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Effect of oil on recruitment from the seed bank of two tidal freshwater wetlands
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; SPB Academic Publishing bv ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1992-03)
The effect of oil spills on the recruitment of freshwater tidal wetland species was determined using soil seed bank samples collected in early March from two New Jersey Delaware River marshes. Samples were exposed to ...
Approximation to a parabolic system modeling the thermoelastic contacts of two rods
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998-01)
In this article, we study a sequence of finite difference approximate solutions to a parabolic system, which models two dissimilar rods that may come into contact as a result of thermoelastic expansion. We construct the ...
Performance of the Personality Inventory for Youth Validity Scales
(Sage Publications, 1999)
Response sets as well as cognitive and academic deficits compromise the validity of child and adolescent self-report of emotional adjustment. Three studies using clinical and asymptomatic samples of 4th to 12th grade ...
Hell, Religion, and Cultural Change
(J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1994-09)
This paper's key conclusion is that church doctrine about the afterlife is a function of factors predictable with economic theory. Religion, like government, family, and community can enforce property rights and encourage ...
Telling them like it is: The role of economic and environmental factors in single mothers' discussions with their children
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1992-08)
The Effects of Conscientiousness and Opportunity to Caucus on Group Performance
(SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC., 1998)
Given the increasing use of work teams in organizations, personnel selection procedures based on individual conscientiousness are likely to result in groups composed of highly conscientious members. This laboratory experiment ...
Gender Differences in Verbal Presumptuousness and Attentiveness
(Sage Publications, 1997)
Men's and women's verbal presumptuousness and attentiveness were measured by verbal response mode coding of laboratory conversations in five studies. The data were used to assess implications of two common assumptions about ...
Product Variety in Religious Markets
(Association for Social Economics, 1998)
This paper analyzes the relationship between religious market product variety and church membership. We find that denominational variety is negatively associated with the total level of church membership in U.S. counties. ...