...one of the best decisions i’ve ever made in high school was taking a cna(certified nursing assistant) program. this course taught me so much more about life than any regular class or off period could have. not only did it teach me how to care for people, it introduced me to a profession that i hope to pursue for the rest of my life. the first time i walked into a hospital, not as a patient or a visitor, but as a student i immediately knew that it’s where i belong. getting to explore all of the different departments and meeting all the nurses and doctors with heroic stories of saving people opened my eyes to a different kind of world. i realized that i didn’t want to sit behind a desk for the rest of my life, i wanted to do something meaningful,...
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...1: The Human Body: An Orientation I. An Overview of Anatomy and Physiology (pp. 1–3) A. Anatomy is the study of the structure of body parts and their relationships to each other, and physiology is the study of the function of body parts (p. 2). B. Topics of Anatomy (p. 2) 1. Gross (macroscopic) anatomy is the study of structures large enough to be seen with the naked eye. a. Regional anatomy is the study of all body structures in a given body region. b. Systemic anatomy is the study of all structures in a body system. c. Surface anatomy is the study of internal body structures as they relate to the overlying skin. 2. Microscopic anatomy is the study of structures that are too small to be seen with the naked eye. a. Cytology is the study of individual cells. b. Histology is the study of tissues. 3. Developmental anatomy is the study of the change in body structures over the course of a lifetime; embryology focuses on development that occurs before birth. 4. Specialized Branches of Anatomy a. Pathological anatomy is the study of structural changes associated with disease. b. Radiographic anatomy is the study of internal structures using specialized visualization techniques. c. Molecular biology is the study of biological molecules. 5. Essential tools for studying anatomy are the mastery of medical terminology and the development of keen observational skills. ...
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...Contents 1.0 Introduction…………………………………………………………………3 2.0 Overview of Industry Life Cycle……………………………………………4 3.0 Literature review of Information Technology………………………………4 4.0 Conclusion for Industry Life Cycle…………………………………………5 5.0 Industry Level Analysis (Dell)………………………………………………6 6.0 Business Strategy……………………………………………………………7 7.0 Enterprise Solutions and service…………………………………………….8 8.0 PEST Analysis of Dell Company…………………………………………...11 9.0 Porters Five Forces of Dell………………………………………………….13 10.0 Stage of Industry Lifecycle of Dell…………………………………………16 11.0 Recommendation to improve performance of Dell…………………………17 12.0 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………..18 Bibliography………………………………………………………………………....19 Appendix…………………………………………………………………………….21 Overview of Industry Life Cycle Industry Life Cycle (ILC) is the stages of evolution through which an industry progresses as it moves from conception to stabilization and stagnation. Different analyses posit different stages of an industry life cycle (usually four to five), but all emphasize that an industry has a beginning, with technological innovation; a period of rapid growth; maturity and consolidation; and finally decline and possibly death. Industry dynamic impacts firm strategy and survival, and it is important to managers understanding that whether firm should compete or cooperate at different stages of the industry life cycle (Wilson & Hynes, 2009). One of the main tenets of how firms and industries evolve is that, as...
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...Unlike his first David, his second one was done in bronze later in his career from 1430 to 1440. Scholars believe that the only other David sculture that can be compared to Donatello’s was done by Michelangelo ( shown in IMAGE 2) . Actually, these two artist together were considered the greatest florentine sculptors of all times. In fact, Michelangello’s work is highly influenced by Donatello’s which he admired greatly. As an artist, he closely studied human anatomy; he would in some cases disect corpses in order to learn more about the structures of muscles and bones*. Michelangelo’s David was also revolutionary for its time. In his case it was the colossal size of his David that struck the public the most. It was the first time that a large scaled nude statue was made since Antiquity. IMAGE 1 IMAGE 2 Donatello’s David (1425 -1430) Michelangelo’s David (1501-...
