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Female Voters “Standing in the Shadows” by Bowie

The article "Standing in the Shadows" reveals that the study of anthropology rarely delves into the world of electoral politics especially when it concerns the involvement and influence of women in the electoral process.
  • Subjects: Anthropology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 832

Conventional Food System: Justice and Security

While food justice deals with the working conditions of the farmers, equal access to healthy food, and with the issues of the consumption and distribution of food around the globe, the concept of food security [...]
  • Subjects: Agriculture
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 842

Sampling & Standardization in Real-World Applications

Describe the basic characteristics of a normal distribution and the normal curve. The probability distribution, p, of a variable in a normal distribution is determined by the area under the normal curve.
  • Subjects: Statistics
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1097

Mild Climates in Coastal Cities

In general, however, the capability of water to act as a heat buffer is the cause for its tendency to adjust the temperature towards an average and prevent extremes from manifesting.
  • Subjects: Geography
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 296

Insects and Walking on Water

The ability of water striders to stay on the surface is explained by their small weight, water-repellent limbs, and the surface tension of water.
  • Subjects: Zoology
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 303

Statistical Profile of School District, Seattle WA

Estimating the education level of the population, it can be stated that the largest part of the population has a bachelor's degree with the higher rates of the female population in this category and the [...]
  • Subjects: Statistics
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 851

Geology: Port Phillip Bay and Sea Level Changes

Specifically, the fossils of specific creatures, such as the shells of tertiary foraminifera, as well as the meanders of the river channels, which were located in the area, are bound to bolster the hypothesis suggested [...]
  • Subjects: Geology
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 843

Adverse Weather Conditions: Preparedness Guide

While thunderstorms are a relatively normal occurrence in various countries across the world, the fact remains that given enough strength and size they do have the potential to create flash floods and property damage due [...]
  • Subjects: Geography
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1337

Ethnography: Indian Living Room Analysis

Manish is a pseudonym, as it is a common Indian name, and it is associated with individuals of Indian identity. As for the Indian identity, it has to be mentioned that music is the essentiality [...]
  • Subjects: Anthropology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 858

Pesticide Ban and Its Effects on US Agriculture

The findings of the research also challenged the notion that a ban on insecticides would help the environment. Sam is whether to protect the lives that can be lost through the harmful effects of the [...]
  • Subjects: Agriculture
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1104

Top 100 Female Tennis Players and Their Earnings

A pie chart display of the data shows that the individual country which had the highest number of female tennis players in the 2010 chart of best female tennis players was Russia, with a 14 [...]
  • Subjects: Statistics
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1447

San Andreas Fault and Devil’s Punchbowl Natural Area

While discussing the San Andreas Fault, it is important to note that it is a strike-slip fault, which can also be characterized as the horizontal right lateral fault which was formed because of the active [...]
  • Subjects: Geology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 554

Plate Tectonics and Volcanic Activity

The result of subduction is the older oceanic plates' sinking to the mantle to form volcanoes as weak spots there because the magma breaks the ocean floor.
  • Subjects: Geology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 549

Gene Therapy: Risks and Benefits

All over the world, "the technique is best known for the correction of defective genes so as to treat diseases; the most common procedural form of gene therapy involves the insertion of the functional gene [...]
  • Subjects: Genetics
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1430

The Batek People of Malaysia

However, in the recent past, they have constantly interacted with outsiders due to government programs since their homes are being logged for the cultivation of palm oil and allocation of lands.
  • Subjects: Anthropology
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2470

Anthropology: Intelligent Design Movement

Proponents of I.D.incorporate the concept of biological evolution after the process of creationism, where it is thought that some intelligence must have assembled the first cell, in effect resolving the challenge of irreducible complexity.
  • Subjects: Evolution of Humans
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 813

Statistics: Confidence Intervals and Regression

In reference to the meaning of a confidence interval in the context of problems in statistics, it needs to be said that this tool is often referred to as the value that can help to [...]
  • Subjects: Statistics
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1183

Household and Community in the Mesoamerican Past

The study of the terms is quite imperative to archeologists because they help them or rather aid in understanding the ancient ways of life as led by the then people showing how the evolutions to [...]
  • Subjects: Archeology
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1578

