Equity method

The survival analysis, is in the class of statistical methods, for considering the occurrence and the timing of events is applied, in the field of medical sciences1. Although, there is more than one modeling approach for analyzing data 2, But before the choosing the best method, ask from ourselves that: why this method? Modeling procedure will answer to this question3. One of the modeling approaches, that widely and special used in the survival sciences, is the cox proportional hazards model4.…

Extended Essay Aaron Cheung Research Question: What are the effects of an ageing population on Hong Kong? Supervisor: Mr. Murchie Word count: Research question What are the effects of an ageing population on Hong Kong? Introduction For my Extended Essay, I will focus on the effects of the problem of ageing population in Hong Kong. Ageing population is a shift in the country’s or a region’s population towards older ages. This is usually reflected in an increase in the proportion of the…

METHODS Participants A total of one hundred and fifty office workers (75 women and 75 men) at the age of 25 years old will be the subject of this experiment. In order for the experiment to be fair, equal number of male and female of the same age are tested and all of them will be asked to wear the exact same uniform made out of the same material which is made of nylon specially made and distributed to all participants. The participants will then be divided into five groups. One group consists of…

During my teaching assistantship of 128 hours at Polytech University for two years, I have assisted Prof. Denis Jongmans and Prof. Stephane Garambois in teaching third and fourth year civil engineering students in studying the Earth structure using the properties of the soil: we had outdoor acquisition experiments at landslide sites, using active and passive seismic measurements, as well as electrical measurements to study the resistivity of the soil. In class, we used different softwares…

The reflective model gives due consideration to both scientific knowledge and experience. Wallace separated it into pre-education/pre-development, professional education/development, and professional competence stages as diagrammatically illustrated in Fig.3. Pre-education/ Professional education/development stage Professional competence Pre-development stage…

I have selected and answered seven topic questions required for this paper. First, I discuss the difference between archaeology and pseudoarcheology. Next, I uncover the five forms of archaeological data, and define ethnocentrism. Later, I talk about what cultural resource management means and what it is used for. Then, I used my notes to describe the importance of mapping and data keeping. Following was a list of four subsistence forms and what they are. Lastly, I unravel the cultural evolution…

Lewis model and people’s character Richard Lewis is a British linguist and he wrote a book “When Cultures Collide”. In his book, he plotted countries in relation to three categories. The first one is linear-active, the second one is multi-active, the third one is reactive. These categories conclude lots of countries. On my opinion, to a certain extent, his points were right. But some details in this article, I disagree with him. I also have my own point of view. First of all, the model of…

Introduction The evolution of mankind from the medieval times to the current ‘science and technology age’ has allowed mankind to evolve and adapt to nature well. In fact, the advent of science has propelled mankind forward to where he is today, something that was considered unimaginable and unattainable hundreds and thousands of years back. Albert Einstein once said “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” So I question, what is Science? Before I develop my…

Title: Quality Improvement in manufacturing through human performance enhancement Authors: Majorkumar Govindaraju, Arunkumar Pennathur & Anil Mital Journal Publications: Integrated Manufacturing System Purpose The purpose of this study is to show how quality improvements are possible through improvements in human performance. This research presents four case studies that demonstrating the relationship between quality and different variables affecting human performance. The study target is based…

Philosophers and psychologists have long debated the nature of emotions. Although they are a universal experience, emotions become very difficult to define. They involve bodily sensations and certain behaviours yet they are much more sophisticated than brute feeling such as hunger and thirst as they also involve a cognitive aspect. Emotions can generally defined by cognitive, behavioural and physiological reactions to some external stimulus, therefore we know that emotions are a combination of…