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Theories Of The Origin And Early Evolution Of Life, David A. Dewitt Jan 2000

Theories Of The Origin And Early Evolution Of Life, David A. Dewitt

Faculty Publications and Presentations

After the theory of spontaneous generation was discredited, only religious explanations were offered to explain the origin of life. Alexander Oparin (1894-1980), an atheist, suggested that natural chemical reactions produced biological molecules that came together to form the first living thing. Later, Stanley Miller tested this hypothesis and produced chemical "building blocks" but not life itself. In spite of much progress, there is still no clear consensus on how life originated on Earth. Some scientists are even looking to outer space for the origin of life.


Syntopic Occurrence Of Eurycea Lucifuga (Cave Salamander), E. Longicauda Longicauda (Long-Tailed Salamander), And E. Guttolineata (Three-Lined Salamander) In The Piedmont Of Virginia, Norman Reichenbach Jan 2000

Syntopic Occurrence Of Eurycea Lucifuga (Cave Salamander), E. Longicauda Longicauda (Long-Tailed Salamander), And E. Guttolineata (Three-Lined Salamander) In The Piedmont Of Virginia, Norman Reichenbach

Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.


Causes And Prevention Of Youth Violence, Jeffrey M. Jenson, Matthew O. Howard Jan 2000

Causes And Prevention Of Youth Violence, Jeffrey M. Jenson, Matthew O. Howard

Denver Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Gendered World Of Disney: A Content Analysis Of Gender Themes In Full-Length Animated Disney Feature Films, Beth A. Wiersma Jan 2000

The Gendered World Of Disney: A Content Analysis Of Gender Themes In Full-Length Animated Disney Feature Films, Beth A. Wiersma

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Research has focused on the gender messages portrayed in television programs, cartoons, advertisements, literature, picture books, and fairy tales. One venue that has not received as much attention in the research is the Disney 1 full-length animated feature films. This is a qualitative study of the gender themes and portrayal of gender roles in full-length animated feature films by The Walt Disney Company. The findings in this research indicate there has been little change in the stereotyped portrayals of Disney characters from the release of the first full-length animated feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937 to …


Table Of Contents, California Western International Law Journal Jan 2000

Table Of Contents, California Western International Law Journal

California Western International Law Journal

No abstract provided.


The New Aspects Of Russian Family Law, Maria V. Antokolskaia Jan 2000

The New Aspects Of Russian Family Law, Maria V. Antokolskaia

California Western International Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Relationships Between Family And Government, Lynn D. Wardle Jan 2000

Relationships Between Family And Government, Lynn D. Wardle

California Western International Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Changes In The Modern Era Lead To The Evolution Of Hungarian Family Law And Children's Rights, Emilia Weiss Jan 2000

Changes In The Modern Era Lead To The Evolution Of Hungarian Family Law And Children's Rights, Emilia Weiss

California Western International Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Yugoslavia: The Medico-Legal Issue Of Transsexuality, Marija Draškić Jan 2000

Yugoslavia: The Medico-Legal Issue Of Transsexuality, Marija Draškić

California Western International Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Relationships Between Family And Government, Lynn D. Wardle Jan 2000

Relationships Between Family And Government, Lynn D. Wardle

California Western International Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Changes In The Modern Era Lead To The Evolution Of Hungarian Family Law And Children's Rights, Emilia Weiss Jan 2000

Changes In The Modern Era Lead To The Evolution Of Hungarian Family Law And Children's Rights, Emilia Weiss

California Western International Law Journal

No abstract provided.


The Significance Of Biological Parentage In Yugoslav Family Law, Gordana Kovaček Stanić Jan 2000

The Significance Of Biological Parentage In Yugoslav Family Law, Gordana Kovaček Stanić

California Western International Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Striving For Rationality, Anne Dailey Jan 2000

Striving For Rationality, Anne Dailey

Faculty Articles and Papers

No abstract provided.


Hidden Economy Of The Unconscious, The, Anne Dailey Jan 2000

Hidden Economy Of The Unconscious, The, Anne Dailey

Faculty Articles and Papers

No abstract provided.


Dead-Time Compensators: Performance And Robustness Issues, James Syder, Thomas Heeg, Aidan O'Dwyer Jan 2000

Dead-Time Compensators: Performance And Robustness Issues, James Syder, Thomas Heeg, Aidan O'Dwyer

Conference papers

This paper will compare a number of PID and predictive controller strategies to compensate processes modelled in first order lag plus time delay (FOLPD) form. The performance and robustness of the resulting compensated systems are evaluated analytically (where appropriate) and in simulation.


Pid Compensation Of Time Delayed Processes: A Survey, Aidan O'Dwyer Jan 2000

Pid Compensation Of Time Delayed Processes: A Survey, Aidan O'Dwyer

Conference papers

An extensive literature exists on the PID compensation of time delayed processes. It is possible to identify themes that are common to many of the available techniques. The intention of the paper is to provide a framework against which the literature may be viewed.


When Science Is Too Daunting: Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Federal Courts, And The Struggling Spirit Of Daubert, Carl H. Johnson Jan 2000

When Science Is Too Daunting: Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Federal Courts, And The Struggling Spirit Of Daubert, Carl H. Johnson

Villanova Environmental Law Journal (1991 - )

No abstract provided.


