... The scientific method is a process for creating models of the natural world that can be verified experimentally. The scientific method requires making observations, recording data, and analyzing data in a form that can be duplicated by other scientists. In addition, the scientific method uses inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning to try to produce useful and reliable models of nature and natural phenomena. Inductive reasoning is the examination of specific instances to develop a general hypothesis or theory, whereas deductive reasoning is the use of a theory to explain specific results. The ‘scientific method’ merely refers to a broad framework for studying and learning more about the world around us in a scientific manner. It is not so much a series of absolute, unchangeable steps as a guideline to the method that must be used when trying to reach a scientifically acceptable theory about a subject matter. Therefore, it is not possible to provide a finite number of steps or an exact procedure for following the scientific method. However, the scientific method steps detailed below describe the main steps that scientists commonly take when conducting a scientific inquiry. THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD HAS FIVE STEPS: 1. Observation and description of a phenomenon. The observations are made visually or with the aid of scientific equipment. 2. Ask a question, the purpose of the question is to narrow the focus of the inquiry, to identify the...
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...the scientific method applies the following steps to start an investigation to reach a general conclusion: Observation | Question | Hypothesis | Prediction | Experiment | The problem or situation | Why or what is the concern | What one may state is the problem/situation – prediction | If one does this the problem or situation will be fixed or corrected | Following through to see if hypothesis / prediction was correct | The web-based activity instituted from the University of Phoenix portal prompts the student to apply the scientific method to provide a conclusion (University of Phoenix, 2014). The car experiment posed the most interest portraying an individual who goes to the garage in the morning preparing to head to work and the car will not start. The car was working the day before but today when the individual puts the key in the ignition nothing happens. This creates a query of “Why does the car not start?” After applying the steps to the scientific method and performing all the different scenarios provided from the web-based experiment, the final conclusion was the car needed fluids. I may actually relate to the experiment regarding the car from the web-based activity. Though various causes could trigger my car not starting, I still had to investigate to provide a conclusion. As in the unit activity, I choose the most common reason, “the car battery is not working”. I had to determine why my car battery was not operable. I predicted the battery needed a charge...
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...absence recorded? Is the procedure reasonable, fair and consistently adhered to throughout the practice? Are there systems in place for monitoring all absences? Were the assumptions and suspicions about alcohol investigated – any evidence? Assuming investigations and observations re alcohol were confirmed (ie evidence/observation confirmed by staff member turning up drunk, under the influence of alcohol, smelling strongly of alcohol), should this have constituted instant dismissal there and then? Consider what support/counselling/advice you would give any member of staff with personal problems which led to poor performance. Does the receptionist know that the situation now is clearly about discipline and what that involves? Has she acknowledged (1) understanding of why she has been disciplined and (2) receipt of formal final warning? Was a timescale for improvement implicit in previous warnings? Did the practice consider that there may be a genuine social problem underlying the “alcoholism”? If a health/social problem was identified, should the practice have considered giving guidance on access to counselling/support rather than discipline? Should the practice bite the bullet and accept that the car accident and resultant broken leg is clearly genuine and be as supportive as possible through this particular problem? At the point of recovery and return to work, should the practice have a face-to-face discussion along the lines of: • This...
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...only peripheral glances into the preliminary investigation of the crime, it is apparent that such events took place in accordance to the rules and regulations set forth by our judicial system. The crime as reported/discovered by the police was first degree felony robbery and murder. The store was robbed and the clerk was discovered shot to death. The charges stemming from the incident subsequently was murder in the first degree; armed robbery with serious bodily injury; criminal conspiracy, fleeing and alluding to avoid apprehension. As in present day policing the nature of the crime in its entirety was represented and in immediate investigation followed suit. Over the course of the movie time is ill represented yet all procedures are justly followed to the letter. It is not explained at what point the investigation of the four witness’s took place. As customary in reality when a crime is discovered an APB or all-points bulletin was cast. However, in accordance to chapter 4 of our text both defendants, Billy Gambini played by Ralph Macchio and his friend Stan Rothenstein played by Mitchell Whitfield, were pulled over due to reasonable suspicion. In this case reasonable suspicion was that two males were traveling in the direction given by witness statements in a similar colored, similar body style vehicle. Though both cast members resembled witness’s descriptions they openly admitted being at the scene of the crime after observations was made by the patrolman of groceries in the...
