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in depth the theoretical and meta-theoretical foundations that underpinning the research. Similarly, the unambiguous … understanding of the concepts, in view of the multi-conceptualizations core, allows providing the accuracy and strength of research … methods and conclusions. This paper seeks to clarify some concepts whose relevance in research processes becomes critical in …
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The purpose of this paper is twofold: 1) to highlight the widely ignored but fundamental problem of ‘superpopulations’ for the use of inferential statistics in development studies. We do not to dwell on this problem however as it has been sufficiently discussed in older papers by...
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Analysis in Software Engineering, the unification of the recent research accomplished in this field with those carried out in …
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Social scientists are producing an ever growing stream of research findings, which is ever more difficult to oversee … for more research synthesis and interest in synthetic techniques is on the rise. To date attention has been focused on … techniques for meta-analysis, with little attention paid to the preliminary step of bringing the available research findings …
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Happiness research is on the rise, but is confounded by competing definitions of subjective well-being based on co …
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methodology of panel analysis with a fixed individual effects model we show the diversity of answers of the European banking …
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Coase 1930 endures through the decades as one of the most-cited papers in economics due to the fact that it highlights a fundamental and equally enduring problem: "Economic theory has suffered in the past from a failure to state clearly its assumptions. Economists in building up a theory have...
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% reduction of greenhouse gases emissions in 2050 in France have been identified. We analyze their methodology and the high …
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This paper sheds light on the reasons that explain the dissatisfactions because of the behavioralist dominance within American political science academia. I show how and why the flaws and failures of the behavioralist analysis have created more room for the emergence of alternative approaches or...
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There is a surprising disconnect between formal rational choice theory and philosophical work on reasons. The one is silent on the role of reasons in rational choices, the other rarely engages with the formal models of decision problems used by social scientists. To bridge this gap, we propose a...
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