...Memories expresses uncertainty since it consistently grows and changes. In 1991, Andre Hatchett was wrongfully convicted of a second-degree murder and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. The verdict of Hatchett's case relied heavily on the misconduct of Gerard Williams' sole eyewitness testimony which overlooked evidence that initially identified the true perpetrator (Innocence Project). Using the works of Loftus’s (2015) and Rattner’s (1983), I will examine how the primarily causes for cases of wrongful convictions consist of faulty eyewitness testimony and the exposure of the false memories. To begin, Loftus suggested that the identification of defendants from criminal cases were predominantly determined by witnesses (2015). In fact, studies have established that the possibility of misidentifying an individual tends to be increasingly high due to...
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...One Two Three Times Your Out – Unless You're the Chief of Police News One has run a report showing that Ferguson's interim police chief, Andre Anderson, is not an angel. According to the report, Anderson was suspended on three different occasions and was accused of beating a woman, but the charges were dropped. When asked about hiring someone with such a past, a Ferguson police spokesperson said, "“The allegations regarding Chief Anderson allegedly striking a woman are more than 15 years old, were unfounded…and thus never led to criminal charges being filed.” It is fair to note that the suspensions took place between 1996 and 1997. He was the "Officer of the Year" in 1994. Anderson is an employee of the Glendale Police Department in...
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...the Andre Thomas case, I was first horrified by how critical Thomas' mental illness had become. The Texas tribune has listed a timeline of Thomas' life. It is clear that he had severe mental health issues and for whatever reason was allowed to be without care. The Pros and the Cons of the Death Penalty Morality is often at the center of the debate of the Death Penalty. Many believe that the death penalty is morally wrong due to the government's decision to take another life (Top). But, it's also morally wrong to commit the crimes that those on death row have committed. For example, Andre Thomas, although mentally ill, murdered his wife and family. It's also morally wrong to take innocent lives. The costs could also be a factor. While keeping a person in prison for life can be costly, the death penalty will keep control of the costs of tax payers (Top). Tax payers have to pay for the cost of living for the incarcerated, and with rising numbers, their are rising costs. The death penalty allows for...
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...Andre was not 100 percent honest with his mother up until he died. Andres mother was surprised with shocking news from his boyfriend she never knew about that her son died from aids. All throughout the conversation with Cal and his family along with Andres mother, she never spoke. Understandably since she was surprised with news she clearly did not supportive. The only motion that Andre’s mother had was once everyone was gone, and she was able to have time to herself. Andre’s mother’s emotions were very clear that she did not Cal and Andres relationship making Cals family extremely uncomfortable and eager to bring joy to the conversation. The gestures and feelings she asserted is revealing about her feelings on homosexuality, while she ignored Cals family and showed no emotion towards Cal while they are both grieving from their loss....
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...RMIT COMMERCIAL LAW [pic] Weekly Case-studies for Small Group Seminars Semester 1, 2012 Week 2 case study Deciding what legislation means Case-study: The toxic waste Late in the afternoon on 1 December 2009 Alex Demetriou, who owns a waste removal business, collects a truckload of contaminated soil from excavations at a building site in Melbourne. He drives the full truck back to his company’s yard in Werribee. He leaves it parked there overnight, intending to drive it to a remote dump the next day. A municipal inspector sees the truck in the yard and discovers that the soil in the truck is toxic waste. The inspector tells Alex that the law forbids storing such materials near a river or river bed without a special permit. Alex admits that the soil is contaminated and says that he cannot produce a permit. The Werribee River is three kilometres from the haulage company’s yard. The inspector makes a report to the Police, who charge Alex with a breach of s 3 of an Act called the Contamination Avoidance Act. Alex is given the option of admitting guilt and paying a fine of $1,000. Otherwise, he will have to defend the charge in court. Alex asks for your advice. He admits the soil was left in the yard, but says it was only left there overnight and that he always intended to move it the next day. He says that, in these circumstances, he does not...
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...and some symptoms may improve as the child ages. My client “Andre” was been diagnosed with the disorder over a year ago by his pediatrician and was prescribed Ritalin. However, his mother Kathy is concerned because things have not gotten better and she would like to research some other options for treatment. The Case My case is about a 9 year old who has had a history of problems in school. For the sake of the paper we will call the 9 year old “Andre”. Andre’s teachers described his “approach to class work as very chaotic,” and he hardly ever can focus on one task for longer than two to three minutes. His said she had to “repeat instructions over and over.” His school performance and gotten work each year. He had previously been diagnosed with Attention Deficit /Hyperactivity Disorder and was prescribed Ritalin and his mother is not satisfied in the treatment plan and is now wanting a different alternative for his disorder. Identifying Information Andre is African American 10 year old and lives with his mom, Kathy, and his older sister Angie, aged 12. Andre’s dad was in the home up until he passed away last summer. He was in a really bad car accident a few months prior and never recovered from his injuries. Although, Kathy is now a single parent, with her registered nurse salary she is still able to provide middle class living for her family. Presenting Problem At the age of 10, Andre...
