Michel Foucault and his discourse on discursive history
Thesis - 4 pages - Humanities/philosophy
Michel Foucault may be one of the most influential French philosophers of our time. He spent much of his professional life as a professor, and he is best known because of his critical analysis of various social institutions; medicine and the human sciences being specific ones. He published many...
A look at the financial performance of a property developer group
Thesis - 58 pages - Finance
Due to ongoing advancements in technology, new legislation, and other innovation, the field of finance is rapidly changing. Introduction to finance develops the three components of finance in an interactive framework that is consistent with the responsibilities of all- financial professionals,...
The depiction of Biblical women in the letters of Abelard and Heloise
Thesis - 10 pages - Ancient history
Abelard and Heloise sustained a reputation as great lovers for many centuries. Yet their romantic relationship was essentially over when they composed their famous correspondence; the very nature of their love affair remains unclear. Both Abelard and Heloise construct their past with common...
Coherence therapy
Case study - 6 pages - Psychology
Coherence Therapy, previously referred to as Depth-Oriented Brief Therapy, was developed by Bruce Ecker and Laurel Hulley during the 1980's and 1990's. As a type of psychotherapy borne out of the constructivist tradition, Coherence Therapy's major tenet revolves around the individual as an...
Oil and Gas Contracts & Regulation research paper
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
Production of gas is a highly costly venture that requires vast resources in both finances and expertise. Producers of gas even in situations where they own gas fields, have to rely on other investors for transportation and sale of their gas. Thus, this essay discusses the terms of Gas...
POLCA based lead time reduction in a job shop environment using simulated experiments
Thesis - 3 pages - Computer science
Quick Response Manufacturing is an emerging shop floor management technique best suited for high product mix and variable demand environments. Paired Cell Overlapping Loop of Cards with Authorization or POLCA is the material control system of Quick Response Manufacturing. Pull system have...
Brain finger-printing
Thesis - 5 pages - Electronics
Brain Fingerprinting Laboratories, Inc. has developed and patented EEG/P300 based testing systems that determines, with extremely high accuracy, whether or not specific information is stored in a person's memory. The test measures individual brain-wave responses to relevant words, pictures or...
Steps Involved in Risk Assessment
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
Risk assessment refers to the process of identifying the hazards that might occur, as well as, analyzing its consequences in case it happens. In as much as the five steps and their tasks are helpful in risk assessment when a terror attack on a building occurs it might not be applicable to...
Clifford Geertz, the souk of Sefrou
Book review - 3 pages - Political science
Clifford Geertz was born in 1926. He was an anthropologist who taught at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. He worked on the study of symbols. He made his first studies in Java and Bali between 1960 and 1970. He was also interested in studying Morocco. He published 'The Souk of...
Distributed Software Development Change Management - Literature Review
Case study - 12 pages - Management
As a result of globalization efforts, software development projects have been distributed geographically all over the globe, which characterizes Distributed Software Development (DSD). Global software development, a kind of DSN, is described by software development stakeholders who are globally...
Research proposal - proposed title: The role of quality factors in electronic commerce
Essay - 4 pages - Business strategy
The unprecedented proliferation of the Internet and the World Wide Web over the last decade has increased the importance of electronic commerce. The research will present an exploratory study of the role of quality factors in electronic commerce in order the significance of the latter to be...
What are the differences between Locke's and Hobbes' notions of the "state of nature"?
Essay - 6 pages - Humanities/philosophy
Thomas Hobbes and John Locke are probably the most famous political thinkers of the 17th century. The generally accepted view asserts that these authors stood poles apart, the first one advocating an absolutist regime and the latter recommending a stable civil society where powers are separated....
What does the discovery and study of Otzi reveal about the nature of Archaeology?
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Medieval history
Archaeology is - “The discovery, recovery, and study of material evidence or artifacts (i.e. structures, tools, clothing, implements and burial sites in various states of preservation) of past human life and culture” The methodology used in Archaeology can be effectively...
Sociology of the family: global advances and challenges
Essay - 8 pages - Biology
Sociology of the family as a field of research, education and action faces many challenges and critics, both within academic institutions and in the larger society. This paper focuses on recent developments in international family sociology in the context of the discipline of sociology, and its...
International marketing case study: The mineral water MOUZAïA
Case study - 19 pages - Services marketing
Within the framework of our course, Marketing Internationally, we were invited to realize a group work on “which marketing strategy could Mouzaïa adopt in order to establish its products in French speaking Western Europe countries?” From the beginning, we felt involved in the topic as...
