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Volume Projection This paper presents the budget for a proposed senior center called Elderly Acres Nursing Home that is based on the demographics of two counties, Buffalo and Yorkshire. The projected volume of clients for Elderly Acres was calculated based on the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) census reports. The NBS reports that the number of people who are above 65 years of age (senior) in Buffalo and Yorkshire Counties is 938,450. This translates to 15% of the entire population in Buffalo and Yorkshire. Compared to the national average of 11.6%, the proportion of the senior population in these two counties is high. Since not all senior citizens have chronic conditions, it is projected that only 30% of the elderly population in the two counties needs assisted living care. The rest of the population (70%) is healthy enough to care for itself. In addition, others are already under family support systems. Based on the above considerations, the target population for Elderly Acres is estimated to be 346,440 clients. The figure includes the elderly population within Yorkshire and Buffalo Counties with chronic conditions and lacking family support. However, since not all patients within this region can easily access our services, an area equivalent to a 30-minute drive from Elderly Acres premises (neighborhoods) is more accurate and realistic. The number of those living within a 30-minute drive is projected to be 136,906. However, not all these potential clients can afford full-time care at Elderly Acres. It is projected that only 10% of the target population living within the locality will need full-time care. This translates to a potential patient population of 13,691. It is important to note that the future of this business is likely to be affected b
A Brief Summary on One of the Healthcare Models Reviewed in the Article The RWJF report, “How nurses are solving some of primary care’s most pressing challenges,” provides several primary care models that utilize nurses’ strengths to offer safe, integrated, quality, and accessible healthcare services that match the needs and preferences of the patients. Based on the report, Pennsylvania’s Chronic Care Initiative (CCI) is a fundamental primary care model geared at generating outstanding patient outcomes and enhancing cost savings. The model’s introduction resulted from increased charges for preventable hospitalizations within the state on chronic disorders, making it difficult for some patients to afford healthcare services. As a result, the state’s health reforms revolve around improving affordability, quality, and accessibility (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2012). The CCI provides financial incentives and ensures that patients obtain effective care management to control chronic diseases. The state offers medical home payments, regional conferences, and patient registries and also trains the nurses to match the needed innovation and ensure the model is successful. According to the report, the model eradicates political and legal obstacles related to providing services, standardizes outcome measures, promotes care management, funds patient registries, and supports learning collaborations (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2012). The state’s model has generated positive patient outcomes such as better cholesterol, blood pressure, and blood glucose control. Additionally, the model has helped in reducing emergency room visits leading to cost savings. A Current Article on a Primary Care Model The article “Addressing common challenges in the implementation of collaborative care for mental health: The Penn integrated care program,” by Courtney Benjamin Wolk and other authors, reveals how adopting the Penn Integrated Care model has helped refine mental healthcare in Pennsylvania. The model uses referral management and triage to offer the proper support to clients with mental health desires, thus encouraging collaborative care provision. The process of implementing the PIC (Penn Integrated Care) model has aided in augmenting collaboration and expanding services and training (Wolk et al., 2021). I selected the article to demonstrate how Pennsylvania has significantly invested in innovation to improve patients’ healthcare services. This is because the state has seriously focused on providing quality care that aligns with the patients’ needs to improve the quality of life.
