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Administrative History of the United States: Development and State of the Art
(Administration & Society, 2000-11-01)
Although certainly not mainstream to the study of public administration, administrative history in the United States has quite a tradition. In this article, the development of the study of the history of American government ...
Peer tutoring and at-risk students: The effects of peer tutoring on attendance rates, misbehavior in school, and academic progress for students identified as at risk for dropping out of high school.
(2000)
When at-risk students who participated in a six-week tutoring project were compared to at risk students who did not participate as a tutor, significant differences were found in academic performance in math class and on ...
A Survey of Ramp and Stair Use among Older Adults
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 2000-07-01)
Forty-three community-dwelling adults aged 57 to 95 participated in survey exploring characteristics of ramp use by older ambulant people. Twenty-three respondents said they ascended ramps instead of stairs most of the ...
Methods of velocity determination and noise reduction in the processing of near-surface seismic reflection data.
(2000)
At the Gypsy Outcrop Site, OK, the depth of interest is less than 100 ft. 2-D seismic surveys used a shotgun as source. The signal/noise ratio is very poor. CMP stacking fails to produce interpretable reflections. Because ...
Meningoencephalitis Associated with Globicatella sanguinis Infection in Lambs
(2000-11)
Thirty lambs displayed symptoms of meningoencephalitis. An unusual gram-positive coccus was isolated in pure culture from the blood and brain samples from one of the affected animals, and phenotypic and phylogenetic ...
New records of Early, Medial, and Late Cretaceous lizards and the evolution of the Cretaceous lizard fauna of North America.
(2000)
The record of Mesozoic lizards has, for many years, consisted of records of primitive lizards from the Late Jurassic and derived lizards from the Late Cretaceous. The intervening time period has almost no record of lizards, ...
Studies of the complexation reactions of polyether ionophore antibiotics monensin A and lasalocid A with lead(II), zinc, calcium and sodium cations.
(2000)
Lead-ionophore complexes of the form PbLX and PbL2 (L = monensin A or lasalocid A; X- = anion) were isolated and characterized by elemental analysis (X = Cl--) and ESI-MS (X = Cl --, NO3, CH3COO--). Changes in the UV-Vis ...
Reservoir characterization and geostatistical modeling of the West Jordan unit San Andreas Formation, Central Basin Platform, Ector and Crane counties, west Texas.
(2000)
Productive ramp crest facies form a series of vertically stacked shoal bodies that formed during the end of HFS I and occur only below HST I. Eustatic sea level changes and accommodation space within the HST resulting in ...
(Not so) Divine comedy: A content analysis of humorous political ads.
(2000)
The current study is a content analysis of 379 humorous political advertisements from 1952 to 1996 in every election level from civic to presidential. Percentages, Chi Square analyses and one-sample t-tests are employed ...
Constructing graphs to meet specified conditions: A generalizability study.
(2000)
This study investigated differences in problems involving graphical representations of functions. Specifically, problems requiring students to answer questions about a given graph were compared with problems requiring ...