Commercial off-the-shelf

The new-DIB can substantially reduce costs involved in military procurement and bring in commercial elements to whole defence acquisition/procurements. The whole new approach is necessitated by the change in typical war strategies adopted by enemies. Digital warfare, Un-manned vehicles and internal enemies are more prevalent which do not necessarily…

In their Super Bowl commercial, “Brotherly Love”, Coca-Cola uses the rhetorical mode Pathos, which entails tying into the consumer’s emotions, to market their product as being a constant in a life filled with memories and change: Coke has always been…

by sources outside of pharmaceutical companies whose main goal is to get people to buy their product, then that would be a possibility. With some allergy medications, pain relievers, and cold medicines that are available for purchase on any store shelf, it does make sense to advertise. People need to have the ability to diagnose and treat minor ailments and ills. The medications do not have dire consequences and have been thoroughly tested, and advertisements for them serve a purpose in allowing…

a. The planning step of the ERP implementation process requires: Needs assessment and Business justification Within the planning step of implementing the ERP system, it requires a needs assessment and business justification prior to implementation. The needs assessment provides business justification for the purchase of the software. The needs assessment phase is important because of the major investment in an ERP system and the impact it has on an organization. The business justification of…

Here are the words I had to look up: 1. Epidemiology: The branch of medicine that deals with the study of the causes, distribution, and control of disease in populations. (epidemiology, n.d.) 2. Stratification: Formation or deposition of layers, as of rock or sediments. (stratification, n.d.) I was embarrassed when I read the definition – yea, I knew that! 3. I didn 't have a third one so here 's one: vibist: A person who plays the vibraphone. (vibist, n.d.) IT Improving Sectors of Society –…

As made apparent by the regulations and procedures governing the use and establishment of BPAs, there are several advantages to using BPAs over traditional contracts. BPAs have a lower administrative burden over other contracting methods. A FSS BPA requires less paperwork during the sourcing process because there is no need for open market research, such as the “search for sources, need to prepare solicitations, and requirement to synopsize the acquisition” (GSA, 2015). BPAs also reduce…

nations; they are destroying the ecosystem and are diminishing water sources. They will cross pollinate with local wildlife they will cross breed plants that secrete their own pesticides and herbicides. This will cause bugs to eat the plants, killing off some, but the ones that will survive will have obtained a resistance to the pesticide through natural selection, rendering the original gene totally and utterly useless. Most herbicides and pesticides are not there to completely commit mass…

Children watching their favorite shows will see a commercial for these fast food restaurants and they will immediately ask their parents to take them to get this cheap and unhealthy meal that is right around the corner. Zinczenko said “Complicating the lack of alternatives is the lack of information about…

food is just normal food plus an insane amount of salt and sugar. The author of the article, Michael Hobbes, goes through the process of how regular, healthy food is made into processed food for longer shelf life and better taste. A normal recipe can start out as healthy but to be made on a commercial level, the recipe has to be made in bulk, shipped around the country, and put on the shelves of grocery stores. Producing recipes in bulk is usually more expensive so cheaper and less healthy…

concludes that the checklist created to identify idividuals addicted to computing activities, which are identified as computer games, internet usage and other computing activities, is inadiquate and likely to return results that give an overestamite off addicted individuals (Charlton 329). The content of many games causing desensitization in young players is also a valid concern not to be ignored. While it is true there are many games on the market that contain violence and mature content, all…