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Early stage visual-orthographic processes predict long-term retention of word form and meaning: A visual encoding training study
(Journal of Neurolinguistics, 2013)Adult learners of Chinese learned new characters through writing, visual chunking or reading-only. Following training, ERPs were recorded during character recognition tasks, first shortly after the training and then three ... -
Eavesdrop Law's Demise Means Loss of Privacy
(Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, 2014-04-17)Last month, the Illinois Supreme Court struck down a key provision of our state’s anti-eavesdropping laws. The high court held in a pair of cases that it’s unconstitutional to punish someone as a felon simply for audio ... -
EconLit: Light on the Dismal Science
(Taylor & Francis, 2000)The article examines the weaknesses and strengths of the economics database, EconLit. Comparison is made with other social science databases with especial emphasis on the alphanumeric classification and indexing system ... -
The Economic Performance of For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Hospitals
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2002)This research examines whether for-profit status or system membership is significantly related to the financial performance of hospitals. Panel data containing 573 observations of Florida hospitals for 1984 through 1987 ... -
Edifying Tones: Using Music to Teach Asian History and Culture
(Education About Asia, 2003)Discusses the ways that music and musical aesthetics can be used to illustrate cultural characteristics and philosophies in Asian history curriculum. -
Editor's Introduction: Cultural Theory's Contributions to Political Science
(Cambridge University Press, 2011-10)Many political scientists first learned of anthropologist Mary Douglas's cultural theory (CT) through Aaron Wildavsky's APSA presidential address (Wildavsky 1987), in which he sought to explain the value of this theoretical ... -
Effect of Beta-alanine Supplementation on the Onset of Blood Lactate Accumulation (OBLA) During Treadmill Running: Pre/post 2 Treatment Experimental Design
(BioMed Central, 2010)β-Alanine (βA) has been shown to improve performance during cycling. This study was the first to examine the effects of βA supplementation on the onset of blood lactate accumulation (OBLA) during incremental treadmill running. -
The Effect of New Accounting Rules on Capital Leases: A Study of Current Reporting Practices
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Effect of oncogenic virus on muscle differentiation
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 1975-10)Chick muscle cultures infected with wild-type Rous sarcoma virus form myotubes, but these myotubes vacuolate and by day 6 most have degenerated, leaving only large numbers of transformed mononucleated, replicating cells. ... -
The Effect of Palazzolo v. Rhode Island on Takings and Environmental Land Use Regulation
(2002)This article reviews the state of regulatory takings law after Palazzolo, with particular attention to controls on environmentally sensitive land. Part II briefly examines regulatory takings law prior to Palazzolo, first ... -
Effectiveness of Online Training and Supervisor Feedback on Safe Eating and Drinking Practices for Individuals With Developmental Disabilities
(American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2020-04)Dysphagia is common in individuals with developmental disabilities. Little research exists on the impact of trainings aimed at improving Direct Care Staff’s (DCS) use of safe eating and drinking practices. This article ... -
Effects of Mothers' and Preschoolers' Communicative Function Use and Demographics on Concurrent Language and Social Skills
(Journal of the National Black Association for Speech-Language and Hearing, 2017-10-29)Purpose: Achievement gaps exist between children from racial/ethnic minority and low SES homes and their peers, yet clear explanations for the gap have been elusive. In addition to vocabulary, some are examining pragmatics ... -
The Effects of Parents' Psychiatric Disorders on Children's High School Dropout
(Elsevier, 2003-04)Mental illness is known to impose substantial direct costs on the ill. In this paper, we examine an indirect cost of mental illness. We investigate the effect of parents’ mental illnesses on the schooling of their children. ... -
Effects of R-Alpha Lipoic Acid on HbA1c, Lipids and Blood Pressure in Type-2 Diabetics: A Preliminary Study
(De Gruyter, 2009)R-alpha lipoic acid (R-ALA) supplementation improves blood glucose in diabetic animals, but there have been no long-term clinical trials in humans testing its use for glucose control (HbA1c). This double-blind study ... -
Effects of size and age of the host Musca domestica (Diptera: Muscidae) on production of the parasitoid wasp Spalangia endius (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)
(Oxford University Press, 2016)One method of control of house flies, Musca domestica L. (Diptera: Muscidae), and other filth flies is by repeated release of large numbers of pupal parasitoids such as Spalangia endius Walker. Rearing these parasitoids ... -
Effects of Urban Sprawl on the Vulnerability to a Significant Tornado Impact in Northeastern Illinois
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008-11)A sprawling U.S. population continues to spread into the fringes of urban development placing both populations and property in areas that were once largely unoccupied. Population tallies, housing unit totals, and housing ... -
An Efficiency Wage - Imperfect Information Model of the Aggregate Supply Curve
(Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2009-05)This study derives a reduced-form equation for the aggregate supply curve from a model in which firms pay efficiency wages and workers have imperfect information about average wages at other firms. If specific assumptions ... -
An Efficiency Wage Approach to Reconciling the Wage Curve and the Phillips Curve
(Elsevier, 2008-12)This study develops an efficiency wage model that generates a wage curve at the regional level and a Phillips curve at the national level, under the assumption that workers' efficiency depends on both regional and aggregate ... -
Efforts to improve predictions of urban winter heating anomalies using various climate indices
(Royal Meteorological Society, 2002)Meteorologists who work in the energy commodities market continue to investigate ways to enhance predictions of seasonal temperature anomalies using oceanic/atmospheric indices. This study examines the relationship of ... -
Elementary School Girls and Heteronormativity: The Girl Project.
(SAGE, 2010)This article examines preadolescent girls in a group setting as they coconstructed heteronormativity. The authors contend that heteronormativity is not the product of a coming-of-age transformation but instead an everyday ...
