Chapter-03.qxd 11/12/2004 2:51 PM Page 55 3 Finding and formulating your topic CHAPTER CONCEPTS ● MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT TOPICS ● WHAT IS A TOPIC? ● TOPICS AS PUZZLES ● PUZZLES AS RIDDLES TO BE UNRIDDLED ● BASIC ADVICE ON RESEARCH TOPICS ● THE EARLIER THE BETTER ● GO FROM THE GENERAL TO THE PARTICULAR ● AVOID POLITICIZED TOPICS ● BE CAREFUL WITH PERSONAL ISSUES ● FIND THE LINE OF LEAST RESISTANCE BETWEEN A AND B ● AIRING YOUR TOPIC ● SOURCES FOR GENERATING IDEAS ● ANALYSING THE POSSIBILITIES
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Running head: Integrated Case Study: Bandon Group, Inc. Project 1 Integrated Case Study: Bandon Group, Inc. By: Alvin D. Solone Strayer University CIS 511 Dr. Edwin Otto January 16, 2011 Purpose and Scope of Study The purpose and scope of the study is to evaluate information systems and its atmosphere, evaluate problems and assess the probability of an ERP installation; being specific, the use of SAP R/3 to maintain at the least three business areas. This requires investigation within
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A Study of Anti-Dumping Duty under Fair Trade Rule：An Application on the Case of China Towels in Taiwan Shu-Yuan Lee, Yung-Ho Weng, Peng-Yin Lin, and Sheng-Ti Hung1 Ⅰ、Introduction The World Trade Organization (WTO), its main function is to ensure that trade flows as smoothly, predictably and freely as possible, such as agricultural agreement which is to promote fairness on agricultural trade and service. Other rules such as safeguard agreement, tariff estimation agreement and country of origin
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stage in the development of a company, preceding foreign direct investment or, in some cases, licensing and foreign direct investment. Consequently, theoretical contributions are primarily concerned with the relationship between exporting and foreign direct investment and the optimal timing for switching between these alternative market entry strategies. In contrast, there are a large number of empirical studies which investigate various determinants of export intensity. The majority of the past research
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Introduction - The study of bribery and corruption in the courtroom is paramount to protecting the rights of every person seeking justice. The fact that a judge or District Attorney is 99% honest simply will not suffice. Even the 1% must be treated fairly and equally under the laws of our country. Just like Jesus would leave the ninety-nine to go after the one, we must protect everyone equally under the laws established. Meditate on the words of Edmund Burke “The only thing necessary for evil to
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Green Curve Interiors were administered a widely acknowledged Big Five personality online test to obtain their personality trait score. Regression line and scatter charts were the tools used in our study to find the relation between the results of personality test score and job performance ratings. In our study we categorised green curve employees according to their occupational groups. From our analysis we found that conscientiousness was the best predictor for overall job performance among different
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A STATISTICAL STUDY OF INCREASED MORTALITY AMONG WIDOWERS A STATISTICAL STUDY OF INCREASED MORTALITY AMONG WIDOWERS Have you ever wondered what it really means when someone tells you they have a “broken heart”? Most people understand that having a “broken heart” references a state of extreme grief or sorrow, typically caused by the death of a loved one or the ending of a romantic relationship. But is there any additional truth to this saying? This study examines the medical
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at least two different methods of establishing correlation between variables and provide an example of each. According to the text, “There are four forms of Karl's Pearson's product-moment r. They are Pearson r, Spearman rho (rs), Point-biserial r(pb), and phi coefficient. Each method views variables not in isolation, but instead as systematically and meaningfully associated with, or related to, other variables. For example, using correlation
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Situational leadership An exploratory content analysis of Situational Leadership ABSTRACT Purpose Hersey and Blanchard’s Situational Leadership model is widely utilised, but it has limited empirical support. The model is investigated in the present study through content analysis of the transcripts of successful supervision sessions. Design/methodology/approach Eight transcripts of successful supervision interviews were subjected to in-depth content analysis, to test the prediction (from Situational
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site B (e.g., Lewis base). The halogen, X, is usually part of an R-X molecule where R can be another halogen, an organic or an inorganic electron-donating-group. Halogen bonding (XB) is in some ways analogous to hydrogen bonding (HB). In the latter, a hydrogen atom is shared between an atom, group or molecule that “donates” and another that “accepts” it.[1-3] In halogen bonding, it is a halogen atom X that is shared between a donor R and an acceptor Y. Thus the two forms of interaction can be illustrated
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