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An Analytical Model for the Regeneration of Wind after Exiting a Wind Farm
(2018-08-08)The simplest model for an atmospheric boundary layer assumes a uniform steady wind over a certain depth, of order 1 km, with the forces of friction, pressure gradient and Coriolis in balance. A linear model is here employed ... -
Analyzing the relationship between urbanization, food supply and demand, and irrigation requirements in Jordan
(2018)The landscape surrounding urban areas is often used as farmland. With the observed expansion of urban areas over the last decades and a projected continuation of this trend, our objective was to analyze how urbanization ... -
Ancient DNA Analysis and Stable Isotope Ecology of Sea Turtles (Cheloniidae) from the Gold Rush-era (1850s) Eastern Pacific Ocean
(2018-05-30)Historical and archaeological evidence documents the importation of sea turtles from the eastern Pacific Ocean (Baja California) to California during the Gold Rush (1848–1855) and through the end of 19th century, but it ... -
The Animated Resurrection of the Legend of the White Snake in Japan
(Animation, 2007-03-01)This article analyses and elucidates the factors involved in the animated reappearance of the Legend of the White Snake in Japan in the 1950s. Driven by the multiple demands of a new post-Second World War era in East and ... -
Anthropology
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Antisera Against Certain Conserved Surface-Exposed Peptides of Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae Are Protective
(PLos One, 2015-09-21)Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) cause significant disease, including otitis media in children, exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and invasive disease in susceptible populations. No vaccine ... -
Application of a Predictive Coke Temperature Model to Heat Stress Experimentation
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 1980-10-01)An interactive procedure for evaluating and maintaining an individual's core temperature at a predetermined level was developed and tested. The procedure involved the use of previously developed models for predicting core ... -
Applying Quality Control Charts to the Analysis of Single-Subject Data Sequences
(Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 2000-12-01)Techniques from the field of quality control can be used to classify the quality of individual samples of physical or cognitive performance. After stable baselines have been established for an individual, deviations in ... -
Approaches to Managerial Influence in the People's Republic of China
(Journal of Business Communication, 1997-07-01)This study identifies approaches to managerial influence in the People's Repub lic of China and examines the reflection of cultural themes in these approaches. Forty-eight factory directors from state-owned enterprises ... -
Appropriate Age-Related Behavior for Male and Female Adolescents: Adult Perceptions
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An Arduino-Based RFID Platform for Animal Research
(2019-07-10)Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology has been broadly applied in the biological sciences to yield new insights into behavior, cognition, population biology, and distributions. RFID systems entail wireless ... -
Are Teacher Education Programs Attracting Academically Able Students?
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Are we All Touching the Same Camel?: Exploring a Model of Participation in Budgeting
(The American Review of Public Administration, 2005-06-01)Theory offers a vast quantity of normative prescriptions concerning citizen participation in budget decisions. Yet cities struggle with this activity and report unsatisfactory outcomes. Why does this occur? It may be ... -
Argument and 17th-Century Science: A Rhetorical Analysis with Sociological Implications
(Social Studies of Science, 2000-06-01)This paper compares the argumentative practices of the English and French scientific communities from the origin of the scientific journal in 1665 up to 1700. To that end, we ask a uniform set of questions related to ... -
Argumentativeness and Aggressiveness: The Flip Side of Gentle Persuasion
(Management Communication Quarterly, 1991-02-01)This article explores the development and testing of two popular communication instruments: argumentativeness and verbal aggressiveness scales. One measures the degree to which an individual engages in verbal attacks on ... -
Arterial Compliance in Multiple Sclerosis: A Pilot Study
(Angiology, 2010-02-01)A reduction in arterial compliance in patients with autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus has been previously reported. It is caused by the effect that systemic inflammation has ... -
As Seen from Bombay: An Iranian Zoroastrian Photo Album from the 1930s
(2023-01-25)This photo essay provides a visual archive of Parsi philanthropic efforts toward the Iranian Zoroastrian communities of Yazd, Kerman, and Tehran during the 1930s. The essay reproduces a collection of photographs from a ... -
Asperger Syndrome: A Guide for Educators and Parents
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Assessing Espoused Goals in Private Family Firms Using Content Analysis
(Family Business Review, 2012-09-01)Understanding how private family firms gauge performance is of great interest to family business scholars. Unfortunately, finding comparable data to understand differences in the performance of such firms is challenging. ... -
Assessing Student Perceptions of Affective Outcomes of Special Education Programs: Instrument Development, Validation, and Comparisons to Regular Education Students
(Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1997-08-01)The development of the 45-item likert-type response scale Student Survey for assessing the following five affective goals of Connecticut's Common Core of Learning is described: Academic Competence, Social Competence, Social ...