My aim in this article is to introduce readers to the topic of exploratory experimentation and briefly explain how the three articles that follow, by Richard Burian, Kevin Elliott, and Maureen O'Malley, advance our understanding of the nature and significance of exploratory research. I suggest that the distinction between exploratory and theory-driven experimentation is multidimensional and tha...

Bi-factor analysis is a form of confirmatory factor analysis originally introduced by Holzinger. The bi-factor model has a general factor and a number of group factors. The purpose of this paper is to introduce an exploratory form of bi-factor analysis. An advantage of using exploratory bi-factor analysis is that one need not provide a specific bi-factor model a priori. The result of an explora...

anxiety symptoms have been reported to be present in many patients with diabetes mellitus. however, little is known about the effects of hyperglycemia in critical periods of the central nervous system development. we assessed locomotive, exploratory, and anxiety behaviors in adult rats that remained from infantile repeated hyperglycemia by the open field and elevated plus maze tests. our findin...

If an activity during manipulative play is exploratory, it should, in contrast to other activity, be used differentially for objects that vary in novelty. In a study of 5-month-olds, different definitions of exploratory mouthing were tested, and results suggested that mouthing followed immediately by a look fulfilled some criteria for an exploratory activity. In the next study of 5to 11-month-o...

background: with regard to large number of mobile users especially among college students in iran, addiction to mobile phone is attracting increasing concern. there is an urgent need for reliable and valid instrument to measure this phenomenon. this study examines validity and reliability of the persian version of mobile phone addiction scale (mpais) in college students. materials and methods: ...

There are very clear-cut indications for exploratory laparotomy. With all of the diagnostic aids in use at present and even with the maximum amount of skill on the part of the surgeon, conditions arise which are not possible of diagnosis without exploratory laparotomy. This study was done to look for the various indications of exploratory laparotomy, their presentation and outcome. This retrosp...