Statement Of Purpose Research Articles

The Impact of a Structured Protocol on Graduate Student Perception of Online Asynchronous Discussions

Instructors of online courses face unique challenges to ensure student interaction with course material. Sometimes, even the most exciting content is insufficient in an attempt to engage students. Online, asynchronous discussions offer promise as a means to increase student-to-student and student-to-content interaction and, ultimately, student satisfaction with online courses. The modification of structured discussion protocols designed for use in face to face environments offers instructors of online courses an efficient method of adding purpose and structure to asynchronous discussions. This research employed a quasi-experimental, nonequivalent group design to examine students' perception of asynchronous discussion before and after applying a structured discussion protocol that included a clear statement of purpose, directions for participation, and a grading rubric. Results from the data analysis indicated that student perception of online asynchronous discussions improved when a structure was added. Results also showed a lower level of dissatisfaction when discussions were structured.

EQT: Private Equity with a Purpose

The primary factors driving the remarkable growth of private equity have been the industry's attractive and stable returns in combination with its active ownership model. Nevertheless, critics have been questioning whether the PE industry can maintain its historic returns, and challenging its fee and incentive structures as well as its notable lack of transparency and diversity. And the alleged systemic effects of the industry on social problems like income inequality and climate change have become large enough to create a perceived threat to PE's long‐term “license to operate.”In this article, the authors discuss the commitment of EQT, the publicly listed and Stockholm‐headquartered private markets firm (and eighth largest PE fundraiser in the world), to the “future‐proofing” of both its portfolio companies and the company itself. The company envisions itself as undertaking a “journey” toward sustainability and positive impact and, in so doing, furnishing a model that other PE firms might find useful in helping “future‐proof” the entire industry. As part of that commitment, EQT recently published a “Statement of Purpose” signed by its the board of directors that focuses a societal impact lens on its entire portfolio of companies and assets, reinforces its public commitments to diversity and other “clean and conscious” practices, and aims to leverage digital technologies to enhance financial returns and real‐world outcomes. Transparency and a mindset focused on achieving positive impact are the keys to PE's earning high and stable returns and to securing its long‐term license to operate.

Origins of SWOT Analysis

The origins of SWOT Analysis is obfuscated in the literature. This paper fills that void and reconstructs its early development in context. The empirical basis of SWOT started in 1952 within the Lockheed’s Corporate Development Planning Department. One of its thus far unknown pioneers, Robert Franklin Stewart, became the head of the Theory and Practice of Planning group at the Stanford Research Institute in 1962. In 1965, Stewart published the so-called SOFT Approach in a report that was used by many large companies worldwide. In it, he presented a logical set of steps (the so-called chain of reasoning) for corporate aim setting. First, stakeholders’ values are to be collected by staff planners. Then “each manager considers for each of his own activities”… “what must be done to safeguard the satisfactory in present operations;” “open de door to opportunities”; “fix the cause of faults” and ”avert the threats to future operations.” These value judgments are then transferred into senior management’s direction-giving statements of corporate purpose. In 1967, SOFT evolved into: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT Analysis). Stewart’s participatory aim setting ideas have faded from our collective memory as well; they might fit perhaps the ideas propelled by the Opening Strategy movement.

Personal and Organizational Higher Purpose, Corporate Governance and Shareholder Value: Survey Results

This paper reports the findings of a recent survey of 1019 individuals to learn about their commitment to and perceived value from personal and organizational higher purpose, and examines the implications of the findings for corporate governance and the stated corporate goal of shareholder value maximization. We found that personal higher purpose promotes personal well-being, including greater happiness and lower stress from COVID-19, and this effect was stronger when the purpose statement was written down. This notwithstanding, while many individuals stated that they have a personal higher purpose, very few had a written statement of purpose. The incidence of written higher purpose statements is higher among organizations than among individuals. Employees of organizations with higher purpose statements were happier and prouder of their organizations. Two of the findings have potentially important implications for corporate governance: (i) The effects we documented were stronger when the purpose statement was written down and tied to society, employees, and customers, rather than shareholders; and (ii) employees trusted their leaders to make better business decisions when they endorsed the social value of the corporate higher purpose.

