Comparison Course Works Samples For Students

- Use of ratios in performance evaluation

Ratios provide an evaluation platform for companies. Through calculation of ratios, firms have two to three options for evaluation. The options involve a set of conditions that make the use of ratios possible. This is because ratios only play a comparison role and cannot be used in isolation. They have to be applied together with a set of other ratios to make comparison hence deduce information that enables performance evaluation.

The first option in using ratios involves the application of ratios together with industrial ratios of the firm’s industry. Often, the industry in which the firm operates in have industrial ratios. ...

FOREWARD

This reports aims at shedding light in the best strategy for Ahold to adopt in identify the best target company to take over its aims to expand its food retailing services.
In this report the best comparison that will lead to aid in best decision making is by use of ratios since the business are reporting in different currencies and since the use of exchange rate would be biased due to volatility of the exchange rates overtime and thus such results would be quite unreliable and might lead to wrong decision making which would adversely affect the predator ...

Thesis

This paper is on the Interactive and Digital marketing strategies of Tesco and Amazon.com. The first section of this paper will analyze the websites of Tesco and Amazon.com on the basis of information availability, navigation, surprising facts and information and flaws of the site. The second section of this paper will analyze the difference between retailers that have websites and brick-and-mortar stores (TESCO) and retailers that have sold directly through the website (Amzon.com) and if Tesco encourages their customers to visit their physical shop or remain online shoppers. The third section discusses how both these stores communicate ...

Introduction

Altruism refers to the desire to assist others or exhibit philanthropy towards fellow humans. This behavior of intending to assist others without expecting rewards is central part to the beliefs of many religions and societies. In the definition, the ‘others’ or ‘fellow’ used, implies human of any race or cultures as long as one is in a position to assist such a person . It is important to note that altruism is separate and distinct from loyalty or duty. While altruism seeks to add value to a party different from self, duty is defined a moral obligation to do a thing and loyalty is providing ...

Financial risk of an enterprise can be defined as the probability of adverse financial consequences in the form of loss of income and capital under uncertainty conditions for its financial activity. Financial risks have a great variety and for the implementation of effective management are classified by several main features that will be considered below.
Financial risks arises in the process of enterprise relationships with financial institutions (banks, financial, investment, insurance companies, stock exchanges and others). Causes of the financial risk are inflation factors, the growth of bank interest rates, reduction of the value of securities and others.

Financial risks are roughly divided into two types:

1) ...

ANCOVA is a procedure of analysis of variance procedure where the effects of the covariates (extraneous variables) are eliminated from the data of the dependent variable before analysis of ANOVA is carried out. ANCOVA permits the control of the linear effect of extraneous variables unwanted in a study (Bradley, 2009).
ANCOVA Utilizes regression analysis to eliminate the effect of extraneous variables in the analysis. ANCOVA is used to enhance the precision of group comparisons through accounting for variation on the prognostic variables. In the analysis for imbalances in the prognostic variables, ANCOVA is also used to adjust the comparisons between ...

Introduction

In the current developed world, Object Oriented (OO) system development approach has attracted a lot of attention. Many software development companies have shifted their attention to graduates with knowledge on Object Oriented development. This change has also taken effect and is largely being implemented in the System Analysis and Development texts, which are increasingly adapting Object Oriented approach as well as the Unified Process of system development (Rob, 2011, p.2). While this seems to be the issue, traditional approaches are not being left being since they have managed to outline the necessary processes including phases and activities, which have led ...

The EBITDA shows the amount of earnings available to a company before accounting for tax, depreciation, interest and amortization. Often, a large value indicates that an organization has a lot of intangible assets available for depreciation and amortization. A comparison of Rolls Royce EBITDA with the competitors show that it has a small amount of acquired of intangible assets. Creditors and suppliers would not be attracted to Rolls Royce since it is an indication that the company does not have adequate earnings before interest. It is likely that the company has a small value in terms of intangible assets. In the same industry, BAE ...

