Mass media campaigns have long been a tool for promoting public health. How effective are such campaigns in changing health-related attitudes and behaviors, however, and how has the literature in this area progressed over the past decade? The…
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This study evaluated an abstinence-only sexual activity prevention program, part of a multifocus program, Stay SMART, also aimed at preventing drug use among Boys & Girls Club youths. No effects were observed for virgins. Desired effects for sexual…
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Selecting items in cascading pull-down menus is a frequent task in most GUIs. These selections involve two major components: steering and selection, with the steering component being the most time-consuming and error-prone. We describe a new…
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AARRE is a concept for a web service (an online exhibition) and its tangible presentation: an exhibition at Helina Rautavaara Museum. It was designed and developed at the University of Art and Design Helsinki by Viljo Malmberg and Jenna Sutela. The…
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This paper offers a new concept of the firm that aims at balancing the corporate economic, social, and environmental responsibilities and goes beyond the stakeholder approach. It intends to provide a conceptual and operationalizable basis to fairly…
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As a concept, the magic circle is in reality just 4 years old. Whilst often accredited to Johan Huizinga (1955), the modern usage of term in truth belongs to Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman. It became prominent in academia following the publication…
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Abandonments of residential sites by prehistoric farmers are most often explained as failures or responses to poor social or environmental conditions. These perspectives ignore the role of residential mobility among farmers as a regionally…
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This article develops a general theory of bargaining between a minority, its host state, and outside lobby actor to explain why minorities shift their demands from affirmative action to cultural autonomy to secessionism and back, often in the…
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A central mystery in the function of site-specific DNA-binding proteins is the detailed mechanism for rapid location and binding of target sites in DNA. Human oxoguanine DNA glycosylase 1 (hOgg1), for example, must search out rare 8-oxoguanine…
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This paper attempts to shed light on the following research questions: When a firm introduces a new product (or service) how can it effectively use the different information sources available to generate reliable new product performance forecasts?…
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This paper formulates a Bayesian model to predict growth and eventual market saturation of a recently introduced (and possibly expensive) consumer-durable product. The mathematical model assumes that each new buyer buys only one item of the product,…
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Peirce's notion of abductive reasoning provides a theoretical framework in which to analyze visual interpretation, that is, how viewers understand a visual and interpret its meaning. This paper demonstrates that a different kind of interpretive…
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In this introductory piece, we take stock of the impact of Cyert and March's A Behavioral Theory of the Firm, describe current research trends in the behavioral tradition, and introduce the special issue's papers. A Behavioral Theory of the Firm is…
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Contents: Chapter:1Title:New republic, new women? : feminism and modernity at the belle epoqueAuthor:Diana HolmesAuthor:Carrie TarrPage:11; Contents: Chapter:2Title:1890-1914 : a 'belle epoque' for feminism?Author:Maire CrossPage:23; Contents:…
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This research demonstrates that several quantifiable characteristics of articles in the marriage and family area are substantially related to subsequent impact in the field, based on bibliometric citation analysis. Articles are more frequently cited…
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the ability of a trained primary health care (PHC) nurse to discriminate dementia, by systematic assessments, from other psychogeriatric diseases. The reported study emanates from a dementia prevalence survey in…
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An international effort is now underway to obtain the DNA sequence for the entire human genome (Watson and Jordan, 1989, Genomics 5, 654-656; Barnhart, 1989, Genomics 5, 657-660). This Human Genome Initiative will generate sequence data from several…
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The first concern of this work is the development of approximations to the distributions of crude mortality rates, age-specific mortality rates, age-standardized rates, standardized mortality ratios, and the like for the case of a closed population…
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