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Problem Drinking And Symptoms Of Disordered Eating In Female High School Students, Ruth H. Striegel-Moore, Edward S. Huydic

Ruth Striegel Weissman

Session Duration And The Vi Response Function: With-In Session Prospective And Retrospective Efffects, James Dougan, Alfred Kuh, K. Vink

James Dougan

Two experiments examined the effects of session duration on responding during simple variable-interval schedules. In Experiment 1, rats were exposed to a series of simple variable-interval schedules differing in both session duration (10 min or 30 min) and scheduled reinforcement rate (7.5 s,15 s, 30 s, and 480 s). The functions relating response rate to reinforcement rate were predominantly monotonic for the short (10-min) sessions but were predominantly bitonic for the long (30-min) sessions, when data from the entire session were considered. Examination of responding within sessions suggested that differences in the whole-session data were produced by a combination of …

The Market For (Ir)Reproducible Econometrics, Susan K. Feigenbaum, David M. Levy

Susan Feigenbaum

No abstract provided.

Two-Part Marginal Cost Pricing Equilibria With N Firms: Sufficient Conditions For Existence And Optimality, Aaron S. Edlin, Mario Epelbaum

Aaron Edlin

Faculty Consistency Pay Program, John Fraas

John W. Fraas

This paper presents the procedures that were used to identify faculty salary compression, as well as, a discussion of the compensation program that was designed and implemented at a university to reduce the degree of salary compression. An example of the procedure used in the compensation program to determine the amount of money received by each faculty member is provided. The impact of the program on salary compression at the university is analyzed, and the results of a survey of faculty and Dean perceptions of the program are reviewed.

Is College Financial Aid Equitable And Efficient?, Aaron S. Edlin

Aaron Edlin

No abstract provided.

1. Children's Decision-Making Competency: Misunderstanding Piaget., Thomas D. Lyon

Thomas D. Lyon

Database Quality: Its Cost, Focus, And Future, Karen S. Calhoun

Karen S Calhoun

Briefly considers three questions: Can we afford OCLC database quality? Where is the best place to focus database quality efforts? Will advances in information technology make data quality efforts obsolete?

How Oclc And Member Libraries Are Improving The Online Union Catalog, Karen S. Calhoun, Nancy Campbell, Donna Gehring

Karen S Calhoun

Describes programs for cooperatively managing and improving the quality of the OCLC database with respect to duplicate records, records containing insufficient information, incorrect or variant forms of headings, and coding errors. Includes a description of a large, innovative project using "intelligent software" to correct name and subject headings. OCLC expects at least 5 million heading corrections when the project completes late in 1993.

Mutual Versus Unilateral Mistake In Contracts, Eric Bennett Rasmusen, Ian Ayres

Ian Ayres

Courts sometimes allow contracts to be voidable because of mistakes in their basic assumptions. The common wisdom is that rescission is more likely to be granted if the mistake is mutual rather than unilateral---an incorrect belief common to both parties, not just to one. Rescission for mistake can be justified as a way to avoid inefficient transactions and to reduce the costs of collecting information on whether a mistake has been made. These reasons do not justify a general rule distinguishing between mutual and unilateral mistake.

1. Young Children's Understanding Of Forgetting Over Time., Thomas D. Lyon, John H. Flavell

Thomas D. Lyon

"The First Hundred Days Of The Clinton Administration," At Amherst College Reunion, David R. Mayhew

David Mayhew

No abstract provided.

"Party Control And Lawmaking - The Clinton Presidency In Perspective," At Department Of Political Science, Suny Plattsburgh, David R. Mayhew

David Mayhew

No abstract provided.

"Presidential Elections And Policy Change - How Much Of A Connection Is There?" At Department Of Political Science, Suny Plattsburgh, David R. Mayhew

David Mayhew

No abstract provided.

"Presidents, Programs And Congress - The Clinton Experience So Far," At Wichita State University, David R. Mayhew

David Mayhew

No abstract provided.

Periodical Price Index 1993: Projecting Serials Costs; Periodicals Price Survey 1993, Lee C. Van Orsdel, Kathleen Born

Lee C. Van Orsdel

No abstract provided.

Quito: Una Experiencia De Gestión Urbana (1988-1992), Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

Este trabajo pretende mostrar algunas de las ideas fuerza que guiaron la propuesta del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito de la Administración Municipal 1988-92, a través de lo que la Dirección de Planificación desarrolló. Son criterios generales, que culminan con la formulación de una propuesta de gestión, del proyecto de Ley de constitución del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito (DMQ), y del respectivo Plan de Desarrollo Metropolitano.

La reflexión realizada proviene de la experiencia desde adentro, como copartícipe del proceso. Esto si bien tiene su propia riqueza, no es menos cierto que carece de la distancia tan necesaria para la objetividad. También …

The Urban Institute Audit Studies: Their Methods And Findings, James Heckman, Peter Siegelman

Peter Siegelman

No abstract provided.

