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Charles E. Lindblom, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

An intellectual biography and review of the work of Charles E. Lindblom.

New Nurses, New Spaces: A Preview Of The Aacn History Study, J Lynaugh, Julie Fairman

Julie A Fairman

No abstract provided.

An Alliance Between Acquisitions And Collection Management, Edward Shreeves, Kathleen Wachel

Edward Shreeves

No abstract provided.

A New Beginning, Maya Held

Maya Held

No abstract provided.

The Reviewing Of Object Files: Object-Specific Integration Of Information, Daniel Kahneman, Anne Treisman, Brian Gibbs

Brian J. Gibbs

A series of experiments explored a form of object-specific priming. In all experiments a preview field containing two or more letters is followed by a target letter that is to be named. The displays are designed to produce a perceptual interpretation of the target as a new state of an object that reviously contained one of the primes. The link is produced in different experiments by a shared location, by a shared relative position in a moving pattern, or by successive appearance in the same moving frame. An object-specific advantage is consistently observed: naming is facilitated by a preview of …

A Capacity Theory Of Comprehension: Individual Differences In Working Memory, Marcel Just, Patricia Carpenter

Marcel Adam Just

No abstract provided.

99 Years Is Almost For Life: Punishment For Violent Crime In Bluegrass Music, Kenneth Tunnell

Kenneth Tunnell

The roots of Southern American music are located in the music of the eighteenth-century English, Irish and lowland Scots who migrated to North America. As they settled in the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Cumberland Gap of Appalachia, they brought their songs that had been a part of their oral histories and cultures for at least two centuries. The commonly shared ways of life and social class among Appalachian mountain-dwellers not only inform about the early formative stages of bluegrass music but its growing popularity. As bluegrass music was removed from its insular setting and exposed to a wide variety …

Class Structure In Australian History - Poverty And Progress, Terry Irving, Raewyn Connell

Terry Irving

First published in 1980, this book is an updated and reorganized account of the history of the class structure in Australia. A new chapter discusses the period 1975-1991, and there is a new theoretical chapter introducing the reader to modern debates about class. Separate sections for documents and photographs support the narrative. Extensive notes provide a guide to research literature.

Adaptive Estimation In Timeseries Regression Models, Douglas Steigerwald

Douglas G. Steigerwald

I develop adaptive estimators for linear regression with serially correlated errors. The efficiency results hold even when the serial correlation structure is unknown. Simulations indicate that efficiency gains can be substantial with samples of only 50 observations. We apply the method to a study of forward exchange rates.

Exposure To In-Stadium Advertising Displays Shows Impact, James Pokrywczynski

James Pokrywczynski

No abstract provided.

Do We Need A Graded Response To Violent Situations?, Brian Kingshott

Brian F. Kingshott

No abstract provided.

Maximum Score Estimates Of The Determinants Of Residential Mobility: Implications For The Value Of Residential Attachment And Neighborhood Amenities, Timothy Bartik, J. Butler, Jin-Tan Liu

Timothy J. Bartik

No abstract provided.

Review Of Advertising Realities By Wes Perrin (1992), James Pokrywczynski

James Pokrywczynski

No abstract provided.

Inelastic Supply: An Economic Approach To Simple Interval Schedule, James Dougan

James Dougan

Economic theory predicts an inverse relationship between the quantity of a commodity supplied to the marketplace and the equilibrium market price of that commodity. This prediction was tested in three experiments. Pigeons responded on simple variable-interval schedules, and quantity of reinforcement supplied was varied in a different way in each experiment. In Experiment 1, quantity supplied was varied by manipulating reinforcement rate while keeping session length constant. In Experiment 2, quantity supplied was varied by manipulating reinforcement rate while keeping reinforcers per session constant. In Experiment 3, quantity supplied was varied by manipulating reinforcer magnitude while keeping number of reinforcers …

Choosing Crime: The Criminal Calculus Of Property Offenders, Kenneth Tunnell

Kenneth Tunnell

How people make decisions to commit criminal acts is a growing area of research and theory. This area of criminology is usually labeled "rational choice".

