Eliminating income taxes on shareholder dividends, the centerpiece of tax legislation currently being considered by congress, may have an unexpected negative impact on research and development, according to University of Arkansas researcher Deborah Thomas.
William Gilmore Simms, one of the first and most prolific writers to portray American Indians in literature shared their fate of disenfranchisement. But a new anthology of his writings may garner some mainstream attention for both.
That ring on your finger may have cost someone else their hand. Arkansas socioligists declare that diamonds have become largely symbolic and that cultural symbolism hardly justifies the political and personal atrocities committed by segments of the diamond industry.
Mergers increased rapidly in the 1990s and the resulting losses led many to believe that acquisition destroys value. But a University of Arkansas researcher found that acquisition for diversification can improve a firm's performance in the long-term.
No one ever claimed French fries, donuts or potato chips as health food, but recent studies have shown that the spuds and other fried foods may contain worrisome concentrations of the neurotoxin acrylamide.
It seems so simple -- the boss says "do it" and the workers comply. But when it comes to adopting new methodologies, managerial mandates are the least effective means to achieve compliance in a technical environment, according to University of Arkansas researchers.
An Arkansas historian claims the Civil Rights Movement was as much religious revival as political conflict.
As technical devices become smaller, basic processes like fluid flow become more difficult. University of Arkansas researcher Steve Tung is creating a novel solution to this problem by incorporating living bacteria into microelectromechanical systems.
At the beginning of 2003, you resolved to lose some weight. You started exercising regularly on January 2. But now a month has passed and the gym looks more like a prison camp than an exercise facility. How can you keep exercising for the next 11 months without feeling like you're in a torture chamber?
With its new selections for spring, the University of Arkansas Press takes readers from Pine Bluff, Ark., to Egypt, from the modern-day boxing ring to Victorian America, from politics to philosophy to history to poetry and more.
Comparison shopping online can result in lower price for consumers, but to retailers that means reduced profits. University of Arkansas researcher Cary Deck has found that a new twist on a common marketing practice -- price matching -- can maximize profits for online retailers.
While the rest of the University of Arkansas community observed the Martin Luther King holiday, three undergraduate geology students uncovered a massive discovery -- the world's longest actinoceratoid nautiloid fossil.
In selecting the recipients of its coveted literary fellowships for 2003, the National Endowment for the Arts has recognized three writers with University of Arkansas connections -- poetry professor Davis McCombs and alumnae Beth Ann Fennelly and Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright.
When disaster strikes around the globe, Americans are quick to respond with assistance for the victims. University of Arkansas researcher Matt Waller is looking at ways to help volunteer disaster relief organizations respond more rapidly and effectively.
Are popular television shows planting subversive ideas in viewers' minds? Probably not, laments an Arkansas researcher. His new book examines "subversive" television shows from The Twilight Zone to The X-Files, reveals how they fall short of revolutionary, and explains why that might be a bad thing.
Voters in the 2000 presidential election may have griped about the similarity of the major-party candidates, Bush and Gore. But new research shows that visitors to the Internet would have noticed a marked difference between the two -- namely in the way they used technology to promote their images.
A new book about women's writing in the First World War reveals how both authors and citizens created fictional spaces to escape the pressures of society and war on the home front.
Psychologists face a challenge when trying to treat convicted batterers, but a new study by University of Arkansas researchers shows that professionals can sort batterers into categories that may be of therapeutic benefit during treatment.
Southern literature has always been characterized as isolated, uninfluenced by the rest of the world. But as totalitarian regimes like the Nazis and Fascists swept across Europe in World War II, Southern writers finally looked outward and found a startling view: their own reflection.
A University of Arkansas researcher has found evidence that verifies the presence of a suspected fault in the New Madrid seismic zone. This may help scientists better understand the distribution of earthquakes in the seismic zone, which includes the large cities of Memphis and St. Louis.
Over the past six months, faculty and students in the nationally-ranked University of Arkansas programs in creative writing have produced numerous publications, from poetry to fiction, essays and translations. Here's where to find them.
A University of Arkansas researcher has examined different forms of nationalism in Scotland and created a four-part model for nationalism that characterizes both the unity of the European Union and the individuality of its constituents.
In a new study, an Arkansas psychologist demonstrates that belief in the afterlife may be a natural, biological function of the human brain -- not just a cultural construct.
From "Don't Worry, Be Happy" to "Hakuna Matata," popular culture warns that worrying interferes with happiness and health. But an Arkansas psychologist shows that worrying actually may have healthful benefits -- shielding people from the effects of anxiety.
Mack-Blackwell has funded more than 100 research projects. This year it competed successfully for one of only 10 funding slots and received an award of $916,300 from the U.S. Department of Transportation. These funds will be matched by non-federal funds to support 16 projects.
