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Improved Equation for Shear Modulus Using Four-Point Ring-Twist Test Data
(Journal of Thermoplastic Composite Materials, 2001-11-01)
There are numerous test-specimen configurations for determining the static shear modulus of composites. Selection of specimen configuration depends primarily on product component configuration. Two-ring specimens in use ...
The Professional Ex- Revisited: Cessation or Continuation of a Deviant Career?
(Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 2001-12-01)
An ongoing question is whether participation in deviance is fluid or stable. In a 1991 article, Brown introduced the concept of the “professional ex-,” an individual who uses former deviant status as a springboard into a ...
Transition through two models of early childhood special services.
(2001)
Parents of elementary age children with disabilities were surveyed to identify information and services to them as they and their children made transitions from early intervention and public preschool special education ...
Using Newly available Homicide Data to Debunk Two Myths about Violence in an International Context: A Research Note
(Homicide Studies, 2001-08-01)
This article employs newly available crime and vital statistics data from Russia to debunk two myths about violence in an international context. The first myth is that the United States is the most violent industrialized ...
Capturing strategic orientation toward inpatriation in management staffing policies of global organizations.
(2001)
This dissertation examines the judgment of international human resource managers in global organizations entering emerging markets about the appropriateness of inpatriation practice. First, the strategic drivers and the ...
A study of practices that support school improvement through staff development in DoDDs-Europe schools.
(2001)
The teachers, principals and members of the district offices in the DoDDS schools participating in the survey agreed that teachers, principals and members of the district office believed that the majority of the RPTIM ...
The species-area relationship: new challenges for an old pattern
(Progress in Physical Geography, 2001-03-01)
The species-area relationship (i.e., the relationship between area and the number of species found in that area) is one of longest and most frequently studied patterns in nature. Yet there remain some important and interesting ...
The effect of Taiwanese piano education from the perspectives of college senior piano majors.
(2001)
Taiwanese parents and educators should first acknowledge what the students really need, then provide an environment which can help and guide them to internalize and actualize their beliefs in piano playing and nurture the ...
Optimal design of crude oil distillation plants.
(2001)
Crude distillation is the first processing unit in the refinery. It separates the crude in to distillates, which are either intermediate products further processed or raw materials for the chemical industry. Crude distillation ...
Expression profiles and the identification of the clock-controlled genes in two time-of-day-specific cDNA libraries of Neurospora crassa.
(2001)
In the group of genes that were detected from both cDNA libraries, the highest three of the top ten highly expressed genes were clock-controlled genes (ccgs). That these ccgs are so highly expressed in Neurospora implies ...