Books: 'Sample rate'

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Large sample Hawaii birth abnormality rate determination. Honolulu, Hawaii: Research and Statistics Office, Hawaii State Dept. of Health, 1988.

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Rothacher, Fritz. Sample-rate conversion: Algorithms and VLSI implementation. Kothacher: Hartung-Gorre Verlag, 1995.

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The silent minority: Nonrespondents on sample surveys. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1987.

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The silent minority: Nonrespondents on sample surveys. Boulder, Colo: Westview Press, 1987.

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Walke, Richard Lewis. High sample-rate Givens rotations for recursive least squares. [s.l.]: typescript, 1997.

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Moura, Eduardo C. How to determine sample size and estimate failure rate in life testing. Milwaukee, Wis: ASQC Quality Press, 1991.

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The hunt for the last respondent: Nonresponse in sample surveys. The Hague: SCP, Social and Cultural Planning Office of the Netherlands, 2005.

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Kuo, Biing-Shen. The behaviour of the real exchange rate: A re-examination using finite sample approach. London: Centre for Economic Policy Research, 1997.

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Lieth, Helmut. Correlation analyses between weatherclasses and blood sedimentation rate fluctuations of a population sample in Leiden, The Netherlands. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: SPB Academic Pub., 1996.

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Park, Jae Won. The information in the term structure of interest rates: Out-of-sample forecasting performance. Fontainebleau: INSEAD, 1990.

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Canada Centre For Mineral and Energy Technology. Administration of the Canada Explosives Act. Thermal Stability Evaluation of Samples From Ammonium Nitrate Melt Line Explosion by Accelerating Rate Calorimetry. S.l: s.n, 1985.

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How do I hate thee?: A sampler of poetic rage against cancer. Simsbury, Connecticut: Antrim House, 2011.

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Blau, Francine D. New evidence on gender differences in promotion rates: An empirical analysis of a sample new hires. Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2006.

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Clark, Todd E. Using out-of-sample mean squared prediction errors to test the martingale difference hypothesis. Kansas City [Mo.]: Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, 2004.

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Blau, Francine D. New evidence on gender difference in promotion rates: An empirical analysis of a sample of new hires. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2006.

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Dunlop, Steven Douglas. Gahnite from metamorphosed massive sulphide deposits and rare-element pegmatites: Development of discriminators based on bedrock and overburden samples. Sudbury, Ont: Laurentian University, Department of Earth Sciences, 2000.

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Configurations of rape in the Hebrew Bible: A literary analysis of three rape narratives. New York: Peter Lang, 2007.

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Freedom with violence: Race, sexuality, and the US state. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011.

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Sample Rate Conversion in Software Configurable Radios (Artech House Mobile Communications Series). Artech House Publishers, 2002.

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The out-of-sample success of term structure models as exchange rate predictors: A step beyond. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2001.

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U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. Division of Engineering Technology, ed. Selection of sample rate and computer wordlength in digital instrumentation and control systems: Draft report for comment. Washington, DC: Division of Engineering Technology, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 1999.

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lio, Ricardo Q. Auce. Atomic fluorescence spectroscopic methods for ultratrace elemental analysis using a high-repetition rate tunable dye laser and furnace sample atomization. 1999.

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Cheng, Russell. Change-Point Models. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198505044.003.0011.

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This chapter investigates change-point (hazard rate) probability models for the random survival time in some population of interest. A parametric probability distribution is assumed with parameters to be estimated from a sample of observed survival times. If a change-point parameter, denoted by τ‎, is included to represent the time at which there is a discrete change in hazard rate, then the model is non-standard. The profile log-likelihood, with τ‎ as profiling parameter, has a discontinuous jump at every τ‎ equal to a sampled value, becoming unbounded as τ‎ tends to the largest observation. It is known that maximum likelihood estimation can still be used provided the range of τ‎ is restricted. It is shown that the alternative maximum product of spacings method is consistent without restriction on τ‎. Censored observations which commonly occur in survival-time data can be accounted for using Kaplan-Meier estimation. A real data numerical example is given.

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Houssais, Sylviane, Lily Hechtman, and Rachel G. Klein. Long-Term Outcomes of Childhood Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190213589.003.0003.

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This chapter summarizes the long-term clinical and functional outcomes of children diagnosed with ADHD at a mean age of eight years (probands), followed prospectively for 33 years. Outcomes are summarized in adolescence, early adulthood, and mid-adulthood. Compared with matched controls, probands showed greater persistence of ADHD and greater prevalence of Conduct Disorder (CD), Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD), and Substance Use Disorder (SUD) in late adolescence. These dysfunctions continued into early adulthood, even when ADHD remitted for the majority of the sample, and were associated with deficits in educational and occupational attainment. The disproportionally high rate of CD, APD, and SUD translated to significantly higher rates of criminality, risk-taking behavior, risk-related medical outcomes, and elevated obesity rates in adulthood. The study’s findings suggest that childhood ADHD predisposes to maladjustment in adolescence and adulthood, particularly in a subset of individuals who develop CD/APD early on.

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Jun, Liu. Correlation structure and convergence rate of the Gibbs sampler. 1991.

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Petrie, Suzanne. Attributions of blame for stranger and acquaintance rape and rape myth acceptance in a british sample. 1997.

