...| | |Assumptions | | | |Please note that a number of assumptions have been made in response to this assignment. These include the size of the Belcher | |Rollins business and its operations, its international locations, its listings on international stock markets and its | |financial reporting process. Assumptions have also been made about the product development process and pricing. All of these| |are as realistic as possible, having been established through detailed research of the current market leader, Reed Elsevier, | |and its major competitors. | | | |As InScope is directly comparable to the Reed Elsevier ‘Scopus’ product, it has also been assumed that Scopus does not exist | |at time of the InScope launch. | INSCOPE: A NEW GENERATION OF RESEARCH PR PLAN...
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...must be a stream of new scientific knowledge to turn the wheels of private and public enterprise. (Vannevar Bush, 1945)1 U.S. Basic Research: A Need for Serious National Attention U.S. industry and the Federal Government are the primary pillars of financial support for the U.S. research and development (R&D)2 enterprise. The National Science Board (Board) observes with concern the indicators of stagnation, and even decline in some discipline areas, in support for U.S. R&D, and especially basic research, by these two essential patrons and participants. A decline in publications by industry authors in peer reviewed journals suggests a de-emphasis by U.S. industry on expanding the foundations of basic scientific knowledge. More specifically, research contributions by U.S. industry authors in the physical and biomedical sciences through publications in peer reviewed journals have decreased substantially over the last decade. In addition, in this century the industry share of support for basic research in universities and colleges, the primary performers of U.S. basic research, has also been declining. Likewise, Federal Government support for academic R&D3 began falling in 2005 for the first time in a quarter century, while Federal and industry support for their own basic research has stagnated over the last several years. These trends are especially alarming in light...
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...Life is full of surprises The presentation of your report must follow the generally accepted style of a research paper, including depth and breadth of discussion and analysis, language, referencing style and layout. The referencing style should follow the Harvard UTS Referencing Guide. You are expected to undertake a rigorous literature search of discovery on your chosen topic, which includes a minimum of five (5) recent and relevant academic refereed publications (which is a mandatory component of the report). The length of your report should be between 2,500 to 3,500 o undertake a rigorous literature search of discovery on your chosen topic, which includes a minimum of five (5) recent and relevant academic refereed publications (which is a mandatory component of the report). Life is full of surprises The presentation of your report must follow the generally accepted style of a research paper, including depth and breadth of discussion and analysis, language, referencing style and layout. The referencing style should follow the Harvard UTS Referencing Guide. You are expected to undertake a rigorous literature search of discovery on your chosen topic, which includes a minimum of five (5) recent and relevant academic refereed publications (which is a mandatory component of the report). The length of your report should be between 2,500 to 3,500 o undertake a rigorous literature search of discovery on your chosen topic, which includes a minimum of five (5)...
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...October 30, 2012 Application 2-1 “ Planned Change at the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority” This case offers you the opportunity to identify and understand how each step of planned change is manifested in the application. It also describes how the plan evolves and adjusts during the transition. Question #1. Identify and describe the steps of the planned change process a) Recognize the need for change. The top management level recognized the need of a change. The San Diego County Regional Airport Authority (SDCRAA) was created by a California state law in October 2001. In this case, the change was motivated for the need to be seen differently in the marketplace. b) Develop the goals of the change. It was necessary to determine the importance of the change. Two broad but interdependent categories of initial activity emerged: developing the transition plan and dealing with the legal and regulatory issues. Both problems and improvement chances were evaluated and made. The group lead by Thella Bowens understood the importance of SDCRAA quickly becoming a standalone agency and recommended revising the existing strategic plan, to hire staff to research, discuss, and create a transition plan, and to conduct retreats with employees from multiple organization levels. c) Select a change agent. The change agent is the person who takes leadership responsibility to implement planned change. Thella Bowens was the senior director of the Aviation Division within the...
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...be indicated clearly. The length of group projects shall be 3000 words. Deadline: (week 14) 24 May 2012, Thursday, 14:00 Room 221 pbrczy@ibs-b.hu The final paper must be word processed and submitted on paper and electronically as well! The submission is incomplete unless both copies are received. Incomplete submissions will not be marked at all (shall receive a mark of 0). Late submissions (max. 1 week) will be charged a -15% penalty. The project can be completed by an in-class presentation. Volunteers shall sign up for the presentation at the module leader and discuss the content in advance. Inappropriate presentations will receive no marks. Criteria of assessment The paper shall refer to at least three articles from peer-reviewed journals (accessible via the library) or academic books, other than the compulsory readings for the module. Referencing: the sources of all materials...
