Essays on Positive Attitudes

Introduction

Changes and developments in the technology and in the internet led to enhancements in the creativity in relation to marketing. In addition, technology enabled numerous innovations to build up. To cope with the continuous change in the innovations, the companies started to focus on the differentiation of applications and activities to reach the consumers through diversified communication devices. The key aspects of the communication devices are mobile devices. In today’s diversified business environment, mobile phones, smart phones, PDAs (Personal Digital Assistant), notebook and tablets PCs are considered key mobile devises. The earlier described mobile devices are able to ...

The article, “The Effect of Training and Development on Employee Attitude as it Relates to Training and Work Proficiency” by Debra L. Truitt looks into the impact that development efforts directed towards workers have to organizations. The study is built on the realization that an informational gap exists in the concept of employee development in small and mid-sized companies (Truitt, 2011). The study seeks to find out whether there is a relationship between employee training and the development of positive attitudes to training and proficiency in a given job. The study takes an experimental approach since it involves the ...

The historical perspectives on social work incorporate the idea that it could simply be reduced to common sense of experienced mothers, but the modern understanding of social work moves it far beyond this narrow interpretation. Nowadays, “social workers constantly try to make a positive difference to service users’ lives and support community members in a variety of ways” (Stepney & Ford, 2000, p.xiii). In this process, a balanced combination of theory and practice is required, while practice standards used to protect the individuals in society and enhance social justice are based on the solid body of theoretical perspectives, frameworks and ...

A1 Quantitative Article

Article #A1: Wu, H., Li, Z., Li, H, & Wu, S. (2016). Quantitative phase imaging of breast cancer cell based on SLIM. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 679(1), 1-5. doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/679/1/012003

Background

In this article, Wu et al. (2016) used quantitative process in analyzing data created from observing the cell dynamics, in which they used spatial light interference microscopy or SLIM to come up with the data. In this process, they combined the Zernike’s phase contrast microscopy, as well as, Gabor’s holography. Zernicke discovered it back in 1935 when he was able to observe phase objects that did ...

Introduction

Dual language programs involve teaching students through two languages. Teachers ensure that they introduce bilingual programs whereby all native speakers benefit from a second language instruction. Teachers also use two-way immersion programs whereby one half of the students are native while the other half is constitutes speakers of English (Wayne and Virginia, 2012). This paper is meant to persuade school administrators to adopt dual language programs so that they improve learning among students from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. I argue that dual language program promotes academic achievement and multicultural competence for all students. Discussion focuses on aspects such ...

Abstract

Successful andragogy-based outcomes can be realized by the creation of comfortable professional development opportunities that focus on training applicability to address the concerns, interests, needs and issues pertaining to middle adult workers. Participation in practical activities and role playing enable middle adult learners to relate to novel teaching instructions and, by extension, keep them interested and engaged in their work place activities. The reason to keep middle adult staff engaged is to ensure that they have a positive attitude towards their job and that they are able to sustain their productivity for a considerable period. As such, there is ...

Questions & Answers

Questions and Answers

Every theory must be proved by results of scientific studies. If the theory cannot be confirmed by scientific methods this theory is likely to be wrong. Learning styles theory was not proved by results of any researchers that are why scientist believes that the theory is only a one more psychological myth. Riener & Willingham (2010) indicate that proponents of the idea of learning styles believe that if a teacher knows about learning styles of his/her students the teacher will be able to teach students effectively independently of the content of learning materials. According to the theory ...