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Australian architecture is most renowned throughout the world for it most amazing and first class building designs that has been most notable during the 20 th century. Historically, Australian architecture was influenced by several factors key among which included; early colonialists that occupied the country, Australian culture, American architecture, arts and crafts movements of the 1800s from England and the modern day architecture (Architecture.com 4). However, it was during the 20 th century that Australian architecture rose to a higher notch that led to construction of some of the most amazing building designs in the world today. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the Australian architecture in context of American architecture and the German expressionism period. During the early periods of 20 th century prior to 1930, the Australian architecture was mostly influenced by the English architectural designs. Nevertheless, at about the same period during the Australian Federation architectural revolution, the American architecture started becoming influential to the building designs in Australia. Perhaps one of the earliest influences to Australian architecture in 20 th century was by Walter Griffin, an American architect responsible for designing some of the landmark features of Australia such as Canberra, Castlecrag and Melbourne suburbs (Chaney 14). Figure 1: Federation Style House, Caims. After this period American influence on Australian architect became more apparent in 1950 when the Australian government lifted the 45 meter height limits on commercial buildings thereby ushering in a period of American structurally designed skyscrapers (Kevin 3). Thereafter, Australian architecture started adopting American building designs including other international architectures as well which it continues to copy even to this date. Some of the most notable buildings that perfectly portray the Australian architecture include: Royal exhibition building, Sydney town hall and Sydney opera house (Culture.gov 14). Figure 2: Skyscraper in Melbourne.  Figure 3: Sydney Opera House (international design).                                                                                           In general Australian architecture can be categorized in to two broad categories; non-residential and residential buildings. However there are more than 20 building designs that can be classified based on the three stylistic periods of the Australian architecture which are federation period, interwar period and post world war period (Architecture.com 6). For each of this period specific architectural designs dominated and influenced the Australian architect at the time; during the Federation period (1901-1920) for instance, Australian architect was influenced by Georgian designs, gothic styles, Romanesque designs, classical, arts and crafts and Beaux arts (Architecture.co
Children’s literature is unique because of the manner in which the characters are presented, and the imagination that is involved. According to Lule (92), children are always ignorant of some of the economic realities or limitations that exist in the natural environment. For this reason, they find writing which expresses these natural realities very boring. They prefer literature that talks about heroes with supernormal powers. Such stories make them feel they also have some inner potential that they can use to save the society or to do something heroic, just like the people they read about. They like stories that defy nature and the norms in the society as long as it has the focus of saving people of a given community. Another unique characteristic of these tales is that most of the animals or even plants always have the capacity to talk or act like human beings. This is very evident in the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar that was written by Eric Carle and published in 1969. Thesis Statement: In this study, the focus will be on the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar as one of the most popular children’s stories that has influenced them in various ways. The Very Hungry Caterpillar has remained one of the most popular children’s books not only because of the manner in which simple arithmetic is presented in it, but also because of the nature of the main character. The book tries to explain the consequences of excessive eating, as shown by the hungry caterpillar. It also seeks to promote a positive attitude towards eating of fruits such as apples, pears, oranges, and strawberries. It combines science and fiction so well that children do not realize that the book also has some scientific knowledge. The research by Townsend (56) reveals that the literatures that children read have massive differences from what adults read. First, the ideologies presented in them are unique. As shown in the tale of The Very Hungry Caterpillar , children like stories that give unique capabilities to various objects within their environment. This claim is supported by Walsh (90) who says that most of these stories do not give any emphasis on the issues of racial and gender differences. The only important thing at this stage is for one to know that he or she is a boy or a girl. However, their main concern is to see a hero overcoming various challenges that come in life (Mickenberg and Vallone 36). The Very Hungry Caterpillar clearly demonstrates that caterpillar had an excessive character of overeating. This made it grow big, and after some time, it changed its normal shape. However, what spared the caterpillar from the ultimate destruction was the fact that it ate fruit, which is good for one’s health. This helped it to transform into a beautiful butterfly. This influences children to eat more fruits, especially apples, pears, oranges and strawberries because they are beneficial to the body. As stated above, one of the most common features of the
