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Merit Reform as an Instrument of Executive Power
(The American Review of Public Administration, 1983-06-01)
Dynamic Drilling Displays
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 1983-10-01)
Gas and oilwell drilling is a hazardous business which relies on human vigilance to detect a sudden influx of gas from the formation into the well bore, and human control activity to manage the migration of this gas bubble ...
Delayed Gratification in Blacks: A Critical Review
(Journal of Black Psychology, 1983-02-01)
Research on the delay of gratification in Blacks was critically reviewed. The methodology typically em ployed to investigate this construct involves offering the individual a choice of obtaining either a small, im mediate ...
Sex Differences in Absence from Work: A Reinterpretation
(Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1983-12-01)
Sex differences in absence from work were investigated for parents and nonparents during a period of 11 months. Personnel records showed sex differences only among working parents, with mothers taking significantly more ...
Transverse Shear Effects in Bimodular Composite Laminates
(Journal of Composite Materials, 1983-07-01)
A closed-form solution for the Timoshenko-type shear correction coefficient (K2) governing the deflection of bimodular composite laminates in cylindrical bending is presented. The bending- stress distribution for a laminate ...
Speed-Accuracy Tradeoffs in Spatial Orientation Information Processing
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 1983-10-01)
A study was conducted to further evaluate the Manikin Task, a test of spatial orientation information processing. The objectives of the study were to determine the speed vs. accuracy tradeoff characteristics of the task ...
Participatory Research and Utilization in the Technology A ssessment Process: Issues and Recommendations
(Science Communication, 1983-03-01)
Structural Clarity of Interdisciplinary Teams: A Research Note
(The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 1983-06-01)
Previous studies of scientists in formal organizations have stressed the conflict between the scientist's professional needfor autonomy and the organization's needfor an efficient-often bureaucratic-formal structure. In ...
Efficiency in Social Service Organizations
(Administration & Society, 1983-02-01)
This article addresses two unresolved issues in studying organizational efficiency: first, the problem of evaluating organizations; second, the problems involved in investigating the interrelationships of efficiency, ...
GUBERNATORIAL INFLUENCE AND STATE BUREAUCRACY
(American Politics Research, 1983-04-01)
Previous research has concentrated on differences in gubernatorial power across states. Relatively little research attention has been devoted to the sources of gubernatorial influence over state agencies. Based on data ...