...Issues and Solution Medicare should cost a little bit more for the rich. In doing so, they will be catering for a fair share. By fair, I mean the rich are fortunate enough; they can afford because they are wealthy and therefore, should pay more for Medicare. In fact, raising premiums for the higher-income Medicare beneficiaries is the best strategy that will help raise more premium revenue. By doing this, the Medicare’s finances will greatly improve. This will bring more premium revenues with fewer burdens on low income beneficiaries. The basic idea in this plan is based on the fact that the beneficiaries will be paying the premiums which go up in accordance to their income. This has a lot of sense. Initially, the idea of the Medicare was to ensure that health benefit received by the beneficiaries were adequate for all alike. Things have changed due to rising costs of Medicare. Therefore, this plan comes, based on the principle that the better placed beneficiaries should pay more. Ideally, the higher-income beneficiaries are healthier and younger. These are highly needed in the plan to help create a balance in the costs resulting from the less wealthy and sicker members in the program. This will create an equitable platform for all. Reflection In United States, quality health care improvement is work yet to be completed. The key concept to help in understanding and supporting this work in progress is the essential principle of leadership. Leadership offers a platform that...
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...A REPORT ON CURRENT BGP PROBLEMS AND SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS CS526- Assignment# 4 Amit Jhamb & Bhavani Prasad University of Missouri- Kansas City BGP Overview The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is an exterior gateway protocol (EGP) also known as inter-Autonomous System routing protocol. The primary function of a BGP speaking system is to exchange network reachability information with other BGP systems. This network reachability information includes information on the list of Autonomous Systems (ASs) that reachability information traverses. This information is sufficient to construct a graph of AS connectivity from which routing loops may be pruned and some policy decisions at the AS level may be enforced. BGP-4 provides a new set of mechanisms for supporting classless interdomain routing. These mechanisms include support for advertising an IP prefix and eliminate the concept of network "class" within BGP. BGP-4 also introduces mechanisms, which allow aggregation of routes, including aggregation of AS paths. BGP also performs interdomain routing in TCP/IP networks. Problems in BGP I-BGP Scaling Problem: All BGP speakers within a single AS must be fully meshed so that any external routing information must be re-distributed to all other routers within that AS. This "full mesh" requirement clearly does not scale when there are a large number of IBGP speakers as is common in many of todays internet networks. For n BGP speakers within an...
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...Effective Solution for Drilling Issues Rodrigo H. Ruschel Bridging Course Centre for English Language Teaching, University of Western Australia Semester 1, 2013 Introduction The Oil and Gas industry is looking for new methods of exploration and production. Currently, the oil and gas reservoirs are becoming more difficult to access because the operators are required to deal with complex and depleted reservoirs, such as low pressure zones, sub salt formations and tar zones. This is a challenge for both the on onshore and the offshore environment. These complications are directly related to drilling engineering because these professionals have to deal with complex situations involved in risks and pressure in order to keep operations under control. In order to avoid problems during drilling operations might causing financial and environmental issues, underbalanced drilling (UBD) methods have been implemented. These methods are based in which both hydrostatic and dynamic pressures in the circulating down-hole fluid system are intentionally kept below or the same as the pressure of the formation being drilled UBD methods have been used in order to defeat issues such as avoid formation damage, lost circulation, differential sticking and reduction of non-productive time. Also, it might improve productivity, reduce drilling time, bit life and also indicate reservoir zone productivity. UBD methods are appearing as an effective solution for drilling issues. However, this...
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...The Kashmir Issue: Some options towards solution By Dr. Misbah Islam As we all know the Kashmir issue has been has been a perennial problem ever since the birth of Pakistan. Kashmir is one of the two most intractable problems that have stymied the world for so long resulting in horrendous loss of life and negative impact on the development of the belligerants. Nature of the Problem: The origins of the Kashmir issue lie in the illegal instrument of accession to India signed on October 26, 1947 by Raja Hari Singh that violated the rights and hopes of 77% Muslim population of Kashmiris to join Pakistan. It has resulted in or associated with at least four major wars: 1948, 1965, 1971 and 1999. Besides loss of liberty for 10 million people it has entailed loss of lives (more than 102,000), in the form of executions, bombardment and disappearances, horrendous tortures, injuries, crimes against women, destruction of property, businesses and the list goes on [Ref 1]. No value can ever be assigned to the psychological losses. So far India has refused visits by Amnesty International to investigate and report impartially. We have also to take into account other costs. The purpose of this exercise is to highlight the seriousness of the issue and to prove Pakistan’s commitment to the cause. The Kashmir issue has involved direct expenditure in terms of resources: military, diplomatic, journalistic and so on. Resources, that could have been better spent for mitigating and solving...