A competitive analysis with company level profiles, functional areas and financial report begins with identification of industry competitors. This is followed with conducting an internal analysis of every company to identify existing strengths and weaknesses. It is vital to identify competitors’ growth strategies, marketing strategy, market share as well as their available resources and capital. Critically, identify why certain companies are failing while others are succeeding. Look at the efficiency and effectively of the company’s functional areas. Review core areas like marketing, HR, finance and R&D. However, this should be based on every company’s current issues. ...

Abstract

A large amount of the existing research work that has been carried in mobile networking are mainly based on the assumption that there is an existence of a path between the sender and the receiver. Decentralized mobile systems are however exemplified by network partitions and this has been one of the main driving factors towards the study and implementation of the fully context-aware protocols. This protocol is mainly based on the fact that nodes can be exploited as carrier of messages in the network partitions in order to attain delivery of network components. The nodes in context aware protocol can ...

Over the past one decade, various developments have resulted in the effort to gain a clear insight into the extent and nature of drug use that has threatened the life of teenagers. The information collected in this study links the drug use problem incorporation to a negligent society. The health care providers and human support comprehensively have investigated the drug use prevalence issue in the young adults in ensuring development of policies and interventions that will lead to addressing this problem among this vulnerable group.

Although various studies are on the issue of teenage drug use, there has been insufficient information ...

Accounting Standard followed by the company:

i) General Mills Inc:

General Mills Inc, for the purpose of its financial reporting, follows Generally Accepted Accounting Principle(GAAP).

ii) Meiji Holdings:
The company, for the purpose of the financial reporting and also for its subsidiaries, follows Generally Accepted Accounting Principle(GAAP). The company declares that the accounting standards are different from International Financial Reporting Standard(IFRS).

Accounting Standard followed by the auditors:

i)General Mills Inc:
The financial statements of the company are audited by KPMG LLP, which are the external auditors of the company. The external auditors have used standards of Public Company Accounting Oversight Board(United States). The standards obligates the auditors to ensure that all the financial statements of the company are free from any material ...

For a personal evaluation on certain duties, self-esteem would be an important factor to consider because it is a social psychology concept. People of all walks of life try their level best to improve or maintain self-esteem. However, these levels vary from one individual to another. For instance, there were differences attained when the boss conducted employee performance review based on communication, organizational agility as well as prioritizing. The boss gave two women (Kathy and Jennet) equal opportunities to evaluate and discuss their performance in those categories (Fiske, Gilbert, & Lindzey, 2010).

Kathy exhibited positive self-esteem due to a number of facts. ...

“Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin and Child” and “The Rape of Europa” (henceforth “Saint Luke” and “Europa,” respectively) are two pieces by two very different artists: the former is a piece by the Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden, while the latter is a piece by the High Renaissance artist Titian. To put these two paintings in the proper context for comparison, some information is needed about their respective artists. Titian was a Venetian artist during the period that is now known as the High Renaissance, and is widely acknowledged by art historians as the master painter of this era. “The Rape ...

Plan: Differences

Audience: Students struggling in their lives
Purpose: To inform and entertain their mind on the power of humility
Categories of Comparison: Personal life, way of talking and teachings
Brainstorm:
Comparison paragraph rough draft

At that time, the religious leaders and the teachers of the very arrogant, proud and, they were attention seekers. They demanded re from the people of the world especially by uplifting themselves and their social status above the rest of the people. Their teachings were riddled with pride and arrogance only similar to that of leaders who the world, who were interested ...

Analysis of Research & Technology in Nursing Practice

Introduction

Nurses are facing various challenges in the delivery of health care services such as an aging generation and the rise of chronic diseases. One way of improving the quality of care offered by nurse is by leveraging on technology and research. Technology gives nurses new tools to use in diagnosis, treatment, patient monitoring and patient education. Research is the basis of evidence-based care in nursing and improves quality by enhancing the use of safe and effective nursing practices. This essay analyses research and technology in nursing with an emphasis on how nurses should advocate for research, maintain competency ...

For a long time now, the police have often sought to play a comprehensive role in curbing insecurity cases across various states. Nevertheless, the efforts made by the police have and continue to remain futile due to the manner in which the public perceive the police force. Worth noting is the fact that the police are often perceived differently across various settings. One of the major perceptions that the police have received is that they are warriors. This perception is accredited to what is often referred to as militarization of the police. While it is true that the police are comparable ...

