...Self-Induced abortion is an abortion that a pregnant woman causes herself to undergo without licensed medical. With advances in technology and education, and increased use of contraception, the abortion rate in the United States has dropped considerably. After peaking in 1981, the number of abortions in the United States has decreased steadily, except for a slight percentage increases in a few years. According to the Guttmacher Institute, in 2014, 926,200 abortions were performed, down 12 percent from 1.06 million abortions in 2011 and from 1.31 million in 2000. From 1973 through 2011, more than 50 million legal abortions occurred. In 2014, 19 percent of pregnancies (excluding miscarriages) ended in abortion.(11) Due to different issues concerning health, rape, or incest, in the 1960s and 70s the United States became more lenient on the laws of abortion. Abortion has been a persisting issue since the early 1960s. It became an issue that goes between public and personal interests in difficult ways. It is an issue that draw debate politically, religiously, medically, culturally, psychologically, and etc. It is also a personal right in which the woman carrying the pregnancy should decide with what she wants to do with her...
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...shocks; country-specific shocks; international business cycle; half-life JEL Classification: E32; C32; F43 I. Introduction There has been a growing literature that seeks to extend standard closed economy Real Business Cycle (RBC) models to the open economy with the objective of explaining key features of international business cycles (Mendoza, 1991; Backus and Kehoe, 1992; Backus et al., 1992, 1995; Baxter and Crucini, 1993, 1995; Ravn, 1997). These authors have achieved some success in accounting for a number of anomalies that closed economy models fail to elucidate. Subsequent studies in this literature have emerged and brought interesting findings on international business cycle. One such discovery was on a variety of factors that affect the dynamics of business cycle fluctuations. For instance, multiple previous studies have attempted to address the issue of relative importance of worldwide shocks versus countryspecific shocks (Gregory et al., 1997; Canova and Marrinan, 1998; Hoffmaister et al., 1998; Kwark, 1999; Kose and Riezman, 2001; Kose, 2002; Kose et al., 2003). However, despite the sizeable volume of the findings on the relative importance, no conclusive evidence has been formed. Also just...
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...The Role of Technology in Rising Health Care Costs. What should or shouldn’t be done. Neha Para, MPH Student 5453-001 US Health Care System University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center December 8, 2010 Abstract Health care costs are a longstanding concern to policymakers. For years, health care spending has been rising faster than the rate of economic growth, raising the question of what factors are responsible for rising health care costs. This paper explores published articles that report results from research conducted on technological innovations in health care and its relation to rising health care costs. The cost increases have a significant effect on households, businesses, and government programs. Health care experts indicates the development and diffusion of medical technology as primary factors in explaining the persistent difference between health spending and overall economic growth, with some arguing that new medical technology may account for about one-half or more of real long-term spending growth. Rising health care expenditures lead to the question of whether we are getting value for the money we spend. On an average, increases in medical spending as a result of advances in medical care have provided reasonable value. An alternative viewpoint holds that although new technologies represent medical advances, they are prone to overuse and thereby excess cost. Most of the suggestions to slow the growth in new medical technology in the U.S. focus on...
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...Running head: Commercial Law 1 Commercial Law and How It Presides Over Company Dealings Travis L. Summers Columbia Southern University BBA 3210 Commercial Law 2 Abstract For a lot of businesses moral principles is something to be made clear and administered by higher-ranking management. Consider the point of view for and in opposition to this type of direct oriented arrangement. In today’s the human race it is all too ubiquitous to see additional and supplementary populace ambitious to gain accomplishments at an ever growing velocity. Modern civilization can and without a doubt is tagged as insatiable and inconsiderate, through my general time spent in selling, I have stumbled upon many of these variety of citizens. Commercial Law 3 What exactly is labor laws, cyber laws and ethics associated with the commerce law and why are these laws so important is today’s society? We will discuss this question and determine, why these laws are important to business in the world today. We also will discuss a few significant steps that have been approved over the last decade to look after the workforce of businesses in this country and overseas. After we talk about the above we can discuss who gets the protection and who is not allowed the said protection. Then the discussion will turn to the diversity among a contracted individual and a full time employee. The first act is a law that came about...
