...schools counselors are provided to help integrate research findings and practice. Evidence-Based Counseling 3 Evidence-Based Counseling Interventions With Children of Divorce: Implications for Elementary School Counselors Children of divorce comprise a significant portion of the U.S. school population. Each year in the United States, more than one million children experience parental divorce (U.S. Census Bureau, 2000). Projections indicate that by age 18, approximately 40% of children will experience their parents’ divorce. Because divorce affects a significant number of children, a body of empirical literature has emerged addressing its impact (Amato, 2001; Amato & Keith, 1991; Hipke, Wolchik, Sandler, & Braver, 2002; Hoyt, Cowen, Pedro-Carroll, & Gillis, 1990). Empirical research confirms that children of divorce are at an increased risk for the development of psychological, behavioral, social, and academic problems (Amato, 2000; Amato, 2001; Amato & Keith, 1991; Emery, 1999; Hetherington, 1999; Hetherington, Bridges, & Insabella, 1998; Kelly, 2000; Simons &...
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...Summary: SG Cowen is a investment banking firm based in the United States, born when Societe Generale (France) decided to expand into the EEUU and bought the firm Cowen and the company in 1998.They are a relatively small firm, more focused on the quality and service of their product than in the volume. The recruiting committee of SG Cowen is facing an important decision in regards to selecting two persons from the pool of four remaining candidates after all definite “Yes” and “No” have been identified. The company has held a meeting where they must decide among 30 different candidates, they faced with the last four, with the dilemma of which ones to employ for the last two places. The hiring process for new associates used to begin in the fall. The process after that can be broken up into three stages. Each of these stages helped the company make a decision about the candidate and is a key decision point for the firm. The working process is mainly divided in three stages: The purpose of the first one is to see if the candidate has real interest on the company by conducting informal interviews with students in the office in advance of official first- round interviews. These interviews were not part of formal process,that process was to know how serious and enthusiastic the candidates were and a chance to learn more about the firm. In this round interviewers are also instructed to test for culture fit. In the second one the candidates have an interview with an associate who will...
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...selection and why would you use that particular criterion? A: Sales skill, professional knowledge, loyalty, education background. Loyalty is the first rule for the company to select employees. The company is very high requirements for technical，so it must be need employees who have professional knowledge of the sales staff. And the education background has certain requirements. Sales manger should has sales skill, and mange team. 4. If you were the candidate selected my Ma for the job at Jindi Enterprises, would you accept the job? Why or why not? I think i will choose this job. 5. What are the key decision points used by S.G. Cowen in making hiring decisions? What is your evaluation of the process used by the firm? 6. What is your evaluation of the criteria used by S. G. Cowen in making hiring decisions? 7. Which two candidates would you select if you were a member of S.G. Cowen’s recruiting committee? Justify your decision. 8. Using the information presented in the case “Recruitment of a Star” whom should Stephen Connor hire? Why? 9. What...
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...Psychopathology Specific Learning Disorders Table of contents Index Pages Introduction 3 Diagnostic criteria 4 Aetiology 11 Differential diagnosis 14 Comorbodity 16 Prevalence 16 Prevention and Treatment 17 Prognosis 18 Multicultural factors 19 Social factors 19 Conclusion 20 References 21 Stupid Slow Stubborn A tiny fragment of words used, labels for children and people with specific learning disorders. If only they understood Introduction The most basic definition of a specific learning disorder/disability according to Gould (2005) cited in Rörich (2008) is when a learner has an average to above average intelligence, with normal vision and hearing, and receives the same teaching experiences as other learners his age. He, however, underachieves. He is unable to keep up with his peers and generally cannot cope with the demands of the school (pp16). Margari (2013) defines SLD’s as that which are characterizations of academic functioning that are below the level that would be expected given their age, Intelligent Quotient and grade level in school, and interfere significantly with academic performances or daily life activities that require reading, writing or calculation skills. The gist of it, is that specific learning disorders are neurodevelopmental/cognitive disorders that Hulme and Snowling (2009,pp22) define as “typically characterized...
