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Ghosts in the Bureaucratic Machine: Resurrecting the Principles of Administration in the Oklahoma Health Department
(The American Review of Public Administration, 2004-03-01)
An Oklahoma health department scandal erupted when the acting director was arrested for taking a bribe. More revelations quickly followed, including the existence of multiple “ghost employees” on payroll but having no ...
A New Trichotomous Measure of World-system Position Using the International Trade Network
(International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 2009-02-01)
Snyder and Kick's (1979) measure of world-system position continues to serve as the premier trichotomous network indicator of a state's location in the capitalist world economy. In this study, we identify several problems ...
Priming the Historian in All Planners
(Journal of Planning History, 2006-11-01)
This article advocates bringing historical analysis methods—thinking like a historian—and primary sources into the planning classroom. It reviews recent literature on teaching history and on how the general public uses the ...
Heme Regulates Exocrine Peptidase Precursor Genes in Zebrafish
(Experimental Biology and Medicine, 2007-10-01)
We previously determined that yquem harbors a mutation in the gene encoding uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase (UROD), the fifth enzyme in heme biosynthesis, and established zebrafish yquem (yqetp61) as a vertebrate model for ...
Differences in Vascular Reactivity Between Men and Women
(Angiology, 2007-12-01)
The purpose of this study was to compare the gender and age-related differences in vascular reactivity in healthy men and women across a wide age range. Fifty-seven men and 61 women between 20 and 89 years of age, free of ...
Topic-Relevant Reference Groups and Dimensions of Distance: Political Advertising and First- and Third-Person Effects
(Communication Research, 2004-04-01)
This article argues for using topic-relevant reference groups in examining first and third-person effects. It also proposes using topic-relevant dimensions of distance to assess relationships not only between self and ...
A Model of the Global and Institutional Antecedents of High-Level Corporate Environmental Performance
(Business & Society, 2004-03-01)
Stories of firms that exceed local compliance requirements in their environmental performance appear routinely. However, we have limited theoretical explanations of what propels these firms to exceed compliance. Our theory ...
Toward the Construction of an Efficient Set of Robot Arm Operator Performance Metrics
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 2004-09-01)
As part of a larger project to identify and validate relevant quantitative measures of robot arm operator proficiency, fifteen metrics of arm maneuvering and hand controller performance were defined and measured for 3-DOF ...
Community College Mentoring: Minority Student Perception
(Community College Review, 2002-12-01)
Research has demonstrated the impact of mentoring programs in enhancing the academic and social integration of minority students in community colleges. However, there is a lack of an approach which addresses mentoring for ...
Effect of Planar Preform Density on Properties of Resin Transfer Molded Composites
(2002)
The type and volume fraction of fibrous preform used in resin transfer molding has significant influence on the properties of the molded composite parts. In this study, effect of preform architecture and fiber volume ...