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Mineau, Geraldine Page | Familial predisposition to developmental dysplasia of the hip | Developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) is a common birth defect and is thought to have genetic contributions to the phenotype. It is likely that DDH is genetically heterogeneous with environmental modifiers. The Utah Population Database (UPDB) is a computerized integration of pedigrees, vital stat... | Developmental dysplasia of the hip; DDH; Utah Population Database; UPDB | 2009 |
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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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Wen, Ming; Van Duker, Heather; Olson, Lenora Mary | Social contexts of regular smoking in adolescence: towards a multidimensional ecological model | Using data from the Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), this study investigates factors at the individual, family, peer, school, neighborhood, and state levels that are important for subsequent adolescent cigarette regular smoking after controlling for the baseline smoking behavio... | Adolescent smoking; Social capital; Family; Neighborhood; School; Teenagers; Teenage smoking | 2006-09-19 |
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Yu, Zhou | Leaving gateway metropolitan areas in the United States: immigrants and the housing market | Immigration is no longer a phenomenon that is simply affecting gateway metropolitan areas in the United States. This analysis demonstrates that large numbers of immigrants are moving to other metropolitan areas and analyzes the housing outcomes of households who currently live in the fourteen larges... | Homeownership; Migrants; Households | 2008-05-01 |
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McCullough, John M. | Evidence for assortative mating and selection in surnames: a case from Yucatan, Mexico | Surnames are often used as metaphors for genetic material on the assumption of neutrality and general immunity from systematic pressures. The Yucatec Maya use surnames of both Maya and Spanish origin. We find evidence of positive assortative mating by ethnic origin of surname and a slight bias away ... | Surnames; Assortative mating; Maya | 1985 |
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Diamond, Lisa | Intimate same-sex relationshps of sexual minorities | This chapter provides an overview of current research on same-sex intimate relationships, emphasizing the most central and well-researched domains: relationship initiation, maintenance, satisfaction, and dissolution, gender-related dynamics, sexuality and sexual exclusivity, and violence and ab... | Same-sex relationships; Partnering; Sexual minorities; Domestic relationships | 2006 |
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Bilginsoy, Cihan | The hazards of training: attrition and retention in construction industry apprenticeship programs | Apprenticeship programs in the United States, which provide workers with the broad-based skills required for practicing a trade via on-the-job training, are sponsored either unilaterally by employers or jointly by employers and trade unions. A comparison of the attrition and retention rates in these... | 2003 | |
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O'Rourke, Dennis H. | Refutation of the general single locus model for the etiology of schizophrenia | All published studies on the familial incidence of schizophrenia appropriate for testing the applicability of the general single-locus two-allele model are examined under the assumption of a unitary etiology for all schizophrenia. We show that the single major locus model is inadequate to predict th... | Genetics; Diseases in Twins; Chromosome Mapping | 1982 |
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Berg, Cynthia A. | Intellectual development in adulthood | As for writing, I still write - at age 72. My experience is that I have to strive harder, tire sooner and come apart at the seams more completely than was the case when I was younger. The aging mind has a bagful of nasty tricks, one of which is to tuck names and words away in crannies where they arc... | Intellectual development | 2000 |
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Malloy, Thomas E. | Logic of logic and the logic of dreams. | For Bateson explanation is the mapping of description onto tautology. "An explanation has to provide something more than a description provides, and in the end, an explanation appeals to a tautology, which as I have defined it, is a body of propositions so linked together that the links between the ... | Science; Psychology; Dreams | 2006-02 |
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Nichols, Karren E. | What you see is what you get... Observed impacts of visual education on recycling at the J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah | This poster looks at a three year timeline of educational exhibits, visual cues, and reminders, focusing on changing behaviors, encouraging people to recycle and reduce consumption, and observed impacts on the quantities of paper, aluminum, and plastics #1 and #2 being collected in the library. | Recycling; Sustainability; Water bottles; Paper recycling; Duplex printing; Visual education; Green; Exhibits; Trash; Waste reduction; Print alternatives | 2014 |
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Fogel, Alan Dale | A dynamic systems approach to infant facial action | What does it mean when a baby smiles? Is it an expression of enjoyment, a signal to a partner that rewards effective caretaking, or simply a muscular contraction? Do physically different types of smiles indicate different things? Should the social context in which an infant smiles inform our unders... | 1997 | |
