using the primary research literature, the prospect sometimes seems overwhelming. Finding pertinent journal articles often seems to involve a maze of abstracting journals, indifferent librarians, missing volumes, CD-ROMs from the netherworld, and bound periodicals that refuse to flatten themselves for photocopiers (no matter how hard you press on them CPR-style). Even after an article has been located or provided, there is the problem of reading it. The worst way to assimilate a research paper is to read
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Evaluating the Research Process HCS/465 September 10, 2012 Introduction This paper is a descriptive review of the literature on breast cancer outcomes: 1990 through 2000. The research was done on fewer than 100 subjects in the United States and Western Europe. The results of this research also includes past projects of 1089 articles of which 230 were included. No single item was used to come to the conclusion of this article. A while ranges of research methodologies
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Research Methods Quantitative Project APA Notation Donovan, L. A., & MacIntyre, P. D. (2004). Age and sex differences in willingness to communicate, communication apprehension, and self-perceived competence. Communication Research Reports, 21(4), 420-427. Literature Review The variable selected for this research project was willingness to communicate, a popular variable among communication research. Willingness to communicate is studied to further explore why and when humans choose
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Week 5 Assignment Kanit Dararutana Dr. Thomas Hennefer BUS 642 – Business Research Methods & Tools Ashford University 4 February 2013 Week 5 Assignment Making Research Decisions 2) Suppose you were preparing two-way tables of percentages for the following pairs of variables. How would you run the percentages? a) Age and consumption of breakfast cereal. Here I would use cross tabulation because there are two variables and start by listing age in the left most column
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Research Article Critique: Are postoperative dressings necessary? Barbara A Body Grand Canyon University Research Critique Introduction Since 2008, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) no longer pay the full cost of care if certain hospital acquired conditions (HAC) are coded as a secondary diagnosis. Surgical site infection (SSI) is classified as a HAC and considered a preventable condition. For an eligible patient with a SSI coded as a secondary diagnosis, the hospital
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Advanced Research Advanced Research course emphasized, first of all, taking into account the stakeholders’ perspectives while doing needs assessment. Designing tools/services/social programs in completely different geographical and/or socioeconomic context than the context of our target population and expecting them to be effective there is illogical. For Advanced Research class my group’s competency assignment was to create a single-case design for a nine-year-old Hispanic male, who has grown
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Employee retention means the plans and strategies use to make the valuable employees not to leave their job. Most of the multinational concerns are facing problem in the retention of employees..In this research proposal iam going to study how Riordan manufacturing group can retain their employees. Retention of employees will give a lot of benefit to the concern: The employee retention will help a concern to get good turnover, will help to avoid interruption in service, to keep up the goodwill, to
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critical, but it is rarely used. For the purpose of your research project, students will be required to write an informative abstract. Descriptive abstracts A descriptive abstract indicates the type of information found in the work. It makes no judgments about the work, nor does it provide results or conclusions of the research. It does incorporate key words found in the text and may include the purpose, methods, and scope of the research. Essentially, the descriptive abstract describes the
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The Australasian Accounting Business & Finance Journal, February 2007 Gaffikin: Accounting Research and Theory: the age of neo-empiricism. Vol. 1, No.1.pp. 1-19. Accounting Research and Theory: The age of neo-empiricism Michael Gaffikin, School of Accounting & Finance, University of Wollongong ABSTRACT The theorising in accounting prior to 1970 was rejected as not providing sufficiently general theories. Informed by theories in economics and finance (and other disciplines such as psychology)
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invaluably provided research evidence that are attributable to contemporary management accounting knowledge and designs. It has provided a profound method to adjust to ever changing external environments and the need for changes in internal factors (Otley, 1980, p. 413). Strengths of contingency theory style research Challenging the criticisms of contingency theory for being fragmentary and contradictory due to its methodological limitations, it is the failure of critiques in realising the
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