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Competitive, Cooperative, And Individualistic Group Environments: Effects On Job Satisfaction And Performance, Erin Marie Steinbach Welters

Honors Theses, 1963-2015

The effects of task interdependence (competition, cooperation, and individualism) on job satisfaction and performance were investigated. Students from two Catholic, liberal arts colleges completed a creative thinking task in one of four conditions: group competition, cooperation, individual competition, and individual. Rather than supporting the hypotheses, the results indicated that students in the competitive conditions had superior performance to students in non-competitive conditions, and job satisfaction was generally unaffected by the condition students participated in. Trait competitiveness of the participants was also measured in order to determine whether it had a relationship with performance and job satisfaction. A strong relationship between …

Explaining The U.S. Trade Deficit, Anwar Shaikh

Archives of the Levy Economics Institute

Levy Economics Institute Policy Note

Msu Update, 2000, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Communications and Marketing Publications Archive

MSU Update Newsletters for 2000.

Looseleafing The Flow: An Anecdotal History Of One Technology For Updating, Howard T. Senzel

Faculty Publications

This work will show that there is a great gulf between the culture of lawmakers and the culture of those who comply. Lawmakers - legislators, administrators, and especially judges - function by producing primary authorities in law. The texts of these authorities are the law itself. Because they were created in the course of deciding actual cases - cases which produced insights to a truth of lasting value, these texts have an authority equal to all the other insights produced down through the ages. The excitement that accompanies such insights tends to blind lawmakers to the chore of compliance. Those …

The Invisible Web: Navigating The Web Outside Traditional Search Engines, Karen R. Diaz

University Libraries Faculty Scholarship

You've heard the pitch about how big the Web is—some 380 million pages and counting. But did you know that there is a virtual treasure trove of information that is not visible through the traditional search engines? Did you know that there are thousands of searchable databases, archives, and other information sources delivering highly targeted information for a much improved searching experience?—The Invisible Web Catalog on the Lycos Network Search engines Find Web sites, Web pages, and in some cases, specified types of documents. Some provide more comprehensive results while others provide more precise results. However, what most search engines …

The Devil, The Details, And The Dawn Of The 21st-Century Administrative State: Beyond The New Deal, Sandi Zellmer

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

More than half a century has passed since the New Deal, the era known for ushering in the modem administrative state, where broad-sweeping regulatory powers were delegated to over a dozen new executive agencies pursuant to a raft of social legislation. Until the later years of the New Deal, courts were highly suspicious of socially progressive legislation, and, for that matter, any legislation that upset common law systems supporting private property rights and freedom of contract. Regulatory enactments were especially vulnerable to invalidation for delegating policy-making authority to an executive agency or other non-legislative entity. Such delegations were considered a …

The Virtues Of "Command And Control" Regulation: Barring Exotic Species From Aquatic Ecosystems, Sandi Zellmer

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

The Clean Water Act asserts the ambitious goal of eliminating water pollution and protecting the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of U.S. waters. Yet the EPA, in enforcing the Act, currently exempts from regulation a significant source of pollution in U.S. waters: ballast-water discharges from commercial shipping vessels. Ballast water from commercial vessels is a primary vector for the introduction of exotic plant and animal species into U.S. waters. The invasion of these species poses an increasing threat to native biodiversity; the invaders prey directly on native fish and wildlife, compete for food and habitat, and introduce disease and parasites …

Conserving Ecosystems Through The Secretarial Order On Tribal Rights, Sandi Zellmer

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

American Indian nations successfully manage habitat for wildlife species on reservation lands through tribal law and through traditional cultural practices. Beyond reservation boundaries, many tribes are involved in managing wildlife habitat through cooperative management agreements with federal and state agencies. Tribes do this because wildlife is important to them for cultural, economic and religious reasons, not because they are required to do so by the Endangered Species Act (ESA), 16 U.S.C. $§ 1531-1544. Nevertheless, the ESA looms over Indian Country like the sword of Damocles: While the Act contributes to the conservation of tribal wildlife resources by imposing federal penalties …

