...STATISTICS TEST Length: 1090 words (3.1 double-spaced pages) Rating: Red (FREE) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Statistics are necessary for scientific research because they allow the researchers to analyze empirical data needed to interpret the findings and draw conclusions based on the results of the research. According to Portney and Watkins (2009), all studies require a description of subjects and responses that are obtained through measuring central tendency, so all studies use descriptive statistics to present an appropriate use of statistical tests and the validity of data interpretation. Although descriptive statistics do not allow general conclusions and allow only limited interpretations, they are useful for understanding the study sample and establishing an appropriate framework for the further analysis in the study. Further analysis using appropriate statistical methods allows the researchers to establish correlations between independent and dependent variables, define possible outcomes, and identify areas of potential study in the future accurately. Statistics is important for researchers because it allows them to investigate and interpret the data more accurately, and researchers will notice patterns in the data that would be overlooked otherwise and result in inaccurate and possibly subjective conclusions (Portney &ump; Watkins, 2009). Frequency distribution is a method used in descriptive statistics to arrange...
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...AN EMPRICAL STUDY ON FM RADIO ADVERSITING Advertising of products and services is the route to rope in more customers and improve a company’s image. Radio is an effective, low-cost medium for advertising a company’s products. FM radio has today enabled advertisers to reach out to the audiences cost-effectively. In July 2005, the union cabinet approved the second phase of FM broadcasting in private sector, in which more emphasis was given to the growth of services than generating revenue for the government. The government has allowed foreign companies to venture into setting up of private FM stations within in the present ceiling of 20% foreign capital. Now the Government expects to take a final view in two to three months on the third phase of expansion of FM radio and about 806 radio licences are expected to be issued and the Government plans to take FM radio to about 283 towns. (News from business line New Delhi, March 28 by Mr. Rajiv Takru, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting) Currently, as for as advertising is concerned only one –and – a- half % of total advertising spending can be attributed to radio. In other countries around the world, the average ranges from 5-15%.In srilanka, for example, 21% of total advertising expenditure is spent on radio. This shows the vast potential of the radio as a medium of advertising it is said that radio covers almost 89% of country in terms of area and 97% in terms of population. However, this medium...
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...Outline and evalute the breakdown of relationships A01- Duck skills maintenance A02-Shavier, Rofhling IDA- gender bias PA- ccet - china A01-rollie and duck -stages of breakdown A02 - Tashiro and Frazier A03- methological flaws IDA - determinsitic Duck suggested that relationships breakdown due to various of reasons, such as lack of skills. This means that people in the relationships have a lack of interpersonal skills to make eachother mutally satisfyimg, if a person lacks interpersonal skills or social skills have poor conversational skills and are bad at indicatomg they like a particular person it could lead the other partner to believe they are unintresting, unrewarding in their interactions. This then leading to the breakdown of a relationship. Additionally, Duck suggested that if a raltaionship is lacking in stimulation then breakdown will occur. Lack of stiumulation is when you expect the relationship to change and develop but does not. This results in the partner being unsatisfied thus forming the relationship to stop. Maintenance diffulties is another reason why relationships breakdown. This is where there is a strain caused in a realtionship e.g if a couple can not see eachother for various of reasons. This may be due to not living close together or that their jobs causes them to find it difficult to spend time with eachother. Therefore if a relationship has maintenance difficulties Duck suggests it will lead to a breakdown in the relationship. ...
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...Asekeen, S. (n.d). Project Management – Advantages and Disadvantages. Civil Engineers Forum. Bakar, A., Razak, A., Abdullah, S., & Awang, A. (n.d). Project management success factor for sustainable housing: a framework. 1-16. Bernstein, P. (1998). Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk. New York: John Weiley & son. Burgues, N., & Guino, E. (n.d). Limitation of project management when managing research: an emprical study at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. The International Journal of Management, 1-20. Chester, M., & Hendrickson, C. (2005). Cost impacts, schedulling impacts and claims process during construction. Journal of construction engineering and management, 1-6. Chua, D., Kog, Y., & Loh, P. (1999). Critical success factors for different project objectives. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 142-150. Retrieved from https://books.google.com.my/books?id=vFfFBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA83&lpg=PA83&dq=Chua+DKH,+Kog+YC,+Loh+PK+(1999),+%E2%80%9CCritical+success+factors+for+different+project+objectives.%E2%80%9D+Journal+of+Construction+Engineering+and+Management,+pp.+142-150&source=bl&o Eng, C., & Lim, W. (2009). The Roles of IS Project Critical Success Factors: A Relevatory Case. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 1-19. Flyvbjerg, B., Holm, & Buhl, S. (2003). How common and how large are cost overruns in transport infrastructure projects? Flyvbjerg, Bent, Holm, Skamris, M., Buhl, &...
