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How we can reduce the yellow pages The use of internet Yellow pages reduces the use of printed yellow pages. In fact, with proper employee training, the business owners are assured of approximately 300% ROI for $12,000 modest investment (Amanda 2008). Switching to online yellow pages is a move that promotes a paperless society that is environmentally friendly. After all, since the year 2007, print usage of the yellow pages stagnated at 13.4 billion according to Punjabi M. K. et al. (2008). This corresponds to a declining 87 per cent of people in the United States using the Print Yellow Pages since 2007. Thus, the use of online yellow pages proves that they are cheap, convenient and environmentally friendly. In fact, not only this fact results in a paperless society because it also encourages green computing where papers and energy are conserved. Use of opt-in and opt-out strategy advances to reduce or ban print yellow pages delivery. For example, in San Francisco, one is required to opt-in in order to receive the print yellow pages; otherwise, such deliveries are banned since passage of the ordinance. The development of an online advertising campaign to search for engines as well as the internet yellow pages is significant in this endeavor. According to the report filed in the year 2000 (see Appendix), the use of online search engines resulted in 67 per cent including online yellow pages. On the other hand, the printed yellow pages had a response of 55 per cent as compared against the cost, convenience and user friendness (Chiras 2009). Ultimately, as it is suggested by Boutin (2011), 80 per cent of the directory costs are saved if yellow pages are recycled. The waste reduction initiative will cuts down on paper and yellow pages consumption by 25% compared to other newspapers covering 70 per cent. How we can expand online books rather than bookstores The online books are more accessible and interactive than the books in printed form at the bookstores. According to English.news.cn (Guanqun 2011), about 98 per cent of internet browsers experience stress-free access to any online books. The need to increase online books is essential in correspondence to the high level of interactive as the books range from audio books, practice books, videos and word definitions. One can expand the online books over bookstores through indexing service. Immense steps have been undertaken by Eat Your Books to upload over 88,000 books coupled with 2000 indexed volumes. Online surfers just indicate in the site that books are theirs, thus, enabling them to have an access to a great variety of books. This builds a virtual bookshelf as an account for every user just like having a personal library or renting books from a bookstore. Online books enable readers to explore through millions of copyrighted books, browse passageways and buy copies. This was confirmed when Google paid $126 million (8.5 million pounds) to build a Book Rights Registry. The Book Rights Registry enables authors and publishers to register books and get reimbursement from the sale of books. Again, one
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Joanne Greenberg in 1964. The book tells the story of the disease, treatment, and recovery of a sixteen-year-old girl. Through this girl’s story, Greenberg shows readers how the difficulties, abuse, and pain experienced by an individual throughout life can affect his or her psychological state. In the case of the main character of the novel, Deborah Blau, a continual feeling of shame and a perception of the world’s hostility results in the development of schizophrenia, as the girl is not able to cope with the severe challenges she faces every day; instead, she has created the imaginary reality of Yr, which shelters Deborah from life’s misfortunes. The girl’s disease is caused by many factors including her family relationships, an early and painful tumor surgery, and so on. However, the girl’s frequent exposure to anti-Semitic assaults from her peers and neighbors contribute the most to her development of schizophrenia. Therefore, this paper will analyze how this mistreatment and abuse influence the ways in which Deborah’s mental illness expresses itself. The novel starts at the point when Deborah’s parents take her to a mental hospital after she has attempted to commit suicide. Once the treatment commences, Deborah’s interior world starts to reveal itself slowly. She tells Dr. Fried about Yr and her private experiences. Yr is a world in the parallel reality that is inhabited by many gods and demons. In that world, Deborah goes by the name of Januce, which is inspired by the figure of two-faced Janus, because she feels like she has a face in each of the two worlds. There exist a specific hierarchy and order in Yr. Moreover, its inhabitants speak their own language and live according to the Secret Calendar. Deborah has been strictly forbidden to let anyone on Earth know about Yr’s existence. The responsibility for controlling her speech and actions has been given to a Censor whose power has grown over time and imposes greater constraints on Deborah. However, at first, Yr served as a shelter where Deborah could hide: “The gods of Yr had been companions – secret, princely sharers of her loneliness. In camp, where she had been hated; in school, where strangeness set her apart more and more as the years went on, Yr had grown wider for her as the solitude deepened. Its gods were laughing, golden personages whom she would wander away to meet, like guardian spirits” (Greenberg 52). In this way, the inhabitants of YR have been created in Deborah’s mind as a result of estrangement. They are meant to fulfill her needs for communication, emotional relationships, understanding, acceptance, and love. This interior reality can be regarded as an elaborated psychological coping mechanism. In Yr, Deborah can find all the answers to questions that cannot be answered in normal reality and, in this way, she can somehow rationalize her current position and circumstances. Deborah has never known what real friendship is. It seems that the people around her are hostile to her most of the time. It all starts when the family moves to a higher-class neighborhoo
