Empirical

Anais, Alonso Module #3 PHI2010 1 Compare and contrast various views of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism. Hinduism is one of the world’s oldest religions. It predates written records and its origins are lost in the past. The term Hinduism refers to the collection of faiths that are believed to have originated in India, but other scholars believe that was brought to India a long ago by nomadic people. It is a polytheistic system with various gods and goddesses as well as lesser deities.…

the agency problem, they will therefore reduce the money they are willing to pay for the new shares and hence, increasing the cost of new equity. Based on the empirical results of the study carried out by Vilasuso and Minkler (2001), with the Assumtion that the factor of agency costs are same for the firms within one industry, the empirical model confirms that the firm’s capital structure is a function of its delayed capital structure as well as the degree of asset specificity. Nevertheless,…

By and large, the empirical evidence in this article presented that bureaucratic responsiveness depended on not just professional judgments but also political influences from strong political parties and community organizations. In the case of OSHA, Scholz et al. (1991) further…

The aim of this project was to engage with senior residents living in ageing public housing and exploring whether their ageing public housing dwelling has any impact on their health and well-being. This was to be an exploratory study using semi-structured interviews conducted in the participant’s place of residence and the ensuing transcripts of the interviews data mined for contextual themes across all participants. The themes were to be compared with selected literature to compare findings…

convictions or not. According to the author, majority of such cases were due to the misidentification by the eyewitness, the misconduct of the policemen or the prosecutors and in some cases false confessions or perjured testimony. Thereafter a number of empirical investigations tried…

There are few empirical studies conducted to test the validity of the proposed models. Cienki (2004, 2005a, 2005b) are the first contribution to the linguistic investigation of the models. He merged between the quantitative and qualitative approaches. Cienki (2004) conducted an analysis in order to empirically testing Lakoff’s models. His corpus was a televised debates between George W. Bush and Al Gore before the US before the presidential campaign in October 2000. Cienki searched for the…

Over 260 research studies were reviewed from which stimulus items were constructed to reflect empirical results that differentiated subjects with high or low achievement motivation. Each item in the original pool was then reviewed and field tested to assess its readability, ambiguity, and redundancy. This content review resulted in 153 self-report items. The items were constructed to reflect the empirical results found in the review of the literature, and were grouped in definable categories…

philosophy a new shift. One of his most interesting ideas I learned, which make him one of the most important philosophers in the 21st century, is the importance of the relationship that exists in the human being between the abstract world and the empirical world. He came to the conclusion that if people want to have real knowledge and a good moral life, reason (rationalism) is needed and he/she must have some concrete data of the natural…

of the world and still preserve their faith in a higher being? In order to analyze the compatibility of religion and science we should define each discipline. In this essay, science is knowledge of the natural world based on facts learned through empirical evidence, theories and data, while religion is the belief in a higher being without need of proof. I will only focus on one aspect of religion which is the belief in a higher being and not the specific elements of respective religions such as…

approach is also applicable to explain how the disorder developed. This essay will argue that both cognitive and behavioural models contribute to the manifestation of schizophrenia in some individuals and not others. This assertion is supported by vast empirical research on how both theories contribute to symptomology and eventual diagnosis. A discussion of the strengths and weakness of the cognitive and behavioural approach’s is also provided. The cognitive model of schizophrenia provides…