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Research Proposal – Diagnostic Radiography
Proposed Title Should be concise and informative Research question Must be accurate, succinct and answerable For example: Aims/Objectives A single aim is based on the research question and is generally written in the future tense. For example: OBJECTIVES – More than one objective will arise from the research question and the aim of the research. Brief justification for work Brief review of the key literature, demonstrating ‘need’ for the research and possible clinical relevance or implications. Consider why is this is important to radiography and will it impact both here in UH and perhaps a broader population. (Maximum 250 words) Proposed research design and methodology Approach – Quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods? Data collection (instrumentation) Surveys or questionnaires; Interviews and focus groups; Public or private observations; Experiment; Analysis of existing data retrospective); audit Sample Target population; sample size; sampling method/recruitment Data Analysis Thematic analysis? Descriptive and/or inferential analysis? How will data be presented? (pie charts/scatter graphs? Bar charts? Tables?) (Maximum 250 words) Ethical considerations What ethical concerns should be considered and how will you mitigate this (e.g. coercion, confidentially, anonymity, informed consent etc) References Provide at least two literature sources of information relevant to your study Reviewer Feedback For use by academics only For academic use only Research proposal (please delete as appropriate): I. seems feasible II. needs further consideration around methods III. needs major re-working IV. not workable – please choose new research topic Please note research supervisors will be allocated in October No student may start data collection until your given supervisor gives permission to go ahead Any other comments: Nov 2019 LH
Wesley Shocker, research analyst for FlyAway Airways, was asked by the director of research to make recommendations regarding the best approach for monitoring the quality of service provided by the airline.15 FlyAway Airways is a national air carrier that has a comprehensive route structure consisting of long-haul, coast-to-coast routes and direct, nonstop routes between short-haul metropolitan areas. Current competitors include Midway and Alaska Airlines. FlyAway Airlines is poised to surpass the billion-dollar revenue level required to be designated as a major airline. This change in status brings a new set of competitors. To prepare for this move up in competitive status, Shocker was asked to review the options available for monitoring the quality of FlyAway Airways service and the service of its competitors. Such monitoring would involve better understanding the nature of service quality and the ways in which quality can be tracked for airlines. After some investigation, Shocker discovered two basic approaches to measuring quality of airline service that can produce similar ranking results. His report must outline the important aspects to consider in measuring quality as well as the critical points of difference and similarity between the two approaches to measuring quality. Some Background on Quality In today’s competitive airline industry, it’s crucial that an airline do all it can do to attract and retain customers. One of the best ways to do this is by offering quality service to consumers. Perceptions of service quality vary from person to person, but an enduring element of service quality is the consistent achievement of customer satisfaction. For customers to perceive an airline as offering quality service, they must be satisfied, and that usually means receiving a service outcome that is equal to or greater than what they expected. An airline consumer usually is concerned most with issues of schedule, destination, and price when choosing an airline. Given that most airlines have competition in each of these areas, other factors that relate to quality become important to the customer when making a choice between airlines. Both subjective aspects of quality (that is, food, pleasant employees, and so forth) and objective aspects (that is, on-time performance, safety, lost baggage, and so forth) have real meaning to consumers. These secondary factors may not be as critical as schedule, destination, and price, but they do affect quality judgments of the customer. There are many possible combinations of subjective and objective aspects that could influence a customer’s perception of quality at different times. Fortunately, since 1988, consumers of airline services have had access to objective information from the Department of Transportation regarding service performance in some basic categories. Unfortunately, the average consumer is most likely unaware of or uninterested in these data on performance; instead, consumers rely on personal experience and subjective opinion to judge quality of service. Periodic surveys of subjective consumer opinion regarding airline service experience are available through several sources. These efforts rely on contact with a sample of consumers who may or may not have informed opinions regarding the quality of airline service for all airlines being compared. A Consumer Survey Approach In his research, Shocker discovered a recent study conducted to identify favorite airlines of frequent fliers. This study is typical