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...Unit #2: Major Concepts Essay No Child Left Behind: Representative Democracy, Bureaucracy, and Accountability Demetrius Zeigler Kaplan University Representative Democracy has its roots as a concept or principle in the very fabric of the founding of the United States of America. Early settlers were looking for a place to live while being free to choose their leaders. They were eager to say bon voyage to the old way of rule by monarchy or dynastic family rule. The new wave or system of government that was born is known as Representative Democracy. People or ordinary citizens can now govern themselves through capable elected leaders chosen to represent them. As an elected representative one has to first campaign and during that process the people’s goal, visions, and dreams are aligned with the candidates principles for governing. Through these elected representatives, citizens have direct input on every issue. An issue that affects us all to be sure, and constantly receives a tremendous amount of attention is the No Child Left Behind Act. This act was enacted for the purpose of totally overhauling and transforming the United States educational system. Representatives from both major political parties voted by majority to pass the law. This is a classic example of Representative Democracy at work. Apparently nearly everyone agrees that the nation’s educational system is in need of immediate remedy, reform, and overhaul. Since the passage of the bill, though left unfunded...
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...particular, research on what might be called the contours and impacts of urban restructuring and the neoliberal city, immigration and cities of difference, and urban environmental justice show much promise and are likely to define the core of Canadian urban geography into the future. Key words: cities, urban geography, Canada, economic restructuring, neoliberalism, social justice L’urbain ` une ´poque fragile, incertaine et a e n´olib´rale: vers de nouvelles g´ographies de la e e e justice sociale? ` Les villes canadiennes sont a la crois´e des chemins. e Alors que l’´conomie mondiale traverse une p´riode e e de transformation, la situation des villes au Canada se pr´carise avec les effets de la restructuration e ` n´olib´rale de la gouvernance a multiples niveaux, e e l’insuffisance du r´investissement dans les e infrastructures urbaines, la d´pendance accrue des e ´changes commerciaux internationaux, ainsi que la e restructuration de l’´conomie de l’espace. Dans les e conditions actuelles, la recherche canadienne en ` g´ographie urbaine a beaucoup a offrir et continue e de fournir un apport significatif dans les domaines d’importance...
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...Table of Contents Rpt. 25810062 14-Apr-2015 SAREPTA THERAPEUTICS INC COWEN AND COMPANY - BARAL, RITU, ET AL 4-8 Rpt. 25767315 06-Apr-2015 SAREPTA THERAPEUTICS INC ROTH CAPITAL PARTNERS, LLC - CHATTOPADHYAY, DEBJIT, ET AL 9 - 21 Rpt. 25736145 01-Apr-2015 SAREPTA THERAPEUTICS INC CANACCORD GENUITY - RESEARCH DEPARTMENT 22 - 28 Rpt. 25736256 01-Apr-2015 SAREPTA THERAPEUTICS INC PIPER JAFFRAY - COMPANY REPORT - TENTHOFF, EDWARD, ET AL 29 - 32 Rpt. 25733910 01-Apr-2015 SAREPTA THERAPEUTICS INC COWEN AND COMPANY - BARAL, RITU, ET AL 33 - 37 Rpt. 25736405 01-Apr-2015 SAREPTA THERAPEUTICS INC CREDIT SUISSE - NORTH AMERICA - SHEPARD, JEREMIAH, ET AL 38 - 56 Rpt. 25732665 01-Apr-2015 SAREPTA THERAPEUTICS INC RBC CAPITAL MARKETS (CANADA) - SIMEONIDIS, SIMOS, ET AL 57 - 62 Rpt. 25732827 01-Apr-2015 SAREPTA THERAPEUTICS INC JMP SECURITIES LLC - COMPANY REPORTS - BAYKO, LIISA 63 - 67 Rpt. 25735100 01-Apr-2015 SAREPTA THERAPEUTICS INC OPPENHEIMER AND CO - RESEARCH DEPARTMENT 68 - 72 Rpt. 25736008 01-Apr-2015 SAREPTA THERAPEUTICS INC RBC CAPITAL MARKETS (CANADA) - SIMEONIDIS, SIMOS, ET AL 73 - 78 These reports were compiled using a product of Thomson Reuters www.thomsonreuters.com 1 Table of Contents Rpt. 25736195 01-Apr-2015 SAREPTA THERAPEUTICS INC WILLIAM BLAIR & COMPANY - LUGO, TIM, ET AL 79 - 83 Rpt. 25736196 01-Apr-2015 SAREPTA THERAPEUTICS INC LEERINK PARTNERS LLC - SCHWARTZ...
