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Integrated Studies, 2004.
A discussion of the association between mathematics and science.
1,935 words (approx. 7.7 pages), 7 sources, MLA, £ 43.95
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This paper examines how, for many who lack a strong grounding in math and science, the two are often associated as being the same. The purpose of this paper is to define mathematics and science, showing them as two distinct fields of inquiry and then to show how advances in theoretical mathematics contribute the framework needed for scientists in the study of quantum mechanics, a branch of physics, which in turn, is one of the many branches of science.
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Introduction
Mathematics
Science
Quantum Mechanics
Mathematics and Quantum Mechanics
Science and Quantum Mechanics
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"Finally, applied mathematics is a term loosely applied to a range of studies which have significant use in the sciences, specifically the empirical sciences, (branches of science open to practical or experiential experimenting). Applied mathematics makes use of numerical methods and computer science, seeking concrete solutions to explicit mathematical problems. In science and technology it has a major use as a way to model and/or simulate natural phenomenon or events. Examples include using mathematical models in computer generated wind tunnel tests to predict the behavior of a given shape of a prototype airplane wing without resorting to expensive actual wind tunnel testing."
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Co-integration, 2004.
A research study using co-integration analysis to study the relationship between the stock index cash and futures market in relation to price discovery.
3,752 words (approx. 15.0 pages), 27 sources, MLA, £ 73.95
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Co-integration has come to represent an econometric data analysis method that has been utilized to determine the long-run equilibrium relationships among nonstationary economic variables. This paper uses co-integration analysis to determine the relationship between the stock index cash and futures market in relation to price discovery, market stability, and market efficiency. The data for the study was collected from the Athens Derivatives Exchange S.A. (ADEX), with the main data for the study being the returns of the FTSE/ASE-20 futures and spot index. In order to study the relationship between the ADEX stock index cash and futures market in this paper, daily closing price returns of the FTSE/ASE-20 Index are considered for the period from 3 January 2000 to 27 July 2003. The paper includes several graphs and tables.
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Data
Methodology
OLS Results
Co-integration Results
References
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"GARCH modeling represents an important data analyses procedure as it provides a means of further understanding and modeling volatility, taking into account excess kurtosis (i.e., fat tail behavior) and volatility clustering, two important characteristics of financial time series. It provides accurate forecasts of variances and covariances of asset returns through its ability to model time-varying conditional variances. As a consequence, the application of GARCH models has been identified as useful in risk management, portfolio management and asset allocation, option pricing, foreign exchange, and the term structure of interest rates."
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Cross Cultural Educational Studies, 2002.
A look at the link between multiculturalism and social studies.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 27 sources, £ 50.95
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This paper shows how social studies have been integrated with multiculturalism studies to give students a wider educational perspective.
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Integrated Marketing Communications, 2006.
A study of literature related to integrated marketing communications.
2,154 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 47.95
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The paper is three fold in its mission. Firstly it examines the writings of Ben Wightman's "Integrated Communications: Organization and Education" and his views of the state of the art of integrated communications (IC). Secondly, three other works are examined, by other distinguished authors in the field, to determine the amount of overlap, agreement, or disagreement they have with Wightman. Finally the paper examines, in short, the United States Department of State's latest "Domestic Intelligence Estimate, Indonesia." This determines whether or not the principles of integrated communications organizations can or should be integrated into their emerging, vast and varied economy.
Thesis Statement
"Integrated communications (IC): Organization and education" By, MR. Ben Wightman
The Public Relations Based Approach
Thomas Hunter's Five Step Model
Additional IMC Article Comparisons
Integrated Marketing Communications and Indonesia
Bibliography
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"Furthermore, Wightman makes the strong point that not many scholars have offered suggestions despite the conviction that organizational structure is one of the strongest hindrances to the successful implementation of IC within a corporation. He also states, admonishes is actually a better word, that students coming out of our colleges and universities are ill equipped to deal with these problems. These despite many having degrees, higher degrees, but have had little exposure to the situation in their respective schools."
