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Introduction Apple business is an international company in the United States of America established in the month of April 1976 in the state of California However, it waited until its incorporation in 1977 to start its operations. The business main activity is designing and marketing of electronics. In addition, it designs computer software as well as manufacturing of personal computers. Some of its famous products include Macintosh computers, iPad, iPod, and iPhone. Apple business has significantly distinguished itself through its distinctive and appropriate advertisement c and its philosophy that aims at promoting comprehensive designs of aesthetics. Due to these strategies, Apple’s reputation has been unique in the industry. Company’s Financial Statements Based on the financial analysis of the financial years from 2007 to 2010, it is evident that year after the other the company experiences a positive financial growth. Emphatically focusing on the financial year ended on 26 September 2009 and that ended on 25 September 2010, it is evident that the financial trend of the company indicates an impressive growth. The revenue, for instance, grew from $42.9billion to $65.2billion between 2009 and 2010, which represents a 51% rise in revenue. The profits rose to $25684.0 from $17,220 in the same year, which translates to 49% increase in profits. A significant notable move is the company’s ability to reduce the sales expenses. In fact, the company reduced income tax related expenses from 8.9% to 6.9% within the same period. This eventually contributed to increased net income growth to $14.0 billion from $8.2 billion, which was quite impressive for the company. Looking into the Balance sheet, the company is experiencing very little debt on capital. This means that, the company may have less financial risks than the overall aggregate of electronic industry. There is however notable inefficiency on the receivables due to the company’s inability to collect its debts in time. The company’s inventory management is also wanting as indicated by the 6.93 days of value of goods sold within the inventories. On the company’s cash flow, it is satisfying as there is withholding of accountability of cash. There is sufficient support for utilization of this cash; hence, there is no likelihood of unaccounted funds. Operational Cash also shows an increasing trend with a good example being the increase from $10,159 in 2009 financial year to $18,595 in the year 2010 financial year. It is also notable that the company is using the cash-out to purchase capital, thereby contributing to the expansion of the company’s operations. Finally, it is also clear that net cash after deductions of cash out is positive except that of year 2009, which the company recovered in more than double in the following year. Areas of concern In the company’s
Introduction Healthcare organizations in Australia and over the globe develop with a focus on social and environmental awareness. As a result, much attention is paid to developing effective supply chain management systems. In this context, green supply chain management is an environmentally friendly approach that consists of “green purchasing, green manufacturing/material management, green distribution/marketing and reverse logistic process” (Özkan, Akyürek & Toygar 2016, p. 289). Additional research on achieving green supply chains in Australian hospitals with the help of ISO 14001 and 9001 standards is required. Field and Aims of Research Supply chain management in Australian healthcare organizations is selected as an area for this research. Hospitals in Australia experience problems with implementing efficient supply chain strategies and current systems are characterized by complexity and high costs (Bhakoo, Singh & Sohal 2012). The development of green supply chain management based on ISO 14001 and 9001 standards can be viewed as an important step to support Australian hospitals. Thus, healthcare organizations can significantly benefit from applying green supply chain management because of reducing costs and environmental effects and achieving sustainability. The aim of this research is to demonstrate how green supply chain management grounded on applying ISO 14001 and 9001 standards can contribute to Australian hospitals’ sustainability while discussing the problem of scarcities, identifying factors that lead to developing an effective supply chain management system, and determining concrete procedures to follow, as well as challenges to resolve. The research questions formulated to address this aim are the following ones:  1. What is the significance of implementing green supply chain management in Australian hospitals?  2. What are the main benefits of implementing a green supply chain management system in Australian hospitals and challenges connected with this change? Significance of Research This research is significant because it will provide answers to the set questions and contribute to the discussion of possibilities for Australian hospitals to implement green supply chain management based on ISO 14001 and 9001 standards. Although this approach to environmental management is viewed as beneficial, there are still certain issues associated wi
Under the PPD-21, the owners of the critical infrastructure will work with the government to hasten the process of strengthening the national critical infrastructure in terms of the much needed security. The debilitating impact of the prevailing cyber hazards will also be addressed by the operators, SLTT, and the government (Lyle, 2013). These are different from the action plans given in the attachment. However, both policies note that the international partners will also work with the government to boost the security of the critical cyber infrastructure located within and outside the United States of America. The federal government shall use three main strategic imperatives to strengthen cyber infrastructure. These imperatives include clarifying and refining the functional relationships that are vital to the federal government in fostering cyber security. This differs with the action plans. Under the executive Order 13636 section 4, the president noted that the cyber security information sharing is a vital tool that the US government will be using as an action plan to fight against the cyber threats within its borders (US Department of Defense, 2013). This is an outstanding similarity with the action plans depicted in sections 5.0-5-3 of the attached document. Although guidance and policy coordination are similar in both cases, dispute resolution as suggested by the PPD-21 does not appear under the action plans 5.0-5.3 (The White House, 2013). Building and extending the cyber domain of
