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Western States and National Energy Policy: The New States' Rights
(American Behavioral Scientist, 1978-11-01)
Regulatory Administration and Organizational Rigidity
(Political Research Quarterly, 1978-03-01)
Alternative Response and Scoring Methods for Multiple-Choice Items: An Empirical Study of Probabilistic and Ordinal Response Modes
(Applied Psychological Measurement, 1978-01-01)
Binary, probability, and ordinal scoring proce dures for multiple-choice items were examined. In a situation where true scores were experimentally controlled by the manipulation of partial informa tion, it was found that ...
Human Factors Design Problems of Fire Fighters
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 1978-10-01)
Problems of job and equipment design that contribute to the occupational health and safety of fire fighters is reviewed. The job of fighting fires is physically demanding and most fire fighters do not have a fitness level ...
Observations on Women Working under Thermal Stress
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 1978-10-01)
GIANNA MANZINI'S RITRATTO IN PIEDI: PORTRAIT AND CONFESSION
(Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies, 1978-03-01)
Human Factors in the Design of Effective Product Warnings
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 1978-10-01)
Warning messages for product use are important for the safety of the user and to fulfill the legal duty to warn on the part of the manufacturer. A number of issues related to the design of such warnings have been neglected ...
Bureaus, Clients, and Congress: The Impact of Interest Group Support on Budgeting
(Administration & Society, 1978-02-01)
Richard Fenno, in Power of the Purse, contends that the budget process responds to interest group pressures. This study examines that hypothesis for 20 bureaus in the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal years 1971-1976. ...
Costs of Collective Decisions, Choice of Tax Base, and Median Voter Equilibrium
(Public Finance Review, 1978-07-01)
This note examines the relationship between public expenditure growth and tax base elasticity in the context of the median voter model. If the revenue elasticity of the tax base and the median voter's income elasticity of ...
The Exploitation of Women in Evolutionary Perspective
(Critique of Anthropology, 1978-01-01)