Influence Article Reviews Samples For Students

Safavid Shah original version applies Turkish dialect of Azerbaijan. It contains a collection of poems that depict religious and secular themes. The poems have paintings that relate to the secular objects. This form of poetry relies on the fervid language and controversial claims of the Qizilbash supports. The manuscript uses a style to suggest the production during the lifetime of Shah who was loyal. One of the portraits depicts five elegant young men standing at the garden with flowering trees with a pool at the center. One man holds arrows while another hold a sword. The painting shows a picture of a boy who portrays ...

This study discusses risky sexual behaviors among adults. Further, the study tries to establish other factors, both personal and non-personal, and their link to risky sexual behavior. The purpose of the study was to investigate the changes that occur over time within individual variations in irregularity of condom use and sexual encounters under the influence of alcohol. This has been necessitated because of the numerous and lasting consequences of risky sexual behaviors such as unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections. Previous research on this topic has involved the use of cross-sectional studies, which has limited the examination of changes ...

Article Summary

The article of Baller & Richardson explains that the theory of Durkheim regarding suicide can be attributed to geographic space, social integration, and imitation (Baller & Richardson 873). The risk of suicide is high that can be based on the neighboring areas since it is man’s reflection of how he perceived the behaviour of other people that has a tendency influence his own actions. The replication of another person’s action is the powerful force that will drive another to act in a certain way. The article has shown that the hypotheses of Durkheim and Tarde are correct to a certain degree. The ...

Summary: Consumer Behavior

Mental accounting can be said to be a set of cognitive operations that households and individuals use to organize, evaluate and keep track of their financial activities. This paper gives a summary about our current understanding about the nature of people’s engagement in mental accounting techniques. This paper concentrates on the three components of mental accounting. The first one is concerned with how people perceive and experience outcomes, and how decisions are made and then evaluated. For example, a consumer choice can be understood by incorporating value of the deal. The second component of mental accounting involves assigning activities to certain ...

Article summary

The article title is “Microeconomics: Factors of Consumer Decision-Making” by Marc Davis. The article focuses on the choices consumer make before deciding on buying a product or service. Most economists agree that price is the major factor that affects consumer’s decision-making process, but Davis argues that price might not be the only deciding factor. In addition, economics argue that all factors remaining constant, the price of a product is inversely proportional to its demand. Davis focused on the opportunity cost and elasticity as other factors that influence consumer choice and demand for goods or services. Price changes, and demand for a ...

A town center should be a place where one can walk, with open air multi-use development that is designed around a clearly identifiable public realm. Town centers are used for retail, leisure, dining and residential purposes.
Retails are successful for example in eastern Colombus unlike downtown Colombus, is an example of a successful town center, Eastern Columbus was built in a green field, and has 15 million visitors a year, and this was in 1993. It had inviting public place and filled with people. There are other people however who do not like places filled with people and prefer town centers with no ...

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 ...

Response Paper

Response 1: The Say/I Say
The essence of academic writing basically relies on the capacity of a learner to become more knowledgeable about the things around him through research. That is not all; it also includes the capacity of one to become more expressive in presenting his own ideas and understanding based on how he has gained knowledge about particular issues that he has desired to explore. Personal expression is an important aspect of academic writing. While one reads through the thoughts of others, he is expected to become more expert in a specific issue thus giving him the chance ...

Perhaps the most demanding task for any chief information officer (CIO) of a company is gaining the support of their colleagues for new projects within their firms—in the face of competing values. Enns, Mc Farlin and Sweeney (2011) performed focused interviews with Irish CIOs regarding the influence process and the competing values phenomenon. In this article, two propositions were proposed: (1) everything else being equal, influence attempts are less likely to result in commitment to the new initiative when competing values exists between CIOs and the targets of their influence attempts; and (2) the impact of competing values on ...

