Marketing and business managment

Marketing and business management.
University education.
The Uk now boosts six of the world’s top 20 universities, according to a new global table. Edinburgh and kings collage London have edged into the top 20 of the QS world university rankings.
Cambridge, UCL, imperial and oxford all made it into the top 10.
But john o’leary, of QS, warned that unless the uk puts more funding into higher education its leading position could slip.
Edinburburgh rose to 17th place from 21st place last year and kings collage London to 19th from 26th in 2012.

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Us Domination
The top Uk University was Cambridge in third position, behind Massachusetts institute of technology at the top of the table and Harvard in the second. University collage of London (UCL) and imperial occupied fourth and fifth places, with oxford in sixth. Universities in the United States made up the rest of the top 10. There were eight Uk universities in the top 50 and 18 in the top 100, with graduates from oxford and Cambridge rated as the world’s most employable by 27,000 global graduate employers polled for the ranking.
“clearly the prestige of a degree is recognised by employers around the world, and the brand name value of oxbridge has so far survived any negative publicity following the tuition fee hikes and students protests,” said Bensowter, head of research at QS.
However the ranking also suggest that Uk universities struggles to keep up with the US when it comes to cutting-edge research. Of UK University, only Cambridge made the top 30 for research citations, with UCL, Oxford and imperial in the top 50
‘Not Complacent’

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“The UK invest below the OECD average in higher education, so it is unrealististic to expect its universities to continue to punch above their weight indefinitely,” said john o’Leary, of the QS global academic advisory board. “The current success of the leading institutions shows how vital it is that the government matches the investment being made by other countries of education order to maintain their world-class status.” UCL’s new president and provost, Professor Michael Arthur, said the university’s high place in the rankings reflected its effort both in the uk and overseas.
But he said: “As pleasing as it is, rankings success will not divert us from focussing on our core mission of educating and inspiring our students and delivering world class research.”
Dr Wendy Piatt of the Russell Group noted that all six Uk universities in the top 20 and 17 of the 18 in the top 100 were members of the group.
“Their focus on research excellence and high-quality teaching means the Uk performs formidably well against other nations in spite of its size”, said Dr Piatt.
However, she warned:” if our universities are to compete in the future they need the government to provide light-tough regulation and continued investment, and to be welcoming to genuine international students. “it is worth again highlighting that the process of ranking universities is fraught with difficulties and they should not be used alone in judging the quality of an institution,”
Universities minister David Willets said the ranking were “fantastic news for the universities, their academics, and their students, who are some of the most employable in the world-however we are not complacent, and know we must work hard to remain the best”.
He added:”Our reforms to undergraduate finance have put universities on a sustainable financial footing and sharpened incentives to deliver a world-class student experience.
“We have protected research funding, encouraging universities to invest in cutting-edge research and we are helping our universities make the most of the growing opportunities globally through our international education strategy.”
YOUR TASK: using contemporary illustrative examples from academic literature and reputable business publications, discus the challenges to education establishment wishing to move up the rankings. What kind of marking strategy will enable them to move further up? Make recommendations, suitable to an educational entity of your choice, to enable them harness the growth currently being experienced in this region.

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novels Brave New World

Paper instructions:
First of all, you need to have read the novels Brave New World, 1984 and maybe the anthem.
Write a 3-3.5 page paper and follow what it says in the next paragraph

In the following passage, the contemporary social critic Neil Postman contrasts George Orwell’s vision of the future, as expressed in the novel 1984 (written in 1948), with that of Aldous Huxley in the novel Brave New World (1932). Read the passage, considering Postman’s assertion that Huxley’s vision is more relevant today than is Orwell’s. Then, using your own critical understanding of contemporary society as evidence, write a carefully argued essay that agrees or disagrees with Postman’s assertion. Please integrate Ayn Rand’s “anthem” into your response as well.CLICK HERE TO GET MORE ON THIS PAPER.....

We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn’t, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares. But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell’s dark vision, there was another – slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley’s vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.CLICK HERE TO GET MORE ON THIS PAPER.....

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passitivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny “failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions”. In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In “Brave New World”, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.

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Ocean Carriers Case Questions

1. What factors drive average daily hire rates?

2. Should Ms. Linn purchase the $39 M capesize? Make 2 different assumptions.
First, assume that Ocean Carriers is a US firm subject to 35% taxation.
Second, assume that Ocean Carriers is located in Hong-Kong, where owners of the Hong-Kong ships are not required to pay any tax on profits made overseas, and are also exempted from paying any tax on profit made on cargo uplifted from Hong-Kong.
Assume (for both options above) that project life is 25 years.
(number 2 question should be answered by using excel sheet to answer and calculate the assumtions)

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Article Review

Article Review The doctrine of respondeat superior, states that an employer may be held liable for the actions of his/her employees. For this assignment, you will choose a peer-reviewed article to review regarding this doctrine as it relates to the heal 
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form of a letter of advice

Paper instructions:
Final Paper
To complete the following assignment, go to this week’s Final Paper link in the left navigation.

