...The Highs and Lows of carbohydrates How do foods affect blood sugar levels? The old myth that a sugary snack will cause a dramatic rise, and then a fall, in blood sugar levels has been overturned as researchers find out more about the physiological effects of foods on blood sugar levels. New ways to measure just how our blood sugar will react to various foods has provided insights into the prevention and control of conditions such as obesity, diabetes and heart disease and has also revolutionised diet in sport and the foods eaten in the hours before physical exertion in sport. The Glycaemic index (GI) The glycaemic index (GI) is a way of assessing measuring the effects of food on blood sugar levels. After a carbohydrate food is eaten there is a rise, and subsequent decrease, in blood sugar (glucose). This phenomenon is level known as the glycaemic response. The glycaemic response to the ingestion of carbohydrate-containing foods can be compared to the response to a standard food, such as white bread or glucose. This resulting value measurement is called the glycaemic index of that food. A ranking on a scale up to 100 rates the increase in blood sugar levels after eating a portion of food providing 50 grams of carbohydrate. A 50-gram portion of pure glucose is the standard that is now accepted for use as the basis of comparison. Foods that break down quickly during digestion, for example rice, have the highest glycaemic indices. They raise blood sugar levels higher and...
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...organizations within a country expect and accept that power is distributed unequally. High | | Low | People are very deferential to figures of authority and generally accept an unequal distribution of power | | People readily question authority and expect to participate in decisions that affect them. | Individualism Individualism – the degree of interdependence a society maintains among its members. High | | Low | individuals are expected to take care of only themselves and their immediate families. | | represents a preference for a tightly-knit framework in society in which individuals can expect their relatives or members of a particular in-group to look after them in exchange for unquestioning loyalty | Masculinity What motivates people, wanting to be the best (Masculine) or liking what you do (Feminine). Masculinity | | Femininity | social gender roles are clearly distinct: Men are supposed to be assertive, tough, and focused on material success; women are supposed to be more modest, tender, and concerned with the quality of life. | | social gender roles overlap: Both men and women are supposed to be modest, tender, and concerned with the quality of life. | Uncertainty Avoidance The extent to which the members of a culture feel threatened by ambiguous or unknown situations and have created beliefs and institutions that try to avoid these High UA | | Low UA | maintain rigid codes of belief and behaviour and are intolerant of unorthodox behaviour...
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...Coffee: “Buy Low and Sell High” Katrina Joy S. Leoncio California InterContinental University Abstract As simple and delightful as it may sound, buy low and sell high has it’s own advantages and disadvantages. It may be beneficial to one but can cause damage to another. We have to take into consideration that to have a long, lasting and healthy economic condition, all parties involve in one process or cycle will benefit and provide for each other. Buy low? How low, is low? What would be the effect of purchasing low items to those who produce it? Sell high? How high? Can the consumer bear it? Coffee: “Buy Low and Sell High” It is common to think that when price of a certain product drops, there will be a domino effect of conveniences and savings. As a consumer, seller of coffee products, or coffee farmer, can they sense this favorable situation? What causes the price to decrease? Who then will really benefit if the price of coffee beans drops? Let us consider first the game players in our commodity network that is vital and important to each other. Producers or our coffee farmers first invest their time, money and effort to produce coffee beans which later on sold to restaurant owners and retailers. Consumers then purchase them for consumption. Each one is important for each survival and maintaining the balance for continuance is a must. The increase in supply or overproduction of coffee beans creates an excess supply causes equilibrium price to fall, thus...
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...Exercise One This article was really interesting and I personally liked the way he broke each aspects of high and low policing. Even the way he incorporated different countries and how they utilized policing to help them solve or reframe from the issue that has happen overtime. It seem to me the main reasoning for policing was to protect, whether it was high, low, private and public. Policing are establish for protecting, with this method there were it had to get messy just to get the job done. Higher policing would get information out of the victim by torturing them, and low policing would do matters under their rules and regulations. From my understanding low policing are considered “The Law”, the ones in uniform that is here to shield the general public or community. (Brodeur, 2007, p. 34) Low policing are required to follow the rules, yet high policing are granted with the authority to get the job done by any means necessary. The both provide information within their territory, however after 9/11 and other attacks around the world that method has changed. Both...
