Double-Aspect Foundherentism: A New Theory of Empirical Justification

1993 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Haack
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Justification

Birth-Based Approach to Family Planning: An Empirical Justification

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Srinivasan ◽  
S. Rajaram
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Empirical Justification

scholarly journals An Empirical Justification for the Use of Racially Distinctive Names to Signal Race in Experiments

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel M. Butler ◽  
Jonathan Homola
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Public Records ◽  
Empirical Justification ◽  
Political Resources ◽  
Other Information

Researchers studying discrimination and bias frequently conduct experiments that use racially distinctive names to signal race. The ability of these experiments to speak to racial discrimination depends on the excludability assumption that subjects’ responses to these names are driven by their reaction to the individual’s putative race and not some other factor. We use results from an audit study with a large number of aliases and data from detailed public records to empirically test the excludability assumption undergirding the use of racially distinctive names. The detailed public records allow us to measure the signals about socioeconomic status and political resources that each name used in the study possibly could send. We then reanalyze the audit study to see whether these signals predict legislators’ likelihood of responding. We find no evidence that politicians respond to this other information, thus providing empirical support for the excludability assumption.

The Allure of Politicisation of Religion - and the Necessity of Empirical Justification

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. A. Hellyer
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Justification

Empirical Justification. By Paul K. Moser

1989 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-73
Author(s):  
Andrew D. Cling ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Justification

Empirical Justification

1986 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul K. Moser
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Justification

Heterogeneous Preferences for Greek Heritage Attractions

2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandros Apostolakis ◽  
Shabbar Jaffry
Keyword(s):  
Discrete Choice ◽  
Heritage Tourism ◽  
Choice Modelling ◽  
Heterogeneous Preferences ◽  
Revenue Generation ◽  
Empirical Justification ◽  
Discrete Choice Modelling ◽  
Future Policy

The paper uses the method of discrete choice modelling to evaluate tourists' preferences for two heritage attractions in Greece. This methodology offers the opportunity to gain useful insights regarding the direction of future policy actions in this important area of revenue generation. The paper provides empirical justification for the frequently cited argument in favour of the adoption of a more market-oriented rationale for an optimal use of heritage resources. Overall, the authors support the claim that Greek heritage tourism manifestations will be substantially better off if they divert attention away from the exhibits and towards specialization in accordance with visitors' preferences.

Theoretical and Empirical Justification for Current Rates of Iatrogenic Delivery at Late Preterm Gestation

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. S. Joseph ◽  
Mary D'Alton
Keyword(s):  
Late Preterm ◽  
Empirical Justification

scholarly journals Measuring the geography of opportunity

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael C. Lens
Keyword(s):  
Neighborhood Effects ◽  
School Quality ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Spatial Segregation ◽  
Neighborhood Violence ◽  
Concentrated Disadvantage ◽  
Job Accessibility ◽  
Empirical Justification ◽  
Demographic Groups ◽  
Spatial Sorting

Quantitative segregation research focuses almost exclusively on the spatial sorting of demographic groups. This research largely ignores the structural characteristics of neighborhoods – such as crime, job accessibility, and school quality – that likely help determine important household outcomes. This paper summarizes the research on segregation, neighborhood effects, and concentrated disadvantage, and argues that we should pay more attention to neighborhood structural characteristics, and that the data increasingly exist to include measures of spatial segregation and neighborhood opportunity. The paper concludes with a brief empirical justification for the inclusion of data on neighborhood violence and a discussion on policy applications.

NUMERICAL EVALUATION OF FEM WITH APPLICATION TO THE 1-D ADVECTION–DIFFUSION PROBLEM

2002 ◽  
Vol 12 (02) ◽  
pp. 205-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
GIANCARLO SANGALLI
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element ◽  
Numerical Methods ◽  
General Framework ◽  
Numerical Evaluation ◽  
Numerical Procedure ◽  
Diffusion Problem ◽  
Empirical Justification ◽  
Eigenvalue Computation ◽  
Advection Diffusion

In this paper we present a numerical procedure to evaluate the efficiency of finite element numerical methods. We improve some of the ideas proposed in previous works and give a partly theoretical, partly empirical justification in a general framework. The proposed procedure performs an eigenvalue computation, and requires the knowledge of the behavior of the exact operator in order to choose proper norms for the evaluations. In the experiments we focus our attention on the 1-D advection–diffusion problem: we show that our numerical procedure actually gives very sharp indications about the optimality of the tested numerical methods.

The effects of semantic and thematic clustering on the learning of second language vocabulary

1997 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Tinkham
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Vocabulary Learning ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Esl Students ◽  
Interference Theory ◽  
Empirical Justification ◽  
Semantic Clustering ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
L2 Vocabulary

ESL students are often presented much of their new English vocabulary preorganized for them in ‘semantic clusters’, sets of semantically and syntactically similar words, e.g., eye, nose, ear, mouth, chin. Although clustering of this sort facilitates the activities which serve current approaches to language teaching and would seem,at first glance, to facilitate vocabulary learning as well, little or no empirical justification is offered by researchers in support of its employment. In fact, research that might apply, psychological research generated by interference theory, would predict that such clustering of similar items impedes rather than enhances learning. On a more positive note, a more ‘thematic’ manner of organizing new L2 vocabulary is suggested by more recent psychological research which would predict that clusters like frog, green,hop, pond,slippery, croak would be more easily learnt than groups of unassociated words. With these predictions in mind,the reported research explored the effects upon L2 vocabulary learning of both ‘semantic’ and ‘thematic’ clustering. The results provide a wide range of evidence that suggests that semantic clustering does indeed serve as a hindrance while thematic clustering serves as a facilitator of new language vocabulary learning.

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