Questions 1. What are you experimenting on (organism)? For this experiment, we chose Musca domestica L., the house fly, as our organism. 2. What is the topic of the experiment? The topic of this experiment is to examine the habitat preferences of two differently reared Musca domestica in a controlled environment among three substrates. 3. Why would a non-scientist be interested in this topic (specifically)? The house fly is almost always found in association with humans or human activities. It
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THE ELEMENTS OF A PROPOSAL Frank Pajares Emory University I. Introduction and Theoretical Framework A. “The introduction is the part of the paper that provides readers with the background information for the research reported in the paper. Its purpose is to establish a framework for the research, so that readers can understand how it is related to other research” (Wilkinson, 1991, p. 96). B. In an introduction, the writer should
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH Instructional Goals 1. To generate interest in research for the students by driving home the point that successful managerial problem solving is nothing other than understanding and analyzing the situation at hand, which is what research is all about. 2. To help students differentiate between research‐based problem solving and “going by gut‐feeling”, the latter of which might sometimes help to solve problems in the short term, but might lead to systemic long‐term adverse consequences
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Export Behavior and Firm Productivity in German Manufacturing A firm-level analysis Jens Matthias Arnold* and Katrin Hussinger** Abstract This paper examines the causal relationship between productivity and exporting in German manufacturing. We find a causal link from high productivity to presence in foreign markets, as postulated by a recent literature on international trade with heterogeneous firms. We apply a matching technique in order to analyze whether the presence in international
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APPLICATION OF ARIMA MODEL FOR TESTING “SERIAL INDEPENDENCE” OF STOCK PRICES AT THE HSEC Cao Hao Thi – Pham Phu – Pham Ngoc Thuy School of Industrial Management HoChiMinh City University of Technology ABSTRACT The paper is an attempt to test the “serial independence” of stock prices at HoChiMinh City Stock Exchange Center (HSEC) in Vietnam by applying the ARIMA model for preliminary assessment in terms of its market efficiency. From findings derived, it appears to be
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applied in a classroom. Social participation plays a large role in the emotional development of students. Interaction is often necessary to function in the educational environment. The experiment presented in this paper conducted by Koster et al. (2009) was designed to test the hypothesis that the Social Participation Questionnaire (SPQ) is able to distinguish between students with and without disabilities. The questionnaire, developed in 2008 by Koster et al. (as cited in Koster et al., 2009), was
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A SECOND COURSE IN STATISTICS REGRESSION ANALYISIS Seventh Edition William Mendenhall University of Florida Terry Sincich University of South Florida Prentice Hall Boston Columbus Indianapolis New York San Francisco Upper Saddle River Amsterdam Cape Town Dubai London Toronto Madrid Delhi Milan Mexico Munich City Sao Paris Paulo Montreal Sydney Hong Kong Seoul Singapore Taipei Tokyo Editor in Chief: Deirdre Lynch Acquisitions Editor: Marianne Stepanian Associate Content Editor:
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presented with any particular information about the wines they had to taste in their blind test, participants were not able to report any major “differences among the wines”. (Plassmann et. All., 2007, p. 1051) Based on these findings the first hypothesis of the study is (1) Participants tested in the blind test will taste no major difference among the different coke sorts. Based on the same study about beer brand identification on taste perception, the researchers observed that participants have
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13 (2012) 516–547 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Emerging Markets Review journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/emr Corporate governance, agency problems and international cross-listings: A defense of the bonding hypothesis☆ G. Andrew Karolyi ⁎ Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, 348 Sage Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 30 June 2011 Received in revised form 6 August 2012 Accepted 7 August
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online 19 July 2007 Abstract This paper examines the ex post and ex ante benefits of accounting conservatism to lenders and borrowers in the debt contracting process. I expect conservatism to benefit lenders ex post through the timely signaling of default risk, as manifested by accelerated covenant violations, and to benefit borrowers ex ante through lower initial interest rates. Consistent with these predictions, I find that more conservative borrowers are more likely to violate debt covenants following
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