Introduction Putting into consideration Xbox is a six generation game, this analysis is meant to explain the opportunities that the company has economically and socially. It defines and identifies the opportunities that would increase the volume of sales and income. It also analyzes each and every opportunity to detail and explains how to create more market and income for the company as a whole. In essence, analyzing opportunities is geared towards predicting factors that are hidden and obvious which may influence the company’s sales. Opportunity analysis Xbox, also called project natal, is a new product that has new technology. In this era of motion sensor games and 3D screens, Kinect has the opportunity to create and design software with learning and educational functions. This could change the negative attitude that the game might have gathered in the family market (Alearningsystems.net, p.1). The software should support the development of the learning process where interaction and engagement of information may be integrated into the learning curriculum. Other than learning and educational functions, Kinect should also entertain the idea of expanding the research and innovation of additional functions such as medicine and security insurance. While, this is just a social force, Kinect should also consider economic opportunities presented to it. This includes developing business alliances. Kinect could develop beyond the game, and make teaching tools in schools and home learning equipment. Penetration of new markets could lead to new partnerships in untouched markets such as Hollywood studios. This is a great opportunity for Kinect to forming strong business alliances and to establish its base (Royaltyuniverse.com, p.1). There are emerging markets in countries that Xbox has not explored. New markets could be a big opportunity for the company if it were to explore them first before any of its competitors. Another opportunity would be if the company expanded its existing markets abroad. In this way, it would spread its market further. While at it, Kinect could develop other ways advertising and marketing its product. This could happen if the company becomes the platform for the Internet. It is a great opportunity, as Kinect will not earn income just from software purchase, but also other functions making the players have a more direct experience to these functions. It can also get direct feedback making it a new way of advertising. Kinect uses Blu-Ray HD technology, but instead it could us
Introduction Emotional intelligence (EI) skills are among the most demanded features of a professional from various spheres and occupations. Numerous studies indicate a profound impact of EI on the development of leadership qualities (Caruso, Fleming, & Spector, 2014; Czabanowska, Malho, Schröder-Bäck, Popa, & Burazeri, 2014; McCleskey, 2014). The primary rationale behind writing this paper comprises the demand for a more profound understanding of public health-specific competencies since emotional intelligence plays an immense role in public health (PH) leadership (Czabanowska et al., 2014; Yphantides, Escoboza, & Macchione, 2015). For this study, it is of high importance to discuss four primary elements of EI in the context of their connection to PH leadership. Additionally, this paper aims to provide a personal reflection on both effective and insufficient EI traits along with the discussion of the personal experience of working with a leader with highly developed EI skills. Emotional Intelligence Components in Public Health Leadership First of all, it is essential to state four components of emotional intelligence, which are the following: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and public management. These elements could be categorized into two primary concepts of (1) ability to understand oneself and (2) the ability to understand other people and interact with them adequately. Self-awareness refers to an internal ability to understand one’s emotions and reactions, which is immensely important for public health leadership. Also, as it is noted by Caruso et al. (2014), the adequate expression of the true self is the key ingredient of establishing trust between leaders and their followers. Self-management comprises control over one’s emotional reactions and the ability to maintain one’s reliability and accountability in different situations. For example, the research by Ramchunder and Martins (2014) reveals that there is a significant positive correlation between EI and self-efficacy (which is a skill related to self-management) on the development of effective leadership, which can be applied to the public health sphere. Further, it is possible to discuss two elements of emotional intelligence that refer to social skills. First of all, social awareness comprises a strong sense of other’s emotions, developed emphatic skills, and an understanding of
The engineering design process requires input from different professionals. This situation comes from the growing degree of specialization within the field of engineering. The design of a bed-to-wheel-chair transfer device requires input from different engineering professionals. The engineering disciplines necessary for the design of the device includes Biomedical Engineering, Human Factors Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. The overall coordination for such a project falls under the purview of an Engineering Manager. An Engineering Manager comes from one of the engineering disciplines but in addition, he possesses training and experience in team leadership and management. The Roles and Goals of Individual Team Members The team member from Biomedical Engineering will bring crucial expertise that will provide an interface between engineering principles and the practices of medicine. His role in the design process of the bed-to-wheelchair transfer device will be the identification and application of engineering concepts used in the medical field that are relevant to the project. He will help in identifying the medical issues that the team needs to put into account during the design process and help in developing alternative designs based on Biomedical