...Michael’s Auto Repair Shop Michael’s Auto Repair Shop was the largest chain of auto repair shops in the county with 12% market share, 500 garages, and 3000 employees (including 1000 mechanics). Last year, Michael’s decided to launch a Mobile Mechanic Service (MMS) which enabled the customer to call for a mechanic at the site of the breakdown. The service operated from a Central Control Room (CCR), a call center which received customers’ request and handed them over to various Regional Warehouse Units (RWUs) which housed the mechanics with their pick-up trucks. The mechanics from the RWU received the customer’s request along with the directions of the site of the breakdown and would drive down to the site in their pick up trucks. The instructions to the mechanics were to complete the job on site if it could be completed within 45 minutes with the spares available, or else to tow the car back to the RWU. The RWU also had a support staff that ensured that the pick-up trucks were well stocked with spares and ready for the next service visit. Low productivity Since the business started 10 years ago, the top management of Michael’s was concerned about the productivity of their mechanics, but with the launch of the MMS, this issue became more visible. An analysis of the data showed that on an average, the mechanics were servicing 2.5 cars per day, far fewer than what was expected, since servicing one car took less than an hour to complete. Peter D’Souza, an MBA from a premier institute...
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...When something is reproduced for so many times is that art? What’s the importance of the mechanical reproducible of the art? What was the impact on mechanical reproducibility on the society? In my personal opinion art is more than just the final image, it’s the intangible qualities that make it something special, as William Benjamin said “ Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be”. We are able to look at reproductions and admire the great beauty of the original work of art, however it is not the same as standing in front of the original. You may be able to copy the lines of a painting but you can not reproduce the artist emotions that went into their piece Although a reproduction can not fully compare to an original piece of work there is much value behind this skill, the ability to have a piece of work exposed all over the world. Being able to share art on a global scale not only allows us to experience different cultures but also have work appreciated worldwide. However there is also a darker side to reproducing, it has created a whole underground market place or illegal counterfeiting, where not only is this wrong on a morel level but also can be extremely dangerous not only to the people involved in the market, as much counterfeiting is done by organized crime, but can potentially be dangerous to the customers. With counterfeit goods there is no...
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...Hong Kong Baptist University College of International Education Thought and Writing 2 GECR2102 Section 18 Name: Guo Xiaohua (Steve) Student Number: 12639060 Abortion What is abortion? Abortion means the deliberate of a human pregnancy. For example, a woman has an unplanned pregnancy and she doesn’t want kid, so an abortion is her choice. Abortion is a common matter of debate in Europe and America. There are two different points of view. Life is sacred, abortion must be prohibited. In other side, people regard abortion as women’s rights, they have the choice. We can know that the problem of abortion is “what is the human” from the debate. But in fact, it refers human’s life and social mores. Abortion is not good both in morality and physiology. It is unrealistic to limit people by morality, the legal weapon is necessary. Abortion would make an injury to the mother’s body. It equals to cut a piece of meat from uterine wall. Therefore, the physiological hazard is obvious. First, it may cause natural habitual in future, the probability increase by the number of abortions. Second, bacterial infection is potential. If the medical of instrument disinfection is incomplete, the result would be very serious. The sufferer may lead to infertility. What’s more, abortion not only brings bodily harm but also menticide to the female. Many females will suffer from psychological disorders after aborting. They don’t want anybody else to know for fear of hurting their feelings and...
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...Well this would be my first time to be able to say something about myself. And looking for a picture that best represent me is a bit harder until I came across this picture. Perhaps this picture I believe represents best of me. My heart beats for my family as reflected on the ECG graph. I am all that I am because of my family. Live and breath for my family. Work and play for my family. A family that I thought I would never have. And I believe I have a wonderful story to tell. Well to make it short, after 4 years of marriage with body clock ticking I conceived through artificial insemination and gave birth to a healthy and beautiful baby boy via caesarean section. Looking back to the days we were struggling to get pregnant I believe I had done everything. Literally everything. Gave up my physical therapy practice and even opportunity to work abroad. Done all lab test, took fertility pills and daily injections that all leads to fights with my husband ( mood swings brought bout hormonal pills ) gone to church daily in Baclaran and Quiapo. (I combine science and my faith ) and after our first attempt of insemination it was successful. It was a miracle. A blessing that I got pregnant. And while I was pregnant I lost my mother . I was resentful. I ask for a life and in turn a precious life was taken away from me . I was devastated and broken but my baby in my tummy kept me strong. And so I kept the faith. At age of 36 I had my son. The picture...
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...Honest signalling was termed “ubiquitous” in a recent game theory paper modeling signal evolution [1]. Biological signals are considered honest when they provide useful information to the receiver [2]. More specifically, sexual signals are considered honest when they indicate the potential benefits that a female could receive by mating with an advertising male [3]–[10]. Sexual signals may indicate mating benefits because (1) preferred signals are often costly to produce; (2) only males good at acquiring nutrients or using them efficiently may be able to support the costs of signal production; and (3) males with more nutrients may be of higher fitness or may be able to invest more in providing benefits to females. Males that are able to obtain more nutrients may have greater energy stores, and several studies have found a positive relationship between dietary nutrient availability and sexual signalling [11]–[16]. Given these points, females may benefit from selecting mates that exhibit condition-dependent signals. Here condition is defined as variation in resource acquisition ability [17], which may result from differences in resource availability in the environment and/or individual physiological differences in the ability to assimilate and utilize resources. The cost of producing sexual signals is often dependent on available nutrients, which in turn is subject to life-history trade-offs. Allocating nutrients to sexual signalling must, therefore, be balanced against the nutrients...
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...What is the stand of the Church regarding this issue? The controversial "Baby M"[1] case and the recent Vatican document on "respect for human life and its origins" has triggered many concerns among religious leaders regarding the ethical issues raised by the new reproductive methods and technologies. Because our understanding of the relationship between sex and procreation has been challenged by recent unforeseen methods of reproduction. Thus causing people who are eager to have children and have no hope other than these new methods and technologies forced theologians to re-examine traditional doctrines. God's standard for sexual morality has always been clear: As it has stated in Exodus 20:14 "Thou shalt not commit adultery”. Since the ancient times to modern times, God has commanded all of His people to stay pure and faithful before and after marriage. intimate relations are allowed only between a man and a woman who are legally and lawfully married. For that reason, intimate relations outside of marriage are out of the question. In order to stay pure, a person must refrain from committing adultery and fornication. This alone can prove that the act of surrogacy is a form of adultery even with the partner's consent since one of the couple is to be unified with a person outside of their marriage. The Catholic Church demonstrates that Human Life, from the beginning of conception to the oldest adult - is an unique "Gift from God" - made in His own image and likeness...
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...Where and How, If At All, Should Sex Education Be Conducted What is sex education? Everyone’s definition and concept of sex education is probably different from everyone else’s. An even bigger question is, “where should children learn about sex education?” Some feel that it is the responsibility of the parent to teach their children about the subject. Others feel that it is better learned in school under the guidance of trained teachers who have material such as films, books, and models showing the male and female reproductive organs to help aid them in their teaching. If parents decide to teach sex education at home, where do they begin? Sex into today’s society is different from when they were kids. “Parents need to be totally honest with their child when discussing this issue.” (Schaalma Herman, 2004, 259-269) How do they approach their child and bring up the subject of sex? Once they are engaged in discussion, how to begin talking about topics like masturbation, teen pregnancy, birth control, and STD’s. These subjects could be intimidating for some parents. First, masturbation, what does the child knows about this practice. For many, they see it as something disgusting that old men and perverts do. How do they explain the fact that it is something normal people do for self-stimulation? .” It is more common in young men than in girls. From around puberty, the male start to experience erections in the middle of the night and he naturally massages it to...
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...The Difference between Natural Selection and Sexual Selection There are debates raging on whether to regard natural selection and sexual selection separately. On one hand is the argument that the two are mutual and in particular, that sexual selection is a part of the natural selection. On the other hand is the contention that the two are exclusive of each other because the manner in with each selection progresses (Andersson & Simmons, 2006); (Kokko, Jennions & Brooks, 2006). For instance, natural selection is not selective in the sense of deliberation. Natural selection is eliminative, where organisms that do not meet the reductive nature of their environments cease existing. The elimination has no ordered sequence because it not definitive which organisms are up for elimination. Additionally, mate choice occurs in both males and females, although females appear to exercise this choice more than males (Rundle, Chenoweth & Blows, 2006). Alternately, sexual selection is deliberative because it involves organisms exercising elements of premeditation and choice, elements absent in natural selection. There are several characteristics that make up an organism that predispose some organisms do perform better compared to others in environments exigent for their existence. However, determining the interaction of these challenges with their environment is not straightforward. To illustrate, showing how mating preferences evolve genetically is challenging and compounded by the fact that...
