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Adulthood: New Terrain, E Michael Brady Phd

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The article reviews the book Adulthood: New Terrain, edited by Mary Alice Wolf.

A Piece Of Scripture On Part Of The Bible: Listening To Romans 15:1-6, David E. Fredrickson

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We think about the Bible best not in abstraction but by looking at particular texts. In Romans 15, Paul, too, looks at a text (Psalm 69) to think about the nature and authority of Scripture.

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Constitutional Referendum In The United States Of America, William B. Fisch

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The United States of America, as a federation of now 50 states each with its own constitution and legal system still enjoying a large degree of governmental autonomy within the national legal framework, presents a strikingly mixed picture regarding the use of direct democracy--the submission of proposed governmental action to a popular vote--in law- and constitution-making processes. At the national level, direct democracy has never been used for either type of enactment. At the state and local level, however, its use dates back to colonial times and has been increasing gradually (though still not universal) ever since. Since the mid-19th …

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Phytochrome-Mediated Development In Land Plants: Red Light Sensing Evolves To Meet The Challenges Of Changing Light Environments, Sarah Mathews

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Phytochromes are photoreceptors that provide plants with circadian, seasonal, and positional information critical for the control of germination, seedling development, shade avoidance, reproduction, dormancy, and sleep movements. Phytochromes are unique among photoreceptors in their capacity to interconvert between a red-absorbing form (absorption maximum of ∼660 nm) and a far-red absorbing form (absorption maximum of ∼730 nm), which occur in a dynamic equilibrium within plant cells, corresponding to the proportions of red and far-red energy in ambient light. Because pigments in stems and leaves absorb wavelengths below about 700 nm, this provides plants with an elegant system for detecting their position …

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Integrin Structures And Conformational Signaling, Bing Hao Luo, Timothy A. Springer

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Integrins are cell adhesion molecules that play critical roles in development, wound healing, hemostasis, immunity and cancer. Advances in the past two years have shed light on the structural basis for integrin regulation and signaling, especially on how global conformational changes between bent and extended conformations relate to the inter-domain and intra-domain shape shifting that regulates affinity for ligand. The downward movements of the C-terminal helices of the α I and β I domains and the swing-out of the hybrid domain play pivotal roles in integrin conformational signaling. Experiments have also shown that integrins transmit bidirectional signals across the plasma …

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Support Properties And Holmgren's Uniqueness Theorem For Differential Operators With Hyperplane Singularities, Gestur Ólafsson, Angela Pasquale

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Let W be a finite Coxeter group acting linearly on Rn. In this article we study the support properties of a W-invariant partial differential operator D on Rn with real analytic coefficients. Our assumption is that the principal symbol of D has a special form, related to the root system corresponding to W. In particular the zeros of the principal symbol are supposed to be located on hyperplanes fixed by reflections in W. We show that conv (supp D f) = conv (supp f) holds for all compactly supported smooth functions f so that conv (supp f) is W-invariant. The …

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Consistent Discretization And Canonical, Classical And Quantum Regge Calculus, Rodolfo Gambini, Jorge Pullin

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We apply the "consistent discretization" technique to the Regge action for (Euclidean and Lorentzian) general relativity in arbitrary number of dimensions. The result is a well-defined canonical theory that is free of constraints and where the dynamics is implemented as a canonical transformation. In the Lorentzian case, the framework appears to be naturally free of the "spikes" that plague traditional formulations. It also provides a well-defined recipe for determining the integration measure for quantum Regge calculus. © World Scientific Publishing Company.

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Fcc V. Wncn Listeners Guild: An Old-Fashioned Remedy For What Ails Current Judicial Review Law, Charles H. Koch Jr.

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Recent Developments In Copyright Law: Selected U.S. Supreme Court, Court Of Appeals, And District Court Opinions Between February 1, 2005 And May 1, 2006, Tyler T. Ochoa

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This article highlights nine U.S. copyright law decisions handed down between February 1, 2005 and May 1, 2006. This review was originally delivered as a speech at The 50th Annual Conference of Developments in Intellectual Property Law held by The John Marshall Law School Center for Intellectual Property Law on May 26, 2006. Discussing a wide range of cases from peer-to-peer file sharing to standing, the analysis focuses on the most recent developments in copyright.

