clustering for Categorizing Open-ended Survey Responses Nishantha Medagoda‚ Ruvan Weerasinghe University of Colombo School of Computing Sri Lanka nmedagoda@yahoo.com arw@ucsc.lk ABSTRACT Open ended questions are an essential and important part of survey questionnaires. They provide an opportunity for researchers to discover unanticipated information regarding the domain of study. However‚ they are problematic for processing since they are unstructured questions to which possible answers are not suggested
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How Does Karma Affect You? Final Revision Jamie Hansen English 090 / Winter 2013 Professor Laura Weber March 13th‚ 2013 What side of karma are you on? For those who believe‚ there are two sides to karma: good and bad. I believe karma will work with you or against you‚ it just depends on if you choose to be a good or bad person. When I see someone who is being mean‚ rude or disrespectful as well as when I see someone being kind‚ helpful or respectful‚ I can’t help but wonder how and when
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How Income and Geographic’s Affect Food Choices By Eric Culver COM 150 Caroline Scott-Thomas (2009) has reported that it has been proposed that food stamps should only be allowed to be used for purchasing healthy foods in order to combat obesity amongst the poor‚ who are disproportionately overweight compared with American society as a whole. Some have argued that the demand for healthy foods would increase and prices would rise due to higher demands and low supply. According to Shannon N. Zenk
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black wasn’t good enough You’re Black‚ do you live in the hood? You’re Black‚ Why do you sound “white”? You’re Black‚ Can you twerk? You’re Black‚ Are you a trouble maker? You’re Black‚ Were you a high school dropout? You’re Black‚ Has your dad returned from the store yet? These are only a few of the many questions us African Americans are asked just because of the color of our skin. The amount of ignorance that is given off by these questions truly does upset me. The feeling of knowing
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Middle Income Trap Questions 1. The Middle Income Trap is an economic development situation in which a country that has attained a certain income (due to given advantages such as cheap labour and natural resources) gets stuck at that level without graduating toward high-income status. 2. An economic explanation for countries being caught in this ‘trap’ is that these countries are trapped between benefits existing when you’re at the lowest level of development and at the highest. When an economy
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How would you account for the rise of the human resource function within large firms? Word Count: 1928 MSc in Management Year One How would you account for the rise of the human resource function within large firms The term “human resources” is used to refer to the department of a business or organization that deals with the hiring‚ administration and training of staff (Oxford Dictionary‚ 2012). The field of HR management is a bit more complicated to define‚ as it seems to have a variety
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Although terrorists use inherent‚ personal reasons to influence others‚ they also take advantage of external factors. Terrorists blame their victims due to cultural pressures through the use of the wording effect and other environmental factors. Bandura defines several social factors that describe how even decent people can be forced to enact savagely. Terrorists use euphemistic language to make their heinous actions seem respectable (129). When giving his speech‚ al-Baghdadi asserts that “Allah
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genetics. For hundreds of generations genes were passed down. You get these genes from your parents then from their parents and so forth. Your identity is given to you because of cultural diffusion and the mix of race‚ ethnicity and genetics from your ancestors. So‚ before your life there was cultural diffusion for hundreds of years due to this every ethnicity/race mixed. Critics may say‚ your identity is created by you because you live your own life. A woman named Rachel Dolezal was a person who
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Embedded Assessment 2.1 How would you feel if you lived in a dystopian society instead of living in modern day society? Today in the world there are places where people have freedom and books that have societies that are like today but very different. There can be societies in the world that can be like the books. Why are they different? Dystopian societies have more have more laws to control their society. Look and read the differences and similarities of a dystopian and modern day society
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1. How would you boil down Kent’s analytic doctrine in understandable terms for policymakers? Kent explains in the document “Tensions in Analyst-Policymaker Relation” that there needs to be a relationship between the analyst and the policymaker. The policy-maker will criticize the analyst work to ensure that the evidence has been evaluated‚ the recommendations are not vague or biased and that alternative explanation and projections have been considered. He sums up the job of the analyst by stating
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