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Horizontal Vortex Tubes near a Simulated Tornado: Three-Dimensional Structure and Kinematics
(2019-11-16)Supercell thunderstorms can produce a wide spectrum of vortical structures, ranging from midlevel mesocyclones to small-scale suction vortices within tornadoes. A less documented class of vortices are horizontally-oriented ... -
How Advanced Building Systems Can Offset Water Infrastructure Needs
(2015-07)Water infrastructure requirements will be reaching crisis proportions in the coming years. Increasing urban populations, drought conditions due to climate change, and increasing EPA rule limits for drinking water contaminants ... -
How Competitive Is “Competitive” Procurement in the Social Services?
(The American Review of Public Administration, 2014-02-27)The scholarship on contracting generally argues that markets for social services are weak and lacking in competition. Using data gathered from Florida’s largest social service agency, the Department of Children and Families, ... -
How Jeffries Wyman put Florida and Shell Mounds on the Map
(2015-05-27)The state of Florida is an intermittent flashpoint of shell mound research. This process was initiated in the 19th century by Jeffries Wyman, whose 1875 publication Fresh-Water Shell Mounds of the St. John’s River, Florida ... -
How Misleading the Fifty Years? a Reply To Jacobs
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How Network Television Coverage of the President and Congress Compare
(Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 1985-03-01) -
How Readers Perceive and Use a Small Daily Newspaper
(Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 1975-12-01) -
How Unique Are Our Users? Part 2: Comparing Responses Regarding the Information-Seeking Habits of Education Faculty
(2013-09)This follow-up study examines whether or not findings of single institution studies are applicable to other institutions by performing an institution-to-institution comparison of the results obtained from an information-seeking ... -
The Human Capital Challenge in Government
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Human Factors Design Problems of Fire Fighters
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 1978-10-01)Problems of job and equipment design that contribute to the occupational health and safety of fire fighters is reviewed. The job of fighting fires is physically demanding and most fire fighters do not have a fitness level ... -
A Human Factors Evaluation of the American Kitchen
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 1975-10-01)Kitchen design is evaluated using counter space, counter location and counter height as the criteria. A survey of apartment kitchens showed that designers generally follow the guidelines for total counter space, but the ... -
Human Factors in the Design of Effective Product Warnings
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 1978-10-01)Warning messages for product use are important for the safety of the user and to fulfill the legal duty to warn on the part of the manufacturer. A number of issues related to the design of such warnings have been neglected ... -
A Human Factors Perspective on Helicopter Human External Loads
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 1999-09-01)Human external loads (HEL) refer to operations where humans are transported while suspended below a helicopter. HEL operations are often required to access remote work sites, to access power lines in need of maintenance ... -
Human Mobility to Parks Under the COVID-19 Pandemic and Wildfire Seasons in the Western and Central United States
(2021-11-06)In 2020, people's health suffered a great crisis under the dual effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the extensive, severe wildfires in the western and central United States. Parks, including city, national, and cultural ... -
Human Resource Functioning in an Information Society: Practical Suggestions and Future Implications
(Public Personnel Management, 2013-06-01)This paper explores the state human resources management in an information society. As technology rapidly changes organizations and human resources professionals need to be mindful of the impact that can have on the every ... -
“I am not a robot!” Interpreters' Views of Their Roles in Health Care Settings
(Qualitative Health Research, 2008-10-01)In this study, I examined interpreters' self-perceived roles and their corresponding communicative goals and strategies. Twenty-six professional interpreters (of 17 languages), 4 patients, and 12 health care providers were ... -
“I've Had Too Much Done to My Heart”: The Dilemma of Addiction and Recovery as Seen through Seven Youngsters' Lives
(Journal of Drug Education, 1999-12-01)Aware of the dearth of in-depth studies on recovering adolescent addict/alcoholics, we conducted a year-long qualitative study of seven formerly-addicted youth committed to recovery. The research question was: how do ... -
I've Seen Fire and I've Seen Rain: Public Management and Performance After a Natural Disaster
(Administration & Society, 2010-01-01)Kenneth J. Meier is the Charles H. Gregory Chair in Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. He also directs the Project for Equity, Representation and Governance, the Texas Educational Excellence Project, and the Carlos Cantu ... -
The Iatrogenic Consequences of Standards-Based Education
(2006)Standards-based assessments were prescribed as the cure for the poor accountability of public schools. Billions of dollars have been spent on curricula, tests, and scoring rubrics so that federal and state agencies can ... -
Identification and Characterization of NF-Y Transcription Factor Families in the Monocot Model Plant Brachypodium distachyon
(PLos One, 2011-06-30)Background Nuclear Factor Y (NF-Y) is a heterotrimeric transcription factor composed of NF-YA, NF-YB and NF-YC proteins. Using the dicot plant model system Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis), NF-Y were previously ...