Essays on Validation

Qd. One of the interviewees talks about validation and fear. Validation and fear of what and why do you think it was so important for him? The speaker speaks about validation and fear of our desired goals. Thus, when one experiences a desire for something, he usually fears the failure, thinking that his struggling will only bring him disappointment. That is the fear, which keeps the majority from doing anything about their dreams. However, by validating it is possible, one is motivated to move towards his target with even higher persistence. "Your brain says it works, it may not ...

Franz Kafka focuses on how important it is for an artist to obtain public appeal and the levels that he is willing to go to acquire the attention. The hunger artist is a vivid representation of the troubled relationship that other artists have with a society that does not understand them well. In the end, the hunger artist separates himself from the entire world mirroring a separation between public will and the artistic ego. Only, an artist comprehends the essence of his accomplishments and ambitions. The public just comes in for the excitement or prospects of a good show. ...

The advancement in communication technology coupled with improvement in smartphone App application software enhances user flexibility in communication platform supported by the UTAUT (Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology) concepts. The growing tendency of data security concerns among the mobile users is of the essence for smooth trade and efficient payment services to be in place. Regardless of age differences among mobile device users, improvement of data security is of high impact for improved performance of the technology. The existence of the Generation X platform anchored on the G-network accelerates the rate of acceptance of internet services ...

The risk of non-compliance and non-conformance is critical in the development of any system and impacts the success of the development at hand. For developers, taking risks and being innovative is critical in the course of finding new solutions or developing new ideas. However, it is important to observe regulatory requirements that are set in the regulatory domain to ensure aspects such as safety and performance quality are observed (MasterControl, 2017). FDA and ISO regulations, in particular, are quality system regulations and concepts that require organizations or individuals to understand the regulatory obligations for the product or services they ...

Ethical considerations

This survey will seek to engage different stakeholders within organizations to capture their understanding of the concept of organizational stress and the factors within the organization that influence or affect organizational stress. Ethics is a representation of the norms that are expected of a researcher when conducting any form of research (Serekan, 2000). Ethics offers the guidelines that the researchers should adhere to when designing and implementing their research design. In the scholarly world, ethics play a significant role and especially when research involves human subjects. This inquiry on organizational stress will make use of human subjects, implying that ...

Abstract

Improvements in safety culture involve using various tools and taking some measures. Besides the development of techniques, there is also the aspect of management. On the management, there are ways in which safety issues are to be handled including the development of structures and motivating people to become part of the solution to safety problems. Tools for hazard analysis has also been improved over time from the traditional methods to the modern alternative approaches. This essay is going to discuss safety issues broadly in the context of management and tools. It will begin with a list and explanations of ...

INTRODUCING EMERGENCY SEVERITY INDEX (ESI) FOR BETTER PATIENT OUTCOME

Introducing Emergency Severity Index (ESI) for Better Patient Outcome Introduction to ESI The core objective of various triage tools across the emergency department attributes to the systematic prioritization of the patients in accordance with the severity of their clinical conditions in the context of determining the period until which the patient might wait in the emergency department before his/her evaluation by the healthcare professionals (Gilboy et al., 2011). The nurse professional after executing a focused assessment of the patient determines the waiting time and accordingly provides a triage acuity level of the patient in the emergency department. The patient ...

XAP Task 1

XAP Task 1

Introduction

Various studies are pertaining to the nursing discipline are available in journals and on the web. Understanding these pieces of information is essential when it comes to increasing one’s knowledge towards the nursing discipline. Normally, these studies encompassing the nursing practice are based on the evidence gathered either through quantitative or qualitative method of research. An exploratory type of research that aims to establish an understanding about the related motivations, opinions, and reasons is the main characteristics of a qualitative research. On the other hand, the quantitative approach aims to gain understanding of the topic ...

Identity and Information in the Internet Age

Today’s generation of kids and adults are dealing with technologies like no generation before. The major engine in this truly unique period is social media and the Internet. This has forever changed how we interact with one another as well as how we get information. We can interact with people all around the globe, with different cultures and nations, and do so all from our own living room. This new way of interacting with one another has had a great affect on how we form our self-identity. Social media and the Internet have made inaccuracies of information much ...

