...Chapter I INTRODUCTION Poverty remains a critical problem that needs to be addressed. All over the world, it remains number 1 problem to all states especially in South Africa where more than half of the population lives below the poverty line. The gap between the rich and the poor is among the worst in the world. (Oxfam, 2015) Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) ranks as the poorest country in the world based on its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita over the 2009-2013 period. Out of the 23 poorest countries in the world, 19 are located in Africa.(Global Finance Magazine,2014) With DRC citizens earning on average $ 394.25 a year, the country stands in sharp contrast with Qatar where people earn an average of $ 105,091.42 a year. Following the Democratic of Congo are Zimbabwe, where in 2013 people earned $ 589.25 on average, Burundi where they earn $648.58 a year and Liberia where people earn $ 716.04 on average. The first non-African country on the list is Afghanistan, which comes in the 10th place. It is also the first country where the average annual income passes the $1,000 threshold with $1072.19. Other non-African countries on the list of the poorest 23 countries in the world are Nepal, Haiti and Myanmar. Haiti, a country in America whose 77% population live below poverty line. More than 46 million people out of a population of 308 million live in poverty in America. Nepal and Myanmar are small countries in Asia. In 2012, the population of Myanmar was estimated...
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...Assignment Name: Business Decision Making Contents 1.1 Preparation of primary and secondary data: 1 1.2 Description and Justification of Survey methodology and frame: 3 1.3 Questionnaire used by Kelloggs India Ltd.: 4 2.1: summarizing data: 5 2.2 Results from the summarizing data: 6 2.3 Measures of dispersion: 7 2.4 quartiles, percentiles, conelation coefficient 8 3.1 Using data from kellogg's business scenario, preparation a range of graphs 9 3.2: Use trend lines in spreadsheet graphs 10 3.3 The answer is delivered through attached Microsoft PowerPoint 10 3.4 Formal Business Report: 10 4.1Management information system: 11 4.2Presentation of a project pian for the Kellogg's case study for an 14 4.3Internal rate of return: 15 Referrences: 16 1.1 Preparation of primary and secondary data: Primary data: Primary data of Kellogg India Ltd. is collected from the primary sources like company own databases, company surverys, interviews. The data which are collected by thoe own researchers source or primary source is known as primary data(Dawes, 1971). The company generally gather its primary data from the existing customer perspective. Besides company accountant information regarding survey plays vital role in this case. Kellogg India Ltd. empahasizes more on primary sources than on the secondary sources of data. They use direct observatons, personal interview from customer as their primary data sources. Secondary data: Secondary data are the subsequent...
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...amounts in research funding and the importance of compliance: • NU received $511.7 million in research funding in FY 2011 • NU ranked 25th in NIH research funding to universities in 2010 • Ensuring compliance remains a federal priority Source: Office for Research Annual Report. (2011): Northwestern University Introduction Research Administration Training Research Administration training helps Northwestern: • Decrease compliance risks • Administer grants more consistently & efficiently • Provide support for research administrators, faculty & staff • Meet federal government expectations regarding training and communication Introduction Training Objectives During this seminar we will: • Explain the research administration process • Discuss the roles & responsibilities of research faculty and staff • Describe the roles of the central research offices • Review the regulatory fundamentals that form the foundation of research administration Introduction Questions? Introduction Roles & Responsibilities Lauran Qualkenbush Director Office for Research Integrity lhaney@northwestern.edu Research Administration Roles Central Unit Principal Investigator Roles & Responsibilities PI Responsibilities • Develop research project •...
