YUKOS Oil Company

1. Overview of YUKOS Oil Company and its shareholders. What was YUKOS? YUKOS Oil Company ‘ was the largest privately owned (by shareholders via offshore holding company ‘Group MENATEP Company’ registered in Gibraltar) oil company, the fourth largest oil company in the world that produced a million barrels of oil per day (2% of global … Read more

Sex in advertising

Sex in advertising is described as ‘mediated messages (i.e., television commercials, magazine ads) containing sexual information, with the persuasive purpose of selling branded goods’ (Reichert and Carpenter, 2004: 824). Pervasive types of sexual content may include nudity, innuendo or double entendre (Courtney and Whipple, 1983), or models wearing varying amounts of clothing or depicted showing … Read more

Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis

Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis is a powerful and convenient tool for analyzing the sequence diversity of complex natural microbial populations. To amplify 16S rDNA and PCR product specific primers were used and analyzed by Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis. Genus- and cluster-specific probes were designed to bind to sequences within the region amplified by these primers. … Read more

The presidential speech

Dear citizens, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President and members of Congress. Tonight, I can ensure you, that Osama Bin Laden has officially been declared dead. This task couldn’t have been completed without the help of our highly trained Navy Seals. Osama Bin Laden was the leader and commander of the infamous terrorist group Al Qaeda. … Read more

Sustainability at BMW Group

Sustainability has a powerful influence on the automotive industry; therefore also on the worlds number one producer of premium vehicles. BMW takes sustainability to a higher level. As quoted by Dr.-Ing. E. H. Norbert Reithofer: ‘We take a Holistic approach by implementing sustainability along the entire value chain’. BMW implements sustainability as a definition of … Read more

Data management

Introduction When deciding how to build the Data Warehouse managers should keep in minds that the Business Intelligence’s objective is to provide support for decision making. In order for BI application to become a reality, it is important that the B.I is based in large part on the tools available (cleanse, data mart, reporting) in … Read more

Literature search (LDIflare)

4. RESULTS 4.1 Results of search strategy The PubMed search yielded 52 results as shown in Table 3 (Appendix 3). After selecting for ‘published in the last 5 years’ 17 articles remained (Appendix 4). A selection of these 17 articles was performed on the basis of title and abstract (Appendix 5). Articles in this review … Read more

Plesiosaurs

Introduction Plesiosaurs are a clade of Sauropterygian reptiles that were first observed in the late Triassic surviving until the Cretaceous mass extinction event (Benton, 1990). As a result of the high deposition rates in the marine environments they inhabited, the fossil record of plesiosaurs is particularly complete in relation to other groups. Therefore, we are … Read more

What is an Infectious Disease Specialist?

It is a doctor for internal medicine who is an expert in diagnosing, and treating infectious diseases. Infectious Disease Specialists have a big knowledge of infectious of the sinuses, heart, brain, lungs, urinary tract, bowel, bones and pelvic organs. They have a whole lot of extra long training, which focuses on different kinds of infections, … Read more

Ernest Hemmingway's A Farewell

Ernest Hemmingway’s A farewell to arms is a book with many themes. The reoccurring dialogues and events verify the presence of those themes and ideas. Many of E. Hemmingway’s books include these. With the use of these themes and ideas and the way these are worked out in his books, it can be concluded that … Read more

Using the 6Cs (MDT) in the management of Cerebral Palsy (CP)

The Francis Report was released in 2013. This report outlined failures by individuals, tiers of management and regulators in the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust. The Francis Report made 290 recommendations to prevent these failures in the future (Francis, 2013). One of these recommendations were that nurses, midwives and care staff, as well as stakeholders at … Read more

Visiting parents in China

Visiting parents regularly is a Chinese traditional moral behavior, also it is a responsibility. Last year, according to the latest amendment in Jiangsu Province, ‘The verdict was the first of its kind given in accordance with the law that requires adult children to regularly visit their elderly parents. It was handed down by the People’s … Read more