scholarly journals Philosophical Review on the Basic & Action Research Methods-A Critical Analysis

2018 ◽  
pp. 120-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pradeep M.D.
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Knowledge Domain ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The Status ◽  
Basic And Applied Research

Research means searching for knowledge by utilizing appropriate scientific and systematic approach. It presumes the status of human voyage for the discovery by exploring ones inquisitive urge to gain knowledge over the unidentified aspects connected to life. Research aim to acquire new knowledge or expansion of existing information through some value additions. Varied forms of research methods are adopted to find appropriate solutions for diversified problems of the society. The decision on the application of Basic and Applied research can be better done on the scrutiny of nature of prevailing problem and its solutions. Knowledge domain would get stagnated unless new practical discoveries are conducted with the help of applied research. Even though all basic research will not lead to create new knowledge, it certainly helps to identify new application for conducting applied research on the existing problems by providing required tools and raw materials for the study intern deliver utilitarian benefits to the society. This study puts light on the implications of basic as well as applied research methodologies by reviewing into its evolution, features, steps, merits and demerits. It also tries to distinguish between basic research and applied research focusing upon its utility aspects.

Research Methodology

2019 ◽  
pp. 564-578
Author(s):  
Swati C. Jagdale ◽  
Rahul U. Hude ◽  
Aniruddha R. Chabukswar
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Process Research ◽  
Basic Principles

Research is a logical and systematic approach to investigate or find solutions to scientific and social problems. The research is primarily carried out to discover new facts, to verify and test important facts, and to analyze an event or process. Research is carried out with the help of study, experiment, observation, analysis, comparison, and reasoning. Research is important both in scientific and nonscientific fields. There are two types of research: basic and applied. Basic research is an investigation on basic principles and reasons for occurrence of a particular event or process or phenomenon. Applied research solves certain problems employing well-known and accepted theories and principles. The research process is carried out through series of steps. Research methods are the various procedures, schemes, and algorithms used in research. The research methodology is a systematic way to solve a problem. It is a science of studying how research is to be carried out.

Research Methodology

2018 ◽  
pp. 6767-6778
Author(s):  
Swati C. Jagdale ◽  
Rahul U. Hude ◽  
Aniruddha R. Chabukswar
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Process Research ◽  
Basic Principles

Research is a logical and systematic approach to investigate or finding solutions to scientific and social problems. The research is primarily carried out to discover new facts, to verify and test important facts, to analyze an event or process. Research is carried out with the help of study, experiment, observation, analysis, comparison and reasoning. Research is important both in scientific and nonscientific fields. There are two types of research basic and applied. Basic research is an investigation on basic principles and reasons for occurrence of a particular event or process or phenomenon. Applied research one solves certain problems employing well known and accepted theories and principles. Research process carried out through series of steps. Research methods are the various procedures, schemes and algorithms used in research. Research methodology is a systematic way to solve a problem. It is a science of studying how research is to be carried out.

Basic and Applied Research in Education: Definitions, Distinctions, and Implications

1968 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Research In Education ◽  
Basic And Applied Research

The author draws on the natural and social sciences to illustrate differences and interactions between applied and basic research in education. From this discussion he concludes that there is ample justification for further financial and intellectual support of the basic research component in education, and calls for a better balance in the support of basic and applied educational research.

scholarly journals Child Witness Expressions of Certainty are Informative

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Winsor ◽  
Heather D Flowe ◽  
Travis Morgan Seale-Carlisle ◽  
Isabella Killeen ◽  
Danielle Hett ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Applied Research ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Implicit Measure ◽  
Detection Model ◽  
List Learning ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Basic And Applied Research ◽  
Witness Literature ◽  
Police Lineup ◽  
Accuracy Relationship

Children are frequently witnesses of crime. In the witness literature and legal systems, children are often deemed to have unreliable memories. Yet, in the basic developmental literature, young children can monitor their memory. To address these contradictory conclusions, we reanalysed the confidence-accuracy relationship in basic and applied research. Confidence provided considerable information about memory accuracy, from at least age 8, but possibly younger. We also conducted an experiment where children in young- (4–6 years), middle- (7–9 years), and late- (10–17 years) childhood (N=2,205) watched a person in a video, and then identified that person from a police lineup. Children provided a confidence rating (an explicit judgement), and used an interactive lineup—in which the lineup faces can be rotated—and we analyzed children’s viewing behavior (an implicit measure of metacognition). A strong confidence-accuracy relationship was observed from age 10, and an emerging relationship from age 7. A constant likelihood ratio signal-detection model can be used to understand these findings. Moreover, in all ages, interactive viewing behavior differed in children who made correct versus incorrect suspect identifications. Our research reconciles the apparent divide between applied and basic research findings and suggests that the fundamental architecture of metacognition that has previously been evidenced in basic list-learning paradigms also underlies performance on complex applied tasks. Contrary to what is believed by legal practitioners, but similar to what has been found in the basic literature, identifications made by children can be reliable when appropriate metacognitive measures are used to estimate accuracy.

