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Monday, March 24, 2008

For music lovers

I have been trying to find out the website for download of the music but it seems bit hard to download the music. Most of the sites, which google offers seems to contain the virus and cost lots of money to download. It requires the credit card number. The problem is credit card number is, if we came along with the hackers then it would be great problem for the holder and another thing is most of the people from asian countries hardly has credit cards. So it has always been a problem for downloading the loved music. So i tend to look for free download site, where i can get the musics of my like. I do admit that freedownloading is like cheating. Since the owner does lots of effort to collect the music and make a website, so they should be paid. When somebody does the work they should be paid. But the price of the music is a problem for the people. The price of music download is okay for the European country or the country with strong economy but its very expensive to those country people who are from low economically strength country.

Since the people don't have money it does not mean that they should be kept away from the music, so for them i have found out some good sites to visit where we can share our music worldwide and download the music. Bearshare would be best option for people who wish to download the music and enjoy the music. It's the music sharing site, where people will be sharing the music they have through the computer connection. Over this site, we can almost download most of the artists songs and another good aspect is we can have music of different languages as well. Limewire is also good music sharing site, but as i am the user of the bearshare i would prefer bear share.

For the Indian movie songs lovers, www.radioreloaded.com would be good site for download of Indian movie song. Here we will get almost all the movies songs except some only.
i hope to search for more sites and inform later on.

Grounded theory

Grounded theory
Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss are the two sociologists who developed Grounded theory in 1967. They did a collaborative research in the dying hospital patient and wrote a book named “Awareness of Dying”. In this research they developed the constant comparative method which is later known as grounded theory. Strauss and Glaser are the developer of grounded theory but later on they split and bring the split on the theory because they were confused “how to do grounded theory”. In 1990 Juliet Corbin and Strauss published “Basics of Qualitative research: Grounded theory procedures and techniques” together and defined the grounded theory as “The grounded theory approach is a qualitative research method that uses a systematic set of procedures to develop an inductively derived grounded theory about a phenomenon”.
Grounded theory is research method of qualitative research in which the theory is developed from the data, rather than the other way around, which means it’s an inductive approach which moves from specific to more general. Concepts, categories and hypotheses are the three methods of study in grounded theory. Concept is the major elements of analysis as the theory is developed from the conceptualization of data, rather than the actual data. The primary objective of grounded theory, then, is to expand upon an explanation of a phenomenon by identifying the key elements of that phenomenon, and then categorizing the relationships of those elements to the context and process of the experiment. In other words, the goal is to go from the general to the specific without losing sight of what makes the subject of a study unique. According to grounded theory it is stated that the research questions must be open and general rather than formed as a specific hypotheses, and that the emergent theory should account for a phenomenon that is relevant to the participants.
Grounded theory is best in providing the detailed and systemic procedures for data collection, analysis and theorizing, but is also concerned with the quality of emergent theory. According to Strauss and Corbin (1990): Grounded theory should:
1. Fit the phenomenon, provided it has been carefully derived from diverse data and is adherent to the common reality of the area.
2. Provide understanding and be understandable.
3. Provide generality, in that the theory includes extensive variation and is abstract enough to b applicable to a wide variety of contexts.
4. Provide control in the sense of stating the conditions under which the theory applies and describing a reasonable basis for action.
Grounded theory is quiet often used in the qualitative research as a method for making the qualitative research and easy, as qualitative research has to deal with in depth research and the data’s are mixed up making it complex to do research.

Quantitative research

“Quantitative research is the systematic scientific investigation of properties and phenomena and their relationships”, wikipedia. Like the statement stated, it’s the scientific investigations of the properties of the phenomena. But when students go through the research they have difficulty differentiating among the qualitative and quantitative site. So it would be great to first find out what are the characteristic of the quantitative research. In the quantitative research there will be lots of data collected with large number of people. The question may arise, how much number is considered as the large number, it’s a valid question. So for that, the number should be more than 100 in number or at least 25% of the total sample taken. The major characteristic of the quantitative research is data’s are in the form of the numbers and statistics. Researcher would have used the tools, such as questionnaires or equipment to collect numerical data. In other word, if we tend to find out the numerical data’s in the research they are quantitative. The objective of quantitative research is to develop and employ mathematical models, theories and/or hypotheses pertaining to natural phenomena.
The other properties of this research are:
1. It aims to classify features, count them, and construct statistical models in an attempt to explain what is observed.
2. It clarifies the relationship between independent variable and dependent variable.
3. These researches are either descriptive or experimental.
4. It provides the fundamental connection between empirical observation and mathematical expression of quantitative relationships.
Examples of quantitative research
Research that consists of the percentage amounts of all the elements that make up Earth's atmosphere
Survey that concludes that the average patient has to wait two hours in the waiting room of a certain doctor before being selected.
An experiment in which group x was given two tablets of Aspirin a day and Group y was given two tablets of a placebo a day where each participant is randomly assigned to one or other of the groups.
The numerical factors such as two tablets, percent of elements and the time of waiting make the situations and results quantitative.

