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Effects of perfectionism and exercise on disordered eating in college students
(Elsevier, 2014-01-01)Purpose This study examined two dimensions of perfectionism (Standards and Discrepancy), two aspects of exercise (cardiovascular and strength), and the interaction of these variables as predictors of disordered eating ... -
Effects of sediment nutrients and depth on small-scale spatial heterogeneity of submersed macrophyte communities...
(NRC Canada, 2004-10)Sediment concentrations of total and available nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K) and organic matter from the littoral zone of Lake Pleasant, Pennsylvania, were highly variable. Only organic matter and total ... -
Effects of Tannins on Leaf Processing and Conditioning Rates in Aquatic Ecosystems: An Empirical Approach
(NRC Research Press, 1993)Tannin concentrations were determined in the autumn-shed leaves of 48 species of deciduous trees. Chemical measures of tannins (total phenolics and condensed tannins) were significantly correlated with protein-precipitating ... -
Effects of using multiple hands and fingers on haptic performance in individuals who are blind
(Pion, 2014-06-03)In a previous paper we documented that sighted participants complete haptic tasks faster with two hands and multiple fingers, but that these benefits are task specific. The present study investigates whether these effects ... -
An efficient radiative cooling approximation for use in hydrodynamic simulations
(Oxford University Press, 2015-02-11)To make relevant predictions about observable emission, hydrodynamical simulation codes must employ schemes that account for radiative losses, but the large dimensionality of accurate radiative transfer schemes is often ... -
Elected Officials, Empowered Voters: The Impact of Descriptive Representation on Voter Turnout
(Springer/Plenum Publishers, 2022-09-23)How does descriptive representation affect the voter turnout of African Americans? Though theories state that electing officials who belong to a minority group should lead to greater participation among that group's members ... -
The Emergence of Undergraduate Majors in Global Health: Systematic Review of Programs and Recommendations for Future Directions
(American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2017-01-11)Global health education has been expanding rapidly and several universities have created an undergraduate major degree (bachelor's degree) in global heath or global health studies. Because there are currently no national ... -
Emergency Department Admissions for Dental & Oral Health Concerns in Rural Northwestern Pennsylvania
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2016-03-31)Background: Oral health emergency department (ED) visits are increasing nationally. This increase in ED admissions is an indicator that preventative dental and oral healthcare practices are not being utilized. Methods: ... -
Empirically evaluating Greedy-based test suite reduction methods at different levels of test suite complexity.
(Elsevier, 2017-05-24)Test suite reduction is an important approach that decreases the cost of regression testing. A test suite reduction technique operates based on the relationship between the test cases in the regression test suite and the ... -
Energy challenges: isolating results due to behavior change
(Emerald Publishing, 2016-03-01)Purpose – Approximately 700 colleges and universities have committed to climate neutrality, which will require significant reductions in energy consumption. This paper aims to explore the effectiveness of an Annual Energy ... -
Engaged Emancipation: Mind, Monks, and Make-Believe in the Moksopaya (Yogavasistha)
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Enrollment statistics for Bryn Mawr College, May 14, 1929
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Entrepreneurial Errors in a Kaleidic Democracy
(ASSOC PRIVATE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION, 2018-06)Economic activity is a stream of interconnected experiments, where some are bound to fail. Such failures are costly and policy makers might aspire to mitigate them, particularly during economic crises. The mitigation can ... -
Environmental Justice Ethnography in the Classroom: Teaching Activism, Inspiring Involvement
(Soc. Applied Anthropology, 2021-03-01)In this era of industry deregulation, gutting of environmental protections, and science denial, environmental justice applied anthropology is more important than ever. There is growing ethnographic research into the ways ... -
‘Es mucho hombre esa mujer’: género y cuerpo en la prosa femenina de la Revolución Cubana
(Ubiquity Press, 2018-12-27)A well-known nineteenth-century declaration regarding the writing of Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, “¡Es mucho hombre esa mujer!” [She’s quite a man, that woman!], exposes the binary underlying the sex-gender system in a ... -
Essay Review: "How to succeed in science while really, really trying: the central European savant in the mid-Seventeenth century." Review of André Holenstein, Hubert Steinke & Martin Stuber, eds., Scholars in Action: The Practice of Knowledge and the Figure of the Savant in the 18th Century, 2 vols.
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Essay: Frank B. Carpenter
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Essay: Three Challenging Questions
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Establishing a database of Canadian feline mitotypes for forensic use
(Elsevier, 2016-02-24)Hair shed by pet animals is often found and collected as evidence from crime scenes. Due to limitations such as small amount and low quality, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is often the only type of DNA that can be used for ... -
The estimation methods of occupational skills transferability.
(Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2016-10-20)This paper compares two estimation methods of occupational skills transferability, both theoretically and empirically. The first method is based on Shaw’s (1984) study, and the second one is based on Ormiston’s (2014) ...