Quality Improvement in the field of health care has continued to be a priority for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Priority requirements in the Affordable Care Act, in the Section 3011 of the National Strategy for Quality Improvement in Health Care have a number of goals. These include improved outcomes, patient-centeredness, and efficiency for all populations, identification of potential areas for rapid improvements areas, and a keen assessment on the gaps in comparative effectiveness, quality, and efficiency.
Nursing Homes is pursuing the development of a quality improvement plan to address the issue of patient falls. The objective of the ...

Introduction

A teacher’s database for their compensation is a significant component to fit the State information systems for education (Aldridge, 2007). The module is an examination of Alabama’s teachers’ salaries and making a clear comparison with that of other states in addition to an overview of the general US teachers’ salaries for the financial year 2011/2012. It is however, difficult to make teacher’s salaries comparison has every state pay its teachers under various conditions and considerations. Since the cost of living in US differs from state to state the annual salary that a teacher receives is not a good measure for ...

How the technology of electronic records has altered healthcare administration and patient care

Over the years, there has been a lot of growth and development in various industries, particularly in the twenty first century, especially, owing to the fact that among the areas that have synonymously developed in the past years include the information and technology front. As a result, there has been improved efficiency in service delivery, accuracy, timesaving and also speed in carrying out of various tasks, and in bulks. However, the development of the technology department has had both positive and negative impacts, especially, with its implementation in the medical field.

Previously, especially in the earlier and mid parts of the ...

Background

Malaysia is widely regarded for its fascinating cultural diversity. The country’s multi-ethnic society is predominantly Muslim and its official language is Malaysian ((The BBC, 2013). English is commonly used in instructional settings such as public schools as well as in the corporate and the wider business environment. There are multiple other ethnic languages used by respective ethnic groups in the country. Consequently, the language barrier between this country and the UK is quite significant. According to the BBC (2013), the country’s popularity in global tourism has enlightened and continues to influence its cultures. Accordingly, language and other ...

Postnote Briefing Paper

The Issue: To achieve balance between agricultural intensification associated with production of food and environmental protection.

Objective: Assess the implications of land sparing and agricultural intensification. Develop comprehensive strategy for land and biodiversity protection in the framework of two approaches outlined.

Executive Summary:

The current postnote briefing paper addresses the topical issue of biodiversity protection when effectuating agricultural activity in the UK. For the purposes of the current paper, a conceptual model demonstrating detailed structure of the paper was outlined. Two agricultural approaches were considered: land sparing and agricultural intensification. The two approaches were evaluated; potential costs and benefits of these approaches ...

Introduction

There is no doubt that incarceration of parents is one of the greatest punishments children suffer when they are incarcerated from their parents. The additional challenges that come as a result of parental incarceration include material hardship and financial instability, instability in family relationships, poor educational results among children, and social problems such as stigma. Many a time, children of incarcerated parents are termed as the forgotten victims of imprisonment. Statistics show that there were 1.7 million children of incarcerated parents in the United States as of 2007 (Shlafer, Poehlmann, Coffino, & Hanneman, 2009. P. 508). Several million other children have ...

A particular feature of the literature is that it can send the author’s message in various ways and reach a target reader out of the crowd of ignorant ones. This can be often achieved through the hidden meaning inside a literary work or through irony, satire and caricature of the reality described. The aim of the present work is to compare and contrast Anton Chekhov’s play “The Proposal” and Guy de Maupassant’s short story “The Necklace”. In this context, the comparison will be conducted in the framework of the depicting of the same theme of gender ...

The current paper makes an effort to explain the concept of and comparison between job order costing system and the process costing system with a view to provide help in the process of decision making regarding the adoption of the costing system in question. Various views were considered in order to enable this study and make it instrumental in deciding upon the required costing system to be adopted in the company.

The conclusion submitted is based on a thorough comparison between both the costing systems. The various industries where these two costing systems are dominantly used are also discussed in the ...

