cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The history of mediaeval Assam, (A.D. 1228 to 1603).
Creators: name: Acharyya, Nagendra N.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1957

description: As the title indicates, the scope of my work covers a wide field of study, consisting of the political history of Assam from the early part of the 13th century to the beginning of the 17th, The history of the period offers fresh ground for the seekers of historical truth. In the introduction I have discussed the geography, people, land and the sources, laying especial emphasis on the Buranjis- their character, originality and importance as sources of Indian history. Besides this I have dealt with the political condition of Assam and its neighbouring countries, Burma, China, Tibet and the rest of India, early in the 13th century. The origin of the Ahoms and the title 'Assam' are also discussed here. The rest of the work has been divided into two parts; in the first I have discussed the history of the Ahoms, their original homeland and their route of migration to Assam. I. Text I have shown their first settlement in the Brahumputra valley and their gradual expansion and integration until they formed a powerful kingdom over a large region in the north-eastern frontier of India, early in the l6th century, under Suhungmung, At the same time I have pointed out the gradual. Hinduisation of the Ahoms, until they formed a synthetic civilisation of their own having been simultaneously influenced by the Shan culture on the one hand and the Indian on the other. Besides this the adninistration of the Ahoms, a synthesis of various systems of government, is also narrated there. In the second part I have discussed the history of the later Kamrupi kings, the Koches, the Kaches, the Kacharies, the Jayantias the Chutias and the Nagas, In conclusion, I have shorn that there was a cultural renaissaiace in Assam inaugurated by Sankerdev, which fully influenced the minds and culture of the people to commence a new era in their history.
Parade safety and planning: A heat balance case study of marching band artists
Creators: name: Thigpen, Ben
name: Grundstein, Andrew
name: Yeargin, Susan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Marching band (MB) artists are subject to exertional heat illnesses (EHIs) similar to other active groups like laborers and athletes. Yet, they are an understudied population with no evidence-based heat safety guidelines. Presented here is a case study of the 233rd annual Bristol, RI Independence Day Parade in 2018 that resulted in over 50 EHIs, including 25 from the Saint Anthony Village marching band (MB) from suburban Minneapolis, MN. This research aims to identify the contributing factors that led to the large number of EHIs, as well as guide ensuring the safety of MB artists in future events. A human heat balance model in conjunction with local weather data was used to simulate heat stress on MB artists. Three modeling scenarios were used to isolate the roles of clothing (band uniform vs. t-shirt and shorts), weather (July 4, 2018 vs. 30-year climatology), and metabolic rate (slow, moderate, and brisk marching pacing) on heat stress. The results identify several key factors that increased heat stress. The meteorological conditions were unusually hot, humid, and sunny for Bristol, resulting in reduced cooling from evaporation and convection, and increased radiant heating. Behavioral factors also affect heat stress. The full marching band uniforms reduced evaporative cooling by 50% and the activity levels of marching 4 km over several hours without breaks resulted in conditions that were uncompensable. Finally, it is speculated that a lack of acclimatization for participants from cooler regions may have exacerbated heat-related impacts. These findings highlight several recommendations for MB directors and race organizers, including the use of summer uniforms for anticipated hot conditions, and advance parade planning that includes providing shade/hydration before and after the parade for participants, considering cooler routes that reduce radiant heating and preparing for anticipated heat-related health impacts appropriate for anticipated hot conditions.
Appendix_1_-_Questionnaire – Supplemental material for Intracranial hemorrhage on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: an international survey
Creators: name: Yiorgos Alexandros Cavayas
name: Sorbo, Lorenzo Del
name: Laveena Munshi
name: Sampson, Caroline
name: Fan, Eddy
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cardiology
subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, Appendix_1_-_Questionnaire for Intracranial hemorrhage on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: an international survey by Yiorgos Alexandros Cavayas, Lorenzo Del Sorbo, Laveena Munshi, Caroline Sampson and Eddy Fan in Perfusion
Reported exposures to respirable crystalline silica during construction tasks and guidance for harmonizing future research
Creators: name: Jacobs, Neva F. B.
name: Zisook, Rachel E.
name: Tarpey, Taylor A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Airborne respirable crystalline silica (RCS) has been a widely recognized hazard in the United States for nearly 100 years, yet it continues to pose a risk to construction tradespersons, among others. RCS exposures vary widely depending on site conditions and tools and materials used. The proper use of engineering, administrative, and personal protective equipment (PPE) controls can effectively reduce exposure to RCS. Historically, others have reviewed available RCS exposure data among construction trades and reported that there were considerable data gaps and variability that needed to be addressed. This current assessment aimed to synthesize available peer-reviewed exposure studies to determine potential RCS exposures during the use of common construction materials and evaluate to what extent data gaps and variability persist. Twenty-eight studies were identified that reported RCS exposure during construction tasks. After conversion to the unit of µg/m3, reported measurements from samples collected for varying durations ranged from 6.0 to 75,500 µg/m3 for work with concrete, 80 to 4,240 µg/m3 for work with brick, <59 to 10,900 µg/m3 for work with mortar, 90 to 44,370 µg/m3 for work with engineered stone, and 70 to 380 µg/m3 for work with roof tile. To better facilitate pooling data across studies, future researchers should report their sample duration, clarify how time-weighted average (TWA) exposure data are calculated, report the silica content of the material being manipulated, and specify whether samples were collected while the task was performed in isolation or on a worksite where other silica-containing materials were also actively handled. When reporting results as respirable quartz, it is important to note whether any other polymorphic forms of silica were detected. It is ultimately the employer’s responsibility to train employees and monitor and control RCS exposures on construction worksites. To do this effectively, it is important to have a clear understanding of the tasks, materials, and site conditions where intervention is most urgently needed.
PRESENZA DI BACULOVIRUS {SOTTOGRUPPO A) TRA LE POPOLAZIONI LARVALI DELLA LYMANTRIA DISP AR L. (LEP. LYMANTRIIDAE) NELL'ITALIA MERIDIONALE
Creators: name: Triggiani, Oreste
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: ON THE PRESENCE OF A Baculovirus (SUBGROUP A) AMONG LARVAL POPULATIONS OF Lymantria dispar L. (Lep.: Lymantriidae) IN SOUTH ITALY