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...Checkpoint Courtroom Players Response CJS 200 Week 6 DQs CJS 200 Week 6 Assignment Sentencing Paper CJS 200 Week 7 Checkpoint Jails and Prisons Response CJS 200 Week 7 DQs CJS 200 Week 8 Checkpoint Violent Behavior Response CJS 200 Week 8 Assignment Parole and Truth-in-Sentencing Paper CJS 200 Week 8 DQs CJS 200 Week 9 Capstone Analysis CJS 200 Week 9 DQs CJS 200 Week 9 Final Juvenile Crime Paper ----------------------------------------------------------- CJS 200 Week 1 Checkpoint Criminal Acts and Choice Theories Response For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Write a 200- to 300-word response in which you describe choice theories and how they relate to crime. Describe the common models for society to determine which acts are considered criminal. Explain how choice theories of crime affect society. Post your response as an attachment. Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment. ----------------------------------------------------------- CJS 200 Week 1 DQ 1 and DQ 2 For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com What are your thoughts on the legalization or decriminalization of marijuana? Many states are in the process of reducing the level of criminality for marijuana possession. My state, New Jersey, now has a medical marijuana provision. What...
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...E C O N O M I C I S S U E S 1 Growth in East Asia What We Can and What We Cannot Infer Michael Sarel I N T E R N A T I O N A L M O N E T A R Y F U N D E C O N O M I C I S S U E S 1 Growth in East Asia What We Can and What We Cannot Infer Michael Sarel I N T E R N AT I O N A L M O N E TA RY F U N D WASHINGTON, D.C. ©1996 International Monetary Fund ISBN: 1-55775-607-4 Published September 1996 Reprinted November 1996 To order IMF publications, please contact: International Monetary Fund, Publication Services 700 19th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20431, U.S.A. Tel.: (202) 623-7430 Telefax: (202) 623-7201 Internet: publications@imf.org Preface The Economic Issues series was inaugurated in September 1996. Its aim is to make accessible to a broad readership of nonspecialists some of the economic research being produced in the International Monetary Fund on topical issues. The raw material of the series is drawn mainly from IMF Working Papers, technical papers produced by Fund staff members and visiting scholars, as well as from policy-related research papers. This material is refined for the general readership by editing and partial redrafting. The following paper draws on material originally contained in IMF Working Paper 95/98, “Growth in East Asia: What We Can and What We Cannot Infer From It,” by Michael Sarel, an Economist in the Fund’s Southeast Asia and Pacific Department. It has been prepared by David D. Driscoll of...
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...Caroline Barnes and Simon Jackson This paper offers a critical reading of Robin Boyd’s narrative of the Australian nation created for Australia’s pavilion at Expo’70. The critique offered is from an environmental perspective, using this example to lead into a broader reflection on Australian design history’s ‘modernity problem’. We argue that although the examination of Australia as a socio-cultural context for the practice of design continues to engage scholars, the will to profess the existence of progressive Australian design has precluded significant examination of design’s regressive effects. The current environmental crisis is, as Arturo Escobar argues, ‘a crisis of modernity, to the extent that modernity has failed to enable sustainable worlds.’[1] Design is implicated here for its contribution to environmental degradation, as is design history for accounts that validate designers’ development of concepts, processes and products that impose the unsustainable on societies. The latter is pronounced in Australian design history. When modernity and its cultural manifestations are understood as European inventions, admitting limited scope for cultural exchange, claiming historical significance for Australian design inevitably involves the uncritical application of imported principles.[2] The halting attempts to write Australian design history are mostly bound up in proselytizing for the values and benefits of the modern and eulogising designers’ efforts to force change in the...
