..."Nowadays, a balanced diet is when every McNugget weighs the same." (Harvey Kurtzman, 1983). Do you think the majority of people are really aware of what they eat? In fact, ask yourself if you think you are in good shape or not. It is expected that your honest answer will disclose that you do not know your own body- or what you put in it, too well. Many people might even give some excuses, like “It says `low fat` on the box!” It is important to catch these marketing techniques targeting the unaware or ignorant. It is vital to understand the true meaning of proper nutrition as well as its importance and benefits. What many individuals in the U.A.E. are not aware of is the effects junk food has on their health. Are all marketed “healthy” foods really healthy? The purpose of this research paper is to enlighten the reader of the nutritional lifestyles of people in the United Arab Emirates as well as to explain the negative effects of globalization and its link to the importance of knowledge regarding basic nutrition. In contrast to the past, the U.A.E. is currently facing various negative effects of globalization, especially regarding the expansion of fast-food chains. By way of contrast, there are undoubtedly many positive effects as well. Yet, many believe the negative effects overflow the positive ones. Most professions in the Emirates usually start off at 6 am and continue to late hours in the night Consequently, people are therefore very reliant on food for energy and...
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...Is Obesity a Disease? Jacqueline Valencia Network Systems Administration ITT Technical Institute, Orange Campus May 26, 2014 Is Obesity a Disease? What is the definition of disease? According to Dictionary.com the definition of disease is: a disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness; ailment. The United States is the second most obese industrialized country in the world. A 2013 report stated that 31.8% of Americans were obese, compared to 14% in the mid-1970’s. Obesity accounts for 10% of deaths and healthcare spending in the United States. Supporters contend that obesity is a disease because it meets the definition of disease. It decreases life expectancy and impairs the normal functioning of the body and it can be caused by genetic factors. I find myself on the opponents’ side who contend that obesity is not a disease because it is a preventable risk factor for other diseases. It is the result of eating too much and is caused by the lack of physical activity. In the health care bill H.R. 3962 approved by the House of Representatives on October 29, 2009, “being overweight or obese” is not classified as a disease but as a “behavioral risk factor” along with alcohol and drug use, tobacco, poor nutrition, physical inactivity and risky sex...
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...When Rock arrived on the music charts in the 1950's, a merging of African-American and White music, it made a huge impact on society. As a general rule I am not heavily into music, but I was drawn to Rock for some inexplicable reason. It is just the music I like. This genre will be difficult to write about because the origin of Rock is unclear; there are traces of Rock's style back into the 19th Century. It is also a very broad subject and I will have to compress a lot of information into as few pages as possible. Be that as it may, Rock is, in my opinion the best music genre on the charts. There is so much information on Rock that I will have to have questions I want to find the answers to about the music. My first question will be, "What instruments are commonly used in a rock band?" This will not be hard to answer as it is a very easy question that has a definite answer. The next question will be, "Who were the first artists to produce Rock music?" This is also an easy question were I will discuss the first Rockers. Continuing on, my next question will ask, "How was the term Rock and Roll' created, and by who?" This may turn out to be a hard question to answer because I am sure there a multiple answers. "Has Rock become more or less popular since its inception?" will be my next question. For this question I will have to look for a survey or poll of some type and present its data. My final question will be, "How has the Music been changed over the years and who changed...
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...Domino’s Pizza Enterprises Limited (DMP) Student Research: This report is published for educational purposes only by students competing in the La Trobe Investment Research Challenge. 19th June 2012 Fast Food Industry 19 June 2012 La Trobe Investment Research Challenge Ticker: DMP Price: $9.7 EPS FY (c) 0.31 0.33 0.38 0.44 0.46 DPS (c) 0.22 0.23 0.27 0.31 0.32 Franking (%) 100 100 100 100 100 Recommendation: HOLD Target Price: $10.67 P/E (x) 29.81 29.14 25.29 22.26 21.22 Dividend Yield (%) 2.38 2.40 2.52 2.72 2.74 2011A 2012E 2013E 2014E 2015E Investment Summary We initiate coverage of Domino’s Pizza Enterprises Limited (DMP) with a hold recommendation and a target price of $10.67 using Discounted Cash Flow Valuation (DCF), offering a 10% upside from current stock price at $9.70 on 19th June, 2012. As DMP operates in regions with different levels of risks, growth and margins, our estimation of revenue is based on top down approach considering the market share in these regions. We believe DMP may offer a long term upside if it can successfully execute its business plan of opening new stores and maintaining its same store sales growth in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) and France, Netherlands, and Belgium (Europe). Highlights Future growth driven by increasing store count: DMP currently owns over 900 stores, with the goal of opening 50-60 new stores per year over the next 5 years. Its franchise/corporate strategy allows a long-term target of 750 stores in ANZ...
