... research is, and what it is not, and the objectives of research • To outline the different types of research • To discuss the research process • To introduce the concept at the heart of any research ... which enable other scientists to verify the results of the research for themselves The greater the relevance of the empirical data, the more confidence can be put in the veracity of the theory starting ... nature, it is the antithesis of experimental research ethnogenic In this approach, the researcher is interested in how the subjects of the research theorize about their own behaviour rather than
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2017, 11:35
... into the culture of firms of all sizes and minimize the need for greater regulation on the I3S in the future 3 Education and Research The Department of Commerce should work with the I3S and other ... on the Task Force’s preliminary findings and continuing the consultation process that began with the NOI and the accompanying symposium We are therefore seeking comments on the definition of the ... building trust on the Internet through the work of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) These agencies
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 21:20
Childhood Health And Differences In Late-life Health Outcomes Between England And The United States ppt
... participants at the conference and our discussant Amitabh Chandra The research was supported by grants from the NIA Banks and Oldfield are grateful to the Economic and Social Research Council ... funded RAND Center for the Study of Aging (P30AG012815) and the NICHD funded RAND Population Research Center (R24HD050906) W O R K I N G P A P E R This product is part of the RAND Labor and Population ... the two surveys The other difference of possible significance concerns the category of emotional and psychological problems which included two questions about depression and other emotional problems
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 15:20
Goethe and the Molecular Aesthetic ppt
... Interpret the Metamorphosis of Plants In Natural Philosophy, The Mind and the Eye, and many of her other writings, the influence of Goethe is clear In her last book, The Manifold and the One (1957), ... Philosophy and The Mind and the Eye, she emphasizes the importance of the visual and of ob-servation But like Goethe, she sees that as only the beginning Though she doesn’t use the term “delicate ... relative to the question comes the interpretation and evaluation of the data: does it support the original hypothesis? Then it is back to testing, to further investigating the validity of the results
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20
Living Through the Hoop High School Basketball, Race, and the American Dream ppt
... to them the importance of teamwork on the court Theywould reveal to me both the simple and profound ways that race andinequality influence how they lived and how they played I wouldshow them the ... they were members of the Northeast Knights They could avoidstreet life by occupying their time in the gym “shootin’ rock” instead of standing on the corner “slingin’ rock.” They could be in the ... totheir use of context to understand their life chances and opportunitiesfor social mobility In chapter 7, “The Dirty Trick,” I tie the book’s implicit and plicit themes together to reveal the
Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 01:20
Information Technology and the Forest Sector ppt
... 1998 the OECD definition of ICT was released The OECD definition The principles underlying the choice of the activities included in the ICT sector definition: For manufacturing industries, the ... Review, Oy Frenckell Ab, Finland Trang 17Chapter 2 ICT and the Forest Sector: The History and the Present Lauri Hetemäki, Anders Q Nyrud, and Kevin Boston∗ The image of the forest sector tends to ... or rather visions, of the future impacts of ICT on the forest sector These are not intended to predict the future but rather are tools for thinking about the future They acknowledge that the future
Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 05:20
ICT enabled independent living for elderly: A status-quo analysis on products and the research landscape in the field of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) in EU-27 doc
... in southern ones There is a significant divide between old and new member states on the one hand and northern and southern member states on the other hand There are various reasons for these ... national and European research activities and the orientation of existing products was performed Besides the data on products and research projects allowing an impression of the status quo, the study ... effectively To perform further studies and analyses concerning the f individual needs and demands of elderly people To foster the development of standards, interoperability and with “research-distant”
Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 16:20
THE DARWIN ECONOMY: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good ppt
... rst gets $60 and the second gets $40 But here’s the twist: if the second subject rejects the proposal, the $100 reverts to the experimenter, and each subject receives nothing Standard rational ... years, weather and traffi c will eat more deeply into the roadbed, and those same repairs will cost $30 million.2 During the depths of the downturn, the workers and equipment sary to do the work ... generally have both the desire and the ability to remedy cognitive errors Trang 12unilaterally once they become aware of them In contrast, we typically lack both the means and the motive to alter
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 15:20
Buy, Lie, and Sell High: How Investors Lost Out on Enron and the Internet Bubble ppt
... MarketThe Bubble Why Did the Bubble Form? Day Trading and the Source of the BubbleOther Bubbles in History The Software Cycle Trang 3Chapter 4 Inflating the Bubble: the Financial Value ChainThe ... at the company to lose their jobs and the investors their money Trang 25The Capital Markets as an Engine of Progress The dot-com bubble was the result of the introduction of a new technology (the ... contributions from people other than the author and his team.Several American and German participants in the bubble have consented to give their experiences and their viewsabout the issues with which
Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 10:20
Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Dendrochronology of pedunculate oak (Quercus robur L.) in an old-growth pollarded woodland in northern Spain: establishment patterns and the management history" ppt
... 200–299, 300–399 and 400–499 years) and the mean distance between target trees and their nearest neighbours was calcu-lated within, and between, age classes The null hypothesis of a random arrangement ... development delays the stage at which the demand for water and nutrients begins to outstrip the ability of trees to increase their absorptive root area [26] In both Southern and Northern Tragamón, ... taken at random and with replacement from the non-target trees The significance of deviation from the null hypothesis was calculated as the proportion of bootstrap samples in which the expected
