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Creator | Title | Description | Subject | Date |
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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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 | Rogers, Alan R. | Pleistocene population X-plosion? | In two recent papers, Kaessmann et al. presented DNA sequence data from the X chromosome (Xq13.3) of 30 chimpanzees and 69 humans (Kaessmann et al. 1999a; Kaessmann et al. 1999b). These data bear on two longstanding questions involving late Pleistocene demographic history: (1) whether the long-term... | | 2000 |
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 | Utz, Rebecca L. | Procedure to correct proxy-reported weight in the National Health Interview Survey, 1976-2002 | Background: Data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) show a larger-than-expected increase in mean BMI between 1996 and 1997. Proxy-reports of height and weight were discontinued as part of the 1997 NHIS redesign, suggesting that the sharp increase between 1996 and 1997 may be artifactua... | National Health Interview Survey; NHIS; Proxy-reported weight | 2009 |
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 | Malloy, Thomas E.; Jensen, Gary C. | Utah Virtual Lab: JAVA interactivity for teaching science and statistics online | The Utah on-line Virtual Lab is a JAVA program run dynamically off a database. It is embedded in Stat-Center (www.psych.utah.edu/ learn/statsampler.html), an on-line collection of tools and text for teaching and learning statistics. Instructors author a statistical virtual reality that simulates the... | Computer simulations; Science; Statistics | 2001 |
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 | Hartmann, Donald P. | Interrupted time-series analysis and its application to behavioral data | This paper uses a question-and-answer format to present the technical aspects of interrupted time-series analysis (ITSA). Topics include the potential relevance of ITSA to behavioral researchers, serial dependency, time-series models, tests of significance, and sources of ITSA information. | Data Analysis; Methodology; Serial Dependency; Interrupted Time-Series Analysis | 1980-12 |
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 | Rogers, Alan R. | Is migration kin structured? | We estimate the strength of kin-structured migration in six human populations (five from New Guinea and one from Finland) and in one population of nonhuman primates. We also test the hypothesis that migration is not kin structured by generating a sampling distribution of the estimator under the null... | | 1994 |
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 | Mo, Wenjing | Institutionalization among the elderly in Japan and China: a comparative study | | 2013 Center on Aging Poster Retreat | 2013 |
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 | O'Rourke, Dennis H. | Patterns of genetic variation in native America | Allele frequencies from seven polymorphic red cell antigen loci (ABO, Rh, MN, S, P, Duffy, and Diego) were examined in 144 Native American populations. Mean genetic distances (Nei's D) and the fixation index FST are approximately equal for the North and South American samples but are reduced in the... | Gene frequencies; Amerinds; Genetic Distance | 1992 |
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 | Wolfinger, Nicholas H. | Reexamining the economic costs of marital disruption for women | Changes in labor force participation and returns may have lessened divorce's traditionally severe economic consequences for women. Method. We use recent data from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) to analyze the economic well-being of women whose marriages ended between the firs... | | 2001 |
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 | Rogers, Alan R. | How much can fossils tell us about regional continuity? | Presents a study on the genetic contribution of earlier populations to later populations within regions called regional continuity. Testing for regional continuity with multiple characters; Replacement of archaic population by a population of modern humans. | Human genetics; Fossils; Regional continuity | 2006-06-05 |
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 | Rogers, Alan R.; Harpending, Henry C. | Mismatch distributions of mtDNA reveal recent human population expansions | Although many genetic studies of human evolution have tried to make distinctions between the replacement and the multiregional evolution hypotheses, current methods and data have not resolved the issue. However, new advances in nucleotide divergence theory can complement these investigations with a ... | | 1994 |
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 | Forster, Richard R. | Prevalence of pure versus mixed snow cover pixels across spatial resolutions in alpine environments | Remote sensing of snow-covered area (SCA) can be binary (indicating the presence/absence of snow cover at each pixel) or fractional (indicating the fraction of each pixel covered by snow). Fractional SCA mapping provides more information than binary SCA, but is more difficult to implement and may no... | | 2014-01-01 |
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 | Wolfinger, Nicholas H. | Trends in the intergenerational transmission of divorce | Numerous researchers have shown that the children of divorce are disproportionately likely to end their own marriages (e.g., Amato 1996; Amato and Booth 1991; Bumpass, Martin, and Sweet 1991; Glenn and Kramer 1987; Kulka and Weingarten 1979; McLanahan and Bumpass 1988; Mueller and Pope 1977; Pope a... | | 1999 |
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 | O'Rourke, Dennis H. | Unangan past and present: the contrasts between observed and inferred histories | Abstract Academic research focusing on the population and culture history of the Aleut (Unangan) people began in the late 19th century and continues to the present. The papers in this special issue of Human Biology summarize the latest results from archaeological, linguistic, genetic, and morphometr... | | 2010 |
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 | Kentor, Jeffrey D. | Position in the World Economy 1820-2007 | | | 2011 |
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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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 | Rogers, Alan R. | Quantitative genetics of sexual dimorphism in human body size | A classical data set is used to predict the effect of selection on sexual dimorphism and on the population means of three characters--stature, span, and cubit--in humans. Given selection of equal intensity, the population means of stature and of cubit should respond more than 60 times as fast as d... | Societies; Selection; Species | 1992 |
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 | Sansone, Carol | Improving the dependability of research in personality and social psychology: recommendations for research and educational practice | The Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Presidential Task Force on Publication and Research Practices was appointed in response to concerns about the dependability and replicability of research findings in personality and social psychology, a problem that also plagues fields as dive... | | 2014-01-01 |
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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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 | Codding, Brian F. | Supplementary Materials: Socioecological dynamics structuring the spread of farming in the North American Basin-Plateau Region | This document includes the code used to complete the analysis presented in the manuscript "Socioecological Dynamics Structuring the Spread of Farming in the North American Basin-Plateau Region" in Environmental 15 Archaeology. | environmental archaeology | |
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 | Macfarlan, Shane | Male Survival Advantage on the Baja California Peninsula | A consistent finding from contemporary Western societies is that women outlive men. However, what is unclear is whether sex differences in survival are constant across varying socio-ecological conditions. We test the universality of the female survival advantage with mortality data from a nineteenth... | ecology; health and disease and epidemiology; behaviour | 2020 |
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 | Forster, Richard R. | Summer melt regulates winter glacier flow speeds throughout Alaska | Predicting how climate change will affect glacier and ice sheet flow speeds remains a large hurdle toward accurate sea level rise forecasting. Increases in surface melt rates are known to accelerate glacier flow in summer, whereas in winter, flow speeds are believed to be relatively invariant. Here ... | | 2013-01-01 |
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 | O'Rourke, Dennis H. | Refutation of the general single locus model for the etiology of schizophrenia | All published studies on the familial incidence of schizophrenia appropriate for testing the applicability of the general single-locus two-allele model are examined under the assumption of a unitary etiology for all schizophrenia. We show that the single major locus model is inadequate to predict th... | Genetics; Diseases in Twins; Chromosome Mapping | 1982 |
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 | Wolfinger, Nicholas H. | Marriage and divorce in Utah and the United States: convergence or continued divergence? | The social context for marriage and divorce in the United States has changed dramatically over the last 50 years. Since the 1950s, Americans have been waiting longer to marry. Women's median age at first marriage rose from 20 in the 1960s to 25 in 2000; for men, the increase was from 22 to 27 (Clar... | | 2006 |
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 | Smith, Ken R.; Bean, Lee Lawrence; Mineau, Geraldine Page; Fraser, Alison M.; Lane, Diana | Infant deaths in Utah, 1850-1939 | Of all the health revolutions that have taken place in the United States since 1850, the reduction of infant mortality is arguably the most dramatic and far-reaching. Because of the incompleteness and unreliability of surviving vital records,, we will probably never know precisely the rate of infan... | Death; Utah; Infant mortality | 2002 |
