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Smoking And Drinking Behavior In Patients With Head And Neck Cancer: Effects Of Behavioral Self-Blame And Perceived Control, Alan Christensen, Patricia Moran, Shawna Ehlers, Katherine Raichle, Lucy Karnell, Gerry Funk

Alan J. Christensen

Patients who continue to use tobacco or alcohol following treatment for head and neck cancers are at greater risk for cancer recurrence and mortality. The present study examined the effects of behavioral self-blame and perceived control over health on smoking and alcohol use in a sample of 55 patients with cancers of the head and neck. Measures of self-blame, perceived control, and depression were administered and an assessment of past and current smoking and drinking behavior was obtained. As anticipated, continued smoking after completion of oncologic treatment was predicted by the interaction of behavior specific self-blame and perceived control. Patients …

Survey Says … How Satisfied Are Advertising Professionals With Their Jobs, James Pokrywczynski, Jack Crowley

James Pokrywczynski

No abstract provided.

The Power Of Cyberlearning: An Empirical Test, Peter Navarro

PETER NAVARRO

No abstract provided.

Symbolic Realism In Rwanda: The Untampered Evidence Of Genocide, Sherrie Steiner

Sherrie M Steiner

No abstract provided.

Affidavit Of Peter Cramton, Peter Cramton

Peter Cramton

Summary of review of reserves and operable capability markets. For ISO New England.

Timing Of Seasonal Sales, Pascal Courty, Hao Li

hao li

We present a model of timing of seasonal sales where stores choose several designs at the beginning of the season without knowing which one, if any, will be fashionable. Fashionable designs have a chance to fetch high prices in fashion markets while non-fashionable ones must be sold in a discount market. In the beginning of the season, stores charge high prices in the hope of capturing their fashion market. As the end of the season approaches with goods still on the shelves, stores adjust downward their expectations that they are carrying a fashionable design, and may have sales to capture …

Dynamic Scale Economies, Specialization, And The Cost Of The Single Currency, Luca De Benedictis, Piercarlo Padoan

Luca De Benedictis

The paper explores the effect of exchange rate policy, labour market intervention and technological change on the structure of the Ricardian specialization of countries in presence of Economies of scale and learning-by-doing. The model is developed with the EU in mind.

"Ontological Not Normative," At Panel On "What's Worth Doing And Why - Political Philosophy And Political Science," At Yale University, David R. Mayhew

David Mayhew

No abstract provided.

Environmentally Sustainable Economic Development, Asayehgn Desta

Asayehgn Desta

Mars And Venus Do Better Together, Richard Teitelbaum

Brooke Harrington

No abstract provided.

"Patient Compliance In End-Stage Renal Disease, Alan Christensen

Alan J. Christensen

No abstract provided.

Review Of Communicating For Development: Human Change For Survival., Ruth Connell

Ruth R. Connell

No abstract provided.

Learning Spanish, Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

No abstract provided.

Political Communication Through Art: Fdr And The New Deal, Donna R. Hoffman, Alison D. Howard

Alison Dana Howard

Creating And Enforcing Norms, With Special Reference To Sanctions, Eric Bennett Rasmusen, Richard A. Posner

Eric Bennett Rasmusen

Two central puzzles about social norms are how they are enforced and how they are created or modified. The sanctions for violation of a norm can be categorized as automatic, guilt, shame, informational, bilateral- costly, and multilateral-costly. Problems in creating and enforcing norms are related to which sanctions are employed. We use our analysis of enforcement and creation of norms to analyze the scope of feasible government action either to promote desirable norms or to repress undesirable ones.

Make The Music, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

No abstract provided.

Social Determinants Of Responsiveness To Situational Influence: Self-Monitoring, Alcohol Use And Binge Drinking Among College Students, Katherine Novak, Lizabeth Crawford

Katherine B. Novak

Paper Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association. August, 1999. Chicago, IL.

Informational Standards In Development Agency Management, Paul Clements

Paul Clements

No abstract provided.

Displaced Persons: Race, Sex And New Discourses Of Orientalism In U.S. Women’S Magazines, Meenakshi Durham

Meenakshi Gigi Durham

No abstract provided.

