Phenomenon Article Reviews Samples For Students

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Introduction
The article, ‘The Mountain of Motor Development: A Metaphor,’ by Clark and Metcalfe, is about understanding the human motor development all throughout his lifespan. According to the authors, just like many scientific phenomena, a man’s motor development may be difficult to conceptualize (Clark & Metcalfe 2). For the same reason, several ways have been devised in order to facilitate its understanding. Two methods have been described as the most common methods employed by those who wish to teach or instruct a certain phenomenon and that is through the creation of a model or a metaphor. A ...

Isabelle Duyvesteyn in her article titled “How New Is the New Terrorism?” quite elaborately breaks down terrorism in the post-modern world and how the mindsets of people had been shaped around it. She analyzes the different aspects of terrorism and tackles the subject with not only her own views, but also historical and factual evidence to back up her arguments regarding terrorism in the new world or the “new” aspects of terrorism. She is of the view that the contrary to a popular belief, terrorism is not a “new” entity in the post-modern world.
Similarly, she states that to understand “ ...

Abstract

The article “Divorce Trends and Patterns in the Western World: A socio-legal overview”, written by Tony Fahey, contains a profound overview of all the patterns and trends in divorce in the modern world in developed countries of the Western World. It regards the definition of the world “divorce” and its meaning, the causes and reasons of divorce, the legal process, and usual consequences thereof. Tony Fahey has made a deep investigation of marital breakdown in the modern society over half of a century. The author indicates that though the number of divorces has radically increased recently, the reasons of ...

Homelessness is one of the very serious problems because it is constantly replenished the ranks of the homeless people today: they are troubled teens, graduates of boarding schools; migrant workers; veterans, people survived the crisis. The authors believe that homelessness leads to stress, mental disorders and substance abuse, especially alcohol, although this may be due to homelessness. Social exclusion is a strong negative factor, weighting personal and behavioral disorders in the homeless, especially for adverse childhood experiences.
Studies devoted to homeless show the interest of the researchers to the resolution of the problem of homelessness and about possibility for ...

- Introduction
The Midwest has for many years been known for its lucrative agriculture. Large scale production of agricultural products such as corn and soya beans characterizes a large proportion of lands in the Midwest. Considering that agriculture is a main source of income for many Midwesterners, the US department of Agriculture(USDA) has over the years conducted studies to determine the profitability of agriculture and the patterns that characterize the agricultural market in the Midwest today. In a published article in the Economist entitled Fields of Gold, it is evident that the Midwest has in the recent past become a victim ...

Two articles, A Necessary Evil: Framing an American Indian Legal Identity by Dwanna L. Robertson and Indian Identity by Nicholas C. Peroff address a very simple and yet almost endlessly complicated issue of modern Indian identity in the American society. Dwanna Robertson identifies three different types of Indian identity – ethnical, racial and formal. Nicholas Peroff has another tri-component classification system of Indianness (with a capital “I”), indianness (with a small “i”) and emerging third hybrid new indianness. Both authors provide arguments as to how they arrived at their classifications and what it means in real world and to real ...

Part 1. Differences between quantitative and qualitative research

Research is the parlance used to refer to the search of knowledge. It is described by Kothari (2004) as both a scientific and systematic search for information and an art of scientific investigation. There are two approaches used in research, namely quantitative and qualitative research and they vary greatly on how the research is done. Quantitative research only uses measurable data to analyze while the qualitative research approach mainly uses data that are narrative and subjective. The goal or research objective of quantitative data is to use statistical models using a systematic procedure. This approach uses various steps to progress logically ...

Critical Review

Thesis
This is a critical review on research paper Case Studies on Successful M&A Practices in Acer & Lenovo: A Dynamic Capabilities Perspective. The first section of this paper will discuss the purpose, rationale and related literature of this research paper. The second section will discuss the research methodology and design used in this paper. The final section will discuss the main findings and the implication related to this study.

Introduction

Historical information shows that about 70% of the M&A (merger & acquisitions) have led to value destruction and only 30% of the M&A lead to value creation. This case of empirical ...

The nature, causes, symptoms and diagnosis of psychological disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), are not clear and highly controversial. Two different models namely the Sociocognitive model and the Posttraumatic model are put forward explain psychopathologies, diagnosis, and disease etiology associated with DID. The Sociocognitive model suggests that DID, as a psychological disorder, is a product of social and historical circumstances. In contrast, the Posttraumatic model explains that DID disorder occurs because of severe traumas.
According to Spanos (1994), the number of patients suffering from multiple personality disorder increased rapidly over the past 20 years in North America. This diagnosis offered a ...

