ShantanuT01/DACTYL-Pretraining huggingface dataset:
The knee joint is a rather necessary synovial joint that connects the tibia to the femur. In the knee, the tibiofemoral and the patellofemoral joints form a modified hinge joint, which lets the knee straighten, bend, and rotate from side to side. The purpose of the muscles surrounding the knee is to help keep it moving, well-aligned, and stable. The quadriceps femoris straightens the knee, and the hamstrings provide the opposite motion. Ligaments hold the bones stable, attach them, and give strength and stability to the knee joint. There are five knee ligaments: medial collateral, lateral collateral, anterior cruciate, posterior cruciate, and patellar. Around the knee, there are four bones, and the femur (the thigh bone) is the longest one; it runs from the ankle to the knee. About 80-90% of the weight is carried by the tibia. Patella (knee cap) is a triangular semi-flat bone that has the purposes of increasing the force generated by the quadriceps muscle, moving the knee bends, and protecting the knee joint from trauma. The fibula helps to form the ankle joint and serves as an attachment for muscles like the lateral collateral ligament and biceps femoris. The range of motion includes rotations (inward and outward), abduction (movement away from and towards the middle of the body), extension (straightening), and flexion (bending). Since the knee is a hinge joint, it primarily moves in one plane of movement, which is extension and flexion. The standard ROM measure includes 135° for a fully bent knee joint.
Introduction This research paper is related to the “Issues related to Work and Occupations in Canada” as part of the Sociology subject. Several problems and their solutions would be presented along with the social aspect of living standards of the individuals who live and work in Canada. Apart from that, huge forces which actually affect the social factor of professionals and individuals would also be discussed, such as; terms of technology, impact of economy, bureaucracy and globalization which have affected the organizational environment of all the industries very much. It has been observed that the citizens of Canada are spending their time on work more than before and for them, over-time has caused more troubles than it’s actual worth. Apart from that, civil employees are busy in building firewalls to prevent themselves from the home invasions. This essay would discuss the worth of working and its issues in Canada and the impact of these issues on the Canadian organizations. Issues Related to Work and Occupations in Canada Issues are basically the problems and hindrances which could occur while carrying out a task and while living a pr
In today’s society, secular and Christian worldviews clash in several ways. Both are different and varied in their composition, expression, and application. The divide between them is so wide that Christian views are disregarded in professional fields such as business and politics (Pearcey, Henley, & Martinez, 2014). Disregard Christian perspectives are evident in several fields, such as journalism and politics. The exclusion of Christian precepts in dealing with secular matters has resulted in outcomes that worsen rather than improve society. Professional pursuits in contemporary society are characterized by a great separation of work and religion because of misguided perceptions about the relationship between the two. Many people avoid the integration of their careers and spirituality and therefore spend most of their time avoiding worship, evangelization, and other Christian duties. This approach has originated from the propensity to view work and Christian duties as incompatible. However, business activities give Christians an opportunity to carry out their duty of evangelization. As such, Christians should embrace and incorporate biblical perspectives into their work in order to eradicate the divide between their faith and work. In many instances, I undertake career-related projects that eradicate the need for incorporation of Christian values and precepts. However, the cultural mandate by God to humans to subdue the earth makes work a way of contributing to God’s call (Pearcey at al. 2014). It is important to integrate biblical worldviews into secular endeavors in order to fulfill God’s cultural mandate to humans. In many workplaces, involvement in religious activities is restricted because of the diversity in people’s religious views. Therefore, corporations assume that limiting the number of religious discourses is right for them. They ignore the fact that Christian precepts possess the power to change employees in positive ways through changes in attitudes towards people and work (Fernando, 2002). The world of politics is characterized by actions and conversations that are evidence of the great divide between politics and Christianity. For example, corruption is one of the major challenges faced in politics because many participants lack core Christian values such as honesty, trust, and justice. On the other hand, this is evident from the separation of state and religion. Many people believe that religion should not be fused with politics because both are different and incompatible entities (Fernando, 2002). This approach has resulted in many problems because the incorporation of Christian perspectives into politics would solve innumerable challenges. A similar problem is observed in the dissemination of information by different media platforms. Many media outlets stretch the truth in order to attain certain desired outcomes. As a result, distorted media reporting and individualized opinions are used to shape public discourses in matters such as education, politics, and science (Pearcey at al. 2014). Incorporating Ch