Final Paper: Letter of Advice

Imagine that a newly engaged couple hears that you are taking a course in interpersonal communication, and wants advice for their relationship. Based on what you have learned in this course, what advice would you give them regarding how to effectively use interpersonal communication in their relationship? Write your paper in the form of a letter.

Instructions
Choose at least five (5) of the twelve (12) course learning outcomes below to help guide your letter: For each of the five learning outcomes that you use, create a separate section with a heading that reflects the learning outcome that you are using.
1.Explain the principles and misconceptions in effective interpersonal communications.
2.Identify the barriers to effective interpersonal interactions.
3.Describe the process by which self-concept is developed and maintained.
4.Assess their personal communications and improve their communication competencies.
5.Develop strategies for active, critical, and empathic listening.
6.Recognize how words have the power to create and affect attitudes, behavior, and perception.
7.Understand how perceptions, emotions, and nonverbal expression affect interpersonal relationships.
8.Define emotional intelligence and its role in effective interpersonal relationships.
9.Evaluate appropriate levels of self-disclosure in relationships.
10.Describe strategies for managing interpersonal conflicts.
11.Recognize how self-concept and defensive and supportive messages and behaviors create positive and negative communication climates.
12.Understand the impact of gender and culture on interpersonal communications.

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How does the thinking of george w. bush defined him in the public eye

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The balance of power

Project description
This week’s assignment involves the sort of data collection and manipulation that
you might have to do for a project of your own. It seems straightforward, but the
devil is in the details: there are a lot of land mines even the simplest data-gathering
exercise. The assignment is designed to point them out and help you walk around
them.
The Correlates of War Project (COW) produces one of the most widely-used
datasets in all of international relations: the National Material Capabilities Index
(NMCI). This index consists of annual values for total population, urban population,
iron and steel production, energy consumption, military personnel, and military
expenditure of all countries in the international system, from 1816-2007. In order
to calculate a country’s overall capabilities, COW takes the average of each country’s
share of system-wide resources in each of these six categories.
In this assignment, you will reproduce a more limited version of the NMCI
using present-day data.
1. Go to the Wikipedia pages for world population, GDP, and military expenditures.
?? For each page, extract the relevant data into a separate Excel spreadsheet.
(For population, use United Nations estimates.)
2. Get rid of all columns except country name and the quantity of interest (GDP,
population, and military expenditures, respectively). Add a first row and use
it for column names (“Country” and “GDP,” for example.)
3. Tidy up the data. Get rid of any extra characters. Select the key numeric
variables, go to the Format menu, choose “Cells…”, and convert them to
General—this gets rid of commas, dollar signs, percentages, etc., which are a
real pain when saved to a .csv file. When working on this step, beware of the
following problems:
??Wikipedia is convenient, but the data quality sucks. Never forget this. If this were more than an
exercise, you’d take the time to find better sources.
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(a) Unless you used Outwit Hub in step 1, some of the country names will
have spaces in front of them. These are a pain to get rid of. The simplest
way is to copy them from the Excel spreadsheet into a text editor, use a
Find-and-replace command to get rid of them, and copy and paste them
back into Excel.
(b) Some names and numbers have Wikipedia footnotes (“b”, “[20]”) stuck
on the end. Outwit won’t save you from these. Deleting them by hand
in Excel is probably the fastest way to get rid of them.
(c) Wikipedia authors don’t always use the same names for the same countries,
so you need to make sure they’re consistent before merging them.
In particular, watch out for “China” and “People’s Republic of China,”
“Gambia” and “The Gambia,” and various combinations with “Congo”
and “Macedonia.”
4. Once you’re done tidying, save each dataset to a separate .csv file.
5. Create an R command file that does the following:
(a) Read each of the three .csv files into appropriately-named data frames
(for example, Pop, GDP, and MilEx).
(b) Summarize each of these data frames.
(c) In each data frame, create a new variable that reflects each country’s
percentage of the world total. (That is, divide the data column by the
world total.) Make sure that this new variable is part of the same data frame as
the original data column.
(d) Merge the three data frames. Match the data using country name.
(e) Create your version of the NMCI by calculating each country’s average
share of each of these three resources. If a country has 2% of the world’s
population, 1% of world GDP, and 4% of world military expenditures,
for example, its average share should be (2+1+4)/3 = 2.33%.
Your final dataset should have 8 columns: the name of the country, GDP (total
and percent of world), population (total and percent of world), military expenditures
(total and percent of world), and NMCI.
Due to Assignment 4 Drop-box: three .csv files and an R command file that creates
the data set described in 5., above.

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