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...• The biggest problem faced by any SAARC country is poverty. Poverty has a wide spectrum of causes which vary from country to country. Issues like Naxalism in India, Civil wars in Sri Lanka, Terrorism in Pakistan have a direct link to poverty. Illiteracy and ignorance have resulted in an unbridled rise in population in many under developed nations. This is one of the alarming problems faced by the world considering its impact on global food and commodity market. The impact is so severe that, India which once was an exporter of food grains became an importer. The literacy rate of a country is dependent on socio-economic status of the people. This problem can be viewed from the other side in a different way. Though the land under cultivation in India is more than that of China, Indian agriculture can't feed its own people, while the Chinese could feed themselves. 60% people in India rely on agriculture directly, but its contribution towards GDP is just around 20% to 30% .Lack of implementation of modern technology in the field of agriculture, fragmented land holdings, low irrigation potential, unviable returns etc can be shown as the causes here. Considering the GDP as the bench mark for development of a country, India registered a growth rate around 9% only after globalization in 1991. This clearly indicates that market based economy with minimum regulations encourage entrepreneurship. Survival of small scale and micro level industries is one of the key aspects in the success...
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...Security Issues and Solutions in Ecommerce Applications The rise in popularity of conducting business online via ecommerce sites has not gone unnoticed by hackers and other cyber-criminals. A rise in the number of transactions and an increase in businesses that have an online presence have provided hackers with increased opportunities to exploit security vulnerabilities in ecommerce applications for personal profit, at the expense of legitimate businesses and users. A successful attack can result in downtime, the theft of user financial and personal information, loss of revenue, and loss of customers. This paper will offer an overview of some common types of security vulnerabilities and attacks on ecommerce platforms as well as some common tactics to prevent such attacks. Additional suggestions for maximizing information security on an application level as well as within an origination will be made with the goal emphasizing the prevention of attacks. There are numerous tactics that exploiters use to gain access to user personal and financial information on ecommerce sites. One common attack is SQL injection, which is a tactic where a hacker inserts SQL query data into user input fields on a web site, with the goal of that query being executed by the database. With the strategic placement of apostrophes, dashes and semi-colons, the hacker can execute queries that bring a web site down, provide access to customer financial and other personal information, and even manipulate...
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...The Reasons for and Solutions to the Bribery Issues among Chinese Companies In September 2013, a former Politburo member, Xilai Bo, was sentenced to life imprisonment for embezzlement, bribery and abuse of power. With millions of dollars of bribery money, this Chinese communist leader got the punishment of spending the rest of his life in prison, and also brought influential stress and trust problem in China (The Economist, 2013). This incidence also have drawn international’s attention, with such negative reputation a question mark has been put on China’s trust worship, consequently is also weakening of China’s international position and power. Corruption has always been a worldwide focus, with bribery one of the leading problems existing in the contemporary world. Bribery is legally defined as “The offering, giving, receiving of something of value for the purpose of influencing the action of an official in the discharge of his or her public or legal duties” (U.S Office Of Government Ethics). Bribery in deed has helped tons of people achieve their goals in almost every aspect of people’s life: Kids can be permitted to good schools; companies can get privileges in trades; unqualified candidates can be selected for competitive positions. Bribery has brought the society unfairness, and cause disorder in socials reflecting in wealth gap and power distances. The uprising country China, specifically, is one of the world’s leading highly corrupted country. Not only within nation...
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...COCA-COLA IN INDIA AND SOLUTIONS TO OVERCOME THE ISSUES CONTENTS 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 2. TERMS OF REFERENCE 3 3. CURRENT SCENARIO 3 4. ANALYSIS OF THE SITUATION 4 4.1. STRENGTH 5 4.2. WEEKNESS 5 4.3. OPPORTUNITIES 5 4.4. THREATS 5 5. SOLUTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 6 5.1. PUBLIC RELATIONS 6 5.2. ENHANCE RELATIONSHIP WITH GOVERNMENT 6 5.3. LAUNCH MARKETING CAMPAIGNS 7 5.4. LISTEN TO THE CUSTOMERS 7 5.5. MANAGING STYLE 7 5.6. PULL BACK PRICE- QUALITY TRADE –OFF PLANS 7 6. SUGGESTIONS 8 7. FORECASTS AND PREDICTIONS 9 8. CONCLUSION 9 9. REFERENCES 10 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Coca – cola, the world’s largest selling soft drink company had established its strong presence in the world since 1886. Coca-Cola is the first international soft drink brand to enter the Indian market in the early 1970’s. Till 1977 Coca-Cola was the leading brand in India; later, due to FERA (Foreign Exchange Regulation Act), they left India and didn’t return till 1993. Coca-Cola had to face many issues regarding its quality, resource exploitation and market exploitation along with price-quality trade-offs. People all over India are challenging Coca-Cola for its abuse of water resource. Coca-Cola had affected both quality and quantity of ground water. Due to its waste extracts, Coca-Cola was criticized for polluting the nearby fresh water and ground water and soil; because of this issue, farmers are suffering...
