Study Article Reviews Samples For Students

The "circadian timing system" has been linked to the wellness and improvement of survival rate in cancer patients. Recent research shows how the circadian timing system is affected by chemotherapy in mice. The study tries to answer the main question: what is the relationship between the disruption of circadian rhythm and adverse events in individual cancer patients? The study also aims to quantify the treatment-induced CTS changes and to characterize the rhythm recovery dynamics of cancer patients.
The study samples include 49 patients who are candidate for saving chemotherapy regimens and medical treatment of their cancer disease. Specifically, the Continue reading...

1. Objective: The objective of this study was to check whether coffee intake can help protect against fatal oral/pharyngeal cancers in a large US prospective cohort study.
2. Study design: The study included individuals from among the 1 million plus (men and women, average age 57 years) participants of the Cancer Prevention Study II by the American Cancer Society. The study participants completed a confidential questionnaire designed to obtain information about behavioral, dietary habits and family health history including cancer.
3. Strength of study design: The study described by Hildebrand J. and others (2012) was large and included participants Continue reading...

Luke Rendell and Hall Whitehead are the authors of this article. Rendell is a Ph.D. student at the Dalhouise Univesity. His focus is in cetacean behavior and acoustic communications. Whitehead is a professor of biology at the same university and has written several papers mostly on the behavior, ecology and conservation of whales. He is also the coordinator of field studies of dolphins and whales.
I, therefore, offer a summary of the article, give my opinion and connect the article to the question “is culture unique to humans?’

Article Summary

Rendell and Whitehead describe recent research findings on the evidence of Continue reading...

The Time Famine: Toward a Sociology of Work Time.

The paper gives a description of a qualitative study of the way people utilize their time in the workplace. It also describes why people use their time the way they do and it also considers whether the way in which people use time is optimal for their work groups and for them. The outcome of the field study of the work practices of software engineering team showed that the members were perpetrated by the group’s collective use of time. The study revealed that the workers had a feeling that the time for doing their activities was short. The Continue reading...

Study Program

Review of Keenan, J. & Evans, A. 2014. ‘‘I am a starbucks worker my life no longer belongs to me’: the performance of enstrangement as a learning tool,’ Teaching in Higher Education, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 101-112.
This paper examines the use of autoethnography as a means of approaching the experience of estrangement, thereby making the researcher’s personal experience a topic of investigation. Autoethnographic practices that emphasize the location of the researcher as an important response to post-structuralist epistemologies in which older forms of certainty in the validity traditional scientific inquiry have been edged out by greater Continue reading...

Article Analysis

Abstract
Introduction
Methods
First, all patients were admitted to the trial wards and those who met the inclusion criteria were considered. Secondly, the members were recommended by ward staff to the study nurses. Thirdly, the entry criteria included; age of 65 years and above; the pressure ulcer risk of 15 to 20 based on physiologic, demographic, and disease specific features and consent to regular examination of pressure areas. Also, the members were transferred to the trial beds after their consent was sought. In addition, the exclusion criteria were employed such as obesity greater than 155 kilograms, if the patient Continue reading...

- Identify the research method used in accumulating the data which served as the basis for this article. What were the strengths and weaknesses of the research method?
This article is based on both theoretical research and practical research. The research has used the meta-analysis research method which is an analytical technique which aims at analyzing results of multiple analyses. The meta-analysis design relies on heterogeneity and availability of information. Its limitations are the possibility of collection of homogeneous information which is hard to compare. The accuracy of the results to be compared is also a determining factor in Continue reading...

Article Review on Financial Econometrics

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Article Review on Financial Econometrics
For the article review assignment, I have chosen the article ‘Inflation and Real Stock Returns Revisited’ by Shu-Chin Lin, published in the refereed journal Economic Inquiry in 2009. The article addresses the topic of relationship between real stock returns and inflation, aiming to obtain the empirical evidence of the effect of different dimensions of inflation (including anticipated inflation, unexpected inflation, and inflation uncertainty) on the real stock returns.
The motivation for the study arises from the inconsistencies between the generalized Fisher hypothesis and the empirical findings of the previous studies that tried Continue reading...

