When nurse researcher Marlene Kramer published Reality Shock: Why Nurses Leave Nursing in 1974, her seminal work launched a national discussion related to the distress felt by many baccalaureate-prepared novice nurses about leaving the academic setting and transitioning to the clinical setting. In particular, Kramer (1974) highlighted conflict between the values these new nurses had been taught...

Figure 1: ITE ratio plot for the Apollo 14 high-Al basalts demonstrating derivation from distinct source regions [7]. Figure 2: Rb-Sr isochron plot for 14321,1353. DERIVATION OF APOLLO 14 HIGH-AL BASALTS FROM DISTINCT SOURCE REGIONS AT DISCRETE TIMES: NEW CONSTRAINTS. C. R. Neal, C.-Y. Shih, Y. Reese, L. E. Nyquist, and G. Y. Kramer, Dept. Of Civil Eng. & Geological Sciences, University of Notr...

Sibling relationship and personality characteristics of 87 pre-school sibling dyads were measured twice one year apart. Using the Inventory of Child Individual Differences (Halverson et al., 2003), mothers and fathers rated their children’s personality traits. Parent-perceived warmth, agonism, and rivalry/competition in sibling relationship were assessed by Parental Expectations and Perceptions...

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CERTAIN birds when held in small cages during the migration seasons exhibit a nocturnal restlessness which has been interpreted as an expression of migratory condition and termed Zugunruhe. In 1949 the late Gustav Kramer demonstrated that Red-backed Shrikes (Lanius collurio) and blackcaps (Sylvia atricapilla), placed in cages under the night sky, often tended to orient their Zugunruhe toward th...

A few years ago Kramer and Laubenbacher introduced a discrete notion of homotopy for simplicial complexes. In this paper, we compute the discrete fundamental group of the order complex of the Boolean lattice. As it turns out, it is equivalent to computing the discrete homotopy group of the 1-skeleton of the permutahedron. To compute this group we introduce combinatorial techniques that we belie...

A few years ago Kramer and Laubenbacher introduced a discrete notion of homotopy for simplicial complexes. In this paper, we compute the discrete fundamental group of the order complex of the Boolean lattice. As it turns out, it is equivalent to computing the discrete homotopy group of the 1-skeleton of the permutahedron. To compute this group we introduce combinatorial techniques that we belie...

N important question in political economy A.’ ts how, if at all, economic events affect voting behavior. Although there is by now a fairly large literature devoted to this question,’ there is no widely agreed upon answer. Kramer (1971), for example, concluded from his analysis of U.S. voting behavior that economic fluctuations have an important influence on congressional elections, whereas Stig...

A theorem on existence of mixed strategy equilibria in discontinuous zero-sum games is proved and is applied to three models of elections. First, the existence theorem yields a mixed strategy equilibrium in the multidimensional spatial model of elections with three voters. A nine-voter example shows that a key condition of the existence theorem is violated for general finite numbers of voters a...

Ethan P. Atkins, Peter R. Kramer, Gregor Kovačič, ∗ and Ildar R. Gabitov 4 Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, 970 Evans Hall #3840, Berkeley, CA 94720-3840 Mathematical Sciences Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180 Department of Mathematics, The University of Arizona, 617 N. Santa Rita Ave., P.O. Box 210089, Tucson, AZ 85721-00...