McDougald, Sarah; Condon, David M.(PsyArXiv, 2022-05-02)
Personality traits are often measured using person-descriptive terms, but data are limited regarding the frequency of usage for these terms in everyday language. This project reports on the relative frequency of usage for ...
Evans, George W., 1949-; Honkapohja, Seppo, 1951-(University of Oregon, Dept of Economics, 2003-07-12)
Using New Keynesian models, we compare Friedman's k-percent money supply rule to optimal interest rate setting, with respect to determinacy, stability under learning and optimality. First we review the recent literature: ...
Only a small amount of research has examined children's awareness or
knowledge of occupational characteristics and the effect that gender has on
their perceptions. Most of this earlier research dealt with only a few ...
Recent experimental evidence is marshalled in support of the position that man's limited memory, attention, and reasoning capabilities lead him to apply simple strain-reducing cognitive strategies for processing information ...
Weigt, Jill; Freyd, Jennifer J.; Berry, Kate; Gonzales, Lisa; Morgen, Sandra; Acker, Joan; Heath, Terri; Fuller, Linda, 1944-; Musick, Judith S.(Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, 2003)
Frank, David A.; Bolduc, Michelle K.(American Society for the History of Rhetoric, 2004)
Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's Traité de l'argumentation: la nouvelle rhétorique marked a revolution in twentieth-century rhetorical theory. In this essay, we trace Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca‟s turn from ...
As the world’s largest service industry, tourism is increasingly perceived by proponents as a socioeconomic panacea for indigenous communities. A central tenet of this argument presumes that tourism can help ensure ...
Stockard, Jean; Van de Kragt, Alphons J. C.; Dodge, Patricia J.(American Sociological Association, 1988-01-06)
Data from two experimental social dilemmas-a set of 66 nine-person dilemmas and a set of 64 seven-person dilemmas-were used to examine sex differences in cooperation. Women were only slightly more likely than men to cooperate ...
Yarris, Kristin; Dent, Nicolette Jeannette(Taylor and Francis, 2016-04-13)
This article examines the sociocultural determinants of Nicaraguan women’s use of Depo-Provera as a means of contraception. The prevalence of Depo-Provera in Nicaragua is high and increasing compared to other Central ...
This paper reports the results of a national survey in which perceptions of environmental health risks were measured for 1275 white and 214 nonwhite persons. The results showed that white women perceived risks to be much ...
Evans, George W., 1949-; Honkapohja, Seppo, 1951-(University of Oregon, Dept of Economics, 2005-09-19)
We study the properties of generalized stochastic gradient (GSG) learning in forwardlooking models. We examine how the conditions for stability of standard stochastic gradient (SG) learning both differ from and are related ...
Ringer, Greg(University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji, 2004-04)
Tourism has grown to become the dominant service industry in the world in the 21st Century and a common prescription for funding sustainable community development throughout the East Asia-Pacific region. Certainly, there ...
Conference paper for a panel on the German Sattelzeit (period around 1800) arguing that German historians should embrace the methods and concerns of world historians and laying out possible research agendas that would result.
Getting Smarter at Solving Problems is specifically designed to be used as a
supplemental text in a secondary school Computer Literacy course. When used in
that format, the book contains sufficient materials to be used ...
Getting Smarter at Solving Problems is specifically designed to be used as a supplementary
text in a junior high school or secondary school computer literacy course. This Teacher's Manual
is specifically designed to help ...
Lambert, Peter J.; Decoster, Andre(University of Oregon, Dept of Economics, 2004-12-02)
We revisit the well-known decomposition of the Gini coefficient into between-groups, within-groups and overlap terms in the context of two groups in which the incomes in one group may be scaled and that group’s population ...