Essays on Statistics Literature Reviews

In order to understand the housing crisis, the author ensures that all aspects of the crisis are laid out for all to see by bringing out statistics of those affected and the severity of the crisis on a countrywide scale.... According to the author, the In order to understand the housing crisis, the ensures that all aspects of the crisis are laid out for all to see by bringing out statistics of those affected and the severity of the crisis on a countrywide scale....

The paper "Leadership and Managerial Styles in Athletic Administration" is a good example of a literature review on management.... The paper "Leadership and Managerial Styles in Athletic Administration" is a good example of a literature review on management.... The basis for investigation is taken from the review of literature of the recent years.... onclusionThis research paper was seeking to examine the different findings in literature regarding leadership and leadership styles, which better fit the sports context....

"Individual's Technology Acceptance, Technology Acceptance Model" paper examines the literature that investigates what factors determine the acceptance of certain technologies in the workplace.... The author states that there is very little literature regarding moving from a paper-based system.... Individuals' technology acceptance literature review ... As such, there is a growing body of literature attempting to investigate what factors determine the acceptance of certain technologies in the workplace....

In his article what is an author, Foucault says, “The coming into being of the notion constitutes the privileged moment of individualization in the history if ideas, knowledge, literature, philosophy, and the sciences” (Foucault Reader pg 106).... Those are some of the reasons that authors are arguing that authorship is dying and killing modern literature.... The author argues that the success in feminism in the field of literature has been due to the return in circulation of women literary works that had been ignored....

ritics have in the past questioned the ethics behind the applicability of rhetoric, such as the appeal to fear, to literature in communicating the general ideas in any work and persuading its audience to accept and adopt its arguments and recommendations.... Others confirm the applicability of such rhetoric to literature arguing that appeals such as fear appeals are undesirable.... While such critics question the appeals' ethics, they agree on their effectiveness and applicability across different situations and disciplines, literature in this case....

The paper "Effect of Age Factor on Shopping Mall Behaviors" is an outstanding example of a management literature review.... The paper "Effect of Age Factor on Shopping Mall Behaviors" is an outstanding example of a management literature review.... The purpose of literature review is to examine effect of age factor on shopping mall behaviors.... n conclusion, the literature review has examined the effect of age factor on shopping mall behaviors....

literature Review Mystery is one of the stylistic devices employed in Vernon's Lee Oke of Okehurst.... This review discusses the stylistic devices of mystery in Vernon's Lee Oke of Okehurst.... This style is brought up clearly by Mrs.... Oke, who is obsessed with mysterious stories....

The paper ''Computer Sciences and Information Technology'' tells that New and polished Internet users experience some degree of mistrust concerning privacy and security protection in Internet technology.... The core issue is the risk of misuse of identity and financial information by third parties (Miyazaki & Fernandez, 2001)....

As part of secondary data collection for the research work, the review of related literature is taken seriously to know what has already been done in this field and the gaps that exist in literature.... In literature, there continues to be a divided school of thought about the place of ploughing in cultivation, whether it promotes or hinders the retention of soil moisture for onward usage by the seed or seedling.... The activities of slugs however continue to be debated in literature as it is not clear the specific damage they do to the plant....

It reviews the literature on compulsive consumption to determine the factors that affect compulsive consumption development in individuals and how it affects their normal lifestyle.... & Sarah-Jayne B 2011, “The Social Brain in Adolescence: Evidence from Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Behavioural Studies,” Neuroscience Bio-behavioural reviews, 35 (8), 1654-1664. ... This literature review focuses on "Factors influencing compulsive consumption"....

Obesity has a negative effect on the health leading to impaired health, laziness, unwanted lethargy, etc causing discomfort and importantly major health diseases.... The life is under threat for an over obese person.... It also affects health in worse way leading to absenteeism and.... ... ... The obesity is mainly based on Body Mass Index which is purely a measure based on Weight and Height of a person....

This literature review "The Methods Adopted by the Construction Industry to Remedy Health and Safety Non-Conformities" discusses methods employed by professionals within the construction industry to remedy health and safety nonconformities that are found to be relevant causes of instant change....