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...NORTHCENTRAL UNIVERSITY ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET Learner: Terry L Green THIS FORM MUST BE COMPLETELY FILLED IN Please Follow These Procedures: If requested by your mentor, use an assignment cover sheet as the first page of the word processor file. The assignment header should include the Learner’s last name, first initial, course code, dash, and assignment number (DoeJXXX0000-1) justified to the left and the page number justified to the right. Keep a Photocopy or Electronic Copy of Your Assignments: You may need to re-submit assignments if your mentor has indicated that you may or must do so. Academic Integrity: All work submitted in each course must be the Learner’s own. This includes all assignments, exams, term papers, and other projects required by the faculty mentor. The known submission of another person’s work represented as that of the Learner’s without properly citing the source of the work will be considered plagiarism and will result in an unsatisfactory grade for the work submitted or for the entire course, and may result in academic dismissal. | | BTM8102-8 | Kris Iyer, PhD | | | Business Research Methodology | GreenTBTM8102-2 | | | <Add Learner comments here> ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Faculty Use Only ------------------------------------------------- <Faculty comments here> ...
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...all senior university leaders are highly committed for internal revenue generation where this is been achieved and manifested through setting regulations, funding, structures, and installing rewarding systems. This is because the university leaders positively see revenue generation as a means to gain more flexibility in their internal financial management, as public funding (also some donor’s funding) often comes with complex administrative rules and regulation which need to be adhered to. This is to say all income generated internally other than governmental sources this income is perceived as being comparatively easier to manage and has the advantage that it can be allocated internally without restrictions (Wangenge-Ouma, 2011). 2.3 Emprical Literature It is evident that( kiamba 2003), from the foregoing economy where there is diminishing government funding, public universities in Kenya must change from relying heavly from the Government support and diversify their Ideas to innovative income generating activities which will help them to raise funds to sustain academic programs. Where by apart from raising funds from students' tuition fees payments, public universities have taken a very crucial initiative of identifying and developing entrepreneurial sources of raising additional of revenues in their institution. However, there is still some strategies that need to be applied by public university ,which will be of great important in self-funding that.howevr each of the innovative...
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...CHAPTER FOUR METHODOLOGY OF THE STUDY This chapter is devoted to explaining the methodological approach to this thesis. Section 3.1 deals with the model specification as was used in (Mundlak, Larson & Butzer 1997)with a bit of modification. Section 3.2 examines the approach used in applying the model to statistical problem. Data used in estimating the model, the description of variables used as well as their sources are discussed in section 3.3. 3.1 THE EMPRICAL MODEL The point of departure in relation to this issue is that producers (that is countries in this case) are faced with a lot of options when taking a decision on the techniques needed in production. That is, the problem of how to produce. This fact put forward a choice of the combination of inputs and outputs. Given: x = the vector of all inputs Fj = the production function of the jth technique T = a technology set comprising of all possible techniques That is, T= {Fj(x); j=1, …, j} In a case where countries choose the methods used in relation to their constraints, constrained (k) and unconstrained (v) inputs can be differentiated. Therefore, x = (k, v) with the assumption that they do not possess an alternative cost. This leads to a Lagrangian optimization problem where the goal of the producer at this stage is to decide the method suitable with the right level of inputs in other to maximize profit. The Lagrangian equation becomes; L = ∑ pj Fj (vj, kj)...
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...Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. The evolution of house price in the UK and the factors affecting 3 supply and demand 3. The price and income elasticity of housing demand 9 4. Literature 11 1. Introduction The aim of this study is to explain the changes in the prices of houses by shedding light on factors affecting the demand and supply of houses in the UK. Firstly, we will look at the evolution of house prices in the UK since 2006 and examine relations between house prices and output, employment and mortgage interest rate. Also, supply of houses will be discussed by noting changes in the number of new houses and factors such as land cost, building cost. Then, in the next section we will proceed to examine the factors affecting the sizes of different elasticity of demand 2. The evolution of house price in the UK and the factors affecting supply and demand Over the last four decades, the UK housing market has been subject to boom/bust cycles and Stephens (2011) indicates that UK has one of the most persistently volatile markets in the world. Especially, since 1997 there has been a record growth in UK house prices. The above chart indicates that there are significant fluctuations the in UK housing market. House prices experienced steady growth during both 2006 and 2007 and reached their peak in late 2007. As the end of the 2008, the average house prices...
