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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 ...
Identifying Population Health Data Resources Within a Large Data Repository
(2018-03-27)
An overarching goal of ICPSR and its aging program, NACDA, is to build data resources that support the exploration and improvement of population health as part of the aging lifecourse. NACDA and ICPSR maintain one of the ...
Immigrant Parents, Ethnic Children, and Family Formation in the Early Prairie West
(University of Toronto Press, Inc., 2003)
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. ...
Land Use and First Birth Timing in an Agricultural Setting
(2007)
The dramatic changes in the earth’s landscape have prompted increased
interest in the links between population, land use, and land cover. Previous research
emphasized the notion of population pressure (population pressure ...
Software Review: Spatial Data Analysis of Crime: A Review of CrimeStat III
(Sage Publications, 2007)
Diversity and Structure of Intergenerational Relationships: Elderly Parent - Adult Child Relations in Korea
(2005)
Korean society has undergone a rapid demographic transition that has challenged
traditional patterns of family exchanges. The structure and directions of support flows have become more complex as multiple generations ...
Digital Data Curation – Examining Needs for Digital Data Curators
(2012-12-12)
As data increases in volume, complexity and value, there is a growing recognition of the need for digital data curation. The demand for data curation is not limited to libraries, archives, museums and other cultural ...