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| | A Comparative Discussion of the Notion of 'Validity' in Qualitative and Quantitative Research |
 | | In this paper, the author attempts to establish that 'validity' is not a single, fixed or universal concept, but rather a contingent construct, inescapably grounded in the processes and intentions of particular research methodologies and projects. | | | Descriptive 'validity' is that which is concerned with the initial stage of research, usually involving data gathering. | | | Therefore, since validity is not a feature of a particular methodology, process or test, within qualitative research all that remains is how representative the description is and how justifiable are the findings. |
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http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR4-3/winter.html
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| | New View of Statistics: Validity |
| | Validity limits of agreement suffer from problems similar to those of reliability limits of agreement: they are harder to understand than the typical error, and they are too large as a reference range for making a decision about a subject's true (criterion) measurement. | | | Validity can be difficult to measure, because the true value of something can be difficult to assay. | | | Unfortunately some authors have published limits of agreement without an estimation equation or the typical error, so readers cannot properly assess the practical measure and the published data cannot be used to recalibrate the practical measure. |
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http://www.sportsci.org/resource/stats/valid.html
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| | Content Validity, Face Validity, and Quantitative Face Validity |
| | Content validity is paradoxical because, if it is appropriate it should be used before any other validation design. | | | A computer simulation which "looked valid" to both seasoned I/O Psychologists and to the SMEs who were consulted, failed to show a relationship to job performance. | | | The fire-scene simulation that they refer to is an example of the way that content oriented test development can produce measures that theoretically should have higher validities than the standard ability and aptitude tests. |
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http://www.burns.com/wcbcontval.htm
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| | Juicy Studio: Validity and Accessibility |
| | Invalid documents cannot be fully tested, as the output cannot possibly be known as it depends on the error correction capabilities of user-agents, which varies from user-agent to user-agent. | | | I don't follow this rationale, particularly as there are content management systems that do generate valid markup. | | | Accessibility is an afterthought to many of these people so they have no reason to understand the importance of validating code. |
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http://juicystudio.com/article/validity-accessibility.php
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| | Measurement Validity Types |
| | For instance, to show the convergent validity of a Head Start program, we might gather evidence that shows that the program is similar to other Head Start programs. | | | For instance, to show the discriminant validity of a Head Start program, we might gather evidence that shows that the program is not similar to other early childhood programs that don't label themselves as Head Start programs. | | | Purchase a printed copy of the Research Methods Knowledge Base |
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http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/measval.htm
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| | Classics in the History of Psychology -- Cronbach & Meehl (1955) |
| | There is an understandable tendency to seek a "construct validity coefficient." A numerical statement of the degree of construct validity would be a statement of the proportion of the test score variance that is attributable to the construct variable. | | | Defending a claim of construct validity is a major task, not to be satisfied by a discourse without data. | | | Special questions must be considered when we are investigating the validity of a test which is aimed to provide information about several constructs. |
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http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Cronbach/construct.htm
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| | Research Validity |
| | There are many sources of error that can reduce the validity of a project including poor sample selection and resultant bias, simple coding errors, mis-understanding of management and research questions by the researchers and misundertanding of the investigative questions by the respondents. | | | In practice, validity can also refer to the success of the project in retrieving "valid" results. | | | For example, if one is measuring an attribute of a product such as "Brand Recognition", how do we know that the question (or questions) used to measure Brand Recognition are valid? |
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http://www.asiamarketresearch.com/glossary/validity.htm
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| | Introduction to Validity |
| | When we talk about the validity of research, we are often referring to these to the many conclusions we reach about the quality of different parts of our research methodology. | | | In order to understand the types of validity, you have to know something about how we investigate a research question. | | | In the context of the example we're considering, the question might be worded: in this study, is there a relationship between the WWW site and knowledge of course material? |
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http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/introval.htm
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| | Reliability vs. Validity |
| | To increase the validity of any process, one must consider a wide array of relevant variables. | | | But ultimately, more reliability requires fewer variables and therefore less validity, and vice versa. | | | They worry less about whether they can replicate a particular process -- and more about producing a valid solution to the problem before them. |
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http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/sep2005/id20050929_872877.htm
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| | Psychological Testing Psychological Assessment |
| | classic problem with validity arises when someone uses a test for a purpose for which it was not designed. | | | For example, suppose you wanted to develop a test to determine which of several job applicants would work well in a bank. | | | That’s why there can be such uncertainty about a case even after extensive testing. |
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http://www.guidetopsychology.com/testing.htm
