### activity | analysis:

Microscopic analysis
* Microscopic analyses look at patterns.
* has a long tradition in the proof of identity and purity of crude drugs.
* looks for inclusion bodies seen with special stains.

Miscue analysis
* focuses observation on the extent of a reader's use of cues to make sense of text.
* means of observing and evaluating a person's oral reading.

Molecular analysis
* Molecular analyses begin to elucidate how such control mechanisms of single genes work.
* Some molecular analyses reveal complex genetic structures
* shows that sr encodes a predicted protein containing a zinc finger motif.

Path analysis
* computable abstraction of path semantics.
* is usually an extension of multiple regression and widely used in the social sciences.
* much more specific form of analysis that looks explicitly at cause.

Pedigree analysis
* is also useful when studying species with a long genration time.
* suggests genetic heterogeneity.
* supports an autosomal recessive mode of inheritance.

Performance analysis
* process of diminishing returns.
* systematic and systemic approach to engaging with the client.

Phonological analysis
* can determine which sound differences are significant in a language.
* is an essential part of determining how to write a language.

Phylogenetic analysis
* Phylogenetic analyses confirm two mitochondrial mallard clades
  - involving large numbers of taxa allow a better understanding of biodiversity
* Some phylogenetic analyses show humans.
* relies on protein sequencing methods.
* shows that the devil is most closely related to quolls.
* suggests that hedgehog proteins evolved from inteins
  - orthid brachiopods are polyphyletic
* supports horizontal transfer of P transposable elements.

Policy analysis
* examines how policies are proposed, adopted, implemented, and evaluated.
* is systematic, structured thinking about policy problems
  - the science and the art of giving advice that affects public policy decisions
* phrase that applies to some forms of institutional research.
* systematic inquiry into the nature of public problems and their solutions.

Pollen analysis
* Pollen analyses are also well-suited for the elucidation of the late past of floral history.
* major source of information about past climates.

Probabilistic analysis
* includes the analysis of queues, simulation, and statistics.
* is used to address demand uncertainties.

Process analysis
* explores how a phenomena works.
* is the manipulation of that information for purposes of problem identification.
* means to explain how to do something.

Qualitative analysis
* can take many different forms, and can use many different sources of data.
* is an analysis
  - used to identify the chemical species in an unknown substance
  - useful in recognising ambiguities in data

### activity | analysis | qualitative analysis:

Radiocarbon dating
* are dating.
* depends on the proportion of radioactive carbon in the atmosphere.
* determines the age of organic matter such as dinosaur bones.
* is actually of little use to evolutionists
  - of importance in many fields
  - performed on a single species of foraminifera
  - perhaps the most common way to date sites
* is used for geologically young materials containing organic carbon
  - most often
  - to determine how long the groundwater has been underground
* qualitative analysis

Real analysis
* is the theoretical underpinnings of the calculus.
* plays a central role in contemporary mathematics.

Reductionism
* attempts to understand brain function at level of neurons.
* consists in reducing referential significance to the one mode of significance.
* cop-out to avoid looking at the evidence.
* hallmark of modernity.
* insists that the mind is nothing at all.
  - ancient concept, dating from the Greek school of atomism
  - the name of the game
  - theories
* promotes alienation, isolation and disconnection.