INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................................................2 I. THEORY.............................................................................................................................................................4 A. Set-Asides Can Enhance Intragroup Competition Among Strong Bidder...

This bibliography/review contains my thoughts on many recent articles and books related to the construction and use of scoring rubrics in education. Each annotation/review offers a thumbnail sketch of findings or other information that may be of use to rubric developers and/or users. In several instances, I break the fourth wall to describe personal asides and experiences. Although this work is...

Background: The traditional approach to limiting impacts of forestry on biodiversity is to set aside forest areas of particular conservation interest, either as formally protected reserves or on a voluntary basis. Many set-asides are left more or less untouched, but some of them have a history of disturbances such as wildfires, forest grazing, coppicing or small-scale felling. Such areas may gr...

Sphingolipids are biologically active lipids ubiquitously produced in all vertebrate cells. Asides from structural components of cell membrane, sphingolipids also function as intracellular and extracellular mediators that regulate many important physiological cellular processes including cell survival, proliferation, apoptosis, differentiation, migration and immune processes. Recent studies hav...

A strategy is suggested for teaching mathematically literate students, with no background in physics, just enough quantum mechanics for them to understand and develop algorithms in quantum computation and quantum information theory. Although the article as a whole addresses teachers of physics, well versed in quantum mechanics, the central pedagogical development is addressed directly to comput...

We point out the geometric significance of a part of the theorem regarding the maximality of the orthogonal group in the equiaffine group proved in [12].