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Showing 1 to 20 of 145 for “"Division of labor"”.
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Sex-role congruence: Marital satisfaction and household division of labor
… household organization and the perceived level of marital well-being by focusing on the married couple as the unit of analysis. The amount of time that both spouses are involved in the work force and participate in household labor is investigated through reports from both the husband and wife, …
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Biogenic Amines and Division of Labor in the Honey Bee Society
Brain levels of biogenic amines, dopamine, serotonin, and octopamine, were measured in relation to both age-related division of labor and differences in task specialization, independent of age, in honey bee colonies. There were distinct differences associated with age-related division of labor. …
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Neuroanatomical plasticity and division of labor in the honey bee (Apis mellifera)
"There is an aged-based division of labor in the honey bee colony. Adult workers spend the first several weeks performing tasks within the hive, including caring for brood (""nursing""). They then make a dramatic behavioral transition and begin foraging outdoors. Within the dark hive, tasks are …
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Endocrine, transcriptomic and social regulation of division of labor in honey bees
Division of labor is a central facet of complex societies. Task specialization by individual members of the society (theoretically) increases the overall productivity and the fitness of the group. The work presented in this dissertation extends existing knowledge about the regulation of …
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Transition to parenthood: The effect of division of labor discrepancies on marital satisfaction
In a longitudinal study of couples during the transition to first time parenthood, I examined several hypotheses regarding expectations and the division of labor between spouses. Seventy couples expecting the birth of their first baby filled out questionnaires late in pregnancy and three months …
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Nutrition, Hormones, Transcriptional Regulatory Networks and Division of Labor in Honey Bee Colonies
… plasticity [1]. For instance, short periods of food deprivation stimulate feeding and the mobilization of stored nutrients to meet an individual’s immediate energetic needs. But prolonged food deprivation can also lead to much longer-term effects, causing individuals to enter extended periods …
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Division of labor, anomie, and crime rates: a test of a Durkheimian model
Two models of a Durkheimian explanation of crime rates were subjected to empirical test. One is the static model which posits that in a more complex society the crime rate ought to be higher. This proposition is based on the assumption that in more complex or organic societies the probability of …
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The Role of Octopamine in the Regulation of Division of Labor in Honey Bee Colonies
… I investigated whether octopamine is downstream of juvenile hormone in the regulation of foraging. Results from this chapter suggest that octopamine acts downstream of juvenile hormone to affect the transition to foraging in honey bees.
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Comparative Physiological and Genomic Analyses of Division of Labor in Honey Bees and Paper Wasps
… at understanding the mechanisms and evolution of sociality in colony-forming insects. I first summarize a conceptual framework for the study of social behavior inspired by the field of evolutionary developmental biology (""evo-devo""); I suggest complex social behavior evolves via co-option of …
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Restructuring in corporate law firms : implications of a changing division of labor for organizational inequality
… contribute to inequality? An organization's division of labor is posited to codify inequality through the allocation of work tasks and matching of workers to given jobs. To explore this argument, I employ an actor- and task-based analytical framework to a recent wave of restructuring among …
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Standards, assumptions, and perceptions regarding division of labor: Implications for marital satisfaction and socio-political change
… marital roles, specifically pertaining to how labor should be divided with regard to household chores and child rearing. The importance of cognitive processes regarding labor division has been suggested by several lines of research, although few efforts have been made to integrate this work …
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The political economy of trade : a computer simulation of contending regimes and the international division of labor
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science, 1981
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Relationship Satisfaction and Coparenting over the Transition to Parenthood: Depression, Division of Labor, and Child Temperament as Moderators
… New parents must reorganize their patterns of behavior and respective roles in order to include and care for a new child. Parents’ ability to navigate this process has great implications for child adjustment and healthy development. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the …
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Cloning and Analysis of a Honey Bee (Apis Mellifera) Period Gene Ortholog and Honey Bee Division of Labor
1Winston, M. L. (1987) The Biology of the Honey Bee. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. 2Moore, D., J. E. Angel, I. M. Cheeseman, S. E. Fahrbach, and G. E. Robinson. (1998) Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 43: 147--160. 3Hall, J. C. (1995). TINS 18: 230--240.
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Molecular analyses of endocrine and nutritional factors that affect division of labor and health in honey bees (Apis mellifera)
… and physiological factors mediate the onset of foraging behavior in the highly social honey bee (Apis mellifera). In Chapter 1, I provide a detailed overview of each experimental chapter included in this dissertation. In Chapter 2, I investigate the molecular mechanisms by which a peripheral …
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The Effect of Cohabitation on Egalitarianism in Marriage
… in marriage using data from the two waves of the National Survey of Families and Households (N = 13,017). Multiple regression and path analysis techniques are used to test this effect. Cohabitation is viewed as an experience in which patterns of behavior and attitudes are formed that …
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And justice for all? The composition and consequences of the division of family labor for men and women in dual-earner families
The primary aim of this investigation was to empirically examine facets of Thompson's (1991) model of fairness in terms of its contribution to perceptions of fairness, and to link perceptions of fairness and actual reality surrounding the division of family labor to the outcomes of marital …
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Essays in labor economics
My dissertation is a collection of three essays that consider various aspects of income inequality and the demand for skill. The first chapter uses the advent of the US Interstate Highway System to examine the effect of reducing trade barriers on the relative demand for skilled labor. The …
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Education work: Canadian schools and the emergence of indigenous social movements
… educational systems and the emergence of contemporary indigenous social movements. It focuses on the ways in which schools contributed to transformations in identities and the division of labor in indigenous communities at the local scale, and, conversely, how the state transformed the …
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