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...I. INTRODUCTION Real gases are known to have non-ideal behavior characteristics because it does not exactly follow the ideal gas law. In the ideal gas law, gas molecules are considered to have negligible volume and negligible intermolecular interactions (Averill and Eldredge, 2006). The ideal gas equation of state is not sufficient to describe the pressure, volume and temperature behavior of most real gases but real gases shows significant deviations from the behavior of an ideal gas. For real gases or non-ideal gases, the most common equation of states are shown below: Van der Waals: Berthelot: Redlich-Kwong: Dietirici: Virial: There are other equations of state that can be used to predict non-ideal gas behaviour and to incorporate a compression factor is another one. Compression factor, also known as compressibility factor is the ratio between molar volumes of a gas to the molar volume of a perfect gas. A perfect gas has a compression factor equal to 1 in all conditions so real gases deviates from that value. Another equation for compression factor is Fugacity is function of pressure and temperature where Φ is the fugacity coefficient, a dimensionless quantity that depends on the temperature, pressure and identity of a gas. Getting Φ from the equation would result to the ratio of the fugacity and the effective pressure. The fugacity coefficient approaches the value of 1 when the gas behaves like...
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...This essay will first attempt to define globalisation and define neo-liberalism. There is a close interconnection between the two concepts, especially on an international level therefore their positive and negative impacts on crime and criminal justice will be discussed together and then a separate analysis of neo-liberalism and its effects on crime will be examined from a local perspective. Globalisation defined Globalisation is not static, but is rather a dynamic process which involves the growing interconnectedness of states and societies that enmesh human communities with each other, easy mobility of goods and services across countries, electronic communications transcending borders and creating independence from territorially confined units of political power (Massari 2003). These key tenets, which encompass the definition of globalisation, will be discussed with regard to their impacts on crime. Neo-liberalism defined Neo-liberalism can be defined as a set of political beliefs which include the idea that the role of the state in crime control should be minimal as the only legitimate purpose of the state is to protect the individual (O’Malley 2008). Neo-liberalism generally includes the belief that the most efficient way to organise all exchanges of goods and services in human society is through freely adopted market mechanisms leading to greater cost effectiveness, individual liberty and moral virtue (Thorsen & Lie 2000). Individuals in society are empowered...
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...International Human Resources Management Research International University of Applied Sciences Bad Honnef · Bonn Masters of Arts International Management Is GHRM applicable to be implemented in all types of business? Name: Hisham Reda Student ID: NEC2160104 Supervisor: Dr. Tina Huesing Date of Submission: 10.04.2016 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I know it’s not a thesis or a huge research to write an acknowledgements but I wanted to thank Dr. Tina Huesing for being a great teacher for me and it’s a real privilege for me to still learning under her supervised. She is very helpful and inspiring for me especially I am still in the beginning of learning how to write a good research from her, and I would say thank you very much. Abstract GHRM is a concept of how the company going green and to change the culture of the company to a green business through implementing its practices and policies which are integrating to CSR to reach the social needs of the employees by keep them feeling afe and work in safety and health work place to increase their retention, but these policies are not suitable for all kind of businesses as they have disadvantages on some businesses and a lot of consequences and that what the paper will discuss from what are the types of businesses cant implement these practices and what are these disadvantages. Keywords: GHRM, HRM, CSR, social needs, green business, greenwashing Table of Contents II. List of Abbreviations...
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...Domestic Research on Backwash of English Language Testing: Review and Prospective —— Analysis of Six Major Journals of Linguistics from 2003-2013 Contents Abstract ……………………………………………………………………….....1 1. Introduction ……………………………………………………………….......2 2 The Scope of Information Retrieval ...…………………………………….....3 3 Current Situations of Washback Research………………………….……….3 3.1 Research Amount……………………………………………………….....4 3.2 Research Methods………………………………………………………....4 3.3 Research Content……………………………………………………….....5 3.3.1 CET 4& 6………………………………………………………………5 3.3.2 TEM 4&8………………………………………………………………6 3.3.3 NMET…………………………………………………………...…..…6 3.3.4 Language Testing and Washback Resear….………………………...…..…6 3.3.5 Others…………………………………………………………...….…..7 4 Problems of Current Research on Wachback………………..……………….7 4.1 Quantity ………………………………………………………………….....7 4.2 Content …………………………………………………………………......7 4.3 Objects ………………………………………………………..…...……......8 5 Suggestions and Prospective for Future Research on Washback…..…….......8 5.1 Research Objects…………………………………………………………….8 5.2 Research Methods……………………………………………………….......8 5.3 Research Content……………………………………………………………9 6 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………9 References……………………………………………..………………………....10 Acknowledgements…………………………………………………………..….11 Abstract: ...
