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Process of Data path design and controller design A data path can be viewed as a compilation of functional elements of the Central Processing Units such as the Arithmetic Logic Units, multipliers, and controllers, which have the sole function of performing operations that are related to data processing. Most of the processor units usually comprise a data path and a controller, with most of the parts of the controller being assigned the role of controlling the various interactions that take place between the main memory of the processor and its data path. The principal function of the data path is to provide the appropriate routes to facilitate the propagation of data between the various functional elements in the processor unit (Balch 2003). Depending on the design requirements, numerous data paths can be integrated using multiplexers to increase the size of the routes to accommodate larger word sizes. The nature of the configuration of the data path is also an important element in the design of data path and controller design (Holdsworth 2003). The following section discusses the process of data path design and controller design. The data path design can include digital components such as buses, logic gates, multiplexers, tri-state logic gates, shift registers, and counters (Holdsworth 2003). Other devices that can be incorporated into the design include First In First Out (FIFO) memories. In most data path designs, the data at the input and output and their respective attributes are normally predetermined. Therefore, the design engineer must design a data path that links the input data to the output data, in such a manner that the controller can have the ability to control the
Like many people across the globe, I was raised on the fairytales by Hans Christian Andersen. The characters of these stories are so popular, many Western countries have sculptures depicting them. These stories inspired more than one generation, and their morals and messages remain deeply ingrained in modern children’s storybooks. For this assignment, I chose to analyze the statue from Denmark, the birthplace of H. C. Andersen, called “The Little Mermaid.” It is crucial to understand the history of this art piece, as it reflects many changes in society. The statue was commissioned by Carl Jacobsen and created by a Danish sculptor Edvard Eriksen in 1913 (Mortensen 437). It has a unique history that is closely tied with political movements in Denmark and even other countries. The statue itself became a source of many political expressions or simple vandalism over the years, to the point where it was blown by explosives in 2003 (“Little Mermaid’s Unexpected Swim”). Its head has also been sawed off multiple times, and once the statue had to be replaced entirely (Mortensen 437). Notably, there are many incidents involving the artwork when political activists shed light on an issue. For example, the statue was covered in red paint, and a message was written nearby that condemned whaling near the Faroe Islands (Jenkins). While it was not the purpose of the statue, it continues to serve as a tourist attraction and as a target for violent expressions. The subject of the statue is a fairytale character from a popular story with a similar name. The artwork was created to express the beauty of the ballet performance. Ellen Price, a ballerina who played a role in “The Little Mermaid,” served as a model for the sculpture’s face
Introduction Human resource management involves management of people and physical resources. The current corporate organizations require high level of management rules which are abreast with the daily technological changes. The key department in every organization is the human resource department. The department requires an individual who is influential and is highly intellectual. A large percentage of the successes in many organizations should be attributed to the human resource department (Heathfield 2012). This is because the successes involve great input in terms of resources. Therefore, the department requires appropriate allocation of resources and well articulated plans that will lead to appreciable improvement in management. Functions of the Human Resources Department The scope of the human resources manager in any organization is to ensure a safe environment that caters for the well being of the employees in the organization. By having the powers to manage both emotional and physical aspects of the organization, a human resources manager should ensure safe and sound coexistence of the two resources. This would involve the welfare of the employees, industrial relations management and management of the personnel. The personnel welfare is an important aspect of management. It should be reviewed from time to time due to changes that take place in technology. This is because older ways have proved to be the worst ways for managing organizations. In the past, the rule in every organizing was a top to bottom rule (Heathfield 2012). This kind of rule was dictator kind of rule that did not allow for open coexistence. On the other hand, Current management methods have led to a great stepping stone on management in organizations. Some aspects of management that have been employed by certain organizations include motivation, employee appraisal, inclusion of open and free discussion and conflict management. The failure to consider these aspects of management has lead to high rate of attrition in some companies. Since the employees are considered as great assets in every organization, it is important that their needs be considered first. They are the drivers of success because they utilize the physical resources to ensure great performance. Human Resources Management Challenges One of the challenges in management is employee retention. It is very difficult to select talented employees from a multicultural environment. Another challenge is change in technology. Technological changes in employee’s management should be employed. The only challenge is the speed at which technological advancements take place (Heathfield 2012). This requires alteration of workers or training of workers from time to time to keep abreast with change. For better performance, it is a requirement that such factors of change be considered. Human Resource Assessments Action Plan An action plan is required in every management field during assessment
