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Types of Knowledge in Solar System Lesson

of knowledge would also allow the student to apply that rule in controlled practices (NCLRC, 2004). In the case of the planets, ...

Higher Education and the Gender Gap

gender gap in higher education. There are other plausible explanations for the status quo such as affirmative action, poor treat...

The Concept of an Efficient Market

of evidence for investment managers and investors gaining consistent above average profits, there is evidence that abnormal return...

Employee Absenteeism as a Form of Negative Behavior

For example, if we look at the UK as an example. If we look at the figures produced by the CBI we see there is an upward trend in ...

The Controversy over Google's Presence in China

because without the Internet, the people realize they do not know everything. With the Internet, they feel they have the truth, bu...

Absolute Advantage, Comparative Advantage and the Heckscher-Ohlin Model

large amounts of goods to western nations, goods which those nations could produce for themselves. In many instances it may be arg...

Educating Today’s G.I.

group of highly trained people who gather together in fortifications barricaded against the enemy. Now that picture is changing, a...

Caring Theory of Nursing

caring experience, caring becomes a moral principle (Watson 1979, p. 9). Caring happens between two people during their normal and...

How We Grow Into Who We Are

include "back-yards graying / with knowledge, embankments blazoned / with pig-face whose hardihood / be theirs, / mantling with pu...

Tim O’Brien’s Ambush

was not a matter of live or die. There was no real peril. Almost certainly the young man would have passed by. And it will alwa...

The Issue of Motivation in the Fire Service

(Thatcher, 2002). It has been argued that the good will of the fire-fighters is used and abused in the way that some disputes have...

LEARNING TEAM COLLABORATION AND TRAINING PROGRAM APPLICATION

This type of environment is one that identifies, recognizes and accepts differences, provides timely and important feedback, stimu...

Managing Business Processes

and Business Process Reengineering (BPR). Deming said that process management was one of seven core concepts in his theory. Even...

Leader-Member Exchange Theory

to as the Vertical Dyad Linkage Theory (ChangingMinds, 2010; Rothbauer-Wanish, 2009). This is a leadership theory that focuses on ...

B.F. Skinner's Theory

has on a persons behavior. In fact, the term operant means that all organisms operate on their environments (Boeree, 2006). Skinne...

The Emergence of the Matrix Organization

successfully by many multinational and domestic firms. This is where there is a hierarchy that reflects the products that are made...

Differences between Development and Growth

it is used in many different contexts. People grow emotionally, physically, spiritually, and so forth. In simple terms, growth is ...

The Effects of Stereotyping

instance, are boys are good at math, girls are good at language. Another old positive stereotype is that Asians achieve higher tha...

Social Psychology

an individual? For example, is the group a set of friends, family, or a set of co-workers? How an individual relates to a group ca...

Introduction to Montessori

it. She said: "It may be said that that we acquire knowledge by using our minds; but the child absorbs knowledge directly into his...

Economic Concepts of Supply and Demand and the Application of Game Theory

The supply line is an upward slope that shows that as the price increases a supplier will want to supply a greater quantity. With ...

Channel and Pricing Recommendations for a New Commercial Services Firm

the market are prepared to pay a premium. In the case of the oil change service this may be a new and differentiated service, but ...

Water Resource Problem

is the most important natural resource in the world. Nothing can exist without water. Yet, people do little to protect the water t...

Increased Accountability in Education

Charter. The stated purpose was to provide parents with more information about the performance of their local schools. As with any...

Technlogy in Nursing

Advances in technology have changed everything from how patients are diagnosed to acute care to managing chronic illnesses. Techno...

Maxwell: Laws of Influence, Process and Navigation

of Influence is the second Law of Leadership that Maxwell (2007) describes. Influence is not only important in a formal position o...

Hedging and Airline Profitability

be used for a number of reasons, Corman (1996) notes that there are potential benefits to managing Cash flow for some hedging prac...

Employee Engagement

the concept and the underlying evidence there is a high degree of support for the potential benefits and cost effectiveness of ado...

Psychology as an Independent Scientific Discipline

there are numerous disadvantages inherent in restricting psychological investigations to the hard and fast rules of science. Psyc...

The Korean War and The Cold War

first and second worlds, or the free world and the communist bloc. Many equated the U.S. as a major force of the first world and...