Miscellaneous Essays

Tangible resources are produced or attained from outside the organization unlike intangible resources which are developed within the organization. Intangible resources include skills, knowledge, brand name, goodwill etc (Campbell et al: 2002, 37). Intangible resources include; (Dess: 2004, 87)

It is usually seen that KM is a part of organization's 'technology' or 'human resource' department. However there is no hard and fast rule to keep KM as a separate department due to the main function that it performs of transferring, sharing and accumulating 'knowledge' across an organization's infrastructure.

The work done by Rick has to be shared by all and views should be invited and everybody's views should be analyzed with the company's objective and philosophy. Rick has done good research, sorted, and negotiated with companies such as Footlockers, which is the largest and now focusing on accessories whereas Forzain has large stores and a higher product assortment.

Massive Incorporated, which is the world’s first video game company, operates with the mission of “aggregating the gaming audience to deliver advertising across a network of premier video titles and providing measured results on consumer interaction with the advertising.”The company fulfills this mission by employing its patent-pending technology.

Napoleon’s rise to power or being an emperor can be attributed to the strength, courage, determination, and willpower he developed while growing up as a child. His life experiences, though most of them negative during his growing years, did not hamper his drive to succeed or did not stunt his ambitions. His ambition became clearer and stronger.

All faiths have dedicated followers, who seek to abide by their guidelines and hold true to their teachings.  Each is built upon steadfast dedication and while similarities can be found in specific cases, there undoubtedly remain differences to be seen amongst each and every one.  Two of the religious faiths to consider would be Christianity and Buddhism.

According to Polit et al (2001), research can be described, “As a systematic inquiry that uses a disciplined method to answer questions or solve problems, through specific scientific methods or procedures (Stevens et al., 1993). These 'scientific methods' of research refer to a body of techniques or procedures employed by researchers.

Fortunately, however, whilst the scout sees a giant mammoth or sabre-toothed tiger waiting for the tribe to march through, there are opportunist entrepreneurs amongst the throng who see instead a nutritious source of nourishing food, a warm cape, and ivory to decorate and beautify the home.

Examples include dental, surgery etc. the tax benefit from this deduction is that is reduces the taxable income and thus reduce the taxes. 2. Mortgage Interest Deduction: mortgage deductions include the interest expense paid on the loans taken for the purpose of buying a home.

(Gallagher, 2007) Breast feeding provides many benefits to the infant. It contains the accurate balance of nutrients that would help the baby grow healthy and keep the infant away from diseases and common child illnesses. It is not only good for the baby it is also good for the mother in many ways.

Friedan’s work became popular especially in the mid-twentieth century among women, as it became identified with the feelings of many middle-class, non-working, ‘progressive’ women in the post-war period. Men returning home from war took to their traditional positions as bread-winners of the family, causing the emphasis on the gendered division.

An internist may choose to work in hospitals as a hospitalist and regular internists or set-up their own clinic (Santiago, 2008). These doctors specialize in skin care. Moreover, they help people prevent certain skin diseases like cancer. It is also surprising to know that they also help in the treatment of nails and hair loss (Skin Conditions, 2007).

According to the Consultant practice IDC, VOIP represented in 2002 a market of 2.3 billions dollars, and according to Idate in 2010, 70% of the phone line in business world will be running on IP port. Like with any new technology, in the early days of VOIP, there were no serious concerns about security related to its use.

They are also useful in comparing an individual student’s performance to the rest of the class or a particular group that they belong to. Thus, before any statistical analysis, computing the corresponding percentile rank of each grade in the dataset would give an idea of the grade distribution for the population.

Their individual education problems were, prior to the stated transferred, not explored in any great depth and, to a great extent, the were summarily dismissed as incapable of functioning in a general education classroom setting and transferred. Brown (2004) concurs with the stated and adds that it was hardly an optimal approach as, in more cases than not, the students in question do not need to be taken out of the general educations classroom.

An example f this idea is when Jessica betrays her father to elope with Lorenzo. There is also disguise, when Portia and Nerissa disguise themselves as male layers to save Antonio from the bond. The idea f Shylock taking a pound f flesh from Antonio's body is a gory image, which makes Shylock a typical villain from a fairytale.

The state is the most urbanized the country. Despite these statistics, the major industries in Tamil Nadu continue to be small and medium based industries that thrive on the trade of agricultural commodities like rubber and flowers among many others. The principle and the most successful among these being the Rubber Park, Apparel Parks, Floriculture Park, TICEL Park for Biotechnology, Siruseri IT Park, and Agro Export Zones among others.

