...Adoption: The Negative Emotional Impact of Adoption Research Writing Introduction Growing up there is one point in time when all children wish they had different parents or wished they could be adopted by adults who are “cool, understandable, and rich” because out parents seemed to always find a way to ruin our lives. Unfortunately this is no wish for some children, being adopted by strangers is some children’s reality. Adoption is viewed as a lifetime commitment to raise babies or children who are not biologically yours into the best person they can be. People who adopt get that great sense of satisfaction that they reached out and changed a person’s life. Even though the adopters get that great sense of satisfaction, no one stops to think about the hurt and negative emotions that the adoptee may feel in regards to their adoption. Adoption can have a harmful negative reaction impact on the adoptees as they go through their journey of life. I believe that even though there are negative emotions that come with adoption there are some solutions such as therapy to cope with the emotions. Review of the Literature The emotional effect adoption can have on a child is a problem in society today. Researchers show there are different aspects of adoption people need to understand and different ways to cope with adoptees and the emotional hurt they feel. The following researchers discuss different emotional effects adoption can have on adopted children. Child Welfare...
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...Southern Methodist University, the 2005 Pennsylvania State University Accounting Research Conference, the 2005 Joint Journal of Accounting ResearchLondon Business School Conference on International Financial Reporting Standards, the 2006 New York University International Accounting Convergence and Capital Markets Integration Conference; research assistance of Yang Gui, Yaniv Konchitchki, and Christopher Williams; and funding from the Center for Finance and Accounting Research, Kenan-Flagler Business School. International Accounting Standards and Accounting Quality Abstract We examine whether application of International Accounting Standards is associated with higher accounting quality. The application of IAS reflects the combined effects of features of the financial reporting system, including standards, their interpretation, enforcement, and litigation. We find that firms applying IAS from 21 countries generally evidence less earnings management, more timely loss recognition, and more value...
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...contribution that institutional theory can make to understanding the success of marketing practices. Based on institutional theory, we argue that the effectiveness of marketing practices decreases when firms are motivated to adopt such practices under the influence of institutional pressures originating in firms’ environments. However, alignment between a practice and a firm’s marketing strategy may buffer against these negative effects. We apply these insights to the case of customer relationship management (CRM). CRM is considered an important way to enhance customer loyalty and firm performance, but it has also been criticized for being expensive and for not living up to expectations. Empirical data from 107 organizations confirm that, in general, adopting CRM for mimetic motives is likely to result in fewer customer insights as a result of using this practice. Our study suggests that institutional theory has much to offer to the investigation of the effectiveness of marketing practices. Keywords Customer relationship management . Institutional theory . Mimetic motives . Adoption . Marketing practices B. Hillebrand (*) Institute for Management Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands e-mail: b.hillebrand@fm.ru.nl J. J. Nijholt Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands E. J. Nijssen Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands Introduction Institutional theory posits that...
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...Juno: Film Essay An important idea in the film Juno directed by Jason Reitman, is the idea that all of our choices will have consequences. This idea is shown in many ways throughout the film. For example, Juno’s choice to have un-protected sex, her choice not to abort her baby, and the choice to carry out an adoption even though her plans didn’t turn out the way they had expected, all had following consequences. The protagonist of the film is 16-year-old, Juno MacGuff. Juno has to face the dilemmas of an unexpected pregnancy. She finds what seems to be the perfect adoption couple, but when her adoption plans take a turn for disaster, Juno must dig herself out of her sticky situation and do what’s best for her baby. At the start of the film, Juno decides to have unprotected sex with her close friend, Paulie Bleeker. Her choice to have un-protected sex is a choice she hasn’t taken into a whole lot of consideration, consequently leading Juno to becoming pregnant. The mise-en-scene at the start of the film shows us how Juno now feels about her pregnancy. Juno stands across from the armchair Bleeker and she had sex on, while a voice over says, ‘It started with a chair.’ The armchair seems much larger than Juno even though they are about the same size. The chair represents Juno’s sudden pregnancy, something dominant, something overwhelming her. Juno looks small in comparison to the chair, showing us that she feels small, insignificant and weak. Juno plans to quickly...