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...ONLINE CAR RENTAL SYSTEM SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY BSC Computer science COURSE CODE SCO 400 BY MUHAMMAD TOBOSO DAUD REG NO: J17S/11624/2011 Phone No: 0770305102 Email: modifaya@gmail.com Supervisor: Daisy M Ireri Table of Contents CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 4 1.1 The Background of the Project 5 1.2 Problem Statement 5 1.3 Objective 6 1.4 Project Scope 6 1.5 Project Significance 7 Conclusion 7 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 8 2.1 Introduction 8 2.2 MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM 8 2.3 Facts and Findings 9 2.3.1 Domain 9 2.3.2 Existing Systems 9 2.3.3 Problems in existing system 10 2.3.4 Differences between the manual and the computerized system that is going to be developed 11 CHAPTER 3: RESEARCH APPROACHES AND METHODOLOGIES 12 Research methodology 12 3.0 Introduction 12 3.1 Project Methodology 12 Waterfall Methodology 12 3.2 System Study and Investigation 12 3.2.1 Interviews 13 3.2.2 Observation 13 3.3 Summary 13 3.4 Budget 14 CHAPTER 4: SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND DESIGN 15 4.1 REQUIREMENT ANALYSIS 15 4.1.1 User Requirement 15 4.1.2 Functional Requirement 15 4.1.3 Non-Functional Requirements...
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...Getting people to do their best work, even in trying circumstances, is one of managers’ most enduring and slippery challenges. Indeed, deciphering what motivates us as human beings is a centuries-old puzzle. Some of history’s most influential thinkers about human behavior—among them Aristotle, Adam Smith, Sigmund Freud, and Abraham Maslow—have struggled to understand its nuances and have taught us a tremendous amount about why people do the things they do. Such luminaries, however, didn’t have the advantage of knowledge gleaned from modern brain science. Their theories were based on careful and educated investigation, to be sure, but also exclusively on direct observation. Imagine trying to infer how a car works by examining its movements (starting, stopping, accelerating, turning) without being able to take apart the engine. Fortunately, new cross-disciplinary research in fields like neuroscience, biology, and evolutionary psychology has allowed us to peek under the hood, so to speak—to learn more about the human brain. Our synthesis of the research suggests that people are guided by four basic emotional needs, or drives, that are the product of our common evolutionary heritage. As set out by Paul R. Lawrence and Nitin Nohria in their 2002 book Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices , they are the drives to acquire (obtain scarce goods, including intangibles such as social status); bond (form connections with individuals and groups); ...
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...FENUGREEK RESEARCH COMPANY LTD. FACILITY MANAGEMENT REPORT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This ten-page facility assessment report presents the findings from a three-week period of investigation in Fenugreek Research Company Ltd and relates recommendations both operationally and strategically which the Fenugreek management is advised to take to resolve the issues that surfaced during the period of investigation. Seven most pressing concerns coming from the Fenugreek staff were each dealt with in detail and suggestions for them were subsequently discussed for its feasibility. The findings of the investigation brought this Facility Manager to the conclusion that there is general dissatisfaction with the current working conditions of Fenugreek Research Company, which must be addressed individually in face of a period of uncertainty and change as the company owners look to float the firm and make it a public concern. The recommendations presented were judged for their practicability and immediacy of solution to the pressing concerns of the Fenugreek employees. INTRODUCTION Although facility management has long been practised by military, government and schools, it is a fairly new business and management discipline. As the role of the physical work environment on performance and productivity started to become more and more evident in studies, so has the field become more and more involved in a business context. In a compilation of over 40 studies of productivity improvement, changes in performance...
