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Lessons Of A Drought, Ujjayant N. Chakravorty

Ujjayant Chakravorty

Water will become the most prized and precious commodity in the coming years. Internecine conflicts over the resource are already the order of the day and a global water crisis seems not too far away. But the water-guzzling US state of California is showing a way out of the problem - by allowing farmers to sell their share of water, it is pushing them to become efficient water users.

Recent Advances In Intraoperative Neuromonitoring Of Spinal Cord Function: Pedicle Screw Stimulation Techniques, M. R. Isley, Ronald C. Pearlman, J. S. Wadsworth

Ronald Pearlman

Clutter And Serial Order Redefined And Retested, Xinshu Zhao

Professor Xinshu ZHAO

Social Approaches To Communication, John Lucaites, Kristine Fitch

Kristine Muñoz

Reviews the book, `Social Approaches to Communications,' edited by Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz.

Dilemmas Of Desire: The Representation Of Adolescent Sexuality In Two Teen Magazines, Meenakshi Durham

Meenakshi Gigi Durham

No abstract provided.

Monitoring Attentional Style And Medical Regimen Adherence In Hemodialysis Patients, Alan Christensen, Patricia Moran, William Lawton, Deanna Stallman, Anne Voigts

Alan J. Christensen

Previous research involving individuals facing chronic health problems suggests that an attentional style characterized by pronounced monitoring of threat-relevant information is associated with poorer behavioral and emotional adjustment. This study examined the hypothesis that a pronounced monitoring style would be associated with poorer medical regimen adherence in a sample of 51 chronic hemodialysis patients. Hierarchical regression analyses (controlling for demographic factors and trait anxiety) revealed that "high monitors" exhibited higher interdialysis weight gains and higher serum K values reflecting poorer adherence to fluid-intake and dietary restrictions. However, monitoring was not associated with a measure of medication adherence. Partial support was …

Timing And Extent Of Late Quaternary Paleolakes In The Trans-Pecos Closed Basin, West Texas And South-Central New Mexico, David Wilkins, Donald Currey

David E. Wilkins

The Trans-Pecos Closed Basin is a hydrographically closed region covering 20,000 km centered on Salt Basin, 160 km east of El Paso, Texas. Geomorphic and limnetic evidence have been used to identify four major highstands for Lake King during the last glacial maximum (LGM). Additional geomorphic features from a second, recently identified, paleolake, Lake Sacramento, have been found in the Beargrass subbasin, a nested subbasin approximately 75 km northwest of Salt Basin. Radiocarbon ages of the organic material in Lake King sediments date four abrupt climate changes and rapid lacustrine transgressions during the LGM with a quasi-periodicity of 2000 yr. …

Walking The Straight And Narrow: The Judicial Erasure Of The Homosexual Subject Under The First Amendment, Christine Yalda

Christine A. Yalda

No abstract provided.

Bruce Kidd’S The Struggle For Canadian Sport, Don Morrow

Donald Morrow

No abstract provided.

Telephone-Based Guided Self-Help For Binge Eating Disorder: A Feasibility Study, Anita M. Wells, Vicki Garvin, Ruth H. Striegel-Moore

Ruth Striegel Weissman

Neglected Effects On The Uses Side: Even A Uniform Tax Would Change Relative Goods Prices, Don Fullerton, Diane Lim Rogers

Don Fullerton

No abstract provided.

Future Of Legal Publishing, Troy Johnson

Troy Johnson

An article looking at the future of publishing for the West Publishing.

"Dump Bronze Age Bucks For Electronic Money.", Jack Weatherford

Jack Weatherford, Retired

No abstract provided.

Periodical Price Survey 1997: Unsettled Times, Unsettled Prices; The State Of The Periodicals Marketplace Mid-Revolution, Lee C. Van Orsdel, Kathleen Born

Lee C. Van Orsdel

No abstract provided.

Periodical Price Survey 1997: Unsettled Times, Unsettled Prices; The State Of The Periodicals Marketplace Mid-Revolution, Lee C. Van Orsdel, Kathleen Born

Lee C. Van Orsdel

No abstract provided.