Dealing with the racial issues is not an easy task, especially when it comes to discussing the relationships between the Native Americans and the people who moved to American in search for new opportunities and the need to try his/her luck. The sad outcomes of these relationships have become notorious not only in American history but also all over the world. The inability to compromise and to find the common language with the natives has been discussed countless times; therefore, another discussion will not add any more novelty. The specifics of the relationships between the white and the native [population of the American continent as it was portrayed in novels, however, is worth close attention. For example, in Last of the Mohicans, a movie adaptation of Fenimore Cooper’s cycle about the Mohicans, the Frontier in the Last of the Mohicans symbolizes the contradictory relationships between the Natives and the colonists, showing that, no matter what steps might be taken by both parties, neither of them will ever be able to cross the barrier between the two and stay alive. With the help of rather evident symbolism, Mann manages to create the concept that defines the course of the entire movie. Being an inanimate object, the Frontier seizes the audience’s attention by showing them how the Frontier, an inanimate object, becomes one of the leading characters in the movie. It must be admitted that the movie offers considerably less ambiguity than the book. While in the novel, it is easier to show the dilemma between making friends and making war, in the movie, the given highlights are somewhat blurred. As a result, the audience gets a rather one-sided picture concerning the way in which th
Introduction This study provides a critique of a research paper called Personality and Psychology Bulletin by Davis Mellor. The paper was a research study encompassing 34 respondents from the aboriginal community (Mellor, 2003, p. 473). The research focused on analyzing racial experiences by the Australian aboriginal community. Its findings were largely based on the premise that racism occurred at many levels of social interaction and because many researchers have neglected the victim’s point of view, the analysis of racism on Australia’s aboriginal community has been largely incomplete. The paper therefore sought to analyze how the aboriginal communities, who are the victims of racism in this case, perceive racism. This study provides a selective analysis of the paper. Methodologies Used To obtain the racial experiences of the participants, a questionnaire was used to record the in depth experiences of the participants. Parts of the interviews undertaken were recorded in audio format through a tape recorder so that the respondents would be more relaxed in giving their responses. The interviews were structured in an open ended manner but were also semi structured to tabulate data relating to the examination of racial experiences of the respondents, their feelings towards racists experiences and an analysis of the respondents’ answers. The data was later analyzed through the NUD*IST software which categorized various similar elements to come up with specific categories of racial variables. This system was also used to come up with racial subcategories which summed up the derived racial behaviors in totality. Why the Methodology Was Used The above methodology was used because it was a quantitative technique of obtaining data, arising from the sole fact that racial analysis is a qualitative subject. The methodology also enabled the research to have a descriptive element of racism. However, the biggest motivator for Mellor to use this methodology was so that he could be able to make sense of massive volumes of data and deduce significant patterns that best conceptualized the essence to which the data was meant to expose. In addition, the methodology enabled accurate collection of data because respondents were questioned from their own home environments. Conclusions Drawn From the Study It was conclude
Introduction Abuse is one of the factors considered to have discouraged physically challenged students from pursuing their academic careers. They keep off from school activities because they are unable to support themselves physically and emotionally. Following these difficulties, college students have taken an initiative of ensuring that they consult with courts in order to enjoy their freedoms in institutions of high learning, such as colleges. Disabled students have a number of rights owing to their physical conditions. Statistics show that an approximated 140142 students are disabled, which represents nine percent. Disable students have launched complaints successfully, which have allowed them to force colleges to conform to the provisions of the court. In 1973, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act was passed, which empowered the disabled students to exercise their rights without the fear of retribution. In 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed into law. The passage of the bill forced all institutions of high learning to implement policies aimed at bettering the lives of the disabled (Borich, 2007). Legal Protection of Students with Disabilities The Fourteenth Amendment was the only bill that catered for the interests of the disabled in society. Disabled individuals were treated in the same way as