Saturday, March 22, 2008

Reseach

Lay knowledge would define research as some process which is done to find out something new or verify some facts or thesis by gathering some information by asking questions. According to Merrill Education’s Companion websites, Research is the systematic process of collecting and analyzing information to increase our understanding of the phenomenon under study. This definition seems to define research very clearly but when we tend to be specific it seems not fulfilled as definition of research depends of types of research. Basically, research is types in two qualitative and quantitative. There are significant differences between those types:
quantitative
Objective
Research asks question like, How many? Strength of association
Literature review must be done early in study
test theory
One reality: focus is concise and narrow
Facts are value free and unbiased
Measureable
Mechanistic: parts equal to whole
Researcher is separate
Hypothesis
Establishes relationships, and causations
Use instruments
Generalizations leading to prediction, explanations, and understanding
Sample size is larg
Counts the people’s opinion

Qualitative
Subjective
Research asks question, why? What?
Literature review may be done as study progresses or afterwards
Develops theory
Multiple reality: focus is complex and broad
Facts are value-laden and biased
Interpretive
Organismic: whole is greater than the parts
Researcher is part of process
Research questions
Describes meaning, discovery
Uses communications and observations
Patterns and theories developed for understanding
Sample size is not concerned and usually small, seeks informal rich samples
Counts whose opinion is more important

In conclusion, research is a very complex procedure and it would be done to verify theory and to generate the theory as well. Quantitative research generates reliable population based and generalizable data and is well suited for establishing cause-and-effect relationships while as qualitative generates rich, detailed and valid data that contributes to in-depth understanding of the context.
Quantitative and qualitative research both can be combined in one research as well to get the benefit of increased validity (confirmation of results by means of different data sources), complementarities (adding information, i.e. words to number and vice versa), and creating new lines of thinking by the emergence of fresh perspectives and contradictions.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Anaesthesia-general information


Generally anesthesia is defined as the agent given for making people unconscious or putting somebody to the sleep. Anesthesia is the world derived from the Greek, which means (an-without, and aesthesia-sensation). Anesthesia is defined as making somebody senseless or to make people not feel pain or making somebody senseless for certain period for the medicinal usage. Anesthesia is even described as “reversible lack of awareness”. Which means that the effect of anesthesia is reversible, i.e., patient gets back to sense after some period of time and the effects the awareness of the patient for certain moments only. " According to one definition"anesthesia is the induction of a balanced state of unconsciousness, accompanied by the absence of pain sensation and the paralysis of skeletal muscle over the entire body."
There are various purposes for the giving of the anesthesia, but solely it is given for the surgical procedures. Anesthesia is meant to reduce the pain and let patient feel no sensation of pain. The purposes of anesthesia would be:
1.Analgesia, or pain relief
2.Amnesia, or loss of memory of the procedure
3.Loss of consciousness
4.Motionlessness
5.Weakening of automatic responses.
Since performing surgery tends to generate lots of pain and tend to be frightening to patient. It also needs motionless and less response from the automatic responses as well to have a good surgery. So anesthesia is given to facilitate good surgical procedure.

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Shiva Ratri, a great day for Hindus

Shiva Ratri, the day devoted to Shiva, the day devoted to marijuana, and the great day for the devotees of the Shiva. This is the Hindu religious people great day, as they will be celebrating the Hindu’s great god’s birthday, his marriage ceremony with Parvati, his wife, and the opportunistic day when the devotees’ sins will be cancelled. This day is celebrated in the fourteenth day of the waning moon in the month of Falgun, (February - March). This day has different meaning to different devotees, as some may think this day is day for celebration of the marijuana day, some think this is day is day for great vrata, and some may even think this is a great day for achieving supernatural power by worshipping the Mahadeva.

Shiva Ratri is devoted day for the lord Shiva and celebration of his great events of the life. Shiva Ratri according to the Hindu religion is the day when the Shiva crated himself by the Devine grace. It is even considered that this is a day when Shiva married his wife Parvati. There are lots of stories behind today’s date. According to some stories, once when everything in all the worlds got reduced into Lord Shiva, in that darkness of nothing present, the mother Parvati worshipped Lord Shiva in the agamic way with great devotion. The great god pleased by her prayer blessed her. She asked for the benefit of all the creatures that in future whoever worships the Lord on the Shiva Ratri day with devotion, they should be blessed and should be given the ultimate liberation. The pashupati granted that showing way for all of us to get blessed easily. There are lots of stories which prevails the start and important of the Shiva Ratri.

Shiva Ratri is even celebrated by the devotees of hindu religion by the day for the marijuana. Lord Shiva is considered as the one who love to have marijuana and who enjoys being in trip of the marijuana. According to the hindu religion, marijuana is considered as medicine from the pain, and to leave the pain behind and loss in peace and harmony. So, people smoke marijuana in this day as following the track of the Shiva.

It is the great day for devotees for the great vrata. There is a story that says that who ever worships the Shiva this day will be out of sin and will be able to get the desired things. According to one story, once a hunter in a jungle after searching throughout the jungle, was quite tired and could not get any animal. In the nightfall a tiger started chasing him. to escape from that he climbed a tree. That was a Bilva tree. The tiger sat under the tree waiting for him to come down. The hunter who sat on a branch of the tree was quite tense and didn't want to sleep. He was plucking the leaves and putting down as he was not able to be idle. Below the tree there was a Shiva lingam. The whole night went on like this. God was pleased with the Upavasa (hunger) and the Pooja the hunter and the tiger did even without knowledge. He is the peak of the grace. He gave the hunter and the tiger "Moksha". So this is a grate day for devotees of the Mahadeva.