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:21
The research proposal for recommender systems in academic domain using social network analysis approach
... be applied for research paper recommender systems and for research group collaboration They took advantage of the unique charac-teristics of the data in the research paper domain and provided a ... mapping and a Nave Bayes classifier [39] Their experiments with the Reuters data set showed that SVM and kNN significantly outperform the other classifiers, while Nave Bayes underperforms all the other ... that use the rating data to train a model and then the model is used to derive the recommendations [33] In another recommendation research using CF, Li et al proposes a basket-sensitive random walk
Ngày tải lên: 09/10/2015, 08:37
Lecture Learning programming using Visual Basic Net – Chapter 1 Problem solving and the objectoriented paradigm
... work. • Use and understand the terminology of the object paradigm. Trang 3and nonvisual software components.• Begin understanding the relationship of Visual Basic NET to the event-driven and object ... Algorithm is the formal term for the set of steps used to solve a problem. Trang 61.1 Problem Solving (cont.)• Algorithms – A set of ordered steps for solving a problem, such as a mathematical ... classes) are at the top of the hierarchy and subclasses descend from superclasses. • A subclass “is a” superclass. • The object paradigm and polymorphism provide a very natural and flexible
Ngày tải lên: 16/05/2017, 14:45
Video recording and the research process
... that the researchers eventually give? In the usual research tradition, the researchers may report on their findings at conferences and take account of audience reaction as they draft further ... 1999) The very focus of the research, and what is taped, is dependent on the interests and perspectives of the researcher, or research team Thus, in our project, we felt that we must understand ... students For Harklau two of the comparative points were (a) the potential differences between what went on in the mainstream lessons and in the EAL lessons, and (b) the known and theorised knowledge
Ngày tải lên: 30/06/2017, 21:33
Government Incentivisation of Higher Education-Industry Research Partnerships in South Africa. An Audit of THRIP and the Innovation Fund pptx
... department and research institution These matrices exist as a mirror images with the same researchers, research departments and research institutions on the vertical and horizontal axis The results ... show the number of times that each has worked with the other These matrices indicate the number of times that researchers, research departments and research institutions have worked together and ... translate the citation matrix to a matrix that counts the number of times in which researchers (research departments and research institutions) worked together with another researcher, research...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 05:22
Qualitative Research in Physical Activity and the Health Professions pptx
... perceive their experiences, what they believe about issues, and how their interactions with others influence these attitudes and values These scholars study the concept of social construction, or the ... experiences and the meaning they assign to their situations and environments They also enhance their reports with quotes that showcase the participants’ voices and the essence of the study’s findings ... Conclusions The conclusion should articulate in several short paragraphs the relationship between the results and the research questions Did the results answer the research questions? The authors...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:20
Tài liệu Transformation through Integration An Activity Theoretical Analysis of School Development as Integration of Child Care Institutions and the Elementary School ppt
... class and the school The repercussion of this is that the child care and the school now have the same responsible authority, i.e., the Ministry of Education and the Board of Education.31 The pre-school ... dissertations and other studies on the topic I have focused the discussion on studies undertaken in the 1990s and 2000 These studies are based on the present discussion of, and relate to, the same ... responsible for their servants’ reading skills The object of the study was the Christian creed and particularly the Lutheran Catechism The ultimate goal was a deeper understanding of and an ability...
Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 16:33
Tài liệu Blogging and the Damage Done pptx
... iConnect default com.solarix.portalserver.handler.PortalServerWebAppHandler the code doesn’t do, then either it’s not in the problem domain that the class was attempting to resolve, which is fair enough, or the developer adds that feature The problem with the author ... system, there is the need to ensure that the system will be robust enough in the event of partial failures, that it will handle the required load and that it will be scalable when the demand for...
Ngày tải lên: 17/01/2014, 18:20
Tài liệu Value Maximisation, Stakeholder Theory, and the Corporate Objective ... ppt
... someone in the private economy, (see Coase 1960; Jensen and Meckling 1992)).6 Maximising the total market value of the firm Ð that is the sum of the market values of the equity, debt and any other ... social welfare at least by the amount of its profitÐ the difference between the value of the output and the cost of the input(s) required in producing it.9 The signals to the firm are clear: continue ... into the hands of self-interested managers allowing them to pursue their own interests at the expense of society and the firm's financial claimants It allows managers and directors to invest in their...
Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 04:20
Tài liệu The Mare Reproductive Loss Syndrome and the Eastern Tent pptx
... through the lung capillary beds and into the systemic circulation An obvious mechanism is movement of the material through the lungs in the same way they enter into and move through the intestine ... due to the ease of observing events occurring in the eye and the highly significant consequences of eye damage compared with limited local damage in other areas of the body and the possible therapeutic ... again migrate through these tissues when the mare moves Myometrial movement, either due to the musculature of the myometrium itself or the physical activity of both the mare and fetus, will drive...
Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 15:20
Tài liệu Medical Countermeasures Dispensing Emergency Use Authorization and the Postal Model ppt
... scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress ... (CDC) and others within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), as well as state and local health departments, the private sector, and others The workshop agenda is in Appendix B and ... anywhere and at anytime within the United States or its territories (CDC, 2010b) a The above definition describes the use of the term dispensing in the field of preparedness and response The profession...
Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 20:20