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The Atlanta Urban Networks Study: a blueprint for endemic transmission

AIDS, 2000
To study prospectively social networks and behavior in a group of persons at risk for HIV because of their drug-using and sexual practices, with particular emphasis on the interaction of risks and concomitant network structure.A longitudinal study was conducted of 228 respondents in Atlanta, Georgia in six inner-city community chains of connected ...
R B, Rothenberg, D M, Long, C E, Sterk, A, Pach, J J, Potterat, S, Muth, J A, Baldwin, R T, Trotter   +7 more
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Atlanta Wheelchair Accessible Bus Study

1978
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Paul, Grant, Casey, Grant, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center   +2 more
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A population‐based study of craniosynostosis in metropolitan Atlanta, 1989–2003

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, 2008
AbstractCraniosynostosis is a birth defect characterized by premature fusion of one or more cranial sutures. We describe the birth prevalence of craniosynostosis and related risk factors among infants born to residents of metropolitan Atlanta during 1989–2003.
Sheree L, Boulet, Sonja A, Rasmussen, Margaret A, Honein   +2 more
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Protocol and Baseline Characteristics for a Community Health Worker-Led Hypertension and Diabetes Management Program for South Asians in Atlanta: The DREAM Atlanta Study

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022
South Asians are disproportionately affected by type 2 diabetes (DMII) and comorbid hypertension (HTN). Community health worker (CHW) interventions have been shown to improve chronic disease outcomes, yet few have been tailored for South Asians. This paper describes the study protocol and baseline characteristics of an evidence-based CHW intervention ...
Megha K, Shah, Laura C, Wyatt, Christina, Gibbs-Tewary, Jennifer, Zanowiak, Shinu, Mammen, Farhan M, Mohsin, Nadia, Islam   +6 more
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OCCUPATIONAL DISPARITY IN A MIGRANT METROPOLIS: A CASE STUDY OF ATLANTA

Sociological Spectrum, 2006
ABSTRACT As the populations of immigrant and migrant groups swell in Atlanta, Georgia, the nature of race and ethnic relations in the metropolis, one historically dominated by a black-white dichotomy, is changing. In the 2000 census nearly 40% of the Atlanta metropolitan area's working-age population was an immigrant, a return migrant, or a northern ...
Robert M. Adelman, Hui-shien Tsao, Stewart E. Tolnay   +2 more
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W.E.B. Du Bois and the Atlanta University Studies on the Negro*

The Journal of Negro Education, 1957
In 1897, W. E. B. Du Bois was called to Atlanta University by President Horace Bumstead. The young Harvard Ph.D. was employed to supervise the sociology program and to direct a series of conferences on Negroes which Atlanta had newly sponsored. The institution was an unusual Negro school because it operated contrary to many of the Southern conventions.
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Collaborative planning – A neoliberal strategy? A study of the Atlanta BeltLine

Cities, 2015
Abstract Collaborative/communicative planning theorists have engaged Habermas’s idea of communicative rationality to offer a framework for a more democratic decision-making process. However, critics of communicative rationality and its underlying assumptions raise fundamental questions about the very possibility of an actually existing collaborative ...
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The Atlanta FICSIT Study: Two Exercise Interventions to Reduce Frailty in Elders

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1993
This study examines the effect of two different exercise approaches on balance and frailty measures among more than 200 community‐dwelling individuals greater than 70 years of age. Exercises are provided for 15 weekly sessions on an individual basis for participants randomly assigned to a Balance Training group.
S L, Wolf, N G, Kutner, R C, Green, E, McNeely   +3 more
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SOIL RADON STUDIES IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA

Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 2022
Daniela Galeano, Brian K. Meyer, Nadine Kabengi, Dajun Dai, Xiaochun He, Pamela Gore, Ashwin Ashok   +6 more
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The Role of Biogenic Hydrocarbons in Urban Photochemical Smog: Atlanta as a Case Study

Science, 1988
The effects of natural hydrocarbons must be considered in order to develop a reliable plan for reducing ozone in the urban atmosphere. Trees can emit significant quantities of hydrocarbons to metropolitan areas such as Atlanta, and model calculations indicate that these natural emissions can significantly affect urban ozone levels.
W L, Chameides, R W, Lindsay, J, Richardson, C S, Kiang   +3 more
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