...discuss the four types of research theories – deductive, inductive, grounded, and axiomatic. I will also discuss why and how these theories are used, and which is the most relevant, or most important. I will discuss the differences and similarities in theory and hypothesis. I will also discuss variables, and why they are important components of theoretical research. Four Types of Research Theories When doing research, it is important to first have your idea, or subject you will be researching. Once you have chosen the subject, then the research begins. There are so many places to go to use as sources. There are books, articles in magazines or newspapers, interviewing sources, and the ever growing internet. Personal experiences are another great way of getting information for your research. There are many ways to obtain information for your subject, but deciding on the subject to research is the first step. Then you need to decide how narrow or wide-ranged your topic is going to be. One example is Crime Scene Forensics. Will the paper be done on the entire subject of forensics, or will it be narrowed down to one element of forensics, such as DNA testing, or maybe ballistics? This is a decision that you will make before you start researching the subject. A very intelligent instructor, said to choose something that interests you and the researching will be a lot more interesting and fun to do. I think this is a very good concept to remember about research, and can also...
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...4 Types of Research Theories CRJS430 – 1104A – 01 Unit 1 IP Charlotte Cordova October 6, 2011 American Intercontinental University Abstract In this paper, I will discuss the four types of research theories – deductive, inductive, grounded, and axiomatic. I will also discuss why and how these theories are used, and which is the most relevant, or most important. I will discuss the differences and similarities in theory and hypothesis. I will also discuss variables, and why they are important components of theoretical research. Four Types of Research Theories When doing research, it is important to first have your idea, or subject you will be researching. Once you have chosen the subject, then the research begins. There are so many places to go to use as sources. There are books, articles in magazines or newspapers, interviewing sources, and the ever growing internet. Personal experiences are another great way of getting information for your research. There are many ways to obtain information for your subject, but deciding on the subject to research is the first step. Then you need to decide how narrow or wide-ranged your topic is going to be. One example is Crime Scene Forensics. Will the paper be done on the entire subject of forensics, or will it be narrowed down to one element of forensics, such as DNA testing, or maybe ballistics? This is a decision that you will make before you start researching the subject. A very intelligent instructor, said...
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...Essay Questions The hierarchy of business decision makers categorizes organizations based on how they use business research to make decisions. List and explain the three levels in the hierarchy. The three levels in the hierarchy are the base tier, the middle tier, and the top tier. Organizations in the base tier are called intuitive decision makers because they use past experience and intuition to make decisions. The middle tier organizations are called standardized decision makers because they base some decisions on business research and others are past experience. The top tier is called the visionaries because they consider research to be the foundation of any good decision. This group may also develop specific proprietary methods of research. What is the difference between applied research and basic research? Applied research is research that has a practical problem-solving emphasis and is conducted to reveal answers to specific questions related to action, performance, or policy needs. Basic research is designed to solve problems of a theoretical nature with little direct impact on strategic or tactical decisions. Essay Questions What are the seven basic principles of the U.S. Safe Harbor Agreement? List each principles and explain what it means for companies seeking to adhere to the agreement. The seven basic principles are 1) notice, 2) choice, 3) access, 4) security, 5) onward transfer, 6) data integrity, and 7) enforcement. Companies must notify consumers about...
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...prominence over the years as specialists explore how the human brain stores information. This report shall give details of an experimental research that was designed to explore whether the length and type of stimuli affects one’s ability to recall items within a short period of time. The items used to carry out the research shall be highlighted and the research findings analyzed. A discussion on whether there length and type of stimuli relate to our recall accuracy shall also be provided in order to establish whether findings on previous research were conclusive. Introduction The study of the human brain functions has been in existence for many years. As a result, psychologists and behavioral scientists have over the years developed various theories such as Piaget’s stages of cognitive development, which aim at explaining how the brain works in regard to how it receives, processes and stores information during various stages of development (Zastrow & Kirst-Ashman, 2009, p.111). These theories have been directed by research conducted on various branches of psychology. Of particular interest is cognitive psychology, which can be defined as a branch of psychology that studies mental processes that facilitate learning, remembering, thinking and perception among other processes (Brown, 2006, p. 6). Previous studies on the different types of memories indicate that various parts of the brains have the ability to store different memories. This is further supported by a number...
