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    ’ Introduction Collections play a crucial role in fulfilling a museum’s mission and purpose. A museum’s collection is defined by its collection policy past and present which in turn helps to shape the museum’s goals and direction. As stewards of collections, museums are expected to maintain the highest professional standards legally and ethically. The development of written policies are necessary to govern the management of collections and to establish the museum's collections related activities

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    Menil Collection

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    Visiting the Menil Collection and Contemporary Art Museum in Houston for the first time was eye opening. I never thought art was such a big thing. I knew art was to be creative but other than that I never would have thought art would have meaning. From reading, “Ways of Looking” by Ossian Ward, art comes in many forms: entertainment, confrontation, event, message, etc. however, having to pick two art works and compare and contrast them was difficult since there were many to pick from. I chose “La

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    question aroused again. The same questions may appear again and again in the future, but as an essential part of world of art collecting, corporate collecting won’t die in the eyes of most people in the field. The brief history of modern corporate collection It is hard to chase back to the origin of the art patronage, since it is nearly as old as art itself, but the shift from a model dating from the Renaissance, in which leaders of industry used the fruits of their labor to purchase or commission superlative

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    Debt Collection Industry

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    WWW.IBISWORLD.COM DebtCollectionAgenciesintheUS October 2012 Paying off: Debtors had trouble paying out, but the recovery will return balance to the industry IBISWorld Industry Report 56144 Debt Collection Agencies in the US October2012 EbenJose 2 AboutthisIndustry 18 International Trade 36 KeyStatistics 2 Industry Definition 19 Business Locations 36 Industry Data 2 Main Activities 2 Similar Industries 21 CompetitiveLandscape

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    failure of museum to capitalize their collections and report them as assets. According to the Australian Accounting Standards, annual general-purpose financial reports will be misrepresented if heritage and collections are included as assets. One of the criteria’s of an asset is to bring future economic benefit. The question raised in relation to museum is whether the public heritage collections have any future economic benefits deriving from the collections which is economic to the museum? These

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    3.4 Data Collection In general, there are several methods for data collection and the different data collection methods provided its own advantages and disadvantages (Sekaran 2003, p. 223). For carrying out the data collection, the appropriate methods should be applied. In the research, the data collection could be done through the interview, for example, face-to-face and telephone interview. To collect the data by using interview technique, the questionnaire is commonly employed as the instrument

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    Unique Data Collection and Analysis Company is a business organization that provides its customers with unique methods and post-modern technologies of data collection and analysis since its inception in 2014. The company was founded in Chicago by Jack and Mary and currently has 20 employees. The company conducts market surveys on various products and services on behalf of its customers using web analytics and later combines it with operational systems data for accuracy in response to the market trends

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    1. What were the key data collection methods used and how did they align with the focus of the research? After reading the article Utilizing goal setting strategies at the middle level: Help students self-regulation behavior I found there were three different data collection methods that were used by the research team. The first data collection method that was used was pre and post surveys. “Surveys are one of the most common and efficient ways to gather information. They provide large-scale responses

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    anecdotal oral history and cannot be verified through documentation. Within the last twenty years, the controversial nature of human tissue specimens within museum collections has sometimes led to their disposal, and the erosion of technical conservation skills relating to this particular type of collection. The UCL Pathology Collection has in recent

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    Data Collection Method: Because quantitative research is decided as the research strategy, data collection seems to be key factor. Survey is the traditional way to collect the data (Vogt, 2010). In order to collect the quantitative data, questionnaire is considered as one of the most effective ways to make the survey that is defined as a set of questions, the main function of which is to collect the relevant data or information from individuals (Mukherjee, 1995). Self-completion questionnaire is

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