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METAPHORS WE BOMB BY: THE VALUES AND MEANINGS BEHIND SUPPORTING DRONES IN BOMBING ATTACKS
(2016-05-13)
This study theoretically examines the metaphors and values associated with exceptional patriotism and Christians in order to examine the support of military drones in bombing attacks against terrorism. Utilizing George ...
A DETAILED ANALYSIS OF RIFT RELATED STRUCTURES: INSIGHTS FROM LASER SCANNED CLAY MODELS AND 3-D SEISMIC INTERPRETATION
(2014-05)
Rifting describes the process of crustal stretching through which the brittle upper crust is subjected to extensional deformation (Falvey, 1974; Bally and Snelson, 1980; Wernicke and Burchfiel, 1982; Steckler, 1985; McKenzie, ...
The Management of Sustainable Research Agendas
(2015-05-08)
In the context of conducting research, planning is obligatory for work success. A research agenda is familiar to professionals working on research and funding projects in universities, research institutes, government ...
Volunteering Movement in Russia: Regional Presence and Future Perspectives
(University of Bucharest Publishing House, 2015)
This study provides an overview of the volunteering movement in Russia. Particularly, authors concentrate their discussion around major particularities of the volunteer development in Russia: the regional volunteerism, ...
Record of Disposition by Administration of Faculty Senate Actions, 2013-2014
(The University of Oklahoma Faculty Senate, 2014)
A Convergence Account of Ethics and Aesthetics Through A Composite Understanding of Evaluative Judgments
(2010)
In this dissertation, I argue for a convergence account of the ontological status of the fields of ethics and aesthetics. This project is accomplished in three parts.
Congress, the Court, and the Constitution: Constitutional Deliberation in an Affiliated Age
(2011)
The relationship between Congress and the Constitution and more specifically, constitutional deliberation within Congress, has been the focus of important scholarship (Pickerill, 2004; Devins & Whittington, 2005). This ...
Do Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation Predict Anti-China Attitudes?
(2010)
This paper addresses the question of why some Americans hold negative attitudes toward China’s government and people, and the impact that such attitudes have on their preferred China policies. We hypothesized that the ...
Self and Desire as Seeds of Virtue
(2015-03-14)
According to Buddhist philosophies, recognizing the self as impermanent, changing, and interdependent is at the root of virtue. With this realization, desires shift away from inward self-cherishing and toward outward ...
Parent-offspring recognition in cave swallows
(2013)
Natural selection favors investment in genetic relatives over giving such aid indiscriminately. Parental care is often easily directed only towards genetic relatives, but under some circumstances, this task can be problematic. ...