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- 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 ...

In the past few years, many economies in the world have been affected by inflation. It is important to define inflation on the economic perspective in order to understand its phenomenon. Inflation is the general increase in the price level in the economy of a country (Joseph 3). There are various economic terms that are related to the issue of inflation. For instance, inflation may be brought about by an increase in the aggregate demand. Demand is the quantity of a product or a service a consumer is willing and able to buy at the existing market price at a given time period.
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In ideal terms, one’s response to this debate should be straightforward: the principle of self-determination would seem to be at the heart of the notions of freedom and democracy, and, therefore, in principle, every group that claims to be a nation should, in principle, be allowed to have their own state, but the real world is far messier than the ideal. There are distinct problems with allowing this principle to be exercised across the globe, and, because each call for nationhood occurs in a slightly (sometimes radically) different context, there can be no single solution which can be applied across ...

The Culture of Fashion

With special attention to decadism, Breward overviews the changes in fashion trends in the beginning of the twentieth century (184-185). Here, decades are characterized not only by specific preferences in clothing, but also by cultural and social features of the time. In other words, fashion is determined by sociocultural movements. The author highlights the importance of fashion’s temporality in organizing the chronology of the history of fashion. Particularly with this art, time frames may be easily outlined by months, years, or decades with high degree of accuracy. Therefore, fashion is described as a “cultural clock”, which is unconnected ...

Method

Research Design and Research Tradition
Sample and Setting
The researchers employed purposive sampling which is the most appropriate to use in a qualitative study. They considered the family members of elderly patients and chose those who they judged would be best able to relate their experiences in the ED. They made sure that different age groups, gender, and civil status were represented. The authors did not set a sample size beforehand and is also appropriate in a qualitative study because sample representativeness is not based on the size but on how much participant narratives mirror reality (Everest, 2014). As ...

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Global v/s Multinational

Article Review
Introduction
There is no doubt that today’s business environment has changed. Over the past few decades, the rise of transportation, communication, technology and cross cultural integration across the world has seen the rapid rise of consumerism and increasing wants and needs on a global scale. In the article named ‘Globalization of Markets’, (Levitt, 1983), sees the demise of the quintessential multinational corporation and proposes the emergence and ...

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Abstract

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

The research article chosen to critique is, “Using Mock Code Simulation to Improve Responder Performance During the First 5 Minutes of a Code” by Delac, K., Blazier, D., Daniel, L., & N-Wilfong, D. (2013).
Introduction: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is a lifesaving technique, and is very useful in emergencies like drowning or accidents, where the patient is likely to have a heart arrest. Nurse educators are responsible for training nurses and students on this important technique. Training program differs from real life scenario. In real life scenario, nurses go through a range of emotions like fear, confusion, anxiety, etc., that immobilizes them, ...

Article review

Article review

Introduction

The main purpose of the current research was to investigate if face loss is more harmful to representatives of collectivistic culture than for people of individualistic culture. Also, authors of the study tried to examine if factors of relative power loss and norm violation are culture-general or culture specific regarding their significance for face loss. Authors of the article identify several definition and types of face. For example, there are two types of faces in Chinese culture: morals traits of a person and social image. Also, different authors distinguish negative and positive face; a face of oneself ...

International business refers to cross-border trade between different political jurisdictions. International business can either be carried out by private businesses or the private companies. Since the dawn of the western civilization, nations have been trading with each other to supplement the commodities that were missing in their jurisdictions. The works of neoliberal economist influenced the nature of economic trade between nations. Globalization added to liberalization of the economy. Private business enterprises were allowed to enter the market. International business posed many risks to businesses that were quick to enter the global market without taking the risks into considerations. Cross ...

A. Article title and reference: Drought, River Fragmentation Forcing Endangered Fish out of Water, Biologist Finds. (June 6, 2013) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130606110013.htm

B. Summary: Long Droughts and eventual fragmentation of North American rivers have threatened the ecosystem of many native fish in Kansas, Arkansas, Red, Gila, Platte and San Juan River according to the research conducted by Keith Gido of Kansas State University (Sciencedaily.com, 2013). Species such as the Silver Chub thriving the aforementioned rivers had an immense drop in its population due to ground water withdrawals and river fragmentation. In 2011, the number of Silver Grubs found in sampling reaches ...

Luke Rendell and Hall Whitehead are the authors of this article. Rendell is a Ph.D. student at the Dalhouise Univesity. His focus is in cetacean behavior and acoustic communications. Whitehead is a professor of biology at the same university and has written several papers mostly on the behavior, ecology and conservation of whales. He is also the coordinator of field studies of dolphins and whales.
I, therefore, offer a summary of the article, give my opinion and connect the article to the question “is culture unique to humans?’