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...Personnel Management Research in Agribusiness Vera Bitsch Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics Michigan State University, 306 Agriculture Hall, East Lansing, Michigan, 48824 Tel: +517-353-9192, Fax: +517-432-1800, bitsch@msu.edu Paper presented at the 19th Annual World Forum and Symposium of the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association, Budapest, Hungary, June 20-23, 2009 Acknowledgements This study was supported by the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, Hatch project #0191628. The author would also like to thank the Elton R. Smith Chair in Food & Agricultural Policy at Michigan State University for supporting the participation at the IFAMA World Forum and Symposium. Copyright 2009 by Vera Bitsch. All rights reserved. Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies. Personnel Management Research in Agribusiness (Executive Summary) One of the challenges faced by agribusinesses in the 21st century is the attraction, motivation, and retention of sufficient and qualified labor. However, personnel management research has mostly focused on other industries. Accordingly, agribusiness managers have little to rely on, when developing personnel policies and procedures. Once a business has grown beyond the labor capacity of the immediate family, personnel management becomes an issue and practices developed...
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...Literature Review Sample on Bullying Posted by Vic Fabe at 7:40 PM Chapter 2 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE This part of the study will be discussing the relevant literature connected with the study of the bullying in high school. This part of the study accounts the works that has been published on a topic by accredited scholars and researchers. All this would allow the readers to map the field and position your research within the context. Moreover, this part of the study justifies the reason for research. This is closely connected with demonstrating that is known in the field. It is the knowledge of the field that allows one to identify the gap, which the research could fill. Concurrently, it allows the researcher to establish the theoretical framework and methodological focus. Adolescents in High School Adolescence is an especially dangerous time of life. The onset of puberty produces biological changes that are certainly unprecedented, if not scary. The adolescent's body changes visibly, and while his appearance continues to change, his concept of self changes as well. The reception he receives from others changes, in addition to the way he responds to them. The boundaries once conceived of as permanent are uncertain and must be reconfigured. The adolescent will begin to see himself as having sexual drives and may feel great anxiety surrounding sexual matters. And in response to this myriad of intense feelings and changes, the adolescent presents himself as omnipotent...
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...Journal of Business Ethics (2009) 88:351–366 DOI 10.1007/s10551-008-9968-9 Ó Springer 2008 Determinants of Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure Ratings by Spanish Listed Firms Carmelo Reverte ABSTRACT. The aim of this paper is to analyze whether a number of firm and industry characteristics, as well as media exposure, are potential determinants of corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure practices by Spanish listed firms. Empirical studies have shown that CSR disclosure activism varies across companies, industries, and time (Gray et al., Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 8(2), 47–77, 1995; Journal of Business Finance & Accounting 28(3/4), 327–356, 2001; Hackston and Milne, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 9(1), 77–108, 1996; Cormier and Magnan, Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting 1(2), 171–195, 2003; Cormier et al., European Accounting Review 14(1), 3–39, 2005), which is usually justified by reference to several theoretical constructs, such as the legitimacy, stakeholder, and agency theories. Our findings evidence that firms with higher CSR ratings present a statistically significant larger size and a higher media exposure, and belong to more environmentally sensitive industries, as compared to firms with lower CSR ratings. However, neither profitability nor leverage seem to explain differences in CSR disclosure practices between Spanish listed firms. The most influential variable for explaining firms’ variation...
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...I N T R O D U C T I O N According to Professor Dr. Lars Perner, “the environmental forces which affect the marketing process are most of the time uncontrollable by the organization and therefore the company should do the necessary to cope with these forces.” The marketing environment consists of all the players and forces outside marketing that influence the marketing management’s ability to develop and maintain successful relationships with its target customers. (ZainBooks, 2010) These environmental forces might affect directly or indirectly, sometimes both and it will create both opportunities for further growth or threats declining a company’s growth. Therefore a company should always keep an eye on its environmental forces and adopt quickly and better than its competitors according to the changes in the environmental forces in order to survive in the market and to grow further. Oman is a developing country and its market in general is in rapid growth, especially the Fast Food industry. This rapid growing industry does have influential marketing factors. Both the macro-environment and the micro-environment factors do affect the Fast Food industry in Oman. Some affect in larger percentage and some very minimal that it seems so invisible. Following are the seemingly active environmental forces shaping the Fast Food Industry in Oman: Micro Environment: Employees Customers Company Competitors Suppliers Shareholders Media The Company – The Company...
