Category: Q
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Question-and-answer method
A teacher or learner- centered method depending upon who is in control of the questioning. It can be a valuable method of motivating two-way communications and in receiving important feedback.
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Queens
In the gay community, homosexual males who adopt exaggerated feminine behavior.
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Quasi-medical
Having the characteristics of medical use or services, but not generally accepted in modern medical practice.
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Quasi-experimental
In epidemiology, a research design in which the investigator does not have as much control of the variables as in an experimental design.
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Quasi
As if. Almost as it were. Analogous to.
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Quarantine
Used for the first time in 1348. The first law was passed in Marseilles, France, in 1383. Venice imposed a 40-day in 1403 is essentially an attempt at controlling the spread of disease by restricting the freedom of one who has a contagious disease and those who are well but suspected of transmitting it to…
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Quantum meruit
In law, the implication that the defendant had agreed to pay the plaintiff as much as he or she reasonably deserved for the work performed.
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Quantitative variable
In epidemiology, variables that can be measured qualitative variable.
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Quantitative trait
A trait, the characteristics of which can be measured, quantitative variable.
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Quantitative evaluation
A categorization of measurable information according to some standard or quantity.