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Thought experiments / by Sorensen, Roy A.

Table of Contents: “…Our most curious device -- Skepticism about thought experiments -- Mach and inner cognitive Africa -- The wonder of armchair inquiry -- Kuhntradictions -- The logical structure of thought experiments -- Conflict vagueness and precisification -- The evolution of thought experiment -- Are thought experiments experiments -- Fallacies and antifallacies.…”


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Experiments in sound / by Beeler, Nelson F. (Nelson Frederick), 1910-1978

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Experiments in ethics / by Appiah, Anthony

Table of Contents: “…The waterless moat -- The case against character -- The case against intuition -- The varieties of moral experience -- The ends of ethics.…”


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Investigating science with rubber bands by White, Laurence B.

Subjects: “…Science Experiments Juvenile literature. sh2008111312…”


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Everglades Experiments Lessons for Ecosystem Restoration / by Richardson, Curtis J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The Hydrologic Status of the Everglades, Past and Present Alteration Effects -- Soils of the Everglades Landscape -- Vegetation of the Everglades -- Ecological Status of the Everglades: Historical and Current Comparisons of Ecosystem Structure and Function -- Long-term Water Chemistry Along Nutrient and Hydrologic Gradients -- Hydrology Gradients in the Everglades -- Soil Chemistry and P Storage Along Nutrient Gradients -- Patterns of Algal Assemblages Along a Phosphorus Gradient -- Macrophyte Community Responses to Long-term Nutrient Additions, Altered Hydroperiod and Fire -- Invertebrates Along a Nutrient Gradient in the Northern Everglades -- Historical Gradient Changes in Vegetation, Water Quality and Hydrology in WCA-2A as Determined by Paleoecological Analysis -- A Mesocosm Approach to Establishment of Phosphorus Dosing Gradients in the Everglades -- Water Quality and Soil Chemistry responses to P Dosing -- Diel Changes in Water Chemistry in Response to P Dosing -- Changes in Macrophyte Slough Communities in Response to Experimental P Enrichment -- Experimental Assessment of Phosphorus Effects on Algal Assemblages in Dosing Mesocosms -- Decomposition of Organic Matter under P Dosing.…”
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The Everglades experiments : lessons for ecosystem restoration / by Richardson, Curtis J.

Table of Contents: “…Everglades Ecosystem -- Overview of Gradient Studies and Experiments -- Ecological Status of the Everglades: Environmental and Human Factors that Control the Peatland Complex on the Landscape -- Soil Characteristics of the Everglades Peatland -- Vegetation and Algae of the Everglades Fen -- Nutrient and Hydrologic Gradient Studies -- to the Gradient Studies -- Enrichment Gradients in WCA-2A and Northern WCA-3A: Water, Soil, Plant Biomass, and Nutrient Storage Responses -- Geologic Settings and Hydrology Gradients in the Everglades -- Effects of Hydrologic Management Decisions on Everglades Tree Islands -- Macrophyte Community Responses in the Everglades with an Emphasis on Cattail (Typha domingensis) and Sawgrass (Cladium jamaicense) Interactions along a Gradient of Long-Term Nutrient Additions, Altered Hydroperiod, and Fire -- Algal Responses to Long-Term Nutrient Additions -- Macroinvertebrate Responses to a Gradient of Long-Term Nutrient Additions, Altered Hydroperiod, and Fire -- Historical Changes in Water Quality and Vegetation in WCA-2A Determined by Paleoecological Analyses -- Carbon Cycling and Dissolved Organic Matter Export in the Northern Everglades -- Everglades Experiments -- to a Mesocosm Approach for Establishment of Phosphorus Gradient Experiments -- Water Quality, Soil Chemistry, and Ecosystem Responses to P Dosing -- Macrophyte Slough Community Response to Experimental Phosphorus Enrichment and Periphyton Removal -- Decomposition of Litter and Peat in the Everglades: The Influence of P Concentrations -- Experimental Assessment of Phosphorus Effects on Algal Assemblages in Dosing Mesocosms -- Macroinvertebrate and Fish Responses to Experimental P Additions in Everglades Sloughs -- Plant Community Response to Long-Term N and P Fertilization -- The Effects of Disturbance, Phosphorus, and Water Level on Plant Succession in the Everglades -- Establishment and Seedling Growth of Sawgrass and Cattail from the Everglades -- Modeling Ecosystem Responses to Phosphorus Additions -- Long-Term Phosphorus Assimilative Capacity (PAC) in the Everglades -- Spatial Distributions of Total Phosphorus and Phosphorus Accretion Rates in Everglades Soils -- An Ecological Basis for Establishment of a Phosphorus Threshold for the Everglades Ecosystem -- Lessons for Restoration of the Everglades -- An Ecological Approach for Restoration of the Everglades Fen.…”
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Experience and faith : the late-Romantic imagination of Emily Dickinson / by Brantley, Richard E.

