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Harpending, Henry C. | Paternal age and genetic load | The incidence of base substitutions in humans increases with the age of the father, which shows up as an increased incidence of mutational disorders in the children of older fathers. There is a less obvious implication: an extended period of high average paternal age in a population will lead to inc... | | 2013-01-01 |
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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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Kowaleski-Jones, Lori; Fan, Jessie Xiaojing; Brown, Barbara B.; Smith, Ken R.; Zick, Cathleen D. | Patterns of household food expenditures: a cluster analysis | In this study we use the Diary Survey component of the 2001 and 2002 Consumer Expenditure Survey to investigate patterns of household food expenditures. We identify eight constellations of food expenditures that are more and less likely to be associated with healthy eating habits. These clusters in... | Diet; Fast food; Nutrition; Eating habits | 2007 |
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Fan, Jessie Xiaojing; Brown, Barbara B.; Kowaleski-Jones, Lori; Smith, Ken R.; Zick, Cathleen D. | Patterns of household food expenditures: a cluster analysis | In this study we use the Diary Survey component of the 2001 and 2002 Consumer Expenditure Survey to investigate patterns of household food expenditures. We identify eight constellations of food expenditures that are more and less likely to be associated with healthy eating habits. These clusters in... | Diet; Fast food; Nutrition; Eating habits | 2006-09-01 |
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Salari, Sonia Lynne | Patterns of intimate partner homicide suicide in later life: strategies for prevention | Intimate partner homicide suicide (IPHS) constitutes the most violent domestic abuse outcome, devastating individuals, families, neighborhoods and communities. This research used content analysis to analyze 225 murder suicide events (444 deaths) among dyads with at least one member 60 or older. Dat... | Intimate partner homicide suicide; IPHS; Murder-suicide; Elder abuse; Prevention | 2007 |
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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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Smith, Ken R. | Perceived marital quality and stability of intermarried couples: a study of Asian-white, Black-white, and Mexican-white couples | The purpose of this study is to compare intermarried and intramarried couples with respect to their marital happiness and perceived marital stability White, black, Mexican, or Asian spouses in black-white, Mexican-white or Asian-white unions were compared to intramarried couples based on data from ... | Interracial couples; Marital quality; Marital stability | 2000 |
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Francis, Leslie | Permissiveness and control (Book Review) | A review of the book "Permissiveness and Control". | Books; Philosophy | 1981-10 |
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Wen, Ming | Personal, social, and ecological influences on loneliness and satisfaction among rural-to-urban migrants in Shanghai, China | This study examined personal, social, and ecological influences on loneliness and satisfaction among rural-urban migrants in Shanghai, China. Data used in this study were from the Shanghai Rural-to-Urban Migrant Worker Survey conducted by the Institute of Demographic Research, Fudan University, C... | Lonliness; Rural-to-urban migration; Internal migration; Shanghai, China | 2008-02-02 |
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Maloney, Thomas N. | Personnel policy, costs of experimentation, and racial inequality in the Pre-World War II North | Between 1910 and 1940, the black population of the northern United States nearly tripled, rising from just over I million to more than 2.7 million, signaling the start of the "Great Migration" of African-Americans out of the South. As black workers entered the North, they sought positions in new sec... | Race bias; Personnel policies; African Americans; Employment opportunities | 1999 |
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Berg, Cynthia A. | Perspectives for viewing intellectual development throughout the life course | What has one voice and is four-footed, two-footed, and three-footed? The task of characterizing intellectual development throughout the life course can be likened to the situation that faced the Thebans as they tried to solve this riddle of the Sphinx. Oedipus gave the correct answer to this riddle... | | 1992 |
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Wen, Ming | Physical activity and mortality among middle-aged and older adults in the United States | Background-Physical activity (PA) has been routinely linked to lower all-cause mortality, yet extant research in the United States is primarily based on non-representative samples. Evidence is scant on the relative and independent merits of leisure-time (LTPA) versus non-leisure-time (NLTPA) activit... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Smith, Ken R.; Zick, Cathleen D.;Brown, Barbara B.; Fan, Jessie Xiaojing; Kowaleski-Jones, Lori | Physical activity during the transition from adolescence to adulthood | We examine how age, life course roles, and contextual variables relate to both the composition and the overall level of physical activity in late adolescence and early adulthood. Methods: Data on respondents age 15 to 29 y in the 2003 American Time Use Survey are used to estimate multivariate logis... | Time use; Active leisure; Team sports; Active transportation; Life course | 2007 |
