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General electric’s innovation of energy storage tech-mechanism epitomizes ingenuity on a whole new paradigm. That it is geared towards alleviating the threat posed by carbon disposal into the atmosphere makes it absolutely invaluable to major efforts employed worldwide to fight environmental degradation. Its timing would not be more impeccable especially when industrial producers and economic magnates strive to devise strategies to reduce production costs yet maintaining environmentally friendly industrial processes. Even more significantly, the current wake of skyrocketing power consumption against the corresponding below par power supply, calls for immediate response methods for provision of sufficient power without directly or otherwise posing any risks to the environment; a feature characterizing global economic and environmental objectives (Scott, 2014). GE has introduced a battery technology dubbed Durathon Battery Energy Storage System to provide reliable and cost effective source of energy with extensive ability to store and recycle. The technology is built from the chemical knowledge of sodium and nickel. Sodium chloride disintegrates to produce sodium and chloride ions. Chloride ions combine with nickel to form a compound while sodium ions moved to the cathode electrode from the anode electrode (Galbraith, 2013). The reaction occurs the other way round during the discharge process where the sodium ions shift to the cathode reservoir through the separating plate. Self discharge is disabled by the ability of sodium ions to move across the alumina separator, whilst the electrons are not able to. Every cell has a metal casing for sealing and they are all enclosed in a battery unit to ensure thermal insulation and external ambient temperature regulation to keep the range between 10 and 15 degrees centigrade. In addition, the energy saving system is designed to enable monitoring, management and control of its conditions during working. This makes it less susceptible to damage and ensures efficiency (Galbraith, 2013). The Durathon Battery Energy Storage System works to back grill energy and in turn reduce the energy bill owing to its immense ability to recycle energy, peak shaving and more importantly smoothing. Its use extends further to being ideal in application in electric vehicles. Furthermore, the energy storage system boasts the advantage of simplicity in installation and operation, the energy saving technology project can be rolled out in a pre-existing structural system for managing energy without incurring much extra costs (Galbraith, 2013). Figure 2 GE grid system integrated with an innovative energy storage and back-up system. Dubai is one of the fastest growing metropolises in the Middle East and indeed the entire world. However, the magnanimous urban growth proportions witnessed in the recent past have presented the United Arabs Emirates capital with much less alluring environmental challenges. As Jean-Francois Seznec, a professor at Georgetown University would pu
Pure Home Water (PHW) is an organization engaged in the production of special equipment to clean the drinking water. It was established to reach people living in Northern Ghana and provide them with water treatment and storage solutions. Importantly, PHW intends to provide low-income families with their equipment. The ultimate goal of the company is to become self-sustaining. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the company’s internal and external environment and its competencies. External Environment It should be noted that economic factors influence the business to a great degree. The purchasing power of buyers is rather low in this region, which is important due to the fact that the organization intends to address those people living in poverty (Nelson, Ingols, Christian-Murtie, & Myers, 2013). It is also complicated by the low literacy levels, which complicates the promotion of filters. Operational factors include the insufficiently developed technologies that hinder manufacturing of the commodity to the full capacity. Regarding the natural environment, it should be stressed that climate and physical terrain also pose particular barriers to the quicker customer outreach and product dissemination (Harrison & John, 2013). The climatic conditions have already adversely affected the productions in previous years, and the company had to reconsider its approach. Internal Environment Regarding the VRIO analysis, it should be stated that it reveals the actual competitive status of the organization. The value component of PHW implies having poor resources and capabilities. The staff is not qualified enough to perform the required functions, and they need constant supervision (Nelson et al., 2013). Therefore, it is rather difficult to sustain value while experiencing high employee turnover. In terms of rarity, the organization does not have effective human and technical resources. Therefore, it is rather difficult for PHW to achieve competitive edge. Imitability component implies having the preference among clients. Despite the existing competitors, PHW does have their loyalty since other options are less affordable for the customers. Regarding the organization, PHW provides cooperative environment to the staff and intends to maintain long-term relationships with employees and customers (Harrison & John, 2013). Thus, the internal competencies and capabilities of PHW cannot be considered strong. The main difficulty faced by the organization is inexperienced staff, which complicates the majority of other factors. SWOT It should be stressed that one of the main strengths is the actual demand for the PHW’s products. The main weaknesses include poor availability of skilled workers and illiteracy of customers (Nelson et al., 2013). The opportunities can be displayed in the possibility to reach greater market share while the climate and environmental barriers pose the gre
