... understand mass
media research because literally every
area of the mass media uses research, and
anyone who works in the media (or plans
to) will be exposed to or will be involved in
research.
Our ... those who saw the
media as powerful.
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researchers entered the scene. Today mass
media researchers dominate the mass media
research...
... as researchers. And finally, many thanks to our children,
for constantly reminding us that play is at least as important as work.
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CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION: THE RESEARCH
PROCESS
KEY ... pluralism:
of fitting the research method to the research
question.
The research process can be divided into four main
stages: groundwork, measurement, design, and
analysi...
... quadrupole time-of-flight mass analyser
Q-ToF–LC–MS–MS quadrupole time-of-flight mass analyser in
combination with (high performance)
liquid chromatography and tandem mass
spectrometry
RF radiofrequency
RIC ... pump the eluate from an HPLC column directly into the source of a mass
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spectrometer and an important function of any interface is the removal of all,
or a si...
... memory, and an interface to the SCSI bus. The
controller manages the storage and retrieval of data to and from the mechanism and performs mappings
between incoming logical addresses and the physical ... disconnects during mechanism delays, and
overlapped bus transfers and mechanism activity.
• Disk buffer cache, including read ahead, write-behind (immediate reporting), and producer-consumer...
... completing the
manuscript would have been considerably more painful and protracted. We are
also grateful to Sinead Moloney, Anjana Narayanan and Finola O’Sullivan for
skilfully steering the manuscript ... policy-makers and for scholars
who require a theoretical framework that can be applied to any social sector.
This timely textbook provides a conceptual map of the field and an accessible a...
... metaphysics is past
and that what metaphysicians aspire to achieve is an imposs-
ible dream. They claim that it is an illusion to suppose that
human beings can formulate and justify an undistorted ... spe-
cific aspects of mind and personality: sensation, perception,
thought and language, reasoning and intelligence, action and
intention, and finally personal identity and self-knowledge.
T...