Greater Article Reviews Samples For Students

Psychology:

APA Citation: Carlozzi, N. S. (2010). “Personality and Reaction Time after Sleep Deprivation”. CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY, 29(1), 24

Synopsis:

A series of experiments were carried out to determine the relationship between personality development, personality traits and reaction time for individuals due to sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation is a condition whereby an individual is not able to get enough sleep. The condition can be either chronic or acute and can lead to a number of problems. Problems include fatigue, anger, ineptness and depression. This is mainly because lack of enough sleep affects an individual’s cognitive function. In order to investigate the effects ...

USA Health Care System

Over the years, the health care system of many nations has evolved. The changes, some good and some bad, can be attributed to the cultural view of health care, situational factors, employee insurance coverage of health care and other economic factors. The most important factor that has changed, especially in the ever-growing US health care market, has been the spiraling costs of such care. Employers have been under greater burden of providing for the ever-rising costs of medical care and are trying to reduce such burden through covering less, covering fewer persons, passing the increases onto employees, or simply ...

Ray WA, Chung CP, Murray KT, Hall K, Stein C. Prescription of Long-Acting Opioids and Mortality in Patients With Chronic Noncancer Pain. JAMA. 2016;315(22):2415-2423. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.7789.

Prescription of Long-Acting Opioids and Mortality in Patients With Chronic Noncancer Pain
Wayne A. Ray, PhD1; Cecilia P. Chung, MD, MPH2; Katherine T. Murray, MD2,3; Kathi Hall, BS1; C. Michael Stein, MB, ChB2,3
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JAMA. 2016;315(22):2415-2423. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.7789.

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ABSTRACT | INTRODUCTION | METHODS | RESULTS | DISCUSSION | CONCLUSIONS | ARTICLE INFORMATION | REFERENCES
Importance  Long-acting opioids increase the risk of unintentional overdose deaths but also may increase ...

IMPULSIVE PURCHASING BEHAVIOR

1. What is the purpose of the article? Why did the author(s) conduct the research and/or write the article?
Impulsive purchasing is unplanned purchasing that depends on a rapid decision-making. There are many variables influencing the impulsive purchasing behavior such as demographic factors, income, cultural orientation, price promotions, and many other varying variables. The previous studies on the impulsive purchasing analyze the influence of these factors on the purchasing behavior. However, the previous studies miss an important point in analyzing the influential factors on the impulsive purchasing behavior: the influence of the social environment and the social relations ...

In Bettig and Hall’s article “Ad Creep: The Commercialization of Culture,” the authors discuss the phenomenon of “ad creep,” which is described as “the gradual expansion of advertising into nontraditional spaces such as public playgrounds, school buses, sidewalks, and beaches” (193). In essence, as advertisements become more and more recognizable and rejected by the public, marketers and advertisers must find new ways to incorporate their advertisements into everyday life. As a result, instead of having separate avenues for delivering advertisements (like a commercial in between programmed television), they use strategies like ‘product placement,’ ...

Introduction

Thesis of the article by George M. Fredrick is to explain the models of ethnic relations by Buchanan concerning the ethnic relations models among them, assimilation, separatism, hierarchy, and pluralism. This has defined and explained on how different groups relate and relate. Based on’ Frederickson essay on ethnic relation.’

Buchanan in the article appears to endorse the ethnical hierarchy cultural pluralism because it is fully inclusive and it takes its basis on the free choices of people to build their ethnic identities of their own. Cultural pluralism celebrates various perspectives about the different and diverse culture in the society. ...

The importance of having an effective formula for estimating bond price volatility has been proven in various studies. In their work, Shirvani and Wilbratte (2005), evaluated and compared three alternative estimations. The three alternative measures, Macaulay duration, convexity-augmented Macaulay duration and a new alternative that they proposed were described and evaluated for relative performance. The authors basically provide a better method for computing bond price volatility than the two that are conventionally accepted and commonly used. The alternative is a method that is easier and faster to use, even for students.
In the introduction, Shirvani and Wilbratte (2005) suggest an earlier ...