Oceanography: Tides Data at Key West, Florida

31 day graph Tide height at Key West, Florida: Jan 1-31 2009 From National Oceanic Survey of NOAA 6 day graph Tide height at Key West, Florida: Jan 10-15 2009 From National Oceanic Survey of [...]
  • Subjects: Geography
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 406

Food Anthropology and Its Research Methods

It means that investigating the "why" and the "what" of a concept, not only involve researchers in the intensive fieldwork but try to stay open to distinct perspectives on the world.
  • Subjects: Anthropology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 1237

Real Estate Research and Survey Results

This will enable researchers to develop the relation between the category of homes and the level of income. The level of measurement of this question will be ordinal.
  • Subjects: Scientific Method
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 984

Real Estate Research Variables and Hypotheses

It is possible to define this variable in the following way: price is the amount of money to be paid to become an owner of the house and to start living in it.
  • Subjects: Scientific Method
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 551

Knowledge Sources on Behavior and Environment

The objective of this research was to find out the sources of knowledge and their basis and some of the way they affect human conduct and their social setting.
  • Subjects: Scientific Method
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 574

James George Frazer’s Role in Social Anthropology

The recognition of the power of the natural laws slowly led to development of religion. As such religion, in Frazer's view is the emancipation of the intelligent man from the throes of primitive magic.
  • Subjects: Anthropology
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2483

Darwin, Evolution, and Modern History

As a topic, the moral sense is important to the understanding of the popular interpretations of Darwin's concept of adaptation through natural selection.
  • Subjects: Evolution of Humans
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2292

Comets: The Deep Impact Mission by NASA

I decided to choose the book "Comets And Their Origin: The Tools To Decipher A Comet" written by Uwe Meierhenrich. The information discussed in the class provided me with a basic understanding of comets.
  • Subjects: Astronomy
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 607

Wine and Brandy Shipments in Australia

The following is a set of 100 raw data about brandy sales in Australia measured in thousand liters of alcohol. The frequency distribution and histogram of brandy sales for Australia are illustrated below.
  • Subjects: Statistics
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 559

Graphing Problems Presenting Data

From the information on the graph, it can be deduced that the distance from the town is a factor considered in pricing. This is so because the graph shows that item 46 is the furthest [...]
  • Subjects: Statistics
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 643

Agriculture: “Prep Your Pivot for Winter” by Birt

The TL irrigation company runs the "the Caveat to winter Pivot Maintenance" program. The dealers who represent the TL Irrigation company receive adequate training on how to service and maintain the equipment.
  • Subjects: Agriculture
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 272

Garbology as an Anthropology Study

The recording of the things by the frequency they were thrown away during the week allowed concluding that the waste of food products took the first place in the list.
  • Subjects: Anthropology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 573

Male vs. Female Education Leadership Studies

For a study of the determination of differences between male and female leadership within the educational environment one should consider such things as: Confidence men are thought to be more confident while women apologetic; Bluffing [...]
  • Subjects: Scientific Method
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 698

Food, Customers, and Culture in the Grocery Store

There also were many alcoholic drinks, and the section with beer was among the largest; lemonades, juices, and smoothies were also present. Both the store labels and the food labels quite often stressed the low [...]
  • Subjects: Anthropology
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1211

Dr. Michio Kaku’s Predictions of the DNA Screening

In the documentary, the city planners warn the public that the insufficient growth and the development of the suburban areas threaten both the economy of the country as well as its community.
  • Subjects: Genetics
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 823

Probability, Sampling, and Regression in Business

When the salary is measured with the help of the mean, the highest salaries of top managers and CEO are also calculated in order to present the average, and the final number can be higher [...]
  • Subjects: Statistics
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 697

Internal Lighting by Solar Collectors and Optical Fibres

Savage notes that the design of optical fibre-coupled collectors to harness the sunlight energy creates a modular mechanical and electronic system that consists of optical fibres and solar collectors for sun tracking.
  • Subjects: Physics
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 824

Genetics: the Eugenics Movement

The eugenics movement resulted in the deaths and sterilizations of thousands of people. Positive eugenics was meant to increase the population of healthy people.
  • Subjects: Genetics
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 3479

Sub Saharan Africa as Cultural Realm

In the definition of the cultural realm within the context of Sub Saharan Africa and in particular, the parameters used to define the region as a cultural realm, it was felt the contextual scope of [...]
  • Subjects: Countries Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 631

Exponentials and Logarithms: the Cell and DNA

The result will be; log to the base of 2 of 'x' equals 'y'.'y' usually refers to the power to which one raises '2' to get 'x' This can be simplified as follows; F =2x [...]
  • Subjects: Math
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 836

Mathematics for Everyday Usage

For example, in one business meeting, I saw a bar graph showing the performance of the company over the last few years. They enable the user to have a picture of the information being presented [...]
  • Subjects: Math
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 719

Electromagnetism and Electricity

Discoveries linking electromagnetism with electricity led to the phenomenal changes that were witnessed in the field of physics and electrical engineering. Electromagnetism is the study of the forces between electric charges and magnetic fields.
  • Subjects: Physics
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 544

Marine Algae Associated Bacteria as Antioxidants

The antinociceptive activity analysis involved comparing the reaction time of mice treated with the extracts and the controls. The authors conclude that the isolation and characterization of the bioactive principles from the potent strains could [...]
  • Subjects: Biology
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1188

Agricultural Policy in the European Union and the USA

The position of this thesis on the EU and the US, particularly in the light of the political implications on policy-making in the Agricultural Sectors is that both the EU's Common Agricultural Policy and the [...]
  • Subjects: Agriculture
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 16378

Data Collection and Analysis

Although I can hardly keep abreast of the work that needs to be completed for both district and state, however, I am encouraged by the fact that most of the data collected will constitute part [...]
  • Subjects: Scientific Method
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 2534

Ethical Issues of Biofuels

The ethical concerns surround the usage of food materials in the production of fossil fuels in the face of the starving populations in various parts of the world and the destruction of the environment through [...]
  • Subjects: Scientific Method
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 854

The Concept of Khmer Society

However, there is also a great number of adherers to the idea that the Khmer kinship system can be described as a matrilineal one because of the model of a royal succession of priestly families [...]
  • Subjects: Anthropology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 949

Events in Archaeology: Buried Cities and Lost Tribes

The article "2,000 year old nails may be tied to the crucifixion" by the Associated Foreign Press details how two Roman nails found in the burial cave of a Jewish high priest, supposedly the very [...]
  • Subjects: Archeology
  • Pages: 12
  • Words: 4826

The State of Foreign Born Latinos in Haiti

The republic of Haiti occupies the western portion of the island of Hispaniola. The figure shows that the number of foreign-born Latinos in the region is higher than that of their native counterparts.
  • Subjects: Countries Studies
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2470

Research on Physical Anthropology

Thereafter, the soldier termites bite the twig allowing the chimp to draw the twigs between its teeth to reap the termites.
  • Subjects: Anthropology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 885

Glowing in Animals’ Eyes

It reflects a portion of the light entering the eye after it is cast on the retina, which is the area where the image of what is before an animal is constructed to be further [...]
  • Subjects: Biology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 287

The Color of the Sky

The color of a material object, surface, or substance is a particular wavelength of the visible light reflected from it. The reason is that light can be scattered differently depending on the direction, angle, cloudiness, [...]
  • Subjects: Physics
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 284

Tectonics and Geology: Landscape Evolution

Their differences are explained in their mechanical, chemical subdivision and physical properties as illustrated in the table below; The resultant landscapes commonly associated with geological events includes activities such as oceanic trenches, earthquakes, mountain building [...]
  • Subjects: Geology
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1701

Human Origins: Biblical Version and Burials Study

The Bible may have preserved the perspectives of the witnesses of some of the events of human history. In it, the Institute discusses the possible causes and consequences of the practice of burying the dead.
  • Subjects: Anthropology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 669

Ultrasound Physics and Instrumentation

The camera is often not in harmony with the perception of the depth of a human vision. The level of such an acoustic signal distortion within a tissue is dependent on the emitted pulse's amplitude [...]
  • Subjects: Physics
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 2002

What Will Lithuania Look Like in the Future?

Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the present situation in Lithuania to consider the prospects of the country. To provide a possible scenario of the country's development in the nearest future.
  • Subjects: Countries Studies
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1665

Medical Microbiology Interests

This is in regard to the nature of cancer cells in the sense that some develop as a result of genetic mutations.
  • Subjects: Biology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 848

Geopolitics of the Kazakhstan

The main role of the intelligence officer would be to advise the government on the best policy to apply in the region, which would allow the state to achieve its national interests.
  • Subjects: Countries Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1115

Using Statistics in Education Research

The following paper provides the results of the analysis of the scores and outlines the methods of ascertaining validity and reliability.
  • Subjects: Statistics
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 757

Equity in Academic Labor Market

The purpose of this study is to examine the impacts of gender on a teacher's perceptions of the compensations he/she receives, the level of organizational support, and opportunities for career advancement.
  • Subjects: Statistics
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 561

Geography of the Canadian North (Arctic)

The high value of the produced diamond, sustainability of the project, environmental friendliness, and creation of employment opportunities is a measure for the success.
  • Subjects: Geography
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 762

Geography of the Canada’s Northern Region

It will be necessary to describe the demographic trends in this area and explain the continuous inflow of people. In this way, it will be possible for me to determine the economic impacts of diamond [...]
  • Subjects: Geography
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 566

Arab Spring: Research Design and Timeline

In this view, since the study examines the perceptions of the citizens of the Arabian states, a cross-sectional design is the appropriate design for the research.
  • Subjects: Statistics
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1727

Theories of Human Nature

One of the reasons for this is that the challenges of contemporary living in just about any part of the world are being directly or indirectly related to the fact that, as of today, Western [...]
  • Subjects: Anthropology
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2814

“Theories of Human Nature” by Peter Lopson

In his analysis, the writer seeks the objective and empirical category of knowledge in the science of human nature, a shift from the more speculative and theoretical methodologies.
  • Subjects: Anthropology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 563

Geography of Nigeria, Mongolia and Austria

The country has the three most popular tribes are the Igbos, the Hausa, and the Yoruba. The colonial master of Nigeria is the British, and that explains why English is the official language in Nigeria.
  • Subjects: Geography
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 631

Social Darwinism and the Mixing of the Races

All of his heinous acts at the time was meant to highlight the weakness of a particular race of people, in this case, the Jews, and how allowing them to continue to lay claim to [...]
  • Subjects: Evolution of Humans
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 956

Planet Earth and Deserts

Attenborough starts by stating that deserts cover one-third of the Earth, and they are not always hot because of the external factors such as the Siberian winds, for instance, and because of the extreme changes [...]
  • Subjects: Geography
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 586

The Volcano and Aurora in Iceland

In other words, the volcano Hekla was erupting from the surface of the earth while the natural light was shining from the sky.
  • Subjects: Geography
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 551

The Green Revolution: Waging a War Against Hunger

The video is all about a captivating story of how the Green Revolution was started so that people in the developing world could be rescued from hunger. Thus, the author argues that the objective of [...]
  • Subjects: Agriculture
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 553

Applied Anthropology and Competent Ethnography

According to her, the revelations are, usually, in the form of models that help understand why things are the way they are. She also insists that ethnographers study the use of language in different fields [...]
  • Subjects: Anthropology
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 302

Birth Rates in England and Wales from 1991 to 2015

The descriptive statistics output for the number of live births in England and Wales from 1991 until 2015 is as follows: The pivot table for the data: The frequency table for the data is provided [...]
  • Subjects: Statistics
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1483

Validity, Reliability, and Research Designs

Conclusion validity is the degree to which results of a particular study that are obtained in the course of an investigation are reasonable and could be used to continue the research.
  • Subjects: Scientific Method
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 578

Archaeological Study of Roman Life and Behavior

Although this discovery may lack the size and drama of the Muse Cycle that has been discovered at the Hospitium de Sulpicii or the visual beauty of the fresco that once covered the back wall [...]
  • Subjects: Archeology
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1470

Ultraviolet Light Visualization Effects

From the above reflection, it is in order to state that longer exposure to UV light is dangerous to the skin and the cones of a victim.
  • Subjects: Physics
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 561