A presence of a Baculovirus (subgroup A) among larval populations of Lymantria dispar has been for the fìrst time reported in South Italy.

This virus caused 5-7% mortality among the larvae in 1976 and the 25-28% in 1980 in the wood of Montecamplo (Laterza - TA).

L'Autore riferisce sulla presenza di un Baculovirus (sottogruppo A) tra le popolazioni !arvali di Lymantria dispar, riscontrato per la prima volta nell'Italia meridionale.

Questo virus causò il 5-7% di mortalità tra le larve del Lepidottero nel 1976 e il 25- 28% durante il 1980 nel bosco di Montecamplo a Laterza (TAl.
description: Entomologica, Vol 16 (1980)
sj-docx-1-isp-10.1177_0020764020925104 – Supplemental material for Factors influencing decision-making around pregnancy among women with severe mental illness (SMI): A qualitative study
Creators: name: Ashlesha Bagadia
name: Nanjundaswamy, Madhuri H
name: Sundarnag Ganjekar
name: Thippeswamy, Harish
name: Desai, Geetha
name: Chandra, Prabha S
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-isp-10.1177_0020764020925104 for Factors influencing decision-making around pregnancy among women with severe mental illness (SMI): A qualitative study by Ashlesha Bagadia, Madhuri H Nanjundaswamy, Sundarnag Ganjekar, Harish Thippeswamy, Geetha Desai and Prabha S Chandra in International Journal of Social Psychiatry
CONTRIBUTI ALLA CONOSCENZA DELLA LEPIDOTTEROFAUNA DELL'ITALIA MERIDIONALE VI. Rhopalocera (addenda)
Creators: name: Parenzan, Paolo
Publisher: name: Entomologica
Year: 2016

description: In the last five years (1976-1980), four new taxa of Rhopalocera have been collected by other Authors in Southern Italy: Everes alcetas Hoffmsg., Scoliantides orion Pali., Erebia gorge Hb. carboncina Vrty. and Agrodiaetus gallai Balletto & Toso, described from speci- mens collected on Mt. Pollino.

Anthocharis euphenoides Stdgr. is reported for the first time in Southern Italy in this work.

The following species are listed by other Authors only for the locality of Campania and Calabria, and are not mentioned in my previous work: Papilio alexanor Esp., Parnassius apollo L. pumilus Stich., Anthocharis damone Boisd., Tarucus teophrastus Fabr.. Iolana iolas Ochs., Limenitis camilla L. herculeana Stich., Brenthis ino Rott., Hipparchia aristaeus Bon. blachieri Fruhst. and Eteropterus morpheus Pallas.

The first five added to the above nine, make up to 140 the number of species listed up to now in Southern Italy.

Colias hyale L. and Agrodiaetus ripartii Frr. exuberans Vrty. are not present in Southern Italy, because they have been substitued by Colias australis Vrty. and Agrodiaetus gallai Balletto & Toso respectively .

Nell'ultimo quinquennio (1976-1980) cinque nuovi taxa di Ropaloceri si sono aggiunti alle specie note per l'Italia Meridionale: Anthocharis euphenoides Stdgr., che è citata per la prima volta per il Sud Italia nel presente lavoro; Everes alcetas Hoffmnsg., Scoliantides orion Pallas e Erebia gorge Hb. carboncina Vrty., rinvenute da altri autori; Agrodiaetus gallai Balletto & Toso, dc- scritto su esemplari del Pollino.