SUMMARY OF AN ARTICLE ON EDUCATION

THE SCOPE OF THE PAPER
Homework is a widely used tool by the educators for varying reasons. The paper collects the results of many scientific articles on the homework strategies and influence of the homework implementations on the success. The paper aims to gather all the information from the other papers as much as possible and present the findings in an order.
In traditional education setting, the homework application has an important place. However, it does not mean that the homework application is fully perfect. The paper analyzes many dimensions of the homework application.

IMPORTANT FINDINGS

Many education scientist have ...

The article Teaching Practices that Promote Motor Skills in Early Childhood Settings by Robinson et al., 2011 offers a substantive review on various issues aligned with childhood development. Precisely, the article is based on a primary research that was carried out with the some intent of determining whether early childhood majors can be taught to pre-school children in order to allow them to master climate instructional approach, which promotes their motor skills. Worth noting is the fact that physical activity and movement occur as some of the crucial factors that have a colossal influence on the quality of life of a child. Evidently, ...

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Evaluation of the impact of Budget Cuts on Education Funding
Headline; 5 year impact of budget reductions in education.
Rising costs of school equipment / textbooks / supplies vs budget cuts have devastating influence on educational spectrum. However, it could only be sensed by those who face the realities on a daily basis. The cost of school textbook and supplies are aggravating at a rapid pace because of different and innovative methods applied for textbook development and distribution. The Us Government accountability office commented in this reference that the prices have faced twice a raise as that of inflation within ...

Article Critique Worksheet

The purpose of the study was to investigate the changing effects in the daily variations in the desire to smoke and the negative risk associated with relapses among the adolescents after achieving a minimum of 24 hours of abstinence. Previous research indicates that most of the research work has been on the relapse among adult smokers. Literature concerning relapse among adolescents’ smokers is limited. In some of the studies, it has been established that the prevalence of quit attempts among the adolescents between 10 and 19 years has been quite high (over 50%). Further, only a small percentage reverted to smoking ...

Chapter 16 Notes and Reflection

Introduction
Chapter 16 of Public Speaking for College and Career is about the art of persuasion, specifically persuasive speeches. Some of the concepts that are explicitly explored in this chapter include persuasive speaking goals, the different types of persuasive speeches and the organization patterns of persuasive speeches.
In simple terms, persuasion means influencing, changing or reinforcing the thoughts, views, beliefs or opinions of people. There are three main goals of persuasive speaking. These are winning over the audience so that they assume your intended view or take an action; knowing and understanding the subject of discussion thoroughly; ...

Communication: Article Review

I have keenly read my classmate work and I wish to grade the work effectively and provide a comprehensive feedback based on my understanding. Additionally, I will mention a few gaps that I have identified in the work and comment on the same. The work would be graded based on the following parameters. Firstly, analysis of self- leadership assessment. Secondly, critical analysis of the result characterized with concise and well-structured sentences and ability to expound the points using examples and life experiences. Thirdly, the paper will be graded based on grammar and spelling constructs.
Leadership self-assessment assignment (awarded 22 points) ...

“Washington legislators and the influence on the health and pharmaceuticals, the players in the health bill lobbying”

Members of the congress known for lobbying of the health bill are being welcomed in most of the institutions dealing with health in Washington. The trend has spread throughout the city, and most health and insurance firms are presently hiring people who previously worked with different groups in advocating for the enactment of health bill. The trend occurs partly due to the belief of the people that the influence of the former legislators is essential in the current fight for the implementation of the new standards to the health and insurance sectors in the country. Lobbyists’ activities have been ...

In the article Can Jury Trial Survive Google?, the author Caren Myers Morrison (2011) describes a budding problem in the American jury system and provides recommendations to address these problems.
According to Morrison (2011), the jurors’ misuse of technology is negatively affecting their impartiality, which is supposed to ensure the fairness of trials. Because of the accessibility of information via the Internet and because of the ease of communication that technology affords, more and more jurors are engaging in behaviors that compromise their impartiality towards the cases that they’re hearing.
In particular, Morrison (2011) identifies four ways ...

