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Engage, Enrich, Enlighten, Energize: Explorations in Instructional Humor
(2021-04)This chapter describes the use of classroom humor in the teaching of a government information course, employing the four Es (engage, enrich, enlighten, energize) to educate and empower library & information science students ... -
Enhanced Electrical Conductivity of Carbon Nanotube-Based Elastomer Nanocomposites Prepared by Microwave Curing
(2019-07-25)Nanocomposites consisting of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) and well-dispersed carbon nanotubes (CNT) can be cured by microwave radiation within a minute, forming a conductive network within the cured materials. Microwave ... -
Enhancing Interdisciplinary Instruction in General and Special Education: Thematic Units and Technology
(Remedial and Special Education, 2003-05-01)This article discusses interdisciplinary thematic units in the context of special and general education curricula and focuses on ways technology can be used to enhance interdisciplinary thematic units. Examples of curriculum ... -
Enhancing Scheduling Robustness with Partial Task Completion Feedback and Resource Requirement Biasing
(2019)Performance and robustness of dynamic scheduling algorithms are evaluated in the presence of errors in the tasks’ resource requirements. Previous work found that incorporating task completion events ... -
Enlightened or Delusional?: Differentiating Religious, Spiritual, and Transpersonal Experiences from Psychopathology
(Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 2008-10-01)Psychological diagnosis faces unique challenges when used to differentiate nonpsychopathological religious/spiritual/transpersonal (R/S/T) experiences from those that might evidence psychopathology, particularly considering ... -
Entrepreneurial Risk and Strategic Decision Making: It’s a Matter of Perspective
(The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 1999-09-01)Risk taking has long been a central theme of the entrepreneurship literature. However, research on the risk propensity of entrepreneurs has met with virtually no empirical support even though entrepreneurs consistently ... -
Episodes, Incidents, and Eruptions: Nightly Network TV Coverage of Candidates '88
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An Epistemology for Listening Across Religious, Cultural, and Political Divides
(2022-08-30)The rhetoric of cultural populism exploits and exacerbates the natural tendency for human communities to define their own identities by contrasting themselves with imagined Others. This heightens the already formidable ... -
Epsin 1 Promotes Synaptic Growth by Enhancing BMP Signal Levels in Motoneuron Nuclei
(PLos One, 2013-06-19)Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) retrograde signaling is crucial for neuronal development and synaptic plasticity. However, how the BMP effector phospho-Mother against decapentaplegic (pMad) is processed following receptor ... -
Escape to a Musical Summer!
(Music Educators Journal, 1991-03-01)What should teachers know about combining travel with music learning or performance? Roger Rideout considers some of the questions no potential music tour leader should overlook. -
Escape Worthiness of Vehicles with Passive Belt Restraint Systems
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 1994-10-01)There are a variety of conditions that can exist in the post-crash environment which make rapid escape necessary for survival or to avoid further injury. These include a post-crash fire, the vehicle going into the water, ... -
Establishing a Causal Relationship Between Intervention to Promote Self-Determination and Enhanced Student Self-Determination
(The Journal of Special Education, 2013-02-01)Promoting the self-determination of adolescents with disabilities has become best practice in secondary education and transition services, but to date there have been no studies establishing a causal relationship between ... -
Establishment of a 3D In Vitro Model to Accelerate the Development of Human Therapies against Corneal Diabetes
(PLos One, 2016-12-22)Purpose To establish an in vitro model that would mirror the in vivo corneal stromal environment in diabetes (DM) patients. Methods Human corneal fibroblasts from Healthy (HCFs), Type 1DM (T1DM) and Type 2DM (T2DM) donors ... -
Estimating Cost Savings when Implementing a Product Platform Approach
(Concurrent Engineering, 2001-12-01)Many market forces are driving companies to improve their targeting of increasingly small market niches. To accomplish this efficiently, products are organized into product families that typically share common platforms. ... -
Estimating Trait, Method, and Error Variance: Generalizing Across 70 Construct Validation Studies
(1987-08)The authors examine the construct validation results of 70 published data sets. The analysis shows that, on average, traits account for less than 50% of the variance in construct measures. These findings raise questions ... -
An ethic of connectedness: enacting moral school leadership through people and programs
(Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2010-07-01)As educators, we grapple with a myriad of dilemmas and often have difficulty resolving issues that relate to curriculum and instruction, funding, facilities and supervision, to name a few. Depending on the leader(s), a ... -
Ethical Language and Themes in News Coverage of Genetic Testing
(Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 2000-03-01)Ethical theory is employed in this study to assess news coverage of genetic testing, a topic with widely acknowledged ethical implications for professions and society. Ethical language and themes were examined in thirty-one ... -
Ethical Marketing: Perceptions of Economic Goods and Social Problems
(Journal of Macromarketing, 1981-03-01)A methodology associated with experimental social psychology was used to ascertain whether there are different ethical overtones perceived in the marketing of different products despite all other aspects of the marketing ... -
Ethical Priority of the Most Actionable System of Biomolecules: the Metabolome
(2019-10-23)The metabolome is a system of small biomolecules (metabolites) and a direct result of human bioculture. Consequently, metabolomics is well poised to impact anthropological and biomedical research for the foreseeable future. ... -
The Ethnographic, the Reflective, and the Uncanny: Three “Tellings” of Autobiography
(Journal of Transformative Education, 2003-04-01)Adult learners who write their life story embark on a process of personal self-reflection and meaning making. Some of their narratives center and remain on the detailing of life events. Other writing goes further, associating ...