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Behavior Modeling, 2005.
This paper discusses behavior modeling, which includes the family, mass media and the community environment.
890 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, APA, AU$ 50.95
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This paper explains that a history of aggression, hyperactivity, attention deficit and risk taking behaviors as a child is common among adults who commit acts of violence. The author points out that if the parent has a history of crime, abuse and neglect, plus poor parenting techniques, such as failing to set clear expectations for behavior, the likelihood that a child will be involved in criminal activity increases. The paper states that criminal justice officers can implement prevention programs such as providing young parents help with dealing with stress, intervention programs, community involvement through public health agencies, police athletic leagues, which will help reduce gangs, drugs and guns, and more home visitations for children thought to be at risk.
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"School failure plays an important part and is consistent with attention deficit. It leads to low literacy and repeated behavior problems in school. In one study, 20% of the 11 year-old boys whose teachers rated them low academic achievers were convicted of violent crimes as adults, compared to less than 10% of other students that were tracked in this study. Dropping out of school, truancy and a low commitment to learning contributed as well to teenage violence and arrests for violent crimes. Adolescence is a period of great change, biologically, emotionally and socially at both home and school. Failure to cope with the stresses of early adolescence has serious short-term consequences. Some of these short-term consequences could be alienation, drug abuse, and teenage pregnancy, which seem to escalate during this period."
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Dorothy Johnson's Behavioral System Model, 2007.
An examination of the positive outcomes of using Dorothy Johnson's behavioral system model.
2,242 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 6 sources, MLA, AU$ 110.95
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This paper presents a detailed examination of Dorothy Johnson's behavioral system model. The writer explores the model itself and then uses case study examples to apply the theory to real life situations in a critical care nursing role. It presents the positive outcomes for nurses and family members, of using the model in critical care nursing.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Johnson's Life
The Model
Case Study
Conclusion
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"One of the most well known nursing theorists in modern history was Dorothy Johnson. Johnson ideas about the field of nursing and how that field relates to the care of individual patients, including her well known Behavior Model theory (Fruschwirth, 2000). The theory encompasses many of the medical systems in the human body and how they relate to behaviors of individuals to provide a measurable blueprint as to how to apply those functions and behaviors to the everyday practice of nursing. To understand how the Behavioral System Model was conceived and developed and how it pertains to today's nursing profession it is important to have a basic understanding of nursing itself and the life of Johnson."
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Models of Organizational Behavior, 2007.
An essay that compares and contrasts models of organizational behavior.
715 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 40.95
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The paper discusses the four evolving models defined by Keith Davis; autocratic, custodial, supportive, and collegial. The paper compares these models to Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs. The paper shows the parallels of the need for security with an autocratic management style; the need for belonging and achievement with a custodial and supportive management style; and self-actualization with a collegial style of management. The paper uses this parallel with the 'hierarchy of needs' as a means of illustrating key concepts between the different models of organizational behavior.
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"Typically in those situations where there is less internal motivation to complete tasks and have a vested personal interest in its outcomes, the autocratic model tends to get results. This is certainly true from the manufacturing growth during the industrial revolution where many workers were struggling for sustenance and the concept of ownership of one's profession was unheard of at the time. Authority and enforcement of productivity and compliance with rules, both societal and from a company's perspective, all contributed to the need for autocratic leadership styles and hence the model being created. The custodial model that focuses on security and passive cooperation on the part of workers and eventually leads them to organizational dependency is contrasted to the autocratic model due to the recognition of the individual value of the contributor or employee. In an autocratic work environment, there is no delineation of worker's unique and valued experiences, unless the work is heavy manual labor and the worker can lift over 100 lbs., yet autocratic leadership sacrifices the individual talents of employees for the accomplishment of a highly defined and often rigid goal that can often only be achieved through manual labor or drudgery."
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Modeling Strategies for Financial Hedging, 2008.
An examination of GARCH or generalized auto regressive conditional heteroskedasticity, which is a modeling technique that allows researchers to predict for financial variances.