In the consideration of the different modes of transport that can be adopted to suit certain specific transport systems, it is important also that there be a clear understanding of the nature of the travel in question (Rodriquez et al, 2006). As such, aspects like the length of the journey involved, time variance, and the volume of the trips that are to be undertaken, ought to be considered.

If there is a statistically significant difference between the control and group 1, 2, or 3, we will accept the hypothesis that “Light deprivation during fetal development and infancy affect the brain function during adulthood”. If there is no difference between the control and group 1 and/or between groups 2 and 3, part of the hypothesis is rejected.

There has been found to be a significant degree of irrationality and inconsistency at play when people make economic decisions. Behavioral economics consists of theories and empirical investigations into the human response to risk, and as such its insights are relevant to any field where decision-making is involved and a significant aspect of risk is present.

The paramount concern of a court when deciding the admissibility of pretrial identification procedures is maintaining the constitutional rights of the defendant.  It is crucial that the means by which a suspect was identified were not tainted or skewed in any way.  After all, the liberty and in some jurisdictions life of a man are at stake and one wrong ruling can completely re-route the course of a trial. 

Uncle Tom was subservient, docile, and strongly Christian. He accepted his fate as well as his position as an inferior according to the Bible. Next, we have to understand the political reason behind the decision to abolish slavery in America as a whole. Abraham Lincoln’s policy on slavery was simple, it was an economic decision.

More than half of all people will be infected with an STD at some point in their lifetime." (ASHA) When you combine these figures with those of HIV/AIDS cases in the US, one would get to see how immense the problem is The imminent STD problem in the United States is the result of a combination of various factors.

Natural disasters and imperfect agricultural policies have created problems in distribution and the national food supplies are inadequate. Malnutrition in rural Cambodia is rampant. In primitive societies, each society or household was self-sufficient food wise and they bartered food for other products1.

Organizational performance or behavior is concerned about people on work in all classes of organizations and how people might be provoked for doing effort jointly in added successful ways. By learning these behaviors people turn out to be more conscious of their business principles and are competent to completely find ways to transport their employee's approaches and performances into more constructive practices individually and for the corporation.

The potential benefits of this form of behavior modification are significant; it must be noted, however, that there may be negative consequences when incorrect behaviors are rewarded. This essay will provide a brief definition of reinforcement, explain how behavior can be modified when reinforcement is used correctly, and identify some negative outcomes when incorrect behavior is rewarded.

In his book, 'Civilization and its Discontents'(1930), Freud highlighted and drew parallels to individual development and the culture and epochal development of the society. Here, he says that man submitted to the submission of his sexual pleasure, in order to pave way for scientific and intellectual developments, which helped the betterment of human life.

The conclusion reached at the end of the research is that the proposed definitions for stereotypes are accurate, just as is the theory of stereotypes.  Just as implied within the definitions and explicitly stated in theories, stereotypes function to shape our worldview and, ultimately, constrain our capacity to see.

These new technologies have demanded more computing power and larger digital storage areas to store the massive amounts of data involved. As computing power has become more cost efficient, hospitals and medical centers are moving PACS out of the radiology department and implementing it on an enterprise level.

The two important situations in conflict resolution are such a) peer to peer and b) employee-supervisor where HR is involved. These techniques are used at my workplace and I find them working well with small problems here and there. Peer to Peer is the technique where if two employees come forth with an issue, the supervisor would listen to each of them separately and then decide what actions must be taken.

Studies reveal that many elderly patients do not get an appropriate glaucoma checkup. Many patients feel that they would have gotten their eyes checked earlier, and would have started treatment earlier if they would have known or told, and many patients wait for a long period of 18 weeks to get treatment (Wallace et al., 2008, 7-23).

Empirical evidence suggests that marketing if done in traditional way poses negative effects, such as the promoting undesirable behaviours, however if done on a commercial basis serves as the evidence in lagging behind e-marketing (Bright, 2000). It is true that traditional marketing which is based on the foundation of the four P's; product, price, promotion and placement is influenced under the new changing trends that e-marketing or online marketing upholds.