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...Gateway Computers. Company Background The story of Gateway is an inspiring one. The company, originally called Gateway 2000, was founded in 1985 in an Iowa farmhouse by Ted Waitt, the son of a fourth-generation Iowa cattleman. Armed with a rented computer, a three page business plan, and a $10,000 loan guaranteed by his grandmother, Waitt dropped out of the University of Iowa to pursue his dream. Gateway’s early value proposition was similar to what it is today: offer products directly to the customer, build them to their specifications, provide them with the best value for the money, and offer unparalleled service and support. Waitt’s start-up company had $100,000 in sales in its first year and by 1993 it became a Fortune 500 company with sales of nearly $3 billion. The company’s rapid growth continued throughout the ‘90s, reaching a peak of more than $9.6 billion in 2000. Over the past 18 years Gateway has been a technology and direct-marketing pioneer. It was the first company in the industry to sell computers online, the first to bundle its own branded internet service with a PC, and among the first direct retailers to sell its own branded consumer electronic products. In 1996 the company became one of the first “brick and click” retailers when it introduced a nationwide network of Gateway Country stores. Today, the company has nearly 200 stores where customers can try out Gateway products, get advice from technical experts, and learn more about technology in classes...
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...Homework 2 Task 1: “Think” and “Reflect” Questions - based on the lessons so far 1) Explain the difference between standardisation and customisation. Standardisation means that companies learn to operate as if the world were one large market – ignoring regional and superficial differences (Levitt). To speak specifically, executives aim to sale the global products what are the best-value product with high quality, best technology and low prices in different national markets. Its mission is modernity and its mode, price competition, even when it sells top-of-the-line, high-end products. It knows about the one great thing all nations. Moreover, the strategy of standardization not only responds to worldwide homogenized markets but also expands those markets with aggressive low pricing. Furthermore, the standardisation pays more attention on the extras such as status, brand image and promotion. And the total cost of designing is lower than that of customization. While, compared to customization, it focuses on understanding customers. To be speak specifically, depending on the cultural diversity, the executives pay more attention on realizing the choice criteria of customers, the purchase ways of customers, the purchase frequency. Its mission is to design the different products based on the different needs of different national customers. It knows a lot about a great many countries and congenially adapts to supposed differences. Moreover, due to the different...
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...Competing on Analytics By Thomas H. Davenport This article originally appeared in Harvard Business Review Article Reprint No. R0601H brought to you by Harvard Business Review articles are brought to you by Zurich HelpPoint as part of the Managing Risk Series. Zurich neither endorses nor rejects the information presented in the article. We do not guarantee the accuracy of this information or any results and further assume no liability in connection with this publication including any information or methods contained herein. Competing on Analytics The Idea in Brief It’s virtually impossible to differentiate yourself from competitors based on products alone. Your rivals sell offerings similar to yours. And thanks to cheap offshore labor, you’re hard-pressed to beat overseas competitors on product cost. How to pull ahead of the pack? Become an analytics competitor: Use sophisticated data-collection technology and analysis to wring every last drop of value from all your business processes. With analytics, you discern not only what your customers want but also how much they’re willing to pay and what keeps them loyal. You look beyond compensation costs to calculate your workforce’s exact contribution to your bottom line. And you don’t just track existing inventories; you also predict and prevent future inventory problems. Analytics competitors seize the lead in their fields. Capital One’s analytics initiative, for example, has spurred at least 20% growth in earnings...
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...www.hbr.org Some companies have built their very businesses on their ability to collect, analyze, and act on data. Every company can learn from what these firms do. Competing on Analytics by Thomas H. Davenport Reprint R0601H Some companies have built their very businesses on their ability to collect, analyze, and act on data. Every company can learn from what these firms do. Competing on Analytics COPYRIGHT © 2005 HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. by Thomas H. Davenport We all know the power of the killer app. Over the years, groundbreaking systems from companies such as American Airlines (electronic reservations), Otis Elevator (predictive maintenance), and American Hospital Supply (online ordering) have dramatically boosted their creators’ revenues and reputations. These heralded—and coveted—applications amassed and applied data in ways that upended customer expectations and optimized operations to unprecedented degrees. They transformed technology from a supporting tool into a strategic weapon. Companies questing for killer apps generally focus all their firepower on the one area that promises to create the greatest competitive advantage. But a new breed of company is upping the stakes. Organizations such as Amazon, Harrah’s, Capital One, and the Boston Red Sox have dominated their fields by deploying industrial-strength analytics across a wide variety of activities. In essence, they are transforming their organizations into armies...