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On Restructuring The Nyse: Might A Nonprofit Stock Exchange Have Been Efficient?, Stephen F. Diamond, Jennifer W. Kuan

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This spring the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. (NYSE) completed an historic restructuring. On March 7, 2006, the NYSE completed its merger with Archipelago Holdings Inc. (Archipelago), a publicly traded electronic trading platform. As a result, the old NYSE itself will become the New York Stock Exchange LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of NYSE Group, Inc. (NYSE Group). The former members, or seat holders, of the NYSE will receive one of three forms of consideration: all cash, all stock in NYSE Group, or a package of cash and stock. Then, NYSE Group will allow those former members to offer their …

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Crystals, Mud, Bapcpa, And The Structure Of Bankruptcy Decisionmaking, R. Wilson Freyermuth

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A critical feature of any legal system is its formal dispute resolution mechanism. From the perspective of a transactions lawyer, the dispute resolution process should be structured to accomplish (or at least contribute positively toward) doctrinal clarity.

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York County Court Of Common Pleas, Jury Utilization And Representation Assessment, Paula Hannaford-Agor

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In May 2006, the York County Office of Court Administration requested that the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) assess its jury management and utilization practices and make recommendations for improvement. The impetus for this request came from concerns both within the Office of Court Administration and from the Administrative Office of the Pennsylvania Courts that existing jury management practices make inefficient use of jurors, imposing excessive and unnecessary costs on the court and on the citizens who report for jury service. The York County Office of Court Administration also expressed concern that its jury pool may not adequately reflect …

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Open Source, Openness, And Higher Education, David Wiley

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With the growth of open source software and other related trends, a culture of openness is advancing from the edges of society to the core of academic culture. In this article I provide an overview of how the expansion of open source software in culture at large has affected the world of education, describe how the greater use of open source software in education has unfolded hand-in-hand with the development of open course content and open access research, and argue that this more comprehensive shift towards "openness" in academic practice is not only a positive trend, but a necessary one …

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Presumptive Adaptation And The Effectiveness Of Knowledge Transfer, Robert J. Jensen, Gabriel Szulanski

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Adaptation is almost invariably accompanies the cross-border transfer of firm specific practices. The existing literature contains two conflicting approaches to adaptation. The first, more traditional approach, following institutional, motivation, and pragmatic efficiency considerations, presumes that a modified practice can be fine-tuned, stabilized, and institutionalized without consulting a working example and that practices should thus be adapted as quickly as possible to create fit with the local environment. The second approach argues, instead for the need to maintain the diagnostic value of the original practice by adapting cautiously and gradually. In this paper, we report an in-depth field investigation of the …

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Steganalysis Embedding Percentage Determination With Learning Vector Quantization, Benjamin M. Rodriguez, Gilbert L. Peterson, Kenneth W. Bauer, Sos S. Agaian

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Steganography (stego) is used primarily when the very existence of a communication signal is to be kept covert. Detecting the presence of stego is a very difficult problem which is made even more difficult when the embedding technique is not known. This article presents an investigation of the process and necessary considerations inherent in the development of a new method applied for the detection of hidden data within digital images. We demonstrate the effectiveness of learning vector quantization (LVQ) as a clustering technique which assists in discerning clean or non-stego images from anomalous or stego images. This comparison is conducted …

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The Use Of The Corporate Monitor In Sec Enforcement Actions, O'Hare Jennifer

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This paper addresses the SEC's recent use of the corporate monitor as ancillary relief in its enforcement actions. The corporate monitor represents the latest example of the SEC seeking to shift its enforcement responsibilities to the public companies it regulates. Focusing on the role played by the corporate monitor imposed by the SEC in its enforcement action brought against WorldCom, this paper considers some of the dangers posed by the use of the corporate monitor, such as the whether the appointment of a corporate monitor constitutes impermissible overreaching by the SEC. The paper recognizes that the corporate monitor can be …

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Geometric Phase For N -Level Systems Through Unitary Integration, D. B. Uskov, A. R.P. Rau

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Geometric phases are important in quantum physics and are now central to fault-tolerant quantum computation. For spin 1a•2, the Bloch sphere S2, together with a U(1) phase, provides a complete SU(2) description. We generalize to N -level systems and SU (N) in terms of a 2 (Na 1) -dimensional base space and reduction to a (Na 1) -level problem, paralleling closely the two-dimensional case. This iteratively solves the time evolution of an N -level system and gives (Na 1) geometric phases explicitly. A complete analytical construction of an S4 Bloch-like sphere for two qubits is given for the Spin(5) or …