Critical period hypothesis is not a new concept in language acquisation, because Roberts and Lennberg introduced and followed it up in 1959 and 1967 respectively in the neurolinguistic literature. They hypothesized that the recovery of brain from serious illnesses like trauma would be hindered by the maturation of the brain as one ages. Further researches on the above speculation, particularly those conducted in the behavioral sciences revealed that all the measures of language proficiency varies with the maturation of brain, but the proficiency scores gets low as the persons age increases. For these reasons, the hypothesized biological based critical period ...

Article Documentation:

Laura M Koehly. Adolescent obesity and social networks.2009. Retrieved from; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2722403/

Briefly, State the Main Idea of this Article.

The article by Laura describes obesity as a chronic disease that is facing many people in the world. The major message that the author communicates to people reading the article is that obesity is caused by a combination of factors and specifically the interaction between biological factors and the environment one lives in. The aim of the article is to create awareness to the people on the causes of obesity so that the condition can be prevented where possible. The article argues that biological and environmental factors interact ...

Contextualizing Influence Activities: An Objective Hermeneutical Approach

Lueger, Sandner, Meyer and Hammerschmid treat the objective hermeneutical approach, as a modality utilized for developing research papers, meant to develop the knowledge from a specific research area. The authors are utilizing this methodology for studying the influence as a modality of exercising power in different types of organizations.
Using the objective hermeneutical methodology, the authors appreciate that the researcher might have the capacity to influence their public through the research they undertake, as they apply specific tactics and strategies to serve their research purpose, which have general value (Lueger et al., 2005, p. 1146).
The authors specify the limitations ...

Leadership is not always about influence and doing what the people want but rather it is more about making the right decisions for all members of society. Based on this simple principle, Adolf Hitler cannot be classified as an effective leader as though he influenced people and met the needs of others, he did not make the right choices for the country he was leading. As a matter of fact Hitler’s form of leadership was based more on making choices oblivious of the people’s opinion; as is the case in such a situation there will always be followers who ...

Article analysis – Canada in a Continental Context

Canada is an ever changing society with a huge amount of opportunity on every single level but Clement in his excellent book Society in Question focuses on the changes prevalent in Canadian society as life continually changes and there is a continual influx of new immigrants and a varied labour force. However up to a point, Canada still remains a country which is in the throes of colonial influence although it is also riven with a cultural split between the French and English speaking parts of the country. The continental influence is discussed extensively by Clement in his chapter which continues to focus on the ...

“Pre-Negotiation Strategy Check List (Part 1)” by Steven Roberts

Introduction

This paper recaps the main components to be contemplated while preparing for an elaborate and successful negotiation, taking into consideration both positive and negative influences. In the article, a varied number of elements are listed that can help an individual construct a negotiation strategy necessary for any unrealized conflict and in the achievement of common agreement.

Article Summary

The article provides a list of essential factors that can assist an individual to strategize on having a perfect negotiation. In addition to this, there are explanation of each factor, and how they can be put into practice. The checklist includes; assessment of situation, the kind ...

Introduction

In every democratic society, a country cannot survive on its own .It requires its neighboring countries to enhance its economic growth and development. To avoid conflict, all neighboring countries demarcate their borders to safeguard their resources and self-interest. Foreign policy relations enable countries to interact with each other especially in trading affairs and international policy discussions. To enhance a country’s external economies of scale dominance, it is necessary to observe the policies of other nations. Some countries advance their relations further to form a single union with common interests. For instance, United States of America was formed as a resolution of harmonious ...

Analyzing an Article by Sara L. Rynes, Berry Gerhart, and Kathleen A. Minette

Thesis Statement

The paper of the statement can be summarizes as following: There are varying influences on motivation of workers and money is the most important one for the workers. The journals read by the professionals claim that the money is not the most influential motivator at work place. The study by Rynes, Gerhart and Minette claims that the professionals think that money is a motivation tool however they underestimate the power of money on workers’ motivation.
The HR specialists believe the surveys to understand whether the motivators ...

