...Clinical & Experimental Dermatology Research Research Article Junaid et al., J Clin Exp Dermatol Res 2014, 5:2 http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2155-9554.1000212 Open Access Indian Cosmeceutical Market: A Study of Consumer Preferences and Consumption Patterns Abdullah Bin Junaid*, Reshma Nasreen, Ravichandran N and Faheem Ahmed Department of Management, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India Abstract The study was done to investigate various factors that are associated with the consumption behaviour of the consumers in the Indian market. This study also tries to find out the new and emerging trends of the Indian cosmeceutical industry. The research first sought to explore how different variables influence the behaviour of the consumers regarding the usage of cosmeceutical product. Various factors such as self esteem, the decision making process while purchasing the cosmeceutical products etc were also studied in depth. However this study also tries to examine the various key determinants involved in the purchasing behaviour of consumers while purchasing their cosmeceutical product. The target sample was above 15 years. The sample size is 120 and the sampling method used is the quota sampling method. The study was conducted in six different cities of India that are Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Jaipur and Patna. Among these six cities three are metro cities and the rest of the three are Tier-I cities. Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata are the metro cities and luck now, Jaipur and...
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...SOCIETY OF ACTUARIES/CASUALTY ACTUARIAL SOCIETY EXAM C CONSTRUCTION AND EVALUATION OF ACTUARIAL MODELS EXAM C SAMPLE QUESTIONS The sample questions and solutions have been modified. This page indicates changes made to Study Note C-09-08. January 14, 2014: Questions and solutions 300–305 have been added. July 8, 2013: Questions and solutions 73A and 290–299 were added. Question and solution 73 were modified. Question 261 was deleted. August 7, 2013: Solutions to Questions 245, 295, and 297 corrected. Questions from earlier versions that are not applicable for October 2013 have been removed. Some of the questions in this study note are taken from past examinations. The weight of topics in these sample questions is not representative of the weight of topics on the exam. The syllabus indicates the exam weights by topic. Copyright 2013 by the Society of Actuaries and the Casualty Actuarial Society C-09-08 PRINTED IN U.S.A. 1. You are given: (i) Losses follow a loglogistic distribution with cumulative distribution function: bx / θ g F b xg = 1+ bx / θ g γ γ (ii) The sample of losses is: 10 35 80 86 90 120 158 180 200 210 1500 Calculate the estimate of θ by percentile matching, using the 40th and 80th empirically smoothed percentile estimates. (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) Less than 77 At least 77, but less than 87 At least 87, but less than 97 At least 97, but less than 107 At least 107 2. You are given: (i) The number of claims...
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...The Greed and Unethical Behavior at Enron Professor Darren Coleman March 13, 2012 The Smartest Guys in The Room (2005) Enron was one of the largest trading firms in the U.S. It was founded in 1985 by Ken Lay when he began his crusade to help liberate businessmen from government regulation. It remained one of the largest firms up until 2001, when all of their illegal activity was exposed and all of the finger pointing began, and was even voted to be the most innovative companies in 2000 by fortune 5 hundred magazine (First 20 min.). The scandal had broad reach, and included many politicians including WWW.Time.COM (2002) George Bush Sr. and Jr. as well as then Vice President Dick Cheney and Attorney General John Ashcroft. It also included Enron’s auditor Joseph F. Berardino who was the CEO of Arthur Andersen, and their banker Marc Shapiro Vice President of JPMorgan Chase. All of these people played a role in the scandal, although they didn’t even work for the company, but the key players were the Enron officials. Including but not limited to the following Enron employees, Kenneth Lay was the CEO, and Jeff Skilling was the Chief Executive while Richard Causey was the CAO. Andrew Fastow was the CFO and Wendy Gramm and John Mendelsohn were both members of the Board of Directors (Behind the Enron Scandal). The bad decisions were made from the very beginning. The Smartest Guys in The Room (2005) The Bush family had a very strong relationship with Ken Lay, and George...