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Low-Frequency Ultrasound Increases Outer Membrane Permeability Of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, Christopher M. Runyan, John C. Carmen, Benjamin L. Beckstead, Jared L. Nelson, Richard A. Robison, William G. Pitt

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Low-frequency ultrasound has been investigated as an adjuvant to antimicrobial therapy, targeted at both planktonic and biofilm (sessile) organisms. Our previous work showed that ultrasound (US) effectively enhances the bactericidal activity of certain antibiotics against planktonic cultures (Pitt et al., 1994; Rediske et al., 1999) and in vitro biofilms (Johnson et al., 1998; Qian et al., 1999) and in vivo biofilms (Carmen et al., 2004b, 2005; Rediske et al., 2000) of gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. Ultrasound was shown to increase the transport of antibiotics through biofilms (Carmen et al., 2004a) which could account for some (or all) of the enhanced …

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“Arrogance Cloaked As Humility” And The Majoritarian First Amendment: The Free Speech Legacy Of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, Edward L. Carter, Brad Clark

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In his 19 years as Chief Justice of theUnited States, William H. Rehnquist voted in favor of the individual expression interest asserted in approximately one-fifth of the Speech Clause cases heard by the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, he opposed protecting those constitutional interests in approximately two-thirds of the speech cases during that time. (His votes evidenced both speech-protective and non-protective elements just more than 10 percent of the time). This manuscript analyzes the Rehnquist jurisprudence in comparison with that of his two immediate predecessors as Chief, Warren Burger and Earl Warren. Rehnquist’s deference to government, reliance on history and formalist categorization …

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Absorption Properties Of A Porous Organic Crystalline Apohost Formed By A Self-Assembled Bis-Urea Macrocycle, Mahender B. Dewal, Michael W. Lufaso, Andrew D. Hughes, Stevan A. Samuel, Perry J. Pellechia, Linda S. Shimizu

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We report herein the characterization and binding properties of a microporous crystalline host formed by the self assembly of a bis-urea macrocycle 1. Bis-urea macrocycle 1 has been designed to crystallize into stacked hollow columns. The self-assembly process is guided primarily by hydrogen bonding and aromatic stacking interactions that yield crystals of filled host 1âacetic acid (AcOH). The AcOH guests are bound in the cylindrical cavities of the crystal. The guest AcOH can be removed by heating to form a stable crystalline apohost 1. Apohost 1 displays a type I gas adsorption isotherm with CO₂ that is consistent with …

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Petroleum Geologist's Award To Novelist Crichton Is Inappropriate, Julie Brigham-Grete, Scott Anderson, John Clague, Julia Cole, Peter Doran, Alan Gillespie, Eric Grimm, Peggy Guccione, Konrad Hijghen, Stephen Jackson, Timothy Jull, Steven Leavitt, Rolfe Mandel, Joseph Ortiz, Donald Rodbell, Charlie Schweger, Alison Smith, Bonnie Styles

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"To Offer My Heart” (A Trans. Of “Ofrecer Mi Corazón” By Nancy Alsonso), Anne Fountain

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A Research Agenda For Studying Open Source I: A Multi-Level Framework, Ashley R. Davis, Fred Niederman, Martina E. Greiner, Donald Wynn, Paul T. York

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This paper presents a research agenda for studying information systems using open source software A multi-level research model is developed at five discrete levels of analysis: (1) the artifact; (2) the individual; (3) the team, project, and community; (4) the organization; and (5) society. Each level is discussed in terms of key issues within the level. Examples are based on prior research. In a companion paper, [Niederman, et al 2006], we view the agenda through the lens of referent discipline theories.

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A Close Look Into The Carbon Disk At The Core Of The Planetary Nebula Cpd-56°8032, O. Chesneau, A. Collioud, O. De Marco, S. Wolf, E. Lagadec, A. A. Zijlstra, A. Rothkopf, A. Acker, G. C. Clayton, B. Lopez

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Aims. We present high spatial resolution observations of the dusty core of the Planetary Nebula with Wolf-Rayet central star CPD-56°8032, for which indications of a compact disk have been found by HST/SITS observations. Methods. These observations were taken with the mid-infrared interferometer VLTI/MIDI in imaging mode providing a typical 300 mas resolution and in interferometric mode using UT2-UT3 47m baseline providing a typical spatial resolution of 20 mas. We also made use of unpublished HST/ACS images in the F435W and F606W filters. Results. The visible HST images exhibit a complex multilobal geometry dominated by faint lobes. The farthest structures are …

