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    Romantic Jealousy’s Effect on Self-Esteem Evolutionary psychology has presented the theory that romantic jealousy, the feelings of threat or loss to an important emotional relationship, evolved as an adaptation to protect investment relationships (Buss, 1998; 2005). According to evolutionary theory, jealousy serves as an advantage in mate retention and sexual reproduction for those who are able to effectively express such feelings of romantic jealousy (Wade & Walsh, 2008). Central to human social

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    The results of this study did not support the hypothesis presented. However, there was a positive correlation between hours spent and depression scores. There was no moderator effect within the relationship of perceived social support and depression. Furthermore, some limitations played a part in this study. First, the number of male participants in the study was low. Second, it is not generalizable because this study was focused on psychiatric patients. Thirdly, recall bias may have affected the

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    STARTUP/SEED STAGE INVESTMENT BY VENTURE CAPITAL FUNDS (IN ISRAEL): ENTREPRENEURS IN RESIDENCY AND EXECUTIVE IN RESIDENCY PROGRAMS ABSTRACT What constitutes venture capital and what constitutes angel financing is a natural question. In the time period after the bubble burst in 2000 it became easy to differentiate: 1. Angel investors: usually “high status” individuals, former successful technology entrepreneurs who use their financial wealth, which financed birth and initial growth

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    theories relating to cultural attributes of the languages and how they influence the subject’s decision making process. The subjects here were undergraduate Chinese students who speak both English and Simplifies Chinese who were given a financial investment situation. For data collection and analysis the 2 x 2 experimental research instrument is used. Considering all the variables the research method provided us with the result that there is a significant difference when bilingual people make an ethical

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    THE IMPACT OF EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES ON THE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES OF GRADUATES INTRODUCTION The literature review highlights key attributes based around labour and graduate market, how graduates adopt into the business environment, through the use of extra curriculum activities. Additionally, examining how the marketing sector has changed over the last 5 years in comparison to the recession. LABOUR MARKET The Office of National Statistics (ONS) (Oct 2015) shows how the labour market

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    Performance Appraisal

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    In some organizations performance appraisal (PA) and performance management systems are treated as unnecesary or routine job. But the evaluation of of employees' job performance is vital human resources function and of critical importance to the organization. In work organizations performance measurement typically takes place in the form of formal performance appraisals, which measure worker performance in comparison to certain predetermined standards. Performance appraisals serve many purposes for

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    Economists, George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller, collaborated to publish a book that provided an intriguing critique of the economic theory and examined the application of behavioural economics to the current and various economic crises occurring in our world. The book is divided into two parts. The first part elaborates on the five various viewpoints of the animal spirits and how each of them influences economic decisions. The five animal spirits are confidence, fairness, corruption and antisocial

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    those with large reserves like Japan, China and so on. Also, since global equity markets are closely interlinked through institutional investors, financial crisis affecting these investors sees a contagion effect throughout the world. The panic psychology takes over and a large number of people cash in their chips. This disturbs global financial market further. For emerging market countries, in the first place, the crisis derived from the setback in exports of goods and services to the European

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    The problem of Academic procrastination Sultan Alqahtani Academic procrastination has quite often been a significant purpose behind poor academic performance particularly among students who are academically competent which is showed in a study done by Onwuegbuzie and Jiao (2000), where 95% of students take part in academic procrastination in a school level while around 61% hesitate at a graduate level. Notwithstanding students realizing that procrastination in academics leads to poor performance

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    The Apple iPhone's marketing worldview uniquely defines relationships to their product by “self-realization,” which, drives their consumers "social-support" tendencies into creating shared beliefs (Kotler & Keller, 2016). Thereby, setting the cell phone industry standard and marketing new socio-cultural trends. Fundamentally, Apple founder and former CEO Steve Jobs believed in a product driven research process that focused on the consumers experience, not necessarily their desires. As Jobs would

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