Footnotes To Plato: The Interactional Constitution Of Power, Christine Yalda, Deborah Henderson

Christine A. Yalda

No abstract provided.

Children's Responses To Peer Conflicts Involving A Rights Infraction, Andrea Hopmeyer Gorman, Steven Asher

Andrea Hopmeyer Gorman

Examined whether generalization about prosocial style of well-accepted children applies to conflicts involving rights infraction. Interviewed fourth- and fifth-graders about strategies for handling situations in which a peer infringes on their rights. Found that well-accepted children were neither aggressive nor particularly prosocial in conflict situations; they responded with verbally assertive strategies, unlike low-accepted children, who relied on adults. (EV)

Understanding Teamwork: Correlates With Role Clarity, Styles Of Teamwork And Educational Background, Monica Nandan

Monica Nandan

No abstract provided.

Being My Other Self: Collaborative Research On Assyrian Women, Christine Yalda

Christine A. Yalda

No abstract provided.

Violence Against Women In Belgrade, Serbia: Sos Hotline, 1990-1993, Donna M. Hughes Dr., Zorica Mrsevic Dr.

Donna M. Hughes

The SOS Hotline for Women and Children Victims of Violence opened in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1990. For each call reporting an incident of violence, a data form was completed with the details of the call. Almost all callers were victims of violence from family member or intimate partners. The majority reported incidents of physical and verbal/emotional violence; a minority reported sexual and economic violence. The frequency and duration of violence were very high. Callers were often forced to live with perpetrators because of lack of available housing, which worsened due to privatization, economic sanction against Serbia, and the influx of …

Regionalización Y Descentralización Post-Bucaram, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

Para que la descentralización ocurra, se requiere, como condición básica, la existencia de la unidad como un todo. Dicho de otra manera, sin una propuesta real de descentralización, este proceso puede potenciar todos los vicios que arrastra y negar las virtudes que tiene. De allí que en la actualidad la descentralización sea la expresi6n vaga de un malestar y de un descontento local-nacional no siempre bien definido, que no llega a representar un movimiento social con un programa.

Federal Court Access For Victims Of Gender Based Violence: The Civil Remedy Of The Violence Against Women Act Of 1994 Post-Brzonkala, Kristine Botsford Mullendore

Kristine Botsford Mullendore

No abstract provided.

Environmental Racism And Radicalism: An Exploratory Analysis. Paper/Presentation, Andrew Ewoh

Andrew I.E. Ewoh

No abstract provided.

Environmental Racism And The Environmental Justice Movement. Paper/Presentation, Andrew Ewoh, Sasha Cory-Varner

Andrew I.E. Ewoh

No abstract provided.

The Wreck Of Amtrak’S Sunset Limited: Newspaper Coverage Of A Mass Transportation Disaster, Ana Garner, W. A. Huff

Ana Garner

No abstract provided.

A Cross-Cultural Comparison On Students' Perceptions Of Good Teaching, A. Wang, Susan Davies

Susan C. Davies

No abstract provided.

Still Guarding The Gate? The Newspaper Journalist's Role In An On-Line World, Jane Singer

Jane B. Singer

As more and more newspapers begin to deliver stories in electronic forms, journalists are re-examining their traditional roles in a world of exponentially expanding information. Most of the metro reporters and editors interviewed during a trio of USA case studies in the summer and early autumn of 1995 believe their function as gatekeepers remains vital, but they see it as being modified to encompass a need for interpretation and quality control. Their role becomes less about selecting stories for dissemination and more about bolstering the value of what they disseminate so that it rises to the crest of the information …

American Checks And Balances, A Brief Survey, Christopher Hoebeke

Christopher H Hoebeke

No abstract provided.

Africa And The New World Order, Andrew Ewoh

Andrew I.E. Ewoh

What is the plight of Africa under the New World Order? The paper argues that the NWO poses severe economic problems for African nations. It offers two main practical solutions for these problems and plausible policy implications. The analysis concludes by acknowledging that structural adjustment programs as traditionally suggested by the International Monetary Fund and democratization of the polity will not guarantee economic prosperity for the continent.

Adhd In-Service, R. Witte, Susan Davies

Susan C. Davies

No abstract provided.