The value of publicly available, textual and non-textual information for startup performance prediction

We use administrative textual and non-textual data retrieved from publicly available archives to predict the performance of Danish startups at the time of foundation. The performance outcomes we consider are survival, high employment growth, a return on assets of above 20 percent, new patent applications and participation in an innovation subsidy program. We consider a base specification that includes variables for legal form, region, ownership and industry in all specifications and add variable sets representing firm names, business purpose statements (BPSs) as well as founder and startup characteristics. To forecast the two innovation-related performance outcomes well, we only need to include a set of variables derived from the BPS texts on top of the base variables while an accurate prediction of startup survival requires the combination of the firm names and the BPS variables along with founder characteristics. An accurate forecast of high employment growth needs the combination of the BPS variables and the founder characteristics. All information our forecasts require is likely to be easily obtainable since the underlying information is mandatory to report upon business registration in many countries. The substantial accuracy of our predictions for survival, employment growth, new patents and participation in innovation subsidy programs indicates ample scope for algorithmic scoring models as an additional pillar of funding and innovation support decisions.

Проблемно-цільові засади стратегічного планування розвитку системи освіти регіону

У статті досліджується необхідність та особливості стратегічного планування освітнього розвитку на регіональному рівні з використанням наявних проблем у якості основи цілепокладання управлінської діяльності. На основі системного аналізу та виокремлення спільного і особливого у тенденціях освітнього розвитку на рівні країни та регіону визначаються базові проблеми стратегічного планування та управління. Здійснюється узагальнюючий аналіз розвитку регіональної системи освіти на прикладі Дніпропетровської області з виходом на постановку стратегічних цілей її реформування. 
 Показано що основою стратегічного планування розвитку освіти є розроблення нового цілепокладання розвитку української освіти на базі цінностей демократичного суспільства, особистісного розвитку, спрямованості до європейського освітнього простору; створення каркаса нового законодавчого поля функціонування освіти;визначення засад рівного доступу кожного громадянина до якісної освіти всіх рівнів як магістральний напрям її розвитку; формування змісту освіти на основі державних стандартів як важеля управління якістю освіти в країні.
 Акцентуються проблеми стратегізації управління освітою на регіональному рівні та необхідність пов’язаних з цим інновацій у нормативно-організаційній царині. Показано що в основі освітньої парадигми має лежати завдання забезпечення потреб споживачів освітніх послуг, розширення можливостей доступу до якісної освіти, забезпечення ефективного соціального механізму конкурентоздатності випускників шкіл на сучасному ринку праці. На основі проведеного дослідження робляться пропозиції щодо удосконалення стратегічного планування розвитку основних складових регіональної системи освіти.

Politik Islam: Analisis Pemikiran Ibn B?jjah Dalam Kit?b Tadb?r Al-Mutawahhid

Ibn B?jjah was the first Muslim philosopher in Spanish. His full name is Ab? Bakr Muhammad ibn yahya al-Sh?'igh al-Tuj?b? al-Saraqust?. Ibn B?jjah is also known by the laitin name Avempace, he is a rationalist philosopher. Many of his ideas about political, especially in the book of Tadb?r al-Mutawa??id. Ibn B?jjah said that a government have to be mutawa??id, and mutawa??id should be able to control themselves and be able to control lust, not to be dragged into the mainstream of society. The purpose of this research first the writer wants to say that the government (leader) is a transformation for his society, then democratic systems isn’t just saying "from the society to the society", but democracy have to be motivated by the society who have common sense, wich isn’t appear on personal interests, more precisely good society will produce good leaders. This type in this research is a library research by presenting qualitative-interpretative data, where the main object is the available library books, certainly the books are related to the subject of this research. This research uses two data sources, namely primary and secondary data. The primary data in this research were obtained books written by Ibn B?jjah's books (kit?b) such as the Book of Tadb?r al-Mutawa??id and Ris?lah al-Ittish?l. While the secondary data is journal, the articles are also book’s that discuss Ibn B?jjah in particular. The result of this paper is that the essence of the State's purpose is identical with the purpose of human life. Nations and peoples are united in their pursuit of happiness.

