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Data: Sharing Is Caring
(2018-02-28)
Data sharing promotes scientific progress by permitting replication of prior scientific analyses and by increasing the return on the human and financial investments made in data collection. The costs of data sharing can ...
Integrating Research on Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias into Population Health Models: Overcoming Barriers and Embracing New Opportunities
(2018-07-22)
Background: Population Health models have become an increasingly valuable approach for understanding how individual health outcome are related to individual care, the overall healthcare system and the social, economic, and ...
Managing Big Data Issues Within a Research Data Repository: Dealing With the 21st Century Data Explosion
(Global Science and Technology Forum in Annual International Conference on ICT: Big Data, Cloud and Security (ICT-BDCS 2015), 2015-07-27)
Increasingly, organizations in both the public and private sector who fund the collection of research information expect and in many cases mandate the public sharing of these data as a condition of support. While representing ...
Published findings from the spouse assault replication program: A critical review
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1995-03)
Published reports from seven jointly developed experiments have addressed whether or not arrest is an effective deterrent to misdemeanor spouse assault. Findings supporting a deterrent effect, no effect, and an escalation ...
The Influence of Community Violence on the Functioning of Women Experiencing Domestic Violence
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-09)
The relationships among women’s experiences of domestic violence, community violence, and their mental health functioning were explored ( N = 94). Social contagion theory was used to argue for the link between community ...
Demography and Environment in Grassland Settlement: Using Linked Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Data to Explore Household and Agricultural Systems
(Edinburgh University Press for the Association for History and Computing, 2006)
The Demography and Environment in Grassland Settlement project (DEGS) is a study of the relationship between population and environment in Kansas during its settlement and conversion from grassland to grain cultivation and ...
ICPSR Meets OAIS: Applying the OAIS Reference Model to the Social Science Archive Context
(2007)
This paper reviews the archival process at the Inter-university Consortium for
Political and Social Research (ICPSR), a repository of digital social science data, and maps ICPSR’s Ingest and Access operations to the Open ...
A Data-Driven Approach to Appraisal and Selection at a Domain Data Repository
(2017-12-31)
Social scientists are producing an ever-expanding volume of data, leading to questions about appraisal and selection of content given finite resources to process data for reuse. We analyze users’ search activity in an ...
Preventing Repeat Incidents of Family Violence: Analysis of Data from Three Field Experiments
(Springer, 2006)
Preventing repeat victimization is an area of criminology that has shown particular promise in recent years. Based on the premise that persons once victimized are at higher risk than others for future victimization, British ...
Patterns of Depression among Elderly Asian Immigrants to the United States Over the Past Decade
(2018-03-22)
Immigrants in the United States often face increased stressors associated with the transitions from an established home to a new environment. Factors such as cultural displacement, language barriers, economic and employment ...