A. Six Samples of Figurative Language

Figurative language is the use of figures of speech to say something in a way that is not obvious. Samples of figurative language include the use of metaphors, similes, metonymy, paradox, irony, symbols, humor, exaggeration among other tropes in fresh new ways that appeal to the readers’ imagination. The use of figurative language in any piece of writing is very important for it serves a number of purposes. However, style is constantly affected by, among other things, language itself, culture and the tradition of a people’s rhetoric. For its effectiveness therefore, style should vary across cultures depending on the circumstance as ...

The Horizontal Analysis

In the horizontal analysis of the company, one considers the various line items in the income statements and the balance sheet with similar items in the previous years. Looking at the year 2008, the company did not perform well. In terms of sales, there was a decrease in the sales compared to the year 2007. There was a decrease of $ 897,000 which is 15% of the sales revenue.
As a result of the low sales, the company suffered a loss in the gross profit. The profit reduced from $1.6M to $1.4M. When analysing the expenses, the website creation and maintenance is a ...

Introduction

Prostate cancer is emerging as one of the most common issues and despite the various treatment options available, the expectation of this to increase is much more in the coming time hence it is very important to research and find out more about this problem. In this paper we will do an evidence based research to find out the “diagnosis and treatment strategy of prostate cancer and to compare the different approaches developed in the current medical facilities”.

Chinese Community Health Resource Center (2008). After Diagnosis Prostate Cancer, Bejing

The above resource provides an introduction to cancer, its branches and a lot of information on the occurrence and detection of the ...

Condition such as a disease, before and after a diagnostic test, respectively. The result of the diagnostic test could be either positive or negative. In reality, the subjectivity of the probabilities is merely based on a piece of information, whether an individual has a condition or not. The condition is regarded as a psychological phenomenon to those who go through a certain diagnostic test. In addition, the probability is always a 0 per cent or a 100 per cent result. The difference between the pretest and posttest probabilities on a certain condition is a major ...

Introduction:

The analysis was conducted so as to study the behavior of two stocks i.e Commonwealth Bank of Australia and ABM resources. We began our analysis using various financial and government websites. For Instance, the risk free rate was derived from RBA, Australia using 30 Day Bank Accepted Bill as a proxy. On the other hand, all the stock related and market index(S&P 500-APX 200)information was derived from Yahoo Finance. We concluded the report by conducting a regression analysis between the excess return of each stock over risk free rate and excess return of market index over risk free rate

Stocks Analyzed

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A new model for controlling traffic in urban has been proposed. The main aim is to use the system to maximize the network throughput and use its signals to meet the changing traffic demand. It is modeled as a Discrete Event System (DES).It has sensors, observers and a controller. These models support the off-line planning of vehicles, traffic lights setting and road networks. It has signals that detect the arrival and departure of vehicles. The controller controls how the vehicles arrive and depart.

The model also represents behavioral conflicts. Two vehicles may attempt to occupy the same zone. In ...

Transfer pricing is a process where prices or rates used when selling products or services between parent companies, divisions, departments, or subsidiary (SMULLEN, 2001). It exists when two related companies (the parent company and a subsidiary) trade amongst each other. For example, a US based subsidiary of Coca-cola trading with an African subsidiary of Coca-cola. When such subsidiaries engage in price establishments for a transaction the results are transfer pricing.

WITTENDORFF (2010) provides that in transfer pricing the prices set for the exchange may be the original prices set for the products or the original purchase price or a rate reduced to cater ...

- In March 1766, Declaratory Act was passed by the British Parliament to affirm the Parliament’s right to pass laws in their colonies “in all cases whatsoever”. This news of repealing gave colonists confidence that British government respected and understood their situation regarding taxes. Few appreciated and recognized the claim of Parliament in passing laws “in all cases whatsoever” through the Declaratory Act.
- Colonists wanted to be represented in the Parliament by some one of their own, whereas policies of British were determined by a sole leader. Apart from the colonial legislatures, mobs in many cities demonstrated ...

The basic meaning of an assessment is a method of collecting information from a student through tests, assignments formal or informal training, exams and then evaluating that performance through grades or a numbering system from which a student stands to know his knowledge and adaptability of certain functions in comparison to other in the end helping him gauge his abilities to apply that knowledge. The result could be his passing to another grade or advancing to another stage of evaluation, getting a degree, certification, accountability-to find out if students are learning according to a standard set by the institution, diagnosis, motivation-enhancing ones studies or learning ...

