...important crop, the potato. This event was a major travesty as millions of Irish people emigrated or died of starvation. Since this event, many different viewpoints have arisen to explain the deaths, the blight, the overall effect, and many other specific occurrences that became a staple of the potato famine. In the article by Hubert Nusteling, “How Many Irish Potato Famine Deaths? Toward Coherence of the Evidence”, it takes a stance on the miscalculation of the deaths during the famine by using models, predictions, and records accounting the population (Nusteling). On the other hand, “ The Great Potato Famine and the Transformation of Irish Peasant Society” by Dean Braa, assess the change in peasant lineage population resulting from the potato famine, and how British Colonization had first caused the dependency on the potato (Braa). The two articles take varying approaches in quantifying the...
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...Business Project Rogier van Maanen (1649229) Vince van den Bunt (1683749) Tjeerd Postema (1668291) Klas: CO11 Elyn Doornenbal 15 april 2016 1e kans Aanleiding: Opvolger van Paul Polman, die sinds 2018 aan het roer staat wil een advies voor een shop in shopconcept waarin de aspecten marketing, economie, bedrijfseconomie, recht en bedrijfskunde zijn uitgelicht. Dit advies helpt mee om de doelstellingen (verdubbelen van de omzet) van Unilever te behalen. Achtergrond: Unilever is een multinational onder Britse en Nederlandse leiding. Unilever heeft 400 merken waardoor dagelijks komen meer dan 2 miljard mensen per dag in aanraking met een product van Unilever. De nieuwe CEO van Unilever heeft deze opdracht gegeven omdat het doel om de omzet te verdubbelen met 50% minder uitstoot maar deels is gelukt. De uitstoot is wel met 50% gedaald maar de omzet in West Europa blijft nog achter. Wij gaan onderzoeken of een shop-in-shop principe in Europa kansrijk is. Hoofdvraag: Is het kansrijk om een shop-in-shop te lanceren voor Unilever? Deelvragen: 1. Is het financieel haalbaar om een shop-in-shop te lanceren in 2 Europese landen? 2. Welke wetten kunnen de lancering van de shop-in-shop beïnvloeden? 3. Welke positionering kan het best toegepast worden? Onderzoeksopzet: 1. We kijken naar de omzetcijfers van het retailgebruik, en cijfers over de verkoop van shop in shop systemen. Zo kunnen wij berekenen wat de opbrengsten zijn. 2. Hierbij...
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...EXTENSIBLE BUSINESS REPORTING LANGUAGE (XBRL) Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of Course Requirements in Accounting 8320 Spring 2009 Kesha Haley By submission of this paper I certify that this paper is entirely my own work. Further this paper has not been submitted for credit in another course. HALEY - 1 - EXTENSIBLE BUSINESS REPORTING LANGUAGE (XBRL) ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to define XBRL, explore the implications of XBRL on auditing, and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this form of financial reporting. The SEC is now requiring companies to submit financial statements in the XBRL format. A subset of XML (eXtensible Markup Langage), XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) standardizes the electronic communication of financial data around the world. XBRL will provide benefits, cost savings, increased efficiency, improved accuracy and reliability in the analysis and communication of business information. It may be thought of as the SEC.s answer to the desire of many to have a continuous audit. This paper will first discuss the definition and origins of XBRL, implications on auditing, advantages and finally disadvantages of XBRL. HISTORY AND OVERVIEW Introduced in the 1990.s by Charles Hoffman, eXtensible Business Reporting Language (known as XBRL) is revolutionizing business reporting across the globe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBRL). An extension of eXtensible Markup Language (known as XML), XBRL is being used for reporting financial data...
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...Clinically Induced Hypothermia in the Management of Severe Head Injury: A Review of the Evidence PAGE 1. Title Page 2. Acknowledgements 3. Contents 4-5. Abstract 6-7. Introduction 8-11. Methods 9. i) Inclusion & Exclusion Criteria 10. ii) Limitations of Search 11. iii) Critical Framework 12-26. Critical Review of the Data 13. i) Study Aims & Design 19. ii) Sampling & Controls 25. iii) Results 27-36. Discussion 32. i) Implications for Practice 37-41. References 42. Appendix 1) – The Four Stages of Research 43. Appendix 2) – Database Search (Hard Copy Only) 44-49. Appendix 3) – Example (1) Using the CASP Framework 50-55. Appendix 3) – Example (2) Using the CASP Framework 56. Appendix 4) – Summary of Studies (Hard Copy Only) 57. Appendix 5) – Intracranial Pressures 58. Appendix 6) – Type 1 & 2 Errors 59. Appendix 7) – The Hawthorne Effect 60. Appendix 8) – The Glasgow Outcome Score 61. Appendix 9) – The Hierarchy of Evidence ABSTRACT Medically induced hypothermia has been used as a neuro-protector to try and limit the consequences of severe brain injury for more than fifty years but it is only recently that its effectiveness has been assessed using randomised controlled trials. Under certain circumstances clinically induced hypothermia has already been proven to be beneficial by providing a degree of neuroprotection in post-cardiac arrest patients. As such it has recently...
