Pursuing Knowledge for Its Own Sake amidst a World of Poverty: Reconsidering Balogun on Philosophy’s Relevance [PDF]
, 2019 In this article I critically discuss Professor Oladele Abiodun Balogun’s reflections on the proper final ends of doing philosophy and related sorts of abstract, speculative, or theoretical inquiry.
Metz, Thaddeus
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Modelling and experimental validation of a fluidized bed reactor freeboard region: application to natural gas combustion [PDF]
, 2007 A theoretical and experimental study of natural gas-air mixture combustion in a fluidized bed of sand particles is presented. The operating temperatures are lower than a critical temperature of 800 °C above which the combustion occurs in the vicinity of ...
Bradley +20 more
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Promoting intergenerational programmes: where is the evidence to inform policy and practice? [PDF]
, 2009 UK government and non-governmental organisations are promoting the use of intergenerational programmes in England and Wales to improve community cohesion.
Statham, Elaine
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A new CAE procedure for railway wheel tribological design [PDF]
, 2004 New demands are being imposed on railway wheel wear and reliability to increase the time between wheel reprofiling, improve safety and reduce total wheelset lifecycle costs.
Bel Knani, K. +5 more
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Confidence intervals for reliability growth models with small sample sizes [PDF]
, 2003 Fully Bayesian approaches to analysis can be overly ambitious where there exist realistic limitations on the ability of experts to provide prior distributions for all relevant parameters.
Quigley, J.L., Walls, L.A.
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Inter-population variability in the reproductive morphology of the shore crab (Carcinus maenas): Evidence of endocrine disruption in a marine crustacean? [PDF]
, 2005 Environmental contaminants that are capable of causing endocrine disrupting effects are currently a major cause for concern. These chemicals are known to influence the reproductive development of vertebrates by mimicking or antagonising the actions of ...
Brian, JV
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The impact of industry group culture on the development of opportunism in cross-sector alliances [PDF]
, 2008 Over the last two decades the world economy has dramatically transformed, with strategic alliances and partnerships across industrial and global boundaries becoming an important means to maintaining and regaining competitive positioning.
Grant, SB
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Efficient Call Path Detection for Android-OS Size of Huge Source Code
, 2016 Today most developers utilize source code written by other parties. Because the code is modified frequently, the developers need to grasp the impact of the modification repeatedly.
Matsutsuka, Taka, Yamamoto, Koji
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Wheel material wear mechanisms and transitions [PDF]
, 2004 In order to develop more durable wheel materials to cope with the new specifications being imposed on wheel wear, a greater understanding is needed of the wear mechanisms and transitions occurring in wheel steels, particularly at higher load and slip ...
Dwyer-Joyce, R.S. +3 more
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Mothers behaving badly: chaotic hedonism and the crisis of neoliberal social reproduction [PDF]
, 2019 This article focuses on the significance of the plethora of representations of mothers ‘behaving badly’ in contemporary anglophone media texts, including the films Bad Moms, Fun Mom Dinner and Bad Mom’s Christmas, the book and online cartoons Hurrah for ...
Adkins L. +35 more
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