achievement values, cognitive style and social class
... American students, perhaps because of their exposure to democratic-egalitarian values, may have higher expectations than Peruvian students about the relationship of personal achievement to ability. Since the relationship between ability and merit is in reality less than perfect in American society, ...
... American students, perhaps because of their exposure to democratic-egalitarian values, may have higher expectations than Peruvian students about the relationship of personal achievement to ability. Since the relationship between ability and merit is in reality less than perfect in American society, ...
Introduction to Research (Undergraduate)
... necessarily invalidate information gathered through other means. However, when data from science seem to contradict data from personal experience, intuition, social or cultural consensus, religious scripture and interpretation, or philosophy and rational thinking, an opportunity for learning has pre ...
... necessarily invalidate information gathered through other means. However, when data from science seem to contradict data from personal experience, intuition, social or cultural consensus, religious scripture and interpretation, or philosophy and rational thinking, an opportunity for learning has pre ...
... and exponential ranking. These schemes have been tested and compared on six standard benchmark functions. The obtained simulation results showed the efficient performance of the schemes other than the standard ABC. The article (Hyper)sequent Calculi for the ALC(S4) Description Logics by Juan Pablo M ...
Clinical Research Methods
... • The current system tends to marginalize psychological phenomena that fall outside the boundaries of a specific field (e.g., ...
... • The current system tends to marginalize psychological phenomena that fall outside the boundaries of a specific field (e.g., ...
The Principle of Common But Differentiated Responsibilities
... responsibility does result in different legal obligations. The techniques available in differentiated responsibility include ‘grace periods’ or delayed implementation and less stringent commitments. In recent interpretation of WTO law, there is movement towards an obligation to consider the particul ...
... responsibility does result in different legal obligations. The techniques available in differentiated responsibility include ‘grace periods’ or delayed implementation and less stringent commitments. In recent interpretation of WTO law, there is movement towards an obligation to consider the particul ...
When Does it Make Sense to Perform a Meta
... rationale for combining the different outcome measures in the analysis. Note that we have described binary outcomes (proportion of failing plants), continuous outcomes using different measurement scales (growth rate, yield), survival outcomes (time to fruit) and correlational data (dose-yield). The ...
... rationale for combining the different outcome measures in the analysis. Note that we have described binary outcomes (proportion of failing plants), continuous outcomes using different measurement scales (growth rate, yield), survival outcomes (time to fruit) and correlational data (dose-yield). The ...
EDF 5481 Educational Research Spring 2013
... 32. Refer to Exhibit 7-2. Chooses subjects that seem to be typical of the population being studied. a. Convenience b. Purposive c. Quota 33. If a research finding is found to be statistically significant it: a. confirms the research hypothesis. b. suggests the findings are significant contributions ...
... 32. Refer to Exhibit 7-2. Chooses subjects that seem to be typical of the population being studied. a. Convenience b. Purposive c. Quota 33. If a research finding is found to be statistically significant it: a. confirms the research hypothesis. b. suggests the findings are significant contributions ...
The Impact of Students Financial Aid on Demand for Higher
... system. Access to universities is made easier by providing financial aid in higher education for all irrespective of color or gender, equity and enrolment issues are also addressed. Scholars such as Bevia and Iturbe-Ormaetse (2002) and Hauptman (1998) find that in most countries the cost of higher e ...
... system. Access to universities is made easier by providing financial aid in higher education for all irrespective of color or gender, equity and enrolment issues are also addressed. Scholars such as Bevia and Iturbe-Ormaetse (2002) and Hauptman (1998) find that in most countries the cost of higher e ...
PPSI 2002 Short Research Summaries
... Lene Arnett Jensen Summary: A Cultural-Developmental Approach to Moral Psychology The aim of my presentation was to argue that the study of morality is central to positive psychology because the quest to make moral sense of experiences and the quest to be good are fundamental to the human condition. ...
... Lene Arnett Jensen Summary: A Cultural-Developmental Approach to Moral Psychology The aim of my presentation was to argue that the study of morality is central to positive psychology because the quest to make moral sense of experiences and the quest to be good are fundamental to the human condition. ...
Introduction One could start by considering where the name “Third
... 15 million people that would have driven the continent to a very promising future. Lastly, the handing over of administration from the colonial rulers to the colonies was not intended to see the independent national governments prosper, but rather to keep them dependent, having left them with poor ...
... 15 million people that would have driven the continent to a very promising future. Lastly, the handing over of administration from the colonial rulers to the colonies was not intended to see the independent national governments prosper, but rather to keep them dependent, having left them with poor ...
A bias-ed assessment of the use of SNPs in human complex traits
... risk factors, prediction the medically relevant goal. One element of prediction is related to confirmation of mutational effects in available samples, but in biomedicine the promised objective is accurate prediction of disease risk, often needing to be made many decades in advance. The optimal study ...
... risk factors, prediction the medically relevant goal. One element of prediction is related to confirmation of mutational effects in available samples, but in biomedicine the promised objective is accurate prediction of disease risk, often needing to be made many decades in advance. The optimal study ...
What is nationalism
... allegiance rather than on cultural identity. The nation, then, is a group of people bound together primarily by their shared citizenship, regardless of their cultural, ethnic and other loyalties. This view of the nation is often traced back to the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau ((1712-78), someti ...
... allegiance rather than on cultural identity. The nation, then, is a group of people bound together primarily by their shared citizenship, regardless of their cultural, ethnic and other loyalties. This view of the nation is often traced back to the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau ((1712-78), someti ...
Asynchronous state
... large fluctuations in the excitatory and inhibitory currents occur simultaneously and cancel, leading to a significant reduction in the correlation of the total synaptic currents c and output spikes. ...
