Double Standard Women of our time are beginning to break into this male dominated news industry. A recent survey from Ball State University showed that 99% of all broadcast newsrooms have female employees and that now women make up more than 40% of the total broadcast workforce (Papper‚ 2005). That same survey unfortunately showed that only 10% of local sports reporters are women and that 7% of local sports anchors are women (Sheffer‚ 2007). These numbers show that women are breaking into the
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Behavioral finance: Emerging trends --Nihar Raut raut.nihar@gmail.com What is behavioral finance? What we know today as behavioral finance was initiated some three decades ago by a small number of people who asked questions seldom asked before and offered answers not offered before. Today‚ many people are engaged in behavioral finance‚ and there is wide disagreement about its boundaries and frontiers. Many see behavioral finance mainly as a refutation of the efficient market hypothesis and
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Brand from Emerging Market Emerging markets are broadly defined as nations in the process of rapid growth and industrialization. An emerging market is a country that has some characteristics of a developed market‚ but does not meet standards to be a developed market. Therefore we can say that‚ Emerging markets are those countries that have growing economies and a growing middle class. Some of these countries were once poor‚ and some still have high rates of poverty. The four largest emerging and developing
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Renewable energy resources can possibly provide effective sustainable energy solutions. However‚ the application of solar energy for power generation purposes is not currently competitive with conventional fossil fuel systems. A recent academic study compared the solar aided power generation (SAPG) solution with that of a similar-sized stand-alone concentrating solar power (CSP) plant in the South African context. The objective was to determine the real advantages of these technologies‚ if any
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The Effects of Foster Care Placement on Young Children’s Mental Health Beth Troutman‚ Ph.D.‚ Susan Ryan‚ M.A.‚ and Michelle Cardi‚ M.A. University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Introduction Young children are more likely than older children to be placed in foster care and to spend a larger proportion of their life in the foster care system (Goerge & Wulczyn‚ 1998). In a recent review of foster care in several states‚ the incidence of placement in foster care for children under age 5 was double
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Life Cycles of Emerging Markets Because investing in emerging markets has become a very popular subject‚ a closer analysis of how markets really “emerge” may be in order. In many ways‚ stock market cycles closely resemble the human life cycle. First‚ stocks are in an embryonic stage. Then‚ when they reach adolescene‚ they grow very rapidly (bullish phase). During this stage‚ they are accident-prone (crashes).Later‚ markets mature‚ lose some of their energy and volatility‚ then
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Becoming a Fair-Minded Thinker Weak versus Strong Critical Thinking Critical thinking involves basic intellectual skills‚ but these skills can be used to serve two incompatible ends: self-centeredness or fair-mindedness. As we are learning the basic intellectual skills that critical thinking entails‚ we can begin to use those skills in a selfish or in a fair-minded way. For example‚ when students are taught how to recognize mistakes in reasoning (commonly called fallacies)‚ most students see
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chemicals and waste disposal • Security measures and visitors 1.3 Can you advice the responsibilities of‚ you‚ your manager and the individuals you support? In health and safety your responsibilities are: • Take reasonable care of your health and safety • Take reasonable care not to put other people‚ including other employees and members of the public at risk by what you do or don’t do at work • Co-operate with your employer making sure you get proper training and you understand and follow your
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n e t E c o n o m i c s Internet-based electronic marketplaces leverage information technology to match buyers and sellers with increased effectiveness and lower transaction costs‚ leading to more efficient‚ “friction-free” markets. The Emerging Role of Electronic Marketplaces on the Internet Markets play a central role in the economy‚ facilitating the Yannis Bakos exchange of information‚ goods‚ services‚ and payments. In the process‚ they create economic value for buyers‚ sellers
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with space to process and explore issues on standardized tests because it would make them prohibitively expensive to administer and score. [How does this part support the main point in your paper against standardized test? Please relate this back to the thesis statement so to maintain coherence in your paper‚ Kevin.] Many critics are also concerned about bias in test taking. Certain cultural and language biases may be impossible to eradicate entirely from standardized tests‚ critics believe‚ meaning
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