The documentary is targeting the general American public since it intends to uncover the underlying reason that enables Wal-Mart grow to greater height despite its policy of low prices. The film has succeeded in establishing this effect in its viewers by using several aspects such as visual elements, audio track, written text, testimonies from experts, and quantitative data. Wal-Mart is one of the very many success stories in America and for it to reach its current state and value, there has to be businesses and people whom it hurt along the way considering the fact that it is a retail store. The main focus of the film therefore is to expose the extent to which Wal-Mart has defied following the protocol of doing good business in the US and consequently hurt several people without the attention of anyone who can create a difference. As the film begins, a speech from the Wal-Mart’s president and chief executive officer is played. This speech forms the basis of the entire film as the president, Lee Scot, reiterates that the company has grown to be very important and there are only two things that they have to do: tell the Wal-Mart story and stay the course. By focusing on the negative things about Wal-Mart, the producer of the film was able to achieve the intended effect to the viewer based on the Wal-Mart story and staying the course. This basically means that Wal-Mart can do any sinister thing in order to stay on its course and covering it with the Wal-Mart story. With regards to competition, everywhere Wal-Mart has established its stores; small local businesses have been closed down due to lack of opportunities. Obviously they fail to match up Wal-Mart’s competitive edge of low prices. The film brings out this point using visual elements such as deserted streets with closed businesses that were once well established and began years before the entry of Wal-Mart into that particular market. It also uses testimonies from the local businessmen who were put out of business by Wal-Mart. In addition to the visual elements and the testimonies, the film develops a sound track that creates a moral attitude of sadness in the viewer. With regards to Wal-Mart’s associates, the focus of the film is on how the company mistreats them and puts them in situations where they have to choose between walking away or putting up with their pathetic work environment. The film even uses testimonies from experts such as former mangers of the company to testify how Wal-Mart steals overtime dues from its associates. To stay on course, store managers have
If there’s one film in 2010 which has an obviously misleading title, it is definitely this movie. The word “monsters” conjures up images which are frightful and terrifying, but viewing this film may actually be disappointing for the most part. The story is basically about a photojournalist sent to Mexico to babysit his boss’s daughter and assist her in getting back to the US. This takes place at a time when there is a barrier that had been set in place to contain the ‘creatures’ that have evolved from a plane that crashed in Central America carrying samples of alien life. The plot thickens when the circumstances force the lead characters to tread the “infected zone” in Mexico – the enclosed area supposed to be inhabited by alien creatures – in order to finally set foot in ‘safe’ US territory. A love angle sub-plot is also injected in the story to spice up the manner which this narrative unfolds. This film is said to have been created with a low budget, from the actors, to the set, to the special effects. This Gareth Edwards’ directorial debut film had a cast and crew of only 5 people – believe it or not. On a sad note however, it seems that not much time was devoted to developing the story because there is not much substance to start with. Not that it is a predictable or the usual run-of-the-mill alien chronicle or an actual based-on-a-true-story personal close encounter with an extraterrestrial. It has a simple plot about humans trying to cross a territory where unknown “creatures” abound, although mysteriously, only the Mexicans are harmed and not the lead American characters. Even at the gasoline station where Sam and Andrew get to see 2 aliens up close, the main characters are left unharmed and the creatures just walk away after doing some kind of mating ritual. Director Gareth Edwards makes use of black and white footage in the beginning of the film, which at the end of the movie, is revealed as actually what happens after the lead characters are rescued by American soldiers from the gasoline station they sited nearest the Mexican border. What happens next is supposed to be a flashback of Sam and Andrew’s story. The production design is convincing. The destruction and deaths related to the creatures are overtly manifested with the uniformed soldiers, the fighter planes soaring the skies, the tanks roaming the city, the destroyed buildings, ruined cars dumped on trees, dead people sprawled on the road, the deserted towns and cleared roads among others. In sailing the lake and crossing the forest en route to the US, Sam and Andrew’s first encounter with the aliens are equally as spooky, and their escorts, who, despite being experts in these areas, surprisingly failed to protect themselves, leaving the lead characters on their own. Most of the encounters with aliens take place at night – perhaps to add more drama and evoke fear among the viewers. The eggs lain by
Presently, tourism is known to be one of the biggest, yet dynamic and a very fast growing sector, which has many economical benefits (Batta, 2000). Because of the high returns, substantial amount of foreign currency flow in a country, crucial infrastructures, and other amenities develop, and modern educational experiences take place rapidly affecting the economy of any given country. No doubt, tourism has contributed to both social and economical growth of many countries worldwide. For a number of well-developed countries such as France and Switzerland among others, tourism has been one of the greatest factors, which have steered developments both in terms of social and economical spheres (Cooper et al. 2005). However, despite of numerous developments brought by tourism, it also has the potential to cause many problems, especially to the developing countries. According to most current statistics, tourism is a sector that has impacted world economy in a positive way. Statistics clearly show that tourism provides about ten percent (10%) of the total world income (Mitchel, 2009). In addition to this, it also provides jobs directly and indirectly to a tenth of the world’s labor force (Mitchel, 2009). Looking at this topic from the perspective of development, tourism is
