ShantanuT01/DACTYL-Pretraining huggingface dataset:
Introduction Colgate-Palmolive Company is regarded as one of the most ethical organizations in the business world. The company operates globally in more than 200 countries and generates “over 70% of sales from outside North America” (Thain & Bradley, 2014, p. 42). The company stresses that it is socially and environmentally responsible in all countries where it operates. It sets high ethical standards and keeps to its motto, “living our values” ( Code of conduct , n.d.). The company’s code of conduct includes such values as sustainability, responsibility and improvement. It is necessary to note that Colgate-Palmolive Company makes considerable profit but it also contributes to development of the community when it comes to its impact on consumers, environment and employees. Responsibility Consumers The company claims that one of their priorities is to provide high-quality products to consumers and, more importantly, to keep them informed. Pride, Hughes and Kapoor (2013) argue that consumers have the right to be fully informed. Admittedly, people try to buy products that meet their needs and requirements. Buying such consumer products as toothpaste or shampoo and many other things, people want to be sure that the products will not do any harm to their (or their close ones’) health. Caring about people is one of values declared by Colgate-Palmolive Company ( Code of conduct , n.d.). Therefore, the company invests into research and development of new products. It is necessary to note that the company also tries to provide cheaper versions of its products in developing countries (Thain & Bradley, 2014). Clearly, consumers appreciate the quality at a reasonable price. This is one of the way the company’s responsibility is manifested. Apart from informing consumers and providing them with high-quality products, the company invests into development of the community. For instance, the company has been engaged into its international HIV/AIDS initiative since 2003. Within the initiative, Colgate-Palmolive provides “education, awareness, and non-discrimination programs in Africa, Asia, and Latin America” (Markle, 2011, p. 289). Clearly, the company addresses some of the most urgent issues in the society and assists in important spheres. This help contribute to development of the community and enables the company to create a positive image. The company also collaborates with professionals (Thain & Bradley, 2014). Colgate-Palmolive holds a variety of seminars and conferences where professionals are able to share their experiences. Of course, the incentive is aimed at promoting new products but it also contributes to development of professionals in many spheres. Environment It is necessary to add that the company is environmentally responsible. First, it tries to reduce the use of water and energy in its production. It is reported that Colgate-Palmolive decreased water consumption by 40% and the use of water by 44%, energy consumption was also lowered by 20% (Lammers, 2012). Besides, the company decreased its gas emissions by 21%. Obviously, the company is trying to reduce its negative impact on the environment. Colgate-Palmolive invests into fur
Introduction Age-associated changes in older adult patients often cause atypical presentations, which complicates the assessment and treatment of their health problems. Various pathologies and impaired homeostasis are the two main issues that are regarded as the premises of atypical symptoms in this population. This paper aims to examine a case of a patient who had vomiting as the only sign of myocardial infarction, which was identified in the course of the health evaluation process. Vomiting and Myocardial Infarction in a Patient One of the key symptoms of myocardial infarction is chest pain with moderate or severe intensity, of compressive or burning fashion. There may be associated symptoms such as severe weakness, cold, sweat, tremors, dyspnea, coughing, dizziness, et cetera (Jung et al., 2017). A person may experience emotional increase, and behavioral disorders may be observed, including the development of psychosis. Also, a heart attack or a pre-drug state may be accompanied by nausea, vomiting, and abdominal distension. An 86-year-old man was hospitalized with vomiting that was present 2-3 times daily within the last three days. In the given patient, none of the mentioned symptoms except for vomiting were present. Betancourt, Hames, and Rivas (2015) state that many older adult patients develop atypical symptoms that can be divided into three categories, including vague, altered/unexpected, and asymptomatic. At the same time, it should be emphasized that geriatric patients are less likely to experience and complain of chest pain in the pre-myocardial infarction phase, “ranging from 4.7% to 33% with poorer clinical outcomes” (Jung et al., 2017). In the emergency, it is especially important to recognize atypical symptoms and understand them properly (Hofman, van den Hanenberg, Sierevelt, & Tulner, 2017). Based on the mentioned considerations, the geriatric care doctor who evaluated this patient assumed cardiac problems and referred him to further diagnostics. To ensure proper patient evaluation, three diagnostic measures
