Application of Biopsychosocial Model The Biopsychosocial model‚ proposed by George Engel (1997)‚ provided a revolutionary way of looking and understanding medicine as a holistic endeavor. Branching from the Biomedical approach‚ the biopsychosocial model integrates psychological aspects‚ biological aspects‚ and social aspects of a disease as a model for medical and mental health conditions (Smith‚ 2002). Some biological aspects of obesity include an individual’s genetic history‚ metabolism
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CENTRE FOR MICRO FINANCE at IFMR Business Correspondent Model: A Preliminary Exploration Report compiled by Binit Rath‚ Minakshi Ramji and Alexandra Kobishyn Published for the Microfinance India Summit‚ October 2009 Thanks are due to Dan Kopf‚ a former Research Associate at the Centre for Micro Finance (CMF)‚ and Upamanyu Dash (Summer Intern 2009‚ IIFM) who was closely involved in the Orissa case study. The entire research team expresses its gratitude to the staff at FINO‚ A Little World (ALW)
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The Transtheoretical Model (TTM)‚ also known as the Stages of Change Model‚ was developed in 1983 by Prochaska and DiClemente‚ coming out of their work comparing the experiences of smokers who were able to quit on their own and those who quit using professional treatment (Glanz & Rimer‚ 2005). They proposed that behavior change is not a single event but rather an ongoing process where individuals move through six stages: precontemplation‚ where people are not yet thinking of change; contemplation
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Strategic Management 1. Consider Mintzberg’s model of intended and realised strategy‚ and discuss the extent to which corporate strategy can be planned‚ and the extent to which it emerges. (20 marks) The emergent model (modernist): In the emergent model‚ strategy is seen as emerging in the process of action. Strategy cannot (or only to some extent) be planned and is the outcome of the organization’s struggle to survive (cp. Darwinist ideas in Population Ecology) and the adaptation
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Models of abnormality Abnormality is defined as a behaviour that deviates from the ideal social norm. One definition of abnormality is the failure to function adequately and are unable to meet their activities of daily living independently for example getting washed and dressed daily‚ being able to hold down a job and interacting with other people. It suggests that people should be able to achieve personal wellbeing and contribute to society. Rosenhan and Seligman (1989) identified there as being
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Models of the Atom a) Plum Pudding Model The plum pudding model imagines the atom as a positively charged entity that contains randomly dispersed (negative) electrons within it. It is called the plum pudding model because the electrons in the positively charge cloud resemble raisins in a pudding. Thomson realized that all atoms must contain electrons‚ and since the atoms had a neutral charge‚ they must also include protons. This led him and other to think of the atom as a positively charged
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Mathematical model A mathematical model is a description of a system using mathematical language. The process of developing a mathematical model is termed mathematical modelling (also writtenmodeling). Mathematical models are used not only in the natural sciences (such as physics‚ biology‚ earth science‚ meteorology) and engineering disciplines (e.g. computer science‚artificial intelligence)‚ but also in the social sciences (such as economics‚ psychology‚ sociology and political science); physicists
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MODELS OF OB. 1) Autocratic model: this model depends on power . Those who are in command must have the power to demand. Employees are to follow the orders of their boss who has an authority to get the work done through people. If they fail to follow the orders they are to be penalized. Employees are fully dependent on their boss because he has power to hire fire and perspire them. Employees are always offered minimum wages to provide livelihood because workers give minimum performance. Some employees
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philanthropic employers began to develop a paternalistic care and concern for their employees. From the 1890s Quaker employers‚ for example‚ Cadbury and Rowntree‚ began to emphasize welfare by appointing ’industrial welfare ’ workers and building model factory villages. It was estimated that by 1914 there were probably between 60 and 70 welfare workers in Britain (Farnham‚ 1990). In the USA‚ Henry Ford ’s autoplant‚ for example‚ established a ’Sociological Department ’ to administer personnel
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industry making a product whose price depends on the quantity (Examples can include large firms in computer‚ chemicals‚ automobile…) Cournot was the first economist to explore and explain the oligopolistic competition between the two firms in an oligopolu (Cournot and Fisher in 1897). He underlined the idea of duopoly problem and the non-cooperative behavior of the firms. In 1934‚ Heinrich F. von Stackelberg came up with another model that explains the strategic game through which the firms in an oligopoly
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