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Adolescent Male Attitudes About Singing in Choir
(Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 2011-11-01)The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors that influence adolescent males to enroll in school choir as an elective class and to assess their attitudes about singing in general, self-concept of their own ... -
Adolescent Sexual Activity and Mildly Deviant Behavior: Sibling and Friendship Effects
(Journal of Family Issues, 1990-09-01)This article addresses the relationship between two related behavioral domains in adolescents: sexual activity and mildly deviant behavior (defined as behaviors of which parents would disapprove, but which are not illegal). ... -
Affect and Interaction in an Ambiguous Authority Relationship: New Zealand's Bureaucrats and the Ombudsman
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Affective Pictures and the Open Library of Affective Foods (OLAF): Tools to Investigate Emotions toward Food in Adults
(PLos One, 2016-08-11)Recently, several sets of standardized food pictures have been created, supplying both food images and their subjective evaluations. However, to date only the OLAF (Open Library of Affective Foods), a set of food images ... -
Affective Suffrage: Social Media, Street Protests, and Theatre as Alternative Spaces for Political Self-Representation in the 2012 Mexican Presidential Elections
(2017)This article examines alternative forums for democratic self-representation as a response to state corruption, especially the social movement #YoSoy132, which emerged online and on the streets during Mexico’s 2012 electoral ... -
After Corporatism: A Comparison of the Role of Medical Professionals and Social Workers in the Dutch Welfare State
(Comparative Political Studies, 1992-01-01)This article compares the emerging role of professional groups in two areas of welfare policy in the Netherlands. The focus is on the role of medical professionals in Dutch disability programs and of social workers in the ... -
Against the Proposed New UNP Project Plan
(2019-09-06)There are basically three things wrong with the UNP TIF: 1) It has failed to deliver on the high-end, regional-draw retail which it promised. 2) It diverts tax income from higher priority uses. 3) Expenditures in the ... -
Aging and Wisdom: Culture Matters
(Psychological Science, 2012-10-01)People from different cultures vary in the ways they approach social conflicts, with Japanese being more motivated to maintain interpersonal harmony and avoid conflicts than Americans are. Such cultural differences have ... -
Aging Effects and Generational Differences in Social Welfare Attitude Constraint in the Mass Public
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Aiding Planning in Air Traffic Control: An Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Perceptual Information Integration
(Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 2002-09-01)Prior research examined how controllers plan in their traditional environment and identified various information uncertainties as detriments to planning. A planning aid was designed to reduce this uncertainty by perceptually ... -
Allelopathic Potential of Invasive Plantago virginica on Four Lawn Species
(PLos One, 2015-04-27)Plantago virginica L. has invaded many lawn ecosystems in the Eastern part of China. The invasion has incurred an economic cost to remove them. In order to prevent the invasion, it is critical to understand the invasive ... -
Alternate methods for sampling in coordinate metrology
(Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 2007-06-01)A variety of inspection equipment exists in industry to capture the points on a surface that will envisage manufacturing form errors. Manufacturing inspection faces a problem of finding optimal methods to capture an evenly ... -
An Alternative Approach to the Analysis of Citizen Assessments of Municipal Services
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Alternative Multiple Imputation Inference for Mean and Covariance Structure Modeling
(Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2012-12-01)Model-based multiple imputation has become an indispensable method in the educational and behavioral sciences. Mean and covariance structure models are often fitted to multiply imputed data sets. However, the presence of ... -
Alternative Response and Scoring Methods for Multiple-Choice Items: An Empirical Study of Probabilistic and Ordinal Response Modes
(Applied Psychological Measurement, 1978-01-01)Binary, probability, and ordinal scoring proce dures for multiple-choice items were examined. In a situation where true scores were experimentally controlled by the manipulation of partial informa tion, it was found that ... -
American Religion and Politics: A Review Essay
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Analysis of Ductile Bursting in Pressure Vessels of Texture-Hardening and Filament-Wrapped Materials
(Journal of Composite Materials, 1968-07-01)Analyses are presented for predicting the strength governed by the plastic tensile instability (PTI) phenomenon in thin-walled cylindrical and spherical pressure vessels constructed of texture- hardening alloys and with ... -
An Analysis of First Impression in the Reading of Electrical Schematic Diagrams
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 1980-10-01)The initial impression of electronic troubleshooters of schematic diagrams was studied in a series of two experiments. In one experiment the time available to the subjects to view the information was restricted to 12 seconds ... -
Analysis of fractal frictional contact in machining
(Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 2007-07-01)A model of the interfacial frictional conditions at the secondary shear zone in oblique cutting is under development. It has been suggested that the tool-chip interface consists of sticking and sliding microcontacts, each ... -
Analytical and Experimental Investigation of the Critical Length in Casing–Liner Overlap
(2019-12-02)Offshore drilling operations exhibit various difficulties attributed to shallow flows worldwide. One of the most common practices for drilling offshore wells is to use liners and liner hangers rather than using full casing ...