...With reductions in the cost of processing power, new algorithms for database searches and the advent of the World Wide Web, competitors to the established global distribution system (GDS) companies emerged. By 2002, traditional GDS operators competed with each other as well as with airline websites, some Web-based travel agencies and a new entrant called Orbitz, an online travel agency owned by a group of airlines. In 1996, less than one percent of airline tickets were sold online. By 2001, 20 percent of airline flights in the United States were booked online, and the percentage was expected to grow to 25 percent by 2004. Seemingly overnight, forty years of comparative stasis in the business models governing airline reservation and ticket distribution turned into a dogfight as airlines, brick and mortar travel agents, online travel agents and GDS operators clashed over the approximately $180 billion market for airline travel. With ticket distribution costs comprising the third largest expense at some airlines, the battle promised to be fierce. The rapidly growing tourism sector in China has provided a good market environment for tourism enterprises, including travel agencies. In the five years through 2012, revenue for the Travel Agencies industry in China has increased at an annualized rate of 11.3% to $47.5 billion. With increasing demand for diversified tourism products such as luxury and high quality products, travel agencies have been developing new tourism products in...
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...Depiction of women and relationship between men and women in Plautus's plays with particular refernce to Pot of Gold I. Overview of Aulularia (Pot of Gold) and main characters: Pot of Glod a translation of original latin play "Aulularia" by the early Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus (254-184 BCE). The title has been translated as The Pot of Gold, and the plot revolves around a literal pot of gold that the miserly protagonist, Euclio, guards zealously. The play’s ending does not survive, though there are indications of how the plot is resolved in later summaries and a few fragments of dialogue. Dramatis Personae referred to in the paper The Household God of Euclio, the Prologue. Euclio, an old gentleman of Athens. Staphyla, his old lady slave. Strobilus, slave of Lyconides. Lyconides, a young gentleman of Athens, Eunomia's son. Phaedria, Euclio's daughter. 2.Women depicted as subservient to men (as they were in reallife) in Roman Comedy 2. a. The puella is one dramatic stereotype of women in Plautine comedy. The puella is the object of the young lover’s affection and the slave’s efforts and whose marriage frequently provides the happy ending of the comedy. 2.a.(i) One sub-category of the puella is the "absent maiden" who is not seen on stage, offers an illuminating evidence about the status puella in comedy. Since she is totally under the domination of her father or guardian until she is handed over to her husband, she is seen in a positive...
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...I. Monitoring of company-owned systems 1. Employee personal use of company-provided communications systems is subject to monitoring at all times. Employees will have no expectation of privacy when using company-owned systems. The following paragraphs offer additional guidance, freedoms of use, and restrictions. a. Computers. The primary use of company-owned computers is to accomplish company-related business. All information sent from, received to, or stored on company computers is subject to monitoring at all times. 1. Blocked websites. There are many websites that will be blocked without exception. These sites include pornographic, gambling, auction, social media, shopping, and hate-related sites, as well as sites that anonymize the true site being accessed, also known as “in-private browsing.” 2. Personal use. The company understands there will be times when an employee must accomplish personally-related matters. This is allowed to the extent that the matter must be handled immediately. Personal matters that involve coordination for a future event are not considered urgent when those matters can logically be handled in an employees’ private time. b. Laptops and other mobile devices. Company-issued laptops and other mobile devices are provided for employees who are authorized to telework from home or while on company-related business trips. All information sent from, received to, or stored on company laptops and other mobile devices is subject to monitoring...
