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Zimmer, Zachary; Korinek, Kim | Number of children and proximate residence among older adults in the context of population aging: a comparative analysis of six societies in the Asia-Pacific region | Population aging, occurring concurrently with social and economic change, has the potential to dismantle traditional support structures for older adults in the Asia-Pacific region. An example is the traditional system of living with an adult child, which may be threatened by smaller families and mor... | Population; Aging; Asia-Pacific | 2007-08-18 |
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Vernon, Kenneth B. | Numic fires: modeling the effects of anthropogenic fire on foraging decisions in the Great Basin | Across Western North America, hunter-gatherers modified their surrounding environment with the application of fire (1; 11; 15). However, to date we lack a general theoretical framework to investigate the reasons why people would burn or its effects on traditional foraging economies. To begin to fill... | Behavioral ecology; Diet; Fire | 2015 |
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Utz, Rebecca L. | Obesity in America, 1960-2000: is it an age, period or cohort phenomenon? | Increasing rates of obesity have sparked tremendous public concern because excess body weight is linked to a host of mortality, morbidity, and disability outcomes. Using five waves of data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), this project privides a four-decade pict... | Health, weight; Overweight; Population trends | 2004-09-23 |
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Maloney, Thomas N. | Occupation and fertility on the frontier: Evidence from the state of Utah | BACKGROUND Most of what we know about fertility decline in the United States comes from aggregate (often state or county level) data sources. It is difficult to identify variation in fertility change across socio-economic classes in such data, although understanding such variation would provide deep... | 2014-01-01 | |
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Zimmer, Zachary | Older persons' AIDS knowledge and willingness to provide care in an impoverished nation: evidence from Cambodia | Since the beginning of the global pandemic, assessing knowledge and attitudes regarding AIDS has been an important subject of research and for good reasons. Given the unusual features of HIV/AIDS, there is considerable potential for misunderstanding important aspects of the disease that could affect... | AIDS knowledge | 2007 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Older women: their quest for justice and peace | Myths, misconceptions and stereotypes about women and about older people combine in ways that prevent us from noticing some promising new developments in the quest for justice and peace. A popular stereotype sees the person working toward peace and justice as youthful, and significantly, often male.... | Women; Peace; Justice | 1988 |
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Wiessner, Pauline W. | On emergency decisions, egalitarianism, and group selection | Boehm (CA 37:763-93) puts forward an important thesis-that with the evolution of egalitarian societies, privileged routes to reproductive advantage are blocked and the power of individua selection severely compromised. With competition so constrained, altruistic behavior can more readily spread i... | Boehm's mode; Evolution of altruistic behavior | 1998-06 |
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Hawkes, Kristen | On Human fertility: Individual or group benefit? | Caldwell et al. (CA 28:25-43) have pointed to the pervasive influence of Carr-Saunders's (1922) concept of population regulation throughout two-thirds of a century of anthropology and demography. | 1988-01-01 | |
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Hawkes, Kristen | On life history evolution (a comment on Chisholm) | Chisholm (CA 34:I-24) is right that the theory, models, and data of evolutionary biology apply to questions asked by social scientists. Work in life-history theory (Stearns 1992, Roff 1992, Charnov 1993) has especially provocative implications for the understanding of human development (see review i... | 1994-01-01 | |
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Wiessner, Pauline W. | On network analysis: the potential for understanding (and misunderstanding) !Kung Hxaro | Schweizer's social network analysis (CA 38: 739-52) of gift giving among the !Kung San (Ju/'hoansi) demonstrates most elegantly how individual strategies, guided by basic cultural rules, coalesce to form a regional system. Complex connections in the network that defied description with simpler anayt... | Density of kinship; Nonsymmetry; Ethnohistorica | 1998-08 |
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Hawkes, Kristen | On optimal foraging models and subsistence transitions | Layton, Foley, and Williams are right: "progress" doesn't explain transitions from hunting and gathering to agriculture, by theory and models from behavioral ecology might. | 1992-01-01 | |
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Hawkes, Kristen | On sharing and work (a comment on Bird-David) | Bird-David (CA 33:25-47) discusses reasons for the persistent vitality and wide appeal of Sahlins's influential characterization of hunter-gatherers as representatives of 'original affluence." | 1992-01-01 | |
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Cashdan, Elizabeth A. | On territoriality in hunter-gatherers | Cashdan's intention of using an evolutionary framework to examine cross-cultural variations in territorial defense is admirable, but her argument about the applicability of available models, her own model, and the data used to support it (CA 24:47-66) are all severely flawed. Specifically, Cashdan ... | Defense; Organisms; Behavior | 1983 |
