Discourse analysis

There are “three types of measurement validation”: content, convergent/discriminant, and nomological/construct validation. Content Validation is preoccupied with the questions whether or not key elements are “omitted from the indicator” and whether or not “inappropriate elements are included in the indicator.” Although content validation is an “important contribution” to measurement validity, its chief limitation is that “alone it is incomplete, for two reasons”: “first, although a necessary…

theoretical cutting force values are 45-120% higher than the measured one. [13] D.K Das et al. [2014] investigates the surface roughness during hard turning of EN24 of 50 HRC hardness with coated carbide insert. By using grey based Taguchi and regression analysis it was concluded that surface roughness of 0.42 micron is obtained at cutting speed of 130 m/min, depth of cut 0.4 mm/rev and feed rate was found to be most dominant parameters for output response. [14] A.K Sahoo et al. [2014] studied…

The general environment framework Description: The general environment constantly influences businesses either positively or negatively. The general environments are factors external to a firm that are beyond the firm’s control. However, they do affects the firm’s strategy and profitability and affects affects porter’s five forces in various ways. The general environment consists of six segments namely: Demographic, technological, economic, sociocultural, political/legal and global. Firms need…

Participants The participants for this digit span stud consisted of 3 subjects from a large public University. The participants comprised of 1 male and 2 female students with their age ranging from 18-21 years old. With regard to deficiencies, the male student reported that he has color-blindness, while the two female students did not report any deficiency. Apparatus This digit span experiment was conducted in the Social Sciences Laboratories at UCI. All three participants carried out the…

The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act (AACWA) of 1980 (Pub. L. 96-272) was enacted after it was discovered that too many children were being placed in foster care too quickly and for too long during the 1970’s. The AACWA was to promote keeping the families together and placing the children in permanent placement rather than placing them in foster care. Title IV-E was created as part of the AACWA and provides federal funding for educating and training the child welfare workforce in…

2.2 The Chinese online retail market The Chinese market is highly heterogeneous, with great variations in wealth between the coastal cities, and China inland. Growth in the latter is far lower than the former, and even in the richest areas of China, there are massive differences in relative wealth and income. Thus, the market for high value-added products is still restricted to a small segment of the country. 2 Furthermore, Dickson, etal. (2004), argue that the increase in the income in China,…

analyzing the external environmental factors that influence the company. The external analysis will focus on the Macro-level environment, using the PESTEL analysis, and the Micro-level environment, following Porter’s five forces model. The PESTEL analysis is a tool that is used to determine what factors in the external environment are likely to influence the competitive position of a company. The PESTEL analysis looks directly at six external factors; political, economic, social,…

Article Summary In this critique, two articles “Defining the duality of data governance” by Zweli Sikhakhane and “Data quality: Whose job is it?” by Kathleen Hickey will be summarized, compared and evaluated with Anthony Fisher’s “The Data Asset: How smart companies govern their data for business success” to analyze the key similarities and the key differences between issues surrounding data quality management (DQM) and data governance and how they relate to each other. The article “Defining…

A Systems Development life cycle is a term used to describe the process for planning, creating, testing and creating information system. The system development life cycle applies to hardware as well as software configurations. A systems development life cycle consists of a number of clearly defined and distinct phases, these phases are used by Engineer’s and developers to plan for and deliver information systems. Application development life cycle (system development life cycle) also refers…

Pestle is a marketing planning tool which helps the business to focus on its external environment effects. These factors are such as Political, economic, Social, Technological, Legal and Environmental. Political: For a multinational firm to operate, one has to take care of the political rules and regulations of home and operating countries. Government regulations have a great impact on business dealings and operations. The imposition of taxes, quotas and custom duties are set by the governments…