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Drexel Burnham Lambert, Debra Ross

Debra E. Ross

No abstract provided.

Blending Journalism And Communication Studies, John Pauly

Dr. John J. Pauly

No abstract provided.

Capacity Investment With A Capacity Exchange, Christiaan Hogendorn

Christiaan Hogendorn

No abstract provided.

Is This Music Scholar A Copyright Criminal?, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

No abstract provided.

Hong Kong: The Crown Jewel Of Broadband For China With The Second Highest Broadband Penetration In The World, Alice Lee, C. Y. K. So

Dr. LEE, Alice

The book won the Picard Award at AEJMC

Designing And Implementing Business Information Services In The Smme Sector In A Developing Country: The Case For Namibia, Elisha Chiware

Elisha Chiware

This article outlines the development and implementation strategies that can be applied in the deployment of business information services in the small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) sector in Namibia. The paper is based on a doctoral project that was carried out at the University of Pretoria from 2005 to 2007 and looks at the stages of user needs assessment, the design of services and the implementation stage as well as the impact assessment of the services.

Role Strain In University Research Centers, Craig Boardman, Barry Bozeman

Craig Boardman

We examine interview data from 21 science and engineering faculty affiliated with both academic departments and university research centers. Our results indicate that such scientists experience "role strain" but that resources provided by the centers provide sufficient inducement for affiliation. An important faculty development issue is whether the increments in resources are sufficient to offset the fragmentation of activities likely associated with role strain.

Carelessness And Discriminability In Work Role Requirement Judgments: Influences Of Role Ambiguity And Cognitive Complexity, Erich Dierdorff, Robert Rubin

Erich C. Dierdorff

Fundamental to effective human resource systems is the capture of data regarding work role requirements. However, previous research on factors that influence work role requirement judgments has been largely equivocal. From a sample of 203 incumbents, representing 73 unique occupations, we investigated 2 cognitive sources of influence on carelessness and discriminability in work role requirement judgments. We hypothesized that incumbents perceiving high role ambiguity would provide ratings that were more careless and showed less discriminability, and cognitively complex individuals would provide more careful and discriminating ratings. These influences were hypothesized to vary across different work descriptors and rating scales. Results …

Quartet Member (Alto), Sheridan Stormes

Sheridan Stormes

Quartet Member (Alto), Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation, 2007-present.

Economic Integration, Environmental Harmonization And Firm Relocation, Edward Barbier, Patrik Hultberg

Edward B Barbier

No abstract provided.

The Critical Potential Within Interpretive Ethnography, Kristine Fitch

Kristine Muñoz

No abstract provided.

Behavioral Outcomes Of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy And Triple P – Positive Parenting Program: A Review And Meta-Analysis, Rae Thomas, Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck

Rae Thomas

We conducted a review and meta-analyses of 24 studies to evaluate and compare the outcomes of two widely disseminated parenting interventions—Parent-Child Interaction Therapy and Triple P-Positive Parenting Program. Participants in all studies were caregivers and 3- to 12-year-old children. In general, our analyses revealed positive effects of both interventions, but effects varied depending on intervention length, components, and source of outcome data. Both interventions reduced parent-reported child behavior and parenting problems. The effect sizes for PCIT were large when outcomes of child and parent behaviors were assessed with parent-report, with the exclusion of Abbreviated PCIT, which had moderate effect sizes. …

Guide To The Kathleen Goddard Jones Papers, 1933-2001, Nancy Loe

Nancy E. Loe

Papers of environmental activist Kathleen Goddard Jones, including correspondence, clippings, research files, organization records, and 35mm slides, primarily relating to her efforts to protect the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes on the central coast of California, her participation in regional and national Sierra Club efforts, and other activities in defense of the ecosystems of California, donated by Kathleen Goddard Jones in 1993.

Drugs In Society: Causes, Concepts And Control, Gary Potter, Michael Lyman

Gary W. Potter

This work focuses on the many critical areas of America's drug problem, providing a foundation for rational decisionmaking within this complex and multi-disciplinary field. Broken into three sections: Understanding the Problem, Gangs and Drugs, and Fighting Back, topics covered include the business of drugs and the role of organized crime in the drug trade, drug legalization and decriminalization, legal and law enforcement strategies, an analysis of the socialization process of drug use and abuse, and a historical discussion of drug abuse that puts the contemporary drug problem into perspective.

“I’M Glad You Feel Comfortable Enough To Tell Me That”: Action Research For Better Health Care For Women Who Partner With Women, Michelle Campo

Michelle L. Campo

No abstract provided.

Building Sustainable Networks For Young Women And Icts Throughout Australia, Kathryn Moyle

Professor Kathryn Moyle

No abstract provided.

After Iraq: The Imperiled American Imperium, Charles Kegley, Jr., Greg Raymond

Greg Raymond

No abstract provided.

