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Rethinking the Target Corollary: The Effects of Social Distance, Perceived Exposure, and Perceived Predispositions on First-Person and Third-Person Perceptions
(Communication Research, 2005-12-01)
This study examines the effects of social distance, perceived exposure, and perceived predispositions on perceived media effects for desirable and undesirable health messages. It finds support for the effect social distance ...
Tax Cuts and Employment in New Jersey: Lessons From a Regional Analysis
(Public Finance Review, 2004-05-01)
The Whitman administration’s 30% reduction in New Jersey’s personal income taxes from 1994 to 1996 is prominently cited as a role model for state fiscal policy. The authors investigate whether the growth benefits attributed ...
Hierarchical Approach to Corporate Advocacy: Corporate Advocacy as a Way of Guilt Redemption
(Kenneth Burke Society, 2008)
Building on Burke's and Gramsci's hierarchical perspectives, this essay examines the hierarchical nature of corporate advocacy and presents corporate advocacy as an inevitable outgrowth of the power relationship between ...
Student Characteristics and Motivation in Rural High Schools
(2009-11)
This research tested a path model for how rural high school students' self-perceptions and environmental perceptions influence their course-related interest, school engagement and ultimately, post-graduation intentions. ...
VULGATE VERSES
(2007)
This companion volume to Latin Via Proverbs offers 4000 Bible verses, organized by grammatical categories, for use by beginning Latin students and also by more advanced students who want a systematic review of Latin grammar. ...
Global West, American frontier
(2009-02)
From article, "The author is a member of the history department at the University of Nevada,
Las Vegas. This was his presidential address at the annual meeting of the Pacific
Coast Branch, American Historical Association, ...
Do Narcissists Dislike Themselves “Deep Down Inside”?
(Psychological Science, 2007-03-01)
Tax Burden and the Mismeasurement of State Tax Policy
(Public Finance Review, 2006-07-01)
Tax Burden, defined as the ratio of total tax revenues over personal income, is frequently used to measure state tax policy. The authors analyze the empirical relationship between changes in Tax Burden and changes in tax ...
Faculty Productivity and Carnegie Institutional Characteristics within AEJMC Programs
(Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, 2005-06-01)
This article reports the results of a content analysis of faculty vitae from eighteen ACEJMC programs drawn using stratified random sampling by Carnegie Classification. The findings indicate that faculty members differ by ...
Movement Kinematics and their Relationship with Performance in Target Acquisition Task Using a Mouse
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 2007-10-01)
Movement kinematics has been shown useful for characterizing the process of aiming movement in target acquisition tasks. There are multiple kinematic measures reported in the literature, but their relationship to eventual ...