the study emerges from the two paradigms is discussed. Discussions show that the aims of the study of gathering descriptive data and exploring relationships between the two variables as well as the use of survey method are more pertained to the positivist paradigm as it shares features with the paradigm including a high degree of control over responses, use of statistics both for descriptive and for determining relationships and researchers being detached by adopting the role of an objective and passive
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active condition and the time passed since consumption of the cocoa flavanols, thus indicating that the cocoa flavanol did not have the expected reaction of speeding up the response times of the participants. These findings conflict with previous research by Scholey (2009), who found that consumption of cocoa flavanol resulted in improvements on two cognitive computerised serial subtraction tasks. Although Scholey did not utilise the Sternberg task as we did,
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Provisional Topic Title : Analyze the impact of customer retention on company profitability (Case Study of Leasing Industry in Sri Lanka –ABC Company) 1 Introduction 1.1 Introduction to the industry ABC is classified as one of the strongest players among the Non Banking Financial Institutions (NBFI’s) in Sri Lanka. The NBFI’s can once again be categorized into two main sectors and they are the Licensed Finance Companies (LFC’s) and the Specialized Leasing Companies (SLC’s) such as ABC. The NBFI
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QNT-351 Discussion Question Responses * DQ#1: What is the importance of statistics in business decision making? Describe a business situation where statistics was used in making a decision. 1. Using statistics to evaluate the performance of your business. Taking all factors into account, determine whether you are making or losing money. In addition, determine the trend of your business. For example, determine whether, over time, you are making more or less profit (or loss). Track the share
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What is “Statistics”? Data collection Chapter 1 of text “a way to get information from data” A framework for dealing with variability A way to make decisions under uncertainty Statistical inference: the problem of determining the behaviour of a large population by studying a small sample from that population Why is statistics important in business? Financial management (capital budgeting) Marketing management (pricing) Marketing research (consumer behaviour) Operations management (inventory)
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of Operations Management 29 (2011) 329–342 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Operations Management journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jom Qualitative case studies in operations management: Trends, research outcomes, and future research implications Mark Barratt, Thomas Y. Choi ∗ , Mei Li Department of Supply Chain Management, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-4706, United States a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a
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class to learn. The researcher used correlational research design, with 156 graduate and undergraduate students. The researcher tried to select adequate samples form the students enrolled. Students in each of the classrooms were randomly placed into one of two groups by either using a random table of numbers or by flipping a coin. However the study employed an approach of survey questionnaire developed by Burgess (1998) was used in this study. A t-test was used to compare the means between each
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Comparative research is a research methodology in the social sciences that aims to make comparisons across different countries or cultures Comparative research defined Comparative research, simply put, is the act of comparing two or more things with a view to discovering something about one or all of the things being compared. This technique often utilizes multiple disciplines in one study. When it comes to method, the majority agreement is that there is no methodology peculiar to comparative research
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Economist is compelling, because of its thorough research, excellent word choice, and overall well detailed reports that convince
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IDENTIFYING KEY DETERMINANTS OF CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION DECISION : SPECIAL REFERENCE TO TIIKM CONFERENCE ABSTRACT Conference industry brings significant economic effects and that is one of the reasons why many destinations around the world strive to organize conferences, especially the international ones, which make bigger economic effects. The purpose of this paper is to examine factors that may influence to decision making of conference participants to participate to international conferences
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