2004 What Is a Case Study and What Is It Good for? JOHN GERRING Boston University T his paper aims to clarify the meaning‚ and explain the utility‚ of the case study method‚ a method often practiced but little understood. A “case study‚” I argue‚ is best defined as an intensive study of a single unit with an aim to generalize across a larger set of units. Case studies rely on the same sort of covariational evidence utilized in non-case study research. Thus‚ the case study method is correctly
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the alarm is not responded to or due to loss of consciousness (Schott‚ 2002). However‚ during an alarm sequence period‚ any restoration of a normal heart rhythm will prevent the device from delivering an electrical shock (Schott‚ 2002). It is also important to note that the device also stores the electrocardiogram during this time‚ which aids health care providers in understanding what occurred during the dysrhythmia (Schott‚ 2002). Though Schott lists patients who have had an infarct and those awaiting
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"August 2002- Night Meeting"- Central Idea In the touching "Night Meeting‚" a human and a Martian meet on a deserted road only to discover that each is a shadowy image‚ perhaps a ghost of one other. The story revolves around the concept of time and the idea of communication between a human and a Martian. Tomás is a human who migrates to Mars from the planet earth. Stopping for gas on his way to a party‚ he meets another human‚ a gas station owner‚ who praises the unpredictable life on Mars and
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Through many of his poems‚ William Carlos Williams presents the reality of poverty among a great portion of the American society. Within Williams’ work of Selected Poems‚ he not only reveals the trapped lifestyle of those living in poverty‚ but he also represents the horror of the war between social classes along with the coinciding war on the poor. Williams’ use of plutonic images among these poems provides powerful meaning to his argument of American societal values‚ claiming the men of America
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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 Presented by: Ibrahim M. Conteh; Ruby Proctor Garcia; Kathleen M. Parry; Joseph M. Schmerling; Jaime Ulloa Auditing Theory and Practice 0902 ACCT422 4021 Due: April 29‚ 2009 Table of Contents Page Number What is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002? 3 Why was SOX established? 4 When did SOX take effect? 5 What companies were affected and how? 6 What does SOX compliance require? 9 Conclusion 11 References 13 What is the Sarbanes-Oxley
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Dimensional Fund Advisors‚ 2002 1. What is DFA’s business strategy? What do you think of the firm? Are the DFA people really believe in efficient markets? Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) primarily focuses on the investment of small stock funds. DFA’s business strategies are as following: * DFA was dedicated to the principle that the stock market was efficient. * DFA believes the value of sound academic research. * DFA believes the ability of skilled traders to contribute to a fund’s
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FINA 6092 Advanced Financial Management Harvard Business School Case Study ! Shenzhen Development Bank Case Report Section A: Group 6 Name CATALOGUE PART 1: BACKGROUND INTRODUCTION ..................................................................... 1 PART 2: THE INVESTMENT VALUE OF SHENZHEN DEVELOPMENT BANK ..... 1 PART 3: RISK ANALYSIS .................................................................................................... 2 PART 4: RISK CONTROL .........
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Ethics Case Study Lernik Davoudi HCS/335 12/04/2012 Holly Martinez De Andino Ethics Case Study A prescription is an order for medication which is dispensed to or for patient. A prescription for a patient may only be issued by a physician. The case study in chapter 4‚ is a case about a physician’s assistance named Jerry McCall ‚ who needs to order an antidepressant medication called Valium for a patient who is a friend of the doctors‚ However the major problem Jerry has is that the patient
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Intro to College Writing 30 September 2012 Case Study #2 Adams State is looking to incorporate a new general education program. The Williams plan is the best general education plan for Adams State because students will have a better ‚ understanding about the richness of the world‚ be more likely to get promotions‚ and many alumni are working in fields with no apparent connection to their undergraduate majors. The first reason as to the Williams plan is better than the Ozawa plan is because
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a variety of obstacles‚ primarily due to the high product mix‚ which explains why extensive utilization of lean is not reported in the journals for this industrial sector. Most of the reported applications and documentations are discussing lean in cases where there are a few families of high volume products and processes involved. The reports mainly fail to detail the ways waste is removed. The recommendations are far from applicable when thousands of parts in low quantity and several nonlinear processes
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