Abstract Greyhound is an intercity bus carrier serving over 3,800 destinations across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The company was founded in Hibbing, Minnesota in 1914, and taking the name The Greyhound Corporation in 1929, the company has been based in Dallas, Texas since 1987 (Greyhound, 2015). In 2007, Greyhound's parent company Laidlaw was purchased by British transit company FirstGroup, who agreed to take on Laidlaw's $700 million of debt. It may be assumed that Greyhound may have
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Assignment 1: Issues in Public Health- Nosocomial Infections Nosocomial infections are defined simply as hospital-acquired infections. These infections are not present initially and typically occur within 48 hours of a patient’s admission, within 3 days of discharge or approximately 30 days after an operation. (Inweregbu, Dave & Pittard, 2005) Not just in the United States, but also globally, such infections are rising significantly with no solutions available currently. And, though it is
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Transforming an Electrophysiology Practice To Impact Timeliness of Care Studies of the U.S. healthcare system have indicated that timely access to appropriate providers improves the delivery, quality, and outcomes of care. Conversely, delayed or limited access contributes to patient/provider frustration, poorly coordinated care, unnecessary emergency room visits, and potential increases in the burden and cost of disease. A recent high-profile crisis in health care focused on prolonged and unfair
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Organization !1 ORGANIZATION Name Course Institution Date Introduction Organization !2 The main aim of the paper will be to support the definition of an organization as a group of people who work together in an organised way for a shared purpose. To achieve this, major characteristics of an organization, such as shared mission, vision and goals, bureaucracy, inclusiveness in decision-making process, work specialization and collective bargaining power will be analysed. Shared mission
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..................................... 12 ABSTRACT This analysis and memorandum were prepared by Marshall Coover, Chau Nguyen, Judson Kauffman, Paul Wegman, Dave Parr, Todd Erickson, and Vaibhav Khanna for Dr. John Thompson’s Executive MBA Economics class. It is based on actual data collected and is applicable to a health clinic in Williamson County that one of our group members, Dr. Chau Nguyen is actually planning to launch in the near future. Accordingly, it is written from the perspective
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iour3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC 1304 RESEARCH ( 3rd ICBER 2012 ) PROCEEDING 12 - 13 MARCH 2012. GOLDEN FLOWER HOTEL, BANDUNG, INDONESIA ISBN: 978-967-5705-05-2. WEBSITE: www.internationalconference.com.my CONSUMERS’ ATTITUDE TOWARDS “MAMAK” FOOD IN MALAYSIA Kartina Abu Bakar School of Hospitality, Tourism and Culinary Art Taylor’s University kartina.a@taylors.edu.my Abdul Ghani Farinda Centre for Continuous Education University of Malaya farinda@um.edu.my ABSTRACT
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Economic Modelling 28 (2011) 1348–1353 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Economic Modelling j o u r n a l h o m e p a g e : w w w. e l s ev i e r. c o m / l o c a t e / e c m o d Foreign direct investment and China's regional income inequality☆ Kang Yu a, Xian Xin b,c, Ping Guo a, Xiaoyun Liu d,⁎ a School of Economics and Management, Zhejiang Forestry University, Zhejiang, 311300, PR China Center for Rural Development Policy, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100083,
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UNIVERSITY PHAGWARA EXECUTIVE SUMMARY After liberalization the Indian banking sector developed very appreciate. The RBI also nationalized good amount of commercial banks proving socio economic services to the people of the nation. The public Sector banks have shown very good performance as far as the financial operations are concerned. The total income of the public sector banks has also shown good performance since the last few years. The public sector Banks have also shown comparatively good
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