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...Domino’s Pizza Enterprises Limited (DMP) Student Research: This report is published for educational purposes only by students competing in the La Trobe Investment Research Challenge. 19th June 2012 Fast Food Industry 19 June 2012 La Trobe Investment Research Challenge Ticker: DMP Price: $9.7 EPS FY (c) 0.31 0.33 0.38 0.44 0.46 DPS (c) 0.22 0.23 0.27 0.31 0.32 Franking (%) 100 100 100 100 100 Recommendation: HOLD Target Price: $10.67 P/E (x) 29.81 29.14 25.29 22.26 21.22 Dividend Yield (%) 2.38 2.40 2.52 2.72 2.74 2011A 2012E 2013E 2014E 2015E Investment Summary We initiate coverage of Domino’s Pizza Enterprises Limited (DMP) with a hold recommendation and a target price of $10.67 using Discounted Cash Flow Valuation (DCF), offering a 10% upside from current stock price at $9.70 on 19th June, 2012. As DMP operates in regions with different levels of risks, growth and margins, our estimation of revenue is based on top down approach considering the market share in these regions. We believe DMP may offer a long term upside if it can successfully execute its business plan of opening new stores and maintaining its same store sales growth in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) and France, Netherlands, and Belgium (Europe). Highlights Future growth driven by increasing store count: DMP currently owns over 900 stores, with the goal of opening 50-60 new stores per year over the next 5 years. Its franchise/corporate strategy allows a long-term target of 750 stores in ANZ...
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...Entrepreneurial Leadership Trenna Green Dr. Jean Fonkoua Business508 Contemporary Business October 28, 2013 This paper evaluates five published reported articles and the results are based on research organized from various resources including my personal analytical opinion about entrepreneurial leadership. Organizing a group of people to achieve a common goal using proactive behavior by optimizing risk, innovating to take advantage of opportunities when it presents itself, taking upon your own personal responsibility and managing change with a dynamic environment whereas the organization benefits as a whole, is one way to define entrepreneurial leadership. Based upon the readings and research I found you will see how the entrepreneurial leadership is illustrated in Five Guys’ Burger and Fries family owned business. During the 1980’s and 1990’s the Murrell family continued to stick to and perfect their simple system. Five Guys would be the go to place to get a fresh juicy burger along with fresh cut fries and all the fresh toppings of your choice, stuffed all between fresh baked hamburger buns. Murrell realized that in order to compete with the fast-food chains, Five Guys must concentrate strictly on food. The meat for the burgers---80 percent lean---is always fresh, never frozen! Burgers are made to order, with a selection of 15 free toppings including grilled mushrooms, barbecue and hot sauce, and jalapenos. The buns are toasted...
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...Entrepreneurial Leadership Trenna Green Dr. Jean Fonkoua Business508 Contemporary Business October 28, 2013 This paper evaluates five published reported articles and the results are based on research organized from various resources including my personal analytical opinion about entrepreneurial leadership. Organizing a group of people to achieve a common goal using proactive behavior by optimizing risk, innovating to take advantage of opportunities when it presents itself, taking upon your own personal responsibility and managing change with a dynamic environment whereas the organization benefits as a whole, is one way to define entrepreneurial leadership. Based upon the readings and research I found you will see how the entrepreneurial leadership is illustrated in Five Guys Burger and Fries family owned business. During the 1980’s and 1990’s the Murrell family continued to stick to and perfect their simple system. Five Guys would be the go to place to get a fresh juicy burger along with fresh cut fries and all the fresh toppings of your choice, stuffed all between fresh baked hamburger buns. Murrell realized that in order to compete with the fast-food chains, Five Guys must concentrate strictly on food. The meat for the burgers---80 percent lean---is always fresh, never frozen! Burgers are made to order, with a selection of 15 free toppings including grilled mushrooms, barbecue and hot...