Introduction Over the past few centuries, the human civilization has advanced tremendously giving rise to significant social and economic changes. This has resulted most notably in the creation of a large group of working class members of the society and their employers. It is this class that has been primarily responsible for the creation of immense wealth and therefore the growth of the nations. In the earlier years of industrialization, work conditions were appalling with low wages and discriminatory practices being rampant leading to poor work relations. However, this has changed with recent times and in the European region, employers have embraced good practices that among other things are aimed at combating race and ethnic discrimination. In addition to this most countries, New Zealand included, have endorsed the Equal Employment Opportunities (EEOs) which are policies that are intended to “eliminate workplace discrimination on the basis of age, colour, disability, race, religion or sex” (The National Equal Opportunities Network, 2010). In spite of these efforts, there are still incidents of discrimination in the New Zealand workplace which continue to undermine EEO policies and in some cases result in decreased productivity among workers. This paper shall set out to investigate the various types of discriminatory practices that continue to deter favourable employment relationships in the New Zealand employment field. This paper will begin by presenting a review of literature on the topic of employee discrimination and various government legislations that have been introduced to combat it. The paper will then delve into a detailed discussing of significant discrimination practices in New Zealand and highlight how they have negatively impacted on New Zealand’s labour industry. A Review of Literature The United Nations convections define discrimination as “any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin” (UNHCHR, 2010). In the work environment, discrimination results in an individual worker or a group of workers being singled out for their race, color, creed or age and treated unfairly. This may negatively impact on their work performance. Discrimination may be categorized as direct and indirect discrimination. Direct Discrimination is the more obvious form of this practice and it occurs when a person is explicitly treated less favourably than another person has or would be treated in a similar situation (Craig, 2006, p.30). Indirect discrimination is the less visible form of this ill and it is defined as occurring where “an apparently neutral provision, criterion or practice would put persons characterized by a protected ground at a particular disadvantage compared with other persons” (Craig, 2006, p.30). The most common form of indirect discrimination is that of language requirements that are imposed by governments and private employers leading to unfair restrictions on some people. While such requirements may be necessary in some industries, Willmore (2001) notes that these requirements sometimes serve as discriminatory m
Introduction Motorola is a Chicago based firm that was started in 1928 as the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation. It is a top producer of handheld cell phones and markets wireless web devices. In 2003, phone gadgets contributed to 40% of the revenue and 60% of Motorola’s operating profits. Motorola is good in communication and technology creativity. This has been possible through its strong branding and technological innovation. The firm strives to achieve breakthroughs in technology and to emerge at the top of its competitors (Hitt, Ireland, & Hoskisson, 2010). This paper seeks to explain the SWOT analyses of Motorola incorporation, as well as merits and demerits of Motorola’s strategies. Additionally, the essay identifies the levels of strategy in a firm and issues in business administration. Salient opportunities and threats that exist in Motorola’s external environment The external environment analysis helps an organization to know if its resources are enough to thrive among its competitors. Opportunities are favorable external environmental factors while threats are unfavorable external environmental factors. Brand is an important opportunity for Motorola. Its brands are strategically located in the telecommunications market. This increases the chances of customers seeing and buying its products. Additionally, the firm has strong marketing and promotional tactics. It uses various marketing devices such as print media and TV. As a result, it is able to inform millions of customers about its products. Another opportunity is strong ability and readiness to take risks. For instance, through creation of new products that enables Motorola to achieve a competitive advantage. The innovation of new products brings differentiation to Motorola therefore reducing the prices of its products. Some products like Telco TV have helped the firm to be better placed in the market. The corporation has also been winning different contracts that enable it to supply its products in large volumes for a long period of time. This has also helped to boost its sales as well as performance. These opportunities have enabled the firm to grow and establish itself internationally. For instance, it has entered other markets like Taiwan and United Kingdom. The main threat that Motorola faces is competition from new and foreign firms. For instance, in 2003, Japanese, Korean and Chinese businesses were entering the market to produce and supply cell phones. Their products were cheaper and of higher quality as compared to Motorola’s. This threatened Motorola’s profit margins such that they were almost reaching one percent (Hitt et al., 2010). Additionally, the firm does not enjoy government protection against entry of foreign businesses in to the market. As a result, foreign market players have entered the market and are almost replacing Motorola. Another threat is barrier to trade in some foreign markets. For instance, Motorola has been facing difficulties in penetrating Japan. Considering that Japan has already entered Motorola’s market, then blocking Motorola from entering Japan seems unfair. The other threat is from Sagem, which achieved the top m
