• Eigenvector Spatial Filtering for Large Data Sets: Fixed and Random Effects Approaches 

  Murakami, Daisuke; Griffith, Daniel A. (Wiley, 2018-03-25)

  Eigenvector spatial filtering (ESF) is a spatial modeling approach, which has been applied in urban and regional studies, ecological studies, and so on. However, it is computationally demanding, and may not be suitable for ...

• Staying Home, Staying Safe? A Short-Term Analysis of COVID-19 on Dallas Domestic Violence 

  Piquero, Alex R.; Riddell, Jordan R.; Bishopp, Stephen A.; Narvey, Chelsey; Reid, Joan A.; Piquero, Nicole L. (Springer Nature, 2020-06-14)

  COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on the lives of persons around the world and social scientists are just beginning to understand its consequences on human behavior. One policy that public health officials put in place to help ...

• Harmonizing Legal Socialization to Reduce Antisocial Behavior: Results from a Randomized Field Trial of Truanting Young People 

  Mazerolle, L.; Antrobus, E.; Cardwell, S. M.; Piquero, Alex R.; Bennett, S. (Routledge, 2019-06-05)

  Legal socialization conceptualizes two processes for attaining compliance as either consensus-based or coercive-based. However, in real life, an adolescent’s exposure to police and school authorities is likely to incorporate ...

• Paramilitary Violence in Colombia: A Multilevel Negative Binomial Analysis 

  Holmes, Jennifer S.; Mendizabal, Agustin Palao; De La Fuente, David Saucedo; Callenes, Mercedez; Cárdenas, Álvaro (Routledge, 2019-06-14)

  Although Colombia is well known for its persistent leftist guerrilla conflict, the country also suffers from paramilitary violence. This study examines the potential factors related to persistent paramilitary violence in ...

• A Comparative Study of the China Factor in Taiwan and Hong Kong Elections 

  Ho, Karl; Wong, Stan Hok-wui; Clarke, Harold D.; Lee, Kuan-Chen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018-05-20)

  This chapter probes the economic dimension of the China factor in Taiwan and Hong Kong politics. We discuss how economic integration efforts affect elections and party competitions in smaller states neighboring China. ...

• Substituting for United States-Led Multilateralism 

  Diehl, Paul F. (Wiley, 2019-01-29)

  No abstract available.

• Using Risk Terrain Modeling to Predict Homeless Related Crime in Los Angeles, California 

  Yoo, Youngmin; Wheeler, Andrew P. (Elsevier Ltd, 2019-06-22)

  We apply Risk Terrain Modeling (RTM) to identify the factors that predict homeless related crime at micro grid cells in Los Angeles, CA. We find that place based factors predicting whether homeless individuals are victimized ...

• Spatio-Temporal Comparison of Pertussis Outbreaks in Olmsted County, Minnesota, 2004-2005 and 2012: A Population-Based Study 

  Wi, C. -I; Wheeler, P. H.; Kaur, H.; Ryu, E.; Kim, Dohyeong; Juhn, Y. (BMJ Publishing Group, 2019-05-19)

  Objective: Two pertussis outbreaks occurred in Olmsted County, Minnesota, during 2004-2005 and 2012 (5-10 times higher than other years), with significantly higher incidence than for the State. We aimed to assess whether ...

• Environment and Anthropogenic Activities Influence Cetacean Habitat Use in Southeastern Brazil 

  Tardin, R. H.; Chun, Yongwan; Jenkins, C. N.; Maciel, I. S.; Simão, S. M.; Alves, M. A. S. (Inter-Research, 2019-05-09)

  Investigating the influence of coastal development on marine environments is a priority to maintain healthy seas. Cetaceans are top predators, keystone and umbrella species and thus are good candidate models to evaluate ...

• School Start Times, Delinquency, and Substance Use: A Criminological Perspective 

  Semenza, D. C.; Meldrum, R. C.; Jackson, D. B.; Vaughn, M. G.; Piquero, Alex R. (Sage Publications Inc., 2019-04-26)

  Research finds a lack of sleep during adolescence is associated with a variety of negative outcomes and suggests that early school start times contribute to this problem. Criminologists have largely overlooked the relevance ...