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...life that has maintained its consistency is the fact that everyone and everything dies. Death is an inevitable force that can only be avoided for short amounts of time, as one cannot live forever. In modern times, medicine's main goal and interest is to prolong the lives of those who want to live. What, then, is the fate of those who are stricken with terminal illnesses? What of those who writhe in pain every day and are incapable of performing the most menial tasks for themselves? Along with abortion and gay marriage, euthanasia is at the forefront of the political arena as a hot-button debate topic. The basic issue surrounding the euthanasia debate is whether or not a physician should, or be allowed to, provide assistance in death in the case of a terminal condition to a patient incapable of carrying out the deed him or herself. A terminally ill patient should have the right to choose when and how he or she dies and the topic of euthanasia should be free from social stigma and religious taboos. To some the name Jack Kevorkian conjures up images of a murderous doctor preying on innocent and sickly patients. Known to critics and dissidents as “Dr. Death”, it would seem as if he is guilty of grave offenses against his patients. Contrarily, at the patients' request, Dr. Kevorkian provided over one hundred thirty men and women with painless endings to their lives (Memmott). He is seen as a pioneer, leader, and symbol of the Right-to-Movement. However, he like many others, received...
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...Declarative Knowledge. 3.2. Definition of Procedural Knowledge and Evaluation of Edith’s Procedural Knowledge. 4. The Traits Approach. Page 9 4.1. 4.2. The Behavioural Approach. The Results Approach. 3. Job Knowledge. Page 7 3.1. 5. Definition of Motivation and Evaluation of Edith’s Motivation. Page 11 6. People Management and Planning and Allocating Work Activities. Page 12 7. Conclusion. 8. Bibliography. 9. Appendices. 2 Terms of Reference. This report will identify a range of performance problems in the St Jessica’s Urban Medical Center Emergency Room case study and suggests solutions to improve performance management, analyse techniques used for planning and allocating work activities to improve performance. 3 1. Introduction. This report will examine the theory of performance management and identify performance and behavioural issues in the St Jessica’s Urban Medical Center Emergency Room case study. It will analyse task and contextual performance and declarative and procedural knowledge and identify approaches that could be used by the management team to measure and improve performance including the traits, behavioural and results approaches. It will explain the benefits of effective performance management with reference to theory and evaluate techniques for planning and allocation of work activities to improve performance. 4 2. Performance. It is essential for any successful organisation to employ people that perform to a satisfactory level. That level...
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...The Comparable Worth Debate Abstract: This case study will discuss the compensation strategy ‘Comparable Worth’. Along with an overview of the strategy comparable worth, we’ll discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this strategy. Lastly, with respect to the case study scenario outlined, we’ll discuss my recommendation of a ‘limited’ embracement of the comparable worth strategy. Comparable Worth Overview Comparable worth is a compensation strategy that has gained more traction in the public sector versus the private sector. It is meant to address wage inequalities between females and males. It is a process to re-evaluate wages for female role based jobs that are being paid at lower rate than for a similar male-based job. The belief is that women have been subject to a social process that results in them leaning towards employment sectors that are limited in terms of compensation. Further, that these jobs, despite requiring equivalent or more knowledge and often entail greater responsibility, are devalued, systemically. Examples of this are jobs like teachers, nurses, and other jobs centered around child care, that despite entailing a high degree of knowledge and responsibility, are paid at lower rates than say typical male role based jobs like a sanitation engineer or truck driver or other jobs that entail less demands. Thus, the strategy of comparable worth is a mechanism to examine these roles against similar roles and adjust compensation, comparative...
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...Usability Evaluation of a Medium-sized ERP System in Higher Education Brenda Scholtz, André Calitz and Charmain Cilliers Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa brenda.scholtz@nmmu.ac.za andre.calitz@nmmu.ac.za charmain.cilliers@nmmu.ac.za Abstract: The critical importance of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems in modern business has created a demand for ERP consultants with the appropriate competencies to implement, maintain and support these systems. Education and training programmes have been implemented in order to provide ERP specialists and graduates with the required industry relevant ERP competencies. The majority of these education and training programmes utilise large ERP systems for instructional purposes, however users of these systems encounter usability issues whilst learning to use the systems. The use of medium-sized ERP systems has been proposed for educational purposes as they are less complex and easier to learn than large ERP systems. Empirical studies on the usability of ERP systems, particularly for medium-sized ERP systems are limited. This paper reports on empirical research on the usability evaluation of a medium-sized ERP system. The study identified three categories of criteria and 10 criteria which can be used for usability evaluations of medium-sized ERP systems. The criteria were used in a case study to evaluate the usability of a medium-sized ERP system and to obtain qualitative feedback on the usability of the...