of the survey-based, infrequent (usually only annually), subjective efforts conducted to assess airline quality. A New York firm, Research & Forecasts, Inc., published results of a consumer survey of frequent fliers that used several criteria to rate domestic and international airlines. Criteria included comfort, service, reliability, food quality, cost, delays, routes served, safety, and frequent-flier plans. The questionnaire was sent to 25,000 frequent fliers. The 4,462 people who responded were characterized as predominantly male (59 percent) professional managers (66 percent) whose average age was 45 and who traveled an average of at least 43 nights a year for both business and pleasure. This group indicated that the most important factors in choosing an airline were 1) route structure (46 percent), 2) price (42 percent), 3) reliability (41 percent), 4) service (33 percent), 5) safety (33 percent), 6) frequent-flier plans (33 percent), and 7) food (12 percent). When asked to rate twenty different airlines, respondents provided the rankings in Case Exhibit 13.1–1. Case 13.1 FlyAway Airways 4. Refer back to the opening vignette. Use a search engine to find stories dealing with job performance. In particular, pay attention to stories that may be related to CRM. Make a recommendation to Griff concerning a way that job performance should be measured. Would your scale be nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio? 5. ’NET Go to http://www.queendom.com/tests. Click on the lists of personality tests. Take the hostility test. Do you think this is a reliable and valid measure of how prone someone is to generally act in a hostile manner? © GETTY IMAGES/ PHOTODISC GREEN CASE EXHIBIT 13.11 Ranking of Major Airlines: Consumer Survey Approach 93754_13_ch13_p290-313.indd 312 7/14/09 4:57:29 PM Chapter 13: Measurement and Scaling Concepts 313 A Weighted Average Approach Shocker also discovered a newer, more objective approach to measuring airline quality in a study recently published by the National Institute for Aviation Research at the Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas. The Airline Quality Rating (AQR) is a weighted average of 19 factors that have relevance when judging the quality of airline services (see Case Exhibit 13.2–2). The AQR is based on data that are readily obtainable (most of the data are updated monthly) from published sources for each major airline operating in the United States. Regularly published data on such factors as consumer complaints, on-time performance, accidents, number of aircraft, and financial performance are available from the Department of Transportation, the National Transportation Safety Board, Moody’s Bond Record, industry trade publications, and annual reports of individual airlines. Factor Weight 1. Average age of fleet 25.85 2. Number of aircraft 14.54 3. On-time performance 18.63 4. Load factor 26.98 5. Pilot deviations 28.03 6. Number of accidents 28.38 7. Frequent-flier awards 27.35 8. Flight problemsb 28.05 9. Denied boardingsb 28.03 10. Mishandled baggageb 27.92 11. Faresb 27.60 12. Customer serviceb 27.20 13. Refunds 27.32 14. Ticketing/boardingb –7.08 15. Advertisingb –6.82 16. Creditb 25.94 17. Otherb 27.34 18. Financial stability 26.52 19. Average seat-mile cost 24.49 AQR w1 F1 w2 F2 w3 F3 . . . w19F19 w1 w2 w3 . . . w19 a. The 19-item rating has a reliability coefficient (Cronbach’s Alpha) of 0.87. b. Data for these factors come from consumer complaints registered with the Department of Transportation. To establish the 19 weighted factors, an opinion survey was conducted with a group of 65 experts in the aviation field. These experts included representatives of most major airlines, air travel experts, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) representatives, academic researchers, airline manufacturing and support firms, and individual consumers. Each expert was asked to rate the importance that each individual factor might have to a consumer of airline services using a scale of 0 (no importance) to 10 (great importance). The average importance ratings for each of the 19 factors were then used as the weights for those factors in the AQR. Case Exhibit 13.1–2 shows the factors included in the Airline Quality Rating, the weight associated with each factor, and whether the factor has a positive or negative impact on quality from the consumer’s perspective. Using the Airline Quality Rating formula and recent data, produce AQR scores and rankings for the 10 major U.S. airlines shown in Case Exhibit 13.1–3. CASE EXHIBIT 13.13 Airline Rankings Rank Airline AQR Score 1 American 10.328 2 Southwest 10.254 3 Delta 10.209 4 United 10.119 5 USAir 10.054 6 Pan Am 10.003 7 Northwest 20.063 8 Continental 20.346 9 America West 20.377 10 TWA 20.439 What Course to Chart? Shocker has discovered what appear to be two different approaches to measuring quality of airlines. One relies on direct consumer opinion and is mostly subjective in its approach to quality and the elements considered. The other relies on performance data that are available through public sources and appear to be more objective. Both approaches incorporate pertinent elements that could be used by consumers to judge the quality of an airline. Shocker’s recommendation must consider the comprehensiveness and usefulness of these approaches for FlyAway Airways as it moves into a more competitive environment. What course of action should he recommend?