Abstract Nowadays, the situation in the oil market is the subject of the concerns for many countries, both, the importers and the exporters of oil. The decrease in oil prices may cause a world economic crisis. The purpose of this essay is to identify the reasons for this phenomenon and presuppose its effect on the development of global economy. In this research, I will use the data from the latest business news on the decrease in oil prices and its influence upon Middle East countries. Introduction Today many of the world’s economic analysts and ordinary citizens are interested in the question – why oil price is decreasing? The problem is very urgent; after all, oil is a source of energy on which all modern human civilization is based: gasoline, kerosene, diesel fuel. Pricing policy in the oil industry is dictated by the supply and demand. Energy demand also depends on economic processes. It increases in cold seasons in Northern countries and in hot weather in the regions using the air conditioning. The weather and geopolitical problems connected with the possibility of safe delivery may also influence the price. Manufacturers invest if they believe that the cost will remain high (Rubeis, 2015). Thus, the decrease of the costs may cause the lack of investments. OPEC’s decision forms expectations: if they abruptly stop the propo
The project “The Smoking Plant” is considered to be a social one. It is the case when the art is used to pass the important message to the observer. The artist wants to demonstrate the mortal danger caused by smoking. It is a sort of alert for people to think over their pernicious habits. The artist puts a live cigarette with a live plant in one container. People may observe how their live cigarette is killing the live plant every second. The ashtray used in this composition namely the inscription on it also passes a certain message to the observer. This inscription sounds like “Meet you in the hell”. It warns the people about the mortal danger. The choice depends on people. Of course, people who smoke feel some pleasure during this process but does this pleasure really cost their life? Every minute of smoking cuts the length of our life as well as every minute spent in the same container with the live cigarette kills the plant. We may observe how it is dying gradually. This plant may be associated with human lungs. Lungs that need pure oxygen are supplied with nicotine and pitch instead of it. We may provide another comparison. The live cigarette may symbolize the smokers while the plant is used to denote those who do not smoke but they have to suffer from the smoke. It makes people think over that they kill not only themselves but all people surrounding them. If they do not care about their own life they should think about other innocent people. These people are like this plant that is put into the container unwillingly. Nobody wants to die. Why should people suffer from the smokers when they do not smoke? These people have to live with the smokers and as a result, breathe the smoke unwillingly. Even if the smoker cannot quit smoking they should respect the wishes of other people to be healthy. Although, this art seems to be simple but the message passed to the observer makes it invaluable. The main aim of art is to pass the important message and when this aim is achieved it is considered to be the art. This composition is very interesting and symbolic. Everyone may interpret these symbols in their own way but the whole message is preserved. If the smoker observes this composition he may consider the plant to symbolize his lungs while non-smokers may associate the live cigarette with smokers and the plant with themselves who suffer from it. Generally speaking, the live cigarette is the symbol of death while the plant is the symbol of life and
Introduction Some key points on the term origin When defining the term Arabs, it is necessary to consider some important historical points. First of all it should be noted that the first records of the term appear in the annals of the history of the Assyrian empire. Keeping in mind the growth of a wide range of Arab-Islamic empires, one can probably state that Arabs are people who speak Arabic. The assumption seems to be partially correct, as there are many other ethnic groups on the territory of the Middle East. For instance, one cannot speak about an Arab majority in such countries as Iran, Israel and Turkey. Thus, in Iran there is a Persian majority (55% of population), 85% of population is Turkic on the territory of Turkey. Jewish (82% of population) constitute the majority ethnic group in Israel. Religion in the Middle East Religion is also recognized to be one of the major points which cannot be neglected, as it is closely related to people’s ethnicity. The majority of population of the Middle East professes Islam. For this reason, the followers of the religion are called Muslims. Judaism and Christianity are the major religions in Israel and Palestinian areas. Still, despite the fact that Islam is the major faith of the Middle East, it should be noted that there is a variety of different sects within Islam. Some people who are unfamiliar with the history of the Middle East try to find certain connections between people’s religion and their national identity. It is a mistake, as ethnic background is usually defined according to people’s country of origin. As far as the word is used to describe people from the Middle East, one can conclude that in common sense Arabs can be regarded as the representatives of the ethnic group, which originated from the Arabian Peninsula. However, it is extremely important to understand that the meaning of the term Arabs differs from the meanings of such terms as Arabics or Arabians. For instance, one is to keep in mind that the word Arabian is mostly associated with Arabian horses. Pan-Arabism as a major ideological force and its importance When discussing the term Arabs in relation to pan-Arabism, some fundamentals on the dominant ideological force must be considered. Generally, it should be pointed out that pan-Arabism gave rise to a variety of nationalist movements. The key idea of pan-Arabism is considered to be the unification of all Arab people. Originally, pan-Arabism was recognized to be both – political and cultural movement; for this reason, its basic concepts were regarded rather ambiguously. For instance, some people considered pan-Arabism as the movement for political autonomy; therefore, the principal idea of the movement was one state for one nation . Other individuals associated the movement with the idea of cultural revival; so, no political conceptions were taken into account. In the early thirties, the common idea of the movement was finally formed: pan-Arabism started to be associated with the quest for independence. Michael N. Barnett (1998) is of the opinion that “Arabism began to emerge as an importan