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...The aim of this essay is to examine the notion that many aspects of an individual’s environment can affect his/her health. To do this I (avoid using the personal pronoun “I”) will look at both the physical and social aspects of a person’s environment (the students were asked to consider both the physical and social environment – students who covered only one of these got a low mark) . I will attempt to make clear the links between these elements and will consider how they impact on health. There are numerous factors influencing health, such as age, race, gender to name a few. However, for the purpose of this essay I intend to concentrate on a number of other elements also thought to be key factors influencing health; social class, employment, income, housing and place of residence. (This has set the scene well showing that the student knows that many factors can affect health but then tells us which ones she will concentrate on). Social Class Table 1 Social class classification Higher managerial and professional e.g. company directors, bank managers, senior civil servant e.g. doctors, barristers and solicitors, teachers, social workers Lower managerial and professional e.g. nurses, actors and musicians, police, soldiers Intermediate e.g. secretaries, clerks Small employers and own account workers e.g. publicans, playgroup leaders, farmers, taxi drivers Lower supervisory, craft and related occupations e.g. printers, plumbers, butchers, train drivers ...
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...may benefit not only their customers but those of their employees so that they may be to provide their customers needs. Capital One aims to meet technology demands of their internal and external customers as well as employees to keep them in control of their financial needs. One of their major technology add on was that of licensing MarketSwitch Corporation, which is the first multi-dimensional customer optimization system analyzes both their outbound and inbound campaigns which provides valuable help to bring the right product to the right consumer. Technology will continue to change and Capital One will continue to make their innovating changes to meet their internal and external consumers to banking simple, fast and worry-free. REFERNCES http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.apollolibrary.com/dohttp://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.apollolibrary.com/pubidlinkhandler/sng/pubtitle/PR+Newswire/$N/31379/DocView/449477286/fulltext/$B/1?accountid=458cview/449477286# www.capitalone.com...
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...online school that I am in right now! There are sooo many resource that I can work with to make my life easier! The number one resource that I love is called The center for writing excellence. This baby rocks!!! It make writing virtually easy as pie! It has programs that creates citations, checks plagerism and so much more! nI think this is the program that I will use the most! Another program is called the center for Mathematic excellence. I am not very familiar with this program yet, but as I play with it becomes easier. It gives me tutorials on various math problems and also videos that are very imformative. The last resourse is the university library. This is not just an ordinary library. This is another easy way to find article and refernces for research. It is set up like google where all you have to do is type in the keyword and it bring up lots of resources for you. Academic toned email: Dear John, I, along with you and other classmate, am so appreciative of all the resources that University of Phoenix has to offer. Most students do not have opportunity to access resources like the University Library, The Center for Writing Excellence as well as the Center for Mathematics Excellence. I feel that the resource I will utilize the most will be the Center for Writing Excellence. I have always been a avid writer, but I lacked some skills that weakened my writing skills. I am grateful that this resource allows me to check common errors, plagiarism, as well as create a...
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...Montana are so much higher to people looking to buy the wheat. The demand for the wheat is there and there is more than enough; however, people will always rather pay a lower price for something. The article states that if bad weather hits elsewhere in the world it could change the market completely for wheat. In my opinion, I think the farmers need to increase the amount of acres they use to increase the supply. Since the market can change so quickly I feel it is important to be prepared and have too much than not enough to meet the demand. This article is proof that demand is driven by price and unfortunately the farmers in Montana are not in a position to compete with the prices that are offered in other countries around the world. Refernces Lutney, T. (2016, February 28). Montana's agriculture economy takes a hit as prices drop. Retrieved February 28, 2016, from...
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...E-Waste is the growing and a serious problem. The amount of e-waste is growing at an estimated 40 million tons each year. Any improperly disposed electronics can be classified as e-waste. INTRODUCTION– "Electronic waste" also known as E-Waste are the discarded electronics such as computers, office electronic equipment, entertainment device, mobile phones, television sets, refrigerators just to name a few. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) refers to e-waste as "electronic products that are discarded by consumers." Electronic-waste (e-waste) has emerged as a critical global environmental health issue in both developed and developing nations. Nowadays people use lots of electronic devices in their daily lives. Also, they need more comfortable and more developed electronic device to accomplish their businesses. According to customer’s need, the electronic companies keep innovating and developing their goods. People frequently change their electronic device more often than the really need, which results in producing lots of electronic waste. The disposal of the electronic is a big market to earn profit for some countries. I strongly disagree with this. If we keep growing our E-Waste, we cannot keep our environment fresh and will continue to face lot of serious problems including severe diseases and destruction to the environment. We need to put in place some very strong and effective solutions to eliminate the harsh consequence of the E-waste from governments, industry...
