The hypothesis that "ideas often flow from radio and print to opinion leaders and from these to the less active sections of the population" has been tested in several successive studies. Each study has attempted a different solution to the problem of how to take account of interpersonal relations in the traditional design of survey research. As a result, the original hypothesis is largely corro...

*Richard E. Barrett was awarded the Ph.D. in sociology in 1978 by the University of Michigan. He is now Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle. The author would like to thank Martin Whyte, Ronald Freedman, John Knodel, Arthur Wolf, William Lavely, and John Casterline for their suggestions and criticisms; of course, final responsibility f...

HEALTH INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR OF DIABETIC PATIENTS Firoozeh Zare-Farashbandi, Anasik Lalazaryan, Alireza Rahimi. Associate Professor of Department of Medical Librarianship and Information Science, Health InformationTechnology Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran; Master of Art. Medical Librarianship and Information Science, Department of Management and Me...

Faculty: Y.H. Chen, Associate Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering (COE) R.F. Fox, Regents’ Professor, Chair of School of Physics (COS) R. Grigoriev, Assistant Professor, School of Physics (COS) E.M. Harrell, Professor, School of Mathematics(COS) C.A. Klausmeier, Assistant Professor, School of Biology (COS) P.J. Mucha, Assistant Professor, School of Mathematics (COS) G.P. Neitzel, Profes...

COLLEGE SCIENCE TEACHING M any studies published within the past decade evaluating college science teaching have resonated with a common theme: Teach what you practice (Deutch 1994; Dimaculangan et al. 2000; Glasson and McKenzie 1997; Gottfried et al. 1993; Harker 1999; Lawson 1999; Stukus and Lennox 1995; Tolman 1999). This common-sense advice often gets lost in the demands for covering the in...

Despite the size and growth of political science and sociology relative to other disciplines, political science and sociology graduate students have received a declining share of funding for dissertation field research in recent years. Specifically, political science and sociology students are losing out to competitive applicants from humanities-oriented fields that provide strong training in a...

We consider the problem of accounting for model uncertainty in linear regression models. Conditioning on a single selected model ignores model uncertainty, and thus leads to the underestimation of uncertainty when making inferences about quantities of interest. A Bayesian solution to this problem involves averaging over all possible models (i.e., combinations of predictors) when making inferenc...

James P. Spillane is an associate professor of education and social policy and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, 2115 North Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208–2615, USA; e-mail: [email protected]. His research explores the policy-implementation process at the state, school district, school, and classroom levels, focusing on inter-governmental...

Correction to: Local block and Awake Intubation in a Patient with Laryngeal Mass and Anticipated Difficult Airway: A Case Report       Hooshang Akbari1, Ravanbakhsh Esmaeili2   1 Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Paramedical, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran 2 Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Surgical Nursing...