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...visual narrative based on oral testimony that consistently heightens our awareness of visual, written, and oral archives, and where they interact, overlap, or get transposed one into the other. Hillary Chute recounts and interprets her collaboration with Spiegelman in the process of assembling MetaMaus, a book compiling interviews and archival materials on the making of Maus. MetaMaus, argues Chute, reflects the tension between different kinds of extant archives—oral, written, photographic—and the cross-discursive work of (re)building new archives that motivates Maus. Its defining feature is that it shows the materiality of Spiegelman’s archive; it is about the embodiment of archives. The subject of Maus is the retrieval of memory and ultimately, the creation of memory…. It’s about choices being made, of finding what one can tell, and what one can reveal, and what one can reveal beyond what one knows one is revealing. Those are the things that give real tensile strength to the work—putting the dead into little boxes. – Art Spiegelman (MetaMaus 73) Maus: A Survivor’s Tale is a book about archives. And the book about making Maus, MetaMaus, is both a process of taking stock of the Maus archive and an active process of creating a new archive.1 Maus is about the Holocaust, featuring two intertwined stories: that of Auschwitz survivor Vladek Spiegelman’s struggle in the 1930s and 40s in Poland during WWII, and that of his son Art...
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...AN EVALUATIVE STUDY OF “PANTAWID PANGKABUHAYAN PAMILYA PROGRAM” (4Ps) IN THE DISTRICT OF TONDO MANILA ______________________________________________ A Thesis Proposal Presented to the Faculty of ADAMSON UNIVERSITY MANILA ________________________________________________ In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirement for the Degree BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN BUSINESS ECONOMICS BY Vincent Earl S. Palec Lorenzo C. Templo October 2014 CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION Poverty is a condition where people are deprived by their basic needs, it is a widespread problem experienced in every country whether developed or developing. It is a never ending cycle, it cannot be eliminated but rather a country can only mitigate it. Conditional Cash transfer programs are one of the most popular methods used by the government in poverty alleviation and is greatly used among countries, mostly on Latin America such as Mexico, Brazil, Colombia and Chile, who are developing and underdeveloped (Dadap, 2011). The Philippines adopted the same program for the reason that it shown success in poverty reduction among Latin American Countries. The Department of Social Welfare and Development who spearhead its implementation created the first CCT program AhonPamilyang Pilipino Program under the Arroyo Administration on 2008 and later on replaced by the PantawidPamilyang Pilipino Program under the Aquino Administration. The program provides cash grants to its beneficiaries...
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...21 2.7 Looking for Respondent Groups 22 2.8 Indicators 23 2.9 Validity 25 2.10 Summary 26 2.11 Next Steps 26 © SSC 2001 – Approaches to the Analysis of Survey Data 3 4 © SSC 2001 – Approaches to the Analysis of Survey Data 1. Preparing for the Analysis 1.1 Introduction This guide is concerned with some fundamental ideas of analysis of data from surveys. The discussion is at a statistically simple level; other more sophisticated statistical approaches are outlined in our guide Modern Methods of Analysis. Our aim here is to clarify the ideas that successful data analysts usually need to consider to complete a survey analysis task purposefully. An ill-thought-out analysis process can produce incompatible outputs and many results that never get discussed or used. It can overlook key findings and fail to pull out the subsets of the sample where clear findings are evident. Our brief discussion is intended to assist the research team in working...
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...Fundamentals of Management General Introduction..........................................................................................................3 An Introduction to Management .......................................................................................4 Kinds of Managers ...........................................................................................................4 Levels of Management.............................................................................................................. 4 Areas of Management ......................................................................................................5 Basic Management Functions ..........................................................................................5 Planning and Decision Making ................................................................................................. 5 Organizing............................................................................................................................. 6 Leading ................................................................................................................................. 6 Controlling ............................................................................................................................. 6 Fundamental Management Skills .....................................................................................6 Technical Skills .............................
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...2. LITERATURE REVIEW This chapter includes a detailed discussion of the theoretical and conceptual perspectives of rural to urban migration integrating these with the objectives of the study set out in briefer fashion in Chapter 1. Section 2.1 presents the theoretical literature review including the concept of internal migration, the nature of data on migration, conceptual issues in the measurement of internal migration, migration theories, gender dimension and social structure of India. Section 2.2 reviews the empirical literature showing the trends and patterns of internal migration in India, especially the rural to urban labour migration. Section 2.3 shows the conceptual framework of the proposed study. In academic research, relatively little...
