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A false-discovery-rate-based loss framework for selection of interactions
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2008-05-20)
Interaction effects have been consistently found important in explaining the variation in outcomes in many scientific research fields. Yet, in practice, variable selection including interactions is complicated due to the ...
Conjoint Developmental Trajectories of Young Adult Substance Use
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008-05)
Tamang Conversions: Culture, Politics, and the Christian Conversion Narrative in Nepal
(Center for Nepal and Asian Studies, Tribhuvan University, 2008-01)
In 1990 the Buddhist people of Timling, on Nepal's northern borderland, converted en masse to evangelical Christianity and later to Roman Catholicism. While the process implies a profound cultural rupture, this essay takes ...
Decomposition of Differences
(Sage Publications, 1975)
This paper examines methods of decomposing a difference in levels between groups for a dependent variable such as income. Applied to regression equations, this technique estimates the contribution to the difference from ...
Beliefs about Condoms and Accessibility of Condom Intentions in Hispanic and African American Youth
(SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC., 1992)
During the sumnerof 1989, 30 Hispanic (15 male, 15female) and34AfricanAmerican (17 male, 17 female) Detroit youth participated in face-to-face interviews designed to identify condom beliefs that may influence condom use ...
The changing impact of the AIDS epidemic on older-age parents in the era of ART: Evidence from Thailand
(Springer, 2012-03)
Previous research makes clear that before antiretroviral therapy (ART), when HIV led to disabling illness and certain death, many older persons as parents of infected adults experienced adverse emotional, material and ...
Profile of arthritis disability: II
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2006-02-15)
Objective Arthritis is the most common chronic condition and the most common cause of disability among older US adults. We studied social participation, disabilities in many life domains, accommodations used (buffers), ...
Does it pay to move from welfare to work?
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2002)
The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act requires welfare recipients to lookfor work and has made it more difficult for nonworking recipients to remain on the welfare rolls. In addition,the ...
Chronic job insecurity among automobile workers: Effects on job satisfaction and health
(Elsevier, 1994-05)
Work conditions characterized by uncertainty and ambiguity are potential stressors for employees. One such stressor is job insecurity. This longitudinal study of 207 automobile manufacturing workers indicates that chronic ...