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Cosmos incognito : Vera Rubin shines light on dark matter
This thesis, a profile of astronomer Vera Rubin, highlights her scientific achievements, most notably the irrefutable evidence she gathered to persuade the astronomical community that galaxies spin at a faster speed than Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation allows. As a result of this finding, …
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Your Brain on Art: Art Therapy in a Museum Setting and its Potential at the Rubin Musuem of Art
… techniques, and evaluation. Finally, the Rubin Museum is examined as a potentially ideal setting for a museum-based art therapy program. This thesis highlights the advantages along with any potential drawbacks of incorporating art therapy in museum galleries. In that regard, readers should …
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Stark's conjectures
We give a slightly more general version of the Rubin-Stark conjecture, but show that in most cases it follows from the standard version. After covering the necessary background, we state the principal Stark conjecture and show that although the conjecture depends on a choice of a set of places and …
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Using Gentile's Reframing Diversity Model In Public Organizations: FDIC As An Illustration
… approach for qualitative inquiry supported by Rubin and Rubin (1995) to develop an interview protocol for selected FDIC employees. The most salient characteristic of Gentile's model, the lenses, apply to any program regardless of the target audience. The lenses of Gentile's model are the …
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Cognitive neuroscience methodologies provide insight into medial temporal lobe contributions to perception, language, and creativity
… - functional magnetic resonance adaptation (Rubin, Chesney, Cohen, & Gonsalves, 2013). In Chapter 4, we investigated whether hippocampus and its role in forming arbitrary associations are necessary to form visual and linguistic common ground (Rubin, Brown-Schmidt, Duff, Tranel, & Cohen, …
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The Relationship Between Loneliness and Social Skills in Learning Disabled and Regular Education Populations
… & Woodward, 1993; Renshaw & Brown, 1993; Rubin, LeMare, & Lollis, 1990) and externalizing symptoms such as aggression (Coie, Dodge, & Coppotelli, 1982; Cassidy & Asher, 1992; Dobson, Campbell, & Dobson, 1987). The later outcomes of both of these kinds of internalizing and externalizing …
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Understanding How Perceptions of Identity and Power Influence Student Engagement and Teaching in Undergraduate Art History Survey Courses
… for decades (Gioffre, 2012; Phelan et al., 2005; Rubin, 2011) and remains so. However, few art historians have explored how identity and power dynamics in the art history classroom influence student engagement and pedagogy. Umbach and Wawrzynski (2005) note that faculty attitudes influence what …
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Development of a Transient System Model of Mobile Air-Conditioning Systems
… region using the Modified-Benedict-Webb-Rubin equation of state. Our property routines accurately solve for a given output property for applicable combinations of input properties. They also accurately predict whether the refrigerant is in the single-phase or two-phase region. The …
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The Role Of Memory, Personality, And Thought Processes In Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
… is influential in development of the disorder (Rubin, Berntsen, & Bohni, 2008). In particular, Berntsen & Rubin (2006) argue that the degree of event centralization, the incorporation of the memory into the individual's sense of self and life story, is directly related to the degree of PTSD …
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The impact of centrality on well-being: Development and examination of a modified centrality measure
… the Centrality of Event Scale (CES; Berntsen & Rubin, 2006) serves as a means to quantify the extent to which a specific event has become central to personal identity. Utilizing the CES, Berntsen and Rubin and colleagues demonstrate the strong link between central traumatic events and …
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Play as the zone of proximal development: collaborative constructive block play
… settings using the Play Observation Scale (Rubin, 1989). Play level, gender, and unfamiliarity were used to select 48 children to play with a peer in a laboratory setting. Play sessions were videotaped and coded for block play (Reifel & Greenfield, 1982), peer interaction (Rubin, 1989), and …
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Imputing age at death for the deceased using household relationships
… Multiple Imputation (MI) technique proposed by Rubin (1987) to impute the missing ages at death for the deceased.
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A partial dependence factorial analysis to deal with selection bias in observational studis
… selection bias, with the resulting approaches – Rubin’s Potential Outcome Approach(Rosenbaum and Rubin,1983; Rubin, 1991,2001,2004) or Heckman’s Selection model (Heckman, 1979) – being widely accepted and used as the best fixes. These solutions to the bias that arises in particular from self …
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Detectability of Self-Lensing Supermassive Black Hole Binaries in Quasars
… likely to be detected by the upcoming Vera C. Rubin observatory to be determined. Based on this study, the Rubin observatory, will detect up to ∼ 1.9 × 104 lensing events over a 10-year period. This methodology can be adapted to the specification of other datasets and is hereby presented to the …
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Factors Which Influence Kindergarten Teachers Selection of Trade Books for Use in Readaloud Sessions in Their Classrooms
… application of the method chosen for analysis (Rubin and Rubin, The Art of Hearing Data, 1995). Analysis included color-coding for identification of concepts and themes both in individual interviews and across cases. Findings: All six participants readily acknowledged the importance of reading …
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Consumers' Perceptions of Cultural Competence in the Counseling Relationship: A Phenomenological Study
… richer insight of the consumers' perspective (Rubin & Rubin, 1995). A qualitative phenomenological design was used to give voice to three participants regarding their perceptions of cultural competence in the counseling relationship. Phenomenological interviews were used to explore in depth and …
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BASIC AND APPLIED RESEARCH APPROACHES FOR OPTIMIZING THE USE OF ARTIFICIAL LIGHT IN VEGETABLE CROPS
… were given importance such as spearmint, red rubin basil, red and green lettuce, tomato, arugula and wild rocket respectively. While it is a fact that HPS lighting benefited horticulture for a considerable amount of time, a comparison of various morphological, physiological, and quality …
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The artist as prisoner in the fiction of Bernard Malamud
… In "Rembrandt's Hat" (1973), the failed sculptor Rubin perseveres in art. And in "The Model" (1983), Elihu, mistaking himself for an artist, dehumanizes his model, Ms. Perry.In Pictures, Qj Fidelman (1969), Fidelman is imprisoned in artistic perfectionism. I n the Tenants (1971), writers Harry …
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