outlook on an era through observing a fiction story. While it may seem ironical, some claim that fiction has the ability to teach us readers about a portion of life applicable to our own by allowing us to understand and commiserate. In Octavia Butler’s Kindred, the near-death incidents of Rufus Weylin transfer a 20th century Black lady named Dana to the pre-Civil War
States, women and all races are given equal rights. This may sound as though our country has put racism and gender inequality in the past, but progress is still necessary to overcome the biases that still exist in our nation today. The novel Kindred by Octavia Butler contains accurate depictions of what life was like in Antebellum South from the perspective of a slave. The protagonist, Dana, is a modern African American woman from the 1970’s who mysteriously travels back in time to save her white
1. What are organophosphates? Using at least one example of a pesticide, describe its attributed health effects, exposure risks and situations and how you will prevent the occurrence of, and manage an exposure or incident, if one occurs. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) organophosphates are a group of human-made chemicals that poison insects and mammals. Organophosphates are the most widely used insecticides today. Organophosphate insecticide can produce both acute
type of citation analysis and tools. The citations features of three popular citation analysis tools i.e. Scopus, Google Scholar andWeb of Science are discussed in detail.Ranking of information is a key aspects of information management in academic and research institutions. By examining changing needs and products, and to encourage the user, Library and Information professionals to understand and manage these resources and respond to the user needs. Keywords: Citation analysis, Web of Science, Google
Introduction In this assignment I will design a leaflet. This leaflet will be based around Tesco and it is describing aspects which affect business such as Tesco in the terms of: Economy, growth and recession. I have decided to choose Tesco instead of an organisation such as Oxfam as I would be able to find a lot more information for Tesco than a charity like Oxfam. I will also be describing the economic climate changes and how it has had an impact on my organisation which is Tesco. I will also provide
1.1 Statement of the Problem: Shell Duncan (2001) Explains that female circumcision is a wide spread cultural practice affecting millions of young women and causing many health complications A number of effects arise from female circumcision and these include: Infections, Pain, bleeding and Trauma, problems with gynecological health, psychological, sexually transmitted infections and emotional stress, and problems during pregnancy and labour. 1.2 Objective of the study To identify factors accounting
now measured in concrete, observable terms. (Riffe, Lacy and Fico, 1998) Quantitative and qualitative content analysis Pictures are used to convey one or more meanings, often in combination with text and, as such, can be subjected to content analysis either by themselves or by looking at the relationships between images and text. (Marsh and White, 2006) Proponents of qualitative text analysis point out factors that have a major bearing on audience interpretation and likely effects, include: •Prevailing
Meta-analysis is an epidemiological, recognized, quantifiable study design that helps in systematical evaluation of earlier research studies to originate conclusions indicative of body of research. Conclusions drawn from meta-analysis may consist of a more detailed and accurate assessment of the consequences of various treatments, different risk factors for any particular or specific disease, or other outcomes, than individual research contributing to joint analysis. One of the critical outcome
Abstract Blue Ocean strategy is a consistent pattern of strategic thinking behind the creation of new markets and industries where demand is created rather than fought for and the rule of competition is irrelevant. This paper proposes a methodology to implement the Blue Ocean Strategy in a privately owned Malaysia industrial firm struggling in a very competitive market using different tools and techniques such as value curves, strategy canvas, six path method, four actions framework. The results
Big Data Visualization Kanika Department of CSE Punjab Technical University Kapurthala, India kanikadhanjal@gmail.com Abstract— In recent years, a large amount of data has been generated by government, science and business. Thus, visualization is very effective for presenting essential information in vast amounts of data. The size of data collected over the web i.e. from social media and mobile is even greater. While Apache* Hadoop* and other technologies are emerging to support back-end concerns