Emotional literacy interventions in the prevention of bullying within the pastoral system of schools
Essay - 6 pages - Educational studies
This p?per provides ?n overview of emotion?l prevention techniques to de?l with bullying in the school of pastoral type. Highlights of this speci?l issue on bullying ?re presented in this paper. A compendium of rese?rch reviewed ?nd d?t? presented set the st?ge for future rese?rch to ?ttend to...
Generation gaps in work teams
Essay - 5 pages - Human resources
As workers begin to stay in positions longer, businesses are experiencing more generation gaps among their employees. Most of the “Matures” born in 1945 or earlier have retired, but the “Boomers” born from 1946 to 1964 are working alongside “Generation X” born from...
Virtual classroom system
Presentation - 29 pages - Educational studies
The present system is a manual system or a semi-automated system. Manual system involves paper work in the form of maintaining various files and manuals. Maintaining critical information in the files and manuals is full of risk and a tedious process. Proposal: Developing a virtual classroom...
Experiences of Apple's symbolic foundations
Thesis - 9 pages - Services marketing
Sparked by a phenomenon that I call “I-culture”; this research attempts, at first, to delineate the contours of the technological culture that Apple attempts to construct through various symbolic approaches. It then explores how people receive these symbolic messages. Finally, in light...
Can we predict which infants will grow up to offend?
Thesis - 8 pages - Psychology
Positivist criminology's vision was to become so advanced that criminologists could differentiate a criminal before they committed crime. Positivism emerged in the late 19th century and endeavored to utilize scientific methodology to explain crime and criminals. Early positivist thinkers...
How temperament has been defined and studied by developmental psychologists
Thesis - 4 pages - Psychology
Development is a multi-faceted process concerned with the pattern of normal development as well as individual differences in development. There are various inborn qualities that distinguish infants from each other, one of which is temperament. This paper will explore temperament, its definition,...
The one sided battled between man and nature
Thesis - 4 pages - Literature
As long as the existence of literature, writers have sought to provide insight on the battle between man and nature. In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the unyielding power of nature and the dire consequences of man's desire to conquer nature, play out in this cautionary tale. Two examples that will...
Native Canadian education experience in early Canadian history: The industrial school and its legacy in the residential school - Considering oppression and resistance.
Thesis - 10 pages - Educational studies
This paper will explore Native education in British North America, focusing on the structural disadvantages which Native children faced in a society whose goal was assimilation of Native people to white, Christian values, at the expense of their own cultures and languages. This was a...
Judgment: How winning leaders make great calls? By Noel M. Tichy and Warren G. Bennis
Book review - 6 pages - Journalism
“With good judgment, little else matters. Without it, nothing else matters,” said Noel M. Trichy in the foreword of the book. The book is must-read for current leaders as well as future leaders. This framework can help anyone who runs a small team or a big corporation. It gives keys to...
The Thomas Cook case
Case study - 6 pages - Business strategy
Thomas Cook UK had transformed its business processes in order to improve the profitability and minimize losses. The Thomas Cook management team developed a program to reduce costs and improve the margins and integrate operations. Behind this real case, I will go deeply into the IT consulting...
Never put Descartes before de horse
Thesis - 3 pages - Humanities/philosophy
Rene Descartes used doubt to prove his beliefs to be true. In his most famous work, Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes enters into his most radical phase of methodological doubt when he introduces his evil genius hypothesis, also known as the evil demon argument. Descartes' demon...
Preparation and analytical investigation of electrodeposited nickel aluminum oxide composite coatings
Thesis - 11 pages - Physics
Composite coating methods play a major role in enhancing the life of the components by improving the wear resistance of the surface coating used. Electrodeposited composite coatings consist of a metal matrix with either a ceramic or cermets particle addition which represents the new development...
Use test case for z-specification based criteria
Thesis - 3 pages - Computer science
Testing is an important and critical part of the software development process, on which the quality and reliability of the delivered product strictly depend. Testing is not limited to the detection of “bugs” in the software, but it also increases the level of proper functioning and...
Weight adapted of k - nearest neighbor algorithm with genetic approach implementing over data classification
Thesis - 6 pages - Mathematics
The enormous flow of information in various fields of technology prompts for the development of novel Data Mining methodologies that can process and interprets large volumes of data to be classified to a specify category with high reliability. The problem with Data Classification is inconvenient...
Privacy preserving distributed data mining by using tree based randomization
Thesis - 8 pages - Computer science
Due to increasing concerns related to privacy, organizations are forced to take actions to protect the privacy of individuals when revealing customers' records during data mining activities. In this paper we present a methodology that preserves statistical relationship between attributes...
