...Reason for Admission On 4/12/11 A.G., a 16 year old Hispanic American female voluntarily admitted herself to Aurora Behavioral Health Care (ABHC) due worsening depression and suicidal ideation. Pt stated that she had been feeling depressed for the last six months but felt as if her depression was worse now than ever. Upon admission pt was thinking seriously of acting on her thoughts of suicide by overdoing on sleeping pills or by cutting herself. For the past few months the patient had been seeing a therapist and psychiatrist but feels like they cannot fix her depression. Major stressors upon admission include lack of support from family and friends, and doing poorly in school. For the past six months A.G. had been taking 100 mg of Zoloft and 2.5 mg of Abilify for depression. A.G.’s diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM) was Axis I: Major Depression, single episode, and severe, Axis II: deferred, Axis III: No diagnosis, Axis IV: Moderate, And Axis V: 30/60. Summary of Mental Status Exam During the time of assessment A.G. appearance was neat and her attitude was cooperative but she seemed depressed during the initial assessment. The patient’s speech was normal and she had a calm demeanor. She reported feelings of being anxious ever since she was admitted to Aurora because she felt as if her depression was “not getting any better”, and that she was afraid that her medications were not working. She reported having a panic attack one month ago due to stress...
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...1. Introduction 1. Background In 1960, Oberg put forward a theory which is about 4 stages of culture shock. He focused on American travellers. Many people all around the world were travelling more because of improved technology and better transportation. Moreover, it became cheaper to go abroad therefore more people experience anxiety as a result of being in a different culture. 2. Purpose This report investigates how overseas students should get ready before go abroad so they can minimize or prevent culture shock. 3. Scope This report analyses mainly on Oberg’s theory which is about 4 stages of culture shock: honeymoon, crisis, recovery and adjustment. In addition, two changes of Oberg’s theory were discussed. Finally, a seven step plan for managing travel anxiety is also analysed along with the results of a survey on how to minimize culture shock for overseas students living in Melbourne. 4. Research methods/Methodology The information and data used in this report is based on primary sources. We did a questionnaire and it was completed by Swinburne students at Hawthorn. Also we used secondary data which is from internet and periodical resources. 2. Results Culture shock is called as a disease of people who have to go abroad immediately but it can be cure by many ways such as learning about when to shake hands and when to accept or refuse invitation. Getting in a strange culture individually can cause...
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...Something that has become very popular alongside soda in our culure is caffeine or as most people would likely know it as coffee. Now caffeine is not very likely to cause any harm to adults and it has been drunk by many adults can’t really start a day without a good cup of hot coffee. Caffeine has been added to some sodas like Coca-Cola’s coke. Most children love soda and it does seem like it is a child’s most preferred drink but what if the soda of their choice contains caffeine. What can soda do to a child? Well the European Food Safety Authority’s Scientific on Food did a study and they found out this “Children are a special risk of poisoning because the caffeine content of each package with caffeinated energy drink is very high. One study...
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...Libya and Yemen are hot beds for terrorist activity by radical groups like al-Qaeda. The United States monitors the activities of these groups in an effort to intercept information to thwart acts of terrorism, particularly against Americans. Leadership in these vulnerable countries is of great interest to the United States because some regimes are sympathetic to these militant groups. A lack of clear leadership in these countries also poses a threat to U.S. interests because a lapse in leadership can lead to militant groups seizing control. References Blackhall, S., & Blundell, N. (2011). Global Police In The Visual Enyclopedia of Us History and Culures (pp. 134-144). London: PRC Publishing Limited. Morse, J. R. (2012). The World Police. Atlantic...
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...Difference between a cell wall And a Gram Stain Janet Myers 12:30p.m. Tuesday February 23 2016 Introduction: Gram staining is based on the ability of bacteria cell wall to retaining the crystal violet dye during solvent treatment. The cell walls for Gram-positive microorganisms have a higher peptidoglycan and lower lipid content than gram-negative bacteria. Bacteria cell walls are stained by the crystal violet. Iodine is subsequently added as a mordant to form the crystal violet-iodine complex so that the dye cannot be removed easily. This step is commonly referred to as fixing the dye. However, subsequent treatment with a decolorizer, which is a mixed solvent of ethanol and acetone, dissolves the lipid layer from the gram-negative cells. The removal of the lipid...
