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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Contested Tender Offers: An Estimate Of The Hazard Function, Sanjiv Jaggia, Satish Thosar
Contested Tender Offers: An Estimate Of The Hazard Function, Sanjiv Jaggia, Satish Thosar
Economics
In this article we estimate the hazard function (takeover probabilities) for firms that are targets in unsolicited tender offers. The data support a Weibull-gamma specification and imply a hazard rate that increases sharply in the initial period following the bid announcement, after which it declines steadily. In explaining the hazard, we find that the initial bid premium has no explanatory power, but the onset of an auction and the proportion of institutional ownership In the target firm significantly enhance the hazard. Legal and financial restructuring actions by target management are effective in reducing the hazard, thereby prolonging the contest.
Valuation Of Transferable Delivery Rights For Marketing Cooperatives, Charles V. Moore, Jay E. Noel
Valuation Of Transferable Delivery Rights For Marketing Cooperatives, Charles V. Moore, Jay E. Noel
Agribusiness
Delivery rights to a cooperative's marketing pool can take on a value independent of the members' equity share under certain conditions. Based on anecdotal information, transferable delivery rights become valuable when the pool is fixed in size (closed), members are protected from exploitation of quasi economic rents, and have an assured "home" for their production. The greater the potential buyers' aversion to risk, the higher the value of the delivery right. The right has additional value if the cooperative generates a premium per unit return due to product differentiation and market power. Cooperatives competing with investor-owned firms in less than …
Addressing Problems In Evaluating Health-Relevant Programs Through Systematic Planning And Evaluation, Galen E. Cole, Chester L. Pogostin, Bonita J. Westover, Nilka M. Rios
Addressing Problems In Evaluating Health-Relevant Programs Through Systematic Planning And Evaluation, Galen E. Cole, Chester L. Pogostin, Bonita J. Westover, Nilka M. Rios
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
The authors argue that inconsistent terminology is often a hindrance in assessing health program implementation, effectiveness and efficiency. Attending closely to this, they propose a model scheme for conducting such evaluations.
Diversity Management: An Administrative Case Study In A Tax-Exempt Human Service Organization, Jerry L. Johnson
Diversity Management: An Administrative Case Study In A Tax-Exempt Human Service Organization, Jerry L. Johnson
Masters Theses
Diversity management is a business strategy that is intended to create an organizational climate where people from diverse backgrounds can succeed based on their work performance and not their personal similarities or differences with the organization's leadership. Diversity management programs are intended to help business remove barriers resulting from discrimination.; The present study investigated the need for a diversity management program in a tax-exempt human service organization. The perceptions and attitudes of organization employees, measured by survey instruments, in conjunction with an employee compensation study, provided the data for this investigation.; The instrument designed for this study and the random …
What Are The Perceived Needs Of Parents Of Critically Ill Neonates?, Linda B. Corliss
What Are The Perceived Needs Of Parents Of Critically Ill Neonates?, Linda B. Corliss
Masters Theses
The purpose of this study was to identify needs of parents during the hospitalization of their critically ill neonate. Studies indicate that parents of critically ill neonates are under a certain degree of stress and that sources of stress are identifiable by parents and equated to needs and the importance of those needs.; This study used an exploratory, descriptive design to document the needs of parents while also identifying variables that influenced those needs. Parents of 29 critically ill neonates (n = 53) were interviewed using a revised version of the Critical Care Family Needs Inventory (CCFNI) designed by Molter …
A Descriptive Study Of The Needs Of Family Members Of Trauma Patients, Sally Laur Sutkowi
A Descriptive Study Of The Needs Of Family Members Of Trauma Patients, Sally Laur Sutkowi
Masters Theses
This study examined the perceived needs of family members of trauma patients using Molter's (1979) Critical Care Family Needs Inventory. The ranking of needs of major and minor trauma patients family members were analyzed to determine differences between these two groups.; A convenience sample of 41 family members of trauma patients were surveyed. They included family members of 17 minor trauma patients and 24 major trauma patients. Minor trauma patients were those patients with Injury Severity Scores 12 or less. Major trauma patients had ISSs scores of 13 or greater. All 45 needs were considered very important by at least …
A New Direction: Internationalizing Communication Programs, Sue Dewine
A New Direction: Internationalizing Communication Programs, Sue Dewine
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This article describes a successful effort to expand an already strong program to include a focus on international education as well. With the founding of Ohio State University in 1804, and classes beginning in 1808, the first courses in what was later to become the School of Interpersonal Communication were offered. Logic, persuasion and rhetoric were three of the major and early oral communication study areas. The current school was predated by elocution courses in 1888, a School of Oratory in 1912, the Department of Speech and Dramatic Arts in 1930 and the School of Dramatic Art and Speech in …
New Curricular Categories For The Future: University Of North Dakota School Of Communication, Lana Rakow
New Curricular Categories For The Future: University Of North Dakota School Of Communication, Lana Rakow
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This article provides information on new curricular categories of the University of North Dakota School of Communication, as of September 1995. The school historically has had a highly visible leadership role in the state of North Dakota, particularly with newspapers and broadcast stations in the state. Rather than limiting the possibility for change, however, its visibility joined other factors in making conditions for change favorable. The new curriculum streamlines the five into one, communication. This new curriculum is both mission driven and assessment driven. The new mission statement and goals for student learning set out the intellectual integration of communication …
Toward Defining A Zero Option: Discussion Draft, Metro (Or.)
Toward Defining A Zero Option: Discussion Draft, Metro (Or.)
Metro Collection
No abstract provided.
The Nature Of 2040: The Region's 50-Year Plan For Managing Growth, Metro (Or.)
The Nature Of 2040: The Region's 50-Year Plan For Managing Growth, Metro (Or.)
Metro Collection
No abstract provided.
The Effects Of Circadian Entrainment On Operant Conditioning, Karen M. Lionello '95
The Effects Of Circadian Entrainment On Operant Conditioning, Karen M. Lionello '95
Honors Projects
The matching law has been a prevalent theory in behavior analysis for the past thirty years. This theory states that responding changes as a monotonic function of reinforcement. However, several studies have found bitonic functions. One reason for this discrepancy may be due to circadian entrainment. There is evidence that rats are sensitive to circadian rhythms and that rats are capable of entraining to two feeding times per day. Also, it may be that the biological makeup of rats consists of two separate rhythm oscillators. One involves food and the other involves light. The present experiments attempted to discover what …
Anomie, System Reform, And Challenges To The Un System, Raymond F. Hopkins
Anomie, System Reform, And Challenges To The Un System, Raymond F. Hopkins
Political Science Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Section One: Family Assessment: History, Theory, And Applications
Section One: Family Assessment: History, Theory, And Applications
Family Assessment
In this section a more unified research effort in family assessment is advocated by Dr. Halverson. He urges the constructs most important in the study of families be identified by shifting from the study of isolated components of the family to a more global view of family functioning. There is a lack of attention to the nomological net of constructs. Multi-trait and multi-method analysis is recommended to produce useful information regarding the family.
Dr. Carlson continues this critique by highlighting the influential role of theory in the development and use of family assessment measures and methods. Carlson traces the development …
1. Measurement Beyond The Individual, Charles F. Halverson
1. Measurement Beyond The Individual, Charles F. Halverson
Family Assessment
This chapter has several goals. First, I will briefly review the history of measurement as it applies to family assessment. This history has been recounted by many and is available in many recent publications, so I shall be fairly brief. Second, I will discuss family measurement in terms of important issues still facing the family measurement field-issues that are not, in my opinion, being well addressed at this time. And finally, I will attempt to weave these various threads into some speculations about the future directions that family measurement might (or maybe needs) to take.