Introduction

The article ‘IR-Theory and Transformation in the Greater Middle East: the Role of the United States’ written by Koninklijke Brill NV explains the failure US military in accomplishing their goals and objectives during the cold war of the middle east. The article is an analysis of the war’s aftermath and information is collected from several liberal and realist theories and ascertains that US failed in achieving the aim of hitting Iraq. International relationship theory involves collecting theoretical data about how countries relate and how internal policies of a government can be influenced by those of other nations. The author ...

Article Review Assignment

ARTICLE IDENTIFICATION
The paper that I chose focuses on the sex differences that are observed in personality traits, in 55 different nations. The article aims at determining the reason behind this difference and predictors of this condition in the different nations. This captured my attention, and I chose the article so that I can understand the predictors that enable women to have a better personality than men.
2. APA Citation Format
- I would source credit my selected article in the body of a paper as follows:(Schmitt, Realo, Voracek, & Allik, 2008)
- I would reference-list my ...

Technology is advancing at an alarming, almost exponential rate; as human progress increases, so does technology, and its effects on our society become somewhat more truncated. Vincent Mosco, in his article “When Old Myths Were New: The Ever-Ending Story,” notes that human society has a tendency to repeat history when it comes to technological advances; with each new stop, we hail our latest invention to be the be-all end-all for communication technology, ignoring that we have done that many times before. According to Mosco, “there is indeed a remarkably willful, historical amnesia about technology, particularly when it turns to communication and ...

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This is an interview between Miller and Stephen Mosher about the impacts of population growth in a given country. Miller asks a question while Mosher answers the questions asked. In the first question, Miller is asking Mosher the reason why the imminent population have not materialised and where the mistakes could have come from. However, Mosher says that the consequences of overpopulation in some instances from Malthus and Paul Ehrlich’s are deliberately exaggerated in attempt to frighten individuals into having not more than one or two children.
The second question Miller asked was if the projections about ...

Article Review: The Pullman Strike by Richard Hofstadter and Michael Wallace
Summary
The Pullman Strike was a landmark event in the labor history of the United States. Happened in 1894, the strike has involved large numbers of workers who fought against agents of the federal government. The workers, who worked under the Pullman Palace Car Company, underwent a series of labor relations changes that led them to organize the strike. Company owner George Pullman gathered all of his workers under a town that asks for higher rental fees but serves as an advantage for gaining employment at Pullman. The 1893 ...

Summary

Application
I learned from reading this article that PRP (performance related pay) has a positive effect on productivity, particularly where individual performance can be evaluate and rewarded. This does support my attempt to answer my questions on the affects of pay for performance on motivation and productivity. The article provided further insights into how PRP motivates the workforce in both positive and negative ways. PRP is most effective in employment situations where it serves as an immediate financial reward to top performers. In these situations, it improves the company’s productivity in two ways; it increases the performance of ...

Article Review

Reference
Schulz, L.E., & Bonawitz, E.B. (2007). Serious Fun: Preschoolers Engage in More Exploratory Play When Evidence Is Confounded. Developmental Psychology, 43(4), 1045–1050.
Objectives
The main study hypothesis is that exploration play by children is influenced by the quality of evidence they have. In particular, it is explored how preschoolers distinguish between unconfounded and confounded evidence. The authors also predict that children receiving confounded evidence tend to play with familiar toys, while those who see unconfounded evidence show novelty preference, playing with toy that is unfamiliar to them.
Method
The main question that ...

1. What is the general problem the author is addressing? (2 points)
The study by Spielmann et al. (2013) was created in order to investigate how the myth that single people suffer from their loneliness affects the feelings of the singles. This myth has existed at all times and has been particularly actual for women (Spielmann et al. 1049). As a result, many people are afraid to be alone so much that settle for less in relationships not to be alone at all. This myth was spread in the society rather quickly, so now many people see a relationship ...

The article by Collins has been very instrumental in passing information regarding leadership particularly level five leadership. It asserts that such types of leaders are modest, willful, fearless and also humble. It goes ahead to mention Abraham Lincoln as a leader who possessed this trait and one who is easily emulated. The article is also vital because of the examples of the chief executive officers that it aligns. Through them, one can actually deduce the types of leadership they exhibited in their entities and possibly pick the right attributes from their operations. In the extensive research presented in the ...

