Concern Literature Reviews Samples For Students

2. Literature Review and Hypothesis Development

P1. The Global financial crisis of 2008

Severe distresses within some financial markets during 2007/08 resulted in international financial crisis following Lehman Brothers filing for the chapter 11 on 15th September 2008. As an end result, the globe has in recent times experienced the most horrible economic performance ever since the 2nd World War. This crisis emanated from the American market for the housing. The house prices were highest in the year 2006 and subsequently dropped beyond 30 %. This happens to be the greatest decline ever since 1930s on a national level across the US. The household debt increased drastically ...

Introduction

There have been cases of corporate scandals in the recent past including the Enron, Tyco, WorldCom, and Global Crossing to name a few. These scandals fueled concerns regarding the financial reporting standards not only in the USA but also in economies where the financial markets tumbled as a consequence of the news of such scandals becoming public. These scandals arose because of weaknesses in internal controls and lack of independence by external auditors. For instance in the Enron, case, the external audit firm known as Arthur Andersen was criticized for lack of independence both in fact and appearance. The ...

Introduction

Cigarette collection systems comprise of the major ways that several companies including Tobacco manufacturing industries that help as one of the strategies in managing effect of cigarette butts in littering bins that is currently a big challenge in urban areas.
According to Riutta, (2012), it is imperative to address this topic of issues concerning cigarette butts in our daily city lives because of the high negative impact they have on our environment, and thus health being one of the leading causes of preventable deaths. According to health analysts, cigarette butts are made from a fibrous material that is essential ...

Criticism of deviance base practices

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In this article, an analysis over the conduct of evidence-based practice is studied as a working strategy for relevant applied knowledge in the functional fields of learning and practice. The obvious concerns consist over the reliability and validity check of the evidence - based practice over the objection of the impact of the humanitarian aspect. Instead, we suggest that Praxis-based knowledge informed by different forms of knowledge is a better option, with a ...

Literature review

Introduction
There has been the adoption of The Common Core States Standards in many states in the United States. The standards are used to enable students learn and have basic skills in the areas that are being taught. The common trends in this field are that of technology use in the testing and learning process. Technology is becoming a common platform where learning takes place. The Common Core Standards have been integrated with technology so that it enables students to learn how to use these techniques. This is not the core reason for this integration; the main reason is ...

Literature Review of Six Sigma Quality

INTRODUCTION:
Owing to increasing globalization and technological advancements, organizations are looking for different methods and techniques to improve overall productivity and performance. With the passage of time different techniques and strategies have been implemented in this regard. The most recent and discussed techniques in today’s corporate world are of Total Quality Management and Six Sigma. Organizations are implementing the approaches of Total Quality Management and Six Sigma in order to improve the overall quality delivered to the customers. Six Sigma is generally used by the organizations to reduce the wastages associated with different processes and hence reduce ...

Introduction

Zika virus also termed as ZIKV is a known to have gained worldwide attention, especially in the USA, South East Asia, and Australia. The Zika belongs to the Flaviviridae family which comes under the genus Flavivirus (Wikan & Smith. 2016). The Zika virus is spread though day time mosquitoes belonging to the Aedes family. Some of the most common mosquitoes to contain and spread Zika include A. aegypti and A. albopictus. The name of Zika originated in 1947 where it was first isolated from the Zika forest in Uganda. Based on evidence, the Zika virus was associated with varying viral ...

Fun at home is a novel with medium popularity as it allows the reader to look at the character's developing prejudice in unusually cherished technique. Despite the fact that it places the reader to view the subject's experience and thoughts, the author places the readers in the scenes as the beholder, giving them a chance to look at both the cultural forces and the subjectivity of the narrator that molded her. Fun at home focuses on Alison's family and revolves around her relationship with Bruce, her father. Bruce worked as a high school teacher and funeral home director.
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US Mexico relationship

The relationship between United States of America and Mexico is a complex love-hate relationship. The kind of rapport both the neighboring countries share is unique and reason behind such complex relationship is the huge disparity between both the countries. Various international policy analysts suggest that since the disparities between the two countries are in a large number and in all the fields the situation becomes difficult for the weaker one. This disproportion between the two countries is visible in all the fields, whether it is economy, size, technology, military strength, international ties and reputation or be it any other field; Americans ...