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...University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries Carrboro Cybrary | Chapel Hill Public Library | Durham County Public Library COMPUTER BASICS GETTING STARTED Class Overview What You Will Learn BASIC COMPUTER SKILLS Anatomy of a Computer How Computers Work Turning the Computer On and Logging On The Desktop THE KEYBOARD AND MOUSE Keyboard Commands The Mouse Left-Clicking, Double-Clicking, and Right-Clicking OPERATING SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE The Operating System The Start Menu Managing Windows Buying a Computer Other Programs and Software SHUTTING DOWN THE COMPUTER Logging Off vs. Shutting Down Finding More Help Vocabulary to Know PAGE 02 PAGE 03 PAGE 08 PAGE 11 PAGE 16 View our full schedule, handouts, and additional tutorials on our website: www.lib.unc.edu/cws Last updated May 2012 2 GETTING STARTED Class Overview This is a class for very beginning computer users. You are not expected to have ANY experience with computers. If you’ve never touched a computer before, this is the right place for you. We will be using PC laptop computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system. You may have heard these words before, but if not, don’t worry. We’ll cover their meanings later in class. Don’t get discouraged! Remember: Practice makes perfect and everyone starts out as a beginner. Using the keyboard and mouse may be challenging at first, but it will become easier the more you use them. Note: The mouse is intended for you to use with your right hand...
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...harassment, but discovered that Hurd had failed to live up to the H.P. Standards of Business Conduct.1 Therefore, the board asked Hurd to step down. He exited with a severance package worth approximately $35 million.2 Hewlett-Packard Enters the 2 t Century Fiorina's Legacy Carly Fiorina became HJ CEO id-4 999. She presided over the highly contested acquisition of , Compaq in 2002, believing tic the jothing of the two companies would make H.P. more competitive with Dell, IBM, and Sun Microsystems in computer offerings, as well as provide substantial costsavings.3 The acquisition was approved by a shareholder vote of 51% to 49%, which left many people dissatisfied, including H.P. director, Walter Hewlett, who had initiated the proxy fight opposing the merger and who hit' lrpsiPbd in 2003. After the a cquisitio, Fiorina cut approximately 15,000 jobs; meanwhile, she failed to produce the n promised results. One year after the acquisition, H.P.'s share price had lost approximately 2 percent of its value, while IBM and Dell had seen increases in their share prices. H.P.'s revenues also declined more than Fiorina had originally predicted. She was unable to develop and execute a strategy that the board believed would generate a recovery for H.P. (For more details: Krishna G. Palepu, Jay W. HP Chief Hurd quits after sexual harassment claim CNN Money August 6 2010 •1i J1J / View: At H.P., Governance Trumps Gossip," The New York...
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...www.it-ebooks.info www.it-ebooks.info E L E V E N T H E D I T I O N MARKETING MISTAKES AND SUCCESSES 3 0 T H A N N I V E R S A RY Robert F. Hartley Cleveland State University JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. www.it-ebooks.info VICE PRESIDENT & PUBLISHER EXECUTIVE EDITOR ASSISTANT EDITOR PRODUCTION MANAGER PRODUCTION ASSISTANT EXECUTIVE MARKETING MANAGER ASSISTANT MARKETING MANAGER MARKETING ASSISTANT DESIGN DIRECTOR SENIOR DESIGNER SENIOR MEDIA EDITOR George Hoffman Lise Johnson Carissa Doshi Dorothy Sinclair Matt Winslow Amy Scholz Carly DeCandia Alana Filipovich Jeof Vita Arthur Medina Allison Morris This book was set in 10/12 New Caledonia by Aptara®, Inc. and printed and bound by Courier/Westford. The cover was printed by Courier/Westford. This book is printed on acid-free paper. Copyright © 2009, 2006, 2004, 2001, 1998, 1995, 1992, 1989, 1986, 1981, 1976 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, website www.copyright.com. Requests to the Publisher for permission should...
