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Dieting

days and will lose between two and seven pounds. However, as soon as the client goes back to eating normally, all of the weight is...

The Right Stuff & Technology

conquer it. The focus of the film changes when it shifts to dramatizing the successful launch of the Soviet Unions Sputnik and i...

On Science: Constructivist Views vs. Rationalist Views

programs and results can be explained ... as the result of social interests" (Campa). There is another group of constructivists le...

Human Physiology and Prostanoid Receptors

to be not as hydrophobic as they were once thought and that they do not incorporate into or permeate cell membranes (Narumiya, Sug...

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")...

Lysistrata and Laughter According to Bergsonian Criteria

representation did not lack a more serious undercurrent, it was the manner in which it was approached that, according to Bergson, ...

Scientific American Article 'The Littlest Human'

through remains. This is something that is often associated with islands and the isolation islands offer. This finding was related...

Performance of Employees and Motivation

attempting to induce others to accept certain goals and/or standards (Accel-Team.com, 2004). There are important caveats managers...

Issues of Partnership and Scientific Integrity

For example, if scientists are supported by R.J. Reynolds, they realize the people who pay their salaries will not want to find ou...

Three Themes Relating to Audience Studies

that they may have a different response to it, actively choosing to either accept the message, or to reject it and interpret it di...

Autobiographical Recollections and Their Accuracy

In four pages this paper examines scientific findings in an assessment of the accuracy of autobiographical recollections and a con...

Ice Sculpture, Science, Theology, and Sensations

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

Women and Men in the Sciences: Is There Any Difference in Ability?

cant say for certain, simply because women arent given the same opportunities as men to find out for sure. Women and Opportunities...

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 ...

Creativity, Innovation, and the Effects of Scientific Management

this division of labour created the wealth in the United Kingdom. Charles Babbage agreed with Smith, calling it The Great Principl...

Science and Hasty Generalizations

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

Foundations of the Contemporary World Cemented by the Scientific Revolution

scientific explanation, rather than a divine one, for the way the world works. The changes that came with the Scientific Revoluti...

Faith and Reason in the Thinking of Thomas Aquinas and Dante Alighieri

be an object of science. To this question, Aquinas answers "no." First of all, following the medieval style of reasoning, he posit...

Human Explicit Memory and Advancement of Converging Scientific Evidence

this topic, the term "awareness" generally refers to explicit memory (Sigalovsky, 2003). Implicit memory refer to "change in perfo...

Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution

the flow of information. Prior to the effects of the printing press, it was relatively easy for the Church to suppress books and w...

The East Coast Problem of Beach Erosion

In fact, some project the future as being very different from the beaches that are present today. There is a fear that the beaches...

Reward System Development

difficulties of this approach are seen when the theories of Frederick Winslow Taylor and scientific management in action. Taylors ...

Life and Work of Marie Curie

a good university (Hole, 2005). "Marie studied physics and mathematics and quickly received her masters degrees in both subjects. ...

Transformational Leadership Models

been occurring throughout history. History also indicates that the different forms of leadership used to make transformation may b...

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 ...

Early Europe, Scientific Theory Development, and Counterfactual History

as social and political ideologies, group interests, and even competing personal and professional interests has greatly impacted o...

Scientific Progress and its Threat in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

during his student days, on sciences fascination: None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of sci...

Classical Organization Theory and Scientific Management, and the Principles of Standardization, Efficiency, and Rationality

put management in control, designing, using scientifically measured studies these, the most efficient work methods and then organi...

Criminology Research and Investigation of Differences V

have their place and are crucial in other disciplines (Creswell, 2003), but to have value in criminological research, subjects "mu...

Europe's Disenchantment Period

In a paper of fifteen pages an examination of European history includes the Middle Ages, Baroque period, and The Enlightenment in ...