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Perception of Risk At Toxic Sites (Hazardous Substances).
(1986)
The dissertation compares the perceptions of risk of agency planners and residents at toxic sites to better underst and the reasons for prevalent conflicts which frustrate the objectives of both groups. Recent studies of ...
Phonemic Awareness: the Development of Early Reading Competency.
(1986)
Phonemic awareness, the ability to examine language independent of its meaning and to manipulate component sounds of language is highly implicated in reading acquisition. However, the precise nature of this relationship ...
Transactions between Family Psychosocial Stressors and Externalizing Symptoms from Infancy to Adolescence: Interactions with Gender and Self- regulation.
(2012)
Family psychosocial stressors are key risk factors for children’s externalizing symptoms, yet we understand relatively little of their transactional interplay or their interaction with children’s individual characteristics. ...
Pathways to a higher education: An investigation of Black high school seniors from 1971-1982.
(1989)
This study focused on the achievement of Black high school students to determine which variables predicted (1) high school achievement and (2) post high school outcomes. A discussion is included on the barriers they ...
Microfoundations of the Conflict Theory of the Firm (Principal-Agent, Marxian, Labor).
(1985)
The symbiotic relationship between the mainstream economic theory of information and uncertainty and some aspects of neo-Marxian economic theory is explored. First, results from the principal-agent literature are used to ...
The Religious Significance of Rembrandt's "Return of the Prodigal Son": an Examination of the Picture in the Context of the Visual and Iconographic Tradition.
(1983)
The full significance of Rembr and t's Return of the Prodigal Son (Leningrad, Hermitage) has remained elusive, because the picture has not been viewed in light of either previous depictions of the subject or the way in ...
Symphony: Light Descending. (Original Composition).
(1987)
The initial compositional impulse for Symphony: Light Descending was to create an orchestral work that captures, while still speaking to the contemporary heart, some of the expansiveness and emotional power of the music ...
The Use of National Park Planning Workbooks for Citizen Participation: Enhancing Effective Communication.
(1983)
Effective citizen participation depends upon the participants' ability to underst and the information being presented. This study examined three factors hypothesized to be central to information-sharing: the underst and ...
Unconscious Affect in Social Cognition (Schemas).
(1987)
This dissertation examines the role of unconscious affect in person perception. It is assumed that in forming an impression of a target individual, a social perceiver matches available information against abstract mental ...