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Higher-Rank Wavelet Transforms, Ridgelet Transforms, And Radon Transforms On The Space Of Matrices, Gestur Ólafsson, Elena Ournycheva, Boris Rubin

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Let Mn, m be the space of real n × m matrices which can be identified with the Euclidean space Rn m. We introduce continuous wavelet transforms on Mn, m with a multivalued scaling parameter represented by a positive definite symmetric matrix. These transforms agree with the polar decomposition on Mn, m and coincide with classical ones in the rank-one case m = 1. We prove an analog of Calderón's reproducing formula for L2-functions and obtain explicit inversion formulas for the Riesz potentials and Radon transforms on Mn, m. We also introduce continuous ridgelet transforms associated to matrix planes in …

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The Clinical Utility Of Nonword Repetition For Children Living In The Rural South Of The Us, Janna B. Oetting, Lesli H. Cleveland

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Nonword repetition (NWR) tasks have been shown to minimize cultural biases in language assessment. In the current study, we further examined the clinical utility of NWR with 83 children who lived in the rural south of the US; 33 were African American and 50 were White, with 16 classified as specifically language impaired (SLI) 6-year-olds and 67 classified as either age-matched or younger controls. Main effects were found for group, with the children in the SLI group earning lower NWR scores than the controls. A main effect for syllable length but not race was also documented. The group and syllable …

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Gender And Science In Developing Areas: Has The Internet Reduced Inequality?, B. Paige Miller, R. Sooryamoorthy, Meredith Anderson, Antony Palackal, Wesley Shrum

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Objective. This article examines the impact of the Internet on the research careers of female scientists in three developing areas: Ghana, Kenya, and Kerala, India. Most empirical studies of gender and science focus on the developed world, yet theoretical accounts emphasize more extreme differences in developing areas. Limited evidence from Africa and Asia shows gender inequity is restricted to a few key dimensions, broadly related to differences in human and social capital. Specifically, women are less likely to acquire an advanced degree and more likely to experience educational and organizational "localism." Such localism is related to constraints on physical mobility …

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Examining The Cdcynergy Event Assessment Tool: An Investigation Of The Anthrax Crisis In Boca Raton, Florida, J. J. Mcintyre, Steven J. Venette

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This paper examines the dependability of the Event Assessment Tool over time. The latter is part of a CD-ROM-Emergency Risk Communication CDCynergy-distributed primarily to public information officers in the United States by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Event Assessment Tool is designed to aid emergency professionals in identifying the magnitude of a crisis event and to suggest appropriate actions to confront such a situation. Applied twice during the 2001 anthrax bioterrorism crisis in Boca Raton, Florida, the tool functioned in a binary manner by first indicating a moderate crisis level (on 4 October) and then four days …

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Melt Detection In Antarctic Ice Shelves Using Scatterometers And Microwave Radiometers, David G. Long, Lucas B. Kunz

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Ku-band dual-polarization radar backscatter measurements from the SeaWinds-on-QuikSCAT scatterometer are used to determine periods of surface freeze and melt in the Antarctic ice shelves. The normalized horizontal-polarization radar backscatter (sigmao) and backscatter polarization ratio are used in maximum-likelihood estimation of the ice state. This method is used to infer the daily ice-surface conditions for 25 study locations located on the Ronne, Ross, Larsen, Amery, Shackleton, and other ice shelves. The temporal and spatial variations of the radar response are observed for various neighborhood sizes surrounding each given location during the study period. Criteria for determining the dates of melt onset …

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The 2005 Continuing Education Survey: What Science Librarians Want To Know, Elizabeth S. Hopkins, Terri Freedman, Camila Gabaldon, Virgina Baldwin, Jill Powell

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The biennial STS continuing education survey was conducted at the end of 2005, in collaboration with two other organizations of science librarians. The top continuing education needs of science librarians include new technologies, professional development and keeping current, institutional repositories/digital archives, promoting science information literacy, collaboration between faculty and librarians, and finding free high-quality online data. This paper describes the process of developing and administering the survey and discusses the survey results.

