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Bidding Till Bankrupt: Destructive Competition In Professional Team Sports, James Whitney

Jim Whitney

Focuses on the destructive competition of professional team sports in the United States. Identification of the team performance criteria; Definition of descriptive competition; Type of contracting arrangement implemented by the league.

Job Security And Work Force Adjustment: How Different Are U.S. And Japanese Practices?, Katharine Abraham, Susan Houseman

Susan N. Houseman

No abstract provided.

Are Expired/Unused Coupons Worthless To Consumers And Advertisers, James Pokrywczynski

James Pokrywczynski

No abstract provided.

The Use Of Dale Carnegie Training By Law Enforcement Agencies: A Comparative Analysis Of Dale Carnegie Trained & Non-Dale Carnegie Trained Officers Within Community Policing-Oriented Departments, Joanne Ziembo-Vogl

Joanne Ziembo-Vogl

The purpose of this research was to present a comparison of attitudes between Dale Carnegie Trained and non-Carnegie trained officers within Community Policing oriented law enforcement agencies. McAllen Police Department (McAllen, Texas) and Michigan State University's Department of Public Safety were examined. Community Policing agencies were chosen, predicated upon the inherent need for human relations training evidenced within Community Policing's philosophy of police/community partnership and interactive problem solving. Dependent variables examined were officers' attitudes toward job satisfaction, job-related stress, willingness to interact with the citizenry, and departments' stated missions and goals. Data indicated no statistically significant attitudinal differences with respect …

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 …

Income And Poverty Across Smsas: A Two-Stage Analysis, Michael C. Seeborg, Robert M. Leekley

Michael Seeborg

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.

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

Robert L Sexton

No abstract provided.

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.

Review Of Deborah Tannen, You Just Don't Understand: Women And Men In Conversation, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

No abstract provided.

Purification And Characterization Of Porin From Corn (Zea Mays L.) Mitochondria, Philadelphia University

Philadelphia University, Jordan

No abstract provided.

Seek Ye First The Kingdom Of God - Mixed Choir, Keith D. Rowley

Keith D Rowley

An anthem for SATB choir, piano and violin with words from Matthew 6:19-21;33.

Design Competition Through Multidimensional Auctions, Yeon-Koo Che

Yeon-Koo Che

No abstract provided.

The "Realization Of The Due-Measure" As Structural Principle In Plato's Statesman, Michael H.G. Hoffmann

Michael H.G. Hoffmann

No abstract provided.

Tax Exporting, Federal Deductibility, And State Tax Structure, Gilbert E. Metcalf

Gilbert E. Metcalf

This paper studies the interaction between the federal and state tax systems during the 1980s and, in particular, considers how the Tax Reform Act of 1986 affected state tax structure. Using a panel data set on state governments over a nine-year period, I estimate tax share equations for six categories of taxes. I find that the state personal income tax is sensitive to changes in its tax price, but find a much smaller sensitivity to changes in tax prices for the general sales tax. I then consider various reasons why the sales tax does not exhibit a sensitivity to changes …

Energy Conservation Investment: Do Consumers Discount The Future Correctly?, Gilbert E. Metcalf, Kevin A. Hassett

Gilbert E. Metcalf

We argue that the apparently high discount rates attributed to investors making energy conservation investments are not irrational or the result of some market failure. Rather they may result from an investor recognizing that many conservation investments entail substantial sunk costs. In the presence of these costs and uncertainty over future conservation savings, consumers should use a higher hurdle rate for investment than if there were no uncertainty. Simulations suggest that the hurdle rate should be about four times greater than the standard rate. An implication of our model is that tax subsidies for the purchase of conservation capital are …

Expanding Passport’S Horizons With Third-Party Software: Newkey, David Lesniaski

David Lesniaski

No abstract provided.

Narrowing The Gap Between Numismaticists And Masonic Jewel Enthusiasts, Paul J. Rich

Paul J. Rich

This was probably the first article to appear in Diadem, the journal for Masonic medal collectors or collectors of "jewels of the Craft", that tried to bridge the gap between the hobbyists with their enthusiasms for Craft awards and decorations, and the numismatists and schoalrs.

Who Bears The Lifetime Tax Burden?, Don Fullerton, Diane Lim Rogers

Don Fullerton

This book describes a multi-sector general equilibrium model used to find the incidence of all U.S. taxes on a lifetime basis. To so so, we estimate lifetime wage profiles from PSID data, project forward and backward for each person, and classify individuals by the present value of their lifetime income. The PDF includes all 246 pages, but with reduced definition in order to reduce the file size to 7.7MB, for ease of downloading.

Innovative Approaches To Education And Community Service: Models And Strategies For Change And Empowerment, Carroy U. Ferguson

Carroy U "Cuf" Ferguson, Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

Industrial Restructuring And Women's Homework In Appalachia: Lessons From West Virginia, Ann M. Oberhauser

Ann Oberhauser