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  2. Jack Andraka - Wikipedia

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    Cancer research, medical research, invention Jack Thomas Andraka (born January 8, 1997) is an American who, as a high school student, won the Gordon E. Moore Award at the 2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair with a method to possibly detect the early stages of pancreatic and other cancers.

  3. Sociology of health and illness - Wikipedia

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    This field of research acts as a broad school overlapping with areas like the sociology of medicine, sociology of the body, sociology of disease [7] to wider sociologies like that of the family or education as they contribute insights from their distinct focuses on the life-course of health and wellness. [8]

  4. Social experiment - Wikipedia

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    The experiment depends on a particular social approach where the main source of information is the participants' point of view and knowledge. To carry out a social experiment, specialists usually split participants into two groups — active participants (people who take action in particular events) and respondents (people who react to the action).

  5. Human subject research - Wikipedia

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    Human subject research is used in various fields, including research into advanced biology, clinical medicine, nursing, psychology, sociology, political science, and anthropology. As research has become formalized, the academic community has developed formal definitions of "human subject research", largely in response to abuses of human subjects.

  6. Adolescent clique - Wikipedia

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    During adolescent years, students may obtain membership to a certain clique in order to ease the process of secondary school. Since adolescents emulating similar cultural standards are likely to become friends and these friends are likely to encourage these aspects of their attitudes, behaviors, and dress, [ 16 ] the types of cliques commonly ...

  7. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    “It speaks to the gap in really high-quality research that exists in this area.” Walker said he thinks his UK research team should include all addicts who enter Recovery Kentucky. “If I had my druthers I would include them,” he said. “We would include everybody.”

  8. Survey (human research) - Wikipedia

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    In research of human subjects, a survey is a list of questions aimed for extracting specific data from a particular group of people. Surveys may be conducted by phone, mail, via the internet, and also in person in public spaces. Surveys are used to gather or gain knowledge in fields such as social research and demography.

  9. Participant observation - Wikipedia

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    Participant observation is one type of data collection method by practitioner-scholars typically used in qualitative research and ethnography.This type of methodology is employed in many disciplines, particularly anthropology (including cultural anthropology and ethnology), sociology (including sociology of culture and cultural criminology), communication studies, human geography, and social ...