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Research Methods for Simple and Complex Systems
By David Alderoty © 2015
This is an e-book, which contains over 19,495 words,
on 163 pages, and it is comprised of 10 chapters.
Below this yellow section there are
hyperlinks to access the 10 chapters.
To contact the author, use:
This book is not focused on the typical research writing projects, use for school assignments, except for Chapter 10. I have previously written an e-book that covers the research and writing for school assignments, titled: Strategies for Studying, Learning, and Researching, which can be accessed from www.TechForText.com/S
In this e-book, various aspects of observational and experimental research are discussed, for simple and complex systems. Research strategies used for simple systems are different than those used for complex systems. Physics and chemistry primarily deal with simple systems, such as atoms, molecules, gravitational fields, and chemical and nuclear reactions. Biology, medicine, as well as the social and psychological sciences, deal with systems that are more complex, and often somewhat unpredictable. The systems that comprise modern technology, such as cell phones, jet planes, and computers, are somewhere in between the two extremes.
This e-book starts with a basic explanation of system theories in chapter 1. However, this book will be easier to understand, if the reader already has a detailed knowledge of system theories, or system conceptualizing and modeling. This information can be acquired from an e-book I just completed www.TechForText.com/Sm: titled A General Model of Simple and Complex Systems. You can also obtain information on systems theories, as well as experimentation, by scrolling down to a list of links on this webpage to other websites, or you can click on the following link:
A List of Hyperlinks to Access Additional
Information, and Alternative Perspectives
Printing, and Additional Formats and Layout of this E‑Book
How Words and Pages Were Counted in this E‑Book
Below there are hyperlinks to the 10 chapters of this e-book:
Research Methods for Simple and Complex Systems
Hyperlinks to Access the 10 Chapters of this E-Book
Chapter 1) HTML version: A Basic Introduction to System Theories, Left click on these words for the PDF version, Over 1,380 Words, on 10 Pages
Chapter 2) HTML version: The Complexity & Predictability of Systems, are Important Concepts for Research and Experimentation, Left click on these words for the PDF version, Over 1,450 words, on 11 Pages
Chapter 3) HTML version: Basic Scientific Research Techniques For Simple & Complex Systems, Left click on these words for the PDF version, Over 1,460 words, on 11 Pages
Chapter 4) HTML version: Qualitative & Quantitative Research and Experimentation for Simple and Complex Systems, Left click on these words for the PDF version, Over 3,900 words, on 22 Pages
Chapter 5) HTML version: Observational Research for Simple and Complex Systems, with Related Concepts, Left click on these words for the PDF version, Over 3015 words, on 19 Pages
Chapter 6) HTML version: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods, Observational Research, with Techniques for Recording Data, Left click on these words for the PDF version, Over 1,700 Words, on 13 Pages
Chapter 7) HTML version: The Limitations of the Research Techniques of the Hard Sciences, and the Advantages of the Research Techniques of the Soft Sciences, Left click on these words for the PDF version, Over 4,400 Words, on 26 Pages
Chapter 8) HTML version: Scientific Method, and Case Studies For Simple and Complex Systems, Left click on these words for the PDF version, Over 2,300 Words, on 16 Pages
Chapter 9) HTML version: Hypotheses, Theories, and Scientific Research And the Influence of Human Nature and Perception, Left click on these words for the PDF version, Over 2,550 Words, on 17 Pages
Chapter 10) HTML version: Pencil and Paper Research, versus Experimental and Observational Research, and the Layout of a Typical Scientific Paper, Left click on these words for the PDF version, Over 2,700 Words, on 18 Pages
A List of Hyperlinks to Access Additional
Information, and Alternative Perspectives
From other Authors, on System
Theories, and Experimentation
After I complete a writing task, I select a number of websites from other authors, to provide the reader with additional information, alternative points of view, and unique presentations. Links to 17 websites are presented below. I selected some of these websites because the information they provide may help the reader understand the material in this e‑book.
