Recent cases of research misconduct have prompted psychologists to suggest that there is too much vulnerability in the research process (e.g., Simmons et al., 2011; Pashler and Harris, 2012). Regardless of whether this is the case, ensuring the integrity of a discipline requires a clear understanding of what conventions and norms define the research process. In what follows, I consider the rese...

Literature on the combination of qualitative and quantitative research components at the primary empirical study level has recently accumulated exponentially. However, this combination is only rarely discussed and applied at the research synthesis level. The purpose of this paper is to explore the possible contribution of mixed methods research to the integration of qualitative and quantitative...

Replacing a hard decision by a soft targets version including an attentional mechanism provides performance advantage and flexibility to solve classification tasks. In this paper, we modify the standard emphasized soft target method by proposing two new ideas, to avoid unnecessary updating and inappropriate definition of soft targets, in order to increase designs performance. Experimental resul...

OBJECTIVES To describe the development of the Claim Evaluation Tools, a set of flexible items to measure people's ability to assess claims about treatment effects. SETTING Methodologists and members of the community (including children) in Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Norway, the UK and Australia. PARTICIPANTS In the iterative development of the items, we used purposeful sampling of people with t...

Conditions and factors that affect the success or failure of investments in information technology (IT) are not well understood. In this paper we explore possible factors that impact the success of IT investments. We use event study methodology to determine successful investments. Among the factors we investigate are those that relate to the operation of the investing firm, such as the use of m...

We show that the angular distributions of leptons or jets due to tt spin correlations allow a determination of the top chromomagnetic moment κ with an accuracy of order 0.1. The method is quite insensitive to background, event reconstruction, and other experimental uncertainties. The total event number is important, so we suggest the inclusion of all-hadronic events.