As the name implies, it begins by first formulating a hypothesis which could be tested, accepted or rejected by the result of the data, gathering of data, hypothesising an explanation for the observations, deducing or predicting a result while conducting the experiment or research. ... The hypothesis is tested through the analysis of a research result. ... The operational definition removes the concept from the feelings and intuitions of a particular individual and allows it to be tested by anyone who can carry out the measurable operations.... However, as scientists, our observation if struc...

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Next, they took a cell- that carried the genetic code from both its parents-from another sheep that they wanted to clone and put it in a test tube for 5 days. ... Animal cloning has enough advantages that it would not be necessary to test this technique on humans. ... Biotechnology companies are developing animal models to test potential treatments for various life-threatening diseases. ... Medicines to treat that disease can be tested on these mice that would increase the speed with which human cures can be developed. ... This could significantly enhance the ability to test new treatments for...

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Through the years, and probably through the centuries, teachers have struggled to make math meaningful by providing students with problems and examples demonstrating its applications in everyday life. As this classic joke shows, some strategies are more successful -- and more meaningful -- than others! Teaching Math in 1950: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit? ...

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1. Introduction The basic role of the university and public, academic environment, which also includes faculty as parts of universities, was for many years focused on two main activities - education and research. Slowly it began to emerge and assert a third main business faculties or universities, a...

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"The human skin is an artificial boundary: the world wanders into it, and the self wanders out of it, traffic is two-way and constant" - Bernard Wolfe, 1963 Since the conception of man, philosophers and historians the world over have struggled to define what it means to be human. With the advent o...

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Abstract The endeavor herein, is to examine the issues surrounding why there is a lack of scientific literacy among America's students, as well as, how this lack of knowledge impacts on the science and technology workforce of tomorrow. At present, America is not the leading world power in scientific...

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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 ha...

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Martin Esslin speculates that Brecht focused on the scientific system being "an open system, relying on constant testings of its findings by experiment" (2103) that allowed all individuals to freely experiment at their own will. ...

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ESSAY ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF FEMINIST ONTOLOGY AND EPISTEMOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Feminist theory, it should be mentioned from the beginning of the paper, is not a unified theory. As women experience the social world differently (according to class, age or "race"), there exist different feminis...

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Modern science is the practice of skepticism. Skepticism is defined as acritical attitude which systematically questions the notion that absolute knowledge and certainty are possible...in particular fields? (Skeptic's Dictionary), meaning that modern science is the understanding that current scientificknowledge? is never infallible and that methods and truths must constantly evolve. Someone who experiments and constantly questions norms is a modern scientist. ...

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