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Are Risk and Protective Factors for Substance Use Consistent Across Historical Time?: National Data From the High School Classes of 1976 Through 1997
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Society for Prevention Research ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-03)
Researchers have seldom examined whether risk and protective factors are consistently linked to substance use across historical time. Using nationally representative data collected from 22 consecutive cohorts of high school ...
Measuring the abruptness of patchy ecotones – A simulation-based comparison of landscape pattern statistics
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-09)
The use of statistics of landscape pattern to infer ecological process at ecotones requires knowledge of the specific sensitivities of statistics to ecotone characteristics. In this study, sets of patch-based and boundary-based ...
International Health Economics Association Seventeenth Annual Kenneth J. Arrow Award in Health Economics
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2008-09)
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Self-esteem and delinquency revisited
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1981-12)
A recent investigation by Rosenberg and Rosenberg used longitudinal data from the Youth in Transition study to explore the causal relationships between delinquency and self-esteem. The present study is based on the same ...
A note on changes in black racial attitudes in Detroit: 1968–1976
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publ. Co ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1979-10)
Severity, timing, and structure of disability
(Birkhäuser-Verlag; Birkhäuser-Verlag Basel ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-04)
Objectives: Severity and timing are key aspects of disability experience for individuals. They also generate a population’s disability structure (prevalence, counts, patterns). We study links among severity, duration, and ...
Union Formation Among Men in the U.S.: Does Having Prior Children Matter?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2003-02)
Neighborhood Social Change and Perceptions of Environmental Degradation
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-11)
This paper investigates how changes in neighborhood facilities—new schools, health posts, bus services, mills, dairies, agricultural cooperatives, and other facilities—influence perceptions of environmental degradation. ...