minorities. In 1973, the law was enacted, which allowed the disabled students to launch a complaint with the federal court in case the school administration failed to provide sufficient support to the physically challenged. However, the law provides that the claimant should be qualified to be termed as a disabled person. In 1979, the Supreme Court ruled that a student should not be admitted into a nursing program since she was not qualified to take part in the program. In the Southern Community College v. Davis, 1979, the school administration claimed that the student who had hearing impairment could not be admitted because there were no specified accommodations for deaf students. The student had requested that the college provides specialized services, including hiring a full-time tutor for her. The college complained that it would be forced to compromise with quality before admitting the student into the program. In the County of Los Angeles v. Kling, 1985 case, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the college because there were no affirmative action plans in the 1973 law. However, there were some developments in 1985 because the court ruled that disabled students could participate in programs in which they qualified. On the other hand, the standards governing the program could not be changed. Admissions Some preadmission activities regulate students from taking a particular course. These activities
The author of this novel, Kate Chopin, was brought up in an intellectual environment and was aware of the marital problems that were experienced during the Victorian period. ‘The Awakening’ is a novel that is written in the Victorian society which is patriarchal. This is a very strict society that has prejudiced conventions that women are supposed to adhere to. The Victorian society puts great emphasis on a rigid set of requirements that women should hold on to unlike their male counterparts who do not have much to do. Women are expected to be ideal wives, devoted mothers, and competent performers in anything. The story talks about the expedition of Edna Pontellier who is both a mother and a wife. The novel begins when Edna, is on vacation together with her family on Grand Isle. It is here that Edna begins to be reawakened. She meets a man Robert Lebrun, who reignites her sexual desire, becomes a good swimmer, and revives her love for painting. She also gets some female friends who also influence her awakening. These women include Mademoiselle Reisz and Madame Ratignolle ( Chopin 841 ) . After going back home, she starts ignoring most of the conventions within her society and carries on with painting, from where she gets her income which contributes to her financial independence. Consequently, she buys a house and runs away from her husband, Involves herself in another affair, and gets back with Lebrun who eventually departs her. This leads to her ultimate death in Grand Isle where she drowns herself. In general, ‘The Awakening’ points at the societal patriarchal stereotypes that call for women to surrender themselves to their husbands and depend upon their financial support while being truthful to them. These conventions also demand that women should put their kids’ interests above their own. To start with, Edna finds herself caught up between her strong desire to be free and the preconceived patriarchal ideologies within her society. She seems to admire her friend Madame Ratignolle’s conformity to the societal ideologies, but chooses not to adhere to them. Women are portrayed to be blinded by the limitations of their gender identities. The novel uses a lot of symbolism in order to bring out the issue of gender in the society. For instance, the title of Chopin’s novel ‘The Awakening’ is highly symbolic. It connotes the many ways in which Edna who
Concurrency control methods used in database management systems When it comes to defining the best concurrency control methods, one must give credit to the optimistic (validation) one since it prevents a company from facing a deadlock (Topi &Tucker, 2014). The approach in question allows for blocking a transaction from occurring once it fails to pass a certain stage. Dismissing the given strategy, a company may fail to track down the factors that cause transactions to fail and, therefore, overlook some of the major obstacles. Particularly, the distributed locking technique (Topi &Tucker, 2014) should be used as it helps introduce different locks at the existing sites and, thus, make data sharing more flexible. The refusal from DLT and the adoption of the uniform approach make the process of database management less convoluted yet jeopardizes the security of the entire data system. For instance, the specified method can be used in case a company has several affiliates and, therefore, several databases with the corresponding data. Once the decentralized strategy is used, the members of each department will be able to navigate the data related to their area. Consequently, less confusion will occur. Primary decisions in the database administration To manage the data that grows consistently, a database manager must use the strategy that will help arrange the incoming information and process it fast. Particularly, the information processing tools, including the ones for arranging data based on its value, the identification of its mean, median, and mode, the basic statistical analysis (e.g., standard deviation identification), etc. must be conducted. To facilitate data integrity, one should consider the tools such as PeopleSoft ( Data integrity tools , 2015) and the related software. In addition, one must consider making security tighter by introducing a system of passwords and ID tools. Last but definitely not least, the basic security principles such as non-disclosure of corporate data to the third parties must be reinforced in the organization. Reference List Data integrity tools . (2015). Web. Topi, H., &Tucker, A. (2014). Computing handbook, third edition: Information systems and information technology (3rd ed.). New York City, New York: CRC Press.