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...Week 1 DQ1 My initial thoughts on distance learning before I started this program. With this program it will give me the comfort of learning at home through home study because it is a difficult time in my life right now that enables me to attend a university on campus while jogging family and work it empowers me to use different resources to achieve my goal. I made a Choice to choose distance learning it has given me innovation to take classes online that has a supportive environment. Distance learning as a relationship that can emerge any discussion to try distance learning. Distance learning is any number of instructional situations. This process has been done through t correspondence courses this is very popular as technology changes so does distance learning through radio,television and also correspondence courses that teach subjects such as foreign languages. The internet and compressed video have taken distance learning in a new direction and has allowed distance learning to occur in real life video instructions as became one of the most popular and fastest growing delivery mode The comparisons that I found between University of Phoenix library databases are the articles from published newspapers, magazines, journals, newsletters, investments, reports, financial documents, and reference books. Most of these documents can not be retrieved using the internet engines. Using the internet search engines the websites are freely available to the...
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...A consequence of employing unqualified adjunct faculty is student dissatisfaction with their clinical learning experience. In turn, this results in less-than-favorable adjunct clinical instructor evaluation. The purpose of the appreciative inquiry is to collect data on the teaching skills of new and adjunct clinical instructors. This is important, because it is the mission of the university and the nursing program to deliver quality education to all students. It is also important to retain excellent clinical instructors for the nursing program’s accreditation status. The best way to do this is to ensure that all clinical instructors are provided with the necessary information to succeed in clinical rotations. The clinical peer review evaluation plan is designed to collect participant’s stories and includes an observation phase. The participants are the new and adjunct clinical instructors, and the reviewers are clinical nurse instructors who are certified nurse educators. The key evaluation topics were based on the eight competencies for nurse educators found in the National League for Nursing (NLN). Through the appreciative interview, the strengths and wishes of the clinical faculty will be recorded. Included in this information will be the data collected from the clinical observation and the reflection phase of the evaluation. The evaluation plan was designed by the clinical certified nurse educators. The NLN’s eight nurse educator competencies were designed...
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...academic professionals process what is good academic writing, what are common mistakes made by academic writers, common criticisms against poor academic writing, and solutions how to avoid poor academic writing. The paper will discuss how academic professionals develop ideas, and go about expressing those ideas to their peers. The paper will also explain how academic professionals use complex information to explain simple ideas and phenomena, and how the use of such complex words, is often perceived as unnecessary jargon and nonsensical to those outside the scientific community. The paper will also provide an example of how writing has become so predictable, that one author purposely submitted a flawed paper, just to have the published as proof that academic writing had fallen to new lows. Finally the paper will offer possible solutions that would help writers avoid the pitfalls that lead to poor academic writing. Keywords: jargon, academic, incomprehensible, phenomena Solutions to Avoiding Bad Academic Writing The practice of academic professional writing revolves around the principle of presenting researched studied information to peers for review in the academic community. It is this mindset that allows researched or theoretical information, to be presented in a context that is relevant to the target reader, by confuse to those outside the scientific community. The issue with this approach is that non academics who attempt to read the information, feel like...
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...is crucial for every part of our lives. While we are enjoying or studying, we use returns of science. In short, it is indispensable for our society. In spite of its enormous importance, most people do not know what science is and what its problems are. Michael Shermer’s definition for science is “Science is not affirmation of a set of beliefs, but a process of inquiry aimed at building a testable body of knowledge constantly open to rejection or confirmation” (Kida, 2006, p.72). This definition has some important points. Science is a process and it does not dictate truth. It is open to rejection. The process of looking for truth consists of experiments, peer review and publication. However, these steps are not perfect. They have some problems. Experimental problems such as loose controls and unexpected results, lack of peer review and wrong publications of media are the biggest obstacles for science because they can mislead people. Firstly, one of the obstacles for science is experimental issues. Doing an experiment is a very important part of the scientific process. It is almost the only way to prove and legitimate our truths, also experiments are the keystone for science. However, conditions can affect our results. Loose control is one of the problems of this step. During an experiment, all of variables must be under control except one to understand which variables affect which results. ”Placebo effect” is an important term about this topic. Definition of Kida for this term is...
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...First paper The stronger the evidence the more likely an intervention is to be accepted into clinical practice. According to Houser (2012, p.471) it is recommended to determine that study satisfies general requirements of inclusion in an integrative review, meets screening criteria as a qualitative study, its level of evidence based on standards of trustworthiness and strength of recommendations based on quality of evidence. A study satisfies requirements for inclusion in review if it was published in peer-reviewed journal and if the problem addressed in the study meets criteria for inclusion in a review. There are five levels of evidence that can be assigned to a study using a somewhat formalized process described by Houser (2012, p.275). Level 1 study has the highest possible standards of evidence and while Level 5 has the lowest(Houser, 2012). To be classified as Level 1 study, it has to meet the standards for transferability, credibility, dependability and verifiability. The strength of recommendations is assigned according to three grades A though C. Grade A level studies are supported by one or more Level 1 studies while Grade C are only supported by no higher than Level 4 studies(Houser, 2012). By examining the studies levels of evidence and grades are determined according to various standards. Depending on the assigned level and grade results of such studies can be considered for implementation in a clinical practice(Houser, 2012). Thus a Level 1 and Grade...
