Key issues ➤ What is sociological research? ➤ What different research methods are available to sociologists? ➤ What are the philosophies that underlie the collection and analysis of data? ➤ Why and in what ways have feminists criticized conventional sociological research? Why do sociologists do research? In every society there are many ways that we know what we know – many of which we take for granted. Scott (2002) identifies six basic categories of knowledge: ● Common-sense knowledge – Refers
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explain a Use-Case diagram for a Library Management System. Introduction: Capturing the dynamic behaviour of a system is one the key aspects to create a model. Dynamic behaviour means the behaviour of the system under operation. Use case diagrams are used in Unified Modeling Language‚ a standard modelling language for the modeling of real-world objects and systems. A use case diagram is to explicitly define the working of a system with in a system boundary. Each system is primarily divided into two
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1. Methodology 1.1 Impact of Buy and Sell Recommendations We examined the effect of Barrons’ buy‚ sell and hold recommendations on stock prices‚ using the Brown and Warner (1985) standard event-study method to compute the daily abnormal returns. We used a two-step procedure to compute the average daily abnormal returns with stock price data from CRSP. First‚ we estimated the alpha and beta coefficients of each firm by using a single-factor market model. We used the days from –301 to –46 as the
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This chapter gives an overview of the research approach adopted for this study. It identifies research methodology and the practical approach taken to achieve the aims and objectives listed in chapter one. A Case study was chosen as the research strategy due to its ability to perform an in-depth investigation of the phenomenon of implementing a mobile IS within its real-life context of RPS group Newcastle‚ by drawing data from a variety of sources from many perspectives with different potential
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Introduction to Agile Methodology What is Agile? Agile methodology is an approach to the project management which help to respond to the unpredictability of building software through incremental‚ iterative work cadences‚ known as sprints. This methodology was developed to deal with situation where the waterfall model fails. The biggest drawback of waterfall model is that it assumes that every requirement of the project can be identified before any design or coding occurs. This may always be applicable
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LITERATURE REVIEW ON RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Introduction Research Methodology vs Research Methods Methodology and methods are two terms which have been used interchangeably often by scholars. The practice is unfortunate because they are not the same. The former refers to philosophy and the latter refers to technical procedures applied to conduct research. The word methodology comprises two nouns: method and ology‚ which means a branch of knowledge; hence‚ methodology is a branch of knowledge that
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925 28th Batch‚ MBA (evening) Faculty of Business Administration (FBA) University of Science & Technology Chittagong (USTC) Submitted to: Professor Dr. Gouranga Chandra Chanda Class Teacher‚ M615: Research Methodology Faculty of Business Administration (FBA) University of Science & Technology Chittagong (USTC) Date of Submission: February 22‚ 2013 Table of Contents: | Title
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SDLC Methodology Your Name University of Phoenix SDLC Methodology The Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is a business practice used by many companies/corporations and serves as a guideline for developing systems & software. To understand how the SDLC can be either beneficial or detrimental to any system designer‚ we must first understand what the SDLC is and how it applies. The Higher Level SDLC is a universal four step process consisting of the following: Analysis is generally
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eLibarary Management System is used to overcome the entire problem which they are facing currently‚ and making complete atomization of manual or semi automatic process of library management system. • Improve the search facility and members and library staff should get all the information in a second. • Should capable to use bar code reader for easy way to do book issue and receive process. • Library member should have limited and read-only access to the system via internet. • Library member should
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newly refurnished Baillieu library is open daily from 8.30am – 10pm on Mondays to Thursdays‚ 8.30am – 6pm on Fridays and 11am – 5pm on the weekends for public access. The extensive collections are used to support the study and teachings of arts‚ humanities and socials sciences for undergraduates‚ postgraduates‚ academics and researchers. Provided with access to lifts‚ library users are free to explore on 5 floor levels. Like any other developed library‚ for libraries such as the Baillieu in regards
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