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| | PA 765: Validity |
| | Multi-method, multi-trait methodologies are considered to have higher construct validity. | | | Quasi-experimentation: Design and analysis issues for field settings. | | | Has the researcher made efforts to cross-validate subjective items with objective measures where possible? |
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http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/pa765/validity.htm
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| | Fast E-mail Verifier - check validity of email address - verify and validate your maillist |
| | AEV is designed for system administrators, webmasters, programmers as well as for those advanced users who have their own mailing lists and want to keep them up-to-date. | | | Advanced Email Verifier will check every email address from a database or a maillist and determine if the e-mails are still valid. | | | Free Download mail list verifier, verify maillist software, fast email verifier, Verify e-mail address Maillist verifier Fast Email Verifier |
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http://www.glocksoft.com/amlv
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| | School of Library, Archival and Information Studies -- UBC |
| | Hypothesis Testing, Validity, and Threats to Validity, by Mike Raulin [PowerPoint presentation] | | | Controls to Reduce Threats to Validity, by Mike Raulin [PowerPoint presentation] | | | These pages were originally created for the course ARST/LIBR 590: Research Methods in Libraries and Archives. |
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http://www.slais.ubc.ca/resources/research_methods/measurem.htm
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| | Validity and Soundness [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | The example given about toasters is valid, but not sound. | | | Because they have this form, the examples above are valid. | | | Because of the difficulty in identifying the logical form of an argument, and the potential deviation of logical form from grammatical form in ordinary language, contemporary logicians typically make use of artificial logical languages in which logical form and grammatical form coincide. |
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http://www.iep.utm.edu/v/val-snd.htm
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| | Validity (statistics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Validity can be defined in a number of ways. | | | Separate from criterion validity is construct validity, where an investigator examines whether a measure is related to other variables as required by theory. | | | According to classical test theory, predictive or concurrent validity cannot exceed the square of the correlation between two versions of the same measure -- that is, validity cannot exceed reliability. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validity_(psychometric)
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| | Internal Validity Tutorial |
| | An explanation is included of why the example represents a threat to internal validity and why the nonexample is not a threat. | | | Finally, each of the nine threats is described, followed by an example and a contrasting nonexample as applied to the hypothetical experiment. | | | Some technical notes provide some information about the instructional-design principles on which the tutorial is based. |
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http://psych.athabascau.ca/html/Validity/index.shtml
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| | CW7D-Reliability and Validity |
| | Matching -- Match the definitions and examples to the name of the type of RELIABILITY or VALIDITY. | | | Some items will have more than one matching response. | | | A test developer asks a panel of teacher experts to match the items on a reading achievement test to the topics and standards approved by a national association |
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http://www.selu.edu/Academics/Education/EDF600/cw7d.htm
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| | Validity Sensors, Inc. |
| | All Validity products offer Total Solution Independence and have the flexibility to operate with the leading algorithm and software packages, which can be combined to create the best overall solution for both client and enterprise applications. | | | Validity provides the most intelligent fingerprint sensing solutions on the market. | | | Validity’s fingerprint sensors, built with LiveFlex Technology, offer the highest levels of both performance and durability. |
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http://www.validityinc.com
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| | Reliability, validity, and fairness of classroom assessments |
| | Examples of extraneous factors might include: ability to read, write, role-play, or understand the context; personality; physical limitations; or knowledge of irrelevant background information. | | | A valid task should: reflect actual knowledge or performance, not test-taking skill and memorized algorithms; engage and motivate students to perform to the best of their ability; be consistent with current educational theory and practice; be reviewed by experts to judge content quality and authenticity. | | | Validity is defined as "an indication of how well an assessment actually measures what it is supposed to measure." The chapter identifies three aspects of an assessment that must be evaluated for validity: tasks, extraneous interference, and consequences. |
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http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/methods/assment/as5relia.htm
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| | Philosophical Dictionary: Vagueness-Verstehen |
| | John Venn's modern pictorial method of representing and evaluating the validity of categorical syllogisms. | | | He also contributed to the development of modern theories of probability in | | | } Venn applied the insights of Boole, Euler, and others in developing a diagrammatic method for testing the validity of categorical syllogisms. |
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| | Evaluation of Online Resources |
| | Produced by Ray Schroeder as a project of | | | This will return pages in the Google database which include links to Ray's Online Learning Update Blog at UIS. | | | An important validation tool is to determine who links the to the site in question. |
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http://www.uis.edu/~schroede/valid.htm
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| | Validity |
| | Do they represent the tasks to be performed in the target environment? | | | Concurrent validity: You want to develop a test, or replace a test, that is currently in use. | | | In other words, you are selecting a group of people by pass/fail depending on some sort of a cut score. |