Cardiovascular Reactivity And Interpersonal Relations: Psychosomatic Processes In Social Context, T. Smith, Alan Christensen

Alan J. Christensen

Recent epidemiological research has identified a variety of interpersonal risk factors as possibly contributing to the development of cardiovascular disease, including reduced social support and increased conflict. Related psychosomatic models identify heightened cardiovascular reactivity as a pathophysiological mechanism linking these psychosocial risk factors and subsequent illness. However, cardiovascular reactivity has largely been studied in nonsocial settings, raising concerns about the relevance of this mechanism to the psychosocial risk factors identified in epidemiological research

The Two Churches: Catholicism And Capitalism In The World System, Michael Budde

Michael Budde

The single most important change now well under way within Catholicism is its transition from a First World to a Third World entity. How this enormous shift will affect the Catholic church's role in the world economy is the subject of Michael L. Budde's book, the first world systems study of the mutual interaction of religion and political economy in the 1990s. Budde's argument here is twofold. He contends that world Catholicism, led by its Third World majority (most notably in Latin America), will continue to develop in an increasingly anticapitalist direction; and he suggests that once-dominant First World Catholic …

Watchful Vigilance: Nursing Care Technology And The Development Of Icus, 1950-1965, Julie Fairman

Julie A Fairman

No abstract provided.

The News Shapers: The Sources Who Explain The News, Lawrence Soley

Lawrence Soley

No abstract provided.

On The Finite Sample Behavior Of Adaptive Estimators, Douglas Steigerwald

Douglas G. Steigerwald

With only 50 observations, the adaptive estimator produces confidence intervals that are 20 to 50 percent shorter than those produced by GLS procedures. The key feature is that the underlying error density is symmetric. Under asymmetry the interval length is shortened by a smaller amount.

Self Regard And Other Regard: Reflexive Practices In Psychology, 1890-1940, Jill G. Morawski

Jill G. Morawski

No abstract provided.

There Is More To Our History Of Giving: The Place Of Introductory Textbooks In American Psychology, Jill G. Morawski

Jill G. Morawski

No abstract provided.

Without You - Pop Vocal Solo, Keith D. Rowley

Keith D Rowley

A song composed in a soft-rock pop music style with words by Kristen N. Anderson.

Modernizing Small Manufacturers In Japan: The Role Of Local Public Technology Centers, Philip Shapira

Philip Shapira

Controlling The Abandonment Of Automobiles: Mandatory Deposits Vs Fines, Dwight Lee, Philip E. Graves, Robert L. Sexton

Robert L Sexton

There is no abstract, but the paper describes first-best solutions to the abandonment of automobiles, arguing that litter fines are inefficient with or without a mandatory deposit. However, the latter can generate first-best optimality.

The Autoshaping Procedure As A Residual Block Clock, James Dougan, James Dinsmoor, John Pfister, Edda Thiels

James Dougan

In the first experiment, 4 pigeons were each presented with a recurring sequence of four key colors followed by the delivery of grain (block clock). Once the rate of pecking had stabilized, three of the colors were replaced, during different series of sessions, by a darkening of the key. The rate of pecking was reduced within those segments of the interval between deliveries of food during which the key was dark; when the key was dark during the final portion of the interval, rates were reduced throughout the entire interval. In the second experiment, 3 new pigeons were exposed to …

Rationalising The Economic Metaphor, Rowan Cahill

Rowan Cahill

Contemporary critique of the developing trend towards education institutions being run as businesses, and for students to be treated as economic units.

Mutual Forbearance In Experimental Conglomerate Markets, Owen R. Phillips, Charles F. Mason

Owen R Phillips

We conduct economic experiments to gauge the level of cooperation between conglomerate rivals. First we run control experiments to observe cooperation between subjects acting as duopolists in one of two markets. In the control experiments, subject pairs choose a quantity x_i (or y_i) from a payoff matrix in a repeated game. Relatively less cooperation is observed in the Y market than in the X market. A second series of experiments then combines the two payoff matrices to create a conglomerate setting. Facing each other in two markets, opponents now choose an (x_i, y_i) …

A Course In Econometrics: A Review, Douglas G. Steigerwald

Douglas G. Steigerwald

No abstract provided.

Country Comfort: Vice And Corruption In Rural Settings, Gary W. Potter, Larry Gaines

Gary W. Potter

This article provides an in-depth examination of rural organized crime. Organized crime studies traditionally have focused on urban criminality; this study discusses its rural form. Types of participants, patterns of criminality, and relationships with political and law enforcement corruption are detailed. Although there are differences between urban and rural organized crime, it tends to exhibit some similarities regardless of setting.