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...Gathering Research Data Police officers face dangerous situations daily. As an officer, one could face an active shooter, an emotionally disturbed person acting out, car accidents, and getting injured on the job. Extensive law enforcement training in many areas such as defensive tactics, range training, autism awareness, and public safety are examples of training to learn to deal with these situations. Despite these dangers and more, people still choose to be a police officer. Officers puts their lives and safety in harm’s way to protect their community. In the interest of learning more about the dangers of becoming a police officer, research will discover what the hazards through qualitative research. The indication of the type of interview structure as well as listing the questions that will be asked will illustrate how to achieve the goal of this research. In addition will be the advantage of using qualitative research. The goal of the research is to discover the many dangers of becoming a police officer. For a person to make the very important decision to become a police officer, they should know what he or she is possibly facing on the job. What may seem very dangerous to one person may not be so hazardous to another. This is left up to the determination of each person and can depend on several factors such as personal experience and interpretation. The type of interview structure that I use to conduct the research would be an unstructured interview. “Unstructured...
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...Clifton Gray Jr. CJ 115 – Criminal Investigation & Evidence Professor Lisa Bruno Assignment 1- Warrants April 21, 2015 Miller-Motte Online Warrants Describe the process you would have to go through in order to obtain a search warrant First off offenders are protected by the fourth amendment against unreasonable search and seizures. Officers should try to obtain a search warrant when they feel there is probable cause that evidence will be found at a particular location. And in order to present probable cause officers are not allowed to go on their opinion but on pure facts. The facts can come in a way of the officer’s personal observation and knowledge, they can also receive information from a reliable source. Then the officer has to file an affidavit supporting the application for a search warrant. The officer has to ensure they use the proper code for the charges against the offender. It is important that they say specifically where or what place they would like to search in the search warrant. And officers are only allowed to search the place that are in the scope of the search warrant. Explain the various emergency citations which would justify a search without a warrant Some of the emergency that will justify a search without a warrant would be, when an officer feel that there is a life threatening emergency. And the officer feel that immediate action is needed in order to protect the community. For example when an officer is on the scene of a...
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...then, already then, I felt a strong awareness of the importance of flight safety. I remember the slogan put into us during flying training: 'Today is your reward for yesterday's flight safety', a slogan that has stayed with me. There is always a choice between unavoidable and avoidable risks, between adequate self confidence and over confidence. Keeping moments in which margins have to be challenged because of operational requirements, as short as possible. Technical developments have made the aircraft the most reliable means, compared with any other form of transport. The majority of air accidents are now due to the unpredictable human factor. The possibility to study Flight Safety Management, Aircraft Accident Investigation and Aviation Physiology, gave me the opportunity to specialise into this aspect of aviation, after many years of experience as operational fighter pilot, followed by cargo- and passenger pilot, instructor and examiner. Aviation physiology Coincidental contact with the most senior physician at the Ministry of Defence, opened already in 1967 an opportunity to apply for a post-graduate training for medical doctors at the Institute of Aviation and Aerospace Medicine in San Antonio, Texas, USA. This institute was engaged in the space program...
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...Cincinnati, Ohio Virginia L. Peterson Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Mich. Wendi J.W. Williams University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Ark. Sandra Rutherford Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Mich. Larissa Grawe DeSantis University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. Aida Awad Des Plaines, Ill. Stephen R. Mattox Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Mich. Steve Boyer Tacoma, Wash. Jo Laird University of New Hampshire, Durham, N.H. Cover image: A basalt dike cuts through rocks of Permain age on Wasp Head, NSW Australia. Photo by Gary B. Lewis. Table of Contents What is Science? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Scientific Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Observation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Question . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Hypothesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Definitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Fact: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Hypothesis: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Scientific Theory (or Law): . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Science...
