Classification of assets is an essential step towards securing information and general risk management. It points out what assets are owned by an organization, those that are shared between departments and also users and stakeholders of the respective assets. Identifying and classifying assets also aids in establishing vulnerabilities within them which may be a risk factor. It is also important to classify assets in order to enable proper manageability by authorized individuals. Apart from securing information, it also helps in accountability since the allocation of resources is done in a scheduled or coordinated method.

Speech recognition is a way of enabling a computer to decode human voice in more precise and perfect way. The computer translates the analog waves of voice into digital by analyzing the sound. The voice analysis is crucial for security reasons which help security engineers safeguard the nation against terrorist and curbing other dangerous crimes. An important reason why speech recognition is a hard problem is noise. Speech can uttered in an environment of a car hooting, radio sounds, and computer sounds among other things all this result to noise. In speech recognition an individual must identify a specific sound that come from a particular signal to recognize the sound…

Shari’a prohibits riba, haram, gharar, and maysir in business and financial transactions. Consequently, Islamic finance is a banking technique that comprises a conglomerate of fairness, sharing, profit, loss, and real operations, which articulate Islamic law. According to Domat (2018), the model is less than 30 years old but commands asset worth more than $1.5 trillion in assets distributed in 60 countries. Shalhoub (2017) reports that the world hosts 622 institutions with 201 of them offering Islamic finance degrees, which are responsible for generating graduates to grow the industry to $3.5 trillion by 2021. Meanwhile, the Islamic financing model features numerous mode, meaning that external factors determine the suitability of a…

Associations are normally put in place to help improve the relationships between its members, foster a spirit of dependability/loyalty, and most importantly; advance the general welfare of the organization in question. There are numerous stereotypes associated with joining sororities in college some of which include; having to wear matching outfits and constant partying. Nevertheless, I personally believe that sororities not only help in according an individual with the ultimate college experience, but also enrich an individual’s overall development in several key aspects of life. For this matter, I am looking forward to the prospects of associating myself with a sorority that matches my beliefs and aspirations. In the ensuing discussion,…

Transparency and Monetary Policy Central Banks have long been connected with confidentiality. The Federal Reserve System is the USA’s central banking structure. Its primary mandate is to balance the rate of increase in goods and services over time while evading a recession that is achieved by monetary policy. The purpose of monetary policy is crucial in ensuring price stability and general confidentiality of the currency. Its three main goals focus on promoting employment, balancing long lasting interest rates and stabilizing prices. There have been controversies regarding transparency about the economy and monetary policy. However, I believe transparency is the way to go, but clarity and other measures have to be…

Different healthcare models exist to facilitate provision of patient care. During the provision of psychiatric services, a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner can opt to adopt a single provider model or a split model. In the latter, medication management services are provided together with psychotherapy by the same nursing practitioner. While both of these models have pros and cons, the fact that the single provider model allows for the PMNP to follow up on a patient case serves better than the split model. Therefore, a PMNP should focus exclusively on being a single provider unless under special circumstances.

Human Centered Design & Engineering has always been a faculty for me where students work on global issues and save and improve our standard of living every day. This area has become my life goal since I consider myself to be a curious and active person who seeks to develop and be useful to the world. HCDE focuses on technological developments, and I am convinced that our future depends on innovation and information systems that will enable all countries to become a single mechanism for solving problems. I admire computer technologies because they require constant mental work and high knowledge of mathematics and logic. I believe that such skills are…

In the seminal paper titled ‘Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast-Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania’, David Card and Alan B. Krueger examine the effect of an increase in minimum wage on the labor market. The paper explores the employment outcomes after the minimum wage in New Jersey was increased from $4.25 to $5.05 per hour in April 1992. In order to make a comparative analysis, the authors employ a matched study design whereby they compare the labor market in New Jersey to the Pennsylvania labor market, which had not changed the minimum wage. The objective of the study was to identify variations in the…

Question One: Tesla’s Functional Structure Tesla Inc., formerly referred to as Tesla Motors, has experienced unprecedented business growth majorly due to its organizational structure. Organizational structure refers to the design and systems put in place to form interaction patterns among a company’s components (Meyer, 2018). Markedly, Tesla utilizes a function-based organizational structure, which primarily uses function as the primary defining factor. Though the firm has some structural attributes in terms of other types of corporate structure, functional characteristics stand out most. For instance, it has a structural group of engineers and another for services and sales. Notably, the business function is the most outstanding feature. The function-based hierarchy is another…

The human papillomavirus abbreviated as HPV is the most lethal group of viruses found in the medical world so far. HPV infections transmit from one individual to another quickly, and it causes multiple cancers. HPV-16 and HPV-18 are the most popular human papillomavirus. These two HPVs are associated with horrific facts and statistics. For instance, they are a significant risk factor for cervical cancer that kills hundreds of thousands of women around the world every year (Harris, 2015). According to the HPV Information Center (2017), these HPVs cause 70% of all cases of cervical cancer worldwide. The report revealed that 80-90 percent of the sexually active individuals are at considerable…