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...The experiences of individuals within an institution can be positive or negative, depending on what the institution offers and how the individual responds. Lily Arthur the protagonist in the documentary in Gone to a Good Home (2006) directed by Karen Beckman and Kerry Tucker in The Graduate (2010) by Tracy MacArthur both undergo traumatic experiences that change their life forever. In the Graduate, Kerry Tucker is sentenced to prison for 5 years for her crime, though in the worst possible place, physically and mentally, she is able to see the positives in the institution, completing an Arts Degree in Literature, becoming a model citizen. As a consequence of the institutions, their individuality and identity is tested they are forced ti comply with the rules and regulations of the institutions and experience events that can leave positive and negative outcomes, influencing their view of themselves and the world. Institutions can deprive individuals of their identity; however, this can be overcome if the individual is strong willed enough. In Gone to a Good Home, the religious institution of the Holy Cross Home for Girls confides Lily away from society as she is in “moral danger” for being a pregnant, unwed teenage girl. The black and white dramatic recreations of Lily when her hair was being cut upon first entered the home emphasises the physical loss of her identity as well as the oppressive power of the institution, therefore inevitably complying with the rules and regulation...
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...(3), pp. 047-060, July 2013 Available online at http://www.journalissues.org/journals-home.php?id=2 © 2013 Journal Issues Original Research Paper The adoption of mobile phone: How has it changed us socially? Accepted 7 July , 2013 Augustine Addo Institute of Entrepreneurship and Finance, Department of Entrepreneurship and Finance, Kumasi polytechnic, P. O. Box 845, Kumasi, Ghana. Author Email: augustine_addo@yahoo.co.uk Tel: +233263928024 Mobile phone use has changed from a percieved item of luxury to an every day necessity for many people. This study therefore examined how the adoption of mobile phones has impacted in changing the behaviour and attitude of users. Kumasi Polytechnic was used as the study area. A total of 250 respondents were randomly selected for this study. Using indepedent sample t-test and a descriptive case study in which a combination of qualitative and quantitative techniques were used to analyze the data, the study finds positive evidence of positive influence in mobile adoption in enhancing communication is significant. Mobile phone has changed the way people communicate and live by influencing peoples’ life in a wide scope predicated to change society in a larger and deeper way more than its intended use as communication tool. The adoption of mobile phones have some negative effects such as enhancing crime, diversion of attention, increased social anxiety and capturing obscene audio-visuals and these are significant according to the t-test...
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...Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - 2000 Investigation of Factors Affecting Healthcare Organization’s Adoption of Telemedicine Technology Paul Jen-Hwa Hu University of South Florida Patrick Y.K. Chau University of Hong Kong Olivia R. Liu Sheng University of Arizona Abstract Recent advances in information and biomedicine technology have significantly increased the technical feasibility, clinical viability and economic affordability of telemedicine-assisted service collaboration and delivery. The ultimate success of telemedicine in an adopting organization requires the organization’s proper addressing both technological and managerial challenges. Based on Tornatzky and Fleischer’s framework, we developed and empirically evaluated a research model for healthcare organizations’ adoption of telemedicine technology, using a survey study that involved public healthcare organizations in Hong Kong. Results of our exploratory study suggested that the research model exhibited reasonable significance and classification accuracy and that collective attitude of medical staff and perceived service risks were the two most significant factors in organizational adoption of telemedicine technology. Furthermore, several implications for telemedicine management emerged from our study and are discussed as well 1. Introduction Telemedicine is essentially about use of information and biomedicine technology to support, facilitate or improve collaboration...
