Intentionality is the concept of how mental states and their content relate to each other. Although intentionality was re-introduced to philosophy by the psychologist Franz Brentano, psychology has not empirically researched the concept. The present study reviews the history of intentionality, as it relates to psychology, and argues that people recognize their own and other people's intentionality through a logic-desire-belief structure. The logic-desire-belief structure was tested by having participants in an experiment read situations containing the structure and an intentional state. The results demonstrate that people are sensitive to the logic-desire-belief structure, and the structure may allow people to recognize intentionality. / Department of Psychological Science

As a result of increased interest in the benefit of ties with others, researchers have been exploring the idea of social capital with increasing frequency over the past two decades (Portes, 1998). Although the volume of literature has accumulated and its application expanded, there has been a proliferation of misguided or poorly conceptualized social capital research (Portes, 2000; Furstenberg, 2005). This has not only affected its vigour (Portes, 1998), but has problematized its measurement. Although conceptualizing and defining have been heavily debated through the years, the issue of its measurement has received little more than casual scholarly recognition. Drawing on the works of Charles Lachenmeyer, this thesis offers a unique approach that merges dimensions of social capital measurement with aspects of “good” scientific practices to systematically review a sample of academic articles. Results suggest that assessments of the concept are problematized by article crafting and research-based problems.

Graduation date: 1981

Typescript. / Bibliography: leaves 127-137. / xv, 137 l graphs, tables

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 145-146). / vi, 146 leaves, bound ill., maps 29 cm

Bibliography: leaves 198-227. / xx, 260 leaves, [3] leaves of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / The aims of this study were: 1. to examine the sorption behaviour of selected nonionic and ionic pesticides in a range of soils; 2. to characterise the nature of soil organic matter in a diverse group of soils and relate the structural and molecular variations of organic matter to sorption of nonionic pesticides; and 3. to study the release behaviour of carbaryl and ethion from two historically contaminated soils and to elucidate the mechanisms of their aging/sequestration. (abstract) / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Soil and Water, 1999

Zugl.: Leipzig, Hochsch. für Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur, Diplomarbeit

Thesis PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references.

Zugl.: Olten, Fachhochsch. Nordwestschweiz, Diplomarbeit. / Hergestellt on demand.

Zugl.: Bonn, Univ., Diss., 2007 / Hergestellt on demand