Questions 1. How comparable are the two different methods? In what ways are they similar? In what ways are they different? 2. What are the positive and negative aspects of each approach that Shocker should consider before recommending a course of action for FlyAway Airways? 3. What aspects of service quality does each approach address well and not so well? 4. Considering the two methods outlined, what types of validity would you consider to be demonstrated by the two approaches to measuring quality? Defend your position. 5. Which of the methods should Shocker recommend? Why?
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How States interpret provisions under international environmental law regarding the pollution control from offshore oil exploitation activities
Footnote and bibliography are needed, using OSCOLA referencing Word count is 17000 excluding Bibliography and footnotes —I should have around 300-500 footnotes, according to my supervisor, and he wants me to use more sources (literature and case law) For the introduction, I revised it in the second draft but I don’t mind if you edit it, especially the methodology (I have never written one), and of course the overview of chapters can be changed based on the content of the chapters. The other chapters requires more analysis, my supervisor said it’s a bit descriptive at the moment. You can have a look at the draft suggestion document. Initially I wanted to do comparative analysis between the UK and Philippines. I now have the option to just focus on the UK, but I think comparative analysis makes the paper more interesting. The only thing is that I am not sure if I will have enough word count to do so, I’d rather have a more in-depth analysis. You can let me know what you think on this. 🙂
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The role of risk management and financial monitoring in enhancing financial sustainability
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write a dissertation based on the topic title provided. I will upload a file with the topic title and methodology, and you will write the dissertation based on that ; and I will also upload a sample file “Milica_Paper_2.pdf” of how I would want the dissertation written
AIM: This study looks to replicate previous findings of the effect of leading questions on eyewitness testimony Between-subjects experimental design o IV: Leading Question Severity (2 levels: went and smashed) o DV: Speed estimate Hypothesis: Formulate a Uni-directional OR a bi-directional hypothesis compatible with the literature reviewed in the introduction Identify the level of measurement of the IV & DV (ordinal, categorical, interval , ratio) Known Derive The Data DV IV Demographic data Data in excel file: Lab Report 2: Data Set In SPSS Variable View window check: 1. IV: group/condition 1& 2 in ‘Values’ column 2. Gender: M=0; F=1 in ‘Values’ column 3. Variables: all have the correct measurement level (Ordinal, Nominal, Scale for interval) in ‘Measure’ column Import data into an SPSS file ❑ Run descriptive statistics (by group): ▪ Are the groups variances similar? (rule of thumb-their ratio less than 4:1) ❑ Plot the histograms of the DV (by group): ▪ Are the distributions symmetrical? (checking for normality inspecting the histogram is acceptable) ▪ You can test normality with Kolmogorov Smirnov – not required (Hint: use Explore function in SPSS) ❑ Plot the boxplots of the DV (by group): ▪ Are there extreme outliers? You need to decide how to deal with them. Your decision needs to be explained and justified in ‘Results’ Getting ready for analyzing the data: check parametric assumptions Decide the test Decide the test based on: ❑ Design: CorrelationalExperimental ❑ Independent Variable: levels ❑ Experimental design: WithinBetween subjects ❑ Assumptions on data: Parametric/Non-parametric All these choices must be explained and justified in ‘Results’ RUN THE TEST IN SPSS Report the Results ❑Start the ‘Results’ section by introducing your data Normally distributed? Groups with equal/unequal variance? Outliers? How did you deal with them? If you decide to include histograms and/or boxplots, present them in Appendix. If you include the graphs in Appendix, you need to refer to them in ‘Results’ Report the Results ❑ Illustrate and comment the pattern of results: report descriptive statistics Descriptives can be presented: in-text OR in Table OR with the appropriate graph o If you decide to use a graph to report means and standard deviations, this has to be presented in ‘Results’ (not in Appendix) o Figures need to have axes appropriately labelled (ie; the correct variable names: FOR EXAMPLE: Mean Reaction Time of correct response in milliseconds; Reading group/Control group) o Error bars need to be included in graphs. Specify if these are Confidence intervals, Standard Errors or Standard Deviations ❑ Introduce the test. ▪ For example: Data met (did not meet) parametric assumptions (insert description of your data). A ……. Test was performed to test the hypothesis ….. ❑Report the results (inferential statistics) in APA style Report the Results Full report including all sections Word length = 2000 words ±10%