The Impact Of Local Labor Markets On Black And White Family Structure, Michael Seeborg, Kristin Jaeger

Michael Seeborg

This study employs 1980 census data to determine how economic characteristics affect the incidence of female headed families in metropolitan areas. The study also attempts to determine if black family structure responds differently than white family structure to changes in the variables studied. It is found that changes in employment of men and women may have profound effects on family structure. Changes in the level of welfare support are also found to affect family structure. Black family structure is found to behave somewhat differently than white, thus lending support to Wilson's theory of the underclass.

Measuring The Degree Of Similarity Between Objects In Text Retrieval Systems, David Ellis, Jonathan Furner-Hines, Peter Willett

Jonathan Furner

Describes the use of a variety of similarity coefficients in the measurement of the degree of similarity between objects that contain textual information, such as documents, paragraphs, index terms or queries. The work is intended as a preliminary to future investigation of the calculations involved in measuring the degree of similarity between structured objects that may be represented in graph-theoretic forms. Discusses the role of similarity coefficients in text retrieval in terms of: document-query similarity; document-document similarity; co-citation analysis; term-term similarity; and the similarity between sets of judgements, such as relevance judgements. Describes several methods for expressing the formulae used …

Social Theory As Habitus, Rogers Brubaker

Rogers Brubaker

No abstract provided.

Response-Reinforcer Independence And The Economic Continuum: A Preliminary Analysis, Abdulrazaq A. Imam

Abdulrazaq A. Imam

Three pigeons were exposed to 1-hr and 4-hr sessions during which they earned food under a fixedratio 50 schedule of reinforcement while obtaining additional food according to either a variableinterval or a variable-time schedule. Postsession food was provided after the 1-hr sessions. The frequency of the variable-interval and variable-time food presentations was varied under the two session durations. The various combinations of within-session earned and unearned food, as well as the postsession food, defined conditions on the open-to-closed economy continuum. Key pecks tended to increase as the frequency of either variable-interval or variable-time food decreased. An economiccontinuum analysis based on …

Women In East Germany: From State Socialism To Capitalist Welfare State, Marilyn Rueschemeyer

Marilyn Rueschemeyer

No abstract provided.

Speed Variance, Enforcement, And The Optimal Speed Limit, Philip E. Graves, Dwight Lee, Robert L. Sexton

Robert L Sexton

A model of the optimal speed limit is developed which explicitly recognizes the roles of average speed, speed variance, and the level of enforcement. An unusual result emerges, namely that a higher speed limit may be optimal when reducing the variance in highway speeds reduces accident externalities.

The Short-And Long-Run Marginal Cost Curve: A Pedagogical Note, Robert L. Sexton, Philip E. Graves, Dwight R. Lee

Robert L Sexton

There is no abstract for this brief contribution.

Associative Properties Of A Conditioned Inhibitor As A Function Of Age In Cats., Nancy K. Dess, Stephan S. Soltysik

Nancy K Dess

The efficacy of conditioned inhibition in a novel conditioned stimulus/conditioned inhibitor (CS/CI) compound was tested in 6-, 10-, and 14-week-old kittens. The conditioned response was suppression of respiration elicited by a 5.1-sec CS paired with a brief, mild footshock. During coterminated 3 sec later without the shock. As previously reported, the CI trained in this paradigm is more potent in older kittens but passes a summation test in all age groups (Dess & Soltysik, 1989). In the transfer test, the order of the CS and CI was reversed, so that the CI preceded the CS with no stimulus overlap. Transfer …

The Short-And Long-Run Marginal Cost Curve: A Pedagogical Note, Robert L. Sexton, Philip E. Graves, Dwight R. Lee

Robert L Sexton

There is no abstract for this brief contribution.

Lexical Development In Bilingual Infants And Toddlers: Comparison To Monolingual Norms, Barbara Zurer Pearson, Sylvia C. Fernandez, D.Kimbrough Oller

Barbara Zurer Pearson

This study compares lexical development in a sample of 25 simultaneous bilingual and 35 monolingual children for whom semilongitudinal data were collected between the ages of 8 and 30 months. A standardized parent report form, the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory (1989), was used to assess the children's receptive and productive vocabulary in English and/or Spanish. A methodology was devised to assess the degree of overlap between the bilingual children's lexical knowledge in one language and their knowledge in the other. Using the measures presented here, there was no statistical basis for concluding that the bilingual children were slower to develop …

The Scramble For Gold: Monetary Regime Transformation In The 1870s, Giulio M. Gallarotti

Giulio M Gallarotti

No abstract provided.

Review Of Timothy Crusius, Discourse: A Critique And Synthesis Of Major Theories, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

No abstract provided.