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    An Appraisal of Effects of Music Therapy on Labour Pain and Anxiety in Taiwanese First-time Mothers Carolina Escobar-Carter Georgia Baptist College of Nursing of Mercer University I have neither given nor received help on this assignment, and pledge this work to be my original composition. Carolina Escobar-Carter Synopsis This study was conducted to examine the impact that music has on primiparous women and their pain and anxiety during labor. It was hypothesized that music therapy

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    Dissertation Topic Association between tobacco use and cardiovascular disease (CVD) among active duty soldiers in the United States Army. Delimitations This study involved only deceased soldiers previously in active duty to ensure: (1) all subjects were required to conduct physical readiness training (PRT), and (2) all subjects underwent through the same diagnosis. Limitations The limitations of this study are related to the study design, study population, and sample size. A cross-sectional design

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    with the independant variable of a cell phone. As this hypothesis concerns talking on a cell phone, not texting or dialing, participants in the experimental group will answer questions and respond to a researcher speaking to them on a hand-held device. The researcher will repeat the same questions and statements for each participant in the experimental group. Using said research design, if there are any differences in driving performance researchers can conclude that it is due to the independant

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    1. EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH DESIGN ‘Experiments are quite unusual, but are employed in related areas of analysis and is used as a yardstick against which non-experimental research is assessed. Experimental research is frequently held up as standard because it prompts considerable confidence in the strength and trustworthiness of causal findings. True experiments tend to be very strong in terms of internal authority’ (Bryman, 2012, p.50). In order to conduct a true experiment, it is necessary to manipulate/influence

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    Superworm Lab

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    The Effect of the Size of a Superworm Introduction: For this experiment we were given superworms to experiment on. It was up to use students to decide what experiment we were going to perform on the worms. My group and I decided that we were going to observe how the size of the worms would affect how they reacted towards natural objects such as: sticks, rocks, leaves, mulch, and a pinecone vs an artificial object such as a straw. While doing this experiment, we observed the independent variable,

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    beings possessing an inherent autonomy that must be respected by all other persons. There may be certain circumstances in which the doctrine of informed consent may get in the way of the development of scientific knowledge: for example, when the experimental data may be biased by the subjects' knowledge of the nature of the experiment. However, the standard consensus today is that this is an acceptable price to pay in order to ensure the preservation of basic moral

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    Target Store Observation

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    The purpose of experimental design is to conduct a simple observational data of Wal-Mart and Target store daily sales and marketing strategies. Furthermore, to see, if when coupons are offered for one particular Apple and Samsung products if the customer would purchase the goods and increase the company daily bottom line of profit and revenues. Per Writer, (2010) “To do so, you will need to determine what makes your business unique and incorporate this feature into your marketing strategy. By making

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    Internal Validity

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    According to Creswell. J. (2014), internal validity threats are experimental procedures, treatments or experiences of the participants that threaten the researcher’s ability to draw correct inferences from the data about the population in an experiment. There are several types of threats to internal validity. The kind

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    Clinical Trial Essay

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    Clinical trials are often designed to test new biomedical or behavioral interventions such as new treatments/drugs, prevention strategies, screening programs, diagnostic tests, and educational models. The rapid increase in the costs of conducting clinical trials has made the efficient design of clinical trials more important in recent years. For example, a new report published by Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (CSDD) expresses that the costs of new drug development which is one of

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    Simulation Lab Report

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    5.1 Simulation Results: A. Effect of Argon gas on Cavitation in methanol: The radial motion of 10 micron argon and nitrogen bubble in methanol at 323.16 K was depicted in figure 1 and figure 2 which represent the sonoluminescence bubble characteristic which include bubble radius (R/R0), temperature, number of methanol molecules, pressure, micro–convection (or oscillatory liquid velocity) and acoustic (or shock) waves emitted by the bubble. (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) (F) Figure 1: Effect

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