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3 Kinds of Nouns: Counting is Not Always the Issue
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5 math skills your child needs to get ready for kindergarten
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A Healthy Slice
(Originally published by: Urbanite Magazine, 2009-11-01) -
Abnormal cholecystokinin mRNA levels in entorhinal cortex of schizophrenics
(Elsevier, 1998-01-05)Limbic cortical regions, including anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), prefrontal cortex (PFC) and entorhinal cortex (ERC), have been implicated in the neuropathology of schizophrenia. Glutamate projection neurons connect ... -
Academic Socialization in the Homes of Black and Latino Preschool Children: Research Findings and Future Directions
(Springer International Publishing, 2018)This chapter provides an overview of what is known about how Black and Latino families prepare their young children for school and what remains to be understood. It provides a synthesis of research presented in this volume, ... -
Active Solidarity: Intersectional Solidarity in Action
(Oxford University Press, 2019-10-19)While solidarity lies at the heart of collective action, it is not easily achieved. Social movements are characterized not only by difference within activist ranks but also by power asymmetries that reflect broader domination ... -
Addressing empathy in intercultural virtual exchange: a preliminary framework
(Research-Publishing.net, 2020)Empathy is widely perceived and understood as an unquestioned component of Intercultural Competence (IC). The authors see the ability to empathise with others and to see their point of view as an important condition for ... -
Adjective Clauses: Do They Define or Tell Us More Information?
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Advancing the Field of Writing Analytics: Lessons from “Text-as-Data” in the Social Sciences
The field of writing analytics is currently in a state of growth, redefinition, and refinement. In this essay, I review the trajectory of a related subfield, text-as-data in political science, as a lens through which to ... -
Adverb Clauses: Don’t Use Future Tense
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Again, District Salvadorans Face an Impossible Choice
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Agenda trees and sincere voting: a response to Schwartz
(Springer Nature, 2009-11-17)Schwartz (Public Choice 136:353–377, 2008) has identified a controversy within the voting theory literature pertaining to the representation of agenda structures and the consequent definition of sincere voting. This note ... -
AGENDAS AND SINCERITY: A SECOND RESPONSE TO SCHWARTZ
(Springer Nature, 2010-08-27)An Ordeshook-Schwartz agenda tree requires a voting theorist to assign a unique “ostensive alternative” to each node, but under some non-pairwise agendas there is no evident principle by which to do this. Therefore ... -
Aging in Place Changing Socio-ecology and the Power of Kinship on Smith Island, Maryland
(University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019)This article examines how the people known as Smith Islanders interact with their environment over the life-course. The purpose of the study is to contribute to a better understanding of aging in a small, rural, coastal ... -
Agricultural Landscape Composition Linked with Acoustic Measures of Avian Diversity
(MDPI, 2020-05-10)Measuring, monitoring, and managing biodiversity across agricultural regions depends on methods that can combine high-resolution mapping of landscape patterns with local biodiversity observations. This study explores the ... -
Alcohol and Erectile Response: The Effects of High Dosage in the Context of Demands to Maximize Sexual Arousal
(American Psychological Association, 2011-08-31)Although drinking is often associated with men's sexual activity, basic questions about alcohol's effects on men's sexual arousal remain unanswered. Inconsistencies in findings from studies examining subjective and ... -
Algorithmic Pollution: Artists Working with Dataveillance and Societies of Control
(Media-N: The Journal of the New Media Causus, 2017)In 2013, interactive artist and Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica winner, David Rokeby, coined the phrase Algorithmic Pollution to describe a phenomena where data collection alters human public behavior. The purpose of this ... -
An alternative view of ecological community thresholds and appropriate analyses for their detection: comment
(Ecological Society of America, 2011-10-01) -
The Alternative Vote and Coombs Rule versus First-Past-the-Post: a social choice analysis of simulated data based on English elections, 1992–2010
(Springer Nature, 2013-02-07)This paper presents a social choice analysis, using simulated data based on English general elections from 1992 through 2010, of the properties of three voting rules: First-Past-the-Post, the Alternative Vote, and the ... -
American Constitutional Faith and the Politics of Hermeneutics
(Cambridge University Press, 2019-07-16)As more debates in American politics become constitutional questions, effective citizens must engage in constitutional interpretation. While most Americans venerate the Constitution as a part of a national, civil religion, ...