The Title of the Article

The title indicates that the article is about morale and role strain of undergraduate nursing students in a pediatric clinical setting. However, Chen fails to specify the aspect of morale and role strain that the article seeks to deal with in the title. For instance, the title would have been more specific if it were stated as follows: causes of morale and role strain of undergraduate nursing students in a pediatric clinical setting. In this case, a reader would be able to tell that the article deals with the causes of morale and role strain. It therefore follows that Continue reading...

Oral cancer mostly affects the mouth, lips and tongue of a person. It affects people across all genders and class in societies. It arises from many factors that boost up its prevalence. In this study, however, our main concerns will be on the possible effects that may be resultant as a result of alcohol and tobacco intake. In this regard, effects of tobacco and alcohol intake can either be joint or on independent angles. It means that, the effects can exist singly or in collaboration. In this study, my point of reference will be a research article in Pub Continue reading...

Connective tissue growth factor induces collagen I expression in human lung fibroblasts through the Rac1/MLK3/JNK/AP-1 pathway

Many lung inflammatory diseases present pulmonary fibrosis as one of the symptoms, which is characterized by shortness of breath, chronic coughing and discomfort in the chest. It causes modifications of the lung tissues due to overgrowth, hardening and scarring. This occurs mainly due to deposition of collagen, an extracellular matrix (ECM) protein, whose turnover is regulated by fibroblast. Fibroblast is an important cell regulator that is enlisted by a site of injury. This process is driven by release of transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β), platelet-derived growth factor, interleukin-6 (IL-6), and IL-8/CXCL8.
Previously, fibroblast was thought to express no or very Continue reading...

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Introduction

This article discusses the classification of alcoholism and investigation of personality traits. As the subjects were selected 100 men with excessive alcohol consumption. They were interviewed by telephone or visual conversation. Thereafter, they were designed to a research center for examination. And as a result, the hypothesis that male individuals with excessive alcohol consumption do not have a specific ‘‘addictive’’ personality, was confirmed in this study.

Body

Authors tried to answer the question about do male individuals with excessive alcohol consumption have a specific “addictive” personality or not? Continue reading...

Abstract

This paper is going to focus on the relationship between word learning in 6 months old. It will also look at the level of encoding of that words and retention. It was based on the hypothesis that young children relate words with objects. The experiment was conducted on a number of infants that were given different categories of analysis. The analysis included memory test and training. The results showed that the infants were able to relate words and objects after a repetition of the same for several occasions.

Introduction

Word learning is a process that requires the establishment of memory Continue reading...

The Periodontal department in the Federal and Guarulhos universities conducted research on the prevalence of human papillomavirus in gingival tissue. During that period, human papillomavirus had been detected in several lesions such as condyloma acuminatum and focal epithelial. It was also suspected that HPV could be the cause of periodontal breakdown. The debris of the virus was the periodontal tissue. This led to the investigation of incidences of HPV-16 in the Brazilian gingival tissue.
Several methods and materials were used to carry out the study. The samples were obtained from 104 participants. There were 56 cases with adverse periodontal Continue reading...

The article “Bathymetry of Mariana trench-arc system and formation of the

Challenger Deep as a consequence of weak plate coupling”, by Zohar Gvirtzman, and Robert J. Stern, published by Tectonics describes the study of determining the depths of the Mariana trench-arc system, and how the weak plate coupling results in the formation of Challenger Deep: the deepest known point on earth’s surface. The author’s demonstrate that the Mariana Trench is located at the southwest, and not at the center, because of the width of the plate coupling zone. The authors examine observation methods such as Bathymetry, to know the relation of the Mariana trench with the regional topographic Continue reading...

Exam 1

- In experimental studies, the subjects receive treatment and are observed, and a control group is used to verify the effect of the intervention performed on the experimental group. On the other hand, in non -experimental studies, the subjects are not subjected to any process of treatment. In this study, the subjects have not received any treatment at all and data is collected from archived secondary sources. Additionally, experiments usually have both dependent and independent variables. Finally, experiments involve randomization of the sample population into groups which are later to be subjected to specifically defined treatment. This is a Continue reading...