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...1. Summarize the major features of Texas Instruments’ management systems. To what extent, and how, are these system mutually reinforcing? In 1960, Texas Instruments’ (TI) revenue reached $232 million, which was $32 million over company’s president Pat Haggerty’s announced goal of $200 million. However, the industry was facing a recession at the time, and Patrick Haggerty knew that TI needed to develop a system that would help with innovation and growth of the company. In 1962, Duddy Harris was assigned to find such system, which resulted in development of the OST System: Objectives, Strategies and Tactics. Pat Haggert believed that Texas Instruments must be consumer product centered. Under his leadership TI has organized itself into six major business groups. Each group was subdivided into divisions, which in turn is further divided into product customer centers (PCC), or profit centers. Each Product Customer Center (PCC) manager had responsibilities to Create, Make and Market product in their respective area. The goal of PCC is to allow the business to have a close relationship with customers, and enable an entrepreneurial environment for TI’s middle level managers. The major drawback of Texas Instruments profit center’s decentralized matrix system is the lack of control by top management, possibility of friction and conflict of interest between organization units. With over 80 different PCCs within TI; business cohesion can be a major issue. In order to keep individual...
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...wealth; all the while ensuring those in the middle and at bottom struggle to stave off bankruptcy and poverty. Sadly the system affects more than just financials, evidence of this can be found virtually anywhere from the supermarket to the car dealership. The quality of the products that are being produced now-a-days is crap and becoming crappier which in turn is causing the quality of life for those that are not towards the top of the proverbial pyramid to sink to new lows. I intend to “follow the money” as far as I can possibly can without ending up with a three inch thick book and determine not only how but why the quality of life in our given society is becoming progressively sh*tty. What I am seeing is that our ever lowing standard of living can be attributed to the ever worsening unequal economic gap between the top1% and the middle - low class. Taking a look back to the economic situation in 1928, and comparing it to the economics of 2007 you can begin to see a pattern; what happened right after 1928? the market crashed, and in 2007? Another crash; and of course one cannot overlook the fact that 1928 and 2007 were the two years the top 1% ended up taking home more than 23% of the country’s total shared income. Further evidence of the gap can be found looking at the staggering difference in the worker salary within a 32 year span starting from the late 70’s to the semi-present; with a negative $14,551 decrease between the 32 year span for the worker and a positive $707,407 increase...
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...washing machines, "˜Dreft'- the first synthetic detergent for households, and "˜Crisco'- the all-vegetable shorting that changed cooking forever. The company had grown from $7,192.94 the original investment by Proctor and Gamble, to over $350 million in 1945. 53 years after the formation of the successful partnership, P&G was incorporated to gain financial capital for an expansion. The expansion carried with it the creation of Tide. Tide overtook the market and by 1959 was the leading detergent in the country. P&G did not stop with Ivory and Tide, the company produced the first toothpaste with a "˜dentist approval', Crest. Crest skyrocket soon after the company merged with Duncan Hines cake mixes and the inauguration of consumer paper products. 1960, the same year of the Crest take-off. P&G brought into existence Downy. Just a year after that Pampers entered the test market in Peoria,...
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...Future of Healthcare University of Phoenix January 20, 2012 “Man is born to live, not prepare for life”. When we are born, we are raised to the familiarities of what we are surrounded by. The latest fashion trends, the latest music, the places to go, the phrases to say. We are not born to understand what we could have experienced had we been born 50 years prior to the date. We are born to live the life that is ahead of us. So is it fair to know that events that occurred prior to our existence can be the reason of our healthcare issues for the future? There are many issues that have occurred and are still occurring that impact the way our healthcare system works, whether it challenges the knowledge of healthcare workers or becomes a trend for future constant reoccurrences, it pushes our minds to think further about the situation. Aging is a trend we all experience, that has no solution except to accept it. As our population ages forward, more diseases are found and treated in the systems. “The so-called “baby boom” generation (people born between 1946 and 1964) is already having an effect on the health care system and it is expected to grow as the century progresses. The number of Americans age 65 and older (35 million in 2000) will rise by more than 19 million to54 million by 2020. From 2000 to 2050, the number of older adults will increase from 12.5% to20% of the U.S. population.” (Rensselar, 2006)In a matter of 20 years, there is a possible increase of 54 million adults...
