Time perception; Employees -- Workload; Job satisfaction; Organizational commitment
A number of studies have examined time perception (how people perceive time
to pass), but none have investigated time perception in the workplace. Studies
reviewed here indicate middle-aged people experience time to pass more quickly
than both...
Although historians have long been familiar with an accepted picture of Eva Peron, the elusive personality of Argentina's most dynamic female has undergone a significant evolution in the past fifty years. As an unknown actress, Eva Duarte was first...
Drug traffic -- Colombia; Guerrilla warfare -- Colombia; Colombia -- Social conditions
During the 1980's, Latin America was one of the major concerns of the U.S. foreign policy. Countries like Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Colombia had unstable governments and civil war created a clear and present danger to the national security of the...
During the development of potential protein or antibody therapeutics in a pharmaceutical environment, the use of animal models as test subjects is a necessary requirement. The dosing of mice, rats, and primates is essential to drug development...
Norwich (Conn.) -- Emigration and immigration -- History; City and town life -- Connecticut -- Norwich -- History; Norwich (Conn.) -- Emigration and immigration -- Religious aspects
During the mid 1800s and early 1900s, large numbers of European Immigrants
sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to the shores of the United States. While many of these
immigrants still came from the European countries that migrated to this country...
Educators and policymakers have noted and expressed concern about a lack of academic motivation among adolescent high school students. Research has confirmed that intrinsic motivation does decline as students progress through school (Lepper,...
Hospitals -- Emergency services -- Utilization; Children -- Health and hygiene
Emergency department care and primary care are ideally distinct parts of the health care delivery system. In theory, each answers a specific and different health care need. However, in practice this distinction blurs. Many visits to hospital...
Languages, Modern -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- United States; Education, Elementary -- Parent participation -- United States
Even though studies have shown numerous cognitive and social benefits from early foreign language education, Foreign Languages in Elementary School (FLES) is still a recurrent topic of debate. The key issues involved with FLES focus on...
Helping is a phenomenon that has been widely studied in psychology. Two types of helping that can occur within an organization are organizational citizenship behavior, or OCB, and volunteering. OCB is helping that occurs during the course of...
In Alfred Chandler's The Visible Hand, written over two decades ago, the author answers a simple question, how best to explain the rise of the modern business in the United States? While regarding new technologies and burgeoning markets as...
Connecticut -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865
In the middle of the 1800s the American nation ceased to be the United States and engaged in five horrible years of bloodshed. As the facts concerning the battles and fighting became concrete, and the actions of those who fought in the Civil War...
Geography -- Study and teaching; Geography -- Study and teaching -- Aids and devices;
Introduction
The main objective of this curriculum guide is to provide educators with materials
and resources designed to promote cultural awareness with middle school students
and meet specific geographic objectives and standards. Geography is a...
Computers -- Soviet Union; Computer industry -- Soviet Union
It is widely accepted that the technological and scientific phenomenon that came to be known as “Computing” contributed immensely in the development of the post-World War II industrial societies - to the extent that, today, the technological...
Media images are extremely powerful forces in modern American society. These images with which we are constantly bombarded by living in a capitalistic society can without a word portray to millions messages of prejudice, love, hate, happiness,...
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation
Metaphysical themes in Emily Dickinson's poetry emphasize the limitations of the
human mind and the limitless possibilities of the imagination. Through a dose examination
of her original use of language, readers can trace how Dickinson used...
Normally public opinion about the Islamic religion is often negative. The Muslim people are seen as violent oppressors of women. Although it may be true in some countries, the fact is Muslim people represent a variety of societies and communities...
On December 12, 2005, the small Connecticut town of Eastford held a referendum for its 1,600 citizens to decide if they would allow alcohol sales in their town. The following morning, the results were clear. Eastford voters decided 330 to 287 to...
Heaney, Seamus,1939- -- Criticism and interpretation
Politics in the North of Ireland deserves a paper all its own. To attempt to condense the political situation in the North in a few short chapters is to try and distill the essentials. In such a location, politics becomes more than an argument,...
Research work reported in the literature has demonstrated that tree-rings record past climatic events as the relationship between tree-ring widths and variations in climate (temperature and precipitation) can be modeled. Therefore, tree-rings are...
Water quality -- Connecticut -- Eightmile River (New London County and Middlesex County); Eightmile River (New London County and Middlesex County, Conn.)
Rivers are utilized on a daily basis for everything from water intake for paper mills, irrigation of golf courses and agricultural crops, and energy generation by hydroelectric dams, to recreational uses such as fishing, swimming, tubing, and...