Le specie note solo per località della Campania o della Calabria, non citate nel mio precedente lavoro (1975), e precisamente: Papilio alexanor Esp., Parnassius apollo L. pumilus Stich., Anthocharis damone Boisd., Tarucus teophrastus Fabr., Iolana iolas Ochs., Limenitis camilla L. herculeana Stich., Brenthis ino Rott., Hipparchia aristaeus Bon. blachieri Fruhst. e Heteropterus morpheus Pallas, portano, unitamente alle cinque precedentemente citate, a 140 il numero delle specie di Ropaloceri a tutt'oggi note per il Meridione d'Italia.

Colias hyale L. e Agrodiaetus ripartii Frr. exuberans Vrty. non sono pre- senti nelle regioni considerate, in quanto sostitmtl rispettivamente da Colias australis Vrty. e Agrodiaetus gallai Balletto & Toso.
description: Entomologica, Vol 16 (1980)
Staggered Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya inducing weak ferromagnetism in centrosymmetric altermagnets and weak ferrimagnetism in noncentrosymmetric altermagnets
Creators: name: Autieri, Carmine
name: Sattigeri, Raghottam M
name: Cuono, Giuseppe
name: Fakhredine, Amar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) has explained successfully the weak ferromagnetism in {\it some} centrosymmetric antiferromagnets. However, in the last years, it was generally claimed that the DMI is not effective in such systems. We reconciled these views by separating the conventional antiferromagnets from altermagnets. Altermagnets are collinear magnets having zero magnetization preserved by crystal symmetries in the non-relativistic limit. The spin-up and spin-down sublattices can be connected either by a proper rotation or by a combination of a rotation and a mirror or an inversion symmetry. Consequently, the system shows even-parity wave spin order in the k-space lifting the Kramer's degeneracy in the non-relativistic band structure leading to unconventional magnetism. The DMI can create weak ferromagnetism or weak ferrimagnetism in centrosymmetric and in noncentrosymmetric altermagnets while it is not effective in conventional antiferromagnets. Once the spin-orbit coupling is included in an altermagnetic system (where the time-reversal symmetry is broken), the components of spin moments of the two sublattices along the Néel vector are antiparallel but the other two spin components orthogonal to the Néel vector can be null, parallel or antiparallel. In cases where we have different bands showing parallel and antiparallel spin components at the same time, the magnetic order results in weak ferrimagnetism. If we restrain to high-symmetry directions for the Néel vector, we find weak ferrimagnetism only in the noncentrosymmetric compound MnSe among the examined cases.
description: 19 pages, 12 figure
Enhanced biomedical heat-triggered carriers via nanomagnetism tuning in ferrite-based nanoparticles
Creators: name: Angelakeris, M.
name: Li, Zi-An
name: Hilgendorff, Michael
name: Simeonidis, K.
name: Sakellari, D.
name: Filippousi, M.
name: Tian, H.
name: Tendeloo, G. Van
name: Spasova, Marina
name: Acet, Mehmet
name: Farle, Michael
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Magnetic nanoparticles
subject: Hyperthermia
subject: Exchange coupling
subject: Ferrites
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik

description: Biomedical nanomagnetic carriers are getting a higher impact in therapy and diagnosis schemes while their constraints and prerequisites are more and more successfully confronted. Such particles should possess a well-defined size with minimum agglomeration and they should be synthesized in a facile and reproducible high-yield way together with a controllable response to an applied static or dynamic field tailored for the specific application. Here, we attempt to enhance the heating efficiency in magnetic particle hyperthermia treatment through the proper adjustment of the core–shell morphology in ferrite particles, by controlling exchange and dipolar magnetic interactions at the nanoscale. Thus, core–shell nanoparticles with mutual coupling of magnetically hard (CoFe2O4) and soft (MnFe2O4) components are synthesized with facile synthetic controls resulting in uniform size and shell thickness as evidenced by high resolution transmission electron microscopy imaging, excellent crystallinity and size monodispersity. Such a magnetic coupling enables the fine tuning of magnetic anisotropy and magnetic interactions without sparing the good structural, chemical and colloidal stability. Consequently, the magnetic heating efficiency of CoFe2O4 and MnFe2O4 core–shell nanoparticles is distinctively different from that of their counterparts, even though all these nanocrystals were synthesized under similar conditions. For better understanding of the AC magnetic hyperthermia response and its correlation with magnetic-origin features we study the effect of the volume ratio of magnetic hard and soft phases in the bimagnetic core−shell nanocrystals. Eventually, such particles may be considered as novel heating carriers that under further biomedical functionalization may become adaptable multifunctional heat-triggered nanoplatforms.
Supplemental Material, Combined_supplemental_materials-Jahns_et_al - Polyneuropathy in Young Siberian Huskies Caused by Degenerative and Inflammatory Diseases
Creators: name: Jahns, Hanne
name: Vernau, Karen M.
name: Nolan, Catherine M.
name: O’Neill, Emma J.
name: Shiel, Robert E.
name: G. Diane Shelton
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 70706 Veterinary Medicine
subject: FOS: Veterinary sciences

