Scientific misconduct

2. Experience 2.1 Landscape Function Analysis At Mulloon Home Farm, Luke introduced Mulloon catchment and Mulloon institution to us. Then we started our research with Forest LFA, including landscape organization assessment (LOA) and soil surface assessment (SSA). Firstly, we set up a 50m transect running directly up and down the slope and mapped patches and interpatches on this transect. We regarded the place where resources could be accumulated as patches, like grass, shrubs, logs or trees.…

There are numerous practices that are used in the criminal justice system. Professionals need to determine which theoretical approaches works best to help the system. Searching empirical studies and then utilizing that information can help determine the best theoretical practices. Correctional facilities should use different practices for restorative justice, crime prevention, and corrections to improve our criminal justice system. Defining different theoretical approaches can also improve…

The question of existence has been the topic of discussions, debates, and writings for many centuries. The eyes are driven to see what they want to believe, creating an illusion of things that sometimes is not truly there. It is often quoted that “perception is reality”, but perception is subjective. Individuals tend to see things differently, therefore isn’t their reality seen differently? Oftentimes, people are comfortable in their ignorance, and hostile to anyone who points it out. Within…

Caché Scene Journal Description of the Scene Caché is a French film, directed by Michael Haneke. I chose to analyze the last ten minutes of the film because I found the ending very intriguing. The specific time of the film scene I selected is from 1 hour 46 minutes of the film till the end of the film. This scene can be divided into two specific scenes. The first scene takes place at George’s childhood farmhouse, and there is a man and woman who come in a car and pick up a little boy from the…

1. What is the shape of Ebbinghaus’s Classic forgetting curve, and what does it tell us about memory? Ebbinghaus’s Classic forgetting curve is shaped like a curved letter L (T. Hanson. Brain and Behavior). It tells us that the sooner we rehearse new information after learning it, the better the likelihood that we will remember it. However, the more time that passes, the less able we will be to remember all of the information and it only takes a few minutes for much of the information to become…

His theory hasn’t really received wide acceptance in the scientific community even though many professors and psychologists embrace it. The rebuttal that people say are that the intelligences are really just talents or personality traits(slideshare). They aren’t so much talents or personality traits. These intelligences…

Exercise Essay: Guidebook review Guidebooks in question: Buildings of England, London 4: North and The London Architecture Guide Nikolaus Pevsner and Bridget Cherry’s book, The Buildings of England, London 4: North and the Iphone application, The London Architecture Guide, take different approaches in making London’s architectural history accessible. In this essay, I compare and contrast these two guides, ultimately demonstrating that although the application is easier to understand, Pevsner’s…

After reading the essay “Should Fast-Food Workers Be Paid $15 per Hour” written by a student who goes by the name of Trudie Makens, it was clear that her piece fell under the genre of “articles in public affairs” (27) even as an exploratory essay for a class discussion. The topic of whether minimum wage should be raised or kept the same is discussed through various viewpoints from minimum wage employees to a business perspective. The essay’s purpose is to allow the reader to be exposed to the…

3.9. Development of the Interview Questions Holstein and Gubrium (2002) stated that interviews are a way of generating empirical data about the life of people in the social world by asking them as special types of conversations. The interviews were contained of two schedules, one for the instructors, and one for administrators. Both schedules were open-ended questions. They covered three parts: Part A included participants‟ demographic questions such as gender, years of working in profession,…

The Scientific management theory was created by Frederick Taylor, developed in the early 20th century. He believed that labour and productivity was greatly inefficient because the majority of the labour pool functioned according to the “rules of thumb’. He proposed to replace the traditional “rule of thumb” by factual scientific knowledge. Taylor’s theory was a great improvement in the traditional approach to the management process. In the modern-day workplace with elevated level of…