Self-efficacy mechanism in human agency.
This article addresses the centrality of the self-efficacy mechanism in human agency. Self-per- cepts of efficacy influence thought patterns, actions, and emotional arousal. In ...
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External Control of Organizations: Resource Dependence Perspective
Among the most widely cited books in the social sciences, The External Control of Organizations has long been required reading for any student of organization studies. The book,...
Electrical Energy Storage for the Grid: A Battery of Choices
The increasing interest in energy storage for the grid can be attributed to multiple factors, including the capital costs of managing peak demands, the investments needed for gr...
Energy-efficient communication protocol for wireless microsensor networks
Wireless distributed microsensor systems will enable the reliable monitoring of a variety of environments for both civil and military applications. In this paper, we look at com...
Social Cognitive Theory: An Agentic Perspective
▪ Abstract The capacity to exercise control over the nature and quality of one's life is the essence of humanness. Human agency is characterized by a number of core features tha...
Eigenfaces for Recognition
Abstract We have developed a near-real-time computer system that can locate and track a subject's head, and then recognize the person by comparing characteristics of the face to...
Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age
The reflexivity of modernity extends into core of the self. Put in another way, in the context of a post-traditional order, the self becomes a reflexive project. One concerns th...
Obesity: preventing and managing the global epidemic. Report of a WHO consultation.
Overweight and obesity represent a rapidly growing threat to the health of populations in an increasing number of countries. Indeed they are now so common that they are replacin...
Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure
The National High Blood Pressure Education Program presents the complete Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of Hi...
Nature of Prejudice
Preferential Thinking * What Is the Problem? * The Normality of Prejudgment * Formation of In-Groups * Rejection of Out-Groups * Patterning and Extent of Prejudice Group Differe...