Essays Tagged: "Researcher"

Can Geneics Cause Crime - Are genetic factors more likely to make one person violent?

Mike CarlieAre genetic factors more likely to make one personperform violent acts? Many doctors and researchers in thefield of genetics have searched for a answer to thisquestion.During 1989-93 one su ...

(3 pages) 196 0 3.4 Nov/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

Werner Heisenberg

ge. In Heisenberg's case he received it at the young age of twenty three. Heisenberg was not just a researcher. He was also a professor and author. During his career he taught at many prestigious univ ...

(6 pages) 89 0 4.5 Jan/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Does Sexual Harassment Still Exist in the Military for Women, Even in the Nineties?

tary does have sexual harassment and discrimination against women inthe nineties. "Firestone and co-researcher Richard J. Hurns analyzed a 1988 DOD Surveyof men and women in the military and found tha ... .) Donegan, Craig. "New Military Culture: do women, blacks, and homosexualsget fair treatment?". CQ Researcher. April 26, 19964.) Military Women Profile. "Military Women by the Numbers." September30,1 ...

(6 pages) 174 0 3.9 Nov/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Sleep Apnea

r routine maintenance (e.g., urinating, etc.).Dr. Quentin Regestein, lead sleep and sleep disorders researcher atHarvard Medical School also believed that sleep kept our distant ancestorsout of harms ... boutthings that affect sleep. In Dr. Regestein notes, he spoke of experimentsthat were performed by researchers. The researchers he spoke of woulddestroy specific brain structures of a lab animal and ...

(5 pages) 187 0 3.0 Oct/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Organizational Culture How do we as leaders change an environment that appears to be detrimental to allowing our soldiers to "be all they can be"?

y want to do is change the way the Army thinks. We want to change the Amy's culture. Organizational researcher Edgar Schein points out that an organization's culture is a pattern of assumptions judged ...

(4 pages) 352 0 3.3 May/2002

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Who does immigration affect?

heir wages fall because of competition by the lower-skilled new immigrants. According to one of the researcher, Moore Sullivan, studies show that for each immigrant who entered the United States (betw ...

(4 pages) 209 1 3.3 Dec/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays

A balanced essay that defines racism, classism and sexism and presents what in my view are the best remedies for all three.

ve changed over the term or in ways opinions with which you began the course have gotten stronger.A researcher asked a man his opinion of a certain ethnic group. "They are moody and quick-tempered," h ... flowers and even "black" and "white." Contrary to the notion that small children are "color blind," researchers agree that toddlers exposed to a variety of races will soon begin noticing "differences ...

(14 pages) 517 3 4.7 Dec/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

INTRODUCTION TO MARKET RESEARCH AND PLANNING. THE THEORY AND PRACTICE AND THE BENEFITS

round their product. To continue to be successful, organisations must receive information, from the researcher that is clear and accurate. It also has to satisfy your pre-determined goal for your rese ... nd Next all carry out observational research. The research is through a 'mystery/test shopper'. The researcher takes on the role of a customer and rates the staff's performance. Again I have been invo ...

(7 pages) 868 0 3.9 Jan/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

Hitachi: True Experimental Design - MGT 480: Business Research Applications (Third in a series of Hitachi research method studies)

the problem.True Experimental Design Research"Experiments are studies involving intervention by the researcher beyond that required for measurement" (Cooper & Schindler, 2002, p. 381). Essentially ... required for measurement" (Cooper & Schindler, 2002, p. 381). Essentially, this means that the researcher conducting the study manipulates one variable, the independent variable, to observe the e ...

(3 pages) 166 0 3.1 Jan/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

CARS Decision Making Technique Article Review - MGT 350: Critical Thinking (article review of a decision making technique, including applications and limitations)

to determine the credibility of the source that is providing the material or issue. The listener or researcher should search for evidence of authenticity and reliability as the material is provided. S ... amining the information for fairness, objectivity, moderateness and consistency (Harris, 1997). The researcher should ensure that the argument or information is balanced and reasoned; slanted or selec ...

(3 pages) 788 3 4.5 Jan/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

History of database

of other database models and a lot of the computer technology which is in use today.In 1970 an IBM researcher named Ted Codd published the first article on relational databases. This article outlined ... e.Object Oriented DatabasesThe object oriented (OO) model is one of the most recent database models.Researchers became interested in it in the late 1970's and early 1980's as the concept of object ori ...

(22 pages) 926 0 3.7 Apr/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Effectively Managing Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

arch has been funded to unlock the keys of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD. Every researcher has a different idea on how to view the disorder (if they accept it as a legitimate disor ... f ADHD only become apparent when dealing with children who suffer from the disorder. Mona Charen, a researcher at Hudson Institute, and mother of an eleven-year old ADHD son says, "People without such ...

(6 pages) 154 0 4.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Biological Psychology.

der what evidence there is for an understanding of why we sleep.Up until the 1950's the majority of researchers believed that 'sleep' was a resting state that was the exact opposite of being awake. It ... tman and Aserinsky produced evidence that this was indeed not the case. Berger (1920) was the first researcher to use an electroencephalogram (EEG) to examine electrical brain activity during sleep. T ...

(7 pages) 201 0 5.0 May/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Research Methods Essay.

vey method. Both methods can provide extremely accurate results. The Experimental method allows the researcher to have great control over how the experiment is given. The survey method is accurate bec ... e great control over how the experiment is given. The survey method is accurate because it lets the researcher to get the thoughts and opinions of a much larger sample population.The differences of th ...

(3 pages) 367 3 4.5 Sep/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

How Succesful was Hitlers Propaganda from 1933-39.

on would not be accurate - the opinions affected. Who would, in Nazi Germany 1933-39, tell a street researcher that they believed "Triumph of the Will" to be contrived and blatantly self-indulgent pro ...

(15 pages) 151 1 5.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Sports Literature and Literacy.

The reader is what the reader does and is most fully alive when most fully engaged, therefore this researcher found that when student who was passionate about sports was presented with reading materi ... gnment or a chore, but actually relished the assigned reading as something besides school work. The researcher goes on to point out that in the senior high, where "Literature" supplants reading, class ...

(10 pages) 40 0 4.7 Oct/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies

Sports Literature and Literacy.

The reader is what the reader does and is most fully alive when most fully engaged, therefore this researcher found that when student who was passionate about sports was presented with reading materi ... gnment or a chore, but actually relished the assigned reading as something besides school work. The researcher goes on to point out that in the senior high, where "Literature" supplants reading, class ...

(11 pages) 98 0 3.8 Oct/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies

It could happen to us...

hen you talk with a couple that had divorced, what question might come into your mind at once?" The researcher believes that the first question that might popped-out in your mind is "why did they divo ... husband or even children. In this case, the victim should tell the police for their own safety. The researcher put a question on this, and 54.5% of the respondents think that the main reason which cau ...

(2 pages) 32 1 3.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Ethernet and Bluetooth.

ntroductionIn 1973, at Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Centre (more commonly known as PARC), researcher Bob Metcalfe designed and tested the first Ethernet network . While working on a way to l ...

(11 pages) 144 0 3.7 Nov/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

Associate professor of psychology, Sally Boysen.

hat makes the difference, as in the experiment known as Big Room/Little Room. In this experiment, a researcher uses a scale model to show a chimp where a real object is hidden in a full-size room- a t ... hough all of Boysen's adult female chimps performed the task immediately, it took five years before researchers could motivate the adult males to complete the task correctly. There's no question that ...

(1 pages) 17 0 2.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays