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    1. Objectivity: Accurate charting starts with containing only information that is factual and objective. The professional should never record false information, exxagerated data, or information from third-party sources that cannot be confirmed. Accuracy also is needed in using correct speling, grammar, and punctutation. Aclients record is a permanat, legal document that must be as accurate as possible. For example, rather than stating in chart the pt. was irritated, wthout further explannation

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    A control condition, also known as a control group, is an important part of an experimental design because it allows one to identify other factors that might be causing the effect that is being examined. In this particular case bad driving is the effect that is being examined. If a control condition was not used, researchers may conclude that adults who use cell phones while driving are bad drivers. However, the study would not distinguish between bad driving caused by talking on the phone versus

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    main point of the author argument. In fact, the usage of statistics and other people stories may reinforced the credibility of this article. Furthermore, because of the usage of clear language and key terms that were fine defined aids the readers in understanding the message of the text. The only downfall of the article is some of statistics is not well supported with evidence or a guidelines guiding us back the origins of these statistics, although the paper is not flawless, the overall strong point

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    Protocol: Participants (n: 100-150) will be acquired for this experiment from various course sections as previously described. Participants will first be given a preliminary questionnaire in order to exclude those who did not meet the inclusion criteria. Participants will then be asked to sign a consent form, allowing the potentially use of any data obtained. All participants will then be randomly assigned into two groups in a single-blind fashion; the two groups are: control and experimental. The

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    Spearman's Lab

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    Initially, the gathered data was put into organized tables which did not relate the data to proximity to human activity. To observe possible data trends, each data set was put into a scatter graph (Figures 18, 21, and 23). Choropleth maps were used to show the spatial distribution of data (Figures 19, 22, and 24). A pie chart (Figure 20) and a line graph (Figure 25) provide additional information to compare data amongst the sites. Mathematically, Spearman’s Rank Correlation Coefficient (“Spearman’s”)

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    Unit 351 Data Collection

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    available only for subscribed members. Other data sets were company specific so we could not access them. Below is a discussion of the variables we collected and their units of measure. Consumer price index (CPI): According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, CPI is a “measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services”. Our data was collected from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development because theirs was

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    Introduction (State and Plan) As a group of young adults, we are interested in the correlation of a person’s age and their total family income. We chose these variables because we want to learn if the general assumption of total family income increases as a person ages is true. Especially since most people tend to get promotions in their respective career fields over time leading to an increase in wages or get married leading to a general increase in total family income. In order to study

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    Dr. Allison Brennan touched on various topics about dynamics of social interaction during the process of cognitive collaboration. The main focus was towards social interaction between people rather than focusing on what factors influence social development in an individual. Her research on cognitive collaboration was conducted with the same experimental task called, Enumeration Visual. This is where participants collaborate with a friend and sometimes a non friend to answer given questions. To differentiate

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    1. Spence A. Coffman is the author of the article. 2. The title of the article is “Facial Expression: The ability to Distinguish between enjoyment and non-enjoyment smiles.” 3. The article was published in the summer of 2013 4. I learned that the most used and easily recognized facial expression is the smile Ekman 2009. I also found out in the article that deliberate smiles or forced smiles are produced by voluntarily contracting the zygomaticus major muscles. 5. One of the articles cited is “Telling

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    RAHMAT HIDAYAT. Prediction of The Mass of Cow’s Body by Measurement of The Body Length and Chest Circumference with Image Processing. Supervised by I WAYAN ASTIKA. Measurement of the sizes of cow’s body manually using a tape for prediction of the mass of cow’s body is considered to be less practical. The purpose of this research is to determine the body length, chest circumference, gumia height, and hip height for prediction of the mass of cow’s body with image processing. Prediction of the body

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