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Examining the Value of Expert Testimony regarding Warnings
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 1995-10-01)
This alternative format session is designed to examine the value of expert testimony related to warnings. Specific objectives of the session include informing HFES members of the views of some members of the legal community ...
Verbal Play and Multiple Goals in the Gynaecological Exam Interaction'
(Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 1990-03-01)
This report investigates audio-taped gynaecological exam interactions that took place between one nurse practitioner and 41 female patients. Twelve instances of verbal play were transcribed from these exam conversations ...
Scale issues in soil moisture modelling: problems and prospects
(Progress in Physical Geography, 1996-09-01)
Soil moisture storage is an important component of the hydrological cycle and plays a key role in land-surface-atmosphere interaction. The soil-moisture storage equation in this study considers precipitation as an input ...
Russian City Planning, Democratic Reform, and Privatization: Emerging Trends
(Journal of Planning Education and Research, 1997-03-01)
The emerging democratic and privatization reforms are shaping city planning practice in Russia. This paper provides a brief history of city planning, a typical schema of city governance, and describes some of the effects ...
The view from Philadelphia
(1998-08)
White Racial Identity Models: A Critique and Alternative Proposal
(The Counseling Psychologist, 1994-01-01)
Existing models of White racial identity development (WRID) are challenged as being deficient in terms of: (a) being based on the oppression-adaptive models of minority identity development, (b) focusing primarily on ...
Commercial Aircraft-Cabin Egress: The Current State of Simulation Model Development and the Need for Future Research
(SIMULATION, 1999-10-01)
There has been increasing interest in developing simulation models capable of analyzing commer cial aircraft-cabin egress under both non-life- threatening and life-threatening scenarios. At issue is the ability to accurately ...
Changing Institutional Rules: The Evolution of Corporate Philanthropy, 1883-1953
(Business & Society, 1994-12-01)
Corporate philanthropy is considered to be an integral part of corporate social performance; however, this was not always the case. At one time, the use of corporate funds for philanthropy was illegal. This article uses ...
A Multilevel Product Model for Simulation-Based Design of Mechanical Systems
(Concurrent Engineering, 1998-06-01)
This paper presents a multilevel product model that supports Simulation-Based Design (SBD) of mechanical systems, from pre liminary to detailed design stages The pnmary goal of the SBD is to achieve product designs featuring ...