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The Wind; Flight, Gale Stam Apr 1982

The Wind; Flight, Gale Stam

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Campaign Contributions And Congressional Voting: A Simultaneous Probit-Tobit Model, Henry W. Chappell Jr. Feb 1982

Campaign Contributions And Congressional Voting: A Simultaneous Probit-Tobit Model, Henry W. Chappell Jr.

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Full-information maximum likelihood (FIML) estimates of the simultaneous probit-Tobit (SPT) model suggest that effects of campaign contributions on voting are smaller than single equation probit estimates would indicate. The author has generally unable to conclude that contributions have a significant impact on voting decisions, apparently votes are most often decided on the basis of personal ideology or preferences of constituents. These findings differ markedly from earlier results of economists Gary C. Durden and Jonathan J. Silberman, whose single equation models showed a substantial impact of contributions on voting decisions. Despite the lack of significance according to model SPT, it would …

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Urbanization And Malnutrition In The Sudan, Richard A. Lobban Jr. Jan 1982

Urbanization And Malnutrition In The Sudan, Richard A. Lobban Jr.

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The complex and contradictory nature of the process of urbanization is manifest in a wide variety of ways. Inherent within the process are patterns of socio-economic differentiation such as class formation, social stratification and complex division of labor. Topics such as urban health and nutrition demand an anthropological perspective insofar as they are products of human culture and specific relations of production at specific periods. In short, a study of human health would be very limited without an understanding of its anthropological and its epidemiological context. The search for causality and correlation would likewise be frustrated. Remarkably, many inquiries into …

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The Role Of Economic Analysis In Public Range Management, B. Delworth Gardner Jan 1982

The Role Of Economic Analysis In Public Range Management, B. Delworth Gardner

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Economic analysis has a vital, if not indispensable, role to play in the management decisions of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM} if the national welfare is to be served effectively. This rather sweeping conclusion is justified by the nature of the management problems faced by the BLM and by the unique view of the world provided by the field of economics.

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School Librarianship In Canada: An Introduction, Ken Haycock Jan 1982

School Librarianship In Canada: An Introduction, Ken Haycock

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Library Services For French Language Programs, Ken Haycock Jan 1982

Library Services For French Language Programs, Ken Haycock

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Newspaper Errors: Reporters Dispute Most Source Claims, William A. Tillinghast Jan 1982

Newspaper Errors: Reporters Dispute Most Source Claims, William A. Tillinghast

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The article presents a study related to the newspaper errors. Deep probe of disagreements suggests errors are really differences of opinion between sources and reporters. Research on newspaper accuracy has shown that news sources contend that about half the newspaper articles citing them contain at least one mistake, usually a misquote, omission or distorted emphasis. But, most of the half dozen studies which examined errors in newspapers excluded the reporter from the analysis, concentrating almost entirely on the perceptions of news sources. One study which did look at reporter response found that a reporter's focusing on a particular element of …

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Source Control And Evaluation Of Newspaper Inaccuracies, William A. Tillinghast Jan 1982

Source Control And Evaluation Of Newspaper Inaccuracies, William A. Tillinghast

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Medieval World View In Modern Jargon [Review Of Entropy: A New World View By Jeremy Rifkin], Jeffrey Rogers Hummel Dec 1981

Medieval World View In Modern Jargon [Review Of Entropy: A New World View By Jeremy Rifkin], Jeffrey Rogers Hummel

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Consensus, Community, And Exoticism, John W. Adams Oct 1981

Consensus, Community, And Exoticism, John W. Adams

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Anthropological concepts, which have been taken out of context and applied without full understanding, have been misused by historians of colonial North America. Part of the difficulty is due to the normal hazards of incorporating the work of another field in one's own; and part is due to the reluctance of historians to employ monothematic explanations. This latter difficulty has led historians to favor those concepts of anthropology which are not easily measured.

