...Coronary Heat Disease Health 11 LATTC 11/20/10 Coronary Heart Disease, chronic illness in which the coronary arteries, the vessels that supply oxygen-carrying blood to the heart, become narrowed and unable to carry a normal amount of blood. Most often, the coronary arteries become narrowed because of atherosclerosis, a process in which fatty deposits called plaque build up on the inside wall of an artery (see Arteriosclerosis). Plaque is made of oily molecules known as cholesterol, fibrous proteins, calcium deposits, tiny blood cells known as platelets, and debris from dead cells. Plaque formation often begins in adolescence and progresses very slowly over the course of decades. Gradually, the growing plaque thickens the wall of the artery, reducing the space for blood to flow through. According to the American Heart Association, in 2009 heart disease affected people as follows: • A person’s death occurs every 34 seconds due to heart disease in the United States. • In the US a person dies of heart attack every 20 seconds. • About 2,500 American die due to heart attacks. • Around 250,000 die due to heart attack before they reach a hospital in the US. • Those below the average level of education suffer from heart attacks more. • The following countries are known for higher death rates due to heart disease. Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and the Soviet Union. • About 6 million hospitalizations take place each year in the US on account of cardiovascular...
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...completing the matrix, write a 300- to 500-word summary of the significant similarities and differences among the different religious groups. SCHOOL ISSUES Prayer in School Creationism v. Evolution Studying Women’s Rights in the Middle East Saying the Pledge of Allegiance Starting a Gay and Lesbian Support Group Inter-Racial Dating COMMUNITY RELIGIOUS GROUPS Pro/Con Justify your answer Pro/Con Justify your answer Pro/Con Justify your answer Pro/Con Justify your answer Pro/Con Justify your answer Pro/Con Justify your answer Atheist Con According to the BBC website, many atheists are "hostile" to any special treatment given to organized religion; they may find prayer in school to be offensive, as atheists tend to believe that a God is not a necessary belief. Pro Evolution Atheists would be pro-evolution, as evolution tends to use scientific evidence to justify its assumptions. According to the BBC website, "Atheists say that far from God being a good explanation for the world, it's God that now requires explaining." They would most likely be uncomfortable with creationism, as it is based in Christian values. Pro Atheists tend to stress the equality of male and female, and therefore would likely support the study of women's rights in the middle east. In fact, according to the BBC website,...
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...BTC 200 (50969) 04/24/16 Homework # 1 Got Milk? It’s good for you Unless it’s contaminated 1) Explain why the supply chain can dramatically impact a company’s base performance. Supply chain management involves the management of information flows between and among stages in a supply chain to maximize total supply chain effectiveness and profitability. The dozens of steps are required to achieve and carry out each of the above components. SCM software can enable an organization to generate efficiencies within these steps by automating and improving the information flows throughout and among the different supply chain components. 2) List all of the products that could possibly be affected by a problem in the U.S. milk supply chain. The products that could possibly be affected by a problem in the U.S. milk supply chain are: Chocolate, Ice cream, cheese, butter, yogurt, evaporated milk, sour cream, whey products and infant formula. 3) How can a CRM system help communicate issues in the supply chain? Customer relationship management involves managing all aspects of a customer relationship within an organization to increase customer loyalty, retention and organizations profitability. Customer contact is often one of the first signs of issues with product quality once the product has reached market. Because a CRM system can track a customer complaint, a company can use the CRM system to help pinpoint the quality issue within the supply chain. Understanding where complaints...
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...| Should parents screen for desirable genetic traits in their offspring? | | | | | | Critical Thinking 11 June 2012 Final Project As technology advances and scientists carry on with everyday research in medicine, a new way of life is created. With simply a test tube and perfectly selected genes a family can welcome their designer baby to the world with open arms. Should parents screen for desirable genetic traits in their offspring? Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) also known as a designer baby is a genetic modification that is used to alter anything from gender to disease, even appearance, personality, and IQ. The Oxford Dictionary defines the term 'Designer Babies' as "a baby whose genetic makeup has been artificially selected by genetic engineering combined with in vitro fertilization to ensure the presence or absence of particular genes or characteristics." According to Wall Street Journal, “PGD is a technique whereby a three-day-old embryo, consisting of about six cells, is tested in a lab to see if it carries a particular genetic disease. Embryos free of that disease are implanted in the mother's womb. Introduced in the 1990s, it has allowed thousands of parents to avoid passing on deadly disorders to their children.” Are you willing to pay the price to have this perfect child? Many do not but the few that do, fully support it. Despite the limited amount of knowledge and awareness of the potential threats that are to be had by going...
