Miscellaneous Essays

In that sense, all physiological responses in a disease state has some psychological component that must be considered during any care. All care professionals recognise the importance of addressing the stress of illness throughout any patient journey in any clinical event of care; however, the true impact is fathomable through the consideration of the fact that these responses have a social dimension and the gravity of such issues are better interpreted from the perspective of the patient.

To some extent, culture reflects a person’s identity and helps him/her preserve unique national values and rituals. The word ‘America’ means much more than a state or continent but unique traditions and way of life spread across the world. It means a unique way of thinking and attitude towards the world, personal relations, and life chances.

Kettlewell's article in 'Scientific American' titled 'Darwin's Missing Evidence' produced another major footprint on the road to understanding evolution (Hagen, 1999, p. 143). Hagen also reports that Kettlewell's original experiments near the British industrial town of Birmingham was later almost overshadowed by controversies that sought to slight the evolutionary biologist in favor of others with conflicting theories.

Although the numbers of deaths involved were often, in comparison with other disasters, relatively small, the fact that there was a series of tragic accidents involving ordinary (often young) people doing everyday things - transport accidents, going to a football match, dying at work - heightened the sense of national shock and mourning.

The main factor cited as the cause of increasing crime is “social exclusion”. Social exclusion is an all-encompassing, expansive topic. The concept of being “socially excluded” can also take into account the economic and political exclusion, such as unemployment and immigration status, as well as lack of access to medical care, policing, and security.

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), more formally known as the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, is a trade bloc wherein six Arab states of the Persian Gulf carry with them many economic and social objectives.  It encompasses about 630 million acres wherein Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are member states.

In the year 1957 accidentally few African queen bees along with swarms of European worker bees, escaped from experimental apiary (Winston 1987). Gradually these African queen bees mated with local honey bees producing a new progeny from there on known as Africanized Honey Bee (AHB) or the Killer Bee (USDA 2004 ) which were first spotted in Texas of United States in the year 1990.

In the subsequent year, less than ten subtractions were carried out, at least five of which were administered to outsiders. Felonies contrary to the religious structure and civic mores that include drunkenness as well as the neglect of prayer demands as well as fasting were liable to cane spanking. Even though the spanking was throbbing, the skin was not busted.

CCA was also helpful in maintaining a record of distributable profit in relation to the need to maintain capital. It also helped in evaluating the value of assets and liabilities periodically. In addition, it proved helpful in the implications of price control methodologies, taxation, and price-setting methodologies.  

All firms have some kind of data and information that they need to gather and understand to make sense and hence, use out of. Creating useful knowledge out of this data and information is crucial for competing firms. In this paper, we will examine what options and techniques are available to businesses in order that they can enhance their ability to create information to knowledge. 

However, over-reactions to this matter may give birth to remonstrance in the minds of the personnel. Often senior managers may feel that they have to tell their staff exactly what to do, rather than ask; there is no discussion. However, if by some reason staff continues to disobey the orders, managers become frustrated because people are not doing their jobs.

Generally speaking, philosophy is a view of existence, of man, and man's relationship to existence. If you understand that, then you also understand why philosophy is not irrelevant to the "common man". Everyone has a philosophy - a perspective of the world, themselves, and their relationship to reality.

Conflict can be directed and managed so that it causes both people and organizations to grow, innovate and improve. However, this requires that conflict not be repressed, since attempts to repress are more likely to generate very ugly situations. Common repression strategies to be avoided are no action, administrative orbiting, secrecy, law, and order.

The average daily returns for each stock are then used to calculate an average return for each portfolio over the period under study. The correlation coefficient between the daily stock return in each portfolio is also calculated and combined with the standard deviations in a covariance matrix to calculate the variance.

After completing his school, he goes through the college life learning more. Then finally he gets into a university and learns everything in more detail. The learning process goes on forever, but the most important phase is the school learning phase and it's highly dependent upon the teacher and the strategy he or she uses to teach the students.

Pat Sher, Jack Kopkin and Stephen Dougherty established a company called Office Depot in 1986 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The company went public in 1988 and was subsequently listed on the NASDAQ. It expanded its operations in North America with the acquisition of The Great Canadian Office Supplies Warehouse Chain in 1992.

