Content analysis

This paper is an academic critique of an article written by Sapna Solanki (2013) titled: Determinants of Consumer Involvement: A Quantitative Analysis of Laptop Purchase. The author undertook a research study to find out the impact of demographic variables and attributes on consumer involvement in purchase of laptops. My examination deliberately concentrates on particular parts of the article as far as procedure and legitimacy of exploration strategies and results. I have attempted to develop a…

data for the analysis was extracted from the transcripts of group therapy sessions in a prison-based Sex Offender Treatment Program (SOTP) in Britain between 1995 and 1996. The analysis suggested that his discourse is built on two main practical ideologies in recasting his version of the incident. The use of the “practical ideologies” was frequently stimulated through popular rape myths, playing a role in reproducing the story of the incident into something ambiguous. The analysis reveals that…

Managing with Analytics at Procter & Gamble Yeshwanth Kumar Lanka A20299800 P&G was pressed by retailers to produce more concentrated powdered laundry detergents. P&G faced the problem of forecasting the sales. Different departments like procurement, manufacturing and supply chain were already under stress from the changes required to produce and deliver the new formulation. If the results increase without change in forecasts, P&G would be unable to meet demand and that could damage…

JNDs from the four subjects was pooled together and a repeated measures ANOVA analysis was performed. Then, Weber’s fractoin (JND/line length) was applied to the original data to compute the weber fraction and the same analysis test were performed. For this study, we were specifically interested on the data yielded from the Test of Within-Subjects Contrast and Effects and an ANOVA performed from our regression analysis. In addition, both sets of data were plotted to investigate whether the data…

A SWOT analysis is an essential strategy applied in an effort to realize Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats of an organization or individual. In the business context, this strategy enables a business to discover its strong and weak points. A nonprofit organization typically uses this to plan financial development as well as fundraising. Therefore this research examines the meaning and further, elaborates its basic components as applied in the analysis of enterprise. Goodwill is…

Behavioral Aspects of Market Anomalies Anomaly is defined as ‘something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected’ by Oxford dictionary (2016). George and Elton (2001) has defined market anomaly as a new or unexpected phenomenon in relation to any theory, model or hypothesis. The founder of behavioural finance, Tversky and Kahneman (1986), suggested that the market anomalies are the indicators of inefficient markets, which might either occur only once and disappear, or occur…

If Gee’s “What is Literacy” were a boat, we’d all be bailing water. Over the past few weeks all of us within this class have been introduced to the essay “What is Literacy” written by Linguist James Paul Gee in 1987, an essay in which the author is attempts to use his skills as a linguist to provide an useful definition for the word literacy. Prior to providing this definition however, Gee must define various other words and ideas to support his final conclusion. Words such as discourse and…

In the textbook, “Family Policy Matters: How Policymaking Affects Families and What Professionals Can Do, 3rd edition” written by Karen Bogenschneider (2014), she discusses family policy. Currently, there is an absence of a clear and consistent definition of family policy. On a large scale, family policy can include everything that the government does to and for the family. In 1987, Moen and Schorr defined family policy as, “a widely agreed-on set of objectives for families, toward the…

In seeking to understand social policy it is imperative that we understand why there is a need to comprehend such policy. Social policy affects individuals, communities and society in direct and in-direct ways on micro and macro levels. As a future social work professional understanding social policy and how it is created assists in achieving an important value of the profession- social justice. By understanding social policy, social work professionals can help break down the barriers that…

There were 281 participants in this experimental study. Most of the participants were family or friends of students in a research methods class at Florida International University, and they were recruited through email, personal, or telephone request. One hundred ninety one participants were female (68%) and 90 were male (32%). They range from age 13 to 92 (M= 32.33, SD= 13.58). This included 63 Caucasian participants (22.4%), 56 African American participants (19.9%), 8 Asian participants (2.8%)…