Research Note: Documenting Religious Responses to 3.11 on Film

Research Note: The Promises and Pitfalls of 311 Data

Local governments are creating 311 public service request lines across the US, and the publicly-available data from these lines is continuously-measured, geographically finegrained, and a non-self-reported measure of citizens’ behavior. As such, it seems a promising measure of neighborhood civic engagement. However, this data is both empirically and theoretically different from many common citi...

Period and Cohort Effects on Religious Nonaffiliation and Religious Disaffiliation: A Research Note

Documenting Religious Organizations: Theory and Practice

In creating an appraisal policy to support the documentation of a church, synagogue or other religious movement, an archives must decide whether to gloss over the religious aspect of its mission and seek to document itself as an organization which happens to be religious, or to attempt to engage the messy question of belief to document the faith group itself. This paper will examine the problem...

Documenting biomedical research; some bitter aspects

Considering the overall scenario, it has now become more obvious why we are coming across an ever‐increasing number of scientific misconduct cases day‐to‐day (Plagiarism, dual/multiple submissions, dual/multiple publications, ethical violations, self‐plagiarism, and copyright violation). By definition plagiarism is “taking over the ideas, methods or written words of another, without acknowledgm...

Effects of Music on Psychophysiological Responses to a Stressful Film

In this experiment musical scores were added to the soundtrack of an industrial safety film that has often been used as a stressful stimulus in psychophysiological research. Two musical scores were composed in accordance with contemporary film scoring techniques in an attempt to increase and decrease the stressfulness ofthe film. Subjects viewed one ofthree versions of the film: (a) the film wi...