Metaethics Metaethics is a branch of analytic philosophy that explores the status, foundations, and scope of moral values, properties, and words. Whereas the fields of applied ethics and normative theoryfocus on what is moral, metaethics focuses on what morality itself is. Just as two people may disagree about the ethics of, for example, physician-assisted suicide, while nonetheless agreeing at the more abstract level of a general normative theory such as Utilitarianism, so too may people who disagree
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Loss of Face Among Chinese Businesspeople in Intracultural and Intercultural Business Interactions Peter W. Cardon and James Calvert Scott Abstract Problem: No systematic research has been conducted about loss of face in Chinese business culture. General research questions: What causes Chinese businesspeople to lose face when conducting business intraculturally and interculturally? Setting: People’s Republic of China. Participants: 34 Chinese businesspeople from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong
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Research Skills Name Institution Table of Contents 1. Research Proposal 3 1.1. Rationale and Context 3 1.2. Aims 4 1.3. Research Question 5 1.4. Proposed Research Method 5 1.5. Ethical and Access Issues 6 1.6. Potential Value of Research 7 2. Initial Literature Review 8 References 14 Research Skills 1. Research Proposal 2.1. Rationale and Context Cambridge City Government is an institution that is currently facing problems with the management of its information transfer
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The State University of New York At Potsdam PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN CHILDREN’S EDUCATION By Ashley Ann Wanke A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Education In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Masters in education Potsdam, New York 14 – January, 2008 This thesis entitled Parental Involvement in Children’s Education By Ashley Ann Wanke Has been approved for the Department of Education _________________________________
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Visualizing Research This page intentionally left blank Visualizing Research A Guide to the Research Process in Art and Design Carole Gray and Julian Malins © Carole Gray and Julian Malins 2004 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Carole Gray and Julian Malins have asserted
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By Subhankar Dhar and Upkar Varshney Challenges and Business Models for Mobile Location-based Services and Advertising for wireless cellular networks in the U.S. have also enabled location-based functionalities using variations of triangulation, GPS, and cell-ID technologies. In addition to the current and emerging satellite-based systems, such as GPS (U.S.), GLONASS (Russian), GALILEO (EU), and COMPASS (China),30 which will provide wider coverage to benefit location-based services
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Audit Week 2: Financial Statement Audits, Financial Statement Assertions and Audit Evidence Financial Statement Audit * A systematic process of objectively obtaining and evaluating evidence regarding assertions about the economic actions and events to ascertain the degree of correspondence between assertions and established criteria * Purpose: To enhance the degree of confidence of intended users in the financial statements by the expression of an opinion by the auditor Overall Objectives
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PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Willis Yuko Oso Faculty of Education and School of Postgraduate Studies Amoud University - Somaliland [pic] Barkhadleh Printing, BORAMA - SOMALILAND Typesetting and Printing By Barkhadleh Printing, Borama, Somaliland. Barkhadleh52hotmail.com /0025224509257 Copyright © Willis Yuko Oso, 2013. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in whole or in part or transmitted in any form or
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Research Proposal UDB301 – Research Methods Due Date: 30/05/2014 Name: Dylan Black Student Number: N8304271 Course Code and Major – UD40 – Spatial Science Email: Dylan.Black@connect.qut.edu.au Due Date: 30/05/2014 Name: Dylan Black Student Number: N8304271 Course Code and Major – UD40 – Spatial Science Email: Dylan.Black@connect.qut.edu.au The Change Galileo Will Make to RTK Surveying This study is focused on what will change with the construction and implementation of
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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Catlett, S., & Lovan, S. (2011). Being a good nurse and doing the right thing: a replication study. Nursing Ethics, 18(1), 54-63. doi: 10.1177/0969733010386162 The authors of this article were one Shelia Catlett of Western Kentucky University and Fairview Community Clinic, USA and one Sherry R Lovan also from Western Kentucky University, USA. Both authors conducted a qualitative research study, which was also a replication of a study published in 2002, investigating
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