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HUD Crosswalk Files Facilitate Multi-State Census Tract COVID-19 Spatial Analysis
(U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2021)The coronavirus COVID-19 has infected millions of Americans. Datasets like the national county-level aggregation of COVID-19 case counts that Johns Hopkins University & Medicine assembled have been widely used, but few ... -
Measuring Distance to Resources
(U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2017)Mapping counts or rates of residents by areal geographies is useful for visualizing distributions across regions. However, this approach limits the understanding of resource proximity to visual approximations. Taking ... -
Crosswalking ZIP Codes to Census Geographies: Geoprocessing the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development’s ZIP Code Crosswalk Files
(U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2020)Although ZIP Codes are a commonly used geographic unit for mapping and spatial analysis, they frequently distort data (Beyer, Schultz, and Rushton, 2007; Cudnick et al., 2012; Dai, 2010; Grubesic and Matisziw, 2006; Hipp, ... -
Calculating Varying Scales of Clustering Among Locations
(U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2018)The Nearest Neighbor Index (NNI) is a spatial statistic that detects geographical patterns of clustered or dispersed event locations. Unless the locations are randomly distributed, the distances of either clustered or ... -
German Narratives in International Television Format Adaptations: Comparing Du und Ich (ZDF 2002) with Un Gars, Une Fille (Quebec 1997-2002)
(Digital Humanities Quarterly, 2021)This article cross-culturally compares the German remake of the Quebec sketch comedy/sitcom series Un Gars, Une Fille ("A Guy and a Girl") the the original version by correlating quantitative data derived from the Adobe ... -
Plasma neurofilament light as a potential biomarker for cognitive decline in a longitudinal study of middle-aged urban adults
(Nature, 2021-08-21)Plasma neurofilament light (NfL) is a marker for neurodegenerative diseases. Few studies have examined the association of NfL with middle-aged changes in cognitive performance, and no studies have examined differential NfL ... -
Higher Education and Local Educational Attainment: Evidence from the Establishment of U.S. Colleges
(Annenberg Brown University, 2021-08-10)We investigate how the presence of a college affects local educational attainment using historical natural experiments in which "runner-up" locations were strongly considered to become college sites but ultimately not ... -
The English-Only Movement and the Political Legitimacy of Linguistic Minority Rights: The Case of Spanish in the United States
(2020-01-20)This interdisciplinary study is a contribution to the field of sociolinguistics, intercultural communication studies and related major field of research. Its contribution consists of addressing the problem of recognition ... -
Historical Simulations and the Mechanics of Conquest: How Game Mechanics Tell Stories About the Past
(2020-01-20)Over the past decade, historical simulations have become one of the most popular genres of video games. With audiences in the millions, these historically themed games represent mass-market works of popular history. This ... -
Heads and Hearts: Interactive Relations of Left Ventricular Mass and Sociodemographic Factors on Cognitive Outcomes in Urban Dwelling African American and White Adults.
(2020-01-20)Degree of hypertrophy of the left ventricle, indexed by greater LVM, is a measure of subclinical CVD that is prognostic of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Much is known about the relations of select subclinical CVD ... -
One Man Trance
(2020-01-20)Where we humans spend most of our time becomes representative of our subconscious. Our everyday movements and mannerisms are recorded in our environments. Your self becomes the space. Your rooms become your existing knowledge ... -
Quarantined and Sequestered: Tattoo Charlie's and Tattoo Regulation in Baltimore, 1938 to 1980
(2020-01-20)The scholarship on American tattoo history is characterized by its chronological gaps and lack of varied perspectives or methodological approaches. This research focuses on a Baltimore tattoo business?s history from 1938 ... -
Dead Wood: Growing, Wasting, and Harvesting Baltimore's Urban Forest
(2020-01-20)US cities are ?going green,? evoking utopian images of tree lined streets, lush parks, and swimmable waterways. But as a practice, ?going green? is messy. When sustainability advocates attempt to green cities they inevitably ... -
HIGH SCHOOL MATH COURSE ENROLLMENT AMONG HIGH MATH ABILITY STUDENTS: GENDER, RACE/ETHNICITY, MOTIVATION, AND CONTEXT
(2020-01-20)National goals to increase the STEM workforce and representation of minorities in the STEM workforce underscore the need to consider secondary pathways into such fields. This study examined the motivational (competence ... -
Ethnic-racial socialization practices, gender, and academic achievement among high school adolescents
(2020-01-01)Academic achievement is an important determinant of adolescent outcomes (Skinner, McHale, Wood, & Telfer, 2018). Moreover, parents sometimes engage in ethnic-racial socialization (ERS) practices in an effort to increase ... -
White Matter Tract Integrity as a Mediator of the Association Between Socioeconomic Status and Executive Function
(2019-01-01)Lower socioeconomic status (SES) is related to poorer executive function, but the neural mechanisms of this association remain unclear. As optimal communication between brain regions is essential to our cognitive abilities, ... -
A Necessary Haunting
(2020-01-01)Notice: In light of unforeseen circumstances concerning the COVID-19 pandemic, certain elements of the paper regarding audience interaction are no longer possible yet are still integral to the messages and ideas of the ... -
Sexuality, Socialism & Sandals: Studying the Obsolescence of Uranian Epistemology, 1867-1933
(2020-01-01)This thesis examines the history of the word ?uranian? and its place in modern LGBTQ studies. I compare the ideologies revolving around uranianism, and its progression from its creator Karl Heinrich Ulrichs to their ... -
Shielding the Pain Away: Examining the Role of the Head-Mounted Display in Experimental Acute Pain Reduction
(2020-01-01)As an emerging technology, virtual reality (VR) poses the potential to transform experiences of acute pain in health settings. This study examined whether a competing environmental stimulus (CES) would yield a differential ... -
A Multi-Method Approach to Examine Predictors and Outcomes of Muslim American Adolescents? Social Identities
(2020-01-01)The Muslim American population is the fastest growing and one of the most discriminated against religious groups in the United States. The current socio-political climate poses profound developmental challenges for Muslim ...
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