I will confine this …
6. Assessing Marital Quality In Longitudinal And Life Course Studies, David R. Johnson
6. Assessing Marital Quality In Longitudinal And Life Course Studies, David R. Johnson
Family Assessment
INTRODUCTION
Family researchers have been developing measures to assess the quality of the marital relationship for over six decades (e.g., Hamilton, 1929). Indeed, the quality of the husband-wife relationship has been the focus of more research than any other single topic in the field of family study (Spanier & Lewis, 1980). Embedded in these studies are hundreds of varied scales and measures that were designed to assess some aspect of the quality of a marriage (Touliatos, Perlmutter, & Straus, 1990). Lack of consensus on what constitutes marital quality and the absence of any widely accepted and used instruments have contributed …
Family Assessment- Subject Index
Family Assessment- Subject Index
Family Assessment
Subject Index (10 pages)
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abandonment: 219-220
ABCX model of family stress: 274
academic ability: 206
achievement: 207, 210, 221,225, 227
acculturation: 107, 114, 123
adjusted mean difference: 228
adolescents: 215-216, 220-221
affect: 20, 31, 40, 69, 71, 75, 77, 82-84
affective responsiveness: 77, 86, 92
African Americans: 105-107,109,113- 114
age: 47,82 aggregation: 9,51,54
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): 262
analysis of covariance: 227
anger toward parents: 219-220
antisocial behavior: 235-255
Asian Americans: 105-109, 111, 113, 120
assessment formative: 246-248,253
global: 247 standardized: 262, 264-277
asymptomatic family functioning: 70
attitude: 244-245,247
autonomy: 215
average family functioning: 70
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well-being: …
Children's Book Festival, Karen Rowell, Onva K. Boshears Jr., University Of Southern Mississippi
Children's Book Festival, Karen Rowell, Onva K. Boshears Jr., University Of Southern Mississippi
Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival Programs
The program twenty-eighth annual Children's Book Festival held on the campus of The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 1995.
Unclassified, Andrews University
Unclassified, Andrews University
Unclassified
James White Library Newsletter
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La Economía Política Del Tlc, La Crisis Global Y México, Melvin Burke
La Economía Política Del Tlc, La Crisis Global Y México, Melvin Burke
School of Economics Faculty Scholarship
El Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC)1 acordado entre Canadá, Estados Unidos y México es una extensión lógica y probablemente inevitable del Tratado de Libre Comercio entre Estados Unidos y Canadá. Ambos acuerdos son controvertidos y, con buena razón, existe una oposición pública masiva a ellos. Nunca se ha podido dar una explicación creíble sobre la necesidad del acuerdo a la población de estas tres democracias. Contrariamente a las afirma-ciones de los propulsores y de los gobiernos responsables de estos acuerdos, no existen garantías de que se consigan los beneficios netos señalados por ellos. Tampoco está claro quiénes saldrán beneficiados y …
Solid Waste Management (Swm) Options: The Economics Of Variable Cost And Conventional Pricing Systems In Maine, Stephanie Seguino, Margarita Suarez, Jeff Young, Robert Mckay, Christopher Spruce, George Criner
Solid Waste Management (Swm) Options: The Economics Of Variable Cost And Conventional Pricing Systems In Maine, Stephanie Seguino, Margarita Suarez, Jeff Young, Robert Mckay, Christopher Spruce, George Criner
Government & Civic Life
Solid waste management has been influenced by the growing trend to apply market-based incentives to environmental problems. The impetus to reform solid waste management procedures in part stems from the increasing costs associated with solid waste disposal, thus encouraging municipalities to seek innovative ways to reduce solid waste generation. One method adopted by numerous municipalities in Maine is known as variable cost pricing. Alternatively, this system is referred to as unit pricing, volume-based fees, and pay-by-the-bag (PB). Under this system, waste collection fees are based on the volume of solid waste disposal. A household's solid waste disposal costs change with …
Maine Women's Lobby News Letter (1995 - January) No 10, Maine Women's Lobby Staff
Maine Women's Lobby News Letter (1995 - January) No 10, Maine Women's Lobby Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Spruce Run News (January 1995), Spruce Run Staff
Spruce Run News (January 1995), Spruce Run Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Bioarchaeological And Climatological Evidence For The Fate Of Norse Farmers In Medieval Greenland, P. C. Buckland, T. Amorosi, L. K. Barlow, A. J. Dugmore, Paul Andrew Mayewski, T. H. Mcgovern, A. E. J. Ogilvie, J. P. Sadler, P. Skidmore
Bioarchaeological And Climatological Evidence For The Fate Of Norse Farmers In Medieval Greenland, P. C. Buckland, T. Amorosi, L. K. Barlow, A. J. Dugmore, Paul Andrew Mayewski, T. H. Mcgovern, A. E. J. Ogilvie, J. P. Sadler, P. Skidmore
Earth Science Faculty Scholarship
Greenland, far north land of the Atlantic, has often been beyond the limit of European farming settlement. One of its Norse settlements, colonized just before AD 1000, is — astonishingly — not even at the southern tip, but a way up the west coast, the 'Western Settlement'. Environmental studies show why its occupation came to an end within five centuries, leaving Greenland once more a place of Arctic-adapted hunters.
