Meta-analysis

Demographic changes in the United States have led to challenges for public organizations that are tasked with serving shifting target populations (Pitts, 2007). As public administration scholars, we are tasked with understanding the importance of these recent changes in ethnic diversity and its impact on policy making. This paper seeks to answer the following proposed questions: 1) Does descriptive representation matter in bureaucracies? 2) Does descriptive representation lead to policy…

PESTLE Analysis A PESTLE analysis is effectively an analysis of an organisations environmental influences (CIPD 2015). Included in this analysis are factors such as political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental all of which when analysed create a knowledge and help manage the macro-environment of an organisation. Please find PESTLE analysis of CP in appendices (appendix 2) and below an extract of the most important PESTLE aspects regarding training issues within CP. Center…

Engagement by “The Project” Competition The project competition was specifically meant to bring together students and give them real life aspects to deal with for them to realize what it really is and learn from the same. Everyone who was involved had something to bring forward and an experience to learn something to take back with them. It was mainly to get them to make mistakes that were associated with the day to day running of specific details of the given topics and interacting with the…

Ethics and Social Responsibility Companies constantly face the struggle between ethical and unethical behaviors. The line differentiating ethical and unethical actions is not always clear. An ethical company also strives to exude social responsibility. A well-developed strategic plan will help protect a company against the pitfalls of unethical behavior and increase their level of social responsibility. In 2000, the unethical behaviors at Enron became public knowledge. A strategic plan with…

In“Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics: Introduction,” James Paul Gee introduces his readers to the concept of a Discourse with a capital D. Discourses with a capital D according to Gee are “saying (writing)-doing-being-valuing, believing combinations” (6). They are important “combinations”(6). This is for the reason that “identity kits” can help someone see who you are, and they allow you to gain entrance into other Discourses such as a Dominant Secondary Discourse by having the proper make…

The purpose of this study is to measure the differences between age in relation to risk-taking/impulsiveness and reaction time. The reason being, we are interested in figuring out whether or not younger adults are more prone to risk-taking and impulsiveness than the older adults are. Risk taking is an important form of human behavior that has been the subject of numerous investigations, scholarly analyses, and policy debates (Byrnes, 1998; Slovic, Lichtenstein, & Fischhoff, 1998). Risk-taking…

Multicollinearity Multicollinearity is one of the common problems in spatial regression analysis. Sometimes some or all of the explanatory variable are highly correlated in the sample data, which means that it is difficult to tell which of them is influencing the dependent variable (Barrow, 2009, p. 306). Hence, to check whether the independent variables are correlated with each other, a correlation matrix for the three indicators was measured using excel. The correlation matrix in table 2…

“Nurses cannot expect legislators to have an accurate and full understanding of the important contributions that nurses make to the health of the nation. Rather, it is a nursing responsibility for nurses to take the message to them (Alligood & Miles, 2011, p. 7). This is a call to action for nurses to take active leadership in policy making to effect change in healthcare. Nurses have the knowledge and the understanding of how social inequities drastically affect their patient population.…

pylori, the CD80 gMFI values of THP-1 cells exposed to H. pylori derived products in the absence of LPS stimulation were determined and compared with the corresponding value of negative controls. Statistical analysis of the values was then performed using one way ANOVA with Tukey’s post-hoc test to find any statistically significant differences between the means of CD80 gMFI values of the negative control, positive control, and test samples. Samples able to activate…

Conversation Analysis (CA) is a concept that emerged between 1964 and 1975 due to research undertaken, and lectures produced, by Harvey Sacks. Despite Sacks’ early death, before he managed to publish his works professionally, we are still aware of his discovery of CA through other sociologists and linguists. An example of this can be seen where Hutchby and Wooffitt (2008) discuss how ‘Sacks originated a radical research programme which was designed to investigate the levels of social order which…