Introduction The National Student Survey (NSS) was enforced in the year 2005 for all the Higher Educational Institutes (HEI) (Hewson 2011). NSS captures the performance and popularity of educational institutes and courses using the questionnaires’ data collected from the graduating final year students across different territories (Chalmers, Lee & Walker 2008). It comprises of 22 core questionnaires grouped under seven major categories to capture “Teaching”, “Assessment and Feedback”, “Academic Support”, “Organisation and Management”, “Learning Resources”, Personal Development”, and “Overall Satisfaction” (Surridge 2008; Douglas et al. 2015). These questionnaires provide students’ perspective on their experience during their study. Government agencies use this data to produce a performance table listing all the participating universities, and it also provides a league table listing positons of various subject groups within a University (Gibbons, Neumayer & Perkins 2013; Chevalier & Jia 2015). The performance league table provides a useful summary to the prospective undergraduate students which in turn help them to select a particular University and course (Hahessy et al. 2014). The University of Manchester (UoM) has been pushing frontiers of knowledge through its quality research and teaching works. In order to maintain itself among the eminent universities, UoM uses its three core goals as guiding line ( The University of Manchester’s strategic plan ; Georghiou 2015). The three core goals are:   * World class research,   * Outstanding learning and student experience,   * Social responsibility. UoM stresses to providing a quality learning experience to students as stated in its second goal. The same reflects in the Key Performance Indicator (KPI 6) which states the aim of the university: “To achieve sector benchmark for Q22 in the National Student Survey by 2015 and at least 90% student satisfaction by 2020, ensuring that the University is in the upper quartile of Russell Group institutions by then.” The student satisfaction level as measured by the NSS Q22 overall satisfaction questionnaire has increased from 3.9 in the year 2010 to 4.1 in the year 2016 (Figure 1). Though the NSS data from 2010 shows a consistent increase in the student satisfaction level of UoM, the University still falls behind in achieving 90% student satisfaction (HEFCE 2016). Attempts have been made to generate more general measuring index; some research works have suggested the at present NSS model only measure student satisfaction level of student studying in the course; it does not include other factors such as many students drop out of course. Nevertheless, efforts are being made to make NSS a comprehensive survey. The score in NSS impact inflow of new students into a given University. Therefore, UoM needs to ensure constant improvement in student satisfaction level. This report presents a analytical view on results published from the year 2010-2016. This report investigates the NSS data from the year 2010 to 2016, with the primary aim to propose methods to achieve the KPI6 2020. In this regard, this study interprets
Despite the intention to create an equal society, many Canadian and American communities experience difficulties in understanding and accepting their ethnic identities. People lose their families, move from one country to another, make new achievements, and share their stories. In 1973, Maria Campbell published her autobiographical novel Halfbreed about the destiny of Métis women and the generation of Métis people, in general. She wrote that people “were not prepared to settle down to an existence of continual hardship, scratching out a scanty living from the land” (Campbell 10). However, their challenges properly determined them as “they felt shame, and with shame the loss of pride and the strength to live each day” (Campbell 10). The story represents discrimination and inequality as the main sources of Indigenous people suffering, which leads to creating a nation of solid fighters and survivors. It is not enough for the author to grumble about unfair judgments and opportunities but find solutions. Campbell’s Halfbreed is a narrative that reveals the power of poverty, discrimination, and injustice in relation to Métis families and women in particular and the way of how misery and strengths shape human life. Poverty remains a serious social disease in a healthy society caused by reduced access to resources, and Campbell describes its pathophysiology in Halfbreed . Most Métis people did not have a chance to change their lives because they were trapped in an accursed circle of inequality and cultural and societal degradation. The author explained that “poverty is not ours alone” and that many people, regardless of their race, gender, or age, could “have it too” (Campbell 11). Poverty provokes emotional and physiological changes in people, making them selfish or rude and weak or miserable at the same time. Campbell believed that “there was no worse sin in this country than to be poor” (40). When individuals experienced troubles due to the lack of money, food, and clothes, they were ready to sell their bodies and neglect their true feelings. Prostitution was one of poverty’s outcomes that led to other negative experiences like drugs, alcoholism, and the promotion of low self-esteem. In fact, poverty has many outcomes, and the author’s purpose is to help Indigenous people recognize their problems and decide how to escape misery, relying on cooperation and accepting their identities. Discrimination is another challenge that Campbell used to explain the reasons for constant movements and search for a place to be called their native home. It is hard to identify a true root of discrimination in Canada, but the author paid attention to school education and the conditions under which children had to learn how to live. Her experience at a residential school was associated with negative emotions when she felt “lonely and frightened” (Campbell 32). When she joined a mixed school th
I believe that a home visit should be really necessary and justified. In other words, I would visit a child and his/her parents only if I find it absolutely necessary. In case a child has some difficulties at school in terms of learning progress or relationships with classmates or teachers, I will definitely do a home visit to make sure that parents are aware of those problems and are going to take some measures. My concerns would be related to the environment in the family and readiness of other family members including older members, parents, and older siblings, if any, to help the child overcome his/her problems. I think that I should not come if I do not know what to tell those people. However, I can get prepared for the home visit and bear in mind a few most important questions to ask such as whether the child experiences some problems with his/her relatives or those problems appear at school only; I will ask if they know about the child’s problems, and what measures they are going to take, if any. I think the visit will be successful if I show the child’s parents that I am not going to be a teacher in their house and that this is just a goodwill visit; I should not advise them what to do if they do not ask. As I am a guest in a house, I should be polite and friendly because any hostility or bias can destroy relations that did not even begin.