This dissertation reviews two important articles of Ms.... The paper "The Betrayal of Srebrenica by Bianca Jagger" highlights that generally, the poem 'Take no pity let's go/kill that scum down in the city.... (1971), could be seen as an early sprout of Karadzic's hatred-ridden mind, well camouflaged under deceit and civility....

oshan reviews literatures in his paper and uses the information he derives from them to determine that there is strong evidence between the capital structure of a firm and its capital structure.... The paper "Financial Leverage - Understanding and Its Effects" is a great example of a finance and accounting literature review.... The paper "Financial Leverage - Understanding and Its Effects" is a great example of a finance and accounting literature review....

In his book, Michael Billig reckons that traditional literature on nationalism generally relates to consistent efforts aimed at striving for, or securing national independence (Skey 2009, p.... From the paper "Michael Billig's Banal Nationalism" it is clear that the link between banal flagging of nationalism in the media and national identities is highly problematic....

The author analyzes the studies which refer to diabetes self-management.... They rank high in the hierarchy of evidence and provide scholarly academic support for the methods which can help support diabetes management.... Evaluation tools were able to assess the methodologies and the results of the study....

In this review I will attempt to demonstrate what the consequences of the digital divide are.... I focused the review on the United States of America and the digital divide between immigrants and native born which is constantly widening in the last decade.... Specifically I will raise intriguing questions about race and the digital divide, ethnic differences in access, the role of community technology centers and the causes of the digital divide and the patterns of the internet use. ...

There is imminent consensus among this cited literature as to the strong association between ionizing radiations and the development of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.... The paper "The Effect of Air Pollution in the Development of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia " discusses that pesticides and hydrocarbons have a causal link with ALL....

The paper "Aspects of Development Theory" is a good example of a literature review on human resources.... Human Development Contents Contents 2 Introduction 3 Significance 3 Review of Previous literature 4 Conceptual Framework 5 Motivation 5 Self-efficacy6 ... eview of Previous literature ...

Despite the US government, lacking a database gathering information related to statistics of police shootings every year, approximately between 500 to 1000 Americans perish in the hands of police officers annually.... The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund display statistics revealing that out of 900000 police officers sworn in, 120 officers were executed when on duty.... Moreover, statistics in 2002 – 2003 indicate a significant increase in the overall number of deaths from 7 in 2001- 2002 to 23 in the period 2002 -2003....

The literature review "Effects of Motivational Factors on Employees Job Satisfaction" states that The term motivation is derived from the Latin verb 'movere' which is translated as to move and maybe generally defined as 'the process whereby goal-directed activity is instigated and sustained'.... The following literature review looks at some theories of motivation and their applications in various sectors: Maslow's theory vs.... Motivation: A literature Review ...

This paper presents a review of the literature describing findings and conclusion on the subject.... literature relevant to the study provides a number of theories from various aspects.... The first section draws a brief review of the history of IC study followed by several theories that illustrate the range of ideas forwarded by the researchers....

Work in the field of strategic management is immense; upon searching literature, works of Michael Porter and Henry Mintzberg seems to be quite prominent in refining the concept of strategy.... The concept is further elaborated by Mintzberg et al (1998) when the authors define ten different schools of thoughts suggesting how the strategy is formulated; the authors suggested that upon studying the literature on strategy formation ten distinct viewpoints came to fore and each one defines strategy in a unique manner (Mintzberg et al 1998)....

The literature review seeks to address how U.... exts in The literature ReviewIdentity FusionIdentity fusion is the process where a person feels aligned with a particular group.... onclusionNotably, the literature review highlights the various challenges international students face in the US....

Therefore, the study will try to dig deep on the topic “Establishing Equilibrium between HRM Power Index and Organizational Performance in Banking Service Industry” with the help of existing literature in order to understand whether HRM power indexes play significant role in improving service organizational performance or not?... Banking sector has been selected as representative of service industry in this literature review.... Hence, future researchers are welcome to conduct research on the research problems depicted in the paper in order to fill the gap in the literature....