States, Provinces, And Cross-Border International Trade, Matthew Schaefer

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

When I visited here in 1997, I talked about the need to bind sub-federal actors like states and provinces to international obligations.1 States and provinces are large economic actors. If you took a list of the largest nations and then compared state and provincial Gross National Products (GNPs) with those, you would find that there were more than thirty states that would rank in the top fifty nations in terms of GNP. You will probably find at least two, three, or four provinces that would rank in the top fifty as well. So it is clear for economic welfare reasons …

The Individual Responsibility Model Of Retirement Plans Today: Conforming Erisa Policy To Reality, Colleen E. Medill

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

Federal retirement policy today presents a significant regulatory paradox. Numerous studies have shown that participants in retirement savings plans need retirement planning education and investment advice. Yet they receive materials that are either too basic for participants who are financially sophisticated or too sophisticated for participants who are financially illiterate. Most participants do not receive professional investment advice before they direct the investment of their retirements savings. Why? This situation is the result of regulations and rulings issued by the Department of Labor, the federal agency that interprets and enforces the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA").

The …

Expanding The Non-Transactional Revolution: A New Approach To Securities Registration Exemptions, C. Steven Bradford

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

Federal securities law is in the midst of a revolution. Since 1933, the registration of securities offerings under the Securities Act of 19331 (the "Securities Act") and the exemptions from the registration requirement have rested on the elusive concept of "transaction." The transactional system has three foundational elements: (1) current registration of discrete offerings-- the idea that an issuer may register only discrete offerings of securities planned to be sold in the immediate future; (2) resale restrictions arising out of the underwriter concept-- the idea that securities acquired in an exempted offering are not freely resalable; and (3) …

Multiple Personality Disorder, Accountable Agency, And Criminal Acts, Robert F. Schopp

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

Smedley Wormwood is an accountant who is indicted for embezzling funds from the company for which he works. He generally presents an impression of an unobtrusive, conventional, compliant, "vanilla" individual. When his lawyer interviews him about the charges, Smedley seems innocent, frightened, and bewildered. In discussing the details of events around the time of the alleged crime, Smedley becomes somewhat vague and then admits to some lapses in recall. Smedley then startles the lawyer by apparently undergoing a marked change in attitude, tone of voice, and apparent self-identity. The lawyer realizes that she is now discussing the crime with a …

Parental Opt-Outs In Nebraska Schools: Respecting Freedom Of Thought, Parental Rights, And Religious Pluralism, Richard F. Duncan

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

Suppose a public school requires all students in a certain grade to read a particular book or take part in a particular lesson that some parents object to on the basis of religious or other conscientious grounds. Should the school excuse the children of objecting parents from the required readings or lessons? Must the school grant the requested opt-out accommodation?

I believe the answer to the first question, which is a public policy issue, is that there are many good reasons for public schools to be liberal in accommodating religious and conscientious objections to required curricular materials and lessons. I …

Time-Variant Institutions: Implications For European Unemployment, Nathaniel Stankard

Honors Papers

The upward trend of European unemployment begs many questions, the most basic of which is why unemployment continues to climb after twenty-five years. Adverse shocks, rigid labor market institutions, and their interaction are used to explain this persistence and the differences in individual country experiences.

While these models do indeed answer both questions to some extent, they assume that institutions predate the rise in unemployment, often treating them as static. By compiling extant data series and constructing my own, I find that this assumption is weak, and that the evolution of institutions is far from static.

I create and estimate …

Norbert Of Xanten: 1080-1134, Benjamin T. Mackin O. Praem, Alfred Mcbride O. Praem, John Bostwick O. Praem, Jeffrey L. Raue

Archives Publications

Norbert was born around 1080 in the town of Xanten on the Dutch-German border. He was a member of the privileged class. His father was the Count of Gennep, and his mother was a cousin of the reigning Holy Roman Emperor, Henry IV.

