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On 8/31/17 a home visit and ISP meeting was completed with the McClellan family. The case worker was waiting in her car when she saw Mrs. McClellan ran into the house with Hailey the baby. The worker was greeted at the door by Mr. McClellan. The worker spoke with Mrs. McClellan about leaving Hailey unsupervised and not adhering to the safety plan. According to Mrs. McClellan, she left Hailey a few minutes with Ja's Shonna and her husband while she drops off her son to work. The worker…

The purpose of this qualitative, multiple-case study was to explore the lived experiences of China-born immigrants as they coped with (a) the devaluation of their work credentials, (b) job discrimination and employment disparities, and (c) the initiation of entrepreneurial activity as a path to upward economic and social mobility in the GTA. Twenty-one immigrants born in the PRC were selected to participate in open-ended, in-depth, semistructured interviews (Doody & Noonan, 2013). The sample…

(2016 , February 16). The Wall Street Journal. “Bosses tap outside firms to predict which workers might get sick”. Retrieved February 21, 2016 From http://www.wsj.com/articles/bosses-harness-big-data-to-predict-which-workers-might-get-sick-1455664940 Yap, C. & Wong, G. (November 6, 2015). “China Wants to Tap Big Data To Build A Bigger Brother”, The wall street journal. Retrieved February 21, 2016 from…

Ponyboy has many important things in his life, the most important in his life is for sure, family. Ponyboy is the main character, he goes through very hard times with his family/ gang. If you read the book you should know that S.E. Hinton wanted you to feel everything they were. Ponyboy and his gang are very close friends, they are almost like family, They also treat each other like it. He is very friendly to anyone is apart of it, or anyone he knows very closely. Ponyboys family will help…

pharmacy organizations (ASHP, APHA, etc) to have pharmacists recognized as healthcare providers and be given the right to bill for pharmacy services (Yap, 2015). Being recognized as healthcare providers, would also allow pharmacists to promote and provide healthcare and public health for underserved communities and improve access to healthcare services. (Yap, 2015) The pharmacy organizations and pharmacy industry have been advocating diligently for this change because the current pharmacy…

“Regression analysis is a very effective quantitative forecasting technique for short-, medium and long-range time horizons and can be easily updated.[i]” A simple linear regression model is a mathematical relationship between two quantitative variables, i.e. X and Y. Y is the variable we seek to predict based on the other variable X, for which we have information. Regression can predict Scanim’s personnel requirements for inbound operators at varying levels of Chrysler auto sales. In…

The workplace has been a center for discrimination for many people for many decades, in particular for women. Women have struggled to break the barriers of work place discrimination and climb the ladder of success that comes much easier to men. Many studies have been directed towards this topic due it’s high prevalence over time and some people fear that there won’t be a day when women don’t have to struggle for work place equality. Although things have changed and over time women have gained…

Settles, Buchanan, and Yap (2010) on their research called Race Discrimination in the Workplace presented that many African-American employees have experienced racial discrimination in the workplace by 40% to 76% in 2010. For example, they got sexual harassment, bullying, and…

Additionally, females seem to be more at risk of being victims of sexual harassment in the workplace while males seem to be the perpetrators of the harassment (Ineson, Yap, & Whiting, 2013). Ineson et al. (2013) assessed the relationship between sexual discrimination and sexual harassment in the hospitality setting. Ineson et al. found that participants who had experienced harassment deemed scenarios of sexual harassment…

Sick building syndrome (SBS) is the adverse, recurring symptoms that occupants experience during their time spent in a building (Khan & Karuppayil, 2012). Notably, SBS affects 19.4% of office workers (Ooi, Goh, Phoon, Foo, & Yap, 1998). Those affected experience short term ailments such as headaches, nausea, fatigue, and coughing that consequently hinder efficiency and increase absenteeism (Joshi, 2008). A common cause of SBS is the presence of bioaerosols, most notably mold, a form of fungal…