Although the further increase in prices of some commodities including wheat and tin were not considered surprising in view of supply shocks, the significant increases in prices of other commodities was more unexpected (International Monetary Fund). "Against the backdrop of intensifying credit market problems and slowing growth in advanced economies, the current strength of commodity prices is puzzling to some analysts.

The focus of the report is to show via any organization what marketing is, how this organization uses marketing strategies and techniques, why marketing is essential to Sky broadcasting and how its use of marketing has changed and will change in the future.

To practice this new methodology, a through insight of the micro-environmental variables that affect the company's goals will be given in this report. Micro Environment is explained as "the set of forces close to an organization that have direct impact on its ability to serve its customers, including channel member organizations, competitors, user markets, publics and the capabilities of the organization".

Diversity in nursing practice is defined as "providing competent care to clients from different cultures, conducting research in multi-cultural settings, and promoting educational programs to diverse populations" (Kulwicki, 2006). This is especially true nowadays that delivery of health care has reached global market scales wherein care providers as well as care seekers come from a varied culture of different orientations.

The patronizing public is a brilliant critic. People can sense if there is some truth to a report on the news channel. Individuals have the capability to sort out a hoax detail from the actual bits of pieces. It is never unacceptable but the general public has to live with some distorted facts.

It helps the child to view drama both as external and internal, giving his emotional and intuitive intelligence scope to develop. Being rooted in the child’s experience, drama as a learning medium involves thinking, questioning, taking responsibility for actions, and use of space.

However this process may not be as simple as it seems for very often it takes a dramatic event, or crisis, to bring a problem to the attention of public officials. Election results and consequent changes in the administration, a shift in public opinion or the mood of the nation can have a powerful impact.

A symbiotic association - We shape civilization and it shape us. Culture is the labelling of what sets us separately as person beings. Understood by anthropologists civilization is " the systematic way of constructing realism that a populace acquires as a result of living in a group " which for us income the social build of the civilization we live in.

Slavery has taken a new form after the revolution. Many black slaves were offered freedom with a conditional clause to serve British armies, and some slaves accepted to do the same. Some of the slaves joined the colonist’s army and had no regard for which battalion they belonged to as they were instilled with a sense of autonomy.

I found that I was able to improve my ability to think and analyze by engaging my own ideas intensively with texts. Further, I fell that this class taught me that emphasis should be placed on using writing to develop a sustained line of thought in response to a substantive reading - a novel, short story, or nonfiction text.

A group or subgroup of participants in a clinical trial. Each group receives a specific intervention, study drug dose, or sometimes no intervention, according to the study protocol. Randomization: The process in which study participants are randomly assigned to different treatment groups.

As a result many left southern farms for northern cities in search for better jobs. When they found crowded and discriminatory conditions in urban, the Blacks decided to reject their second-class citizenship to fight for racial equality. The civil rights movement was first and foremost a challenge to segregation and a chance for the Black Americans to gain full citizenship rights and to achieve racial equality.

This will affect managers of privatized firms in that they may not have the power to make decisions on their own, decisions will be made by the state and this may limit levels of efficiencies in these firms, also the firms may not respond quickly to changing market conditions due to long process of decision making.

Have we remained creatures of nature? Can we resist natural influences with the power of our critical thinking? During the past decades, psychologists have created different theories to make clear the characteristics of human beings. Usually, these theories were one directional in the nature/nurture question.

He thought that the instincts of the primal horde of Stone Age are inherent in all the human beings even to this day. Primal horde, the earliest human group had violence and male sexual competition as way of life. Freud argued that in any group of people, violence and basic instincts are likely to re-surface.

Based on the increased production schedule above, daily profit is $6,008.08, excluding fixed daily overhead and financing cost. However, with fixed daily overhead and financing cost, CONICE still stands to lose $1,092.92 per day. d. The grocery distributor will consider relaxing the contract restriction "requiring vanilla four packs to make up exactly 45% of the regular ice cream four packs delivered" to one where "vanilla four packs must make up at least 25% of the regular ice cream four packs delivered" if Bear will reduce the selling price of the regular ice cream four-packs to $1.28.

Some changes are made in case law (company Law), to make the strategies of the companies and the aspirations of the stake holders to fulfilled. In this manner the case law should deal with the sincerity, diligence of the directors and the skills of the employees.

Random sampling is the second most (Wikipedia 2008) widely carried out drug screening method in the United States, and many government organizations, businesses, military, social services departments, and increasingly schools (Wikipedia 2008) employ this method for screening for drugs among their employees or students.