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...LOTUS CAR RENTAL/ALTERANTIVE FUEL VEHICLES Stephen McCauley Comm/215 University of Phoenix June 7, 2013 INTRODUCTION Lotus car rental, one of the world’s leading car rental companies, is in a position to take advantage of a great opportunity. This is an opportunity to be one of the first car rental services to provide our consumers with alternative options to fuel-powered vehicles, and to rise above the competition. Adding alternative fuel vehicles to our car rental fleet will increase our car rental turnover and improve the company's image to consumers. Creating a fleet of Alternative fuel vehicles for Lotus rental cars would be a very wise decision. There is a strong movement towards using alternative fuels for many reasons. The consumers are now motivated to drive vehicles that not only protect the environment, but also save money. More and more car manufactures are providing vehicles that use alternative fuels or flex fuels. This movement in the market place is gaining momentum. It would be wise for Lotus to lead this market by providing this service to the consumer. Today environmentally concerned consumers are looking for ways to not only save the environment, but also save money. Oil prices are constantly on the rise and turmoil in the oil producing regions has not helped alleviate the problem. Taking these considerations and research into account, we feel that Louts Rental Cars should invest in an alternative fuel vehicle fleet. BACKGROUND ON ALTERNATIVE FUELS ...
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...initiatives to increase our relevancy to customers by enhancing their shopping experience and to improve their perception of our value and convenience proposition. (FD 2012AR) To overall increase customers shopping experience Family Dollar will redesign store layouts for more convenient shopping, they will continue to expand on food and health and beauty products, they will add more familiar name brands including Pepsi, Red Bull and Wise snacks, and Family Dollar will be adding tobacco products to their stores in hopes that it will bring in more customers frequently. The retail strategy will continue to help the company increase revenues as well as keep prices low on brand name products that people use everyday. 2. Discuss the pros and cons of Family Dollar’s...
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...bottled water or tap water?” In my opinion I believed that bottled water is better, however bottled water and tap water has their pros and cons. But think about it bottled water is easier to carry around so when you're thirsty it's right there in arms reach. Another on is bottled water is organized by food agencies that monitor the water which means that the water is filtered and has high quality, lastly the amount of lead and other things that might contaminate water are at a much lower level than tap water. This doesn't mean that there is anything wrong with bottled water but there are some cons that come with bottled water. For example,...
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...the Transtheoretical Model Stages of change, decisional balance shifts in crucial ways. In the Pre-contemplation stage, the pros in favor of behavior change are outweighed by the relative cons for change and in favor of maintaining the existing behavior. In the Contemplation stage, the pros and cons tend to carry equal weight, leaving the individual ambivalent toward change. If life’s scale is tipped, in favor for change, outweighing cons for maintaining an unhealthy lifestyle or behavior; the next...
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...GOT MILK? IT’S GOOD FOR YOU UNLESS IT’S CONTAMINATED CASE STUDY/RESEARCH. Question 1: Explain why the supply chain can dramatically impact a company's base performance ANS: Supply chain management involves the management of information flows between and among stages in a supply chain to maximize total supply chain effectiveness and profitability. The dozens of steps are required to achieve and carry out each of the above components. SCM software can enable an organization to generate efficiencies within these steps by automating and improving the information flows throughout and among the different supply chain components. If one member of the supply chain makes a reckless decision it can impact the entire supply chain. This is what happened with the china milk contamination and all of the players upstream and downstream in the supply chain from end consumer to the dairy farmers were impacted by one participants reckless decision. Question 2: list all the products that could possibly be affected by a problem in the U.S. Milk supply chain ANS: Products that could possibly be affected by a problem in the U.S. Milk supply chain are: -Milk -Cheese -Butter -Yogurt -Cottage cheese -Boxed Cereals -Cereal Bars -Sandwich Breads -Vegetarian Meat Products -If there were disruptions in the U.S. Milk supply the price of meat could also fall if dairy farmers were forced to slaughter the cattle for meat instead of milking them. Question 3: How can CRM help communicate...
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...healthier option of food and why owning a Subway is more advantageous than owning Cousin Subs. Subway is one of the top sandwich shops to eat at. It is healthier than other sub shops and it is also cheaper to own a Subway franchise than other sub shops. There are many pros and cons for Subway. It has great tasting food and a great option for healthier subs. Another pro for Subway is that customers can make their own sub, and see how the employee is making it. Some cons for Subway are some sandwiches do not have enough meat. Since the meat and veggies are out in the open this is another con, people believe it is not as sanitary as other sub shops. There are also pros and cons with owning a Subway. It is cheaper to get into a franchise than other sub shops. To get a Subway franchise started the fee is 15,000 dollars. After that it can cost anywhere from 100,000 dollars to 250,000 dollars to get the franchise open and ready to serve customers ("Buying a Fast Food Franchise", 2014). Subway is very popular, they are seen on TV more than other sub shops, and have a lot of famous people including athletes that are endorsed by Subway. Having famous people involved with this company will also bring in more customers. The cons about owning a subway is a weekly payment called royalty payments. Subway...