962 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 7 sources, MLA, AU$ 55.95
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The predominance of existing research related to hedging strategies relative to the futures markets is typically concerned with agricultural, foreign exchange (forex), and petroleum products. This paper attempts to offer some insight relative to the mathematical modeling techniques which financial hedging strategists employ in order to be successful at mitigating risk. The paper explains that modeling volatility within the financial markets has not received a great deal of academic attention. The paper then looks at how Siddique and Harvey, in "Auto regressive Conditional Skewness" undertook a study of auto regressive conditional skewness which utilized GARCH techniques wherein they concluded that auto regressive models might be successful at modeling time-series variations relative to asset pricing such as stock returns but not necessarily for futures and related hedging strategies. The paper shows that researchers successfully applied the GARCH model to daily returns volatility of two separate futures markets in commodities. The paper concludes that these researchers proved that every hedging entity can adapt these models to develop a functional model that can accurately incorporate intervention related to exchange rate fluctuations into a futures volatility model that works to effectively hedge each entity's particular needs and constraints.
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Abstract
Garch Modeling
Durban-Watson
Omega Function in Modelling
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"Predicting, managing, and leveraging the uncertainty in futures market is however vital if a comprehensive market strategy is going to be developed that enables an entity to efficiently control, or at least manage, the cost-basis of its investments or operating expenses. GARCH techniques can be used to construct models that control, to some degree, conditional variances related to futures as well as spot market prices and allow better management of financial or commodities portfolios."
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Parental Modeling and Elementary School-aged Children, 2005.
Examines how children are affected by their parents' behavior.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, AU$ 70.95
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Children learn as they grow. They learn through their education at school, they learn from the things they see on television. They learn through experience, by exploring the world around them. In addition, they learn from their parents. The paper shows that parents teach their children not only in what they say to them, but also by their actions. This process is called modeling. This paper discusses how children learn gender roles and the roles those genders play in society by watching their parents modeling the behaviour.
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The Attitudinal Model and the Rational Choice Model, 2006.
A comparative analysis between the effectiveness of the attitudinal model and the rational choice model fo studying law.
2,633 words (approx. 10.5 pages), 7 sources, MLA, AU$ 126.95
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This paper examines the relationship between the Attitudinal Model and the Rational Choice Model for studying the law and the courts. This paper looks into how both models are used to understand the courts, in particular the United States Supreme Court. In addition, through a comparative analysis both models are applied to circumstances to determine which model is most appropriate when trying to understanding how the courts establish and define law.
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"At first glance the attitudinal model and the rational choice (Strategic) model for studying the law and the courts seem vastly different. Essentially this is because they serve different purposes. The Attitudinal Model seeks to explain why justices (for our purposes justices on the Supreme Court) vote the way that they do, and the running premise is that they do so to implement their own personal policy preferences into the law. The Strategic Model seeks to explain the collective decision making process of the Supreme Court, focusing on what constrains, controls and influences the justices' decisions. However, the relationship between the Attitudinal Model and the Strategic Model for studying the law and the courts is not as clear-cut as this. This is because in an analysis of their essential foundations and applications, the strategic model, although different and contradictory at times, supplements the Attitudinal Model."
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Modeling Business Strategy, 2002.
A discussion of business process modeling in a globalized economy.
3,385 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 6 sources, AU$ 153.95
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This paper begins with an overview of the business process and introduces concepts of business process modeling. The problem of population control in Bangladesh is explored to demonstrate how the strategies in business modeling can be used to deal with challenges and achieve goals.
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"In the ever increasingly competitive and globalized world economy, business corporations face a never ending cycle of growing competition and in order to effectively meet these challenges to their successful functioning as business entities businesses use business innovation techniques like business modeling process reengineering, downsizing and outsourcing among many others. These are the main techniques companies use to redesign themselves in reaction to the various business challenges. The result is expected to be a pliable company that can sidestep the many perils that a business has to face in the intensely competitive global environment."