Engineering approaches. His specific role in the design process will be identification of medical aspects relevant to the design process for consideration. In addition, he will participate in the development of alternative designs. These roles will ensure that the final product meets the performance standards set for medical equipment. The team member from Human Factors Engineering will bring to the team knowledge and skills that govern how people interact with equipment. In this sense, the member will identify ergonomic concepts required in the design of the transfer device. In addition, he will determine how other people, apart from the patient, will respond to the device. Among patients who use wheel chairs, some have little or no control over their limbs. These patients will need assistance when using the device. The role of Human Factors Engineering in this context is to determine how the helpers will interact with the transfer device. A good design will ensure that the product convenient to use. The third team member with Mechanical Engineering training will bring to the team skills and concepts derived from that particular engineering tradition. In essence, the transfer device will be a Mechanical Engineering product that will make it possible for needy persons to transfer themselves to and from a bed. This will increase their independence and mobility. The main role of the team member from the Mechanical Engineering field will relate to the assessment of alternatives generated for the product. He will check if they conform to the threshold required for them to function based on Mechanical Engineering principles. Combined Team Product Design Approach and Goals The design process will have five key stages. These are the clarification of the problem statement, identification
Formal Research and Business Proposals The essential point of difference between business proposals and formal research lies in the “modicum of proof” for the premises that lead up to the Conclusions and Recommendations. In the case of business research, the standard of proof needed only has to be what will convince an internal group of decision-makers, external supply or value-chain partners, an investor or financing source that the proposed course of action is sound. On the other hand, formal research always hews to the precepts of the scientific method for reliability, validity, replication and generalizability to the relevant population. A second key difference lies with data access. A business proposal may rest solely on shared anecdotal evidence, case studies (by definition, an exploratory research method and, owing to the requirement of specificity, few), proprietary or in-house data gathered either for the background or principal analysis phase (PRISM Leadership Consulting & Research Group, 2009). The findings from all three data sources may differ from those available to a competitor but the audience for a Business Proposal is not overly concerned with generalizing to the universe of similar enterprises. With formal research, on the other hand, the requirements for reliability and replication emphasized peer-reviewed professional journals as preferred source for theory-building and hypothesis formulation. For the main information-gathering stage, scientific rigor means limiting research methods to those that others can precisely replicate with similar subjects/respondents, with variations on the independent variable, and in other times and settings. For the rest, there are differences between the two in point of how research problems are defined, the kinds of research questions, research purposes and decision applications addressed, the emphasis on analysis versus experimentation, and the priority given the most recent peer-reviewed professional literature to constitute the acceptable context for formal research. Literature Review: The Relationship between Job Stress and Performance On doing a brief review of the literature around the fifth null hypothesis, “There is no relationship between job stress and performance,” it is striking how the alternative is always the concluding finding. However, the effect is contingent on the level of stress experienced: low to low-average levels of stress are associated with measurable increases in performance on the job but heightened and sustained stress becomes counterproductive. In more theoretical terms, this differential effect is referred to as “challenge versus “threat” or “hindrance”. Challenge leads one to expect a positive correlation with job performance while threat or hindrance drags both qualitative and quantitative work output lower. Several mechanisms explain this hindering effect (Jex, 1998; Lazarus, 1999):  1. On learning about a new demand made on them, employees divert e
The importance of education and training in preparing police officers for their duty is undeniable, especially in the modern-day policing, where more and more requirements are set forward for police to become a legitimate profession. Despite the relevance of the overall educational endeavors, community policing should be less formalized and more directed at the public. However, I strongly believe that continuous education is a stepping stone of professionalization. As Sklansky (2011) suggests, community policy of a professional level should be carried out scientifically and competently. While individual thinking and the ability to become a member of a community to recognize threats and eliminate them is important, I think it is valid to develop such skills within the framework of other educational branches. Moreover, the issue of questioning the police’s professionalism might provoke conflicts between police and the public. To eliminate such threats, specific measures should be taken to improve police expertise in the most relevant spheres. According to Shjarback and White (2016), “departmental commitment to education” is proven to be the best contributor to the reduction of police-citizen violence (p. 1). Thus, education should be a priority in community policing professionalization.
