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U-series Disequilibria in Guatemalan Lavas, Crustal Contamination, and Implications for Magma Genesis Along the Central American Subduction Zone
(American Geophysical Union, 2007)New U-series results indicate that Guatemalan volcanic rocks display both 238U and 230Th excesses. 230Th excess is restricted to volcanoes in central Guatemala, both along and behind the front. 230Th excess correlates ... -
Understanding internal, external, and relational attributions for abusive supervision.
(Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2014)Despite abundant research on the consequences of perceived abusive supervision, less is known about how employees develop perceptions of supervisory abuse. Across two studies, we integrate classic and recent theoretical ... -
Understanding Prostitutes and Prostitution in Democratic Burma, 1942–62 State Jewels or Victims of Modernity?
(IP Publishing Ltd, 2011)Prostitution in Burmese society, as in many South East Asian countries, is a taboo subject. Unlike prostitution in countries such as Thailand, however, prostitution in Burma does not attract strong media or scholarly ... -
United States Copper Companies, the State, and Labour Conflict in Mexico, 1900-1910
(Cambridge University Press, 1994-10)Article explores worker strikes in the Mexican copper industry, incorporating elemetns of both traditional interpretations, emphasizing the activities as precursor to the Mexican Revolution, and revisionist interpretations ... -
Universal reading processes are modulated by language and writing system
(2013)The connections among language, writing system, and reading are part of what confronts a child in learning to read. We examine these connections in addressing how reading processes adapt to the variety of written language ... -
Unnatural Voluntary Parentage Acknowledgments Under the 2017 Uniform Parentage Act
(2018-10)The 2017 Uniform Parentage Act expands the opportunities for formal parentage establishments via voluntary acknowledgements (VAPs) by intended parents with no natural ties to their acknowledged children. This constitutes ... -
Unseen Influence: Lucretia Blankenburg and the Rise of Philadelphia Reform Politics in 1911
(University of New Mexico Press, 1999)Lucretia Blankenburg successfully made women a crucial element of her husband Rudolph's successful campaign to become Mayor of Philadelphia in 1911. Although the reform candidate did not enjoy the use of the type of political ... -
Unsettling Questions Regarding Lawyer Civil Claim Settlement Authority
(1999)While often presumed or declared to be quite settled, many of the guidelines on lawyer civil claim settlement authority are unsettled, leaving unresolved questions for lawyers, clients, and the courts. The upcoming publication ... -
USA: Regulating Non-Lawyers to Close the Access to Justice Gap
(Legal Ethics, 2014)Despite the fact that many new lawyers are struggling today to find employment, there are a few regulators of the legal profession willing to consider how non-lawyers can help to close the gap in consumer access to legal ... -
The Use of the Talmudic Format for the Presentation of Qualitative Work
(Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 2009)In this article, I propose to adapt the Talmud, a Jewish religious text, for the written representation of qualitative research. The form and the style of argumentation in and engendered by the Talmud can be adapted to ... -
Using climatology to predict the first major summer corn earworm (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) catch in north central Illinois
(Royal Meteorological Society, 2010)One of the largest food production companies in the United States, with sales in the billions of dollars, must closely monitor anything that may affect their vegetable crops. This includes harmful insects, such as the ... -
Using dew points to estimate savings during a planned cooling shutdown
(Royal Meteorological Society, 2006-12)In an effort to save money during the summer of 2003, Northern Illinois University (NIU) administrators instituted a four-day working week and stopped air conditioning buildings for the three-day weekends (Friday through ... -
Value Distribution of L-Functions with Rational Moving Targets
(SCIRP, 2013-10-01)We prove some value-distribution results for a class of L-functions with rational moving targets. The class contains Selberg class, as well as the Riemann-zeta function. -
Varieties of Evolutionary Psychology
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Vestibular Information Is Required for Dead Reckoning in the Rat
(Society for Neuroscience, 2002-11)Dead reckoning is an on-line form of spatial navigation used by an animal to identify its present location and return directly to a starting location, even after circuitous outward trips. At present, it is not known ... -
The Virtual Dialectic: Rethinking The Matrix and its Significance
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Vulnerability Due to Nocturnal Tornadoes
(American Meteorological Society, 2008-10)This study investigates the human vulnerability caused by tornadoes that occurred between sunset and sunrise from 1880 to 2007. Nocturnal tornadoes are theorized to enhance vulnerability because they are difficult to spot ... -
Wage Change and the Quit Behavior of Workers: Implications for Efficiency Wage Theory
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The War on Jazz, or Jazz Goes to War: Toward a New Cultural Order in Wartime Japan
(positions: east asia cultures critique, 1998)Discusses the fate of jazz in wartime Japan, emphasizing not just the official ban on the music, but the ways that jazz musicians found ways to make the idiom serve national policy. -
Wave-optics modeling of the optical-transport line for passive optical stochastic cooling
(2017-12-20)Optical stochastic cooling (OSC) is expected to enable fast cooling of dense particle beams. Transition from microwave to optical frequencies enables an achievement of stochastic cooling rates which are orders of magnitude ...