The article identifies various patterns of gender equality at the workplace and explains how these patterns are correlated with psychological distress. The authors describe how gender segregation plays a crucial role in exposing men and women to diverse work environments irrespective of the sector of occupation, thereby impacting their health status to a great extent (Elwer et al. 2013). The article considers gender equality as a multidimensional concept, which includes the division of labor, symbolic representation of men and women, emotions and decision making capabilities. Gender inequality occurs in various forms, such as discrimination with regards to opportunities, allocation ...

In a study aimed at determining the impact of definite states on the tensile properties of the white muscle of cultured Chinook salmon, a report was made (Jerret, Stevens and Holland, 1996). The aforementioned research paper covers the research methods used, results and the general conclusion. This paper critique covers a review on the problems noted in the experimental design, importance of the results and the future study as well.

Problems in the Experimental design

Interestingly, when fish recruited the white muscle they shifted from their ‘steady’ state to a 'busty' state. Subsequent work on the fish showed that the intermediate pink muscle was ...

The act of objectification is essentially just as it sounds. An individual, a gender, or a certain group of people are seen as objects, as somehow less than human, and thereby able to be looked at with a different type of scrutiny than one might look at others. In the article, “Objectifying Sarah Palin: Evidence that objectification causes women to be perceived as less competent and less fully human” (Heflick & Goldenberg, 2009), it is seen that while women are capable of being attractive and placed in positions of great power and responsibility, they are nonetheless believed to be far ...

Introduction

Incidences of horrific violence such as the 2012 shootout in Chardon, Ohio, has put immense pressure on the local agencies as well as states to provide the students with learning environments that are conducive and safe. The fatal day ended with three students dead (Losinski, Katsiyannis, Ryan & Baughan, 2014). The education system has been accused of being marred by inequalities in terms of socioeconomic conditions, race, and ethnic affiliations. These factors have been listed as some of the reasons that have led to incidences such as the above mentioned (Teske, 2011). Gage, Sugai, Lunde and DeLoreto (2013) suggest that ...

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Abstract

This research established in the article sought to explain the issue of marriage regarding Chinese rural young women and to give the grounds if the issue served as a risk or protective factor for their suicide. The analysis included a brief summary of the main ideas of the article, the purpose of the research, key findings and consequences of the results. Moreover, the major theoretical perspective to clarify the findings was based on Emile Durkheim’s social integration theory of suicide which highlights sources of people’s social support. The observations allowed ...

Introduction

There are fundamental gender differences in organizational management styles, values, leadership strategies and policy preferences, which constitute barriers to women’s ascendancy to the highest levels of leadership. These differences not only condition women’s leadership/managerial styles, but also shape the effectiveness of any such styles, which in turn reflect on their participation in public administration. This paper distils the existent conceptual, theoretical and empirical models on public administration, gender disparities, and underlying factors that prevent women’s upward mobility as well as the subsequent effect on organizational outcomes. Ultimately, however, management and leadership styles in any context continue ...

Study Program

Review of Keenan, J. & Evans, A. 2014. ‘‘I am a starbucks worker my life no longer belongs to me’: the performance of enstrangement as a learning tool,’ Teaching in Higher Education, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 101-112.
This paper examines the use of autoethnography as a means of approaching the experience of estrangement, thereby making the researcher’s personal experience a topic of investigation. Autoethnographic practices that emphasize the location of the researcher as an important response to post-structuralist epistemologies in which older forms of certainty in the validity traditional scientific inquiry have been edged out by greater knowledge that experience ...

The article: Juvenile Drug Court Program Admission, Demeanor and Cherry-picking: A Research Note by J.C Barnes among other authors examines how demeanor of either a parent or a juvenile influences the admission of the juvenile into the Drug Court program for purposes of treatment. It does a critical analysis of 76 case files so as to get a picture of the case whether demeanor indeed influences the admission of juveniles into the program. The second concern of the article is to explore whether the source of such demeanor whether parent or the child is determinant of whether a juvenile is so admitted. The article ...

