In Matter of R.D.B., 1996 Tex. App. LEXIS 2932 (Tex. App.-Beaumont, 1996), R.D.B. was a sixteen-year- old who committed robbery and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, both of which are felony charges. At the time of R.D.B.’s arrest, he was on probation for an earlier felony.…
Cushing’s syndrome is the term used to describe a group of symptoms that occur when a persons’ cortisol levels are too high (known as hypercortisolism) for too long. The majority of people have Cushing’s syndrome because they are regularly taking certain medicine(s) that continually add too much cortisol to the body. Doctors call this an “exogenous” (outside the body) cause of Cushing’s syndrome. Other people have Cushing’s syndrome because something is causing the adrenal gland(s) to overproduce cortisol.5 Doctors call this an “endogenous” (inside the body) cause of Cushing’s syndrome.…
Explain why this patient’s blood pressure was so low and her heart rate was so high upon arrival at the emergency room.…
Two pt verifier name/dob cofirmed. Informed the pt this is af/u call to address hospital admission for LLE swelling and SOB. Pt states at this time he is doing much better. Reinforced hopsital dc summary with the pt. Instructed the pt to please keep appts with his pulmonist and PCM. Instructed the pt that he start experiencing continous SOB, chest pain, increase swelling in upper and lower extremities go to the ER immediately. Pt agrees and verbalized understanding.…
AEG exceeded the number of required housing units that they funded, worked closely with community partners to establish an effective local hiring program, and helped fund a newly created land trust. Despite critics noting problems with the wording in the CBA, AEG has met the CBA goals. This was probably motivated in part by AEG’s need for continued coalition support since it needed over $200 million in rebates for hotel bed taxes. Another issue is that monitoring and coordinating job and housing programs add to the workload of community organizations, and studies of the implementation of CBAs suggest that funding for staff should be a part of such agreements. For example, while there was some L.A. Live CBA funding to help set up the initial worker education program, this covered only a fraction…
The Financial District BIA is in the heart of downtown Toronto making it a vibrant and populated area. Covered in skyscrapers there are many workers in the Financial District with approximately 100,000 commuters entering and leaving the area each working day. (Davidson) This results in heavy congestion in the area and problems in terms of transportation including cars, public transport, and pedestrians.…
The most growing possible exists in the low monetary value section as many consumers shift from premium trade names to budget replacements. customers will ever ask to fulfill their basic demands, and during recession they do so with tighter budgets. Evidence of successful value-for-money schemes exists in the low monetary value class of retail sector. For case Asda has been describing gross revenues growing.…
Evaluating the impact of police officer body-worn cameras (BCWs) on response-to-resistance and serious external complaints: Evidence from the Orlando police department (OPD) experience utilizing a randomized controlled experiment by Wesley G. Jennings, Mathew D. Lynch, and Lordie A. Fridell is an empirical article whose purpose is self-explanatory within its title. In regards to limited scientific evidence and tragic high profile events such as Michael Brown and Eric Garners cases, Jennings, Lynch, and Lordie developed three questions: “Do police officers randomly assigned to wear BWC differ from officers not randomly assigned to wear BWCs in response-to-resistance (R2R) incidents and serious external (citizen-generated) complaints at a 12-month…
The continued advances in procurement and information technologies, have presented BAL an opportunity to build on initiatives put in place since 1999. The P-Card initiative has produced cost savings through the shortening of procurement process for non traceable generic goods, but new e-based initiatives must be sought to further stream line the bidding and contracting process.…
Burton has used the social environment to embody the values and attitudes of snowboarders world-wide. Burton has made snowboarding a way of life. While people were talking about the boards Burton created, the company concentrated on making the sport of snowboarding great and recognized by all. Burton spearheaded the effort in the 1980’s to legalize snowboarding at ski resorts. Snowboarding “way of life” came about as a natural response to the culture from which it emerged. There was a rebellion against the skiing culture and the view that snowboarding was inferior. Skiers did not easily accept this new culture on their slopes, but Jake Burton, Burton Snowboards and others continued to push through the stereotypes and were successful at making snowboarding what it is today.…
Rex Crum. (2008, Oct 12). MarketWatch. Retrieved 18 May, 2010, from Stability seen from full IBM earnings report : http://www.marketwatch.com/story/stability-seen-from-full-ibm-earnings-report…
1. What factors led to IBM’s success during the 1960s and 1970s and its problems during the late 1980s and early 1990s?…
IBM’s transformation from a “product-centric” to a “service-centric” organisation required investments in a number of key areas. The CEO of IBM at that time was Louis Gerstner Jr. He placed importance on focus, speed, customers, teamwork and execution. Gerstner totally revamped the company’s whole operating procedures, from top management to bottom, by standardising global core processes, centralising the company to leverage its strengths as provider of solutions to customers, fixing the core businesses, redesigning the metrics and reward systems of employees and relentlessly driving the culture toward an intense focus on the marketplace and the customer. It can be inferred from these action Gerstner took, that he changed the company’s culture.…
Viveca Chan, CEO of Grey Hong Kong and China, was questioning to what extent the GRM…
SystemX Inc. Withdraws Rs. 1 Billion SoftGuide Acquisition offer the following is an excerpt from a news article in the Daily Update, March 07, 2010 “SystemX Inc., called off its acquisition of SoftGuide Knowledge Consultants, Friday, saying that 1 Billion was too high a price.” (SoftGuide has a considerable market share in Training and development services and would therefore help SystemX to diversify and expand its range of services to customers.)…