Parents and children and adolescents commonly disagree in their perceptions of a variety of behaviors, including the family relationship and environment, and child and adolescent psychopathology. To this end, numerous studies have examined to what extent increased discrepant perceptions-particularly with regard to perceptions of the family relationship and environment-predict increased child an...

Students in an undergraduate applied research in aging class learned about qualitative research methods by analyzing previously collected narratives. The interviews were with 32 participants who were national experts in senior transportation in the United States. The purpose of the study was to explore the specialized supportive mobility needs of community-residing older adults. The policy goal...

Nano-mechanical resonators have gained an increasing importance in nanotechnology owing to their contributions to both fundamental and applied science. Yet, their small dimensions and mass raises some challenges as their dynamics gets dominated by nonlinearities that degrade their performance, for instance in sensing applications. Here, we report on the precise control of the nonlinear and stoc...

Comments on the original article by Matthew D. Johnson (see record 2012-08242-001). It is important to challenge some of Johnson's points about the effectiveness and reach of interventions to lower income couples and couples of color and his suggested prioritization of basic over applied research. With emerging findings and practical knowledge gained in lower income communities from all across ...

Estimates of statistical power are widely used in applied research for purposes such as sample size calculations. This paper reviews the benefits of power and sample size estimation and considers several problems with the use of power calculations in applied research that result from misunderstandings or misapplications of statistical power. These problems include the use of retrospective power...

The EU-INDIA Cross-Cultural Innovation Network project is concerned with the fostering of proactive collaborations in applied research in socio-economic and entrepreneurial innovations through academic and entrepreneurial networking. The project is rooted in our commitment to human centred systems approaches in science and technology. The Project was set up based on the belief that the establis...

The Advisory Research and Evaluation Team (ARET) addressees program evaluation and applied research. OLLI's program evaluation function uses surveys and systematic studies to assess how well the organization is meeting its goals in providing innovative approaches and emerging methods in older adult learning, addressing member satisfaction, and supporting member community. OLLI?s research progra...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To explore how nurse researchers in clinical positions experience the presence of a nursing research culture in clinical practice. BACKGROUND Higher demands in the hospitals for increasing the quality of patient care engender a higher demand for the skills of health professionals and evidence-based practice. However, the utilisation of nursing research in clinical practice...

The term “basic research” is ubiquitous in present debates on policy in science and higher education. It is a term with positive connotations, important for example in legitimising traditional universities. The popular term “research” generally corresponds to “research and development” (R&D) in official statistics. This includes “applied research” and “technological development” as well as “bas...

Reinforcement contingencies and social reinforcement are ubiquitous phenomena in applied behavior analysis. This discussion paper is divided into two sections. In the first section, reinforcement contingencies are discussed in terms of the necessary and sufficient conditions for reinforcement effects. Response-stimulus dependencies, conditional probabilities, and contiguity are discussed as pos...