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...THESIS PROPOSAL NAME : Nadipineni Narendranadh TOPIC : Automatic Grading System Using INTRODUCTION Assessment provides the teacher with a feedback channel that shows how learning goals are being met. It also ensures for an outside observer that students achieve those learning goals. Assessment provides both means to guide student learning and feedback for both the learner and the teacher about the learning process – from the level of a whole course down to a single student on some specific topic being assessed. Students often direct their efforts based on what is assessed and how it effects the final course grade. Continuous assessment during a programming course ensures that students get enough practice as well as get feed- back on the quality of their solutions. Providing quality assessment manually for even a small class means that feed-Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. back cannot be as instant as in one-to-one tutoring. When the class size grows, the amount of assessed work has to be cut down or rationalized in some other way. Many Computer Aided Approaches (CAA) approaches have been proposed for assessing...
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...Ethics is defined as the study of practical reasoning. Nurses are constantly faced with ethical dilemmas on a daily basis. The determinant of ethical behavior are surrounded by many factors. What one person considers ethical may be vastly different from a person approaching a situation with a different point of view.The word ethics is manufactured from a Greek word for character. Nurses are constantly challenged with using ethical concepts in their delivery of patient care. Ethical concepts include providing care which is good, correct, and rational. Patients have a primary need to be provided opportunities to express their freedom of choice in procuring services and also choosing how they want to be cared for. The ethical nurse also recognizes that he or she is obliged to provide personlaized care which will assist the patient reach and/ or maintain his or her highest level of wellbeing. Ethical nursing care is based upon rational science and decision making.(Brahamu,2009). Beneficence, justice, autonomy, veracity and respect for persons are characteristics of an ethics, and nurses must imbibe these charcteristics in their daily practice are also constantly questioned . Compassion and prioritization of needs must be exhibited by nurses in their daily care, safety of their patients first. Also they will help ensure patients to be able to maintain autonomy by being able to make decisions for themselves.Health care workers must respect their decision despite their personal...
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...strategy we should look at the bigger picture and see how our product fits in the market. What value or need is it satisfying. • Eliminate the segments that will not buy the product o Match the value drivers of the customer against the product - exclude price --> by doing this we are looking for customer who can potentially buy the product. This is called the broad horizontal segment. o Divide the horizontal segment into different vertical segments according to their price sensitivities. o Set a price by targeting segments in order to maximize profits • Value of the product to the customer EVC = reference price + value (product - reference) • This is the highest price that a company can charge for the product How do I find refernce product? • Look for an alternative that a customer is currently using. Look for a similar product that is in close competition with the product eg land rover and jeep • Look for a product that serves the same function as the target product eg calculators and slide rules • None of the above • Assumption - the competitor will not change the price if our product enters the market • WTP of the customer This is between the variable cost and EVC Sometimes consumers are not aware of the added value so if a price is too close to EVC customer will not buy it. We need to educate customer s about the values In case of high switching costs the product should be priced low to offset the switching costs • After deducing the WTP . Calculate...
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...Enron's Collapse LDR 531 December 12, 2011 Thomas Ach Enron's Collapse Enron was considered to be one of the largest scandals in American history. Americans were shock to find out about the unethical practices that were carried on by leaders and employees of the organization. Enron used many methods of trickery to appear more lucrative than the company really was. While Enron’s stock ascended so did its debt. Individuals within the company decided that they were going to trade millions of dollars in the organization’s stock. When the company’s bankruptcy was discovered, the organization’s stock decreased tremendously. This was a demoralizing hit to investors and also the economic market. While many individuals were shocked from these unethical practices from Enron, many organizational behavior theories can explain how this was permitted in the workplace. Organizational behavior is described as a “field of study that investigates the impact that individuals, groups, and structure have on behavior within organizations, for the purpose of applying such knowledge toward improving an organization’s effectiveness” (Robbins & Judge, 2011). Enron’s executives were motivated much more by how they could benefit from this and not how they could make the company more prosperous. The organizational theory that focuses on self-interest is the political model. Executives having greed and arrogance lead them to focusing only on the good for themselves and not the...