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...Junk Food Affects You: Final Draft Shelbi Oakley DeVry University Online Junk Food Affects You Josh looks around the playground to see all his friends having fun. They’re swinging, playing tag, drawing with chalk on the blacktop, and picking teams for a basketball game. Everyone’s got a smile on their face and they’re full of so much energy. He’d love to be chosen to play on someone’s basketball team, invited to play tag, or having fun doing anything else other than sitting by himself in the grass. Instead, he gets picked on by other kids about being overweight and is always tired after a short time of going up and down the stairs of the jungle gym. Like many kids his age, junk food, candy, sweets, and fast food become a way of life and a quick and easy dinner picked up in the drive thru is much easier than taking time and effort to make a healthy one at home. Josh’s mom gets fast food for dinner 4-5 times a week, which is the average for Americans today (Americans eat out about 5 times a week, 2011). She works a full-time job and has to pick up Josh’s little sister from daycare after getting Josh from school. It’s hard for her to plan and prepare a wholesome dinner after a long day at work. This is not an uncommon scenario for many adults and kids alike in the U.S. and around the world today. Fast food and junk food have become the norm to the everyday diet. There are more and more restaurant chains...
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...Pizza Hut Durand D’Silva Alex Evans Armando Perez Frank Rivero Kevin Speakman Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Product Place Promotion Pricing Executive Summary Pizza Hut’s headquarters is located in Dallas, Texas. Pizza Hut is a multinational company which operates in the United States, Philippines, Malaysia, and 83 other countries. Overall, Pizza Hut has almost 13,400 restaurants-including 7,800 units in the United States and more than 5,500 outside of the United States. Pizza Hut has built a reputation for excellence that has earned the respects of consumers and industry experts. Pizza Hut is considered a quick service restaurant (QSR) and is a division of Yum Brands! Which operates the fast food restaurants, as well as KFC and Taco Bell. Pizza Hut’s began in 1958 when a couple of entrepreneurs came up with their vision. “Two brothers, mom, and $600 turned into the recipe for the world’s largest pizza company in 1958, when a family friend with the idea of opening a pizza parlor approached two college-age brothers in Kansas.” Pizza Hut is not only the acknowledged leader of the pizza industry worldwide, but it is also amongst the top of the world’s largest pizza chains, with over 12,000 restaurants across a mass variety of countries, employing more than 300,000 people, and serving 1.7 million pizzas every day to more than seven...
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...“Managing turbulence in economic environment through innovative management practices” Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Management and Economics 2013 Fast food consumption: Identifying working women’s attitudes towards consumption of fast food A.H.B. Sajani Rasanthikaa, T.S.L.W. Gunawardana b a Department of Marketing,University of Ruhuna, Matara, Sri Lanka sajani87@yahoo.com b Department of Marketing,University of Ruhuna, Matara, Sri Lanka gunawardana@badm.ruh.ac.lk Abstract The study focuses on examining working women’s attitudes towards the consumption of fast food. Five, literature supported, hypotheses were derived and tested to examine the attitudes in relation to the perceived taste, perceived quality, perceived nutrition value, perceived convenience and perceived price of fast food. A survey was conducted using 177 working women in Matara district, Sri Lanka. Structural equation modelling was employed for data analysis. The results showed that perceived convenience of fast food has a significant positive effect over fast food consumption whilst taste, nutrition value and price give a positive but not significant effect. However, perceived quality of fast food indicates a negative but non-significant effect on fast food consumption. Keywords: Fast Food consumption, working women 1. Introduction Fast food industry is not only a transformation to the traditional diet, but also a new trend to the landscape, economy, workforce and it has created...
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...6/25/2013 6/25/2013 Table of Content 1. Introduction………………………………………………………………..…………………………..p2 2. Different types of business communication………………………………..…….…….p3 3. Research……………………………………………………………………………………….…………p13 4. Evaluation of external communication………………………...…………………………p39 5. Issues involving Business communication………………..……………………………..p44 6. Electronic Communication………………………………………………………………………p49 Attachments * Filled in Questionnaires * Sales Letter * Terms & Conditions – Scotch & Soda * Leaflet * Promotion Poster Introduction Welcome to my unit, In this unit I’m going to discuss Business Communication, there’s a lot of different kind of communication. The company I’ve used in this unit is Scotch & Soda, Scotch & Soda is a Dutch brand created since 1985. The company does not believe in target groups, but just does his best to keep it simple. They want to create products that look good, good quality and also contemporary and affordable. The clothing must do according to the word Scotch & Soda. Scotch & Soda currently consists of 3 lines; Scotch & Soda for men, for women Maison Scotch and Scotch Shrunk for young boys. From January 2011 there will also be a line for young girls launched called Scotch R'Belle. The Dutch brand now distributes to 31 countries worldwide. Scotch & Soda is a unique concept and that radiates the store too. It is a true experience, the recognizable scent...