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...Difference Between High and Low Context Cultures Media Activity-Workgroup Norms Communication 623 Professor Lambert November 27, 2011 In order to communicate successfully you have to consider the cultural differences and the predominating communication process for individualistic and collectivistic cultures. It is best to explain theses differences in terms of low- and high-context communication. Context has to do with how much you have to know before you can communicate effectively. When workers from high-context and low-context cultures have to work together problems often occur as a result of the type of information exchanged as well as how that information is exchanged. These problems can be categorized as differences in “direction”, “quantity” and “quality”. At differences in direction employees from high-context cultures like China and France adapt to their good friends, families and also to close colleagues (in-group members). They communicate with them intensively (quantity difference) and exchange specific/detailed information about many different topics. The result is that every group member is constantly up-to-date with the facts around the business. Edward T. Hall, a respected anthropologist and cross-cultural researcher, identified classic dimensions of culture in his books The Silent Language and The Hidden Dimension. Understanding and applying this concept can help today’s leaders improve their communication skills across cultures. A key factor...
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...Ways In Which We Can Make Residential High-rise Buildings More Sustainable- Toronto is North America's 'High-rise boomtown'. That being said, Toronto has 130 high-rise buildings under construction as of the beginning of this year, 92% of which are residential. Also note that most are exclusively condominiums (Evans, 2014). With the growing numbers of condominiums in a highly populated city, the concern becomes, what ecological impact will it have. With all these new residential buildings going up, it is time to start thinking about, “How can we make residential high-rises more sustainable in Toronto?” in terms of energy conservation and efficiency. If this significant problem is overlooked it could cause serious issues with our city, our ecosystems could be wiped out completely, our air and water could be entirely con-taminated, and it could diminish our natural resources. It affects more than just the residents whom live in the buildings, it affects the developers/builders, the residents of neighbouring buildings, even the kids that play in the park across the street. This paper will look at the problem and some possible solutions in terms of using renewable energy sources to sustain residential high-rises. Methods including Geothermal energy to heat and cool the building, Green-roofs that can be used to grow plants/food and can gather rain water, Cistern tank to catch all the rainwater that can then be used to wash clothes and flush toilets and possibly also for irrigation...
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...Texkansahomatucky Map of High vs. Low Crime Counties Group Assignment Part 1 MGMT 650 UMUC February 05, 2012 Team 4: STAT Team Tezra Hamilton James R. Johnson Bholi Lamba Patricia S. Miller Introduction: Team STAT created a map that highlights high crime and low counties in the state of Texkansahomatucky per the Justice Department’s request. We were given county names, populations, area size, code, and the number of occurrences of seven different types of crime. We used the data provided to divide the counties into high crime and low crime areas in addition to creating a color coded map of the state based on our findings. Metrics Used: 1. Calculation of population per square (sq.) mile a. Individual county population/area(sq. mi) 2. Crime variable analytics a. Calculated each crime on a sq. mile basis for all counties (ex. murder per sq. mile = murder/population per sq. mile). b. Calculated the average of each crime using “crime per sq. mile” data. c. Calculated “total crimes” for all counties based on crimes per sq. mile. d. Sum of all crime averages (13.96) was used as a median to determine high and low crime areas. Results: High crime counties (crime total of 13.96 and above): Kern, Kent, York, Cook, Lake, Knox, Ray, Lane, and Webb. Low crime counties were (crime total 13.95 and below): Lee, Bell, Pike, Ida, Clay, Cass, King, Bay, Kane, Nye, and Jay Justification: At first glance,...
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...Low input high diversity biomass Paper: Carbon-Negative Biofuels from Low-Input High-Diversity Grassland Biomass Author(s): Tilman, David; Hill, Jason; Lehman, Clarence Source: SCIENCE Volume: 314 Issue: 5805 Pages: 1598-1600 DOI: 10.1126/science.1133306 Published: DEC 8 2006 Times Cited: 532 (from Web of Science) Due to the growing demand of energy needs in combination with global warming and the greenhouse gas emissions we have to develop a sustainable way of producing energy. One of the options for sustainable energy are biofuels. Most of these biofuels are produced on fertile lands that are in competition with food production. Beside this competition these biofuels increase the pollution form fertilizers and pesticides and threaten the biodiversity these lands. There are two major classes of biomass for biofuel production, monoculture crops and waste biomass. In the reviewed paper an experiment was performed on agriculturally degraded soil. 152 plots are planted containing various combinations of perennial herbaceous species. All plots were unfertilized and grown with low inputs. Biofuel production can be established in different ways which result in a different bioenergy. The conversion from low input high diversity(LIHD) biomass into gasoline and diesel synfuels and electricity via gasification and combined cycle technology with Fischers-Tropisch hydrocarbon synthesis ( IGCC-FT ) is the efficient one. An estimated 28.4 GJ ha-1. Due to this process 51% more...