Article Summary

Rendell and Whitehead describe recent research findings on the evidence of cultural transmission ...

Oral cancer mostly affects the mouth, lips and tongue of a person. It affects people across all genders and class in societies. It arises from many factors that boost up its prevalence. In this study, however, our main concerns will be on the possible effects that may be resultant as a result of alcohol and tobacco intake. In this regard, effects of tobacco and alcohol intake can either be joint or on independent angles. It means that, the effects can exist singly or in collaboration. In this study, my point of reference will be a research article in Pub Med Journal. Ferreira ...

In today’s information age, more and more details about people’s personal and professional lives are available than ever before. To that end, many people have concerns about how that might affect their lives and futures; how much do we want others to know about us? In Erin Moriarty’s “Did the Internet Kill Privacy?”, the journalist discusses the dangers and pitfalls of having personal information about yourself online, and how it affects one’s academic and work lives. Meanwhile, Rhonda Savage’s “Facebook: Fired Up or Just Fired?” takes a more even-handed approach to the Internet, showing both ...

Frequency

In the context of advertising, frequency mainly connotes to the number of timers in which target consumers are exposed to advertising messages. Many at times, frequency tends to be confused with coverage. As such, there is the need to comprehend with the fact that these two concepts differ in that coverage mainly entails the proportion of target consumers that are exposed to an advertising message. According to Heflin & Haygood, 1985, advertisers should often focus on frequency because it determines the manner in which target consumers retain the messages contained in advertising media (s). Heflin & Haygood, 1985 further notes that ...

The article addresses the issue of how brick-and-mortar stores have to deal with the continued emergence of E-commerce. Online shopping merchants continue to enjoy more revenues and better sales while bringing a fresh perspective and a change on shopping behavior for consumers. According to the article, Best Buy is the latest retailer to post a decline in their holiday sales. Best Buy cited lowest price drops, which produced lower profit margins and revenues. Major changes in shopping habits decreased traffic into the stores, which has brought a shift in power from malls and other large retailers. Long challenged by the newfound preference of ...

Critical analysis

Acupuncture is a unique alternative therapy in which acupoints on the skin are stimulated using various methods with the aim of treating a host of conditions including pain relief. In this paper, I analyze three articles with a special focus on the following components: mechanism of action, therapy, treatment, side effects, contraindications and usefulness in practice.
The articles under review have been authored by Martin et al. (2006), Rebhorn et al. (2012) and Hutchinson et al. (2012). Hutchinson et al. (2012) conducted a systematic review in order to evaluate the effectiveness of acupuncture in the management of chronic non-specific low back pain. ...

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 ...

People are always reminded that in order to understand the present and even foresee the future, people must first understand the events in the past. William Cleveland, in his interviewed reiterated this very saying for other people to grasp the development and rise of the Middle Eastern History. In the interview Cleveland shed light on why people are invested into studying the Middle List. He said that events such as the September 11 bombing and the constant news about the Palestinian- Israeli conflict have caught the attention of the students. He again stressed the significance of the historical knowledge ...

Summary

Article One: New Consoles on the Way, but Gaming Isn't the Same
Physical and console sellers form a significant value as it regards sales that entail stock. In this case, they make approximately thirteen percent of all the sales made in a year. However, this trend does not come from the blues; it originates from efforts garnered by console sellers. However the case, their activities are frequently hurdled by the existence of arising instances of overstocking. It is in response to this that research has been developed, and efforts towards curbing such instances have been placed in the scope so ...

Critical Review: “Like” and “Check-in”: How Hotels Utilize Facebook as an Effective Marketing Tool

Critical Review: “Like” and “Check-in”: How Hotels Utilize Facebook as an Effective Marketing Tool
1 Introduction
This paper is a critique of the research traditions utilized in the ‘”Like” and “Check”: How hotels utilize Facebook as an effective marketing tool’, written by Kelly V Phelan, Hsiang-Ting Chen, and Matthew Haney, and published in the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology, Volume 4, Issue 2, 2013. The critique will explore the philosophical background of the article and the logical approach followed by the authors in the process of conducting the research. It will also evaluate the research ...

Abstract

The following work is aimed at reviewing the article by Dann van Knippeberg and Michaela C.Shippers (2007). Their article addresses the developments in the field of work group diversity since the publishing of the work by Williams and O’Reily (1998), offering a review of 40 years of research in the field of demography and diversity of organizations. Topicality of the study is called forth by an increase in diversity in groups that can be traced in all spheres of work. The article under study examines different approaches and conceptualizations of diversity with special attention to studying the effects of ...