Introduction Tax shelters refer to any technique of trimming down taxable proceeds or returns and this ends up in a decrease of imbursements to duty gathering organizations. These entities include civic, state and central administrations. The techniques used in carrying out this out differ in accordance to home and/or global tax regulations. The KPMG tax shelter disgrace entailed purportedly unlawful United States excise shelters by the firm which were brought to the fore at the commencement of 2003. Later on at the start of 2005, the US affiliate organization of KPMG International, KPMG LLP, was charged of dupery. This was carried out by the US Department of Justice and the sham involved selling of obnoxious income tax shelters. Under an adjourned hearing concurrence, KPMG LLP made a clean breast to illegal acts in crafting counterfeit tax shelters to aid well-off customers evade $2.5 billion in dues and concurred to shell out $456 million in fines (Tax shelter frauds, 2003). As a result, KPMG LLP will not appear for any unlawful trial as long as it acts in accordance with the conditions of its accord with the government. On January 3, 2007, the unlawful plot accusations in opposition to the firm were thrown away. On the other hand, the national trial lawyer who presided over the hearing affirmed that the accusations could be re-established if the firm could not keep up to putting forward continual monitorial all the way through to September 2008. Legal tax shelters These are tax shelters that do not deny the government revenue and are thus allowed. Such tax shelters are crafted by the government to endorse a given advantageous activity(s), normally a long-run venture. On the other hand, such shelters may be a way to prop up societal behaviors. Flow-through shares are an example of such shelters. Another commonly used name for this is limited partnerships and they apply to specific entities like mining firms. These one normally take a number of years before they begin to put forth constructive returns. Some of them usually collapse. This usually puts off investors who seek speedy or safe incomes. To egg on such ventures, the American government makes it possible for the searching expenses of the firm to be doled out to investors as excise subtractions (Donaldson, 2007, p. 730). In this arrangement the shareholders are recompensed in two ways; the first one is the almost immediate tax savings while the other one is the probable huge returns in the case that the firm discovers the minera
Abstract This research project was undertaken in order to resolve problems at the call centre, Customer Hotline, at ABC Daily Newspaper in Hong Kong. Customers were waiting too long for calls to be answered and they were complaining for lack of follow-up, poor attitudes of agents and incorrect information being. The supervisor investigates and management decided to have a report written in order to make a decision concerning whether or not to upgrade the call centre. It had been previously planned, but budget concerns prevented implementation. I was commissioned to write the report and I was asked to try to justify the recommendation and add any possible ROI (Return on Investment) to the report. After considerable research this is that report. It recommends new equipment and training. Plus new procedures and an upgrade on the call centre environment. In addition, a possible strategy for ROI, adding a few research questions to each call for use by marketing, is suggested as part of the report. Introduction and Overview Introduction with problem setting and client ABC Daily Limited is one of the most popular Chinese newspapers in Hong Kong. Their Social Service department is providing a hotline service called Phone Care to the public readers. Readers may report news, complain about the government or ask for help, including financial, from ABC Daily through this hotline. 15 employees are responsible for answering and following up these cases, and recording the main content of conversions into the MS Excel file every day. Recently, some readers complained about the service quality, including the lack of follow-up on cases, giving wrong information about cases and using an inappropriate manner during conversations. After investigation, management discovered that staff had recorded wrong information about the cases at times, such as contact phone numbers. Supervisors found that it was hard to verify the information taken since the telephone system could not record the conversations because the papers reading customers are the reasons for its existence, it is essential to take good care of them. If they are unhappy, then the paper will lose readership and when circulation drops, then spending on advertising drops with it, like the blade of a guillotine. Presenting problem, its causes and reason for its resolution After the initial fact-finding by supervisors, it was decided that this problem needs to be addressed because the connection to the public through the call centre is an essential link to the readership. The supervisors have asked to report which should include a description of the problem, justification for modifications to our call centre system, including return on investment for the finance department and the research supported plan for implementation. It is the aim of this project to produce this report. It is hoped that if the report is comprehensive enough that a solution for this problem can be devised which satisfies the need and stays within a reasonable budget. The Aim of the Report The supervisors feel that a need has been established for changes to the call centre, based upon the many co