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Collective Efficacy, Social Context, Teacher's Work, and Student Achievement: A Mixed-Method Study.
(2011)
Collective efficacy – a group’s belief in its capabilities to organize and execute courses of action required to reach a goal – is understood to be an important organizational property because it facilitates attainment. ...
An Analysis of the Wisconsin Time-Of-Day Electricity Pricing Experiment.
(1982)
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the short-run effect of time-of-day electricity prices on time-of-day residential electricity consumption. Specifically, the impact of time-of-day rates on total weekday consumption, ...
The Eastern Frontier: Settlement and Subsistence in the Andean Margins of Central Peru. (Volumes I and II) (Ecology, Boundaries, Ethnohistory, Colonization, Cloud Forest).
(1985)
Land use strategies vary cross-culturally and through time and may assume many forms in environmentally complex areas. The Lower Tarma project concentrates on this variability in the context of complex ecological zonation ...
The language distribution of bibliographic records in selected online databases.
(1988)
This study explores the language distribution of materials included in on-line bibliographic databases between 1970-84. Eight databases (BIOSIS, Chemical Abstracts, GeoRef, MEDLINE, Criminal Justice, Oceanic Abstracts, ...
An Economic Analysis of the Dem and for Medical Care: Differences By Race.
(1980)
One of the most important movements of the past two decades has been trying to attain equity and equality in access to medical care for all Americans. Even though there are currently many sources of data that show that ...
Failure of a Vision: Critique of Objectivist Economic Philosophy. (Volumes I and II) (Ayn Rand ).
(1984)
Novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand defended capitalism as the economic system best suited to man's rational nature. She argued that an epistemology of reason leads to an ethic of rational selfishness, which results in a laissez ...
The Door Ajar: Japan's Foreign Trade in the Seventeenth Century.
(1980)
Historians generally assume that Iemitsu, the third shogun, prohibited overseas travel by Japanese in 1635 and expelled the Portuguese in 1639 to secure the Tokugawa polity from the disruptive influences of foreign commerce ...
The Dyad as Voice in Schoenberg's Opus 19: Pitch and Interval Prolongations, Voice-Leading, and Relational Systems (Music Theory, Analysis, 20Th Century).
(1985)
This is a study of the dyad, both as a theoretic concept and as an analytic event in Schoenberg's Sechs kleine Klavierstucke. Tracing the dyad's prolongation and elaboration throughout Opus 19, the study examines the actual ...
Planning in Adversity: a Computational Model of Strategic Planning in the Game of Go.
(1981)
A general procedure for representing plans in games such as go and chess is presented. This representation is simlar to the types of plans generated by robot problem solving programs, in that it uses a goal tree with the ...