Job creation and the revitalization of small business : a report of the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session.

Item 1008-C, 1008-D (microfiche)

A treatise upon the art of flying, by mechanical means, with a full explanation of the natural principles by which birds are enabled to fly : likewise instructions and plans, for making a flying car with wings, in which a man may sit, and, by working a small lever, cause himself to ascend and soar through the air with the facility of a bird... /

Mode of access: Internet.

Promotion of high-growth industries and U.S. competitiveness : hearings before the Subcommittee on Savings, Pensions, and Investment Policy of the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session, January 19 and 20, 1983.

Item 1038-A, 1038-B (microfiche).

Income tax : a concise exposition of the law and practice thereof ; with instructions as to filling up and returning the necessary forms to which is prefixed a short thesis on direct and indirect taxation with forms /

Includes index.

Salesmanship; a "get-up-and-go" guide to effective selling.

Mode of access: Internet.

Annual report of the boys' and girls' aid society of oregon

Mode of access: Internet.

Directory of full year head start programs, summer headstart programs, head start parent and child centers

Mode of access: Internet.

World trade and investment; the economics of interdependence.

Bibliography: p.565-570.

Description of the pension provisions of the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 : scheduled for a hearing before the Subcommittee on Savings, Pensions, and Investment Policy of the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, April 11, 1983 /

"JCX-7-83."

Strategy-making process and firm performance in small firms

This paper argues that individual small firms just like large firms, place differing emphasis on strategy-making and may employ different modes of strategy-making. It offers a typology of the different modes of strategy-making that seem most likely to exist in small firms, and hypothesises how this typology relates to performance. It then describes the results of an empirical study of the strategy-making processes of small firms. The structural equation analysis of the data from 477 small firms with less than 100 employees indicates among other results that the simplistic, adaptive, intrapreneurial and participative modes of strategy-making exist in these small firms. Of these modes, the simplistic mode exhibits the strongest relationship with firm performance.

Batting with occluded vision: An in situ examination of the information pick-up and interceptive skills of high- and low-skilled cricket batsmen

The capability of cricket batsmen of different skill levels to pick-up information from the pre-release movement pattern of the bowler, from pre-bounce ball flight, and from post-bounce ball flight was examined experimentally. Six highly skilled and six low-skilled cricket batsmen batted against three different leg-spin bowlers while wearing liquid crystal spectacles. The spectacles permitted the specific information available to the batsmen on each trial to be manipulated such that vision was either: (i) occluded at a point prior to the point of ball release (thereby only allowing vision of advance information from the bowler's delivery action); (ii) occluded at a point prior to the point of bat[ bounce (thereby permitting the additional vision of pre-bounce ball flight); or (iii) not occluded (thereby permitting the additional vision of post-bounce bat[ flight information). Measurement was made on each trial of both the accuracy of the definitive (forward-backward) foot movements made by the batsmen and their success (or otherwise) in making bat-bat[ contact. The analyses revealed a superior capability of the more skilled players to make use of earlier (pre-bounce) bat[ flight information to guide successful bat-bat[ interception, thus mirroring the greater use of prospective information pick-up by skilled performers observed in other aspects of batting and in other time-constrained performance domains. (c) 2006 Sports Medicine Australia. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.