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Science in the everyday world - Why perspectives from the history of science matter
(2008-07)
The history of science is more than the history of scientists. This essay argues that various modem "publics" should be counted as belonging within an enlarged vision of who constitutes the "scientific community"--and ...
Cognitive Performance of Astronauts during Two Space Shuttle Missions
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 2000-07-01)
Assessing similarity of dynamic geographic phenomena in spatiotemporal databases.
(2003)
The growing availability of routine observations from satellite imagery and other remote sensors holds great promise for improved understanding of processes that act in the landscape. However, geographers' ability to ...
Three essays on currency crises.
(2005)
Chapter three empirically tests the effectiveness of interest rate defenses against speculative attacks. It is shown that previous empirical studies on this issue suffer a classic sample selection problem by restricting ...
Dr. Gary Garner, Director of Bands at West Texas A&M University, 1963--2002: His career and teachings.
(2006)
The purpose of this study was to provide insight into the career and teachings of Dr. Gary Garner who served as the Director of Bands at West Texas A&M University from 1963 to 2002. His legacy as a director began after he ...
Perceptions of people, process, and policy on political trust.
(2007)
The qualities of the people serving in government, the processes used, and the policies that result have been put forth in the literature as possible determinants of political trust (Miller and Borrelli 1991; Ulbig 2002; ...
`To Be Of Use': Contemporary American Women's Poetry of Work and Workers
(2009)
In this dissertation, I examine three genres of contemporary women's poetry of work and workers: the historical long poem, the lyric poem, and the hybrid lyric-narrative; identify the poetic devices and imagery which are ...
PREPARATION FOR ORCHESTRAL TRUMPET AUDITIONS: THE PERSPECTIVES OF THREE PROMINENT ORCHESTRA PLAYERS
(2008)
Preparing for orchestra auditions can be a daunting task for a trumpet player. Numerous excerpt books have been compiled, but little material directly from orchestral players themselves is readily available. For this ...
Study of the relationship between cognitive styles of creativity and personality types of military leaders.
(2003)
Military leaders have experienced a cognitive paradigm shift in preparing for war. Since the Gulf War in 1991, the United States military has participated in operations other than war (OOTW) with greater frequency than ...
Spectral analyses of the dual polarization Doppler weather radar data.
(2007)
Echoes in clear air from biological scatterers mixed within the resolution volumes over a large region are presented. These echoes were observed with the polarimetric prototype of the forthcoming WSR-88D weather radar. The ...