'Social scientists' presentation slideshows

Domestic Violence, Child Protection & Family Law: Worlds Apart

Domestic Violence, Child Protection & Family Law: Worlds Apart. Dr Elspeth McInnes AM University of South Australia 31 May 2012 Melbourne. Responding to DV.

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Data analysis: cross-tabulation

GAP Toolkit 5 Training in basic drug abuse data management and analysis. Data analysis: cross-tabulation. Training session 11. Objectives. To introduce cross-tabulation as a method of investigating the relationship between two categorical variables

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Which Social Scientists would be most interested in a newspaper

Which Social Scientists would be most interested in a newspaper. HISTORIAN. Which Social Scientists would be most interested in a coffee pot?. ARCHEOLOGIST. Which Social Scientists would be most interested in a trail through the woods?. GEOGRAPHER.

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Born First, Born Smarter?

Born First, Born Smarter?. Zajonc, R.B., & Markus, G.B. (1975) Birth order and intellectual development. Psychological Review, 82 74-88. Studies have shown that first born children tend to be:. More verbally articulate Less impulsive More active Better performers in school

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Core Skills for Social Scientists.

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Rachels on Cultural Relativism

Rachels on Cultural Relativism. Connections between Mill & relativism Gertrude Himmelfarb argues that Mill, by making truth dependent on falsity (false ideas are useful for keeping true ones alive and for finding good reasons for the true ones), tends to make truth and falsity equals.

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Measuring Globalization

Measuring Globalization. A Presentation by Raymond Tang Benny Vazquez. Agenda. Background on Globalization What is Globalization? History of Globalization Importance of Globalization Criteria for Measuring Globalization Political Engagement Personal Contact Technological Connectivity

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Unit 5: The Executive Branch

Unit 5: The Executive Branch. The Executive Office. The Cabinet:. Main Idea: Introduction to The Executive Office of the President. Notes: The Executive Office of the President ( EOP ) is made of up of people and agencies that make if possible for the President to carry out his job.

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Communication and Management Theory

Communication and Management Theory . Understanding the Connections. Why Study Management Theories or Paradigms?. They form the basis of how managers manage Mgmt. theories are theories of human behavior Mgmt. theories are enacted by and through communication

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Spatial social science cluster

Assoc Prof Narimah Samat School of Humanities Universiti Sains Malaysia. Spatial social science cluster. Introduction Spatial Social Sciences Methods of Spatial Social Sciences Transdisciplinary Agenda Examples of Research Undertaken. Contents.

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Introduction to Crime and Deviance

Introduction to Crime and Deviance.

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Integrated Healthcare Information Services Through Mobiles (IHISM)

Integrated Healthcare Information Services Through Mobiles (IHISM). Henry Nyongesa University of Botswana. Digital Exclusion. Digital exclusion is most evident in Africa Attributable to poor communications infrastructure in most countries Case: Mobile telephony in Botswana

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Graph Algebra I: An Introduction

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GLOBALIZATION

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Paradigms

Paradigms. Positivism. Based on the philosophical ideas of the French philosopher August Comte, He emphasized observation and reason as means of understanding human behavior. According to him, true knowledge is based on experience of senses and can be obtained by observation and experiment.

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The Role of Integrative Reviews in Alcohol Policy Development

The Role of Integrative Reviews in Alcohol Policy Development. The use of scientific research to inform public policy is a relatively recent phenomenon

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The Decision-Maker

The Decision-Maker. Microbe Public Decision-Maker What should the decision-maker do? What do they tend to do? What are the common pitfalls? Why?. What do the models need?. Issues to add More accurate person-person interactions Motivations and resultant behaviors Economics

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Cybersecurity Issues and the Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences

David C. Croson, Ph.D. Office of the Assistant Director Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences National Science Foundation dcroson@nsf.gov George Mason University, June 2011. Cybersecurity Issues and the Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences. Cybersecurity Interest at SBE.

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