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A Case of Problematic Diffusion
(Sage Publications, 1994)
Sex determination techniques have diffused rapidly in India, and are being used to detect female fetuses and subsequently to abort them. This technology has spread rapidly because it imparts knowledge that is of great value ...
Knowledge and Power in Adult Education: Beyond Freire and Habermas
(Sage Publications, 1996)
The incorporation of work by Freire and Habermas into adult education theory has contributed to the development of concepts such as "communicative competence" and "transformative education." This contribution has generated ...
The Churching of Colonial Connecticut: A Case Study
(Religious Research Association, Inc., 1999-12)
The market model of religion asserts in part that clergy respond to incentives. For eighteenth-century European established churches, clergy income was independent of church membership and so clergy tended not to behave ...
Preaching Matters: Replication and Extension
(Elsevier, 1995)
Statistical evidence in a paper by Lipford, McCormick, and Tollison shows a negative relationship between church membership and social misbehavior. This paper replicates that relationship using more comprehensive data by ...
Priestess, Mother, Sacred Sister: Religions Dominated by Women
(Blackwell Publishing LtdWiley Periodicals, Inc., 1997-02)
An Economics Perspective Ten Years After the NAB Case
(Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts, 1990)
The U.S. Justice Department brought suit against the National Association of Broadcasters in 1979, charging that the NAB Television Code restricted the supply of advertising. This paper examines implications of a collusive ...
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 ...
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)