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...Running hade: Using language (English) in social networking Using language in different types of social networking site Rasel Ahmed North south university Abstract In the current world, population of this atmosphere is increasing day by day. Every day we discover new communication system and involved in it.100 year before, we were using slow communication device. But now 100 years after, we are entering totally new era. Our communication system has been totally changed. Now we are using some furious communication devise like internet. Through internet we are involving social networking site like Facebook, Twitter and Google+ etc. But users are always using erroneous word for their communication. . Using these types of error words for two or three years and may be long times they will forget the right one. As a result, they will face many problems that create bad effects in their educational and professional life. In my research, I want to investigate the use of language (English) in different types of social networking and would also like to bring in a public voting as to people always use right word or not. If not, why and is he or she face any problem in their real life. I think If a person who know the right one but he/she always use words which is grammatically incorrect in their social networking, after one or two years later he/she will try to use this wrong word for their professional and educational life. I think they will face many problems also. I also expect...
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...Running hade: Using language (English) in social networking Using language in different types of social networking site Rasel Ahmed North south university Abstract In this current world, pollution of the atmosphere is increasing day by day. Every day we discover new communication system and involved in it.100 year before, we were using slow communication device. But now 100 years after, we are entering totally new era. Our communication system has been totally changed. Now we are using some furious communication devise like internet. Through internet we are involving social networking site like Facebook, Twitter and Google+ etc. But users are always using erroneous word for their communication. . Using these types of error words for two or three years and may be long times they will forget the right one. As a result, they will face many problems that create bad effects in their educational and professional life. In my research, I want to investigate the use of language (English) in different types of social networking and would also like to bring in a public voting as to people always use right word or not. If not, why and is he or she face any problem in their real life. I think If a person who know the right one but he/she always use words which is grammatically incorrect in their social networking, after one or two years later he/she will try to use this wrong word for their professional and educational life. I think they will face many problems also. I also expect...
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...Week Four Learning Team E Andrew Appleton, Samuel Bowers, Martha Martin Jennifer Payton RES/351 November 4, 2013 Joshua West Reflections Week Four Learning Team E The objectives for week four reflections are: Differentiate between qualitative and quantitative methods of research. Explain commonly used qualitative research designs and quantitative research designs. Select the appropriate type of research design in a given business situation. Team member Mandy discussed that qualitative research is a systematic subjective approach used to describe life experiences and give them meaning. This includes focus groups, in-depth interviews, and reviews of documents for types of themes. This most commonly used in Health Care. Quantitative research is a formal, objective, systematic process for obtaining the precise measurement of something. This includes surveys, structural interviews and observation, reviews of records or documents for numeric information. This is commonly used in Education research. If a clothing company sells blue jeans and they want to measure the impact of the company by changing the product from blue jeans to black jeans, this would be a causal research design. Further discussion within the subject by team member Joann consisted of the importance to understand the difference between qualitative and quantitative methods of research. In qualitative method of research is designed to know more about the subject’s feelings. This would be a type of research...
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...Business Research Methods, Part III Robert LaFond, Taylor Norman, Zephyr Scott, Vennita Watson QNT 561 May 13, 2013 Sripathi Nilkar Introduction As Ford Motor Company continues to seek ways to improve its current hybrid vehicles, the company will conduct a statistical analysis of the results of the questionnaires returned by its customers. Through this analysis, Ford Motor Company will be able to identify challenges that the company faces as well as the steps needed to reduce these challenges and improving both the company’s product and image. Statistical Analysis The results gathered from the questionnaire immensely helped Ford understand new aspects of an improved Hybrid vehicle. Subject 1 was the owner of a 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid. Subject 1 has had 4 scheduled maintenance jobs performed on the car in the past year. On average, Subject 1 only drove 100 miles per week. Usually, scheduled maintenance is performed depending on the gas mileage of the car i.e. oil changes, tire rotation and balance, etc. Subject 1 took good care of their car over the past year, but still had two serious additional car problems. The 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid costs Subject 1 on average $127.06 a week in gasoline. This customer is only satisfied at level 3. Being that this is only a three year old car, these problems point to inefficiencies with manufacturing. Both are costly for the owner to replace. Subject 2 is the owner of a 2012 Toyota Prius. Scheduled maintenance was performed...
