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Introduction E-business has gained a lot of popularity in the recent past due to advancement in technology. The world has been turned into a global village as the emerging technologies change the world into various fronts. Business units also find themselves in position where they can no longer ignore changes being brought about by these technologies. The geographical boundaries that existed before have been eliminated by advancement of technology in the areas of transport and communication. Movements from one country to another have been made easier through the invention of various means of transport. Communication has also been enhanced and it is now possible for one to communicate with others in other regions of the world in real time using phones. The social media has also improved communication in the world. Business units cannot ignore the technological advancements in the market if it intends to remain competitive. The management of Kids Designed Craft Cards must realize that the only way of remaining competitive in the market is to adopt the emerging technologies as soon as they come into existence in order to remain one-step ahead of market competition. This firm must find a way of employing e-business in its operations in order to increase its efficiency and market coverage. E-business has become very popular in the current market in Australia and other developed countries. People have limited time to go shopping around. They prefer making their purchase while in office or at home. This means that only those firms that conduct e-business stand better chances of tapping into a wider market in the current market. This research proposal seek to develop a prototype and give an explanation why e-business is very appropriate for this firm. E-commerce business model According to Bhusry (2005), it is important for a firm to come up with an appropriate model that will be able to respond to the market dynamics in order to enable a firm succeed in the market. The following model can help Kids Designed Craft Cards when developing a prototype for e-commerce business. Source (Manzoor, 2010) The diagram shows all the stages that should be observed when developing a prototype for e-commerce business. Driving revenue through e-commerce business The main intention of this project proposal is to increase the profitability of this firm in the market. Increasing revenues in the market may not be a simple process. It requires a model of how the firm will increase its profitability in the market. The management must realize that this process involves conversion of innovation process into economic value. The model below demonstrates this. The model above
Introduction Security is vital to every nation throughout the globe. This is mainly because it ensures safety to all. All countries recruit, train, and assemble forces to protect their territories, properties, and citizens. In addition, peace of the world lies in having strong governments that can control their citizens. In this regard, failed States, as well as weak ones present threats to global security. United States has been on the forefront in pushing for global security with a view to making the world a safer place. In doing so, they have invested extensively in stationing equipment, network and security facilities aimed at maintaining security throughout the world. In addition, they have continued to invest heavily in liaison with other European nations, to support peaceful international. Moreover, their donations throughout the world have continued to support economies of poor nations. Of great concern is the fact that weak and failed States increase security risks in the world. This paper will try to explore the effects of weak and failed States on US national security (US Joint Forces Command, 2010, 2). Security Security if is of great essence to every individual, entity and country. This is mainly because it ensures their very existence and survival. It also ensures that their rights to property and movement, among others, are maintained. Security can be described as the ability to protect an individual, entity, property or an organization. For security to be ensued, several strategies need to be put in place. These include identifying threats to security, laying down measures to counter such threats, and providing the necessary resources and manpower for effecting security. United States has been in the forefront in ensuring global security. This shows how serious they are with security issues in the country. It also follows a series of threats that have caused great concern, especially those emerging from failed States as well as weak ones. In this regard, the country has set up strategies to assist weak States in ensuring these threats are submerged. In addition, the country is working to ensure security is stepped up in failed States, as this promotes regional security as well as United States national security (US Joint Forces Command, 2010, 2). United States National security United States has faced several threats to its national security over the years. These ranges from Japanese attacks in world war one, as well as continued threats caused by terrorists who mainly reside in politically unstable countries. The latest concerns have been threats from terrorists who inflicted their most severe attack during September 11 bombing of Twin Towers and the Pentagon. The bombing caused loss of lives to majority of American citizens in and around those areas. Investigations from CIA and other sec
There’s no person in the world that stays indifferent hearing the names of the sporting heroes. And now you can not only admire them, but you may also become a part of their world: Mike Finnigan, in his book They Did You Can , reveals the secrets of renowned athletes and shares the core issues which help achieve your goals. The book caters for everybody who once tried to succeed in sports but, after experiencing some problems, gave up. Besides, it encourages the novices to put all their fears and take a challenge, prioritize and do their best to reach their objectives. The key idea of the author is that “success is not about getting lucky. Failure is not about being unlucky. It is about you making things happen” (Finnigan 36). I can’t but agree with this evident statement. Personally, I tend to think it made me reassess my attitude towards life and my ambitions. Eric Simons, former Coach of the South African Cricket Team, supports this idea: “success or failure will not be dependent on your ability to deal with the problem. It will depend on your attitude towards the problem“ (Finnigan 78). Really beneficial seems to me the idea to provide interviews of successful people in sports as it could be a powerful motivation for aspiring athletes and just people who got disappointed in their abilities and are next to give up. Moreover, taking the initial step could be extremely frightening, so getting goals prioritized and abilities estimated is very supportive. Inspiring and really helpful, the book made a great impact on me, bringing me to the thought of further self-development. Works Cited Finnigan, Mike. They Did You Can. Carmarthen, Wales: Crown House, 2007.
