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Competing for What?: Linking Competition to Performance in Social Service Contracting
(The American Review of Public Administration, 2010-05-01)
This article explores the links between competition and contractor performance often assumed by market theory. Using data from Florida social service contracting, the authors test to see if competitively procured vendors ...
General Strain Theory for LGBQ and SSB Youth: The Importance of Intersectionality in the Future of Feminist Criminology
(Feminist Criminology, 2014-10-01)
This study applies an intersectional general strain theory (GST) framework to understand the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, questioning (LGBQ) youth, and youth involved in same-sex sexual behavior (SSB). Using a ...
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Exploring the relationship between entrepreneurship and resilience among the Boruca Indians of Costa Rica
(2017-03-13)
This paper aims to explore the relationship between entrepreneurship and resilience in an indigenous context. The overarching research questions are: What are the mechanisms that link entrepreneurial thought and action to ...
Repeatability of the timed 25-foot walk test for individuals with multiple sclerosis
(Clinical Rehabilitation, 2013-08-01)
Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine if there is a practice effect present in the timed 25-foot walk in ambulatory individuals with multiple sclerosis.
NUCLEAR FACTOR Y Transcription Factors Have Both Opposing and Additive Roles in ABA-Mediated Seed Germination
(PLos One, 2013-03-19)
In the model organism Arabidopsis thaliana the heterotrimeric transcription factor NUCLEAR FACTOR Y (NF-Y) has been shown to play multiple roles in facilitating plant growth and development. Although NF-Y itself represents ...
Effects of Blood Flow Restricted Low-Intensity Concentric or Eccentric Training on Muscle Size and Strength
(PLos One, 2012-12-31)
We investigated the acute and chronic effects of low-intensity concentric or eccentric resistance training with blood flow restriction (BFR) on muscle size and strength. Ten young men performed 30% of concentric one ...
Eyewitness Identification and the Accuracy of the Criminal Justice System
(Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2015-10-01)
This article addresses the problem of eyewitness identification errors that can lead to false convictions of the innocent and false acquittals of the guilty. At the heart of our analysis based on signal detection theory ...
Establishing a Causal Relationship Between Intervention to Promote Self-Determination and Enhanced Student Self-Determination
(The Journal of Special Education, 2013-02-01)
Promoting the self-determination of adolescents with disabilities has become best practice in secondary education and transition services, but to date there have been no studies establishing a causal relationship between ...
Ecological opportunity and the adaptive diversification of lineages
(2014-12-17)
The tenet that ecological opportunity drives adaptive diversification has been central to theories of speciation since Darwin, yet no widely accepted definition or mechanistic framework for the concept currently exists. ...
Aging and Wisdom: Culture Matters
(Psychological Science, 2012-10-01)
People from different cultures vary in the ways they approach social conflicts, with Japanese being more motivated to maintain interpersonal harmony and avoid conflicts than Americans are. Such cultural differences have ...