The Discourse Of Denigration And The Creation Of “Other”, Joshua Miller, Gerald Schamess Jan 2000

The Discourse Of Denigration And The Creation Of “Other”, Joshua Miller, Gerald Schamess

School for Social Work: Faculty Publications

This paper attempts to reduce the distance between intellectual frameworks that inform different fields of social work practice by exploring the relationships between intrapsychic mechanisms, family dynamics, small group processes and such society wide phenomena as public denigration, scapegoating, and the systematic oppression of politically targeted population subgroups. Clinical theories are used to explore disturbing social trends such as the redistribution of wealth while cutting services to the needy, the growth of prisons and disproportionate numbers of incarcerated people of color, societal retreat from social obligation and commitment and divisive political rhetoric. Suggestions are made about how clinical social workers …


Viewbook- 2000, Admissions Staff Jan 2000

Viewbook- 2000, Admissions Staff

Student Handbooks

Student guide


Mapping The Zone Of Eye-Height Utility For Seated And Standing Observers, Maryjane Wraga, Dennis R. Proffitt Jan 2000

Mapping The Zone Of Eye-Height Utility For Seated And Standing Observers, Maryjane Wraga, Dennis R. Proffitt

Psychology: Faculty Publications

In a series of experiments, we delimited a region within the vertical axis of space in which eye height (EH) information is used maximally to scale object heights, referred to as the "zone of eye height utility" (Wraga, 1999b Journal of Experimental Psychology, Human Perception and Performance 25 518-530). To test the lower limit of the zone, linear perspective (on the floor) was varied via introduction of a false perspective (FP) gradient while all sources of EH information except linear perspective were held constant. For seated (experiment 1a) observers, the FP gradient produced overestimations of height for rectangular objects up …


Perception-Action Dissociations Of A Walkable Müller-Lyer Configuration, Maryjane Wraga, Sarah H. Creem, Dennis R. Proffitt Jan 2000

Perception-Action Dissociations Of A Walkable Müller-Lyer Configuration, Maryjane Wraga, Sarah H. Creem, Dennis R. Proffitt

Psychology: Faculty Publications

These studies examined the role of spatial encoding in inducing perception-action dissociations in visual illusions. Participants were shown a large-scale Müller-Lyer configuration with hoops as its tails. In Experiment 1, participants either made verbal estimates of the extent of the Müller-Lyer shaft (verbal task) or walked the extent without vision, in an offset path (blind-walking task). For both tasks, participants stood a small distance away from the configuration, to elicit object-relative encoding of the shaft with respect to its hoops. A similar illusion bias was found in the verbal and motoric tasks. In Experiment 2, participants stood at one endpoint …


Updating Displays After Imagined Object And Viewer Rotations, Maryjane Wraga, Sarah H. Creem, Dennis R. Proffitt Jan 2000

Updating Displays After Imagined Object And Viewer Rotations, Maryjane Wraga, Sarah H. Creem, Dennis R. Proffitt

Psychology: Faculty Publications

Six experiments compared spatial updating of an array after imagined rotations of the array versus viewer. Participants responded faster and made fewer errors in viewer tasks than in array tasks while positioned outside (Experiment 1) or inside (Experiment 2) the array. An apparent array advantage for updating objects rather than locations was attributable to participants imagining translations of single objects rather than rotations of the array (Experiment 3). Superior viewer performance persisted when the array was reduced to 1 object (Experiment 4); however, an object with a familiar configuration improved object performance somewhat (Experiment 5). Object performance reached near-viewer levels …


In The Best Interest Of The Child: What Have We Learned From Baby Jessica And Baby Richard, 33 J. Marshall L. Rev. 353 (2000), Gregory A. Kelson Jan 2000

In The Best Interest Of The Child: What Have We Learned From Baby Jessica And Baby Richard, 33 J. Marshall L. Rev. 353 (2000), Gregory A. Kelson

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Lawrence Today, Volume 81, Number 2, Winter 2000, Lawrence University Jan 2000

Lawrence Today, Volume 81, Number 2, Winter 2000, Lawrence University

Alumni Magazines

No abstract provided.


Marian Devotion For The New Millennium, Johann G. Roten Jan 2000

Marian Devotion For The New Millennium, Johann G. Roten

Marian Studies

No abstract provided.


Survey Of Recent Mariology (2000), Eamon R. Carroll Jan 2000

Survey Of Recent Mariology (2000), Eamon R. Carroll

Marian Studies

No abstract provided.


Focus Emu, November 7, 2000, Office Of Public Information Jan 2000

Focus Emu, November 7, 2000, Office Of Public Information

Focus EMU

No abstract provided.


Focus Emu, December 5, 2000, Office Of Public Information Jan 2000

Focus Emu, December 5, 2000, Office Of Public Information

Focus EMU

No abstract provided.


Do Loxodonta Cyclotis And L. Africana Interbreed?, Colin P. Groves, Peter Grubb Jan 2000

Do Loxodonta Cyclotis And L. Africana Interbreed?, Colin P. Groves, Peter Grubb

Elephant

No abstract provided.


Observations On Elephant Habitat And Conservation Of Elephants In Eritrea, Jeheskel Shoshani, Hagos Yohannes, Yacob I. Yohannes Jan 2000

Observations On Elephant Habitat And Conservation Of Elephants In Eritrea, Jeheskel Shoshani, Hagos Yohannes, Yacob I. Yohannes

Elephant

Confined to a small area of about 100 by 50 km, the elephants in Eritrea are one of the northernmost populations in Africa. They are vulnerable because they appear to be genetically isolated and their small number may renders them a non-viable population. During 1997-1999 we visited elephant habitat in the Zoba Gash-Barka in southwest Eritrea to study problems of encroaching human populations on elephant habitat. This situation was described in the preceding article by Hagos Yohannes who is proposing to translocate farmers — with their willing cooperation — from the conflict zone to non-wildlife designated areas. Should such an …