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...Copyright © 2013 by McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. ISBN: 978-0-07-180360-1 MHID: 0-07-180360-2 The material in this eBook also appears in the print version of this title: ISBN: 978-0-07-180359-5, MHID: 0-07180359-9. E-book conversion by Codemantra Version 1.0 All trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners. Rather than put a trademark symbol after every occurrence of a trademarked name, we use names in an editorial fashion only, and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Where such designations appear in this book, they have been printed with initial caps. McGraw-Hill Education eBooks are available at special quantity discounts to use as premiums and sales promotions or for use in corporate training programs. To contact a representative please visit the Contact Us page at www.mhprofessional.com. Trademarks: McGraw-Hill Education, the McGraw-Hill Education logo, 5 Steps to a 5 and related trade dress are trademarks or registered trademarks of McGraw-Hill Education and/or its affiliates in the United States and other countries and may not be used without written permission. All other trademarks are the property...
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...Introduction Aktel is a joint venture of Telecom Malaysia and A.K. Khan and Company Ltd of Bangladesh. It has started its commercial operation in Dhaka as a Global system for mobile communication (GSM) 900 cellular operators on 15th November 1997. Moreover, Aktel has commenced its operation in Chittagong on March 26, 1998. Aktel is the market follower in telecommunication service in Bangladesh having more than 1 million subscribers and is controlling approximately 23% of the market share. According to Islam, Khan, and Rahman (2002), the market share of Aktel is now decreasing at a great extent as the customer loyalty level is decreasing. As the socioeconomic status of the country does not provide further possibilities to enhance the growth of the industry, as a market follower, Aktel should strive to retain its existing subscribers and penetrate other operator’s subscriber. Therefore, there is an emergence of studying the related facets of the customer loyalty in the context of Bangladesh GSM telecommunication system for Aktel to retain and increase its market share. Hence, in the current study, the researchers intend to examine whether there are relationships among service quality, customer satisfaction, trust, and customer loyalty in Aktel in Bangladesh or not. Statement of the problem Customer satisfaction and trust are positively related with customer loyalty (Bruhn & Grund, 2000; Chaudhuri & Holbrook, 2002; Gronholdt, Martensen, & kristensen...
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...10 Qualitative Research Methods in Psychology Deborah Biggerstaff Warwick Medical School University of Warwick, Coventry UK 1. Introduction In the scientific community, and particularly in psychology and health, there has been an active and ongoing debate on the relative merits of adopting either quantitative or qualitative methods, especially when researching into human behaviour (Bowling, 2009; Oakley, 2000; Smith, 1995a, 1995b; Smith, 1998). In part, this debate formed a component of the development in the 1970s of our thinking about science. Andrew Pickering has described this movement as the “sociology of scientific knowledge” (SSK), where our scientific understanding, developing scientific ‘products’ and ‘know-how’, became identified as forming components in a wider engagement with society’s environmental and social context (Pickering, 1992, pp. 1). Since that time, the debate has continued so that today there is an increasing acceptance of the use of qualitative methods in the social sciences (Denzin & Lincoln, 2000; Morse, 1994; Punch, 2011; Robson, 2011) and health sciences (Bowling, 2009; Greenhalgh & Hurwitz, 1998; Murphy & Dingwall, 1998). The utility of qualitative methods has also been recognised in psychology. As Nollaig Frost (2011) observes, authors such as Carla Willig and Wendy Stainton Rogers consider qualitative psychology is much more accepted today and that it has moved from “the margins to the mainstream in psychology in the UK.” (Willig & Stainton...
