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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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Wei, Yehua | Restructuring industrial districts, scaling up regional development: a study of the Wenzhou Model, China | The Wenzhou Municipality in Zhejiang Province is spearheading China's marketization and development of private enterprises. Its successful development trajectory, centered on family-owned small businesses embedded in thick local institutions, resembles Marshallian industrial districts (MIDs). Howeve... | China; Marshallian industrial district, regional lock-in; Wenzhou Model, China | 2007-09-24 |
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Rogers, Alan R.; Jorde, Lynn B. | Ascertainment bias in estimates of average heterozygosity | Population geneticists work with a nonrandom sample of the human genome. Conventional practice ensures that unusually variable loci are most likely to be discovered and thus included in the sample of loci. Consequently, estimates of average heterozygosity are biased upward. In what follows we descri... | Bias (Epidemiology); Biometry; Heterozygote | 1996-05 |
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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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Rogers, Alan R. | Doubts about isonymy | The method of isonymy, developed by Crow and Mange for estimating inbreeding from surname frequencies, requires an assumption that has not been appreciated: It is necessary to assume that all males in some ancestral generation, the founding stock, had unique surnames. Because this assumption is sel... | 1991 | |
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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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Gelfand, Donna M. | Mother-toddler interaction patterns associated with maternal depression. | Interactive coordination was observed in laboratory play interactions of pairs of 29 clinically depressed and 14 nondepressed mothers and their 13-29-month-old children (M = 18.9 months). Nondepressed mothers and their children displayed more interactive coordination than depressed-mother dyads (p <... | Depression; Child-rearing; Infants; Motherhood | 1997-09 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Why generation(s) matter(s) to policy | Generation is a packed social concept, with immense explanatory capacity and policy utility, yet it is a concept fraught with misunderstanding in both the social sciences and in popular usage. It is no less fraught in policy. This short overview paper has three objectives: • 1) to explore gener... | Social policy; Aging; Generation | 2007-11-13 |
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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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Francis, Leslie | Penn Central Transportation Company v. New York City: easy taking-clause cases make uncertain Law. | In Penn Central Transportation Company v. New York City, the Supreme Court held that New York City's Landmarks Preservation Law as applied to Grand Central Terminal was not a "taking" of property for which compensation is constitutionally required. The decision has been hailed as a major victory for... | Law; Compensation; Property Rights; Landmarks Preservation Law; Supreme Court Rulings | 2006-06-16 |
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Fowles, Richard | Cell phone effect on motor vehicle fatality rates: a Bayesian and classical econometric evaluation | This paper examines the potential effect of cell phones on motor vehicle fatality rates normalized for other driving related and socioeconomic factors. The model used is nonlinear so as to address both life-taking and life-saving attributes of cell phones. The model is evaluated using classical meth... | 2010 | |
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Rogers, Alan R. | Group selection by selective emigration: the effects of migration and kin structure | Group selection may operate through selective emigration, as Sewall Wright envisioned, as well as through selective extinction. The discrete-generation model of selective emigration developed here yields the following conclusions. 1. The fitness benefit of altruism, "depends on the frequency of altr... | Natural selection; Selective extinction; Evolution | 1990-03 |
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Jameson, Kenneth P. | Supply-side economics: a skeptical view | The current buzzword in Washington--and one presumes in Denver, San Diego, and South Bend as well--is "supply-side economics." Since a significant number of economists seem to be lining up behind its flag, it would be worthwhile to take a hard look at the current rage. | Wealth; Poverty | 1981 |
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O'Rourke, Dennis H. | South from Alaska: a pilot aDNA study of genetic history on the Alaska Peninsula and the Eastern Aleutians | Abstract The Aleutian Islands were colonized, perhaps several times, from the Alaskan mainland. Earlier work documented transitions in the relative frequencies of mtDNA haplogroups over time, but little is known about potential source populations for prehistoric Aleut migrants. As part of a pilot i... | 2010 | |