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Soil Map Modeling, 2005.
A review of the article "Spatial Data Mining for Enhanced Soil Map Modeling".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, AU$ 56.95
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This paper discusses the methodology described in an article by Christopher J. Moran and Elisabeth N. Bui entitled "Spatial Data Mining for Enhanced Soil Map Modeling". This paper notes the terrain attributes the researchers saw as better-suited to landscape description as predictors of soil type, using a map sampling strategy and testing it on a region in eastern Australia.
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"Christopher J. Moran and Elisabeth N. Bui test a new methodology for improving the quality of the soil map models generated by rule induction. In their method, the researchers considered terrain attributes they saw as better-suited to landscape description as predictors of soil type, using a map sampling strategy. The authors use the Murray-Darling Basin (MBD) in eastern Australia as an example of an area not now covered by any detailed form of land-resource inventory, and the authors use their method of spatial modeling to develop soil-landscape models in areas that have been surveyed and then to extend these across the unmapped areas. While this is a logical approach, it raises the question of how certain the authors can be that the model for mapped areas can be extended across unmapped areas. "
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Pricing Analysis Modeling, 2004.
A business management evaluation of price analysis modeling, with a focus on the company, Merrill Lynch.
3,139 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 10 sources, MLA, AU$ 145.95
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This paper presents an evaluation and summary of the processes used by Merrill Lynch in the late 199's in designing, implementing, and integrating a new series of business objectives and products in its sales mix. The paper explains that, at the time, Merrill Lynch was an organization that was in the precarious position of offering products and a business philosophy that were still relatively successful and not actually broken. Yet, as technology and various legal and regulatory aspects of the industry changed, the future of the company required drastic new approaches so as not to fall victim of the shifting business climate and culture. To reduce risk, Merrill Lynch implemented "Pricing Analysis Modeling" and detailed data analysis as its tools of choice to assist senior management in their decision making and in product and services roll-outs. This paper, therefore, is based on a case study focused on the integration of the new business paradigm in the presence of new business requirements.
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"Merrill Lynch cannot haphazardly create new products or services without understanding the business impact of those new products or services. Merrill Lynch as an organization has historically followed very precise and logical steps prior to implementation of any new product or service. Senior management has historically been required to always develop business goals, identify the current or existing business process, identify flaws if any in that process, create new business processes to address these identified flaws, recreate or simulate the new process.
Only after this extensive series of steps can Merrill Lynches' senior management team develop both the business and technological requirements and specifications to implement any new process, product or service. Business Modeling has become an essential step in any new product's implementation because of the need to simulate how the new process will affect the organization in regard to customers, partners, internal revenue streams and the employees."
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Modeling Interest Rate Risk Management, 2008.
Presents a complete research project, which presents a new tool to manage the global interest rate risk using the case of Credit Foncier de Monaco.
11,815 words (approx. 47.3 pages), 79 sources, APA, AU$ 364.95
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This paper explains that the goal of its thesis is to conceive a model to manage the global interest rate risk of the commercial portfolio in order to determine the optimal structure of the new production and to test the tool on the Credit Foncier de Monaco, private banking and subsidiary of Calyon, which is obviously the investment banking of Credit Agricole. The paper's thesis is divided into two main sections: the theoretical modeling and the empirical application.
