form. The step between translating scientific journals to the public undoubtedly creates susceptibility for misrepresentation of the information presented in scientific studies and journals. According to Hans Peter Peters, a social scientist at the Research Center Jülich, Germany, “the conceptualization of…
Before attempting to identify “to what degree can a research within the social science be considered scientific” the researcher must first become familiar with what a research is (APUS, 2017). Research is more than a collection of information from a source. Research must project “subjective processes, social relations, and artifacts (including research instruments and methods) enable researchers to objectively comprehend phenomena” (Ratner, 2002). However, the postmodernist contention that the…
annotated bibliography, however, with the research I have made I think it…
Jean Piaget (1929) has listed five categories of responses which occurred in interviews with children and these five categories can be extended for classifying interviewee’s responses in other contexts – answers at random, suggested conceptions, liberated conceptions, spontaneous conceptions and romancing (as cited in Wellington, 2000). Analyzing such responses is a tiresome yet important task for any researcher in order to understand how relevant the response is. Every researcher is faced with…
Ophthalmology, UCLA Stein Eye Institute. She is an exceptional young scientist and her appointment will certainly benefit the research program at your Institution. My strong enthusiasm for the appointment of Dr. Kaylor stems first from her exceptional research accomplishments, and second from my personal impressions of her during our interactions at the biennial FASEB Scientific Research Conference on the Biology and Chemistry of Vision. Dr. Kaylor and I share common scientific interest in the…
The reason why life is marvelous is that people can meet different people, experience different life style, and visit different sites. Diversity is crucial for the world. I will choose the second one “the group should be diverse” which means I want subject matter experts, but also want others who can offer differing points of view since being around people who are different from us makes us more creative, more diligent and harder-working (Philips, 2014). A diverse organization includes people in…
According to studies in interdisciplinary collaboration (Bozeman et al., 2016; Scarbrough, Panourgias and Nandhakumar, 2015; Siedlok and Hibbert, 2014; Jahn, Bergmann and Keil, 2012; Akkerman and Bakker, 2011), many motivational factors have been identified as drivers of cross-disciplinary collaboration; they could be grouped into four major factors. Firstly, most societies are faced with complex and multifaceted issues such as global warming. Connecting knowledge from different disciplines is…
numbers can indicate mobility through life. While a very informative article, it contained a lot of raw calculations and numbers that were hard to follow. It added many other points to consider in research into what strontium isotopes can tell us as well as precautions needed to be considered when doing research of…
The potentials of neuroimaging technologies are vast. During his lecture on the principles of neuroimaging data, Dr. Lindquist highlighted “emerging applications” of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) as a means to predict not only health status, but also human behavior (Lindquist, 2016). But, does this mean that neuroimaging has the ability to predict or even influence the success of political campaigns? Neuropolitics, an arising field, posits that it can. In “Neuropolitics, Where…
• • • Ethnographic Field Studies: researchers meet with and study participants in their natural environment, where they would most likely encounter the product or service in question. • Participatory Design: participants are given design elements or creative materials in order to construct their ideal experience in a concrete way that expresses what matters to them most and why. • Focus Groups: groups of 3-12 participants are lead through a discussion about a set of topics, giving verbal and…