In any modern organisation, the existence of social welfare is paramount. Social welfare is in man’s nature. Social welfare is about how people and societal institutions seek to provide set basic standards as well as certain minimum opportunities for its people. It is about the quality of life that affects access to essential social services. The survival of man as an individual is dependent on the associations he forms with others. Man cannot survive on his own and therefore forms associations with others to ensure continuity of his species. In the primitive society, traditions and customs played a major role to ensure that family ties are maintained in order to ensure cooperation for the collective needs of the society. In today’s modern society such ties are slowly fading away and the society has put in institutions of governance to achieve the same. Society through institutions in government has laid down the necessary machinery including institutions of public finance to achieve that. Under such initiatives social services such as provision of medical services, security, Public health, provision of education, child welfare, provision of education and so on. It is therefore the role of the state government to ensure that the economic as well as the social well being of all its subjects. This is premised on the principle of equitable distribution of resources in society, equal opportunities for all as well as taking responsibility for those individuals who are unable to provide the basic minimum for themselves. With the fall of communism and the society has become increasingly capitalistic there has been a greater need to amerce wealth for each individual. Money has become pivotal in ensuring social welfare. This has lead to the constant pull and push between the haves and the have not’s, the employer and his employees , the bourgeoisie and the proletariat and so on in an effort of each individual guarantying their own personal wellbeing. In the past many considered social welfare as a private concern but in today’s modern world social welfare cuts across all divides of society and has found its place in public debates. Social welfare is largely affected by global trends such as globalization. Another issue that affects social welfare too is a states aging population as well as a state decline in fertility rates. The above concerns present a challenge to state economies that continue to sustain social welfare programmes. As a trend that affects the world over Globalisation is one that o state can ignore. Any economy that would still like to compete in the global market with other states that do not have to incur the burden of social spending tax. In order to continue sustaining their economies and supporting viable projects such states must completely eliminate all social commitments. In many industrial nations their population is aging therefore most of the social welfare p
Background A piece of research is always geared towards achieving specific objectives in a specific area of knowledge. According to Hakim (2000, p. 85), a piece of research will always be focused on giving more insights on a given topic within a specified period of time. In this research, the researcher was interested in conducting a comprehensive research on the market conditions in the electronic industry. The researcher is planning to uncover some of the prevailing conditions of the market of the electronics in the past few years in order to be in a position to predict the future market. This research will also uncover the level of competition in this industry globally, and in order to put this into perspective, the researcher will use Apple in as a reference firm in this industry. This research is worth the effort that will be put into it. The electronic industry is one of the fastest developing industries in the world. The electronics are changing the way of life of the humankind. It is therefore important to conduct a research in this field in order to uncover some facts about the development in this industry. This research will specifically focus on the development of this industry, and the competition firms in the industry face. As Andrzej & Buchaman (2007) say, the electronic industry is one of the most dynamic industries, and therefore, a frequent research will be vital in helping the players in this industry develop. This research will be supporting the argument that the electronic industry is one of the most competitive industries, but one with a huge potential that is yet to be achieved. The need to conduct this piece of research was necessitated by the fact that there are gaps in this field. Researchers are yet to respond to a number of facts in this industry. This research will uncover the basis of competition in this industry, its effect on different players, and how this may affect the future of the industry (McLaughlin & Aaker 2010, p. 82). The researcher intends to fill this gap. This piece of research will be conducted with a clear knowledge that other researchers have conducted research in this field and given their report based on their findings. This research will take into consideration the existing literatures in this field in order to avoid any form of duplication. The research will therefore be intended to develop on the existing literatures in order to give more insight into th
