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Exploring the relationship between United States governmental secrecy and democracy: Classification, cultures of secrecy, and the public sphere.
(2005)
For the past 60 years government secrecy in the form of officially classified documents has increased dramatically. According to the Information Security Oversight Office there were slightly fewer than 16 million classification ...
The exact sciences in Lutheran Germany and Tudor England.
(2005)
The final chapters shift focus to England, where a revival of mathematical education was underway by mid-century. In this section, astronomy is defined broadly to include astronomical navigation, since the potential economic ...
R-matrix theory and device modeling.
(2005)
Novel experimental techniques allow us to fabricate very small semiconductor devices such that the electron mean free path is larger than the size of the device. The macroscopic properties of these quantum mechanical devices ...
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, ...
Experimental and numerical simulation study of microbial enhanced oil recovery using bio-surfactants.
(2005)
A 2-phase, 10-component microbial enhanced oil recovery numerical simulator was modified to include reservoir salinity and facilitate surfactant and polymer injection. The effects of reservoir brine salinity and divalent ...
Decolonizing personality assessment: An examination of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2.
(2005)
This research builds on a previous investigation which found that the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory - 2 (MMPI-2), the most widely used personality assessment instrument in the world, exhibits significant ...
Design of new molecular dynamics global minimum search protocols for mapping energy landscapes and conformations of folded polypeptides and mini-proteins.
(2005)
First, a new MD search strategy called DIvergent Path (DIP) search simulation is developed in which the simulations start with several independent polypeptides having the same initial coordinates and temperatures but ...
To journey into creativity.
(2005)
Every year, in schools across America, children walk past framed statements asserting that one of the primary missions of their school is to foster creativity in its students. School districts, in addition to stating their ...
Systematic evaluation for nonprofit organizations: Problems, prospects, and recommendations.
(2005)
Evaluation is essential to every organization. Nonprofit organizations typically devote little time to program evaluation but concentrate their efforts on service delivery. Even less time is devoted to a systematic approach ...
Hydraulic fracturing of poorly consolidated formations: Considerations on rock properties and failure mechanisms.
(2005)
This dissertation addresses the issue of hydraulic fracturing stimulation of poorly consolidated formations. First, a complete review about the mechanical properties of such formations was performed. Typical ranges of ...