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Chapter 5 of the textbook, Personal Finance by Siegel and Yacht, deals with financial budgets (2009). It sheds the light on three types of budgets: the comprehensive budget, the cash flow budget, and other specialized budgets. Each budget is useful in a specific context and they are all helpful to make better financial decisions. b. What are the components of a comprehensive budget and what is the purpose of each component? A comprehensive budget, which is a “budget covering all aspects of…

atherosclerosis (Silverthorn et al., 2009 p327). The disease attacks different arteries in the body, but the most harmful conditions involve damages to the vessels of the brain and the heart (Silverthorn et al., 2009 p329). Understanding of the structures and mechanisms that take place in the heart and the brain to allow for blood distribution is a critical component for anyone trying to determine the development or characteristics of this condition (Silverthorn et al., 2009 p327). In a healthy…

This quote represents the heart of human resource management. Dias (2009), defines human resource management (HRM) as “the process of employing people, training them, compensating them, developing policies relating to them, and developing strategies to retain them” (p. 8). Over the last several decades the field has undergone many changes, increasing the field’s importance to the overall success to organizations (Dias, 2009). The HRM role has broken out of the administrative niche that it…

Jennifer Barnes Bowie and Donald R. Songer (2009) examines the relevance of the strategic theory in explaining the decisions made by Court of Appeals judges. Strategic theory states that judges alter the way they vote in response to the potential reactions of other important actors. Some scholars argue that strategic theory does indeed provide reasoning for decisions made by judges on the Court of Appeals. Yet, other scholars challenge this claim and assert that there is no such evidence…

university, or corporation claims they own (Shamoo & Resnik, 2009, p. 167). Therefore, there are different types of intellectual property rights that are recognized by the United States law (Shamoo & Resnik, 2009, p. 173). Consequently, laws pertaining to intellectual property rights have only been implemented since the 1980s, which these laws are of the Boyh-Dole Act of 1980 and the Technology Transfer Act of 1986 (Shamoo & Resnik, 2009, p. 170). As a result, intellectual property can have…

successfully predicting the future” (p. 314). Contextualizing the role geographical skill played in the evolution of human civilization will allow geography as a discipline to better interpret its current place and predict its future (Heffernan 2009; Richards 2009). Furthermore, geographical skill and related technology (e.g. GIS) are often used for consequential predictions (e.g. future global climate) and implementing related policies, but models are ultimately heuristic (Oreskes et al. 1994;…

the internet (Schewick, 2009). What we are able to view is all decided upon by our ISP. Schewick states that ISPs select what we view in order to maximize profits, to ban content which they consider to be inappropriate, or to keep track of all signals on their network (Schewick, 2009). She does an excellent job of explaining why this is wrong by bringing forth real world examples, using thought-provoking literary devices, as well as by connecting with the reader (Schewick, 2009). Throughout this…

proposed a greater ecological position, albeit still clinging to the personality hypothesis, when considering that self-neglect is triggered by biological, psychological and/or social stressors that exacerbate predisposing personality traits (Lauder, 2009). He goes on to explain that diagnoses that have been consistently associated with self-neglect either in a causal relationship or as comorbidity include dementia, alcohol abuse, and major life events. There is still much extension for…

to find its way into the system (Gupta, 2009; Riggio, 2011). Therefore, appointing medical doctors like the example you gave who do not have the experiences or the skills to operate in a managerial or leadership position can make the people tolerate corrupt administrations (Riggio, 2011). As these leaders do not have the skills or trait needed to be an effective leader given positional power to dominate or rule over their external followers (Gupta, 2009). As the…

to be quick to select a certain product over another, as they ambiguously evaluate the positives and negative of their decision. (Seethaler, 2009, 43) Through jumping towards conclusions, individuals, specifically researchers, are easily able to come to incorrect conclusions, inevitably leading innocent citizens to attend to irrational words. (Seethaler, 2009, 44) For instance, with the experiment performed on monarch butterflies where these insects were fed different versions of “milkweed…