Types of Grass to Grow in Central Alabama. Plant warm-season grasses in central Alabama for best results in sun or partial shade. Cool-season grasses like Kentucky bluegrass, ryegrass and fine fescue do most of their growing from fall to spring, and prefer cooler temperatures. Prepare the planting site well ahead of spring planting.
Operational Definitions. To test an idea, one must gather data. This means one must relate ideas to concrete, measurable events in the world. That is why scientists need operational definitions, which are definitions that tell how to measure or detect something.
Operational Definition. The operational definition of a variable is the specific way in which it is measured in that study. Another study might measure the same conceptual measure differently.If you were studying ways of helping people stop smoking, smoking cessation would be an outcome measure (dependent variable).learly the operational definition of the dependent variable is an important step in the design of the study. Some other health related conceptual variables that have many operational definitions: intelligence, fitness, health, quality of life.