Why is there a Need to Vaccinate Infants and Travellers?
Angela Carpenter Why is there a Need to Vaccinate Infants and Travellers? Vaccinations are given in infancy and to travellers against various diseases that can kill but are preventable due to the modernisation of medicine. I have put together a brief over view of the need to administer such vaccines. The disease's that are vaccinated against in infancy are: diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, hib, measles, mumps, rubella and tuberculosis. Diphtheria is a serious disease that begins with a sore throat and can quickly cause breathing problems. It can damage the heart and nervous system and, in severe cases, it can kill. Tetanus is a painful disease that affects the muscles and can also cause breathing problems; it can also affect the nervous system and kill. Whooping cough is a disease that can cause long bouts of coughing and choking which can make it hard to breathe. It can last for up to ten weeks, it can be very dangerous to babies and can kill. Polio is a virus that attacks the nervous system and can permanently paralyse the muscles. If is affects the chest muscles or the brain, it too, can kill. Measles, mumps and rubella are all very infectious diseases; they are not serious in themselves but can lead to very serious complications. The vaccinations are given though out infancy and childhood to prepare the immune system against any possible outbreak
A surveillance society began creeping into our culture long before September 11.
Surveillance, a term which depicts close watching of people or things, is usually associated with places such as airports and banks. These are places where security is one of if not the most important aspect of their operation. This narrow view of what surveillance involves is becoming more erroneous with each passing day. This is because surveillance is becoming a bigger and bigger part of our society. People want to feel more secure, and many do feel more secure because of augmented levels of surveillance. However, such security is robbing people of their privacy. Thus, the public need for security has to be balanced with individual rights to privacy. However, following the September 11 terrorist assault on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon the balance between privacy and security has shifted substantially. "What was considered Orwellian one week seemed perfectly reasonable - even necessary - the next"(Penenberg, 2001). A surveillance society began creeping into our culture long before September 11. In the name of safety people have become increasingly comfortable with cameras monitoring their daily activities. While databases, cell phones, credit cards and web browsers bring many conveniences and make life easier, they allow us to be tracked, and this is not just in the United States, but also in countries such as Canada and England. For example, England
Businesses Aims and Objectives (inculdes examples of major companies)
Business Aims and Objectives I have been asked to find aims/objectives from 10 companies. I can research it on the internet, books, phone etc. But I decided to ask the companies my self by investigating their head offices or shops. Before I started my investigation, I knew that most of the aims would be to make a large amount of profit and the objectives would have been to expand their companies by making more branches or to provide a friendly customer service. I started my investigation on a Saturday 9th October 2004. First I had gone to Marks & Spencer's Head office on Baker Street, but unfortunately I had realised that it was a Saturday where most Head offices are closed so I went to the shops of the companies. It took me at least an hour and a half to complete my results. I started of my journey on Marylebone road working my way up to Baker Street then to Oxford Street. Here is a table of my results: What is an Aim or Objective? An aim for a business is something that the company would like to achieve or complete in a short period of time. Aims exist all the time e.g. customer service, maximum sales, Co's intentions through out business. An objective for a business is a target that is to be achieved in a certain time period. An activity is what the business does in this case it sells fast food. Objectives are the stated/desired aims of a business.
Applied Business - Unit 1 - C1 - Communication - Rovers and Promethean
C1 For one business describe the different methods of oral and written communication used and describe, with examples, how it uses ICT to communicate and operate. Communication is a way of contacting another person by phone, email etc. For example, communicating to your boss via mobile or email is a form of communication. It could also mean transferring data via email. Communication is important because without accurate information a business cannot operate effectively. Communication is normally a four-stage process: First stage is - Obtaining the information. Second Stage is - Sharing the info with the people it is relevant to. Third stage is - What action will be taken because of the information. Fourth Stage is - Telling all the relevant people what will be done because of that. There are four main methods of communication: Oral, Video, Written and Graphical. Oral There are many ways of communicating in this way, including telephone, face-to- face, meetings, PA tannoy system and telephone conferencing. Telephone Rovers use the telephone as it is efficient and doesn't take long. One example of this is when Mrs. Clarkson called Susan to arrange our trip to Blackburn Rovers. It was very fast because Susan responded as soon as her phone rang, not like an email where you have to check for an email then you have to type the email out, which is not very fast. There
The film, Minority Report, is a science-fiction thriller, based on a short story written by Phillip. K. Dick.
The film, Minority Report, is a science-fiction thriller, based on a short story written by Phillip. K. Dick. The year is 2054, and murder has been abolished by what is seen as the 'perfect system'. Murders can be predicted before they happen, thanks to the work of the Precrime unit. Precrime is a system that uses the visions of three psychics (or 'precogs', short for precognitive thinkers), to stop murders before they happen. The murder is stopped and the 'murderer' is arrested and locked away to stop them from attempting to kill again. Jon Anderton is a Precrime enforcer, who does not only believe in this system because it stops murders from happening, but also for his own personal reasons, as his young son was abducted and his wife left him. Precrime gives him the opportunity to deal with the loss, perhaps feeling that he is stopping other people going through the same heartbreak that he himself had to bear. However, there are some people who do not think this system is as faultless as Anderton and the director of Precrime (Lemar Burgess) want to think. Danny Witwer is a federal agent, whose ambition is to find a flaw in the Precrime system. In the end, Burgess murders Witwer; thus falling victim to the system that he thought was so perfect. Anderton soon realises that the system is not ideal. He is accused of the murder of a man he has never met before, and he sets
ICT in Your local community.
