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Conventional Wisdom: Putting National Party Convention Ratings in Context
(Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 2009-09-21)
This paper places broadcast major party convention ratings in the broader context of the changing media environment from 1976 until 2008 in order to explore the decline in audience for the convention. Broadcast convention ...
Status, Testosterone, and Human Intellectual Performance: Stereotype Threat as Status Concern
(Psychological Science, 2003-03-01)
Results from two experiments suggest that stereotype-threat effects are special cases of a more general process involving the need to maintain or enhance status. We hypothesized that situations capable of confirming a ...
Domesticating Urban Theory? US Concepts, British Cities and the Limits of Cross-national Applications
(Urban Studies, 2004-10-01)
The efficacy of the urban regime and growth machine concepts beyond the US remains a matter of considerable debate. Some argue that these frameworks retain considerable value so long as they are 'properly' applied and that ...
Internet-based Framework to Support Integration of Customer in the Design of Customizable Products
(Concurrent Engineering, 2006-09-01)
A necessary element to design and produce customer-centric products is the integration of customers in the design process. Challenges faced during customer integration into the design process include generating models of ...
A Historiometric Examination of Machiavellianism and a New Taxonomy of Leadership
(Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, 2006-06-01)
Although researchers have extensively examined the relationship between charismatic leadership and Machiavellianism (Deluga, 2001; Gardner & Avolio, 1995; House & Howell, 1992), there has been a lack of investigation of ...
Effect of Injection Rate and Post-Fill Cure Pressure on Properties of Resin Transfer Molded Disks
(Journal of Composite Materials, 2002-08-01)
The effects of flow rate andpost-fill cure pressure, i.e., packing pressure, on the mechanical properties of resin transfer molded disks are experimentally investigated. An experimental molding setup is constructed to ...
A Framework for Understanding Charter School Accountability
(Education and Urban Society, 2001-02-01)
Organization Culture as an Explanation for Employee Discipline Practices
(Review of Public Personnel Administration, 2006-03-01)
Most supervisors dread employee discipline and often employ strategies not officially sanctioned by the organization. Poorly designed discipline systems cause this variation in discipline practices. Inconsistent discipline ...
Vibration-based Health Monitoring of Earth Structures
(Structural Health Monitoring, 2005-06-01)
Vibration-based health monitoring (VBHM) has successfully been used to assess the structural damage to bridges, buildings, aircraft, and rotating machinery. There is significant incentive to apply VBHM techniques to the ...