Sue'Ann Easterling PE 551 Race in sports or athletics June 19, 2013 1 of 6

Shakib, S., Veliz, P., Dunbar, M. D., & Sabo, D. (2011). Athletics as a source for Social Status among the youth: Examining Variation by Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Status. Sociology of Sports Journal, 28(3), 303-328
The journal article highlights problems experienced in sports and athletics with a closer focus on the universities. The author has provided a broader sampling and research synthesis from different parts of the world thereby representing a wider and a better scope on the world of sports especially in addressing the race factor in different parts of the world. The author is an established researcher and a writer from the ...

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Introduction

The study relates to the consumer purchases in the market where some items are disorganized and has a limited quantity. The aim of the study is to identify the effect of such condition on the purchasing decision of the consumer. A consumer can have positive, negative, or neutral perception regarding the product that is messed and it varies from case to case. The research is conducted to collect information from literature and determine the factors that relate to the purchase of familiar branded products or others. The study provides a clear view of the effects of these situations ...

The article The Nation State and the Globalization of the Economy by Gritsch lay the foundation of the fundamental impact that globalization has on the sovereignty of the state. The emergence of an international organization such as the World Bank, European Union, and International Monitory Fund characterize the trajectory of global economies through regional integration. The debate raised in The Nation State and the Globalization of the Economy holds the view the relationship between the global economic, through the lens of Marxist theory and the functional theory of international organization, shapes the reduced ability and sovereignty of the state ...

Psychology: Luxury Goods

Psychology: Luxury Goods

Executive Summary

Luxury products is a niche segment of marketing and is not focussed not pricing strategy alone. To effectively market these products, it is important to understand the psychology of today’s youth towards these products. The paper reviews the article “The behaviour of the young towards luxury products” written by Allérès in 1999, in the context of understanding consumer behaviour.
The review of the article establishes three points. First, the young people do aspire for luxury products. Second, the youth is familiar with luxury products and effortlessly recall names of the famous luxury brands. ...

Article 1: Boyer, Pascal. Human instincts that fashion God. 2001. Retrieved from, http://www.nous.org.uk/Boyer.html.
Inference concerns a logical conclusion based on evidence. One arrives at inference after consideration of the face value of the evidence. This clearly indicates that inference is not the result of systematic analysis nor is it the result of testing of evidence. Therefore, in order to note an inference one should achieve a conclusion based on evidence obtained concerning the aspect under concern.
- Ad populum “Faith is not always necessary
- Ad Ignorantium “Human mind may have evolved to experience the world in domain-specific ...

The article by Richard Peets entitled Family and Religious Characterists’ Influence on Delinquency Trajectories from Adolescence to Young Adulthood was selected by this student as the springboard for the discussion about basic social research skills. The succeeding sections present the main components of a research paper and examples are taken from Peet’s article to illustrate such components.

Research Question

Peet’s article talks about religion and family and how these relate to delinquency. The specific question posed by the study is “How do family and religious characteristics influence individual level delinquency trajectories from early adolescence through young adulthood?” (Peets 465). This ...

The dependent variable in this article is social pressure and the independent variable is social conformity. Asch observes that social pressures are those conditions or forces around people that influence behaviors, attitudes, and opinions. “Groups, societies and experts are some of the group pressures that influence ones character” (Asch, par. 10). Consequently, social pressure is the influence of a group or person to think or act in a particular manner. Most of the people act in particular ways because they do not want to “be left out and thus base their decisions on what others consider to be right ...

This article provides a comprehensive review of the article by Lin (2002). This article addresses how media portrays racism and its influence to lifestyle and health. A sociological approach to the problem of racism is applied, arguing that the society needs to understand the different forms of racism, biological origin of racism, and its meaning in the society. Therefore, sociological concepts such as ethnocentrism, race, and ethnicity can vastly influence media’s perception on racism. The three concepts have different meanings, but are all related and can influence health practitioner’s ability to evaluate media’s coverage of racism issues. ...

Introduction

People, because of their social interaction among themselves, always determine their social, physical, and emotional development and the way they take life in future. Hence, stuttering is one of the contributors of how an individual develops in the above development area of an individual life.

