Buston and Wight in 2010 conducted a qualitative study (in-depth interviews) to better comprehend what motivates incarcerated male young offenders to seek STIs testing and why others have not been tested. The independent variables included characteristics of the interviewees (e.g.‚ age‚ sex education‚ sexual partner history‚ contraceptive use‚ testing for STIs‚ residential care‚ religious background‚ and education level). The dependent variable was STI testing behaviors. The sample included 40
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ABSTRAT PAGE We had to pick a lab to do and we had four choices. We could pick one on the how genes are pasted down from generation to generation. FRUIT FLY PURPOSE: The purpose of this lab is to determine what genetics are dominant and which one is recession in the fruit fly and to see what genetics are past down from generation to generation. INTERODUCTUON: Mendel’s pea did and experiment that was
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The Qualitative Paradigm The design of a research study begins with the selection of a topic and a paradigm. A paradigm is essentially a worldview‚ a whole framework of beliefs‚ values and methods within which research takes place. It is this world view within which researchers work. According to Cresswell (1994) "A qualitative study is defined as an inquiry process of understanding a social or human problem‚ based on building a complex‚ holistic picture‚ formed with words‚ reporting detailed
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2. Qualitative ORGANIC functional group tests in various homologous series | TEST FOR | TEST METHOD | OBSERVATIONS | TEST CHEMISTRY and comments | ALKENE or alkyne i.e. any non-aromatic unsaturated hydrocarbon with a double or triple carbon-carbon bond. | Bubble gas through‚ or add liquid to‚ a solution of bromine in hexane or water. | The orange/brown bromine rapidly decolourises‚ as a saturated colourless organic bromo-compound is formed. | R2C=CR2 + Br2 ==> BrR2C-CR2BrRCCR + 2Br2 ==> Br2RC-CRBr2R
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COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS The quantitative and qualitative research traditions can be thought of as distinct cultures marked by different values‚ beliefs‚ and norms. Qualitative research methods are complex meaningful analyses characterized by processes and meanings that are not measured in terms of mathematical measurements. Quantitative research however‚ relies and builds on mathematical procedures and methods‚ such as frequency‚ quality‚ amount and
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IntroductionThis study examined qualitative research on "Pregnancy and protection: Perceptions‚ attitudes and experiences of Australian female adolescents" to determine designs and methods used and to discover emergent themes across study. Most of the study reviewed was described as qualitative or phenomenological by design and included samples comprising of Australian females participants exclusively. Based on analysis of the collective primary findings of the sample research studys‚ three themes
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PART ONE Introduction to Qualitative Research CHAPTER 1 The Nature of Qualitative Research: Development and Perspectives This chapter is an attempt to trace the background of qualitative research‚ its development and its main features. It also focuses on some epistemological and methodological issues. The aim is to put the more pragmatic and practical sections in the book into a theoretical and methodological context. Qualitative research is a form of social inquiry that focuses
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Qualitative Methods And analysis * . Quantitative research is used widely in social sciences such as sociology‚ anthropology‚ and political science. Research in mathematical sciences such as physics is also ’quantitative’ by definition‚ though this use of the term differs in context. In the social sciences‚ the term relates to empirical methods‚ originating in both philosophical positivism and the history of statistics‚ which contrast qualitative research methods. Qualitative
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The Qualitative Report Volume 9 Number 2 June 2004 176-191 http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR9-2/bender.pdf The Implications of Sex Tourism on Men’s Social‚ Psychological‚ and Physical Health Kimberly Bender South County Center Mental Health Services‚ Alexandria‚ Virginia‚ USA Rich Furman University of Nebraska-Omaha‚ Omaha‚ Nebraska‚ USA This article explores sex tourism and possible concerns for the male sex tourist through a content analysis of sex tourism web sites. This qualitative‚ exploratory
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A Companion to QUALITATIVE RESEARCH A Companion to QUALITATIVE RESEARCH Edited by Uwe Flick‚ Ernst von Kardorff and Ines Steinke Translated by Bryan Jenner SAGE Publications London ● Thousand Oaks ● New Delhi Translation © 2004 This English edition first published 2004 Originally published in the series “rowohlts enzyklopädie” under the title QUALITATIVE FORSHCHUNG – Ein Handbuch Copyright © 2000 Rowohlt Ttaschenbuch Verlag GmbH‚ Reinbek bei Hamburg Apart from any fair
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