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Have you ever wanted to know where you came from, or how you are made? There are websites such as Ancestry.com, Find my past.com, and a host of others. Articles such as “Relationships and Technology”, and “DNA Fingerprinting: Cracking our Genetic Barcode.” talk about online relationships, and knowing who you are DNA wise, where you come from can help you decide making life decisions. DNA means “deoxyribonucleic acid, a self-replicating material in nearly all living organisms”. DNA is now…

Marla Runyan: A Visually Impaired Athlete Marla Runyan is a world-class track and field athlete, who competed for the United States Olympic Team in 2000. She also happens to have Stargardt’s disease, which makes her legally blind. Marla once said, “If I break a national record, maybe they will stop writing about my eyes” (LaFontaine 228). There are 285 million people that are visually impaired in the world (WHO). Of those people, 248 million have low vision and thirty-nine million are blind…

"What is food to some, for others it is bitter poison", Lucretius, Roman poet (99 BC-55AC) If California were a country, with its population of nearly 40 million, it would be among the 30 most populous countries. The economic, political and cultural impact of the rest of California in the United States is enormous. It is for this reason that citizens' initiatives that are submitted to a referendum there and state legislation, for that matter, are so important. Of the 11 initiatives presented to…

Maintaining the integrity of these accounts is very important. Many companies today suffer a lot of loss from disgruntled employees, customers and competition with other companies. A number of companies have had to file bankruptcy with employees, investors and consumers suffering the most from the egregious and fraudulent activities. The effects of these companies’ mismanagement has been so troubling that congress passed legislation in 2002, called the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX); which…

types of RFID tags will have batteries built into them and which will power the tags. Many of the RFID tags that have batteries built into them can function at hundreds of meters from the reader. RFID tags will operate differently from a standard barcode because it does not have to be within a direct line of sight from the reader. The usage of RFID tags are implemented in several different service applications such as Pharmaceuticals, automobile productions, animals and features other ways to be…

promoting health IT, including EHR systems and electronic health information exchange (Alexander, Firth, & Hoy, 2015, p. 200). Clinical Informatics allows direct HCPs to document, review laboratory and radiology reports, administer medications with barcode scanner interfaces, document care plans, and in some instances use portable devices to improve the quality of the healthcare given to patients. With all this information at the fingertips of HCPs, the unintentional mistakes made with…

about all medicines. In retail setting, pharmacists are regarded as the “Safety” of the all dispensed medicines. The use of technology in the retail settings has reduced the number of errors. The accuracy scanner uses the National Drug Code (NDC) barcode to match the bottle of the pharmacy bottle and prescription label. One of the most common errors that of medical errors are drug to drug interactions (Kripalani,…

the push system, since the company can reduce waste, like the overlapping of orders. In addition, it saves time by using electronic tracking and ordering technology. For example, the retailers of Wal-Mart track sales of each product by scanning barcodes, and they automatically order to the suppliers what to produce, the number of products, and the price of products. Therefore, the power between retailer and supplier has been changed and shifted to the retailer. Now retailers of Wal-Mart…

high-demand products like pampers, directly from the supplier. The approach saves the firm time, transportation, and storage costs while ensuring their availability all the time. The process of determining levels of needed stock is automated through the barcode system; no need of physically counting it. Critical inventory order is set at 20% and a report is generated every three months to determine of any of the stock has reached that level. Regular SKU demand is set at 1.5 months while that of…

BACKGROUND: Medicine is considered the noble profession. Physicians are held to higher standards of professionalism by the community. Unprofessional behavior is often the most challenging to deal with for program directors. One such behavior is the lack of sufficient conference attendance. The Internal Medicine Residency Review Committee (RRC) mandates a minimum of 65% attendance at educational conferences for residents. Our residents attend between 8-10 hours of teaching conferences per week.…