Article Review

Article Review

being the lowest cost producer” presented the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) of Ryanair . The air travel organization was pegged as the leading short haul carrier in Europe. The current discourse hereby summarized the SWOT of the organization through an in-depth analysis of the key elements of its internal and external environment.

Strengths

The strengths of Ryanair are identified through the following categories: (1) lowest cost per passenger; (2) lowest fare; (3) offering the largest short haul network; (4) maintaining the newest fleet which provides them with greater fuel efficiency, lowest maintenance costs, and exemplary perceptions from ...

COMPLEX SCIENTIFIC TESTIMONY: HOW DO JURORS MAKE DECISIONS?

Joel Cooper, Elizabeth A. Bennett & Holley L. Sukel
The article posed the question as to whether “regular” citizens sitting on juries are capable of understanding complex scientific data and how such complex data is processed and whether it is translated into a sound and rational verdict.
2) The methodology used
Of the fifty-four paid participants, forty participants, seventy-four (75%) percent, were selected from a local community college in the Princeton, New Jersey area while fourteen (14) participants, twenty-five (25%) percent, were from a local retirement community. Interestingly, one-hundred (100%) percent of the participants considered themselves upper-middle-lower middle class which ...

Most management experts profess the efficacy of decision making in groups as compared to individuals. This review, however, would focus on certain Group Decision making concepts in the article by Jason Zweig by analyzing the positives and negatives of group decision making and applying these concepts to illustrations in the article.
This paper will begin by highlighting the positive aspects of decision making in a group. The most obvious aspects of group based decision making include a greater combined pool of knowledge, different perspectives that people within the group bring to the table, greater understanding of the rationale behind decisions, ...

The advent of technological advancement in the field of medicine paved the way for the most sophisticated and powerful equipment that aids innovation in patient care. The article publish in diagnostic imaging by Howell (2012) describes the increasing popularity of the mobile X-Ray technology. The article emphasized that the new technology enabled the patient’s instant access to imaging. Primarily, image quality and mobility drives the continuous evolvement of medical technologies while battery life and wireless connectivity remain on the vendors’ continuous improvement. Analysis from KLAS suggests that vendors found greater significance of the mobile X-Ray in terms of ...

- Where did you find the research article? Did experts in the field review it before it was published?
The research article was published in the Journal of Education for Business in 2011 . The paper was classified as peer-reviewed, therefore, validating that it was reviewed by experts in the filed before it was published.
- Does the article have a stated research question or problem? That is, can you determine the focus of this author’s work? If so, what is the stated research question or problem?

Research Question 2: What values do students place on interview traits?
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Analysis of "Lesser Evil" and "Lesser Evil is not Good Enough"

The Michael Ignatieff’s perception of democracy in the article “Lesser Evils “seems to be sophisticated and contradictory. “The Lesser Evil is Not Good Enough” a book review by Rabkin Jeremy on the other hand is confusing on the appropriate way to handle terrorists. The articles contradict the ideas and demonstrate a rational argument for doing the same. Terrorism in itself is wrong yet he advocates for a fair hearing and dialogue with terrorists. A summary and comprehensive analysis of the two articles will determine which of the two articles is weighty.

Summary of: The Lesser Evil Is Not Good

Michael Ignatieff argues that even liberal democracies must perpetrate evil ...

Summary

The success of the US economy should be measured on its ability to touch human life and protect human dignity. The article is written to address the effects of the US economy on the human life. It is an invitation to Catholics to analyze the Christian faith, economy, governance, and society. The letter is not aimed at advancing the economic discourse. However, it examines the moral principles from the Scripture and social teachings of the Church aimed at establishing what economic life should serve.
Economic life of a society should be discussed and shaped by its effect on human, ...

In an intuitive investigation, Christiane Wilke seeks to reevaluate the significance of memorials in a multifaceted manner. His pursuit is hinged on getting the answers to three questions which revolve around the impact that memorials should have on us; with the ultimate goal of initiating a conversation around transitional justice and the need to incorporate theories of complex identities while ascribing specific relevance to memorials. His research is aimed at providing relevant evidence about the need to be cautious when setting up memorials because more often, their defined purpose ignores the existence of overlapping and congruent scenarios leading to their installation. ...