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Adulthood: New Terrain, E Michael Brady Phd

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A Piece Of Scripture On Part Of The Bible: Listening To Romans 15:1-6, David E. Fredrickson

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Constitutional Referendum In The United States Of America, William B. Fisch

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Phytochrome-Mediated Development In Land Plants: Red Light Sensing Evolves To Meet The Challenges Of Changing Light Environments, Sarah Mathews

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Integrin Structures And Conformational Signaling, Bing Hao Luo, Timothy A. Springer

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Support Properties And Holmgren's Uniqueness Theorem For Differential Operators With Hyperplane Singularities, Gestur Ólafsson, Angela Pasquale

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Consistent Discretization And Canonical, Classical And Quantum Regge Calculus, Rodolfo Gambini, Jorge Pullin

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Fcc V. Wncn Listeners Guild: An Old-Fashioned Remedy For What Ails Current Judicial Review Law, Charles H. Koch Jr.

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Recent Developments In Copyright Law: Selected U.S. Supreme Court, Court Of Appeals, And District Court Opinions Between February 1, 2005 And May 1, 2006, Tyler T. Ochoa

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On Restructuring The Nyse: Might A Nonprofit Stock Exchange Have Been Efficient?, Stephen F. Diamond, Jennifer W. Kuan

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Crystals, Mud, Bapcpa, And The Structure Of Bankruptcy Decisionmaking, R. Wilson Freyermuth

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York County Court Of Common Pleas, Jury Utilization And Representation Assessment, Paula Hannaford-Agor

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Open Source, Openness, And Higher Education, David Wiley

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Presumptive Adaptation And The Effectiveness Of Knowledge Transfer, Robert J. Jensen, Gabriel Szulanski

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Steganalysis Embedding Percentage Determination With Learning Vector Quantization, Benjamin M. Rodriguez, Gilbert L. Peterson, Kenneth W. Bauer, Sos S. Agaian

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The Use Of The Corporate Monitor In Sec Enforcement Actions, O'Hare Jennifer

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Geometric Phase For N -Level Systems Through Unitary Integration, D. B. Uskov, A. R.P. Rau

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Low-Frequency Ultrasound Increases Outer Membrane Permeability Of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, Christopher M. Runyan, John C. Carmen, Benjamin L. Beckstead, Jared L. Nelson, Richard A. Robison, William G. Pitt

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“Arrogance Cloaked As Humility” And The Majoritarian First Amendment: The Free Speech Legacy Of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, Edward L. Carter, Brad Clark

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Absorption Properties Of A Porous Organic Crystalline Apohost Formed By A Self-Assembled Bis-Urea Macrocycle, Mahender B. Dewal, Michael W. Lufaso, Andrew D. Hughes, Stevan A. Samuel, Perry J. Pellechia, Linda S. Shimizu

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"To Offer My Heart” (A Trans. Of “Ofrecer Mi Corazón” By Nancy Alsonso), Anne Fountain

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A Research Agenda For Studying Open Source I: A Multi-Level Framework, Ashley R. Davis, Fred Niederman, Martina E. Greiner, Donald Wynn, Paul T. York

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A Close Look Into The Carbon Disk At The Core Of The Planetary Nebula Cpd-56°8032, O. Chesneau, A. Collioud, O. De Marco, S. Wolf, E. Lagadec, A. A. Zijlstra, A. Rothkopf, A. Acker, G. C. Clayton, B. Lopez

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Higher-Rank Wavelet Transforms, Ridgelet Transforms, And Radon Transforms On The Space Of Matrices, Gestur Ólafsson, Elena Ournycheva, Boris Rubin

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The Clinical Utility Of Nonword Repetition For Children Living In The Rural South Of The Us, Janna B. Oetting, Lesli H. Cleveland

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Gender And Science In Developing Areas: Has The Internet Reduced Inequality?, B. Paige Miller, R. Sooryamoorthy, Meredith Anderson, Antony Palackal, Wesley Shrum

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Examining The Cdcynergy Event Assessment Tool: An Investigation Of The Anthrax Crisis In Boca Raton, Florida, J. J. Mcintyre, Steven J. Venette

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Melt Detection In Antarctic Ice Shelves Using Scatterometers And Microwave Radiometers, David G. Long, Lucas B. Kunz

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The 2005 Continuing Education Survey: What Science Librarians Want To Know, Elizabeth S. Hopkins, Terri Freedman, Camila Gabaldon, Virgina Baldwin, Jill Powell

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