Airline ticketing system
Dissertation - 56 pages - Computer science
Before modern computing, the reservation system was done using manual means. This meant that a person about to travel had to spend a lot of unnecessary time waiting in queues in order to book their tickets. The manual process of reservation was also prone to human errors, which lead to a lot of...
Employee performance evaluation system
Dissertation - 188 pages - Computer science
This project is developed for providing physical and intranet access to various functions performed by the Administrator and the Employees. Basically this project is developed for the HR department to gather the necessary information on any employee and as such increment in their basic salary and...
Does Insolvency Law Need Reform?
Case study - 3 pages - Other law subjects
Time and again, companies face financial difficulties that threaten to lead such investments into closure. This should not be allowed to unnecessarily take these companies that are faced with financial difficulties to the wall. There are laws that have existed in various European governments that...
A look at local area networks and some of its variants: With a special reference to Bharat Electronics Limited
Dissertation - 38 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
India, as a country, has been very lucky with regard to the introduction of telecom products. The first telegraph link was commissioned between Calcutta and Diamond Harbor in the year 1852, which was invented in 1876. First wireless communication equipment were introduced in Indian Army in the...
Drug error in a practice placement
Thesis - 7 pages - Medical studies
For this summative assignment using a reflective model of my choice, I am going to critically reflect upon an aspect of my professional development which has been chosen from my professional portfolio. Reflective writing is considered a key component of portfolio assessment because it provides...
The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 have led to a complete change in American foreign policy
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
When George W. Bush arrived in office as President in 2000, he was determined to limit the role of the United States in foreign affairs, although there was in his electorate a hope for a strong foreign policy. The new administration saw in the failure in Yugoslavia, “Clinton's...
New public management, which way?
Essay - 3 pages - Management
Through a metaphorical use of language, this statement highlights the shift from the traditional model of public administration's model of bureaucracy (an organization typified by formal processes, standardization, and hierarchic procedures and written communication) to the New Public...
Cause of Fannie Mae's Conservatorship
Thesis - 18 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Everyone should have a home despite their economic struggles. Fannie Mae was founded on this premise during the Great Depression in 1938. The issue evolving from this seemingly beneficial and civil service sponsored by the government is the risk involved with lending to subprime borrowers. The...
Reagan's containment strategy
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
Containment policy originates from a foreign policy strategy pursued by the United States during the post World War era introduced by George F. Kennan. Kennan had been a diplomat and a US State Department advisor who worked on Soviet affairs. He introduced the concept of containment of expansion...
Lyndon Baines Johnson: An overview study
Essay - 8 pages - Philosophy
When one thinks of the president Lyndon Baines Johnson, typically one associates him with the turbulent period we call the ‘sixties.' Whether or not his term in office merely coincided with this era is an issue often debated. Nonetheless, his commanding presence has left an indelible mark...
Domain name service
Dissertation - 93 pages - Computer science
DNS began in the early days of the Internet when the Internet was a small network created by the Department of Defense for research purpose. Before DNS, computer names, or hostnames, were manually entered into a file located on a centrally administered server. Each site that needed to resolve...
Sales-side process automation to improve integration: An exploratory research
Dissertation - 51 pages - Business strategy
The customer has always been important. Peter Drucker, the dean of management consultants, once remarked: “Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two and only two basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results: all the...
The introduction of Islamic banking in France: A research on the potential market for retail Islamic banking
Dissertation - 37 pages - Finance
This study provides an assessment on the current problems and progresses made in France for the introduction of Islamic banking into its economy and contains an evaluation and an analysis of the potential market for Islamic retail banks in France. The research is divided into two distinct...
Hegemony or Survival America's quest for global dominance, Noam Chomsky
Book review - 9 pages - International relations
In this book, Noam Chomsky presents a view of American foreign policy over the ages, developing a very widespread theory that is clearly presented in the first chapter's title “Imperial Grand Strategy”. In fact, he explains how the US, especially since the beginning of the 21st century...
On our own: American Identity and the New Crisis of Independence
Essay - 11 pages - International relations
In this analysis, I use government documents, presidential statements, and opinion polls to chart how American goals of independence moved in and out of different contexts, and the ways this movement reflected structural as well as domestic conditions. Part one takes a broad look at...
