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Race in America: The Content of our Character
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Race-Dependent Changes in Attitudes Towards the Police Among College Students in Baltimore
(Journal of Evolutionary Studies Consortium, 2017-09)Social coalitions enable humans to thrive, but deciding which groups to trust and align with can be a difficult endeavor. In modern societies, citizens who have been victimized are expected to allow professional police ... -
Rachel Carson: A Legacy of Conservation and Sustainability
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Rainbow Rulings: Separate But Equal Is Unconstitutional
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Rainbow Rulings: Separate but Equal is Unconstitutional
(Public Administration Timesd, 2013)In June 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court (USSC) delivered two landmark decisions for the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Transgender (LGBT) community: United States v. Windsor (570 U.S. 2013) and Hollingsworth, et al., v. Kristin ... -
The Rate Decision: Adjustable vs Fixed Rate Mortgages
(2011)Homebuyers and commercial real estate buyers who borrow funds using mortgages all must face the choice of whether to assume a fixed or an adjustable rate mortgage. Other mortgage forms with alternative characteristics are ... -
Recent Desiccation-Related Ecosystem Changes at Lake Abert, Oregon: A Terminal Alkaline Salt Lake
(Elsevier, 2016)Lake Abert, a terminal alkaline salt lake in south central Oregon, has been a key staging area for migratory waterbirds along the Pacific Flyway. In 2014, the lake shrank to about 5% of its maximum size, and its salinity ... -
Reclaiming Thanksgiving: How I Learned to Embrace a Holiday That Represents Everything I'm Against
(Salon.com, 2016-11-24)Social context is interesting. A few years back, I had a white coworker who viewed Thanksgiving as a holiday that all Americans should proudly celebrate, even the Native ones. To her, it was more than a time for family ... -
Reconsidering the mechanistic basis of metabolic theory of ecology
(2007)The recently proposed metabolic theory of ecology (MTE) claims to provide a mechanistic explanation for long known allometric relationships between mass and metabolic rate. The MTE postulates that these patterns of allometry ... -
Reducing the Size of the Nondominated Set: Pruning by Clustering
(Computers and Operations Research, 1980)The multicriterion_ simplex methods of Evans and Steuer(!} and Yu and Zeleny[2) have encouraged model builders to consider matrix criteria. When conflicting objectives are simultaneously considered, there is no such thing ... -
Reframing the role of knowledge parks and science cities in knowledge-based urban development
(Sage, 2014)Knowledge-based urban developments (KBUDs) are an increasingly common element of urban planning and strategy making: policy makers and developers set out to stimulate economic prosperity by promoting the integration and ... -
Reframing urban street culture: Towards a dynamic and heuristic process model
(Elsevier, 2018-06)The fields of criminology/criminal justice have periodically used the term and concept of urban street culture to explain selected types of street crime and gang behavior. This article argues that this characterization of ... -
Refuge
Standing in Molly and Riordan’s bathtub, waiting for Lucas to leave, Tess thought of the Delmarva squirrel that she had found one after noon, suspended by its paws from a lower branch of a loblolly pine. She was 10 or 11 ... -
Regional Audiovisual Archives
(Promoting Preservation Interest Group (Association for Library Collections and Technical Services), 2015-06-28)This PowerPoint presentation was given in San Francisco, California, during the American Library Association's annual conference, introducing the audience to the work of the Regional Audiovisual Archives Committee (RAVA) ... -
Regional Organizations and Responsibility to Protect: Normative Reframing or Normative Change?
(Cogitatio, 2016)The adoption of the principle of the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) by all United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) member states in 2005, and its reaffirmation in dozens of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions, ... -
The Relation between Corporate Governance and Credit Risk, Bond Yields and Firm Valuation
(2007)This study examines the empirical relations between the governance structure of public corporations in the United States and the rating and pricing of their debt securities. We study an unbalanced panel of 775 unique U.S. ... -
The Relationship Between Emotion Regulation Difficulties and Psychopathic Personality Characteristics
(American Psychological Association, 2013)The factors of psychopathy assessment tools diverge in their relationships with numerous problematic behaviors and psychological disorders. Emotion dysregulation is a pathological process argued to cut across diagnoses, ... -
The Relationship Between Public Transportation and HSPD-5: Are Public Transportation Agencies the Forgotten Element in NIMS
(2018-11-12)ABSTRACT The tragic events that transpired on September 11, 2001 (9/11), resulted in a myriad of changes within the United States that reshaped government agencies and created the Department of Homeland Security (Russell, ... -
The Relationship Between Social Support and Adolescent Dating Violence: A Comparison Across Genders
(Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011-12)Although much research has focused on the function of social support in adult intimate partner violence, little is known about the role of social support in adolescent dating violence. This study is an exploratory analysis ...