This literature review will look at stuttering as an obstacle towards the achievement towards the achievement of a positive take by an individual towards life. On the same, the age bracket that will be used as a case study will be between 3-4 years, studying a population of 3-4 number of children as a representative of the group ...

Article Review: Ovulatory cycle effects on tip earnings by lap dancers

The hormonal changes in a woman during her ovulatory cycle have several effects on her daily life. The effects include alteration in the behavior patterns and sexual attractiveness. This study looked at the effects of estrus on the earnings of lap dancers. In the ovulatory cycle, estrus is the phase that is characterized by “increased female sexual receptivity, proceptivity, selectivity, and attractiveness” (Miller et al., 2007). This influences variation in perception of the women by their male counterparts. Estrus influences a woman’s sexuality in terms of her body curves among other things. The study was conducted on female ...

“Fairy Tale is Form, Form is Fairy Tale”

1. According to K. Bernheimer, as fairy tales belong to the realm of classical literature, they are the source of many writing forms and techniques applied by representatives of both mainstream and avant-garde literary movements. Stating that fairy tales connect all people “in the act of living” (Bernheimer 71), she expresses the idea that they influence the way we perceive the world and react to it. These ideas seem to be well-grounded: the four elements mentioned by the author, namely “flatness, abstraction, intuitive logic, and normalized magic” (Bernheimer 64), are indeed found in both realistic and experimental literature, some ...

Article Review

Article Review
Dutch (2013) used the contingency model of strategic human resource management to construct a new framework of human resources, strategy and culture in an organization. The current perspective of the contingency model involves aligning human resource management practices with themselves and with organizational strategy. The article posits that though this view is theoretically sound, there are challenges in its practicality. They fault the contingency model for failing to address the issues that affect both the HRM and strategy. Further, the article indicates that some of the HRM practices might be affected by strategy and vice versa. This ...

Rationale

It is apparent that the entire healthcare system is grappling with nursing shortages-a phenomenon that is characterized by improper nurse-patient ratios. This has adamantly hampered the quality of care provided and adversely affecting patient outcomes and satisfaction. According to the American Nurses Association, proper staffing and hence patient-nurse ratios is an integral aspect in improving the quality of healthcare provided. High nurse-patient ratios means that nurse have to deal with huge numbers of patients leading to clinical errors, clinically acquired infections or premature discharges from hospital. This leads to high readmission rates and increased hospital costs due to recurrence ...

PSYC101 Journal Article ReviewAssignment - Part 2Article Analysis, Connection, and ReflectionDue: 11:55pm ETSunday at the end ofWeek 6of the 8-week course termYou may work on this assignment ahead of its deadline but may not submit it prior to Week 6.Points Possible: 140
OVERVIEW: For Part I of this two-part assignment you identified and summarized elements of a published scholarly article selected from the classroom Resources Folder. For Part 2, which is due by the end of Week 6, you will analyze, connect, and reflect on aspects of your selected article. Note that the words “succinct” and “thorough” repeat regularly ...

The article titled “Mediation Has Power to Influence Your Gene” by Christopher Bergland gives a summary of the findings of two researchers conducted to investigate the relationship between meditation and pain. The first research explored by the article was conducted by a group of Scientist from Spain and France. According to Christopher, it was the first study to establish that there was an alteration of gene expressions in individuals practicing mindfulness mediation. The article reported that the comparison of gene alterations was done between experienced mediators who had undergone intensive mediation and untrained control participants who were involved in non meditative ...

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Foundation Course –

- The urban population in Africa is growing in line with the global process of urbanization. These processes stimulate the growth of demand for cheap food. Therefore, the street food sector in African cities has been growing rapidly. Constantly growing demand for food accessible to people with low income becomes a reason of creation of new jobs for urban residents. Thus, the problem of the food quality has become increasingly important.
The study about safety of street food in Kumasi, Ghana, was held in order to explore local preferences and understanding of food safety and hygiene, how ...

