Need for a Government-wide budget classification structure for Federal research and development information : report to the Congress /

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An investigation of the effectiveness of existing bridge design methodology in providing adequate structural resistance to seismic disturbances : Phase III, Nonlinear soil-structure interaction of skew highway bridges : final report : prepared for Federal Highway Administration, Offices of Research and Development /

Bibliography: p. 46-48.

The Economics of firm size, market structure, and social performance : proceedings of a conference /

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The western world; or, Travels in the United States in 1846-47: exhibiting them in their latest development, social, political and industrial; including a chapter on California.

Disbound Original Held in Oak Street Library Facility.

The government of England : its structure and its development /

Mode of access: Internet.

European aeronautics : strong government presence in industry structure and research and development support : report to Congressional requesters /

"B-255687"--P. 1.

Energy and society; the relation between energy, social change, and economic development

Mode of access: Internet.

Our country : its story form the earliest days, illustrating the rise and development of social England and describing by pen and picture the building of Britain and the Empire in all its historic phases /

"First published under the title of Social England and The building of Britain and the Empire."

The Relationship between Adolescent Social Network Structure and Perceptions of School Climate

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-06

Genetic and Cultural Transmission of Smoking Initiation: An Extended Twin Kinship Model

Background Considerable evidence from twin and adoption studies indicates that genetic and shared environmental factors play a significant role in the initiation of smoking behavior. Although twin and adoption designs are powerful to detect genetic and environmental influences, they do not provide information on the processes of assortative mating and parent–offspring transmission and their contribution to the variability explained by genetic and/or environmental factors. Methods We examined the role of genetic and environmental factors for smoking initiation using an extended kinship design. This design allows the simultaneous testing of additive and non-additive genetic, shared and individual-specific environmental factors, as well as sex differences in the expression of genes and environment in the presence of assortative mating and combined genetic and cultural transmission. A dichotomous lifetime smoking measure was obtained from twins and relatives in the Virginia 30,000 sample. Results Results demonstrate that both genetic and environmental factors play a significant role in the liability to smoking initiation. Major influences on individual differences appeared to be additive genetic and unique environmental effects, with smaller contributions from assortative mating, shared sibling environment, twin environment, cultural transmission and resulting genotype–environment covariance. The finding of negative cultural transmission without dominance led us to investigate more closely two possible mechanisms for the lower parent–offspring correlations compared to the sibling and DZ twin correlations in subsets of the data: (i) age × gene interaction, and (ii) social homogamy. Neither mechanism provided a significantly better explanation of the data, although age regression was significant. Conclusions This study showed significant heritability, partly due to assortment, and significant effects of primarily non-parental shared environment on smoking initiation.

Reflections on the centrality of power in medical sociology: an empirical test and theoretical elaboration

This paper explores the contemporary relevance of sociological theorisations centred on medical power, including the medical dominance and deprofessionalisation theses. To achieve this it examines two issues that have been tentatively linked to the relative decline of the power and autonomy of biomedicine - complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and the Internet-informed patient. Drawing on these two different but interconnected social phenomena, this paper reflects on the potential limitations of power-based theorisations of the medical profession and its relationship to patients and other non-biomedically situated professional groups. It is argued that power-based conceptual schemas may not adequately reflect the non-linear and complex strategic adaptations that are occurring among professional groups.