description: Supplemental Material, Combined_supplemental_materials-Jahns_et_al for Polyneuropathy in Young Siberian Huskies Caused by Degenerative and Inflammatory Diseases by Hanne Jahns, Karen M. Vernau, Catherine M. Nolan, Emma J. O’Neill, Robert E. Shiel and G. Diane Shelton in Veterinary Pathology
title: Anderson localization and quantum Hall effect
title: numerical observation of two-parameter scaling
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Werner, Miklós Antal
name: Brataas, Arne
name: Oppen, Felix Von
name: Zaránd, Gergely
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2015

description: A two dimensional disordered system of non-interacting fermions in a homogeneous magnetic field is investigated numerically. By introducing a new magnetic gauge, we explore the renormalization group (RG) flow of the longitudinal and Hall conductances with higher precision than previously studied, and find that the flow is consistent with the predictions of Pruisken and Khmelnitskii. The extracted critical exponents agree with the results obtained by using transfer matrix methods. The necessity of a second parameter is also reflected in the level curvature distribution. Near the critical point the distribution slightly differs from the prediciton of random matrix theory, in agreement with previous works. Close to the quantum Hall fixed points the distribution is lognormal since here states are strongly localized.
sj-pdf-1-rmm-10.1177_2632084320932756 - Supplemental material for Effects of treatment classifications in network meta-analysis
Creators: name: Aiwen Xing
name: Lifeng Lin
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-rmm-10.1177_2632084320932756 for Effects of treatment classifications in network meta-analysis by Aiwen Xing and Lifeng Lin in Research Methods in Medicine & Health Sciences
title: Some philosophical problems in the Bhagavata Purana.
Creators: name: Bhattacharya, Siddhesswar
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1947

description: Of the three currents of religious philosophy, that have been wielding stupendous influence over post-Vedic India, (Saivism, Saktaism and Vaisnavism) Vaisnavism is the most outstanding. Of the two schools of Vaisnavism viz the Pancaratra and the Bhagavata, the latter is conspicuously represented in the Srimad-Bhagavata Purana - the work constituting the subject-matter of the present thesis. The historical aspect of the work in question, such as, the evolution of the Puranas in general and the Bhagavata in particular, the evolution of Vaisnavism especially Bhagavatism, is dealt with in the ' Introduction'. As to its philosophical aspect, the three fundamentals of Bh?gavatism are : (1) Bhagavan Sri-Krsna is the ultimate reality, (2) he is the pivot of the doctrine of descents and (3) devotion is the means to attain him. Accordingly, these three have been dealt with, in details, in the thesis. The treatment of the subject is mainly expository and is based upon the original text and the well-known commentator, Sridhara Svami. The meanings of terms and expressions in Sanskrit passages have been considered at their face value and no attempt has been made to adjust any of them to any particular viewpoints. The work has so far been thought to be a conglomeration of diverse systems of philosophical and religious thoughts. The readers of the Bh?gavata Purana have often missed to find in the text a consistent philosophical outlook, and various interpretations have thus been adduced mainly in regard to isolated episodes and in disregard of the poem as a unit The present thesis is intended t o be the first attempt to give the interpretation in the latter view. The main contribution is (1) the assertion of the fourth grade of reality, over and above the first grade of reality as expounded by Sankara and the second and the third grades of reality of later Vaisnavism ; (2) devotion (bhagavata dharma) as a compromise of knowledge (jnana), devotion (bhakti) and detachment (vairagya), standing upon the common platform of actionlessness (naiskarmya). In the Bhagavata, the cult of devotion seems to have been wedded to absolute monism.
Supplemental Material, SPPS765073_suppl_mat - An Exploration of Subjective Situation Dimensions Associated With Situation-Specific Behavior
Creators: name: Griffo, Robert
name: C. Randall Colvin
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental Material, SPPS765073_suppl_mat for An Exploration of Subjective Situation Dimensions Associated With Situation-Specific Behavior by Robert Griffo, and C. Randall Colvin in Social Psychological and Personality Science
title: The history of the Western Chalukyas (political and administrative).
Creators: name: Raychaudhuri, Golapachandra
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1948

description: The main purpose of the present thesis is to give an account of the political activities of the Western Chalukyas, who ruled at Badami and Kalyanl, based on the results of modern research. It has been also deemed proper to add a special chapter on their system of administration. Hence the title "History of the Western Chalukyas (political and administrative)." The thesis opens wlth a discussion of the various legends of Chalukya origin found in inscriptions, and the modern views on the subject. The second chapter describes the rise of the Chalukyas under Jayasimha, RanaSaga and Pulakesln I. The third traces the growth of the Chalukya kingdom under Kirtivarman I emd Mangalesa. Chapter four gives an account of the wide activities of Pulakesln II, who attained for his house the Imperial position in the South. Chapter five deals with the reigns of his successors till their sovereignty was extinguished by the Rashtrakutas. Chapter six tells about the fortune of the Chalukya race in the Testern Deccan during the period of the Rashtrakuta supretiaoy. Chapter seven recounts the story of the re-establishment of the Chalukya sovereignty by Taila II, and the beginnings of the conflict with the Paramaras and the Cholas which lasted through generations. The history of the Chalukyas under Jayasimha II, Somesvara I, Someavara II and Vikramiaditya VI forms the theme of chapters eight and nine. All these rulers, except Somesvara II, prored to be able, energetic vigorous; they not only successfully maintained their position against the repeated onslaughts of external enemies, but also succeeded in extending their influence in different directions. Chapter ten traces the gradual decline of the Chalukya power and its final disappearance under the last four kings of the race. The concluding chapter has been devoted to the elucidation of the important aspects of the Chalukyan administration.
Feather Corticosterone Measurements of Greater Flamingos Living under Different Forms of Flight Restraint
Creators: name: Reese, Lukas
name: Baumgartner, Katrin
name: Fersen, Lorenzo Von
name: Merle, Roswitha
name: Ladwig-Wiegard, Mechthild
name: Will, Hermann
name: Haase, Gudrun
name: Tallo-Parra, Oriol
name: Carbajal, Annaïs
name: Lopez-Bejar, Manel
name: Thöne-Reineke, Christa
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: feather corticosterone
subject: animal welfare
subject: Greater Flamingo
subject: deflighting
subject: pinioning
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft::630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::590 Tiere (Zoologie)::590 Tiere (Zoologie)

description: Deflighting zoo birds is a practice that receives increasing criticism due to its presumed incompatibility with animal welfare. To our knowledge, this is the first approach to address this problem in a scientific way. To do this, we compared feather corticosterone (CORTf) from Greater Flamingos (Phoenicopterus roseus, n = 151) of different flight status (i.e., pinioned, feather clipped, airworthy) from twelve different zoological institutions. To complement the hormone measurements, behavioral observations (scan samplings) were conducted prior to feather sampling within the presumed time frame of feather growth. We hypothesized that CORTf of the deflighted flamingos would differ from CORTf of their airworthy conspecifics. No significant difference in CORTf was found between the three groups, and our hypothesis was rejected. However, the impact of the institution itself (i.e., the housing conditions) proved to be the most dominant variable (variance between the institutions = 53.82%). Due to high variability, the behavioral observations were evaluated descriptively but did not give rise to doubt the findings in CORTf. Therefore, we assume that the method of flight restraint of Greater Flamingos does not have a measurable effect on CORTf. We consider this model for evaluating animal welfare of zoo birds a useful tool and provide ideas for further adjustments for consecutive studies.
title: Redefining and Measuring Sexual Revolution, with an Example from the IPUMS Census Data 1880-2000
Creators: name: Lauster, Nathanael T.
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2005

description: In this paper I redefine the concept of sexual revolution and suggest two new measurements for the process. I review prior definitions and measurements of sexual revolution. I redefine sexual revolution in response to a Victorian script linking the public statuses of marriage and childbearing to the privacy of sexual experience. I measure sexual revolution as resistance to this script. In particular, women break the link between sex, marriage, and childbearing, and make sexual behavior public by being wives without children or being mothers without ever marrying. I demonstrate the historical relevance of these measurements in the United States by using IPUMS census data from 1880-2000. I compare metropolitan and nonmetropolitan populations, black and white populations, and the populations of four metropolitan areas (Boston, Richmond, Indianapolis, and San Francisco) with respect to sexual revolution. The results indicate that these new measurements of sexual revolution both correspond with and confirm past research on sexual revolution and point towards the possibility of further research.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
title: Roommates or Families? Access to Housing and the Transition to Non-Marital Cohabitation in Sweden
Creators: name: Lauster, Nathanael T.
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2005
Subjects: Housing
Cohabitation
Sweden
Family Formation
Roommates

description: Some researchers suggest that non-marital cohabitants behave like a subcategory of roommates, while others find non-marital cohabitants behave like new families. If non-marital cohabitants behave like roommates, then more access to housing would make young adults more likely to remain single. If non-marital cohabitants behave like families, then more access to housing would make young adults more likely to cohabit. In this paper I directly test these two competing hypotheses with life course data from the Swedish Family Survey of 1992. I find that better access to housing significantly increases the likelihood of entering non-marital cohabitation and for men, those entering non-marital cohabitation in Sweden are increasingly behaving like new families rather than roommates over time.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
title: Philology, rhetoric and literary criticism in the study of "I'jaz" during the 4th century A.H.
Creators: name: Ramli, Bashir M.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1969

description: Fourth century studies of I'jaz and their role in the development of Arabic literary theory of criticim are the main concern of this attempt, the general theme being an assessment of the evolution of the views expressed in this connexion. The period chosen for investigation is the culmination of a series of earlier stages pioneering these studies. Before dealing with fourth century studies of I'jaz, consideration is given to some of the earlier attempts in that direction, especially of the third century, as it was these which laid the foundation for later studies. In the latter century also this branch of study emerged primarily as an independent topic in Qur'anic studies. Some of the other theological questions which led to later controversies are also considered. From a purely literary standpoint, in addition to the early commentators' efferts, two outstanding authors-al-Jahiz and Ibn Qutaybah- also expressed strong opinions on the subject, though not necessarily under that title, and who greatly inspired later studies, have been chosen as representative of that century. Towards the end of that century, and whenl'jaz became a stabilized topic in Qur'anic studies, attempts are made to investigate the actual term itself and also the factors which directly affected fourth century studies. Few of the great controversies of the early fourth century have survived, but much can be reconstructed through the views directly inherited by the succeeding generations. The four authors with whom we shall be mainly concerned are; al-Rummani, al-Khattabi, al-Baqillani and al-Qadi 'Abd al-Jabbar, The first two in their terse treatises dealing directly with the literary aspects of the problem, the latter, both eminent theologians, covering a much wider field, both theological and literary. For most of these four, new materials are used, often revealing new dimensions to their conception of the problem.
title: The Rise of Cohabitation in the United States: New Historical Estimates
Creators: name: Fitch, Catherine
name: Goeken, Ron
name: Ruggles, Steven
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2005

description: This paper improves on previous attempts to infer cohabitation from the decennial census. The 1990 and 2000 censuses included specific responses for “unmarried partner” in the relationship question; previous censuses classified these individuals in broader “partner/roommate” or “partner/friend” categories. Our goal is to infer as best we can which individuals in the censuses of 1960 though 1980 would have described themselves as opposite sex unmarried partners if that option had been available on the census. We do this by first developing rules to identify households that are likely contain an unmarried partner, and then by applying a regression model to refine these measures.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
title: Continued Interest in the Appalachian Immigrant is not Warranted: Appalachian Out-Migrants in the Larger Southern Exodus, 1940-1980
Creators: name: Alexander, J. Trent
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2005

description: Even as southern Appalachian migrants began to actively assert a group identity in some northern cities in the late 1960s, it was an open question as to whether they ought to be considered a group at all. In the years since the 1960s, the fate of southern Appalachian migrants in the North and Midwest has continued to be the subject of much debate. Migrants from the southern Appalachian region were clearly a group apart in the broader southern white exodus. In socioeconomic terms, Appalachian migrants looked like international immigrants from all over the world. If non-Appalachian southerners most closely resembled migrants from Canada and Western Europe, Appalachian migrants' economic experiences were more like those of migrants from Korea, South America, and Eastern Europe. In great contrast to the overwhelmingly successful southern white migrants portrayed in some recent historical studies, migrants from the Appalachian South seem to have been just as much at risk as nearly any other group of newcomers short of southern African-Americans and the most impoverished international immigrant groups.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
title: Inter-Cohort Trends in Age-Specific Health Inequalities: A Test of the Theory of Fundamental Causes
Creators: name: Warren, John Robert
name: Hernandez, Elaine M.
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2005

description: Link and Phelan’s (1995; 1996) “Fundamental Causes” theory posits that social and economic inequalities in morbidity and mortality have persisted over historical time --- and will continue to persist --- because people with access to more social and economic resources are always better able to avoid health risks (even if the nature of those risks change over time). Despite the prominence of this theory and its inherent challenge to mainstream epidemiological, public health, and social science research, the core empirical fact that the theory is designed to explain has not been well established by Link and Phelan or others. Have socioeconomic inequalities in morbidity and mortality remained essentially constant over time? To investigate, we examine inter-cohort trends in age-specific health inequalities using data from the 1972 through 2002 General Social Surveys. Our results reproduce findings of inter-cohort improvements in health outcomes, but we find that socioeconomic differences in health have remained unchanged across the bulk of the 20th century. Although Americans’ health has improved over time, inequalities in health have persisted.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
Moving (Reflexively within) Structures. The Governance of Education for Sustainable Development in Germany
Creators: name: Singer-Brodowski, Mandy
name: Seggern, Janne Von
name: Duveneck, Anika
name: Etzkorn, Nadine
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: education for sustainable development
subject: educational governance
subject: coordination of action
subject: multi-stakeholder networks
subject: reflexivity
subject: relational agency
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::370 Bildung und Erziehung::370 Bildung und Erziehung

description: The educational governance discourse aims at capturing how different actors, participating in a specific political process, coordinate their actions while working together within multi-actor policy networks. In Germany, such multi-actor policy networks have set up ambitious political goals on the implementation of education for sustainable development (ESD) that has resulted in the National Action Plan. The current domestic slogan “From Project to Structure” reveals the overall aim of scaling ESD. In this article, a governance perspective is used to examine how the actors involved in ESD in Germany coordinate their actions with each other. Six focus group discussions for different educational areas were conducted and analyzed with a structuring content analysis in MAXQDA. Additionally, an in-depth case comparison of the actors from different sectors (administration, politics, academia, civil society, and educational practice) was carried out. The results show sector-specific boundary work—the way in which actors construe, maintain, or even bridge boundaries when coordinating their actions in scaling ESD. Actors from the various sectors positioned themselves in patterns of more structure-immanent or more structure-transcending positionings. The conclusion shows that reflection and relational agency is pivotal for cooperation within multi-stakeholder governance networks and for moving strategically within structures.
title: Sibling Models of the Role of Job Characteristics in Mediating SES-Health Relationships
Creators: name: Brand, Jeanie E.
name: Warren, John Robert
name: Carayon, Pascale
name: Honnakker, Peter
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2005
Subjects: SES
Education
Job Characteristics
Work
Health Disparities
Sibling Resemblance Models

description: We focus on physical and psychosocial job characteristics as mediators in the link between education, earnings, and occupational standing and self-assessed overall health, cardiovascular and musculoskeletal health problems, and depression. From sociological research on the stratification of employment outcomes, we expect that people with less education also have lower earnings and lower levels of occupational standing, and have more physically and psychosocially demanding jobs. From the occupational stress, ergonomics, and job design literatures, we expect that physically and cognitively demanding jobs and jobs with varying amounts of control are associated with health outcomes. Consequently, we expect to find that job characteristics play an important mediating role in associations between SES and health. to address these hypotheses, we use data on sibling pairs from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. We find support for our hypotheses, although the extent to which job characteristics mediate SE-health relationships varies across health outcomes and by gender.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
title: State-Level High School Completion Rates: Concepts, Measures and Trends
Creators: name: Warren, John Robert
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2005

description: I review state-level measures of high school completion rates, and describe and validate a new measure that reports these rates for 1973 through 2000. Existing measures based on Current Population Surveys are conceptually imperfect and statistically unreliable. Measures based on Common Core Data (CCD) dropout information are unavailable for many states and have different conceptual weaknesses. Existing measures based on CCD enrollment and completion data are systematically biased by migration, changes in cohort size, and grade retention. The new CCD-based measure described here is considerably less biased, performs differently in empirical analyses, and gives a different picture of the dropout situation across states and over time. Since the early 1970s the rate at which incoming 9th graders have completed high school has fallen consistently. In 2000, about two thirds of students who might have completed high school actually did so.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
title: High School Exit Examinations and State-Level Completion and GED Rates, 1973-2000
Creators: name: Warren, John Robert
name: Jenkins, Krista N.
name: Kulick, Rachael B.
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2005

description: We investigate the extent to which high school exit examinations are associated with state-level high school completion rates in the United States. To do so, we estimate a series of state and year fixed effects models using a new measure of state-level high school completion rates and archival information about states’ high school exit examinations between 1973 and 2000. We find that high school exit examinations --- particularly more difficult examinations that have recently been implemented in some states --- are associated with lower high school completion rates and higher rates of General Educational Development (GED) test taking. Furthermore, we find that the association between high school exit examinations and high school completion is stronger in states with more race/ethnic minorities and higher poverty rates.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
title: Adolescent Romantic Relationships and Young Adult Union Formation
Creators: name: Meier, Ann
name: Allen, Gina
name: Falci, Christina
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2005

description: Life course sociologists and developmental psychologists assert that adolescent romantic relationships further the developmental goal of providing “practice” for romantic relationships in adulthood. Yet, we know little about how patterns of romantic involvement in adolescence translate into young adult relationships. This paper examines the role of adolescents’ romantic relationship experience on young adult unions. Using three waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we identify adolescent romantic relationship trajectories. First, we investigate how relationship trajectories differ by age to confirm that relationship experience suggests a developmental pattern. Next, we estimate the association between adolescent romantic relationship trajectory and young adult union formation as measured by cohabitation and marriage. These analyses suggest that adolescent relationship experience influences young adult union formation, with somewhat different patterns for males and females.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
title: The Effect of Child Work on Schooling: Evidence from Egypt
Creators: name: Assaad, Ragui
name: Levison, Deborah
name: Zibani, Nadia
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2005
Subjects: child labor
schooling
household economics
gender differences
Egypt

description: The negative correlation between children’s work and schooling is well-documented. However, the causal link between child labor and school attainment has not been well established in the literature. We show that work, broadly defined, substantially reduces schooling for both boys and girls. We present evidence that lower rates of school attendance for Egyptian girls are caused by a substantial burden of household work. While market work is a serious impediment to schooling for boys, a much larger proportion of girls than boys engage in substantial hours of work, when work is defined to include both labor force and domestic work.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
title: Using Cyber-Resources to Build Databases for Social Science Research
Creators: name: Sobek, Matthew
name: Hindman, Monty
name: Ruggles, Steven
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2007

description: The Integrated Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) is the premiere infrastructure project supported through the NSF Human and Social Dynamics Priority Area. Over the next four years, the IPUMS-International project will release data and metadata from approximately 150 censuses of 45 countries, totaling about a half-billion records and some 20,000 variables. Because of the unprecedented scale of this work, we have had to develop innovative cyber infrastructure for both data processing and dissemination. The source data consists in most cases of raw microdata captured by census enumerations during the past 50 years, usually in obsolete formats with paper documentation. Our greatest challenge is development of comprehensive machine-processable encoded electronic documentation, or metadata. This metadata underlies every aspect of IPUMS-International data processing work, including standardizing data formats and correcting format errors; assessing data quality and coverage problems; drawing high-density samples; identifying and correcting internal inconsistencies using logical and probabilistic procedures; allocating missing values; analyzing confidentiality risks and applying statistical confidentiality protections; and harmonizing variables. The same metadata drives our integrated web-based data access system that provides advanced tools for navigating documentation, defining datasets, constructing customized variables, and adding contextual information, as well as a basic set of on-line data analysis tools.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
title: Drawing Statistical Inferences from Historical Census Data
Creators: name: Davern, Michael
name: Ruggles, Steven
name: Swenson, Tami
name: Oakes, J. Michael
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2007

description: Virtually all quantitative microdata used by social scientists derive from samples that incorporate clustering, stratification, and weighting adjustments (Kish 1992, 1965). Such data can yield standard error estimates that differ dramatically from a simple random sample of the same size. Researchers using historical U.S. census microdata, however, usually apply methods designed for simple random samples. The resulting p-values and confidence intervals could be inaccurate and could lead to erroneous research conclusions. Because U.S. census microdata samples are among the most widely-used sources for social science and policy research, the need for reliable standard error estimation is critical. We evaluate the historical microdata samples of the IPUMS project from 1850-1930 in order to determine (1) the impact of sample design on standard error estimates and (2) how to apply modern standard error estimation software to historical census samples. We exploit a unique new data source from the 1880 census to validate our methods for standard error estimation and then we apply this approach to the 1850-1870 and 1900-1930 decennial censuses. We conclude that Taylor series estimation can be used effectively with the historical decennial census microdata samples, and should be applied in research analyses that have the potential for substantial clustering effects.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
title: A study of social problems in Egypt as depicted by Egyptian novelists from 1919-1960.
Creators: name: Khammash, Salma
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1971

description: The thesis is a study of the social problems in Egypt between 1919 and 1960 emphasising the distribution of wealth, corruption, the position of women, and the prevalence of ignorance. The ways in which and the extent to which Egyptian novelists treated these problems are described, analysed and examined. The novel in Egypt has shown fairly continuous development in technique during the forty years covered by the present work and has established itself as a recognized form of Adab. It is characterised by a kind of 'localised realism'. While most of the novelists, whose works form the basis of this study, could be considered as social novelists, in the sense that they depict Egyptian society, very few of them have dealt with the problems at all fundamentally. Big segments of society with their associated problems, such as the workers, soldiers, children, students, servants, the unemployed etc., are surprisingly and unjustifiably missing from the strata portrayed by the novelists. It is notable that with perhaps one or two exceptions, no social problem has been taken as the central theme of a novel. In fact, social problems, even the most serious and urgent ones, such as poverty, ignorance and disease, have in most instances been mentioned throughout the novel as part of the general atmosphere or 'local environment'. The acute and chronic suffering of the masses has rarely been exposed. In relation to the magnitude of the social problems and to the speed of development throughout the world in modem times, the social novelist in Egypt still shows a lack of deep concern, of real insight, of radical understanding, and appears to be without philosophy or vision. His message is often unimposing and is rarely given explicitly, It has very frequently boon too late and has almost never had the effect of rousing the public conscience.