The technique helped to enrich the literature by developing the storyline, facilitating literacy styles, and illustrating the major characters' traits (Iglesia).... The paper "Film Analysis of El Crimen Ferpecto" states that the film is interesting, captivating, and educative with both an enjoyable storyline and applied literacy styles....

'Effectiveness of Insurance Fraud Interventions' paper states that the detection measurements as presented in the papers are deductive.... Boosting the Naïve Bayes classifier as proposed by Viaene, to begin with, reduces the chances of misclassification, and subsequently, the bias of the sampled data....

arantino, K, Mc Donough, J & Hua, M 2013, "Effects of Student Engagement with Social Media on Student Learning: A Review of literature," Journal of Technology in Student Affairs.... The review "Social Media Effect on Online Presence" focuses on the critical, thorough, and multifaceted analysis of the effect of social media on the online presence....

literature Review ... The review "Implementation of Web-Based Application for HR Personal Information" focuses on the design and implementation of a web-based application for human resources personal information in any organization.... Web-based applications can be described as websites with user interactivity....

The paper 'Impact of Contactless Payment on Retailers ' is an opportune example of a finance & accounting literature review.... Analysis of literature assesses the impact of contactless payments on security, customer requirements, and resource implication for retailers.... The paper 'Impact of Contactless Payment on Retailers ' is an opportune example of a finance & accounting literature review.... Analysis of literature assesses the impact of contactless payments on security, customer requirements, and resource implication for retailers....

In accordance, literature review will be considered as the main procedure of obtaining relevant information to this study.... A paper "Youths and Drugs: Centre's for Disease Control and Prevention" claims that the frequency of anti-social activities conducted by youth forced sex and robbing activities among others have certainly increased social vulnerability as well as deepening economic crisis in the contemporary world....

This literature review "Moral Panic and Young People Behaviour" discusses an incident that makes excellent content for news media.... literature on Moral Panic and Young People Behaviour ... To answer these questions, the authors have analysed different commentaries and literature on school violence.... Their observation is that these commentaries and literature ignore the ‘masculinity' factor.... This means that these commentaries and literature do not consider the ‘gender' factor....

A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner William Faulkner was a well-known person in literature as he earned the Nobel Prize from Oxford.... Among the genres of his literature, he became very popular with novels and short stories which shared a common setting known as the Yoknapatawpha County which he was inspired by the real Lafayette County where he lived (Doyle 5).... He was unknown for decades until he got the big recognition by 1949 when he received the Nobel Prize in literature....

This paper does a literature review of the various research papers that have been published in this area.... The literature on the study of impacts of high turnover has majorly been focusing on these aspects: Reduction in productivity and motivation and high costs of turnover to the company....

This paper will review the literature on removal of phenol from refinery wastewater. ... The writer of the paper 'Removal of Phenol from Refinery Wastewater' states that the problem of water pollution has continued to be addressed in recent times so as to rescue aquatic organisms....

ndertake a Review of the Current literature to Identify the Key Determinants of Capital Structure since the Global Financial Crisis Table of Contents Table of Contents 2 Introduction 3 literature Review 3 Capital Structure is an Important Facilitator for Financial Decisions 3 Determinants of Capital Structure since the Global Financial Crisis 4 4 Conclusion 9 References 10 Introduction Capital structure is an important element with regard to financial management of an organisation....

According to Scott (1997), literature adopted contains assumptions that accounting numbers yield information applicable in security market investment, to investigate relationship between market and stock prices.... literature has tended to presume these three hypotheses to have been used by managers while behaving opportunistically.... Positive accounting literature discovers a substantial number of empirical regularities pertaining accounting choice as discussed in the paper....

The arguments around which the book is centered is straightforward, the authors show through statistics, anecdotes and theoretical work that the political system of the country which was originally designed to protect and represent the interest of the middle class is no longer responsive to their needs, having been tilted in favor of protecting the superrich.... statistics in the book provide a picture of the income trends of the country; between 1979 and 2005 the bottom middle and lower income 60% of American population received income gain of around 13....