Polyvinylidene fluoride polymer first exhibited the piezoelectric effect in the year 1969 followed by the pyroelectric effect some years later, leading to the development of numerous applications of pyroelectricity and piezoelectricity. PVDF possesses many attractive features as a tactile or touch sensor. Tactile sensors can be used to monitor skin conditions. They find use in minimally invasive surgery. Tanaka et al. developed an active palpitation sensor to detect hypertrophy and prostate cancer. Pyroelectric and piezoelectric polymers help in energy conversion. The Energy Harvesting Eel device created by Taylor et al. used piezoelectric polymers for the conversion of mechanical flow energy ...

ARTICLE 1

In “Parental predictors of fruit and vegetable consumption in treatment-seeking overweight children” M L Vanhala, J Laitinen, K Kaikkonen, S Keinanen-Kiukaanniemi, and R Korpelainen explored the role of family dietary behaviors in the design intervention of the effective treatment of childhood obesity. The study involved fifty-four treatment seeking overweight and 65 normal-weight 8-year old kids and their parents. The study accessed the children’s and parents consumption of FBV using a food frequency questionnaire. The study used voluntary recruitment mechanism where willing participants were recruited by school nurses to participate in family-based treatment for overweight kids. The cities target includes ...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a summary of Fiona Wilson’s article “Dilemmas of Appraisal”. The paper also gives an analysis of the article while examining the main aim of the author in writing this article and the major aim of the research. Additionally, I will also analyze the research methods used in this research and the findings of these methods and procedures. Finally, I will provide a conclusion alongside some recommendations based on my findings and inferences concerning the research.
The main aim of the article Dilemmas of appraisal is to examine the underlining assumptions of ...

The research in the journal was carried out owing to the belief and claims by people that violent computer games and other violent videos lead to violent effects on individuals. The claims were that these games and videos make people to become angry easily, aggressive behaviors and aggressive thoughts. Such people have greater chances of committing violent crimes. However, this information had not been proved since there was no reasonable research that had been carried out to prove this. This is why the research was conducted to evaluate this belief. The thesis of the article is to find out ...

Article Review/Analysis

Introduction
The use of internet has increasingly been used in both the developing and the developed countries. Educational programs have been shifted to the internet with many families going into the internet for the first time. Many schools, almost all are incorporating internet-based materials into their education curriculum. For the elderly people, they are implementing internet usage at their workplaces. However, there is attention on the challenges to parents on the content of what their children take advantages of in the internet. According to this article, which has data form 749 pairs of American parents and their teenage ...

The articles analyzed represent various aspects of gender discrimination in a society, contemporary state of things, and means of fighting. The articles represented the opposite views on gender disparities in the society. Some of them introduced opinions that were not represented in the previous research.
Acker (1990) argues that the structure of contemporary organization is gendered despite of assumption of many feminists that organizations are gender neutral. The main concern of the article is that a supposedly disembodied worker is actually a man having man’s body and sexuality. The author analyzed the organizational process of gender segregation in details concluding ...

Article Review: Global Warming

In Uzochukwu's "The Impact of Global Warming on North Carolina," the titular issue with North Carolina's climate change is explored. According to the article, scientists around the world have concluded that human contribution to climate change is real, and comes about through the emission of greenhouse gases. With this in mind, the author notes how this has affected the state in question, and what individuals or organizations are attempting to reduce human greenhouse gas impact and climate change.
The problem, as described in the article, includes the rampant economic, environmental and societal impact of climate change on North ...

Introduction
Huey Long was a Senator of the United States (US). At the time when he delivered his speech “Every Man a King” on radio, the US was in the midst of the Great Depression, characterized by a nationwide financial crisis triggered by the crashing of the stock market that sent the national economy plummeting to historically low levels. Long, a popular figure in the US Senate, has gained immense fame due to his policies and proposals aimed at solving the Great Depression. It is in said speech wherein he embodied his thoughts on the ...