A U.S. Department of Justice report showing a decline in domestic violence drew the wrong conclusions, according to University of Arkansas economist Amy Farmer, who found that legal services were the only ones that reduced the incidence of domestic abuse.
Heights, crowds, dark places, open spaces, snakes, spiders and needles all have one thing in common--many people fear them pathologically, to the point of having a phobia.
The energy required to create an accurate quantum computer may limit the ability of scientists to make these novel devices small, fast, cheap and efficient, says a University of Arkansas researcher.
University of Arkansas biologists used microsatellite DNA markers to examine the genetics of black bears in Louisiana and Arkansas and found that the black bear population in Arkansas' White River National Wildlife Refuge shows the greatest genetic distance from other black bear populations in Arkansas and Louisiana.
New research from an Arkansas sociologist reveals the boredom and humiliation female inmates endure in prison and claims that the expectations of rehabilitation that society pins on female convicts often are undermined by the treatment it dishes out to them.
In a complex area like economics, it is sometimes difficult to know which expert opinions to value.Two economics professors in the Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas, were listed recently in the top two percent of economists in the world.
A drought that lasted three times as long as the Dust Bowl of the 1930s wreaked ecological havoc over much of the western United States and Mexico, and occurred at about the same time as the fall of Teotihuacan and classic Mayan civilization 13 centuries ago, says a University of Arkansas researcher.
Elementary and secondary school students in Saudi Arabia learn almost nothing about non-Islamic cultures in school, unlike their Syrian and Jordanian counterparts, says a University of Arkansas professor. This absence of knowledge could lead to escalating hostilities between people of different cultures.
Having signed the Congressional resolution authorizing force against Iraq and brought the U.S. proposal to the United Nations, Bush seems well on his way to convincing the public that action must be taken against Saddam Hussein. But an Arkansas researcher says Bush must convince a far more critical audience: the Iraqi people themselves.
While behavioral models are commonly used in many companies to understand employee issues like productivity, they are seldom applied when the questions involve engineering and technology workers, according to University of Arkansas researcher Bill Hardgrave.
The archeological exploration of a vast Mandan village in North Dakota reveals a record of continuous occupation for three centuries and offers tantalizing clues that could rewrite our understanding of life, civilization and warfare on the Great Plains.
As the 200th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark expedition approaches, Arkansas researchers note that these weren't the only explorers scouting the new territory. A new documentary from award-winning filmmakers chronicles the journey of two lesser-known adventurers and their "Forgotten Expedition."
University of Arkansas researchers have found that spinach grown in different seasons varies in its antioxidant capacity, a discovery that could allow commercial growers to maximize the content of these health-beneficial compounds in their products by altering the plants' growing season.
A new textbook on the Civil War offers some fresh perspective on this much-studied conflict, including the proposition that it could have -- and probably should have -- been avoided.
Online retailers and dotcom companies are failing in record numbers, but online purchasing increased 24 percent in the past year. University of Arkansas researcher Vicki McKinney has developed a tool to help online retailers stay on the profitable side of this puzzle.
Under the leadership of Assistant Professor Laura Terry, eight University of Arkansas students spent their summer designing and building an archery pavilion with adaptable stations for wheelchairs at Camp Aldersgate in Little Rock.
At the age of 72, acclaimed poet Miller Williams has produced his first book of fiction. In the preface, Williams writes: "These [stories] are about one Kelvin Fletcher...who wanted to be good and wanted to grow up. What stood in the way of either was the other."
Domestic violence damages individuals and society, but its impact on business has been seriously underestimated, according to University of Arkansas economist Amy Farmer.
New research concludes that single-session debriefing therapies -- so widely administered in the days following September 11 -- deliver no preventative or beneficial effects against trauma. In fact, results from controlled studies indicate that such interventions may prolong or intensify the trauma some people experience.
Everyone knows that tornadoes affect buildings, but University of Arkansas researcher Panneer Selvam has found that buildings also have an effect on tornadoes. And he has built a three-dimensional computer model that shows how a building affects a tornado's path.
A new study of EEOC reports indicates that women are underrepresented in top positions at state governmental agencies. The researchers claim integration of women into the workforce has progressed so slowly over the past ten years that it will take more than half a century for gender balance to occur.
A group of University of Arkansas researchers has won a grant to build an instrument that may create the next generation of transistors that are faster and more efficient than current ones.
In the midst of the debate about the effectiveness of abstinence education programs in high schools, a program developed at the University of Arkansas has been shown to work with high school students.
Employers and human resource professionals often believe that high voluntary turnover rates always result in declines in productivity and profitability, but University of Arkansas management researchers have found that this is not necessarily true.
In a new study on the occurrence of dating violence among teenagers, Arkansas researchers found that 50 percent of high schoolers have experienced some form of physically violent behavior in their relationships. More surprising, the research revealed that male and female students perpetrate violence at an equal rate.
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