Introduction With the increase in the pace of the globalization process, the significance of airline companies has grown to a considerable extent, which is not surprising – is the fastest transportation mode, airplanes have become the symbol of bridging different countries together and creating stronger ties with people all over the world. Emirates Airlines is no exception to the case; once starting as small entrepreneurship, the firm has grown to become a global leader and a major game-changer in the transportation industry. Background Emirates Airlines is one of the companies that were made to succeed. Despite the challenges that the target market posed in front of it and the intrinsic issues that were built into the firm’s design, it has been delivering the services of the finest quality. However, the recent need to enter the global market and expand its services has posed a range of obstacles to the company, making it reconsider some of its current strategies. Problem Statement Nonetheless, the success of Emirates has not been consistent. Because of the intrinsic flaws in its design, the firm has been experiencing difficulties in the global market, especially as far as the competition and the related issues were concerned. Although Emirates has established a strong presence in the target market, it failed to build a solid competitive advantage, which resulted in its being ousted slowly from the global economic realm. To remain in the market and reduce the number of losses to a minimum, the company will have to reassess its current strategy and shape it so that the firm could maintain sufficient competitive rates in the global economy realm. Analysis Competitive Advantage As stressed above, the lack of competitive advantage can be viewed as the main problem of the organization. On the one hand, the firm has enough resources to increase its customer base and enter a new market. On the other hand, Emirates Airline has not developed a rather unique personality that will help it brand its product and become easily recognizable in the target market. It would be wrong to claim that the organization does not have the characteristics that could help it become competitive in the global market. For instance, it offers a luxurious experience to its customers, focusing on expanding the opportunities for first-class travelers. However, the identified characteristics cannot be deemed as the company’s selling point. Although making entrepreneurship more competitive in the target environment, they do not create a unique image that will help make the entrepreneurship and its products instantly recognizable or make the company stand out of the range of similar organizations (Perrey and Spilleke 116). Branding Similarly, the recent attempt at creating an original brand that would help the company stand out shoed quite clearly where the main problem of the company was. According to the case study, Emirates Airlines has been putting a very heavy emphasis on its luxury and the idea of providing the target audience with t
Study problem According to Gencer and Koc (2012), global use and access to the internet has been increasing over the decades. Moreover, the development of digital tools has played a major role in enhancing the use of the internet. Cash, Rae, Steel, and Winkler (2012) note that the rate of internet use is higher among adolescents and teenagers compared to older generations. Gencer and Koc (2012) report that there were 1.11 billion internet users in 2007, and the number rose to 2 billion in 2010. This reveals an increasing trend and suggests that the population is slowly becoming digitally literate. Cash et al. (2012) also report that the frequency of Internet Addiction Disorder in the United States is 8.2 per cent. The authors indicate that internet addiction has become a growing social challenge affecting young adults today. Additionally, the disorder has been reported to cause neurological complications and psychological disturbances. Romano, Osborne, Truzoli, and Reed (2013) report that internet addiction has negative effects on people’s lives and their relationships with family and friends. The authors also note that family functioning is greatly affected by internet addiction, as it limits face-to-face communication. Communication is an essential factor in promoting healthy relationships between family members. In this regard, internet addiction among college students is likely to affect healthy relationships with their families. Significance of the study As aforementioned, internet addiction has negative implications on the level of communication within the family (Romano et al., 2013). In this regard, it is necessary to examine the association between internet addiction and family relationships in an effort to devise ways that relationships can be improved. It is vital to undertake scientific studies to determine the correlation between the two factors. The current research will provide educationists and policymakers with critical information that could help them curb the rate of internet addiction among college students. Furthermore, the information will be important for parents to devise ways that can limit the rate of internet use by their children in a bid to improve communication within the family. Literature review Pies (2009) defines internet addiction as the incapability of people to regulate their internet use, leading to psychological distress or functional impairment of their daily lives. Additionally, Gencer and Koc (2012) state that internet addiction can be compared to pathological gambling, as it does not involve substance use. It has become a problem in modern society, which ha
