research and our society, even today? Copernicus release his theory of the heliocentric view while he was on his death bed. Primary reason for this was because of the Catholic’s church control on society at the time and the effects it would have on religious society stating that the earth was not the center of the universe. After Copernicus released his theory, other key astronomers that supported and advanced Capernicus’ theory included Galileo, Keppler, Brahe, and Newton. Galileo Galilei
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parents did not discuss things with us as “normal” parents should. I think we were just supposed to figure it out by ourselves. I live with a man. Who, I have watched to see what his faith is. On a normal basis he does not talk about God or anything related. When his world seems to fall apart or something very tiny happens he then has something to say. Apparently God is against him, or he can not ever get a break. It becomes God’s fault and everyone around him. He has no faith in anything. He is like
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110, 73–92] and disappointment aversion [Ang, A., Bekaert, G., Liu, J., 2005. Why stocks may disappoint. Journal of Financial Economics 76, 471–508]. The paper proposes a simple specification of loss and disappointment aversion and brings these theories to the data. The main conclusion is that a highly short-sighted investment horizon is required for the historical equity premium to be explained by loss aversion, while reasonable values for disappointment aversion are found also for long investment
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FACTORS AFFECTING BRAND LOYALTY AMONG SMALL SCALE SAVERS (A Case Study Bank) ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to find out the factors affecting brand loyalty among small scale savers. This was a descriptive sample survey which targeted 100 customers of Equity bank Nairobi. The specific objectives of this study were to establish who loyal customers to Equity are, to determine the factors that make the customer satisfied, to examine how awareness work to help brand loyalty and to determine
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knowledge dealing with aspects of pricing. The purpose of this thesis is to combine the concepts of existing research on impacts of pricing on customer satisfaction and studies, which examined entirely different aspects of customer satisfaction, and synthesize valuable new information. Objectives The objectives of the study can be summarized as follows: * Contribute to the emerging literature on pricing and consumption in examining and defining the key perceived values. * Interpret
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EFFECTS OF ECONOMIC FACTORS ON PROCUREMENT PROCSEE A CASE STUDY OF YALA SUB DISTRICT HOSPITAL PRESENTED BY POLYCENA MUKAMI MIRITI A RESEARCH PROPOSAL SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULLFILMENT FOR THE AWARD OF BACHELORS IN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT OF MOI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS 2013 DECLARATION I POLYCENA MUKAMI MIRITI hereby declare that this research proposal is my original work and not a duplicate of similar published work of any scholar for academic purpose and has not been
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The adoption of internet banking: An institutional theory perspective Received (in revised form): 30th October, 2007 Weihua Shi* is a visiting assistant professor at the University of Southern Mississippi. She received her MA degree in Economics from Vanderbilt University and her PhD in Finance from the City University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include behavioural finance, risk management and banking. Narcissus Shambare is an assistant professor of Business Information Systems
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Matthew Stark Sociology 422 Professor Bradshaw 5 May 2015 Childhood Obesity: Is there an elucidation? 1. Describe the Policy, Program or Topic: The growth in childhood obesity over the past several decades, together with the associated health problems and costs, is raising serious concern among health care professionals, policy experts, children’s advocates, and parents. Childhood obesity is defined “in terms of body mass index (BMI), which in turn is defined as weight in kilograms divided
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CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND A REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE Today’s technology is a challenging avenue for people to adapt a community of change and development. One of the widely introduced changes in the society is the existence of online social networking worldwide. According to Ron Jones’ definition of social networking as stated by Siapera (2012, it is essentially a category of online socializing where people are talking, participating, sharing, networking, and bookmarking online. Everything now
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CHAPTER 1 The Problem and its Background Introduction The term curriculum refers to the programme of study in various academic subjects followed by students at various levels of education. The school or college’s teaching staff are employed to teach this curriculum, and students are periodically assessed in their progress in each curriculum subject. As they grow older, students’ achievements in their curriculum subjects are seen as important in helping them get into a good university or college
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