David Meer

Reflection by
Mona Abu-Amr
Theory is the starting point:
In this part, the author addresses analysts who will quickly be overwhelmed by the amount of data available about customers’ preferences. Relatively, random data analytics will not lead to any improvement of certain services if it was not theory-based. Theory provides a clear strategic pathway to follow on data analytics in order to come out with new feasible trends that attract new customers, and work on improving certain provided services. However, to widen the circle of target customers, there should be a clear hypothesis to start with about customers’ ...

This article by Sheila Egoff traces the development of children’s literature over time, beginning with the Middle Ages, when there was actually no literature specifically aimed at children as a targeted audience. Because, as Egoff explained, many children were not expected to survive beyond infancy, there seemed little purpose in writing especially for that group who for the most art were not even taught to read and write. What few works for children have survived are books about “manners and instruction.” Other than those, Egoff assumes children that could read had to make do with books such as romances ...

The article highlights a research that has been done to find out the difference in leadership styles of the managers in Germany and UK. This article talks about how EFQM modifies the leadership role in an organization and makes it more strategic. This model demands a leader to be more inspirational and proactively participate in organization development and expansion. There are three clauses of EFQM that are relatively close to those enclosed in the literature of Anglo American that are; mission and the vision, management of people and the implementation of change. These aspects were previously considered as the main reason ...

The article of David Shonk and Packianathan Chelladurai (2008) carries quality of service in sport tourism as its main theme. The authors researched on the theme with the intent of providing a conceptual model that shows the different essential dimensions of sport tourism that is considered to be with quality. The model that the authors proposed serves as a framework for broader and deeper study of the dynamics of sport tourism by other practitioners in the field.

Research Questions / Hypothesis

This scholarly article (Shonk & Chelladurai, 2008) is based on the assumption that the differentiating factor, which is considered as the competitive advantage, between and ...

This article focuses on some of the demographic issues that are currently facing the education system of United States of America (Linda 2010). The author of this article also focuses on how race and the color of students have a connection with the distribution of resources in the educational institutions of the country. The article also explains that there are differences in the level of quality in the educational institutions due to differences in trainings undergone by the teachers. There is inequality in the distribution of resources in these institutions. For instance, there are some institutions which receive more funds ...

Berk, ML, Schur, CL, & Cantor, JC. (1995). Ability to obtain health care: recent estimates from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Access to Care Survey. Health Affairs 14(3): 139-146.

In Berk et al. (1995), the researchers investigate Americans' ability to access health care. The findings hypothesize that a more concrete definition of health care needs, including supplementary services like dental and mental health care, among others, is needed to find ways to improve access to needed services. The data set examined in this study included findings from the 1994 National Access of Care Survey, which included 75% ...

Abstract

The relationship between leadership, trustworthiness and ethical stewardship is examined in Caldwell et al.'s (2010) "Leadership, Trustworthiness and Ethical Stewardship." The authors posit that ethical stewardship leads to trustworthiness, which is an important facet of leadership in organizations and businesses. In this essay, these three primary facets are reviewed and examined, the individual relationships weighed against other research on the topic. A subjective view of these facets is also included, considering the mediating lens as a potential drawback to the theory that behaving in an ethical and trustworthy way will lead to the perception of an effective leader by employees ...

Part I: Using the questions in the Munro article, go through the two pieces of criticism by Greenberg and Rosenberg and write answers for each question posed by Munro.

In Greenberg’s “Towards a Newer Laocoon,” the work being criticized seemed to be art in general, and the struggle between all different types of art to become the dominant art form relative to its period. For the most part, Greenberg discusses avant-garde painting, and how it had and continue to has a purity that elevates itself above most art forms. He claims that there are no greater justifications for depicting nature ...

Boudjeltia et al., in their study “Sleep restriction increases white blood cells, mainly neutrophil count, in young healthy men: A pilot study,” examined what would happen if sleep were restricted to around four hours a night. The title itself is extremely appropriate; it gets directly to the point, and even indicates the results of the study, thus intriguing the reader and making them want to know how this was determined. It focuses on the results moreso than the purpose of the study, which is interesting and intriguing – the big picture (atherosclerosis and/or cardiovascular events) is not elaborated upon, which could ...