Righting behavior was examined in the asteroids Henricia
leviuscula and Leptasterias aequalis by repeating a standard laboratory
righting trial with a large number of individuals of each species,
and analyzing the observations made by statistical methods. Detailed
observations on the righting method, including leading pairs of
arms and righting time...
A 2014 Pew Research poll revealed large gaps between public opinion and scientific opinion over environmental and biomedical issues (Funk and Rainie). Similarly, a number of recent popular books have described a growing public mistrust in scientific expertise (Mooney; Storr; Specter). Why is it, then, that so much of the...
Climate change policies present multiple quandaries to the field of public policy and science studies. Despite the prevalent scientific consensus, approaches demonstrate great heterogeneity. With one side advocating for the facticity of climate change and a pro-active stance, while the other argues about negative economic trade-offs, viewpoints diverge. Between controversy...
This thesis presents an introduction to Marketing Research concepts,
relates Operations Research to Marketing Research and discusses
the limitations of each. An Information Theory approach based
on Shannon's fundamental theorems and extended by Kunisawa is
applied to one-factor and two-factor marketing problems.
The objective of one-factor information channel models is...
Public policy narratives and stories are often referenced by the media, politicians, advocacy groups, and across many disciplines in academia. Studies of social and political narratives support the notion narrative matters, but often lack systematic design capable of producing generalizable findings. The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) has responded to this...
Under what circumstances and in what ways can public participation be utilized in managing Finland's
national forests? In the first chapter, a framework for answering this question is set by analyzing Finnish
legal, cultural, historical and political background. The frame defines the Finnish Forest and Park
Service's (FPS) decision making...
Generative programming is a paradigm that seeks to automate the manufacture of software products the same way other industries automated the manufacture of consumer, electric, and mechanical products. I examine how meta-programming fits into the context of generative programming and, along the way, expose theoretic and taxonomic deficiencies. In some...
The purpose of this study was to investigate how
schools/school districts plan to implement Oregon Administrative
Rule 581-22-413, specifically: (1) How schools plan to integrate
alcohol and drug abuse prevention into the Comprehensive Health
Program. (2) How schools plan for age appropriate annual
instruction at the senior high level. (3)...
