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Scheming: The Consulting Criminal of the Vices
Scheming is a multifaceted perversion of character that is often found in the person who has enough knowledge to understand what is good but has not inculcated the habits that would allow them to properly pursue a virtuous end. The schemer, acting from the vicious root of pride, is deluded into thinking that their self-serving ends are not only permissible but morally preferable. Scheming is defined by its five essential aspects: collusion with a capital vice, self-deception of the agent, operation from a place of vulnerability, movement of action from passion to malice, and ever-growing need for greater challenge
Noncognitive Attributes as a Measure for College Admission: Exploring the Relationship Between Cognitive and Noncognitive Factors in First-Year College Student Success
Cognitive factors, such as standardized test scores and high school grade point average, have historically been used to predict college success. Many colleges and universities place great importance on these cognitive factors when making admissions decisions. However, enrollment leaders question the predictive validity of these factors due to recent studies advocating for the use of noncognitive assessments. The purpose of this study was to examine the role that noncognitive attributes have in predicting college student success and whether their predictive power is greater than that of standardized test scores and high school grade point average. This study employed a quantitative methodology using a correlational predictive research design. The study investigated the Student Strengths Inventory (SSI) assessment results on 1,104 first-year students at a mid-sized public regional comprehensive university in the southeast United States. The SSI results were analyzed to determine if the SSI noncognitive subscales (educational commitment, academic engagement, academic self-efficacy, resiliency, social comfort, and campus engagement) predict first-year grade point average and retention better than standardized test scores and high school grade point average. The study’s findings showed that academic self-efficacy, academic engagement, resiliency, campus engagement, high school GPA, and SAT score were statistically significant in predicting first-year GPA. The study’s second finding showed that the only significant predictor of retention was high school GPA. Implications of this study are to quantify the role that noncognitive attributes have in predicting student success and how higher education institutions might assess these variables as part of the admissions process
Multilayer and conformal antennas using synthetic dielectric substrates
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Motor Toboggan Sled Trains in Antarctica
Reports experience in expeditionary transport in 1962-63. The 650 lb Polaris K-95 Ranger motor toboggans are described, and their maintenance, operation, engine starting, performance, fuel consumption and capabilities outlined. Various kinds of sleds were used, though mostly the 90 lb Nansen-type Grasshopper; sled performance, accessories, connections, and braking are noted. Methods of steering and rigging the sled trains are also discussed. The equipment proved efficient, inexpensive, relatively safe and comfortable to operate, with few mechanical troubles
Data report for Atlantic pelagic zoogeography
This data report fulfils two functions. It (1) gives station data
for 1022 midwater trawl collections made in the Atlantic Ocean between
1961 and 1974 by the writers and their colleagues (Table 1, Figure 1,
and Appendix 1) and for 531 Atlantic neuston collections made between
1964 and 1974 (Table 2 and Appendix 2), and (2) gives the geographic
coordinates for a set of boundaries that divides the Atlantic Ocean
between the arctic-subarctic boundary and the subtropical convergence
at 40°S into a system of faunal regions and provinces (Figure 2 and
Appendix 3). The derivation of these boundaries is explained briefly.Prepared for the National Science Foundation
under Grant DES 74-23209
Mesopelagic fishes in Gulf Stream cold-core rings
Calculations of abundance of midwater fishes in the families Myctophidae, Gonostomatidae, Photichthyidae, and Stemoptychidae for the 1000 m water column were made in cold-core rings and in the nearby Sargasso Sea and Slope Water…
Vegetarian nutrition - Comparing physical performance of omnivorous and vegetarian athletes
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Midwater fish data report for warm-core Gulf Stream rings cruises 1981-1982
This data report is for midwater fishes collected during the
multidisciplinary Warm-Core Rings Program in 1981 and 1982.
Stations were made in and near three warm-core rings on five cruises
within a period of 14 months. On Atlantis II cruise 110 (September-October
1981) six stations were made in and around ring 81-D (age two months).
Stations were made in the vicinity of ring 82-B on three cruises in
1982--twelve stations during Oceanus 118 (April) when the ring was two months
old, 15 stations during Oceanus 121 (June) at age four months, and 19 stations
during Oceanus 125 (August) at age 5.5 months. Finally, twelve stations were
made in and near meander/ring 82-H (age 0) during Knorr 98 in
September/October 1982 (Tables 1-10).
The collections were made with a new midwater trawl - the MOCNESS-20
(MOC-20) (Wiebe et al., 1985), a scaled-up version of the MOCNESS-1 (an
apparatus for collecting zooplankton; Wiebe et al., 1976) and successor to the
MOCNESS-10 (like the MOC-20, a midwater trawl). (The number forming the
distinctive part of the name of these nets is equal to the area of the
projected mouth in square meters when the apparatus is in a common fishing
attitude.) The MOC-20 consists of a set of 3-mm mesh rectangular nets that
can be opened and closed by command from the surface via a signal-conducting
towing warp. Apparatus attached to the net frame measures and transmits
depth, temperature, conductivity, flow, and net-frame angle to the towing
ship's laboratory. Flow (net speed), vertical velocity, and net-frame angle
allow computation of the water volume filtered . On the WCR cruises a set of
five or six nets was used. One net (not used for quantitative analyses) was
fished down to 1000 m, then closed and a second net opened. The second and
successive nets were closed and opened sequentially at intervals as the
apparatus was brought back to the surface. A surface-to-surface cycle with
the gear is referred to as a station, the contents of a single net as a
collection. In addition to be1ng described by latitude and longitude,
stat1ons are located in the same radial coordinate system used to composite
the warm-core rings physical data, that is, by distance and bearing from the
moving ring center.Funding was provided by the National Scten.ce Foundation
under Grant Numbers OCE 80-17270 and OCE 86-20402
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