• Psychosocial Maturation, Race, and Desistance from Crime 

  Rocque, M.; Beckley, A. L.; Piquero, Alex R. (Springer New York LLC, 2019-05-21)

  Research on maturation and its relation to antisocial behavior has progressed appreciably in recent years. Psychosocial maturation is a relatively recent concept of development that scholarship has linked to risky behavior. ...

• Procedural Fairness, Public Service Motives, and Employee Work Outcomes: Evidence from Pakistani Public Service Organizations 

  Quratulain, S.; Khan, A. K.; Sabharwal, Meghna (Sage Publications Inc., 2017-07-05)

  Studies in public administration hypothesize the direct effect of public service motivation (PSM) on employee attitudes and behavior. We examine the relationship between public employees’ perceptions of procedural fairness ...

• Combining Water Fraction and DEM-Based Methods to Create a Coastal Flood Map: A Case Study of Hurricane Harvey 

  Li, Xiaoxuan; Cummings, Anthony R.; Alruzuq, A. R.; Matyas, C. J.; Amanambu, A. C. (MDPI AG, 2019-05-18)

  Tropical cyclones are incredibly destructive and deadly, inflicting immense losses to coastal properties and infrastructure. Hurricane-induced coastal floods are often the biggest threat to life and the coastal environment. ...

• Barriers and Incentives for Sustainable Urban Development: An Analysis of the Adoption of LEED-ND Projects 

  Cease, Brett; Kim, HyoungAh; Kim, Dohyeong; Ko, Y.; Cappel, C. (Academic Press, 2019-05-22)

  The adoption rate for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design – Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) projects has varied considerably across the United States. Local governments and developers face variation in the ...

• A Business That Can't Lose: Investing in Attacks against the Colombian Power Grid 

  Barreto, C.; Cardenas, A. A.; Holmes, Jennifer; Palao, Augustin; Restrepo, J. C. (Elsevier B.V., 2019-05-31)

  In 2005 a company in charge of repairing electric transmission towers made a deal with guerrilla militants to demolish the towers. This company thrived, because the attacks were attributed to guerrilla groups, who commit ...

• Do (Sex) Crimes Increase during the United States Formula 1 Grand Prix? 

  Piquero, Alex R.; Piquero, Nicole Leeper; Riddell, Jordan R. (Springer Nature, 2019-12-17)

  Objectives: We examine whether violent, property, or sex trafficking–related crime increased during the 2018 Formula 1 United States Grand Prix in Austin, Texas. Methods: Ordinary least squares regression models, time ...

• Money and Rhetoric: Energy Sector Dynamics in U.S. Senate Committee 

  Iliev, I. R.; Brandt, Patrick T. (Elsevier Inc., 2020-02-12)

  The sequencing of the relationship between campaign contributions and legislative rhetoric is categorized by competing theories as being driven by lags, leads, and contemporaneous effects. We study the committee level ...

• Congress and the Political Economy of Daylight Saving Time, 1918–1985 

  Gray, Thomas R.; Jenkins, J. A. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2019-05-06)

  Objective: Daylight Saving Time (DST) is a government policy regulating the timing of daylight during the summer months. While DST's existence is taken for granted in modern American life, the adoption and expansion of the ...

• Towards Human-Guided Machine Learning 

  Gil, Y.; Honaker, J.; Gupta, S.; Ma, Y.; D'Orazio, Vito; Garijo, D.; Gadewar, S.; Yang, Q.; Jahanshad, N. (Association for Computing Machinery, 2019-03)

  Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) systems are emerging that automatically search for possible solutions from a large space of possible kinds of models. Although fully automated machine learning is appropriate for many ...

• On the Samaritan's Dilemma, Foreign Aid, and Freedom 

  Faria, J. R.; Arce M., Daniel G. (MDPI Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2018-10-08)

  This paper presents an extension of the two-period Samaritan's Dilemma in order to analyze the potential for foreign aid to promote freedom. An example is the United States' recent opening towards Cuba. It is shown that a ...

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