...What is the significance of the research study? In research it is obviously important for the researcher to convince his/her audience the importance of his/her study. The significance of the research study should be clearly justified by the researcher so that the study may not be useless or bring no benefits to others. The significance of the study in thesis is the part where the researcher tells how his/her study would be beneficial to specific people or parts of the society and how they could use it. Walonick (2005) explained that the significance of the study section creates a perspective for looking at the problem. It points out how the study relates to the larger issues and uses a persuasive rationale to justify the reason for the study. Walonick (2005) further clarified that the significance of the study makes the purpose worth pursuing. It should be able to answer these basic questions: (a) Why is the study important? The researcher should be able to describe the importance of the research/study clearly in various perspectives and this should be supported by comprehensive literature review. (b) To whom is it important? The researcher should identify who is actually the target group of the research/study relate the research/study to the need and demand of that particular groups. (c) What benefit(s) will occur if your study is done? The outcomes of the research/study should significantly brings benefits and applicable in practice for the target group. Marshall and...
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...RESEARCH STUDY OUTLINE COVER PAGE ACKNOWLEDGMENT * In paragraph form, write down the researcher’s acknowledgments ABSTRACT * An abstract is a shortsummary of your completed research. If done well, it makes the reader want to learn more about your research. * These are the basic components of an abstract in any discipline: 1. Motivation/problem statement: Why do we care about the problem? What practical, scientific, theoretical or artistic gap is your research filling? 2. Methods/procedure/approach: What did you actually do to get your results? (e.g. analyzed 3 novels, completed a series of 5 oil paintings, interviewed 17 students) 3. Results/findings/product: As a result of completing the above procedure, what did you learn/invent/create? 4. Conclusion/implications: What are the larger implications of your findings, especially for the problem/gap identified in step 1? The Abstract is a summary of all key sections of the Research Study and should work as a separate, stand-alone document. Interested parties will read this section first in conjunction with a glance at the financial section when deciding whether or not they read the rest of the plan. Key points to remember include: * Write this document after the content section of Research Study is completed * Although the Executive Summary is written last, it is presented first * The Executive Summary should be no more than one page long TABLE OF CONTENTS * Table of...
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...Research Studies The science in psychology introduces the thoughts that most have about how the human mind functions and questions that some have about behavioral issues. To receive more acceptances from society theories are tested through research. To do researches a research question are obtain to gather more information, depending on the research different scientific method shows different ways on obtaining results. Different types of data are obtained through research. Typical Research Articles Each section on a research paper serves a vital part to a research project. A typical research paper has seven main parts which includes abstract page, title page, an introduction, results and discussion, method, a references page and title. The title page illustrates the main topic of the research study, including the important variables. The abstract provide the reader with a quick review of the article’s content. The introduction serves as the body of the paper. It introduces the reader to the overall issue or problem that is being tested and to provide justification for the hypotheses or hypothesis. The method purpose is to provide a detailed description of how the study was conducted. Results purpose is to describe what was found after statistically analyzing the data. The discussion section reviews, interprets, and evaluate the results of the study. The reference page is to help you find related articles for any topic you need to research....
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...Critique of Research Studies – Part 1 Grand Canyon University Health Care Research Analysis and Utilization Nur-504 February 1st, 2013 Critique of Research Studies – Part 1 Title – Backrest Angle and Cardiac Output Measurement in Critically Ill Patients (Quantitative) An effective title of a quantitative research article should include the dependent variables, the independent variables, and the population studied. Ideally, this should be accomplished in 15 words or less while attracting the reader to the research article (Polit & Beck, 2008). The article “Backrest Angle and Cardiac Output Measurement in Critically Ill Patients” by Guiliano, Scott, Brown, & Olson (2003), does include a dependent variable, independent variable, and the population being studied while generating interest from the reader. However, the title of the article does not include each dependent variable or all of the independent variables. Although the article has a fairly strong title, all of the above information should be listed to provide the reader with a clear sense of the research study. Abstract An abstract is a brief overview of the research article that may be in paragraph form or structured in to specific subheadings. The abstract should provide a clear summary of the main features of the research article including the background, objective, method, results, and conclusion (Polit & Beck, 2008). The abstract for the article by Guiliano...
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...Social research is an important part of the organization study. It seems that not only the researchers but also people who read the research reports may gain quantities of benefits from the research. People may depend on social research in order to deeply understand an organization or study in a phenomenon. There’s little doubt the researcher has to pay numerous attentions on research methods, research process and research outcome presenting. However, research ethics, which is an invisible thing during the research, cannot be neglected as well. Since participants of the research have sacrificed their time and energy for the research, it seems that they deserve paybacks. Research ethics, which is crucial when taking out researches, can be a basic part of the paybacks. This essay sets out to examine several ethics concerns when doing social researches. In order to make the essay clear and easy to understand, examples and further explanations will be carried out. It is generally held that basic polite and respect is essential in social research. Participating in a research is more likely to be a voluntary behavior. As a result, the researcher needs to respect the desire of the participants. On the one hand, it is supported that there is no right for researchers to force people into a research. In the reality, there are companies whose director frequently asks the employees to try out the new products. This can be seen as an improper behavior. On the other hand, to people who have...
