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URBAN MOBILITY AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION: THE TRANSPORT SYSTEM IN THE METROPOLITAN REGION OF RIO DE JANEIRO
(2016-05)
In this paper, I evaluate urban mobility in the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro, giving special consideration to the public transport system, in order to answer the question of whether or not Rio’s mobility system ...
ORAZIO GRASSI AND A 1623 TREATISE ON THE SPHERE: ASTRONOMY AND PHYSICO-MATHEMATICS AT THE COLLEGIO ROMANO IN THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
(2016-12)
The University of Oklahoma History of Science Collections recently acquired a 1623 manuscript which has been attributed to the Jesuit mathematician Orazio Grassi. The first section of the manuscript, entitled “Tractatus ...
BEHAVIORAL AND CHEMICAL MECHANISMS OF A CONDITIONAL SIGNAL IN THE GREEN SWORDTAIL (XIPHOPHORUS HELLERII)
(2016-05)
Color polymorphisms are a common occurrence across most taxa. These differing forms of visual signals can act as a determinant for status and relative attractiveness for the choosy sex in a given species. While this ...
CONTROLS OF PRE-EXISTING NORMAL FAULTS ON THE GEOMETRY AND LOCATION OF THRUST FAULTS IN FOLD-THRUST BELTS
(2016)
Pre-existing normal faults are commonly cited as influencing both the sequence of faulting and the location of thrust faults in fold-thrust belts. Scaled experimental models for both frictional and ductile detachments were ...
No Easy Thing to Understand: A Historiography of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution
(2016-05-14)
The historiography of the Constitutional Revolution in Iran centers on the root causes of social change in Iran. In this way, authors must generally accomplish two things in their histories of the Constitutional Revolution. ...
Creative Self-Efficacy, Technology Acceptance, and the Theory of Planned Behavior: Antecedents to a Maker's Intention to Return to Make
(2016-12)
Fab Labs, Makerspaces and Hackerspaces are part of a decentralized global Do-It-Yourself movement providing unique resources to tinkerers, hobbyists, inventors and artists to make almost anything. Individuals who use these ...
Forecasting Natural Gas Prices in the United States Using Artificial Neural Networks
(2016-05-13)
Prediction of the natural gas price is imperative to producers, suppliers, traders, market makers, and bankers involved in the natural gas exploration, production transportation, and trading. Additionally, consumers are ...
Managerial Coaching: Investigating the Mediating Effect of Role Clarity on Employee Turnover Intention
(2016)
State and local governmental agencies are challenged by the turnover of capable employees. Consequently, human resource practitioners and agency heads must develop effective organizational strategies that will retain the ...
OIL POTENTIAL OF THE ASQUITH MARKER, LEWIS SHALE, GREATER GREEN RIVER BASIN, WYOMING.
(2016-05-13)
Large volumes of gas and some oil have been produced from the Cretaceous Lewis Shale, and it is often considered a regional source of gas in the Greater Green River Basin. However, the Lewis Shale has never been studied ...
Study on Negative Electricity Prices and Its Impact on Wind Farms Operation
(2016-12-16)
The relation between Negative Electricity Prices (NEPs) and Wind Power Producers (WPPs) in the wholesale market, shows the complex paradox of the integration of wind power, and renewable energy in general, in the day to ...