author: division of behavioral and social sciences and education

AIDS, Sexual Behavior, and Intravenous Drug Use

... Zelnik, M. (1980) Second pregnancies to premaritally pregnant teenagers, 1976 and 1971. Family Planning Perspectives 12:69-76. Zelnik, M. (1983) Sexual activity among adolescents: Perspective of a decade. Pp. 21-33 in E. R. McAnarney ...

AIDS: The Second Decade

... foot-in-the-door” and the “door-in-the-face” approaches. The foot-in-the-door technique involves an initial small request (e.g., to put up a recruitment poster), followed by a larger critical request (e.g., to give blood). Theoretically ...

Human Behavior in Military Contexts

... proxemic patterns of Indonesians and Australians. British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, , 333-334. Parkinson, B., Fischer, A.H., and Manstead, A.S.R. (2005). Emotions in social relations: Cultural, group, and interpersonal ...

Intelligence Analysis: Behavioral and Social Scientific Foundations

... similarities. Superficial similarities are usually observable attributes (e.g., that a country is poor) that ... World War II (U.S. WWII). That analogy has a high degree of superficial similarity—U.S. 1991 is in many ways like U.S. WWII ...

Measuring Poverty: A New Approach

... resources that are available to meet this poverty standard. We considered ... economic analysis covered (Chapter 6); and the potential relationship of the ... explain what we mean by economic poverty, in contrast to other types of ...

Precollege Science and Mathematics Teachers: Monitoring Supply, Demand, and Quality

The report of a panel assembled by the National Research Council to evaluate the statistics on the supply and demand for science and mathematics teachers concludes that the available data are inadequate and presents recommendations for ...

The Assessment of Science Meets the Science of Assessment: Summary of a Workshop

... properties of matter (a key physical sciences concept) by entering in her ... map is a graph in which nodes represent key concepts, lines linking the ... concept map. A concept map is intended to document an. 7. http://www.nap.edu/catalog ...

Preventing and Mitigating AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: Research and Data Priorities for the Social and Behavioral Sciences

... question of premarital sex. Inevitably, definitions vary widely. In the WHO/GPA surveys, for instance, the term refers to any sex before first regular partnership. Other surveys define the term as any sexual activity before legally or ...

Research on Sentencing: The Search for Reform, Volume I

The Search for Reform, Volume I National Research Council, Division of ... Maine became the first state in modern times to abolish parole release and establish a determinate sentencing system in which the duration of prison ... prison terms and ...

The Future of the Survey of Income and Program Participation

... Program Participation Graham Kalton, Constance F. Citro. http://www.nap.edu/catalog ... Reading, Mass.: AddisonWesley Publishing Company. David, Martin H., ed. 1983 ... SIPP panel. Journal of Economic and Social Measurement 13(3–4):305–317 ...

Research on Sentencing: The Search for Reform, Volume II

... Maine's criminal prosecutions. Data were also collected on all convictions in those counties during the first 12 months after implementation. Because prison records were centrally located and easily accessible, data were collected on ...

How People Learn II: Learners, Contexts, and Cultures

... AI to teach foreign languages and cultures. AI Magazine, 30(2), 72–83. Jones, P.D., and Holding, D.H. (1975). Extremely long-term persistence ... Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. How People Learn II: Learners, Contexts, and Cultures.

A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society

... Black Americans, National Research Council ISBN: 0-309-55537-X, 624 pages, 6 ... Download hundreds of free books in PDF. •. Read thousands of books online for ... book plus thousands more are available at http://www.nap.edu. Copyright ...

Urban Policy in a Changing Federal System: Proceedings of a Symposium

... government provides distributive goods whenever benefits of the activity are received by some individuals to the exclusion of others. Some theorists call these "private" goods, noting that such goods can be produced by governments as ...

Behavioral Measures of Neurotoxicity

... tone checklist SOURCE: Liang et al. (1984). Two hundred fifteen employees working in a television screen assembly factory and a television parts manufacturer were selected and categorized into four groups according to their job ...

Pay for Performance: Evaluating Performance Appraisal and Merit Pay

... individual incentive plans outside these restricted conditions. Lawler (1973) summarizes the results of these case studies and their implications for organizations. He points out that individual incentive plans can lead employees to (1) ...

Premature Death in the New Independent States

... Jose Luis Bobadilla. 342 CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION IN THE NEW INDEPENDENT ... Bobadilla in this volume). Present economic and political problems obviously ... sound comparisons in the future. To the extent possible, international and ...

Are Generational Categories Meaningful Distinctions for Workforce Management?

... millennial nurse graduates transitioning into practice. Nursing Administration Quarterly, 37(2), 152–159.* Baker ... hospitality employees with a hospitality education. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 46, 130–137 ...

When I'm 64

... Personality, and Adult Developmental Psychology, Laura L. Carstensen and Christine R. Hartel, Editors, National Research Council ISBN: , 280 pages, 6 x 9, (2006) This free ... Download hundreds of free books in PDF • Read thousands of books ...

Aging and Disability: Beyond Stereotypes to Inclusion: Proceedings of a Workshop

... Jackson uses her blog to ask why things are the way they are. For example, what makes a wheelchair a wheelchair ... Craigslist. In contrast, David replied: David: Insurance pays for one wheelchair every 5 years. So, you try to think of the ...

Assessing Fitness for Military Enlistment: Physical, Medical, and Mental Health Standards

... alcohol and drug abuse or dependence is disqualifying, but limited “recreational” use of marijuana does not now require a waiver ... form. The Air Force will issue a waiver for nonnarcotics, such as amphetamines and barbiturates, but ...

Transforming the Financing of Early Care and Education

... 2016; Singh and Bluestein, 2016). Similarly high costs have been projected at the state level. The Children's ... RSMeans data, which are used for construction budgeting and estimating new building and renovation projects. Using RSMeans ...

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