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...2 ICTs AND GLOBAL WORKING IN A NON-FLAT WORLD Geoff Walsham Judge Business School University of Cambridge Cambridge, U.K. Abstract This paper rejects the hypothesis of Thomas Friedman that ICT-enabled globalization is driving us toward a flat world. Instead, it is argued that the world remains uneven, full of seams, culturally heterogeneous, locally specific, inequitable, not well-integrated and constantly changing. This argument is supported by an analysis of three areas of ICT-enabled global working, namely global software outsourcing, global IS roll-out, and global virtual teams. The paper then builds on these analyses to put forward an agenda for future IS research on ICTs and global working based on three research themes: identity and cross-cultural working; globalization, localization and standardization; and power, knowledge, and control. The paper concludes that the area of ICTs and global working offers the IS field a major research opportunity to make a significant contribution to our understanding of a set of crucial issues in our more globalized world. Flat world, globalization, global software outsourcing, global IS roll-out, global virtual teams, IS research agenda, identity, cross-cultural working, standardization, power, knowledge, control Keywords 1 INTRODUCTION The changes taking place in the global economy, including those in the burgeoning services component, are the subject of much debate by a wide range of commentators including journalists, practitioners...
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...UNIVERSIty OF GHANA BUISINESS SCHOOL Write a Case Study report on the use of web-based information systems by an organization in Ghana UNIVERSIty OF GHANA BUISINESS SCHOOL Write a Case Study report on the use of web-based information systems by an organization in Ghana Index No: 10508454 Table of Contents Background 2 Information Systems 2 Web-based Information Systems 3 Health Information Systems 3 Types of Health Information System 5 Components and Functions of Health Information System 6 Brief Overview of the Health Care System in Ghana 7 Context of Study 8 Vision and Mission 9 Core Objectives 9 Benefits of web – based health information system 9 Barriers to web – based Health Information System 11 References 13 Background For the thriving nature of every business setting, whether for-profit or not-for-profit, but also for long term survival, there is a need for the adoption of proper information dissemination and sharing systems in real time to the benefit of all stakeholders in the organization. In times past, most businesses operated with less or no importance attached to how data and information about their businesses are handled, oblivious of its subsequent consequences to the organization. Currently, in the midst of a swiftly moving landscape in technology, coupled with transient business innovations that seek to maximize both short-term and long-term profits as well as benefits; that means...
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...UNIVERSITY OF OSLO RESEARCH PROPOSAL FOR THE MASTERS OF SCIENCE IN INFORMATICS DEGREE BY COURSE WORK AND DISSERTATION 1.0. NAME OF CANDIDATE: LUNGO, JUMA H. Reg.No: 17117431320 B.Sc. (Comp.) (Hons.) (DAR) 2. NAME OF SUPERVISOR: 3. DEPARTMENT AND FACULTY: DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATICS – FACULTY OF MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL SCIENCE. 4. PROPOSED DEGREE: M. Sc. (INFORMATIC SCIENCE) 5. TITLE: Object-Oriented Systems Analysis and Design: a case of District Health Information System, Mozambique. TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT i INTRODUCTION 1 RELEVANT FINDINGS (LITERATURE REVIEW) 2 OBJECT-ORIENTED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN 2 THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND WHY THIS PROBLEM AREA 5 THE RESEARCH QUESTIONS 5 RESEARCH OBJECTIVES 6 TARGET GROUP 7 PERSONAL MOTIVATION 7 METHODOLOGY 7 BIBLIOGRAPHY: 13 ABSTRACT Many organisations are relying on software systems. Thus these organisations spend a lot of money on software systems and, to get a return on that investment, the software must be usable for a number of years. For many organisations, introducing new software implementation from scratch is a risk. This is because their requirements are not well defined or they don’t have enough expertise to understand and identifies software that can fit their problems. So, many organisations adopt software. That means they take analogy software (software developed for another organisation with the some similarities) and adopt...