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...SG COWEN- NEW RECRUITS Introduction SG Cowen is an investment bank which was created in 1998 when Société Générale (an international bank based in France) decided to acquire Cowen and Company (company which was focused on building up its investment banking and M&A Advisory services). SG Cowen’s activity is focused on emerging growth companies especially in two risky but highly profitable areas: health care and technology. For the success of that business, SG Cowen needs talented, committed and strong cultural fit employees. This report has the goal to describe and evaluate the hiring process of that company and also the criteria that is used to decide among the candidates. In the end, based on the criteria used by the company, we’ll decide which two candidates (out of four) we would decide to hire for SG Cowen. 1. Hiring Process & Evaluation The hiring process for a new class of associates begins in fall and consists of internal and external hiring. 1. Internal Recruitment: a. Those employed as analysts and promoted to first-year associates at the end of their third year (without business school education), or b. Those starting out as interns in the summer and then being offered full time employment after graduation 2. External Recruitment: The hiring strategy focused on “core business schools”. However, Chip Rae, the director of recruiting at SG Cowen, has a different strategy when choosing the “core business school” comparing with what...
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...SKU in another store. It is recommended that this upgrade be made before the company furthers their global expansion, specifically into Italy in order for the new stores to open with the new POS terminal system. II. Issue Identification The main issue Zara is facing is the operating system they are using. They are currently using POS (point-of-sale) terminals which run on DOS (Disk Operating System) that are no longer supported by Microsoft. If the hardware vendor decides to upgrade their machines in a way that they are no longer DOS compatible, Zara would not be able to open new stores until they switched to an upgraded system. III. Environmental and Root Case Analysis Other issues that are causing problems: * The communication barriers between the stores * Many difficulties with faxing order forms which led to the use of personal digital assistants (PDA). * However the POS terminals and PDAs do not contain information that can be transferrable to another store when they wanted to know about a particular SKU in stock. Employees must personally call another store to get that information. * Inventory management * There was no in-store network to connect the POS terminals therefore employees need to copy daily sales totals from each terminal onto a floppy disk, and then carry the disk to the modem to complete the transition. * This creates more area for error in the process of keeping track of inventory....
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...Global Operations Management Individual Project 3 Kathy Farris AMERICAN INTERCONTINENTAL UNIVERSITY ABSTRACT Six software packages will be reviewed. Two each for materials requirement planning (MRP), capacity requirements planning (CRP) and enterprise resource planning (ERP). Each were evaluated for cost, functionality and end user support to name a few. This paper will show which software packages will best fit the needs for PPQ manufacturing after areas of consideration have been reviewed and compared. In order to stay competitive with in their manufacturing area, it is vital for a company to have a quality systemization in place to help track and control operations. It today’s technology driven world there are many options available to help company’s be more effective without having to hire a completely new department. PPQ manufacturing has decided to invest in the latest software technology to help in their materials requirement planning (MRP), capacity requirement planning (CRP), and with their enterprise resource planning (ERP). Following is an analysis of six software packages, two for each of the respective areas. Each software package has been reviewed for both advantages and disadvantages, as well as, cost, current system compatibility, work flow processes, functionality, ease of use and end user support. Each of these elements has been taken into consideration in order to determine which software package would be most suitable for PPQ’s needs...
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...Company Name Marketing Plan Date Presented by: Your name(s) Marketing Plan Executive Summary Executive summary goes here on its own page. **The executive summary must contain a short version of the recommendations. This area is a SHORT summary – its purpose is to entice the reader to open the case and read it. This is the LAST section that you should complete after you’ve reached a decision(s). It also should be on its own page as well, and it should “fill” the page. It’s a good idea to list (in point form – usually numbered) the alternatives that you have decided to investigate. Follow that by what you’ve recommended. Here’s an example for you: Problem Statements List the main problem(s) here. (PARAGRAPHS) Company Objectives What are the company’s objectives? How does this relate to the problem? (PARAGRAPHS) Company Background List some details here. Remember, the person who is reading this (your client) already knows a lot about the company. This portion does not need to be very long. Some good points to list here may be about the products or services that they provide, how long they’ve been in business, and other things that stand out. (PARAGRAPHS) Situation Analysis Strengths • Point form • These points must be about the company – things that they have control over Weaknesses • Point form • These points are also about the company – again things they have control over Opportunities • Point form • These are opportunities...
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...example. It is important to perform the process of environmental scanning in order for the firm to intelligently plan for the future. The goal is to gather the environmental data in order to identify future market opportunities and threats. An example of the importance of environmental scanning would be if you were looking to open a coffee shop in a certain area, it is good to determine whether or not there may be a decline in coffee consumption in the area—this is something that environmental scanning would reveal. 2. How should Ford Motor Company market differently to Generation Y, Generation X, and baby boomers? Generation Y was born between 1979 to 1994 so they are in their late-teens to early-thirties—meaning this may be their first vehicle purchase for the majority of them. Their preferences tend to be cheaper since they were hit the hardest by the Great Recession. They also seem to have a high interest in technology so marketing the techy benefits of the vehicle would be a selling point for them. Generation X was born between 1965-1978 so they are mostly in their thirties and forties. They were also hit by the Great Recession and many carry debt over 20 percent of their annual salary. Many of them still have children under the age of eighteen so a larger vehicle, such as an SUV, may be a targeted interest for them. They have been known to be very difficult to market to but having an understanding to their needs and wants makes the process easier for companies....
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