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What Is Academic Fraud?


What do you think of this academic paper by a team of academics at Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève, 7, rte de Drize, 1227 Carouge in Switzerland?:- http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377221709004251
Do you agree with the main results of the study which claim that the stability of marital relations would be improved by 21% if both partners are the same age, cultural background, educational attainment, and both have no previous experience of divorce?:-
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1222726/The-secret-happy-marriage—man-5-years-older-hasn-t-hitched-before.html
http://www.bodyspacesociety.eu/2009/11/02/love-the-swiss-way-sociologists-want-to-optimize-the-marriage-market/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10463132-71.html
Would it be correct to suggest that the study is flawed because the social, cultural, and political climate in Switzerland is unique and different to other Western countries?
Also, is there any chance whatsoever that the study is biased because Switzerland has a relatively recent history of immigration compared to other Western countries such as the UK and US; which implies that most of the ethnic minorities who are married to Swiss nationals in this sample are actually from non-Western countries, and this usually entails a higher risk of cultural difference between the partners; such cultural difference will tend to increase the risk of divorce or separation.
This is in stark contrast to the situation in Britain and the US, whereby, there are more ethnic minorities who are born, educated, and socialized in the respective country, which reduces the cultural difference factor quite significantly; and this in turn will reduce the risk of divorce or separation in the case of interracial relations between ethnic minorities and White people.
The study is flawed in another sense, because there is the underlying assumption that people of a different cultural/national origin will always have a different culture to the White majority, which is only true as an average, but this should not be generalized to include everyone who is an ethnic minority. The study is flawed because it doesn’t take into consideration the length of time an individual is exposed to the culture of the White majority; there is considerable difference between a recent immigrant from Africa and a black immigrant who has lived in a Western country from an early age. The latter is more acculturated and better adapted to his environment, but the first example is that of an African immigrant who is fresh off the boat.
There is a considerable difference between immigrants who are American to all intents and purposes and the more recent immigrants who are obviously fresh off the boat and foreigners; but this study is a simplified model of different social groups, which assumes that all people belonging to the same social group are exactly the same.
Hence, the study is biased, subjective, and flawed because the authors obviously have a hidden agenda and what is applicable to the social, cultural, and political climate in Switzerland should not be assumed to apply anywhere else in the world.
Also, it’s useful to remember that the 21% increase in the rate of divorce or separation is an estimate based on aggregate but distinct criteria: age, education, cultural background, and previous history of divorce; but on no account are we to assume that differences in cultural origin would account for the entire 21% estimate. On the contrary, differences in cultural origin should account for a mere fraction of that 21% result according to the study.
The study is to some extent an attack on interracial/inter-ethnic marriage where the partners have a different cultural origin; but at the same time, it’s important to remember that differences in cultural origin cannot account for the entire 21% result in the study.
The American Clinical Psychologist Maria P.P. Root has written a book about interracial marriage in the US, and she is known to have said that cultural differences are more likely to be the cause of divorce or separation than any difference in age, education, class, and RACE.
TRUE OR FALSE?

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What Is Intellectual Fraud?