Introduction:

Living organisms are equipped with robust machinery for executing a myriad of tasks to meet the day to day biological challenges. This machinery in turn relies on one or more interconnected pathways or networks composed of nucleic acid, proteins and other essential constituents. To say, it is the precise function of these components which determines the physiological well being organisms. Mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) kinases is one such known component that performs diverse physiological roles through its associations with the molecular machinery.
mTOR is a protein that responds to metabolism and ageing, intercellular stress to growth regulation, growth factors ...

Women and Gender Studies

Article Review: Equity Study In Canada: Race, class and gender paradigms in Canada
Complex societies like Canada had a variety of challenges in terms of race, gender, and class imbalance. Razack, 1990 explains the various paradigms that determine each factor in the course of action. This review draws from a variety of major theoretical orientations that define the art of true activism. Race being vital in this outlook determines a complete set of nuances rather than other values like societies, gender, and class. These elements provide major inequities of all times. There is a critical interlocking between the major activities and the ...

Part 5: Final Draft

This paper has several sections. First, it gives an analysis of a psychological report which was published in popular media. The second part documents the original research cited in the psychological report in section one. The third step gives a comparison between the first and second report.

Analysis of a Psychological Report

The title of the report was Silent Cerebral Emboli May Hasten the Progression of Dementia (Journal Watch, 2012). The author notes that the findings of the report were drawn from two groups: patients with dementia (loss of cognitive ability particularly, memory, attention, and language) and patients with Alzheimer disease. The author begins by notifying ...

Introduction

The article chosen for the purpose of critical analysis and evaluation is ‘Fewer People Mean Fewer Worries’. It was published in ‘The Australian’ edition of January 16, 2008 in the Higher Education Section of the newspaper. The author of the article is Allen Greer who is a famous zoologist of Australia and has produced research over biology and evolution of certain Australian animals including lizards, snakes and tigers. As the name indicates, the article is about growing world population and the number of limited resources available on the earth for its habitants. Greer is of the view that if this ...

Article Review/Analysis

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

Introduction

The purpose of this study is to compare two nursing articles in terms of their research purpose, research methodology, and research designs. The articles which have been chosen for this study are based the topic of Maggot Debridement Therapy.

Following are the articles which have been chosen for this analysis:

- Larval therapy for leg ulcers (VenUS II): randomized controlled trial – Quantitative Study
- Patients’ perceptions and experiences of larval therapy - Qualitative Case Study
The first article has been written by Dumville. The article was published in the year 2009 in the BMJ journal. The second article Kitching. The article was published in the year 2004 ...

Introduction

The article, Marcellus Shale-Appalachian Basin Natural Gas Play, gives a detailed geological report about the latest discovery about the source of natural gas in Appalachian Basin. A renowned geologist, Hobart King, who has not only worked as a coal geologist but also as an economic geologist is its author. It gives the developments that have been made on the site to enhance the extraction of natural gas from 2003 up to date. The Appalachian basin has certain rocks that are have large natural gas deposits.

How the article relates to geology

Natural gas is one of the most valuable substances in any economy as it is used ...

Research suggests that men prefer women who are hard to get for other men, but easy to attain for that particular man who is doing the pursuing. This is a critical piece of information for women in the dating world. Based on the results of such studies, there are three basic pieces of advice to help a woman increase her likelihood of successfully obtaining a man. The first piece of advice is to show interest to the man which you want to date. Be attentive when you are together and make him the center of your attention. Don’t play hard to ...

Article Review: Homeschooling vs. Public School

Summary:

In "School choice: four case studies of home school families in Connecticut," Cappello et al. (1995) performed a series of case studies of Connecticut families who chose to home school their children. The goal of this study was to determine the validity or to examine the ways in which homeschooling was conducted within these family units. The participants of the case study included four families in Connecticut, all with children of varying ages and equivalent years in education. These families volunteered for the study, and had been homeschooling for at least a year. Families were used from different state home ...

Summary review of Article: McTighe, S., M., Cowell, R. A., Winters, B. D., Bussey, T. J., & Saksida, L. M. (2010). Paradoxical false memory for objects after brain damage. Science, 330, 1408-1410.

This article captures previous research related to brain damage and previous experiments, that have been done in as far as memory and brain damage relationship are concerned (1). Vann and Albasser (2) while citing the works of McTighe et al. (1) define the neural process as the mechanism that allows humans and animals to have episodic memories. These memories are set in such a way that people experience ...

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