Fast Facts For Curious Minds

BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS

  • SWOT Analysis of Nike
    By Claire Garcia
    Nike is the largest supplier of athletic shoes and apparel in the world. It is also one of the largest companies in the global apparel industry. Furthermore, considering the sheer size of its operations, extensive global market reach, and established brand, it has been considered the most valuable ...
  • SWOT Analysis of Apple
    By Claire Garcia
    Apple is a household name. It is behind some of the most iconic products of the modern digital age. These include the MacBook, the iPod and iTunes, and the iPhone. Some of these products are even disruptive when they were first introduced. The fact that Apple is one of the most valuable companies ...
  • Macroeconomics and Microeconomics: The Difference
    By Immanuel Martinez
    Economics is divided into two main branches based on scope. These are macroeconomics and microeconomics. For starters, macroeconomics deals with the economy as a whole, while microeconomics focuses on the behavior of and interactions among firms and individuals. The Difference Between ...
  • TIPS: How to Achieve Competitive Advantage?
    By Claire Garcia
    How can a business outcompete its competitors? What are the ways a business can achieve a competitive advantage? What are the sources of competitive advantage? Examples of How Businesses Create or Achieve and Maintain a Competitive Advantage 1. Technology and Innovation: Businesses achieves ...
  • The Strategy and Success of Cirque du Soleil
    By Akeem Abad
    The Canadian entertainment and traveling circus company Cirque du Soleil is one of the prime examples of an organization demonstrating the effectiveness of a strategy based on unlocking new market demand and making competition irrelevant. When the circus company was founded by former circus ...
  • The Purpose of Monetary Policy
    By Immanuel Martinez
    A monetary policy is a macroeconomic tool used by governments through their respective monetary authorities to influence economic growth. Take note that depending on the country, a monetary authority can either be a central bank, a currency board, or another government-appointed regulatory body. ...
  • Difference Between Mission, Vision, and Value Statements
    By Claire Garcia
    The mission, vision, and value statements of organizations are more than just public declarations of their identities, intentions, and positioning. When developed and utilized in their proper context, these statements form part of the long-term strategy of a particular organization and guide ...
  • The Benefits of Open Office Spaces
    By Claire Garcia
    Open office spaces have received criticisms due to their limitations or problems and disadvantages. However, in some circumstances, an open-office workspace can have benefits or advantages to both employees and an organization. The Benefits and Advantages of Open Office Spaces: What is Good About ...

HEALTH AND MEDICINE

  • Sugary Breakthrough: Deoxyribose Shows Promises for Hair Growth
    By Franz Williams
    Researchers M. A. Anjum and colleagues discovered a promising therapeutic approach for treating androgenic alopecia or hereditary-patterned baldness that involves the topical application of a sugar gel made from deoxyribose. The research is still in the pre-clinical phase but there is hope for ...
  • mLumiOpto: Light-Induced Gene Therapy Disables Cancer Cell Mitochondria
    By Franz Williams
    Scientists at Ohio State University are working on an innovative approach to cancer treatment by targeting the mitochondria—the energy-producing organelles in cells—to induce cancer cell death using light-induced gene therapy. They call this innovation mitochondrial luminoptogenetics or mLumiOpto. ...
  • Criteria for Defining Hospital-Acquired Infection
    By Franz Williams
    A hospital-acquired infection or HAI is essentially an infection acquired by an individual from a hospital or other healthcare facilities such as outpatient clinics, nursing homes, rehabilitation facilities, and other clinical settings, among others. Note that HAI is also known as nosocomial ...
  • Why Tobacco Smoking Can Lead to Impotence
    By Franz Williams
    There is an undeniable link between tobacco smoking and impotence or erectile dysfunction. Of course, impotence can also be caused by a range of physical and psychological factors. But researchers and health experts have also concluded smoking as a risk factor. Separate studies from S. G. Korenman ...
  • 7 Ways Smoking Damages the Skin
    By Suzanne Garcia
    Smoking is bad for health. However, others are not to keen to heed this warning. Perhaps, knowing how tobacco smoking damages the skin can help some smokers to quit the habit. How Smoking Ruins the Skin? How Does it Affect Skin Health? 1. Smoking damages the skin by breaking down a group of ...
  • Difference Between Epidemic and Pandemic
    By Franz Williams
    Epidemic and pandemic are two terminologies generally used to describe the spread of a particular communicable or non-communicable disease within a given population and geographic location over a short period. However, it is important to note that the specific uses of these two, and thus, their ...
  • Health At Every Size: The 5 Principles of HAES
    By Franz Williams
    The Association for Size Diversity and Health or ASDAH has developed and promoted the Health At Every Size or HAES approach as a central element of its advocacy to end discrimination and stigma related to weight, lessen the cultural obsession with weight loss and thinness, and promote acceptance of ...
  • Keto Diet: Medical and Therapeutic Applications
    By Franz Williams
    Ketogenic diet or keto diet has become a diet fad among fitness and weight loss enthusiasts. However, members of the medical and healthcare professional have warned about its drawbacks and associated negative health effects. It is important to note that before it has become a diet fat, keto diet ...