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...of the Irish ‘Celtic Tiger’ 4 2.3 The ‘Financial Vikings’ of Iceland 5 3. Financial crisis response 6 3.1 Government response to the financial crisis 6 3.2 The default decision 10 4. Economic outlook and long-term repercussions 14 5. Conclusion 18 1. Introduction to the financial crisis The Great Recession began in 2007 as the United States housing market fell into a sharp decline. Many economists consider the resulting financial crisis to be the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. While the crisis can be traced back to a variety of economic origins, the volatility that existed in the world economy from the 1990’s undoubtedly played a large role (Roubini, 2010). The Asian Crisis that arose after the fall of car manufacturer Kia in 1997 and the burst of the Dotcom Bubble in the early 2000’s resulted in many wealthy countries decreasing interest rates to all-time lows to encourage growth in their economies (Roubini, 2010). These low interest rates led consumers, particularly those in the US, to borrow more money than they could afford to repay (Roubini, 2010). During the financial crisis, credit defaults brought the solvency of a number of major international banks into question, and several governments ultimately had to bail out their banking systems (Rose & Spiegel, 2009). Problems that arose primarily in the United States quickly spread around the world due to the resulting contagion (Rose & Spiegel, 2009). Ireland and Iceland...
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...Uncertain Supply Chain Management 2 (2014) 61–72 Contents lists available at GrowingScience Uncertain Supply Chain Management homepage: www.GrowingScience.com/uscm Sustainable accounting reporting practices of Indian cement industry: An exploratory study Shagufta Khana , Vineet Chouhanb*, Bibhas Chandrac and Shubham Goswamib a Research Scholar, School of Management, Sir Padampat Singhania University, Udaipur-India Assistant Professor, School of Management, Sir Padampat Singhania University, Bhatewar, Udaipur-India, 313601 c Associate Professor, School of Management, Sir Padampat Singhania University, Bhatewar, Udaipur-India, 313601 b CHRONICLE Article history: Received September 10, 2013 Received in revised format 10 December 2013 Accepted February 25 2014 Available online February 27 2014 Keywords: Cement Industry Sustainability Financial Information Environment Accounting Reporting Sustainable Reporting Practices ABSTRACT Cement is the single most important and profitable product in the building material sector. With the economic boom, in India, Indian cement industry is a market of opportunities waiting to be tapped. However, at the same time cement industry is also experiencing a surge in demand. Production of Cement will always release carbon dioxide and change in the climate of the earth that is why despite its profitability, the cement industry faces many challenges regarding environmental concerns and sustainability issues. In order to minimize the impact of all...
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...Homeless Youth: Research, Intervention, and Policy by Karen Spuriel Coleman- MBA Abstract Homelessness among youth in the U.S. is disturbingly common, with an estimated annual prevalence of at least 5 percent for those ages 12 to 17. Although homeless youth appear throughout the nation, they are most visible in major cities. Rigorous research on this special population is sparse, making it difficult to capture an accurate and complete picture. Despite its limitations, recent research describes homeless youth as a large and diverse group. Many homeless youth have multiple overlapping problems including medical, substance abuse, and emotional and mental problems. Literature suggests that comprehensive and tailored services are needed that address both the immediate and long-term needs of homeless youth. Where appropriate, services should include assistance with meeting basic needs as perceived by youth as a gateway to other needed services. In addition to serving those already homeless, interventions are needed to prevent homelessness among at-risk youth. Lessons for Practitioners, Policy Makers, and Researchers • As used here, the term “homeless youth” focuses on minors who have experienced literal homelessness on their own—i.e., who have spent at least one night either in a shelter or "on the streets" without adult supervision. On occasion, where warranted by the research being discussed, the term is also used to describe homeless young adults up to age 24. • Homelessness...
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...TRAILZON-Virtual Fitting Room Introduction TRAILZON – Virtual Fitting Room is a totally new product made by the group for Amazon. Group members made a set of marketing strategies for it. First, the company’s information and the product’s scenario will be introduced generally. Considering the future launch and success of ‘TRAILZON’ when it goes to market, this report will justify these proposals and discuss the further strategies and relevant issues based on the current propositions by the group. I. Recap, amendments and strategies Brief recap of ‘TRAILZON’ Amazon is an American electronic commerce company and it is one of the biggest online shopping retailers operating in over 14 countries all over the world (Barney, 2011). According to Cowen (2015), the garment and accessories sales occupied about seventy percent of the total income in Amazon in 2015. Thus, TRAILZON - Virtual fitting room was put forward to benefit more from the garment and strategies were made in order to achieve marketing target. TRAILZON is an online shopping app which enables users to fit clothes virtually. The target market of TRAILZON includes fashion brands, online shops and mobile users in the UK. TRAILZON will make profit by selling TRAILZON to fashion brands, sharing profits with application stores and selling clothes directly to customers so all retailing is virtual. As to the promotion, creative advertising will show on social media to make target market aware of this application. Besides, Amazon...
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