If a link fails, use the blue underlined words as a search phrase, with www.Google.com. If a link for a video, fails use www.google.com/videohp. The search will usually bring up the original website, or one or more good alternatives.
1) List of 40 system theories, 2) This is an excellent video: On the Nature of Causality in Complex Systems, George F.R. Ellis Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, 3) Systems Theories, 4) Systems Theories: Their Origins, Foundations, and Development, By Alexander Laszlo and Stanley Krippner, 5) Dynamic Systems Theories ESTHER THELEN and LINDA B. SMITH, 6) Theory Of Order , Garrett Lisi and E8 Supersymmetry, 7) Discussion of Theories, 8) General Systems Theory © 1993, David S. Walonick, Ph.D., 9) Experimental Research, 10) Experimental Research Oskar Blakstad, 11) EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH AND DESIGN, 12) Video: General Systems Theory, 13) Video: System Theory, Control of Dynamic Systems - Peter Young, 14) Video: Systems thinking: an introduction Complexity Lab, 15) Video: Systems Theory Paul Fishwick, 16) Video: Ecological Systems Theory, 17) Video: Simple systems? Why complexity matters in emerging disease | Mark Brown | TEDxWoking Shoshana Christal
Printing, and Additional Formats and Layout of this E Book
This e-book contains 10 chapters, which are essentially separate websites that are linked together. Each chapter has its own table of contents, and the information is presented in a series of sections and subsections, which contain topics and subtopics.
The chapters in this e-book are also available in Microsoft Word, and the PDF format, with the hyperlinks presented below. The HTML versions, and the format labeled index.docx, are not printer friendly. The other formats can be printed without difficulty. See the following links.
Chapter 1) Chapter 1) A Basic
Introduction to System Theories
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www.TechForText.com/R/Chapter-1/Word.docx
www.TechForText.com/R/Chapter-1/index.docx
Chapter 2) The Complexity & Predictability
of Systems, are Important Concepts
for Research and Experimentation
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www.TechForText.com/R/Chapter-2/Word.docx
www.TechForText.com/R/Chapter-2/index.docx
Chapter 3) Basic Scientific Research
Techniques For Simple & Complex Systems
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Chapter 4)Qualitative & Quantitative
Research and Experimentation for
Simple and Complex Systems
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Chapter 5) Observational Research
for Simple and Complex Systems,
with Related Concepts
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www.TechForText.com/R/Chapter-5/Word.docx
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Chapter 6) Qualitative, Quantitative,
And Mixed Methods, Observational
Research,with Techniques for Recording Data
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www.TechForText.com/R/Chapter-6/Word.docx
www.TechForText.com/R/Chapter-6/index.docx
Chapter 7) The Limitations of the
Research Techniques of the Hard
Sciences, and the Advantages of
the Research Techniques
of the Soft Sciences
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www.TechForText.com/R/Chapter-7/Word.docx
www.TechForText.com/R/Chapter-7/index.docx
Chapter 8) Scientific Method, and
Case Studies For Simple and Complex Systems
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Chapter 9) Hypotheses, Theories, and
Scientific Research And the Influence
of Human Nature and Perception
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www.TechForText.com/R/Chapter-9/Word.docx
www.TechForText.com/R/Chapter-9/index.docx
Chapter 10) Pencil and Paper Research,
versus Experimental and Observational
Research, and the Layout of a
Typical Scientific Paper
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www.TechForText.com/R/Chapter-10/PDF.pdf
www.TechForText.com/R/Chapter-10/Word.docx
www.TechForText.com/R/Chapter-10/index.docx
How Words and Pages Were Counted in this E‑Book
This e-book contains over 19,495 words, on 163 pages. The words comprising the table of contents, and phrases that are repeated in more than one chapter were not counted. The page count is based on the PDF version, because the HTML version does not involve a page format. The word count for each chapter was carried out with Microsoft Word, and then totaled with an Excel worksheet as shown below:
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