Introduction

The most important variable that enables mankind achieve beyond their imagination is communication. Communication is however only enabled through understanding different cultures and only then will we be able diversify and achieve greatness. This helps individuals resolve the numerous crises facing the planet since we understand different ways of thinking through culture. The book Beyond Culture by Edward T. Hall explains the different ways to improve interaction in different cultures. The book also discusses the problems that could be experienced when interacting with different cultures and the guided pathways in achieving the goal of breaking cultural barriers. ...

Introduction

Paraphrasing is one of the most important aspects of scholarly writing. Without paraphrasing, most of the articles will be mere duplication of other people ideas and the readers will have no interest in most of the writings. Through paraphrasing, it is possible to transform one’s ideas into yours while acknowledging the original writer. Notably, many potential scholars fail to practice the mannerism in academic writing leading to plagiarism. The aim of this paper is to paraphrase Patricia O’Conner’ paragraph and use the tools of Walden Writing Center to provide a discussion. In addition, the paper also provides a reflection ...

It is important for any plan to begin with a well-defined mission, goals and objective measurements because they provide the foundation to the entire organization. These components are used to guide subsequent duties in the organization. Measures are the metrics that can be used to gauge the progress on objectives. For example, the objective targeting improved performance can be gauged using metrics such as total sale, efficiency, profitability or even stock price. Performance measures are important in today’s organizations and are a fundamental part of strategic planning. Without the performance, one cannot tell where he or she has been, is ...

Introduction

Home Health Plus is a new service based company. Till date the service offerings available in the retired and old age service market are limited. There are very few healthcare providers offering quality services, and there are very few products catering to the needs of the retired people. Home Health Plus plans to offer some unique products in this market. Currently, the services available for old age people are mainly provided if a person stays in an old age home or community.

Services like light housekeeping, laundry services, preparation of meals and snacks are offered at reasonable price only at old ...

Sample selection

The participants will be aged between 12 and 15 years. In line with the statistics which indicate the prevalence of child hood obesity is more pronounced among Hispanic and African American children, the study population will be made up of: 38% Hispanics, 29% African Americans, 15% Caucasians, 14% biracial children and 4% multiracial children. This will help in addressing the issues relating to inequalities. All children within the ages of 12 and 15 in the participating schools will be eligible for participation upon the parents and the children giving consent to participate. 12 schools will be picked randomly to ...

Background:

With a rich history of success, Pepsi was an establishment of the 1898, in Carolinas. The drink was an original invention of Caleb Bradham. Based in New Bern, North Carolina, he was a pharmacist and drugstore owner ("Pepsi History," n.d.).

It was five years after the introduction of Coke that Pepsi came into existence, in the year 1893. This was the time when the inventor Caleb Bradham decided serving customers his soda machine produced ‘Brad’s Drink’. In response to the positive feedback that he received from the drinkers, he began advertising his samples in 1898, after naming ...

Executive Summary

In this report, the discussion explains the controls required to prevent physical and chemical contamination of food. It compared the characteristics of food borne infections and food poisoning. It further discussed how to control food borne illnesses. It categorized the food spoilage agents and discussed methods of food preservation. It highlighted the importance of effective prevention systems in control of food contamination with two case studies. It also constructed a food hazard assessment, a food safety control system and a food safety guide.

The given is the report that was sent by the Compliance Officer of the hotel when the incident of a ...

International Business – Outsourcing or Reshoring?

Introduction

Companies outsource their key processes to third parties for many years, but, perhaps, at the turn of the 21st century, the term “outsourcing” began to gain momentum. Around this time, the companies began to engage third parties to perform the work in other countries – a process known as offshoring – in large emerging markets. The process of offshoring has attracted political and public attention because of concerns that it is destructive to the internal labor market. In this regard, a process of reshoring (the return of production from abroad), but such factors as cost and efficiency of business ...