What do you think of this academic paper by a team of academics at Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève, 7, rte de Drize, 1227 Carouge in Switzerland?:- http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377221709004251
Do you agree with the main results of the study which claim that the stability of marital relations would be improved by 21% if both partners are the same age, cultural background, educational attainment, and both have no previous experience of divorce?:-
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1222726/The-secret-happy-marriage—man-5-years-older-hasn-t-hitched-before.html
http://www.bodyspacesociety.eu/2009/11/02/love-the-swiss-way-sociologists-want-to-optimize-the-marriage-market/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10463132-71.html
Would it be correct to suggest that the study is flawed because the social, cultural, and political climate in Switzerland is unique and different to other Western countries?
Also, is there any chance whatsoever that the study is biased because Switzerland has a relatively recent history of immigration compared to other Western countries such as the UK and US; which implies that most of the ethnic minorities who are married to Swiss nationals in this sample are actually from non-Western countries, and this usually entails a higher risk of cultural difference between the partners; such cultural difference will tend to increase the risk of divorce or separation.
This is in stark contrast to the situation in Britain and the US, whereby, there are more ethnic minorities who are born, educated, and socialized in the respective country, which reduces the cultural difference factor quite significantly; and this in turn will reduce the risk of divorce or separation in the case of interracial relations between ethnic minorities and White people.
The study is flawed in another sense, because there is the underlying assumption that people of a different cultural/national origin will always have a different culture to the White majority, which is only true as an average, but this should not be generalized to include everyone who is an ethnic minority. The study is flawed because it doesn’t take into consideration the length of time an individual is exposed to the culture of the White majority; there is considerable difference between a recent immigrant from Africa and a black immigrant who has lived in a Western country from an early age. The latter is more acculturated and better adapted to his environment, but the first example is that of an African immigrant who is fresh off the boat.
There is a considerable difference between immigrants who are American to all intents and purposes and the more recent immigrants who are obviously fresh off the boat and foreigners; but this study is a simplified model of different social groups, which assumes that all people belonging to the same social group are exactly the same.
Hence, the study is biased, subjective, and flawed because the authors obviously have a hidden agenda and what is applicable to the social, cultural, and political climate in Switzerland should not be assumed to apply anywhere else in the world.
Also, it’s useful to remember that the 21% increase in the rate of divorce or separation is an estimate based on aggregate but distinct criteria: age, education, cultural background, and previous history of divorce; but on no account are we to assume that differences in cultural origin would account for the entire 21% estimate. On the contrary, differences in cultural origin should account for a mere fraction of that 21% result according to the study.
The study is to some extent an attack on interracial/inter-ethnic marriage where the partners have a different cultural origin; but at the same time, it’s important to remember that differences in cultural origin cannot account for the entire 21% result in the study.
The American Clinical Psychologist Maria P.P. Root has written a book about interracial marriage in the US, and she is known to have said that cultural differences are more likely to be the cause of divorce or separation than any difference in age, education, class, and RACE.
TRUE OR FALSE?

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Need Biology Help Please!?


1)Plasmids are transferred from one bacterium to another through
conjugation.
chemoautotrophs.
flagellae.
bacterial capsules.
2)The origin of membrane-enclosed cells is thought to include the formation of
extremophiles.
microspheres.
ribosomes.
eukaryotes.
3)Two species occupying the same niche would be __________ with each other.
in competition
at peace
coevolving
in harmony
4)The mineralized remains of an organism is called a(n)
fossil.
homologous feature.
adaptation.
population.
5)Calling a species by its genus and species name, such as Homo sapiens, is using
cladistics.
binomial nomenclature.
phylogeny.
taxonomy.
6)The isolation of two groups within a population from each other, and their adaptation to the point of being no longer able to interbreed is called
population genetics
gradualism.
speciation.
convergence.
7)The ecological role of a species is its
niche.
energy pyramid.
habitat.
community.
8)A classification system based solely on derived traits is called
phylogeny.
cladistics.
domains.
genetic drift.
9)The theory that organelles originated as separate prokaryotic symbionts is called
relative dating.
endosymbiosis.
mass extinctions.
geologic time.
10)Comparing a new fossil to a previously-dated fossil in order to determine its age is a form of
relative dating.
radiometric dating.
half-life.
geologic time.
11)Applying crystal violet stain, followed by iodine, alcohol, and safranin, a bacterial culture looked purple. The bacteria was
transduced.
Gram positive.
transformed.
Gram negative.
12)All the members of one species in a given area is its
biodiversity.
carrying capacity.
growth.
population.
13)The disappearance of a species from the Earth is referred to as
deforestation.
extinction
biodiversity.
recycling.
14)When a population does not show any net change in its gene pool, it is
using random mating.
in genetic equilibrium.
about to go extinct.
isolated reproductively.
Please help me.

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Interview Project Of A Person Of A Different Culture?


I need to do a school project and i need help with my interview i need some one which is muslim to answer the following questions pls
What is your home of origin? why you settle in the US?
What are some of the family customs and roles of members with in your family?
what is your role in the family?
How closely do you identify with and affiliate with your culture?
what are the gender roles in your culture, and in your family?
who holds position of formal power in your culture?
What are the customary health practice and beliefs in your culture ?
what is your concept of time?
What is your concept of personal space?
Identify and verify customs beliefs and practice that might be misinterpreted by established institutions within your community school law enforcement health providers ?