Background Multinational corporations, also known as transnational corporations, have defied geographical borders and have taken their business activities beyond their native borders (Campbell et al. 2002, 132). These organizations are expanding beyond borders to tap in more lucrative markets and increase their business activities hence maximize on their profits. Business corporations are usually faced with a lot of competition and therefore business activities within borders may sometimes become hard or once companies achieve their domestic targets they may instead decide to venture into the external market to serve a larger market. Some examples of such companies include Tesco which started its operations in Britain but is now in more than 13 countries across the globe, others include the Coca-Cola Company, Toyota, Samsung and many more. Also, as the need for businesses to expand and invest continues to grow depending on the corporate ambitions of an organization and the general direction in which management drives organizations may either attempt to acquire affiliated organizations by acquiring stakes (Camillus 1986, 12). However, the issue of management of multi-national companies presents a lot of challenges and difficulties hence calls for a lot of strategic thinking. Some companies have opted to adopt a mixed kind of management system where each region or subsidiary adopts a different system best-suited for its operations without regard to the parent company system. Management of the organization is always an area of concern of many businesses ranging from sole entrepreneurship, partnerships and also corporation. Each business entity presents its management challenges and therefore requires special attention and different management styles to succeed (Charles 2009, 10). Additionally, the ways of doing business usually vary from region to region and even if an entrepreneur runs businesses from different continents he/she may be forced to adjust the way he or she manages these businesses and as a result making business management in a multinational scale somewhat a tricky task that requires special attention and skills for success to be realized. Corporations are special types of organizations and therefore the larger and more diversified they become, the more likely management challenges are to arise therefore making management of such organizations more tricky. Moreover, when an organization appears to be a multinational and at the same time a subsidiary or even a parent company there also is a strong likely hood that there will exist a lot of leadership and managerial conflicts, therefore, requiring the organization to choose the most suitable style to manage the organization with a high degre
In this busy world full of unexpected events we all sometimes have a desire to make everything balanced and equal so that our lives were more comfortable and the daily routine didn’t require answers to the questions: “Why is his salary bigger than mine?”, “Why do I have to work harder than somebody else?” and the like. Sometimes it seems that if everything in this life was equal it would be easier to perform our main function in this world – to live happily. Though taking into consideration some negative points of this equality one can understand that sometimes you start valuing what you have only when you lose it and trying to change your life into what seems to be perfection you can make it even worse than it used to be before. First of all, life is all about competition and only striving to be better you can achieve something. Trying to be equal with everybody else a person restrains his natural desire to be better thus refusing himself in things he wants to do. For example in the story “Harisson Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut one of the main characters says: “If I tried to get away with it then other people’d get away with it and pretty soon we’d be right back to the dark ages again, with everybody competing against everybody else”( Christopher Sergel, Kurt Vonnegut, p. 10). He calls times when people were unequal “dark ages” but that’s only because this idea was imposed on them by the society and being controlled by the government he is forced to think like this for his own sake. Secondly, speaking about equality in these two stories, it should be mentioned that those who make up rules of equality impose them on other people thus making them lower in rank, in other words, unequal. Blind obedience to the rules can be traced in “The ones who walked away from Omelas” by Ursula K LeGuin: “Those are the terms. To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed” (Ursula Le Guin, 4). People who lived in Omelas were not utopians but still they lived in a happy world, neglecting the child sitting in the basement because it was not like the others. This proves that equality will not work in our society. And finally, if our life was equal it would be boring. Unable to learn from your own mistakes, because people do not make mistakes in a perfect world, unable to learn in general, because if somebody will be teaching you that would mean that he/she is smarter than you, one day you would feel
