The evidence on incentives in survey literature shows that the effectiveness of incentives varies considerably with the topic of the survey, the nature of the respondent, the amount of the incentive, the survey sponsorship, and the form and timing of the payment. (See, for instance, Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics, September 1993; Ezzait-Rice, White, Mosher and Sanche...

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Title of Thesis: THE EFFECTS OF CO2 AND TEMPERATURE ON THE SOIL MICROBIAL CARBON AND NITROGEN OF URBAN AND RURAL FORESTS Elizabeth Kulka, Master of Science, 2015 Thesis Directed By: Professor Marla S. McIntosh Department of Plant Science This study investigated and compared the effects of elevated temperature and elevated CO2 on the microbial biomass carbon (MBC) and nitrogen (MBN) of urban and...

Wetten, dass?: Indirect requests in a German game show I aim to show that German speakers, though seemingly more direct than English speakers, do in fact employ multiple indirect request strategies. I will look at which strategies German speakers utilize to do so. I draw data from the popular German game show entitled " Wetten, dass..? " (Wanna bet that..?), where participants are asked to do a...

Swollen and painful joints in the hands of women over 40 years of age present a diagnostic problem. We have seen a number of patients whose signs and symptoms conformed to the criteria laid down by Kellgren and Moore (1952) for primary generalized osteo-arthritis but who, in addition, had swollen and painful metacarpophalangeal joints, particularly the second and third, and often involvement of...

It is hard to select and produce appropriate semantic formulas of apologizing for paying off violation social norms restore harmony. seems that it even harder realize such processes selection production in a non-native language. The study three folds; namely, examines the realization apology strategies by students senior Boarding School Arabic English as language, effects on contextual factors ...

This study compares the handling of agreement and disagreement by speakers from two different cultural groups: London’s British West African community and its mainstream British white community. Using data from elicited conversations, we consider naturally-occurring agreements and disagreements at three different linguistic levels. Firstly, based on Pomerantz’s (1984) observations of turn-takin...

Material in this chapter draws on ideas from a number of my earlier publications, including: McGrath, J.E., 1984; McGrath and Brinberg, 1984; Brinberg and McGrath, 1985; Runkel and McGrath, 1972; McGrath, Martin, and Kulka, 1982. " Doing research" simply means the systematic use of some set of theoretical and empirical tools to try to increase our understanding of some set of phenomena or event...

Hundreds of articles have been published on the use of the MMPI and MMPI-2 scales to assess patients who develop mental health problems in response to stressful life events. The following summaries highlight the history of research on post-traumatic stress using scales from the MMPI-2, and its predecessor, the MMPI. The articles selected for the Highlights provide valuable information for under...

Apology may be defined as “a compensatory action for an offense committed by the speaker which has affected hearer” (Marquez-Reiter, 2000, p. 44), and a compliment is another speech act "which explicitly or implicitly attributes credit to someone other than speaker... positively valued hearer" (Holmes, 1986, 485). The focus of this paper find out strategies are employed Turkish pre-service EFL ...