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...based on four elements: concrete experience, observation and reflection, abstract conceptualization and active experimentation. Concrete experience and abstract conceptualization are ways of how we think and transform experiences through the emotional responses. The concrete experience type emotionally converts the experiences through experiencing the feeling and concrete during the process. Whereas, abstract conceptualization type through planning, analyzing and thinking. Active experimentation and observation and reflection are methods of how we approach to the tasks and how we do. Active experimentation type, approach to tasks by actively doing the actual experiments. While observation and reflection approach to experiences by watching others throughout the tasks, and reflect on the situation. Based on the four elements, Kolb defined four distinct definitions of learning styles: diverging, assimilating, converging and accommodating (Kolb 1984). Diverging type has the elements of concrete experience and observation and reflection. Diverging type of people performs better in situations where creation of ideas needed, and collecting information. They look at things from a different perception, and employ their own imagination to solve problems. People with this type of learning style usually have good interested in cultural and peoples, and prefer to work in groups. They also like to be given comments and listen with an open mind. Assimilating type of people...
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...Applied research—Using basic research methods, the outcome of the research is applied to a business problem. Basic research—The clinical or scientific method of research. This type of research is often done in laboratories or under controlled circumstances. Four Types of Research Methods: Reporting—A summary or incomplete review of existing data; Descriptive—Most often used in marketing or sales. This type of research always asks who, what, when, where, why, and how in research questions; Exploratory—Using focus groups or a small study to get a feel for the problem; Predictive/Causal—Research conducted where one unit is held steady, while the experiment is conducted on the other unit, which tests whether the experiment itself is the reason for change in the experimental unit. Time Factors for Research: Longitudinal—A research study performed on a sample over a period of time; Cross-sectional—A research study done only once, which provides a snapshot of what is occurring somewhere at a particular time. Four Types of Research Validity: Construct Validity—the theoretical or practical underpinnings of the hypotheses and measurement of the variables; External Validity—the comparability or generalizability of the findings to other samples and settings; Internal Validity—for descriptive, explanatory, or causal studies this is basically an answer to the question of whether we saw what we thought we saw; Conclusion Validity—did we use the proper statistical tools to draw these...
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...QNT565 Final Exam Click Link Below To Buy: http://hwcampus.com/shop/qnt565-final-exam/ Week One: The Purpose of Business Research Objective:Determine the significance, scope, magnitude and feasibility of finding a solution to the situation, risk management, or opportunity. 1. Which of the following questions is considered when discussing the management dilemma? 2. How can management eliminate negative symptoms? 3. What does the manager need to know to choose the best alternative from the available sources of action? 4. What is the recommended course of action? 5. What symptoms cause management concern? 6. What should be asked or observed to obtain the information the manager needs? Objective:Determine the significance, scope, magnitude and feasibility of finding a solution to the situation, risk management, or opportunity. 1. The fundamental weakness in the research process is: incorrectly defining the research question B. identifying a flawed sampling frame C. misdefining the target population D. failing to identify all relevant secondary information E. skipping the exploratory phase Objective: Identify ethical issues involved in business research. 1. Which of the following is an example of findings nondisclosure? Dean and Deluca doesn’t want Whole Foods to know about it is conducting research on organic wines. B. Whole Foods is studying a potential new location near a large condo complex. C. Bayer seeks to disclose that Vioxx...