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The James White Library: Past And Future?, Mary Jane Mitchell Mar 1981

The James White Library: Past And Future?, Mary Jane Mitchell

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Third Annual Report Of The Independent Evaluation Of The California Master Plan For Special Education, Patricia Craig Mar 1981

Third Annual Report Of The Independent Evaluation Of The California Master Plan For Special Education, Patricia Craig

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This is the Third Annual Report on the independent evaluation of the California Master Plan for Special Education, which was mandated in Assembly Bill 1250 and Senate Bill 1870. It contains the findings from follow-up studies in six Master Plan (MP) and four non-Master Plan (NMP) areas during 1979-80. The findings are based on responses of administrators, support personnel, and special education and regular classroom teachers to question­ naires and to questions asked during interviews conducted by SRI staff mem­ bers during 1-week visits to each of the 10 sites. The following topics were explored in greater depth during the …

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Salary Equity, Jo Bell Whitlatch, Judy Reynolds Mar 1981

Salary Equity, Jo Bell Whitlatch, Judy Reynolds

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Some Cultivated Plants In Ndumba, Eastern Highlands Province, Terence E. Hays Jan 1981

Some Cultivated Plants In Ndumba, Eastern Highlands Province, Terence E. Hays

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This paper reports on the cultivation and uses of 47 species of minor food crops and other useful plants in Habi'ina village, a Tairora speaking community in the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea.

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The Law Of Elephants And The Justice Of Monkeys: Two Cases Of Anti-Colonialism In The Sudan, Richard A. Lobban Jr. Jan 1981

The Law Of Elephants And The Justice Of Monkeys: Two Cases Of Anti-Colonialism In The Sudan, Richard A. Lobban Jr.

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So often the English language literature accepts the "civilizing" mission and "even-handed" governance of the colonial authorities. My research has shown that such judgments are difficult to support. Since this special commemorative issue of Africa Today is celebrating a quarter century of national independence of the Sudan I have sought to use the case study method to reconstruct something of the perception of colonial rule from the eyes of the colonized rather than colonizer. Although it should go without saying, the British forces arrived in the Sudan as a result of military conquest with battlefields anointed in Sudanese blood. Despite …

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Adam And Adapa : Two Anthropological Characters, Niels-Erik Andreasen Jan 1981

Adam And Adapa : Two Anthropological Characters, Niels-Erik Andreasen

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Remarks On The History Of The Indo-European Infinitive, Dorothy Disterheft Jan 1981

Remarks On The History Of The Indo-European Infinitive, Dorothy Disterheft

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Getting To First Base: Developing Support From School Principals, Ken Haycock Jan 1981

Getting To First Base: Developing Support From School Principals, Ken Haycock

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Monetary Approaches To Devaluation: Comment, Yeung-Nan Shieh Jan 1981

Monetary Approaches To Devaluation: Comment, Yeung-Nan Shieh

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Channel Instability In A Braided Sand Bed River, William L. Graf Jan 1981

Channel Instability In A Braided Sand Bed River, William L. Graf

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The Gila River of central Arizona is representative of braided, sand bed rivers in alluvial valleys that have inherent unstable behavior and destructive channel migration. The 112-year record of channel conditions along a portion of the Gila River provides data for the construction of locational probability maps for main flow channels. Zones of stability and hazardous instability alternate with each other at 3.2 km (2 mi) intervals. During the past century the overall sinuosity of the main flow channel has remained close to 1.18, despite numerous changes in actual location. Spatial and temporal variation of sinuosity have occurred in subreaches …

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The Deregulation And Monetary Control Act Of 1980, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel Dec 1980

The Deregulation And Monetary Control Act Of 1980, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel

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Nigerian Government And Politics Under Military Rule, 1966-79 By Oyeleye Oyediran, Mark W. Delancey Dec 1980

Nigerian Government And Politics Under Military Rule, 1966-79 By Oyeleye Oyediran, Mark W. Delancey

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Diffusion, Reinforcement, Geopolitics, And The Spread Of War, Benjamin A. Most, Harvey Starr Dec 1980