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...Why Study Business Research? Business Research is system that helps you analyze and disseminate information such ad data and insights for decision making. This process will help actions to maximize their performance in different scenarios. ROI stands for return on investment and doing business research will help you increase to the contribution of this return. There are different factors that will want you to have an interest in reseach methods, they relate to technology, business competition, government, managemtn, business methodologies etc. We have to pay attention to the information we research because not all the information is solid or reliable. It is important to address all the information to facilitate the process of researching. Business reseach will help identify and define opportunities and problems, monitor strategies, regine tactics and will help you understand various fields of management. Information and Competivie Advantage? It is important to understand the relationship between different business and their research. All this information will be critical to understand decisions that do with mission, goals, strategies and tactics. Goal: Every company have different goals there is a goal that all company would want which is sales. Sales goes in hand with market share, ROI, profitabiblity, customer relations, employee productivity, efficiency, stocks, etc. We have to learn about all this in order to do an analysis and this will increase the decision support...
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...This part focuses on the research designs, methods, sampling and data collection procedures for the study. 3.1 STUDY SITE This study will be conducted in Mahalapye in the Central District of Botswana. 3.2 STUDY DESIGNS The study utilised the descriptive research design. According to Barbie (2010) descriptive design focuses on describing situations. The descriptive designs in a social research are geared to answer the “what, where, when and how” questions normally asked in research. Furthermore, Bickman and Rog (1998) also suggest that descriptive studies can answer questions such as “what is” or “what was.” This research design was therefore chosen as most of the questions in this study are the “what” questions. For instance the study will...
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...Critique of a Research PSY 326 Dr. Mahaliah Bowman-Campbell 06/06/2015 The purpose of this paper is to take a closer look at the research study chosen in week one and the bibliography from week two, buy evaluating the usefulness of the sources listed and evaluating the article. The article chosen is Baldwin, V. N., Powell, T., & Lorenc, L. (2011). Factors influencing the uptake of memory compensations: A qualitative analysis. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 21(4), 484-501. It is very important for people that have a brain injury to use memory strategies. This article conducts a research on what are some of the barriers that may be stopping people with brain injuries from using memory strategies. A qualitative analysis attempts to get a deeper understanding of a specific case, quantitative research tends to generalize (Newman 2011). So this article is qualitative because it is trying to understand why some people with head injuries hesitate to use memory strategies even though it has been proven to help people with head trauma, the article mentions it is an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis this means that it is a psychological qualitative research, this means it is research that tries to shed light on how a person in a given context, makes sense of a phenomenon (Nicholls, 2009). The hypothesis is that if we look in to why people don’t want to use memory devices we can see that it is a complex processes that include social, emotional and practical factors...
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...the purpose of each of the sections in a typical research article? The title of the research article is to present the article itself, the title of the article or paper has to be specific. The title needs to reflect the audience you are addressing. Author is the individual who wrote the paper this person is generally listed as the first author of a research paper. For published articles, other person who contributes to the work is also listed as authors. Ask your mentor's permission before including his/her name as co-author. The first Questionnaire I chose was about Breast Cancer. The sections varied because not all researches are the same. Section I: was the Profile of the patient, which included their medical history. Section II: Was bout the Diagnosis, the Questions were: Have you ever been diagnosed with breast cancer? Treatment Detection etc. Section III: Prevention and Medic taken. • What are the steps to critically evaluate research articles and how does the scientific method help you do this? When evaluating or analyzing a research article there a few different steps that a person can take it depends on what the article is about. First the person must make sure that the source is a valid source that wrote the article. Then the person looks at the research question and make sure that the research is clearly defined in a precise manner. The research should be correct as well to be considered a valid research article. In addition the reader should ask questions...
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...Syphilis Research Study Leslie Valentine ME1415: Medical Law and Ethics and Records Management Ultimate Medical Academy Zakevia Green Abstract In this paper I am going to answer the following questions as the relate to the Tuskegee Syphilis Research Study found on page 264 in the Medical Law and Ethics textbook by Bonnie F. Fremgen. The questions are: 1. Could this type of research be conducted today? Why or why not? 2. What should the public have done, since they knew about the study? 3. In your opinion, how should the data be used that is obtained from an unethical experiment and how can we prevent this from happening again? 4. Discuss the code of ethics as it relates to this study? 5. What are your personal thoughts on the ethical standards exhibited through this study? Tuskegee Syphilis Research Study Any research like the Tuskegee Syphilis Research Study could not be conducted today. There are many reasons as to why this type of research study cannot be conducted today. One reason is because people of all races are more aware of diseases that today’s society has now than they were back then. Also, people nowadays want to be treated for the disease(s) that they have whether than be experimented with. People in today’s society are also more aware of the researches that are taking place to not allow this type of study to be conducted. In my opinion, the public should have not allowed this type of research to be conducted. In the research study on page...
