RATING SCALES INTRODUCTION Rating scales‚ as the name implies‚ are scales for rating each of the characteristics or activities one is seeking to observe or assess. A rating scale is a set of categories designed to elicit information about a quantitative or qualitative attribute. They enable an observer to systematically and objectively observe a person and record those observations. In the social sciences‚ a common example is the Likert scale in which a person is person selects the rating which
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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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The human survival is based on friendship. From the highest authority to the lowest bums living on the streets all of them have experienced in some way or the other one of these different kinds of friendships. We take this friendship for granted because it is something that exists naturally in society and most of us never really have to actually go out into the world looking for a friend. Those of us who have had to live in a foreign country or in new surroundings have learned how important this
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Is Man the Lowest Animal? In Mark Twain’s‚ The Lowest Animal‚ he uses satire very effectively to get his point across. He uses hyperboles to show how man can be cruel and wasteful in his lifetime. Twain uses oversimplification to tell us how humanity is violent and finds fun in watching thing suffer. He then uses juxtaposition to compare the English Earl to an anaconda and found that the anaconda only kills what it can eat and doesn’t waste anything. Another example of exaggeration is‚
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choices using three criteria‚ the net present value and internal rate of return and payback period. In analysing the following investments I have not taken into account the effects of taxation Ranking of investments Investment 3 has the best rating using the three analysis tools‚ the initial investment is paid back after 5.05 years‚ followed by investment 2 Limitations of analysis using NPV‚ IRR and PP The results given from Net present value are affected by the discount rate and we have
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Yelp prominently displays a restaurant ’s rounded average rating‚ I can identify the causal impact of Yelp ratings on demand with a regression discontinuity framework that exploits Yelp‟s rounding thresholds. I present three findings about the impact of consumer reviews on the restaurant industry: (1) a one-star increase in Yelp rating leads to a 5-9 percent increase in revenue‚ (2) this effect is driven by independent restaurants; ratings do not affect restaurants with chain affiliation‚ and (3)
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Hardin What Should A Billionaire Give-and What Should You? - Peter Singer One of the most important issues facing the world today is the issue of the poor. There are many things that can be done about this issue‚ however much of the world is torn between wanting to help and not knowing how to go about it. This is the issue that is presented in the two essays - Garrett Hardin’s “Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping The Poor‚” and Peter Singer’s “What Should A Billionaire Give-and What Should
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“The Lowest Animal‚ and A Time of Gifts” the authors mark Twain and Stephen Gould stated remarks on the nature of humans as a whole. Twain stated that humans as a whole are the lowest on the chain and that we are just one of the worst‚ Gould stated the humans are good besides the few people who ruin life for some others. Here are some of their reasons they think the human race is like it is. Mark Twain’s examples of the human race in “The Lowest Animal” he states that humans are lowest on the
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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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• 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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