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61Soil mechanics — is a discipline that applies principles of engineering mechanics, e.g. kinematics, dynamics, fluid mechanics, and mechanics of material, to predict the mechanical behavior of soils. Together with Rock mechanics, it is the basis for solving many… …
62Constructive research — is perhaps the most common computer science research method. This type of approach demands a form of validation that doesn’t need to be quite as empirically based as in other types of research like exploratory research. Nevertheless the… …
63Friedrich Waismann — (March 21, 1896 November 4, 1959) was an Austrian mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. He is best known for being a member of the Vienna Circle and one of the key theorists in logical positivism.Life and workBorn in Vienna, Waismann was… …
64E. Franklin Frazier — Edward Franklin Frazier (September 24, 1894 May 17, 1962), was an American sociologist. His 1932 Ph.D. dissertation The Negro Family in Chicago , later released as a book The Negro Family in the United States in 1939, analyzed the cultural and… …
65Communication sciences — refers to the schools of scientific research of human communication. This perspective follows the logical positivist tradition of inquiry; most modern communication science falls into a tradition of post positivism. Thus, communication scientists …
66J. A. Scott Kelso — (born February 27, 1947) is an Irish born neuroscientist working at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). Kelso holds the Glenwood and Martha Creech Eminent Scholar Chair in Science at (FAU). Biography Kelso was born in 1947 in Derry, Northern… …
67Wharton School Publishing — (known colloquially as WSP) is a publishing house, a division of The Wharton School and Pearson Education. The imprint brings together a variety of business educators and corporate executives on a list that features works in many formats,… …
68Villanova University School of Law — Infobox University name = Villanova University School of Law established = 1953 type = Private affiliation = Roman Catholic (Augustinian) dean = Mark A. Sargent city = Villanova Radnor Twp state = Pennsylvania country = USA website=… …
69Paul Ziff — (Robert) Paul Ziff (22 October 1920 in New York City mdash;9 January 2003 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina) was an American artist and philosopher specializing in semantics and aesthetics.CareerHe studied art at Columbia University and New York’s… …
70Lateral earth pressure — is the pressure that soil exerts in the horizontal plane. The common applications of lateral earth pressure theory are for the design of ground engineering structures such as retaining walls, basements, tunnels, and to determine the friction on… …
