CHAPTER 2 Methodology The Research Design The descriptive method of research was used for this study. To define the descriptive type of research‚ Creswell (1994) stated that the descriptive method of research is to gather information about the present existing condition. The emphasis is on describing rather than on judging or interpreting. The aim of descriptive research is to verify formulated hypotheses that refer to the present situation in order to elucidate it. The descriptive
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Summary: “Business model innovation: it’s not just about technology anymore” by Henry Chesbrough According to Henry Chesbrough’s article‚ technologies can no longer be relied upon to earn a satisfactory profit‚ but instead innovation must include business models. A business model needs to function as both value creation and value capture. Value creation is the defining of activities that will yield a new product that in turn will create a net value. Value capture‚ in comparison‚ is turning those
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advancesindifferenceequations.com/content/2013/1/57 RESEARCH Open Access Global dynamics in a class of discrete-time epidemic models with disease courses Lei Wang‚ Qianqian Cui and Zhidong Teng* * Correspondence: zhidong@xju.edu.cn College of Mathematics and System Sciences‚ Xinjiang University‚ Urumqi‚ Xinjiang 830046‚ P.R. China Abstract In this paper‚ a class of discrete SIRS epidemic models with disease courses is studied. The basic reproduction number R0 is computed. The main results on the permanence
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water from human and animal waste and if not treated it can end up in bigger bodies of water. 3. What are some sources? E. coli can come from getting rid of waste through dumping‚ broken septic tanks‚ household pet waste‚ livestock‚ and storm water runoff. 4. Why do we test for it? We test for E. coli because it can make people extremely sick if digested. It can cause diarrhea and urinary tract infections among other things. 5. What other chemical parameters are high E. coli levels often associated
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Explain how each of the following landforms are formed including diagrams and annotated photographs. When a river runs over alternating layers of hard and soft rock‚ rapids and waterfalls may form Waterfalls A waterfall is a place where water flows over a vertical drop in the course of a stream or river. Landforms in upland regions are dominantly created by erosion processes‚ where land is worn away. Generally‚ the volume and discharge of rivers in upland regions tends
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Introduction Throughout the completion of my geography controlled coursework I am going to investigate the Collin River and how its river features change as we go downstream. Aims Through the completion of this piece of coursework I aim to measure the cross-sectional area of the Collin River at five points along the river’s course. I aim to measure the amount of discharge along the river’s course. I aim to notice how the bed load changes by size and shape as we go downstream. Theoretical Context
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Database Models s L11: ER Diagrams Kieran Herley Summary The database design process and the role of ER modelling in same. Basic constituents of ER diagrams: entities‚ relationships and attributes. While designing database it’s handy to have notation to “sketch” schema s Two common diagrammatic notations: x x s UML diagrams (Universal Modelling Language) ER diagrams (Entity Relationship) → cs1106 choice Captures the information requirements of our database: what data it con and how
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why the EPA opposes fracking is one of the major issues‚ contamination of the water. Complaints recently risen about fracking wells‚ which inject water‚ sand‚ and chemicals deep into the ground to extract natural gas‚ inevitably create a significant runoff into groundwater systems. 40‚000 gallons of 600 different kinds of chemicals are used in each fracking well‚ including formaldehyde‚ mercury‚ uranium‚ and hydrochloric acid. To run all the fracking wells in the United States‚ it takes 360 billion
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CAPITAL ASSET PRICING MODEL The Capital Asset Pricing Model deals with independent investor problems that needs to undergo the procedure of selection of securities involving risks. The investors need to select the most advantageous security that produces the best possible outcome. This model deals with the estimation of securities as well as it links the risk and return (the expected shares). There is a direct relationship and risk and return provides higher expected return from that security
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Chapter Chapter 12 Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (ARCH) and Generalized ARCH (GARCH) Models Section Section 12.1 Introduction ARCH and GARCH Models • ARCH and GARCH models are designed to model heteroscedasticity (unequal variance) of the error term with the use of timeseries data • Objective is to model and forecast volatility Example: Understand the risk of holding an asset; useful in financial situations • ARCH -- Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity
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