Filters: Date: "1986" School Or College: "College of Social & Behavioral Science" Collection: "ir_uspace"
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Cashdan, Elizabeth A. | Competition between foragers and food producers on the Botletli River, Botswana | The immigration of food-producing groups into areas occupied by hunters and gatherers must have been a common occurrence in prehistory. How were the hunter-gatherers affected by this? I describe here two groups of Kalahari Basarwa ('Bushmen'), one living along the flood plain of the lower Botletli ... | Kalahari Basarwa; Bushmen; Foraging; Cattle | 1986 |
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Zick, Cathleen D. | Does the teaching of home economics skills have an economic payoff? The case of clothing construction | In recent years secondary schools have begun to view their home economics programs as an increasing marginal portion of their overall curricula. Because no payments are made for goods produced at home, gauging the economic value of taking a home economics class has been difficult for students, paren... | Nonmarket activities; Clothing construction; Home sewing; Valuation | 1986 |
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Francis, John G.; Benedict, Robert Cone | Issue group activists at the conventions | The rise of the new single issue groups has presented the Republican and Democratic parties with a novel challenge to their historic roles as broad-based coalition parties. Both parties now confront groups within their ranks that demand of party nominees a strict commitment to the position held by t... | Single issue groups | 1986 |
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Rogers, Alan R. | Migration and genetic drift in human populations | In humans and many other species, mortality is concentrated early in the life cycle, and is low during the ages of dispersal and reproduction. Yet precisely the opposite is assumed by classical population-genetics models of migration and genetic drift. We introduce a model in which population regul... | Frequencies; Variance; Dynamics | 1986 |
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Francis, John G. | Public lands institutions and their discontents | The history of the federal lands has been marked by recurring debates over the nature of the land tenure system in the West. The fundamental and enduring nature of these debates has been quite apparent recently, for serious attention has been paid to the following specific proposals. Should the owne... | Federal lands; United States | 1986 |
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Francis, John G.; Francis, Leslie P. | Rationing of health care in Britain: an ethical critique of public policy-making | IN BRITAIN, as in the United States, rationing of health care is a fact of life and death. Some rationing is overt, such as the Stanford heart transplant program's decision not to accept very young or older patients.1 Some is disguised, such as day-to-day decisions in hospitals about "do not resusci... | Rationing; National Health Service | 1986 |
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Francis, Leslie | Recent developments in genetic diagnosis: some ethical and legal implications | This essay outlines some of the ethical complexities genetic technology poses in two areas of decision-making: when to perform genetic testing and what to do with the information gained from genetic testing. | Genetic Technology; Genetic Testing; Ethics | 1986 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Social reconstruction of sexual assault by women victims: a comparison of therapeutic experiences | In this study, the conventionally accepted view of sexual violence against women as manifested by traditional therapy is contrasted with the feminist perspective represented by feminist therapy and feminist self-help groups for victims of sexual assault. The focus of the research is on the ways in ... | Sexual violence; Feminist self-help; Feminist counselling | 1986 |
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