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School Violence and the Culture of Honor
(Psychological Science, 2009-11-01)
We investigated the hypothesis that a sociocultural variable known as the culture of honor would be uniquely predictive of school-violence indicators. Controlling for demographic characteristics associated in previous ...
Can Inoculation Withstand Multiple Attacks?: An Examination of the Effectiveness of the Inoculation Strategy Compared to the Supportive and Restoration Strategies
(Communication Research, 2009-10-01)
This investigation introduced multiple competitive attacks in order to assess the effectiveness of inoculation treatments in protecting established attitudes in a natural setting. A four-phase experiment was conducted ...
On the Meaning and Measure of Narcissism
(Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2009-07-01)
For three decades, social-personality research on overt narcissism has relied almost exclusively on the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI). However, the NPI suffers from a host of psychometric and validity concerns ...
Migrant Remittances and Skipped Generation Households: Investigating the Exchange Motive Using Evidence from Nang Rong, Thailand
(Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 2009-06-01)
Using data from the Nang Rong projects social survey (N=6,801 households) and qualitative data from semi-structured interviews, I examine the relationship between migrant remittances and the skipped generation household ...
Student Characteristics and Motivation in Rural High Schools
(2009-11)
This research tested a path model for how rural high school students' self-perceptions and environmental perceptions influence their course-related interest, school engagement and ultimately, post-graduation intentions. ...
Global West, American frontier
(2009-02)
From article, "The author is a member of the history department at the University of Nevada,
Las Vegas. This was his presidential address at the annual meeting of the Pacific
Coast Branch, American Historical Association, ...
Conventional Wisdom: Putting National Party Convention Ratings in Context
(Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 2009-09-21)
This paper places broadcast major party convention ratings in the broader context of the changing media environment from 1976 until 2008 in order to explore the decline in audience for the convention. Broadcast convention ...
Nurturing the Rural Teacher Experience: Lessons from the United States
(2009)
Rural places and schools are diverse, presenting challenges for teaching and for understanding the needs of rural teachers. The recent NCES Report on Status of Education in Rural America indicates "no measurable differences" ...
The Boundary-spanning Role of Democratic Learning Communities: Implementing the IDEALS
(Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2009-07-01)
This multi-case study investigates characteristics and practices in schools that expand the traditional boundaries of school leadership and transform schools into democratic learning communities based on the level of ...
An Experimental Investigation of Applying Mica2 Motes in Pavement Condition Monitoring
(Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, 2009-01-01)
Pavement maintenance is vital for travel safety, thus detecting dangerous road conditions in a real-time fashion is desirable. Using an off-the-shelf wireless sensor network to detect such conditions at a low cost poses ...