Art can be manifested in various types and forms, with every person finding something unique and close in a particular art type. Some individuals find their utmost relaxation in listening to music while others enjoy reading or visiting art galleries in their free time. As for me, whereas I have much experience with music and am quite comfortable with visual art, I find understanding literature rather challenging. My rich experience with music has developed due to my attending the school choir and music school. My grandma used to play piano for me when I was little, and I have loved music subconsciously since very early years. I appreciate opera and ballet, as well as modern performers’ songs – music helps me to feel well and allows to distract from stressful events. For example, I always attend “The Nutcracker” ballet during the holiday season since it is extremely festive and uplifting. In its turn, visual art is not my favorite, but I am quite okay with it. I can even go to an exhibition with friends occasionally. However, with the pandemic regulations, the last few things I saw were online ones. Last week, I got acquainted with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam collection, which I liked a lot. Finally, understanding literature is the most complicated task for me. I do enjoy reading, but I never tend to choose books or stories with twisted plots or a large number of characters. I love landscape descriptions in the books much more than dialogues. Also, I was always puzzled when a teacher gave the task “to analyze something in the book/poem” or, even worse, “to guess what the author meant.” Hence, Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea , which seems boring to some of my friends, is one of my most favorite books. The book contains many descriptions: the sea, the house, and the man’s appearance are given much attention. Meanwhile, the author does not mean his characters to speak much. This could probably be linked to my love for music and visual arts: the descriptive parts in books are close to these elements. Therefore, my perception of art is largely creative but not analytical: in all three types, I tend to prefer visual and audio impressions rather than analyze something that is not on the surface.
Introduction Background Veils have been defined by Murphy, (1964), Secor, (2002) and Heath, (2008), as transparent or opaque clothing articles worn exclusively by women with the intentions of covering some parts of their heads or faces to protect them. According to Christians, the item is used to depict honour to items or places. On the other hand, complexions are natural skin colours, appearance or texture, particularly the face skin. Most complexions are destroyed as a result of heat exposure. This is based on the fact that, heat has the ability of destroying body tissues like skins (Grant, 1974) & (Hays 1998). According to Milton, 1994 and Marino, (2008) in hot conditions, effective body thermoregulation is reduced drastically, hence, need for a supplements to assist in reducing the effects of heat on human beings. In such scenarios, types of clothing worn plays a very important role in either impeding or accelerating evaporation, a part from assisting in preventing direct heat radiations from reaching the skin. The major reason being some cloths are “pervious to sweat, but impervious to radiant heat from the sun” (Marino, 2008: 24). However, there are other clothing which are impermeable to sweat, such clothing do not facilitate evaporation, hence contributes to heat stresses (American Society of Safety Engineers, 1994). Research Problem and Justification Though there have been many studies dealing with the use of veils like socio-sexual, socio-cultural along with psychological functions of veils, but little information exist on the use of veils in reducing heat effects (Kakuta, et al 2001),on women’s faces and helping them protect their complexions particularly in hot areas. As a result, from the foregoing discussions, it is of great importance for research to be done and especially focusing the positive side of the use of veil and in particular in reducing heat effects and helping in protect the complexion of the women and especially in the very hot areas. As such, the use of veils is critical in prevention of sunburns and even complexion. This is a critical area that needs more research to identify the potential medical implications associated with the wearing of veils. Importance of This Research Based on the results of this research, policy makers will be in a position to make policies concerning the materials upon which veils will be made from, and even come up with pricing policy which will ensure that veils are affordable and accessible to all that needs them. This is because; they will be in a position to understand the implications of veils in medication, particularly reducing heat effects and protecting co