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http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~lsherry/rem/validity.html
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| | Anti-Dvorak Crusaders |
| | L&M say that "the advent of computer keyboards, which can easily be reprogrammed,...lowers the cost of converting to Dvorak to essentially zero" (true, yes), but "few computer users have adopted the Dvorak keyboard." May I inquire as to the whereabouts of their "high standard", statistically valid study to support this statement? | | | Your authors note that "there is further evidence of Qwerty's viability in its survival throughout the world." Indeed: since 1936, this has also been good proof of Dvorak's viability. | | | They have noticed a recent "a change in tide" of students wanting to learn Dvorak over Qwerty. |
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| | SVC Home Page |
| | SVC has been in development at Stanford University for several years, and has been used primarily for the formal verification of hardware designs. | | | The Stanford Validity Checker (SVC for short) is a research tool to check the validity of formulas expressed in a subset of first-order logic. | | | File interface: Send a file containing an expression to check. |
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| | Lesson6-1-1 |
| | The reason why it's a problem or issue with measurement is this: more often than not, when we measure or collect data in research, our key variables of interest are actually UNOBSERVABLE (or, more accurately, NOT DIRECTLY OBSERVABLE) CONSTRUCTS. | | | As with Type I error in statistics, there's always some chance you might be wrong -- but you can build a more or less convincing case with stronger evidence of 'validity:' more to come on that one, shortly! | | | Let's look at one more example of what we mean by "not-directly-observable" constructs and using evidence from "observable manifestations" or "measurements" to reach conclusions about what must be true about such constructs. |
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http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~mid/edr610/class/measurement/part1/lesson6-1-1.html
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| | Validity |
| | The Second Logical Virtue: Properly Related Evaluation and Validity | | | Because validity in arguments is definite, straightforward, precisely defined, and (usually) can be accurately judged (if you know how to do it), we will first consider validity. | | | But, by way of contrast, strength in arguments is a matter of degrees. |
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| | Validity |
| | All Forums >> Web Development >> Advanced Web Development >> Validity | | | Out of curiosity, have you got the Tidy mini validator extension for Firefox on the go, I find that is an interesting way of fast checking "rival" pages or "other sites", but I still rely on the W3C's set up for validating my work. | | | W3C won't properly validate a page with no doctype, it's the first error it shows up, heh. |
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| | Validity of human races - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Many anthropologists, drawing on biological research, think common definitions of human races are without taxonomic validity. | | | Others, however, argue that race continues to be a valid concept, and argue that movements to discredit racial classifications are often politically rather than scientifically motivated. | | | The validity of human races is a subject of much debate. |
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| | Reliability and Validity, Part II - Validity |
| | For example, if you are creating a new, shorter, less costly test of intelligence, you would be interested in the relationship between your test and a standard test of intelligence, for example the WAIS. | | | Criterion related validity refers to how strongly the scores on the test are related to other behaviors. | | | Construct validity is based on the accumulation of knowledge about the test and its relationship to other tests and behaviors. |
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http://web.uccs.edu/lbecker/Psy590/relval_II.htm
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| | Validity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A formula of logic is said to be valid if it is true under every interpretation (also called structure or model). | | | This article discusses validity in logic; for the term in the social sciences see validity (statistics). | | | For example: "All A are B; some A are C; therefore some B are C" is a valid form. |
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| | C-SAVE: Assessment Validity Defined |
| | Validity, then, should be defined as the degree to which the test measures (a) what is intended, as opposed to (b) what is not intended, or (c) what is unsystematic or unstable. | | | In defining validity, we distinguish between the intent of a measurement and the ancillary abilities that contribute to successful task performance. | | | Although we would agree that some critical aspects of validity can only be evaluated in the context of a specific testing application, we would argue that the intents of most measurements are almost entirely constant across applications, and therefore, that a very large part of validity or invalidity does inhere in the measurement procedure itself. |
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http://www.c-save.umd.edu/AssessmentValidityDefined.html
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| | Internal Validity Tutorial |
| | In our example, the smell of delicious food would be the independent variable and the salivation response would be the dependent variable. | | | For this conclusion to be internally valid, the experiment must be designed so that conditions other than the food smell are ruled out as potential causes for the behavior change. | | | Before learning more about each one, first read the following background information to a hypothetical experiment. |
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http://psych.athabascau.ca/html/Validity/concept.shtml
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| | Peter Suber, "Truth and Validity" |
| | This weak sense of validity turns out to suffice for all the purposes of rigorous reasoning in science, mathematics, and daily life. | | | Nor should we be misled by valid reasoning to suppose that statements are true, or by invalid reasoning to suppose that statements are false. | | | In a few weeks we'll encounter a syntactic concept of validity which makes no reference to truth at all. |
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http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/courses/log/tru-val.htm
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| | VALIDITY |
| | Validity is a basic, essential notion in logic, since it is a basic requirement for an argument to be good. | | | Bear in mind that 'valid' is a technical term in logic: this is a perfectly valid argument. | | | In other words, a valid argument is one where the premises make the conclusion true. |
