The purpose of the study described in this article was to separate the effects of prior childhood sexual or physical abuse from the effects of prior adult sexual or physical abuse as determining or predicting factors in the development of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD. ... Three subscales created to determine the presence of factors that would predict the development of PTSD after a recent assault were used to collect data from the subjects. ... Even though childhood sexual abuse predicted adult victimization, this study found that it did not directly predict whether or not a curre...

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He predicted many things back then, and surprisingly many of them came true, according to him. ... However, was this something a 12 year old could have predicted? ... Perhaps many could have predicted one or two of his predictions correctly, but to have predicted all of them correctly, is something of an achievement, and you really have to take your hat off to him. ... He predicts that by year 2009, we will be carrying at least dozen computers in our body. ... However, people around 1998 would have predicted this along with Kurzweil, which just proves that Kurzweil didn't predict anyt...

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In prediction, historical data is used to build a predictive model that explains the current observed behavior. If we apply prediction task on courses offer in Telecommunication program, by applying association rule discovery we can predict that more user show interest in Telecommunication program if we offer variety of non-programming courses. ... We can predict on the basis of web usage records that there is noticeable growth rate of security related courses. ...

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An hypothesis is a limited statement regarding cause and effect in specific situations; it also refers to our state of knowledge before experimental work has been performed and perhaps even before new phenomena have been predicted. We then use the hypothesis and deductive reasoning to predict the existence of other phenomena, or to predict quantitatively the results of new observations. ...

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Newton mathematics provide accurate approximations for his calculation, thus predicting the position of planets. ... It is responsible for earths water tides, which allow us to predict the rise and fall of sea levels. ... Through careful observation scientists are able to predict direction of currents, amount of water in channels and even ...

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There are three main hypotheses that have been created to explain how training motivation predicts participation in training and development. The first hypothesis suggests direct links, as in training motivation and a helpful work place will predict participation in training and development. ... Supervisor and employer support were significant Time 1 work place predictors of training and development, while job challenge and workload were not. ... Only the independent variable of supervisor support predicted training and development (B= .14). ... Employer support for training and developme...

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They did this by having a study in which they carried out IQ tests on pupils and then generated false results in which 20% of the pupils were said to the teacher to be likely to achieve highly in all of their work, at the end of the academic year that randomly selected 20% of students had done better than the rest in the subject and the teachers had formed a better perception of those students who were predicted to score better even those that were selected may not actually have done better than the rest of the pupils. ...

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Through the use of this method the goals of psychology: to describe, explain, predict and control behavior, are accomplished which in turn provides the ability to improve the quality of life for individuals. ...

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Genetics and physiology however, cannot fully predict human behavior. ... Psychology identifies and isolates the unquantifiable mental x-factors that characterize human beings, and hopes to explain or even predict the flow of human thought. ...

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Conclusion & Predictions As time goes on , I predict that philosophy will evolve with the views of different societies and their beliefs about the world. I predict that in a few hundred years, most religions will become extinct the theory of evolution will no longer be debated but just accepted as scientific fact. ...

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For instance, on Social sciences, as psychologists you can never predict exactly how the patient will react. ... To round up, we would like to say that after analyzing the quote "All knowledge is uncertain, inexact and impartial", we wasn't able to come to a clear conclusion, as we had already predicted. ...

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Career Report Project Computer Hardware Engineers have to research, design, develop, and test computer or computer-related equipment for commercial, industrial, military, or scientific use. The engineers also may supervise the manufacturing and installation of computer or computer-related equipmen...

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The fourth finding was especially intriguing: the probability matrices based on growth after just one reading encounter proved to predict the growth effects of subsequent encounters surprisingly well for both R and W. ...

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The Nature of Science Science, for me is relatively a complex, but at the same time, a very appealing subject. Without attempting to make a hasty generilazation, it is rational to say that most people find science a dreadful subject. Nonetheless, I feel this complex subject is fundamental for hum...

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Although their empirical study found no convincing support for most of these intervening variables (they admit limitations in their measures and data sampling), their findings did suggest that age acts in conjunction with expectations, education and past success in avoiding confinement in predicting desistence. ...

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Jake, an ordinary student from Washington Middle School, was walking to school one morning when he saw a bulletin on the board about an upcoming science fair where the first place winner got a huge trophy, $100 in cash, and was distinguished at a banquet afterwards. Excited to tell his friends, he ...

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Observational Learning is the theory that human beings learn to behave in certain ways by observing and imitating the behaviour of others. By observing other people's behaviour we can learn the consequences of certain actions and depending on the observed outcome decide whether the actions are benef...

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MILGRAM'S STUDY OF OBEDIENCE Motivated by the brutality of Nazi Germany, Stanley Milgram devised an experiment to test how people respond to authority. "Fourteen Yale psychology majors were provided with a detailed description of the experiment. They were asked to predict the hypothetical behavi...

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There is a good chance that the grandchildren will make this observation predicted; although, with inductive thinking there is always the possibility that the argument might be false, for they are statements of probability not certainty. ...

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When answering questions about existence, and the possibility of a god, science and religion can both be used effectively together to find answers. Both points of view are of equal value and one should not be discredited over the other. The relationship between Science and Religion can be explaine...

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Science was advancing at such an incredible rate that many fictional writings of the time predicted such things as colonization of the moon, flying cars, and that computers would be running almost all aspects of society by the end of the 20th century. ...

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He has also concluded that Stonehenge was used to predict the positions of the sun and the moon relative to earth and thereby, the seasons, and thus, illustrating Stonehenge's calendar-like function. ...

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In "The Fixation of Belief," Charles Sanders Pierce contends that the scientific method is better than all different systems, because of it s capacity to build what is true and what is not valid in a specific way. He contends that since "experience of the method has not led us to doubt it," the scie...

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In the eighth century, a new Muslim kingdom was established by the Umayyad in Spain. Cordoba, the capital city of the kingdom, became the centre of intellectual life. In this flourishing time, Muslims were known for their love of knowledge and books. Then during the Abbasid era, House of Wisdom was ...

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1. In "Homo Loquens"," Marshall Poe describes his theories on speech communication. Within his ideas, he points out disadvantages in speech, and how society tends to interpret it. One disadvantage that Poe pointed out was the idea of privacy, and how with speech, nothing can ever be private. "You have to be pretty good with masks, makeup, or false mustaches to fool anyone looking right at you, and most of us aren't (Poe 39). ...

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