Stages of the Research Process

Enoc Colon

RES/351

09-10-2015
MAJA ZELIHIC

Stages of the Research Process

It is important to identify the purpose of any business research. There are many strategies that an individual can follow if there were to be a project or business related issue that needed to be solved. Some may vary than others depending on the situation that needs to be resolved. The two articles that were chosen to practice identifying the critical first stage of developing a research study are Fake drugs and Bedbugs and Infectious diseases. Both articles were interested to read and they were also a challenge to identify the critical first stage of developing. The purpose of the business research for article, Bedbugs and Infectious diseases is to help the American citizens become more aware about their surroundings for infectious diseases or infectious diseases carriers such as bedbugs. Infectious diseases are not only in public but at home as well. Bedbugs can carry infectious diseases that can hospitalize an individual if not carful. An individual and their family will most likely not be as careful at home, as if they were to be in public. Little do people know that one of the most dangerous infectious diseases could be right in their own very home underneath their bed sheets? There are two cosmopolite bedbug species called Cimex Lectularius and Cimex Hemipterus. Both of the species feed off domestic animals and humans. There has been recent outbreaks in which has been reported in occidental countries. The scariest part of it all is that the majority of the time people don’t feel them biting them or even crawling on them. The purpose of the business research for the article Fake drugs, is that the United States of America and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control needs to become more aware of the counterfeit pharmaceuticals that has been shipping to the United States for decades. The counterfeit pharmaceutical that has been shipping to the United States from overseas are responsible for millions of deaths worldwide each year. The United States needs to institutionalize the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration processes and systems so that they can strengthen regulatory agencies in other countries such as Nigeria, Africa, China and Japan. Strengthening the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration would not only save people lives all over the world, but it will help our drug and food industries to capture the illegal black market. There are a few questions that were on article fake drugs in which needed to be ask to help support their theory and to find out the main problem. One of them was how many other countries are shipping counterfeit pharmaceuticals to the United States in which they are not aware of? Another question that needed to be asked is that what other countries or government help support counterfeit pharmaceutical. Who help them make it? And what chemicals were actually used to make the counterfeit pharmaceuticals? All of these question were very important to ask because without knowing the truth then it would have been difficult to help solve the counterfeit pharmaceutical that are coming to the United States. In article Bedbugs and Infectious diseases, there were a few questions in which needed to be ask in order to help support their theory as well. Is there a repellent that can prevent the bedbugs from reproducing? Where did they come from and can they reproduce without having a mate. How did they reproduce dramatically over the years? How many and what kind of diseases can a bedbugs transmit to human? And last but not least, what are the bedbugs likes and dislikes, as too what do they prefer when it comes to feed, sleep or reproduce? It is important to understand all of the possible outcomes on both of the articles because without asking any questions, both of the articles will not be completely supportive due to lack of knowledge. In the bedbug’s article, there were a couple of independent variables in which had to be manipulated to further research the bedbugs. The researchers manipulated the bedbug’s environment in order to measure their life cycle. The researchers wanted to see how the infected bedbugs would react different from the ones that were not infected. Doing so it gave the researchers the data that was needed and the ability to see how they live in a much rapid pace. Under a constant controlled temperature of 14–27_C, eggs hatch 4–10 days after mating, yielding the nymphs, which are 1–3 mm long, visible to the naked eye, translucent, and lighter in color [8]. Each molt requires a blood meal, which can last 10–20min, to grow to the next stage every 3–7 days if a host is available. These developmental stages of the bedbug were previously unknown bedbug presence in a newly infested site achieves exponential multiplication by the end of the first month.” (Olivier, 2011). The independent variables in the Fake drugs article were the reconstruction of the America and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control. The public campaigns and the America National Agency for Food Control and Drug Administration, reposition their staff so that they will perform more effective including public enlightenment campaigns alerting individuals that there was a problem. “We also started focusing on those countries that supply these drugs to Nigeria, especially India and China. We put in place Indian and Chinese nationals as independent analysts in these countries to recertify drugs before they are imported into Nigeria”. (Wadman, 2008). With this process, countries like Nigeria have fallen dramatically from forty one percent to ten percent.

References

Olivier, C. (2011, January ). Bedbugs and Infectious Diseases. , 52(2), 1.

Wadman, M. (2008, April). Fake drugs: lessons for the world. , (924), 1.