This article identifies a gap in the literature, advocating for research to focus on how the different types of evidence (in the form of knowledge and input) from plethora stakeholders, relate to one another; and what (if any) is the hierarchy of knowledge(s) from the various communities (policy, research and practice). 1. ... A literature review is provided examining dominant paradigms and illustrating that despite some contestation, there is widespread agreement of the significant role evidence plays (and in a more normative sense should play) in policy-making (Smith & Kulynych 2002, Young ...

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Furthermore, the file drawer effect refers to the practice of researchers filing away studies with negative outcomes. ... In a secondary study conducted by Baker, the results were similar. ... The results from both studies provided little evidentiary support for those who insist that people somehow can sense when they are being stared at. ... In addition, there is a huge literature on probability learning that suggests people are very good at learning global and local probabilities in the patterning of events which is what appears to have happened during Sheldrake's experiment (Servan-Sc...

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The University of Pennsylvania conducted a notorious head-injury study in which baboons were strapped into a chair and their heads were snapped back and necks broken (Horvitz 40). ... If someone had not videotaped the study, this type of animal experimentation would have continued. ... Biomedical literature shows that subtle differences between species in causal mechanisms can produce many profoundly different functional attributes. ... There are 55,000 primates used every year for laboratory experiments studying a range of phenomenon from brain disorders and sexually transmitted diseases ...

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The author contends that it is only with the emergence of travel, literature, and history that a new formation towards this "Other' begins to find a place within these theories. ... During the scientific revolution, where the separation from religion and the study of humanity began and new developments in physics and astronomy emerged, the author notes how Darwin's revolution opened scientific exploration further into the areas of geology and biology. ... Darwin, starting as a geologist, studying the transformations in the Earth, connected these changes in the natural physical ...

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Also without any study done or shown, Dr. ... If there is no study done and no scientific proofs of the device, then how can any reasons for its failure be determined? ... Schlobotnik has to follow what science follows and genuine scientific literature to be neither ignored nor misinterpreted in order to convince people that the memory device is based on science. ...

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Albert's best subjects were Literature and mathematics. ... Einstein was Jewish In 1933 he went to the United States, where he accepted a position at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. ...

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When Whitney first gets her assignment, whether it be studying bacterial conjugation or mobile sequences or DNA called transposons, she typically has the same researching process each time. She starts off with a "literature search", which in her field means anything and everything relating to her topic in scientific journals. ...

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"If the text is sacred, if it was grasped by the audiences for whom it was made as a revelation of God's will, perhaps of his literal words, how can one hope to explain through categories developed for the understanding of such a fundamentally secular individual, and aesthetic enterprise as that of later Western literature. " (Sacred History and The Beginnings of Prose Fiction By Robert Alter) Moses and David can be considered ˜Sacred History' because to some they are just that, a story or something people made up in order to teach future generations lessons. ... Scientific hi...

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So are our emotions in the presence of great art or music or literature, or acts of exemplary selfless courage such as those of Mohandas Gandhi or Martin Luther King, Jr. ... Some studies are starting to show that "all religions create neurological experiences" and that God is as real as the physical world. ...

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