Introduction

Quality of air is a determinant in the quality of life, indoor air is important as people spend on average 80-90% of their lives in door (WHO, 2007). Indoor air quality began a long time but only been a health concern decades ago when awareness of contaminants presented in the air. The problem begins when the construction of building are highly insulated to conserve energy, which caused a trap to air intoxicants inside the building (E. Willard, 2005). This causes the exchange of outdoor to indoor to lessen and therefore the indoor air pollution builds up.

Indoor air quality is a complex issue as ...

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Introduction
Organizational stress, commonly known as work stress, is one of the top reasons for stress among people. In a survey conducted by Pleiter, it was found that 64% of the stress can be attributed to financial problems and 60% of the stress can be attributed to organizational issues or work related stress (Pleiter, 2015). Organizational stress and its impact on employee productivity and organization’s profitability has been a topic of research for many decades. Causes of ...

Overview

Media violence is considered complex. Therefore, its meaning is explained in different ways according to how one views the whole perception. According to David & Hertz, (2007) one of the simple definitions of media violence is the exposure of fights, murder, and forms of injustices through the televisions to the public. When defining media violence, one should keep in mind the ideas like; the aims of media violence that are; do they point at passion or retaliation? The being consequences: whether financial benefits or death and finally, the techniques in media violence like handful fights or shootouts. When watching the ...

Literature Review

Literature Review

Introduction

The aspect of good leadership is an essential integral in the sustenance of progress in international organizations as depicted to be at the core of this literature. This topic is important in various aspects in relation to organizational leadership and strategies for international business operations. First, the structures that support effectiveness in leadership are enormously varied across the global agencies and therefore this research paper gives the highlights on some of the best leadership practices to enable an undertaking of business operations within the different environment worldwide. Secondly, international strategy unveils the concern that managers throughout the ...

The issue of gender inequality has always been a serious concern raising a far-reaching dispute throughout the history of humankind. This point of legal inequality has been examined in different fields of human activity, employment and politics being the most emphatic ones (Anon, 2016). Besides that, the issue of gender inequality has developed to encompass a far wider range of human realms, including sports. Therefore, the major subject matter for this essay is gender inequality, specifically the phenomenon of women’s derogation (Anon, 2016).
Since the world of sport experienced recession in its general evolution, women became the most “ ...

I. Introduction

“Response to Intervention”, or “RTI”, is an academic technique applied to public schools in the United States that is designed to assist students with disabilities from elementary through high school level, with the purpose of enhancing their learning experience in mind. The objective is to help the child adjust and learn new ways to overcome their disadvantages and adapt to their educational surroundings in such a way that they, too, might achieve benchmark success for their grade level and age group demographic. Addressing the problem starts with the process of identifying the disability that affects the student. Disability ...

Literature review

Essentially information is always intended to reach a large audience presented by the assorted mass media platforms such as print media, broadcast media and outdoor media. This enables us to identify with the notion that there are both negative and positive impacts of the mass media to our lives. In particular, this particular paper will focus on how mass media has affected teen girls in our modern day society (Gullotta, et.al, 2005). Mass media has since developed in the contemporary times making its impacts more apparent that never before. Arguably, though mass media affects all of us in the same ...

Business Process Management

Abstract
The literature review on the topic of enterprise resource planning (ERP) of business process management (BPM) as part of information systems (IS) strategies in South African businesses covers both scholarly and professional management discussions about outsource administration of IT systems operations. The rise of outsource IT in the business sector is predicted to realign business and trade into the future. The trend in emergent market outsource IS data management in and by South African firms is fast becoming a lead topic in a nation formerly characterised as an industrial economy with developing country challenges.
The enactment of South ...

On September 17th, 2011, a group of local organizers, students and activists gathered in Zuccotti Park in Manhattan, the New York City’s financial district in protest against corporate greed and government exploitation that contributed to the global economic meltdown. This international protest movement was called Occupy Wall Street (OWS) which expresses concerns on moral and economic issues such as social injustice, income inequality and disparity, corruption, greed and the influence of corporations on politics.