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High School Social Studies, 2002.
This paper describes a design for a high school social studies curriculum in the U.S. schooling system.
2,929 words (approx. 11.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 61.95
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The paper considers the purposes of teaching social studies and outlines a three-year program for accomplishing these objectives. It follows some of the existing guidelines where appropriate and assumes that such a curriculum would be integrated within a larger, more comprehensive school-wide curriculum. The writer provides a complete approach to K-12 teaching, including brief outlines of year by year agenda and subject matter. The author believes this system would attempt to satisfy the state and U.S. Department of Education, while providing a creative approach to achieving the enormous and important task of providing a solid foundation for all students completing the program.
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"The concept of social studies is unique to the K-12 system. By the time a student enters an undergraduate program, the disciplines previously included under the social studies umbrella have been separated into many different distinct fields of study. Only during the K-12 experience, and especially during the high school years, are students given the opportunity to explore a wide range of interrelated issues and themes under a single program heading. This curriculum is designed to make full use of this unique educational opportunity."
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Integrated Marketing Communications, 2008.
This paper describes and explains integrated marketing communications and looks into its purpose and importance.
843 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 21.95
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In this article, the writer notes that competitiveness in business the world over is so acute that survival is possible for only those organizations that are ready to employ every possible means to increase profit by reducing cost in production, while remaining uncompromising in quality and aggressive in marketing. The writer notes that the role of marketing communication in modern business practices has been identified as a key factor in survival in modern day business. The writer defines the integrated marketing communication approach and discusses its purpose. Further, the writer discusses the importance of integrated marketing communications and looks at obstacles to effective marketing communications.
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Introduction
Many Dimensions of Integrated Marketing Communication
The Importance of Integrated Marketing Communication
Marketing communication-Barriers and Gateways
Conclusion
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"The purpose of marketing communication is to influence the thinking process of the recipient the communication about a brand, a project, a service etc. This called the conceptualization ion of the idea. The next step is the relationship building. The recipient of the communication and the brand should establish emotional connection. This activity takes place in the subliminal level. Marketing communication should establish a relationship of trust with the entire clientele, which is comprised of the every day functional user of a product in the wider society as well as the user of a product in a chosen niche of the community. This trust of the recipient would be expressed in sales enquiry or attempt switch to the new brand. This is the activation of behavioral change in visible forms. Once the activation is discernable, it is to be supported by immediate help by the quick operation of the service sector of the brand in the form of further information by some form of contact. This is followed by a product experience, which makes the initial trust with the communicator and the recipient of communication a concrete reality. All the above dimensions have to be performed in a coordinated manner."
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Integrated Teaching, 2006.
This paper discusses the integrated method of teaching.
1,420 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 5 sources, APA, £ 33.95
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This paper explains that the integrative model of instruction is an alternative to the teaching approach, which involves lectures and tests with the teacher the source of knowledge and the students as relatively passive recipients of that knowledge. The author points out that the two inter-related goals of the integrative model of instruction are to present organized bodies of knowledge in an in-depth way and to develop critical thinking skills regarding this material so that an environment is set up where the students will think about the subject matter in a natural way, both with the teacher and with other students. The paper stresses that integrated instruction can be used only with material, which can be organized and which thoughtful people can detect relationships between the facts within the material.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Phases of Integrated Learning
Covering the Content
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"In Phase I, learners gather data and place it within the matrice, which is nothing more than a simple data base. They describe their observations and begin to look for patterns. While the work is guided by the teacher, the students do the thinking, which is honored by being noted in a written record, for instance on the board or an overhead. Students may be lead to note similarities and differences or to begin to consider why certain patterns are emerging. As the teacher draws generalizations out from the learners, the learners have opportunities to apply critical thinking to the facts presented rather than just learning the facts themselves."
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Integrated Transport in the U.K., 2004.
Critically analyzes the integrated transport system in the United Kingdom.