Comparison of Information Gathered in 2(b) and 1(b)
The field of finance is extremely broad, and it usually depends upon the working of sophisticated models and tools to analyze the things accordingly. Investment is one of the most important elements that stride under the field of finance, as it is important for the long run productivity and efficacy of an organization as well as an economy particularly. The tradeoff of risk and return cannot be ignored, as both of these things are interlinking with each other. It is an important thing for an investor to overcome on the ...

Part A: Strengths and Weaknesses

Purpose of the Study

The researchers have identified the purpose of the study as evaluating the efficacy of FCMPN in reducing fatigue among practice nurses. This is strength in the paper since a clear purpose and objective makes it easy for the reader to understand the study and relate it to nursing practice. FCMPN reduces fatigue, daytime sleepiness and patient care errors by improving sleep quality and quantity. Fatigue is a significant problem associated with working long hours and getting little rest. Nurses suffering from fatigue are a health risk since they are prone to making patient care errors which reduce the quality of care offered ...

Introduction

In the business statistical data are much prevailed in the decision making. The use of the statistic in the business environment makes the business person have a quality, performance, and the prediction of the business in the future. In the retail environment, the retailer gathers information and the data from the day to day clients that help in the improvement and planning of the business. Therefore, the statistic has a great role in the business regardless the size. This study is to determine the areas and the use of the statistics to the retail environment, as well as the business at ...

Abstract

The dream of an information-based global society is attributable to the flawless integration of the information and communication technologies with the traditional one, merged with proactive government policies, technical skills-set, strategic learning approach, an inclination towards improvements in efficiencies and, promotion of modernization in a caringly and an environmentally sustainable way. This paper researches the variables of an information society that impact on information services through a scalable structure presentation that encourages information society analysis, comparison of varied information societies and propose new frontiers for scholars and decision-makers.
Keywords:

Information society, knowledge society, information services

Background

The early forebear of humankind around ten thousand years ago ...

The census bureau determines poverty levels in the USA through a comparison between pre-tax incomes against the threshold. The threshold is normally set as three times the cost of the minimum food cost of food diet and is updated every year. The consumer index is updated annually depending on the size of the family, and the prevailing inflation (Ritakallio, 2002). The threshold is not dependent on the geographical position.
Poverty threshold is used to track past poverty and compare poverty across geographical regions. The poverty threshold is also used to determine how federal assistance will be distributed and its ...

Indonesia, being found on the Pacific Ring of Fire, a region with a considerable measure of tectonic movement, need to adapt to the consistent danger of volcanic eruptions, floods, earthquakes and tsunamis. On a few events throughout the most recent 15 years, Indonesia has stood out as truly newsworthy because of destroying natural disasters that brought about the deaths of countless human and animal lives. In addition to having a ruinous impact on the land zone, including infrastructure, and subsequently bringing about budgetary expenses. Harsh, dry, and wet seasons can destroy food crop harvests, trigger expansion, and put extreme money related pressure on ...

How convincing is the proposition put forward by both these writers that coordination and motivation of business activity is achieved predominantly through organizations rather than the market and what relevance does this have for you as a student of

Management

Introduction
Coordination is the synthesized manner in which many related items are joined together to create a larger item and in unison have semantic linkages that are similar with the rest of the neighboring aspects (Olson et.al, 2001).

Taking for instance the Nigerian government, it has changing phases of governance. This is because of the poorly performing political parties that face ...

Introduction

The concept of sustainable development within the industrialized nations and the increased worries caused by global warming, has led to a global interest in the need to come up with better ways in which building construction projects within the urban settings can be done in such a manner as to promote sustainability of our environment as opposed to the rather “business as usual” myopic concept in building projects. This will ensure that this generation meets its own needs without negatively interfering with the ability of the coming generation to meet their own needs. In most scenarios, most building projects can ...

Executive Summary

This project report gives chronological accounts of tornadoes events that have occurred over a period of 33 years, which is from 1980 to 2013. The paper is meant to illustrate statistical analysis of spatial and temporal occurrences of the mentioned environmental disaster. The rationale of the study was to give reasons behind the high instances of tornado related events and to formulate recommendations on how to predict the occurrences to reduce casualties and damage to property. Again, the analysis would build the foundation for modeling of future changes of a natural disaster with the aim of enhancing communication and disaster preparedness. ...

