Human Migration and the Marginal Man
Migrations, with all the incidental collision, conflicts, and fusions of peoples and of cultures which they occasion, have been accounted among the decisive forces in history. E...
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Discrete-Time Methods for the Analysis of Event Histories
The history of an individual or group can always be characterized as a sequence of events. People finish school, enter the labor force, marry, give birth, get promoted, change e...
College sophomores in the laboratory: Influences of a narrow data base on social psychology's view of human nature.
For the 2 decades prior to 1960, published research in social psychology was based on a wide variety of subjects and research sites. Content analyses show that since then such r...
Refining the Global Spatial Limits of Dengue Virus Transmission by Evidence-Based Consensus
The map produced here provides a list of 128 countries for which there is good evidence of dengue occurrence, including 36 countries that have previously been classified as deng...
The Social Control of Impersonal Trust
How do societies control trust relationships that are not embedded in structures of personal relations? This paper discusses the guardians of impersonal trust and discovers that...
Using Linear Algebra for Intelligent Information Retrieval
Currently, most approaches to retrieving textual materials from scientific databases depend on a lexical match between words in users’ requests and those in or assigned to docum...
Sifting the evidence---what's wrong with significance tests? Another comment on the role of statistical methods
The findings of medical research are often met with considerable scepticism, even when they have apparently come from studies with sound methodologies that have been subjected t...
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
"The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" is the entry-level subject in Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is required of all studen...
A general framework for object detection
This paper presents a general trainable framework for object detection in static images of cluttered scenes. The detection technique we develop is based on a wavelet representat...
Social networks and Internet connectivity effects
This paper explores the impact of communication media and the Internet on connectivity between people. Results from a series of social network studies of media use are used as b...
Support seeking and support giving within couples in an anxiety-provoking situation: The role of attachment styles.
This study examined how adult attachment styles moderate spontaneous behavior between dating couples when 1 member of the dyad is confronted with an anxiety-provoking situation....