UMBC College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences: Recent submissions
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Estimating Causal Effects in Observational Studies Using Electronic Health Data: Challenges and (some) Solutions
(Ubiquity Press, 2013-12-01)Electronic health data sets, including electronic health records (EHR) and other administrative databases, are rich data sources that have the potential to help answer important questions about the effects of clinical ... -
Silicon Forest and Server Farms: The (Urban) Nature of Digital Capitalism in the Pacific Northwest
(2019-06)Access to inexpensive hydro-resources, such as hydro-electricity and water for cooling, cheap land, and proximity to undersea networks have created a spatial sweet spot for big tech companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook, ... -
The Good Parent: Southern Italian Mothers’ Conceptualization of Good Parenting and Parent–Child Relationships
(SAGE Journals, 2019-04-17)Thirty mothers, ranging in age between 30 and 46 years, participated in seven focus groups aimed at analyzing perceptions and ideas of the characteristics of a good parent and parent–child relationship in southern Italy ... -
The Elementary Education Act of 1870: Landmark or Transition
(Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2019-04-11)The Education Act of 1870 was only one of several factors contributing to the onset of universal schooling and literacy in England. Much of the growth of state involvement in the provision of elementary schooling occurred ... -
Effect of Birth Preparedness on Institutional Delivery in Semiurban Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study
(Ubiquity Press, 2019-03-21)Background: Ethiopia has one of the lowest rates of facility delivery and is promoting birth preparedness among pregnant women through its community health services to increase the rate of institutional delivery and reduce ... -
Who Was Beatrix Potter? by Ellen Handler Spitz
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Mitzi Is Back : Tell Me a Lore
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Gleaning Wisdom from 11 Sources
(Lifestyle Theme on Genesis Framework, 2019-03-28) -
A New Consideration of Elena Ferrante’s The Beach at Night
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Intercultural Interventions: Politics, Community and Environment in the Otavalo Valley
(Cambria Press, 2019-03)Ecuadorian and other Latin American activists and academics involved in decolonial political projects. Emanating from social sectors marginalized by the processes of modernity, interculturality provides a grounded critique ... -
Hospital Community Benefits after the ACA: Building on State Experience
(The Hilltop Institute, 2011-04)This is the second issue brief in a series released by Hilltoprquote s Hospital Community Benefit Program. It takes a closer look at three aspects of community benefits affected by ‘a79007 of the Affordable Care Act, ... -
Distinguishing local and global correlates of population change in migratory species
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2019-01-24)Aim Understanding the processes driving population declines in migratory species can be challenging. Not only are monitoring data spatially and temporally sparse, but conditions in one location can carry over to indirectly ... -
The large-scale drivers of population declines in a long-distance migratory shorebird
(Wiley Periodicals, 2017-09-02)Migratory species can travel tens of thousands of kilometers each year, spending different parts of their annual cycle in geographically distinct locations. Understanding the drivers of population change is vital for ... -
The Development and Evaluation of a Statewide Training Center for Home Visitors and Supervisors
(Wiley Periodicals, 2019-03-09)This paper informs practice in community‐based home visiting workforce development by describing the development and evaluation of a university‐based training certificate program for home visitors and supervisors. The ... -
Reflecting on Efforts to Design an Inclusive Citizen Science Project in West Baltimore
(Citizen Science Association, 2019-03-08)Citizen science (CS) has been an increasingly utilized means by which scientists leverage members of the public to increase the amount of data collected and analyzed. However, the underrepresentation of individuals from ... -
Collective Efficacy as a Key Context in Neighborhood Support for Urban Youth
(Society for Community Research and Action, 2019-03-06)Neighborhood context, including the physical and social environment, has been implicated as important contributors to positive youth development. A transactional approach to neighborhood asserts that place and people ... -
The Metaphysics of Recollection in Plato’s Meno
(Walter de Gruyter Inc., Boston/Berlin, 2019-03-06)Recollection is central to the epistemology of Plato’s Meno. After all, the character Socrates claims that recollection is the process whereby embodied human souls bind down true opinions (doxai) and acquire knowledge ... -
Creating Landscape-Scale Site Index Maps for the Southeastern US Is Possible with Airborne LiDAR and Landsat Imagery
(MDPI, 2019-03-06)Sustainable forest management is hugely dependent on high-quality estimates of forest site productivity, but it is challenging to generate productivity maps over large areas. We present a method for generating site index ...