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Deceiving Sources, Michael Pritchard

Michael Pritchard

Great Expectations: Competency-Based Training For Student Media Center Assistants, Penny Beile

Penny Beile

A New Front Line In The Battle For Readers? Online Coverage Of The 1996 Election By Denver's Competing Newspapers, Jane Singer

Jane B. Singer

The _Denver Post_ and _Rocky Mountain News_ have been fiercely at war for 100 years. In the fall of 1996, the two papers got their first shot at trying to outgun each other in online political coverage. This exploratory study analyzes the print and Web versions of the two papers during the campaign season to determine how they handled the opportunities and challenges of cyberspace; interviews with their online editors provide insight into why things were the way they were this time around.

The Revolutionary, The Traditionalist And The Realist, Jane Singer

Jane B. Singer

No abstract provided.

Workplace Violence, 1992-1996, Greg Warchol

Greg Warchol

Report published by US DOJ, Bureau of Justice Statistics

Recognition And Implications Of Depression In Renal Dialysis Patients, Alan Christensen

Alan J. Christensen

No abstract provided.

Who's Laughing? Hillary Rodham Clinton In Political Humor, Ann Marshall

Ann Marshall

No abstract provided.

White Experimenters, White Blood, And Other White Conditions: Locating The Psychologist's Race, Jill G. Morawski

Jill G. Morawski

No abstract provided.

Discovering Information Behavior In Sense Making. I. Time And Timing, Paul Solomon

Paul Solomon

This study used the methods of ethnography of communication to explore the information behavior in sense making of participants in the annual work planning of a unit of a public agency. To capture the dynamic time aspects of the work-planning task, the study continued over three annual iterations of this work-planning pro-cess. The term sense making is used to convey the parti-cipants’ characterization of their information behavior. This article explores the sense making that took place from the point of view of time and timing. The analysis revealed broad patterns of repetitive action that struc-tured the work-planning process and limited …

A General Multiproduct, Multipollutant Market Pollution Permit Model: A Variational Inequality Approach, Anna Nagurney, Kathy K. Dhanda, John Stranlund

Kathy K Dhanda

No abstract provided.

"The Rebirth Of Party: The 1994 Congressional Elections In Historical Perspective", Richard M. Skinner

Richard M. Skinner

The Republican surge of 1994 poses serious problems for most theories of congressional elections, which either discount the likelihood of such a swing, or attribute one to a readily apparent short-term cause. This essay includes a district-level analysis that finds a strong link between the 1988-92 presidential vote and the 1994 House vote. A discussion of theories of realignment leads to a conclusion that while the U.S. political system is changing, a new Republican era may not yet be upon us.

Econometric Estimation Of Foresight: Tax Policy And Investment In The U.S., Douglas G. Steigerwald, Charles Stuart

Douglas G. Steigerwald

We develop a method for measuring the foresight agents have. We first dichotomize an agent's information at current date t into knowledge up to date t+f and expectations after t+f. We then form a residual-based test statistic that allows us to compare prediction errors for econometric models based on different values of f. We illustrate the method, examining investment around tax reforms to measure the foresight firms have about tax policy. In this illustration, current investment appears to reflect currently available information but little foresight other than foresight of enacted policy changes.

Educating The Emotions: Academic Psychology, Textbooks, And The Psychology Industry, 1890-1940, Jill G. Morawski

Jill G. Morawski

No abstract provided.

Book Review Of Meagher, R.M., Euripides’ Bakkhai, Katerina Zacharia

Katerina Zacharia

No abstract provided.

You Can't Get There From Here: The Impact Of California's Proposition 209 On Same-Sex Marriage, Ron Buckmire

Ron Buckmire

No abstract provided.

Intended And Unintended Overconsumption Of Physical, Spacial, And Temporal Resources., Carin Herlocker, Scott Allison, John D. Foubert, James Beggan

Scott T. Allison

Two studies explored perceptual biases on how resources are shared among groups of people. Intentional and unintentional processes were uncovered.