January 2000 - Staff Meeting Agenda

ALEC Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

Focal Point, Volume 14 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute

Research and Training Center - Focal Point

Young people are assuming more, and more empowered roles in systems of care. They participate actively in planning for their own services and treatment, setting policy, and evaluating programs. This issue includes a discussion of resources that have been developed to help in the process of developing youth-adult partnership in these areas.

White Ethnic: A Social Concept, Joseph M. Conforti

Ethnic Studies Review

Why such a term as white ethnic or ethnic developed and what purposes it served guides this inquiry. Its origins in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement in a context of American immigration history are explored together with its adoption as a sociological concept. A survey of textbooks most likely to use such a term, particularly texts concerning race and ethnicity, intergroup relations, and sociology of minorities, together with related literature illustrates both its usage and the basis of such usage.

Distinctive Features Of The African-American Family: Debunking The Myth Of The Deficit Model, David L. Briscoe

Ethnic Studies Review

Throughout the 1900's, social scientists have debated the question of whether the African American family is an adaptative social system or whether it is pathological, perpetuating its poverty over the generations. This article examines the holistic perspective as the preeminent comprehensive approach in studying the African American family and provides empirical evidence of distinctive features of the African American family in support of the adaptation argument. The adaptation/deficit debate will probably continue as long as the scientific community fails to fully acknowledge and make the most of theoretical constructs that are holistic in principle and design.

[Review Of] Sandra Jackson And Jose Solis Jordan (Eds.). I'Ve Got A Story To Tell: Identity And Place In The Academy, James Adolph Robinson

Ethnic Studies Review

I've Got A Story To Tell is a "place and space wherein the contributors can momentarily unload the baggage they carry and speak incisively of the challenges associated with their success in gaining entry into the academy" (2).

[Review Of] George J. Leonard (Ed.). The Asian Pacific Heritage: A Companion To Literature And The Arts, Jeff Partridge

Ethnic Studies Review

In this large volume of essays, general editor George J. Leonard aims to produce a "tool kit" for the multicultural classroom that will "unlock the greatest number of (Asian-Pacific American-APA) authors and artists" (xiv) for students and teachers. In many ways he hits the mark. Readers who once skipped over the Chinese phrases in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club can now find them explained in Molly H. Isham's "Reader's Guide" to the novel. Those who want to know the meaning of "no-no boys" or "FOBs," or "Mestizos" or the date when the "Queue Ordinance" was passed can find them …

[Review Of] Adelaida Reyes. Songs Of The Caged, Songs Of The Free: Music And The Vietnamese Refugee Experience, Deborah Wong

Ethnic Studies Review

This important book documents two areas, the history of the Vietnamese traumatic emigration to the U.S. from 1975 to the early 1990s and the central role of music in Vietnamese responses to diaspora. Because ethnographic studies of the Vietnamese diaspora are still limited in number, and this is the first focused on Vietnamese expressive practices, Songs of the Caged is a major contribution on both fronts. Unlike many accounts of the Vietnamese American experience, Reyes' book is based on extended field research and addresses big issues with attention to history and to real people in real situations often conveyed through …

Information Interface - Volume 28, Issue 1 - January/February 2000, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

Information Interface (1976 - 2009)

News and information about Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library of interest to users.

Effect Of The 1996 Welfare And Immigration Reform Laws On Immigrants' Ability And Willingness To Access Medicaid And Health Care Services, George Washington University, Center For Health Services Research And Policy

Center for Health Policy Research

No abstract provided.