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Cashdan, Elizabeth A. | On territoriality in hunter-gatherers | Cashdan's intention of using an evolutionary framework to examine cross-cultural variations in territorial defense is admirable, but her argument about the applicability of available models, her own model, and the data used to support it (CA 24:47-66) are all severely flawed. Specifically, Cashdan ... | Defense; Organisms; Behavior | 1983 |
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Fogel, Alan Dale | Hikikomori in Japanese youth: some possible pathways for alleviating this problem from the perspective of dynamic systems theory | In this paper, we will discuss the problem of hikikomori, in which an individual remains at home, typically isolated in the bedroom, with limited contact to the outside world. Hikikomori has been discussed primarily from a psychological perspective in Japan. In this paper, we take dynamic systems pe... | Social withdrawal; Dynamic systems theory | 2006 |
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Broughton, John | Cathedral cave fishes | Table XLI provides the numbers of identified fish specimens by element from Stratum II at Cathedral Cave. The criteria used to arrive at those identifications are provided in chapter nine. A total of 547 identified fish specimens are represented in this deposit; all of those are sculpin. The mottled... | Homestead Cave; Ichthyofauna; Lake Bonneville | 2000 |
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Fogel, Alan Dale | A relational perspective on the development of self and emotion | Begin with two premises. First, psychological experience always implies a connection, a relationship: with another person, with cultural tools or language, or with the natural environment. Life is a network of relationships. Second, psychological experience is always dynamic and changing. The sim... | 2001 | |
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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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Rogers, Alan R. | Is migration kin structured? | We estimate the strength of kin-structured migration in six human populations (five from New Guinea and one from Finland) and in one population of nonhuman primates. We also test the hypothesis that migration is not kin structured by generating a sampling distribution of the estimator under the null... | 1994 | |
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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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Wiessner, Pauline W. | Wealth transmission and inequality among hunter-gatherers | We report quantitative estimates of intergenerational transmission and population-wide inequality for wealth measures in a set of hunter-gatherer populations. Wealth is defined broadly as factors that contribute to individual or household well-being, ranging from embodied forms, such as weight and h... | 2010-02 | |
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Smith, Ken R. | Biased estimation in policy research: an illustrative example of ridge regression in a health system model | The paper develops an argument for the necessity of examining individual coefficients in policy models. As a result of this need, it is posited that something other than OLS estimators should be used since they are inflated and have extremely large variances when multicollinearity is present. Furthe... | Policy models; Health systems; Ridge regression | 1980 |
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Von Arnim, Rudiger Lennart | Wage policy in an open economy kalecki-kaldor model: a simulation study | This paper discusses a Post?Keynesian model of income, production, and trade. The one?country, one?sector model features Kaleckian investment demand, Kaldorian productivity and a labor market module based on a wage?price spiral. The model is first presented for a closed economy with exogenous real w... | 2010 | |
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McDaniel, Susan | Women inventors in Canada: research and intervention | What is an inventor or an invention? In this essay, we use the definition of the Canadian Patent Act, which considers a patentable invention to be a new or improved product or process or a new application of an existing product or process. An invention must be technically feasible - it must -"work" ... | Patent; Inventions; Creativity | 1989 |
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Maloney, Thomas N. | Degrees of inequality: the advance of black male workers in the northern meat packing and steel industries before World War II | Recent major works on long-term racial inequality in the labor market revolve around competing hypotheses concerning the importance of human capital factors (Smith and Welch 1989) and government policy (Donohue and Heckman 1991) in promoting black advance. There is however, another line or thinking ... | Labor markets; Northern employers; Racial inequality | 1995 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Challenges to health promotion among older working women | The work site, has, been a place of successful health promotion among; certain groups, most notably men in management. The potential of work site health promotion among women, particularly among' older working women, remains unexplored.. Given women's greater longevity and women's likelihood of spen... | Workers; Longevity; Aging | 1988 |