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The Olson - Putnam Controversy: Some Empirical Evidence
No full textThis paper explores the causal link between associationism and general trust. First we study the principal components that constitute social capital. Then we contrast a structural model identifying the relations between the relevant variables in the so-called Olson-Putnam aporia. The results of the empirical test on the determinants of social capital allow us to conclude that the extension of horizontal networks maintains a direct relation with this form of capital, but not those of vertical type.Associationism Olson-Putnam controversy Social Capital Trust.
Supplementary Alignment Files from: A re-assessment of diversity among Philippine gymnures (Mammalia: Erinaceidae: Podogymnura), with a new species from Eastern Mindanao
No full text<p>This dataset upload contains two sequence alignment files used in the phylogenetic analysis of <em>Podogymnura</em> from eastern Mindanao, Philippines. One sequence alignment file contains the complete annotated sequence alignment of CYTB and 12S rRNA, including alignment-ambiguous positions, aligned according to the secondary structure model for mammalian 12S rRNA by Springer & Douzery (1996). The second sequence alignment file contains the concatenated sequence alignment after alignment-ambiguous positions were removed, which was used in the phylogenetic analysis.</p>
Link stability estimation based on link connectivity changes in mobile ad-hoc networks
No full textDear Wang,
Re: Link Stability Estimation Based on Link Connectivity Changes in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
I have not been able to assess if this is an author version peer-reviewed or is it an author version non peer reviewed. Could you please clarify this so I can proceed to add your paper to Spiral. Spiral digital repository only accept peer-reviewed papers.
30/11/12 author has confirmed peer reviewe
Tree Mortality: Testing the Link Between Drought, Embolism Vulnerability, and Xylem Conduit Diameter Remains a Priority
No full textGlobal climate change-induced droughts are provoking events of forest mortality worldwide, with loss of tree biomass and consequent ecosystem services. Ameliorating the effects of drought requires understanding the causes of forest mortality, with failure of the hydraulic system being an important contributor. Comparative anatomical data strongly suggest that, all else being equal, wider conduits are more vulnerable to drought-induced embolism than narrow ones. However, physiology experiments do not provide consistent support for such a link. If a vulnerability-diameter link exists, though, it would contribute not only to explaining and predicting forest mortality but also to interventions to render individual trees more drought resistant. Given that xylem conduits scale with plant height, taller plants have wider conduits. If there is a vulnerability- diameter link, then this would help explain why taller plants are often more vulnerable to climate change-induced drought. Links between conduit diameter, plant height, and vulnerability would also provide guidance for standardizing sampling of hydraulic variables across individuals and suggest that selecting for relatively narrow conduits at given height from the tree top could produce more drought resistant varieties. As a result, given current ambiguities, together with the potential importance of a link, it is important to maintain the vulnerability-diameter link as a research priority
An initial exploration of the link relationship between UK university Web sites.
No full textAggregates of links are of interest to information scientists in the same way as citation counts are: as potential sources of data from which new knowledge can be mined. Builds on the recent discovery of a correlation between a Web link count measure and the research quality of British universities by applying a range of multivariate statistical techniques to counts of links between pairs of universities. This represents an initial attempt at developing an understanding of this phenomenon. Extracts plausible results. Also identifies outliers in the data by the techniques, some of which were verified by being tracked down to identifiable Web phenomena. This is an important outcome because successful anomaly identification is a precondition to more effective analysis of this kind of data. The identification of groupings is encouraging evidence that Web links between universities can be mined for significant results, although it is clear that more methodological development is needed, if any but the simplest patterns are to be extracted. Finally, based upon the types of patterns extracted, argues that none of the methods used are capable of fully analysing link structures on their own
Service-learning, the arts, and human rights, an extraordinary connection /by Laurie Olson-Horswill.
No full textThesis (Ph. D.)--University of Idaho, 2005
The vulnerability to drought-induced embolism-conduit diameter link: breaching the anatomy-physiology divide
No full textThe best explanations of the relationship between organismal form and function-those regarded by scientists as the most solid — always account for both comparative, across-species, patterns, as well as experimental results. This is true in all of biology, as it is for the study of xylem structure-function relations, where there is still a need for xylem physiology and functional comparative wood anatomy to mutually complement each other. To illustrate the magnitude and urgency of this need, we discuss Sherwin Carlquist’s postulate of a link between vulnerability to drought-induced embolism and conduit diameter, summarizing some of the major global patterns of xylem trait variation that are currently explained by postulating a vulnerability–diameter link. These include wider community mean and maximum vessel diameters in wetter vs drier vegetation types; that vessels can be >700 μm in diameter but plants virtually always produce much narrower ones; that dryland plants with wider vessels drop their leaves earlier; wide-to-narrow vessels across growth rings; and the wide vessels of lianas surrounded by narrow vessels. These patterns are global, and we are aware of no anatomical evidence contradicting a vulnerability–diameter link. Despite the pervasiveness of these patterns, many xylem biologists do not regard the patterns as providing guidance for research in functional xylem biology. Instead, proposing and testing hypotheses to account for all of the data — xylem physiology experiments and comparative anatomical patterns in all their complexity and with all of their contradictions — provides the best way forward for the field. This effort requires proposing and testing hypotheses that are consistent with both experimental as well as comparative data. Crucially, it also requires not rejecting the vulnerability–diameter link without providing an alternative explanation that better explains the patterns currently explained by appeal to the link
Piecing It All Together: A Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment of HOME Link.
No full textSponsored by Neighborhood Planning for Community Revitalization, Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota.Moua, Mai Neng; Olson, Jessica A.. (1998). Piecing It All Together: A Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment of HOME Link.. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/208021
Satisfaction with life and crime: Testing the link
No full textThis study tests the hypothesis that higher perceptions of satisfaction with life (SWL) are related to lower engagement in crime and deviance. The results can inform prevention, intervention, and policy efforts based on deterrence, general strain, and restorative justice within the criminal and juvenile justice systems. Using a sample of students at two Pennsylvania universities, data were collected using a paper-based, self-reported survey that included measures for their perceptions of SWL, feelings of strain, and engagement in past acts of deviance and crime. Data analysis included independent samples T-tests and logistic regression estimates. Results of the t-tests supported the hypothesis for nine of 16 acts of deviance/crime. Logistic regression models supported the hypothesis, with SWL having significant associations alone, and with SWL eliminating the relationship to strain alone when SWL covaried with strain. Based on these results, the study offers recommendations to further test the satisfaction with life-crime link, to incorporate SWL interventions into the criminal justice system, and to study SWL interventions for evidence of success.Full Tex
People You Know: Betty Olson — 80 & Still Skating [News Article]
No full textSun Journal article written by Kathryn Skelton about Betty Olson and her figure skating career with her sister Therea Monique Monica Bodily. Olson and Bodily were known locally as they Lowell Sisters in their teens and toured nationally.
A link has been provided to the article on the Lewiston Sun Journal\u27s website. The article is currently available to subscribers only, but can be accessed by: Visiting the Franco-American Collection in person. Using a library database to search for the article online, such as Maine News.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/betty-olson/1000/thumbnail.jp
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