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Abstract
Abbreviations
Introduction
Theoretical Modeling
Identification
Interest Rate
Nominal vs. Real Rate
Fixed vs. Variable Interest Rate
Short-Term vs Long-Term Rates
Spot vs. Forward Rates
Term Structure of Interests
Theories
Methods
Deterministic and Stochastic Models
Sources of Interest Rate Risk
Repricing or Maturity Mismatch Risk
Basis or Bid-Ask Spread Risk
Yield Curve Risk
Options Risk
Interest Rate Exposure
Net and Gross Positions
Balance-Sheet & Gap
Profit and Loss Statement and Spread
Factors
Measurement
Volume
Instantaneous Gaps
Generalized Gaps
Indexed Gaps
Simulated Gaps
Value
Duration
Convexity
Market
Margin
Sensitivity
Modified Duration and Relative Convexity
Money Markets Rates
Management
Hedging And Speculation
Micro or Macro Hedging
Systematic or Selective Hedging
Partial and Total Speculation
Hedging Risk and Opportunity Cost
Passive and Active Hedging
Passive Hedging or Beta Management
Active Hedging or Alpha Management
Instruments
Spot
Forward And Future
Fra And Swaps
Options
Modeling
Utility
Structure
Utility Function
Constraints
Regulation
Commercial
Model
Objective Function
Efficient Portfolio
Optimal Portfolio
Empirical Application
Presentation
Cfm
Treasury
Asset-Liability Management (Alm) Committee
Adaptation
Structure
Constraints
Rates
Simulation
Leverage
Regulatory Constraints
Variance-Covariance Matrix
Utility
Variances
Conclusion
Glossary
Appendix: Balance-Sheet + Profit & Loss Statement
Appendix: Balance-Sheets by Currency, Maturity and Interest Rate
Appendix: Gaps
Appendix: Correlation and Variance-Covariance Matrix
Appendix: Weightings and Balance-Sheets in March 2008
Appendix: Coefficients of Variation
Appendix: Objective Function for Different Aversions to Risk
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"Taking into account the stock and constraints, the model determines the optimal allocation of the production for different scenarios of rates level, rates volatility and risk aversion degrees. The bank hedges against the interest rate risk by optimally adjusting its production.
"The optimal portfolio is the tangent point between the efficient frontier and the indifferent curve. It is obtained by equalizing the marginal rate of transformation (MRT) to the risk to return, which is the slope of the efficient frontier, and the marginal rate of substitution (MRS) to the risk to return, which is the slope of the objective function."
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Orem's Self-Care Model: A Professional Nursing Practice Model, 2001.
This paper examines the Self-Care Model of Nursing.
660 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 6 sources, MLA, AU$ 37.95
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This paper is an analysis of Dorothea Orem's method of nursing. She introduced the concept that nurses, as human beings, need to be allowed to treat patients according to their individual needs. The author examines this theory, and presents several examples where it has been applied successfully.
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"Nursing isn?t only about ?doing for the patient,? but about assisting them and directing them to carry out their own self-care and self-directed life. ?A patient competent to live in the real world is competent not only to obtain and participate health care, but to do as much of it as would be done outside the institutional setting normally.? (Coleman, pp. 325-344, 1980) Self-care then, is especially important in any field of nursing because health care is more about taking care of the body outside of the institution rather than in it."
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Role Modeling for Future Generations, 2002.
An analysis of works by Henrik Ibsen and Bernard Melamud regarding views on child rearing.
1,225 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 66.95
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This paper compares Henrik Ibsen?s "An Enemy of the People" and Bernard Malamud?s "The Natural" on the issue of which protagonist proves a better role model for their children and future generation. Included is the questionnaire used in the study.
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"Dr. Thomas Stockmann, the protagonist of Henrik Ibsen?s ?An Enemy of the People?, demonstrates the true qualities of postmodern heroism. A practical medical practitioner, Stockmann is easily excited over the moral values incumbent in a town. In declaring the town baths are contaminated, Dr. Stockmann means to help his community members only to be accused of plotting for money. An idealist and passionate man, Dr. Stockmann did not fathom he is to face opposition from the town people, especially from the mayor, The People's Herald journalist Hovstad and his brother Peter Stockmann."
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Environmental Modeling, 1997.
Definition, purpose, application of geographical information system technology to watershed draining system of lake in Texas.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 4 sources, AU$ 63.95
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"ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING AND GIS
Introduction
This research examines the application of relationship between geographical information system (GIS) technology to the process of environmental modeling. A watershed analysis application of GIS to environmental modeling is used for purposes of discussion.