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...INTRODUCTION: According to Public Administration in Canada, (pg 70) contingency theory is one of the most recent theories in organizational structure, it argues that there is no "one best way" of structuring an organization. Instead contingency theory suggests that the best way to structure a particular organization is contingent(dependent) on a number of factors such as the attitudes of the managers and employees, the nature of the task performed by the organization and the nature of the environment. The basic premise of Contingency Theory is that there is no one best way to organize a corporation, to lead a company, or to make decisions. There are too many external and internal constraints that will alter what really is the best way to lead is in a given situation. In other words, it all depends upon the situation at hand as to what will be the best course of action. An organizational / leadership / decision making style that is effective in some situations, may be not successful in other situations because organizations, people, and situations vary and change over time thus, the right thing to do depends on a complex variety of critical environmental and internal contingencies. The contingency approach to organizational design tailors the design of the company to the sources of environmental uncertainties faced by the organization. The point is to design an organizational structure that can handle uncertainties in the environment effectively and efficiently. The contingency...
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...Business Degree Program Swedish Clothing Industry Global Business Environment November 2013 Introduction The distance between people in the world is decreasing. In stores in Sweden we find goods from all corners of the world. We are intertwined in a world of mutual dependences and it is what we now call globalization. Economic globalization is a historic process and the result of human innovation and technological development. The economies in the world are integrating, particularly through trade and financial flows, but globalization can also involve movement of people and labor, as well as knowledge and technology across international borders. This means that countries can specialize and produce what they are best at. Countries across the world wills also have access to more capital, better technology, cheaper imports and major export markets. This does not mean that all countries have access to the benefits of globalization, in the poorest countries, the international community help with contributions. The question is that is globalization a treat or an opportunity? Some believe that the difference between the rich and poor countries only increased with globalization, while others argue that the difference in income or GDP between countries across the world has increased, but it is not the whole truth. Wider measurements of welfare that takes social conditions in the calculation shows those developing countries have made a great progress (www.imf.org). A well-known...
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...The Fundamentals of International Business | | Assignment question: There are several theories that seek to explain why FDI takes place. These theories try to explain why firms go to the trouble of acquiring or establishing operations abroad. Such theory includes Dunning’s Eclectic Paradigm, Vernon’s Life Cycle and Knickerbocker’s Model to name a few. Your academic paper should illustrate the use of such theories to evaluate the rationale for foreign direct investment for a leading player in your chosen industry. | | | | Student: Matteo Noris ID: 10224550 Course: (BA) International Business Assignment Due Date: 25th January 2012 Unit Tutor: Agnieszka Chidlow Matteo Noris ID: 10224550 Fundamentals of the International Business Submission Date: Wednesday 25th January 2012 Weighting: 30% of the total mark for the Unit * Chosen Assignment Question : 2 Foreign Direct Investment There are several theories that seek to explain why FDI takes place. These theories try to explain why firms go to the trouble of acquiring or establishing operations abroad. Such theories include Dunning’s Eclectic Paradigm, Vernon’s Life Cycle and Knickerbocker’s Model to name a few. Your academic paper should illustrate the use of such theories to evaluate the rationale for foreign direct investment for a leading player in your chosen industry. Contents Page Contents Page 2 Abstract 3 Introduction 3 Main Body 4 Conclusions 8 References...
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...Inequality and Growth in a Panel of Countries* Robert J. Barro, Harvard University June 1999 Abstract Evidence from a broad panel of countries shows little overall relation between income inequality and rates of growth and investment. However, for growth, higher inequality tends to retard growth in poor countries and encourage growth in richer places. The Kuznets curve—whereby inequality first increases and later decreases during the process of economic development—emerges as a clear empirical regularity. However, this relation does not explain the bulk of variations in inequality across countries or over time. *This research has been supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. An earlier version of this paper was presented at a conference at the American Enterprise Institute. I am grateful for excellent research assistance from Silvana Tenreyro and for comments from Paul Collier, Bill Easterly, Jong-Wha Lee, Mattias Lundberg, Francisco Rodriguez, Heng-fu Zou, and participants of a seminar at the World Bank. 2 A substantial literature analyzes the effects of income inequality on macroeconomic performance, as reflected in rates of economic growth and investment. Much of this analysis is empirical, using data on the performance of a broad group of countries. This paper contributes to this literature by using a framework for the determinants of economic growth that I have developed and used in previous studies. To motivate the extension of this...
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