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...Decision making? Ethics is unique among disciplines in that practitioners often cannot agree on a common definition of their topic. Ethics Scoreboard can't solve that problem, which is many centuries old. Here it attempts to put forth definitions that explain what words mean when they are used on this website.] Values: Those qualities of behavior, thought, and character that society regards as being intrinsically good, having desirable results, and worthy of emulation by others. Morals: Modes of conduct that are taught and accepted as embodying principles of right and good. Morality: A system of determining right and wrong that is established by some authority, such as a church, an organization, a society, or a government. Ethics: The process of determining right and wrong conduct. Ethical System: A specific formula for distinguishing right from wrong. Unethical: An action or conduct which violates the principles of one or more ethical systems, or which is counter to an accepted ethical value, such as honesty. Non-ethical considerations: Powerful human motivations that are not based on right or wrong, but on considerations of survival and well-being, such as health, security, love, wealth, or self esteem. Concepts Non-Ethical Considerations: Defined above, non-ethical considerations are important because they are often the powerful impediments to ethical conduct, and the cause of many conflicts of interest. Non-ethical considerations are many and diverse, and include: •...
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...Social Work Examination Supervision in Social Work Table of Contents SUPERVISION IN SOCIAL WORK Table of Contents Table of Contents I. Introduction and Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 II. Individual Supervision and Group Supervision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 III. Supervision Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 IV. Administrative Supervision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 V. Educational Supervision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 VI. Supportive Supervision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 VII. Evaluation/Performance Appraisal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 VIII. Miscellaneous Supervision Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Chapter Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Answers and Rationale for Chapter Review Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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..."Why is Sex Fun? is the best book on the subject I've read. This lively exploration of our sexual heritage offers fascinating reading for anyone curious about why lovers do what they do." -Diane Ackerman, author of A Natural History of the Senses "I am so jealous of Jared Diamond, for he writes with such an elegant simplicity! Here, he takes a loot at the endlessly fascinating topic of human sexuality His convincing arguments should persuade xm that there are very special reasons why we evolved to use sex for recreation as well as for procreatim whereas most other mammals are denied that pleasure.... It is a great little book, by one of the worlds foremost biological philosophers." -ROGER Shohl Professor of Physiology Monash University Australia "Once again Jared Diamond provides us with answers to questions we may never have stopped to ask, but wish we had. In this long essay Diamond explains that recreational sex, while not unique to humans, is a rare behavior in the animal world. Above all, we learn, sexual activity divorced fron procreation is not only part of what it is to be human, but the very crux of our evolutionary success." -Bettyaxn Kevles. author of Naked to the Bonn Medical Imaging in the Twentieth Centnty The Science Masters Series is a global publishing vonture consisting of original science books written by leading scientists and published by a worldwide team of twenty-six publishers assembled by John Brockman. The series was conceived by Anthony Cheetham of Orion...
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...The Grand Design ALSO BY STEPHEN HAWKING A Brief History of Time A Briefer History of Time Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays The Illustrated A Brief History of Time The Universe in a Nutshell FOR CHILDREN George’s Secret Key to the Universe (with Lucy Hawking) George’s Cosmic Treasure Hunt (with Lucy Hawking) ALSO BY LEONARD MLODINOW A Briefer History of Time The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives Euclid’s Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace Feynman’s Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life FOR CHILDREN The Last Dinosaur (with Matt Costello) Titanic Cat (with Matt Costello) The Grand Design The Grand Design The Grand Design The Grand Design Copyright © 2010 by Stephen W. Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow Original art copyright © 2010 by Peter Bollinger All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Bantam Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Cartoons by Sidney Harris, copyright © Sciencecartoonsplus.com BANTAM BOOKS and the rooster colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. eISBN: 978-0-553-90707-0 www.bantamdell.com v3.0 The Grand Design The Grand Design The Grand Design The Grand Design E EACH EXIST FOR BUT A SHORT TIME, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe. But humans are a curious species. We wonder, we seek answers. Living in this vast world that...
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