A Case Study Of The Enterprise Zone Program: “Ez” Avenue To Minority Economic Development?, Sherri Wallace

Sherri L. Wallace

Measuring The Energy Savings From Home Improvement Investments: Evidence From Monthly Billing Data, Gilbert E. Metcalf, Kevin A. Hassett

Gilbert E. Metcalf

An important factor driving energy policy over the past two decades has been the "energy paradox," the perception that consumers apply unreasonably high hurdle rates to energy-saving investments. We explore one possible explanation for this apparent puzzle: that realized returns fall short of the returns promised by engineers and product manufacturers. Using a unique data set, we find that the realized return to attic insulation is statistically significant, but the median estimate (9.7%) is almost identical to a discount rate for this investment implied by a CAPM analysis. We conclude that the case for the energy paradox is weaker than …

2. Are Battered Women Bad Mothers? Rethinking The Termination Of Abused Women’S Parental Rights For Failure To Protect., Thomas D. Lyon

Thomas D. Lyon

The Man Who Listens To Behavior: Folk Wisdom And Behavior Analysis From A Real Horse Whisperer, James Dougan, Valeri Farmer-Dougan

James Dougan

The popular novel and movie The Horse Whisperer are based on the work of several real-life horse whisperers, the most famous of whom is Monty Roberts. Over the last 50 years, Roberts has developed a technique for training horses that is both more effective and less aversive than traditional training techniques. An analysis of Roberts’ methods (as described in his book, The Man Who Listens to Horses) indicates a deep understanding of behavioral principles including positive reinforcement, timeout, species-specific defense reactions, ‘‘learned helplessness,’’ and the behavioral analysis of language. Roberts developed his theory and techniques on the basis of …

An Alternative Tale Of Two Tax Jurisdictions: A Reply, Robert L. Sexton, Gary Galles

Robert L Sexton

ABSTRACT. Cebula (1999) suggests that the success of California's Proposition 13 and Massachusetts' Proposition 2-1/2 is better judged by their effects on the growth rates of real per capita revenues and expenditures rather than on the te^ek of those variables, which Galles and Sexton (1998) used to evaluate those measures. However, the data shows that virtually all of their effects, relative to the United States as a whole, arose during their implementation periods, and that there is no clear evidence of the "longer term success in terms of reducing the growth rate of real per capita revenues and expenditures" that …

Hierarchies And Information-Processing Organizations, Hao Li

hao li

This paper analyzes organizational structures that minimize information processing costs for a specific organizational task. Organizations consist of agents of limited ability connected in a network. These agents collect and process information, and make decisions. Organizations implement strategies---mappings from environmental circumstances to decisions. The strategies are exogenously given from a class of "pie"' problems to be defined in this paper. The notion of efficiency is lexicographic: the primary criterion is minimizing the number of agents, and the secondary criterion is minimizing the number of connections between the agents. In this modeling framework, efficient organizations are not hierarchical for a large …

Investment With Uncertain Tax Policy: Does Random Tax Policy Discourage Investment?, Gilbert E. Metcalf, Kevin A. Hassett

Gilbert E. Metcalf

The authors consider the impact of tax policy uncertainty on firm level and aggregate investment, comparing investment behavior when uncertainty is due to a shock following geometric Brownian motion (GBM) versus when random discrete jumps in tax policy occur. Expectations of the likelihood of a tax policy switch have an important negative impact on the gain to delaying investment in the latter model and time to investment can fall with increasing tax policy uncertainty. Aggregate investment simulations indicate that capital formation is adversely affected by increases in uncertainty in the traditional GBM model but can be enhanced in the jump …

Collecting The South: An Historical Overview Of Reference Sources For The Study Of Southern Literature, Jeanne Pavy

Jeanne Pavy

No abstract provided.

Suicide Intervention: Joint Services Training, Brian Kingshott

Brian F. Kingshott

No abstract provided.

Phd Thesis (Doctorat De Spécialité): Université De Ouagadougou, 1999. Dr. Mamoudou H. Dicko. Purification Et Propriétés Physico-Chimiques Des Enzymes De Curculigo Pilosa, Gladiolus Klattianus Et Boscia Senegalensis Catalysant L'Hydrolyse Des Polysaccharides (Amidon Et Béta-Glucanes), Mamoudou H. Dicko Prof.

Pr. Mamoudou H. DICKO, PhD

The objective of this study was the research of novel and inexpensive sources of polysaccharides degrading enzymes such as amylases and glucanases from local plants in order to justify their biotechnological applications. The isolation of two l3-amylases and an endo-1,3-ß-D-glucanase was reached using common protein purification methods such as buffer extraction, ammonium sulfate fractionation, ionexchange and gel filtration chromatographies. The methods used were simple and easily reproducible, suggesting the possibilfty of large-scale production. ln the crude extract of Curculigo pilosa tuber, only ß-amylase was detected as starch degrading enzyme and its activity was approximately 282 Uig of fresh material. The …

Speaking Relationally: Culture, Communication, And Interpersonal Connection, Kristine Fitch

Kristine Muñoz

Reviews and discusses the book "Therapy, Counseling and Survival Through Interpersonal Connectedness by Paul Drew