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The ecological importance of ant colony size
(2010)
Despite the rich diversity of life, all organisms are unified by the conserved biochemical pathways that drive metabolism and govern the rate at which resources are processed and used to perform biological work. Metabolic ...
Catalytic Reactions for Upgrading Bio-oils and Petroleum Fuels
(2010)
The increasing consumption and phase-out of conventional fuels has derived the tremendous interest of our society in making uses of renewable energy resources such as biomass. In response to this interest, bio-oil produced ...
IN HIM WE LIVE AND MOVE AND HAVE OUR BEING: PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY IN NICOLAS MALEBRANCHE AND GEORGE BERKELEY
(2010)
My chief argument is that Malebranche and Berkeley hold similar theories of philosophical theology and that in each case understanding their philosophical theology helps us to understand their philosophical system. Both ...
Aristotle's 'Genetic Account' and the Problem of Induction
(2010)
The problem of induction--the problem of how one can justify an inference from observations of some things of a type to a generalization about all (or most) things of the type--is one of the most important in logic and ...
OBSERVATIONS OF PRACTICE CHARACTERISTICS OF UNDERGRADUATE CLARINET STUDENTS IN PRACTICE SESSIONS AND PRECEDING APPLIED LESSONS
(2010)
This study observed practice characteristics demonstrated in the practice sessions of sixteen undergraduate clarinetists, and examined the relationship between those characteristics and the activities each student experienced ...
Ligand Assisted Copper Catalyzed C-H Amination
(2010)
The presence of nitrogen in amino functional groups found in many useful natural and synthetic products makes their preparation valuable to chemicals and materials production, biology and medicinal chemistry. Their importance ...
A Synoptic and Dynamic Climatology of Heavy Midlatitude Rainfall: Trends Across the United States from 1950-2009
(2010)
The increasing regularity and intensity of heavy precipitation events across the United States during the latter part of the 20th century is widely recognized. Many climate models predict continued growth in the proportion ...
Univariate Bootstrap Sampling Procedures Using Prior Information
(2010)
Analyses that test nonzero correlations and incorporate prior information can help accumulate knowledge and advance research at a faster pace than typical analyses that disregard previous studies and continue to test ...
Pawns among Kings: The Influence of Small Powers in Post-Cold War NATO
(2010)
The purpose of this study is to scrutinize the relationship between general material capabilities (i.e. power) and influence in a specific military alliance: the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. I shed light on the ...
Swords & Plowshares: American Protestants and the Vietnam War
(2010)
Theological commitments and contemporary pressures shaped the response of American Protestants to the Vietnam War. Mainline denominations experienced extreme dissension. Opponents of the war, centered on clergy and ...