The American bureaucracy on national security
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
In his book The Power Game, Hedrick Smith speaks of the foreign policy game in the United States as a “bureaucratic tribal warfare”, using a tribal metaphor to describe the fierce fights which take place in Washington, DC. The notion of bureaucracy emerged in the early 20th century,...
The development and implications of violence in schools
Essay - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In the last 20 years, American public schools have witnessed a drastic increase in the level and severity of school violence. Incidents such as those that took place in Columbine have become more prevalent in schools all across the country. When it comes to school violence, no population or...
Foster v. British Gas plc: A European mirror of the French Public Service?
Law case - 4 pages - European law
Most of the developed states are aware of what public service is through facts. But only a few of them have come up with a legal definition of what it really is. In French Administrative law, the notion of public service has never been and will never be easily displayed. Major academics are still...
A consideration of a comparison/contrast of two research studies in the field of education: One quantitative study and one qualitative study
Essay - 6 pages - Educational studies
Research in the field of education administration demonstrates that there are plethora of pressing issues that are addressed in this context. While many of the investigations undertaken in this discipline focus on quantitative methodologies, some utilize qualitative methodologies in order...
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) and public contracts
Essay - 9 pages - International relations
The World Trade Organization aims at ensuring “harmony, freedom, equity and security” in trading activities. The organization has the institutional means to control the compatibility of national policies to its requirements. From financial to commercial items, all fields of legislation...
Political governance and corporate governance
Essay - 15 pages - Management
The 20th century was viewed as the age of management; the early 21st century is predicted to be more focused on governance. There is a distinction between politics and governance, where the former is regarded as cooperation between people with different points of view in order to improve the...
An overview of business process outsourcing
Thesis - 14 pages - Business strategy
Companies are increasingly outsourcing key business functions and their related IT operations. The BPO industry is built around the raison d' etre of efficiency and cost-effectiveness. With the current focus on core business capabilities, many companies are outsourcing select business functions...
Unattended installation and un-installation of software remotely using mesh network
Thesis - 5 pages - Computer science
Remotely Unattended Installation / Un installation of Software is a collection of tools that allow the network administrator, sitting at his or her desk, to manage a network of remote PCs and accomplish the tasks like, to support of daily IT operations and management task. The tasks include the...
The functions of management and its importance with an appropriate illustration
Case study - 4 pages - Management
For the purposes of this investigation, a school administrator “Celia” and principal, “Bob” from the same high school were interviewed. Both individuals held a Master's degree in education and both were seasoned veterans. At the time of the interview, Celia had been an...
The Global War on terrorism and the effects in the Euro-american relations: Causes, consequences, solutions
Essay - 11 pages - International relations
Terrorism has become the most important threat regarding international stability in the 21st century. Though the Euro Atlantic community considers that it is of the utmost importance to eradicate it, it is not able to set up a common strategy. Since the war in Iraq, the Bush administration...
The American diplomacy around the protocol of Kyoto
Essay - 15 pages - Ecology & environment
During the past forty years, the issue of global warming has gradually been established as the priority of environmental debates to become a major issue in our society for the twenty-first century. The proliferation of conferences, books, and films on this subject reflect the growing interest....
Was the Khrushchev period (1953-64) a period of thaw in the Cold War?
Thesis - 6 pages - Modern history
Since the start of the Cold War in 1945, it seemed as if both the USSR and the USA, the two most powerful and influential superpowers, were set to be opponents in the game for world domination. Indeed, as no actual fighting and direct collision between the two nations took place, it was public...
Analysis of Obama's leadership abilities in relation to his policies and oratory skills
Case study - 4 pages - Political science
Since his arrival to power in 2008, after his victory in the presidential election, the domestic and foreign policies of the President Barack Obama have been the focus of extensive analysis by numerous commentators. Having inherited economic instability and two wars from the previous government...
Policing development and operation trends paper
Case study - 4 pages - Administrative law
The United States Government has developed what is referred to as the criminal justice system. This system is broken into multi-tier organizations and agencies; though while similar in terms of goals the systems are separate. There are three main systems within the tiered system: Local, State,...
The Current Organization of the Local Government System in England
Case study - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The government of England has a complex pattern with quite an array of functions distributed according to the local governments. The government and public administration includes the central government and the civil service, devolved and regional government and the local government. The...