Introduction

This report takes into consideration the application and the strategies that Petsmart Company has in line with their ethical structure, the governance structure and the corporate social responsibility for the present and the future. Additionally, the business report highlights the present position of the Petsmart Company in these three categories. The company is described as one of the largest pet and veterinary product retailer services provider and the solution for pet and the owners (Petsmart, 2016). The information provided by the company’s profile is that the company has more than 50,000 associates and another 1,466 pet ...

A branch of forensic science that includes recovering and investigating materials of the digital devices especially when there is a crime committed using computers. Analyzing a crime is the most important factor in digital forensics before arriving at a conclusion. During the analysis process, the most critical function is to validate the evidence. Analysis of forensics and digital evidence depends on the type of investigation involved, the amount of data that will be processed during investigation, court orders, company policies and search warrants. Digital forensic analysis involves locating and recovering particular materials that eases the investigation process at a ...

Abstract

Web servers are the building blocks of this generation distributed systems and plays a major role in the enterprise application architectures. Due to the flexibility and openness that these Web server centric computing model offers, though makes this ubiquity possible, it also opens up corporate data and processes to security threats. This paper focuses on the security of the public Web servers. There are many different vulnerabilities such as exploits utilizing software bugs in the underlying operating system, denial of service, unauthorized access of confidential information, man-in-the middle attacks, subvert the Web server and use it as a bot ...

It is essential to harmonize and standardize reporting of financial issues in the world of business. Different organizations use different standards in their data reporting. In most organizations, data are transferred through the databases of the company. One of the most commonly used standards is the eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL). It is one of the most globally accepted standards. This paper is set to research the adoption and use of XBRL standards. Additionally, the advantages and disadvantages of the standard are discussed. The various companies consume different data standards in an attempt to swap, share, and deliver data. ...

360 Degree System

Chapter 1

Introduction: Performance appraisal is the critical tool in the human resources management for the achievement of the organizational goals and the objectives. This performance appraisal helps to improve the employee’s strength and weakness. Based on the performance appraisal, the performance of the employees can be measured and evaluated. 360 degree review is the appraisal approach and it is defined as collecting feedback from multiple sources of the input of employees, colleagues, seniors to evaluate the performance appraisal. The research mainly focuses on the validation and reliability of the appraisal system which makes convenient for the ...

Abstract

Intoxication is being in a state of alcoholic or narcotic intoxication. The government is increasingly sensitive to the cases of operating a vehicle while intoxicated, explaining that the drunk driver is endangering both for their life, health and property, and other road users. However, as practice shows, the number of the detained drunk drivers increases dramatically around the holidays. If the circumstances of the crime are clear, and in a short time collected all the necessary evidence, the Prosecutor may apply to the court to hear the case under expedited proceedings. Basically, criminal cases associated with DUI are dealt ...

For a country to run smoothly the issues emanating from the congress, parties and state authorities should go hand in hand in making sure the constitution is followed to the later. This paper addresses issues to do with congressional ethics, third party candidates and their impact on the overall governing rule.it will also look at the role of Federal and State authority in the education sector.

Congressional Ethics

Roy Moore, Alabama’s idealistic chief justice, is a member of Congress who faced elimination from the bench, for being indicted on six counts of violating judicial ethics. Moore’s order monitored a ...

Abstract

Ted Bundy, a known sexual psychopath and serial killer who murdered fourteen women in the 1970s is perhaps one of the best known criminal profiling cases ever known. Profilers proclaimed him to be a middle-aged Caucasian who would only take Caucasian women who were young themselves. He would be charming and calm prior to criminal activity before showing little restraint concerning his rage and sexual activity after secluding them at an undisclosed location. The profile also suggested he had transportation and was intelligent, but insecure. Law enforcement understood they were looking for a man who murdered based on trauma ...

Abstract

E commerce is one of the most recent consumer dynamics that has called for a change in the marketing plans and strategies for most of the consumer based merchants and manufacturers. This paper focuses on the consumer access and knowledge of shopping online for grocery in US and challenges this particular area of ecommerce experiences within the retail market in the United States. Recent statistics show that 6 billion and 6.5 Billion US dollars were spent on online grocery shopping in 2012 and 2013 respectively. The large sales volume was highly attributed to the after sale deliveries by the ...

