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Validation of X-Ray Fluorescence-Measured Swine Femur Lead Against Atomic Absorption Spectrometry
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2001)
The aim of this study was to apply the technique of 109Cd-based K-shell X-ray fluorescence (XRF) bone lead measurements to swine femurs and to validate the concentrations obtained therefrom against an independent chemical ...
Until We See His Blessed Face: Sight as Privileged Insight in the Spirituality of Margery Kempe
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2009)
This paper explores how, despite an inherited Christian tradition that worked to elevate hearing and denigrate sight in an unofficial hierarchy of the senses, the fifteenth-century English mystic Margery Kempe came to ...
Left-Libertarianism as a Promising Form of Liberal Egalitarianism
(Center for Philosophic Exchange SUNY Brockport, 2009)
Left-libertarianism is a theory of justice that is committed to full self-ownership and to an egalitarian sharing of the value of natural resources. It is, I shall suggest, a promising way of capturing the liberal egalitarian ...
Roses : care after planting (2004)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2004)
Roses are well adapted to many different environmental conditions. However, proper care after planting is essential to develop the plants into beautiful and productive specimens.
Spring flowering bulbs : daffodils (2007)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2007)
Few garden plants give as much pleasure with as little effort as daffodils. They are one of the most vigorous and colorful flowers of spring. With good drainage they thrive in most soils, although they prefer a medium-heavy loam.
Journal of Interdisciplinary Research (JIDR), vol. 2, no. 1 (2008) Preliminary Materials
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2008)
Includes editorial board, IDSC 2007-2008 Representatives, JIDR Referees, table of contents, and note from the editor.
Libertarian Theories of Intergenerational Justice
(Oxford University Press, 2009)
We here discuss and assess various libertarian positions on intergenerational justice. We do not attempt to defend libertarianism. Instead, we work out the most plausible version thereof and identify its implications for ...
Sen on Sufficiency, Priority, and Equality
(Cambridge University Press, 2009)
I present a critical survey of Sen's work, and related work by others, on certain distribution-sensitive principles of justice. More specifically, I discuss three kinds of such principles: (1) sufficientarian principles, ...
Roses : selecting and planting (2004)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2004)
Roses are one of the world's most popular flowers. Their beauty and delicate fragrance have universal appeal. Roses are well adapted to many different environmental conditions. They are useful for cut flowers and many ...
Diverse Struggles to Preserve Tribal Identity on the Plains: Religion as Survival Strategy in the Late Nineteenth Century among the Lakota and Osage
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2007)
Goethe's Plant Morphology: The Seeds of Evolution
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2007)
It has long been debated whether
the scientific writing of Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
provided the seeds for the theory of
evolution. Scholars have argued both
sides with equal passion. German
biologist ...
Heterodox Microfoundations: A Methodological Appraisal
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2007)
This paper examines underlying methodological commitments in orthodox and heterodox approaches to micro and macro. Identifying methodological advantages and drawbacks of existing microfoundations, macrofoundations,
and ...
Of Mice and Men: Equality and Animals
(Springer Verlag, 2005)
Can material egalitarianism (requiring, for example, the significant promotion of fortune) include animals in domain of the equality requirement? The problem can be illustrated as follows: If equality of wellbeing is what ...
On the Possibility of Paretian Egalitarianism
(Journal of Philosophy, 2005)
We here address the question of how, for a theory of justice, a concern for the promotion of equality can be combined with a concern for making people as well off as possible. Leximin, which requires making the worst off ...
Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State and Utopia
(Acumen, 2006)
Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974), along with John Rawls's A Theory of Justice (1971), radically changed the landscape in analytic political philosophy. For much of the preceding half-century, under the ...
Making Time for the Library: Adventures in Integrating Information Literacy in the Curriculum
(2007-03-02)
This presentation provided an overview of information literacy methods and practices for teaching undergraduate and graduate music students. It was presented at Joint Meeting of the Music Library Association and the Society ...
Library Connections, 2007 Fall
(University of Missouri--Columbia, MU Libraries, 2007)
Microcosmic Forests: An Investigation of Protein Crystallization Using ESEM, Contact AFM and Optical Microscopy
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2008)
Case Study: Corruption in Iraq
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2008)
Water Quality at Brush Creek
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2006)