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Lobell, Steven E. | Why Israel launched a preventive military strike on Iraq's nuclear weapons program (1981): the fungibility of power reources | In 1981, Israel launched a preventive military strike against a nuclear reactor that Iraq was constructing at the Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center. The low fungibility of Iraq's power resources, and especially its nuclear weapons program, shaped Israel's decision-making process. First, it motivated ... | Reventive war; Osiraq granular; Theory of balancing; fungibility brittle; Israel power resources | |
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Lobell, Steven E. | Preventive military strike or preventive war? the fungibilty of power resources | Differential rates of growth explanations for preventive war assume that power resources are highly fungible. That is, they assume that a state's power resources are easily and quickly ‘moveable' into practical military capability. This ‘unidimensional and undifferentiated' baseline obscures an ... | Neoclassical realism; preventive war; preventive strikes; fungibility power; resources aggregate; power realism; osiraq israel syria | 2021 |
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Anderson, James A. | Unduplicated empirical theories of 2016 | In 2016, the seven mainline, empirical journals-Communication Monographs, Communication Research, Human Communication Research, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Journal of Communication, and Management Communication Quarterly-produced 253 empiric... | | 2016 |
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Hayes-Harb, Rachel | The influence of the Pinyin and Zhuyin writing systems on the acquisition of Mandarin word forms by native English speakers | The role of written input in second language (L2) phonological and lexical acquisition has received increased attention in recent years. Here we investigated the influence of two factors that may moderate the influence of orthography on L2 word form learning: (i) whether the writing system is shared... | Second language acquisition(SLA); Mandarin; Pinyin; Zhuyin; Orthographic input; Second language phonology; Second language word learning | 2016-03-06 |
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Anderson, James A. | Unduplicated empirical theories in communication reported in 2015 | All empirical articles in seven journals for the volume year 2014 from: Communication Monographs Communication Research Human Communication Research Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media Journal of Communication Management Communication Quarterly 254 ... | Empirical theories; Communication | 2015 |
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Anderson, James A. | Empirical theories in communication reported in 2014 & 2015 | All empirical articles in seven journals for the volume years 2014 and 2015 from: Communication Monographs Communication Research Human Communication Research Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media Journal of Communication Management Communication Quar... | Empirical theories; Communication | 2015 |
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Anderson, James A. | Unduplicated empirical theories of 2014 | All empirical articles in seven journals for the volume year 2014: Communication Monographs Communication Research Human Communication Research Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media Journal of Communication Management Communication Quarterly 231 artic... | Empirical theories; Social science theories; Communication theories | 2014 |
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Francis, Leslie | Creation Ethics and the harms of existence | David DeGrazia's Creation Ethics1 is a fascinating effort to present a consistent account of creation in many contexts-from reproduction, to self-creation through genetic enhancement, to the creation of entire future generations. For reasons of space, this comment addresses the related discussions o... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Haber, Matthew | In defense of the organism: Thomas Pradeu (Elizabeth Vitanza, trans.): The limits of the self: immunology and biological identity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012, ix+302 pp, ISBN: 978-0-19-977528-6, $65 HB. | Thomas Pradeu's The Limits of the Self provides a precise account of biological identity developed from the central concepts of immunology. Yet the central concepts most relevant to this task (self and nonself ) are themselves deemed inadequate, suffering from ambiguity and imprecision. Pradeu seeks... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Loveland, Jessica | Sociolinguistic differences between Japanese and English | This poster discusses the sociolinguistic differences between Japanese and English as seen through English translations of manga and how this may impact the learning of a Japanese language learner. | Japanese; English; Sociolinguistics; Manga; Culture; Pop culture | 2015-03-19 |