Executive Summary

This paper assesses the determinants of earnings among workers in mid-Atlantic. The study uses a sample of 3,000 workers. The data for the study was collected between 2003 and 2009. The average age of the participants was 42.41 years. All the study participants were male. The study participants had diverse demographic profiles in terms of race, educational background, and marital status. A preliminary analysis was conducted to identify factors that show some relationship with wages among the variables in the dataset. A preliminary analysis revealed that wages appear to be influenced by age, educational attainment, and race. A ...

Ruth Livingstone was a 65-year-old African-American woman brought to the agency by her son. I first met Ruth during her admission day where we collected details of her medical past. Her son had noted that Ruth was recently having memory problems, she would forget to eat or she would cook a number of different meals. The recent scare was when she had left a pot on the gas and caused a fire in her house. Her son, Roy, saw the need to seek medical care for her.

We diagnosed Ruth with early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. She presented ...

Social media has now become the medium for connecting to friends, family and even people from the workplace; this has become more so now that access to social media is increasingly mobile. Statistics show that 76% of internet users are on social media and 70% logon to Facebook at least once a day . People between the ages of 18-40 use social media more than others. But why do people spend so much time on social media? What does excessive involvement in virtual social networking mean for the actual social lives of people? This essay will argue that while social ...

Abstract

Most people find it hard to get the real meaning of an argument and therefore they tend to misinterpret it whenever they come across it. They give different meanings of an argument which might end up confused people. In this paper, the significance of an argument will come out clearly whether it is taking an extreme position and standing our ground or it is a way of convincing our audience by taking the reasonable stance in and sticking to our position. This paper also talks about internet reliability as a source of information and why the information is necessary. ...

Part A.

Bridgett appears to be a perfectionist when it comes to her work. In this case she needs constant validation that her work is done correctly. These kinds of students demand most attention because they are afraid of not doing well. Bridget’s behavior is disruptive because she is in constant need of the teacher’s attention. There may be other students who need help, and with Bridget constantly needing the teacher’s help takes the teacher away from the instructional process, and the disruption can impact on the class concentrates. A possible antecedent in the behavior could be afraid ...

Research Essay

As we live our lives, we tend to encounter various challenges every day. Our own thinking brings some of these challenges while other challenges are brought by the paradigms created by the society. Since the world has all kinds of people, we are likely to encounter the rich, poor, unhealthy, and healthy people in our daily interactions. These interactions are sometimes challenging, as we tend to question ourselves on how much we can do to help the world’s poor and the unhealthy people. This challenge presents itself in two ways. In one way, we personally feel that it ...

The City and State

Executive Summary The present report analyses the data provided as part of the ongoing efforts to arrive at data driven decision making for the coffee roaster and supplier firm –‘Sublime Delights.’ The report takes into account the BADIRTM methodology in order to develop an analysis strategy and derive meaningful and actionable intelligence for the management of the company to take effective decisions. The report starts with a brief introduction of the company, proceeds further with the problem statement and the methodology used. The report then goes on to process and analyze the data as collected from various sources towards ...

Part 5 Task 1

A careful cost analysis revealed that it was a complex decision to select between the two software options. Both options had a shared cost of 14,500 based on the fact that the current infrastructure was not opt o part, and would require replacement in order to support the appropriate function of the new system. Bearing in mind, however that this was a shared cost, regardless of the model selected, it was not included in the mathematical cost analysis for the two options for the project. The total cost of the in house option, when all factors were equally ...

In their coauthored article, Kim Tallbear and Deborah A. Bolnick write about a relatively new practice of determining ancestry by employing DNA tests. As of 2004, there are at least fourteen companies that provide Native American DNA tests, reflecting the growing trend of people using this method in order to validate their ancestry (Bolnick, Tallbear). In their article, the two scientists discuss several negative implications of these tests as well as their harmful effects on Native American tribes. The one prevailing motivation for taking these tests seems to be their supposed power to validate people’s ethnic identity and ...

Institutions:

Study Overview Dissertation title: Managing Safety from the Top: The Influence of Senior Managers’ Characteristics Purpose: Thesis presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen The description of senior managers by literature manager is that they are crucially influencing the safety of organization. Yet it has not been completely understood, their influence is contributed by. Thus, the thought was to investigating characteristics of senior managers with respect to their impact toward safety in management organizations in the air traffic. A safety literature review indicated that research in the area would gain from introduction of ...