In September 2008, Mr. George H. Starke, Jr., who was the first black student to join the University of Florida, at the Levin College of Law, visited Gainesville to join the black students there, to celebrate the 50th year after this institution of higher learning accepted his representation of the Black community. In the subsequent years, the gates of the University of Florida were opened to the blacks and over 12000 black students have completed graduation here. Ten years after his success, the black students and faculty started African American studies which dealt with the cultural, social, and psychological experiences of the black students in several universities. (The global economy: In search of green shots, 2009). The discrimination faced by immigrant students is not limited to a single place or university. This paper discusses the marginalization of black students in Canadian educational institutions. With the development and technological improvement of mass communication, the world as a whole has been brought closer. Global migration improved, as a result of which every field of work and study has foreign people in it. Giddens (1990) and Robertson (1990, 1997), define globalization as a “dialectical process because it does not bring about a generalized set of changes acting in a uniform direction, but consists in mutually opposed tendencies.” (Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies, p.3). At present, America, being a favorite place among the students, receives a lot of international students from its schools and universities. The educational institutions which had male dominance in the earlier times, now consist of girls and working students. Besides, ethnic and cultural diversities can be seen due to the increasing number of foreign students. However, this has led to racial and ethnic discrimination and prejudice towards the immigrants by the dominant groups. Often, these people are helpless because they form only a minority in society. The recurring problems faced by international students have resulted in a decline in their number. They face a lot of psychological and social problems from their ignorant teachers and fellow students who dominate society. The blacks are one of the most marginalized groups in Canada based on race, color, and cultural differences. The students’ identities are denied as a result of such injustice done to them by the dominant white students. In discussing this topic, it is important to understand what exactly is meant by the term identity. “As a category, identity announces who we are and calls upon notions of nation, class, gender, and ethnicity… identity is a process of making identifications, a process that is continuous and incomplete.” (Mapping the field, p.13). The present educational system supports racial and cultural discrimination against
Apple can be termed as one of the most beneficial corporations in the world by analyzing its financial records for the last 3 years. Corporations like Apple are driven towards the success ladder by a combination of strategic policies and business models, organized management teams, and the ability to obtain various competitive advantages’ variables over their rivals. It is not a surprise to find out that Apple Inc. once had more money in its bank reserves than the US government in the year 2009 (Kerzner, 10). Inspite of the previous successes that have been steered by several variables amongst the ones mentioned above, Apple Inc. has had its fair deal of issues originating from its business models and inspirations to other organizations. However, some of the operational challenges or rather risks facing Apple include the death of its former CEO, Steve Jobs; equity of technological abilities by corporations like Samsung, and availability of alternative devices like its ID products like the iPhone, the iPad, and the MacBook. Death of Steve Jobs The late former CEO and founder of Apple Inc. was one of the people who created the initial Apple Computers Inc. back in 1974. Apple was not one the most promising corporations even in later dates like 1997. However, the fact that bigger names like IBM and Microsoft were leading in the computer business, Apple was steered towards success through the implementation of strategic approaches to the market. The market Apple had survived on from 1974 to 2004 was computer and software based (Hoerl and Snee, 72). However, Steve Jobs rebranded the corporation to Apple Inc. and invested in business ideas that diversified the company’s business approach (Black, Wright, & Davies, 201). With mobile phone and handheld computer tablets introduced in the Apple’s range of products, Apple Inc. was able to compete effectively with organizations like Nokia and Samsung who seemed to dominate the mobile phone arena. With Steve Jobs being the man behind Apple’s success for the last six to seven years, it is evident that most of what is traded by the organization right now, iPad HD and iPhone 4S, were the former CEO’s ideas and projects. Inspite of how much sales these ID products are selling right now, the market share held by Apple Inc. would probably demand for newer technologies in time. The current CEO may be qualified enough but towards the end of the first year after taking office, no major products have sprung from Apple. The Absence of Steve Jobs in the Apple executive officials may not be a real threat to Apple Inc. However, Apple Inc. is now a large corporation trading shares at the price range of above $ 590. This means that Apple, if it were and animal, it would be at the top of the food chain. The risk of having Steve Jobs permanently out of Apple’s strategic team is the possibility of decline in the corporation’s value. Mediocre products that Steve avoided bringing to the market, may start surfacing if the current executive branc