The Perioperative Librarian: Luxury Or Necessity?, Denise Hersey, Viji Kurup

Denise Hersey

The Widening Gap Between Demand For And Supply Of University Graduates In Australia, Daniel Edwards, Bob Birrell, Ian Dobson

Dr Daniel Edwards

The rapid growth in demand for university-trained personnel over recent years has mainly been filled by growth in the skilled migration program. The authors argue that more domestic students should be trained. The Coalition Government does not agree. It claims that 'unmet demand' from prospective university students has been met and that additional subsidised places are to be created. This article scrutinises these claims and concludes that they are not correct. The authors point to a shortfall in domestic higher education training. Over the period 1995-96 to 2005-06 there has been little or no growth in domestic undergraduate commencements (growth …

The General Social Survey (Gss): The Next Decade And Beyond, Patricia White, Paul Ciccantell

Paul Ciccantell

This volume reports the findings and recommendations of an NSF conference on the General Social Survey.

First In The Class? Age And The Education Production Function, Diane Schanzenbach, Elizabeth Cascio

Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Older children outperform younger children in a school-entry cohort well into their school careers. The existing literature has provided little insight into the causes of this phenomenon, leaving open the possibility that school-entry age is zero-sum game, where relatively young students lose what relatively old students gain. In this paper, we estimate the effects of relative age using data from an experiment where children of the same biological age were randomly assigned to different classrooms at the start of school. We find no evidence that relative age impacts achievement in the population at large. However, disadvantaged children assigned to a …

Interviewing Skills, Lisa Mcguire, Alison Chaney

Lisa E. McGuire

No abstract provided.

A Comparative Study Of The Police Training In The United Kingdom, The United States And Turkey, Cemil Dogutas, Osman Dolu, Serdar Gul

Serdar Kenan Gul

There are different practices in police training in different parts of the world in terms of their content and length. Police training in the United Kingdom and the United States are relatively short and practice-oriented compared to the long and theory-oriented training tradition in Turkey. Therefore, policing philosophy and police practices in these countries differ from one another. This study will examine police training systems in the United Kingdom, the United States, and in Turkey by comparing their strengths and weaknesses and showing their similarities and differences. In conclusion, this study will make recommendations for a better police training system …

Market And Welfare Effects Of The U.S. Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act, Kenneth Njoroge, Amalia Yiannaka, Azzeddine Azzam, Konstantinos Giannakas

Azzeddine Azzam

This paper analyzes the market and welfare effects of the United States Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act enacted in 2001. The act mandates meat packers to report their transactions daily to a government agency and requires the agency to make a summary of those transactions available to the public through the Mandatory Livestock Meat Market News Reports. Considering the case of an imperfect packer cartel that uses trigger price strategies, this paper examines the impact of market information provided by the reports on equilibrium livestock slaughter and the welfare of the groups involved and identifies the determinants of the socially optimal …

Using Fuzzy Clustering Methods For Delineating Urban Housing Submarkets, Sungsoon Hwang

Sungsoon Hwang

This study investigates whether a fuzzy clustering method is of any practical value in delineating urban housing submarkets relative to clustering methods based on classic (or crisp) set theory. A fuzzy c-means algorithm is applied to obtain fuzzy set membership degree of census tracts to housing submarkets defined within a metropolitan area. Issues of choosing algorithm parameters are discussed on the basis of applying fuzzy clustering to 85 metropolitan areas in the U.S. The comparison between results of fuzzy clustering and those of crisp set counterpart shows that fuzzy clustering yields statistically more desirable clusters.

Reference & Instruction For African Visual Culture, Nedda Ahmed

Nedda H Ahmed

No abstract provided.

A Latent Profile Analysis Of College Students’ Achievement Goal Orientation Profiles, Dena Pastor, K. Barron, B. Miller, S. Davis

Dena A Pastor

No abstract provided.

Rethinking Madame President: Are We Ready For A Woman In The White House?, Lori Cox, Caroline Heldman

Caroline Heldman

No abstract provided.

Costume, Kóstyom And Dress: Formulations Of Bagobo Ethnic Identity In Mindanao, Cherubim Quizon

Cherubim A Quizon

No abstract provided.

Single-Parenthood And Children’S Reading Performance In Asia, Hyunjoon Park

Hyunjoon Park

Using the data from Program for International Student Assessment, I examine the gap in reading performance between 15-year-old students in single-parent and intact families in 5 Asian countries in comparison to the United States. The ordinary least square regression analyses show negligible disadvantages of students with a single parent in Hong Kong and Korea, once students' demographic characteristics and socioeconomic background are held constant. Students in single-parent families in Indonesia and Thailand outperform their peers in intact families. The negative effect of single parenthood remains significant in Japan, even after parent-child communication is controlled. Interpreting the weak effect of single …