Narrative literature reviews Introduction n A literature review is a comprehensive study and interpretation of the work that has been published on a particular topic n A literature review should convey the knowledge and ideas that have been established on a topic and their strengths and limitations Why undertake a literature review? n To provide a review of the current knowledge in a particular field n Provide a description of research studies n Identify gaps in current knowledge n Identify emerging
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Obesity Literature review I. Introduction Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have an adverse affect on health‚ leading to reduced life expectancy. Child obesity has been increasing dramatically and it has become one of the most common chronic conditions for youngsters and it’s accompanied by several psychological effects. As for the children it might lead to being isolated and having peer problems and sense of discrimination from
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. Literature review: A literature review discusses published information in a particular subject area‚ and sometimes information in a particular subject area within a certain time period. A literature review can be just a simple summary of the sources‚ but it usually has an organizational pattern and combines both summary and synthesis. A summary is a recap of the important information of the source‚ but a synthesis is a re-organization‚ or a reshuffling‚ of that information. It might give a new
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A review of the literature is an essential part of an academic research project. A review is a careful examination of a body of literature pointing to a good research and writing which is guided by a relevant literature. In view of this‚ this paper discusses the importance of conducting a literature review. Literature review is a written and systematic summary of the research which is conducted on a particular topic. It summarizes the background and context of the research. Literature review analyzes
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Marketing Literature Review This section is based on a selection of article abstracts from a comprehensive business literature database. Marketing-related abstracts from over 125 journals (both academic and trade) are reviewed by JM staff. Descriptors for each entry are assigned by JM staff. Each issue of this section represents three months of entries into the database. JM thanks UMI for use of the ABI/INFORM business database. Each entry has an identifying number. Cross-references appear immediately
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Large investors and liquidity: a review of the literature Matthew Pritsker 1 Abstract A growing share of financial assets are held by large institutional investors whose desired trades are large enough to move prices in markets. Because large investors’ trades have “price impact”‚ asset markets are not perfectly liquid from their perspective. This illiquidity is likely to influence their decisions of which assets to hold and which assets to trade‚ and may influence how assets are priced. These
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MICROINSURANCE PAPER No. 1 LITERATURE REVIEW ON MICROINSURANCE Stefan Dercon*^ and Martina Kirchberger* in collaboration with Jan Willem Gunning^ and Jean-Philippe Platteau^ *Oxford University ^European Development Research Network (EUDN) i LITERATURE REVIEW ON MICROINSURANCE MICROINSURANCE PAPER No. 1 Copyright © International Labour Organization 2008 First published 2008 Publications of the International Labour Office enjoy copyright under Protocol 2 of the Universal Copyright Convention
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Critical literature review techniques http://www.staffs.ac.uk/schools/business/ramsay/Reasoning/critreview.doc. In order to qualify as a ‘critical’ review you must go beyond the simple description of the sources you read. If you are writing a review with reference to specific research questions or objectives then you might consider: * the breadth of different pieces of work - how wide a range of the possible subject matter defined by your question(s) or objective(s) do different
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Student’s Name Professor’s Name Subject 23 April 2012 Sports Literature Review: Austerely k in his work “Sport and Community Organization in the 21st century” states that‚ The facts concerning the benefits of sports contribution to the sports world is not quite strong because of its non sectarian nature. Studies on sports participation are characteristically based on self-report data from individuals and stakeholders implicated in sport programs. They are likely to have a faith in the value of sports
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Review of Related Literature The review of related literatures of this study is made here in the Philippines and in abroad. It is acquired from the internet and unpublished theses. It is nearly related on the relationship of computer game addiction to interpersonal relationship to adolescents especially‚ K-12 students. To enrich the background on the subject of the researcher‚ the literatures that were found are here in presented. A. Foreign Studies Based from the study of Mark Griffiths (2007)
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