A general problem with school curriculum can be seen in the contrasts of generalization and individualization. In that regard, one of the factors that were mentioned in regard to the expansion of homeschooling was the ability to present the materials to students individually, and according to their abilities. Additionally, that factor implies the ability for the students to be assessed accordingly. Although the category of students with different abilities is an aspect that is hard for standardization in the school curriculum, students with disabilities that affect their performance are in a different category. In that regard, Texas was the first state to approve modified academic achievement standards and alternate assessments that have accommodations specific to students with disabilities. This paper analyzes the modified testing for a student with disabilities (TAKS-M), along with the possible impact on other states. An important aspect that should be mentioned in regard to TAKS-M is the requirements set by the Texas education board. The importance of such aspects can be derived from the main concern of such assessment, which is the possibility of discrimination. Thus, if taking such modification as larger print, it might affect the grading process, whereas simpler vocabulary and fewer answer choices can be seen as controversial. In that regard, an important requirement in participation criteria is the student’s maintenance of grade-level lower than the proficiency demonstrated by multiple valid measures of evidence. In that regard, the assessment of the impact of such assessment modification should be seen from the perspective that these scores will facilitate students’ assessment rather than raising the average score of academic achievement. In such a case, it can be seen that the accountability rating for 2009, based on the TAKS test, the Completion Rate I for the class of 2008, and the 2007-08 annual dropout rate, is not including the TAKS-M assessment scores. Accordingly, measures of improvements, based on which other states might follow in implementing such assessment system, can be seen through Texas Projection Measures (TPM), which can be seen to take in effect in 2010, where the projections taken in 2009 will be assessed. In that regard, in 2010 TAKS assessments will be combined with TAKS accommodated, and thus the total overview of the effectiveness of the new assessment system can be outlined and measured. Additionally, in such a case it can be predicted that the accountability rating in 2010 will be raised as it can be assumed that in addition to TAKS assessment measures, the dropout of the students receiving special education will decrease. It can be summarized, that the direction taken in Texas is an important step toward the appreciation of the special requirements of students with disabilities in education. The effectiveness of such a system, once assessed, will serve as a leading example for the other states to follow. The usage of the theoretical and practical framework might serve as a case study, where even if some modifications will be required, wil
Introduction There are a number of companies in the health care industry which are publicly traded in the New York Stock Exchange. The two companies that will analyzed are AMN Healthcare and Alliance Healthcare Services Inc. Both companies operate in the USA. The analysis of the companies will be based on the concepts of production, marketing, forecasting, supply and demand. Alliance HealthCare Services is one of the well-known providers of outpatient radiation therapy and diagnostic imaging services. The company is focused on gaining high revenues and improving of the incorporated systems. The company applies the PET/CT, MRI and CT technologies with the help of its imaging departments, while the oncology department investigates the impact of radiation on the development of tumors. Production AMN Healthcare has been offering high quality services to many clients across the globe. The services have made the reputation of the company go higher on frequent basis, besides attracting others. Therefore, many products which are being produced and the services being offered have been appreciated from time to time by many loyal clients. The company has integrated service system and offers the services of skilled physicians and nursing staff. It is important to mention that the company offers only highly skilled staff who are trained on a regular basis to ensure high quality and match the hospital objectives and goals (Lubitz & Wickramasinghe 2006). Alliance healthcare The company is known as one of the major producers of diagnostic mobile imaging services and leading operators of fixed imaging centers. It operates more than 30 radiation therapy centers including around 15 stereo static radio surgery facilities. A number of these services are provided by various local community hospitals and partners. As a result, high-quality treatment can be achieved within a relatively short period (Lubitz & Wickramasinghe, 2006). Marketing AMN Healthcare has been one of the largest providers of comprehensive healthcare services. In addition, the company policies allow to come up with efficient workforce solutions. Being one of the leading providers of travel nurse services, locum tenens staffing and physician permanent placement services, AMN has been solving the issues arising in the course of working with clients for quite long. The company used to focus on one-on-one marketing in order to improve the customer base. Most of the organizations have found it useful when it comes to the provision of workforce. Alliance healthcare services Alliance has real experience when it comes to the outsourcing medical information given its number of experts and professionals employed. Marketing in the compan