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...Running head: Qualitative Research Study Qualitative Research Study Grand Canyon University NRS433V 5/30/10 Qualitative Research Study The qualitative research study that I chose to critique is on infections related to patients’ bath basins. The purpose of this patient bath basin study was clearly stated. “Is Patients’ Bath Basin as Potential Sources of Infection: A Multicenter Sampling Study?” Infections can arise from many sources, typically transmitted in the hospital or hospice. Just the touch of an infected person, such as one with MRSA can easily transmit to any object, making any person susceptible to that infection. Nurses and staff members often touch computers, telephones, and other hospital devices after they have had direct contact with a patient, without washing their hands. There should be some changes in the way we as nurses perform our nursing duties while reducing transmission of illness. One important way that nurses can prevent transmission of illness is by hand washing. Relevant information on nosocomial infections were included in this study, providing information that 1.75 to 3.5 million patients in the United States contract nosocomial infections. The study was performed at three acute care hospitals, where the nurses along with other non-nursing staff members were observed bathing the patients using bath basins. It is noted that after the patient is bath the bath water from the basin is discarded into the hospital room sink. Emptying...
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...Pneumonia Care and the Nursing Home: A qualitative Research Study of resident and family member perspective. Jaya George Introduction to Nursing Research NRS-433 V Bazydlo, Nora June 06, 2011 Pneumonia Care and the Nursing Home: A qualitative Research Study of resident and family member perspective. Introduction. Pneumonia care and the nursing home: a qualitative descriptive study of resident and family member perspectives. Soo Chan Carusone,1 Mark Loeb,1,2 and Lynne Lohfeld1,3 1Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada2Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Canada 3Program for Educational Research and Development, McMaster University, Canada Corresponding author. Soo Chan Carusone: chansy@mcmaster.ca; Mark Loeb: loebm@mcmaster.ca; Lynne Lohfeld: lohfeld@mcmaster.ca Received September 19, 2005; Accepted January 23, 2006. Pneumonia is the inflammation of the lung parenchyma, build up fluid in the tissue of the lungs and then this infection spread in to whole body. The causes are mainly by Viruses, Bacteria, often caused by parasites or fungi. Pneumonia is the 5th leading cause of death in elderly. It may be unrecognized due to many factors such as it may be asymptomatic, or may be confused with other medical issues, or the typical age related changes occurred in the lungs structure of the elderly. Background. The use of long-term care facilities are increased among the Americans...
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...The case study research methodology has been selected to conduct the inquiry into this phenomenon. The case study approach was advanced by noted American University scholar-in-residence Robert K. Yin; he is renowned for his work in this area. Yin (2009) explains that this empirical inquiry facilitates exploration of a contemporary phenomenon in depth within its real-life context using a variety of data sources. He instructs that this research design should be considered when: (a) the focus of the study is to answer “how” and “why” questions; (b) you cannot manipulate the behavior of those involved in the study; (c) you want to cover contextual conditions because you believe they are relevant to the phenomenon under study; or (d) the boundaries...
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...suggest that a strong question informs the research design, research method, the population, the intervention and the outcomes of interest. There are three factors for focusing questions 1. Facilitating the search for relevant evidence, 2. deciding whether the evidence is applicable to the group in question, and 3. sorting best evidence from weaker, less valid evidence (LoBiondo-Wood et al, 2002). The question was framed around the elements of PICO; standing for “patients,” “intervention,” “comparison,” and “outcome” (Boston University Medline Plus, 2000a; Craig & Smyth, 2002). The PICO approach was developed around Evidence-Based Medicine (Richardson & Wilson, 1997), and was therefore designed for clinical studies, it can though be adapted to any research context. | | |People, patients or population - who are you asking the question about? | |Intervention - what intervention are you interested in? | |Control or comparison - what are you comparing the intervention to? | |Outcome - what outcome are you interested in measuring? | Table 1: PICO criterion People or population of personal interest means the intended study subjects, for example, Post qualifying...
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...Eric H. Hill Research In Motion (RIM), (NETW583) November 17, 2014 RIM faced considerable challenges in protecting its intellectual property with enormous outlays of cash to protect its property. These court battles were long, drawn, over many years and in several countries. This extended RIM in too many directions, in too many places. These legal forays into protecting and acquiring patents shifted RIMs focus from an offensive posture of developing new technology for the marketplace through its R & D to a defensive posture of acquiring ill- suited technology to secure its future. When companies lose focus on innovation and risk taking they have lost their edge. Others are looking to overtake them. In fact, Apple did just that to RIM as the iPhone toppled the once mighty BlackBerry. While many tech companies consider purchasing patents a necessary evil it should exceed the R&D budget. Unfortunately, competitors will often let the behemoths fight among themselves for patented technology while they innovate something completely new. This can give smaller competitors an edge. RIM’s corporate philosophy was to partner or collaborate rather than to innovate. This is a flawed philosophy which ultimately leads to a company’s demise. This was certainly the case with RIM as it became too diverse with too many partners and no real focus on a core item. The BlackBerry tried to compete with antiquated technology or simply missed technological advances because of a tone...
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