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Democratic virtues: Solidarity, tolerance, and reflective obedience.
(2002)
To defend itself, a liberal democracy should promote three virtues: solidarity, tolerance, and reflective obedience. Each helps avoid the conditions Plato fears. Solidarity builds a sense of community to overcome factionalism. ...
Verification of microbial ethanol formation in humans by examination of postmortem indoleamine metabolites.
(2004)
Toxicological examination of fatal aviation accident victims routinely includes analysis of ethanol levels. Two distinct questions immediately arise when considering such analyses. The first is, can we stop ethanol production ...
Evolutionary and environmental effects on thermoregulation among complex lizard communities.
(2002)
A community of ten sympatric lizard species was studied in a mountain canyon in southern Arizona to determine the effect of phylogeny on habitat use and thermoregulation. Habitat use, body temperatures ( Tb) and operative ...
The Statistics Concept Inventory: Development and analysis of a cognitive assessment instrument in statistics.
(2006)
The Statistics Concept Inventory (SCI) is a multiple choice test designed to assess students' conceptual understanding of topics typically encountered in an introductory statistics course. This dissertation documents the ...
Mandatory child abuse reporting practices of Oklahoma educators.
(2002)
This study investigated why, despite mandatory reporting laws, Oklahoma elementary teachers failed to report suspected child abuse and neglect cases. Variables included years taught, grade level taught, general knowledge ...
MULTI-MODAL BEHAVIOR AND CLUSTERING IN DYNAMICAL SYSTEM WITH APPLICATIONS TO WIND FARMS
(2009)
he objective of this research is to develop a comprehensive model identification approach for complex multi-modal systems based on spectral theory for nonreversible Markov process that entails (i)model reduction techniques ...
DETECTION THRESHOLDS FOR SPECTRAL MOMENTS AND POLARIMETRIC VARIABLES
(2008)
Presently, the Signal-to-Noise-Ratio (SNR) measurement is used to determine the presence of a weather signal for Weather Surveillance Radar - 1988 Doppler (WSR-88D). Growing popularity of polarimetric radars prompts the ...
Effects of Equivalence Ratio and Iodine Number on NOx Emissions from the Flames of Biofuels and Hydrocarbons
(2009)
Increased energy consumption in the United States has led to a demand for the development of new bio-derived fuels. As biofuels are used more frequently in diesel and gasoline engines it has become increasingly important ...
Authentic instruction: A comparative case study of three urban high schools.
(2005)
All five of these teachers were part of the National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored (grant #0086415) Authentic Teaching Alliance (ATA) which involved public school teachers, graduate and advanced undergraduate fellows, ...