Moral and Economic Implications

The movement’s moral implication is to fight against oppression and unfair economic system urging the government to focus its concern for the 99% who ...

ABSTRACT

The businesses today have identified the need to focus more on customer and the key to retain customer is through development of customer relations. CRM or customer relationship management is based on the idea that loyal customers are profitable for the company. The loyalty has been identified by several researchers to be linked to the level of satisfaction of customers. Organizations require attracting the customers, developing relations so that satisfaction is ensured and retain customers by maintaining the relations. Due to intense rivalry and competition, businesses require focusing on building stronger customer base by promoting goodwill and providing them ...

The Effect of Social Status and Gender on Realization of Refusal of Suggestion among Iranian EFL Intermediate Learners

The dependence associated with both practical and discovered strategies about the refusal of proposal among people sharing distinct social status and gender have been an issue of concern to many researchers. Therefore, research was carried out among the Iranian intermediate level students to understand the strategies used and their application, based on gender and social status. The paper covers an article review on the above issue. The report for reconsideration bears the title” The Effect of Social Status and Gender on Realization of Refusal of Suggestion among Iranian EFL Intermediate Learners”.
The primary theme and idea of the research ...

Introduction

Racism is the ideology of racial inferiority/superiority at the individual, cultural, or institutional level that influences the perceptions and behavior of members of different racial groups towards others (Pieterse et al., 2011; Hoyt Jr., 2012). Research on the issue of racial prejudice has led to the association of perceived racism with poor psychological well being and psychological stress. Racism is an important concern in the present society due to the current prevalence of fatal violence against African Americans on the streets and even in church. It raises questions on the true incidence and impact of racial prejudice in the ...

2A. Appraising Quantitative and Qualitative Research

Quantitative Study
One source of bias during data collection is the use of self-report data (Polit & Beck 2012). Chivers et al. (2001) obtained data through the SF-36 and Beck depression inventory which required the patients to answer questionnaires. If they failed to give accurate answers, it would have affected the validity of the findings. The study design also allowed patients to receive other clinically appropriate treatments that were beyond the study protocol (Chivers et al. 2001). Additional treatments are confounding variables but their influence on the study outcomes was not estimated in the statistical analysis. This reduces confidence in ...

In this assignment researches built up a model of the mutual definition of the level of economy’s advancement and improvement through business sector collaborations and the degree of pollution regulation through corporate intention of making decisions.
The key point in this brief literature review is to resolve a concern whether societies care about pollution or does it continue to grow boundlessly as revenue increases? The aim is to show the interaction between income and environmental degradation and present an understandable theoretical model of political and economic process to set up environmental policy for pollution to be controlled. The ...

Introduction

Heart valve surgery is used for the repairing or replacement of valves of the heart that are diseased. The patients receive general anesthesia in this type of surgery whereby the surgeon makes a large surgical incision in the breastbone. The incision is meant to enable the surgeon to reach the aorta and the heart (Kato Paragraph 2). The relevance of stroke to the procedure of open-chest valve surgery is that it is one of the risks associated with cardiac surgery. Other risks include death, failure of the kidneys, cardiac arrest, irregular beats of the heart, and post-pericardiotomy syndrome (Kato ...

Introduction

Within the last 10 years increased attention has been given to the LGBT community and their civil rights. The issues of gender are now being debated in schools and impacting educational communities. The term transgender has undoubtedly been a popular term in recent times. The idea of being transgender seeks to break down cultural norms of gender and categorizing. In this literature review the focus takes on different implications of how the LGBT community has impacted the way in which children are socializing. Schools are experiencing a SSA (Same Sex Attracted) phenomenon where young people are receiving a lot ...

Introduction

This literature seeks to explore the correlation between class issues and schooling based on an Australian model of study. Most of the authors in this review agree that there is a correlation between class issues and the way schools are perceived and operated. The rise of neoliberalism has led way to an induction of creating a greater divide between the haves and have nots. Australian schools have shifted from the dynamics of the 1970s and 1980’s where the idea of a more balanced school system was part of educational reform. However, as of 2009 this has shifted and ...

