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Not all disappeared: Disease and southeastern Indian survival, 1500-1800.
(1998)
Southeastern Indian survival depended on four factors. First, smallpox came relatively late to the Southeast, failing to become epidemic until the 1690s. Second, when epidemics struck with full force after the 1690s, Indians ...
Recent interdecadal variations in the tropical atmosphere: Evidence and idealized GCM simulations.
(1998)
A series of model integrations, forced with different SST perturbations over the tropical central and eastern Pacific, has been performed using the ECHAM4 GCM in an attempt to simulate the spatial patterns in tropical ...
A comparison of the relationships between levels of commitment and levels of professional socialization and how they relate to college student persistence.
(1998)
The purpose of the study was to examine the relationships between professional socialization, professional commitment, and college students' intent to persist toward degree attainment. The subjects (182) were first-year, ...
Innovation, imitation, and resisting manipulation: The first twenty years of American teenagers, 1941-1961.
(1998)
Over the twenty-year span of the 1940s and 1950s, a growing sense of separation and resistance to the mainstream culture developed, characterized by distinctive food, slang, music, dress, and sexual behavior. By studying ...
Student perceptions of campus crime and campus involvement.
(1998)
Among the student characteristics examined, freshmen had a higher perception of crime than sophomores. Conversely, sophomores had a higher level of involvement than freshmen. Females had a higher perception of crime than ...
Effects of structure on efficacy of public relations problem-solving processes.
(1998)
The unit of analysis for this study was the group. Treatment groups A were trained in a modified public relations problem solving (PRPS) process which used CPS techniques as decision making procedures. The treatment groups ...
Loyalist to liberal: The reform persuasion in New Brunswick politics, 1837-1857.
(1998)
In the British colony of New Brunswick, the period from 1837 to 1857 was one of intense political reform. The reform movement which eventually produced Responsible Government was the creation of a small group of men who ...
Parental investment and offspring sex ratios in house sparrows, Passer domesticus and cattle egrets, Bubulcus ibis.
(1998)
Fisher (1930) argued that parents should invest equally in the two sexes. Since then, others have proposed conditions under which parents might be selected to bias their investment in favor of either sons or daughters. I ...
Medicaid and the politics of state health care reform.
(1998)
This research draws upon the framework established by Oliver and Paul-Shaheen (1997). They argue that two general types of elements influence health care reform; contextual conditions and dynamic factors. Contextual ...
Negotiating the relationship between religion and public education: Conceptualizing a prophetic pragmatic teacher from Toni Morrison's "Beloved".
(1998)
This inquiry participates in continuing philosophical debates over the appropriate relationship between religion and public education (RRPE) and the conceptual consequences of any such relationship for teachers (Purpel, ...