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...States. However, from a moral standpoint Walmart may not be as successful as many may think. It has violated many human rights in some of its third world countries, as depicted in the film “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price.” In the movie, they take an extremely biased stance against Walmart accusing the company of being inhumane, and not recognizing the rights of workers. It also went further and said that they attempt to cover up these actions, by teaching the workers to lie. The movie however fails to recognize that Walmart is not the only company to engage in such actions. In fact, shoe companies, such as Nike, and clothing companies, such as Hollister, are known to make their products in sweatshops. Some of the allegations brought up against Walmart proved to be true. On of their major attacks were, “The income of a Walmart associate is below the poverty level in America.” They continued by providing customer testimonies that stated that they wanted to quit but they could not afford too. Walmart should not be ridiculed for the amount of money they pay their associates. To get a job at Walmart you must be 16. You do not need a high school diploma. It is an entry-level job. The associates should not expect to be paid a lot of money for a job that does not require even a high shcool diploma. My advice for such associates is go back to school and get a proper job to support your family. Working a dead end job with “a raise of $1.80 a year” is not going to get you places. They...
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...Causes & Effects of High & Low Staff Turnover As a business manager, staff turnover is one area to keep an eye on throughout the year. Turnover is defined as the percentage of a company's work force that voluntarily quits during one year. In general, the goal is to have low staff turnover to maintain consistency in the work force and develop more skilled employees. High-Turnover Causes For the most part, high turnover is related to employee dissatisfaction with the job. Some specific reasons might include low pay, poor working conditions, long hours, not enough benefits or a negative atmosphere, especially from authority figures. In some cases, a business won't be able to help much that it has high staff turnover. Businesses that hire seasonally will obviously have high turnover because seasonal employees do not necessarily come back the following year to work seasonally again. In addition, businesses that hire students will suffer from high turnover as students move or become too busy to work. High-Turnover Effects High turnover is financially costly to the business because it needs to spend time and resources filling the position and training the new employee. This cost can be about 30 percent of the position's annual salary. In addition, high turnover can lower employee morale and cause a flood of people leaving because they see their peers doing the same thing. High turnover can also make the remaining employees more stressed out because they have to fill in the...
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...International Journal of Social Economics Inflation in Malaysia Ming-Yu Cheng Hui-Boon Tan Article information: Downloaded by Universiti Teknologi MARA At 00:03 28 September 2015 (PT) To cite this document: Ming-Yu Cheng Hui-Boon Tan, (2002),"Inflation in Malaysia", International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 29 Iss 5 pp. 411 - 425 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/03068290210423532 Downloaded on: 28 September 2015, At: 00:03 (PT) References: this document contains references to 26 other documents. To copy this document: permissions@emeraldinsight.com The fulltext of this document has been downloaded 16001 times since 2006* Users who downloaded this article also downloaded: Ahmad Zubaidi Baharumshah, Siew-Voon Soon, (2014),"Inflation, inflation uncertainty and output growth: what does the data say for Malaysia?", Journal of Economic Studies, Vol. 41 Iss 3 pp. 370-386 http:// dx.doi.org/10.1108/JES-05-2012-0073 Chor Foon Tang, (2011),"An exploration of dynamic relationship between tourist arrivals, inflation, unemployment and crime rates in Malaysia", International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 38 Iss 1 pp. 50-69 http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/03068291111091963 George B. Tawadros, (2009),"Testing the impact of inflation targeting on inflation", Journal of Economic Studies, Vol. 36 Iss 4 pp. 326-342 http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/01443580910973556 Access to this document was granted through an Emerald subscription provided...