Literature Review

The influence of the family on children's behavior is widely documented in the literature, and numerous studies support the idea that involved parental style and authoritative parental approach significantly affect children's academic achievement, regardless of ethnic/racial background, gender, and age. Baumrind, in her study entitled Effects of Authoritative Parental Control on Child Behavior (1966), argued that theory-based categorization of parental style that led to specific parental control would bring forth diverse behaviors and attitudes in children. Baumrind's theory-based categorization of parental style led to the earliest parental style paradigm, namely, permissive, authoritarian, and authoritative, all of which having emotional ...

In his book Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes, Don Kulick studies the life of a certain group of transgendered prostitutes in Salvador, a Brazilian city. He explores various aspects of the lives of these prostitutes majorly their social lives, and why they do not identify themselves as females yet outwardly, they are women. In Portuguese they are known as Travestis. The Travestis are very common in Latin America, but they are more known and found in Brazil (Kullick 6). They usually look quite different when compared to other people. In most cases, they look bizarre and ...

Introduction

Recently, worldwide obesity prevalence has been raised rapidly and nearly doubled between 1980 and 2014, however in 2014 more than a half a billion of adult (18 years and older) were obese (11% men and 15% women) (WHO, 2014). Obesity and overweight are defined as excess body fat accumulation that leads to health risks and comorbidities. Adult weight can be classified based on the Body Mass Index. Hence, an individual having a BMI equal to or more than 25 is regarded as being overweight, while a person with a BMI equal to or more than 30 is considered obese ( ...

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In most parts of the Arab countries, the limited resources of water pose adverse constraints to both the social and economic development, while also threatening the people’s livelihood. The available surface water keeps on declining, and the ground water over-pumping that goes beyond the natural recharge rates has continued to cause great negative impact in the lowering of water table. Over-pumping of ground water also increases ground water salinity, ground water depletion, and ecological degradation (SCENR 5). The outcome prompted the Qatar government to start regulating its water resources as a measure ...

Lucas, K., D’Enbeau, S., & Heiden, E.P. Generational Growing Pains as Resistance to Feminine Gendering of Organization? An Archival Analysis of Human Resource Management Discourses. Journal of Management Inquiry, 1-16.
In this article, Lucas, D’Enbeau, and Heiden analyzed discourses in human resources management. They sought to examine generational growing pains in organizations and find out whether it is a form of resistance to the increasing organizational changes which embrace feminine gender. In their analysis, the authors considered baby boomers, Generation X, and also millennial. They were more concerned about the initial entry of these generations into the workplace. ...

Uncertainty Reduction Theory (URT), developed by Berger & Calabrese in the year 1975, is an experiential theory that states that individuals always feel the need to reduce uncertainty in initial face to face relationship interactions so as to feel comfortable about developing those relationships further. URT proposes that behavior in early acquaintance communication is clearly understood through the individual’s ability to predict and explain the behaviors of self and partners. URT posits that the early interaction between two strangers is primarily motivated by the goal of uncertainty reduction and this involves making the behavior of oneself and that of ...

Food labeling is important to the consumer and the manufacturers. The quality of the food is particularly important to the customers who are cognizant of the need to be more aware of the content and the nutrients in their foods. The views of food and food content are important as they appear on the labels and help consumers to make accurate choices on the foods they wish to consume. Food and food content changes rapidly over time and the consumers recognize that the content that is present in particular food today may be absent from the product tomorrow. The ...

Voltaire has been considered as a writer of the Enlightenment era, where the writers would initiate a change in the way of the present society through their writings. In his book Candide, Voltaire sought to satirize the entire theme of the way women were treated in the 1800s. While the book's main protagonist is a male, the underlining's of the book is based on a female, Cunegonde. The protagonist of the book, Candide lives at the mayor's house under the study of Doctor Pangloss. Candide falls in love with the daughter of the mayor, Cunegonde. However, when the mayor ...

The paper on the childhood obesity will present the preliminary literature review and an action item checklist with the goals to achieve reduction of the problem that is on the increase. The child obesity has become a vast problem of the developed world and modern way of living which must be controlled in order to have a healthier population. The obesity has been quickly spreading and the prevention of childhood obesity must become a priority in improving the nation’s health.
There are two major effects of child obesity one is the physical health that is more documented and ...