Presentation Strategies in Management Studies

The authors, therefore, cite the possibility of stakeholders' behavior having mixed reactions on managerial discretion as to the reason why the study is essential.
  • Subjects: Scientific Method
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1382

Agricultural Policies in the EU vs. the US

It is the position of this paper concerning the European Union, and the United States, particularly in the light of the political implications on policymaking in the Agricultural Sectors, that both the EU's Common Agricultural [...]
  • Subjects: Agriculture
  • Pages: 55
  • Words: 14960

Theory Development and Stretch in Marketing Studies

Having researched the issues of the Journal of Marketing, it is possible to conclude about the contributions made by articles presented in the volumes to knowledge according to such criteria as the development of theory, [...]
  • Subjects: Scientific Method
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 524

Longevity in “Live Long, Pass It On” by Tina Saey

It was actually based on the information that I had initially garnered that I believed that aging and longevity were connected primarily to genetic and environmental factors rather than epigenetic factors as indicated in the [...]
  • Subjects: Genetics
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 578

Real and Complex Numbers

It is, therefore, correct to assert that complex real numbers help in the derivation of complex numbers. One of the distinctive properties of real numbers is the real number binomials.
  • Subjects: Math
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 840

Physical Geography: Landscape Appreciation

The figure below shows subtropical highs as show in the southern and Northern hemispheres respectively. The pattern is commonly found in the tropical region and shows rising motion close to the equator.
  • Subjects: Geography
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 2293

Debate on Human Reproductive Cloning

According to Baird, human cloning should be prohibited for the simple reason that the onus of justification will be placed on the shoulders of those performing the cloning rather than those who want the cloning [...]
  • Subjects: Genetics
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 579

Unprofitable Cross-Buying: Research Methods

The strength of the research is in the fact that the researchers used statistical techniques to measure and analyze the number of customers performing definite cross-buying behaviors basing on their profitability or unprofitability.
  • Subjects: Scientific Method
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 538

Indoor Smoking Restriction Effects at the Workplace

Regrettably, they have neglected research on the effect of the legislation on the employees and employers. In this research, the target population will be the employees and employers of various companies.
  • Subjects: Scientific Method
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2162

Anthropology and Cultural Relativity

This attempts to explain the concept of the Fish Soup and how it has been symbolically used in the book. It is similar to the process of preparing fish soup.
  • Subjects: Anthropology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 416

The Book “Promise Ahead” by Duane Elgin

In his 2001 book Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity's Future author and activist Duane Elgin employs the metaphor of development stages to describe human evolution from its inception to the [...]
  • Subjects: Evolution of Humans
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1102

The Paths of Water: Hydrological Cycle

The energy from the sun causes the water on the earth surface to "evaporate back to the atmosphere". Water changes from the gas state to liquid through condensation.
  • Subjects: Geology
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 287

Science vs. Pseudoscience: Finding the Difference

Anytime when one tries to differentiate between 'science' from 'pseudoscience', there is a reference to the Merriam Webster Dictionary."Pseudo" translates to mean fake and the easiest way to identify something fake is to investigate more [...]
  • Subjects: Scientific Method
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 279

Analyzing and Improving a Test Using Statistics

Only 10% of the respondents preferred variable 0 while 90% of the respondents preferred variable 2. The total number of respondents was 10, and therefore, most of the respondents preferred variable 2 to variable 0.
  • Subjects: Statistics
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1111

Human Geography Systems and Cultures

It is a composite picture of the change in population for these nations as a generalization of phenomena and not individual parties.
  • Subjects: Geography
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1755

Video Games and Student Performance Study

Of the 671 students the study interviewed regarding their history of playing video games, the majority that had such history reported lower GPAs.
  • Subjects: Scientific Method
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 642

Anthropology: Homo Erectus in Evolution

Endocasts of the Homo erectus reveal the presence of the Broca's area-a part of the brain that is linked to communication by speech.
  • Subjects: Evolution of Humans
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 802

George Mason University Observatory

Cassegrain is a type of telescope that uses several mirrors or lenses which form an image by folding the optics. For example, it is the area of the sky that is visible when observing through [...]
  • Subjects: Astronomy
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 828