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...ROBERT F. HARTLEY • Cindy Claycomb 12th Edition T W E L F T H E D I T I O N MARKETING MISTAKES AND SUCCESSES Robert F. Hartley Late of Cleveland State University Cindy Claycomb Wichita State University VICE PRESIDENT & EXECUTIVE PUBLISHER SENIOR EDITOR PROJECT EDITOR EDITORIAL ASSISTANT ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF MARKETING MARKETING MANAGER MARKETING ASSISTANT DESIGN DIRECTOR PRODUCT DESIGNER SENIOR PRODUCTION MANAGER ASSOCIATE PRODUCTION MANAGER PRODUCTION EDITOR COVER DESIGNER George Hoffman Franny Kelly Brian Baker Jacqueline Hughes Amy Scholz Kelly Simmons Marissa Carroll Harry Nolan Allison Morris Janis Soo Joel Balbin Eugenia Lee Kenji Ngieng This book was set in 10/12 New Caledonia by Aptara®, Inc. and printed and bound by Courier/Westford. The cover was printed by Courier/Westford. This book is printed on acid-free paper. Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has been a valued source of knowledge and understanding for more than 200 years, helping people around the world meet their needs and fulfill their aspirations. Our company is built on a foundation of principles that include responsibility to the communities we serve and where we live and work. In 2008, we launched a Corporate Citizenship Initiative, a global effort to address the environmental, social, economic, and ethical challenges we face in our business. Among the issues we are addressing are carbon impact, paper specifications and procurement, ethical...
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...The Confessions of Online Shopaholics Introduction We all know that we are in the midst of a social, business, and cultural revolution. Our generation today is often termed as “technology savvy”, especially now that the internet has new revolutionary trends. Nowadays, businesses are not just using databases but also the internet. Since 1995, electronic commerce (e-commerce) has grown in the United States from a standing start to $310 billion retail, travel, and media business and a 3.3 trillion worth total of business-to-business databases, bringing about enormous changes in business firms, markets and consumer behavior quickly. Economies and business firms around the globe got affected rapidly. Today, e-commerce has become the platform for new, unique services and capabilities that are not found in the physical world. In 2011, e-commerce is entering a new period of explosive entrepreneurial activity focusing on social networks, and the mobile digital platform created by smartphones and netbooks (Laudon, 2012). As stated by Rayport (2002), “We are in a revolution that is enabled and accelerated by technological change and at the center of this change is the internet, and, more specifically, economies” (p 2). Whenever we read the morning papers, we observe interesting stories on companies helping the growth of the internet and so the day goes-with constant stimuli related to the internet, e-commerce and the new economy- as we work, shop, dine, or drive through our...
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...REVIEW Understanding Structural Features of Microbial Lipases—An Overview John Geraldine Sandana Mala 1 and Satoru Takeuchi 2 1 SANDANA FLORALS, Module-7, Golden Jubilee Biotech Park for Women Society, In SIPCOT-IT Park, Old Mahabalipuram Road, Siruseri, Navalur P.O., Kanchipuram District-603103, Tamilnadu, India. 2 Factory of Takeuchi Nenshi, TAKENEN, 85 NE, Takamatsu, Kahoku, Ishikawa 929-1215, Japan. Abstract: The structural elucidations of microbial lipases have been of prime interest since the 1980s. Knowledge of structural features plays an important role in designing and engineering lipases for specific purposes. Significant structural data have been presented for few microbial lipases, while, there is still a structure-deficit, that is, most lipase structures are yet to be resolved. A search for ‘lipase structure’ in the RCSB Protein Data Bank (http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/) returns only 93 hits (as of September 2007) and, the NCBI database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) reports 89 lipase structures as compared to 14719 core nucleotide records. It is therefore worthwhile to consider investigations on the structural analysis of microbial lipases. This review is intended to provide a collection of resources on the instrumental, chemical and bioinformatics approaches for structure analyses. X-ray crystallography is a versatile tool for the structural biochemists and is been exploited till today. The chemical methods of recent interests include molecular modeling...
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...Marketing in China Before the reforms, under the command economy, Chinese companies took order from the state in production and push the products through state-controlled distribution systems. They never had to advertise, to do consumer research, and to think about marketing strategies. For years, even after the opening and reforms, many Chinese still consider marketing western concept of a dubious practice, something that may be not valid or applicable in China. Marketing proves to be one of the most challenging parts of China operations, perhaps more so than other areas such as accounting, finance, or research & development. For several reasons, First, infrastructure in marketing is underdeveloped, including transportation systems, media development, labyrinth of multi-tier distribution channels, and the severe shortage of qualified marketing personnel. Firms attracted to the longterm potential of this vast country must remember to pay sufficient attention to the basics of producing, distribution and marketing a successful product (Country Commercial Guide 1998), Marketing Strategies In the early 1980s when MNCs first came to China, many thought of China as a huge market with a homogeneous culture and felt standardized global marketing would be effective in capturing the opportunities and improving efficiency. These feelings were confirmed by the desire of Chinese to acquire western technologies and their fascination with products from the West. After living in an economy of...
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