Introduction

Diabetes and other health factors have been a growing concern in recent years amongst food-insecure individuals and families. This review includes the concept of finding ways to overcome this issue. Low-income families already have numerous issues to deal with outside of health problems, but the inclusion of health issues makes the situation for these families worse. Within the past ten years research has been dedicated to this problem. Researchers have dedicated time to finding ways of overcoming the problem by using new tactics like motivational interviewing. It has become known that diabetes is a concern of lower income families ...

Literature Review

A pressure ulcer or a hospital acquired ulcer is one of the rising concern in healthcare. It is a condition characterized by damage in the skin or the underlying tissue due to unwanted pressure, friction, or moisture applied on the skin. More commonly, patients get this health condition when they are unable to move, when they have delicate and brittle skin while hospitalized, or when certain equipment is used on them making them more susceptible to pressure ulcer . A hospital acquired pressure ulcer is sometimes referred as bedsore in layman’s term. Pressure ulcer became a major concern in ...

Craig Arnold’s “The Singers” is a contemporary poem which addresses a very poignant topic, namely the destruction of the environment caused by human activities. The poet chooses to focus on a specific aspect of this broad topic, namely the rapid extinction of bird species which is accentuated by the destruction of their environment. The speaker laments the fact that many species of birds are on the verge of extinction, and expresses concern over the disappearance of creativity together with the death of the natural world. The speaker dramatizes this environmental problem by illustrating the loss that humans face ...

Literature Review

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Introduction
With childhood obesity on the rise, there is increasing concern about the prevention and treatment of obesity. Current national data on childhood and adolescent obesity show 16.9 percent of 2-to-19-year-old children and adolescents are obese (Ogden, Carroll, Kit, & Flegal, 2014). An effective intervention to manage obesity is essential. The current weight management practices involve dietary modification, behavioral change therapies involving exercise, pharmacological therapy and surgical intervention. The purpose of this literature review is to explore the current research on Motivational Interviewing (MI) as an effective method for ...

Introduction

One of the largest social problems facing the modern society is illiteracy. By wide definition, illiteracy refers to the inability of an individual to read and write. However, as will be seen later, this definition is relatively outdated. In the current modern society, every single human being has the right to acquire the basic knowledge of writing and reading. Those who do not have this knowledge or have been deprived of this knowledge are usually referred to as the illiterates. Despite the enormous modernization of the current society, the problem of illiteracy stills persists and there are ...

Psychology's Role in the Workplace: Promoting Well-Being and Raising Awareness

Any psychologically healthy business should foster its employees into the well-being while boosting organizational performance and productivity. Psychologically healthy and balanced workplace practices may be grouped into several categories: employee engagement, work-life balance, staff growth and improvement, health and basic safety, and employee recognition.
You should note that there is no basic approach to creating an emotionally healthy workplace. Accomplishment of this goal is based, in part, in addressing the problems unique to the organization and drawing awareness to programs and insurance policies to meet their employee’s needs. One problem in the workplace is stress. This may ...

Introduction

The Ford Motor Company is one of the largest automotive manufacturers in the world, and as a result, it commands a large portion of the financial pie in the automotive sector (Ford Motor Company, 2015). The purpose for this particular investigation will be to look into the quality management of the company as a whole. All companies have strengths and weaknesses associated with their various business models and Ford, although a well established and stable company with many assets, is no exception to this rule regarding room for improvements within the company (Mubarak Al-Mubaraki & Busler, 2010). This discussion will present a SWOT analysis for ...

2.1 Introduction
2.2 Airport Development
2.2.1 Airport History
The history of the development of airports worldwide dates back to the late 1800s with the first ever professionally functional airport according to NYC Aviation (2012) was developed in the outskirts of Paris dubbed Port Aviation. This fact is however indispute since other factions lay claims to being the world’s first or oldest airport. For instance according to Prince George’s Department of Parks and Recreation (2010) College Park Airport in Maryland is the oldest airport that is functional to this day having been established in 1909 ...

