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Social Sciences and the Connection Between Causal Explanations and Empirical Regularities

cause with effect, regardless of the approach being employed (Causal Mechanisms, 2003). To this end, empirical regularities play ...

Clinical Psychology and Scientific Practice

it from its tenuous hold as a scientific discipline. The main belief in this type of practices was that patients were chil...

Romantic Era and History of Science

specialization." The first learned societies and academies already had been formed, but botanists were left out of this first loo...

Political Science and Behavioralism

ideological agreement (Campbell et al, 1960). These were the backgrounds against which behavioralism developed. These alo...

Psychological Studies' Case Study on Mental Representation

timed in regards to their responses, Rosch reported that "response times are strikingly close to ratings of typicality" which mean...

Systematics and Practical Applications in Science

for cladistics as well as molecular systematics (2001). Through such methodology, problem solving will be accomplished not only in...

Social Science and Religion

acquired even consciousness as well as to have facilitated cultural productions, but excepting religion (2002). Whether Darwins t...

Forensic Science and Justice

In a nutshell, forensic science is the use of science and technology to solve crimes (What is Forensic Science? 2003). The...

Contemporary Life and Science

see that science has emerged from the beginning of time itself, and has over the years transformed nearly every aspect of our worl...

DNA in Terms of Reliability and Accuracy

For instance, in RFLP analysis, probabilities range from "one in tens of thousands to one in hundreds of thousands, or even a mil...

Mathematician Leonhard Euler's Life and Works

of lieutenant, but gave up his military commitments when he became professor of physics in 1730: since this mean that he was a ful...

Judith Butler and Jacques Derrida on Deconstruction

In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares the deconstruction concepts of Judith Butler in 'Imitation and Gender Insubordinati...

External Factors Impacting Computer Sciences Corporation

competition has been around almost as long as CSC has. CSC has, in fact, spent much of its time in acquiring other smaller compani...

Theories on Eugenics and Black Children

and "scientific evidence" was tailored to support racial biases. George Albee, professor of psychology at the University of Verm...

Private Health Insurance and Consumer Attitudes' Research

one taken from patient records of a local teaching hospital, taken from among those patients admitted in the past calendar year wh...

Exploring the World of Scientific Discovery Through Changing Paradigms, Flexibility, and False Western Science Confidence

initially "sensory evidence - seeing, smelling, hearing, touching - generally confirms our knowledge giving us confidence that som...

Cognitive Science Perspectives

is something like the brain or at least it is associated with the brain, but it is not synonymous with that vital organ. One might...

Science and Art of Nursing

process that requires "interpretation, sensitivity, imagination and active participation" (Jenner, 1997). Scientific knowledge, o...

Career Objective Essay

route towards creating and maintaining personal success. The lifelong learning movement is based on the idea that educational dev...

Alan Turing: Life and Accomplishments

"whether accordingly it could be released from matter by death" (Hodges, 1995). These reflections led him into concepts of 20th ce...

Nursing as an Art

In twelve pages this paper presents the argument that nursing should be regarded not as a science but as an art. Ten sources are ...

The Color Purple Film and Political Science

in. They were not offered many opportunities because of political practices and as such we are given such characters as Whoopi Gol...

Conflict Between Religion and Science

that it is only through science and the scientific method of inquiry that human beings can obtain reliable knowledge (Nord, 1999)....

Overview of Educational Research

in scientific research demonstrates the validity of the qualitative approach: Criterion Quantitative Research Qualitative Research...

Qur'an and Science

sufficiently vague to cast doubt over the scientific meaning of the relevant verses. There can be little doubt that at the...

Journalistic Values on Science of Galtung and Ruge

with the number of deaths (scale) of the SARS scare made for good reporting. But within days of the first reports, additiona...

Royal Society and Baconianism

inaccurate: the problem is, he asserts, that such critics have not understood the Baconian method in the first place. He states th...

Europe of the 1930s and the Relationships Between Government and Science

commune for the people of Germany. The need to establish communes and become self-supporting nations is a Marxist princip...

Speech Meaning and Its Social Consequences

language and sounds. He makes an example of everyday speech, suggesting that in conversation with another person, we think we are...