Article 1: Marketing to Teenagers: The influence of Color, Ethnicity and Gender

Summary
The teenage market is an important customer segment in the US as well as global market. Teenagers usually don't have any financial responsibility on their shoulder and that gives them a significant buying power. Most of the teenagers spend their money on clothes, jewelry, food, entertainment and beauty products. Teenagers are usually more tech savvy than the previous generations and spend a considerable amount of time on the internet, video games, phones, television and social networking sites. They accrue money for spending by getting paid for jobs and receiving allowances and monetary gifts. Brand loyalty is very important for ...

- Introduction
The title of this research paper is “To determine the effects of a prenatal breastfeeding workshop on maternal breastfeeding self-efficacy and breastfeeding duration”. The setting of this research is in the city of Ontario in Canada. The intended population in this research is a woman in Canada (Noel-Weiss et al., 2006, p.128). The size of the sample used in this research is a hundred and ten. The characteristics of this representative sample include women who are expecting to deliver a single child. The child has to be healthy and fully developed and cognitive. The purpose of the research is to ...

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 birth place of Judaism is in modern day Iraq. It has been known by many names throughout history. In ancient times it was called Sumer the positioning of Ur of the Chaldea and the birth place of Abraham. Tigris and Eu-prates meet at a place with a very famous name Babylon. Where the rivers part is known as Assyria not to be confused with modern day Syria. This region is the birthplace of civilization. The civilization that developed and were highly advanced in terms of mathematics and even law. The religious culture was very pagan that included human sacrifice.

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In an era dominated by peace, citizens are more inclined to look into economic growth and development. In particular, individuals look at how economic growth will manage to make their lives or that of their loved ones better. In this perspective, a candidate aspiring to seek a position of power must provide their intended proposition on tackling economic issues. On the case of candidates seeking re-election, their previous record is scrutinized and compared with that of the contender. In the prevailing times, the biggest issue is how an individuals can be able to affect the per capitata income and output. Per ...

There are environmental factors which could affect the development of the child. One of these factors is the quality of life in the neighborhood. It could affect the function of the parents and could influence the children’s development. It could be considered as an environmental stressor. Studies revealed that social support could improve parenting styles. These social supports could come from the community especially from the neighborhood. However, social support and parenting in the impoverished neighborhood are less likely to improve parenting styles and child development.
As an environmental stressor, lifestyle of neighborhood affects social support and parenting ...

Introduction

Cognitive Behavioral Interventions are approaches that use soft instruments to correct or enhance behavioral characteristics of individuals, either to comply with society expectations or to unlearn a particular behavior. A person with a drugs problem may be trained to handle the urges of taking drugs and avoidance of risky situations, with an aim of solving the problems. Cognitive behavioral therapy, commonly referred to as CBT, teaches the subjects a new set of skills designed to increase awareness of thoughts and emotions of an individual. The idea is to re-empower the individual to understand how certain exposures to situations, people ...

Kim Taylor explores the influences of the west on modern Chinese medicine. According to Taylor, Western scholarly interest in Chinese medicine pushed for scientification of Chinese medicine, prompting more information on traditional healing method. This marked the westernization of Chinese medicine in which the western publications on Chinese medicine depicting traditional medicine as inferior. Chinese on the other hand maintained a preserved culture, secretive to the rest of the world. When releasing information, China did so cautiously. The released information was interpreted according to preconceived idea of what being Chinese involved. The Western interpretation intended to influence Chinese society ...

Program Objectives

The primary objective of the study is to assess the effectiveness of the state-funded clinical school-based health centers (SBHCs) and their influence on the students’ health, school attendance and the costs students spend for the health care. In general, the program is aimed at comparing health outcomes and health care costs of the students who have the abovementioned centers in their schools with those students who don’t.

Research Design Utilized for the Evaluation

Parents of 1134 students allowed their children’s participation. Moreover, 1027 parents agreed to take part in the survey. Those parents who agreed to take part in the evaluation received a ...

