130,872 research outputs found
Jack D. White when he worked for the Witherspoon Advertising Company, Fort Worth, Texas
No full textJack D. White when he worked for the Witherspoon Advertising Company, Fort Worth, Texashttps://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_jackwhitephotos/1196/thumbnail.jp
Witherspoon, Alexander Maclaren, 1894-1964 (SC 3235)
No full textFinding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3235. Letter, 14 August 1931, written by Alex Witherspoon to Carl D. Herdman, Bowling Green, Kentucky, regarding Witherspoon’s gift to Herdman of The Martyrdom of Man by Winwood Reade, found in an Edinburgh, Scotland bookshop, and recommendations for other reading. Includes photocopies of the book’s title page, Witherspoon’s inscription, and comments pasted into the book, presumably by Herdman. Also includes data about Witherspoon, a graduate of Bowling Green’s Ogden College and Yale University
John Witherspoon and the right of resistance
No full textThis study investigated one central aspect of the political views of John Withexspoon: His steadfast belief in the right of resistance. A product of the Reformation and Enlightenment movements, this doctrine offered justification for questioning the authority of magistrates acting contrary to their sovereignty: it further compelled disobedience to unjust laws and the removal of unjust officials to protect the instituted social order. The context of post-Union Scottish society provided a distinct setting for Witherspoon's introduction to resistance theory. As a devout Scottish Presbyterian and a learned Enlightenment scholar, Withexspoon commanded a thorough understanding of this civil-religious right and duty to protect society.Through his education at Edinburgh University, Witherspoon became acquainted with the substance of Scottish Enlightenment philosophy. Edinburgh instructors utilized the writings of Commonwealth theorists and the classical writers to construct their views of society and social obligation: Society was a constituted civil order, restrained by law, preserved by the efforts of every individual citizen. Witherspoon's Scottish ecclesiastical heritage served to vindicate his Enlightenment education by echoing a similar view of restraint and balance.Covenant Pianism, the product of the 16th-Century reformer John Knox and the Westminster Assembly of the 1640s, invoked the supremacy of a sovereign God over all instituted states. In the Scotsman's view, human depravity and selfish ambition would destroy government if not for the diligent vigil of involved, virtuous citizens. Members of society were thus obliged to oppose tyranny -the unjust, illegitimate exercise of civil-religious authority. Hence, both academic enterprise and doctrinal conviction provided Witherspoon a firm theoretical foundation to support the right of resistance.As President of Princeton during the Anglo-American crisis of the 1770s, Witherspoon directed the education of many future leaders of the new American nation. He was certainly not an idealistic crusader nor a reluctant follower, but consistently argued for the right of American colonists to resist the tyranny of England's Parliament. An early supporter of independence, Witherspoon was the only clergyman to sign Jefferson's Declaration. His most significant contributions, though, were made as a committee member in the Second Continental Congress.Thesis (Ph. D.)Department of Histor
Circulatory effects of cyclazocine. A non-narcotic analgesic.
No full textWitherspoon, C. D., Montaner, C. G., & Rusy, B. F. (1966). Circulatory effects of cyclazocine. A non-narcotic analgesic. Anesthesia and analgesia, 45(2), 176–178
Recommended from our members
Remedial investigation/feasibility study for the David Witherspoon, Inc., 901 Site, Knoxville, Tennessee: Volume 2, Appendixes
No full textThis document contains the appendixes for the remedial investigation and feasibility study for the David Witherspoon, Inc., 901 site in Knoxville, Tennessee. The following topics are covered in the appendixes: (A) David Witherspoon, Inc., 901 Site Historical Data, (B) Fieldwork Plans for the David Witherspoon, Inc., 901 Site, (C) Risk Assessment, (D) Remediation Technology Discussion, (E) Engineering Support Documentation, (F) Applicable or Relevant and Appropriate Requirements, and (G) Cost Estimate Documentation
Localizing and Understanding Mechanisms of Gender Differences Within Pathways Towards and Away from Science Degrees
No full textDespite decades-old research revealing gender differences in retention in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), persistent gaps in women’s participation remain in some undergraduate science courses and majors. Across three studies, this dissertation seeks to better identify the location and sources of persistent gender differences in pathways into and out of the Sciences, with a special focus on an understudied population that drives many of the larger trends: undergraduate pre-medical students.
In part, the studies relate the persistence of gender gaps in the sciences to an over-application of the “STEM Pipeline” metaphor, which ignores a number of other factors that play a role in undergraduates’ choice of majors and careers, including historical gender differences within particular science domains. I show that pre-health and pre-medicine are particularly important pathways for understanding gendered attrition in science because they represent a large population of students enrolling in introductory science courses. In addition, these pathways produce a high proportion of eventual science degree earners. However, relative attrition by gender persists within the long sequence of required pre-med science courses, especially in later physical sciences courses (i.e., Organic Chemistry, Algebra-based Physics).
In addition to localizing these phenomena for pre-medical students at particular points in time, the studies focus on mechanisms both academic (as relative successes and failures) and social-psychological, through which students’ experiences in these courses influence their beliefs about their abilities, their performance, and eventually their decisions to persist within science courses and majors. The results from this collection of studies brings depth and specificity to a pathways model as a more accurate alternative to the problematic pipeline model of STEM participation, by identifying courses and discipline-specific psychological mechanisms along under-explored, high-bandwidth pathways to science, which could be targets for intervention. Importantly, this approach shifts the focus of sources of gender differences in the sciences away from immutable, pre-existing differences in prior experiences and performance, and towards emphasizing the agency higher education institutions have in addressing more malleable, concurrent elements of women’s experiences in undergraduate physical science courses, which either work to perpetuate or mitigate earlier differences
MeSH term explosion and author rank improve expert recommendations
No full textInformation overload is an often-cited phenomenon that reduces the productivity, efficiency and efficacy of scientists. One challenge for scientists is to find appropriate collaborators in their research. The literature describes various solutions to the problem of expertise location, but most current approaches do not appear to be very suitable for expert recommendations in biomedical research. In this study, we present the development and initial evaluation of a vector space model-based algorithm to calculate researcher similarity using four inputs: 1) MeSH terms of publications; 2) MeSH terms and author rank; 3) exploded MeSH terms; and 4) exploded MeSH terms and author rank. We developed and evaluated the algorithm using a data set of 17,525 authors and their 22,542 papers. On average, our algorithms correctly predicted 2.5 of the top 5/10 coauthors of individual scientists. Exploded MeSH and author rank outperformed all other algorithms in accuracy, followed closely by MeSH and author rank. Our results show that the accuracy of MeSH term-based matching can be enhanced with other metadata such as author rank
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
- …