There is no doubt that the analysis of colour varies a lot. There is the analysis that is authentic and based on scholarly information. Also, there is the analysis that is based on unsubstantiated information. This paper will offer a critical analysis of the article written by Angela Wright entitled “Psychological properties of colours” (Wright, 2011). Critical Evaluation This article was authored by an expert in the field. The author has articulated the various attributes of the different colours in an effective manner. However, the article does not meet the provisions for a scholarly article bearing in mind that it is not peer-reviewed. Also, it can be noted that there are no in-text citations provided in the article. Notably, there is no reference page provided. Peer reviewed articles are the most trusted in the scholarly circles (Guerrieri, 2012). Peer reviewed articles are those that are subjected to other colleagues and experts for analysis before publication. This is an important aspect as the author it enables the author to alleviate any fear, doubt, and resistance that others may have towards his or her work. In peer review, valuable suggestions and advice are presented to the author before his or her work is published (Lamothe, 2012). Peer reviewed publications are subjected to the “audit culture” which has been adopted in the academic world (Blyth, et al. 2010). Going by these assertions, it can be noted that the article by Angela Wright did not meet the criteria for a reliable source of information in academic circles. Applying the REVIEW criteria Relevance The relevance of the article is excellent. This is because the article expounds on very critical information about the different colours (Wright, 2011). Expertise The expertise of the author of the article is quite good. Angela Wrights went to Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton, England where she studied psychoanalytic psychotherapy. She also went to Carmel, California, USA where she studied the dynamics of colour. Viewpoint The article takes an informative viewpoint. In this respect, the author uses her expertise to compile a very useful article that provides critical information to her audience about colours (Wright, 2011). Intended audience The article is intended for colouring and design students and professionals. It can also be useful to those people who are interested in studying colour and human behaviour. Evidence On this criteria, the article scores poorly. There are no in-text citations that are provided. Consequently, there is no bibliography or reference section on the article. When published This article was published recently and this makes it a good source of information.
In her article titled “$350,000 a Year, and Just Getting By,” Annie Lowry discusses how financial confessions illustrate physiological perceptions of income and spending in the USA. The author reflects on how some such statements go viral and why the country’s upper class may genuinely feel cash-stripped. Lowry’s claim that the explanation is the insulation of richness and resulting lack of awareness is fairly convincing and supplemented with effective use of ethos and logos as well as occasional pathos. Before evaluating the argument itself, it is necessary to consider the rhetorical situation behind it. Lowry sets the discussion against the backdrop of financial confessions on the Internet that are divisive enough to deserve being called viral. The author provides examples, such as the law professor from Chicago, with a combined household income exceeding $250,000 and stating he has “less than a few hundred dollars per month of discretionary income” (Lowry). Another example is the budget of a couple making $500,000 a year and still only having $7,300 to spend at their discretion per the same period (“Scraping By”). The comments below these publications suggest that people, especially those who earn less, tend to feel anger and resentment at such statements. Thus, Lowry most likely directs her article at the average-income earners who, as have-nots, feel indignation at the haves’ financial confessions. One notable part of Lowry’s argument is her use of logos – that is, the appeals to reason and logic. As mentioned above, she uses evidence to illustrate her statements, but this is to be expected in professional journalism. The essence of her argument is also highly logical in the appeals it uses. The author’s claim is that “the country’s [richest] 10 percent… really don’t understand how much better they have it than the 90 percent below them,” and she uses evidence and logic to explain it (Lowry). According to her, people tend to live around those with the same level of income, which leads them to perceive this level as normal (Lowry). This, in turn, leads to the insulation of richness and poverty, causing the rich to think their income and spending is normal when it may be an order of magnitude above average. Essentially, Lowry’s claim is a syllogism: people living around those with the same level of income will perceive it as normal, rich people live around rich peop
How to Survive a Plague AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) is a movement advocating for the improvement of the lives of people with HIV/AIDS and calling for legislation, research, and treatment to eliminate the disease. ACT UP was created in March 1987 in New York at the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center (“How to Survive a Plague”). The movement was active and organized many demonstrations advocating for effective AIDS policies against the epidemic from 1987 to the mid-1990s. The main strategy of ACT UP was direct-action protests which reached their peak in 1988, when the activists managed to close Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for one day on October 11 by preventing the workers and officials from entering the building. Their purpose was to make medical establishments and the U.S. government develop effective medications against HIV/AIDS. They demanded from FDA to develop and approve medications that could delay or even stop the development of the virus and to make drug trials shorter than the usual seven to ten years so that the treatment could be available in a short period to save more people from this deadly disease (“How to Survive a Plague”). Many people with HIV/AIDS were forced to buy unreliable and unapproved drugs