Identifying reading problems in underachieving students early in their education provides the best opportunity to provide interventions (VanDerHeyden, Witt, Naquin, & Noell, 2001). Understanding the risk factors which relate to reading difficulties can help identify those students in need of screening, tracking, and potential intervention. Poverty, family size, family structure, and birth order...

The current study recruited participants from among the prison inmates in Nigeria to determine the relative impacts of availability and use of weapons in their respective communities prior to incarceration as risk factors for criminal offending. Eight hundred and twenty one participants made up of those awaiting trial and convicts, ranging in age from 16 to 65 years (M= 30.4, SD= 7.6) were recr...

Both public media and IS research have produced a detailed view of different risks associated with computers. Measures to prevent systems risks from occurring are also well documented. One of the reported problems in implementing these measures is, however, that business managers often have difficulties to see the benefits of such efforts. The research reported in this paper used action researc...

Risk preferences are generally measured with utility functions, which are subjective and usually restrict market agents to be risk averse. The current study investigates investors' preferences toward risk from the index price movement perspective. In a risk neutral market, future prices will increase or decrease with the same probability. However, if the market representative-agents are risk av...

The paper describes a research in progress analyzing legislative documents handled in the Finnish parliament and government, and studying means for developing standards for the documents. The current document management status in the Finnish parliament and government as well as problems in the management are described. The paper discusses the special features of legislative documents and shows ...

The paper describes a research in progress analyzing legislative documents handled in the Finnish parliament and government, and studying means for developing standards for the documents. The current document management status in the Finnish parliament and government as well as problems in the management are described. The paper discusses the special features of legislative documents and shows ...

Delay discounting refers to decision makers’ tendency to treat immediately consumable goods as more valuable than those only available after some delay. Previous work has focused on a seemingly irrational feature of these preferences: the systematic tendency to exhibit more patience when consequences are far in the future but less patience about those same, identical rewards as time passes. One...

The increasing demand for an increasing array of special forest products is forcing forest landowners and managers to address special products within ongoing management and silvicultural activities. Strategies can vary from single species management in agricultural or near agricultural operations to complex forest management strategies which move special products across an ownership or landscap...

Most of the literature on impression management considers direct tactics such as selfpromoting by mentioning personal achievements and ingratiating by complimenting others. These direct tactics can backfire if the target recognizes the hidden motive behind them. Therefore, people often use indirect impression management tactics. Previous research has shown that people promote themselves indirec...