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Criminal Deterrence: Some Initial Experimental Results
(1989)
A universal problem that exists in society is finding an optimal punishment that will deter individuals from a certain unwanted behavior. Sociologists, psychologists, economists and even businessmen have grappled with the ...
Mathematical Measures in the Analysis of Three-Dimensional Binary Images
(1989)
Three-dimensional binary represenations of continuous objects are analyzed for shape properties. Theoretical results are descibed that suggest a method for developing three-dimensional shape measures. New shape measures ...
Effects of Dietary Restriction on Immune Function in Rodent Model Systems
(1989)
Humans and laboratory animals experience a decline in immune system function and DNA excision repair correlated with increased occurrence of cancer as a function of age. Dietary restriction is reported to be associated ...
Measurement Of The Forward Scattered Light From A Small Sphere
(1989)
The goal of this project is to measure the forward scattered light from a small sphere at angles down to zero degrees. By cancelling the unscattered illumination beam with a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, it was possible to ...
Sex And E. E. Cummings: Humanizing The Common Man
(1989)
There are two motifs in Cummings' poetry on which critics have especially remarked: sexuality and individuality. They have seen Cummings as a carpe diem poet (Marks 68) and "a kind of metropolitan Thoreau" (Fraser 265). I ...
Conceptual Metaphor and Foreign Policy in the 1988 Presidential Campaign
(1989)
This paper examines the rhetoric of the Cold War, as reflected in the speeches of the two primary candidates in the 1988 Presidential election, for the purpose of determining the extent to which Cragan's assessment is ...
Processing Auditory Stimuli: Holistic Vs. Analytic Modes Of Processing
(1989)
This study investigates the circumstances under which people use a holistic (overall similarity) or an analytic (feature representation) mode of processing in a concept learning task. Three experiments were performed on ...
The Importance of Individuals' Orientation to Sexual Relations in Initiating Dating Relationships
(1989)
The present study was a laboratory investigation designed to explore individual differences in patterns of initial partner selection. The experimental hypothesis has been that an individual's orientation to sexual relations ...
Structural conservation of ATCase proteins in E. coli as compared to various eukaryotes
(1989)
Aspartate transcarbamoylase (ATCase, EC 2.1.3.2) is a ubiquitous enzyme which catalyzes the first unique step in pyrimidine biosynthesis in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. From bacteria to animals, enzyme complexes occur ...
Justice in Anglo-Saxon England: A New Approach to an Old Concept
(1989)
Understanding the minds of Anglo-Saxon people who lived over nine hundred years ago is a difficult if not impossible task. Even to attempt such an understanding is pretentious, for it requires the reader to cross numerous ...