Towards a Sociology of KOS and More Basic KO Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 501-510
Author(s):  
Philip Hider
Keyword(s):  
Applied Research ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Domain Analysis ◽  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Considerable Potential ◽  
Critical Tradition ◽  
Basic And Applied Research

It is suggested that the knowledge organization (KO) field places greater emphasis on basic research that examines the sociology of KO systems (KOS) and the broader, environmental reasons for the development of both formal and informal KOS. This approach is contrasted with applied KO, which focuses on the practical construction or improvement of specific KOS. The preponderance of applied research in the field of KO is confirmed, at least within the document-centric strand more closely aligned with library and information science, through a survey of articles in the Knowledge Organization journal published between 2009 and 2018. The survey utilized the Frascati Manual definitions for basic and applied research, and referenced Tennis’s classification of KO research (2008). There is considerable potential for building on the critical tradition of KO, with various areas ripe for further sociological investigation. A sociology of KOS could also be accommodated in the popular KO approach of domain analysis.

Action research: an evolving paradigm?

2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Burns
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
English Language ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
The Status ◽  
Basic And Applied Research ◽  
Research Studies

Action research is a relatively recent phenomenon in the field of English language teaching, having emerged in the literature predominantly since the late 1980s. In this article, I discuss the antecedents, definitions, processes, and purposes of action research in the field of English language teaching. Action research is also considered in relation to more established notions of basic and applied research. The current scope and nature of action research studies found in the literature are then analysed. The article concludes with a consideration of some of the challenges to the status of action research as a research methodology and the issues that will need to be addressed if action research by language teachers is to be sustainable.

Ökonomie der Grundlagenforschung und Wissenschaftspolitik

2001 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidrun C. Hoppe ◽  
Wilhelm Pfähler
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Technique ◽  
Science Policy ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Public Provision ◽  
The Third ◽  
Basic And Applied Research ◽  
Research Investments

Abstract This paper has four major objectives. The first is to emphasize the fundamental but mostly overlooked role of instrumentation and experimental technique in linking basic and applied research. The second is to provide an overview of the major economic effects of basic research investments. The third is to discuss reasons for public provision and support of basic research. And the fourth aim is to argue in favour of a reorientation of science policy towards the support of instrumentation and education in experimental laboratories.

scholarly journals Back to Basics: Basic Research Spillovers, Innovation Policy, and Growth

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ufuk Akcigit ◽  
Douglas Hanley ◽  
Nicolas Serrano-Velarde
Keyword(s):  
Technical Change ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Innovation Policy ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Public Research ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Research Sector ◽  
Research Expenditures ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Basic And Applied Research

Abstract This article introduces a general equilibrium model of endogenous technical change through basic and applied research. Basic research differs from applied research in the nature and the magnitude of the generated spillovers. We propose a novel way of empirically identifying these spillovers and embed them in a framework with private firms and a public research sector. After characterizing the equilibrium, we estimate our model using micro-level data on research expenditures by French firms. Our key finding is that uniform research subsidies can accentuate the dynamic misallocation in the economy by oversubsidizing applied research. Policies geared towards public basic research and its interaction with the private sector are significantly welfare-improving.

scholarly journals Meeting report from the Third European Congress of Virology, 1-5 September 2007 in Nuremberg, Germany

2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 15-16
Author(s):  
Collective Editorial team
Keyword(s):  
Applied Research ◽  
Vaccine Development ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Meeting Report ◽  
The Third ◽  
European Congress ◽  
Pathogenic Viruses ◽  
Basic And Applied Research ◽  
The Many

Nuremberg was the third European city to host the European Congress of Virology in September this year (http://www.eurovirology.org). Some 1,500 scientists from Europe and elsewhere came together to share their knowledge on basic and applied research in clinical, veterinary and plant virology. The main focus was on human pathogenic viruses, providing a platform where basic research and clinical application came into contact. The topics covered all areas of research in virology, from basic molecular biology and immunology to epidemiology, vaccine development, and diagnostics. For this meeting report, the Editorial team has selected some of our highlights out of the many excellent keynote lectures and workshop contributions.

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