GUCCI (House of Gucci) is an Italian haute couture company. It was originally established by Guccio Gucci who lived in Florence in 1921. The high fashion(Griffiths, 2000) company, Gucci, started as a family-owned saddlery and leather goods store in Florence in 1921. He incorporated the Italian and London atmosphere in his fashion designs.

Manpower has to be trained and developed to suit the needs of the company. Though there is a good supply of educated human resources, the country lags behind in professional corporate governance and business practices. So the company has to develop its staff to maintain the quality in the production facilities.

Weeks does not provide any statistical back for his argument that these “monetary exchanges” dominated the nineteenth century’s homosexual population. Both of these criticisms, however, are directed towards the idea that Weeks could have provided a larger examination of homosexuality in British society. 

XYZ is a European organisation which has a leadership position in the field of payment processing, relationship management, e-services etc. It has a multi-tiered complex Information Technology (IT) system which is networked with equally complex architecture having interconnected multiplatform business critical applications.

There are sometimes multiple small and large blood vessel occlusions throughout the brain. This paper will discuss vascular dementia and it's affects on human cognition. Vascular dementia is caused by atherosclerosis of the vessels of the brain. There are many times that you hear medical personnel say, eat a better diet, get more exercise, have great social support, and control you blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar (health.harvard).

It includes statistical information about a borrower, the purpose of which is to determine the likelihood of whether the person will pay on time.2 Along with a person's credit history, a credit score has an impact on whether or not a borrower's credit applications will be approved, such as a mortgage, car loan, and credit card, including the interest rates he should pay.3 The credit score is a key information in order that a person will have a complete understanding of his/her credit profile.

This includes safe energy, healthy food, clean water, open safe, non-toxic communities, and equitable education and employment opportunities. LEJ is also established to foster an understanding of the principles of urban sustainability and environmental justice in young people in order to promote the long-term health of our communities.

Wal-Mart is the world's largest retailer super shop. They sell a variety of products and provide services. The study analyzes the environmental aspects including customers, market and stakeholders with respect to Wal-Mart. The study also intends to discover the wide-ranging market coverage of Wal-Mart and its popularity to the customers for improved services in the case of household commodities.

The relatively significant role of the question pertaining to women's issues has given way to several debates and scholars have come up with their support for women's cause. Thus, the celebrated gender communication researcher Julia T. Wood, in her Gendered Lives: Communication, Gender, and Culture, deals with the various aspects of gender images of masculinity and femininity as wrought within current culture.

In its simplest form, the landowner provides the land. Expenses for seed, fertilizer, and pest control are split 50/50 and the crop is also split exactly in half. This is the basis for what is known as a 50/50 arrangement and is still a commonly accepted form of dividing responsibilities, expenses, and assets.

The difference between writers' audiences can be measured by an increase in literacy, or a growth in education which gave more than the very privileged a chance to learn to read and write and be interested in what others wrote, despite the eventual encroachment of the Industrial Revolution.

This has come to be known as the Millennium Declaration. With the deadline set for 2015 and the general baseline set for 1990, this historic convention resulted in the formation of eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): Because history is riddled with treaties and especially due to the unprecedented scale entailed by the MDGs, critics were sceptical about another multilateral agreement.

City's refusal to furnish the report to the union amounts to violation of the rights of the union. The National Labor Relations Act 1935 (Wagner Act) 2, which gives the union, powers to act on behalf of its employees. Therefore the union was entitled to get the medical records of the employees as it affected their interests at work directly

The Federal Reserve is comprised of a Federal Reserve Board in Washington D.C. and 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities in USA. The Fed's first task is to regulate the banking system, whereby the Fed monitors banks' financial conditions and facilitates bank transactions.

Recovery room nursing practice comprises delivering immediate postoperative care to the patients undergoing surgery. It is a very important area of nursing work. Thus I needed to revise my learning objective. Previously it was decided to have my learning on perioperative nursing. The area was too broad to focus on any particular aspect of care.

Workers remove the large pieces of glass initially, and then the newspapers go through spinning discs that remove the small, stuck particles of glass. Workers then more closely scrutinize the newspaper, and the process is repeated until the operator is confident the ONP is completely free of glass shards. 

Now, a major policy change that has been prescribed is the school voucher system that has been proposed to cater to this problem by appealing to residents with regards to their children's education. Now, the school voucher system is basically a system employed by the city government whereby the government places a subsidy on the education outlays of children studying in the public institutions.