Introduction This paper focuses on the interdependencies and interconnections in the Water, Energy, and Food (WEF) nexus. Underlying relationships of the WEF securities have attracted increasing attention across the globe. Insufficient understanding of the nexus concerns is a crucial global economic problem. The nexus approach has been an essential aspect of sustainable development. To tackle the need to notify policy-makers and other stakeholders regarding research of the WEF nexus, researchers identify the necessity of reviewing relevant, recent, and credible literature (Badran, Murad, Baydoun, & Daghir, 2017). Understanding the WEF nexus may be valuable in different ways. To start with, it could allow public policymakers to establish risks of their operations as usual practices of addressing water, food, and energy problems. Secondly, it will assist in underscoring the main private participants in the WEF supply chains and the significance of managing ecosystems of biodiversity and water. Thirdly, it will allow energy and water scientists and experts to participate in nexus science and practice more successfully. The Middle East region has provided proof that there have been numerous instances in environmental accounts when human interventions were unsustainable. Background Recently, frequent scientific conferences on the WEF nexus have resulted in scientists, civil societies, private sectors, and policymakers working together over a spectrum of diverse fields. The WEF nexus is highly dynamic and futuristic advancements in the sector signify that the collective comprehension of the topic under the scientific perspective is continually expanding. The Middle East region is rich in solar energy despite it being a resource that is yet to be mobilized successfully. Mobilization and consumption of hydrocarbons have had negative effects on the atmosphere. Water resource endowments of the Middle East do not satisfy the requirements of its present economies (Sommariva, 2018). All through history, the susceptible Tigris-Euphrates floodplain has been overpowered by irrigation endeavors easily. Early civilizations severally witnessed tremendous impacts caused by mismanagement of the rivers. On the contrary, the Nile delta and its flood plains are highly resilient to extensive interventions such as hydraulic practices for the production of food and fiber for the Egyptian population. The Nile silt was elastic, and levels of water it contained were adequate, up to the time the Egyptian population rose to over 50 million by around 1975. In the 1970s, following two decades of campaigns by activists with the aid of scientific practices, the significance of employing efficiently, socially, and environmentally sustainable approaches to utilizing na
A service level agreement is a part of the contract between the marketing organization and the client which stipulates the obligations of the parties and the exact issues of the deal. This agreement is important because the service elements are more readily altered than the product element. While the characteristics of the product are usually controlled by the producer, the service element can be altered more readily by other members of the channel, such as wholesalers and retailers. The price represents a single payment for all four components. Service level agreements are “forms of the contract agreed between the service supplier and the service purchaser or user” (Jhonston and Clark 2008, p. 170). Use services related to such services as installation and adjustment, which directly affect the use of the product. Acquisition services include location, information, delivery, credit, and leasing, which are of help in acquiring a product. Associated services include sales promotion devices such as contests, trading stamps, and premiums, which provide an additional inducement to buy, and are generally considered “free” services or extra services. The very perceptions and interpretations of service by consumers create opportunities. Consider the lifestyle factors influencing service development. Urbanization, leisure, competition, discretionary income, travel, styles, tastes, automobiles, informality, and convenience have led to the emphasis on product form, readiness, packaging, combination, and selection convenience. The service level agreements are important for both the sellers and buyers because the actual choice is difficult because the consequences of an act do not depend on conditions that can be predicted or estimated with complete accuracy. In indecision theory, these uncertain situations are dealt with as “states of nature.” The states of nature include the multiplicity of factors that determine the outcomes of any particular marketing strategy. Customer behavior and response, a competitor’s action, and the impact of socioeconomic forces, all fit this prescription. Service level agreements can be based on performance metrics that stipulate service objectives. Most importantly, these agreements stipulate customers’ duties and responsibilities, time and cost of the service. In determining which alternative to choose, therefore, it is desirable to try to assess future states of nature. Complete assessment can never be attained, since it is difficult, if not impossible, to identify all these states. Thus, in most decisions, optimization is not usually possible, and less than optimal results accrue. Marketing decision-makers should think in terms of strategies they can select, events that might occur, the probability of occurrence, and the resulting payoff of the intersection of each strategy and event. To do so, they can apply conditional reasoning. “A major task for a partnership cannot be handled by semi-formal agreement” (Jhonston
