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Levels of Automation and User Participation in Usability Testing
(Laboratory for Automation Psychology and Decision Processes, 2004-04)
This paper identifies a number of factors involved in current practices of usability testing and presents profiles for three prototype methods: think-aloud, subjective ratings, and
history files. We then identify ideal ...
Bringing Sexual Harassment Research In Line with the Service Economy: A Measure and Model of Sexual Harassment of Professional Women by their Clients
(2003-12-05)
Previous research on sexual harassment has focused almost exclusively on harassment by co-workers and supervisors, ignoring extra-organizational sources of harassment. Given that women are spending an increasing amount ...
An Experimental Study Of Mentoring Practices In An America Reads Program: Measures of Intervention Fidelity And Implementation
(2013)
The America Reads (AR) program at the University of Maryland serves approximately 350 local elementary school students per semester, and trains undergraduate tutors to teach reading using techniques drawn from Reading ...
An Examination of Factors that Distinguish Groups of Young Adult Ecstasy Users
(2006-04-27)
This study examined Ecstasy use in 322 young adults between the ages of 18 and 25 years who participated in an Internet study regarding their history of substance use. The primary goal of this study was to increase our ...
Measurement of self-regulatory constructs across a continuum of performance conditions among kindergarten students
(2013)
Measurement issues related to the assessment of Executive Functioning (EF) and social competence were examined with Kindergarten students (N = 62) and their teachers. Measures of constructs, such as EF and social competence, ...
Work adjustment in persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA): A biopsychosocial perspective
(2004-11-15)
While there is evidence that Persons Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHWA) have unique and changing needs and concerns in their workplaces, such as changes in health status, high medical costs, emotional consequences of the disease, ...
IMPULSIVITY PROCESSES UNDERLYING DRUG CHOICE AND RISKY SEXUAL BEHAVIOR
(2005-07-14)
The current study included a sample of 86 inner-city treatment seeking drug users, comparing risky sexual behavior (RSB) across primary users of a) heroin and not crack/cocaine, b) crack/cocaine and not heroin, and c) both ...
Characteristics of Natural Helpers
(2004-10-26)
Research on natural helping to date has been lacking in theoretical foundations and simple methods of identifying natural helpers. The current study was designed to test a theory-based measure of natural helping and explore ...
Pregnancy in the Workplace: Stigmatization and Work Identity Management Among Pregnant Employees
(2004-09-08)
As increasing numbers of women enter the workplace, more and more women and their employers are confronted with the issue of combining work, pregnancy, and childbirth. Unfortunately, very little management or organizational ...
Forming a stable memory representation in the first year of life: Why imitation is more than child's play.
(2005)
Although 9-month-old infants are capable of retaining temporally ordered information over long delays, this ability is relatively
fragile. It may be possible to facilitate long-term retention by allowing infants to imitate ...