The use of biometric evidence in executing criminal justice has gained reputation throughout the world as a result of rapid advancement in technology. In essence, biometric recognition entails the use of biometric equipment to recognize individuals through their biological characteristics (Sanders et al., 2010). Bio information of a person is captured and analyzed for use in identification. Some examples of bio information include fingerprint and signatures. A biometric evidence is the most popular and convincing method of confirming the identity of a person (Reedman, 2015). The criminal justice system uses different biometric characteristics to identify criminals depending on the ...

Psychology: Exploring the Relations of Micro Expression to Professional Performance

Psychology: Exploring the Relations of Micro Expression to Professional Performance

According to the studies conducted by Albert Mehrabian in 1971, in communication process, around 93% of human communication takes place through non-verbal mode. He divided the communication process into three parts; words (7%), tone of the voice (38%), and body language 55% (Mehrabian, 1981). Among non-verbal modes of communication the commonly used mode is the facial expressions. The face of the person expresses his/her emotions. Yet, some part of emotions is sometimes not clear to everyone. We all are not experts in identifying each and every expression of the ...

INFORMATION SYSTEMS STRATEGY AND DEVELOPMENT

FOR PROJECT REVERIE

Executive Summary Software development methodologies (SSADM, DSDM, Agile and Extreme Programming) were examined for possible applications to Project REVERIE which is a prototyping project for social network communications and natural interaction in immersive environments over the internet. DSDM was chosen as the most suitable as it has the best balance of speed of delivery and a structured approach. The sensory interactive technologies in immersive environments lend well to the iterative, adaptive and flexible techniques of the agile programming methods such as DDMS. At the same time, DDMS still retains the disciplined structured process framework of the ...

The Quality by Design (QbD) does well in defining the good practices that need to be adhered to in the development of pharmaceutical products. The Quality by Design (QbD) is displayed as a very systematic approach to the development of drugs. It emphasizes on process control and understanding of the processes that define how a product is developed. It is evident that Quality by Design is based on strong scientific ground and a quality manner of managing risks. The Q8 (R2) demonstrates by example when it defines the QbD approach. The first step in the QbD approach is determining ...

Discussion and Summary

The process of validating a newly developed HPLC-based analytical method intended to measure API and impurities in the drug samples employ a series of different tasks and experiments. The validation process of the new method would test the principles of operation of the chromatographic method. Some of the basic principles of operation of the method include retentions, resolution and sensitivity. The first experiment that would be conducted to evaluate and validate the newly developed HPLC-based analytical method would be based on the retention. The retention of a drug with a specific packaging substance and eluent can be demonstrated as ...

Part 1

Patient safety, ethical stand and patient centered care is more concerned with healthcare givers providing patients which they deem harmless and also takes into account their wellbeing both emotionally and physically. Effective communication is the key tool that can be used to address the problem of undesirable patient outcomes since it has been established that a reduction in stress and anxiety is usually brought about by patients complying with their medication and also being involved in a proactive form of effective communication. In addition to reduced stress levels, it is also crucial to note that effective communication boosts the ...

Research on psychotherapy denotes that there is a great degree of influence that therapeutic relationship has upon the outcome of counselling, although the mechanism that is used in the relationship that eventually brings in the change is unidentified. The desire to comprehend the way in which psychotherapy could help people change has been an inspiring aspect for researches and practitioners in the field of counselling psychology for several decades now. This inspiration has resulted in the accumulation of vast amount of literature, both theoretical as well as empirical, with respect to the various mechanisms that facilitate change in the ...

Critique of Article

The article chose for research critique is titled: “Staff burnout in pediatric oncology: new tools to facilitate the development and evaluation of effective interventions”. (Mukherjee, Beresford and Tennant, 2014) Background: Stress and associated burn-out syndrome, are common among staffs working in pediatric oncology. However, there has been no serious efforts to understand, grade and devise ways to combat this problem. As an initiative in this direction, the study was designed to develop a research instrument that measures stressful and rewarding experiences among staff. The article is organized as introduction, methods, result, discussion, conclusion and acknowledgement. A brief abstract will ...