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...LAB REPORT BLOODSTAIN ANALYSIS (http://www.crimescene-forensics.com/images/Blood_Spatter_001B.gif) COURSE: CHM 1107: Introduction to Forensic Science - Professor Ira S. Krull DATE: 10.27.11 INTRODUCTION Blood is a biological fluid found in animals that delivers necessary nutrients and oxygen throughout the body and carries away metabolic waste products. The average adult has a blood volume of roughly 5 liters, comprising of plasma, blood cells and platelets, and it is usually red in color, though not always. The most abundant cells in vertebrate blood are red blood cells, constituting about 45% of whole blood. These cells contain hemoglobin, an iron-containing protein, which distributes oxygen throughout the human body. Blood is circulated around the body through blood vessels by the pumping action of the heart. In humans, blood is pumped from the strong left ventricle of the heart through arteries to peripheral tissues and returns to the right atrium of the heart through the superior vena cava (see Fig 1). It then enters the right ventricle and is pumped through the pulmonary artery to the lungs and returns to the left atrium through the pulmonary veins. Blood then enters the left ventricle to be circulated again. (Fig 1: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Diagram_of_the_human_heart_%28cropped%29.svg/220px-Diagram_of_the_human_heart_%28cropped%29.svg.png) Blood is a type of evidence found most often at violent crime scenes and...
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...Training curriculum Foundations of Criminal Justice System Professor William Bower November 27, 2011 Abstract This observations will present an in service core curriculum re-evaluating an argument on the procedure by which an investigative permit is required and released that gives emphasis to the Fourth Amendment needs. Also, the definition of probable cause and its principles in which it is assembled will be discussed. There are two kinds of investigation that do not necessitate a warrant which will also be enclosed in this paper as well as concentrating on a small number of enquiry such as What the underlying principle is for consenting to warrantless investigation, and if these rationale are influential, and whether or not all investigation necessitate that likely reason are present or if there are discharged or not. Investigative permit procedure and the Fourth Amendment requests Searching warrant is not only disturbing they have to also be precise and they are not all equivalent. If a person uses a search warrant for instance to get hold of a company’s financial records or even a senior manager who is assumed of deception this course of action is not uncomplicated, nevertheless if a person uses a search warrant to situate an confiscated part of proof such as a bullet, or illegal pills then it is reasonably uncomplicated to do. Moreover, The Fourth Amendment has to be well thought-out and taken critically when acquiring a search warrant and the officer has to be...
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...EVALUATION (OUTCOME): Assignment 1. How does basic research differ from applied research? • Applied research is research that seeks to answer a question in the real world and to solve a problem. Basic research is research that fills in the knowledge we don't have; it tries to learn things that aren't always directly applicable or useful immediately. 2. Give the purpose of each of the following methods and type of research: a. Historical research • It throws light on present and future trends. • It enables understanding of and solutions to contemporary problems to be sought in the past. • It can illuminate the effects of key interactions within a culture or sub-culture. • It allows for the revaluation of data in relation to selected hypotheses, theories and generalizations that are presently held about the past and the present. b. Descriptive research • This type is suitable wherever the subjects vary among themselves and one is interested to know the extent to which different conditions and situations are obtained among these subjects. • The word SURVEY signifies the gathering of data regarding present conditions. A survey is useful in: (1) providing the values of facts, and (2) focusing attention on the most important things to be reported. • In this type of survey, it is necessary to determine the psychological and social aspects of research by way of application or implementation of evidence to recognize between facts and influence There...
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...People's Friendship University of Russia Department of International Relations Student: Stefan Unertl Student-ID: 1032115182 Research paper „Terrorist activity“ in Austria The Association Against Animal Factories (VgT – Verein gegen Tierfabriken) and its struggle for animal rights by Stefan Unertl Moscow, December 2011 Table of content 1. Introduction 2. The Association Against Animal Factories (AAAF) and its activities in Austria and 2.1. The AAAF against Kleiderbauer 3. The trial 4. Outcome/Conclusion 1. Introduction The Association Against Animal Factories is a non-governmental organization which is active not only in Austria but also in Switzerland and has good connections to the worldwide animal rights association, PeTa. Its main goal is to improve animal rights in Austria. Their work is dedicated to the reduction of exploitation or abuse of animals. Due to their ongoing activities, the association has to face many difficulties in Austria. Not only that their actions of protest are supervised by the police but also that every organization, like an NGO, can be convicted as a “criminal organization” based upon the paragraph 278a in the Austrian criminal code when this organization is supposed to commit frequently acts of violence or has a structure resembling it to a criminal organization (Mafia, etc.). Due to this vague article it had been criticized by many people not only in politics but also in the population. The first time this article gained unintentionally...
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