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Case Study on Campus Design

Campus Design Case Study:

Campus design is the complex of efforts aimed at the creation of the buildings of the educational institution from the architectural point of view, their decoration and preparation to the public use for the purpose of studying. Every college and university consists of a great number of houses which are often concentrated not far from one another and fulfil the role of classes, halls, libraries, dormitories, laboratories, gyms, canteens, cades, etc.

An average campus is provided with everything essential for education and regular life and rest of students. The idea of campus design is to make the buildings of the university suitable for the educational process, improvement of the student’s knowledge, revealing of his potential, etc. Continue reading

Case Study on California Energy Crisis

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Energy Crisis Case Study:

California energy crisis is the serious electricity crisis which occurred in 2000 in California, the USA under the effect of numerous factors. The case is also known as the Western U.S. Energy Crisis, because many regions of the country faced the problem of shortage of electricity and enormous prices on it.

It does not worth mentioning that the crisis was a surprise for the government, because California was one of the leaders in energy sector and the production of its energy was more than twice higher than it actually required. The year of 1996 is known to be the starting point of the growth of energy productive rates but very soon the situation changed. Because of the increase of population up to 13% the demand on electricity increased but the amount of the produced energy remained on its place. The culmination of the crisis was in 2000, when California suffered from severe drought which caused negative effect on energy sector. Continue reading

Descriptive Statistics Case Study

Case Study on Descriptive Statistics:

Descriptive statistics is discipline of the quantitative description of the information. Descriptive statistics has the task to present a general description of the situation, a problem or the order of the events. The discipline does not have to analyze the problem in detail trying to find out about its slightest peculiarities and the cause and effect of the problem, as it does not rely on the laws of Probability theory. The only function of descriptive statistics is to provide the experts with the general information about the data under analysis. It is natural that descriptive statistics has a long history, because the dawn of the human civilization the humanity could only observe and describe facts.

Descriptive statistics was used for census, analysis of the situation on the market (the types of goods and their price). Continue reading

Case Study on Backward Integration

Backward Integration Case Study:

Backward integration is the one of the types of vertical integration in microeconomics. Vertical integration is a special type of ownership of business processes, technologies, equipment, infrastructure, etc by the single company. The company belong to the vertical integration model tries to embrace all the processes which are related with production, resource supply or the direct sale to the consumers.

Backward integration is the type of vertical integration which is characterized with the desire of the definite company to control not just the process of production, but the stages which precede production, so that resource supply, production of the selected details of the final good, etc.

Backward integration is a widespread phenomenon and it exists in numerous kinds of business – in industry, agriculture, small and big business, etc. Continue reading

Case Study on Desertification

Desertification Case Study:

Desertification is the process of land degradation, reduction of their qualities under the anthropogenic and natural factors. The definition of desertification appeared in 1940 when people began paying attention to the problem of land degradation and started studying the issue deeper.

The term ‘land’ has a special meaning – a bioproductive system consisting of soil, water, plants and other biomass; and also ecological and hydrological processes in this system. Land degradation is the reduction of the intensiveness of these processes under the effect of the human activity and extensive agriculture. Degradation is connected with drying of land, withering of vegetation and reduction of soil cohesion, which increase the risk of rapid wind erosion and dust storms.

Desertification is supposed to be one of the most serious results of climate change, because it is probably impossible to restore the quality of the soil which was affected by the process of degradation (in order to restore 1 cm2 of soil, one requires 70-150 years). Continue reading

Case Study on Calvin Klein

Calvin Klein Case Study:

Calvin Klein is the US fashion and design studio, producing unisex clothes, perfumes and accessories. Currently, the brand belongs to PVH Corp and the headquarters are located in Midtown Manhattan.

The name of the company is connected with Calvin Klein – a famous US designer who founded his own firm Calvin Klein, Ltd in 1968. At the very beginning the company produced clothes and footwear exclusively for men but in the middle of 1970s it broadened the choice of goods and started manufacturing women clothes (famous for fur collections) and accessories. Calvin Klein was the first brand which demonstrated jeans on its fashion shows in 1978. Moreover, every pair of jeans had the famous logo of the company which was quite new at that time, as the so called logo mania was just developing.

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Dermatology Case Study

Case Study on Dermatology:

Dermatology is the science which studies the structure, qualities, peculiarities of the functions, diseases, prevention of the diseases and treatment of skin and its derivatives and mucous membranes. Dermatology is supposed to be one of the oldest branches of medicine, because there are descriptions and methods of treatment of various diseases of skin which date back to 1500 BC.

The skin covers the human body, so it is obvious that skin diseases are visible at once, so since ancient times people pay much attention to the issues related with skin problems. Dermatology is closely connected with other branches of medicine, like cosmetology, immunodermatology, etc, because the human organism is a complicated system of interconnected organs – if one organ is weak, it influences other systems of the human body. Continue reading

Case Study on Campus Planning

Campus Planning Case Study:

Campus planning is the complex of actions aimed at the improvement of the quality of student’s educational process and their supply with everything essential for the comfortable life in the walls of a college or university. Every higher educational institution consists of a great number of buildings which include various faculties, places of recreation, sport grounds, etc. and all the buildings are called campus.

The administrative organization of college and university is a complicated job, because students should be provided with the appropriate equipment, dormitories, canteens, libraries, gyms and other places essential for self-education and the institution is supposed to organize all these options in the right way. Educational institutions differ between one another with the quality of the student’s placement and the quality of the equipment used in the process of studying. Continue reading

Case Study on Dermatophytes

Dermatophytes Case Study:

Dermatophytes are the group of several kinds of fungus which often cause various diseases in human beings and animals affecting their skin, hair, nails, fur, etc. Scientists have discovered a great number of fungus’ types which cause such diseases and they call them in the common name – dermatophytes. Most often dermatophytes are usexual organisms living on the surface of the human and animal organism consuming the nutrients required for their survival. These types of fungus live in the outer layers of skin, on the human hair, in animal fur, on the nails and they cause inflammation in the places of their activity on the human skin. Fortunately, dermatophytes can not cause harm to the inner layers of skin and viable tissues, because they affect only the necrotized tissues. The fungus is active only on skin, hair and nails, because it consumes keratin which can be found there. Continue reading

Case Study on Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore Case Study:

Rabindranath Tagore is the Bengali and Indian writer, poet, playwright, composer and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. He is also known to be the creator of the anthem of India and Bangladesh.

The Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta and was the fourteenth child of the ancient rich family of Tagore. He received education at home and private schools and paid much attention to physical training, mathematics, literature, English and Sanskrit, history, anatomy and drawing. Due to his family Rabindranath Tagore became such a versatile personality who was interested in nearly everything. Continue reading