Over the years there has been a great nursing shortage or rather a great demand for nursing professionals which surpasses the current supply locally, nationally or globally. This is backed by national surveys from the Bureau of the Census, National Council of State Boards of Nursing, American Hospital Association and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. It is notable that the nursing service or profession is well diversified in order to meet a wide spectrum of health and needs. In the US there are core types of nurses Licensed Practical nurses or LPNs, Registered Nurses or RNs and Advanced practice registered nurses ( ...

Question 1

Non equivalent Control Group Design – in this type of quasi experimental design both the treatment group and the comparison group are compared with the use of pretest and posttest data. The researcher can confidently have her claim regarding the effect of the treatment when the above groups are similar in the pretest measures but different in the post test measures.

Non equivalent Interrupted time series Group design – in this design, the researcher looks into a sequence of observations made before and after the treatment. Treatment effect takes place takes place when sudden changes occur during the implementation of ...

- Which, if any, of your food choices were influenced by emotions (happiness, boredom, or disappointment, for example)?

While I chose to eat the specific food items which I consume daily, at the evening I felt like having a chocolate. I soon went out to the store and grabbed one from there. I relished it on my way back. In retrospect, I believe that I made the choice of going for a chocolate as I was feeling quite bored sitting at home all day and playing computer games. The chocolate made me get over the boredom and I felt happy.

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Introduction:

The word Renaissance literally means rebirth and it refers to how this era seemed to spring from the earlier Dark and Middle Ages with renewed spirit and restored interest in the classical Greek and Roman Civilizations. In reality it did not leap forth like Minerva from the head of Zeus, it evolved from changes introduced in the Middle Ages. The Middle Ages were a time of turmoil that emerged from the fragmented society that survived the fall of the Roman Empire and ended with the birth of the Renaissance. It roughly encompasses the start if the second millennium and runs ...

Moon and Bates (1993) developed an approach of measuring the competitor performance. They came up with four main stages of analysis commonly referred to as the CORE analysis. CORE is an acronym name which refers to context, overview, ratios and evaluation. The strategic management accounting plays a very significant role in providing financial information about the main sources of gaining competitive advantage of a company. It involves two main aspects. The computation of the key internal financial ratios of the company is the first main issue. The second issue involves assessment of the external information that may pose a threat to the ...

Introduction

- Statement of the Problem – Why is organic farming is better than conventional farming
- Theoretical Framework – Organic farming is a method of producing fruits and vegetables using low environmental impact approach, while conventional farming uses chemical products that could affect both the nutrient level and quality of the final product (Cisilino and Madau, 2007).
- Methodology
- Type of Research - Qualitative
- Respondents – Farmers, nutritionists, food engineer, selected consumers, health experts, and food experts.
- Questionnaire – Survey and interview
- Purpose of the study – The purpose of ...

Part One

Chi squared testing is a statistical test that is used to make a comparison of the data observed with the data that is expected depending on the hypothesis. The chi square test is also used to approximate if any two random variables depend on each other or not. In the social world such as the healthcare, there exist several characteristics in terms of variables like the number of male and female reporting health centers monthly. The deviation between observed data and the expected value help the researcher or investigator make informed conclusions.

Dependent t test is a statistics test that is make ...

In this section, I will provide a comparison of the inflation rate and economic growth of Belgium and the Eurozone. The inflation rate is defined as the percentage change in the price index from the preceding period. It captures the rate of change of prices calculated on a monthly or annual basis. The data on the inflation rate for Belgium and the Eurozone are presented below which I obtained from the news release of Eurostat (2013).

Meanwhile, economic growth is defined as the increase in the capacity of the economy to produce goods and services, compared from one period to another. ...

Evaluate the costs and benefits (both economically and socially) of using coal, oil, and natural gas. In your evaluation provide pros and cons for which each energy source
The cost and benefits of using coal, oil, and natural gas is that they are less costly and efficient in their use in comparison with other sources of energy such as firewood.

The pros of using coal, oil, and natural gas include the following;

The pros of using coal are that it produces large quantities by products such as petroleum and gases. The cons of using coal are that it ...