According to Schoenfield, Stewart & Ransome (2015), information system threats are a major problem facing IT systems globally because of the growth in the use and development of computer networks aimed towards supporting information systems. Information systems are finding use in industries that require to keep their data confidential and away from unauthorized access such as banks, production companies, manufacturers, databases with private information, hospitals, government systems just to mention a few. It is therefore critical to identify threats that may face a system and adopt mitigation strategies aimed towards reducing the impact of such threats when they occur or ...

Group Work Related to Language Acquisition.

Group Work Related to Language Acquisition.

Introduction.

Language acquisition involves the use of different aspects of language areas to gain a larger perspective and understanding of the English language. Linguistics is characterised by in-depth research on various literature areas, language development areas and the issues that have had an impact on the English language. The principle of group work is that several interrelated topics are crucial for the development of linguistics comprehensively, and thus the several areas of interest can be studied interrelatedly to check and ascertain their effect on the English language. Language acquisition is the means as to ...

As the future belongs to the predictive law enforcement the Ohio Risk Assessment System (ORAS) comes to answer the necessity of modern assessing instruments and tools for the fulfillment of this demand and to facilitate the communications between the agencies of the criminal justice system across the state. According to Eduard Latessa the assessment tools had to be predictive of recidivism at every point of the criminal justice system and to follow its stages: pretrial, community supervision; the intake in the correctional institutions and the community entry. (Latessa, E., et al, 2010, p. 16) ORAS was developed to assess ...

Business

Answer 1) A report is the written or virtual documentation of the research process that clearly defines the target problem, approach development, research design, fieldwork and data preparation and analysis. Important to note, even though summarizing of the research process in the report format is the final step in the marketing research process, however, this is the only step that ensures the documentation of the entire research process and provides a written validation of the efforts put in by the market researcher and thus, attracts significant importance from the point of view of the entire organization. Below we comprehensively ...

Assignment 2: RA: Test Retest Assessment Analysis

Assignment 2: RA: Test Assessment Analysis

The selected mental health exam is the Wechsler Memory Scale-Fourth Edition (WMS-IV). Test Purpose: The Wechsler Memory Scale-Fourth Edition is designed to measure of various memory and working memory abilities designed for individuals ages 16-90. More specifically the test is even more widely used to measure episodic, declarative memory functioning and working memory

Uses

Mental health professionals use the Wechsler Memory Scale-Fourth Edition and “It is most likely to be used within the clinical, neurological, forensic and educational fields as well as a work rehabilitation setting”.

Test Development and History

The first version of the Wechsler Memory Scale ...

There are different Software Development Life Cycle models such as build and fix models, waterfall model, V-model, Prototyping, incremental model, spiral model, Rapid application development model, and agile model. All these models deal with the following phases: 1) Requirements gathering, 2) Design, 3) Development, 4) Testing/Validation, and 5) Implementation/release/maintenance. Some of the SSDLCs that have been proposed include MS Security Development Lifecycle (MS SDL), NIST 800-64, OWASP CLASP (Comprehensive, Lightweight Application Security Process), and Cigital’s Security Touchpoints. The traditional SDLC model has security testing in the testing phase, which usually results in too many issues detected too late. ...

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Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT scintigraphy) utilizes nuclear medicine along with gamma rays to get three-dimensional images (NLM, n.d.) of an internal part of the body such as heart with an objective of diagnosing a problem.

SPECT

In SPECT, a gamma-emitting radioisotope is administered into the bloodstream of a patient with the help of injection (Boyd, 2014; Hademenos, 1998). The radioisotope is, usually, a simple soluble ion as, for example, isotope of gallium(III) (Sharma, Prior, Belinsky, Kruh, & Piwnica-Worms, 2005; Wadas, Wong, Weisman, & Anderson, 2010). Most often, a marker radioisotope is also bound to a particular ligand ...

Database systems use different varieties of Structured Query Language (SQL) to administer, query and operate database systems such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. In order to provide dynamic responses to queries, web applications can interact directly with databases in the back end by dynamically building SQL statements. An SQL injection attack is an attack that is aimed at subverting the originally submitted SQL statements by submitting attacker-supplied SQL statements directly to the back end database . A successful SQL injection attack can have far reaching consequences on both organizations and clients depending on the web application and the data ...

