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 ...
Moore, Fabienne(University of Nebraska Press, 2018)
Where does Spain fit on the post-revolutionary map? Contemporary Spain remains marginalized at the periphery of European civilization, as if deemed not yet ready, like its colonies, to put Enlightenment ideals into practice. ...
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 ...
Gender and ethnicity biases are pervasive across many societal domains including politics, employment, and medicine. Such biases
will facilitate inequalities until they are revealed and mitigated at scale. To this end, ...
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 ...
The dominant image of religion and politics in the US recently is that religion, especially
Christianity, is strongly associated with conservative politics and antifeminist values with respect
to women and sexuality. ...
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 ...
Organic matter degradation and preservation are crucial components of Earth’s carbon cycle. Empirical and phenomenological models usually contain parameters determined by site-specific data and focus on different aspects ...
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.