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...Task 1 Jess’s performance as a manager can be related to the concept of functional or action centred leadership style which is focuses on the model of John Adair action centre. The three main points in of adhair is achieving the task, managing team and managing individuals. Jess as a manager has shown traits as a positive manager even though she has limited experience but still has some working knowledge of her role. Jess tries to achieve the tasks albeit she has to do them herself because other employees wont. Jess hasn’t succeeded in managing team because she has tried designed to bring in monthly meetings to generate involvement from staff but staff just sits back and listen and clock watch. Jess is trying to bring the team together but she feels her team are not supportive of her decisions as they feel they have been let down, due to previous managerial decisions. Also managing the individuals isn’t correct for jess because certain employees don’t like her such as Russell who wanted her job and he refuses to work hard. To rectify this Jess has to have to talk to the employees and say what she wants and tell them to start working harder. Also try to persuade them that she is the correct person for the job. Furthermore jess should assert her authority and talk to each member individually and say what she wants the best out of them. There is some Henri Fayol principle theory as well because in Fayol theory there is a 5 plan element for management which is planning...
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...policies and programs to increase employment and educational opportunities for minorities and women. The policies differ in approach and opinion. The lesser of the policies is passive nondiscrimination. It is when a company or educational institution takes into account only the applicant’s ability, and doesn’t take race or sex into consideration. This policy is also called equal opportunity, and is not controversial. It only requires employers to not unjustly discriminate. (Lane, 2010) Moving past the passive approach is affirmative action. This is defined as an activity that is aimed at securing a more equal workplace. It goes beyond passive nondiscrimination, but doesn’t alter the standards or qualifications for applicants. (Claire Andre, 2005) One way a company can engage in affirmative action is to increase the applicant pool for open positions with the intent to diversify. Though this policy is more active than the passive nondiscrimination, the theory is that the most qualified candidate will get the position, so moral and ethical controversy is limited. A method beyond affirmative action, and the one I want to discuss in this paper, is preferential treatment, or hiring. This type of policy changes the job standards in an effort to hire more minorities or women. There are two ways this is done: preferential hiring among equally competent applicants; and preferential hiring among applicants who are not equally competent. These policies are called reverse discrimination...
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...TITLE: Perspective: The Therapeutic Potential of Deep Brain Stimulation in Huntington's Disease AUTHORS: Sean J. Nagel, Andre G. Machado, John Gale, Darlene A. Lobel, Mayur Pandya ABSTRACT Huntington’s Disease (HD) is an incurable neurodegenerative disease characterized by the triad of chorea, cognitive dysfunction and psychiatric disturbances. Since the discovery of the HD gene in 1993, the pathogenesis has been outlined, but to date a cure has not been found. Disease modifying therapies are needed desperately to improve function, alleviate suffering, and provide hope for symptomatic patients. Deep brain stimulation (DBS), a proven therapy for managing the symptoms of some neurodegenerative movement disorders, including Parkinson’s...
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...Knowledge-Based Systems 30 (2012) 67–77 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Knowledge-Based Systems journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/knosys Bankruptcy prediction models based on multinorm analysis: An alternative to accounting ratios Javier de Andrés ⇑, Manuel Landajo, Pedro Lorca University of Oviedo, Spain a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t In this paper we address the bankruptcy prediction problem and outline a procedure to improve the performance of standard classifiers. Our proposal replaces traditional indicators (accounting ratios) with the output of a so-called multinorm analysis. The deviations of each firm from a battery of industry norms (computed by nonparametric quantile regression) are used as input variables for the classifiers. The approach is applied to predict bankruptcy of firms, and tested on a representative data set of Spanish firms. Results indicate that the approach may provide significant improvements in predictive accuracy, both in linear and nonlinear classifiers. Ó 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Article history: Received 9 February 2011 Received in revised form 2 October 2011 Accepted 3 November 2011 Available online 30 December 2011 Keywords: Bankruptcy prediction Classification techniques Nonparametric methods Quantile regression Accounting ratios 1. Introduction Under the current economic conditions, bankruptcy early warning systems have become tools of key importance in order to guarantee the...
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...Corporate Governance and Ethical Responsibility Claudette Harrington Strayer University Dr. Diane Barrs Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance 11/10/12 1. Determine at least three (3) different internal and external stakeholders that Dr. DoRight might have to deal with on a daily basis at the hospital. Answer: Dr. DoRight was morally concerned when he reported the issues regarding treatment of the patient’s health and medical errors, and because of the staff illegal activities, Dr. DoRight informed his Manager and the Executive Committee about the nurses and doctors unethical and illegal behavior. According to Investor Glossary, a stakeholder is any individual, group, or business with a stake in the success of the organization and are considered a stakeholder. They are typically concerned with the organization delivering intended results and meeting its financial objectives. In general, a stakeholder usually stands to gain or lose something depending on the decisions taken or the policies implemented. A stakeholder can be one of two types internal (from within the organization) or external (from outside the organization). Different internal and external stakeholders that Dr.DoRight might have to deal with on a daily basis include the hospital employees, doctors and nurses, board of trustees, creditors, managers’ and executives. All of these persons benefit from the day-to-day decisions and operations of the organization. At the Universal Human Care Hospital...
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