1. What is the Malcolm Baldrige Award?

The Malcolm Baldrige is a national the most expected and desirable award for companies and organizations which have demonstrated the innovations in management, the highest performance level, the evidence of the clear and strong strategy, the involvement in the social media, well-organized the total workload and the company’s system of work in general. The company should be competitive in te market and show its main advantages over the others. There should be indicated the way of avoiding risks by the company. There are specific criteria of excellence for each of the following groups – health care, education and general criteria, which was set for the small businesses, manufacturing, governmental and non-profit organizations and also for companies, providing services. This award increases the competitiveness level of the American companies.

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The history of French colonialism had far reaching results to the populations that it came under rule. This is because of its long presence as a colonial power with a period extending from the 1500s to the 1900s. France had established empires across the globe including the exploration of the Northern Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, Islands of Caribbean, across the Indian Ocean, and west coast of Africa among others. Some of the effects felt by the countries colonized revolved around the economical, social and political changes on their population. Continue reading →

Legal Memo

Issue

The Danielle and the box master company case where the supplier, the box master is challenging the buyer, Danielle for not paying for the services offered by the supplier. The matter arises when the box master is accused of not delivering the required items as requested by Danielle on 10^th September. Danielle sent the order of 40,000 Ballotin boxes in participation of the upcoming Christmas season where the sales of the chocolate packaged by the boxes will be high. The decision of Danielle opting to conduct business with the box master company was due to the previous experience she had with the company where the fulfilled its part of the deal. The trust created by the box master was spoiled when the company delivered the wrong quality of the requested boxes. This was a loss to Danielle because the retail store had to pay for the accrued expenses of shipping the boxes which include insurance costs. The ordered goods were supposed to be to be delivered to the stores from the warehouses of Danielle on installments on the following days, October 28, November 15, November 28 and December 15.The delivery process of the goods to be the retail stores were underway. Unfortunately, the box master company delivered the wrong set of goods as ordered by Danielle to the warehouse. The shipment consumed a lot of space in the Danielle’s warehouse which was disadvantageous to Danielle because the storing of the boxes was expensive. This was because the storing of the goods consumed a lot of resources while the boxes were not useful to Danielle. Continue reading →

Literacy Analysis of the “Good Country People”

O’Connor the author of the short story “Good Country People” commences the story by giving us an insight of the main characters of the story, Mrs. Hopewell, Mrs. Freeman and Joy- Hulga. Mrs. Hopewell is a long divorced woman and mother to the Hulga, Mrs. Freeman is their employee and she is paid to help around the house and the farm. We see the noisy nature of Mrs. Freeman which her employer Mrs. Hopewell was well aware of even before she employed. Since Mrs. Hopewell considers Mrs. Freeman and her husband as “good country people” she does not mind her loud behavior, infact they are always gossiping especially while in the kitchen. Mrs. Freeman is always talking about her two daughters, Glysneses and Carramae; she talks about how normal and happy they are, Glysness is 18years old and has so many men trying to woe her, Carramae is 15 years old and already married and pregnant. Continue reading →

Abstract

AKAPs are gallowing proteins that attach themselves to the regulatory subunit of PKA. On attachment, they target PKA to specific substrates. Similarly, AKAPs bind other forms of kinases and phosphates whereby they target them to specific residues in a multiprotein signaling complex. Discoveries have been made that there are over 20 AKAPs whereby some of them interact with ion channels. For instance, there are particular AKAPs, which interact with, the inwardly rectifying K⁺ channel and raise the sensitivity of the channel to Camp regulation. This study seeks to determine how the mutations in AKAP genes are associated with known cardiac diseases.

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Introduction

Comparative study entails a systematic approach to the study and comparison of the political systems of the world. It is tasked with the study of systems, patterns and process that characterise the different political systems of the world. When the focus is on a single country, the study has to be put into a more extensive comparative framework. Thus, the approach should be to expound on the importance of the subject. As such, this paper will analyse the caste system, India independence movement and Indian federalism.

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Aviation Law: Eyeballing Fuel Ends in Crash

This is an analysis of the case of Jane F. Garvey, Administrator, F.A.A. v. Gary L. Knapp (“Garvey v. Knapp”). Knapp was accused of violating Federal Aviation Regulations (“FAR”) Sections 91.103(a), 91.13(a), and 91.167(a) when he flew his family from New Jersey to Massachusetts, but failed to refuel before the return trip and ended up crashing the plane, injuring the family members. (Garvey v. Knapp, p. 1). The administrative judge found that Knapp had violated the FAR and suspended his airline transport pilot (“ATP”) certificate for 30 days.

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The topic that I am going to address is helping teams and team members to work efficiently and effectively. Based on my experience in a public hospital, particularly in Radiology department for two years, I find that team conflicts are one of the main reasons of low performance. In Radiology department, there are many units such as MRI, CT, US and X-ray .Each unit has at least four technologists working as a team. Recently, the X-ray team who consists of four people who work together for long time has received three new members. The reason for this change is that the head of department wants to increase productivity to reduce the long lists of patients. However,the older workers said that they were not comfortable with the new young employees. They claimed that their team was broken and some obvious tensions including sabotage and complaints arose. The young employees also expressed that they cannot collaborate with the old members. As the result, the performance of a whole team decreases. Continue reading →