The PowerPoint presentation is designed for an audience of about 30 people. The presentation will be projected on a screen of about 2 meters in length and 2 meters in height for all the participants to follow the content of the project. All tables, images, and the text itself will be of about 20-58 font, which is enough to distinguish words and sentences. The speaker’s notes will be communicated aloud so that the audience does not have to look at them. The presentation will be about 10-12 minutes long where 1 slide is presented within about 1 minute correspondently. Each slide will be headed for the participants to follow the outline of the presentation. The strategies presented in the community health project may applicable not for the prevention of prescription drug abuse only. In particular, such problems as cancer treatment and post-operational therapeutic approaches analysis can also be tackled concerning behavioral and collaborative techniques by Nola Pender. In addition, evidence-based practice and theory application methods should also be taken into deeper consideration because they can be applied in other spheres of health care promotion (Wideman, Pizzello, & Lemke, 2008). On whole, the proposed plan based on well-known theories can be highly applicable in such spheres as ethical conduct and analysis of patient’s behavioral patterns at various stages of treatment.
The Multiple Meanings of Culture   * Social sciences allow using plural definitions;   * Each researcher may define culture themselves;   * Meaning multiplicity is a widespread practice;   * Culture may be material or invisible (Stein, 2017);   * It is a point of commonality (Alvesson, 2013);   * Outlining its meaning allows investigating processes. In social sciences, each researcher may choose and even create their definition of the selected concept, making each interpretation unique. Culture, as one of the most popular study topics, may be tangible or intangible, but what remains undisputed is that it provides people with a common ground, based on which they may feel connected (Alvesson, 2013; Stein, 2017). However, before it becomes possible to research any topic, it is necessary to define the idea that is being studied, understand it, and acknowledge its multifaceted nature trough finding differences and similarities with other concepts. What is Organizational Culture?   * People form culture based on mutuality;   * Modern-day business organizations are social groups (Belias & Koustelios, 2014);   * Collective existence may stimulate cultural development;   * Culture urges imitation after its creation;   * Organizational culture (OC) is “socially expressed” (Alvesson, 2013, p. 4);   * It becomes a company’s identifying factor. Culture may be identified as something that unites people, allowing them to find points of contact where there may otherwise be none. Modern-day companies and firms create their own business culture due to the social nature of such organizations, developing a system in which people are urged to imitate and propagate it (Belias & Koustelios, 2014). Alvesson (2013) defines organizational culture (OC) as something that employees may “express” in an everyday setting, thus creating a loop of culture exhibition (p. 4). This OC, which is present within an organization, becomes its separating factor from many other similar companies, making it stand out. Modern-Day Relevance   * OC continues to interest many researchers;   * Studying it allows establishing beneficial theories (Alvesson, 2013);   * Acknowledging OC enables professionals to work (Stein, 2017);   * Understanding the mechanism permits achieving results;   * Optimizing OC theory allows guiding production;   * OC carries theoretical and practical implications. While creating a firm that is distinct from other companies may be a bonus to attracting potential clients, there are many other benefits to studying the mechanics of OC establishment and propagation. Through confirming possible theories, researchers may give rise to their practical uses that, in turn, allow professionals to optimize their methods and achieve better results regardless of their position in the enterprise (Alvesson, 2013; Stein