Making Research Decisions Rating Scales As a researcher‚ one must choose which rating scale is going to be the most effective method. Once choosing the scale‚ he/she then must decide the amount of choices the subject has. We are going to explore four different scales: 1. Yes/Depends/no‚ 2. Excellent/Good/Fair/Poor‚ 3. Excellent/Good/Average/Poor‚ and 4. Strongly Approve/Approve/Uncertain/Disapprove Strongly Disapprove. I believe that the yes –maybe-no scale is somewhat week unless used
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from either from a tour in a combat zone or from completing their service to our nation. Veterans today are facing numerous problems such as: Readjustment‚ PTSD‚ Unemployment and homelessness. These are just a few of the many issues that they are facing when returning home. As a veteran I can say one of the biggest issues we have faced was that of readjustment to a civilian lifestyle from a military lifestyle. Service members are used to order and the feeling that they are part of something great
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Content validity Demographic variables and modified Conner’s rating scale for parents and teachers were translated to local language (Tamil). The English tools were sent for content validity to the various experts in the field of Paediatrician‚ Psychiatrist‚ psychologist‚ Paediatric nursing‚ Mental health nursing‚ Obstetrics and Gynaecology nursing‚ Medical surgical nursing‚ and Statistician. The minor corrections and suggestions were incorporated as provided by the experts after validating the
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| Vietnam Veterans and Readjustment | Was it our fault? | | | [Pick the date] | Although programs could have been better in supporting returning veterans‚ ultimately the same issues would have arisen. | In popular culture‚ Vietnam veterans are often portrayed as isolated and neglected in a society that took out its hatred for the war on the veterans returning home. In actuality‚ the stressors of war caused the problems many Vietnam veterans faced more than the societal reception
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Objective Objectives of the study are as follows: 1. To translate Social Connectedness Scale into Urdu language. 2. To assess factor structure and psychometric properties of scale. 3. To establish cross language validation of Urdu translation of Social Connectedness Scale. 4. To find out convergent and discriminant validity evidence. Phase I Translation of Social Connectedness Scale For translating Social Connectedness Scale into Urdu three guidelines recommended by Brislin (1980) was followed.
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MARC and RAM (Credit rating agencies) To know what is RAM and MARC is doing in the financial sector in Malaysia‚ we need to know what is the credit rating first. So‚ credit ratings are forward-looking opinions about credit risk. A credit rating is an opinion of the general creditworthiness of countries‚ companies and individuals. Lower credit ratings result in higher borrowing costs because the borrower is deemed to carry a higher risk of default. So‚ what does the rating agency do? They will
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A PROJECT REPORT ON “CREDIT RATING AGENCY” Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of degree of Masters of Management Studies (MMS) under University of Mumbai. Submitted By SOHEL I. DATRE Reg. No. 06 BATCH: 2008-2010 Under the guidance of Dr. N. Mahesh A.C.PATIL COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING‚ MANAGEMENT STUDIES AND RESEARCH KHARGHAR‚ NAVI MUMBAI: 410 210 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I wish to take this opportunity to express my deep sense of gratitude to Dr
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• 1. CAMELS RATINGS • 2. INTRODUCTIONIn 1995‚ RBI had set up a working group under the chairmanship of Shri S. Padmanabhan to review the banking supervision system. The Committee certain recommendations and based on such suggetions a rating system for domestic and foreign banks based on the international CAMELS model combining financial management and systems and control elements was introduced for the inspection cycle commencing from July 1998. CAMELS evaluates banks on the following six parameters
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Octane Rating Octane rating is a fuel’s ability to resist detonation and is classified by three main rating types. Octane rating is the measure of how resistant is gasoline and other fuels in the combustion engines to automatic ignition. It is the measure of a fuel’s burning characteristics. It is a standard measure of the performance of a motor or aviation fuel‚ the higher the octane number‚ the more compression the fuel can withstand before detonating. In broad terms‚ fuels with a higher octane
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Baptist and Methodist hospitals compared to each other The outcome and process measures of Baptist and Methodist hospitals are no different‚ however the HCAHPS measures for Methodist are better than Baptist‚ especially the ‘Patient Survey Summary Star Rating’. In comparing the two based on the HCAHPS measures‚ as a patient‚ provider‚ or administrator‚ the scores are better than that of Baptist and therefore would give good reason to select care or employment at Methodist over Baptist‚ however these measures
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