'A Descriptive Grammar of Chontal Maya (San Carlos Dialect)' is an extensive description of the grammar of the language spoken by the Modern Chontal Maya of Tabasco, Mexico. The grammar primarily describes the San Carlos dialect, although data from other Chontal dialects is included where applicable The grammar is divided into four parts: Introduction, Phonology, Morphology, and Sentence Formation. The Introduction provides an overview of Chontal and its speakers. It includes a discussion of the position of Chontal as a Mayan language, the delimitation of Chontal, sociolinguistic and dialectal information, a summary of published literature, and ethnographic information about San Carlos and its people. The phonology section outlines the phonemics and morphophonemics of Chontal. The most extensive section is Morphology. It describes the inflection, derivation, and use of verbs (transitive, intransitive, and positional), nouns, pronouns, particles, modifiers (adjectives and adverbs), affects, and numerals + numeral classifiers. The final section, Sentence Formation, discusses how to form simple (non-verbal and verbal), compound, and complex sentences. Appendices include lists of positional roots, numeral classifiers, and inflectional and derivational affixes, as well as an analyzed Chontal text and a Chontal-English lexicon / acase@tulane.edu

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The women characters in John Dos Passos' 'contemporary chronicles,' a term the writer coined to suggest the historical thrust of his fiction, constitute a significant, but neglected part of his achievement as a social historian and a novelist. Dos Passos' most successful works were written during a revolution in women's lives and work caused by suffrage activism, and by increased job opportunities made possible by technological innovations, World War I, and the post-war boom. Due to his consistent appetite for immersing himself in the events of his time, Dos Passos observed closely the major social and cultural changes which brought American women from rebellion to retreat in the first four decades of the Twentieth Century. A satirist like Thorstein Veblen, a major influence on his social analysis, Dos Passos recorded the transformation of women's roles by describing basic American female types through his women characters, each type reflecting an aspect of the age. Although these various feminine personalities are intimately related to the contemporary social scene, they also exemplify an increasing complexity in Dos Passos' treatment of women, as well as his thematic and formal maturation as a writer. In his earlier works, the female characters suggest his Victorian moral background as well as the absence of social awareness in his self-absorbed writings, whereas Dos Passos' more intricate portraits of American women in the mid-twenties reflect his improved stylistic skills as well as his increased exposure to politics. Finally, during Dos Passos' most radical and creative phase in the late twenties and early thirties, his women characters serve to demonstrate his belief in the bourgeois betrayal of original American ideals in capitalist society. Often central to his novels, Dos Passos' female figures contribute greatly to an understanding of the sexual and social outlook of a sensitive, intellectual rebel, whose aim was to expose the disease of materialism and mindlessness which, in his view, had infected Twentieth Century America / acase@tulane.edu

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The purpose of this research was to develop and test computerized methods of detecting cheating on multiple-choice examinations. Two computer programs which compare the response vector of every examinee in a class to that of every other examinee were utilized to calculate two indices, both of which are based on identical incorrect responses of two or more examinees. The Wrong-in-common (WIC) index is the proportion of two times the number of identical incorrects to the Total Wrong for Both (TWB). The Run index (RUN) is the proportion of two times the length of the longest 'run' two examinees share to TWB. A run is defined as the number of items answered incorrectly and identically by both examinees within a succession of items which are marked or unmarked identically. The computer programs are written in Microsoft BASIC and run on the IBM-PC and compatible microcomputers as stand-alone executable files Achievement test item responses were obtained from a large public school system. From these data, 10 'honest' groups were created, and distributions of the RUN and WIC indices were plotted for four intervals of TWB. Average .1% probability levels were computed from the distributions for each of two subtests. These analyses indicated that cutoff points, index levels above which a pair might be considered suspicious, must vary contingent on TWB. Results suggested that it may be possible to detect certain types of 'test irregularities', and that irregularities occurred in 5 to 8% of the 170 fifth-grade classrooms studied. Directions for future research are discussed / acase@tulane.edu

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Previous job satisfaction-job performance literature has not systematically attended to key aspects of an integrated individual difference framework for studying relationships between satisfaction and performance variables. Addressing these issues is of primary importance to researchers' abilities to understand and accurately quantify the inferences drawn from measures of satisfaction and performance. The primary purpose of the present study was to delineate a work satisfaction-behavioral performance theoretical framework and evaluate the generalizability of hypothesized relationships within this framework. Meta-analyses involving 231 studies were conducted to test the hypothesized relationships between work satisfaction and behavioral performance constructs. Based on the meta-analytic tests, the present study found support for the proposed theoretical framework as, in general, significant and positive results were found between specific work satisfaction dimensions and behavioral performance dimensions, as well as between composite measures of work satisfaction and job performance. Noteworthy, the mean estimated correlation between composite measures of work satisfaction and composite measures of job performance, based on 69 effects and a total sample size of 13,801, was .26; a practical and statistically meaningful difference from Iaffaldano's and Muchinsky's (1985) reported overall relationship between job satisfaction and job performance of .17. The practical and scientific implications of these findings were discussed / acase@tulane.edu

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