Problem statement Leo Burnett Company (“LB”) is a globally recognizable advertising agency. It is one of the premier advertising agencies in the United States and made its mark as early as 1935. At the turn of the 20 th century LB expanded globally and as a result there are now close to a hundred offices in 83 markets worldwide. The company established a Toronto office in 1952. Two decades later LB established a London office in the mid-1970s. The London office became the regional hub for clients located in Europe, the Middle East and even Africa. Thus, the London office can be considered as the second most important component of LB outside the United States. One of its most important clients is Ontann Beauty Care (“OBC”) a global manufacturer of health and beauty care products. OBC awarded the advertising contract to LB. But after months of hard work, the Canadian launch was a major disappointment. However, Taiwan’s launch was a huge success. The failed advertising campaign is due to the fact that LB and OBC overlooked the impact of a globalized economy and cultural differences. Stakeholders Analysis If one simply considers the current problem of LB and the mixed outcome of the advertising campaign for Forever Young, then, there are three major stakeholders that have an interest in the success of LB. These are the client, home owners, and consumers. These three major groups can be further broken down into smaller components. Although there is only one client, OBC, there are two different sub-groups that influenced the creative aspect of the business. The first sub-group is OBC London and the second sub-group is OBC Toronto. The employees are also grouped into three major groups. There is a senior management team comprised by Carmichael and her assistants and their team oversee LB Taiwan and LB Toronto. The consumers are located in four major areas in Taiwan, Canada, UK, and the United States. It has to be a global campaign because OBC targeted the launch of their products in countries located in Asia, North America and Europe. It is important to have a global coordinator and this was the responsibility of Carmichael’s team. However, LB decided to break down the workload so there was a team responsible for the Taiwan launch and another team for the Canadian launch. These teams were not given complete autonomy and had to rely on the directives that will be coming from LB London. LB teams in London, Toronto and Taiwan had their counterparts at OBC. Client inputs came via two sources, the global coordinator of OBC which can be found in the UK and two sub-groups in OBC London and OBC Toronto. The consumers are the third and final stakeholder in this case. The consumers are located in different parts of the world and it means different tastes, expectations and more importantly differences in culture. LB must be sensitive about cultural differences. Consumers in Asia are very much different from consumers coming from Europe and the United States. They have different preferences and LB must consider their needs and not the needs of others. Analysis of issue
I agree with James Barzcz’s position that distance learning cannot fulfill the true purpose of education. Education, as defined by Barzcz, is the cultivation of intellect and character. Education can be defined as a continuous process of gaining new knowledge. Education is the process of acquiring new skills, both general and specific. Education is based on the interaction between the tutor and class, as well as among the peers. Online education can help students to enrich their knowledge, however, online courses take away the opportunity to ask questions and get immediate feedback, to listen to the ideas of others, to learn from peers, and to monitor the personal progress in comparison with other students. The drawbacks of online education undermine the key purpose of education: gaining knowledge in a specific field of study through interaction with others in an educational context. First, education is the process of acquiring new skills. Undoubtedly, students may learn through direct participation in class as well as through online classes. The success of learning depends on the desire of a student to learn something new. The place of getting this new knowledge (at home in front of a computer or the classroom) plays a minor role from this perspective. However, studying in a traditional classroom, a student is engaged in the educational process by a tutor. For example, if the topic of discussion is not interesting, the teacher sees the reaction of the class and can quickly react. It is impossible to achieve this result with online education because the teacher is not able to see the reaction of his students and cannot adapt his assignments to it. Second, education is about learning through communication with tutors and peers. Online education does not offer an opportunity for interaction among the students. It is worth mentioning that group projects and teamwork are not a part of online education as well. Nevertheless, the importance of teamwork is recognized by
Introduction This project schedule defines a plan for an online radio project execution. Skyline online radio is a web based radio that is intended to facilitate an online forum for colleges on the eastern coast in United Arab Emirates. Schedules form a vital component for any project because they show the project team, project stakeholders and sponsor on the progress state of the project at a definite time. The rationale for a schedule management plan identifies the method the project team uses to create the project schedule. The schedule management plan also consists of ways the team use to monitor, and manage the project schedule including changes made once the schedule’s baseline has been accepted. This involves the identification, analysis, and documentation of schedule-related changes. Schedule Management Approach The Skyline online radio project schedule will be created using Microsoft Project 20XX or a similar project schedule management software tool. The process starts by identifying the deliverable that includes website development and setup, e-mail accounts, website logo, and domain name registration which are identified in the work break down structure (WBS) of the Skyline online radio project. Activity definition covers the particular work packages that must be carried out to attain each project deliverable 1 . The work package sequence will be determined using the activity sequencing tools like the network diagram tool. An assignment of relationships between the project activities can then be determined. Estimates for activity duration are used to determine