Module to scaffold the process of filling grant documents in English

In order for students and professors to advance their educational and professional careers as well as become competitive specialists in the modern world of science and technology, it is essential for them to apply for international grant programs that allow them to take part in internships abroad. Currently, there are several foreign programs offered in Russia that provide financial support for students to participate in internships abroad. Unfortunately, studentsstudying in Russia often do not possess the skills necessary to complete foreign language documents correctly. This barrier reduces their chance to successfully pass through several stages of the selection process to secure full financial support while competing amongst a large number of applicants. As a solution to this issue, the authors offer for a module to be introduced into existing curricula, which will teach students how to complete grant documents in English. This module can be introduced in foreign language courses at any level, that are aimed at preparing students to receive a higher education. The content of the module was developed based on the analysis of foreign practices of studying an academic letter, which includes in itself, the preparation of the necessary documentation for grant programs. The module consists of an overview lecture that outlines different grant programs and their English language websites, where a full list of the necessary documentation needed to apply to the respective program is included. In order to submit a strong application for an international internship opportunity, a student should comprehend the rules of writing a statement of purpose as well as recommendation letters. Applicants should also be prepared to answer questions presented to them during an interview with representatives of the program for which they have applied. The main goal of the proposed module is to teach students how to effectively communicate per the requirements and objectives set forth by these grant programs. This module will allow for the development of critical thinking skills necessary to present application materials in a logical and structured manner, in both Russian and English.

Statement of Purpose

LEARNing LandscapesTM Journal is an open access, peer-reviewed, online education journal supported by LEARN (Leading English Education and Resource Network). Published in the spring and autumn of each year, it attempts to make links between theory and practice and is built upon the principles of partnership, collaboration, inclusion, and attention to multiple perspectives and voices. The material in each publication attempts to share and showcase leading educational ideas, research, and practices in Quebec and beyond. We welcome articles, interviews, visual representations, arts-informed work, and multimedia texts to inspire teachers, administrators, and other educators to reflect upon and develop innovative possibilities within their own practices.

Modeling and Simulation of a DC Micro-Grid with a Model Predictive Controller

This paper presents the modeling strategies of a micro-grid to control the power supply of a battery bank by adopting a Model Predictive Controller (MPC). The grid was sized to light two tennis courts at a university sports complex, which is not connected to the national power grid and thus must be a stand-alone setup. The paper starts with an introduction that defines the statement of purpose and the state of the art. Then continue with the power generators and storage modeling: photovoltaic (PV) modules, wind turbine, buck converter (takes power from the rectified national grid) and the battery bank. The MPC was designed to effectively manage the energy supplied to the batteries, depending on the state of charge, hence the controller output is the signal used to regulate the charging current. The data used for prediction is the meteorological measures taken during three years using an in-situ weather station that collected irradiance, wind speed and direction, temperature, and pressure. Finally, as the entire control system was simulated step by step using MATLAB/Simulink, the components and systems behavior graphs are shown to lead to analysis and conclusion remarks.

Narrative Inquiry and Content Analysis of Selected Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers Project 1936-1938

The content analysis of five selected passages from Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews manifested several emergent themes. This analysis features a literature review, a purpose statement, significance, data collection, research method, research questions, findings, and a discussion. To begin, this report will look at slave narratives as microhistories of people having been born into slavery. The themes were found to encompass lack of power and identity, family units, and education. The critical theory interpretation focuses on inequities and the researcher’s engaging conversations. In the case of the slave narratives, this lens of the former slave led to transforming the reader’s knowledge about slavery and the people who experienced it.

Developing Ideas for Publication: Strategies for Nurse Authors

Developing Ideas for Publication: Strategies for Nurse Authors

Eric Schliesser, Adam Smith: Systematic Philosopher and Public Thinker

“This whole book has been one long argument for the idea that return to and study of such exemplars is a necessary, prefatory step in the renewal and re-articulation of the ‘old truths’ of liberalism” (375). For a book as long and complex as this one, this is the most apt summary statement of the central purpose of the work. Eric Schliesser’s book is certainly long; it is composed of numerous overlapping arguments, and the treatment is topical rather than expository. However, it all comes tog...