Femenism, God's Will, And Women's Empowerment, C. Margaret Hall
Femenism, God's Will, And Women's Empowerment, C. Margaret Hall
Clinical Sociology Review
This study is based on clinical sociological principles derived from Durkheim's and Weber's theories, as well as from contemporary research findings which suggest that religion and feminism can be social sources of empowerment for women. The theoretical orientation therefore incorporates social and cultural influences on behavior, as well as the intrapsychic and interpersonal decision-making processes characteristic of other therapeutic modalities.
Two life histories show ways in which feminism and religion reinforce women's personal growth, and expand the scope of their contributions to society. Influences of feminism and religion on these women's beliefs are examined, as well as how redefining responsibilities …
Structural, Normative, And Communal Integration In Organizations, Clovis R. Shepherd
Structural, Normative, And Communal Integration In Organizations, Clovis R. Shepherd
Clinical Sociology Review
The concepts of structural, normative, and communal dimensions of organizational behavior are defined and described, and aspects of the integration of these dimensions are discussed. Some of the dynamics of consultation utilizing these dimensions are described, and some issues and problems are delineated. The behavioral descriptions come from the author's experiences as a consultant to a variety of organizations.
Effects Of Organizing Voluntary Help On Social Support, Stress And Health Of Elderly People, Peter C. Meyer, Monica Budowski
Effects Of Organizing Voluntary Help On Social Support, Stress And Health Of Elderly People, Peter C. Meyer, Monica Budowski
Clinical Sociology Review
In a district of an urban community an agency arranging for voluntary help was built up within an action research project. Data from a longitudinal study are used to evaluate the effects this agency has on elderly people. The hypothesis formulated is that organized voluntary help is a means to improve social support and reduce social stress. These effects are expected to have indirect positive effects on health. In the first survey a representative, weighted random sample (total N=907, of which 303 were elderly, i.e. older than 64 years old) was asked about social stress, social support, health, demand for …
The Secret Garden Of Sociology, Clarence C. Schultz
The Secret Garden Of Sociology, Clarence C. Schultz
Clinical Sociology Review
No abstract provided.
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Double Relative Deprivation: Combining The Personal And Political, Mindi D. Foster, Kimberley Matheson
Double Relative Deprivation: Combining The Personal And Political, Mindi D. Foster, Kimberley Matheson
Psychology Faculty Publications
Double relative deprivation, which has been virtually ignored in research on relative deprivation, was expected to predict women's collective action over and above egoistic and collective deprivation. The role of socio-political resources in perceiving deprivation and participation in action was also investigated. Female students (N=164) completed a questionnaire designed to assess their perceptions of egoistic, collective, double relative deprivation (defined as the interaction between egoistic and collective deprivation), resource availability and participation in collective action. Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that double relative deprivation predicted collective action over and above egoistic and collective relative deprivation, and that resource availability also uniquely …
Regional Variation In Temperature Humidity Index For Poultry Housing, Richard S. Gates, Hanzhong Zhang, Donald G. Colliver, Douglas G. Overhults
Regional Variation In Temperature Humidity Index For Poultry Housing, Richard S. Gates, Hanzhong Zhang, Donald G. Colliver, Douglas G. Overhults
Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Faculty Publications
A building thermal model was used to compute hourly values of temperature humidity index (THI) for a broiler house with and without an evaporative misting system. Hourly summer time weather data for 238 U.S.A. locations covering 30 years were used to develop extreme occurrences of THI. Results were incorporated into a Geographical Information System (GIS) database to create isolines of THI and percentage of hours exceeding a heat stress threshold. Regional variations in misting as a suitable cooling technique are presented in terms of hours reduction in annual heat stress. The technique may be used for assisting in management decisions …