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...Topic: “Devil wears Prada”- Runway fashion magazine: Aspects and types of culure I. Introduction “Devil wears Prada” was presented in 2006, based on the Lauren Weisberger's novel of the same name. This is the story about a girl named Andrea Sachs who want to be a real journalist. For her wish, she opted to become an assistance of Miranda, a tough editor-in-chief of Runway fashion magazine. From there, she had to overcome all the challenges and the lure of the luxury life which were brought by this job. Particularly, the film also mentioned impressively the organizational culture theory of Runway fashion magazine company. II. Aspect of culture in Runway fashion magazine company via “Devil wears Prada”. 1. The basic, underlying assumptions As the film shown, all decisions were made by Miranda, the editor-in-chief. Additionally, the employees even could not make mistakes. Their ideas were also considered strictly by Miranda. About the kind of people employed, the knowledge of the employees must be high in fashion. Moreover, they had to be passionate in fashion such as Emily, one of Miranda’s assistances or Nigel, an art director of Runway. One significant thing of this organization is that when the employees did something right, they would not be promoted or complimented. However, when they made mistakes, they could be scolded or even dismissed. 2. Overt belief Nigel, the art director of Runway said: “This is a place which product many excellent artists of...
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...Scandinavian Culture: Home Exam Antoine LE GOFF HISTORY BOOK: HOW SWEDEN BECAME SWEDISH Table of Contents Introduction 1 Creation of Sweden and its culture 3 17th - 18th century: Swedish culture is born 3 Göticism and Viking heritage: Foundation of the Swedish culure 3 18th Century: the Enlightenment: a new view of the nation 3 19th Century: National Romanticism 3 20th century: Contemporary History 4 The dissolution of the Union 4 The First World War 4 Wellfare system establishment 4 The Second World War 4 The Cold War 5 European Union and Immigration 5 How Sweden Becam Swedish 6 Welfare State 6 Cultural Policy and Propaganda 7 Multi-culturalism 8 Gender Equality 9 Conclusion 11 Introduction The purpose of this essay is to try to understand the Scandinavian culture. To do this, we have to clarify some concepts, like National Identity, Nationalism, culture and Swedishness, in order to understand the connection between those, and finally expose more easely the following arguments. Those concepts can be seen as pretty dimness and deep, so we have to treat those with caution. In fact, if we start with Nationalism, many theorists tried to counteract the three paradoxes this concept bring : objective modernity vs. subjective antiquity, socio-cultural concept vs. concrete manifestations and 'political' power vs. philosophical poverty. Therefore, we see that Nationalism involve multiple frameworks, like history, culture, social...
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...ALIBABA Group Holding Brief History. Alibaba cooperation is a global wide Internet company founded by Jack Ma, Chinese name Ma Yun.Although Alibaba was founded in 1999, the story of how the company came to be actually dates back to 1995, when Jack Ma was on a trip to the U.S. and first became exposed to the Internet. As the story goes, he tried searching for the word "beer" on Yahoo but the search results did not turn up a single Chinese option. In fact, he could hardly find anything about China on the Internet at all. After returning home, he founded a company called China Pages - a directory of various Chinese companies looking for customers abroad. China Pages was a flop. But a few years later, Ma took another stab at an Internet business. With a group of 17 friends and $60,000 of funds, Alibaba was born. [Baidupedia Web] Within only 15 years, Alibaba became the largest e-commerce company in the world, with approximately $300 billion in annual gross merchandise volume ("GMV") - or nearly 1.5 times the combined GMV of Amazon and eBay. In fact, more than three out of every four dollars spent online shopping in China goes through its platform, which should come as no surprise given that Alibaba's user base is nearly equal to the entire population of the U.S. Alibaba's "ecosystem" is made up of three leading Chinese online retailing platforms: (1) Taobao.com, China's largest online C2C shopping site; (2) Tmall.com, China's largest third-party...
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...Running Head: Business Communication Assignment [Name of Writer] [Name of Institution] [Date] Contents Introduction 3 Intercultural Issue 4 Verbal Issue 5 Non-Verbal Issue 5 Hofstede Cultural Dimensions 5 Strengths 6 Weakness 6 Case Study Issues 6 Recommendations: 7 References: 8 Executive Summary: The given report is Intercultural Communication and Negotiation Skills and the given barriers that occur in form of verbal and non-verbal communication. The selected framework is Geert Hofstede Cultural Dimensions which gives analysis various cultural factors in a business environment and the implication of theory on organization. The model and framework strength and weakness is discussed. The end part highlights the case study issues and the given recommendations to remove such barriers. Intercultural Communication and Negotiation Skills Introduction The influx of information technology and mass globalization in terms of markets and economies it is imperative for businesses and their employees to develop the art of cross-cultural interaction process which ensures negotiation and decision making ability. The method of making a particular decision is to reach a point of agreement to build general acceptance among all the key stakeholders. The establishment of various organizations doing business around the world by engaging in strategic alliance and ventures require that the managers and employees are accustomed to cross-cultural communication...