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...Explain the role of technological externalities as a cause of differences in urban productivity and growth. Taking a look at the map, one can easily identify the uneven distribution of population and the clustering of economic activities around the world. Such clustering of economic activities happens at both regional and national levels and is more formally known as agglomeration. Empirical evidence (Quigley, 1998) has shown that the increase in the productivity of a city is more than proportionate to the increase in the density of the city, which justifies why firms tend to cluster and concentrate in the same region. Recent work on economic growth views externalities, especially knowledge spillovers, as the ‘engine of growth’ (Romer 1986; Lucas 1988). This essay is going to examine how technological externalities contribute to the agglomeration of firms and thus leads to different productivity. Externalities involve interdependence of utility, production or profit functions. There are two types of externalities: pecuniary externality and technological externality. Pecuniary externality is market interdependent and it affects firms demand and profit by changes in price. Technological, in the contrast, has no involvement with market and it occurs when the well-being of a consumer or output of a firm are directly affected by the action of another agent in the economy. Krugman (1991) firmly believes that the externalities that sometimes lead to emergence of a core-periphery...
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...Now a day’s most of foreign aid to Ethiopia comes from the western countries and other multilateral organizations. Comparatively the total flow of foreign aid has increased under the current regime due to changes in policies which meet the interests of donors, and adoption of a market-oriented economic system. Since the policy change by the present regime the magnitude of aid has increased continuously. Following the change of government in 1991 and the adoption of the structural adjustment program in 1992 in particular, the country has received a significant amount of aid. A large inflow of concessionary loans and grants has occurred since 2001, following the issuance of the first poverty reduction strategy paper (known as the Sustainable...
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...Russia is one of the largest countries in the world. But in recent years, the population of Russia increases very slow and is much lower than other countries all around the world. This phenomenon will lead to many negative effects on the economic and social development. If Russia doesn't solve its problems before 2050, the population will almost inevitably decrease by about 50% (Ediev, 2001, p. 302-303). The population decline in Russia is dramatic. In other words, Russia faces a serious demographic crisis that needs to be solved as soon as possible. This paper will examine the reasons and explain why the population of Russia declines based on birth and death rates, substance abuse, mortality rates, economic, culture and political changes, migration, international trafficking and adoption. Low birth rate is the direct factor of population decline. Almost all of the developed country experience negative population growth. But Russia has that problem even more serious than others. In 2000 the Russian birth rate was lower than in any developed country in the world (Shlapentokh, 2005, p.952). One of the reasons why that happened because women in Russia change the concept of child-bearing over the time. They don't want to have children because it takes significant time and resources to raise a child (McKinney, 2009, p.20). They don't want to use their time on bearing children. They have good education and want to put more attention on their career development. That causes the base...
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...misunderstandings, fighting and unhappiness. Sometimes they happen suddenly and it is hard to understand why there needs to be change at all. Children are mostly affected by this kind of situation. If both their mother and father decided to a divorce and one cannot raise their child alone, tendency is that they will dump their child. This child will become homeless and found himself alone. Poverty is also another factor that causes child dumping. Persons in cultures with poor social welfare systems who are not financially capable of taking care of a child are more likely to dump him/her. Political conditions, such as difficulty in adoption proceedings, may also contribute to child dumping, as can the lack of institutions, such as orphanages, to take in children whom their parents cannot support. Societies with strong social structures and liberal adoption laws tend to have lower rates of child dumping. Psychologists believe that even short-term dumping...
