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Exposure Assessment for Endocrine Disruptors: Some Considerations in the Design of Studies
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2003)
In studies designed to evaluate exposure-response relationships in children's development from conception through puberty, multiple factors that affect the generation of meaningful exposure metrics must be considered. These ...
Natural rights and two conceptions of promising
(Chicago-Kent College of Law, 2006)
Does one have an obligation to keep one's promises? I answer this question by distinguishing between two broad conceptions of promising. On the normativized conception of promising, a promise is made when an agent validly ...
Hurley on Justice and Responsibility
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2006)
In Justice, Luck, and Knowledge, Susan Hurley defends a reason-responsive account of responsibility, argues that appeals to responsibility cannot provide a justification or non-trivial specification of brute luck egalitarian ...
Cost and Consequences of Sedentary Living: New Battleground for an Old Enemy
(2002)
The purpose of this review is to update our earlier review by itemizing, as best we can, the costs and consequences of sedentary living, and thus provide cost reasons to fight a war against sedentary lifestyles.
Computational model of extracellular glutamate in the nucleus accumbens predicts neuroadaptations by chronic cocaine
(Elsevier, 2009-02)
Chronic cocaine administration causes instability in extracellular glutamate in the nucleus accumbens that is thought to contribute to the vulnerability to relapse. A computational framework was developed to model glutamate ...
The Rights and Duties of Childrearing
(William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal, 2003)
What rights and duties do adults have with respect to raising children? Who, for example, has the right to decide how and where a particular child will live, be educated, receive health care, and spend recreational time? ...
Sedentary death syndrome is what researchers now call America's second largest threat to public health
(2001)
Obesity has doubled, Type 2 diabetes has increased nine-fold, and heart disease remains the number one cause of death for Americans. Sedentary Death Syndrome, or "SeDS," is a growing list of health disorders that are ...
Spin, acceleration and gravity
(American Institute of Physics, 2004)
The massless field perturbations of the accelerating Minkowski and Schwarzschild spacetimes are studied. The results are extended to the propagation of the Proca field in Rindler spacetime. We examine critically the ...
Modification, Degradation, and Stability of Polymeric Surfaces Treated with Reactive Plasmas
(Journal of Polymer Science: Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 2000)
The degradation, modification, and stability of polymeric surfaces exposed to chemically reactive O2 and H2O-vapor plasmas were investigated. Specifically, the effects of these plasmas on etching rate, surface morphology, ...
Dynamics of Relativistic Flows
(arXiv, 2004)
Dynamics of relativistic outflows along the rotation axis of a Kerr black hole is investigated using a simple model that takes into account the relativistic tidal force of the central source as well as the Lorentz force ...
Gravitoelectromagnetism: A Brief Review
(arXiv, 2008)
The main theoretical aspects of gravitoelectromagnetism ("GEM") are presented. Two basic approaches to this subject are described and the role of the gravitational Larmor theorem is emphasized. Some of the consequences of ...
Standard clocks, orbital precession and the cosmological constant
(American Institute of Physics, 2003)
We discuss the influence of the cosmological constant on the gravitomagnetic clock effect and the gravitational time delay of electromagnetic rays. Moreover, we consider the relative motion of a binary system to linear ...
Identification of secondary science teachers' preconceptions related to avian influenza
(National Association for Research in Science Teaching, 2009)
How secondary science teachers understand infectious disease and disease transmission has an important impact on the public. This study analyzed the conceptions of ten secondary science teacher participants in the Maps in ...
Indiscriminate or Intentional: Locations of Nonprofit Organizations in Kansas City
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2008)
This study examines the locations of Kansas City metropolitan area nonprofit organizations, as defined by the eleven-county Kansas City Metropolitan Area. Although several authors have conducted similar studies of nonprofits ...
Tidal Dynamics of Relativistic Flows Near Black Holes
(arXiv, 2003)
We point out novel consequences of general relativity involving tidal dynamics of ultrarelativistic relative motion. Specifically, we use the generalized Jacobi equation and its extension to study the force-free dynamics ...
A Gravitational Mechanism for the Acceleration of Ultrarelativistic Particles
(arXiv, 2005)
Imagine a swarm of free particles near a point P outside a gravitating mass M and a free reference particle at P that is on a radial escape trajectory away from M. Relative to this reference particle and in a Fermi normal ...
The Question of the Homoerotic in Thomas Eakins' The Swimming Hole
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2007)
George Berkeley's Mathematical Philosophy And The Calculus
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2007)
GIS Applications for Ground-Level Ozone In Kansas City, MO
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2006)
Structure and phase transitions of monolayers of intermediate-length n-alkanes on graphite studied by neutron diffraction and molecular dynamics simulation
(American Institute of Physics, 2009)
We present evidence from neutron diffraction measurements and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of three different monolayer phases of the intermediate-length alkanes tetracosane (n-C24H50 denoted as C24) and dotriacontane ...