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Criminal Justice and Empiricism

of empiricism through three primary assumptions of an ontological, axiological, and methodological nature. This includes a realist...

Hume's Skepticism - An Overview

the importance of direct experience in the formulation of knowledge, is at the core of Humes overarching skepticism, which makes a...

Gender and Early Language Abilities

all environments. For example, children who do not live in homes where there is a lot of conversation and where there is little di...

Aligning Senior Executive and Shareholder Interests through Long Term Incentive Payments

looks at the relationship between the shareholders and the management of the company. Agency theory states the management of the c...

Multicultural Educational Environment and Counseling Issues

In eight pages African American students are examined in terms of literature regarding dropout rates for adolescents and college s...

Concepts and Theories of Object Recognition

In five pages this paper discusses memory in a consideration of object recognition and its importance with empirical evidence prov...

Five Empirical Studies on PTSD

3. a sense or action that suggests that the traumatic event is recurring, and in young children, trauma-specific reenactment may o...

Salivary Cortisol Testing and the Empirical Method

In four pages this controlled study on a flawed salivary cortisol children's tests and their inflated results are addressed throug...

Company Earnings and Dividends

In nine pages this paper examines how dividends can be studied in order to understand a company's present and future earnings with...

Candidate Screening and the Process of Interviewing

In fifteen pages this paper examines the process of interviewing prospective candidates in a literature review that considers a th...

Scientific Functionalism Versus Empiricism

This paper addresses the statement: functionalism is a scientifically suspect theory, quite apart from concern about its empirical...

Students with Special Needs and Educational Modification

In two pages this paper examines empirical studies regarding students who have special needs and educational modifications that wo...

Overview of an Empirical Study I

In three pages an empirical study regarding the differences in learning between students with special needs and those who do not h...

Special Education Empirical Study II

In three pages an empirical study is presented in which the differences in learning requirements between students who have special...

Innate Knowledge and the Debate Between Nativism and Empiricism

In nine pages the debate between innate or native knowledge as espoused by Kant, Descartes, and Plato is compared with the empiric...

Politics and Empirical Evidence Regarding School Vouchers

more efficiently compete for students. The market forces principles that Adam Smith applied to economics more than 200 years ago ...

Analysis of Massachusetts Changed Education Law

In six pages this paper uses Fisher's framework in order to analyze the change in Massachusetts' education law that reduces 'free ...

David Hume and John Locke on Perception

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the perception theories of David Hume and John Locke and exposes flaws in the empi...

Empirical Sciences and the Connection Between Observation and Theory

function can be said to be literal. In other words, what is inferred in immediately testable and will hold true for every person. ...

Carper's 4 Knowledge Types and Nursing Evaluation

(Snyder and Lindquist, 2001). Under this philosophy the social factors and even the spiritual factors of an individuals existen...

Beliefs of the East

In seven pages the Taoist, Buddhist, and Confucian concepts of 'nothingness' are examined in terms of how these ideas represent a ...

School Uniforms and Their Impact

conducted by the National Association of Elementary School Principals in 2000, surveyed 755 principals across the nation. Some of ...

Social Sciences and the Connection Between Causal Explanations and Empirical Regularities

cause with effect, regardless of the approach being employed (Causal Mechanisms, 2003). To this end, empirical regularities play ...

6 Questions on Calculations and Statistics II

was close to the middle of the distribution; and that values for 8, 9, 10 and 11 hours were higher than those for 3, 4, 5 and 6 ho...

Premarital Counseling Effects Upon Marriage Length

do arise in marriages that are not foreseen by the partners at the time that they marry. Problems with in-laws, money and sex are...

Nursing and Knowledge

led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...

Theory Dependence of Observation by Chalmers

necessarily based within the origins of observation (genes, DNA, etc.), giving considerable pause to the omnipotent credibility of...

Organizational Behavior and Customer Satisfaction

changes. Gomes, et al. (2003) investigate a company in the textile industry, one that supplies knitted clothing to its cust...

Empirical Measurement Validity and Reliability

Many research projects are based, in part, on interviews, for example. The problem with interviews is not merely the subjective so...

An Analysis of Nursing Care Concepts

individuals belief, values, and membership in family and social groups. Brodie (2001) asserts that it is the hallmark of professio...