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Yu, Zhou; Myers, Dowell | Convergence or divergence in Los Angeles: three distinctive ethnic patterns of immigrant residential assimilation | This paper uses census microdata to examine five aspects of residential assimilation in the greater Los Angeles area. A double cohort method is used to separate the effect of duration in the U.S. from the effect of aging. We track a single arrival cohort that came in 1970-79, and analyze the process... | Residential assimilation; Immigrants; Cohort; Los Angeles; Homeownership | 2006-01-11 |
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Wen, Ming | Correlates of leisure-time physical activity participation among Latino children and adolescents with acanthosis nigricans | Childhood obesity has become a serious public health concern in the United States. The prevalence rates of childhood obesity largely increased in the 1980s and 1990s and remained persistently high between 1999-2000 and 2007-2008 in the United States [20]. The highest extreme obesity prevalence rate,... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Fogel, Alan Dale | Course in modern physics for Colombia | The problems on encounters in teaching physics in Colombia have been recognized for a number of years and can be easily generalized to almost every country in Latin America. These problems are sufficiently widespread, reaching not only across international lines but throughout all the levels of the ... | | 1970 |
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Brown, Barbara B. | Crime, new housing, and housing incivilities in a first-ring suburb: multilevel relationships across time | Concepts deriving from criminology, housing policy, and environmental psychology are integrated to test two ways that housing conditions could relate to crime in a declining first-ring suburb of Salt Lake City. For existing housing, we use a model to test whether housing incivilities, such as litte... | Community development; Community revitalization; Crime; Urban policy | 2004 |
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Svedin, Lina | Crisis management in Russia: overcoming institutional rigidity and resource constraints | The editors would like to express their gratitude to a number of persons and institutions for making this book on Russian crisis management possible. We are grateful for the generous financial support from the Swedish Agency for Civil Emergency Planning (?CB) which has made the CM Europe program (of... | | 2002 |
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Harpending, Henry C.; Jorde, Lynn B. | Culture creates genetic structure in the Caucasus: autosomal, mitochondrial, and Y-chromosomal variation in Daghestan | Near the junction of three major continents, the Caucasus region has been an important thoroughfare for human migration. While the Caucasus Mountains have diverted human traffic to the few lowland regions that provide a gateway from north to south between the Caspian and Black Seas, highland populat... | Caucasus; Haplogroups; Autosomal variation; Mitochondrial variation; Y-chromosomal variation; Endogamy; Avar; Dargin; Kubachi; Culture | 2008 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Culture of gender: socialization, spirituality and sexuality | In this presentation, I hope to take you on a journey through the social landscape which teaches us about spirituality and sexuality. Like any journey, this one will have its ups and downs and in this case both ups and downs come from the same source. That source is the recognition that what we can... | | 1987 |
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Fogel, Alan Dale | Current problems of Japanese youth: some possible pathways for alleviating these problems from the perspective of dynamic systems theory | Yoshiko wouldn't reveal her son's name, because of fears that her neighbors in a suburb of Tokyo might find out. Three years ago, a classmate taunted her seventeen-year-old son with anonymous hate letters and abusive graffiti about him in the schoolyard. After that, he went into the family's kitche... | | 2008 |
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Jameson, Kenneth P. | Data and social science rhetoric: policy and instruction | I believe that social science and empirical investigation can make important contributions to our understanding and to resolution of policy issues, but only if we are clear on the nature of social science and the role of quantification. In particular we must admit the limits of our truth claims, th... | Social sciences; Quantification; Empirical investigation | 1996 |
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Maloney, Thomas N. | Degrees of inequality: the advance of black male workers in the northern meat packing and steel industries before World War II | Recent major works on long-term racial inequality in the labor market revolve around competing hypotheses concerning the importance of human capital factors (Smith and Welch 1989) and government policy (Donohue and Heckman 1991) in promoting black advance. There is however, another line or thinking ... | Labor markets; Northern employers; Racial inequality | 1995 |
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Hawkes, Kristen | The derived features of human life history | This chapter compares and contrasts the life histories of extant great apes in order to construct a hypothetical life history of the last common ancestor of all great apes and to identify features of human life history that have been derived during the evolution of our lineage. Data compiled from th... | | 2006-01-01 |
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Harpending, Henry C.; Rogers, Alan R. | Detecting positive selection from genome scans of linkage disequilibrium | Though a variety of linkage disequilibrium tests have recently been introduced to measure the signal of recent positive selection, the statistical properties of the various methods have not been directly compared. While most applications of these tests have suggested that positive selection has pl... | Genome scans; Linkage disequilibrium; Gene trees | 2010 |