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...Large num technology as it is cost effective. In 2009 EFFECT ON CLINICIANS AND ORGA lot of minor errors which occurs during su are getting benefitted as labo PHYSICAL T TYPE OF TECHNOLOGY: This technolo even after treatments need therapies and so role in giving post he CONTRIBUTION IN USA: Physical th numbers in schools, rehabiliation houses a EFFECT ON CLINICIANS AND ORGAN as they are not getting complaints of po organizations are getting benefit LIFE SUPPO TYPE OF TECHNOLOGY: The techn support system for coma CONTRIBUTION IN USA: The life suppo rate in USA and is benefitt rate in USA and is benefitt EFFECT ON CLINICIANS AND ORGAN revolution for health care organizations Health care organizations also benefits eco Refernces: http://cse.unl.edu/gem/essays/09-10/MS3.pdf Part II 1. One trend that has affected the health care in USA is the rising cost of the health care services. 2. One important factor that has greatest impact on the health care utilization pattern is the introd References: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/oct/04/barack-obama/obama-said-health-care-prem ENDOWRIST TECHNOLOGY F TECHNOLOGY: This technology is related to robotics where robots are being designed to carry out special surgeries. RIBUTION IN USA: Large number of USA hospitals are preferring this ogy as it is cost effective. In 2009 around 50% surgery was performed by Endowrist technology. ON CLINICIANS AND ORGANIZATIONS: The technology have reduce...
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...should not be able to sue for defamation because a corporation is not a person. Defamation is easy to allege but hard to defend, and there are effective alternatives to respond to it. Corporations may be designed and operated by people, but corporations are not human beings. John Paul Stevens, a retired associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States can provide support stating: Corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure and facilitate the activities of human beings, to be sure, and their 'personhood' often serves as a useful legal fiction. But they are not themselves members of “We the People” by whom and for whom our Constitution was established. {insert refernce} With the belief that a corporation is not a person, the definition of defamation suggests corporations should not be able to sue for defamation. According to the Canadian Bar Association “Defamation is communication about a person that tends to hurt the person's reputation. It causes the reader or listener to think less of the person. The communication must be made to other people, not just to the person it's about.” The fact that Corporations are not human entities is not the only reason businesses in Canada should not be allowed to sue for defamation. Defamation is also easy to allege but hard to defend. Since Corporations have substantial financial and legal resources, including teams of corporate lawyers on retainer, they can...
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...Training and Development Paper Carmelita Olivier HCS/341 May 4, 2013 Catherine Chauvin Training and Development Paper Education in health care can be vital to individuals’ seeking success in the health care industry. Today, most employers’ are requiring education for employment. Some positions such as; administrative assistant jobs, scheduling coordinators, and small management positions once did not require a level of education, now requires you to have a certain level of education and does not matter about experience. The more education an individual receives are the better chances of opportunity’s’ that will be available and a chance to get in the door with priority. Education requirements’ are essential to employers’ because this helps to narrow down who is qualified and who is not qualified for the open positions. Education is even more vital to the health care industry and everyone why: * Key components of healthcare roles math, technology, and science * Healthcare roles, certifications, and degrees are required for licensure to practice in certain capacity. * Huge responsibilities on health professionals for, the survival of individuals’, well-being, and health. Healthcare training is very critical to everyone in the healthcare industry. Providing good quality training program for health care providers can reassure a safe environment, proper and accurate documentation, quality healthcare to individuals, prevention of spreading germs. Some other reasons...
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