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Hawkes, Kristen | On why male foragers hunt and share food: Reply to Hill and Kaplan | My argument is this: Some food resources, notably large animals when they are unpredictably acquired, are too expensive to defend. Other can claim shares of them without repaying shares of the same foods later. | 1993-01-01 | |
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Malloy, Thomas E.; Gordon, Oakley E. | Online Homework/Quiz/Exam Applet: Freely available Java software for evaluating performance online | The Homework/Quiz/Exam applet is a freely available Java program that can be used to evaluate student performance on line for any content authored by a teacher. It has database connectivity so that student scores are automatically recorded. It allows several different types of questions. Each questi... | Online coursework; Online course materials | 2002 |
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Malloy, Thomas E.; Regan, Alison Elizabeth; Jensen, Gary C. | Open courseware and shared knowledge in higher education | Most college and university campuses in the United States and much of the developed world today maintain one, two, or several learning management systems (LMSs), which are courseware products that provide students and faculty with Web-based tools to manage course-related applications. Since the mid-... | Learning management systems; Courseware | 2002 |
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Rogers, Alan R.; Jorde, Lynn B. | Origins and affinities of modern humans: a comparison of mitochondrial and nuclear genetic data | To test hypotheses about the origin of modern humans, we analyzed mtDNA sequences, 30 nuclear restriction-site polymorphisms (RSPs), and 30 tetranucleotide short tandem repeat (STR) polymorphisms in 243 Africans, Asians, and Europeans. An evolutionary tree based on mtDNA displays deep African branch... | Base Sequence; Variation (Genetics); Base Sequence | 1995 |
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Nicoll, Kathleen | OSL chronologies for Aeolian activity in the context of lake-level fluctuations, drainage reorganization and glacial retreat, North-Central Minnesota | Dunes and stratified eolian sedi-ments are a significant component of the postglacial landscape across the mid-continent. During the 1970s, a benchmark study in north-central Minne-sota inferred a period of eolian activity 8,000 ? 5,000 years ago (i.e., the Altithermal Hypsithermal periods), based u... | 2006 | |
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Smith, Ken R. | Ovarian cancer mortality among immigrants in Australia and Canada | This study examined the impact of changing environments on ovarian cancer by comparing age standardized mortality rates of numerous immigrant groups in Australia and Canada to those in the origin countries for the period 1984-1988. Mortality rates by length of residence in Australia (0-29 and 30+ y... | Ovarian cancer; Immigrants; Australia; Canada; Mortality | 1995 |
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Zick, Cathleen D. | Over-scheduled or at loose ends? The shifting balance of adolescent time use | Little is known about the time use of American youth. In this study, time diary data from 1977-78 and 2003-05 are used to investigate time use in middle adolescence with the goals of ascertaining (1) changes in time use, (2) how socioeconomic and familial factors influence adolescent time allocation... | Adolescents; Adolescent time use; Adolescent wages; Leisure | 2007-05-18 |
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Utz, Rebecca L. | Parental divorce among young and adult children: a long-term quantitative analysis of mental health and family solidarity | In 2008, it was estimated that 40 percent of all marriages ended in divorce (U.S. Census, 2004) . Research has long suggested that the consequences of divorce can be profound for the children of divorced families (Amato, 2000). For example, children who experienced parental divorce were 50 percent m... | 2012-01-01 | |
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Kesner, Raymond P. | Parietal lesions produce illusory conjunction errors in rats | When several different objects are presented, visual objects are perceived correctly only if their features are identified and then bound together. Illusory-conjunction errors result When an object is correctly identified but is combined incorrectly. The parietal cortex (PC) has been shown repeatedl... | 2012-01-01 | |
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Drews, Frank; Westenskow, Dwayne R.; Pace, Nathan L.; Ogden, L. Lazarre; Strayer, David Lee | Part task and variable priority training in first-year anesthesia resident education: a combined didactic and simulation-based approach to improve management of adverse airway and respiratory events | Background: Part task training (PTT) focuses on dividing complex tasks into components followed by intensive concentrated training on individual components. Variable priority training (VPT) focuses on optimal distribution of attention when performing multiple tasks simultaneously with the goal of f... | Part task training; Variable priority training; PTT; VPT; Anesthesia residents | 2008 |
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Diamond, Lisa | Passionate friendships among adolescent sexual-minority women | Abstract:Adolescent friendships containing the emotional intensity of romantic relationships, yet lacking sexual activity, have been documented in numerous cultures and historical periods. This research explores these relationships among contemporary young sexual-minority women. Phone interviews wit... | Sexual attraction; Gender differences; Intimacy; Young; Love | 2004-04-28 |
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Harpending, Henry C. | Paternal age and genetic load | The incidence of base substitutions in humans increases with the age of the father, which shows up as an increased incidence of mutational disorders in the children of older fathers. There is a less obvious implication: an extended period of high average paternal age in a population will lead to inc... | 2013-01-01 |