What is research? Research is the continuous discovery and exploration of the unknown. It entails an Investigation of new facts leading to the discovery of new ideas‚ new methods or improvements. Research is always an attempt to widen one’s outlook on life. It always proceeds to the known to the unknown. Its end product is the discovery of the truth. It depends of course to his/her field. Research is a systematic study or investigation of something for the purpose of answering questions posed by
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Mal J Nutr 10(1): 13-22‚ 2004 Childhood Obesity: Contributing Factors‚ Consequences and Intervention Sherina Mohd Sidik1 & Rozali Ahmad2 1 2 Department of Community Health‚ Faculty of Medicine and Health Science‚ Universiti Putra Malaysia‚ 43400 UPM Serdang‚ Selangor‚ Malaysia Ministry of Defence‚ Malaysia ABSTRACT Childhood obesity has been growing at an alarming rate and is the most common nutritional problem among children in developed as well as in developing countries. It is associated
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AN ASSIGNMENT ON EXPLORATORY&DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH DESIGNS Submitted On: 21.01.2010 Submitted To: Dr. R. Nalini Reader Dept. Of Social Work Pondicherry University Submitted By: Shameer K 1st Year Dept. Of Social Work Pondicherry University INTRODUCTION RD is d logical & systematic planning & directing d research. It spells what occur in d successive stages of d research. Any research work have common purpose of finding answers to meaningful qns‚besides have its own specific
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The Fama critique compared to new research 1. Introduction Over the last couple of decades there has been a debate going whether or not there are behavioral aspects in finance. This means that financial markets are subject to different investors’ sentiments and that markets are not efficient‚ i.e. the efficient market hypothesis (EMH) does not hold. The supporters of EMH argue that all available information is included in the stock prices‚ which means that any long-term abnormal returns earned
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Obesity Obesity is seen everywhere around us. Obesity is more than just eating two Big Macs rather than one. Obesity is a lifestyle disease which is spreading rapidly worldwide. Individuals of all age‚ gender and ethnicity are affected by this disease. Still‚ a general trend has been observed that women are affected more than the men. The tendency to gain weight also increases with the growing age. However‚ an alarming trend of childhood obesity is being noticed in the recent years . In definition
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What is Obesity? Description Obesity is a condition due to too much body fat‚ not too much muscle. It has been described as when a person has a body weight that greater than what is healthy for their height‚ but does not take into account the added weight of the persons muscle mass (Obesity Patient Education‚ 2013). This increased body fat percentage put one at risk for at least 30 different medical conditions. Often‚ too much
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Hypothesis Testing and Nursing Hypothesis testing is a method of making decisions using data from scientific study. In statistics‚ a result is called statistically significant if it has been predicted as unlikely to have occurred by chance alone‚ according to pre-determined threshold probability‚ the significance level. Statistical hypothesis tests define a procedure that controls (fixes) the probability of incorrectly deciding that a default position (null hypothesis) is incorrect based on how
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QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS S.# D E S C R I P T I O N 1 ADVANCE RESEARCH METHOD 2 MGT620 3 SYED FARHAN HAIDER ZAIDI 4 BM-26025 5 FALL I‚ 2013 6 NOVEMBER 30‚ 2013 7 DR. MUHAMMAD YOUNUS QADRI CONTENTS: S.# DESCRIPTION PAGE # 1 Abstract 3 2 Research 4 3 Qualitative and quantitative research 5 4 Definition of quantitative research 5 5 Introduction of quantitative & qualitative research 5 6 Foundation of quantitative research methods
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INDUSTRIAL AND ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY 2 RESEARCH PROPOSAL 2012 Lelethu Sinovuyo Hlati G10h0267 5/28/2012 INDUSTRIAL AND ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY 2 RESEARCH PROPOSAL 2012 Lelethu Sinovuyo Hlati G10h0267 5/28/2012 Contents Introduction 2 Literature Review 4 Research Design 5 (a) Population 5 (b) Conceptualization 6 (c) Method of data collection 7 Data collection 7 Interview 7 Questionnaires 8 Sampling Methods 8 (c) Methods of data presentation and analysis
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also known as quantitative research method that can be collected using questionnaires. This approach suits the main proposed research methods‚ which is the statistical analysis of data gathered by way of a questionnaire. Saunders‚ et al. (2007) also mentioned that by analysing the data gathered through questionnaire‚ we would be able to detect the possible relationship between the variables and build a model of the relationships. As the objective of this research is to test numerous hypotheses
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