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Presents a study designed to verify the efficacy of a conceptual model intended to be used to examine the relative effectiveness of a variety of educational interventions in terms of the self-reported satisfaction of gifted students' affective and motivational needs. Optimal learning; Developmentally appropriate provision for gifted students.

Examines the historical moment when Max Weber's methodological and political liberalism was forcefully challenged by the critical theory of Georg Lukacs and the political existentialism of Carl Schmitt soon after the sociologist's death in the early 1920s. Exploration on how Lukacs and Schmitt come to terms with their teacher's most important thesis, modernity as a process of increasing `disenchantment' and `rationalization'; Information on Weber, Lukacs and Schmitt.

Provides information on a study which determines the biochemical and genetic characteristics of brochocin-C., a bacteriocin produced by Brochothrix ATCC 4374. Materials and methods used; Results and discussion.

Examines Carl Schmitt and the Critical Legal Studies movement's radical criticisms of liberalism's method of legal adjucation and offers a critique of Jurgen Habermas' reflexive or discourse theory of law. Formalism, indeterminacy, and politics; Rationally democratic adjudication; Contemporary critical theory of law.

Studies whether gamma-actin is a regulator of amino acid transport. Xenopus laevis oocyte expression; Cytoskeletal proteins; Yeast complementation; cDNA library; Transport measurement in yeast; DNA sequencing.

Examines Carl Schmitt's introduction to his 1929 lecture `The Age of Neutralization and Depoliticization' delivered at the Sixth Annual Conference of the International for Cultural Cooperation held in Barcelona, Spain. History, technology and political remarks; Similarity to Samuel Huntington's thesis done after the collapse of the former Soviet Union.

Part I. Tackles on environmental policy concerns related to acid pollution. Effects of declining media attention to acid pollution; Countries which first gave political responses to the issue; Link between acid pollution and forest decline. INSETS: International agreements to control acid pollution;Sourced-based versus effects-based methods of pollution control.

Presents a critical analysis of the foundations of the modern state as found in the work of Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss, with particular reference to Weimar Germany and its ultimate destruction. Political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes in his `Leviathan'; Fear of violent death as motive of the State in promoting political order; Potential conflict with technological autonomy.

Studies the expression of the antimicrobial peptide carnobacteriocin B2 by a signal peptide-dependent general secretory pathway. Construction of plasmids pRW19e and pJKM14; Production of and immunity to divergicin A and carnobacteriocin B2.

Explains more fully Nicolo Machiavelli's conception of political phenomena through an analysis of the variety of `accidenti' as they appear in the `Discourses.' Deciphering on why Machiavelli thought that such a regime was best equipped to deal with them; Nature of `accidenti' and how to manage them.

Assesses the potential utility of 19F nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) studies of fluorine-containing aliphatic residues in proteins using a sample of Lactobacillus casei dihydrofolate reductase. Factors that contribute to the chemical shifts; Models for electrostatic field effects in proteins.