2,780 words (approx. 11.1 pages), 8 sources, APA, £ 58.95
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A white paper on the future mass conveyance system, named ?A New Deal for Transport: Better for Everyone?, was brought out by the U.K government in 1998. The philosophy of the "Integrated Transport White Paper" was that of an effective transport system based on integration, and it contained various suggestions to resolve a wide range of issues relating to the environment and congestion. This paper provides a discussion on the policy being implemented so far and presents a critical review of the integrated system that exists in the country.
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"The whole gamut of the policy of future transport was outlined in the White Paper. Apart from giving guidelines on framing new policies to improve air quality, the White Paper also gives suggestions to improve upon the present policies, including the taxation policy designed to achieve environmental targets."
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Three Studies Addressing Psychology and Language, 2008.
This paper assesses three different articles on language, cognition and psychology and discusses just what the human mind really is.
3,656 words (approx. 14.6 pages), 6 sources, MLA, £ 71.95
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This paper introduces three contrasting papers belonging to related fields of psychology. The writer looks at 'Representing Word Meaning and Order Information in a Composite Holographic Lexicon' by Michael N. Jones and Douglas J.K. Mewhort, 'Modeling the Successes and Failures of Interventions for Disabled Readers' by Harm, M.W., McCandliss, B.D. and Seidenberg, M.S. and 'An Integrated Theory of Mind' by Anderson, J.R., Bothell, D., Byrne, M.D., Douglass, S., Labiere, C and Qin Y. The writer notes that all the articles are interesting indications of how research in psychology varies strongly, according to the preparation and particular foci of researchers, how the human mind and its faculties are conceptualized, or what is considered salient. Examined, in turn, the three papers provide a glimpse of research or theoretical psychology that may not always sit well with a reader of different orientation. One sees a social scientific discipline that should continue examining and comparing its differences, avoiding too narrow approaches or realms of related study.
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Introduction
Michael N. Jones and Douglas J.K. Mewhort. (2007). Representing word meaning and order information in a composite holographic lexicon. Psychological Review, 114, 1-37.
Harm, M.W., McCandliss, B.D. and Seidenberg, M.S. (2003). Modeling the successes and failures of interventions for disabled readers. Scientific Studies in Reading, 7, 155-182.
Anderson, J.R., Bothell, D., Byrne, M.D., Douglass, S., Labiere, C and Qin Y. (2004). An Integrated Theory of Mind. Psychological Review, 111, 1036-1060.
Discussion
References
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"Perhaps most student readers will have to take Jones & Mewhort's work at face value, unable to draw upon their level of expertise, or what the researchers' findings really mean, in terms of earlier research or what may stand to be learned of language, memory, or other brain function, or language development. It does seems that the human mind capable of language is forever at work, whether speaking or not, for example, towards eventual word order that shows the mind's ability to give its own cues or phrases or associated concepts from diverse places."
"The mind's speech patterns can be plotted for analysis, as Jones & Mewhort tell us is true, most often in relation to similar nouns or verbs or words coming to be predictable in phrases or their uses. When this article is reread, again there is the feeling of needing more information, or perhaps being helped by information on the applications of the research. For example, if memory that aids language is stored in a distributive way, then where in the brain, or according to which processes does this take place?"
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Integrated Marketing Communications, 2004.
This paper examines marketing communications global use of Integrated Marketing Communications IMC.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, APA, £ 16.95
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This paper defines integrated marketing communications (IMC). The author points out the use of integrated marketing communications to help coordinate and add collaboration to marketing communications international marketing. The paper states that the overall purpose to increase revenues.
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"Nabisco, Inc. is an international manufacturer of biscuits, snacks and other premium food products with global revenues of ... billion. With three subsidiaries and employees in ... countries, integrated marketing communications IMC has become increasingly important for Nabisco to enhance its long-term relationships with customers instead of focusing on one-time transactions, As the Director of Sales Systems at Nabisco, Inc., Ray Paul maintains, "Using current messaging and collaboration technologies to ensure efficient customer and distributor-driven communication is an integral ingredient in ensuring we meet our customers needs.""
