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Analyzing the demographic, spatial, and temporal factors influencing social contact patterns in U.S. and implications for infectious disease spread

open access: yesBMC Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background Diseases such as COVID-19 are spread through social contact. Reducing social contacts is required to stop disease spread in pandemics for which vaccines have not yet been developed.
Audrey M. Dorélien   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Census Snapshot: United States [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau, this report provides demographic and economic information about same-sex couples and same-sex couples raising children in the U.S.
Adam P. Romero   +3 more
core  

Mapping the “Supply–Demand–Flow” of Ecosystem Services for Ecosystem Management in China

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
This study develops a “supply–demand–flow” framework clarifies how ecosystem services move between regions by distinguishing potential and actual supply and demand. Using integrated biophysical–socioeconomic modeling, nine services in China were mapped.
Yikun Zhang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

National Experimental Wellbeing Statistics (NEWS)

open access: yesInternational Journal of Population Data Science
The NEWS project is improving and expanding estimates of income, poverty, and other measures of economic wellbeing by linking survey, administrative, and commercial data.
Jonathan Rothbaum
doaj   +1 more source

REMOTE SENSING FOR CROPS IDENTIFICATION [PDF]

open access: yesThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2019
Since 2012, the INEGI began using satellite images to identify crops and to be able to locate areas where they develop. To date, this activity has been developed as a research project in which different multispectral images and different tools for the ...
J. L. Escobar González
doaj   +1 more source

Why Are Young Children Missed So Often in the Census? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Analyzes data on the high net undercount of children, examines contributing factors and consequences, and considers prospects for the 2010 census. Makes recommendations for child advocacy groups and nonprofits, including partnering with the Census ...
William P. O'Hare
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Synergies in Agricultural Biodiversity Conservation: Decomposing the Interaction Between Nature Parks and Agri‐Environment Schemes

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding how policy instruments with overlapping goals interact is crucial for leveraging their synergies. This study explores the mechanisms for regional nature parks (a form of protected areas that impose no restrictions on agriculture) to enhance the adoption of biodiversity‐conserving agri‐environment schemes (AES) in Switzerland ...
Yanbing Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cash, Conditions, and Child Development: Experimental Evidence from a Cash Transfer Program in Honduras

open access: yesEconomía, 2019
We explore the effects of a randomly assigned conditional cash transfer in Honduras (Bono 10,000) on early childhood development. We find significant impacts on cognitive development in children aged zero to sixty months, with an average effect of 0.13 ...
Florencia Lopez Boo, John Creamer
doaj   +1 more source

Kenyan Farmers' Policy Priorities During Economic Crisis and Stability: Insights From a Best‐Worst Scaling Experiment

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tribute to Steve Fienberg

open access: yesThe Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality, 2018
As readers of this Journal know, I paid my tribute to Steve Fienberg in my 2016 Julius Shiskin Lecture:As readers of this Journal know, I paid my tribute to Steve Fienberg in my 2016 Julius Shiskin Lecture: "Finally, I would like to acknowledge the ...
John Abowd
doaj   +1 more source

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