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Is American Bureaucracy an Immobilized Gulliver or a Regenerative Phoenix?: Reconsidering the Alleged Demise of Federal Bureaucratic Power
(Administration & Society, 1995-11-01)Over the past quarter century, federal bureaucracies have been affected by numerous changes-many of which were designed to restrictbureaucratic autonomy. Several scholars have concluded that bureaucracy's role in the process ... -
Is American Public Administration Detached From Historical Context?: On the Nature of Time and the Need to Understand It in Government and Its Study
(The American Review of Public Administration, 2010-05-01)The study of public administration pays little attention to history. Most publications are focused on current problems (the present) and desired solutions (the future) and are concerned mainly with organizational structure ... -
Is extinction forever?
(2015)Mistrust of science has seeped into public perception of the most fundamental aspect of conservation—extinction. The term ought to be straightforward, and yet, there is a disconnect between scientific discussion and public ... -
Is extinction forever?
(Public Understanding of Science, 2015-02-23)This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution ... -
Is There Anything "New" in Management?
(Journal of Management, 1976-10-01)Two books separated by 36 years between publication dates, and both titled "The New Management," are examined in this paper. The authors present the conventional wisdom of management in 1938 and compare it with the "New ... -
Is ‘no news’ really ‘good news’? Country visibility and FDI location choice
(2017-06-29)In choosing where to invest, firms seek out information on a set of possible locations. Information asymmetries may make country visibility particularly important in decisions to locate investment abroad. We develop a ... -
Islet autoantibody seroconversion in type-1 diabetes is associated with metagenome-assembled genomes in infant gut microbiomes
(2022-06-21)The immune system of some genetically susceptible children can be triggered by certain environmental factors to produce islet autoantibodies (IA) against pancreatic β cells, which greatly increases their risk for Type-1 ... -
Isozyme-Specific Ligands for O-acetylserine sulfhydrylase, a Novel Antibiotic Target
(PLos One, 2013-10-22)The last step of cysteine biosynthesis in bacteria and plants is catalyzed by O-acetylserine sulfhydrylase. In bacteria, two isozymes, O-acetylserine sulfhydrylase-A and O-acetylserine sulfhydrylase-B, have been identified ... -
Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus: Epidemiology, Pathogenesis and Implications for Honey Bee Health
(PLoS Pathogens, 2014-07-31)Author Summary The mysterious outbreak of honey bee Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) in the US in 2006–2007 has attracted massive media attention and created great concerns over the effects of various risk factors on bee ... -
Issue Voting: An Empirical Examination of Individually Necessary and Jointly Sufficient Conditions
(American Politics Research, 1979-01-01)This paper argues that six conditions must be met to conclude that issue voting exists: (1) candidates must take different positions on the issues of the day; (2) the campaign issues must be salient to the voter; (3) voters ... -
Item Difficulty Sequencing and Response Style: a Follow-Up Analysis
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It’s Hard, but I Can Do It: How an Independent Engineering Fair Project Can Affect Student Perceptions Of Science
(2021-09-07)Incorporating authentic engineering practices into educative experiences in elementary school has the potential to positively impact student consideration of STEM careers ... -
It’s Fun to Interview Him, If You Can Catch Him: an interview with Robert Wedgeworth
(Information Development, 1999-03-01)Robert Wedgeworth, President of the International Federation of Library Association and Institutions (IFLA) from 1991–1997, was interviewed August 20, 1998, Hotel Okura, Amsterdam, during the 64th General Conference of ... -
Jane Shore, Edward IV, and the Politics of Publicity
(2018)This essay sketches the publics imagined and instantiated by Thomas Heywood's two-part history play Edward IV. Heywood’s play locates the middle-class woman Jane Shore at the center of public politics, turning the cautionary ... -
Janus Particles at Fluid Interfaces: Stability and Interfacial Rheology
(2021-02-02)The use of the Janus motif in colloidal particles, i.e., anisotropic surface properties on opposite faces, has gained significant attention in the bottom-up assembly of novel functional structures, design of active nanomotors, ... -
Job shop configuration optimization at Tinker Air Force Base
(SIMULATION, 1990-06-01)This paper discusses a large simulation model that was developed to aid the reconstruc tion efforts after a disastrous fire at Tinker Air Force Base. The model, developed in SLAM, facilitated the analysis and efficient ... -
Journalism Guardians in a Time of Great Change: Newspaper Editors' Perceived Influence in Integrated News Organizations
(Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 2008-06-01)A national survey of top newspaper editors explored industry uncertainty and organizational change and how organizational integration, team-based newsrooms, newspaper size, and profit emphasis impact editors' perceived ... -
Just a guy in pajamas? Framing the blogs in mainstream US newspaper coverage (1999—2005)
(New Media & Society, 2010-03-01)When new technologies are introduced to the public, their widespread adoption is dependent, in part, on news coverage (Rogers, 1995).Yet, as weblogs began to play major role in the public spheres of politics and journalism, ... -
Justice and capabilities in the postcolony: Extending Sen to the Jamaican and South African contexts
(Philosophy & Social Criticism, 2015-01-01)This article explores briefly the practical as well as theoretical issues that arise when Amartya Sen’s evaluation of justice through the capabilities afforded citizens in a society is applied to postcolonies like Jamaica ... -
A Justice's Surprise That Has Stood Its Ground: The Enduring Value of the Commercial Speech Doctrine's Powellian Balance
(Journalism & Communication Monographs, 2012-12-01)One of the most important concepts of modern commercial speech related to advertising, characterized as the “Powellian balance,” resulted in a compromise between those who thought commercial expression should receive little ...