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... Article Summary Moreno et al. ed the article en d Short-Term Music Training Enhances Verbal Intelligence and Executive Function in 2011. Researchers investigate on questions related to transfer from music and visual-art training to children’s performance on specific subjects of verbal and spatial intelligence and executive function, whether training programs would influence executive function, and whether there are links between training programs and changes in verbal or spatial intelligence mediated by changes in executive function (Moreno, et al., 2). In line with the subject of investigation, the researchers formulate four hypotheses, among of which are: music training would improve verbal intelligence independently of spatial...
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...?Plastic Sex-Roles in the Common Goby: The Effect of Nest Availability (A Summary) This study of Borg, Forsgren, and Magnhagen (105-115) is about theeffects of nest site availability on reproductive behavior in the common goby (Pomatoschistus microps). Common goby is a small short-lived marine fish having a conventional sex role--that with which the male goby builds nests under empty bivalve shells and cares for the eggs--thus, the availability of good nest sites is an important factor for reproduction. The study was conducted to see if there is a change in sex-roles, related to an environmental-induced change in operational sex ratio, utilizing an experimental artificial nest material in the field situation. More...
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...Looking At Sex In A Larger Way Article Summary In the article "China's film furror draws attention to changing mores", Peter Ford of The Christian Science Monitor looks into the issue of discussing issues of sex as it comes to mainstream media. Ford mentions a movie titled 'Curse of the Golden Flower' which has numerous examples of the human form being exposed for the purpose of attracting the audience. Taken directly from the article, "A pile of steamed buns," fumed one establishment critic. A mother complained to China Daily newspaper that she had been obliged to repeatedly cover her 5-year-old son's eyes as they watched the movie. "I told him to do so with his own...
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...Saving the World Bank Since its inception, the World Bank has been involved in supporting the countries across the globe by means of financial lending and aids for building up the infrastructure, development, advisory services and other social projects like literacy, poverty eradication, civil reforms etc. Annual financial layout towards loans and aids from the bank stands at approximately $20 billion. The bank has played a key role in global governance. Be it the Mexican economy crash, the Asian economic crisis, war torn countries like Bosnia or Afghanistan or Tsunami ravaged countries, the World Bank has led from the front to support them in their need of hour. The bank not just possesses the financial might but also has... the World Bank...
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...Article Summaries Article Chinas Competitive Performance - A Threat To East Asian Manufactured Exports _Sanjaya Lall 2003. Summary China’s increasing competitive performance is causing a concern for other exporters in East and Southeast Asia from low wage countries to more advanced economies, as well as around the world. This relates not only to labour intensive goods but the entire span of goods involving technology and skill. China’s competitiveness is characterised by a large, cheap and productive workforce, an expansive industrial sector, technical expertise etc. China’s membership of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has heightened the threat due to greater access...
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...Coal Ban Could Heat Up Electri Prices In the 13 s of the United s, the banning of coal-plant operations has been enacted or deliberated. These coal-fired power plants, which the public strongly opposes, are the chief suppliers of greenhouse gases in the United States. However, according to new scientific studies, the enactment of coal-plants ban will merely contribute insignificant reductions in the emissions of CO2 while severely increasing electricity prices. A number of experts argue that it would be wiser to put into effect standards or limits on the quantity of emitted CO2 to produce electricity than totally banning the operation of coal plants.
The decision to prohibit the operations of coal plants is a remarkable... Ban Could Heat ...
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...Article Summary Robert F. Murphy’s article en d “Signs and Symptoms” (1987) describes the universal human experience of ageing, and the need that everyone has to come to terms with the finite nature of human life, and the limitations of the physical body. As an anthropologist the author has much to say about the social and psychological construction of illness, and the way that most people in the earlier phases of life take for granted their good health, and their ability to plan whatever they choose in family and career, and follow up these plans over a long space of time. The author describes his own gradual discovery of life-threatening illness, and the implications of this for him on...
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...Neo-Liberalism The fall of communism in the USSR has paved way for economic liberalisation in political economy and political ideology. Global recession and industrialisation facilitated in breaking the capitalism normalcy of 1950s and 1960s. By 1970, another problem arose because countries could not reconcile labour and capital in the market. In leading capitalist countries, this period brought about political polarisation and an assurance that this crisis would bring about new openings to curb the problem. Neo-liberalisation first came into existence in the kind of political economy as a critique of Keynesianism. Although disregarded by many, neo-liberalisation jumped the barriers into active politics establishing themselves... The fall of...
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...Acceptance of Pandemic 2009 Influenza A (H1N1) Vaccine in a Minority Population: Determinants and Potential Points of Intervention I. Introduction Reports revealed that a significant proportion of parents do not intend to vaccinate themselves and/or their children against the A(H1N1) pandemic virus and the research will inquire into the determinants of pandemic H1N1 vaccine acceptance.
II. Research purpose
The research aims to elucidate the minority’s attitude toward H1N1 vaccine acceptance particularly the black and Hispanic parents of infants and children (aged 0 –18 years) in Atlanta, Georgia, to understand correlates of vaccine hesitancy and refusal and to identify intervention points to increase vaccine coverage for H1N1... of Pandemic...
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...Article summary Miller, N J., Besser, T. L & Vigna, D. Networking among apparel store owners in small US communities: Developing social capital. CTRJ 29(1), 83-97. Retrieved from
http://ctr.sagepub.com/content/29/1/83.short
Rationale given in this study regarding the use of multifaceted approach stated it neutralizes biases evident in numerous and different studies (Miller, Besser & Vigna, 2011). Biases in this case refer to those factors due to certain inevitable normally held by researchers besides mostly intertwined in their hypothesis. This is to the extent one despite having obtained certain research results tend to make estimations or assumptions favouring one’s expectations (Miller, Besser &...
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