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1994 Baby Deaths at Canada's Winnipeg Health Sciences Center

In seven pages this paper examines the post heart surgery deaths of 12 babies in this Canadian health care facility in a discussio...

Three Cases Involving Forensic Science

Mattias Reyes and DNA evidence. One author notes that, "Investigators are nearing completion into their inquiry of Mattias Reyes r...

Ice Sculpture, Science, Theology, and Sensations

rationalize our mental processes. Beliefs such as those involving our ice sculpture are typically viewed from the foundationalist...

Science and the Piltdown Man Hoax

skull ("Piltdown"). The discovery was touted as the missing link and thought to go back to the prehistory of humanity ("Piltdown")...

Science Advancement or Animal Rights

only way that to be sure that new drugs will actually be beneficial. An opinion poll conducted in the UK in 1999 showed that onl...

Ancient Islam and Greece, Religion, Culture, and Science

was the force that recovered the information (Mathematics, 2005). In essence, in ancient times, "Scholarship supported science in ...

Ethics and Personalized Medicine Science

Two obvious questions linked with personalized medicine are: * Who can receive such personalized treatment? * Who pays for that pe...

Science and Hasty Generalizations

is important that qualitative researchers must therefore allow themselves periods away from their fieldwork for things such as ref...

Greek Culture and the Evolution of Science

of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...

Questions and Answers in Social Science

be changed by the individual who takes on a role and this is a positive aspect of roles. There are effects or consequences attache...

Ethics, Society, and the Science of Genetic Testing/Screening and Counseling

including confirmation of a suspected medical diagnosis, as a predictor to an individuals susceptibility to a particular illness a...

Science And Religion, Galileo And Copernicus

between science and religion is not easily attained, inasmuch as science is based within a foundation of undeniable proof, while r...

Social Order and the Science Fiction of Ray Bradbury and Ursula K. LeGuin

In eleven pages this paper discusses how contemporary society is portrayed in this comparison of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury an...

Groundhog Day Film, Gay Science, and Friedrich Nietzsche

In seven pages this paper answers student submitted questions regarding such topics including how the Bill Murray film represents ...

Philosophy of Science Questions

In ten pages this paper answers 3 questions on artificial intelligence and cognitive behavior, subject and object approaches, and ...

Science of Dark Matter

In twelve pages this research paper probes this substance that still remains mysterious, which scientists contend comprises up to ...

Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 Explained by Philosophy and Science

mans attention. After running in fear from Jezebel, the Lord attracted Elijahs attention by using an earthquake. (1 Kings 19:11,...

Three Science Fiction Novels and Intelligent Machines

In five pages this paper analyzes how intelligent machines are featured in Galatea by Richard Powers, Neuromancer by William Gibso...

Christopher Simpson's Science of Coercion

In five pages this text is reviewed. One source is cited in the bibliography....

Management Science Journal Articles Reviewed

In seven pages this paper reviews 7 articles on business management as they relate to the insurance industry....

Elementary School Science Teaching

return to "routine and unfocused reading" (p. 10). This teachers style is contrasted with a second teacher who has her students ...

Modern Science and Galilei Galileo

In six pages this paper examines the text Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo by Stillman Drake in this consideration of the impor...

Science and Human Behavior by B.F. Skinner

B.F. Skinner's famous text which presents his revolutionary operant conditioning theories is reviewed in 10 pages. One source is ...

Overview of the Science of Statistics

In five pages this paper examines the contemporary applications of statistics in terms of usage and study. Seven sources are ci...

Information Access and Computer Science

In seven pages the technology of computer information retrieval systems is examined and discusses how it can be incorporated into ...

Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills Tests and Science Portion of LEAP 21 Compared

sciences (Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, 2003). There are 13 items within the nature of science section; each of the o...

Psychology as Science According to Wilhelm Wundt

capabilities and personality. Wundt and Change It has been argued that the contribution of Willhelm Wundt to the establishment ...

Canada and Political Science Perspectives

In A Dictionary of Political Thought, Roger Scruton, a British philosopher and conservative writer, says conservatism is: "The pol...

Nutrition and Health Science

claims with some skepticism. However, understanding the basics of nutrition and how it affects the mind and body is relevant for e...

Workings of Science

probability that is usually scarcely less than complete proof (PG). Sometimes things have been demonstrated by the principles and ...