The notion that women cannot play a prominent role in family or society has existed for a long time. Although this trend began to change in the past two centuries, this gender stereotype continues to be very widespread. This paper is aimed at discussing such plays as Trifles written by Susan Glaspell and Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. These authors show how women can be victimized or discriminated in a patriarchal society. By depicting family conflicts，Susan Glaspell and Henrik Ibsen show how women can be forced into subordination. More importantly, the writers show how women challenge the conventions that are imposed on them. There are several important similarities shared by both works. First, both works illustrate similar themes, namely the subordinate position of women and their response to this injustice. A Doll’s House by Ibsen is a description of a woman who tries to break paternalistic relationship with her husband. Trifles written by Glaspell depict a despair of a woman who murders her husband. This similarity is one of the most important to focus on the s
This paper focuses on two groups of reconnections; farmers and agency and food and nature. The reconnection of food and nature is a clear indication of today’s discussion on materialities and cross breeding. On the other hand, reconnection of farmers and agency reminds us about the conventional fundamental inquiries of social science that were based on the action of people and structures (Winter 610). In the reconnection of food and nature, hybridity was viewed as an act of giving out important theoretical and experimental lines of questions for agro-food investigation. Whatmore’s critique as cited by Winter (610) captures on political economy and cultural studies that affect the restating of the classification of output and expenditure. The political wealth approaches that view food more than just production to the next step of processing and marketing share a trend to organize the geographies of food as an independent transformation of socio-economic value from the farm to the plate. On the other hand, the most important part in cultural studies is purchasing, preparation and consumption of food as it portrays food ingestion as collectively and culturally multifaceted. Therefore, the important thing in food and nature depends on the geographies of food and the beneficially is the subject (Winter (610), Currently, agro-food study is affected continuously by the current improvements in the agro-food geographies, especially when one considers the formulation of environment and the material. For instance, Donaldson and Wood as cited by Winter (610) argues that surveillance can assist in control of the increase or spread of foot and mouth disease, as a means that entraps people and other living creatures to change the unconditional globe perceptions of people into materialities (Winter 610-611). In the framework of food security and food insufficiency, the farm businessmen faced the farmers who obstinately declined to conform to the economic groups and rule that had been set. In the year 1980s, political wealth approach left out the farmers’ agency in its services where it emphasized on Common Agricultural Policy and food orders. Political wealth also led to the establishment of the greatest farmers based reviews. The farmers’ surveys came up with three inputs to put more effort on farme
Executive Summary The present paper provides an analysis of communication issues in STEP. The report is based on the data obtained during the interview with the company’s employee, Nancy Watson. It has been found that communication in STEP is effective, but it is possible to improve it. For instance, it is stated that motivation and persuasion techniques used can be reconsidered since it is possible to use more strategies. It is necessary to enact strategies of resolving conflicts which take place in STEP because of poor individual performance in teamwork. Finally, there exist certain language barriers which should be addressed to by providing language courses and cultural diversity trainings. Introduction Communication is one of the most important parts of human’s life. Effective communication is also important for organization development. Admittedly, when people clearly understand the major objectives of their organization, know exactly their duties and responsibilities, the organization inevitably benefits. The present report is based on the interview of an employee of an organization where communication is rather effective. Notably, the interviewee claims that teamwork plays a significant role in their work which is also beneficial for the organization. Nevertheless, there are several points to be improved in the organization under consideration. Methodology The interviewee is a young female (hereinafter referred to as Nancy Watson) who is working for a company selling various products. The company will be referred to as STEP. Nancy is working in the company for four years. She is a sociable person who is open and sincere. These criteria are important for an interviewee, so Nancy fitted the best the present research. She was also eager to be interviewed. As far as the interview techniques are concerned funnel question sequence was used. This is the most common sequence which is very effective and Nancy is the interviewee who “knows the topic and feels free to talk about it” (Witsel 119). It goes without saying that in the beginning of the interview the objectives of the conversation were outlined and friendly atmosphere was set. Therefore, Nancy was responsive, precise and informative. Thus, the interview can be regarded as a valuable source of information about the communication issues in STEP. Findings There are about 250 employees in STEP and eight people in the branch where Nancy works. Nancy likes working there because she likes people working with her, “the stability” her work (i.e. company) provides, and possibility to communicate with different people (clients, partners, etc.) (Watson). As for the cultural diversity in STEP, Nancy claims that there are employees pertaining to