualities of both the modern man and the ancient man. Essentially, these features were in the upper limb, hand, foot, ...

Topshop is a popular British Multinational retailer that specializes in shoes, fashion clothes, makeup and accessories. It was founded back in the year 1964 by peter Robison whom by then named it The Peter Robinsons Topshop. In 1970, the TopMan brand was created as a spin-off so as to cater for the male clients. Currently, Topman runs as a separate entity although there exists some stores that are co-located. According to the data retrieved from their official website, Topshop has around 440 shops across 37 countries. It also boasts of an online platform that manages its online operations in ...

Forecasting is the act of making predictions. It is a critical element in decision making and serves the purpose of reducing the risk in decision making to reduce unexpected cost. The time series models are the best techniques to use when calculating fuel prices. According to Beasley (2010), time series can be defined as a collection of data that is recorded over a certain time frame which can be weekly, monthly, and so on. A time series model has four components; the trend, seasonal variation, the cyclical variation, and the irregular variation. The trend includes sales, stock prices, as ...

Background of the Issue

With increasingly difficult organizational structures and continuously evolving markets, modern companies face more severe competition. This competitive market environment is no longer determined by the high level supply and demand curve and product features, as it used to be somewhat forty and even thirty years ago. Contemporary businesses have to learn to compete on price and upstream effectiveness to be able to develop sustainable competitive advantage in their respective markets. Past decades put in focus an emerging trend of production and manufacturing outsourcing, where large corporation found a great cost advantage in offshoring their operations in lower labor cost ...

Analysis of Temporal Trends in Persistent Organic Pollutants in

Analysis of Temporal Trends in Persistent Organic Pollutants in Air, Water, Food Chain and Humans in United States Introduction Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are synthetic organic chemicals, which are persistent in environment. Its long-range transport leads to global pollution. These materials are lipophilic and they are accumulated in the food chain as they are found in fish and marine mammals (Arnot & Gobas, 2006). These toxic materials are spread in environment through different human activities. They pose adverse effects on air, water, food chain and humans. In United States, over the last two decades there has been a continuous declining ...

The consumerism cultures today in the United States and the United Kingdom have led to the growth of the plus size population, which has positively affected the fashion industry. In the past, there were few options available for the plus size population to buy their clothes and a few range of options to choose from them. However, most fashion stores have identified the increasing trend of the plus size people and are equally responding to their fashion need by stocking the stores with fashionable and trendy clothes and other wears. The plus size fashion generally defines the women from ...

IT Management

Objective Technology is one of the cornerstones for the success of any business organization in the contemporary market. However, technology is dynamic in nature, and changes rapidly from time to time. To keep up with these changes, an organization should keep updating its technology; otherwise, its technology becomes obsolete. This is particularly relevant in the case of publishing companies. In this case, the objective is to assess the implications of hiring a new leader to oversee the transformation of the information technology department in the Penguin Group Publishing Company. The company also intends to implement a reorganization and downsizing ...

Introduction

The workplace is changing rapidly mostly attributed to the changing demographic trends being experienced in the country. As a result, communication becomes a barrier in most instances for those companies that do not embrace change. Consequently, work performance and output comes to a standstill hence compromising the survival of the organization. This report will focus on the demographic trends already experienced in the company, its effect on communication, as well as recommendation of communication practices that should be adopted.

Demographic changes

The company reflects three main demographic changes as exhibited in the American population. Firstly, more women have since joined the ...

An overview of the financial statements does not convince me to suggest the management for the purchase of a major shareholding in Squirros Limited. My decision is based on the visible trend in the major portions of Balance Sheet and Income Statement. First, the turnover of the company has consistently decreased over the years. The same goes with the gross profit margins and net profit margins of the company that courtesy low turnover has decreased significantly over the years. Another negative consideration for the company was increasing administrative cost and interest expense. To be noted that since the company ...

American Women

Human health is a universal phenomenon that affects the body, without which we may not live. However, culture has a special imprint on the way we take care of our organism, and this influence is difficult to counter. Even though it is a condition that affects all of us, different civilizations imply different treatments of the body, which must be taken into account at the time of comparing health conditions. Many aspects must be taken into account, including possibilities of exercising and the tendency of the culture to lead people towards this aim. In my case, because I am ...

