Peer review

tendencies. During early adolescence procuring and conserving high-status positions among peer groups is of colossal importance to the majority of juveniles. So much so that adolescents tend to place higher emphasis on reputational status rather than academic achievement, romantic relationships, and other social interactions. Consequently, the romantic relationships young adolescents do engage in are to promote peer status. high-status positions can be linked to aggression as well as prosocial…

If you google Big Data you will notice big corporations like IBM, SAS, Oracle providing enterprise solutions with punch lines “Transform Your Business” and “Big Data Can Generate Big Brainstorms” promising business growth. The reality behind investing in Big Data analytics is still hidden. Today we have the tools to analyze massive amount of data but we still lack the expertise to derive correlations from it. In the public realm finding relation between health and air pollution can be an example…

“The 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) seeks to adapt, reshape, and rebalance our military to prepare for the strategic challenges and opportunities we face in the years ahead.” The QDR addresses several tough choices which need to be made in order to ensure the US Armed Forces remain the most dominant military in the world. Airpower is defined as, “the ability to project military power or influence through the control and exploitation of air, space, and cyberspace to achieve strategic,…

The First Amendment forbids the abridgment only of "speech," but it 's been long recognized by the supreme court that its protection does not end at the spoken or written word. The question in the case of Professor Duane will be whether a particular conduct possesses sufficient communicative elements to bring the First Amendment into play, meaning, is there an intent to convey a particularized message with a likelihood that the message would be understood by those who view it. The argument could…

Ethics protocols are designed to protect groups from the potential harm and risks posed to them through the research process. Boards, like the Institutional Review Board (IRB), put in place a set of criteria to ensure the protection of people participating in research, particularly those from vulnerable groups. However, where lies the balance between conducting unbiased enlightening research and protecting the dependent? Describing a group as vulnerable is not a given, but rather, is up for…

over a wide geographic area.” This capability is critical to our future force. The primary risk associated with the increase in the Naval and Air Force budget is Operational Risk using the risk categories provided in the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review Report. “Allies, international and interagency partners are critical to success in meeting today’s security challenges.” The U.S. will have to reduce the amount of U.S. ground forces and tactical armor units in the future to meet the budget.…

From intentional unconsented infection of syphilis resulting in death to the rejection of a three-year long study due to a minor discrepancy; where is the line drawn between ethical and unethical conduct? Both the IRB (Institutional Review Boards) and REB (Research Ethics Boards) have done well to establish a set of common guidelines when it comes to conducting research; however, these agencies hold a surplus of power and lack a sense of researcher to agency equality within the system’s process.…

To: Mike Allery From: Vikash Patel Subject: 2015 Funding Date: 10/08/2015 Today one of the two proposed evolutions will be funded $25,000 from my agency. We will be briefly discussing each evaluation that is submitted and which one seems to qualify for the grant. We will go through the basic checklists that a successful evaluation must have to receive the grant for their organization. The first proposed evaluation is the Grant County SPF SIG evaluation plan, which is a worksite alcohol…

Anil Pothula 1004664. Given info Process Arrival Time Burst Time Priority P1 0 15 1 P2 3 2 5 P3 4 6 2 P4 8 2 3 P5 12 10 4 Q1. First Come First Serve: Here in this process our priority is arrival time, as the name suggests first priority is given to the process that arrived first. Process1 Process2 Process3 Process4 Process5 T=0 15 17 23 25 35 Shortest Job First: Here in this process our priority is time…

Character Analysis of David Lurie My character Analysis will be about David Lurie from Disgrace by J.M Coetzee. He was chosen for this topic because he is of course the center of the book, mainly because he has a lot going on in his life that can be elaborated on. David Lurie, in my opinion is in fact an interesting character who made some bad choices in his life, especially for his age. I disfavor David’s actions and choices he made. For a man in his fifties, he should not be flirting…