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...FACED BY COCA-COLA IN INDIA AND SOLUTIONS TO OVERCOME THE ISSUES CONTENTS 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 2. TERMS OF REFERENCE 3 3. CURRENT SCENARIO 3 4. ANALYSIS OF THE SITUATION 4 4.1. STRENGTH 5 4.2. WEEKNESS 5 4.3. OPPORTUNITIES 5 4.4. THREATS 5 5. SOLUTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 6 5.1. PUBLIC RELATIONS 6 5.2. ENHANCE RELATIONSHIP WITH GOVERNMENT 6 5.3. LAUNCH MARKETING CAMPAIGNS 7 5.4. LISTEN TO THE CUSTOMERS 7 5.5. MANAGING STYLE 7 5.6. PULL BACK PRICE- QUALITY TRADE –OFF PLANS 7 6. SUGGESTIONS 8 7. FORECASTS AND PREDICTIONS 9 8. CONCLUSION 9 9. REFERENCES 10 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Coca – cola, the world’s largest selling soft drink company had established its strong presence in the world since 1886. Coca-Cola is the first international soft drink brand to enter the Indian market in the early 1970’s. Till 1977 Coca-Cola was the leading brand in India; later, due to FERA (Foreign Exchange Regulation Act), they left India and didn’t return till 1993. Coca-Cola had to face many issues regarding its quality, resource exploitation and market exploitation along with price-quality trade-offs. People all over India are challenging Coca-Cola for its abuse of water resource. Coca-Cola had affected both quality and quantity of ground water. Due to its waste extracts, Coca-Cola was criticized for polluting the nearby fresh water and ground water and soil; because of this issue, farmers are suffering from water...
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...hand, alternate solutions and your strategy on how to proceed at the forthcoming meeting? A) The major problem that at are at hand which the Eric is facing are: * Dealing with Fred: Fred is the old employee at the Texmark and since his assignment to India Fed has been this had been a major concern to Eric. His assignment to India has exceeded more than the designated period. His initial assignment was supposed to be for 18 months but it has been exceeded for more than 3 years. * Solution in dealing with Fred: Since the Eric has already sighted the major concern with Fred is that his unwillingness to train and transfer his responsibility to local engineers and his inability to work with the regulator is the major problem with Fred. Hence this situation can be better dealt by Eric personally supervising Fred and assigning him task with a limited dead line to each task. * Global expansion: The second major issue with Eric is the issue of the rising global presence of the company, as the company could not solve the expatriate issue. Hence company is facing a hard time when it’s needed to be established and to be made as a global company. As the main part of the strategy is dependent upon repatriation policy, where the growing numbers of repatriates are not meaning fully responding the debriefing and career counseling sessions. Hence this repatriation issue is affecting the long-term strategy development of the companies expatriate issue. * Solution of Global expansion:...
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...Analyses the case identifying the key issues and/or problems. Clearly indicates and explains one priority issue or problem that is to be managed. Too brief; inability to identify issues raised by the question; may show superficial treatment; insufficient knowledge or understanding of the topic; much irrelevant material Borderline and limited understanding of question; some gaps in addressing key issues; largely descriptive Sufficient understanding of question; some evidence of analysis of core content and problems /issues of the case. Priority issue mostly identified. Good understanding of the question; analysis and some linking of issues in core content and problems /issues of the case. Priority issue identified. Comprehensive and critical understanding of the question; focuses on key issues; linking of issues in core content and problems /issues of the case. Priority issue well identified with some evaluation. 2. Linking theory and practice to the solution: Develops a solution to the priority issue or problem. Justifies the solution with management theory, approaches, concepts and/or models. 3. Recommends and explains actions to address the priority issue with theories/models. Unclear solution and not justified; structure is disjointed, lacks logical flow and cohesion; mostly description or listing of facts from the case study Some lack of clarity in solution, structure lacks logical flow, and ...
