Archive for December, 2009

What is truth outside of science?

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Truth in science centres on observation and experimentation. You make an assertion and then you attempt to prove it through observation, measurement and/or experimentation. If you are successful the assertion (hypothosis) becomes a truth. On a more day to day level we might approach the idea of truth in the same albeit less formal way. We might suspect such and such is going on and then go to certain lengths to establish that it is.

But people talk of other forms of truth. I have not set out to dispute the possibility of other forms of truth, but to learn about them. I would like a description of any other forms of truth.

there are:
-logical truths (a=a),
-mathematical truths (2+2=4)
-conceptual truths ("all bachelors are unmarried"),
-intuitive truths that do not rely on the scientific method but are immediately grasped ("i’m angry right now/ i’m in great pain")
-maybe interchangeable with ‘intuitive’ in some ways but I would also add truths grasped via the phenomenological method

Describe how the social approach could explain social identity?

Friday, December 11th, 2009


Click here for the answer: http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/glossary/social-identity-theory-421/

http://www.teambuilding.co.uk/social_identity_theory.html

What kind of career involves the nervous system?

Friday, December 11th, 2009

I’m researching different kinds of careers involving neuroscience or the nervous system. I’m very interested in the peripheral nervous system.

I liked the idea of the electroneurodiagnostic (END) technologist except the fact of their pay and I that would like to do more. I liked the hands on approach though.

The maximum amount of schooling I’m considering is 8 years after graduating high school.

What kind of careers involve the nervous system?

nervousoligist….

Hi, Is it necessary to approach a licensed architect for approval of drawings by an authority?

Friday, December 11th, 2009

If I have the architectural drawings for construction, does it have to be legally approved by architect or I can approach to the local authority by myself and get it approved? What are the usual fees for approval? What are the other stages of approval of drawings and fees charged for it?

I don’t know what country you live in, but you do not need to pay a licensed architect to sign off on your drawings.

Your local building permit office will approve the plans or not. The fees for submitting your plans depend on your locality, each has its own particular ordinances and procedures. Go down and ask.

Normally what happens is you get a set of plans from an architect, engineer or design-build firm or even download them from the net. Then your contractor goes down to the permit office and submits them for approval. The contractor wil be familiar with all your local procedures and fees etc.

If you plan on being your own contractor, you will have to pull the permits yourself. This is not as hard as it sounds, but it does take some patience.

You should definitly do some homework on the process of building. Some good resources to browse are here: http://www.contractor-city.com/buandreco.html

Good luck on your project!

science is a theory and admits it is, religion is a theory and insists it is fact. science has a number of…?

Friday, December 11th, 2009

sources of reference to call upon, the religious book relies on itself. do we think the humbler approach (science) gains more credibility than religion as it at least admits it may be off the mark. Or should we just believe the bible/koran becuase it saya we should

I believe in God’s Word over everythinng else.

Please give an example of a social marketing approach to health?

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

My teacher is not giving us examples on these and the coursework is in for next week, i have researched this and cannot find anything, any info would be handy thanks :)
x

All you need to know is H.R. 3962.

A major change in our approach to understanding differing economic systems is?

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

a.a new emphasis on the polar extremes of planning versus the market economies.
b.less emphasis on polar extremes and greater attention to the many gradations of economic systems.
c.a sharply increased role for Marxian thought.
d.none of the above.

check this link it can help you:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_systems

Identify and describe two types of traditional approaches to fund development, and two types of entrepreneur?

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

approaches to fund development

Tradiitonal go to a bank or hold special events to fundraise.

Entrepenuer- goes to individual investors and venture capital firms. Also bank loans, personal loans, credit card financing too.

Can anyone describe the features of the business risk assessment approach to audit?

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

thanks.

Broad question.

A business risk assessment approach is supposed to require the auditor to develop a working understanding of their client’s business, the classes of transactions and account characteristics sufficient to develop an approach to address the risky assertions (completeness, accuracy, existence, etc…) and reduce their audit risk.

The reality – most audit firms pay lip-service to the new standards by developing mountains of checklists that their least experienced people fill out and they change very little about their overall approach. You can spot them immediately if they say that the new standards increased the cost of their audits by 5,10,15, 25+%. I adopted the standards three years ago (before I was required to) and it cut hours by focusing efforts to where efforts deserve to go.

Sorry to come off preachy but those firms give the rest of us a bad name.

What should you do when you are afraid to approach someone to break the ice?

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

In my college..there are many familiar faces and I guess it will be good for me to make friends with them.
But how to approach them..same is the case with my yahoo contacts.
I have many people in my yahoo profiles added as my contacts but I don’t know how to approach them and start conversation.

Sometimes you are the one who has to atracct people by talking with everybody even if that means talking for a minute. I mean you have to show everybody that you are friendly. Create a good environment when someone is near you by smiling them and being nice with them in anything. Dont ever be sad near them or show your feelings about something bad if they still dont know you well because many people dont like to be around someone whose life is sad or bored. You will realize that they will eventually talk to you more often; you just gotta be pacient.
If you are shy and you wait for them to talk to you they wont. A good strategy in collegue school or work to make them talk to you is simply start sharing something with them like your meal at lunch time and then quickly start a conversation about what you think would be best and interesting to talk about there ( you know depending on what is happening there). If he/she doesnt answer or they just say "no" and ignore you, it means that they are unfriendly because even a dog says hi. Look for the friendly ones first, its almost imposible that they ignore you.
Now making friends "online" is even easier, you just gotta introduce yourself, just like meeting someone in the world outside. Then start a conversation about something interesting that happened, is happening or will happen to you, so he/she will have to say something about it. Next ask him/her about something related to what you talked about and let him/her talk (like a chain of opinions and conversations that will lead to new things to talk about). Make sure that you are hearing, listening to him/her and paying attention to every single word they speak, so you will have the opportunity to make opinions about her/him talk.
In the real world just make sure he/she is not talking to the walls, but is talking to you and you are talking to him/her not to the air!! . Another good advice is to make eye contact and smile 50% of the times (act naturally and friendly).
Doing all that, everybody will talk to you again with trust and then you will become friends!!
good luck and go for them^^