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...requirements from the National Education Technology Standards for Students do you feel are right on target for your chosen grade and will be easy to implement? Which requirements for the grade of your choice do you feel will be the most difficult to support? Although limited at the present in your overall grade-level knowledge, are there any specific skills you feel are missing from your selected grade level? Were these skills introduced within an earlier grade level? * Concluding paragraph- a solid academic paper always ends with a conclusion to summarize what was discussed in the paper and why it is important. This should be in your own words with no citations. References Use the GCU eLibrary to research a minimum of three to five peer-reviewed articles that can be used in support of your content. You cannot have references listed here without having in-text citations stating where you used these references in the body of your paper. See the instructor add-ons section of the classroom to...
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...Chapter 1 Introduction The environment in which research is disseminated and used is undergoing a radical change and the task of modern HEIs is to better understand this change and support new ways of accessing content. It is now beyond doubt that the internet has revolutionised the way that research content is discovered, accessed and used. Content which once needed specialist skills to find is now widely available and searches which once took days of painstaking work can now be done in a matter of seconds. Increasingly, learners and new teachers’ needs are defined by their capacity to differentiate information: to recognise what is and what is not research content, to sort out the good from the bad, the useful from the merely relevant. The internet also appears to have had an impact on the way that research content is used in the real world. Many universities have invested heavily in learning spaces designed to facilitate the kind of social interaction that the internet promotes. Networks – online and offline – are increasingly a part of the way that the modern world evaluates information, including research content. Yet all this presumes that modern users will best know how to find their way in this new information environment, that they have the skills to find the right databases, enter the right search terms, to discover the most appropriate research content for their teaching and learning and use it in the most appropriate way. This study was commissioned by JISC...
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...Student Guide for Paper 1 Spring, 2012 Due by February 6, 2012, 11:59 p.m., Texas Time 1. Write a short term paper on a business / economics topic of your choice. Think of this paper as a short literature review. Note 1: Your research papers must be your own original work! Be sure to give proper credit when you borrow or use someone else's words and ideas, including your own previously written works. See the sixth edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association pages 15-16 for specific information on Plagiarism and Self-Plagiarism. If proper credit is not given to the work of others, the paper will be assigned a grade of 0. Note 2: If you choose to use the same topic for Paper 1 and for Paper 2, remember that your review of related literature for Paper 1 will be part of the research design you develop in Paper 2. Choose sources for Paper 1 that will fit well with the research design you plan to develop in Paper 2. Note 3: Write your paper in third person. Scholarly works such as Paper 1 generally are written in third person to avoid reader concern about bias in an empirical study. 2. Use APA formatting. A large portion of your grade will be based on formatting. The items below provide basic APA formatting information that will help you as you begin the formatting process. You may have a formatting need, however, that is not covered in this basic information. You are responsible for reading all...
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...setting. They also listed the differences between the online classroom and the traditional classroom. The steps one would take to prevent planned cheating are to have more confidence in oneself when writing papers, also having enough time to complete the assignments on time. As for steps for the panic cheating it was concluded that this form of cheating did exist in online learning as this practice is more reserved for the classroom setting For the second article I used academic honesty as the keyword in my article search. The title of the second article was: The culture of cheating: from the classroom to the exam room. The authors were Danielsen RD; Simon AF; Pavlick R. This article was published in March of 2006. No there was not a peer-review done on the paper. I found this article using the EBSCOhost database The focus of this article is on all different types of cheating. To list a few of the different types: Copying from another student during an examination, copying a paper from a file or from a purchased paper and presenting it as original work, asking another student for the answers to an examination question, purchasing or receiving notes from a fellow student and using material from another student's paper without giving bibliographic credit. How to take steps to prevent these different types: being prepared when taking an exam this means study and take good notes. Do the work and don’t purchase any papers, to sum up all of the rest is to be the student that does...
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...Danny Nguyen – Academic Requirements: |Program |Task Requirement |Word Limit |Submission Date |Assessment Grade | |Introduction to Accounting (BM120) – |6.3A (Review question in the textbook |Calculation based for 6.3A|15 November 2013 |20% | |DIBA |p75) + Analysis Question |+ 100 words for Analysis | | | | | |Question | | | |Introduction to Accounting (IT434) – |6.3A (Review question in the textbook |Calculation based for 6.3A|15 November 2013 | | |DIT |p75) + Analysis Question |+ 100 words for Analysis | | | | | |Question | | | |Accounting 1 (AC205) – PGSM BBA |6.4A (Review question in the textbook |Calculation based for 6.4A|15 November 2013 | | | |p75) + Analysis Question |+ 150 words for Analysis | | ...
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