DYSLEXIA Published online 17 December 2008 in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI: 10.1002/dys.379 & INNOVATIONS AND INSIGHTS E ditorial note. There has been a lot of clinical speculation about the ‘survival value’ of dyslexia. If one takes an evolutionary perspective, the cognitive skills associated with being dyslexic must have some value—something Scott (2004) and this article speculate on. In addition, the comments that dyslexics tend to do rather better at three-dimensional
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Sophie Baker Pr Final paper Proposal: Description: This film is meant to highlight the specific challenge of living in America as an Ethiopian Immigrant. Since 2002, 17,221 children were adopted from Ethiopia. In addition, 134,547 Ethiopian immigrants were living in America in 2007. This film is intended to be a resource for adoptive parents and community members who work with immigrants. This includes schoolteachers, doctors, counselors, and employers. Background on Ethiopia:
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Research Study Capital-Market Effects of Corporate Disclosures and Disclosure Regulation Christian Leuz Peter Wysocki June 26, 2006 Commissioned by the Task Force to Modernize Securities Legislation in Canada Christian Leuz Christian Leuz is currently the Professor of Accounting at the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business. He is also the David G. Booth Faculty Fellow. Prior to this position, Professor Leuz was the Harold Stott Term Assistant Professor in Accounting at
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listeningSocial Media Research: How Seriously Do You Listen to Consumers Online? By Marguerite McNeal Once upon a time, marketing researchers relied on the principal that to uncover consumers’ insights, they had to ask a question. “The consumer landscape itself is changing and that’s something we need to understand as both marketers and market researchers,” says Sourabh Sharma, social media research expert at SKIM, a Rotterdam, Netherlands-based market research and consulting agency. “Consumers
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causal relationships and measure how marketing activity affects outcomes. Marketing dashboards are a structured way to disseminate the insights gleaned from these two approaches within the organization. THE MARKETING RESEARCH SYSTEM Marketing managers often commission formal marketing studies of specific problems and opportunities. Marketing insights provide diagnostic information about how
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shoppers and consumers based on the varied insights of each target group. We’ll focus on the “Consumer is Boss” and understand how to influence them at the “First Moment of Truth” when the shopper makes a purchase decision and at the “Second Moment of Truth” when the brand is actually used and the consumer decides if it delivered against the brand promise. The course will include a team project to develop collaboration skills but also to gain deep insights into a specific target group and product
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Compass Ethics, a branch of philosophy refers to the values for human conduct, considering the rightness and wrongness of actions and motives. As nursing profession is an integral part of the health care environment, the nursing ethics provides the insight to the values and ethical principles governing nursing practice, conduct, and relationships. The Code of Ethics for Nurses, adopted by the American Nurses' Association (ANA) is intended to provide definite standards of practice and conduct that are
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The whistle blew, and my team and I jogged off the field, feeling awful. Through the struggle of losing the championship, I realized that I identified two advanced life skills to overcome the adversity: values and insight. The causes of going through the adversity of losing the championship soccer game, were the team that we played was pretty good, and had some exceptional players. The skills they used were sophisticated, although my team still knew how to use those skills. The other cause for
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Management Consulting & Strategic Communications Can social media become a platform for social commerce? American Express Case Study: Applying social media analytics to evaluate Link, Like, Love Overview American Express® launched several successful online initiatives that monetize the unique features of social media, such as Location Services check-ins for discounts with Foursquare (Sync, Explore, Save) and discounts through Facebook® (Link, Like, Love). Here’s how the Facebook Link,
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visitors of regional Victoria. The report describes how the Group has come to a better understanding of the problem through the use of various Design Thinking and Lean UX tools and approaches. The application of the tools has identified invaluable insights into the customer’s needs which provided the Group with the confidence to better define the problem statement. The process also assisted in the identification of key metrics that the Group can use to drive an optimum problem-solution fit. These
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