Exploring Visual Perceptions of Spatial Information for Wayfinding in Virtual Reality Environments

Human cognitive processes in wayfinding may differ depending on the time taken to accept visual information in environments. This study investigated users’ wayfinding processes using eye-tracking experiments, simulating a complex cultural space to analyze human visual movements in the perception and the cognitive processes through visual perception responses. The experiment set-up consisted of several paths in COEX Mall, Seoul—from the entrance of the shopping mall Starfield to the Star Hall Library to the COEX Exhibition Hall—using visual stimuli created by virtual reality (four stimuli and a total of 60 seconds stimulation time). The participants in the environment were 24 undergraduate or graduate students, with an average age of 24.8 years. Participants’ visual perception processes were analyzed in terms of the clarity and the recognition of spatial information and the activation of gaze fixation on spatial information. That is, the analysis of the visual perception process was performed by extracting “conscious gaze perspective” data comprising more than 50 consecutive 200 ms continuous gaze fixations; “visual understanding perspective” data were also extracted for more than 300 ms of continuous gaze fixation. The results show that the methods for analyzing the gaze data may vary in terms of processing, analysis, and scope of the data depending on the purpose of the virtual reality experiments. Further, they demonstrate the importance of what purpose statements are given to the subject during the experiment and the possibility of a technical approach being used for the interpretation of spatial information.

A Path to Resume Aesthetic Care: Executive Summary of Project AesCert Guidance Supplement-Practical Considerations for Aesthetic Medicine Professionals Supporting Clinic Preparedness in Response to the SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak.

A Path to Resume Aesthetic Care: Executive Summary of Project AesCert Guidance Supplement-Practical Considerations for Aesthetic Medicine Professionals Supporting Clinic Preparedness in Response to the SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak.

Editors’ Note

Editors’ Note

Project L.E.E.P. (Leadership through Education, Experience and Photovoice): An Embedded Graduate Service-Learning Initiative

Integration and consumption of sport are often used to build community identity, enhance health, and promote positive social interactions. Those benefits informed the purpose of this project, which was to integrate service-learning education and behaviors into a graduate sport management leadership course. Project L.E.E.P. (Leadership through Education, Experience, and Photovoice) benefitted local communities by providing an interactive service-learning project that was mutually beneficial to graduate students and surrounding community partners. Eleven graduate students in a sport administration leadership course partnered with different community sport organizations to execute a series of assignments designed to assess, plan, deliver, and reflect on more than 40 hr of sports service. Among those assignments was a photovoice project intended to capture service learning through the students’ perspectives and give voice to the sporting needs of a community. This project aligned with the experiential learning approach in many sport management programs, as well as the societal and service benefits outlined in the North American Society for Sport Management’s purpose and position statements.

The Comedy Studies Reader

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Patient Education Materials for Age-Related Hearing Loss

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Prediction for University Admission using Machine Learning

In today's education world there are many number of students who want to pursue higher education after engineering or any graduate degree course. Higher education in the sense, some people want to do M.tech through GATE or through any educational institute entrance examination and some people want to do MBA through CAT or through any respective educational institute entrance examination and some people want to do Masters in abroad universities. we are focusing on only the students who want to pursue their higher education in abroad universities. Generally Higher education in abroad universities means we have many options like canada, USA ,UK Germany, Italy, Australia etc. But we are focusing on only the students who want to do their Masters in America. Students who want to do masters in America have to write GRE (Graduate Records Examination) and TOEFL/IELTS (Test of English as a Foreign Language/International English Language Testing System). Once they have attended the exams they have to prepare their SOP(statement of purpose) and LOR(letter of reccomendation) which are one of the crucial factors they have to consider. These LOR and SOP plays a vital role if the student was looking for any scholarship. Then the students have to choose the universities they want to study or apply, we cannot apply to all the universities that will lead to lot of application fees. Here comes the problem that the student dontt know to which university he might get admission. There are some online blogs which help in these matter but they are not that much accurate and dont consider all the factors and there are some consultancy offices which will take lot of our money and time and sometimes they will give some false information.so our goal is to develop a model which will tell the students their chance of admission into a respective university. This model should consider all the crucial factors which plays a vital role in student admission process and should have high accuracy. The model name is UAP. To access this model we will develop a simple user interface.