ICT in Your local community Introduction In this report I will look at ICT that is used in the community. There are four topics that have been allocated to this report. These are: * Public Internet access points * On-line discussion forums * Information services * GPS and outdoor pursuits I will write about each category in detail and put reverent information under each sub-title. Public Internet access points Public access points are becoming more and more popular in modern life. They are located in many different places including petrol stations and supermarkets. There are now cafes which people can access the Internet, these are known as "Internet cafes" or "Cyber cafes. There are also kiosks that are located and where in a town or city and this is like a phone booth but with an Internet access point inside. These are known as kiosks. They are making it easy for travellers to find Internet access in airports, hotels, malls and restaurants. Checking and sending your email is quickly becoming as easy as making a call at a public pay phone. On-line discussion forums A discussion forum is a section of a website where anybody can insert there views or comments on the particular subject. Normally you need to register to insert a comment onto a forum, and logon. There are many ways how forums work, one way would be filling in a form and then adding a comment (this is
The location of businesses.
The Location of Businesses Businesses can choose where to locate. Sometimes choice of location is critical. In other cases it is less important. What is the difference? And what happens when a 'right choice' suddenly becomes a wrong choice? Factors influencing location Every business locates where it thinks it will be successful. If you remember that businesses need: * staff to work there * raw materials to produce finished products * customers * to keep their costs as low as possible then their reasons for choosing a particular location begin to make sense. Local labour supply All organizations need to be able to employ staff. So it makes sense to locate where people live. A factory in a remote part of the Scottish Highlands would have trouble finding anyone to work there. Motorway service stations have to pay to transport their staff from local towns and villages to the station itself, a cost which other businesses can avoid. The factors which influence a particular area are often local skills and cost of labour. Local skills In some parts of the country particular skills are a tradition. If you wanted to set up a business making pottery you would be sensible to locate in the Midlands, around Stoke-On-Trent. If you wanted to make cutlery, then Sheffield is the place. If you were making boots or shoes then Northamptonshire is the area for you. Probably the most
Business relationships between business partners
Introduction Close-knit business relationships between business partners are gradually becoming the norm in today's business environment (Holm, Eriksson and Johansson 1999). Having previously dealt with business contacts in a predominantly arms-length fashion firms nowadays have increasingly come to realise the value of creating close relationships with their business partners. Driven partly by rapid technological development as well as increasing internationalisation this has had a significant effect on the everyday running of businesses. By creating inter-firm linkages of i.e. legal, administrative, information exchange and technological nature companies become more closely tied together and activities in the two partners may be synchronised in order to achieve synergy (Håkansson and Johansson 2001). However, although focal relationships are of particular interest in this essay a closer examination of the network structure of which the focal business relationship is a part is needed in order to gain a better understanding of its impact on businesses. In this PM inter-firm connections and coordination of these activities will be more closely studied. In particular it will be examined, according to existing theories, what possible effect activities in secondary relationships will have on the focal business relationship and vice versa. Networks and Dyadic Business
Snooze cottage - a report on helping Richard and Patricia whether to proceed with buying the new victorian lodge.
SNOOZE COTTAGE A REPORT ON HELPING RICHARD AND PATRICIA DECIDE WHETHER TO PROCEED WITH BUYING THE NEW VICTORIAN LODGE TERMS OF REFERENCE Patricia and Richard are looking into expanding their business; they currently own a 10 room guesthouse in rural Wales. The business is very successful and uses no type of marketing just word of mouth. They are currently looking to buy an 18 bedroom Victorian lodge, which needs some renovation. They have calculated this process will cost £330 000. This property is closer to the town. Richard and Patricia hope to convert the 18 lodge into a new guesthouse. I have been asked to investigate a possible expansion of business for a Patricia and Richard Wright. I have been asked to produce a report to help them to decide to continue with the expansion. PROCEDURE I have researched fully all the features of this new business venture using a variety of sources. I have decided that these are the steps I' am going to take to write up the report to assist Richard and Patricia in whether or not to go ahead with buying and renovating this new property: This report will include: . Issues Richard and Patricia need to consider for the implementation of this new venture. 2. How the relevant information will be notified to those who need to know. 3. Suggested manpower organisation. 4. Outline management planning levels. 5. Details of compliance
How Far does Quarry Bank Mill enable you to understand the factory system of textile production introduced during the Industrial Revolution of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries?
Question 1. How Far does Quarry Bank Mill enable you to understand the factory system of textile production introduced during the Industrial Revolution of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Before the factory system was introduced people used the domestic system to produce cotton, where spinning and then weaving was a very slow and simple process. The Domestic system was very relaxed where people could have lunch or go to the bathroom whenever they wanted to, unlike in the factory system, which was very disciplined and regimented. We have to determine if Quarry Bank Mill was typical of other mills at the time, to be able to see how much it tells us of the factory system. Quarry Bank Mill may be an exception to other mills, maybe having better or worse conditions than most. How much can we actually learn about the factory system by studying Quarry Bank Mill? There were many machines used in the factory and we saw some of these when we visited the mill. The machines we saw included a Spinning Jenny, a Flying Shuttle and a carding and mule machine, although the Spinning Jenny and the Flying Shuttle were from the domestic system, seeing how they were used also helped to understand more of the importance of the factory system noticing the changes from domestic to factory. We saw machines from different time periods, not just from the industrial revolution. We
