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Kowaleski-Jones, Lori | Family structure and child well-being: examining the role of parental social connections | This paper examines the role of parental social connections in accounting for subgroup differences in the influence of family structure on children. Our previous work found that white, but not black, children were negatively influenced by living in a singleparent family (Dunifon and Kowaleski-Jon... | Sociology; Parenting; Offspring | 2003-10-03 |
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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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Smith, Ken R. | Allied health manpower strategies: estimates of the potential gains from efficient task delegation | This study analyzes the potential impact of physician extenders on the productivity of primary care practices and considers the consequent implication for future health manpower requirements. A number of previous investigations have evaluated a variety of extenders in experimental settings. This stu... | | 1973 |
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Brown, Barbara B. | Methods for preparing dry, partially articulated skeletons of osteichthyans, with notes on making ridewood dissections of the cranial skeleton | We describe methods for preparing dry skeletons of virtually any osteichthyan species with a well-ossified skeleton, including very large specimens (e.g., > 1 m Megalops atlanticus). Our approach differs from those conventionally used to prepare skeletons of tetrapods in that (1) fairly complete di... | Skeleton preparation; Study specimens; Partially articulated skeletons; Osteichthyans; Ridewood dissections; Cranial skeleton | 2004 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Becoming inventors: women who aspire to invent | Despite growing awareness of women's contributions to technological advances in the past, almost nothing is known about contemporary women inventors and the challenges they face. Although greater attention has been given recently to women's contributions to technology and innovation, understanding... | Inventions; Inventing; Technology | 1990 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Public policy, demographic aging and families | Voodoo demographics, a term coined by American economist James Schulz in the late 1980s, describes the belief that aging populations pose threats to life and society as we know it, particularly to social safety nets, education, public health care, as well as challenges to families. Surprisingly, the... | | 1998 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Born at the right time?: gendered generations and webs of entitlement and responsibility | Analyses of social change and challenge in sociologies for women often start with some attention to generation. Yet, generation per se has been an underconceptualized sociological construct as a structural dimension of stratification, particularly gender stratification, or as a lens through which... | Generation; Gender; Women | 2001 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Estimates of the rate of illegal abortion and the effects of eliminating therapeutic abortion, Alberta 1973-74* | In the current controversy surrounding abortion, rates of illegal abortion, being difficult to ascertain, seldom inform the debate. We utilize a relatively new survey tool, the randomized response technique (RRT), to estimate rates of illegal abortion in Edmonton, Alberta. A comparison of results o... | Birth; Health; RRT; Fertility | 1979 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Intergenerational transfers, social solidarity, and social policy: unanswered questions and policy challenges | Le transfert intergenerationnel constitue l'essence de la continuite societale et pourtant, il demeure mal conceptualise et analyse. Il se situe Egalement au centre du concept de l'etat sur le bien-etre quant a la redistribution des ressources et partant, des changements/defis actuels quant aux mes... | Intergenerational transfers; Social solidarity; Social continuity; Redistribution | 1997 |
