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 | Hawkes, Kristen | Binumarien color categories | This paper has two aims. The first is to describe an ethnographically new system of color classification, Binumarien, a non-Austronesian or Papuan language of the Eastern Central Highlands of New Guinea2. In this connection we are particularly interested in relating our data to the Berlin and Kay (1... | Binumarien; binumariens | 1975 |
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 | McDaniel, Susan | Health care in an aging Canada: constraint or choice? | It is often presumed that population aging will result in increased demand for health care, with older Canadians seen as a "burden" to the working population. Yet, such a presumption of direct correlation (with implied causality) belies the complex questions of societal choices in expenditures: fac... | Age factors; Canada; Health care costs | 1994 |
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 | Wang, Yu; Sun, Bindong; Yu, Zhou | Equalization or polarization? The effect of the Internet on National Urban Hierarchies across the World, 2000-2018 | As Internet adoption and diffusion continues worldwide, little is known about its effects on the restructuring of national urban hierarchies across the world. We create a panel data of city population with uniform definitions within each of the 133 countries from 2000 to 2018, using the Pareto index... | Internet; urban hierarchy; nonlinear link; channel; transnational; urban growth | 2018 |
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 | Fogel, Alan Dale | Expressing affection and love to young children | Few people would seriously contest the proposition that children need love. The belief that children thrive on love is not universal, but in our western culture it has become the foundation for the work of educators and parents (Kagan, 1978). Yet, for all of our certainty about the principle, the p... | Expressing affection | 1980 |
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 | Francis, Leslie | Eminent domain compensation in the Western states: a critique of the fair market value model | Both the United States Constitution and the constitutions of the states of the intermountain west and the Pacific Coast prohibit the state from taking property without paying just compensation. Thus, there are two basic issues in any eminent domain case. First, has governmental interference with pro... | Eminent domain; compensation; governmental interference; fair market value | 2006-06-16 |
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 | Waitzman, Norman J. | Connecting the dots and merging meaning: using mixed methods to study primary care delivery transformation | Objective: To demonstrate the value of mixed methods in the study of practice transformation and illustrate procedures for connecting methods and for merging findings to enhance the meaning derived.. Data Source/Study Setting: An integrated network of university-owned, primary care practices at the ... | 2013-01-01 | |
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 | Holzner, Claudio A.; Jameson, Kenneth P.; Maloney, Thomas N.; Abebe, Berhanie; Lund, Matthew; Schaub, Kristen | Economic impact of the Mexico-Utah relationship | This study began during the Summer of 2005 and set out to examine the complexity of the globalized relation between Utah and Mexico, concentrating on broadly defined "economic linkages." It was designed to build upon earlier similar studies done in Arizona and in Texas on those states' relations wit... | Economics, Utah; migration; immigration; Mexico; undocumented immigrants | 2006-03-10 |
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 | McElreath, Richard | Economic man in cross-cultural perspective: behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies | Since "Selfishness examined . . ." (Caporael et al. 1989) appeared in these pages, more than 15 years ago, many additional experiments have strongly confirmed the doubts expressed by Caporael and her collaborators concerning the adequacy of self-interest as a behavioral foundation for the social sci... | Economic outcomes; selfishness; fairness; reciprocity | 2005 |
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 | Hawkes, Kristen | Assignment of relationship terms in Binumarien | Kinship systems have a perennial fascination. From Morgan's day to the present, a long succession of authors have produced their diagrams and algebraic explanations . . . Kinship terminology and its diagramatic arrangements provide, ready made, a delightful series of mathematical abstractions and it... | Binumarien; binumariens | 1977 |
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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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 | Zimmer, Zachary | Family size and support of older adults in urban and rural China: current effects and future implications | China will experience rapid growth in the proportion and number of older people in its population in the near future as a consequence of an extraordinarily rapid decline in fertility over the past several decades. Total fertility rates were as high as 7.5 in the early 1950s, but have fallen to below... | Urban China; rural China; support; older adults; one-child policy | 2003 |
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