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Integrated Marketing Communications, 2005.
This paper describes the marketing mix for an integrated marketing communications (IMC)
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 5 sources, APA, £ 44.95
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This paper defines integrated marketing communications. The author describes the marketing mix for an integrated marketing communications effort for a virtual private network VPN . The paper details how each component of the IMC would be designed.
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"For the marketing of our VPN, we will employ an integrated marketing communications IMC approach to deliver a clear and consistent message to our target market. According to P. Griffith Lindell in "Lining up Your Marketing Ducks", Integrated Marketing Communications IMC starts by understanding the customer's dilemma. Then you can integrate all the marketing communications elements into a unified well-orchestrated campaign by developing a relevant umbrella theme that can accommodate all the various marketing communications tactics. Consistent with this philosophy, we have identified a working description of the ..."
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Integrated Public Transport Network, 2005.
An exploration on the problem of an integrated transport system in the Republic of South Africa.
6,900 words (approx. 27.6 pages), 20 sources, MLA, £ 95.95
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This paper explores the problem and recommends strategies for the development of an integrated, inter modal public transport network for Gauteng Province, Republic of South Africa. It discusses why the problems associated with public transport planning and development in South Africa are especially challenging since the federal constitution assigns responsibility for public transport to systems focusing on the national level. The author formulates a plan for the development of an integrated public transport network.
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"Transport planners confront major challenges in the planning and development of transport systems to the expectations and objectives of multiple stakeholder ..."
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Integrated Delivery Systems (IDS) for Healthcare, 2004.
This paper discusses an organizational model for reducing the cost of healthcare delivery: Integrated Delivery Systems (IDS).
2,035 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 6 sources, APA, £ 45.95
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This paper explains that three factors led to the development of the Integrated Delivery Systems (IDS) model: A greater interplay between all the players in health care delivery, increased influence of business health groups, and the movement away from "bean counting" to risk management, early detection, and demand prevention. The author points out that Integrated Delivery Systems, no matter their specifics, are primarily for one purpose: To connect users to the information they need to do their job in the health care delivery system as quickly as possible. The paper stresses that the IDS is the best model for leaping the chasm between the ideal medical world of the clinical sector of health care and the ideal financial world of the administrative and operational sector of health care.
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Background
Development
Qualitative Impact of IDS
Economic Impact of IDS
The Future
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"Shortly after these changes began, ?inclusive? delivery models got underway, with early ones being physician-hospital organizations (PHOs) and integrated delivery networks (IDNs); arguably the coexistence of these led to the development of IDSs capable of operating within the four structures another researcher had identified, by 1996, as the evolving types of IDSs. These four models were HMOs, joint ventures such as Columbia/HCA, federations of community hospitals and a ?hub and spoke? arrangement bring large medical centers and nearby community hospitals into sync."
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Integrated Marketing, 2005.
This paper explores the concept of integrated marketing as applied to business.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 6 sources, £ 18.95
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This paper defines integrated marketing and its usefulness in companies and their marketing campaigns. The author points out its use in measuring the success and structure of marketing campaigns as they lead to customer awareness. The paper includes several brief synopses of specific internet articles with integrated marketing as the main topics.
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"ROI in marketing was developed as a method of measurement and, if used correctly, could enable a company, department or executive to prove his usefulness and importance within an organization. This concept takes what used to be a difficult process and migrated it into the form of statistical analysis as well as the translation into dollars. This can be done by tracking sales or counting certain hits on a website directly related to a recent marketing campaign. Unfortunately, marketing in business has often been viewed as a "necessary evil" or something that cannot be quantified. As stated in the article listed above, "marketing people" allow themselves to feel threatened over the issue that they often cannot justify their existence within a company. They are the ones who help generate sales but it is usually indirectly linked to their positions."
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