Module One: Text Questions Review Questions 1. What are the differences between being a biological parent‚ an adoptive parent‚ and a foster parent? A foster parent provides a temporary home for a child who is either awaiting adoption‚ or whose parents’ rights have been temporarily revoked. Adoption is a permanent situation - the child becomes a permanent part of the family. 2. What financial needs are parents obligated to provide and which are optional? Up to the age of 18 unless they move out before
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Nucsoft with the much needed competitive advantage to accomplish this goal. Post-recession business is facing immense challenge. The growth in the domestic business is staid at 15% as compared to exports growth of 37% CAGR. Also‚ Retaining talent is one of the brewing challenges of the IT industry today; it will be an even bigger challenge for small players as bigger players offer fatter pay packs to attract the best of the talent. However if small players try to match up theses pay packs their profitability
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the OSI model and how it relates to a network. Your response should include answers to the following: • On which layers of the OSI model do WAN protocols operate? • What are some of these protocols? • On which OSI layers do switches and routers operate? • If routers reside at more than one layer‚ what is the difference between the OSI layers? Introduction: The OSI model was introduced in 1984. Although it was designed to be an abstract model‚ the OSI model remains
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Communication models One of the key tasks of social marketers is to develop effective messages which provide individuals and organisations with the information required to achieve behavioural change. Communication represents the ‘transmission of information‚ ideas‚ attitudes‚ or emotion from one person or group to another’. There are many models and frameworks available to help with communications planning. The communication process involves: the sender‚ the message itself‚ encoding the message
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Everything You Wanted to Know About Logic Models But Were Afraid to Ask This paper addresses situations where a private foundation designs an initiative and awards grants to a number of sites to participate in the initiative in their local setting. The basic ideas are applicable to other situations. What is a Logic Model? The term "logic model" comes from the evaluation field‚ but these models don’t just belong to evaluators or the evaluation plan. As the term suggests‚ they are a basic
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The Minsky Model of a General Financial Crisis A Synopsis of ‘Chapter 2 -- The Anatomy of a Typical Crisis’ in Manias‚ Panics and Crashes - A History of Financial Crises by Charles P. Kindleberger and Robert Z. Aliber‚ Sixth Edition‚ Palgrave Macmillan‚ Copyright 2011 Since the end of the Great Depression “…financial failure has been more extensive and pervasive” in the 30-year period 1980 to 2010 than at any other time leading up to the present day (p. 7). Four financial crises occurred
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KUHNIAN MODEL According to many science is a steady progression of accrual of new ideas but to Kuhn science was as a result of occasional revolutionary explosions of new knowledge whereby each revolution was triggered by introduction of new ways of thought that were so large that he called them paradigms. These paradigms according to Kuhn were supposed to generally recognize scientific achievements‚ present model problems and solutions for group of researchers. A paradigm is supposed to describe;
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South African Journal of Education Copyright © 2005 EASA Vol 25(1) 11–18 Use of the Collegial Leadership Model of Emancipation to transform traditional management practices in secondary schools P. Singh De partm ent of P ostgra duate S tudies & Edu cational R esearch ‚ Nelso n M ande la Me tropolitan U niversity‚ P O Bo x 77 000 ‚ Port Elizabeth‚ 6031 South Africa prakash.singh@nm mu.ac.za The Collegial Leadership Mo del of Emanc ipation (COLME) is used to address the concerns of transforming
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Strategic Management 1. Consider Mintzberg’s model of intended and realised strategy‚ and discuss the extent to which corporate strategy can be planned‚ and the extent to which it emerges. (20 marks) The emergent model (modernist): In the emergent model‚ strategy is seen as emerging in the process of action. Strategy cannot (or only to some extent) be planned and is the outcome of the organization’s struggle to survive (cp. Darwinist ideas in Population Ecology) and the adaptation
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BETTER To make the process of brainstorming top-line experiential marketing ideas easier and more systematic‚ a brainstorming model called BETTER has been developed; see Table 3.1. 3 Table 3.1 The BETTER model Brand personality Three brand values that sum up the brand’s human-like characteristics Emotional connection Multi-sensory and/or authentic‚ positively connected and personally meaningful Target audience What they like‚ their lifestyle‚ their aspirations‚ the time they have available
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