Research and development

participation in this year’s SC-ADAR program. I would like to thank the entire SC-ADAR team for their continuous support and outstanding commitment in encouraging the participation of minority population in diverse areas geared towards cutting edge research. The values and knowledge I have gained during my participation in this program is immeasurable. I would like to thank Dr. White for his exceptional approach in passing on life-changing knowledge through his lectures. I would also like to…

The marshmallow study was a tossup regarding the outcome of the children. What real evidence was produced to make this a true experiment to believe? To state that the children who ate the marshmallow were destined to be unsuccessful I think is a bit far stretched. If anything, the children that decided not to eat the marshmallow practiced self-control and that was to earn the extra marshmallow. Self-control is something the other children lacked, but just like anything it can be strengthened and…

of this article was to explore certain coping techniques termed as approach coping, avoidance coping, or observations of available social support for their role, if any, in the relationship between the Type D personality and perceived stress. The research also examined whether the distressed, also known as, Type D personality facilitated the association between perceived stress and signs of burnout. The researchers explored how Type D personalities are identified, their psychosocial affects,…

reading of this week was on chapter 10, titled Public health research ethic: Is non-exploitation the new principle for population based research ethics? The author begins defining public health research as to what the society do to assure the conditions in which we live are considered healthy. It goes over how the codes and principles of ethics were few until the 1980s, and the importance for setting morale and rules in conducting research. The author covers the Belmont Principles which are…

The Hampton Project, led by Dr. Cheryl Janifer LaRoche, Is where I worked as an intern. The project which investigates the lives and fates of hundreds of African Americans who were enslaved in the Hampton plantation, It seems mainly a historical-anthropological project. However, in its core it is also related to representation and social and political power -including the work that was assigned to me- which was sorting and finding the names of the people who were enslaved in Ridgely’s properties…

to interject during seemingly unsafe or suspicious circumstances? I stopped and began to think; would the questions above constitute a reputable statement that would produce valuable research. I began to think deeper and gathered this: 1. Why is unreported sexual abuse a concern of the community? As I reviewed research completed by Lisak and Miller, I as a member of the community became very alarm. Both researchers report individuals used in a data pool of 1, 882 individuals self-reported acts…

Of the studies identified as measuring speech perception or speech recognition, 10 were non-randomized treatment studies and 3 were randomized controlled trials. Due to their quasi-randomized study designs, De Miranda et al. 2008 and Stecker et al. 2006 were considered as non-randomized treatment studies. Of the thirteen studies, 3 were conducted in Portuguese Brazilian in Brazil. The rest were conducted in English in the United States. All articles were published in English between 1987 and…

out the results using The National Survey of Families and Households [NSFH] which according to National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) (n.d.) is “designed to provide a broad range of information on family life to serve as a resource for research across disciplinary perspectives”. Brush (1990) uses different point of views to help understand the results. Feminist and non feminist point of views to violence in married couples are shown. Then an empirical dispute between the two…

The qualitative data that was compiled from the minute paper, the information includes the frequencies in the Table below and the coding for each of the stress applications. The coding responses are revealed in order of precedence set by the athletic training students. For example, the first answer listed was referenced the most by the athletic training students in their minute paper. When completing the 168 hour and schedule (Appendix A) minute paper the following are the coded responses. When…

analysis of the quantitative article written by Gül, Üstündag, and Zengin, a thorough critique of all elements of the paper will be examined including summaries of the various elements in the research paper, the strengths and limitations of each element, as well as implications for practice. The purpose of the research paper is to assess the hand hygiene compliance of undergraduate students in the nursing and midwifery program (Gül et al., 2012, p. 275), as healthcare associated infections are…