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...POLICY REFORMS AND INITIATIVES TO REVITALIZE THE PHILIPPINE MINING INDUSTRY HORACIO C. RAMOS Director MINES AND GEOSCIENCES BUREAU Department of Environment and Natural Resources Republic of the Philippines September 2009, Manila Copper Gold Nickel Chromite Polymetallic Processing Plant OPERATING MINES 7 Major Mines: Masbate Gold Operation of Filminera Lepanto’s Victoria and Teresa Gold Mines Philex’s Padcal Copper Mine Rapu-rapu Polymetallic Project. Banahaw Gold Project, Philsaga Mining Corp. Carmen Copper Project Canatuan Copper-Zinc Project of TVI Resources 1 Medium-scale Chromite Mines Redondo Project of Krominco, Inc. 10 Medium-scale Nickel Mines Cagdianao Mining Corporation, Dinagat Province Berong Nickel Project, Quezon, Palawan Rio-tuba Nickel Mining Corp., Bataraza, Palawan Hinatuan Mining Corp. – Tagana-an Project, Surigao del Norte Taganito Mining Corp. – Claver, Surigao del Norte Platinum Group Metals – Cagdianao Nickel Project, Surigao del Norte CRAU Mineral Resources Corp. – Sta. Cruz-Candelaria Nickel Project, Zambales CTP Constn, and Mining Corp. – ACT Project and Carrascal Nickel Projects, Surigao del Sur SR Metals Inc. – Tubay Nickel Project, Agusan del Norte 4 Medium-scale Gold Mines Gold mine of Johnson Gold Mining Corporation Maco Mine, Apex Mining Company Inc. Diwalwal Direct State Development Project Acupan Gold Operations of Benguet 15 Cement Plants and Quarries 1 Nickel Processing Plant in Palawan 1 Copper Smelter (PASAR) in Leyte...
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...Electricity in Indonesia – Issues and Recommendation I. Current Condition and Issues Electricity is a vital engine for growth, development and prosperity for the country. Above all, it helps improve the quality of life of the Indonesia people countrywide. However, until now, Indonesia still have 2 big challenges to provide sufficient and cost effective electricity to support its population quality of life and support Indonesia business and industries economic growth plan as elaborate below. 1. Insufficient electricity supply to support electricity demand and economic growth The lack of adequate and reliable supplies of electric power is one of the most serious problems facing Indonesia today. As of year 2011, as shown in the following table, PLN have about 29,268 MW installed capacity in Indonesia. About 76% is in Java and the remaining 24% is outside Java. Source : Statistic Report 2011 from www.pln.co.id The current capacity provided by PLN is not enough to serve all the Indonesia population and Indonesia economy growth plan. Target electrification ration in Y2012 is is only 75%, so it is still more than 12 million households in Indonesia don’t have electricity. particularly outside Java. Electricity shortage has also hit most parts of Indonesia, especially outside Java. For Industrial companies, the impact is lost of production hours. Household consumers were also harmed due to rolling blackouts. Government also feared that this Electrical...
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...The 30 year old secret: The investigative piece that we choose to analyze was about a well-admired and popular politician… called Neil Goldschmidt who had raped a young girl in the 1970s. The girl was fourteen years old, when Goldschmidt started to sexually abuse her. At that time, Goldschmidt was a 35 year old governor and mayor for the state of Oregon…needless to say, he was a public figure. However, little did the public know that he had a 9 month “affair” with a minor. This investigation of this case describes the hard ships the rape victim (known as susan) had to endure throughout her life whilst Goldschmidt himself was living a very comfortable and prosperous one. The articles explain how her abusive childhood led her to experience very little, if any happiness and when asked to explain the situations by psychologists and doctors, susan hands start to shake constantly, which is why she’s been prescribed medicine to control the seizures she so frequently experiences. To get a little taste of the kind of mental state susuan was in through out her early adulthood, a doctor who had dealt with rap and murder victims for the past 20 years said “"I have never seen a victim who was so completely psychologically and mentally, emotionally destroyed,""She will never be well again." This quote is from susans The woman, whom WW is calling Susan, suffers from physical and psychological ailments that have robbed her of health and happiness. She weighs little more than...
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...Running head: WATERGATE 1 WATERGATE DEVRY UNIVERSITY ONLINE. OCTOBER 20, 2014 WATERGATE 2 INTRODUCTION Watergate is a word that will forever be connected to the 37th President, Richard Nixon. What started out as a botched robbery at the Democratic Reelection headquarters would later become know for bringing down the Presidency. The American public would be able to see and hear firsthand what actually occurred in the Whitehouse behind closed doors, because of the national media that it created and the broadcasting of the Watergate Senate Hearings. This would bring to light the illegal activity that occurred during this time affecting many and changing politics as they were known. This paper will discuss the events that lead up to the Senate hearings and the fall of an American President. The careers that were made and the ones destroyed. The outcome and how it affected the American public and the future of politics. WATERGATE 3 WATERGATE At a time when the American population was dealing with the devastation of the Vietnam War and the loss of many loved ones a robbery at the Watergate hotel hit the papers. Many people did not know or even care what this meant, but later it would be found to affect the entire nation. On June 17, 1972 five men broke into the Democratic Reelection headquarters that was located at the Watergate hotel in Washington, DC (Watergate Info, 2012). They were caught with more...
