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    The Family History Of Daniel C. Hodges

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    The Family History of Daniel C. Hodges 21 April 2018 Daniel Clayton Hodges authored this family history as part of the course requirements for HIST 550/700 Your Family in History offered online in Spring 2018 and was submitted to the Pittsburg State University Digital Commons. Please contact the author directly with any questions or comments: [email protected] This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

    Ethnic identity, political identity and ethnic conflict: simulating the effect of congruence between the two identities on ethnic violence and conflict

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    This thesis outlines and presents an alternative hypothetical process to the emergence of ethnic conflict. Ethnic conflicts, rather than being dependent upon pre-existing 'ancient hatreds', are instead the result of a congruence between ethnic and political identity which grants individuals the ability to use ethnicity to identify and eliminate political threats. This hypothesis is formed by the examination of three case studies of ethnic conflict: Lebanon, Northern Ireland and Croatia. This hypothesis is then formalised and tested using an agent based simulation in which agent interactions are dependent upon ethnic and political identity and the congruence between the two. As predicted there was a strong positive correlation between how accurately ethnic identity reflected political identity and the level of ethnically motivated violence in the simulation, although the relationship was not linear. Furthermore the effect of a shift in congruence was found to be roughly comparable to the effect of initialising agents with a moderate level of pre-existing ethnic antagonism

    Replication Data for: Interests, Information and Minority Influence in Deliberation

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    This data and code are to replicate the findings in "Interests, Information and Minority Influence in Deliberation." Please email the author at [email protected] or [email protected] with any questions

    Replication Data for: Interests, Information and Minority Influence in Deliberation

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    This data and code are to replicate the findings in "Interests, Information and Minority Influence in Deliberation." Please email the author at [email protected] or [email protected] with any questions

    Money demand dynamics: some new evidence

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    Demand for money

    Study of 2-H-heptafluoropropane and its thermal decomposition using UV Photoelectron spectroscopy and ab initio molecular orbital calculations

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    The thermal decomposition of 2-H heptafluoropropane CF3CHFCF3 at low pressure, heavily diluted in argon, has been studied over the temperature range 600-2000 C using photoelectron spectroscopy. Comparison of the results obtained has been made with results of recent electronic structure calculations of possible decomposition pathways and results of a shock tube study. The most favoured reaction thermodynamically, to produce CF3CF=CF2 + HF, is found to be the main decomposition reaction at lower temperatures, 600-900 ?C. At higher temperatures, 900-1200 C, the decomposition reaction to give C2F4 + CF3H was found to become important. No evidence for CF3CHFCF3 ? CF3CHF + CF3, a reaction expected to be important from a shock tube study, performed at much higher pressures, or for CF3CHFCF3 ? CF3CF + CF3H was obtained, although for the latter reaction it is likely that CF3CF converts into C2F4 under the conditions used before photoionization, in the ionization region of the photoelectron spectrometer. At higher temperatures C3F6 decomposes to C2F4 + CF2, and C2F4 decomposes to CF2. Ab initio calculations have been performed of the adiabatic and vertical ionization energies of possible primary pyrolysis products to assist assignment of the photoelectron spectra recorded for heated flowing gas samples. A comparison is made between the threshold photoelectron (TPE) spectrum and the photoelectron spectrum (PE) of CF3CF=CF2<br/

    Method of thermally glazing an article, U.S. Patent 6,127,005

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    Coating and filler materials for localized thermal processing of glazed ceramics and other brittle and low thermal conductivity materials. The coating materials include oxide compositions that exhibit coefficients of thermal expansion which are less than about 8×10-6 /° C. and glass transition temperatures which are less than about 400° C. The filler materials include particulate oxide materials which do not substantially react during localized thermal processing of glazed ceramics and other brittle and low thermal conductivity materials. The coating and filler materials are useable together as a composite material for repairing cavities having depths greater than about 2 mm

    Daniel C. Dennett’s Language of Consciousness

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    The paper discusses the lingual genesis of consciousness. The author reconstructs Daniel C. Dennett’s naturalization strategy, showing how, according to Dennett, language enables the emergence of consciousness in the evolution of humankind. This naturalization assumes a behavioristic view according to which consciousness is a covert verbal behavior. The author shows that Dennett adopts and transforms Mead’s, Skinner’s, and Jaynes’s original behavioristic approaches inscribing them into a course of human evolution. This inscription leads to specific problems discussed in the final part of the paper: There are actually two definitions of consciousness in Dennett’s philosophy — first says that consciousness is a kind of verbal behavior, second says that it is a virtual memetic machine. There is no explanation of the execution rule that could show how given mind content becomes conscious; Dennett introduces the competition metaphor instead. Some contentful events in the brain (mind contents) simply win with others. Inscription of the possible scenario of consciousness development in the evolutionary landscape does not mean that one can testify the theory yet
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