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...The results of the study scaled the dogs on five dimensions of behavior temperament: playfulness, curiosity/fearfulness, chase-proneness, sociability, and aggressiveness (De Palma et al., 2005). Dogs living in rescue shelters were assessed as demonstrating a low degree of playfulness, showing distraction by the environment when being enticed to play. The sheltered dogs also scored low on curiosity but, high on fearful behavior. The cortisol levels for the sheltered dogs were significantly higher than the cortisol levels of canines living in households, indicative of stress and anxiety associated with shelter lifestyle. Shelter dogs showed a low proportion of chase-proneness supported by demonstrations of low physical activity and excitability. Shelter dogs were assessed as exhibiting low levels of sociability toward conspecies but, a high sociability when concerning humans (De Palma et al., 2005). This trend was also demonstrated when observing levels of aggressiveness; the dogs seemed more antagonistic toward conspecies than humans. It should be noted that shelter dogs displayed rare bouts of hostile behavior and results were supported by little data. It is interesting to find a set of shared characteristics existing in canines living in rescue shelters. Such findings lead one to speculate if the shelter environment may be partly responsible for inducing behavior characteristics? After all, dogs living in shelters are subjected to a variety of stressors including isolation...
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...be completely banned in public places but after researching this assignment I changed my view. I changed and said it should be banned in some places rather then all public locations. The difficulties I encounter with this essay were over citing my sources. I had a hard time putting my own words into my paper with out thinking it was plagiarism. On the opposing view section of my paper I had over citied and going back to add my common knowledge in that section was difficult. I enjoyed learning new history and information on this assignment. I also enjoyed reading what the opposing side said about banning smoking in public places. I choose to write about this topic because it hits close to home. I have an aunt and an uncle who had passed away due to the effect of smoking. I have a husband who also smokes and the doctor constantly tells him he needs to quit. I always wondered why people would take on such a nasty habit that is not only killing them but the people around them. This assignment helped me realized that people are going to do what they want to do weather it’s health or not. Sincerely, According to tobaccotruth.com the office on Smoking and Health at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) counted 45.3 million American smokers. (Rodu) Smoking...
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...sibling) with depression appears to be a risk factor for depression >the studies select people who already have depression (probands), and then examine whether other family members have been, or might be, diagnosed with depression -if there is a genetic link for this disorder, the probands’ relatives should show higher rates of depression than the rest of the population Harrington et al (1993) >found that around 20% of proband’s close relatives have depression compared to 10% for the general population A01 – Twin studies >basis is that identical (monozygotic) twins are clones of each other and have all the same genes -fraternal (dizygotic) twins share just half of their genes -we assume that the environment shared by the twins is roughly the same for both types of twin McGuffin et al (1996) >studied 177 probands with depression with their same-sex co-twins >concordance rate was 46% for identical twins and 20% for fraternal twins >suggest that depression has a large heritable component A01 – Adoption studies Wender et al (1986) >studies the biological relatives of adopted individuals who had been hospitalised for severe depression >found a much higher rate of severe depression in the biological relatives of the depressed group than in the biological relatives of a non-depressed control group (nature may be a stronger component than nurture) Genetic factors A01 – Family studies >having a 1st degree relative (parent...
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...The Effect of ERP System Implementations on the Usefulness of Accounting Information Joseph F. Brazel Department of Accounting College of Management North Carolina State University Campus Box 8113 Raleigh, North Carolina 27695 Telephone: 919-513-1772 Fax: 919-515-4446 e-mail: joe_brazel@ncsu.edu Li Dang Department of Accounting College of Business Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon 97331 Telephone: 541-737-6049 e-mail: li.dang@bus.oregonstate.edu October 2005 The authors thank the international ERP system supplier for providing them with the ERP system implementation data and Marianne Bradford and Jeff Wong for helpful comments. Funding for this research was partially provided by an NCSU Edwin Gill Research Grant. The Effect of ERP System Implementations on the Usefulness of Accounting Information ABSTRACT: ERP systems have become the system of choice for the majority of publicly traded companies and have radically changed the way accounting information is processed, analyzed, audited, and disseminated. In this study, we examine whether ERP system implementations have impacted the decision usefulness of accounting information. We find that ERP adoptions lead to a trade-off between increased information relevancy and decreased information reliability for external users of financial statements. After implementing the system, firms concurrently experience both a decrease in reporting lag and an increase in the level of discretionary accruals. Contrary to expectations...
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