Marks demonstrated a correlation between rhinitis/extrinsic asthma and geographic tongue. The studies “suggest that geographic tongue is a sign common to those patients who have a tendency to develop recurrent acute inflammatory disease on surfaces in contact with the external
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Employee performance -vs- reward system GM591 Leadership and Organizational Behavior Professor Vicki Boone Chartis Insurance is a world leader in insurance who can trace their roots back 90 years when an American entrepreneur named C.V. Starr founded Chartis. What began as a small insurance business grew to become one of the world’s largest companies. Their fundamental strength lies in the 40,000 employees who service more than 70 million clients around the world. Chartis delivers commercial
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04hofstede (ds) 27/8/02 1:46 pm Page 1 Human Relations [0018-7267(200211)55:11] Volume 55(11): xx–xx: 028921 Copyright © 2002 The Tavistock Institute ® SAGE Publications London, Thousand Oaks CA, New Delhi Dimensions do not exist: A reply to Brendan McSweeney Geert Hofstede In January 2001 Human Relations invited me to write a response to an article by Brendan McSweeney which was a critical examination of my 1980 book Culture’s consequences, to coincide with the forthcoming
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CRITICAL THINKING REVISION NOTES Credibility of evidence * Argument: A proposal/conclusion supported by a reason or reasons. * Evidence: Information that supports an argument. * Credibility: The believability of information.* Source: Where information comes from e.g. a newspaper or a Website. * Truth – Something that is correct * Neutrality – A neutral source is impartial and does not take sides. The neutral source does not favour one point of view over another. Neutral
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cohort study/casual comparative research | Hierarchical Evidence Rating Level | Level 4 | Your Summary of the Study/Publication (use paraphrasing, not quotes) | What was the stated research question/objective of the study? | To evaluate the correlation between the MMR Vaccine and Autism Spectrum Disorders | What research methodology was used (e.g., RCT, Case-Control, Cohort)? | Cohort StudyCasual Comparative Research | Describe the sample (including size)? | 904 patients with Autism Spectrum
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If you were to ask me what’s the first thing I notice about a person, it wouldn’t be their eyes. It wouldn’t be their hair. It wouldn’t even be their face. Nor would it be their personality. It would be their shoes. It’s not because I’m looking down a lot. Or maybe it is. I do look down a lot. I get shy. But I’ve always been a firm believer in that shoes are the pathway to the soul. Hold your laughter. Shoes tell me a lot about a person. And no, they don’t just tell me the superficial things. Yes
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Export Behavior and Firm Productivity in German Manufacturing A firm-level analysis Jens Matthias Arnold* and Katrin Hussinger** Abstract This paper examines the causal relationship between productivity and exporting in German manufacturing. We find a causal link from high productivity to presence in foreign markets, as postulated by a recent literature on international trade with heterogeneous firms. We apply a matching technique in order to analyze whether the presence in international
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A Strategy to Disrupt the Model For High Street Retailing – a Walmart Case Study Traditional high street retailers are suffering from the continuing decline of sales share to online retailers. Last year in UK, the amount spent by average users shopping online outpaced the amount spent in high street stores for the first time. According to the prediction from the UK retailing report, high street sales share in UK will decline to 33% whereas online sales share will pick up the momentum to hit
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It is generally agreed that biases can creep into our decision making processes, calling into question the correctness of a decision. Below is a list of some of the more commonly debated cognitive biases. Selective search for evidence - We tend to be willing to gather facts that support certain conclusions but disregard other facts that support different conclusions. Premature termination of search for evidence - We tend to accept the first alternative that looks like it might work. Inertia
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Journal of Philosophy, Inc. Conceptual Metaphor in Everyday Language Author(s): George Lakoff and Mark Johnson Source: The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 77, No. 8 (Aug., 1980), pp. 453-486 Published by: Journal of Philosophy, Inc. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2025464 Accessed: 23/01/2009 17:46 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions
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