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...Determinants Of Audit Fees: Empirical Evidence From Emerging Economy Kamal Naser* Hamed Abdullhameed** & Rana Nuseibeh*** Abstract This study investigates the structure of audit fees in an emerging economy, Jordan. Data were collected from a sample of companies listed on the Amman Stock Exchange that forms 90% of the total population and fairly presents all industrial sectors within the economy. Consistent with previous research, the results of the analysis revealed that corporate size, status of the audit firm, industry type, degree of corporate complexity and risk are the main determinants of audit fees in the Jordanian environment. Unlike previous studies, however, variables such as corporate profitability, corporate accounting year-end and time lag between year-end and the audit report date appeared to be insignificant determinants of audit fees in the sampled companies. Key Words: * Audit fees, Emerging Economy, Jordan. S S cientific Journal of Administrative Development Vol.5 I.A.D. 2007 Dean College of Business Administration, Al-Ain University of Science and Technology, UAE. ** Freelance Financial Analyst, Jordan. *** Link Officer, National Health Service (NHS), UK. 84 Determinants Of Audit Fees: Empirical Evidence From Emerging Economy Introduction Although a number of studies have provided empirical evidence on the relationship between audit fees and the attributes of audited companies, most have tended to focus on developed economies...
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...Atatürk Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Dergisi, Cilt: 28, Sayı: 3, 2014 189 INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE IN TURKEY Funda ÖZÇELİK Burcu AVCI ÖZTÜRK Sevda GÜRSAKAL Abstract: This paper examined the relationship between corporate social responsibility and firm financial performance in Borsa Istanbul 100 index companies between the years 2010 and 2012. In order to test our hypothesis that the companies issuing corporate social responsibility reports have higher performance in terms of financial accounting ratios, we applied a logistic regression analysis. Corporate social responsibility was used as the dependent variable and financial performance measures, firm size, firm risk, and type of ownership as independent variables. We found that there was a significant relationship between company size and corporate social responsibility. We were not able to find any significant relationship between financial performance, risk, type of ownership and corporate social responsibility. Key Words: Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability Reporting, Financial Performance TÜRKİYE’DE KURUMSAL SOSYAL SORUMLULUK VE FİNANSAL PERFORMANS ARASINDAKİ İLİŞKİNİN ARAŞTIRILMASI Özet: Bu çalışmada, kurumsal sosyal sorumluluk ile finansal performans arasındaki ilişki Borsa İstanbul 100 endeksinde yeralan şirketlerin 2010-2012 yılları arasındaki verileri esas alınarak incelenmiştir. Kurumsal sosyal sorumluluk raporu...
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...| Addis Ababa University College of Business and Economics Masters of Business Administration Factors influencing the Profitability of Private Commercial Banks in Ethiopia Abraham Redi I.D. No. 1444/07 Section I Submitted to: Matios Ensermu (PhD) Presented as a Partial Fulfillment for the course Business Research Methodology (MGMT601) December, 2015 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia I. Table of Contents Chapter One ……………………………………………………………………………………….1 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 Background of the Study 3 1.3 Statement of the Problem 5 1.4 Research Questions 6 1.5 Objectives of the Study 7 1.5.1 General Objective of the Study 7 1.5.2 Specific objective of the study 7 1.6 Scope and Limitation of the Study 7 1.6.1 Scope of the Study 7 1.6.2 Limitation of the Study 8 1.7 Significance of the Study 8 1.8 Operational Definitions 9 1.9 Organization of the paper 9 Chapter Two ……………………………………………………………………………………...10 2 Literature Review 10 2.1 Measures of Bank Performance/Profitability 10 2.2 Factors Influencing Bank Performance/Profitability 10 2.3 The influence of Bank-specific factors on Bank Profitability 11 2.3.1 Capital Adequacy 11 2.3.2 Assets Quality 12 2.3.3 Management Efficiency: Operational Costs Efficiency 12 2.3.4 Earning ability: Diversification of Income 13 2.3.5 Liquidity 14 2.4 The Influence of Industry-specific Factors...
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