Literature Review

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Introduction

Between the periods 1980 to 1992, consumption of illicit drugs in the United States increased from 29% to 42% among 12th grade adolescence, and from 11% to 21% among eight grade students. Other statistics shows that in the 12th grade 80% are students on alcoholic. More than half of them have been doing it in the eighth grade; 75% had smoked cigarettes, of this group, 35% became habitual smokers. The greatest challenge is faced by families, who, no matter what their social or economic level, must devise strategies to help their adolescence. Studies have been done to prove ...

Introduction

Heritage planning primarily involves the development, preservation, and restoration of heritage sites. Heritage sites come in different forms and one of which is the historic living city. Essentially, the historic living city pertains to towns or cities that grow alongside the development of urban spaces. It contributes or influences development in various disciplines such as heritage planning and architecture among others, and components or segments of human life be it cultural, economic, social, and political life (Bandarin & van Oers, 2012; Serageldin, Shluger, & Martin-Brown, 2001; Weyeneth, 2000). Historic living cities also bear specific qualities and characteristics, which is why defining ...

Labor Market

Labor market is a form of the economy that functions through demand and the supply of labor. Labor demand is the companies demand; labor and supply focus on the supply of the labor workers. The bargaining power is likely to have high influence on both supply and demand. Majority of the nation is aware that the labor market institutions that have equalizing effects tend to encounter challenges (Peitchinis, 2005). Policy change is required in relation to equality since it ensures that the status quo focuses on both national and international change. Labor market comprises of employees searching for work, employers ...

Smart water networks take advantage of real time data, pumps and other essential distribution points to automate the process control schedules and support real time operations decisions. It is well understood that the drivers for smart water networks is not resistible. There is a compelling need to develop smart water and energy efficient systems that are at par with the rising demand and the diminishing water resources. The fact that infrastructures are rapidly deteriorating and the fact that water loss and leakage are relentless means that there is a need for intelligent systems that would detect, report, and prevent associated water ...

Introduction

The human body possesses a remarkable capability that can however be jeopardized by disease. Dental conditions occur as some of the most pertinent concerns in human health. Often connoted as Xerostomia, dry mouth occurs as one the dental conditions that jeopardize human health in different ways. Speaking of dry mouth, this connotes to any dental condition that precipitates dryness of the mouth. In fact, dry mouth occurs in cases where an individual experiences frequent episodes whereby the mouth becomes unusually dry. Many at times, dry mouth is elicited by the decrease in saliva production, which is often caused by the ...

Human trafficking is one of the common acts of criminal in Central America that has been at center stage since 1990s. The increased attention for this trade has been driven by United State initiatives, such as the United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons. Depending on the local dynamics, study reveals that, the activity has got different manifestations across the entire region (NOVA 1). According to a publication by the UNODC “Global Patterns on Human Trafficking”, the Central American country states are the source, transit corridor and destination. They act as a destination for women and children ...

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Being an athlete and developing the physique from a scratch is a lifelong process. Once a journey on the path of health, fitness and sports starts, it continues for life. The psychology of sports is very advance and different than the other health sciences. In this literature review, the point of concern is the psychology of running. Running is a tough sport to break into. The physical and mental hardship that the body goes through during the training process is unbelievable. Here, five articles discussing the various point ...

Literature Review: SME’s facing difficulties in Europe

Definition of SMEs varies depending on individual nation and their financial institutions. (Beck ,2013) notes the differentiation relating to various aspects as number of employees, capital, sales and turnover. SMEs take a significant role in the economic development of the nation as it has a critical role in shaping the economy of any nation through job creation, social stability, foster economic growth, generate low income for people, and development of firms. Therefore, financial services are significant in creating vibrant environment for SMEs. Nonetheless, access to the financial services has always been a hindrance for SME’s and this report will extensively discuss ...

Labour Force of Ireland

A close look into the labour force of Ireland, in accordance to the Census of 2011, shows that total count of labour force as noted in April 2011 has been estimated as 2,232,203, which is an increase assessed to be 122,705, or to be more precise 5.8% since the year 2006. Therefore, a straight statement can be declared about the annual average growth to be 1.1 % that is notably lesser than former intercensal duration of growth that has been declared to have an average of 4% per annum. A detailed declaration made by CSO (2012) is as ...

