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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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McDaniel, Susan | Challenges to mental health promotion among working women in Canada | Health promotion efforts have concentrated on promoting physical well-being with psychological benefits perhaps most often among men. With greater proportions of women now working, the workplace provides excellent opportunities for health promotion and education for women. Given increasing recognit... | Working women; Canada | 1993 |
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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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Smith, Ken R.; Zick, Cathleen D. | Risk of mortality following widowhood: age and sex differences by mode of death | This study examines how spouses' deaths from sudden or lengthy illnesses differentially affect the mortality risks of surviving widows and widowers by age. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we find the mortality risk differs by gender, age, and type of widowhood. For nonelderly ( < 65) wido... | Risk of mortality; Widowhood; Sex differences; Role theory | 1996 |
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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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landesman test.pdf | Rail-volution 2005, September 8-10, 2005. Salt Lake City, Utah. Workshop Summaries. | Transportation; Community development; Public transportation | 2006-11-10 | |
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Francis, Leslie | Roles of the family in making health care decisions for incompetent patients | This article is about the roles of the family in making health care decisions for incompetent patients. It argues that complex moral reasons call for the participation of families in decision making for incompetents. However, these moral reasons do not support a single model of the family's role for... | Family; Health Care Decisions; Patients; Family Rights | 2006-06-16 |
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Hall, Thad | How hard can it be: do citizens think it is difficult to register to vote? | Political equality is seen as an intrinsic normative principle for the adequate functioning of a democratic republic. However, it is well documented that in the United States there are many qualified citizens who do not vote, many who do not participate in the political process due to procedural ... | Voting, United States; Voters; Non-voters | 2006-08-31 |
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Hall, Thad | Controlling democracy: the principal-agent problems in election administration | Election reform has become a major issue since the 2000 election, but little consideration has been given to the issues associated with managing them. In this article, we use principal agent theory to examine the problems associated with Election Day polling place voting. We note that Election Day v... | Election reform; Public management; Principal-Agent Theory | 2006-07-20 |
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Zimmer, Zachary | Reciprocal effects of health and economic well-being among older adults in Taiwan and Beijing | The objectives of this study are threefold: 1) to examine whether socioeconomic status disparities in health are found in non-Western settings; 2) to assess whether socioeconomic status gradients in health endure into older ages; and 3) to evaluate the direction of causality between health and soci... | Well-being; Health | 2005 |
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Broughton, John | Fish remains dominate Barn Owl pellets in northwestern Nevada | The foraging ecology of the Barn Owl (Tytoalba) has been studied extensively, both in the New World (Marti 1988, Castro and Jaksic 1995, Van Vuren and Moore 1998, and others) and the Old World (Glue 1967, Yom-Tov and Wool 1997, and others). Small rodents, insectivores, and small birds are generally ... | Barn Owl pellets; Northwestern Nevada; Fish; Fish remains | 2006 |
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Li, Minqi | China: hyper-development and environmental crisis | China's spectacular economic growth has been one of the most dramatic developments in the global economy over the past quarter century. Between 1978 and 2004 the Chinese economy expanded at an annual rate of 9.4 per cent. No other large economy has ever grown so rapidly for so long in the economic h... | China; Economic growth; Environmental impacts | 2007 |
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Stroup, Antoinette M.; Smith, Ken R. | Familial effects of BRCA1 genetic mutation testing: changes in perceived family functions | This study expands recent research that examines how the receipt of BRCA1 genetic test results affects family adaptability and cohesion one year after genetic risk notification. Study participants were members of a large Utah-based kindred with an identified mutation at the BRCA1 locus. The final sa... | Family functioning; Family cohesion; Family adaptability; Genetic testing; BRCA1 | 2006-07-27 |
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Rogers, Alan R.; Jorde, Lynn B. | Origins and affinities of modern humans: a comparison of mitochondrial and nuclear genetic data | To test hypotheses about the origin of modern humans, we analyzed mtDNA sequences, 30 nuclear restriction-site polymorphisms (RSPs), and 30 tetranucleotide short tandem repeat (STR) polymorphisms in 243 Africans, Asians, and Europeans. An evolutionary tree based on mtDNA displays deep African branch... | Base Sequence; Variation (Genetics); Base Sequence | 1995 |
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Salari, Sonia Lynne | Social and environmental infantilization of aged persons: observations in two adult day care centers | This study examines the social environments, staff behavior, and social interaction of elderly clients in two adult day care centers. Goffman's (1961) description of the psycho-social effects of the "total institution" is used as a framework for conceptualizing the effects of "partial institutions" ... | Infantilization | 2001 |
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Florsheim, Paul W.; Ngu, Le | Differential outcomes among adolescent fathers: understanding fatherhood as a transformative process | In response to the rising numbers of mother headed households, there is a great debate about whether to encourage young unwed parents to marry. Policies designed to pursue and/or punish fathers who do not meet their legal and financial responsibilities and to promote marriage, carte blanche, are ref... | Parenting; Gender; Matrimony | 2003-10-18 |
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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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White, Paul H. | Flexible correction processes in social judgment: implications for persuasion | Two experiments were conducted to examine correction for perceived bias in persuasion situations. Study 1 showed that, although a manipulation of source likability had an impact on attitudes when no instruction to remove bias was present, when people were asked to remove any bias from their judgmen... | Manipulation; Likability; Biasing | 1998 |
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Jameson, Kenneth P. | In-migration experience of Indiana's standard metropolitan statistical areas | THE 1970 Census, Fourth Count on Population, can be used to develop a very detailed description of in-migration patterns.1 The main results of such a description for the ten Indiana Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas (SMSA's) can be summarized as follows.2 | In-migration | 1974 |
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Zimmer, Zachary | Gray agendas: interest groups and public pensions in Canada, Britain, and the United States, by Henry J. Pratt | Gray Agendas, by Wayne State University's Henry J. Pratt, is an in-depth and well-structured examination of the historical development of pension policy and its impact on interest groups in three countries over the last century: Canada, Britain, and the United States. It is of interest to political... | Gray agendas; Book review; Pratt, Henry J.; United States; Canada; Great Britain | 1995 |
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Malloy, Thomas E. | Difference to Inference: teaching logical and statistical reasoning through on-line interactivity | Difference to Inference is an on-line JAVA program that simulates theory testing and falsification through research design and data collection in a game format. The program, based on cognitive and epistemological principles, is designed to support learning of the thinking skills underlying deductive... | Online interactive instruction; Difference to inference | 2001 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Explaining Canadian fertility: some remaining challenges | Canada is in an advantageous position to study the social context of human reproduction and childbearing. Canadian contributions to the fertility literature have thus far been impressive. In spite of the obvious solid base of fertility research in Canada, some challenges remain. Among these are cap... | Economic; Canada; Research | 1984 |
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Zick, Cathleen D. | Over-scheduled or at loose ends? The shifting balance of adolescent time use | Little is known about the time use of American youth. In this study, time diary data from 1977-78 and 2003-05 are used to investigate time use in middle adolescence with the goals of ascertaining (1) changes in time use, (2) how socioeconomic and familial factors influence adolescent time allocation... | Adolescents; Adolescent time use; Adolescent wages; Leisure | 2007-05-18 |
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Wolfinger, Nicholas H. | Mixed blessings of no-fault divorce | Between the mid-1960s and 1979 the crude divorce rate in the United States more than doubled.1 Although divorce had increased at a steady rate for more than the previous 100 years, the mid-1960s marked the beginning of an unprecedented boom.2 Despite modest declines over the last twenty years,3 th... | Divorce reform | 2005 |
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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 |