Introduction

The article investigates the phenomena of Pragmatic Fossilization about the non-native speakers of English. The aim of the study is to assess the impact of pragmatic markers in speech of native and non-natives speakers of English. The study assessed these in children and adult of both the study groups.

Summary

The phenomenon of “Pragmatic Fossilization” happens in the non-native speakers of English during their learning process. It is defined as the “phenomena by which a non-native speaker systematically uses certain forms inappropriately at the pragmatic level of communication”. Put in simple terms, it is persistence of formal errors by the Continue reading...

Introduction

The case is about the development issues related with the new real estate project named Downtown. It was not having very good reputation among the citizens nearby the construction site, which was the reason behind the worry of top management of the Downtown Dayton Partnership firm. Now company was seeking a plan to take an action on to it. The company had an strategy to make the property more user friendly by eliminating the problems existed in the project. Now the top management of the Partnership firm wanted to have a vision for the downtown project to make it Continue reading...

The article: Juvenile Drug Court Program Admission, Demeanor and Cherry-picking: A Research Note by J.C Barnes among other authors examines how demeanor of either a parent or a juvenile influences the admission of the juvenile into the Drug Court program for purposes of treatment. It does a critical analysis of 76 case files so as to get a picture of the case whether demeanor indeed influences the admission of juveniles into the program. The second concern of the article is to explore whether the source of such demeanor whether parent or the child is determinant of whether a juvenile Continue reading...

Psychology

Article Review: A Longitudinal Examination of Stress Generation in Depressive and Anxiety Disorders
The article A Longitudinal Examination of Stress Generation in Depressive and Anxiety Disorders
examines the correlation between life stress and such disorders as depression and anxiety. It discusses the connection between a stressful event and depression as well as life stress and depression. Furthermore, it examines whether a stressful causes a temporary depressive state or a longer lasting depressive state in a person. The dimensions of life stress are discussed as well as types of stress generation and factors which play a role in stress generation. Continue reading...

In recent years, the simulation studies were given much importance; huge number budgets have been devoted for the simulation studies. There are three types of simulation studies; continuous, discrete event, and monte carlo. This article analysis about the different indicators used for selecting the best discrete event simulation software. There is huge number of simulation software available, the user has to choose the best suitable simulation software among the huge number of packages. Hlupil and Paul has presented several criteria for the evolution and comparison of the simulation package with the levels of importance for the particular purpose. Tewoldeberban Continue reading...

Problem

What is the problem the study was conducted to research?
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a global health issue. There is an increase in type 2 diabetes in African-Americans. Lack of knowledge in lifestyle and treatment interventions has led to the increase of T2DM in African-Americans. Type 2 Diabetes is a leading cause of blindness, renal diseases and lower limb amputations. African-Americans having T2DM also suffer from high blood pressure and low glycemic levels in blood.

Why is the problem an important one for nursing to research?

Diabetes has become a serious health issue among the public. Registered nurses should have latest knowledge about different interventions for diabetes. The Continue reading...

Critical Review

Thesis
This is a critical review on research paper Case Studies on Successful M&A Practices in Acer & Lenovo: A Dynamic Capabilities Perspective. The first section of this paper will discuss the purpose, rationale and related literature of this research paper. The second section will discuss the research methodology and design used in this paper. The final section will discuss the main findings and the implication related to this study.

Introduction

Historical information shows that about 70% of the M&A (merger & acquisitions) have led to value destruction and only 30% of the M&A lead to value creation. This case of empirical Continue reading...

Based on recent studies there is a correlation between child maltreatment and culture and ethnicity. Research indicates that child sexual abuse, physical abuse and neglect are the most common forms of child maltreatment. However, childhood sexual abuse is the most common form of abuse among the Latinos with rates of almost 8%, which is higher than the childhood sexual abuse among the African Americans and the Asians. Additionally, childhood sexual abuse between the Chinese is lower than for the U.S children. This is because of the conservative Chinese cultural norms that discourage sexual activity at an early age.
Child Continue reading...

