The well-being policies in GlaxoSmithKline
Case study - 14 pages - Human resources
Last year, we observed the changes in GlaxoSmithKline. This trend has deeply modified the way to consider the work atmosphere. New policies are applied to ensure that employees feel good at work and to increase their commitment as well. Companies were forced by the market pressure to adapt...
The well-being policies in GlaxoSmithKline - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 14 pages - Human resources
Last year, we observed the changes in GlaxoSmithKline. This trend has deeply modified the way to consider the work atmosphere. New policies are applied to ensure that employees feel good at work and to increase their commitment as well. Companies were forced by the market pressure to adapt...
Analysis of the experiments conducted in the study of micro biology
Thesis - 20 pages - Biology
What is microbiology? Why would any student enroll in microbiology? Now that you were told to take microbiology or now that you selected microbiology; it is important that you know what to expect. Microbiology is the study of science of (-logy) small (micro) life (bios). Biology was first used in...
The mosquito project: a new and safe medical intelligent
Market study - 16 pages - Clients and users behaviour
The goal of our group is to develop and to sell a new smart and secured medical system without hype. The system proposes an atomized injection for the treatment of an individual and which are possible at home. Indeed, elaborated injection systems, like pre-filled hype provoke a lot of needle...
Drugs, Cigarette Smoking & Alcohol During Pregnancy
Presentation - 26 pages - Medical studies
Teratogenicity has been established for only a few drugs, but many more are still not proved to be safe for use during pregnancy. The physician should have a good reason for prescribing any drug early in pregnancy, or indeed during the last half of the menstrual cycle, when any fertile, sexually...
A study on immunology
Thesis - 19 pages - Biology
Immunology is a subject, which deals with immune system and immune reactions in our body. Immune system works by the principle of learning process. When a pathogen attacks for the first time, it leads to infection, but when it attacks for the second then our body's immune system recognizes and...
Pharmaceutical industry analysis and merck's strategic assessement - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 8 pages - Business strategy
The pharmaceutical industry is characterized by a harsh competition between large companies, biotech start-ups and generics, long and risky R&D processes, increasing government regulations and strong purchaser pressures. Merck & Co Inc. is one of the biggest players in this industry, due to its...
Pharmaceutical industry analysis and merck's strategic assessement
Case study - 8 pages - Business strategy
The pharmaceutical industry is characterized by a harsh competition between large companies, biotech start-ups and generics, long and risky R&D processes, increasing government regulations and strong purchaser pressures. Merck & Co Inc. is one of the biggest players in this industry, due to its...
Phage Therapy: The Last Defense
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
One of the most under researched medical fields in the twentieth century through to the present day is phage therapy. What is phage therapy? Phage is short for bacteriophage' which is a virus that only infects bacteria (Ransford 2008). Increasing antibiotic resistance among several...
How can nanomedicine help conventional medicine and what is its future?
Presentation - 10 pages - Medical studies
This document is a presentation on what nanomedicine is, its applications, and how its evolution could impact conventional medicine.
Strategic Human Resource Management - Southwest Airlines
Case study - 4 pages - Human resources
"Human Resource Management (HRM) is a strategic approach to managing employment relations which emphasize that leveraging people's capabilities is critical to achieving competitive advantage, this being achieved through a distinctive set of integrated employment policies, programs and...
Issues in Communicating the Avian Influenza Pandemic
Essay - 3 pages - Medical studies
The threat of avian influenza is one that differs significantly from the annual dose of flu we experience, and the occurrence of an influenza pandemic would be devastating if the public relied only on its current typical flu attitudes and practices. Avian influenza presents an enormous challenge...
Gene Therapy
Presentation - 85 pages - Medical studies
Gene therapy is an experimental form of treatment whereby sequences of nucleic acids (i.e., genes) are delivered to cells to change their biologic function. The concept initially arose as replacement therapy for monogenic inherited disorders. For these disorders, the aim is to replace a defective...
Public health: The global fight against AIDS
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
At the millennium, over 150 world leaders met at the Millennium Summit to establish a vision for the United Nations in the upcoming years. They discussed the problems of poverty, economic development, public health, and education on a global level and proposed interventions in the form of the...
Bird flu
Thesis - 4 pages - Medical studies
Avian influenza is caused by type A strains of influenza virus and is an infectious disease that affects birds. There are 15 known subtypes of avian influenza virus. Thus, there is a vast reservoir of potential influenza viruses circulating in the bird population. The virus that causes the...