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...using new technology has led to new ways of accurately identifying AD, an understanding of the mechanisms involved regarding the development of AD, and the damage it causes in the human brain. The general population is under the impression that AD is a result of the normal human developmental process of aging. The focus of this research is to dismiss this misconception by providing indisputable empirical evidence to the contrary. This paper looks at the various studies explored by researchers in an attempt to show the factors attributed to AD, a population over the age of 65 that do not suffer from AD, and a population of as young as 18 clinically diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. The author also addresses life style, environmental, and genetic risk factors attributed to the development of AD. Alzheimer's Disease and its Link to the Normal Human Developmental Process of Aging Contrary to popular belief, studies show that Alzheimer’s disease is not part of the normal human developmental process of aging. It is imperative that researchers acknowledge that AD is not part of the normal aging process. Researchers must keep an open mind during the research and experimental process, exploring all plausible arguments, in order to discover the cause(s) and/or cure to any disease. This would include having an interdisciplinary approach to the study. Currently, the cause(s) of AD is unknown (Nowrangi MA, 2011). Data collected from studies as early as ten years ago would suggest that...
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...Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade Working Paper Series, No. 99, April 2011 Utility of Regional Trade Agreements: Experience from India’s Regionalism by Sejuti Jha* * PhD Scholar, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi. The author is grateful to Biswajit Nag, Rajan Sudesh Ratna and Mia Mikic for valuable comments. The paper benefited from the comments received from the participants at the second Empirical Issues in International Trade and Finance conference, organized by IIFT at New Delhi, 16-17 December 2010. The opinion, figures and estimates are the sole responsibility of the author and should not be considered as reflecting the views or carrying the approval of the United Nations, ARTNeT and the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. Any errors are the responsibility of the author, who can be contacted at sejuti.jha@gmail.com. The Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT) is aimed at building regional trade policy and facilitation research capacity in developing countries. The ARTNeT Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about trade issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. ARTNeT working papers are available online at www.artnetontrade.org. All material in the working papers may be freely quoted or reprinted, but acknowledgment is requested, together with a copy of the publication containing...
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...connectivity, increased vehicle ownership and rise in income levels. In a country with more than a billion people, opportunities in India are abound. This has led to a rapid growth of the QSR industry. However, simultaneously, it has also created a canvass that has many failures and carcass. Several outlets have been closed, a large number are struggling, still a large number are just about surviving and lot many of them have not been able to find their feet. There are a lot who are successful, but, more importantly, there is almost a complete absence of national chains. This indicates to the fact that just having a lot of opportunities is not enough. These opportunities need to be harnessed and converted into profitable enterprises. This paper is an attempt to understand the industry, its key success factors. History Restaurants have been around in some form for most of human civilization. But they usually catered to travellers. As far back as ancient Greece and Rome, inns and taverns generally served food to people who had a reason to be away from home. This trend continued until relatively recently. Although taverns and coffee houses were popular places to gather and...
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...4 : RECOMMENDATION AND CONCLUSION 42 REFRENCES 43 CHAPTER 1 : INTRODUCTION Errors are the result of actions that fail to generate the intended outcomes. In common with most other complex technical activities, human error is implicated in the majority of aviation-maintenance-related quality lapses, incidents, and accidents. General estimates of this human error contribution have increased over the years, from a low of around 20% in the 1960s to values in excess of 80% in the 1990s. Human error in aviation is somewhat of a sensitive topic due to the recent tragic events of September 11, 2001. The goal of this research is to understand human error in aviation, in order to understand how designing better computer systems can assist in making the aviation industry safer for pilots and passengers, by reducing human error. This paper does not attempt to address accidents caused by cowardly acts of terrorism. Many people do not know that on February 20, 1981 a modern Argentine jet airliner, with 58 people on board, almost crashed into the upper floors of the 110-story World Trade Center in New York (Grayson, 1988). The Argentine jet was put on a holding pattern in the New York area. The...
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