on the black market to have the smallest chance of survival. The only drug that could decelerate the progression of AIDS at that time was AZT. However, this drug was toxic for people and, therefore, caused severe side effects such as complete blindness. The cost of this was also very high, namely, $10,000 a year. Finally, ACT UP managed to influence FDA, and on the International AIDS Conference in 1991, a new drug called DDI was approved being a better alternative for AZT and not causing pernicious side effects. Although by that time DDI had not gone through all necessary trials, the results were positive, and the drug was more effective than AZT (Westervelt). Another ACT UP’s campaign was aimed at protesting against the immigration policies that discriminated HIV positive people and prevented them from entering the USA. Later, the ACT UP and the Treatment Action Group (TAG) demanded that the government conducted more research, as neither AZT nor DDI were effective in terms of the treatment of HIV/AIDS. As a result, in 1996, the FDA released protease inhibitors, which could significantly decrease the reproduction of the virus, thereby prolonging the lives of patients with HIV/AIDS even more (Westervelt). At that time, it was a breakthrough, and these medications are widely us
Introduction Sustainable development is usually regarded as a socio-ecological procedure featured by the completion of human necessities while supporting the excellence of the natural surroundings indefinitely. The connection between surroundings and enhancement was worldwide recognized in 1980 when the International Union for the Conservation of Nature issued the World Conservation Strategy and used the definition “sustainable development.” The concept came into widespread practice after the publication of the 1987 report of the Brundtland Commission – officially, the World Commission on Environment and Development. Set up by the UNGA, the Brundtland Commission invented what was to become the most often-cited description of sustainable development as an enhancement that “convenes the necessities of the current generation without compromising the capability of upcoming generations to meet their own needs.” Although praiseworthy, this classification is not functional and has created much aggression and cognitive disagreement. The area of sustainable enhancement can be theoretically broken into three-ingredient elements: ecological sustainability, financial sustainability, and social-political sustainability. Measures of sustainable development Sustainable development is a multidimensional concept, including no less than seven spheres. Sustainable development is regarded as reciprocally helpful communication among the lawful interests of commerce and the economy, administration and the polity, and social community and culture. Though, these societal communications do not exist in space. On the bodily and fabric side, society is surrounded by the transporting ability of the varied networks, landscape ecology, and eventually the biosphere of the earth, of Nature. In the emotional and religious areas, the threefold practical separation of community is related to the caring capability of persons. From this viewpoint, five measurements of sustainable development are obviously visible. These are — human living, culture, polity, economy, and Nature. Though, to this five, we need to regard society as a detached measurement. The community can be realized as the integrative result of communications of the dissimilar commotions in culture, polity, and the financial system. The populace matter, for instance, is an enhancement matter that can only be addressed from a communal viewpoint, not just from culture, or the economy, or polity separately. As for the communal dimension of Sustainable development, it is essential to
Introduction Launching new business ventures and directing them to success requires vast knowledge about the market. An entrepreneur can attain this knowledge through research and experience. From my personal research, I noted a gap in the academic performance of students in elementary and high school settings, and therefore, there was a need for tuition to supplement got from school. There are few businesses providing tuition services to this group so that this area remains an unexploited business opportunity. However, exploiting the opportunity poses a major challenge. The Basic Idea behind the Opportunity Many parents wish to give their children tuition, but they cannot because of limited time. As an entrepreneur, I can tap into this opportunity to help parents provide tuition services to their children and help boost their academic performance (Ee par. 2). The job would be to bring together the necessary requirements for the tuition and find and hire people to run the tuition project. In exchange for the services, the parents of these students will pay a fee. Changes or Factors That Have Created the Opportunity The major factors that create this opportunity include social trends and technological advancement. In the current society, parents have increasing responsibilities as their children advance in age. In addition, they have to put up with long working hours that include night shifts. Therefore, they have limited time or at times lack it to inspect the homework and progress of their children (Solomon, Warin, and Lewis 605). This situation creates the need for professional tutors to fill the gap in children’s education. In addition, schools have played a significant role in creating the need for tuition. Very high expectations and demands on students to excel in exams have caused the need for extra teaching and learning and helpers to enable them to meet the demands set by their respective schools. Children do not match the expectations with which these institutions provide the students. For example, the classrooms are overcrowded with the students, and the workload overwhelms teachers slowing their progress. In this vain, many schools do not meet the recommended teacher-student ratio. This situation causes a loss of personal touch between the teacher and students, and the tutor cannot understand the individual need of each child. This situation makes parents look for external help to facilitate their children in following the education curriculum and excelling in academics. A tutor is in direct contact with the student and, therefore, able to provide specialized services to satisfy each student’s need. Market for This Service All parents desire that their children excel in school because their success in live may depend on their academic performance. They risk wasting their lives if they fail in thei
