out the issue between workload of nurses and mortality of patients. A study of 168 Pennsylvania hospitals in 1999 found that one additional patient added to a hospital staff nurse’s workload is associated with a seven percent increase in hospital mortality. A study of 799 hospitals in eleven states found a higher chance of infections when the nurses’ workload was high (Welton 4). The New England journal of Medicine published a study examining the association between mortality and day-to-day variations
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self-reported criminals only one in eleven had been cautioned or prosecuted. Whereas for men in was over one in seven. Furthermore women were also more likely to be cautioned rather than prosecuted. According to the Ministry of Justice in 2007 49% of females recorded as offending were cautioned. However for males the figure was significantly less at 30%. However there is evidence that disputes the chivalry thesis. An example of this is Farrinton and Morris study. When studying 408 offences of theft
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Big Bang Theory - The Premise The Big Bang theory is an effort to explain what happened at the very beginning of our universe. Discoveries in astronomy and physics have shown beyond a reasonable doubt that our universe did in fact have a beginning. Prior to that moment there was nothing; during and after that moment there was something: our universe. The big bang theory is an effort to explain what happened during and after that moment. According to the standard theory, our universe sprang into
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DATA You May Not Need Big Data After All by Jeanne W. Ross, Cynthia M. Beath, and Anne Quaadgras FROM THE DECEMBER 2013 ISSUE C ompanies are investing like crazy in data scientists, data warehouses, and data analytics software. But many of them don’t have much to show for their efforts. It’s possible they never will. What’s the problem? To begin with, big data ARTWORK: CHAD HAGEN, GRAPHIC COMPOSITION NO. 2, 2009, DIGITAL has been hyped so heavily that companies are expecting
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Supervisors: Dr Shilendra Rajkumar Dr Madan Rambaran Abstract Many cases of penetrating abdominal injuries present to the Georgetown Public Hospital all of which are managed by the department of Surgery. No audit has been conducted on the management of these injuries and their success rates. Hence this prospective study “Penetrating abdominal Injuries at Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC)” seeks to shed some light in these areas in terms of percentage
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inattention, and hyperactivity (Barkley, 2002). These behavior traits must be prominent enough to cause impairment in the individual’s functioning. ADHD is considered a developmentally relative deficit. This means that diagnosable ADHD cases are often the extreme cases of normal traits, or result from an abnormal delay in normal traits. Evidence exists that the disorder runs in families, and it is assumed to be heritable (Biederman, 2005). Polanczyk, Silva de Lima, Horta, Biederman, & Rohde (2007)
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within a global context students learn the impact of economic, cultural, political, legal and other environmental influences on international marketing. They analyze international marketing cases, considering product, pricing, placement, and promotion. Students learn from lectures, discussions, international case studies, and group projects. Course Goals: The goal of this course is to equip the student with the knowledge, skills, and methodologies used in marketing in a global society. NSCC Essential
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The Case of the Ford Pinto By James Abstract Product harm crisis can be defined as a sudden break in a product’s life cycle (Siomkos, G.J and Kurzbard. J. 1994). In 1971 the Ford Motor Company created a product harm crisis with the introduction of the Ford Pinto. The Ford Pinto is known to be one of the most dangerous vehicles ever produced in automotive history due to several serious design flaws. This paper will identify the factors that contributed to the product
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In 2011, we have now seven billion people living in this planet. Unfortunately, Earth’s estimated carrying capacity is only about eleven to twelve billion people. With such a big problem we are facing today, it is important to analyze and examine what the scholars of the past have to say of our increasing population. One of the famous population theorists of that time is Thomas Malthus. In 1798, Malthus proposes his own theory about population. According to him, human populations grow exponentially
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his mother along on his honeymoon, then his new bride soon asked for a divorce. There is only two U.S Presidents who have been known to have been divorced: Donald Trump and Ronald Reagan. They say couples that live in Republican states are twenty seven percent more likely to divorce than couples in Democratic states. (54 interesting facts about divorce) Couples who marry in the Republican states have a historically younger marriage than their Democratic counterparts. In ancient Chaldea, if
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