Rethinking schools is a non-profit organization established in the year 1986 by teachers from Milwaukee in the United States. These teachers shared a common vision that led to the birth of this organization (Rethinking Schools, 2012). Initially, rethinking schools started as a campaign effort to find solutions to problems that were affecting schools at the time. Such problems included the use of standardized tests in schools, basal readers and the problem of subscribers that supplied schools with books. Apart from improving education in their schools, they also wanted to aid in the reformation of public schools all throughout the United States. This vision evolved and grew into the idea of rethinking schools hence the title of the organization (Rethinking Schools, 2012). Over the years, the philosophy of this organization has remained rooted in the idea of creating a better society and democracy in which all people are equal regardless of race or social or economic background. Rethinking schools holds that education is vital in the establishment and maintenance of a just, caring and humane democracy that accommodates all races (Rethinking Schools, 2012). From this philosophy, I think that their approach to education is Reconstructionist. This is evident from their goals and vision. As an educational philosophy, Reconstructionism entails the formation of a better society and democracy through education. It also involves the addressing of social issues that hinder the establishment of such democracy and society. This is true because since its establishment in 1985, Rethinking Schools has campaigned for the formation of ‘common school’. This means a school where all students are equal regardless of their backgrounds. By putting the acquired knowledge into practice, the students can help form a better democracy and society and thus improve their lives. Rethinking schools emphasizes the application of theoretical knowledge in an effort to improve the society (Rethinking Schools, 2012). Though the attainment of a just democracy is not complete, this organization has not given up. With dangers such as widespread violence in schools, privatization of public schools and squandering of public resources, Rethinking Schools has intensified its campaign efforts. To achieve this, they have started with teachers and students because they have a great potential to form a better society by starting at the school level. Postmodernism and Reconstructionism are philosophical approaches to education that are important. Postmodernism emphasizes diversity, encourages embracement of change and innovation, challenges conventional ways of doing things and encourages open-mindedness as a way of getting full benefits from education (Beck, 2009). This is important because the world of today is highly competitive and hence the need for survival. Reconstructionism encourages
The article “The Top 7 Online Marketing Trends That Will Dominate 2016” written by a magazine contributor Jayson DeMers explores modern trends in online marketing. The author explains that those businesses that will seize the opportunity to explore sweeping changes in their industry will be able to outcompete their rivals and gain rapid progress. According to DeMers, video adds will soon dominate the advertising market (par. 3). Social networks like Facebook and video platforms like YouTube are already using them extensively, and this trend will only continue (DeMers par. 3). Moreover, taking into consideration that Google owns a major share of advertising platforms, it is safe to predict that this tendency might even increase. There is also a possibility for the growth of dedicated apps facilitated by the new perspective of their indexing and worldwide adoption. It was announced by Google that mobile traffic in 2015 exceeded PC traffic in ten countries (DeMers par. 4). It can be argued that DeMers’ prediction is accurate since the internet usage from various handheld devices in the United States significantly surpasses the similar traffic from desktops; therefore, the supply of mobile-optimized aps and websites must correspondingly increase to comply with the demand (Chaffey par. 7). Moreover, the emergence of smartwatches and other similar devices, as well as significant growth of smartphone ownership on both local and global levels, pushes the tendency for app adoption even further (Chaffey par. 7). According to the author of the article, new methods for optimizing web search should emerge (DeMers par. 4). To prove his point, DeMers gives an example of two digital assistants that are already changing the way platform for advertising are being marketed on the internet: Cortana and Siri (par. 4). Another Forbes article written by Dan Woods supports DeMers’ argument. It claims that new paradigm of information search makes the existing model of SEO outdated (Woods par. 3). Woods states that soon there would be no need to “interpret cryptic and ambiguous rules” of optimization and instead a graph-based method of data distribution will appear (Woods par. 4). Moreover, he says that Siri, Cortana, and Alexa will make the process of content attribution absolutely irrelevant thus completely changing the conventional way of monetizing information (Woods par. 4). Another trend in online marketing predicted by DeMers is related to the emergence of virtual reality devices. The author surmises that they will