Introduction Ethics in the tourism and hospitality industries is a crucial concept much needed in driving a business. It is a crucial element in guiding strategic goals, short term as well as long term goals and objectives for a company’s sustainability. Empirical research studies indicate that ethics refers to rules that govern the general conduct and operations of a particular business establishment. So, let’s discuss how ethics and social awareness have influenced the tourism and hospitality industry. Business ethics take different forms and are applied at all levels and stages of its operation and management. According to ethical theorists, it is an essential practice for organizations to assimilate practices that generate positive and gainful outcomes. The emergence of these innovative approaches reflects the importance of ethics in the tourism and hospitality industry. Frechtling and Boo (2012) state that generally applied operational principles should provide an assurance to decision makers on particular business decisions taken in accordance to defined rules and regulations of the practice. Majority of organizations do fail to achieve their maximum potential due to scouring implications of poor ethics. In any case, this appears to be a global trend. In addition, there are myriad of key questions related to ethics in tourism and hospitality that ought to be addressed. For instance, how far should business ethics employed in an organization? How should professional ethics be employed to achieve the highest level of both performance and organizational well being? How can professional ethics be measured? It is against this backdrop that this paper explores ethics in tourism and hospitality industry by evaluating codes of ethics. Codes of ethics in tourism and hospitality industries The ability to effectively articulate high levels of ethics in tourism and hospitality industry is a key determinant of the capacity for the aforementioned sector to trace its missions, achieve the set goals, objectives and visions as well as establish the best organizational cultures that anchor high levels of productivity and profitability. Ethics based on ethical theories and principles in organizations dictate the manner in which internal and external relations are employed and coordinated. In particular, Hudson (2007) emphasizes that the driving force towards achieving the highest level of performance is critical at all levels in both hospitality and tourism industries. Ethics in a company creates a crucial sense to both workers and clients that a company has them at ‘heart’ and therefore strongly wins the need for creativity, innovation and future sense of sustainability. Though some managers indicate that indeed they appreciate the critically of employing professional ethics, Hudson (2007) indicates that majority of them are indeed unsure of the extent to which they should apply it. According to Kim and Miller (2008), tourism and hospitality industry is one of the most crucial industries that perhaps require observance of the hig
Interviews with diverse members of the TA team, including the executives, recruitment professionals, and onboarding coordinators, were selected as a research method to gather in-depth qualitative information aiding in finalizing the organizational diagnosis. Interviews with Steve Perry and Randy Jackson, the executive leaders, were approved to generate an insight into the organization’s key business goals influenced by vacancies as viewed by its central strategic decision-makers. In another instance, combined with a documentation review, an interview with the TA director supports the exploration of the organization’s background check policies pertaining to new hires. In a similar manner, interviews can enable the researchers to comprehend the TA team’s perspectives on the onboarding process, possible improvement areas, and the process’s evolution. Given the aforementioned questions’ nature, emphasizing exploring rather than measuring, and the presence of specific professionals anticipated to provide the most detailed answers, addressing these objectives by resorting only to quantitative research would produce limited insights. For that reason, the research team agreed to conduct interviews. The second method the project utilizes, observation, was approved by the team during the planning stage. Regarding the purpose, observation was considered an opportunity to generate unbiased data concerning the peculiarities of the current onboarding process in the studied organization. As a qualitative method providing researchers with direct access to the phenomenon of interest, observation supplements the results of quantitative research, including the use of surveys. This method’s inclusion promotes the research team’s ability to critically evaluate survey and interview results, which represent the viewpoints of executive directors, the hiring team, and other professional groups not immune to biases. Moreover, evidence collected via observations can facilitate the production of an updated process flow diagram, thus supporting the accuracy of the final managerial and organizational diagnosis. Therefore, the decision to include observations stems from the research team’s motivation to accomplish an adequate and objective understanding of the organization’s physical setting and actual interprofessional interactions taking place. This can reduce the risks of misconceptions resulting from relying solely on information reported by process participants.