This study aimed at characterizing the regulation of oxygen-sensing pathway in human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs). Cells were extracted from umbilical cord blood (UCB), adult bone marrow, and pediatric bone marrow. Expression of HIF-1a and PHDs in the three cells were determined under hypoxia and normoxia. The following activities were performed while conducting the study: cell culture and osteoinduction, characterization of hMSCs using flow cytometric method, hypoxic exposure and Western blot analysis, Quantitative Real -Time RT-PCR (Q-PCR), Glucose and Lactate Assays, Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), Determination of pH of the culture media, and Statistical Analyses.
The results showed that Continue reading...

Rewards and Risks in Stock Markets

The study involves insights into returns provided as well as a summary of South Asia’s stock exchange risk behavior. The article aims at establishing whether there has been a significant difference on the risk and returns associated with the stock market over time. The study finally attempts to make a suggestion regarding the stock market that provides profitable avenue among the SAARC nations. The study also makes use of descriptive statistics such as average annual return, mean percent return, standard deviation, maximum and minimum return, skewness, Jarque Bera statistic and Kurtosis for the six series stock exchanges, namely: Continue reading...

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Abstract

The “Ginkgo Biloba: Evaluation of Memory” study is about the effectiveness Ginkgo Biloba herbal medicine, which’s primary purpose is to increase cognitive health in aging patients through double blind and placebo controlled study. The study included 3072 out 7709 participants randomly selected from four communities in the US i.e., Hagerstown, Maryland; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Sacramento, California; and Winston-Salem and Greensboro, North Carolina over a period of 20 months from September 2000 to May 2002.

Ginko Balboa: Evaluation of Memory

The Ginkgo Evaluation of Memory study is about Ginkgo Biloba herbal medicine, which's primary purpose, is to increase cognitive health in aging patients through Continue reading...

Modern technology has changed education, both in and out of the classroom. This study examines not only how teachers utilize technology in the classroom, but also how technology creates new issues within the classroom, such as potentially creating wider disparities between students of different socio-economic statuses. Although this study does not encapsulate the issues of every school, it does provide interesting insight in how the field of education is shifting thanks to technology.
The intended audience of this report includes a wide range of personnel, including educators, school board members and other policy makers. This study covers quite a Continue reading...

Abstract

The data from a study was analyzed to see the effect of smoking on non-life-threatening disease such as mobility, joint pains and psychological disorders. A longitudinal sample, by merging two studies, was created with five groups to predict the effect of smoking over a period of 34 years. The severity, based on scoring should that there was a increasing effect of smoking on the trajectories of non-life-threatening illnesses.

Introduction

Smoking is considered as a significant contributor to life-threatening diseases including cardiovascular diseases. As the population, especially smokers, reaches old age, they are subjected to debilitating health issues such as non-life-threatening Continue reading...

In the study conducted by authors Alex B. Van Zant and Laura J. Kray, they explored on the concept of truthfulness and honesty. In the study, the researchers stated their objective as attempting to limit the incidence by which people lie. They hypothesized that lying and deception can be averted if face-to-face interaction can instigate moral concern as with the other forms of communication. Simplifying this, the authors believed that when interaction is direct and visual, the possibility of deception will be averted. The authors’ further claims that with face-to-face interaction the players in the communication process will feel Continue reading...

Psychology

In their research “The emotional roots of conspiratorial perceptions, system justification, and belief in the paranormal”, Whitson, Galinsky and Kay (2014) addressed human emotions that are linked with the uncertainty of the world. They suggest a hypothesis that these emotions (such as fear, surprise, hope, etc.) should promote the need to endow the world with structure and order using a variety of compensatory measures.
The reason to conduct the experiments described in the article was a desire to prove that the certainty of the emotions plays a greater role than its valence in the process of activating compensatory control. Continue reading...

“Carers’ experiences of being exposed to challenging behaviour in services for autism spectrum disorders”: An Article Review

Challenging behavior is a common activity that can be encountered in our daily lifestyle. Its definition takes account of behaviors that are abnormal in reference with cultural or traditional practices; and its potency can put other people to harm. Behavior under this category leads a person to be restricted from communal facilities.
This paper would review the article entitled Carers’ experiences of being exposed to challenging behavior in services for autism spectrum disorders. In order to give final thoughts about the article, this review will include the definition of the article’s problem, purpose and research question. It would Continue reading...

