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Ghosts in the Bureaucratic Machine: Resurrecting the Principles of Administration in the Oklahoma Health Department
(The American Review of Public Administration, 2004-03-01)
An Oklahoma health department scandal erupted when the acting director was arrested for taking a bribe. More revelations quickly followed, including the existence of multiple “ghost employees” on payroll but having no ...
College students with disabilities: Building self-determination and self-efficacy.
(2004)
The successful pursuit of postsecondary opportunities for students with disabilities requires providing supports beyond the typical academic accommodations. Equal access to postsecondary education should include developing ...
Verification of microbial ethanol formation in humans by examination of postmortem indoleamine metabolites.
(2004)
Toxicological examination of fatal aviation accident victims routinely includes analysis of ethanol levels. Two distinct questions immediately arise when considering such analyses. The first is, can we stop ethanol production ...
Topic-Relevant Reference Groups and Dimensions of Distance: Political Advertising and First- and Third-Person Effects
(Communication Research, 2004-04-01)
This article argues for using topic-relevant reference groups in examining first and third-person effects. It also proposes using topic-relevant dimensions of distance to assess relationships not only between self and ...
Development of outstanding leadership.
(2004)
The differences between the types and content of developmental experiences that a sample of outstanding leaders experienced in early life were examined. Relevant sections of 120 biographies of outstanding leaders in the ...
A Model of the Global and Institutional Antecedents of High-Level Corporate Environmental Performance
(Business & Society, 2004-03-01)
Stories of firms that exceed local compliance requirements in their environmental performance appear routinely. However, we have limited theoretical explanations of what propels these firms to exceed compliance. Our theory ...
Toward the Construction of an Efficient Set of Robot Arm Operator Performance Metrics
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 2004-09-01)
As part of a larger project to identify and validate relevant quantitative measures of robot arm operator proficiency, fifteen metrics of arm maneuvering and hand controller performance were defined and measured for 3-DOF ...
Shortwave broadcasting in a new world order: An historical examination of the influences of satellite radio and Internet radio on shortwave broadcasting since the end of the Cold War.
(2004)
From the application of shortwave frequencies to broadcasting in the 1920s until the last decade of the 20th century, international broadcasting was synonymous with shortwave broadcasting by state-run radio stations. For ...
The life and work of Gretel Karplus/Adorno: Her contributions to Frankfurt School theory.
(2004)
This dissertation uses the insights of contemporary rhetorical theory and feminist biography to acknowledge the contributions of Gretel Karplus/Adorno to the productivity of her husband, Theodor W. Adorno, of her dear ...
The effects of dispositional hope on coping with career indecision in a sample of undergraduate students.
(2004)
The purpose of the present study was to provide further evidence of the distinct ways by which dispositional hope affects career indecision and coping with vocational choice among undergraduate students. Using a sample of ...