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Has Anyone Heard Of The Newly Discovered Religious Texts Found In Jordan?


They could be the earliest Christian writing in existence, surviving almost 2,000 years in a Jordanian cave. They could, just possibly, change our understanding of how Jesus was crucified and resurrected, and how Christianity was born.
A group of 70 or so “books”, each with between five and 15 lead leaves bound by lead rings, was apparently discovered in a remote arid valley in northern Jordan somewhere between 2005 and 2007.
A flash flood had exposed two niches inside the cave, one of them marked with a menorah or candlestick, the ancient Jewish religious symbol.
A Jordanian Bedouin opened these plugs, and what he found inside might constitute extremely rare relics of early Christianity.
That is certainly the view of the Jordanian government, which claims they were smuggled into Israel by another Bedouin.
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As soon as I saw that, I was dumbstruck”
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Jordan says it will “exert all efforts at every level” to get the relics repatriated.
Incredible claims
The director of the Jordan’s Department of Antiquities, Ziad al-Saad, says the books might have been made by followers of Jesus in the few decades immediately following his crucifixion.
“They will really match, and perhaps be more significant than, the Dead Sea Scrolls,” says Mr Saad.
“Maybe it will lead to further interpretation and authenticity checks of the material, but the initial information is very encouraging, and it seems that we are looking at a very important and significant discovery, maybe the most important discovery in the history of archaeology.”
Detail from the Jordanian relic The texts might have been written in the decades following the crucifixion
They seem almost incredible claims – so what is the evidence?
The books, or “codices”, were apparently cast in lead, before being bound by lead rings.
Their leaves – which are mostly about the size of a credit card – contain text in Ancient Hebrew, most of which is in code.
If the relics are of early Christian origin rather than Jewish, then they are of huge significance.
One of the few people to see the collection is David Elkington, a scholar of ancient religious archaeology who is heading a British team trying to get the lead books safely into a Jordanian museum.
He says they could be “the major discovery of Christian history”, adding: “It’s a breathtaking thought that we have held these objects that might have been held by the early saints of the Church.”
He believes the most telling evidence for an early Christian origin lies in the images decorating the covers of the books and some of the pages of those which have so far been opened.
Mr Elkington says the relics feature signs that early Christians would have interpreted as indicating Jesus, shown side-by-side with others they would have regarded as representing the presence of God.
“It’s talking about the coming of the messiah,” he says.
“In the upper square [of one of the book covers] we have the seven-branch menorah, which Jews were utterly forbidden to represent because it resided in the holiest place in the Temple in the presence of God.
“So we have the coming of the messiah to approach the holy of holies, in other words to get legitimacy from God.”
Location clues
Philip Davies, Emeritus Professor of Old Testament Studies at Sheffield University, says the most powerful evidence for a Christian origin lies in plates cast into a picture map of the holy city of Jerusalem.
“As soon as I saw that, I was dumbstruck. That struck me as so obviously a Christian image,” he says.
“There is a cross in the foreground, and behind it is what has to be the tomb [of Jesus], a small building with an opening, and behind that the walls of the city. There are walls depicted on other pages of these books too and they almost certainly refer to Jerusalem.”
Book found in Jordan The books were bound by lead rings
It is the cross that is the most telling feature, in the shape of a capital T, as the crosses used by Romans for crucifixion were.
“It is a Christian crucifixion taking place outside the city walls,” says Mr Davies.
Margaret Barker, an authority on New Testament history, points to the location of the reported discovery as evidence of Christian, rather than purely Jewish, origin.
“We do know that on two occasions groups of refugees from the troubles in Jerusalem fled east, they crossed the Jordan near Jericho and then they fled east to very approximately where these books were said to have been found,” she says.
“[Another] one of the things that is most likely pointing towards a Christian provenance, is that these are not scrolls but books. The Christians were particularly associated with writing in a book form rather than sc

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