Kidnapping crimes often involve ransom notes hand written in ink. In this case, the perpetrator left behind such a note. To find out what ink was used on the note, chromatography was performed. ... To find out which ink pen was used in the ransom note, the experimenters had to perform a chromatographic experiment. ... It was easy to then match up the results and derive upon a conclusion of which pen was used to write the ransom note. ...

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My favorite math teacher was Mrs. Moore, mostly because we got along really well and she was always willing to help me and talk to the class. She was my pre-algebra teacher at Running Brushy Middle School. In her class we got to have fun while doing math, by making games and having class discussio...

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It is facinating to note, however, that though the goals of psychology may be honorable, it appears at times that no matter what measures are taken by the researcher to ensure qualified results, things may not be as they appear. ... For example, in my opinion, something as particular as one's perspective (ie biological, psychodynamic etc) can play a large role, by creating bias, in the way that one describes or notes how a behavior is being observed. ...

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Depicting belief to be "of the nature of a habit ", Pierce rejects what he calls the method of tenacity, noting that numerous people lean toward satisfaction to truth and will maintain a strategic distance from uncertainty once they have settled upon a consoling belief; accordingly, periodic conviction is liable to coherent error. ... He notes, nonetheless, that government (and other social foundations) at last commands truth as indicated by it engages instead of to the respectability of rationale; subsequently this methodology, which he calls the strategy for power, inescapably prompts its ow...

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Peregrine, however, notes that Harris' definition is inherently narrow and does not encompass the majority of anthropological research, thus by Harris' definition and Peregrine's analysis it can be deduced that anthropology cannot be considered a scientific discipline (Peregrine, 2012: 593). ... Moses notes that while a scientific approach is useful when considering large datasets and extrapolating significance, a humanistic approach takes patterns obtained from scientific research and explores them in more distinct, culturally-textured contexts (Moses, 2012:594). ...

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To Bob, a symphony concert doesn't just sound like a blissful masterpiece, it also tastes like a cup of hot apple cider. For Elaine, whenever her family sits down to a nice steak dinner, she doesn't just taste the feast set before her, she sees a gorgeous palette of colors sweeping across her mind's...

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Weather it be reading and understanding a graph, to actually noting down observations from an experiment, to acting upon a certain statistical fact, all lead to the betterment of each of these fields. ...

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It is important to note that although Weber believed that value neutrality was the aim of research, his view was that no science is fundamentally neutral and its observational language is never independent of the way individuals see phenomena and the questions they ask about them (Morrison 1995 pp.267, 347) It is this link between the researcher's theoretical stand and the methods adopted that raises the question as to whether sociology can be value free. ...

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A brief description of both are: "classification provides the generilazations that allow us to note regularities in the world and inference allows us to make sense of these regularities by orgaizing them them to coherent logical sequences," (Dunbar, 58). ...

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The scientific method is a very important and essential part of science and a way to understand the world that we live in. The scientific method follows a standardized procedure that almost all scientists use today which is universally accepted. This standardized procedure can begin with a simple o...

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In this article Bandura gives explanation on how social learning theory examines behavior through the construction of effects by events. He implicates that cognitive factors in part determine how external events will be perceived. According to Bandura, social learning perspective involves a constan...

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The effect of bystanders on helping behaviour Single measured experiments concerned with helping behaviour were conducted. This experiment was concerned with the effect of bystanders on helping behaviour. Experiments were conducted in a public place within Monash University. Experimenter will dro...

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He explains " Since Crania .Americana is primarily a treatise on the inferior quality of Indian intellect, I note first of all that Morton's cited average of 82 .cubic inches for Indian skulls is incorrect. ...

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But a limitation of this method is that field notes are not as accurate and is susceptible to memory bias, that is the recall of the events is susceptible to the personal impressions of the researcher....

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As a single mother of 2, living in a small apartment with a large monthly rent in downtown Houston, having to decide what to do with the 10 extra sandwiches each day is a tough moral decision for Anne. She has all these sandwiches that she can keep to feed her children for a couple days, she can giv...

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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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If we are convinced that prayer, when added to our lives, will have an effect on our health and well being, then we can also take note that the blessings will not only come to us, but will overtake us. ...

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I know that a never ending argument can be started over many topics, one that never fails is the discussion over religion and science. Even knowing about the conflict, any time the topic arises people will still discuss and argue over what they hold to be true. Through exploring science, a doubt i...

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