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Queer expectations : an empirical critique of rural LGBT+ narratives. Sexualities
(2021)
Much of the body of literature on LGBT+ populations within the United States place urban areas and so-called “gayborhoods” as goals and eventualities, paralleling early U.S. studies on immigration. Using a multi-stage, ...
A review of Bayesian belief network models as decision-support tools for wetland conservation : are water birds potential umbrella taxa?
(2018)
Creative approaches to identifying umbrella species hold promise for devising effective surrogates of ecological communities or ecosystems. However, mechanistic niche models that predict range or habitat overlap among ...
A General Overview of Supervision
(1963)
The purpose of this paper is to define supervision in schools, its functions, and its role in the organizational structure.
Potawatomi Indian Music: A Study of the Current Trend of Transmitting American Indian Music Among the Indian People in a Local Urban Organization
(1973)
The purpose of this paper is to preserve and present
traditional Indian music and to comment on the present and future
conditions of Indians in America in relation to their attempts
at keeping their culture alive. Its ...
Effects of dry or wet conditions during the preweaning phase on subsequent feedlot performance and carcass composition of beef cattle
(Oxford University Press, 2019)
Our objective was to determine the effects of dry and wet conditions during the preweaning on subsequent feedlot performance and carcass characteristics of beef cattle. Steers (n = 7,432) and heifers (n = 2,361) finished ...
Columbia : a great place to retire (1993)
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1993)
"Discover why your college town is the place to spend leisure years."--Table of contents for issue.
Transforming lignin into porous graphene via direct laser writing for solid-state supercapacitors
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2019)
Cost-effective valorization of lignin into carbon-based electrode materials remains a challenge. Here we reported a facile and ultrafast laser writing technique to convert lignin into porous graphene as active electrode ...
Bandgap prediction by deep learning in configurationally hybridized graphene and boron nitride
(Nature Publishing Group, 2019)
It is well-known that the atomic-scale and nano-scale configuration of dopants can play a crucial role in determining the electronic properties of materials. However, predicting such effects is challenging due to the large ...
Every Picture Tells a Story: Visual Alternatives to Oral Tradition in Ponam Society
(1990-05)
Those concerned with recording the history, the culture, and the tradition of village societies seek the sources of their information in the spoken word. Historians, folklorists, and anthropologists have sat down with their ...
Epic Splitting: An Arab Folk Gloss on the Meaning of the Hero Pattern
(1989-01)
"Epic narrative typically spells out departures and arrivals very clearly (see Bowra 1952:179 ff). The Arabic migration epic Sīrat Banī Hilāl, in its many different cultural transformations and retellings, has a structure ...
The Structure and Changing Functions of Oral Traditions
(1987-05)
The transmission of knowledge by means of oral literary forms, so strongly attacked by Plato in the fourth century B.C., has not disappeared completely. Throughout the many centuries of supremacy of the written word over ...
Nakhi tiger myth in its context
(2001-10)
Prostaglandins A1 and E1 influence gene expression in an established insect cell line (BCIRL-HzAM1 cells)
(Elsevier, 2007)
Prostaglandins (PGs) and other eicosanoids exert important physiological actions in insects and other invertebrates, including influencing ion transport and mediating cellular immune defense functions. Although these actions ...
Proteomic identification of PKC-mediated expression of 20E-induced protein in Drosophila melanogaster
(ACS, 2007)
Ecdysone receptor (EcR) and its heterodimeric partner, ultraspiracle protein (USP), are nuclear receptors that mediate the action of the insect molting hormone 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E). There is evidence that the activity ...
From Polytheism to Christianity in the temples of Cyprus
(2002)
Over his career Eugene Lane has contributed much to our understanding of the religions of the late classical world, and in particular to clarifying the evolution of Christianity within the context of the Roman empire. The ...