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Introduction

The use of statistics in behavioral sciences examines the relationships between variables. This paper discusses the application of statistical measures such as t-test, ANOVA, and chi-square on three different studies to determine the correlation between variables. The objectives of this paper include the following:

Article 1: The Effects of Participation in Athletics on Academic Performance among High School Sophomores and Juniors

An ongoing discussion concerning the impacts of participation in athletics on academic accomplishment has been around since the 60s. Recently, this issue has ballooned due to the imposed limits on budget for education. A lot of decision makers also found it comforting to cut programs intended for athletic development due to their notion ...

Initial Analysis for Program Planning

Initial Analysis for Program Planning
Tuberculosis or collectively known as TB is among the most common public health problems that has already reached a global scale of concern. It is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Stein, 2011). At the rise of the global pandemic, tuberculosis has infected almost one-third of the world population with more than eight million diagnosed of the disease every year and an average of two million deaths every year (Stein and Baker, 2011).

Identification of the Problem

Relocation from third world to first world countries more and more determines the severity of tuberculosis (TB) cases in the adopted country. Socially ...

Abstract

This article offers an insight into the study of neurolinguistics as a subject of neurology. It also offers a theory of language that is developmental in nature and an insight into the neural systems that lead to linguistic capabilities. Language develops in four stages, as suggested by early perceptual experience. These four phases take place in an independent and fixed sequence. A different ontogenetic function is arrived at in every phase of language. The functions in question have neural systems, proprietary in kind, that differs in their respective degree of specialization.
Under evaluation is an analytical mechanism largely responsible for ...

Introduction.

Food production and consumption in the UK has changed the trend. This has mainly been contributed by the economy, society and the environment. Diet and attitudes to food have changed markedly in the recent years and it will continue to do so (Guides, 2011). Demand for quality food has risen and people aspire to eat both more healthy and buy food that has a reduced impact on the environment. Food culture in Britain is changing and people are turning on the new kinds of food. (Jackson,2009).

What a literature review is.

Literature review is an account of the things which has been published on a ...

Bitcoin is term that was not well known in the last four years. It was a term that was only used by few people over the internet. With time it is the term that the world has come to know as the first world’s completely decentralized virtual currency (Buttyan & Hubaux, 2001). This currency has become the largest economy compared to some of the economies of the smaller worlds. Bitcoin also abbreviated as BTC reached its high note in 2013 April with a value of $260 just from pennies in the previous years. Currently, the market value of BTC is valued ...

Introduction

Among initial efforts to investigate the impact of mass communications, the most widespread are the reports forwarded by the eighth black bound volume published between 1933 and 1935 (Rupprecht, 2011). The pioneering work, “Payne Fund Studies,” was carried out when mass media comprised of solely the press, the radio, recorded music, as well as recorded movies. Out of all these, movies emerged as the greatest concern to education activists. This is because of their enormous attraction to children. The survey sought to establish the nature of influence movies had on the American youth. Children’s movies can be influential ...

Office Base Strategies for the Management of Obesity 3

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The purpose of the present literature review was to investigate obesity within the intellectual disability population. 3
Literature Review 3
Understanding the problem 6
Management Strategies 7
Policies at work Place 8
Awareness of Employees 9
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Office Base Strategies for the Management of Obesity
Introduction
This research aims to discuss different office based strategies, which can help prevent and control obesity. The problem of obesity can be managed at workplace by providing financial incentives ...

Literature Review

The rapid emergence of the new media and the accessibility and the “must have” trend regarding the innovative, breakthrough electronic devices (smartphones, tablets, netbooks, laptops, etc.), fulminated in the students’ environment with using these devices in the classroom setting, for various purposes or activities, not directly related, or totally not related with the education purposes.
Information communication and technology (ICT) is considered to be a sound element leading the way to modernization throughout the world, even in the third world or fourth world countries, where, as a Microsoft report (2007, p. 7) indicates, ICT enables growth and social and economic ...