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Showing 1 to 20 of 213 for “"scientific evidence"”.
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The role of scientific evidence in collective action decision-making
… and ultimate success. The growing field of evidence-based conservation highlights this point, which urges practitioners to base their decisions on the best scientific evidence available. The literature repeatedly stresses the importance of information in collective action, yet limited …
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Predicting the Bull Run: scientific evidence for turning points of markets
… (JSE) All Share Index (ALSI). It provides scientific evidence of past research of turning points in markets, focusing on bull markets as evidence suggests that predictability of bull markets leads to superior returns for an asset manager. In addition, this study provides an analysis of …
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Scientific evidence to support the art of prescribing spectacles. Identification of the clinical scenarios in which optometrists apply partial prescribing techniques and the quantification of spectacle adaption problems.
… varies significantly and no direct research evidence was available to support their use. Accordingly in chapters 2 and 3, the uses of several potential prescribing rules were investigated in the UK optometric profession. Our results indicated that the subjective refraction result exerted a …
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Violent teeth: The validity and scientific basis for bite mark evidence
… of dental x-rays used for compariSon Dental evidence is accepted in courts, but its validity and the scientific basis for its use as evidence, has been questioned. One problem is the wide variety of dental techniques described in the literature and the lack of direction from both European and …
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A Mixed-Method Examination of Primary Care Physician Message Strategies to Correct Patient-Held Health Misinformation: An Application of Goals-Plans-Action Theory
… (i.e., inaccurate health messaging that lacks scientific evidence), there is a need for successful communication strategies to combat this detrimental health issue (Krishna & Thompson, 2021). Guided by goals-plans-action theory (Dillard, 1990), which explains the communicative process of …
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Essays in Information Economics
… by Jakub Redlicki, investigates falsification of scientific evidence by interest groups. We analyse a game between a biased sender (an interest group) and a decision maker (a policy maker) where the former can falsify scientific evidence at a cost. The sender observes scientific evidence and knows …
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The Validity of Health Claims on the World Wide Web: A Case Study of the Herbal Remedy Opuntia
… is inaccurate, misleading, and unsupported by scientific evidence. This study analyzes the validity of health claims on the World Wide Web for the herbal Opuntia using an evidence-based approach, and supports the observation that individuals must critically assess health information in this …
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Effect of Interval Sprint and Endurance Training on Anaerobic and Aerobic Function in Prepubescent Children and Adolescent Youth
This study supports the growing body of scientific evidence that pre-pubescents exhibit reduced anaerobic trainability and although they are trainable aerobically, currently employed aerobic activities effective for adolescents are not as effective for pre-pubescents. Rather, pre-pubescents improve …
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The Effectiveness of Sex Education Programs in Virginia Schools: Teenage Pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Disease Rates: A Comparison of Counties
There has been little scientific evidence to suggest that abstinence-only-until-marriage education programs are effective in preventing or reducing teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease. There is also little scientific evidence to suggest that comprehensive sex education programs are …
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Gatekeeping and the Judicial Processing of Scientific Information
… state jurisdictions vary in their validation of scientific information. The goal of this investigation is to explain the legal and political conditions under which novel scientific evidence is accepted or rejected. Variance in validation patterns for DNA, polygraphs, and syndrome evidence among …
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Scientific Racism's Role in the Social Thought of African Intellectual, Moral, and Physical inferiority
Scientific Racism was a method used by some to legitimize racist social thought without any compelling scientific evidence. This study seeks to identify, through the Afrocentric Paradigm, some of these studies and how they have influenced the modern western institution of medicine. It is also the …
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Understanding and treating eating disorders from a traditional Chinese medicine perspective
… and alternative therapies (CAM). There is no scientific evidence investigating the role of acupuncture as a CAM treatment in eating disorders. The aim of this thesis is to provide a scientific evaluation of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in the area of eating disorders encompassing both …
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Comprehensive evaluation of well-being in pigs: Environmental enrichment and pen space allowance
… experiment was conducted to provide comparative scientific evidence for the well-being or ill-being of pigs while residing in different environments under intensive housing conditions. Four categories of indices--viz., productivity, including growth and feed-efficiency performance and health; …
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Wildlife corridors: do they facilitate biotic movement? Evidence from the experimental literature: evidence from the experimental literature : a masters thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Natural Resource [i.e. Resources] Management and Ecological Engineering (NRMEE) at Lincoln University
… the aim of this thesis to investigate empirical evidence derived from published literature of experimental corridor research that evaluated corridor-dispersal function. - Conduct a review of “Experimental” corridor literature published over the last 17 years (1993-2010). - Compare and contrast …
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Gastrointestinal tract (GIT) symptons in Ironman triathletes : a study relating GIT symptons to changes in splanchnic blood flow
… GIT symptoms during exercise have been proposed, scientific evidence in support of these factors and mechanisms is limited. Altered blood flow to the GIT during exercise have been suggested as a possible mechanism for the pathophysiology of GIT symptoms. However, changes in blood flow in the …
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Circumventing Problems Before They Occur: Implmenting Capnography
… (PSA) is supported by published clinical and scientific evidence. The purpose of this quality improvement project is to build on the existing PSA monitoring policy by promoting an improvement of clinical care as a result of implementing capnography monitoring to reduce the incidence of …
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Communicating Climate Change: Climate Rhetorics and Discursive Tipping Points in United States Global Warming Science and Public Policy
… are faced with the ever-increasing mountains of scientific evidence acknowledging the threats of global climate change. Nearly all reputable climate scientists have no doubt that the world stands at the threshold of a climate catastrophe. On the other hand, legislative attempts to find solutions …
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Comparison of an object-oriented programming language to a procedural programming language for effectiveness in program maintenance
… that managers often believe intuitively without evidence. Many unsupported claims have been made about object-oriented programming. However, without rigorous scientific evidence, it is impossible to accept these claims as valid. Although experimentation has been done in the past, most of the …
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Protecting Systems of Nature and Gender: Ecofeminism in Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer and Ruth Ozeki's All Over Creation
… In this thesis, I consider the authors’ use of scientific evidence to engage readers with their rhetorical goals of protecting the systems of nature and gender. In the first chapter, I define the history of ecofeminist activism and how Kingsolver and Ozeki continue its tradition. The second …
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A usability assessment of a specific alternative computer input device for users with spinal cord injuries
… of computer technology, via both user-issue and scientific-based evaluations. A specific methodology, concermng both user-Issue and scientific-evidence, was proposed for the studies related to assistive technology outcome measures. In order to validate the proposed methodology, the research work …
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