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...Executive Summary Feltex Carpets Ltd. is the largest Australian carpet manufacturer. The company has experiences in internationalization in countries such as USA, Japan, Southeast Asia and New Zealand. However, the company is interested in expanding their market power to new destinations, to improve their multinational strategy and to be well-known worldwide. The countries of potential choice are Mexico and Chile. The analysis has been done by comparing the overall information and in-details of each indicator. From evaluation of indicators of both countries, such as economic, social, legal and infrastructure, the analysis has shown that the economy of both countries are quite similar. However, the infrastructure, technological and legal environment seem to be better in Chile. As the Chilean government support the foreign investment in textile sector by promoting the education, technological development and the special policy especially for textile. For instance, tax reduction and promoting education in labour forces. Thus, Chilean labour forces would have the better off in comparison with Mexican labour forces. Another highlighted indicator in the country comparison - which the recommendation has inclined - is infrastructures. Both countries have the similar relative figures in number of infrastructure such as roadway, waterway and airports. But the infrastructure of electricity and internet/telephone networks seems to be at a higher level in Chile. The analysis of relevant...
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...014CRNA Interview Preparation Q: Tell me about a time when you had to manage a difficult clinical situation. Q: Tell me about a time when you were working with someone who wasn't pulling their weight, and they had a different value system than yours. How did you deal with this person? Q: Tell me about a time when you failed. What happened, and how did you recover? Q: Tell me about a time when you had an ethical dilemma at work. What did you do? Q: Tell me about a time when you felt it was you against everyone else. You thought you were right and that everyone else was wrong. What did you do? Q: Why do you want to be a CRNA?** Q: What would make you a successful CRNA?** Q: How do you handle stress? Q: What kind of patients do you take care of? Your favorite and why?** Q: Tell us about your work experience.** Q: How do you describe success? Q: Do you foresee any barriers to your education? (finances, time commitments) Q: What does a CRNA do? How do you think your role as a CVICU nurse relates to the role and responsibilities of a CRNA?** Q: Where do you want to be in 5 years?**. Q: Why our program? Q: What questions do you have for us?** A: What do you look for in potential students? How does your program facilitate student research? I am very interested in teaching and education, how does your program prepare me to be an educator? What do you see as your school's strong points? On avg. how many intubations, art lines...
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...Introduction: A governor (from French gouverneur) is a governing official, usually the executive of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state. In federations, a governor may be the title of each appointed or elected politician who governs a constituent state. In countries the heads of the constitutive states, provinces, communities and regions may be titled Governor, although this is less common in parliamentary systems such as in some European nations and many of their former colonies, which use titles such as President of the Regional Council in France and Minister-President in Germany, where in some states there are governorates (German: Regierungsbezirke) as sub-state administrative regions. Other countries using different titles for sub-national units include Spain and Switzerland. The title also lies, historically, to executive officials acting as representatives of a chartered company which has been granted exercise of sovereignty in a colonial area, such as the British HEIC or the Dutch VOC. These companies operate as a major state within a state with its own armed forces. There can also be non-political governors: high ranking officials in private or similar governance such as commercial and non-profit management, styled governor(s), who simply govern an institution, such as a corporation or a bank. For example, in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries there are prison governors ("warden" in the United States), school governors...
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...from a variety of causative organismsAntibiotics are a common cause of acute diarrhea! | Acute inflammation of the lining of the stomach and intestines caused by viruses, bacteria or their toxins or parasitesPresents commonly with diarrhea, abdominal cramps, and vomiting.CommunicabilityOften fecal-oral route (especially viruses)Food poisoning (especially bacteria)Day care centers, crowded living conditions, poor sanitation and cleanliness | DIAGNOSTIC TESTS | MAIN TREATMENT | Stool gram stain and culture (if bloody stools)Stool for Ova & Parasites (if hx suggestive)CBC – assess for anemia/infectionUrinalysis and urine culture (r/o UTI)Electrolytes | Oral rehydration therapy (ORT) is one of the major worldwide health advances of the last decade:Safer, less painful, and less costly than IV rehydrationOral rehydration solution enhances and promotes reabsorption of H2O and NaReduces vomiting, diarrhea, and duration of illnessORT GuidelinesDiarrhea w/o dehydrationMild dehydrationMod dehydrationSevere dehydrationReplacing ongoing losses | MAJOR TEACHING POINTS | NURSING CONSIDERATIONS | Teach parents at well childcare visits in first yearKeep 24 hour supply of ORT in homeBegin with first sign of diarrheaReplace with ½ cup ORT for each diarrheal stoolSeek medical attention prn signs or dehydrationAfter re-hydration resume breast/formula feeding or normal diet in the older childAdvise them never to try to formulate an OR solution themselves.Teach personal hygiene/ hand washingProper...