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...Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, VOL. 6, NO.2, 2005 WEB-BASED SHOPPING: CONSUMERS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS ONLINE SHOPPING IN NEW ZEALAND Gurvinder S Shergill Massey University Auckland, New Zealand G.S.Shergill@massey.ac.nz Zhaobin Chen Global Integration Ltd Auckland, New Zealand ben_chen46@hotmail.com ABSTRACT The growing use of Internet in New Zealand provides a developing prospect for E-marketers. If E-marketers know the factors affecting online New Zealand buyers’ behaviour, and the relationships between these factors and the type of online buyers, then they can further develop their marketing strategies to convert potential customers into active ones, while retaining existent online customers. This paper is part of larger study, and focuses on factors which online New Zealand buyers keep in mind while shopping online. It also investigates how different types of online buyers perceive websites differently. This research found that website design, website reliability/fulfilment, website customer service and website security/privacy are the four dominant factors which influence consumer perceptions of online purchasing. The four types of online New Zealand buyers; i.e., trial, occasional, frequent and regular online buyers; perceived the four website factors differently. These buyers have different evaluations of website design and website reliability/fulfilment but similar evaluations of website security/privacy issues, which implies that security/privacy issues...
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...Dzierzynski HPA 18 Abstract Four articles in which complementary and alternative medicine was discussed. In this essay I discuss after reviewing the different articles a couple of things. The topic of the paper reviewed will be discussed, as well as the research question or the hypothesis. If there are any variables they are identified. The participants, the type of research (qualitative or quantitative), the data collection process and how the data was analyzed will be noted. The results of each article and each of their findings will be noted. Then, there will be a summary of the findings in the research, and it will be told whether or not the data supports or contradicts the hypothesis. The strengths and weaknesses in the articles reviewed will also be mentioned in the article review. An analysis of four articles was preformed in order to test Complimentary and Alternative Medicine’s Effective in Increasing Health Quality. The topic of the first paper was to establish why older Americans tend to use complementary and alternative medicines. In this article (Tait, Laditka, Laditka, Nies, Racine & Tsulukidze, 2013), there were a couple of hypotheses made based on four categories, conventional medicine was no help, treatments were too expensive, they were recommended by a healthcare provider and lastly, they were recommended by family, friends, or coworkers. The hypotheses are the same for all four categories. The first one being that it is more...
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...method and the fundamentals of |Mon, 11/18/2013 |10 | |Research Paper |research. Address each of the following in your paper: |11:59 PM MST | | | | | | | | |Define the scientific method. How does it relate to human services research? | | | | | | | | | |What are the steps in the process of scientific inquiry? Why must each of these steps be | | | | |included to support the scientific method? Provide a human services research example of the | | | | |scientific method and identify each step within your example. | | | | | | | | | |Define quantitative research and qualitative research. Explain how they differ and relate | | ...
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...Dzierzynski HPA 18 Abstract Four articles in which complementary and alternative medicine was discussed. In this essay I discuss after reviewing the different articles a couple of things. The topic of the paper reviewed will be discussed, as well as the research question or the hypothesis. If there are any variables they are identified. The participants, the type of research (qualitative or quantitative), the data collection process and how the data was analyzed will be noted. The results of each article and each of their findings will be noted. Then, there will be a summary of the findings in the research, and it will be told whether or not the data supports or contradicts the hypothesis. The strengths and weaknesses in the articles reviewed will also be mentioned in the article review. An analysis of four articles was preformed in order to test Complimentary and Alternative Medicine’s Effective in Increasing Health Quality. The topic of the first paper was to establish why older Americans tend to use complementary and alternative medicines. In this article (Tait, Laditka, Laditka, Nies, Racine & Tsulukidze, 2013), there were a couple of hypotheses made based on four categories, conventional medicine was no help, treatments were too expensive, they were recommended by a healthcare provider and lastly, they were recommended by family, friends, or coworkers. The hypotheses are the same for all four categories. The first one being that it is...
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