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The making of legislative agents: Interest group influence in congressional policymaking.
(2001)
These findings emphasize the importance of interest groups and their lobbyists in congressional policymaking. They make strategic decisions to use their resources to target members in key places along the paths of policymaking, ...
Accountability as it influences ethical behavior.
(2001)
The Ethical Decision-Making Model with Accountability proposes that various forms of accountability will influence ethical intentions, with moral intensity moderating this relationship. The model also shows that cognitive ...
An interactionist model on the influences of moral intensity, organizational environment and temperamental characteristics on ethical decision making in organizations.
(2001)
The temperamental measures of Effortful Control and Affiliativeness were found to be significantly related to ethical decision making, and explain more variance than the Big Five measures of Conscientiousness and Agreeableness. ...
A comparison of organizational culture between administrative affairs administrators and academic affairs administrators at selected institutions of higher education.
(2001)
This study examined the organizational culture of two administrative subcultures, the administrative affairs division and the academic affairs division in three four-year institutions of higher education: a research ...
A proactive model of communication in marketing channels.
(2001)
A survey of 1000 exclusive insurance agents was conducted, which yielded a usable response rate of 20.3%. The data was analyzed using structural equation modeling. The results provide support for fifteen out of eighteen ...
Illicit sexual behaviors: A test of self-control theory.
(2001)
This study proposes a test of self-control theory using illicit sexual behaviors. Specifically this research tests the correlation of illicit sexual behaviors with crime/delinquency as they relate to measures of self-control, ...
A comparative study of the three French versions in verse of the story of "Barlaam et Josaphaz".
(2001)
Chapter 4. "The Parables." The parables are an important aspect of the story of Barlaam et Josaphaz, and many enjoyed a popularity outside the story of these two saints. In this chapter I examine Chardri's decision to leave ...
Timely materialisms: Modernism, subjectivity, and language.
(2001)
In Timely Materialisms: Modernism, Subjectivity, and Language I examine some major figures in literary modernism in relationship to the critique of scientific positivism, particularly as it plays out in the human sciences. ...
Seismic inversion by artificial neural networks.
(2001)
The first application is seismic inversion. Artificial neural networks were used to invert post-stack seismic data into the petrophysical attributes. This application involves two steps. In the first step, the seismic data, ...
Improvised ornamentation in the opera arias of Mozart: A singer's guide.
(2001)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, along with other composers of the late eighteenth century, often left melodic phrases of opera arias with simplified endings at cadenza points. This practice allowed particular care to be given to ...