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...Analyses the case identifying the key issues and/or problems. Clearly indicates and explains one priority issue or problem that is to be managed. Too brief; inability to identify issues raised by the question; may show superficial treatment; insufficient knowledge or understanding of the topic; much irrelevant material Borderline and limited understanding of question; some gaps in addressing key issues; largely descriptive Sufficient understanding of question; some evidence of analysis of core content and problems /issues of the case. Priority issue mostly identified. Good understanding of the question; analysis and some linking of issues in core content and problems /issues of the case. Priority issue identified. Comprehensive and critical understanding of the question; focuses on key issues; linking of issues in core content and problems /issues of the case. Priority issue well identified with some evaluation. 2. Linking theory and practice to the solution: Develops a solution to the priority issue or problem. Justifies the solution with management theory, approaches, concepts and/or models. 3. Recommends and explains actions to address the priority issue with theories/models. Unclear solution and not justified; structure is disjointed, lacks logical flow and cohesion; mostly description or listing of facts from the case study Some lack of clarity in solution, structure lacks logical flow, and ...
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...EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This paper analyses what were the effects of the antenna issues with IPhone that was launched on June 25th, 2010 and how it impacted the users and its service providers. This paper focuses on the impact of this issue on the demand, reliability of that product and the stakeholders. ISSUES INVOLVED The two issues that were related to the antenna of IPhone were: • If the user would touch the antenna located on the outside of phone in two places, the phone’s reception would drop, while in use. This was a major issue as the consumers were not free to handle the iPhone the way they like. This issue set restrictions on the way of holding the handset. • Another issue was that the phone would drop 4 or 5 signal bars if it was held tightly in a particular manner. The tight grip on the covering of the back strip in the lower left corner of metal band would lead to this problem. Again, this was a problem for the owners to handle the iPhone in any particular manner. These issues were big problems for the users as they did not expect such kind of hardware issues from a smartphone, that too from the designers of Apple. IMPACT OF THE ISSUES ON STAKEHOLDERS 1. Consumers The issue of hardware failure due to antenna problem led to distress in customers. The customers planned on suing Apple and AT&T. The legal challenge was initiated by California law firm Kershaw, Cutter & Ratinoff. They set up a website to recruit the unsatisfied IPhone 4 buyers for a lawsuit against...
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...Analyses the case identifying the key issues and/or problems. Clearly indicates and explains one priority issue or problem that is to be managed. Too brief; inability to identify issues raised by the question; may show superficial treatment; insufficient knowledge or understanding of the topic; much irrelevant material Borderline and limited understanding of question; some gaps in addressing key issues; largely descriptive Sufficient understanding of question; some evidence of analysis of core content and problems /issues of the case. Priority issue mostly identified. Good understanding of the question; analysis and some linking of issues in core content and problems /issues of the case. Priority issue identified. Comprehensive and critical understanding of the question; focuses on key issues; linking of issues in core content and problems /issues of the case. Priority issue well identified with some evaluation. 2. Linking theory and practice to the solution: Develops a solution to the priority issue or problem. Justifies the solution with management theory, approaches, concepts and/or models. 3. Recommends and explains actions to address the priority issue with theories/models. Unclear solution and not justified; structure is disjointed, lacks logical flow and cohesion; mostly description or listing of facts from the case study Some lack of clarity in solution, structure lacks logical flow, and ...
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...concepts and knowledge introduced in this course. The below 8 parts need to be completed Part 1: Select and profile an organization for the benefit plan (40 Points) Part 2: Statement of the issue (40 Points) Part 3: Literature Review (40 Points) Part 4. Issue Analysis (40 Points) Part 5. Issue Solutions (40 Points) Part 6. Solution and its Implementation (40 Points) Part 7: Justification (40 Points) Part 8: Reflection (30 Points) HRM 599 Course Project: Benefit Plan Design Analysis Purchase here http://devrycourse.com/hrm-599-course-project-benefit-plan-design-analysis Product Description Course Project: Benefit Plan Design Analysis Objective - The course project is designed to provide you with a real-life practical application of an organization’s Human Resource benefits program. You will create a written analysis of a real-world organization’s benefit plan design with suggested opportunities for improvement that use the concepts and knowledge introduced in this course. The below 8 parts need to be completed Part 1: Select and profile an organization for the benefit plan (40 Points) Part 2: Statement of the issue (40 Points) Part 3: Literature Review (40 Points) Part 4. Issue Analysis (40 Points) Part 5. Issue Solutions (40 Points) Part 6. Solution and its Implementation (40 Points) Part 7: Justification (40 Points)...
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