The article written by Jeffrey Sachs is aimed at discussing the policies of the Western governments in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. One of the main arguments that the author advances is that the military, political, and economic intervention into such countries as Libya, Iran, Mali, or Sudan will not bring any substantial benefits to the citizens of these states. More importantly, the writer believes that this strategy will not serve political or economic interests of the United States, the United Kingdom, France or other countries that currently attempt to overthrow various autocratic or totalitarian regimes and spend billions of dollars in order to achieve this goal (Sachs unpaged). Certainly, it is possible to accept some of the ideas expressed by Jeffrey Sachs, especially the belief that military campaigns will not eradicate poverty, diseases, or violence in African or Middle-Eastern countries. Nevertheless, the author does not take into account the complexity of international relations in these regions, their culture, and their colonial history. Each of these factors should be considered by policy-makers. This is why the analysis that Jeffrey Sachs provides is not complete. In his article, Jeffrey Sachs argues the policies of the Western countries are driven by the need to get access to the sources of energy, namely oil. To some extent, this objective can explain the economic or military campaigns against Libya, Iran or Iraq (Sachs unpaged). However, Jeffrey Sachs does not mention that the countries in the Middle East are not unanimous. For example, such countries as the UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia supported the war against Muammar Gaddafi and his regime (Beydoun 29). More importantly, the Arab League agreed with the necessity to intervene into the civil war in Libya (Beydoun 29; Vandewalle 23). This is one of the issues that are overlooked by Jeffrey Sachs in his discussion. One should be taken into account that oil-states in the Middle East compete with one another in terms of political or economic influence in the region. Thi
The Linux Operating System is a general term that refers to a Unix-like Operating System and it is based on Linux kernel. This system was developed by Linus Torvalds along with other developers all over the world. It is a part of the Open Source Project as we can use, modify and redistribute all of its underlying source codes. We learn that Linux is highly flexible and offers a long-term and completely future-proof strategic platform for us and that the Linux platform is supported by most of the major middleware and server vendors. The Linux Operating System is completely based on open architectures and standards. Linux is simply not just a world-renowned operating system but also provides an attractive overall cost of ownership and choice that benefits us a lot. The best part about Linux is that even we can constantly integrate and develop its leading-edge technologies by adding our codec and practices to it making it a forward-looking platform. Linux was released and developed under GNU General Public License. The Linux kernel is the base on which the operating system has been developed and within a decade it has been accepted as a primary software platform. Another important feature about Linux that we learn is that this operating system can directly be incorporated into microchips by embedding it and used in various devices and appliances. (CGS, 2008) Project Linux From Scratch or LFS provides us with gradual instructions to build our very own personalized Linux operating system from the source. IBM, on the other hand, designs and plans various Linux implementations, helps to migrate to Linux from other platforms, develops and distributes Linux installations, and supports and manages the production of Linux environments. Thus, if we learn Linux from LFS we would only know how to build a customized Linux operating system but IBM offers a far greater coverage of Linux. As IBM supports Linux on all of its middleware, storage and servers it offers the widest flexibility and power of Linux to support our needs. Although LFS teaches us about the internal workings of a Linux operating system, IBM offers us a number of its middleware solutions along with more than 500 software applications that ca
Introduction Public health professionals and epidemiologists must implement powerful models to deal with various diseases and conditions affecting communities. The use of the problem, etiology, recommendations, implementation, and evaluation (P.E.R.I.E.) approach has empowered many human services professionals to address a wide range of diseases affecting mankind. The process begins by examining the nature of the problem or disease, identifying every potential cause, brainstorming strategies to deal with the issue, and outlining best approaches to ensure adequate initiatives are put in place. This paper applies this approach to the obesity epidemic. Description Broyles et al. (2015) define “obesity” as a disorder identified by excessive fat in the body. The risk factors for the condition include genetic/family history, lack of exercise, sedentary lifestyle, and being overweight. The disease is caused by the consumption of excessive food and lack of physical exercise. The main symptom of this condition is the presence of fat in the body (Salas, 2015). According to the World Health Organization (WHO), obesity affects over 1.2 billion adults globally (Silva, Padez, Moura, & Filgueiras, 2016). In 2016, the organization reported that around 39 percent of persons above the age of 40 were overweight (Silva et al., 2016). Over 13 percent of the world’s population is obese (Silva et al., 2016). The number of overweight children has been on the rise since 1990. These statistics explain why obesity is a major public health problem that must be addressed using evidence-based approaches. Epidemiological Transition and Evidence-Based Public Health The term “epidemiological transition” refers to a phase characterized by a sudden surge in population growth and then followed by re-leveling of the population (Fildes et al., 2015). Such changes are usually catalyzed by medical innovations and a reduction in fertility rates. The model has also been expanded to describe how various infectious diseases are replaced by chronic conditions due to changes in public health. This model is embraced by epidemiologists because it empowers them to analyze a wide range of issues such as economic positions, sociological determinants, and demographics.