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Quasi-Experimental Analysis of Targeted Economic Development Programs: Lessons from Florida
(Economic Development Quarterly, 2004-08-01)
The authors highlight three sources of endogeneity bias that typically haunt analyses of local government policies, and offer an empirical methodology for estimating program impacts given such concerns. They investigate ...
Improving Supervisor Evaluations Through the Use of Self Determination Contracts
(Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 2004-10-01)
Supervisor perceptions of employee competence in areas of work, social, and personal demands of the job often determine success or failure for the supported employee. This study involved three workers with disabilities who ...
Innovation, Corporate Strategy, and Cul tural Context: What Is the Mission for International Business Communication?
(Journal of Business Communication, 2000-07-01)
A global economy requires business organizations to cultivate their international holdings by respecting the national differences of their host countries and coordi nating efforts for rapid innovation. In this essay we ...
Counterfactuals and revisionism in historical explanation
(Anthropological Theory, 2001-03-01)
This article addresses the role of counterfactuals in historical and ethnohistorical explanation. Drawing primarily on examples from the Conquest of Mexico, it argues (1) for a useful role for counterfactual analysis, not ...
Enlightened or Delusional?: Differentiating Religious, Spiritual, and Transpersonal Experiences from Psychopathology
(Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 2008-10-01)
Psychological diagnosis faces unique challenges when used to differentiate nonpsychopathological religious/spiritual/transpersonal (R/S/T) experiences from those that might evidence psychopathology, particularly considering ...
Creating Indigenous Discourse: History, Power, and Imperialism in Academia, Palestinian Case
(Qualitative Inquiry, 2005-10-01)
This article examines the impossibilities of implementing decolonizing research for indigenous scholars. In addition, it articulates the relationship between a decolonizing research approach and the historical and current ...
When and Why Do Controllers Mark Flight Progress Strips? a Look at Live Traffic
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 2001-10-01)
Subject matter experts were employed to record observations of flight progress strip marking across 5 en route ATC facilities. Approximately 220 hours of ATC observations were recorded establishing a group of high ...
Collaborative Training With a More Experienced Partner: Remediating Low Pretraining Self-Efficacy in Complex Skill Acquisition
(Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 2007-12-01)
Objective: This study examined the effectiveness of collaborative training for individuals with low pretraining self-efficacy versus individuals with high pretraining selfefficacy regarding the acquisition of a complex ...
The Influence of Corporate Front-Group Stealth Campaigns
(Communication Research, 2007-02-01)
This research examined corporate front-group stealth campaigns. An experiment was conducted to examine the influence of front-group stealth campaigns on a variety of measures. It was anticipated that corporate front-group ...