Intra-Household Decision-Making On Health And Resource Allocation In Borgou, Bénin, Pierre Ngom, Salome Wawire, Timothee Gandaho, Pierre Klissou, Toussaint Adjimon, Mbaye Seye, Emile Akouanou, Laurie Winter

Reproductive Health

The African Population and Health Research Centre carried out this study, with support from FRONTIERS and USAID, in order to inform Benin’s Projet Intégré en Santé Familiale (Integrated Project on Family Health—PROSAF) about socio-cultural factors in Borgou that can impede health improvements. More specifically, the study aimed to identify key players in household decisionmaking processes, map out patterns of health-seeking behavior, elucidate how such patterns are associated with prevailing health services utilization, assess community valuation of existing health services and products, and recommend to PROSAF approaches to identified target groups for their intervention. The findings indicate that for all the …

Increasing The Coverage Of Reproductive Health Issues In The Egyptian Press, Sahar Hegazi, Mona Khalifa

Reproductive Health

This project, based on previous experiments of the FRONTIERS and POLICY projects, aimed to widen media coverage in Egypt of critical reproductive health issues and to communicate related research findings in a more systematic manner. Increasing coverage in the Egyptian press first required an assessment of the current coverage. Second, a network was formed of about 20 journalists from newspapers and magazines of different publishing houses, followed by four roundtable discussions on critical reproductive health issues. The results of evaluation sheets from the roundtable discussions showed a general increase in the journalists’ knowledge about reproductive health issues, especially for important …

Egypt: Encourage Journalists To Cover Reproductive Health, Frontiers In Reproductive Health

Reproductive Health

To raise public awareness of reproductive health (RH) issues, the Population Council’s Frontiers project and the Futures Group’s Policy project jointly organized four press briefings and provided background materials to key journalists from Arabic newspapers and magazines. From May 1999 to June 2000, project staff worked closely with 20 Egyptian journalists, including editors of women’s pages and senior editors. The press briefings covered youth, marriage patterns, contraceptive technology, and menopause. The press kit prepared for each briefing contained fact sheets, reference materials, a contact list of key experts, and an evaluation sheet. To assess RH reporting and track coverage resulting …

Regulation Of Contact With Offspring By Domestic Sows: Temporal Patterns And Individual Variation, E. A. Pajor, D. L. Kramer, D. Fraser

Rearing Behavior Collection

We used a sow-controlled housing system to examine temporal and individual variation in the tendency of sows to associate with young. During a 5-week lactation, 22 sows and litters were housed in a pen where the sow could freely leave and re-enter the piglets' area by stepping over a barrier that the piglets could not cross. Despite this option, the sows remained with the piglets almost constantly during the 1st day after birth. Nineteen sows ('leavers') changed to spending most of their time away from the litter at some point in the lactation. The change was rapid, often within a …

Pain In Farm Animals, L. U. Sneddon, Michael J. Gentle

Farm Animal Welfare Collection

This review will address how we can measure pain in farm animals and discuss the major causes of acute pain and also chronically painful conditions, and finally make suggestions for future improvements. Pain is a relatively difficult concept to define since it comprises both a physiological sensory and a psychological or emotional component. Pain is the subjective interpretation of nerve impulses induced by a stimulus that is actually or potentially damaging to tissues. The sensation of pain is a response to a noxious stimulus and should elicit protective motor (e.g. withdrawal reflex, escape) and vegetative responses (e.g. cardiovascular responses, inflammation). …

Removing Transportation Barriers To Employment: The Impact Of Driver's License Suspension Policies On Milwaukee County Teens, John Pawasarat

ETI Publications

This report examines the impact of current driver's license suspension and revocation policies on teenagers in Milwaukee County and central city Milwaukee neighborhoods. It is part of a series of public policy studies on barriers to employment for Milwaukee area workers. The research focuses on the special problems of youth in securing and keeping valid driver's licenses due to municipal and circuit court fine and forfeiture collection policies. Teenagers and young adults with a driver's license and access to a car can tap into jobs outside their neighborhoods and seek out employment in industries with greater opportunities for advancement. Wisconsin …