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Multifractal Models in Forecasting Volatility

of differing influences has been seen is in the financial market and the way stocks or share prices behave. While some theories ha...

Babylon 5 vs. Star Trek

characters who came after them. Star Trek is also known for its progressive point of view. Roddenberry often presented a sort of ...

Science Instruction and Safety Issues

and materials are stored properly and that any potentially hazardous materials were not inadvertently left out in the classroom (E...

Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton

2002). Despite the appeal of the traditional story, historical evidence shows that Newtons theory of universal gravitation did not...

Considering the Soul and Psychology

while the second cannot be perceived by are "intelligible (grasped by thought), not composed of parts, and exempt from dissolution...

Evidence and Knowledge: How Do We Know?

that it sometimes seems as if no possible argument could elicit even the consideration that those beliefs could possibly be wrong....

Forensic Science and the Scientific Method

nature of everything from human and animal biology to the farthest reaches of the cosmos. Because of this, what scientists "do" is...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Evelyn Fox Keller's Reflections on Gender and Science

In five pages this paper compares these two works in consideration of gender empiricism and how science directs its own study fiel...

Christian Themes in the Surrealist Paintings of Salvador Dali

themes, brought to life in his symbolistic style of painting. These paintings are characterized by meticulous draftsmanship and ...

An Analysis of Basic Political Science Concepts

In seven pages socialism, capitalism, democracy, and liberalism are a few of the concepts discussed and analyzed with the assistan...

Slow River by Griffith and Search for Identity

In 10 pages this science fiction text is examined regarding the identity search of the protagonist. There are 2 sources cited in ...

Medieval Society and the Occult

on the church affected social considerations and they merely had the appearance of emanating from the church itself. Additionally,...

Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee's Rama II

the fact that there may be disagreement in discerning whether or not the teams were more homogeneous than mixed. In other words, o...

Feminist View on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Science

In seven pages this paper considers science as presented in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley from a feminist perspective that includes...

Portrayals of Humanity and Science in Frankenstein and Maezel's Chess Player

A 5 page analysis of humanity and science as they are portrayed by Mary Shelly's and Edgar Allan Poe. 2 sources....

Trustworthiness of Scientific Theory

to an earth-centered solar system on his unaided observations of the heavens. Despite his miscellaneous charts, tables and predict...

Discussion of Quantitative Social Science

In five pages Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man and Alfred Crosby's The Measure of Reality are contrasted and compared as ...

Economics and its Scientific Development

In six pages this paper examines how economics developed as a science with the contributions of John Locke, John Maynard Keynes, M...

Stephen Gould's Chauvet Cave The Discovery of the World's Oldest Paintings, a Rhetorical Analysis

brain-picking sessions, the symposia, the panel-discussion, the interview-in short, a rhetoric of the stop-and-go, give-and-take d...

Americanism's Essence Through Advancement, Adaptability, and Adventure

the phrase "I came, I saw, I conquered" is, in short, the essence of the spirit of adventure, adaptability, and advancement that d...

The Science of Consciousness

not sound in this matter due to the inability to gather all necessary data prior to the reduction (Cooney, 1999). Without the cor...

Deception in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale'

"General Prologue" of The Canterbury Tales, is one of only two pilgrims who tells no story of his own (Conlee 36). While critic J...

Falsifiability and Karl Popper

at the time of his own writing (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2002). What Popper was doing was going against the commonly a...

The Sparrow by Mary D. Russell

conveniently Earth-like, with an oxygen atmosphere, abundant plant-life that is non-toxic for human consumption, and bi-pedal, rou...

Self Identity and Nelson Mandela

quiet demeanor. And yet, this quiet, intelligent man has managed to accomplish great things in his life. He is known the world o...

Science of Sociology

the status of a full scientific enterprise. The author states that its essential flaw is its failure to accept its own limitations...

Political Science as a Discipline

make decisions in the environments of public, political pressure, coercion and vice (Schall, 2001). Most academics do not question...

Cross Membrane Transport and Molecular Mixtures in Joe Alper's Article 'Drug Delivery Breaching the Membrane'

The passage of drugs through the bodys membranes is affected by the process of osmosis and the osmotic pressure which builds up on...

An Article on Quantum Mechanics Reviewed

of two such photons can preordain the result of the third measurement - even in the case of nonlocality, or rather, even if the pa...

Uses of Technology in the Classroom

in order for the children of today to be "effective leaders and productive citizens" of tomorrow, they will require confidence in...