Research and development

How Dell Company creates benefits by using social media? 1. Introduction Background With the fast development of Internet technology in these years, more and more people start to use Internet in the world. In recent five years, the numbers of Internet user still has an increased from 2.03 billion to 2.92 billion in the world (Internet world stats, 2015). “Social media has brought about a fundamental shift in the way we communicate” and it means social network has become a non-ignorable media…

quantitative research are: descriptive, correlational, quasi-experimental and experimental. The key to understanding each is the level or degree of control involved in the study and its component. Groves, Gray & Burns (2015) define control as the imposing of rules to decrease the possibility of error, increasing the probability a study’s findings, which reveal an accurate reflection of reality. Groves, Gray and Burns (2015) went on to discuss the rules known as design, to achieve control in…

During my first semester at the University of Southern California, I took a Women in International Development class after reading about Wangari Mathai’s life and how science was utilized as a means for empowering the poor and women as a result changing an entire country’s government. With encouragement from my professor and inspiration from Mathai, I decided to further explore an interdisciplinary education, leading me to my chosen field: environmental studies. Becoming a scientific diver…

According to the oxford dictionary, Research is defined as the systematic investigation into a subject area or the study of materials in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions. Research is also often said to be an endeavor to discover new or collate old knowledge through scientific study subjected to a rigorous and critical investigation Usually a research is commissioned or carried out where there is a burning question or a problem that needs to be resolved or answered. It could be…

reach solutions based on a new understanding of complex situations. For example, a multidisciplinary approach is used by the multidisciplinary team in health care with an aim to address the complex clinical and nursing needs. Also, multidisciplinary research is a pursuit of truth with the help of numerous specialized branches of learning which aims at achieving a common aim with the aid of knowledge of other disciplines. Then again, it’s an investigation or inquiry into a problem for…

Ethics is one of the most important part of qualitative research, and there is a diverse ethical research concepts that needs to be considered in research. In this journal entry, I am going to focus on a more specific ethical research concept, which is informed consent. Ethics is defined as a system of moral and fundamental principles, which affects people’s decision making (Andre, Meyer, Shanks & Velasquez, 1987). Ethics also refers to the standards what right and wrong is in terms of fairness…

1. Background to research problem The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the intergovernmental set of 17 aspirational goals with 169 targets to be attained by 2030 (United Nations. Sustainable Development Goals. (2015). This agenda builds on the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which were adopted in 2000 and guided development action for the last 15 years to 2015 (United Nations. Millennium Development Goals 2000). These goals are part of the ambitious and bold…

adopted, with its emphasis on the supply of scientific knowledge, which states that science leads to technology and this in turn transforms the basic science Commercial applications that seek to satisfy the needs of the market; In other words, basic research leads to "invention" and then to innovation, that is, to the launch of the novelty. Escorsa Pere Castells (2005) believes that this model is not realistic (1) and on the contrary too theoretical, since the basic science does not always…

The efficient collaboration between researchers and practitioners strengthens management research and it’s important to research projects that do a real difference in the academics’ understanding of or impact on management practice (Amabile et al., 2001). There are many challenges to management research in the academic-practitioner world and the best way to overcome them is with collaboration. Thus, it’s important to understand such collaborations and the factors that influence the…

The purpose of this study is to examine teacher perceptions and experiences with current approaches to professional development in K-12 schools. This study is important to K-12 educators as it will examine opportunities for teachers to utilize technology to pursue professional development relevant to their teaching and learning practice in a flexible learning environment. Additionally, this study will analyze pathways toward developing new and engaging learning experiences that would not be…