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...CHARTER CONTROLS | Final Report | ENTRP 492Cole CheslockTyson Jones Kalsun Romero-GoertzDecember 4, 2011 | Table of Contents DISCLAIMER 3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 4 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 5 INTRODUCTION 7 COMPANY OVERVIEW 7 INDUSTRY OVERVIEW 8 External Environment 8 Key External Drivers 9 METHODOLOGY 10 SCOPE 11 FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 12 GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS 12 OEM CONTRACTS 14 ACCOUNTING METHODS 16 ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE & PLANNING 19 ONLINE PRESENCE & BRAND AWARENESS 23 Social Networking 24 MARKETING PLAN 27 Competitive Analysis 27 4 P’s Analysis 28 Industry Segments 28 CITATIONS 32 APPENDIX 33 To-Do List 33 Manufacturing Metrics 34 PRO FORMA INCOME STATEMENTS 35 ------------------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER This material is based upon work supported by Washington State University. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations are those of the authors and do not reflect the views of Washington State University, its employees or its administration. ------------------------------------------------- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Our team would like to acknowledge and extend our heartfelt gratitude to the following persons who have made this report’s completion a possibility. We would first like to thank our team mentor and advisor Albert Christensen and Kristin McMahon, who provided our team with much needed support and assistance in reviewing our papers. We would also like to thank our professor Mr. Pickett...
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...------------------------------------------------- Overview[edit] Nutritional science investigates the metabolic and physiological responses of the body to diet. With advances in the fields of molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, the study of nutrition is increasingly concerned with metabolism and metabolic pathways: the sequences of biochemical steps through which substances in living things change from one form to another. The human body contains chemical compounds, such as water, carbohydrates (sugar, starch, and fiber), amino acids (in proteins), fatty acids (in lipids), and nucleic acids (DNA and RNA). These compounds in turn consist of elements such as carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, calcium, iron, zinc, magnesium, manganese, and so on. All of these chemical compounds and elements occur in various forms and combinations (e.g. hormones, vitamins, phospholipids, hydroxyapatite), both in the human body and in the plant and animal organisms that humans eat. The human body consists of elements and compounds ingested, digested, absorbed, and circulated through the bloodstream to feed the cells of the body. Except in the unborn fetus, the digestive system is the first system involved in obtaining nutrition. In a typical adult, about seven liters of digestive juices enter the digestive tract.[citation needed] These break chemical bonds in ingested molecules, and modulate their conformations and energy states. Though some molecules are absorbed into the bloodstream...
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...Types and Uses of Renewable Energy and Their Influences DeVry University LAS-432 Professor Anthony Baker Team E Vincent Murr, Alisia Ngo, Mark Pick, Kristine Reed & Venrick Richards 02/25/14 Contents Introduction-Alisia Ngo 3 The Uses and Science of renewable Energy 7 History of Renewable Energy- Vincent Murr 10 Political Influence-Vincent Murr 15 Impact on the economy – Mark Pick 20 Cultural Issues-Kristine Reed 31 Environmental Effects- Kristine Reed 34 Moral and Ethical Concerns-Venrick Richards 38 Conclusion-Venrick Richards 46 References 50 Introduction-Alisia Ngo Throughout the 20th and 21st century, fossil fuels such as coal, petroleum, and natural gas have been essential to our way of life. In the past several decades scientists have warned that coal and oil have been diminishing and that it could take thousands of years for the earth to replenish what we have already used. With that being said finding other resources of energy is crucial to the conservation of our way of life as we know it. Evidence has shown that the U.S. relies heavily on oil, coal, and natural gas for its energy. So finding new ways to substitute these sources of energy through renewable energy like wind, and sunlight needs to be a high priority for local and state governments nationwide. In this paper I will explain why the need for renewable energy is so important to the environment and our way of life. I will speak specifically on the many types of renewable...
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...www.it-ebooks.info Python Network Programming Cookbook Over 70 detailed recipes to develop practical solutions for a wide range of real-world network programming tasks Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI www.it-ebooks.info Python Network Programming Cookbook Copyright © 2014 Packt Publishing All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews. Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the author, nor Packt Publishing, and its dealers and distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book. Packt Publishing has endeavored to provide trademark information about all of the companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals. However, Packt Publishing cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information. First published: March 2014 Production Reference: 1190314 Published by Packt Publishing Ltd. Livery Place 35 Livery Street Birmingham B3 2PB, UK. ISBN 978-1-84951-346-3 www.packtpub.com Cover Image by Gabrielay La Pintura (linaza100@hotmail...
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