Community acquired pneumonia
Tutorials/exercises - 6 pages - Medical studies
Community acquired pneumonia is the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States affecting over 1 million individuals costing the government over $10 billion in treatment and patient care (Stanton, 2002). Statistics given by the US Department of Health and Human Services (2002) show that...
The Sourcing and Procurement Strategy of Sanofi- Aventis - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 29 pages - Business strategy
Sanofi Aventis, a multi-national pharmaceutical company, uses purchasing structures and procedures that aim to cover all activities and all types of purchasing. The structure is based on placing the purchasing responsibility on entities and business units, under the supervision of a central team....
Biological Warfare: The ethical questions behind bio-terrorism
Thesis - 6 pages - Political science
Last year's Swine Flu panic made our complacency to chemical and biological threats readily apparent and very much like during the Anthrax attacks of 2001, confusion and apprehension spread quicker than most could have ever imagined. Health authorities were caught by surprise and the general...
The Sourcing and Procurement Strategy of Sanofi- Aventis
Case study - 29 pages - Purchasing & supply chain
Sanofi Aventis, a multi-national pharmaceutical company, uses purchasing structures and procedures that aim to cover all activities and all types of purchasing. The structure is based on placing the purchasing responsibility on entities and business units, under the supervision of a central team....
Genetically modified food
Thesis - 3 pages - Biology
Genetically modified food made from genetic material (DNA) of a plant that has been changed in an unnatural way, also known as genetic engineering'. Selected individual genes are transferred from one organism to another. However, traditional breeding cannot achieve the same effects using a...
Medicare Prescription Drug act of 2003: Its implications to the US Health Care Systems
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
The Medicare Prescription Drug Act of 2003 introduces one of the most innovative additions to the present Medicare Law. It has been hailed as one of the truly heartfelt laws to come along. It now attempts to cover outpatient prescription drugs. The present law covers drugs received by inpatients...
Culture and disease
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Tuberculosis is considered to be one of the leading causes of death for one third of the world's population. South-East Asia and the Pacific region are one of the areas affected most by tuberculosis infections. According to the World Health Organization, 95% of tuberculosis cases reported occur...
Business ethics - an example of the "Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation"
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
Bill Gates is one of the most successful businessmen of the last century and is world-wide known to have been one of the founders of Microsoft, in 1975, with Paul Allen. Due to the success of his company, he was, between 1996 and 2007 the wealthiest man in the world. In 2009, his personal fortune...
Human augmentation and its impacts on society
Case study - 15 pages - Educational studies
Within this paper, the implications or reasons for supporting human augmentation are discussed. Facts are presented about our current technology that allow for human augmentation, as well as hypothetical reasons why people are for or against future technologies that can make human augmentation...
Uncontrolled pain and pain management in the older adult population with the potential for developing an addiction to pain medications
Case study - 9 pages - Medical care & personal assistance
This project seeks to comprehensively examine pain management among elderly people in low socioeconomic areas like Dover, Delaware, where the challenges are very high due to a lack of education and other resources. The study targets older adults aged 60 and above; it aims to bring out some of the...
Bilingual English / French Portfolio for the Certificate of Language Proficiency in Higher Education
Tutorials/exercises - 10 pages - Psychology
It's difficult for students to feel comfortable when they discuss mental health. It is recommended to do prevention about mental health and to discuss it in primary school. The Prime Minister promised to educate secondary school staff on mental health, to examine the health services currently...
How to Maintain Inmate Security and Control in Correctional Facilities?
Essay - 4 pages - Management
'Prison overcrowding has become one of the major issues in our correctional facilities and criminal justice system. Overcrowding in the correctional facilities could lead to increased violence and the spread of many preventable illnesses due to unhygienic conditions, among other problems that...
When "just say no" does not work
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Growing up in a small suburb of Tulsa was an experience one might want to soon forget. I grew up in Glenpool, Oklahoma for the first eighteen years of my life. It was a small, poor suburb with only one school. Despite all the churches in Glenpool, which numbered eleven at my last count about...
Gonococcal Infections
Presentation - 82 pages - Medical studies
Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted infection of epithelium and commonly manifests as cervicitis, urethritis, proctitis, and conjunctivitis. If untreated, infections at these sites can lead to local complications such as endometritis, salpingitis, tuboovarian abscess, bartholinitis, peritonitis,...
An analysis of the claim that the social welfare response to HIV/AIDS was, and remains, fundamentally inadequate
Thesis - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The first official case of AIDS in Britain was recorded in 1983 but nurses said they were caring for unofficial cases before [Ferlie and Pettigrew 1990:195]. Similar to America early reports were confined to the homosexual population. When looking at initial attitudes to the disease if we look at...
