...only believed that the babies develop their motor skills depending on how they behave on the environment, but also that they modify their movements depending on the results of their actions. With regard of TC’s physical development, in terms of gross motor skills, while lying on the mat in supine position, TC has complete control of her head, keeping it in central position and moving it side to side when something calls her attention. She also kicked strongly using alternate feet while on the mat or while changing her nappy, skill that babies of her age range do (Flood, 2003), therefore TC is on target for these skills. In the prone position, TC attempted to roll but was not successful; TC looked uncomfortable and cried. Moreover, when sitting, it was observed that TC not only didn’t have her head straight but also her back was curved, therefore TC could not keep balance or reach for toys nearby. These skills are not in...
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...[Hook/anecdote on observations of nephews etc] A few years ago, a video of a five-year-old girl named Riley went viral. Standing in a decidedly pink toy aisle she laments, “Why do all the girls have to buy pink stuff?” Riley is not the only one questioning the ways in which toys are gender-stereotyped and marketed, and some go so far to argue that, in addition to shaping gender identity, it in contributes to gender inequality. [additional discussion/framing main questions of the paper etc] Gender, not to be confused with sex, which is biologically defined by reproductive organs, may be understood as a socially constructed range of characteristics that pertain to and differentiate between masculinity and femininity. To further clarify, “male” and “female” are sex categories,...
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...Unit 1 - Setting up a Business Revision Guide Exam Details Unit Title: | Unit 1 – Setting up a Business | Type of Assessment: | Written Paper (1 hour) | Marks available | 60 marks - 40% of the GCSE | Date of the examination (and session) | Tuesday 22 May 2012 | The Syllabus Section 1 – Starting a Business | Content | | R | A | G | 1 | Enterprise: What is business? | | | | | 2 | Finding a gap in the market | | | | | 3 | Franchises | | | | | 4 | Business objectives | | | | | 5 | Business objectives: measuring success | | | | | 6 | Business objectives: stakeholders | | | | | 7 | Business plans | | | | | 8 | Business risk and uncertainty | | | | | 9 | Legal structure: sole trader and partnership | | | | | 10 | Legal structure: limited and unlimited | | | | | 11 | Locating the business | | | | | Section 2 – Marketing | Content | | R | A | G | 1 | Market research with limited budgets | | | | | 2 | Market research methods | | | | | 3 | The marketing mix | | | | | 4 | The marketing mix: product | | | | | 5 | The marketing mix: price | | | | | 6 | The marketing mix: promotion | | | | | 7 | The marketing mix: place | | | | | Section 3 – Finance | Content | | R | A | G | 1 | Finance for small businesses | | | | | 2 | Support for small businesses | | | | | 3 | Financial terms and basic financial calculations | | | |...
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...I. GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE CHILD A. Developmental information. This child named Tina was born naturally in a hospital. She started to crawl at the age of six months and began sitting at the age of a year. Her speaking skills started to show when she is a year and a half old. According to her parents she doesn't have any inborn illnesses. She is talkative when in front of the relatives or people known to her but she's shy when in front of other people. She is very playful whenever she’s at school or at home. She is maturing and developing upwards as we observe her. B. Physical description. She has fair skin and long hair. Her eyes are brown. She is about 3 feet and a half in height. She is taller than her classmates. She has black hair. She has medium body built compared to her age. C. Selection of child. We selected this child based on her behavior and family background. Based on her behavior because we saw that her behavior towards school and her development in maturity is high. We also choose her because of family background due to the fact that family has a great factor in the child's development. D. Educational placement or setting. When we accompany the child in school we have noticed the colorful room and lots of play things like puzzles and musical instruments. The room is decorated by posters giving information about different subjects like math and science. The room can accommodate all the children in a class. It...
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...The WACC Fallacy: The Real Effects of Using a Unique Discount Rate 1 Philipp Kr¨ ger u Geneva Finance Research Institute - Universit´ de Gen`ve e e Augustin Landier Toulouse School of Economics David Thesmar HEC Paris and CEPR First Version: February 2011 This Version: September 2011 We greatly appreciate comments and suggestions by Malcolm Baker, Andor Gy¨rgy, Owen Lamont, o Masahiro Watanabe, Jeff Wurgler and seminar participants at the NBER Behavioral Finance Spring Meeting, the University of Mannheim, the 2011 European Financial Management Association meetings, the 2011 European Finance Association meetings, the CEPR European Summer Symposium on Financial Markets and HEC Lausanne. Boris Vall´e provided excellent research assistance. Thesmar e thanks the HEC Foundation for financial support. Corresponding Author: Philipp Kr¨ger. Email: u philipp.krueger@unige.ch, Telephone: +41 (0)22 379 85 69. Augustin Landier, augustin.landier@tsefr.eu, Telephone: +33 (0)5 61 12 86 88. David Thesmar, thesmar@hec.fr, Telephone: +33 (0)1 39 67 94 12. 1 Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1764024 The WACC Fallacy: The Real Effects of Using a Unique Discount Rate Abstract We document investment distortions induced by the use of a single discount rate within firms. According to textbook capital budgeting, firms should value any project using a discount rate determined by the risk characteristics of the project. If they use a unique company-wide discount...
