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Verdicts of Science, Rulings of Faith: Transgender/Sexuality in Contemporary Iran
(New School for Social Research, 2011)
This essay offers an account of the contemporary diagnostic and treatment procedures of transexuality in Iran, situating the official process in a discursive nexus that is engaged in establishing and securing a distinction ...
Share Repurchases, Equity Issuances, and the Optimal Design of Executive Pay
(2011)
This Article identifies a cost to public investors of tying executive pay to the future value of a firm’s stock - even its long-term value. In particular, such an arrangement can incentivize executives to engage in share ...
Diagnosing Covert A-Movement
(Oxford University Press, 2011)
Covert movement is movement that is not phonologically visible in the syntactic derivation. While covert A'-movement is widely proposed, covert A-movement is quite uncommon and difficult to identify. This chapter discusses ...
Comments on Greenhow, Robelia, and Hughes: Technologies That Facilitate Generating Knowledge and Possibly Wisdom
(2009)
Greenhow, Robelia, and Hughes (2009) argue that Web 2.0 media are well suited to enhancing the education research community’s purpose of generating and sharing knowledge. My response first articulates how a research ...
Promoting Clean Energy in the American Power Sector
(Brookings Institution, 2011)
Despite bipartisan interest in advancing American energy policy, comprehensive energy and climate legislation fell short in the Senate last year after passing in the House of Representatives in 2009. The difficulty of ...
Environmental and Molecular Analysis of the Floral Transition in the Lower Eudicot Aquilegia Formosa
(BioMed Central, 2011)
Background
Flowering is a critical transition in plant development, the timing of which can have considerable fitness consequences. Until recently, research into the genetic control of flowering time and its associated ...
Self-Monitoring Assessments for Educational Accountability Systems
(2010)
Test-based accountability is now the cornerstone of U.S. education policy, and it is becoming more important in many other nations as well. Educators sometimes respond to test-based accountability in ways that produce score ...
Wing and Body Kinematics of Takeoff and Landing Flight in the Pigeon (Columba livia)
(The Company of Biologists, 2010)
Takeoff and landing are critical phases in a flight. To better understand the functional importance of the kinematic adjustments birds use to execute these flight modes, we studied the wing and body movements of pigeons ...