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...Jeremy A. Belvin-Reed 6-27-2012 Human Cloning: Unproven, Unsafe Human Cloning is the most controversial subject in biotechnology today. It can be defined as the act of creating a new individual (reproductive) or organism (therapeutic) from the single cell of a parent subject. In reproductive cloning (human cloning) a parent subject is expected to act as a surrogate mother. Making the clone involves using the parent’s empty egg (nucleus and genetic code removed) combined with the nucleus of their own skin cells to create 1 embryo which is now a copy of them. Each time a procedure is formed a life hangs in the balance. This life is treated as property to be experimented on, without consent. People are being sold fantasies with ideas such as clones replacing us and another you. Whether you know it or not, resources for these procedures are costly to you. And so far, non-one is being held responsible. Fobes.com reports that “even if a mere 100 eggs were taken from ten donors, the cost of simply paying the donors could easily reach $50.000.” In hindsight, you are actually paying, out of your tax dollars, $1000 an egg. 12-14 of these eggs are transplanted into one surrogate. If you have 3 patients, the cost of the procedure skyrockets to $42,000 more of your tax dollars.“That means costs to treat one patient (human) could conceivably...
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...Caleb Rosenberger BIS/220 Information Technology Acts Paper Bruce Yates 04/02/2013 Information Technology Acts In today’s society we rely on technology more than ever. As the world keeps growing, more innovative ideas for technological advances are created. In the United States as the technology further grows we put different acts in place to kind of control that technology. Two acts that are interesting in technology today are the No Electronic Theft Act (1997) and the Children’s Internet Protection Act (1988). The NET Act is in place to stop the reproduction, sharing, or distributing of copyrighted movies, songs, or even software programs. Before this Act was in place, people would still make money off reproducing original copyrights and sale them for more money than there worth. Not all people were in this for a gain but more rather wanted a free movie or song. Today when you watch movies, most of the time you will see the screen that says the result that will happen when you reproduce this movie. If people actually try and make profit for reproducing or distributing it can lead up to three years in prison and a 250,000 dollar fine. The first films that were available online were shot from cam recorders and were not the actual copy right. Just a little stat was between 2000 and 2003 when the sales in the music industry dropped 31 percent (In House of Representatives, June 2004); this was due to a lot of people downloading music for free on the internet. The CIPA...
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...1/18/2014 SimUText :: Printable Chapter :: Life History PRINT ER-FRIENDLY PAGE: T his page contains the com plete tex t of this Sim UT ex t chapter. Y ou can use y our browser's print function to print a copy . Life History This chapter explores life cycles, life histories and life tables, and explores the trade-offs that different species make in their reproductive strategy. file:///C:/Users/Hossein/SimUText/labs/LifeHistory_20700/instructions/print_chapter.html 1/156 1/18/2014 SimUText :: Printable Chapter :: Life History Contents Se ction 1 : Life Cycle s a nd Life Historie s Chapter Credits This Sim UText chapter was dev eloped by a team including: Lead Author: Simon Bird Authors: W. John Roach, Ellie Steinberg, Eli Meir Reviewer: Susan Maruca Graphics: Brad Beesley, Jennifer Wallner Simulations: Susan Maruca Programming: Derek Stal, Steve Allison-Bunnell, Jen Jacaruso Outside Reviewer: James Danoff-Burg (Columbia University) Thanks to all the students and instructors who helped test prototy pes of this chapter. For m ore inform ation, please v isit www.sim bio.com . Suggested citation: Sim on Bird, Susan Maruca, W. John Roach, Ellie Steinberg, Eli Meir. 2 009 . Life History . In Sim UText Ecology . Sim bio.com . Sim UText is a registered tradem ark of Sim Biotic Software for Teaching and Research, Inc. © 2 009 -2 01 2 Sim Bio. All Rights Reserv ed. This and other Sim bio Interactiv e Chapters® are accessible through the Sim UText Sy stem ®. ...