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...Synergies football masculin et féminin : vers un nouveau modèle stratégique pour les clubs professionnels européens ? Authors: Emmanuel Bayle, Emilie Jaccard et Philippe Vonnard. Institut des sciences du sport (ISSUL), Université de Lausanne, Suisse Abstract: Introduction: Le football féminin est en pleine expansion et reconnaissance. Il est perçu comme un lévier impoprtant pour les fédérations nationales et pour l’UEFA en terme de nouveaux publics, de marketing et de valeurs (synonyme d’un football plus « responsable »). Au sein des grands clubs européens se cotoient le plus souvent des équipes féminines et masculines, entraînant des synergies dans des domaines variés, que nous avons tenté de les analyser dans le cadre de cette recherche. Methods: Ces synergies au sein des clubs mixtes européens ont été analysées à partir d’un cadre d’analyse construit de manière ad hoc. Celui-ci s’appuie sur une approche par les stratégies d’acteurs en fonction du contexte national et local, ainsi que sur six domaines de focntionnement interne des deux sections. La collecte de données a été réalisée auprès de 14 grands clubs mixtes européens répartis dans 9 pays européens aux cultures très différentes (France : Olympique Lyonnais et Paris-St.-Germain FC ; Angleterre : Birmingham City LFC et Arsenal Ladies FC ; République Tchèque : SK Slavia Praha et AC Sparta Praha ; Allemagne : SC Freiburg et Vfl Wolfsburg ; Belgique : Standard Fémina de Liège ; Pays-Bas : Ado den Haag ; Danemark :...
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...Changing Organizational Culture The Seven Step Change Model 12/10/2011 Urooj Khan MBA Regular 10739 Supervised By Ali Mujahid Table of Contents Culture and Organizational Culture 3 Culture 3 Organizational Culture 3 Influences on Culture 3 Cultural Measurement Dimensions 4 Changing Organizational Culture 8 Conclusion 13 Bibliography 14 Culture and Organizational Culture Culture The grand total of all the objects, ideas, knowledge, ways of doing things, habits, values, and attitudes which each generation in a society passes on to the next is what the anthropologist refers to as the culture of a group (Nord, 1972). According to Inkeles, culture is the social heritage, all the knowledge, beliefs, customs, and skills that are available to members of a society (Inkeles, 1964). The famous Dutch behavioral scientist, Geert Hofstede defined culture as the collective mental programming of a people in an environment. He later defined culture as the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group from another (Muriithi N, 2003). Organizational Culture Edgar Schein says that organizational culture is developed over time as people in the organization learn to deal successfully with problems of external adaptation and internal integration. It becomes the common language and the common background (Schein E. , 1999). Culture starts with leadership, is reinforced with the accumulated learning of the organizational members...
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...0Jan 15th Paradigm -What is paradigm? -Thomas Kuhn: “the structure of scientific revolution (1962) -he was interested in two things. He redefined the word “paradigm” to use in science -These paradigms I take to be universally recognized scientific achievements that for a time provide model problems and solutions to a community of practitioners. -Provide models (in law, theory, instrumentation, application) from which spring particular coherent traditions of scientific research. -Ex. Copernician revolution, Newtonian dynamic (new version of the world-the change of paradigm ) -Ex. Theory of light -today (in the 1960): light is photon. Ie. Quantum-mechanical entities( Planck Einstein) -In the 19th century, light was transverse wave motion (young and Fresnel ) -during the 18th century, light was material corpuscles (Newton) -in each case, research proceed accordingly -Understanding assumptions -Ontological: what reality is -Epistemological: how to access to knowledge, how knowledge is defined -Define valid knowledge at a time- it is always link on social conventions. Knowledge is never pure knowledge. It is link to the time of what is the social context. -upon which, research problems and analysis are designed (the questions that we asked are always link to the two term) -accepted view of science, of scientific knowledge at a time and scientific...
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...International Business Linked to globalization Globalization 1. What is it ? It is a process where the world is moving away from independent countries to interconnected counties 2. Status ( where we are + measurements) Wave of globalization after WOII * 50 – 60 domination of the US (“free market wave”) The trade rules are set by the US * Now domination China, Asia US domination is gone, different countries dominate the world The demographics of the world economy has changed How do you measure globalization? * University of zurich * http://globalization.kof.ethz.ch/ The KOF Index of Globalization measures the three main dimensions of globalization: 1. Economic globalization * Actual flows (37%) * Trade (percentage of GDP) * Foreign direct investement, flows (percentage of GDP) * Portfolio investement (percentage of GDP) * Income payments of foreign nationals (percentage of GDP) * Restrictions * Hidden import barriers * Mean tariff rate * Taxes on international trade (percentage of current revenue) 2. Social (39%) * Data on personal contact * Data on information flows 3. political. (25%) * Embassieses 3. Types of globalization 1. Globalization of products 2. Globalization of markets Active vs passive globalization Globalization can also be passive. Companies that do not want to globalize...
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