... and scales and for dealing with measurement problems. It also led to awareness of the demands of logical inference and the dangers of confounding and, hence, to the early adoption of multiple variable analysis. Because of their training and skills in these matters, statisticians and social scientists have...

..., examines specific measurement problems in the terminal/palliative situation, and determines if the concept of QOL might enhance care. The chapter concludes that palliation research can profit a lot from the QOL movement. Although there are no ready-made solutions, this signifies the urgency for adopting...

... measurement problems perverse incentives profit-sharing conflicts of interest compensation contracts whistleblower rules Basic Lesson:  Every business has to determine how to motivate its employees to cooperate in a productive manner, while also limiting temptations for employees to exploit...

... R C Levine C S Markus H R Norris C J Park N van Reekum C M Winkelman T Rigotti A Yoo J well-being government surveys cohort studies context conceptual and measurement problems We question use of the term “well-being” to encompass notably distinct phenomena (objective indicators...

... and Vermeeren, is a strand of scholarly activity in Eastern Europe, particularly Russia, East Germany, and Romania, where books and articles on the philosophy of chemistry have been published since the late 1950s. analogy categorization data enantiomers instrument(s) measurement problems orientation...

... interesting implications for chemistry. analogy causal relations enantiomers explanation(s) instrumentalism measurement problems orientation quantum mechanics realist shape According to classical stereochemistry, the molecules of some substances have doubles, in the sense of incongruent mirror-image...

... and synthesis in chemistry. chemical bonding types instrumentation laboratory techniques logical positivists measurement problems pluralism quantum mechanical theory reductionist approach Chemists move habitually and with credible success—if sometimes unreflectively— between two worlds. One...

...This chapter presents a luncheon address at the conference by Jack E. Triplett. Triplett reviews the measurement problems on which Griliches worked; those on which he did not work directly but on which he had a significant influence; and those that will likely continue to be important in the future...

... instrumental method of analysis requires no reduction of data to normal pressure and temperature, no corrections or computations, no reference to correction factors nor interpolation on nomographic charts. . . . accuracy chemical identity instrumentation measurement problems objectivity samples truth(s...

... instrument(s) language(s) of chemistry measurement problems natural kinds realism samples techniques Figure, or shape, has long been ensconced in modern philosophy as a primary or essential quality of matter. Descartes, Malebranche, Hobbes, and Boyle all apparently endorsed the Lockean claim that shape...

...0 29 10 2024 Seven of the problems in Alcuin’s Propositiones involve measurement—numbers 8, 9, 10, 12, 30, 31, and 51. This chapter deals with these problems and their implications. Using mathematics to generalize practical measurement problems has always been a central part...