Introduction A speech genre can be defined as a relatively stable type of expression that matches a specific characterized situation. Speech genres consist of daily communication activities like greetings, conversations, military commands and many more. Most speech genres are based on social, economic and relationship status between the sources of the speech and the target audience. It is important to note that, each speech genre consists of a unique tone. However, the presenter of a speech genre is free to use accent to express individuality and is capable of mixing genres from diverse spheres. Since this is a daily conversation and communication process, the better we use genre commands, the more effective we implement an open speech plan which allows us to mix genres comfortably. Basically, speech genre can be referred to as an utterance. It is true that utterance never comes to an end when it ends another one emergences and a response becomes an utterance to reply the previous one. Vocal statement is always created and formed as a response to previous statement/s and is always created in anticipation of a responding statement. There is no complete language, all language is sporadic, provisional unfinished and can be compared with to a connecting web of utterances. (Crowston 2000:234-238) Gossip Genre In this article we are going to discuss gossip as our genre and look into deep the causes and effects associated with gossiping. Mostly, the effects of gossip are normally negative and they do affect a person professionally, socially and even psychologically. On the other hand gossip can be taken as an excellent bonding opportunity that provides an advance warning of possible potential crises with your company. They enable an individual to set his/her boundaries before in advance. Always it’s very painful; and damaging to the person who is a target of gossip. (Crowston, 2000:246) Gossips mostly originate from one close friend who knows you in deep and discuss your characters with other on your back. They are common mostly in work place where maybe a person who originates with the gossip aims at receiving a favor and damaging other person reputation. Whenever giving r
Introduction The question of which asset valuation method is better, historical cost or fair value, has long been causing debates among economists. In general, the historical value is “the amount of cash, or its equivalent, paid to acquire an asset” (Delaney and Whittington 211). At this, the limitations of using the historical cost as a valuation method are that historical cost accounts show the depreciated cost of the company’s assets, rather than the current value of these assets or the value of the whole company (Lewis and Pendrill 74). Changing the valuation method will result in changing the corporations’ business with some of them starting using valuation techniques, balancing gains and losses, and trying to cope with the reliability of the fair value information. Main text First of all, after changing the valuation method some of the businesses will have to utilize valuation techniques. If an organization has long been using the historical cost accounting, a fair value put on some of its products or financial instruments will result in these products or instruments finding no active market (International Accounting Standards Board 2003). Some of such valuation techniques include “the present value of estimated expected future cash flows using a discount rate commensurate with the risks involved, option-pricing models, matrix pricing, option-adjusted spread models, and fundamental analysis” ( Carmichael, Whittington, and Graham 48). Thus, the performance of some organizations will have to be changed with the introduction of fair value accounting with most of the businesses being forced to use valuation techniques. In addition, some businesses will have to regulate correlations between gains and losses when starting using fair value accounting. Accounting for business combinations is likely to change significantly because “acquired variables would be valued at fair value … contingent gains and losses would be recognized at fair value … [and] assets and liabilities arising from contingencies … would be measured and recognized at fair value” (Epstein, Nach, and Bragg 652). Besides, this will make some businesses recognize an employee expense, which most of the companies prefer to avoid (Nobes and Parker 180). In this way, the businesses may face losses when changing the valuation method to fair value accounting with most of them being induced to disclose the expenses which they preferred to hide when using historical cost accounting. Finally, the performance of the companies for which cash is the only asset will change significantly if they start using fair value accounting. Based on the fair value such organizations “are liable to report a return on capital that may be seriously misleading, and they create a positive incentive to ‘short-termism’ because the reported ‘fair value’ return is distorted by the volume of activity” (Rayman 90). This all leads to fair value information becoming inaccurate and unreliable, which may lead to the lowering of a firm’s credit rating due to the adverse information about this firm’s future earnings (Ho and Yi 573). Therefore, the performance of some busin