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...sellers. The second problem facing by the coffee retail market is unsteady supply of coffee beans. The third section states the proposed solution to the above two problems. Possible solutions for the first problem include introducing more sellers into the market, branding and product differentiation campaign by other coffee sellers and government intervention. Possible solutions for the second problem include backward integration and product diversification. Case Analysis Problem Definition 1 – Oligopolist Exerts Market Power over Prices Starbucks buys coffee beans at low prices but sells the coffee in retail market at relatively higher prices than other coffee retail sellers. This is what described as “buy low sell high” (Keat; Young, P. 61). Starbucks is able to buy low because of coffee beans prices goes down as a result of overproduction of coffee beans in 2000-2003. Starbucks is able to sell high because of its market position in coffee retail market as being an oligopolist. Starbucks being an Oligopolist in coffee retail market acts as price maker “by exercising varying degrees of control over the price of their product” (Keat; Young, P. 61). Coffee retail market is operated as imperfectly competitive market. Starbucks is able to exert its market power over retail coffee price by its ability “to differentiate their product through advertising,...
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...Dimension: High Context vs. Low Context Definition of the Dimension: High and low context communication are ways in which members of various cultures deliver messages. High context messages are communicated non-verbally, in an attempt to maintain social balance, while low context messages express what one would like to communicate directly through language. Examples of how this dimension of culture can result in misunderstanding and/or challenges faced by people who would come from different cultures in which the members of the respective cultures have learned different worldviews/ behaviors/beliefs, etc. regarding this particular dimension: One example of how high context communication could result in a misunderstanding is in a retail setting. An American employee could be going about their job as usual, and a person who is from a low context culture might not get the service they expect. An American might not pick up on the non-verbal cues given by somebody from a high context culture and could come off as rude or non-caring even if that isn’t their intention. An example of challenges faced by people who come from different cultures in which members of the respective cultures have learned different behaviors can happen in the business world. A new hire from a high context culture might have trouble adjusting to the business environment in the U.S. People in America and especially from New York can be extremely forward, which might come as a shock to the high context...
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...Edward T. Hall created the phrase high-context culture to describe a country/culture’s communication style. A high-context culture, like South Korea, is one where “there are many contextual elements that help people to understand the rules.” (Hall’s cultural factors). That being said, because of the “unwritten rules” or nonverbal communication it can be confusing for an individual to fully understand the communication. A low-context culture, like the U.S., is one where “very little is taken for granted meaning more explanation is needed and there is less chance of misunderstanding particularly when visitors are present.” (Hall’s cultural factors). There is more of a focus on verbal communication than nonverbal like body language. Between a high-context culture like South Korea and a low-context culture like the U.S. there are many similarities and differences when it comes to cultural dimensions. Hofstede’s model of national culture uses five dimensions: power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism, masculinity, and long-term orientation. Power distance focuses on how power is distributed and the extent to which subordinates accept how power is distributed unequally. It focuses on the belief that superiors and subordinates are different kinds of people. In South Korea power distance is high, receiving a score of 60 according to Hofstede, and embraced by all. It is and has always been a norm in society. Everybody has a place starting from birth, although that place can...
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...Vicki Graves 8/2/2015 Short Paper 1 INT-600 High-Context vs Low Context South Korea & U.S. Edward T. Hall created the phrase high-context culture to describe a country/culture’s communication style. A high-context culture, like South Korea, is one where “there are many contextual elements that help people to understand the rules.” (Hall’s cultural factors). That being said, because of the “unwritten rules” or nonverbal communication it can be confusing for an individual to fully understand the communication. A low-context culture, like the U.S., is one where “very little is taken for granted meaning more explanation is needed and there is less chance of misunderstanding particularly when visitors are present.” (Hall’s cultural factors). There is more of a focus on verbal communication than nonverbal like body language. Between a high-context culture like South Korea and a low-context culture like the U.S. there are many similarities and differences when it comes to cultural dimensions. Hofstede’s model of national culture uses five dimensions: power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism, masculinity, and long-term orientation. Power distance focuses on how power is distributed and the extent to which subordinates accept how power is distributed unequally. It focuses on the belief that superiors and subordinates are different kinds of people. In South Korea power distance is high, receiving a score of 60 according to Hofstede, and embraced by all. It is and...
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