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Undergraduate Conductors’ and Conducting Teachers’ Perceptions of Basic Conducting Efficacy
(2014)
The purpose of this study was to examine undergraduate conductors’ and conducting
teachers’ perceptions about basic conducting efficacy. At the beginning and end of the semester, undergraduate students (N = 19) enrolled ...
Historical geography III: Climate matters
(Progress in Human Geography, 2014-06-01)
My third report covering recent research in historical geography focuses on climate, and particularly scholarship that explores how the meaning of climate and climate change varies in distinct cultural and temporal contexts. ...
Conservation Genetics of the Philippine Tarsier: Cryptic Genetic Variation Restructures Conservation Priorities for an Island Archipelago Primate
(2014-08-19)
Establishment of conservation priorities for primates is a particular concern in the island archipelagos of Southeast Asia, where rates of habitat destruction are among the highest in the world. Conservation programs require ...
Procedural Signaling, Party Loyalty, and Traceability in the U.S. House of Representatives
(Political Research Quarterly, 2014-12-01)
In this article, we take advantage of a new source of data providing updates from the Majority Leader’s Office that signal the leadership’s positions on floor votes. We offer a more nuanced explanation of voting in the ...
Teaching About Jewishness in the Heartland
(2014)
Cultural anthropologist Misha Klein reflects on a Jewish Studies course, entitled Anthropology of Jews and Jewishness, taught at the University of Oklahoma. The recent explosion of interest in the anthropological study of ...
Memory Constraints on Hypothesis Generation and Decision Making
(Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2014-08-01)
Hypothesis generation is the process people use to generate explanations for patterns of data, which is an act vital to everyday problem solving. It is the basis for decision making in many professions, such as medicine, ...
Making our measures match perceptions: Do severity and type matter when assessing academic misconduct offenses
(2014-09-26)
Traditional approaches to measurement of violations of academic integrity may overestimate the magnitude and severity of cheating and confound panic with planned cheating. Differences in the severity and level of premeditation ...
Tolkien's Faerian Drama: Origins and Valedictions
(2014)
I attempt to define the characteristics of Tolkien’s concept of “Faërian Drama,” and how it differs from the medieval dream-vision, through the way it changes the lives of dreamers such as Scrooge, the Pearl poet, and Smith ...
Unprecedented high-resolution view of bacterial operon architecture revealed by RNA sequencing
(2014-07-08)
We analyzed the transcriptome of Escherichia coli K-12 by strand-specific RNA sequencing at single-nucleotide resolution during steady-state (logarithmic-phase) growth and upon entry into stationary phase in glucose minimal ...
Denying What Workers Believe Are Unethical Workplace Requests: Do Workers Use Moral, Operational, or Policy Justifications Publicly?
(Management Communication Quarterly, 2014-02-01)
This message-production experiment demonstrates workers’ tendency to use organizational policy justifications when publicly denying what they privately believe are unethical requests. Working adults (N = 234) responded to ...