The poem The Weary Blues was written by Langston Hughes; the author devoted his work to the description of the music theme highlighting the role of blues and the uniqueness of this genre. The idea of the work is to show the influence of music on the human soul and show the emotions it causes. The Weary Blues describes the process of blues music listening in Harlem describing all the peculiarities of the poem’s expressiveness and author’s mood. The analysis of the poem allows evaluating the speaker’s attitude to the music style. The narrator of the story expresses feelings and emotions caused by the blues played by a musician. The author demonstrates blues as an impressive and evocative genre that can transform the feel of the musician to the whole community. The blues is usually characterized as the type of jazz containing ornate rhythmical and lazy melodies. The same issue was highlighted by the author in The Weary Blues. Constant repetition of lines and the usage of assonance provide the impression of deep sorrow feeling and rhythm at the same time. “He did a lazy sway…. / He did a lazy sway…. / To the tune o’ those Weary Blues. / With his ebony hands on each ivory key / He made that poor piano moan with melody” (6-10) The Weary Blues is considered to be filled with symbolic expressions; the author used the “raggy” to underline the blue’s close interconnection with the jazz music and its rhythm being characteristic for African American music of that period. “He played that sad raggy tune like a musical fool. / Sweet Blues! /Coming from a black man’s soul. / O Blues!” (13-16) The symbolism of the poem can be analyzed through the description of the street Lenox Avenue being the main part of Harlem. It is interesting to note that the author used the line “Down on Lenox Avenue” which demonstrates his belonging to the black nation. This fact can be explained by the status of African Americans in the period of 20-30s being described as the Renaissance epoch. The author tried to express his thoughts through various literary means and devices such as consonance and onomatopoeia in the poem The Weary Blues to enable the readers to feel the power of blues music and the mood of the main character. Discussion The blues is illustrated through the dull and lyric images of the narrator’s mood to the music. The author showed blues as the way of communication between the narrator and the musician. The first lines of the poem form the mood of the whole work. The words “mellow croon” express the feelings of melancholy through melodic and lyrical music notes. The author demonstrated his attitude to the night playing of the musician through various symbols of sadness and frustrations. “Down
Introduction Al Hilal Bank is an Islamic bank with its headquarters in Abu Dhabi (“Al Hilal Bank Aims” par. 1). The main goal of the bank is to respond to the primary Islamic values and to see the world from a different perspective (“Al Hilal Bank” par. 1). It provides various banking operations such as “wholesale banking services”, “personal banking”, “asset acquisition finance”, “foreign exchange contracts”, and “working capital and trade finance” (“Bloomberg: Company Overview” par. 1). It could be said the bank cares for its employees and considers them as an essential element of the planning process. Al Hilal Bank pays close attention to the recruiting process in order to increase efficiency and effectiveness of operations (“Al Hilal Bank” par. 1). The main aim is to hire successful and hardworking people to remain competitive in the world. Speaking of specifics of this case, a current goal of Al Hilal Bank is to become the “smartest” bank in the United Arabic Emirates (“Al Hilal Bank Aims” par. 1). Mohammad Berro claims that the bank will achieve a desired goal in five years by increasing popularity of mobile and computer applications (“Al Hilal Bank Aims” par. 1). It could be said that it will reduce a number of working processes in other spheres and attract attention to the smart banking. This research paper emphases implementation of this goal by project management of Al Hilal Bank. This research focuses on evaluation of project management in Al Hilal Bank. The case study method is used to acquire this information. After the evaluation process, possible conclusions are made. Some issues, which might affect effectiveness of the organization, are considered. Results help to find possible answers to the questions to improve a current state. Objectives and goals of the research It is important to understand and determine primary objectives and goals of the research before starting the exploration. Firstly, it should be said that project
Introduction Hotel business is a service industry where we don’t sell any products. We get paid for our services. There are so many things that count and affect the performance of a hotel. For example the look of the hotel, the interior, the staff, the room settings, cleanliness, room tariffs, the food, facilities, etc. Apart from these, advertisement is also a must. The staff is the backbone of hotel industry. Kim Hoque (2002a) is of the opinion, “ The only unique asset of a commercial hospitality operation is the staff at the end of the delivery syatem.” (Hoque, 29) Analysis of the present situation For any service industry, guest satisfaction is of utmost significance. Our valued guests have been impressed with the tariff of our rooms. We gave our best services with the added advantage of low prices and this helped us in getting more customers. Price: According to a survey in which five hotels were considered, our hotel had the most economic rates. In fact our rates have been same the whole year round. Not only this, our room tariff is the same for the whole week even. Other hotels increase their tariff during the weekends. This gesture of our hotel has helped us in generating more customers. Our occupancy rate in the last month was 68.2% for weekdays and 68.23% on weekends. For the same month, the second highest occupancy rate amongst the five hotels was 56.42% for weekdays and 55.47% on weekends. Our market share was 26.41% for weekdays and 26.95% for weekends, by the end of first year. Product: Hospitality is the only product of any hotel. Hospitality includes service, cleanliness, the quality of food and beverages, and comfort. We have never compromised on the cleanliness and the quality of our food and beverages. Manpreet Singh expressed his views, “The fine accommodation and service are provided to the guest so they are pleased with the hotel. The guest satisfaction is its primary object and the hygiene factor must always be present in the hotel.” (Singh). But due to remarkable decrease in our hotel’s profits, the management hasn’t been able to invest in the refurbishment of the hotel. But we have always strived hard to sustain this slump in the business. We give more attention to the cleanliness and maintenance so that things don’t look weary. Promotion: Until June, we had no sort of advertisement. Even then the occupancy rate of our hotel was the highest. This was possible because of the “word of mouth” publicity. But in spite of this, our hotel was makin