... large fluctuations in the excitatory and inhibitory currents occur simultaneously and cancel, leading to a significant reduction in the correlation of the total synaptic currents c and output spikes. ...
The Influence of Social and Cultural Determinants - CIRST
... higher grades are more likely to choose university studies, while those with average or low grades tend to opt for college. In addition, access to university studies is more likely among students who attended a private secondary school (62%). To determine whether variables that are social and cultur ...
... higher grades are more likely to choose university studies, while those with average or low grades tend to opt for college. In addition, access to university studies is more likely among students who attended a private secondary school (62%). To determine whether variables that are social and cultur ...
Supplementary Information
... study nurse. MRI acquisition details: High resolution T1-weighted MR images were acquired on a 1.5 Tesla General Electrics scanner (Signa Excite) using an inversion recovery spoiled gradient echo sequence with a field of view 22 22 cm2; matrix 256 256, 124 sagittal slices; whole brain and skull ...
... study nurse. MRI acquisition details: High resolution T1-weighted MR images were acquired on a 1.5 Tesla General Electrics scanner (Signa Excite) using an inversion recovery spoiled gradient echo sequence with a field of view 22 22 cm2; matrix 256 256, 124 sagittal slices; whole brain and skull ...
Researchers study tourism-poverty nexus in Central America
... Central American economies are experiencing an environmental conservation and improved access ongoing boom in tourism, and in certain regions to strategic resources including knowledge of this often comes with real estate speculation in national development policies for the region. Hunt support of a ...
... Central American economies are experiencing an environmental conservation and improved access ongoing boom in tourism, and in certain regions to strategic resources including knowledge of this often comes with real estate speculation in national development policies for the region. Hunt support of a ...
Sarah Sklar
... 1. Which is an interdisciplinary study that integrates information and ideas from the natural sciences that study the natural world, and the social sciences that study how humans and their institutions interact with the natural world? A. Ecology B. Environmental Science C. Biology D. Earth Science 2 ...
... 1. Which is an interdisciplinary study that integrates information and ideas from the natural sciences that study the natural world, and the social sciences that study how humans and their institutions interact with the natural world? A. Ecology B. Environmental Science C. Biology D. Earth Science 2 ...
Identification of a large set of rare complete human
... represent LD between SNPs. When considering regions with three or more causal variants, such settings may lose LD information Haplotypes, which represent combinations of co-inherited alleles within the same chromosome, are a more biologically plausible way for representing LD among multiple loci. ...
... represent LD between SNPs. When considering regions with three or more causal variants, such settings may lose LD information Haplotypes, which represent combinations of co-inherited alleles within the same chromosome, are a more biologically plausible way for representing LD among multiple loci. ...
Historical research Descriptive research Experimental research
... relationship between the variables may vary from perfect, to high to average to no relationship. Correlation studies are particularly useful predictions. ...
... relationship between the variables may vary from perfect, to high to average to no relationship. Correlation studies are particularly useful predictions. ...
Introduction to Intro Micro
... Words of Encouragement “I would add one word for any student beginning economic study who may be discouraged by the severity of the effort which the study, as he will find it exemplified here, seems to require of him. The complicated analyses which economists endeavour to carry through are n ...
... Words of Encouragement “I would add one word for any student beginning economic study who may be discouraged by the severity of the effort which the study, as he will find it exemplified here, seems to require of him. The complicated analyses which economists endeavour to carry through are n ...
QMIN: Introduction
... people and the process is overkill, akin to duck hunting with a canon. There is no need to perform any statistics to test whether these observations are “due to chance.” Were an obstreperous reviewer to demand such statistics, one would naturally calculate them in order to get the paper published (o ...
... people and the process is overkill, akin to duck hunting with a canon. There is no need to perform any statistics to test whether these observations are “due to chance.” Were an obstreperous reviewer to demand such statistics, one would naturally calculate them in order to get the paper published (o ...
Preview Sample 1
... sociology class with a very psychological, individual-oriented perspective and do not readily recognize the social influences influencing human behavior and attitudes. The exercise thus starts with a focus on suicide, which is ordinarily considered a very individualistic act, and which most students ...
... sociology class with a very psychological, individual-oriented perspective and do not readily recognize the social influences influencing human behavior and attitudes. The exercise thus starts with a focus on suicide, which is ordinarily considered a very individualistic act, and which most students ...
Impact of Correlated inputs on Simple Neural Models
... Conclusions The pair wise correlation in the spike trains has a fundamental effect on the firing rate of the recipient neuron The effect is qualitatively independent of the neural model The neurons have specific preferences to certain levels of correlations in input trains The temporal correlation ...
... Conclusions The pair wise correlation in the spike trains has a fundamental effect on the firing rate of the recipient neuron The effect is qualitatively independent of the neural model The neurons have specific preferences to certain levels of correlations in input trains The temporal correlation ...
Comer, Abnormal Psychology, 8th edition
... To avoid bias by the experimenter, experimenters employ a “double-blind design,” in which the experimenters and the participants are kept from knowing which condition of the study participants are in ...
... To avoid bias by the experimenter, experimenters employ a “double-blind design,” in which the experimenters and the participants are kept from knowing which condition of the study participants are in ...
Accounting for Environment and Natural Capital: Indian Initiatives and experiences Smt S.Jeyalakshmi
... how very far the current system is from the ideal and how far it can be expected to remain from it. The Report presents a feasible transition path with the word of caution that even if figures for physical stocks were available, the deep problem of estimating shadow prices would remain. ...
... how very far the current system is from the ideal and how far it can be expected to remain from it. The Report presents a feasible transition path with the word of caution that even if figures for physical stocks were available, the deep problem of estimating shadow prices would remain. ...