This book review "Middle Passages by Charles Johnsons" presents American novelist 'Charles R.... Johnsons'.... Born in Evanston, Illinois in 1948, Johnson is an African American writer and his work often portrays the different issues of Black's lives in America from different perspectives.... ... ...

Alfred Smith is a literary work of great importance and significance, and there are many different issues within this book that need to be addressed in order to be able to recognize and understand about the different purposes, morals, and innuendos which are made in this piece of literature.... This piece of literature is one that is without a doubt filled with morals and stories of hope, and because it is an autobiography, we as readers get to hear about firsthand stories and opinions of a difficult and traumatic life, and we truly get sent back to a different era while reading this book, an era which was much more racially unjust and politically incorrect, and one where African Americans such as J....

This paper presents a review of literature regarding mediation approach in dispute resolution highlighting the costs and benefits of mediation.... A current literature review of international mediation, International Journal of Conflict Management, Vol.... The paper "Mediation Approach in Dispute Resolution" discusses that generally speaking, mediation involves parties agreeing to settle a dispute through informed consent....

The paper 'Economic Ideologies in Relation to Crime' tells that economic ideologies do not only influence economic systems and institutions, they spill over to impact on social and political systems, processes, structures and institutions.... Neo-liberalism can be attributed to failing crime.... ...

Lupton (2003) mentions at least three different characters from eighteenth-century literature, which support these ‘rational-irrational' beliefs.... ickens, C 1854, Hard Times, Online literature, [online], accessed 05 March 2011, ... nline-literature.... Nevertheless, it is due to Dickens's repulsion toward dry statistics, rationality, and facts that Hard Times turned out to be an excellent source of truth about the disruptive effects of industrialization on workers....

The paper titled 'The Role of Personal Self-Efficacy' is a literature review of self-efficacy.... This literature review analyzes the function of personal self-efficacy and discusses the importance of self-efficacy in learning particularly in high education.... This informs the aim of this report which is a literature re view of self efficacy.... The literature review will analyse the function of personal self efficacy and discuss the importance of self efficacy in learning particularly in high education. ...

statistics: ... or two samples the Z statistics value is determined using the formula: ... herefore the Z statistics value = 3.... 9 and the Z statistics value = 3.... 8, given that the Z statistics value is greater than the Z critical value we reject the null hypothesis, the rejected null hypothesis states that H0: M = F and therefore by rejecting this hypothesis we accept the alternative hypothesis that M > F. ...

During such periods, another a genre of literature recognized as the Scar literature that portrayed the suffering of the cadres and intellectuals during post-War II, particularly with the encounters procured during Cultural Revolution.... The films from the Fifth Generation portrayed scar-literature-based adaptations (Yuan, 2012).... The integration of cinema and literature contributed to the rise of the Chinese cinema.... In the early years, Yimou adapted some of his films based on scar literature....

In June 2002 the US Federal Bureau of Justice statistics released a recidivism study in which 272,111 prisoners were released in 1994.... Department of Justice) The US Federal Bureau of Justices statistics traced these prisoners for three years in 15 states following their initial release in 1994 using several elements for measuring recidivism.... The US Federal Bureau of Justice statistics also found that released prisoners with the lowest re-arrest rate included prisoners who were previously convicted of violent offences....

avid Kennedy, a historian authors a very valuable literature adding to the literature relating to the role of America in the Second World War.... The researcher of the paper 'The American People in World War II by David Kennedy' states that war has been reported as the sixth biggest problem that faces humanity....

After evaluating the literature review, it becomes easier to understand the importance of communication within an organization.... This review "Importance in Communication in Business" is to analyze the importance of communication in a business that may increase the productivity and profit margin....

The paper "Testing the Effect of Strategies of Dealing with Returned Products on Company Performance " is an outstanding example of a business literature review.... The paper "Testing the Effect of Strategies of Dealing with Returned Products on Company Performance " is an outstanding example of a business literature review.... literature Review ... esting the Effect of Strategies of Dealing with Returned Products on Company Performance – literature Review ...