Table of Contents: “…Distinguishing mode -- Ch. 2. Experimental trust -- Ch. 3. Nature methodized -- Ch. 4. …”


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Observation and experiment : an introduction to causal inference / by Rosenbaum, Paul R.

Table of Contents: “…Between observational studies and experiments -- Natural experiments -- Elaborate theories -- Quasi-experimental devices -- Sensitivity to bias -- Design sensitivity -- Matching techniques -- Biases from general dispositions -- Instruments -- Conclusion.…”


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The mighty experiment : free labor versus slavery in British emancipation / by Drescher, Seymour

Table of Contents: “…The Mighty Experiment; 9. Expanding the Experiment; 10. The Experiment Eroded; 11. …”
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Discipline and Experience : the Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution. by Dear, Peter, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Note on Citations and Translations; Introduction: The Measure of All Things; One Induction in Early-Modern Europe; Two Experience and Jesuit Mathematical Science: The Practical Importance of Methodology; Three Expertise, Novel Claims, and Experimental Events; Four Apostolic Succession, Astronomical Knowledge, and Scientific Traditions; Five The Uses of Experience; Six Art, Nature, Metaphor: The Growth of Physico-Mathematics; Seven Pascal's Void, Natural Philosophers, and Mathematical Experience; Eight Barrow, Newton, and Constructivist Experiment.…”
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Observation and experiment : an introduction to causal inference / by Rosenbaum, Paul R.

Table of Contents: “…Observational studies: Between observational studies and experiments -- Natural experiments -- Elaborate theories -- Quasi-experimental devices -- Sensitivity to bias -- Design sensitivity -- Matching techniques -- Biases from general dispositions -- Instruments -- Conclusion.…”
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The film experience : an introduction / by Corrigan, Timothy, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Preparing viewers and views: distribution, promotion, and exhibition -- Exploring a material world: mise-en-scène -- Seeing through the image: cinematography -- Relating images: editing -- Listening to the cinema: film sound -- Telling stories about time: narrative films -- Other cinematic shapes: documentary and experimental films -- Rituals, conventions, archetypes, and formulas: movie genres -- Conventional film history: evolutions, masterpieces, and periodization -- Global and local: inclusive histories of the movies -- Reading about film: critical methods and theories -- Writing a film essay: observations, arguments, research, and analysis.…”


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The film experience : an introduction / by Corrigan, Timothy

Table of Contents: “…Contexts: making, watching, and studying movies -- Introduction to the film experience -- Preparing viewers and views: production, distribution, promotion, and exhibition -- Compositions: film scenes, shots, cuts, and sounds -- Exploring a material world: mise-en-scène -- Seeing through the image: cinematography -- Relating images: editing -- Listening to the cinema: film sound -- Organizational structures: from stories to genres -- Telling stories about time: narrative films -- Representing the real: documentary films -- Experimental screens: avant-garde film, video art, and new media -- Rituals, conventions, archetypes, and formulas: movie genres -- Hollywood and the world -- Conventional film history: evolutions, masterpieces, and periodization -- Global and local: inclusive histories of the movies -- Reactions: reading and writing about film -- Reading about film: critical theories and methods -- Writing a film essay: observations, arguments, research, and analysis.…”


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Experimenting Landscapes : Testing the Limits of the Garden. by Festival, Métis International Garden

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The prison experience : disciplinary institutions and their inmates in early modern Europe / by Spierenburg, Petrus Cornelis

Table of Contents: “…Thieves, Prostitutes and Aggressors The Evolution of Imprisonment as a Penal Sanction; 8. The Prison Experience Internal Life from Above and from Below.…”
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Experiments in ethics by Appiah, Anthony

Table of Contents: “…The waterless moat -- The case against character -- The case against intuition -- The varieties of moral experience -- The ends of ethics.…”
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Wetting experiments / by Ruckenstein, Eli, 1925-, Berim, G. O. (Gersh Osievich)

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Gravitation and Experiment Poincaré Seminar 2006 / by Damour, Thibault

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Flow Experience Empirical Research and Applications /

Table of Contents: “…Psychological Correlates of the Flow Experience -- Chapter 20. Experimental Paradigms to Investigate Flow-Experience and Its Psychophysiology - Inspired from Stress Theory and Research; Tahmine Tozman and Corinna Peifer -- Chapter 21. …”
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