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Wei, Y. H. Dennis | Production and R&D networks of foreign ventures in China: implications for technological dynamism and regional development | This paper analyzes the nature of FDI local networks in production and R&D activities in China and discusses their implications for technological dynamism and regional development. We investigate foreign ventures (or foreign-invested enterprises, FIEs) in the information and communication technology... | 2012-01 | |
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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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Diener, Marissa L. | Gift from the gods: a Balinese guide to early child rearing | The influence of Western schools and other imports notwithstanding, many child-rearing practices recorded earlier in the century [in Indonesia] are still observable, especially those concerning infants and young children. For the "manual" that follows, I propose as the fictive author a male healer, ... | Children; Bali; Infants; Child rearing manuals | 2000 |
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Rogers, Alan R. | Genetic variation at the MCIR Locus and the time since loss of human body hair | The melanocortin I receptor (MCIR) locus makes a protein that affects the color of skin and hair. At this locus, amino-acid differences are entirely absent among African humans, abundant among non-Africans (especially Europeans), and abundant in chimpanzee/human comparisons (Rana et al. 1999, Hardin... | Nonsynonymous; Chimpanzee; Constraint | 2004 |
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Wen, Ming | Neighborhood environment and health in old age: what role do individual characteristics play in this link? | This research investigates the relationship among objectively assessed neighborhood SES, subjective perceptions of neighborhood environment, and self-rated physical health among older persons. We further explore the structural and psychosocial mechanisms at the individual level underlying the observ... | Community; District; Geriatric; Elderly; Healthcare | 2004-01-16 |
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Fowles, Richard | Forecasting the probability of failure of Thailand's financial companies in the Asian financial crisis | The financial crisis in Southeast Asia has gained widespread attention.1 In particular, the financial problems in Thailand since early February 1997 have been a major focus of this attention. Even enthusiasts for the McKinnon-Shaw arguments for financial liberalization (eliminating financial repres... | 2002 | |
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Wen, Ming | Air pollution shortens life expectancy and health expectancy for older adults: the case of China | Background: Outdoor air pollution is one of the most worrying environmental threats China faces today. Comprehensive and quantitative analysis of the health consequences of air pollution in China is lacking. This study reports age-sex-specific life expectancy (LE) and health expectancies (HEs) corre... | 2012-01-01 | |
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Smith, Ken R. | A population-based study of childhood cancer survivors body mass index | Population-based studies are needed to estimate the prevalence of underweight or overweight/obese childhood cancer survivors. Procedure. Adult survivors (diagnosed ≤20 years) were identified from the linked Utah Cancer Registry and Utah Population Database. We included survivors currently aged ≥... | 2014-01-01 | |
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Smith, Ken R. | The association between adult mortality risk and family history of longevity: the moderating effects of socioeconomic status | Studies consistently show that increasing levels of socioeconomic status (SES) and having a familial history of longevity reduce the risk of mortality. But do these two variables interact, such that individuals with lower levels of SES, for example, may experience an attenuated longevity penalty by ... | 2014-01-01 | |
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Berg, Cynthia A. | An interpersonal analysis of subjective social status and psychosocial risk | Subjective social status (SSS) predicts health independently of traditional measures of socio-economic status (SES; Adler et al., 2008; Cohen et al., 2008). Although interpersonal variables are known to be related to both SES and health (Gallo, Smith, & Cox, 2006) and might contribute to their assoc... | 2011-01-01 | |
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Smith, Timothy W. | Cellular aging and restorative processes: Subjective sleep quality and duration moderate the association between age and telomere length in a sample of middle-aged and older adults | Study Objectives: To examine whether subjective sleep quality and sleep duration moderate the association between age and telomere length (TL). Design: Participants completed a demographic and sleep quality questionnaire, followed by a blood draw. Setting: Social Neuroscience Laboratory. Participant... | 2014-01-01 |