Diffusion, Reinforcement, Geopolitics, And The Spread Of War, Benjamin A. Most, Harvey Starr

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The discussion reports the results of an examination of the possible diffusion of new war participations during the 1946-65 era. A theoretical argument is developed to yield more precise expectations about when, where, why, and how diffusion processs might operate. Four diffusion-related processes (positive spatial diffusion, positive reinforcement, negative spatial diffusion, and negative reinforcement) are discussed and analyzed. A series of simple turnover tables and a focus on nations' borders are used to go beyond the authors' previous stochastic modeling efforts. The results provide strong evidence that is consistent with both the authors' theoretical argument and the general war diffusion …

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Book Review: Understanding Conflict And War, Vol. 4 - War, Power, Peace, By Rudolph Rummel, Harvey Starr Dec 1980

Book Review: Understanding Conflict And War, Vol. 4 - War, Power, Peace, By Rudolph Rummel, Harvey Starr

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Second Annual Report Of The Independent Evaluation Of The California Master Plan For Special Education Volume 2, Patricia Craig Apr 1980

Second Annual Report Of The Independent Evaluation Of The California Master Plan For Special Education Volume 2, Patricia Craig

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This volume of the Second Annual Report on the California Master Plan for Special Education contains supporting technical information for the findings reported in Volume I. In the first section of this appendix, the method used to select the 25 sample areas is described. The second section details the methodology used for selecting teachers and parents for the questionnaire survey and presents response rates by area for each group surveyed. The third section explains the methodology used to develop the indices of knowledge, satisfaction, and skill. The fourth section des­cribes the procedures used for the follow-up of survey activities, presents …

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Second Annual Report Of The Independent Evaluation Of The California Master Plan For Special Education Volume 1, Patricia Craig Apr 1980

Second Annual Report Of The Independent Evaluation Of The California Master Plan For Special Education Volume 1, Patricia Craig

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This two-volume Second Annual Report presents the results of the data collection activities during the first year. The first volume is a nontechnical presentation of the research findings. We have tried to keep it as free of technical jargon as possible and have assumed that readers have some familiarity with the California Master Plan. Volume II is a technical appendix that discusses in detail the methodological aspects of the work. The purpose of this report is to describe concisely, informatively, and objectively the status of special education programs in districts, RLAs, and counties. Most of the information presented is based …

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Uses Of Wild Plants In Ndumba, Eastern Highlands Province, Terence E. Hays Jan 1980

Uses Of Wild Plants In Ndumba, Eastern Highlands Province, Terence E. Hays

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For Papua New Guineans,l as well as for those who wish to understand them better, traiditional knowledge of the local natural environment is a priceless resource. In the face of increasing commitments to a cash economy, however, many communities are rapidly losing their awareness and appreciation of the rich animal and plant worlds which are immediately available to them. As Powell has recently observed (1976), the recorded information regarding traditional plant knowledge and uses has tended to be widely-scattered in the literature and relatively difficult to access, especially for those who stand to benefit the most from it. A recent …

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Water Use In Agriculture Now And For The Future, B. Gardner Delworth Jan 1980

Water Use In Agriculture Now And For The Future, B. Gardner Delworth

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Water is the primary limiting factor in agriculture in the United States and the world. The western states have gained importance in agricultural production only through extensive use of irrigation from surface and groundwater sources. With the increase in population, these water supplies are facing new pressures for reallocation. Accurate scientific information concerning water availability, behavior, management, and value is essential in optimizing water allocation on farms, in agriculture, and among agriculture and the various other uses. This report is an overview of the physical, institutional, economic, and sociological aspects of the water issue from the standpoint of agriculture. It …

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Against Epistemology - Comment, Daniel R. Sabia Jan 1980

Against Epistemology - Comment, Daniel R. Sabia

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Program Advocacy: The Missing Element, Ken Haycock Jan 1980

Program Advocacy: The Missing Element, Ken Haycock

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