The article called Therapeutic Hypothermia after Cardiac Arrest: Unintentional Overcooling is Common Using Ice Packs and Conventional Cooling Blankets by Merchant, Abella, Peberdy, Soar, Ong, Schmidt, Becker and Vanden Hoek was chosen for consideration. Figure 2B on the page 492 will be examined. - A line graph was used to describe the fluctuations of temperature with time. Line graphs help compare sets of data that are complicated to compare. Figure 2B depicts individual patient temperature courses with overcooling. - Line graphs are often used to track data that changes continuously. A line graph helps track the trends in data. ...

Emerging trends in various sections of a state ranging from the political, economic, climatologically to demography among others, have contributed a lot in the shaping up and realization of set goals and objectives in various states that have identified the gradual repercussion of these aspects . Furthermore, they have been used as a tool by analysts to identify the future prospects and their implications on the humanitarian aspect (Torre & Sergio, 2008). This has created a lot of anticipation on career diversity and advancement upon those in the job market and stiff competition amongst job seekers who at one point or ...

The article “Bathymetry of Mariana trench-arc system and formation of the

Challenger Deep as a consequence of weak plate coupling”, by Zohar Gvirtzman, and Robert J. Stern, published by Tectonics describes the study of determining the depths of the Mariana trench-arc system, and how the weak plate coupling results in the formation of Challenger Deep: the deepest known point on earth’s surface. The author’s demonstrate that the Mariana Trench is located at the southwest, and not at the center, because of the width of the plate coupling zone. The authors examine observation methods such as Bathymetry, to know the relation of the Mariana trench with the regional topographic ...

Functions of Statistics

Firstly, statistics is used to present facts in a simplistic manner. This makes statements more convincing and logical as compared to mere description. Secondly, statistics is used to reduce complexities associated with raw data enabling the readers draw interpretations and inferences. There are various statistical measures that are used to make raw data simple and intelligible (LeBlanc, 2004). Examples are; graphs, dispersions, averages, regressions, correlation and kurtosis. Thirdly, statistics facilitates comparison. Comparisons are important when the user of a given data set draw conclusions between two groups or the past and present. Statistical devices such as ratios, averages and ...

Emerging trends have a remarkable influence in the future of politics. This include; new technologies, conflict transformation, new superpower and multi-stakeholder dialogues. These trends will gradually shape the politics of the future for the nations of the world. Multi-stakeholder dialogues as well multi-trek dialogues involve; media, religious groups, nonprofit activists, business people and the officials of the government. These groups hold discussions to solve political issues. These include; corruption, gender representation among others. During these dialogues several ideas are generated. These influence the future by drawing various perspectives on how political practices are to be shaped to suit the ...

The article reported on the upward trend in health spending growth in 2011. In 2011, per capita and total spending on health care increased. For instance, between 2010 and 2011 estimated per capita expenditure for claims filed under employer-sponsored health insurance rose up to 4.6 percent (Roehrig, 2011). Based on age group, health spending increased significantly for children reaching 7.7 percent increase over 2010. Based on the region the HCCI report indicates that the Northeast had both the highest dollars spent per capita and the highest growth in spending. According to the producer price index, Medicare prices increased by ...

Over the years, elections have formed and played an integral role in the America’s political life. Elections provides the people with the opportunity to elect their preferred leaders, forms a favorable platform to shape and influence the political discourse and trends in the country and promotes the establishment of an effective electoral system. The house election of 1992 remains one of the historical elections in the American calendar that marked the end and the beginning of a new trend in the America’s political arena. The 1992 house election coincided with presidential election that involved two presidential candidates- ...

Introduction

Educational psychology is the study of human learning that encompasses the studying of instructional processes. It relies on majorly on testing, measurement, assessment, training as well as evaluation so as to enable the enhancement of educational activities and other learning processes. As an applied field, educational psychology has continued to grapple with and struggle to define and fulfill its mission against the backdrop of an increasingly dynamic world. This paper seeks to analyze the perspectives as offered by the author on the status and future directions of educational psychology as an applied field. Whilst doing this analysis and reflection ...