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McDaniel, Susan | Women inventors in Canada: research and intervention | What is an inventor or an invention? In this essay, we use the definition of the Canadian Patent Act, which considers a patentable invention to be a new or improved product or process or a new application of an existing product or process. An invention must be technically feasible - it must -"work" ... | Patent; Inventions; Creativity | 1989 |
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Sansone, Carol | Improving the dependability of research in personality and social psychology: recommendations for research and educational practice | The Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Presidential Task Force on Publication and Research Practices was appointed in response to concerns about the dependability and replicability of research findings in personality and social psychology, a problem that also plagues fields as dive... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Fogel, Alan Dale | Change processes in relationships: a relational-historical research approach | This work was supported by grants to Alan Fogel from the National Institute of Health (R01 HD21036), the National Science Foundation (BNS9006756) and the National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH48680), and by a grant to Andrea Garvey from the National Science Foundation of Brazil (CNPq). We grate... | | 2006 |
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Fogel, Alan Dale | Research in review: the development of nurturance in young children | An important, perhaps essential, adult characteristic is the motivation and ability to be a skillful and sensitive caregiver. This ability is the core of effective parenting and is also needed by nonfamily child care providers, caregivers for the handicapped and elderly, loving partners, and even pe... | Nurturance | 1988 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Adoption in Canada: A neglected area of data collection and research | For some decades there has been in Canada, as in the United States, recurrent public interest in adoption. At various times this interest has been kindled by professional concern about unauthorized child placement and by the plight of children made homeless by war and other calamities. More recently... | Canada; Adoption; Statistics | 1981 |
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Diamond, Lisa | Contributions of psychophysiology to research on adult attachment: review and recommendations | Despite the increasing use of psychophysiological measures to investigate social and interpersonal phenomena, few studies of adult romantic attachment have taken advantage of this approach. In this article I argue for a biologically-specific, theory-based integration of psychophysiological measures ... | Attachment; Emotions; Physiology | 2001-10-08 |
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Francis, John G. | Resourceful responses: the adaptive research university and the drive to market | A major challenge for contemporary public research universities is the need to affirm to the public and to the political community that the quality of higher education found at these largely autonomous institutions is of such import that it should be sustained by both public and private support. Thi... | State Universities; Higher Education; Public institutions | 1999 |
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Brown, Barbara B. | Post-occupancy evaluation of wayfinding in a pediatric hospital: research findings and implications for instruction | A post-occupancy evaluation (POE) of way finding in a new pediatric hospital pointed to a wide range of areas where wayfinding aids could be improved. After initial walk-through evaluation tours and meetings with administrators, five more systematic methods were used to assess problems: staff and vi... | Hospitals; Wayfinding; Signage | 1997 |
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Werner, Carol M. | Service-learning "rules" that encourage or discourage long-term service: implications for practice and research | We use research and theory on intrinsic motivation to suggest that some service-learning practices may be counter-productive. Although these practices may encourage student involvement in the short-term, they may reduce interest over the long-term. We pose seven questions about service requirements ... | Community; Choice; Opportunities | 2000 |
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Smith, Ken R. | Biased estimation in policy research: an illustrative example of ridge regression in a health system model | The paper develops an argument for the necessity of examining individual coefficients in policy models. As a result of this need, it is posited that something other than OLS estimators should be used since they are inflated and have extremely large variances when multicollinearity is present. Furthe... | Policy models; Health systems; Ridge regression | 1980 |
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Diamond, Lisa | Careful what you ask for: reconsidering feminist epistemology and autobiographical narrative in research on sexual identity development | Feminist theory has had an undoubtable but inconsistent influence on developmental psychology. Although feminist perspectives have productively challenged developmental models centered on male experiences (Gilligan 1982) and have called attention to socialization practices that reproduce systemati... | Feminism; Epistemology; Autobiography | 2006 |
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Brown, Barbara B. | Adding maps (GPS) to accelerometry data to improve study participants recall of physical activity: a methodological advance in physical activity research | Objective Obtaining the ‘when, where and why' of healthy bouts of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) provides insights into natural PA. Design In Salt Lake City, Utah, adults wore accelerometer and Global Positioning System (GPS) loggers for a week in a cross-sectional study to establis... | | 2014-01-01 |