The patient’s nurse practitioner (NP) should inquire about paresthesia and ataxia because these are neurologic abnormalities, which are associated with vitamin B12 deficiency that leads to the development of pernicious anemia. Bizzaro and Antico (2014) argue that these motor symptoms are a sign of “subacute combined degeneration involving the dorsal and lateral spinal columns” (p. 2). Other symptoms of the condition include, but are not limited to, pallor, tachycardia, weakness, and increased irritability (Bizzaro & Antico, 2014). The NP prescribed the patient intramuscular injection of vitamin B12 because the oral administration is less effective. It has to do with the fact that being autoimmune gastritis, the condition prevents the vitamin from the absorption in the terminal ileum (Chan, Low, & Lee, 2016). However, the findings of a recent study, which involved two randomized control trials, reveal that oral vitamin B12 replacement can be effective at 1000 μg daily (Chan et al., 2016). Pernicious anemia is a disease caused by vitamin B12 deficiency that occurs as the result of the deterioration of gastric parietal cells that produce a secretion factor necessary for binding the vitamin. The condition is also associated with autoimmune disorders such as diabetes mellitus and thyroid disease (Chan et al., 2016; Hooper, Hudson, Porter, & McCaddon, 2014). Anemia that produces a high mean corpuscular volume (MCV) and normal hemoglobin concentrations, which are measured by mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH), is referred to as macrocytic-normochromic anemia. The condition is characterized by defective DNA synthesis, which causes abnormally shaped erythrocytes to die prematurely. The disruption of the erythropoiesis translates into the reduction of mature erythrocytes in the circulation (Huether & McCance, 2015; Sun et al., 2015). This mechanism of cellular loss causes anemia.
Company X specializes in making coffee machines. The company has developed some of the unique coffee machines in the world. It aims to bring convenience, affordability, time saving, and elegance through its designs. Customers have known Company X for developing small, portable coffee makers. These are space saving machines that customers have admired. However, changes in technologies have necessitated the company to develop a new coffee machine for the contemporary home and office. Company X has noted that today’s coffee machine market is highly competitive with new technologies. In order to survive in this market, the company must develop new products, which offer convenience, affordability, and match changes in technologies at homes and offices. Company X will develop a new interactive coffee machine for a modern smart home and office at an affordable price. The interactive coffee machine is based on a high-tech approach. The coffee machine shall have Internet access capabilities based on a Wi-Fi platform. It will also come with a large touch screen. Users can make their coffee by using different types of ingredients. Moreover, they can develop their unique coffee recipes for both cold and hot coffee drinks. Users have the opportunity to get the latest news on the interactive coffee machine. Besides, the interactive coffee machine provides latest updates on currency rates, stock markets, road traffic conditions, and weather forecasts. These data are available on the screen. This is a smart coffee machine for smart homes and offices. It can make enough coffee for the office or home. Moreover, the coffee will still retain its high-end quality that many coffee consumers desire. A short history of the potential competitive organizations and a description of their products Many companies have strived to develop new coffee makers, which reduce time spent on the process of making coff
Introduction The story presents us with a tale of a secret rendezvous gone wrong. A trusting and loving husband, a morally upright friend, a selfish lover, and a wife who seems to get something she lacks out of her married life from her illicit affair. All of these characters and their characteristics play an important part in the story. Even though each person, save for the husband, contributed to the tragic death of the baroness, the truth is that there is no other person to blame except the baroness. How did I come to this conclusion? Allow me to present 3 key areas wherein the baroness could have saved her own life and refused to do so because by saving herself, she would be forced to admit to, or perhaps be caught by her husband in the immoral affair she had been carrying on. Category 1 The baroness could have chosen to simply stay at home when her husband told her to. After all, her husband was a jealous man who seemed to be prone to fits of rage as evidenced by his caution of ” Do not leave the castle while I am gone, or I will punish you severely when I return.” This kind of caution makes me surmise that the baron perhaps had an inkling that his wife had taken on a lover in the town and was aware that she used his absence as an excuse to go meet the man. Category 2 The baroness