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Why People Obey the Law
Princeton University Press eBooks
People obey the law if they believe it's legitimate, not because they fear punishment--this is the startling conclusion of Tom Tyler's classic study. Tyler suggests that lawmakers and law enforcers would do much better to make legal systems worthy of...
Punishment (psychology)LegitimacyDeterrence (psychology)LawPolitical science
Difficult (12.1)
DOI: 10.1515/9781400828609
Journal Article
Vegard’s law
Physical Review A
Vegard's law is an approximate empirical rule which holds that a linear relation exists, at constant temperature, between the crystal lattice constant of an alloy and the concentrations of the constituent elements. Applications of a density-functiona...
PhysicsLattice constantCondensed matter physicsThermodynamicsConstant (computer programming)
Very Difficult (22.0)
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.43.3161
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How the Laws of Physics Lie
Durham Research Online (Durham University)
Nancy Cartwright argues for a novel conception of the role of fundamental scientific laws in modern natural science. If we attend closely to the manner in which theoretical laws figure in the practice of science, we see that despite their great expla...
EpistemologyScientific realismPhysical lawCommitRealism
Difficult (13.0)
DOI: 10.1093/0198247044.001.0001
Journal Article
Probable Inference, the Law of Succession, and Statistical Inference
Journal of the American Statistical Association
(1927). Probable Inference, the Law of Succession, and Statistical Inference. Journal of the American Statistical Association: Vol. 22, No. 158, pp. 209-212.
InferenceStatistical inferenceEcological successionFrequentist inferenceFiducial inference
Difficult (12.3)
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1927.10502953
Journal Article
The Law of Attrition
Journal of Medical Internet Research
In an ongoing effort of this Journal to develop and further the theories, models, and best practices around eHealth research, this paper argues for the need for a "science of attrition", that is, a need to develop models for discontinuation of eHealt...
eHealthAttritionClinical trialThe InternetPopulation
Very Difficult (20.1)
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.7.1.e11
Journal Article
Belief in the law of small numbers.
Psychological Bulletin
People have erroneous intuitions about the laws of chance. In particular, they regard a sample randomly drawn from a population as highly representative, that is, similar to the population in all essential characteristics. The prevalence of the belie...
PsychologySocial psychologyLawPolitical science
Very Difficult (16.3)
DOI: 10.1037/h0031322
Book
Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
Medical Entomology and Zoology
From the Publisher:
Should cyberspace be regulated? How can it be done? It's a cherished belief of techies and net denizens everywhere that cyberspace is fundamentally impossible to regulate. Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig warns that, if we're no...
CyberspaceCode (set theory)LawPolitical scienceComputer security
Moderate (10.4)
Journal Article
The Entropy Law and the Economic Process.
The Economic Journal
Journal Article The Entropy Law and the Economic Process Get access The Entropy Law and the Economic Process. By N. Georgesgu-Roegen. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1971. Pp. xv + 457. £7.50.) M. J. Green M. J. Green Central Sta...
Entropy (arrow of time)LawLaw and economicsEconomicsMathematical economics
Difficult (11.1)
DOI: 10.2307/2231206
Journal Article
Likert scales, levels of measurement and the “laws” of statistics
Advances in Health Sciences Education
Likert scaleStatisticsParametric statisticsEconometricsNonparametric statistics
Easy (7.2)
DOI: 10.1007/s10459-010-9222-y
Journal Article
Indentation size effects in crystalline materials: A law for strain gradient plasticity
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
We show that the indentation size effect for crystalline materials can be accurately modeled using the concept of geometrically necessary dislocations. The model leads to the following characteristic form for the depth dependence of the hardness: HH0...
IndentationPlasticityMaterials scienceLength scalePower law
Very Difficult (15.4)
DOI: 10.1016/s0022-5096(97)00086-0
Journal Article
The Laws of Migration
Journal of the Statistical Society of London
LawPolitical science
DOI: 10.2307/2979181
Book
The Law of Peoples
One aim of this essay is to sketch in a short space-I can do no more than that-how the law of peoples may be developed out of liberal ideas of justice similar to but more general than the idea I called justice as fairness and presented in my book A T...
SketchEconomic JusticeLawPoliticsInternational law
Difficult (12.3)
Journal Article
Systems of conservation laws
Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics
In this paper a wide class of difference equations is described for approximating discontinuous time dependent solutions, with prescribed initial data, of hyperbolic systems of nonlinear conservation laws. Among these schemes we determine the best on...
Conservation lawMathematicsPhysicsLawLibrary science
Difficult (12.1)
DOI: 10.1002/cpa.3160130205
Journal Article
Slip instability and state variable friction laws
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
The dependence of the friction force on slip history is described by an experimentally motivated constitutive law where the friction force is dependent on slip rate and state variables. The state variables are defined macroscopically by evolution equ...
Slip (aerodynamics)State variableMechanicsSliderStiffness
Difficult (12.8)
DOI: 10.1029/jb088ib12p10359
Editorial
The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.
PubMed
PsychologyPsychiatryPolitical scienceMedicineLibrary science
Difficult (11.2)
DOI: 10.29158/jaapl.210028-20
Journal Article
Colloquium : Area laws for the entanglement entropy
Reviews of Modern Physics
Physical interactions in quantum many-body systems are typically local: Individual constituents interact mainly with their few nearest neighbors. This locality of interactions is inherited by a decay of correlation functions, but also reflected by sc...
Quantum entanglementPhysicsStatistical physicsEntropy (arrow of time)Quantum discord
Very Difficult (16.2)
DOI: 10.1103/revmodphys.82.277
Journal Article
Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order
British Journal of Sociology
Preface to the Second Edition Introduction to the First Edition PART I The Social History of a Moral Panic The Origins of Social Control The Social Production of News PART II Balancing Accounts: Cashing in on Handsworth Orchestrating Public Opinion E...
Order (exchange)State (computer science)LawPolitical scienceLaw and economics
Very Difficult (35.6)
DOI: 10.2307/589668
Journal Article
Economic Analysis of Law
Stanford Law Review
Economic Analysis of Law, Eighth Edition, written by the pioneer in law and economics analysis, Richard A. Posner, remains the classic text in its field. This lucid, comprehensive casebook covers every aspect of the economic analysis of the law, incl...
CasebookConstitutionEconomic lawLawPublic law
Very Difficult (14.5)
DOI: 10.2307/1227682
Journal Article
Earthquakes and friction laws
Nature
GeologySlip (aerodynamics)InstabilitySeismologyLaw
DOI: 10.1038/34097
Journal Article
The laws of emotion.
American Psychologist
It is argued that emotions are lawful phe- nomena and thus can be described in terms of a set of laws of emotion. These laws result from the operation of emotion mechanisms that are accessible to intentional control to only a limited extent. The law ...
PsychologyFeelingSituational ethicsMeaning (existential)Set (abstract data type)
Very Difficult (16.0)
DOI: 10.1037//0003-066x.43.5.349