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How Social Science Research Can Improve Teaching

King, Gary; Sen, Maya (Cambridge University Press, 2013)

We marshal discoveries about human behavior and learning from social science research and show how they can be used to improve teaching and learning. The discoveries are easily stated as three social science generalizations: ...

How Student Evaluations of Teaching Affect Course Enrollment

Yu, Kwok W.; Mincieli, Lisa; Zipser, Nina (Informa UK Limited, 2020-09-09)

This paper examines the relationship between student course evaluations and course selection by quantifying how changes in undergraduate course ratings correlate with changes in enrollments at a large research university ...

How Sushi Went Global

Bestor, Theodore C. (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2000)

How Terrorism Succeeds

Holton, Gerald (2015)

How the Jefferson Physical Laboratory came to be

Holton, Gerald (AIP Publishing, 1984-12)

A hundred years ago, the first building in the western hemisphere designed for research and teaching in physics opened its doors. The consequences of such an event are of very different interest to different groups. The ...

How the Scientific Community Reacts to Newly Submitted Preprints: Article Downloads, Twitter Mentions, and Citations

Shuai, Xin; Pepe, Alberto; Bollen, Johan (Public Library of Science, 2012)

We analyze the online response to the preprint publication of a cohort of 4,606 scientific articles submitted to the preprint database arXiv.org between October 2010 and May 2011. We study three forms of responses to these ...

How the Venus Flytrap Snaps

Forterre, Yoel; Skotheim, Jan M.; Dumais, Jacques; Mahadevan, Lakshminarayanan (Nature Publishing Group, 2005)

The rapid closure of the Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) leaf in about 100 ms is one of the fastest movements in the plant kingdom. This led Darwin to describe the plant as "one of the most wonderful in the world". The ...

How Things Get Stuck: Kinetics, Elastohydrodynamics, and Soft Adhesion

Mani, Madhav; Gopinath, Arvind; Mahadevan, L. (American Physical Society, 2012)

We consider the sticking of a fluid-immersed colloidal particle with a substrate coated by polymeric tethers, a model for soft, wet adhesion in many natural and artificial systems. Our theory accounts for the kinetics of ...

How To Be a Peer Reviewer: A Guide for Recent and Soon-to-be PhDs

Miller, Beth; Pevehouse, Jon; Rogowski, Ron; Tingley, Dustin; Wilson, Rick (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2013-01)

Peer review is central to political science. In this article we collect the ideas of journal editors in political science and several recent PhDs, who met as a panel at the 2011 American Political Science Association Annual ...

How to beat the Rayleigh resolution limit: A lecture demonstration

Rueckner, Wolfgang H. E.; Papaliolios, Costas D. (American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), 2002)

An experiment is described in which the effect of instrument aperture size on resolution is easily demonstrated. Using diffraction as a tool rather than a limit to resolution, one can further demonstrate the possibility ...

How to Become a Celebrity

Darnton, Robert (N Y R e V, Inc, 2015)

How to Become a Dominant French Philosopher: The Case of Jacques Derrida

Lamont, Michele (University of Chicago Press, 1986)

How can a interpretive theory gain legitimacy in two cultural markets as different as France and the United States? This study examines the intellectual, cultural, institutional, and social conditions of legitimation of ...

How to distinguish starbursts and quiescently star-forming galaxies: the ‘bimodal’ submillimetre galaxy population as a case study

Hayward, Christopher C.; Jonsson, Patrik; Kere?, Du?an; Magnelli, Benjamin; Hernquist, Lars Eric; Cox, T. J. (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2012)

In recent work, we have suggested that the high-redshift (z∼ 2–4) bright submillimetre galaxy (SMG) population is heterogeneous, with major mergers contributing both at early stages, where quiescently star-forming discs ...