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...UNIVERSITY OF OSLO RESEARCH PROPOSAL FOR THE MASTERS OF SCIENCE IN INFORMATICS DEGREE BY COURSE WORK AND DISSERTATION 1.0. NAME OF CANDIDATE: LUNGO, JUMA H. Reg.No: 17117431320 B.Sc. (Comp.) (Hons.) (DAR) 2. NAME OF SUPERVISOR: 3. DEPARTMENT AND FACULTY: DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATICS – FACULTY OF MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL SCIENCE. 4. PROPOSED DEGREE: M. Sc. (INFORMATIC SCIENCE) 5. TITLE: Object-Oriented Systems Analysis and Design: a case of District Health Information System, Mozambique. TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT i INTRODUCTION 1 RELEVANT FINDINGS (LITERATURE REVIEW) 2 OBJECT-ORIENTED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN 2 THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND WHY THIS PROBLEM AREA 5 THE RESEARCH QUESTIONS 5 RESEARCH OBJECTIVES 6 TARGET GROUP 7 PERSONAL MOTIVATION 7 METHODOLOGY 7 BIBLIOGRAPHY: 13 ABSTRACT Many organisations are relying on software systems. Thus these organisations spend a lot of money on software systems and, to get a return on that investment, the software must be usable for a number of years. For many organisations, introducing new software implementation from scratch is a risk. This is because their requirements are not well defined or they don’t have enough expertise to understand and identifies software that can fit their problems. So, many organisations adopt software. That means they take analogy software (software developed for another...
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...Bohemia Industries Adviesrapport voor interne maandelijkse financiële verslaggeving Inhoud Voorwoord Samenvatting 1. Inleiding 1.1 Achtergrond en opdrachtomschrijving 1.2 Doelstelling rapport 1.3 Hoofdvraag 1.4 Deelvragen 1.5 Onderzoeksmethode 1.6 Leeswijzer 2. Onderzoeksresultaten 2.1 Welke berekeningsmethodes zijn er voor het berekenen van de winst? 2.2 Welke winstberekeningsmethode gebruikt Bohemia Industries op dit moment? 2.3 Welke voor- en nadelen heeft de huidige methode die Bohemia Industries gebruikt? 2.4 Welke voor- of nadelen heeft de alternatieve berekeningsmethode? 2.5 Wat zijn de verschillen in de winstresultaten bij de berekeningsmethodes? 2.6 Analyse 2.7 Welke winstberekeningsmethode geeft het meest betrouwbare beeld van de behaalde resultaten per maand? 3. Kosten-batenanalyse 4. Conclusie 5. Aanbeveling Bronnenlijst 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 7 7 7 8 8 11 11 12 13 14 Samenvatting De financiële verslaggeving over de maanden juli en augustus van productiebedrijf Bohemia Industries liet een stijging van de omzet zien maar tot verbazing van het management geen stijging van de winst. Hierop is een onderzoek ingesteld naar wat voor productiebedrijf Bohemia Industries de meest betrouwbare winstberekeningsmethode is ten behoeve van de maandelijkse interne verslaggeving. Er zijn twee winstberekeningsmethoden, de integrale kostprijscalculatie en de variabele kostprijscalculatie, onderzocht en vergeleken met elkaar. Voor het vergelijken is de bedrijfsinformatie gebruikt...
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...sDEVELOPING A MOBILE ELECTRONIC PERFORMANCE SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR A MAJOR TOP 20 NEWSPAPER: AN ACTION RESEARCH STUDY IN ADVERTISING SALES by Theresa A. Hueftle A Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy Capella University October 2005 UMI Number: 3187646 Copyright 2005 by Hueftle, Theresa A. All rights reserved. UMI Microform 3187646 Copyright 2006 by ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights reserved. This microform edition is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code. ProQuest Information and Learning Company 300 North Zeeb Road P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346 © Theresa Hueftle, 2005 Abstract The purpose of this study was to determine the most effective way to deliver just-in-time learning using mobile technology for newspaper salespeople working in the field. The goal was to produce a pedagogical platform that was time sensitive, had on the job accessibility, and did not overload the salesperson’s mental abilities. The instructional design prototype used an action research approach. The study was based on the works of Gloria Gery (electronic performance support) and Ruth Clarks (building expertise). This study provided the information from an authentic newspaper environment to develop a mobile performance support prototype for newspaper salespeople. Results revealed the hardware, authoring software, content, architecture, and learning theory...
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