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Kowaleski-Jones, Lori | Determinants of first sex by age 14 in a high-risk adolescent population | A study using data for mothers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and their children aged 14 or older indicates that, after accounting for a wide range of demographic and socioeconomic antecedents, children are significantly more likely to become sexually active before age 14 if their m... | | 1996 |
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Jameson, Kenneth P. | Determinants of Latin American exchange rate regimes | The experience of the last thirty years suggests that a wide range of factors affects policymakers' choice of exchange rate regime. The initial explanation was that changes in the international sphere dominated domestic policies and strongly influenced how governments decided among the trade-offs. M... | Monetary policy; Exchange rate regimes | 2005 |
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Fowles, Richard | Determinants of motor vehicle fatalities using classical specification testing and Bayesian sensitivity methods | This paper uses classical regression methods along with Bayesian Extreme Bounds Analysis (EBA) to addresses the effect of cell phones on motor vehicle fatality rates so as to examine the potential of net life-taking and life-saving effects. The models adjust for a time trend (YEAR), the maximum b... | Motor vehicle fatalities; Motor vehicle statistical studies; Cell phones | 2008-01-09 |
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Zimmer, Zachary | Determinants of old-age mortality in Taiwan | Relationships among socio-demographic characteristics, general assessments of health, and old-age mortality are well established in developed countries. There is also an increasing focus on the connection between early-life experiences and late-life health. This paper tests these and other associat... | Mortality determinants; Gompertz regression | 2003 |
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Fogel, Alan Dale | Developing through relationships origins of communication, self, and culture | I began to consider the study of relationships as an intellectual vocation in 1970, the result of two years of college teaching that was part of my work as a United States Peace Corps volunteer in Bogota, Colombia. After another year I began my doctoral training in the Department of Education at th... | | 1993 |
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Drews, Frank; Strayer, David Lee | Development and evaluation of a high-fidelity simulator training program for snowplow operators | The safe operation of a snowplow requires a high level of expertise. Drivers often operate in very stressful situations, maneuvering 30 tons of equipment in tight quarters in blizzard conditions. Drivers often work long shifts, negotiate their vehicle in heavy traffic, on slippery roads with very li... | Snowplow operators; Simulators; Accidents | 2004 |
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Berg, Cynthia A.; Smith, Timothy W. | Developmental approach to psychosocial risk factors and successful aging | Successful aging has been characterized as maintaining physical health (avoiding disease), sustaining good cognitive function, and having active engagement with other people and productive activities (Rowe 8c Kahn, 1998). Although these three factors are known to be interrelated, the field has large... | | 2007 |
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Li, Minqi | Dialogue on the future of China | Three Chinese scholars speak to the question: How do you think the June 4th movement of 1989 will be remembered-----as another May 4th 1919, the threshold of a period of general political awakening and turbulence, or instead as a Chinese version of 1848 or 1968 in Europe: a last spontaneous explosio... | China; Politics; Social conditions | 1999 |
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Malloy, Thomas E. | Difference to Inference: teaching logical and statistical reasoning through on-line interactivity | Difference to Inference is an on-line JAVA program that simulates theory testing and falsification through research design and data collection in a game format. The program, based on cognitive and epistemological principles, is designed to support learning of the thinking skills underlying deductive... | Online interactive instruction; Difference to inference | 2001 |
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Yu, Zhou | Different path to homeownership: The case of Taiwanese immigrants in Los Angeles | Taiwanese immigrants in Los Angeles stand in contrast to the welldocumented homeownership deficit among immigrants. Despite the tremendous growth in Taiwanese immigrants during the 1980s, Taiwanese homeownership rate not only was among the highest of all ethnic groups in 1990,... | Taiwanese immigrants; Homeownership; Los Angeles; adaptation | 2006 |
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Wolfinger, Nicholas H. | Different voices of gender: social recognition | Many researchers have shown that men and women speak differently. In this paper we examine whether these differences extend to the interpretation of speech. Men and women were recorded as they described their participation in a common interpersonal dilemma. | Gender differences | 1997 |
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Florsheim, Paul W.; Ngu, Le | Differential outcomes among adolescent fathers: understanding fatherhood as a transformative process | In response to the rising numbers of mother headed households, there is a great debate about whether to encourage young unwed parents to marry. Policies designed to pursue and/or punish fathers who do not meet their legal and financial responsibilities and to promote marriage, carte blanche, are ref... | Parenting; Gender; Matrimony | 2003-10-18 |
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Zimmer, Zachary | Differentials in life expectancy and active life expectancy by socioeconomic status among older adults in Beijing | The study compares estimates of life expectancy and active life expectancy across indicators of socioeconomic status for a cohort of older adults in Beijing Municipality. Our aim is to determine whether associations found are consistent across indicators and with those typically observed in Western... | Active life expectancy; Functional limitations | 2004 |