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Title is – Critically evaluate, with reference to nursing practice experience, one aspect of nursing care, focusing upon quality improvement and suggest methods of enhancing or changing this aspect of practice. I would like the work to focus how the use of continent products is abused, by staff, in hospitals. How nursing staff are quick to apply a continence pad instead of promoting health and self care. Patients are admitted with no need of continence products and leave dependant on pads.
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to investigate the impact of single-sex classrooms on girls’ academic achievement. In specific terms, the study sought to understand better teachers’ perceptions on how single-sex classrooms affect the experiences of K-12 female students and the effect it has on the levels of academic performance and achievement. This purpose was achieved by collecting data through semi-structured interviews from ten educators with vast knowledge and experience working with girls in single-sex schools or classrooms. The thematic analysis from the respondent’s E-mails interviews produced two main themes, each answering the research questions. Each theme had several other sub-themes as discussed in the following section.
Discuss each theme.
Theme 1: The perceptions of teachers on how single-sex female classrooms affect the experiences of K-12 female students
Theme 2: How to develop initiatives that improve experiences of K-12 females in single-sex classrooms
Briefly describe an ethical dilemma that demonstrates your application of ethical principles in the health care setting. Next, analyze your response or actions (even if there were none) to the event against one of the reference points below. Were your (in)actions or choices supported by the chosen framework? Be specific and include two references citing one or more of the following.
AND one of the following:
Write a 3-4 page response to an employment questionnaire requiring a self-evaluation of your leadership and ethical experiences.
An understanding of one’s own approaches to leadership, motivation, collaboration, and ethical situations is important to the evolution of an effective leader. An introspective lens can help emerging leaders better understand and hone these important skills.
Review the Western Medical Enterprises Questionnaire (Page 2). Use it to complete this assessment
Assignment is based on the following scenario
Scenario
Imagine that over the past few months you have participated in several organizational projects and met many new people. The opportunities to collaborate and demonstrate your emerging skills as a leader prompted you to think about applying for a new position. After exploring online job postings, you prepared a resume and submitted the application to Western Medical Enterprises. A few days later you received the following email:
“Dear Applicant,
Thank you for your interest in employment at Western Medical Enterprises. We have received your application packet. The next step for all potential employees is to provide a narrative response to the questions in the attached document. Please return your completed document to me by replying to this e-mail.
Once we receive your responses, we will review them and notify you of the next steps.
Good luck!
Sincerely,
Respond to the scenario by completing the Western Medical Enterprises Questionnaire found in the Resources.
Western Medical Enterprises Applicant Questionnaire
Directions: Please provide responses to the two sections below. You are expected to support your assertions, ideas, or opinions with at least two scholarly or professional resources where appropriate using current APA style and formatting.
Briefly describe an instance where you were required to lead and motivate a team of professionals to collaborate. It does not need to be in a health care setting. If you have not lead a team of professionals before, use a different example.
Next, analyze your approach to the challenge using specific examples. It is not important whether or not your efforts were successful. What is important is the approach you take to appraising your leadership and collaboration decisions and actions. Do the following: