cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Romantic Relationships from Adolescence to Young Adulthood: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
Creators: name: Meier, Ann
name: Allen, Gina
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2007

description: Theories on romantic relationship development posit a progression of involvement and intensity with age, relationship duration, and experience in romantic relationships. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study tests these propositions by considering relationship type and patterns of relationships over the course of adolescence and their influence on relationship formation in young adulthood. Findings confirm that relationships become more exclusive, dyadic, of longer duration, and more emotionally and sexually intimate over the course of adolescence. Relationship experience in adolescence is associated with an increased likelihood of cohabitation and marriage in young adulthood. Finally, individuals’ ascribed characteristics of gender, race/ethnicity, family structure, and income status have influences on adolescent romantic relationships that persist into young adulthood.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
title: Intermittent Child Employment and Its Implications for Estimates of Child Labor
Creators: name: Levison, Deborah
name: Hoek, Jasper
name: Lam, David
name: Duryea, Suzanne
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2007

description: This paper uses longitudinal data from urban Brazil to analyze intermittency in children’s work activity and the implications of this intermittency for estimates of child labor. We follow the employment patterns of urban children ages 10-16 during 4 months in their lives. Different waves of the panel cover most of the 1980s and 1990s, providing information on the work activity of thousands of children. We document a large decline in child employment in the 1990s. An analysis of transition rates in and out of employment for young workers shows relatively high volatility in urban employment, with both higher exit rates and lower entry rates responsible for the decline in child employment. One important implication of this volatility is that the proportion of urban Brazilian children who work at some point during a four month period is substantially higher than the fraction observed working in any single month; movements in and out of employment are “normal” rather than exceptional. We calculate an intermittency multiplier to summarize the difference between employment rates in one reference week vs. four reference weeks over a 4month period. We conclude that intermittent employment is a crucial characteristic of child labor which must be recognized in order to adequately capture levels of child employment and identify child workers.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
title: Selected short stories of Thein Pe Myint with introduction, translation and commentary.
Creators: name: Milne, Patricia M.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1971

description: U Thein Pe Myint is one of the most widely read authors in Burma today, with novels, travelogues, political writings, biographies and plays to his credit, as well as a considerable journalistic output. In addition to writing, he has always taken an active interest in politics and was formerly a politician. This duality of interests is reflected in his belief that literature may legitimately be used as propaganda for political purposes. This thesis presents a translation of eight short stories by Thein Pe Myint. The stories were written between 1934 and 1951 when the short story was becoming established as a literary genre in Burma. The aim of the translation has been to reproduce the spirit of the stories while keeping as close to the text as possible; when there are departures from the literal meaning of the text, these have been noted in the footnotes which are appended. The footnotes have also been used to elucidate linguistic and sociological points in the text, and to provide further background where necessary. The introductory section of the thesis contains a biography of Thein Pe Myint which shows how he has combined writing and politics in his career, and an account of the development of the short story as a literary genre in Burma, as well as a discussion of the stories translated, which form an interesting example of politically committed writing which is also successful as popular literature. Because of the absence of publishers' lists and the infrequency of book reviews in Burma, it was felt that it would be worthwhile to compile a full list of the author's writings, and this bibliography has therefore been included.
Manipulating Majorana fermions using supercurrents
Creators: name: Romito, Alessandro
name: Alicea, Jason
name: Refael, Gil
name: Oppen, Felix Von
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik

description: Topological insulator edges and spin-orbit-coupled quantum wires in proximity to s-wave superconductors can be tuned through a topological quantum phase transition by a Zeeman field. Here we show that a supercurrent flowing in the s-wave superconductor also drives such a transition. We propose to use this mechanism to generate and manipulate Majorana fermions that localize at domain walls between topological and nontopological regions of an edge or wire. In quantum wires, this method carries the added benefit that a supercurrent reduces the critical Zeeman field at which the topological phase appears.
Macrocyclic Lactones Differ in Interaction with Recombinant P-Glycoprotein 9 of the Parasitic Nematode Cylicocylus elongatus and Ketoconazole in a Yeast Growth Assay
Creators: name: Kaschny, Maximiliane
name: Demeler, Janina
name: Janssen, I. Jana I.
name: Kuzmina, Tetiana A.
name: Besognet, Bruno
name: Kanellos, Theo
name: Kerboeuf, Dominique
name: Samson-Himmelstjerna, Georg Von
name: Krücken, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft::630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche

description: Macrocyclic lactones (MLs) are widely used parasiticides against nematodes and arthropods, but resistance is frequently observed in parasitic nematodes of horses and livestock. Reports claiming resistance or decreased susceptibility in human nematodes are increasing. Since no target site directed ML resistance mechanisms have been identified, non-specific mechanisms were frequently implicated in ML resistance, including P-glycoproteins (Pgps, designated ABCB1 in vertebrates). Nematode genomes encode many different Pgps (e.g. 10 in the sheep parasite Haemonchus contortus). ML transport was shown for mammalian Pgps, Pgps on nematode egg shells, and very recently for Pgp-2 of H. contortus. Here, Pgp-9 from the equine parasite Cylicocyclus elongatus (Cyathostominae) was expressed in a Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain lacking seven endogenous efflux transporters. Pgp was detected on these yeasts by flow cytometry and chemiluminescence using the monoclonal antibody UIC2, which is specific for the active Pgp conformation. In a growth assay, Pgp-9 increased resistance to the fungicides ketoconazole, actinomycin D, valinomycin and daunorubicin, but not to the anthelmintic fungicide thiabendazole. Since no fungicidal activity has been described for MLs, their interaction with Pgp-9 was investigated in an assay involving two drugs: Yeasts were incubated with the highest ketoconazole concentration not affecting growth plus increasing concentrations of MLs to determine competition between or modulation of transport of both drugs. Already equimolar concentrations of ivermectin and eprinomectin inhibited growth, and at fourfold higher ML concentrations growth was virtually abolished. Selamectin and doramectin did not increase susceptibility to ketoconazole at all, although doramectin has been shown previously to strongly interact with human and canine Pgp. An intermediate interaction was observed for moxidectin. This was substantiated by increased binding of UIC2 antibodies in the presence of ivermectin, moxidectin, daunorubicin and ketoconazole but not selamectin. These results demonstrate direct effects of MLs on a recombinant nematode Pgp in an ML-specific manner.
Determination of ceftiofur derivatives in serum, endometrial tissue, and lochia in puerperal dairy cows with fever or acute puerperal metritis after subcutaneous administration of ceftiofur crystalline free acid
Creators: name: Krueger, Xenia Von
name: Scherpenisse, P.
name: Roiger, S.
name: Heuwieser, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft

description: Acute puerperal metritis (APM) is one of the most common diseases during the puerperal period. Systemic administration of ceftiofur for 5 consecutive days has been shown to be effective for treatment of APM. The objective of this study was to determine concentrations of ceftiofur derivatives in serum, endometrial tissue, and lochia of cows with fever postpartum or APM 4 to 6d after treatment with a single subcutaneous dose of 6.6 mg of ceftiofur crystalline free acid (CCFA)/kg of estimated BW at the base of the ear. In the first experiment, samples from CCFA-treated cows with fever postpartum or APM (n=42) were taken on d 4, 5, or 6 after treatment. Concentrations of ceftiofur derivatives were quantified using an HPLC assay. Concentrations of active ceftiofur metabolite desfuroylceftiofuracetamide (DCA) were greatest at d 4 after treatment with CCFA in all samples, but they were considerably lower than the concentrations of DCA in healthy postpartum cows treated with the same dose of CCFA. The concentrations of DCA in serum, endometrial tissue, and lochia were affected by odor of vaginal discharge before treatment with CCFA. Mean concentrations of DCA could be detected above the reported minimal drug concentrations (minimum inhibitory concentrations, MIC) required to inhibit relevant pathogens such as Escherichia coli and Arcanobacterium pyogenes in serum on all days and in endometrial tissue and lochia only on d 4 in CCFA- treated cows with fetid vaginal discharge before treatment. In the second experiment, samples from CCFA-treated cows with APM (n=8) were taken on d 0 (before treatment) and d 4, 5, and 6 after treatment. Mean concentrations of DCA in serum and lochia were similar on d 4 to 6 in both laboratories. Furthermore, determined concentrations of DCA from both laboratories were correlated for serum and lochia. Mean concentrations of DCA could be detected above the reported MIC in serum and lochia only on d 4. Our 2 experiments demonstrated that in postpartum cows with fever postpartum or APM concentrations above the MIC for relevant bacteria (>0.5 μg/mL or >0.5 μg/g) of DCA could be sustained only for 4 (serum: 15/17; endometrial tissue: 2/17; lochia: 1/16) to 5d (serum: 10/13; endometrial tissue: 1/13; lochia: 2/12) after a single treatment with CCFA only in a certain proportion of cows. Overall, our data provide first pharmacological evidence that a single subcutaneous administration of 6.6g of CCFA/kg of BW might not be sufficient to efficaciously treat APM in postpartum dairy cows.
title: An investigation in the errors of Chinese speakers in Malay written compositions and their implications for the effective teaching of Malay as a second language.
Creators: name: Bin Shamsuddin, Alias
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1970

description: Up to 16 years ago, Malay was taught only to Malay pupils in Malay medium and English medium schools. Today, it is a compulsory subject in all schools and a pass in Malay is a condition for all public examinations. Malay (Bahasa Malaysia) is now the official language of Malaysia, The ultimate aim is that Malay will be the sole medium of instruction for all subjects in schools. In this new situation, teachers of Malay have a special responsibility. Not only does the success of government policy depend on their skill; on their ability depends to a large measure the prospect in life of their pupils. In the past, the basis of Malay instruction to non-Malay learners has been the finding of research done in the teaching of English as a second language, together with certain assumptions, for example, on the extent of the influence of bazaar Malay, which may not be well- founded, There seems to be now a strong case for a more specific and direct research into the teaching of Malay language itself. This thesis is written in the belief that a study of the errors made by Chinese learners of Malay in their written composition will reveal the true nature of their problems. Teachers might find indications of the areas for remedial teaching which will be required of them ; they might be able to consider how best to prevent the growth of bad language habits by effective teaching at a more elementary stage. The work has been divided into four stages (i) The identification of the errors. (ii) Their division into two majjor classes - grammatical and lexical, the emphasis in this thesis being on the grammatical. Grammatical errors are classified into types and sub-types with reference to the grammatical description outlined in chapter two, (iii) The explanation of the errors and their possible causes. (iv) Some suggestions which might help those concerned with the teaching of Malay to combat those errors.
title: A feature approach to the phonology of Phuket, a Southern Thai dialect.
Creators: name: Somchit, Piyatham
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1970

description: This thesis presents a phonological study of Phuket, a southern Thai dialect, approached from the point of view of Jakobsonian distinctive features. Chapter 1, introduction, gives information about the geographical and linguistic background of the Phuket dialect, the scope and aim of the thesis and the arrangement of the data. Part 1 which contains Chapters 2, 3 and 4 gives the phonetic interpretation of the phonemic transcription, a description of pitch patterns, and suggests a feature analysis of the phonemes, and examines the acoustic correlates of such features. Part 2 which contains Chapters 5 and 6, proposes phonological rules to deal with problems of distribution, and deals' with the treatment of tones and their phonological features, according to W. S-Y Wang's theory.
title: Short communication
title: evaluation of vaginal discharge following treatment with a progesterone insert
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Fischer-Tenhagen, Carola
name: Krueger, Xenia Von
name: Heuwieser, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft

description: Yellowish discharge after application of intravaginal progesterone releasing inserts is frequently observed in cows. The objective of this study was to compare the bacteriological contamination of the vagina and uterus before and after a treatment with a progesterone insert in heifers. Forty-two Holstein heifers received a progesterone releasing insert [Eazi-Breed controlled internal drug release (CIDR) insert; Pfizer Animal Health, Berlin, Germany] for 7d. The protruding tail had been removed from half of the inserts (no tail group: n=21; tail group: n=21). Nine heifers from the tail group lost the insert within the 7-d treatment interval and were excluded. Heifers identified in estrus were artificially inseminated on d 9 or 10. Vaginal discharge was scored on a 4-point scale [vaginal discharge score (VDS) 0 to 3] and vaginal swabs were taken for bacteriological examination on d 0 and 7 and the day of artificial insemination (AI). Furthermore, cytological and bacteriological samples were obtained from the uterus on d 7 and the day of AI. On d 0, coliforms and Streptococcus spp. were found in vaginal swabs of 21 heifers (64%). On d 7, all heifers showed purulent vaginal discharge (VDS 2 to 3). The VDS was higher in the tail group compared with the no tail group. Arcanobacterium pyogenes, coliforms, and Streptococcus spp. were isolated from the vaginal swabs in 32 of 33 (96%) heifers on d 7. On the day of AI, VDS had improved to 0 or 1 in 96% of the heifers. However, A. pyogenes, coliforms, and Streptococcus spp. were still isolated in 17 of 33 (53%) heifers from the vagina and in 32 of 33 (96%) heifers from the endometrium. Endometrial cytology revealed polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN) in 11 heifers (6 to 32% PMN). Five samples exceeded the threshold of 5% PMN, and 2 samples exceeded the 10% PMN threshold, indicative of subclinical endometritis. In conclusion, pyogenic bacteria were found in the vagina and uterus on d 7 and the day of AI after intravaginal progesterone treatment. The severity of the discharge was affected by the protruding tail of the insert.
Proximity-induced gap in nanowires with a thin superconducting shell
Creators: name: Kiendl, Thomas
name: Oppen, Felix Von
name: Brouwer, Piet W.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Majorana bound states
subject: proximity effect
subject: topological superconductors
subject: nanowires
subject: condensed matter
subject: materials physics
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik::539 Moderne Physik

description: Coupling a normal-metal wire to a superconductor induces an excitation gap Δind in the normal metal. In the absence of disorder, the induced excitation gap is strongly suppressed by finite-size effects if the thickness DS of the superconductor is much smaller than the thickness DN of the normal metal and the superconducting coherence length ξ. We show that the presence of disorder, either in the bulk or at the exposed surface of the superconductor, significantly enhances the magnitude of Δind, such that Δind approaches the superconducting gap Δ in the limit of strong disorder. We also discuss the shift of energy bands inside the normal-metal wire as a result of the coupling to the superconducting shell.
title: Complementation in Igbo.
Creators: name: Nwachukwu, Philip A.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1976

description: Since s full appreciation of the part is not possible without an appreciation of the whole, me have considered it appropriate to supply the necessary background information to the main body of the thesis in Part I which, therefore, serves as an introduction to Part II, Part I comprises three chapters: Chapter 1 situates the dialect of Igbo being described here and gives an overview of Igbo language studies up to the present moment, pointing out their relevance to the subject of our investigation here - Noun Phrase Sentential Complementation. In chapter 2, we establish the phonological and morphosyntactic features of the dialect so as to make subsequent references to them easy, and also to draw attention to some fundanental differences between our dialect and that described by Green and Igwe (1963). The third end final chapter deals with Tone in Generative Phonology. Part II consists of six chapters, 4-9. Chapter 4 gives the theoretical orientation of the thesis, indentifies all the categories of Igbo Noun Phrase (NP) complements end argues for a deep structure generation of complementisers or the conjunctions functional in NP complementation. Chapter 5 deals with Indicative or Na complementation, the class of matrix (main clause) verbs involved, and provides syntactic evidence in justification of the factive-non-factive distinction as applied to Igbo. Chapter 6 examines the Interrogative or Ma2 complements (that is, embedded Yes/No questions) and reaches the conclusion that the Igbo equivalents of embedded English SH - Questions are not instances of NP complements, but of relative clauses. In chapter 7, we exemine Imperative or Si complofsentation and show that the possibility of embedding imperative structures as NPs is due to the fact that the complementiser in this construction type is si, a form of the verb is - 'to say.' Chapter 6 is the last of these chapters on the mechanics of complementation, and its subject is the subjunctive or Ka/Ma1 complementation; the fact that this is the only complement type that is subject to Equi - NP Deletion is an automatic consequence of the semantic features of the matrix verbs involved. The last chapter, 9, is rather discussive and speculative; its main concern is with how the description of languages such as Igbo might contribute to linguistic theory. The Bibliography gives a list of the works to which reference has been made in the course of this research. A sample lexicon as well as a chapter which argues that Igbo complementizers and function words must be verb-forms are contained in the Appendix.
title: Intergenerational Coresidence in Developing Countries
Creators: name: Ruggles, Steven
name: Heggeness, Misty
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2008

description: We use newly-available census microdata from IPUMS-International to assess trends in intergenerational coresidence in 15 developing countries. Contrary to expectations, we find no general decline in intergenerational coresidence over the past several decades. There have been, however, significant changes in the configuration of intergenerational coresidence. Families in which the older generation is household head—a configuration consistent with traditional patriarchal forms in which the older generation retains authority—are becoming more common in most of the countries. Intergenerational families headed by the younger generation—the configuration one would expect if intergenerational coresidence were motivated by a need for old-age support—are on the decline in most of the countries. Multivariate analysis reveals that intergenerational families headed by the older generation are positively associated with measures of economic development. These findings are at variance with widely-accepted social theory. We hypothesize that housing shortage, economic stress in the younger generation, and old-age pensions may contribute to the change. More broadly, in some developing countries rising incomes may have allowed more people to achieve their preferred family structure of intergenerational coresidence following traditional family forms.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
title: The process of innovation in the subsistence agriculture of north-east Thailand with particular reference to the Lam Pao irrigation area, Changwat Kalasin.
Creators: name: O'Reilly, Francis D.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1974

description: The fieldwork for this thesis was carried out as part of the Lam Pao Socio-economic Survey of the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. This thesis is concerned with the process of innovation in the subsistence agriculture which characterizes the relatively backward north-eastern region of Thailand and is exemplified by the Lam Pao Irrigation Area. Research was carried out in seven sample villages. In the first chapter the regional and systematic background is delineated. The salient features of the economy of Thailand are outlined and reasons sought for the country's lack of development. Secondly, the peculiar regional problems of the north-east are described and explanations for these problems offered. The systematic background involves two frameworks. On the one hand it involves an assessment of agricultural development theory; on the other hand it involves a study of origin, adoption and diffusion of innovations. Both these theoretical frameworks are critically assessed. The next chapter outlines the importance of irrigation as a catalyst for innovations in Thailand. It then describes the fieldwork area and assesses the common and peculiar features of the study villages. Finally, methods and techniques of study, both in and out of the field, are described and the major problems encountered are listed. In Chapter 3 the subsistence nature of the Lam Pao Sample is investigated. A wide variety of indices are used, both separately and in a composite index, to determine that the area is overwhelmingly subsistent. Next, two other variables crucial to the process of innovation and development are analyzed, viz. the population pressure and the degree of unemployment, be it real or disguised. The subsistence crop of the area is glutinous rice. In Chapter 4 the traditional cultivation of this crop is assessed and then innovations in rice cultivation are analyzed. These include the commercial instead of the subsistence cultivation of rice, the cultivation of non-glutinous rice and the introduction of new strains of rice. In the next chapter new crop innovations in the area are discussed and the potential and appropriateness of each crop is assessed. In subsequent chapters livestock innovations and technical innovations are analyzed and assessed. Then the interrelationship between individual innovations is determined by the use of the Guttman scale. Education, organization and experimentation are critically considered as stimulators to innovation. Finally, conclusions are reached and the relevance of the research findings assessed.
title: Living Arrangements of the Aged in Comparative Historical Perspective
Creators: name: Ruggles, Steven
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2008

description: This paper exploits a vast collection of newly-available census data from 92 censuses of 29 countries around the world between 1850 and 2006. My goal is to begin to systematically assess cross-temporal and cross-national variation in the living arrangements of the aged. The family patterns of the aged are relevant to the European exceptionalism hypothesis. All things being equal, one would expect that populations with weak nuclear family systems and neolocal marriage would have a higher percentage of aged persons residing alone or with just their spouse than would strong-family societies in which stem families or joint families predominated. Accordingly, I compare living arrangements of the aged in nineteenth-century Northwest Europe and North America with those of both developed countries and developing countries in the second half of the twentieth century, with a basic set of controls for economic development and demographic conditions. The results suggest that nineteenth-century Northwest Europe and North America were not exceptional with respect to these measures. With simple controls for economic development, coresidence of the aged with kin and others in the historical data from the designated weak family areas appears very similar to that from strong family areas. This is not to say that the hypothesis of the Northwest European family pattern is entirely mistaken; it does appear, for example, that at least two of the countries examined did have significantly distinctive marriage patterns. Examination of the living arrangements of the aged, however, failed to uncover the exceptional families of historic Europe.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
title: Youth Placed Out-of-Home for Behavioral Reasons: An Analysis of Characteristics, Type of Placements, and Length of Stay
Creators: name: Heggeness, Misty
name: Davis, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2008

description: This study analyzes the experience of youth placed out-of-home by two local county departments, human services and corrections, in a large Midwestern metropolitan county. The study goals are to determine whether youth placed by each department have similar characteristics and to analyze the factors associated with type of placement and length of stay. We find that youth have similar characteristics and experiences regardless of which department places them. We conclude that county departments appear to be choosing a placement type based on the individual situation or needs of the youth, and, once placed, youth are treated similarly regardless of department.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
title: Residential Segregation and Labor-Market Outcomes: The Importance of Race, Gender and Marital Status
Creators: name: Wahl, Jenny B.
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2008

description: Whatever the reason, racial segregation in housing potentially affects employment and wage rates. My research suggests that any analysis of residential segregation and labor-market outcomes should account for gender and marital status as well as race and age. Correcting for selection bias in wage regressions is also important; neglecting to do so overestimates the racial wage gap. Among adults of all ages, segregation in housing appears to have the most deleterious effect upon single black male heads of household. Among individuals aged 20 to 30, residential segregation has a negative impact upon the wages of black men but a positive one on the wages of black women relative to their white counterparts. Preliminary analysis indicates that more-educated blacks may suffer more from residential segregation.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
title: Immigration, Suburbia, and the Politics of Population in US Metropolitan Areas
Creators: name: Walker, Kyle
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2008

description: Suburbs in the United States, traditionally represented as a homogenous domain of white, middle-class residents, are in the midst of unprecedented demographic change due to immigration. Suburban immigrant populations now outnumber and are growing faster than their counterparts in central cities. Many suburbs across the country have responded unfavorably to these demographic changes, however, pushing in some cases for the implementation of ordinances and other local policies specifically designed to exclude undocumented immigrants from their communities. In this paper, I attempt to understand the political, urban, and demographic processes at play that are shaping the decisions of suburbs to implement local immigration policies. I examine how these policies are part of a broader trend of the devolution of immigration responsibilities to local scales, and I consider how idealized notions of suburban space guide local responses to immigration. Finally, using the Chicago metropolitan area as a case study, I employ spatial analysis techniques to analyze the relationships between settlement patterns of the foreign-born and local political attitudes toward immigration.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
sj-pdf-1-epb-10.1177_2399808319897624 - Supplemental material for Space syntax visibility graph analysis is not robust to changes in spatial and temporal resolution
Creators: name: Ericson, Jonathan D
name: Chrastil, Elizabeth R
name: Warren, William H
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geography
subject: 120599 Urban and Regional Planning not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-epb-10.1177_2399808319897624 for Space syntax visibility graph analysis is not robust to changes in spatial and temporal resolution by Jonathan D Ericson, Elizabeth R Chrastil and William H Warren in Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
title: Child Domestic Servants in Latin America: Numbers, Trends and Education
Creators: name: Levison, Deborah
name: Langer, Anna
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2009

description: This paper summarizes trends in the use of child domestic servants in six Latin American countries using IPUMS-International census samples for 1960 to 2000. Child domestics are among the most vulnerable of child workers, and the most invisible. They may be treated kindly and allowed to attend school, or they may be secluded in their employers’ home, overworked, verbally abused, beaten, and unable to leave or report their difficulties to kin. Estimates and imputations are based on labor force and relationship-to-head variables. Domestic service makes up a substantial fraction of girls’ employment in some countries. We also analyze trends in live-in versus live-out status and school enrollment of child domestic servants. While all child workers are disadvantaged in enrollment relative to non-workers, domestics are sometimes better off than non-domestic workers. In some samples, live-ins are more likely to go to school than live-out child domestics. In others, they are substantially worse off.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
title: The Development of Family Interrelationship Variables for International Census Data
Creators: name: Sobek, Matthew
name: Kennedy, Sheela
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2009

description: Population microdata are typically organized into households, but household relationships are often ambiguous for persons outside the nuclear family. To facilitate comparative research on families and households, the Minnesota Population Center has developed consistent "pointer" variables identifying each person's mother, father and spouse for the International Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS-International), a freely available database of 279 million person records from 44 countries. This paper documents the methodology used to identify the most likely parent-child and spouse pairings. We show that the IPUMS pointers agree with direct reports of family interrelationships more than 98% of the time, and highlight for researchers factors that affect the precision of these links. These new variables provide researchers with a common tool for studying family interrelationships, removing the possibility that differing results are an artifact of different linking procedures. A significant fraction of recent IPUMS data requests include the pointer variables, suggesting a growing body of population research will depend, at least in part, on the quality of these links.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
title: Urban Form and Family-Engaged Active Leisure: Impact Assessment Using the Census Data and Nighttime Satelite Images
Creators: name: Fan, Yinglink
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2010
Subjects: urban form
sprawl
active leisure
physical activity
family
nighttime satellite imagery

description: This research examines whether urban form indicators are useful predictors of family-engaged active leisure among U.S. population. The study sample includes 23,759 adult respondents from the 2003-2008 American Time Use Survey who lived with family members in 326 metropolitan counties. Urban form is measured at the county level by two methods: one uses the remotely-sensed nighttime satellite imagery and generates scale-adjusted sprawl indices based upon per capita land consumption, and another uses the ground-based Census data and generates a multi-dimensional measurement system, termed 3C+P: compactness, continuity, centrality, and proximity. Regression results across models consistently suggest a significant and negative association between sprawl and daily time spent on family-engaged active leisure. The scale-adjusted sprawl indices are found to be on par with the 3C+P indicators in measuring urban sprawl and predicting family-engaged active leisure. Implications of the findings for researchers and practitioners are discussed.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
Supplementary_material – Supplemental material for Mortality and morbidity in scleroderma renal crisis: A systematic literature review
Creators: name: Hyein Kim
name: Lefebvre, Frédéric
name: Hoa, Sabrina
name: Hudson, Marie
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110322 Rheumatology and Arthritis
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, Supplementary_material for Mortality and morbidity in scleroderma renal crisis: A systematic literature review by Hyein Kim, Frédéric Lefebvre, Sabrina Hoa and Marie Hudson in Journal of Scleroderma and Related Disorders
Vittorio Bodini: Hispanist and Translator
Creators: name: De Benedetto, Nancy
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2016

description:

An analysis of the fascinating correspondence exchanged between Vittorio Bodini and Einaudi Editori, starting in postwar Italy and lasting until 1970. The work focuses on two main perspectives of analysis. First, the long-term plan that he organized, being this relationship one of the most prolific and important for the presence of translated Spanish literature in Italy during the Twentieth Century. Secondly, an interesting critique found in the Archivio Vittorio Bodini, that underlines, according to his cultural position, the approach of the translator to a particular element: the plurilingualism in the work of Juan Goytisolo.

description: Rassegna iberistica
title: The Whole Village Project: A Platform for Evaluating Rural Development Projects
Creators: name: Ritter, Joseph A.
name: Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique
name: Hartwig, Kari
name: James, Susan
name: Levison, Deborah
name: Ngadaya, Esther
name: Packer, Craig
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2010
Subjects: rural development
evaluation
surveys

description: The Whole Village Project, a joint undertaking of Savannas Forever Tanzania (a Tanzanian NGO) and the University of Minnesota, offers a cost-effective platform for evaluation of development projects. Detailed baseline longitudinal data are collected in a large number of rural villages and can be shared among a large number of projects for evaluation or research. The baseline can be supplemented with project-specific modules. This model enables good quality evaluations for a wide range of development projects and offers significant economies of scale.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
Mayorga, Juan (2014). Teatro sulla Shoah. Himmelweg – Il cartografo – JK. Studio e traduzione di Enrico Di Pastena. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, pp. 253
Creators: name: Pittarello, Elide
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2016

description:

description: Rassegna iberistica
Optimal control of Majorana zero modes
Creators: name: Karzig, Torsten
name: Rahmani, Armin
name: Oppen, Felix Von
name: Refael, Gil
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik

description: Braiding of Majorana zero modes provides a promising platform for quantum information processing, which is topologically protected against errors. Strictly speaking, however, the scheme relies on infinite braiding times as it utilizes the adiabatic limit. Here we show how to minimize nonadiabatic errors for finite braiding times by finding an optimal protocol for the Majorana movement. Interestingly, these protocols are characterized by sharp transitions between Majorana motion at maximal and minimal velocities. We find that these so-called bang-bang protocols can minimize the nonadiabatic transitions of the system by orders of magnitude in comparison with naive protocols.
Jiménez Varea, Jesús (2016). Narrativa gráfica. Narratología de la historieta. Madrid: Editorial Fragua, pp. 193
Creators: name: Favaro, Alice
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2016

description:

description: Rassegna iberistica
Havilio, Iosi (2015). Pequeña flor. Buenos Aires: Penguin Random House, pp. 128
Creators: name: Favaro, Alice
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2016

description:

description: Rassegna iberistica
Precariousness, Subjectivity and Trauma in the Novel of the Crisis
Creators: name: Martínez Rubio, José
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2016

description:

La trabajadora by Elvira Navarro (2014) shows the effects that the global economic crisis has on part of the Spanish society. This novel shows the psychological pathologies caused by a society in crisis, through the degradation of the labour market and the land, displacement and marginalization. Concepts like ‘illness’ or ‘disorder’ not only have a intrapsychic interpretation, but also a social one.

description: Rassegna iberistica
CONTRIBUZIONI ALLA CONOSCENZA DEI COLEOPHORIDAE XXIII. Coleophora halimionella n.sp.
Creators: name: Baldizzone, Giorgio
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: Morfologia esterna (fig. 1-2): Apertura alare, 9-13 mm. Capo (fig. 3-4) e torace bruno-chiaro riflettente; flagellum anellato di bianco e bruno-chiaro. Nella ~ la base delle antenne e i primi 5-6 articoli del flagellum sono rive- stiti e ispessiti da fitte squame bruno-chiare. Palpi labiali bianchi, disseminati di squame brune nella parte ventrale; il secondo articolo è lungo circa il doppio del diametro dell'occhio. Ala anteriore di un uniforme colore bruno chiaro, tendente al fulvo con riflessi luccicanti; nel a si trova spesso lungo la costa una lieve linea chiara poco differenziata, che termina verso la metà dell'ala. Frange dell'ala anteriore dello stesso colore dell'ala, in corrispondenza dell'apice e grigio-chiaro lungo il bordo dorsale. Ali posteriori grige, con frange dello stesso colore, un po' più chiaro. Nella ~ l'ala anteriore è più chiara e largamente disseminata di squame fulve; le frange sono tutte del colore del- l'ala. Solo in qualche esemplare vi è un piccolo accenno della linea bianca lungo la costa. L'ala posteriore è di un grigio più chiaro di quello del a,con tonalità perlacee e frange grigio-fulvo.

Gli esemplari della Grecia sono di taglia più piccola, da 9 a 11 mm, mentre quelli italiani vanno da 11 a 13 mm.
description: Entomologica, Vol 16 (1980)
title: Land use and marketing in north east Thailand : A case study of the Lam Pao area.
Creators: name: Dixon, C.J.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1974

description: This study examines the process of agricultural development with particular reference to the interaction between land use and the market system. Agricultural change is seen in terms of increasing orientation towards commercialisation. The existing subsistence land use pattern has been gradually modified as a result of the farmers' response to stimulation of cash expectations by contact with the wider market economy. This response follows the two main lines of the expansion of production of a marketable surplus in the traditional crops, and the adoption of new land use elements which differ markedly from the established pattern. These trends are not necessarily mutually exclusive and may indeed occur together. The instability of the environmental conditions, the unpredictable nature of commodity prices, the weakness of the market system and the farmers' desire to continue to provide their basic subsistence needs, all act as constraints on the progress of agriculture towards highly commercialised and specialised production. A combination of continued stimulation of farmers' cash expectations, the unreliable flow of income from farming and the government policy of heavy investment in rural infrastructure, which generates a large amount of unskilled labouring employment in the short term, may cause farmers to turn increasingly away from agricultural pursuits. Whether or not these farmers revert to agriculture as the mainstay of cash income once the employment in construction work ceases could have very significant implications for the future land use pattern of an area planned for modernised intensive agriculture.
title: Drawing Statistical Inferences from International Census Data
Creators: name: Cleveland, Lara L.
name: Davern, Michael
name: Ruggles, Steven
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2011
Subjects: census
variance estimation
sampling error
international microdata

description: Although census microdata used by social scientists derive from complex samples, researchers commonly apply methods designed for simple random samples. Using full count census data from 4 countries, we evaluate the impact of sample design on standard error estimates of microdata samples from the IPUMS International. We compare replicate standard error estimates from the full count data to estimates from the 10% public use samples using 3 methods: subsample replicate, Taylor series linearization, and estimates using simple random sample assumptions. We suggest that, for some types of analyses, especially those involving highly clustered or stratified variables or for analysis done on subsets of the population, researchers should consider adjusting for such influences in their estimation procedures, and we propose a pseudo-strata variable to help identify implicit geographic stratification.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
Fact Sheet: Atlantic Water inflow
Creators: name: The Nansen Legacy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This fact sheet is a deliverable of the project The Nansen Legacy, and it brings together core findings of the project. 

Scientific observations of many Nansen Legacy researchers form the background for this fact sheet. The following researchers have summarized the findings and provided the text on the fact sheet: A. Sundfjord (lead), K. Assmann, P. Assmy, T. Baumann, B. Bluhm, N. Brown, M. Chierici, P. Duarte, Z. Koenig, Ø. Lundesgaard, R. Skogseth, L.H. Smedsrud, C. Svensen, D. Tao, A. Wold (alphabetical order, apart from lead scientist).

All illustrations and the design of the fact sheet have been made by F.A. Cnossen.
title: Children's Economic Well-Being During the Great Recession
Creators: name: Kennedy, Sheela
name: Fitch, Catherine A.
name: Nelson, Matt A.
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2012

description: We use data from the Current Population Survey on parental employment, family poverty, and food security to examine the impact of the recession on child well-being during the 2007-2009 recession. We estimate changes in child poverty and food insecurity by family structure, parental education, and race/ethnicity. Our results, using data for the first two years of the recession, show that the impact of the recession was widespread. Changes in food security were larger than changes in poverty, indicating that many families with earnings above the poverty line are experiencing serious financial difficulty. Children in married and cohabiting parent families and Hispanic children experienced the largest increases in poverty rates, while families with highly-educated parents experienced the smallest. Despite the disproportionate concentration of job loss among men, we find that single parent families were not spared, especially during the second year of the recession.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-him-10.1177_1833358320920589 - Analysing EHR navigation patterns and digital workflows among physicians during ICU pre-rounds
Creators: name: Coleman, Cameron
name: Gotz, David
name: Eaker, Samantha
name: James, Elaine
name: Bice, Thomas
name: Carson, Shannon
name: Khairat, Saif
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-him-10.1177_1833358320920589 for Analysing EHR navigation patterns and digital workflows among physicians during ICU pre-rounds by Cameron Coleman, David Gotz, Samantha Eaker, Elaine James, Thomas Bice, Shannon Carson and Saif Khairat in Health Information Management Journal