The research question was to determine whether other occupational groups could also attain high levels of accuracy in identifying deceit from demeanor. The study tries to find out if it is easier for one to tell if someone is telling lies or not. The methodology used towards this study was observation and experimentations. They used several groups of people with different occupations to establish their ability in establishing whether someone is telling lies or not.
The main discovery from this study is that those people from different occupational groups can tell when one is telling lies. These groups included Continue reading...

Method

Research Design
The key variables in the study are the method of serving nutritional supplement drinks, which is the independent variable, and its effect on compliance and consumption which are the primary dependent variables (Allen, Methven & Gosney, 2014). Nutritional status is a secondary dependent variable. The research problem was communicated well. The authors provided an introduction on the issue of the risk of or actual undernutrition among older adults and the health consequences. They detailed how oral supplementation is an evidence-based medical nutrition therapy to prevent or treat undernutrition but that poor compliance is a barrier to adequate consumption Continue reading...

Leadership Theories
Leadership is a process that a group or an individual impacts a group of individuals to reach a certain or common goal (Parent et. al., n.d.). According to Parent et. al., (n.d.) the literature concerning leadership has transformed from the trait or behavioral approach to the transformational. This change also includes the transactional and charismatic leadership approaches (Parent et. al., n.d.).
According to Kouzes & Posner (2007), on the other hand, Leadership is a chance that can occur at any place or any time. It may happen in a huge or small house, the mall, the school, or Continue reading...

Reading Reflection:

“It All Just Clicked: A longitudinal Perspective on Transitions within University”
READING REFLECTION: TRANSITION TO COLLEGE 2
Reading Reflection: “It All Just Clicked: A longitudinal Perspective on Transitions within University”
The article I am read is a longitudinal study from a scholarly journal. The researchers were interested in the transition of students in a university educationally, socially and psychologically. They state, “Much of this has concentrated on the first year of university study, and has focused on investigating students’ knowledge of, and engagement with, a new learning community” (Hazel et al. 2014). The aim of this study was to Continue reading...

Article Review

The idea of art history represents a historical framework that is based in the inherent identity of the culture from which it is being expressed. In this way, there are numerous ways of characterizing the ways in which these various cultures can express themselves. By establishing a coherent representation of the historical importance of art in politics and culture, the establishment of this perspective is ultimately refocused into the framework from which it emerges.
In the essay “Whither Art History In a Globalizing World” by Parul Dave Mukherji discusses the subject of art history, its definition, and its place Continue reading...

While it remains debatable that money cannot buy happiness, money certainly can buy quality mental health medications and services. It also may buy a sense of feeling good about one’s self – or at least feeling better in comparison to poorer people. Living in poverty and living with a mental health issue are often comorbidities. Common mental disorders (CMD) such as major depression and anxiety are treatable only if a person suffering from these disorders is able to get access to mental health care. Sadly, this is not often the case for those living at the poverty level or Continue reading...

Psychology

Article Being Reviewed
Wright, A.G.C., Pincus, A.L., & Lenzenweger, M.F. (2012). Interpersonal development, stability and change in early adulthood. Journal of Personality 80/5, 1340-1372. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2012.00761.x . Retrieved 22 Nov 2014, from EBSCOHost database.

Introduction

The paper aims to research the ‘development of the interpersonal system’ mapped by the ‘interpersonal circumplex’ in early adulthood (ages 18-22).
The paper recounts the considerable body of previous research studying the personality changes that occur across the life span of a human being. Researchers have observed that personality traits are highly stable in adulthood, barring exceptions. The mean rate of change in personality traits remains minimal, Continue reading...

Implications of Interpolated Testing for Online Education

Implications of Interpolated Testing for Online Education
Technological advancements in the 20th century led to the development of novel innovations, which made a substantial difference in the way we live. Most of these inventions filled a gap in occupations and operations that are usually tedious, delivering the promise of ease and accessibility. Along with these advancements, learning has also become more within our reach due to the number of ways that education is delivered to the masses. Today, the traditional way of learning that is confined within the classroom is no longer our only option. By just a few Continue reading...