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The "supramundane": The Kantian sublime in Lovecraft, Clarke, and Gibson.
(1998)
Failure of understanding is the basis of Kant's theory of the sublime. As shown in the Critique of Judgement, this painful experience allows insight into the sublime. The failure delineates the limitations of our capacity ...
An experimental and numerical study of gas jet diffusion flames enveloped by a cascade of venturis.
(1999)
The thermal and composition fields of the baseline and venturi-cascaded flames were numerically simulated using CFD-ACE+, an advanced computational environment software package. The CO and NO concentrations were determined ...
Physiological effects of abdominal belt use during a symmetric lifting task.
(1998)
Abdominal belts are widely used by the manual material handling industry as a quick fix to work-related back injuries. The use of belts has increased despite the absence of definitive research findings that support belt ...
Effects of videotape analysis on role development of student teachers in music.
(1997)
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of videotape analysis on role development of student teachers in music. Topics included: (1) professional role development theory; (2) identification and evolution of ...
Modeling of the aerosol-cloud interactions in marine stratocumulus.
(1997)
In order to study the cloud processing of aerosols, a two-parameter drop spectrum that depends on both the drop mass and the solute mass has been introduced into the CIMMS LES model. The aerosol processing due to condensation, ...
Voluntary consolidation in rural Oklahoma schools: A descriptive study of the strategies that facilitate the process.
(1997)
Data analysis was performed following Holsti's (1969) four-step procedure for content analysis. The four steps include: (1) selecting a sample of data, (2) selecting content categories, (3) comparing the categories, and ...
An English translation of Olivier Messiaen's "Traite de Rythme, de Couleur, et d'Ornithologie".
(1998)
An English Translation of Traite de Rythme, de Couleur, et d'Ornithologie, volume I, by Olivier Messiaen is a translation of the first volume of Messiaen's important treatise on rhythm, color and ornithology (original ...
The older mother-daughter relationship: The influence of caregiving beliefs on communicative behaviors prior to dependency.
(1998)
The goal of this study was to develop a richer understanding of the interaction between healthy mothers and their adult daughters prior to the mother's dependency. Thirty-six mother-daughter dyads discussed how they would ...
The relationship of attachment style to personality factors and family interaction patterns.
(1998)
This study examined the relationship of adult attachment style to various personality factors and family interaction patterns. Participants in the study were 227 undergraduate students who completed the Attachment Style ...
Error estimation and structural shape optimization.
(1998)
This work is concerned with three topics: error estimation, data smoothing process and the structural shape optimization design and analysis. In particular, the superconvergent stress recovery technique, the dual kriging ...