The concept of marketing, with its primary focus on
meeting customer needs, is being adopted by federal agencies
such as the U.S. Forest Service who are in the business of
providing, among other things, recreation opportunities for
their visiting public. Although not a new concept, the
notion of applying marketing...
Protocol Analysis is a technique that is commonly applied to study human problem solving. The measurement of reaction time ( or timing analysis) is another technique commonly used to study human cognitive behavior, including human problem solving. This paper examines the process of applying both of these techniques to the...
This thesis compares two methods for studying the problem-solving processes of
mechanical design engineers. The first method, verbal protocol analysis, was applied
by L. Stauffer to construct a problem-solving model of mechanical design. The
second method, timing analysis, measures the time intervals separating drawing or
speaking actions during the design...
Adolescent pregnancy is a major social problem which results in negative psychological, medical, developmental,
economic and educational consequences for both mother and child. A review of the literature examined psychological and sociocultural factors and negative consequences associated with adolescent pregnancy. There has been little research on age specific differences between...
With the passage of the American with Disabilities Act (ADA) it has become a civil
rights violation to deny access to persons with disabilities to public transportation. The
ADA requires transit agencies to provide accessible buses or equivalent services to
persons with mobility, sensory or cognitive impairments. This study examines...
This study examines the determinants of location choices of Asian
immigrants in the US in 1990 and evaluates the effect of education and
other quality of life variables as well as the traditional economic variables.
The study builds upon similar works by Gallaway, Vedder and Shukla
(1974) and Dunlevy and...
The thesis presents a useful and effective blend of insights about macroeconomic business fluctuations and the effects of government expenditure in economic growth in Korea.
In Chapter I, I show that the joint behavior of key Korean macroeconomic variables is consistent with traditional Keynesian interpretation of macroeconomic business fluctuations by...
The effects of selected family characteristics on
interrelated components of household asset portfolios over a
three-year time period were investigated. Specifically, this
study attempted to conceptually define mental accounts, to
identify own-adjustment and cross-adjustment characteristics
of these mental accounts, to explore influences of selected
family characteristics on these mental accounts,...
The management of the home has been a central
component of Home Economics since the early 1900s. It is,
however, an enigmatic behavior that has not yielded easily
to research. Recognizing that meal provision and food
consumption by families incorporate management processes
and occur on a regular and frequent basis,...