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| | Centre for Health Evidence |
| | This question has to do with the validity or accuracy of the results and considers whether the treatment effect reported in the article represents the true direction and magnitude of the treatment effect. | | | If the results are valid, then the reader can proceed to consider the magnitude of the effect and the applicability to her patients. | | | The issue here is not whether there are statistically significant differences in known prognostic factors between treatment groups (in a randomized trial one knows in advance that any differences that did occur happened by chance) but rather the magnitude of these differences. |
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| | Extension of Validity for Science Related Interagency Visa Clearances |
| | This means that if the original visa has expired and a new visa application is filed to return to the previous study or work program in the United States, another Visas Mantis clearance may not be required. | | | If a student changes academic programs, the clearance will no longer be valid and a Visas Mantis review would be required should the applicant reapply for a new visa. | | | In addition to the extension of validity for Visas Mantis clearances, the Department of State has made several other improvements in the Visas Mantis process in the past year. |
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http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2005/42212.htm
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| | Grounds of Validity of the Laws of Logic |
| | But even if this order both existed and were known, the knowledge would be of no use except as a general principle, from which things could be deduced. | | | These formulæ can all be deduced from the principle, that in a system of signs in which no sign is taken in two different senses, two signs which differ only in their manner of representing their object, but which are equivalent in meaning, can always be substituted for one another. | | | Finally, if the validity of induction and hypothesis were dependent on a particular constitution of the universe, we could imagine a universe in which these modes of inference should not be valid, just as we can imagine a universe in which there would be no attraction, but things should merely drift about. |
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| | Core Concepts in Critical Thinking, Part I |
| | Validity concerns the relationship between the premises and the conclusion, and not the actual truth values of the component statements at all. | | | The term "Valid" refers to arguments, not to statements. | | | To put it another way, an argument is valid if and only if there's no way the conclusion can be false without at least one premises being false too. |
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| | Four threats to the validity of research |
| | A problem of internal validity that occurs when an experimenter knows the research hypothesis (unwittingly) communicates expectations to the participant(s). | | | Confounding variables are variables other than the IV on which the participants in one experiment condition differ systematically from those in other conditions (reduces internal validity). | | | mortality): threat to internal validity in longitudinal research designs because the participants lost across time might reflect some form of bias (e.g., motivation, resilience, etc). |
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http://psych.sjsu.edu/~mvselst/courses/psyc18/lecture/validity/validity.htm
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| | Validity |
| | Validity -When referring to assessments (tests), is defined as the degree to which the assessment (test) measures what it is supposed to measure. | | | Professionally conducted Validity Studies are essential if test scores are to be accurately used and interpreted for pre-employment purposes. | | | More then likely, they are covering up the fact that they have not conducted such a study. |
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| | Establishing Validity |
| | Violating any of these rules involves committing one of the formal fallacies, errors in reasoning that result from reliance on an invalid logical form. | | | Although it is possible to identify additional features shared by all valid categorical syllogisms (none of them, for example, have two particular premises), these six rules are jointly sufficient to distinguish between valid and invalid syllogisms. | | | Since the validity of a categorical syllogism depends solely upon its logical form, it is relatively simple to state the conditions under which the premises of syllogisms succeed in guaranteeing the truth of their conclusions. |
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| | validity - Wiktionary |
| | This page was last modified 15:09, 7 October 2005. | | | The state of being valid, authentic or genuine | | | Please help translate this message for your local site. |
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| | Redemptoris missio - Ioannes Paulus PP. II - Encyclical Letter (1990.12.07) |
| | This same advice is valid today for the particular churches: Open the doors to missionaries, for "each individual church that would voluntarily cut itself off from the universal Church would lose its relationship to God's plan and would be impoverished in its ecclesial mission." | | | Thus the criterion of geography, although somewhat imprecise and always provisional, is still a valid indicator of the frontiers toward which missionary activity must be directed. | | | Just as the risen Lord gave the universal missionary mandate to the College of the Apostles with Peter as its head, so this same responsibility now rests primarily with the College of Bishops, headed by the successor of Peter. |
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| | Dr. Watson, v5.1 |
| | Watson can also check out many other aspects of your site, including link validity, download speed, search engine compatibility, and link popularity. | | | You give it the URL of your page and Watson will get a copy of it directly from the web server. | | | If you have any comments about Watson, send email to drwatson@addy.com. |
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| | US Election 2004 Results Listed by Average IQ |
| | "Bush will interpret victory as a validation of his policies. | | | I don't expect a second term to be any more moderate - on the contrary." |
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| | The Stanford Peers Home Page |
| | The Price of Validity in Dynamic Networks, Mayank Bawa, Aristides Gionis, Hector Garcia-Molina and Rajeev Motwani. | | | Know thy Neighbor's Neighbor: The power of Lookahead in Randomized P2P Networks, Gurmeet Singh Manku, Moni Naor and Udi Wieder. | | | Optimal Routing in Chord, Prasanna Ganesan and Gurmeet S. Manku. |
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