Suchergebnisse

Preface: "Night stalker" : American exceptionalism and the reality of evil -- "The Devil is come down in great wrath" : the American Satan in the colonial and Revolutionary worlds -- Darkness invisible : the Devil and American revivalism -- The devils of Daniel Webster : satanic cultural politics through World War I -- Casting out devils : American theology and popular religion meets the Devil -- Hellhound on my trail : Satan and twentieth century American culture -- Lucifer rising : satanic panics and culture wars -- The beast : Satan and the theology of American empire -- Epilogue: Shame the Devil : the problem of evil and American cultural history -- Hunting the Devil : a bibliographic essay

The authors contend that the assumption of equal treatment implementation in program evaluations is highly questionable. Through a reanalysis of data from afield evaluation of a nutrition supplementation program they demonstrate that including data on the level of treatment implementation in the analysis of treatment effects increases the power of the analysis. The results argue for the inclusion of data on treatment implementation as standard practice in future program evaluations.

Aging keys derived from captive grey kangaroos of known age were tested for their reliability in predicting the age of other captive animals of known age. Known ages were generally within the ranges of predicted ages. The aging keys were tested for consistency in age estimates derived from different body measurements. Although the age estimates for the additional captive animals were consistent, a sample of wild grey kangaroos appeared to have slightly different body proportions from those of the captive kangaroos.