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...Behavior Intervention Plan Target Behavior and Client Background Part 1 CLIENT: Sara F. DOB: 05/17/2006 1. Client Background Sara is a five year old female with no major medical problems. She lives at home with her mother, father, and two sisters. Sara attends a school for children with developmental disabilities. Sara attends school five days per week from 830 to 230. Her class is made up of 6 other students, one special education teacher and 2 to 3 aides. Sara has trouble with transitions both at school and in her home. Sara loves to go to school, but has trouble with the transitions throughout her day. Her parents have seen this in the home as well. Sara’s parents report that she will throw scream, cry, bite, kick climb on furniture and swipe items onto the floor Sara also will throw self onto the floor. This behavior occurs daily. It has also been witnessed by the parents the Sara become angry when she is asked to move to the next activity or tasks. The episodes will last from anywhere from 2 minute up to one hour. The staff at school did a recording of the episodes. The durations of the behavior and what prompted this behavior to happen. Sara parents want this behavior to stop, so they will start a plan at home...
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...MATTEL: A Case Study | October 22 2012 | Case study discussion taken from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business “Unsafe for Children: Mattel’s Toy Recalls and Supply Chain Management” | Rob Breakiron Wenyao Ma Alek Shnayder Jiajie Wang | Contents Introduction 2 Why do companies outsource? 2 What were the primary causes of Mattel’s recall problems? Where these the result of outsourcing? 4 What actions were taken by the principals in the case to address the recall problems? Were these the right actions? Why, or why not? 5 What should Mattel do now? What should governments do? 7 How can accountability be better managed in long, global supply chains? 12 Introduction Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT), the world’s largest toy company with over $12.5 billion in revenue, has grown from the little toy company it once was and has certainly come a long way since it was founded in 1945. The exponential world-wide growth has not always come without a hitch. In the late 2000’s Mattel was at a crossroads due to a significant toy recall problem, reaching far beyond the bottom line. During this case write up we discuss what went wrong, whose fault it was, and what can and should be done to not only fix the problem, but eliminate the chance of similar problems for Mattel and other firms in the future. Our case study will tackle the following five questions through in depth discussion: 1) Why do companies outsource? 2) What were the primary causes of Mattel’s...
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...------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Master of Business Administration Concentration in IMC ------------------------------------------------- Course Code: BB503 ------------------------------------------------- Course Title: Marketing Management Assignment Title: Observation Assignment Date Submitted: 25 October 2014 25 October 2014 Declaration of Originality: The work contained in this assignment, other than that specifically attributed to another source, is that of the author(s). It is recognised that, should this declaration be found to be false, disciplinary action could be taken and the assignments of all students involved will be given zero marks. In the statement of collaboration, I have indicated the extent to which I have collaborated with other students, whom I have named. CLEARLY PRINT Name: | Student ID No: | Signature: | Nisa Unothai | 566110520011 | | Lin Xiao (Rebekah) | 576110520002 | | QinXueFei (Sophie) | 576110520006 | | Li Minyi (Maple) | 576110520007 | | Zhou zhiyu (Jayce) | 576110520010 | | Padcharee Klahan | 576110520015 | | | | | | | | Tasks 1. Select the specific Brand of fast food chain or coffee shop chain e.g. KFC, Starbuck Group 3 selects Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC in short name) which is an international brand providing fast-food restaurant in many countries. 2. Discuss the similarities...
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...FINAL REPORT OF “SHOPPING PATTERNS OF THE PEOPLE INSIDE THE GIFTS SHOPS AND HOME DÉCOR SHOPS – A COMPARITIVE ANALYSIS (September 4, 2010) In partial fulfillment of the requirements of the course "Retail Marketing" of MBA (Full Time) CARD AND GIFT: For the past decade or so the gift and card industry has been growing at a rapid rate and gaining market share. At the whim of discretionary spending, gift shops and card stores rely on low-margin, high-volume sales and are finding it increasingly difficult to compete with supermarkets and online retailers. The key to survival is consolidation and vertical integration which is seeing the number of companies decline while store numbers edge up. The cards and gift shops fall into the impulse purchase category. The product mix includes: cards, collectible gifts, gift wrap, holiday and seasonal decoration, novelties, party supplies, souveniers, etc. Gift shops come as both standalone stores as well as part of supermarkets. In India these stores are franchisees, chain retailers, as well as independent retailers. The customer base is spread over a wide demography, but the main consumers are young. Some of the main players in this category are: Archies: [pic] Archies was founded in 1979 as a mail order poster shop, and introduced its first line of greeting cards in 1980. The company procured its first ever foreign license from Walt Disney, USA in 1984 and offered its customers some of the best loved Disney characters...