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...Sex | Age | Course | WPA | R.A | 1. Female | 17 | BA | 75 | Non-C | 2. Male | 17 | HRM | 82 | Non-C | 3. Female | 18 | HRM | 80 | C | 4. Male | 20 | BA | 78 | C | 5. Female | 19 | BA | 90 | Non-C | 6. Male | 19 | PSYCH | 81 | Non-C | 7. Male | 17 | BA | 84 | C | 8. Female | 18 | PSYCH | 76 | C | 9. Male | 16 | BA | 92 | C | 10. Male | 16 | BA | 91 | Non-C | 11. Male | 18 | BA | 85 | C | 12. Female | 18 | HRM | 85 | C | 13. Male | 16 | BA | 92 | C | 14. Male | 16 | HRM | 83 | C | 15. Male | 16 | IT | 82 | C | 16. Female | 19 | IT | 77 | C | 17. Female | 18 | HRM | 85 | C | 18. Male | 16 | HRM | 83 | C | 19. Female | 18 | NURSING | 76 | Non-C | 20. Female | 18 | BA | 82 | C | 21. Female | 18 | BA | 80 | Non-C | 22. Male | 16 | HRM | 92 | C | 23. Male | 20 | BA | 78 | C | 24. Male | 16 | BURSING | 83 | Non-C | 25. Female | 16 | PSYCH | 88 | C | 26. Female | 19 | PSYCH | 92 | C | 27. Female | 18 | PSYCH | 80 | Non-C | 28. Female | 17 | BA | 89 | C | 29. Male | 20 | HRM | 87 | C | 30. Male | 20 | IT | 87 | Non-C | TABLE 1.0 Survey Profile of Respondents in Brokenshire College 1st Yr. and 2nd Yr. Students A. Survey Profile 1. Sex- Male or Female 2. Age 3. Course- B.A. (Business Administration), HRM (Hotel and Restaurant Management), I.T. (Information Technology), PSYCH (Psychology) and NURSING. 4. WPA (Weighted Percentage Average) 5. Religious Affiliation- C (Catholic) and Non-C (Non-Catholic). B. We get our sample...
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...Animal Rights Introduction Ethics and morality have consistently been topics of concern in our society. Concerns about ethics and morality also extend to matters associated with the treatment of animals. The purpose of this discussion is to summarize and critique several different theories associated with the ethical treatment of animals. The discussion will focus on the treatment of animals as it relates to hunting and trapping animals, eating animals, using animals for research, and the manner in which domestic and wild animals are treated. The research will summarize and critique several theories including anthropocentrism, Animal liberation, Strong Animal Rights Theory, Weak(er) animal rights theory, Two-factor egalitarianism, biocentric egalitarianism, ecocentric views. Anthropocentrism Anthropocentrism views human being as the center of the universe and regards the world from the point of view of human values and experiences (Dictionary). According to the western philosopher Immanuel Kant human beings alone are rational beings and as such have intrinsic moral worth. Kant asserts that human beings do not owe animals anything because they are not rational beings. However, he does assert that people should be kind to animals but only because kindness to animals assists in developing character in human beings. In other words kindness to animals should not take place for the sake of the animal but for the betterment of the human being. In addition to Kant...
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...What do Power, Difference, and Privilege have to do with me? Difference can be many things. Essentially, anyone can describe themselves by going around the “Diversity Wheel”. I am a female, an Iranian-American, white, twenty-one years old, heterosexual, and non-disabled. When we take a look at the outer ring of the wheel, we go more in depth on an individual’s personal background history. In the outer ring, I am single, a sister, and I come from a middle-class family. I have lived in Northern Virginia all of my life, but I was born in Athens, Greece. I come from a Muslim background, but have never been raised to practice. The diversity wheel does not say much about my personal history or about my characteristics that make me who I am. When we take a look at the diversity wheel we can see how certain social aspects shape our lives. We cannot see, however, how people perceive you and treat you. When people first see me, they perceive me as a young, female, college student. They do not know what my background is, how many siblings I have, if I have work experience, and so forth. I come off as a very thoughtful, enthusiastic person. I feel like people treat me pretty fairly in terms of opportunities at work, as well as outside of work. There have been times, however, that I felt as though I was not being treated as fairly as I would have liked. For instance, I have a twin brother and an older sister. My parents have always given my brother more free will just because...
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...The Tyranny of the Queen Bee - WSJ.com 3/4/13 6:58 AM http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323884304578328271526080496?mg=reno64-wsj.html?dsk=y Page 1 of 8 John Kuczala The Tyranny of the Queen Bee By PEGGY DREXLER Kelly was a bright woman in her early 30s: whip-smart, well qualified, ambitious— and confused. Even a little frightened. She worked for a female partner in a big consulting firm. Her boss was so solicitous that Kelly hoped the woman—one of just a few top female partners—might become her mentor. But she began to feel that something was wrong. In meetings, her boss would dismiss her ideas without discussion and even cut her off in mid-sentence. Kelly started to hear about meetings to which she wasn't invited but felt she should be. She was excluded from her boss's small circle of confidants. What confused Kelly was that she was otherwise doing well at the firm. She felt respected and supported by the other senior partners. She had just one problem, but it was a big one. One of the male partners pulled The Tyranny of the Queen Bee - WSJ.com 3/4/13 6:58 AM http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323884304578328271526080496?mg=reno64-wsj.html?dsk=y Page 2 of 8 her aside and confirmed Kelly's suspicions: Her boss had been suggesting to others that Kelly might be happier in a different job, one "more in line with her skills." I met Kelly while I was conducting research on women in the workplace. She was trying to puzzle through...
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