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Guide to Social Science Data Preparation and Archiving
(Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, 2005)
Blowin' Down the Road: Investigating Bilateral Causality Between Dust Storms and Population in the Great Plains
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-08)
Recently, the National Academy of Sciences concluded “it is clear thatpopulation and the environment are usually interrelated . . . ”. This paper directlytests the expected interrelationship using annual county-level ...
An Unremembered Diversity: Mixed Husbandry and the American Grasslands
(Agricultural History, 2009-07-07)
The Green Revolution of the 1960s brought about a dramatic rise in global crop yields. But, as most observers acknowledge, this has come at a considerable cost to biodiversity. Plant breeding, synthetic fertilizers, and ...
Using ICPSR Resources to Teach Sociology
(2008-01)
The focus on quantitative literacy has been increasingly outside the realm of
mathematics. The social sciences are well suited to including quantitative elements
throughout the curriculum but doing so can mean challenges ...
Immigrant Parents, Ethnic Children, and Family Formation in the Early Prairie West
(University of Toronto Press, Inc., 2003)
A Reconfiguration of Census Tabulations: Maintaining Historical Consistency of Aggregate Industrial Categories at the County-Level
(2008-01-22)
Consistent measures are imperative for conducting valid historical analyses. Collected in the long-form survey of the decennial census, employment data has traditionally been tabulated by aggregate industrial category for ...
Providing Spatial Data for Secondary Analysis: Issues and Current Practices Relating to Confidentiality
(2008-07-02)
Spatially explicit data pose a series of opportunities and challenges for
all the actors involved in providing data for long-term preservation and secondary
analysis—the data producer, the data archive, and the data user. ...
Salivary Cortisol and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in a Low-Income Community Sample of Women
(Biological Psychiatry, 2003-09-05)
Changing Agrarian Landscapes Across America: A Comparative Perspective
(Oxford University Press, 2008)