This paper examines the question of when economic sanctions will be effectively instituted by states by looking at the role of the multinational corporation in the sanctioning process. Although governments have resources ...

Despite the tremendous linguistic particularities and cultural differences, Chinese poetry shares some formal and technical similarity with Anglo-American poetry. Through an effective use of the couplet-based verse form ...

The lifetime of a helium 23s1 metastable atom electronic spin-state is measured in helium gas using optical pumping techniques. The metastable atoms are created by an RF electrical discharge. The spin-state lifetime is ...

The present study utilized a realistic job preview to influence expectations of workfamily balance. Using graduate students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), participants viewed a preview about ...

This study deals with the Gypsy subculture in Harris County, Texas, and focuses upon the profession of fortune -telling. A review of the literature on the Gypsy in twentieth-century America is undertaken, and this information ...

Using a field study methodology, the current research investigates potential formal and interpersonal discrimination against pregnant women in hiring situations, as well as how such discrimination might be remediated. ...

The straight-party voting ballot option (SPVBO) is a voting provision available to a sizable minority of United States voters-approximately 71 million voters across 16 U.S. states. In recent years, researchers have begun ...

Ben Shahn's 1940 solo exhibition of his so-called "Sunday Paintings" at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York manifested a transformation that had occurred in his art during the 1930s. Both the formal language and the subject ...

Research suggests there may be race, sex, and ability differences in score improvement on different selection tests and methods when retested (Schleicher, Van Iddekinge, Morgeson, & Campion, 2010). However, it is uncertain ...

Migration results of two multi-channel vertical incidence reflection seismic dataset offshore Virginia are presented. A new velocity model derived from multi-channel and wide-angle reflection/refraction data is developed ...