List of Tables

List of Figures Figure 1: Product Breakdown Structure for SST BI Phase I 9 Figure 2: Deliverables Typically Produced for Each PMBOK Knowledge Areas 12 Figure 3: Summary Gantt Chart for SST BI Phase 1 18

SCOPE MANAGEMENT

This section gives a high level description of the scope covered by this project. The items that are in scope have been allocated to either BPC or to SST.

STRATEGY

For the SST BI Phase I project, SST will outsource certain aspects of the development to Business Process consulting. These are mentioned in the scope definitions section of this document. BPC will work independently ...

2016-01-18

I have chosen the article “How Consumers Are Transforming Supply Chain” by the specialist LeTart J. It has been published on 01 Dec 2015. This article characterizes the new kind of consumers who know always what they want, when and where they want (Le Tart, 2015). These consumers are the new digitally-empowered generation. In this case, one can say, that linear supply chains go away. Supply chains transform from a product-centric to a customer-centric focus. It has many implications for supply chain risk management. Let’s analyze them in more detail. Firstly, it needs to analyze end-to-end chain visibility. ...

Describe two research methods used in sociology.

Two popular research methods adapted to be used in sociology are classified as quantitative and qualitative methods. Quantitative research methodology encompasses collecting numerical data to analyse a phenomenon. It also involves interpreting findings through statistical applications. The foundations of quantitative research design/methods emerge from the philosophical premises of realism; subjectivism and paradigm wars. From a sociological, perspective quantitative research methods focus on a systemic empirical approach in its investigation of social issues (Hunter & Leahey, 2008).

Qualitative research method investigates the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of a phenomenon without utilizing any mathematical tools. In this sense it is considered the inversion of quantitative research ...

Abstract

Visual programming is used to develop exceptional quality software and products. These are used at institutions, departments, private organizations for developing database, handling and managing various tasks. The software developed using .NET programming, advanced windows forms and classes, is implemented and tested by engineers to protect and validate the project so as to make software able to be deployed and contribute functions. The software project functional and non functional requirements are depicted by use case and class diagrams. While the software code of the project is tested for correct functioning. Later the deployment is possible with ensuring ...

Engineering

1.0 Dependence of Relative Permeability on Petrophysical Properties

Carbon dioxide (CO2) entering the atmosphere from sources such as power plants, oil exploratory and production sites and traffic pollution from fossil fuel-burning vehicles. CO2 exists in high concentrations in the atmosphere which increases the impact of the greenhouse gas phenomena which makes the global warming problem worse. The relative permeability of soils is linked to finding a solution for removing large concentrations of CO2 by sequestering CO2 in appropriate geological formations. Data from a study by Bennion and Bachu (2005) is available online at the Relative Permeability Explorer. The Explorer is ...

Internet-Based Software in Highly Regulated Industries

Industries having the United States Food and Drug Administration as their regulator have to put in lots of efforts in order to implement business software for their needs. After identifying an application that best suits their needs and carefully purchasing it, it is a requirement that the software applications undergo a scrutinizing validation process to ensure compliance with FDA standards. The validation may take weeks or even months for the actual implementation of the software to see the light of day. Such inconvenience has led to most companies to drift away from the use of traditional software applications to ...

1. Illegal Immigration: Why should it be eliminated?

Migration of people across the border, without any legal validation and against the cross-border laws, is called as illegal immigration across foreign territories. Mostly, economic and military securities are the reasons for immigration, and it happens from poor to rich countries. It is a rampant problem, and causes various issues like detrimental education, poor health issues, and unfair judicial practices. The problem with illegal immigration is that it is hard to keep count of the population, and due to lack of a proper census, these immigrants often face difficulties themselves, as well as cause problems for the natural inhabitants of the ...

Many people who suffer from a substance addiction also suffer from a mental health problem at the same time and the difficulties they are faced with far outweigh the effects of either alone. Often, only one of the two problems is identified and that depends on the primary problems treated where the diagnosis is given and which problem is most prominent. When one of the problems is severe it may eclipse the other problems the individual is suffering from.

