enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. American Folkways series - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Folkways_series

    Many of the individual volumes have become regarded as classics in folklore, local history, and American writing, and a number of them have been issued in multiple editions or are still in print. Cover of Blue Ridge Country. Caldwell initiated the series after returning to the United States from reporting on the German invasion of Russia. [4]

  3. Hoover's sign (leg paresis) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover's_sign_(leg_paresis)

    In the context of a positive Hoover's sign, functional weakness (or "conversion disorder") is much more likely than malingering or factitious disorder. [3] Strong hip muscles can make the test difficult to interpret. [4] Efforts have been made to use the theory behind the sign to report a quantitative result. [5]

  4. Moses Asch - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Asch

    Moses Asch (December 2, 1905 – October 19, 1986) was an American recording engineer and record executive. He founded Asch Records, which then changed its name to Folkways Records when the label transitioned from 78 RPM recordings to LP records.

  5. Critical positivity ratio - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_positivity_ratio

    The derived combination of expressions and default parameters led them to conclude that a critical ratio of positive to negative affect of exactly 2.9013 separated flourishing from languishing individuals, and to argue that the ideal positivity/negativity ratio lies between 2.9013 and an upper limit ratio of 11.6346. Hence, they claimed that ...

  6. Folkways - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folkways

    Folkways can refer to: . Folkways or mores, in sociology, are norms for routine or casual interaction; Folkways Records, a record label founded by Moe Asch of the Smithsonian Institution in 1948

  7. Mores - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mores

    A 19th-century children's book informs its readers that the Dutch were a "very industrious race", and that Chinese children were "very obedient to their parents".. Mores (/ ˈ m ɔːr eɪ z /, sometimes / ˈ m ɔːr iː z /; [1] from Latin mōrēs [ˈmoːreːs], plural form of singular mōs, meaning "manner, custom, usage, or habit") are social norms that are widely observed within a ...

  8. Folk psychology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_psychology

    The regulative view of folk psychology is not the same of the intentional stance of folk psychology. This point of view is primarily concerned with the norms and patterns the correspond with our behavior and applying them in social situations. [11]

  9. Folkways: The Original Vision (Woody and LeadBelly)

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folkways:_The_Original...

    Released in 2005, Folkways: The Original Vision (Woody and LeadBelly) is an expanded rerelease of the 1989 album Folkways: The Original Vision, created by Smithsonian Folkways to document the origins of the Folkways Records label.