Asymptotic Bias For Quasi-Maximum Likelihood Estimators In Models With Conditional Heteroskedasticity, Douglas G. Steigerwald, Whitney Newey

Douglas G. Steigerwald

Virtually all applications of time-varying conditional variance models use a quasi-maximum likelihood estimator (QMLE). Consistency of a QMLE requires an identification condition that the quasi-log-likelihood have a unique maximum at the true conditional mean and relative scale parameters. We show that the identification condition holds for a non-Gaussian QMLE if the conditional mean is identically zero or if a symmetry condition is satisfied. Without symmetry an additional parameter, for the location of the innovation density, must be added for consistency. We calculate the efficiency loss from adding such a parameter under symmetry, when the parameter is not needed. We also …

Social Ethics?, Charles C. Lemert

Charles C Lemert

Most of the sciences of social behavior arose initially out of social ethics. The question asked is whether social ethics can revive itself as a central occupation of social thought. Such a revival faces the challenge of rethinking the normative foundations of late modern, global conditions which themselves are seen as inhospitable to the classic terms of philosophical and social ethic reflection. Though the privileged doubt it, the world is in fact inclining towards stark conditions of economic and natural instability, to say nothing of social discord—towards a triage, or latter-day Malthusian, state. These conditions require a social ethics able …

Discovering Sense Making In Information Behavior: An Ethnography Of Communication In Work Planning Or "Smelly, Like A Day Old Fish", Paul Solomon

Paul Solomon

Studies of information behavior typically focus on information seeking and source selection. This study explore the application of a broader perspective of viewing information behavior in relation to the sense making of individual, group, and organization during three annual iterations of work planning. The study is naturalistic in that it attempts to discover patterns of behavior in light of people performing their own work, in their own manner, and in their own time. Methods are primarily those of an ethnography of communication, where observation of communicative events; interviews; transcripts of meetings, conversations, and documentary traces; and logs were the data …

Women And Substance Use: Are Women More Susceptible To Addiction?, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula

Rosalie Liccardo Pacula

No abstract provided.

Review Of Dell Hymes, Ethnography, Linguistics, Narrative, Inequality: Toward An Understanding Of Voice, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

No abstract provided.

Review Of Ruthellen Josselson (Ed.) Ethics And Process In The Narrative Study Of Li Es, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

No abstract provided.

Effects Of A Sexual Assault Peer Education Program On Men's Belief In Rape Myths., John D. Foubert, Kenneth A. Marriott

John D. Foubert

An all-male sexual assault peer education program was shown to lead to a decline in rape myth acceptance for two months among fraternity men.

Review Of Glyn Williams, Sociolinguistics: A Sociological Critique, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

No abstract provided.

Language, Culture, And Self In Language Learning, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

No abstract provided.

State, Capitalism, And The Organization Of Legal Counsel: Examining An Extreme Case--The Prussian Bar, 1700-1914, Dietrich Rueschemeyer

Dietrich Rueschemeyer

No abstract provided.

Islam As An Ethical Tradition Of International Relations, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

The paper discusses the role that Islamic values can play in articulating Islam as an ethical tradition that can shape the international relations.

Factors Influencing Maternal Behaviour In A Burrower Bug, Sehirus Cinctus (Heteroptera: Cydnidae), Scott Kight

Scott Kight

Aphasic Sentence Comprehension As A Resource Deficit: A Computational Approach, Henk J. Haarmann, Marcel Adam Just, Patricia A. Carpenter

Marcel Adam Just

No abstract provided.

Making Homelessness Programs Accountable To Consumers, Funders And The Public, Dennis P. Culhane, David Eldridge, Robert Rosenheck, Carol Wilkins

Dennis P. Culhane

This paper discusses how different types of performance measurement can be used to improve the accountability of homeless programs to consumers, funders and to the public. A distinction is made between the kinds of data used in formal research projects and data that can be practically obtained in a practice setting. Consumer outcomes are discussed in terms of accountability to consumers, program outcomes in terms of accountability to funders, and systems outcomes in terms of accountability to the public. Cost-benefit analyses are also discussed as providing another critical dimension of accountability to funders and the public.