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AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS OF SENATE BILL 863

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ABSTRACT
California’s (CA) legislature has passed a series of Workers Compensation (WC) reforms during the past 15 years; the most recent, Senate Bill (SB) 863 passed on August 21, 2012. SB 863 was introduced and presented to the California public as a reform bill that would ensure better coverage and easier medical access for workers injured on the job. SB 899 passed during the early 2000s was shown to be better for California’s workers, than SB863. ...

An Exploratory Analysis of Senate Bill 863

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ABSTRACT
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TABLES FOR FIGURES AND TABLES
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
AB Assembly Bill
CA California
CCHSWC California Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation
DIR Department of Industrial Relations
DIV Division of Workers’ Compensation

DWC Division of Workers’ Compensation

ER Emergency Room
FEHA Fair Employment and Housing Act
MMI Maximum Medical Improvement

MPN Medical Provider Networks

PD Permanent Disabilities
PPD Permanent Partial Disability
SB Senate Bill
SB 899 Senate Bill 899 on workers’ compensation passed by the California legislature in 2004
SB 683 Senate Bill 683 for ...

An Exploratory Analysis of Senate Bill 863

Chapter V
California has passed several workers compensation reform bills in recent years, in both the assembly and senate of the state legislature. Each reform bill has addressed perceived problems in the California Workers Compensation (WC) system depending on the factors present that influenced political agenda setting at the time. Therefore, the research presented here created the following hypothesis. If the processes for injured workers were assessed based on the historical outcomes, a better strategy could be designed. In order to test the hypothesis, the goal of the research was to interpret the complexities of SB 899 and SB ...

An Exploratory Analysis of Senate Bill 863

Chapter IV: Results
Overview
Several workers compensation reform bills have been passed in California in the last fifteen years. The aim of this research was to review, evaluate, and simplify the complexities of the California workers compensation reform bills SB 899 and SB 863. Data was gathered from a variety of sources and organized in order to develop a better understanding of the differences and similarities between the processes instituted. Relevant data was collected for the specific purpose of reviewing the systems in order to design a new system from the ground up; one that would avoiding the pitfalls of ...

Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS)

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Introduction .. 4

Purpose . 6

Literature Review . 7
Synthesis .. 15
Method .. 15
Overview of Design .. 15

Results and Discussion 16

Conclusion 27
References .. 31

Tables 35

Abstract
This project set out to examine the efficacy of a communication system known as the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS), which is mainly used by individuals with autism. It is estimated that 30 to 40% of children with autism may not develop functional speech (Gerenser, 2009). With that being noted, this project broke down the PECS system in order to understand how each stage worked and why this method seemed to be the most ...

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What influences a consumer’s purchasing behavior? A few factors that come to mind are brand awareness, product knowledge, advertisements, and references. To understand the depth of this intrinsic behavior, this paper explores the various factors that contribute to a consumer’s purchasing pattern. A very powerful tool that guides consumer behavior is word-of-mouth advertisement. Barry L. Bayus, writing in a column in Journal of Advertising Research had this to say on the indirect effects of marketing; “The business community is well aware of the power of word-of-mouth on consumers, and they are also equally aware how catastrophic it can be if ...

Currently, 85% of those in juvenile detention facilities are youth living with disabilities that qualify them for special education (Leone et.al., 587-590;Sharnda;Vincent).However, only 36% will ever receive special education service (Leone et.al., 587-590; Vincent).They are deprived of an adequate education as a result of the School-to-Prison Pipeline trajectory. The School to Prison Pipeline is an state and federal education and public safety policies that push students out of school and into the criminal justice system (Martin 24-30) This system disproportionately targets youth of color and youth with disabilities
(Vincent 586). According to the National Association ...

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Chapter 2
This section contains a literature map that outlines the areas of focus when organizations and marketers need to guide consumers. Each subheading contains the topic and the literature utilized and cited to substantiate the research.

Literature Map

Literature Review
According to Barry L. Bayus (1985) in Word of mouth: Indirect Effects of Marketing Efforts, communication plays an extremely important role in marketing, and marketers use communication to guide consumers. In other words, communications is the link between marketers and consumers and between consumers and their socio-cultural environments. Bayus says that marketers are well aware that socio-economic conditions influence ...

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Thesis Statement
Consumer buying behavior has been researched a number of times and there are enough research papers available that focus on consumer buying patterns. This paper takes a different perspective to address what guides consumers to buy a product or service. The difference is that it is easy for marketers to understand what influences consumers today and work out strategies to address them. However, understanding what guides consumers is farther complex, and to understand this, a number of theories and articles by scholars are researched, and a few governmental efforts in place to guide consumers are evaluated and added to show how ...

A Quantitative Study of Preschool Teachers' Beliefs and Attitudes toward Diversity, Diversity Experiences, Ideal Vision of a Diversity Curriculum and Implementation of a Diversity Curriculum in their Classroom

ABSTRACT

This quantitative study with forty respondents, examined preschool teachers’ beliefs towardsdiversity, diversity experiences, ideal vision of a diversity curriculum, and implementation of a diversity curriculum in their classrooms. The study examined the kinds of curriculum (traditional or multicultural) that preschool teachers use throughout the year and what are the factors that serve as barriers to their use of a diversity curriculum with a focus on
race/ethnicity, if any. This study will show the impact of cultural ...

Pitrik, 2013). On the other hand, in socio-cognitive teaching, teachers offer scenarios whereby the students enter into the kinds of social discourse situations and societies that they (students) would encounter outside the traditional classroom. For example, students connect to various contexts for social interaction through the internet. In these contexts, they (students) meet and interact with native English speakers (Strambi & Bouvet, 2003), which allow them (students) to learn the English culture, and therefore, learning the language becomes easier. Therefore, socio-cognitive teaching explains the role of social interaction in the creation of an environment to learn a language, learn about the ...