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The Development of Comprehension Monitoring in Young Children.
(1981)
A growing body of evidence suggests that through the early elementary school years, children demonstrate little ability or inclination to monitor their comprehension activities. Thus, when confronted with messages which ...
The Westminster Retable: a Study in English Gothic Panel Painting (Edward I).
(1986)
The Westminster Retable is the most important surviving thirteenth-century panel painting in northern Europe. In both its paintings and its decorative elements the Retable is a superb example of the sophisticated Anglo-French ...
Constitutions, Cleavages and Coordination: A Socio-Institutional Theory of Public Goods Provision.
(2009)
Why do some developing democracies outperform others in the provision of health and education? This dissertation explores a socio-institutional theory of why politicians choose to allocate resources either broadly across ...
Siamese "Slavery": the Institution and Its Abolition.
(1982)
This dissertation studies the Siamese (Thai) institution of servitude and its abolition, two related issues which have not yet been sufficiently treated or integrated into one study. Part I examines the institution of ...
Punic Bronze Coinage: Circulation, Mint Attribution and Chronology. (Volumes I and II).
(1985)
Punic bronze coins struck under the authority of Carthage in the central Mediterranean have survived in very large numbers, yet no systematic study of these issues has hitherto been attempted. Since lack of data on provenance ...
Communism and the Dilemmas of National Liberation: National Communism in Soviet Ukraine, 1918-1933.
(1981)
From 1918 to 1933 Ukrainian national aspirations were expressed through the Communist Party (bolshevik) of Ukraine, despite the fact that the group originated as a mere geographical organization of Russian Bolsheviks. The ...