Environmental Modeling
Environmental models are simplified characterizations of reality. A model does not include all aspects of a real situation. Only those characteristics deemed to be necessary to assess the issue for which the model is designed are included in the model. This simplification of reality allows the analyst to focus more clearly on a specific problem. Thus, while environmental.."
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The Due Process Model vs. The Crime Control Model, 2004.
Looks at the conflicting goals of the United States criminal justice system: to control crime and to protect the rights of the accused.
864 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 48.95
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The criminal justice system here in the United States has traditionally operated under the premises of two fundamentally opposing goals. One goal is the crime control goal. This goal operates under the idea that criminals should be aggressively pursued and crimes aggressively punished. The other goal is the due process goal. This goal operates under the premise that the rights of the accused need to be carefully protected in any criminal justice investigation. This paper examines both of these positions, determining which one is the better goal for the United States to pursue, and why.
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"Liberals have been the traditional defenders of the due process model (Perron). They are certainly operating under noble guidelines. The United States Constitution itself carefully lays out the rights of the accused in a series of amendments in the Bill of Rights. The Founding Fathers were obviously very concerned about protecting the rights of the accused, or these protections would not have been included in the Constitution. Should we as a nation follow any less stringent standards in dealing with our accused today? "
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Autism and Communication, 2002.
A paper which examines behavioral modification models of treating autism.
2,467 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 8 sources, APA, AU$ 120.95
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The paper provides an overview of one of the most severe and disruptive of all childhood disorders - autism - that interferes with an individual?s ability to form social relationships as well as to communicate with others. This paper discusses behavioral modification models of treating autism which provide a way of easing the communication barriers between those with autism and other people, thus allowing autistic children to build the kind of initial human connections when they are young that they will be able to build on later in life. Topics discussed in the paper are the causes of autism, behavioral analysis as opposed to behavior modification and assumptions of behavioral analysis.
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"It should be noted that while behavioral assessment may help provide a substantial amount of help to many individuals suffering with autism it is certainly not a cure-all (Smith, Chung, and Vostanis, 1994, p. 558). However, it can be used to help improve the communication of many children with autism because it is a highly flexible model that can be used by parents, teachers, therapists and others to help autistic children acquire communication skills no matter what level they may be at in terms of development or severity of symptoms."
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Models of Family Therapy, 2008.
This paper discusses and explains different models of family therapy.
1,622 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 7 sources, APA, AU$ 83.95
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In this article, the writer looks at different models and forms of therapy for families that are experiencing problems. The writer notes that natural therapy is a form of psychotherapy that does not allow for medications, but that uses techniques that are aimed at assisting the individual to overcome issues through a natural approach. The writer looks at cognitive behavioral therapy in which the problem is seen to exist through the individual's thoughts and actions. The writer then discusses structural therapy and strategic family therapy. The writer maintains that the solution focused model of family therapy identifies the outcomes that the family desires and uses those outcomes as the focus of the therapy. In the narrative model the writer notes that clients are asked to take part in a narrative history of life and in collaborative therapy the patient and the therapist work as partners in the discovery of issues and the implementation of solutions to the issues.
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Natural System Model
Cognitive-Behavioral Model
Structural Model
Problem Focus Model
Strategic Model
Solution-Focused Model
Narrative Model
Collaborative Language System Model
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"Change for the patient requires that the thoughts and actions impacting the person's life must be identified initially. This may occur through the patient speaking with the therapist and answering questions that serve to allow the therapist to determine where the issues exist. However, the patient should be the one that identifies the problem areas through discussion so that he or she is capable of understanding that change is significant.
"Techniques used in cognitive behavioral therapy are implemented once the identification of the problem has occurred. The therapist may give the patient "homework" and a new mental or physical response to a situation. That new response is used by the patient in place of the negative response and it is through practice that a new method of thought or behavior can be experienced on an ongoing basis, replacing the former thoughts and action."
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