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Zick, Cathleen D.; Smith, Ken R.; Brown, Barbara B.; Kowaleski-Jones, Lori | Physical activity during the transition from adolescence to adulthood | We examine how age, life course roles, and contextual variables relate to both the composition and the overall level of physical activity in late adolescence and early adulthood. Methods: Data on respondents age 15 to 29 y in the 2003 American Time Use Survey are used to estimate multivariate logist... | Time use; Active leisure; Team sports; Active transportation; Physical activity | 2007 |
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Zick, Cathleen D.; Smith, Ken R.; Brown, Barbara B.; Fan, Jessie Xiaojing; Kowaleski-Jones, Lori | Physical activity during the transition from adolescence to adulthood | Background: We examine how age, life course roles, and contextual variables relate to both the composition and the overall level of physical activity in late adolescence and early adulthood. Methods: Data on 15-29 year old respondents in the 2003 American Time Use Survey are used to estimate mul... | Time use; Active leisure; Team sports; Active transportation | 2006-11-10 |
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Brown, Barbara B. | Physical activity mediates the relationship between perceived crime safety and obesity | Objective. The current cross-sectional study tests whether low perceived crime safety is associated with body mass index (BMI) and obesity risk and whether less moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) accounts for part of this relationship. Method. Adults (n=864) from a relatively low-income a... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Diamond, Lisa | Physiological measures | Historically, psychophysiological measures have made an invaluable contribution to personality psychology. Questions regarding interindividual differences and intraindividual changes in emotion, cognition, motivation, arousal, and attention are core topics within personality psychology, and the... | Personality; Psychology; Physiology | 2007 |
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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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McDaniel, Susan | Politiques sociales, changements économiques et démographiques et vieillissement de la population canadienne : leurs interactions | Necessaire à la decision politique, la prévision des effets qu'aura le vieillissement demographique sur la société doit débrouiller un écheveau de changements économiques, démographiques, politiques et sociaux. Pour comprendre le jeu de ces facteurs, l'auteur analyse, à partir de faits conc... | | 2003 |
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Hall, Thad | Poll workers and the vitality of democracy: an early assessment | The aftermath of the 2000 election has been a time of constant learning in regards to election administration in the United States. Both scholars and policy makers initially focused primarily on voting technology and on which voting technologies were best at capturing votes. In early 2001, the Calte... | | 2007-10 |
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Rogers, Alan R. | Population differences in quantitative characters as opposed to gene frequencies | Hypotheses about evolution can be tested by comparing genetics differences with those of quantitative characters. Such comparisons are one source of information concerning the forces that maintain variation among natural populations. | Genes; Evolution; Anthropology | 1986-05 |
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Kentor, Jeffrey D. | Position in the World Economy 1820-2007 | | | 2011 |
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Brown, Barbara B. | Post-occupancy evaluation of wayfinding in a pediatric hospital: research findings and implications for instruction | A post-occupancy evaluation (POE) of way finding in a new pediatric hospital pointed to a wide range of areas where wayfinding aids could be improved. After initial walk-through evaluation tours and meetings with administrators, five more systematic methods were used to assess problems: staff and vi... | Hospitals; Wayfinding; Signage | 1997 |
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Vernon, Kenneth B. | Prearchaic land use in Grass Valley, Nevada: A novel statistical implementation of optimal distribution modeling | Using Prearchaic (PA) sites in Grass Valley, NV (Fig. 1), this project investigates (i) environmental factors driving variation in PA settlement and (ii) geomorphological factors driving variation in PA surface visibility. Building on previous research [1,2], we evaluate variables using Ideal Free D... | Prearchaic - Great Basin; Ideal Free Distribution; Maximum Entropy | 2018 |
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Francis, John G.; Lubomudrov, Slava | Precinct straddling of city boundaries | Suppose a situation in which citizens of a particular city vote in county, state and national elections, but in which their combined vote for each candidate is not clearly separable from the votes of residents of adjacent areas outside of the city. It can be argued that the inability to identify th... | Residents; Voting; Elections | 1978 |