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Redirection in Georgia: A New Type of Budget Reform
(The American Review of Public Administration, 1999-09-01)
The budgeting reform literature is replete with examples of reforms such as performance budgeting, program budgeting, and zero-base budgeting that have failed to achieve their stated goals. This article analyzes a new ...
Word from an IFLA fox: an interview with Else Granheim
(Information Development, 1991-01-01)
Edited text of an interview with Else Granheim, Director General, Statens Bibliotektilsyn (Norwegian Directorate for Public and School Libraries), Oslo, and former President of the International Federation of Library ...
Targeting Intergovernmental Aid to Local Schools: an Analysis of Federal and State Efforts
(Political Research Quarterly, 1992-12-01)
Policy, Behavior, and Research: Changing Schooling for Homeless Children and Youth
(Education and Urban Society, 1993-08-01)
Nondestructive Evaluation of Changes in Mechanical Properties in Carbon-Carbon Composites during Processing
(Journal of Composite Materials, 1994-02-01)
In this work, changes in the mechanical properties of carbon-carbon composites during processing are studied using nondestructive characterization techniques. Ultrasonics and radiography are used to measure the local ...
Argumentativeness and Aggressiveness: The Flip Side of Gentle Persuasion
(Management Communication Quarterly, 1991-02-01)
This article explores the development and testing of two popular communication instruments: argumentativeness and verbal aggressiveness scales. One measures the degree to which an individual engages in verbal attacks on ...
Recruitment Strategies in the Federal Government: Missing Links and Representative Bureaucracy
(Review of Public Personnel Administration, 1990-10-01)
PTSD and Agent Orange: Implications for a Sociology of Veterans' Issues
(Armed Forces & Society, 1992-07-01)
Two major controversies have marked the readjustment of Vietnam veterans to civilian life. The first surrounds the introduction of the diagnosis, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, into the American Psychiatric Association's ...
Vehicle and Labor Requirements for Yard Waste Collection
(Waste Management & Research, 1997-12-01)
Curbside collection of yard waste material is costly because the amounts collected per residence are small compared to the total waste stream and time is wasted driving by non-setting-out residences. In this paper, ...
“I've Had Too Much Done to My Heart”: The Dilemma of Addiction and Recovery as Seen through Seven Youngsters' Lives
(Journal of Drug Education, 1999-12-01)
Aware of the dearth of in-depth studies on recovering adolescent addict/alcoholics, we conducted a year-long qualitative study of seven formerly-addicted youth committed to recovery. The research question was: how do ...