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"On Parents and Schooling," Podcast Episode, Thinking in the Midst
Kathleen Knight Abowitz and Amy Shuffelton talk with hosts Derek Gottleib and Cara Furman about the sharing of authority in education, the recourse to rights language and discourses of expertise in the context of our ... -
On Two Mixture-Based Clustering Approaches Used in Modeling an Insurance Portfolio
We review two complementary mixture-based clustering approaches for modeling unobserved heterogeneity in an insurance portfolio: the generalized linear mixed cluster-weighted model (CWM) and mixture-based clustering for ... -
An Orthodox Social Gospel in Late-Imperial Russia
(2013-04-04)On Sunday morning, 9 January 1905, 150,000 workers and their families marched from various parts of St. Petersburg and converged upon the Winter Palace to present a “Most Loyal and Humble Address” to tsar Nicholas II asking ... -
"PanaeaMud An Online, Object-oriented Multiple User Interactive Geologic Database Tool"
(1993-12-01)This paper provides an overview of the design, development, and use of the PangaeaMud Database System. Section I gives an introduction to pertinent concepts and discusses previous work in the area. Section I1 is devoted ... -
Perceptual identification of nonlinear postural characteristics using Sort/Merge Methodology.
Data, Stimuli, Analysis Details, and conference presentation for Perceptual identification of nonlinear postural characteristics using Sort/Merge Methodology. This project sought to determine characteristics of postural ... -
Periodic orbits in systems with backlash: Stability, classification & observability
(2007-01-01)Backlash, clearance or dead zone is a common feature of many mechanical systems and can undermine the performance of the system, since it has a large influence on the dynamics and control of systems. It can be caused by ... -
Persuasion and Pragmatics: An Empirical Test of the Guru Effect Model
Decades of research have investigated the complex role of source credibility in attitude persuasion. Current theories of persuasion predict that when messages are thoughtfully scrutinized, argument strength will tend to ... -
Physical Chemistry Interactive Plot: Kinetics: Parallel First Order Reaction, v1.0
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Physical Chemistry Interactive Plot: Kinetics: Parallel First Order Reaction, v1.1
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Physiological Ecology of Overwintering in the Hatchling Painted Turtle: Multiple-Scale Variation in response to Environmental Stress
We integrates field and laboratory studies in an investigation of water balance, energy use, and mechanisms of cold-hardiness in hatchling painted turtles (Chrysemys picta) indigenous to west-central Nebraska (Chrysemys ... -
The Police Engaging the Business Community: Using Survey Research to Examine Needs
This case study describes a survey research project in an experiential, classroom/field setting. It provides an example of the collaboration between a practitioner agency (police department) and researcher (the University). ... -
Policing on Demand: An Observational Study of Mobilization and Citizen Encounters across Communities
Abstract Police scholars generally accept that officers behave differently across communities and that those differences are influenced by specific community-level measures. This consensus is based on surprisingly scant ... -
The Political Other in Nineteenth-Century British North America : the Satire of Thomas Chandler Haliburton
(2014-02-05)In the first half of the nineteenth century, British North America was trying to find its way within the Empire and in North America. The American democratic and republican experiment offered the Canadian colonies an ... -
Populism, Legitimacy, and State-Sponsored Schooling
In this article, I explore a selection of current scholarship on educational populist movements in Brazil, the U.S., and Israel. After a brief examination of these populist forms, which reveal political trends of ... -
Postfreeze reduction of locomotor endurance in the freeze-tolerant wood frog, Rana sylvatica.
Considerable study has focused on the physiological adaptations for freeze tolerance in the wood frog, Rana sylvatica, a northern species that overwinters within the frost zone, but little attention has been paid to the ... -
Post–Breast Cancer Lymphedema and the Family: A Qualitative Investigation of Families Coping With Chronic Illness
(2011-06-07)The number of women who experience breast cancer is increasing. Meanwhile there have been improvements in technologies used for detection and intervention. As a result, more women are living as breast cancer survivors who ...