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Is America Becoming More Exceptional?: How Public Policy Corporatized Social Citizenship
(Palgrave/Macmillan, 2002)
Contrasts and Correlations in Theory Assessment
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2002)
To describe a systematic quantitative approach to assessing the predictions made by competing theories using contrasts and correlational indices of effect sizes. We illustrate the use of the contrast F and t to compare and ...
Moving The Masses: Emotion Work In The Chinese Revolution
(San Diego State University, 2002)
Previous explanations of the Chinese Communist revolution have highlighted (variously) the role of ideology, organization, and/or social structure. While acknowledging the importance of all these factors, this article draws ...
The Human Dimension of Pollution Policy Implementation: Air Quality in Rural China
(Center for Modern China, 2002)
The People's Republic of China is experiencing severe air pollution with very serious public health and economic consequences. Over the past decade, the Chinese government has sought to utilize bureaucratic, political, ...
Estimates of Seismic Potential in the Marmara Sea Region from Block Models of Secular Deformation Constrained by Global Positioning System Measurements
(Seismological Society of America (SSA), 2002)
We model the geodetically observed secular velocity field in northwestern Turkey with a block model that accounts for recoverable elastic-strain accumulation. The block model allows us to estimate internally consistent ...
General Purpose Technology and Wage Inequality
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2002)
The recent changes in the US wage structure are often linked to the new wave of capital-embodied information technologies. The existing literature has emphasized either the accelerated pace or the skill-bias of embodied ...
Synthetic Studies toward Hennoxazole A. Use of a Selective Bisoxazole Alkylation as the Key Fragment Coupling
(Japan Institute of Heterocyclic Chemistry, 2002)
A model system for side chain fragment coupling to the core of hennoxazole A is investigated. Lateral metallation of a C13-TBS-protected bisoxazole, using lithium diethylamide, allows for selective and efficient alkylation at C15.
Die Ottheinrich-Bibel: Eine einzigartige Handschrift, and Das Toronto-Gebetbuch
(Luzern: Faksimile Verlag, 2002)
Organizing Violence
(SAGE Publications, 2002)
In stateless societies, coercion is privately provided; violence is employed to engage in, and to defend against, predation. At best, violence results in mere redistribution; being destructive, it more often results in a ...
Physical Therapists’ Nonverbal Communication Predicts Geriatric Patients’ Health Outcomes
(American Psychological Association, 2002)
Two studies explored the link between health care providers' patterns of nonverbal communication and therapeutic efficacy. In Study 1, physical therapists were videotaped during a session with a client. Brief samples of ...