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...is to decide for a favorable place or location for their new businesses. Due to our multicultural globus, every country has its specific regulations, markets, interrests, labor, trade zones, facilities and other factores that could affect the decision of the foreing expansion and the choice of the industry location. This paper illustrates the major factors that should influence such decisions. There are several types of observations, how to decide for a specific location for a company. This dicision depend strongly on the activities of the company, in other words with what type of business profile this company identifies itself. There are two major categories in our global observation what a company can be. The first one is the firms that have industrial backround, like goods production. Second one is companies that are based on service. This second category is not descused in this paper due to the less importance of the site selection decision, because it doesn’t matter whether the whole business process is situated at the same location. The communication technologie open the facility to be successfully performend even on different continet. In this paper I will be focused on the industrial corporates that is willing to take the decision of locating its factory somewhere in the global/international trade zones. Introduction How many factores and what factores are the key criterias that influence corporates’ international location decision? A key decision corporations...
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...most critical finding of 21st century neuroscience to date—the discovery of mirror neurons (MNs)—contend that MNs underlie simulation theories of action understanding and mindreading (Gallese & Goldman, 1998); Gallese et al., (2004). The mechanism that allows mirroring of action is referred to as the ‘direct-matching hypothesis,’ (Rizzolatti et al., 2001), and the claim is based on the response properties of MNs in monkeys. The discovery of MNs is important in that if the implications of their function are properly understood, it lays a foundation for explanations of not only understanding of action and other minds (Gallese, 2003), but for other big questions, such as the evolution of language (Rizzolatti & Arbib, 1998). The concern of this paper is MN function as a feature at the core of the stronger claims. Alternative theorists challenge the characterization of the MN role as ‘mirroring’ action, as their findings show that mirroring cannot be direct and must rely on an interpretation of the observed action. They claim: a) MNs do not simulate with enough precision to be referred to as ‘mirroring,’ in which they are said to simulate an agent’s motor program onto the very same motor repertoire of an observer not performing the act; b) mirror neuron activation is predictive of action, not replicative; and c) the function of these neurons supports a model that is generative of top-down action understanding that is emulative, and formed outside the motor system, not embodied in the simulation...
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...BSBRES401A analyse and present research information p85 q5 Employee Job Satisfaction for flexible working Please take a few minutes to tell us about your job and how the organization assists you | Strongly Disagree | Somewhat Disagree | Neither Agree nor Disagree | Somewhat Agree | Strongly Agree | I feel encouraged to come up with new and better ways of doing things. | | | | | | New work ways gives me a feeling of personal accomplishment. | | | | | | I have the tools and resources to do my job well. | | | | | | On my job, I have clearly defined quality goals. | | | | | | The Company does an excellent job of keeping employees informed about matters affecting us. | | | | | | When a customer is dissatisfied, I can usually correct the problem to their satisfaction. | | | | | | I understand why it is so important for (Company name) to value diversity (to recognize and respect the value of differences in race, gender, age, etc.) | | | | | | My job makes good use of my skills and abilities. | | | | | | My supervisor’s manager visibly demonstrates a commitment to quality...
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...[pic] 2009 Submitted by: Saurabh Kumar saurabhkumar.in@gmail.com +91 9764 88 3889 Project: Athavaya A complimentary plug-in module for class 5 Introduction “Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man.” – Swami Vivekananda This project is intended to bring in light the scope to illustrate ways in which our school education stands and in which direction it should develop. It is not intended to be a coherent historical survey of this field, nor can it claim to be a balanced selection from theorists of current influence and future pathways. For this reason it seems useful here to clarify the lines of thought developed in the contents of this proposal, so that the reader can appreciate the context in which we must put our strategies and sincere efforts. An actual situation will be explored and real life experiences will be taken in, as well as problems, which might be thought more intrinsic to formulation of aims, content, methods (and so on) of a particular primary school education system. In the proposal I wish to create the context, take it through the framework of reasoning the context, bringing out relevance and defining the objective and the way to meet...
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...system we have utilized. The report is finished all in all, after principle discovering, proposal will be given to enhance the present methods received by the McDonald and proposals will be given for further research. INTRODUCTION An advertisement campaign is a progression of notice message that share a solitary thought and topic which make up an integrated marketing communication (IMC). Publicizing battle shows up in distinctive media over a particular time period. The basic piece of making a promoting battle is deciding a crusade topic as it sets the tone for the individual ad and other type of advertising correspondence. McDonald's keeps up a broad publicizing crusade. In extra to regular media including TV, radio and daily paper promotions, the organization makes noteworthy utilization of bulletins and signage, patrons donning occasions like FIFA World mugs and Olympic Diversions The McDonald's image is widespread organization. The bunch's 34,000th eatery opened in summer 2012, and those brilliant curves now spread over 119 nations, respecting exactly 69m clients consistently. Insufficient, the organization says. On any day McDonald's still just serves under 1% of the world populace, leaving a lot of space for development. However benefits fell drastically in 2002 and the gathering made phenomenal moves to close failing to meet expectations outlets, notwithstanding hauling out of a couple showcases out and out. That move seemed to have paid off by 2004, and the...
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