Introduction

Methodology
Watching DVD educational baby media program and parent-teaching condition was the independent variable in the study. Children`s learning of new words was the dependent variable. The type of methodology was experimental. There were four groups formed for the study. Three groups were experimental groups and one group was a control group. The general sample of the study included 72 children in the age between 12 to 18 months.
Researchers who conducted this study designed four conditions for participants of the experiment. The first condition (the first group) was video-with-interactions. This condition meant that parents could watch the ...

Chapter 2 – Organization

Five Flavors of Alignment
Alignment for a company in its simplest terms will mean streamlining its present business and being operationally prepared for implementing any future changes in its products and services. Alignment generally feels like a huge and unachievable task. Author has simplified this process by differentiating between different types of alignments. He has divided the whole alignment process into five different parts or flavors as he calls it; Strategic, Infrastructure, Operational, Innovation, and People. I think the author has taken the right approach here. Differentiating between the flavors of alignment will help a company to properly understand ...

Yes, the leader-follower relationship and definition of socio-cognitive paradigm according to the article do share similar thoughts on leadership as a process of interaction with others. According to the author of this article, Gazi Islam, the cognitive views on leadership to some extent emphasize follower-based leadership theories It is this psychological process that leads people to give recognition to leaders and also follow those leaders who exhibit leadership qualities and attributes. The author argues however that recently the socio-cognitive paradigm has become more pronounced in as far as leadership ideals are concerned. The only difference inherent in these approaches ...

Introduction

Enterprises normally have many buyers purchasing their products such that they do not get a chance to know each of them personally. In such a case the business is required to pursue a rigorously tested study concerning consumer behavior. People are definitely different, but at some point their minds tend to react in the same way, and comprehending the aspects can assist the company to formulate strategies that will make customers accept their items or services. The creative measures should be ethical to conform to the universal values of the consumer base. This article articulates a critical review of ...

The article gives us an insight on the five forces model which was advocated by Michael E. Porter. It goes on to explain how the specific forces identified in the below model can help a firm to create a better business strategy and place a firm foot in the respective industry. The article further analyses the five force model in detail stating the benefits and the disadvantages that come along with it. It further explains it with a case study on IKEA. The article further stresses on the composition of these forces. It states that every industry has a ...

Human intelligence, which is widely viewed nowadays in the variety of contexts and social situations, refers to the intellectual capabilities of individuals and takes into account a multiple attributes and influential factors. The information on the intelligence is usually gathered with the help of special tests developed with the help of interpersonal relations and contact. The concept of intelligence as such, as well as stereotypes and biases related to it, vary across cultures and societies, and modern scientific community criticizes the use of standard Intelligence Quotient(IQ) measure, because it cannot be effective in establishing valuable judgments, as it ...

Article Review

Article Review
I review such article as “Gender Flux: Transatlantic Influence on Fashioning the Cross-dresser in American Silent Cinema” by author Ricardo E. Zulueta. It has been published in the journal “The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture” in 2015.
It should be noted, that until now, there is no single view of the nature of gender. On the one hand, gender is associated with the models, which are developed for the scientific description of the problems associated with gender issues. On the other hand, gender may be considered as a social phenomenon, which is created by people in ...

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 ...

The article talks about the influence of Clinical Trials in determining apparent-benefit ratio. It analyses the effects of evidence based medicine, whereby, outcomes of two trials could lead to the alteration of unrealistic estimates of drug effectiveness. Reviews from the food and drug administration (FDA) were among the methodologies used to arrive at the findings. It included about twelve antidepressant agents covering a total of 12564 patients. A systematic literature research was then conducted to identify corresponding publications (Turner et al., 254). Reported trials during this research and its published outcome were then critically compared to the FDA outcomes. Further ...

A. Brief Overview of “Is Hooking Up bad for Young Women?”

Several authors look at the sex culture in today’s youths in comparison to the baby boomers. Jessica Valenti(2010) for instance argues that the problem with America today is not the casual sex as it is not new but the moral panic that exists. The mass media has driven sociologists and psychologists to investigate young hookups even more closely. Statistics by CDC and the NHSLS show that young adults today are having far less sex than the baby boomers. Hookups are not free for all as portrayed by the media but is rather a safe manoeuvre by young adults ...