[pic] UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS DMS 411: BUSINESS RESEARCH METHODS - COURSE OUTLINE COURSE OBJECTIVES This course (Business research methods) is a fourth year core course‚ thus it is taught to all students in the school of business‚ irrespective of their specialization areas. Taking cognizance of the unique content and contextual differences between the various disciplines (specialization areas)‚ a more general approach is used. This course is designed and intended to give
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The Impact of the Renaissance on Research and Scientific Thought Quite simply put‚ the Renaissance stimulated people to change the way they looked at the world around them. The way they questioned‚ observed‚ and gathered data all started emerging and a unique scientific way of thinking developed. They were allowed to think innovatively‚ question‚ observe scientifically‚ and develop new ideas. It was an explosive period of inventing‚ experimenting‚ and limitless imagination. Many feel the reason
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When linguists claim that their discipline is the scientific study of language‚ they have in mind certain principles which distinguish between a scientific and a non-scientific study of language. First‚ linguistics is objective‚ that is‚ it considers all languages to be equal. For a linguist‚ there are no ’primitive’‚ ’pure’‚ ’beautiful’‚ ’cultural’‚ or ’sophisticated’ languages. Objectivity is difficult to attain because language is so familiar to us that we can hardly dissociate ourselves from
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Women were very involved in the Scientific Revolution just as they were in the Humanistic and Renaissance Movements. A few talented women scientists had many theories about the world. Women in the Scientific Revolution had very little education in science they had to study on their own most of their families criticized them instead of encouraging them. They charted their own findings just like their male counterparts. Maria Merian was the most gifted naturalists of the 18 century‚ she was more
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BUSINESS RESEARCH METHODS CHAPTER 2 (Page 57) 1. Distinguish among the following sets of items‚ and suggest the significance of each in a research context: a. Concept and construct – A concept is a generally accepted collection of meanings or characteristics that are concrete whereas a construct is image or idea invented for a particular theory or research problem; a construct is an abstract concept. To successfully perform a research‚ we must form common ground; hence
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Evolution is one of the most misunderstood scientific theories by the average person. As a result‚ this topic is very controversial and has thousands of misconceptions‚ such as‚ that the theory of evolution is not compatible with religion and that evolution is just a theory. First‚ one must know the difference between a scientific theory and a scientific law. A theory outside of science is usually defined as a hunch or a guess. However‚ a scientific theory is a well-tested explanation that joins
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The Importance of stupidity in Scientific Research This essay talk about how two students from graduate school reunited with each other after many years for the first time. They were both Ph. D students at the same time and they were also studying science. One of the friends later dropped out of graduate school. The reason why she dropped out of the school was because she felted stupid in the program. After feeling stupid for a couple of year she decided that it was time for a change. After
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knowledge that conflict with his or her idea. His or her mind is free from any prejudice and is not biased. Here‚ an individual might accepts ideas from other person and consider these ideas as potentials than can help in doing any work or in solving scientific problems. Critical mindedness is an attitude of an individual that is willing to evaluate any evidence that is presented in order to support a certain conclusion; with this he or she observes the accuracy of any information. Here‚ an individual
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JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY. INOORERO UNIVERSITY RESEARCH METHODOLOGY : ROTICH BENARD KIPKEMOI BOC-008-0312/2007 DATA COLLECTION METHODS Methods of data collection. The term data means groups of information that represent the qualitative or quantitative attributes of a variable or set of variables. Data are typically the results of measurements and can be the basis of graphs‚ images‚ or observations of a set of variables. Data are often viewed as the lowest
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A complete revolution of knowledge and transformation in perception of the natural world‚ the Scientific Revolution was one of the greatest movements in history. Inspired by the ideas of the Renaissance‚ a beautiful rebirth of intellect that had arisen from the stagnation of the Middle Ages‚ brilliant scientists such as Johannes Kepler‚ Galileo Galilei‚ and Isaac Newton sought to escape‚ disprove‚ and replace traditional beliefs with new ideas about the universe and the mechanical laws that govern
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