In this context, the Rift Valley province of Kenya stands to be a peculiar case. Rift Valley though being a relatively prosperous province of Kenya, also known as Kenya's bread basket, has witnessed some of the severely debilitating ethnic clashes in the last few months (IRIN, 2008).

The illimitable interpretations available to us in the analysis of any visual phenomena, especially those phenomena mediated by artistic endeavors, coupled with the swell of centuries that wash us on distant shores from our primordial cousins, places special difficulties in the analysis of Paleolithic art.

Despite the relatively small volume of insurance transactions to date, securitization has significant potential to improve market efficiency and capital utilization in the insurance industry. Because of the securitization policy, nowadays the insurance companies are more capable to make their position effective and strong in the financial system.

According to the initial study that has been conducted the author has gained an understanding on the following, employee engagement and employee loyalty are very different from one another and both variables are related and essential to the profitability of the organisation.

A computer program or a person using a query language can access the relevant answers held within the system (6). The data base is managed by a computer program that is referred to as a data base management system or DBMS...Although the word 'data base' is computer related, a lot more usage is made of the term even while referring to non-computer sources.

Best practices in nursing should consider why a certain treatment is being offered. How is someone affected by the type of treatment being offered? If the patient is elderly, will having a monthly injection be more intrusive than, say, taking a pill for instance? Is surgery necessarily the best option for a child?

The goals of management will be directed to the maintenance of optimal cognitive functions, and moral, and emotional health. For mobility, the strategy is to maintain muscle strength, endurance, and balance. Exercises and gait training play important roles, and falls-specific interventions are implemented (Latham, N., 2004).

Accessibility to clean water is at 88% in urban areas and 72% in rural areas; however, bacteriological standards of the water are relatively low due to the proximity of water tanks and septic tanks. Indonesia continues to experience food and water supply shortages due to El Nino weather patterns, economic crisis, and the 2004 tsunami.

Nouthetic counseling works by means of the Holy Spirit in producing changes in the personality and behavior of the counselee and the various chapters of the book develop biblical counseling based on a number of important scriptural principles. The first chapter of the book, ‘Christianity and Psychiatry today’, deals with psychiatry in general in relation to Christianity.

By establishing a well crafted data protection policy, a company must bear in mind the nature of data, the nature of threat at hand, as well as the resources at its disposal. A small newly established Travel Company has the responsibility of ensuring clients personal data in its custody is safe and held in privacy.

As such, it becomes important to evaluate the financial situation of Northern and Southern branches to identify their relative strengths and weaknesses. In order to accomplish this task, this report will utilize financial ratio analysis. Financial ratio analysis has become one of the most popular techniques utilized in order to ascertain the health and well being of a business organization.

Supported by research highlighting the impact of tourism activities in localities and their potential to support social development initiatives, developing competencies for collaborations between industries and communities has become strong advocacy. This has also been seen as critical in developing sustainable industries, mitigating tourism impacts, and developing new niches in tourism.

This in turn, does not allow for the movement of individuals or families into the upper echelon of society, stunting the growth of the country by keeping people forcibly in poor economic circumstances (Demurger). 2. Low investment in the poor regions of China is also a major contributing factor to the slowing of economic growth.

To function effectively the Production Planner requires clear guidance in the dynamic and comprehensive procedures and processes that make up the role. Within Waratah Engineering training of recruits takes a long amount of time, production is inconsistent, there has been no evaluation of existing risks, hazards, and other on-the-job knowledge.

For quite a long time now, it has been a big problem and even a misconception that the British Empire and the British blood extend its dominion all throughout the world. It is not a question of the power of some sort rather it is a question of identity. Whatever happened then to the consolidation of Welsh, Scotland and Ireland?

Many researchers today are studying the use of computers as an enhancement to a child's learning environment. Children are excited and really curious about computers. They see it as a very complicated toy that is even more exciting than television. Parents and teachers should take advantage of the children's interest in computers.

Current research seeks a solution-focused approach to sustainability issues that reflect the biology of the interaction of organisms and the external environment (Allen, Tainter, & Hoekstra, 2003). A dominant activity of environmentalists is to lobby for less emphasis on lifestyles and industries that utilize natural resources.