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Francis, Leslie | Accommodating every body | This Article contends that workplace accommodations should be predicated on need or effectiveness instead of group-identity status. It proposes that, in principle, "accommodating every body" be achieved by extending Americans with Disabilities Act-type reasonable accommodation to all work-capable me... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Millgram, Elijah | Private persons and minimal persons | It's a commonplace that privacy can now be abridged and abdicated in ways that weren't routinely possible until very recently. I want here to draw attention to an alternative configuration of the mind that these techniques make available, which I will call the minimal person. My explication of minim... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Plutynski, Anya | Ethical issues in cancer screening and prevention | November 2009's announcement of the USPSTF's recommendations for screening for breast cancer raised a firestorm of objections, Chief among them that the Panel bad insufficiently valued patients' lives or allowed cost considerations to influence recommendations. The publicity about the recommendation... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Haber, Matthew | Reframing the ethical issues in part-human animal research: the unbearable ontology of inexorable moral confusion | Research that involves the creation of animals with human-derived parts opens the door to potentially valuable scientific and therapeutic advances, yet invokes unsettling moral questions. Critics and champions alike stand to gain from clear identification and careful consideration of the strongest e... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Francis, Leslie | A wrongful case for parental tort liability | Malek and Daar [M&D] argue that parents have a duty to employ prenatal genetic diagnosis (PGD) if they undergo IVF knowing they are at risk of transmitting a serious genetic condition. Although M&D limit their analysis to parents already undergoing PGD, in which they say the parental obligation is s... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Anderson, James A. | Epistemological movements in communication: reference tables | This publication supports the chapter EpistemologicalMovements in Communication: An Analysis o f Empirical and Rhetorical/Critical Scholarship to be published in the NCA Centennial Volume. It provides the extended data tables that could not be presented in the chapter because of space limitations. I... | | 2014-01 |
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Schembri, Brandon Lee | Project for integrative refugee writing programs | This poster was to present and formalize my service learning project at the University of Utah. | Refugee; Writing program; SLCC community writing center | 2013 |
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Downes, Stephen M. | Preface | This volume contains the collection of symposium papers presented at the Philosophy of Science Association Meeting in Montreal, November 4-6, 2010, selected for publication. The volume also contains Nancy Cartwright's presidential address at the 2010 PSA. The huge amount of work required to referee ... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Thalos, Mariam G. | Capitalization in the St. Petersburg Game: why statistical distributions matter | In spite of its infinite expectation value, the St. Petersburg game is not only a gamble without supply in the real world, but also one without demand at apparently very reasonable asking prices. We offer a rationalizing explanation of why the St. Petersburg bargain is unattractive on both sides (to... | | 2013-01-01 |
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Duncan, Alexander Colin | Aristophanes: Acharnians, Knights, and Peace, Translated, and with theatrical commentary | A thenian "Old Comedy," despite its traditional title, has become accustomed to frequent renewal. Michael Ewans, an experienced scholar and director of ancient drama, offers the latest renovation with his able verse A translations of Aristophanes' Acharnians, Knights, and Peace that are complemente... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Thalos, Mariam G. | Truth deserves to be believed | Science seems generally to aim at truth. And governmental support of science is often premised on the instrumental value of truth in service of advancing our practical objectives, both as individuals and as communities, large and small. While there is some political expediency to this view, it is no... | | 2013-01-01 |
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Andrus, Jennifer | Critical discourse analysis and rhetoric and composition | Over the past two decades, critical discourse analysis has emerged as a major new multidisciplinary approach to the study of texts and contexts in the public sphere. Developed in Europe, CDA has lately become increasingly popular in North America, where it is proving especially congenial to new dire... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Allen, Christine Diane | Kate drawing | Representation. | | 2012 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Continuous sedation until death: moral justifications of physicians and nurses─a content analysis of opinion pieces | Continuous Sedation until Death (CSD), the act of reducing or removing the consciousness of an incurably ill patient until death, often provokes medical-ethical discussions in the opinion sections of medical and nursing journals. A content analysis of opinion pieces in medical and nursing literature... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Parker, Bradley J. | The upper Tigris archaeological research project: a final report from the 1999 field season | During the summer of 1999 members of the Upper Tigris Archaeological Research Project (UTARP) conducted archaeological excavations and surveys at two sites in the upper Tigris river region of southeastern Turkey. This article presents the results of that research. At the site of Boztepe excavations ... | | 2002-01-01 |