Although one problem may be considered primary and the rest secondary, this does not mean that the individual isn’t experiencing serious ...

Patients receiving acute care typically go through different levels of care encountering numerous health care providers in the process. For example, a stroke patient who undergoes cranial surgery will be admitted into the PACU. Once stable, he is admitted into the medical-surgical unit and then discharged into long-term rehabilitation. Prior to being sent home, he is advised to see his primary care physician for follow-ups. Throughout the many transitions in each health care experience, handoffs occur between health care professionals working in each unit during changes in shift. Handoffs also take place between providers of one unit or level of ...

Two popular research methods adapted to be used in sociology are classified as quantitative and qualitative methods. Quantitative research methodology encompasses collecting numerical data to analyse a phenomenon. It also involves interpreting findings through statistical applications. The foundations of quantitative research design/methods emerge from the philosophical premises of realism; subjectivism and paradigm wars. From a sociological, perspective quantitative research methods focus on a systemic empirical approach in its investigation of social issues (Hunter & Leahey, 2008).

Qualitative research method investigates the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of a phenomenon without utilizing any mathematical tools. In this sense it is considered the inversion of ...

Cross-cultural psychology is a combination of both cultural and cross-cultural psychology; nevertheless, the two terms have a significant difference. Cultural psychology focuses on the cultural dynamics, whereas cross-cultural psychology is concerned with a culture’s static aspects. In this case, the main agenda is cross-cultural psychology, as it focuses on the effects culture has on studying human behavior.

This study looks at how human behavior is influenced by cultural factors. A culture involves the various characteristics that a certain group of people depicts. These attributes may include the peoples’ behaviors, attitudes, values and customs that pass on from one generation to another. The ...

Translational medicine involves the application of pharmacology tools, in vivo assays, biomarkers, pre-clinical and clinical methods and studies integrated to improve understanding of various disease states and advancement and approval of therapy against diseases. The development of a new drug is a cumbersome and expensive process. It involves a series of steps. The traditional method of drug development involves understanding the pathophysiology of the disease, followed by identification and validation of a treatable drug target. The next step involves identification of lead molecule or compound or an antibody specific for the target protein. The preclinical toxicology involves in vitro, in vivo assessment and ...

Frustrating aspects about the college web forms and possible solution:

The college website form has 32 fields, and a Send and Reset button making it too long. Long forms are tiring and usually have issues with saving data. Users enter data, but the text gets lost during submission forcing them to re-enter the information. Another problem with web forms is the lack of validation on the required fields, password string requirements, and provision of feedback on issues such as already taken s. These frustrating issues with web forms can be solved by breaking down the form into sections based on content and flow. These sections may include personal details, ...

Lee Humphreys1, Thilo Von Pape2, Veronika , Pape2, & Karnowski3 (2013). Evolving Mobile Media: Uses and Conceptualizations of the Mobile Internet. journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 18(4), 491-507. Retrieved from ournal of Computer-Mediated Communication Volume 18, Issue 4, pages 491–507.

Rationale

Internet is readily accessible in mobile devices. This is due to what is called technological convergence. Using the Appropriation Model of mobile telephony such as Wirth, Karnowski and von Pape, an experiment was undertaken to conceptualize and understand how mobile internet is used. Semi structured interviews were conducted with twenty one interviews whose cultures differed. The interviewees were both ...

The research topic seeks to implement an electronic application that will overcome the shortcoming of using papers in documentation. The research will mainly concentrate on identifying the pros of using electronic method of documentation as compared to paper work. The project researches on amount of man-hour to be saved by shifting from manual documentation to electronic format. The topic was generated from the systematic process of document validation in manufacturing department. This is mainly in validation process where paper work need to be sign off by engineers who overview the manufacturing process. This poses a challenge since it takes time ...

- Levels of Measurement

Three levels of measurement will be used in this study. The nominal scale will be used to not only classify the sampled children into various demographic sets such as black and white; Latino and White; boys and girls; teenagers and kids; mothers and fathers; breadwinners and non-breadwinners among other categories (Mitchell & Jolley, 2012). This level of measurement requires that broad and homogenous categories van be established, which are then subsequently used to describe multiple variables in the study. While the nominal scale can only offer simple classifications, it is especially suitable for children since ...