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Colwell, Cynthia M. Researching Music Therapy in Medical Settings. Edited by Jane Edwards. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199639755.013.16.

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Research has indicated that music therapy is effective in hospital contexts for managing pain, reducing anxiety, ameliorating social isolation, slowing the impact of cognitive or developmental regression or delays, expressing emotions, and altering physiological responses as medically needed. Music can impact physiological responses including heart rate, blood pressure, pulse oxygenation, pain indicators, respiration, muscle tension, cardiac output, and immunologic function. Participation in music therapy interventions can improve treatment adherence, reduce deleterious symptoms of diseases and effects of medical procedures, and generally enhance quality of life in an unfamiliar and potentially unappealing environment. This chapter will describe a sample of how music therapists have conducted research in medical contexts and will present ways in which such research can be planned and undertaken.

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Vital rates of India, 1971 to 1996, based on the sample registration system (SRS). New Delhi: Registrar General, India, 1998.

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Hartmann, Andrea S., and Ulrike Buhlmann. Prevalence and Underrecognition of Body Dysmorphic Disorder. Edited by Katharine A. Phillips. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190254131.003.0005.

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Large epidemiologic studies across Western countries that used DSM-IV and DSM-5 diagnostic criteria have found a point prevalence rate of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) of 1.7% to 2.9%. The prevalence of BDD is higher in clinical samples. Gender ratios in epidemiologic studies show a slight preponderance of females, which is confirmed in most convenience and clinical samples. Prevalence rates appear to be highest in younger (adolescent) subsamples. Other demographic correlates include a lower likelihood of being in a committed relationship, less education, lower household income, and higher unemployment rates. Key clinical correlates from epidemiologic studies are greater depression, anxiety, and somatoform symptoms and more frequent suicidal ideation and suicide attempts. Reasons for the underrecognition of BDD include shame, fear of not being understood by the clinician, lack of readiness for treatment, skepticism about treatment or belief in the superiority of other forms of treatment (such as cosmetic treatment), and lack of financial coverage for treatment.

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Churchill, Robert Paul. First Steps Toward Understanding Honor Killing. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190468569.003.0001.

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This chapter explores the oddity and complexity of honor killing. Sample incidents are discussed to reveal the general features of honor killing as a traditional practice significantly different from other forms of femicide. Adopting the Human Rights Watch definition of honor killing as a neutral and provisional guide, the chapter argues that honor killing should be distinguished from crimes of passion, domestic violence, and crimes of violence. Honor killings uniquely involve perceived obligations to execute a dishonored female where male blood relatives serve as killers and killing is a means of restoring family honor. Although most common in Muslim-majority countries, this practice occurs globally and apparently at an increasing rate. There is continuing public support for honor killing in some countries where it has been traditional despite increased official efforts to criminalize the practice. There is no special connection between Islam and honor killing. No religion endorses honor killing.

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Powell, Roger A., Stephen Ellwood, Roland Kays, and Tiit Maran. Stink or swim: techniques to meet the challenges for the study and conservation of small critters that hide, swim, or climb, and may otherwise make themselves unpleasant. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198759805.003.0008.

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The study of musteloids requires different perspectives and techniques than those needed for most mammals. Musteloids are generally small yet travel long distances and many live or forage underground or under water, limiting the use of telemetry and direct observation. Some are arboreal and nocturnal, facilitating telemetry but limiting observation, trapping, and many non-invasive techniques. Large sexual size dimorphism arguably doubles sample sizes for many research questions. Many musteloids defend themselves by expelling noxious chemicals. This obscure group does not attract funding, even when endangered, further reducing rate of knowledge gain. Nonetheless, passive and active radio frequency identification tags, magnetic-inductance tracking, accelerometers, mini-biologgers and some GPS tags are tiny enough for use with small musteloids. Environmental DNA can document presence of animals rarely seen. These technologies, coupled with creative research design that is well-grounded on the scientific method, form a multi-dimensional approach for advancing our understanding of these charismatic minifauna.

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Weiner, Marli F., and Mazie Hough. Constructing Race. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036996.003.0002.

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This chapter explores how Southern physicians of the antebellum period defined the meanings of black and white bodies. In the mid-nineteenth century, the origins of race were of more than theoretical or political interest for those who were concerned with caring for the sick. Diseases did not present the same symptoms or follow the same trajectory from person to person or even in individuals of the same race, sex, or body type. This chapter begins with a discussion of how physicians concerned with the bodily consequences of racial differences typically grounded their thinking in observation. It then considers how physicians addressed the relative susceptibility of blacks and whites to disease as they debated the fundamental differences between black and white bodies. It also examines the role of physicians in the debate about race and slavery and concludes by assessing slaves' explanations for the meanings of raced bodies.

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Lapierre, Laurent M., and Alicia D. McMullan. A Review of Methodological and Measurement Approaches to the Study of Work and Family. Edited by Tammy D. Allen and Lillian T. Eby. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199337538.013.4.

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This chapter provides a review of research methods reported in work–family (WF) articles published in peer-reviewed journals between 2004 and 2013. Methodological issues addressed include sampling (sampling methods, identification of target and source populations, response rate, and comparison of sample to source population), research designs (time horizon, laboratory vs. field setting, and level of control), data collection methods, levels of analysis, use of multiple data sources, triangulation, and the use of objective outcome measures. When possible, statistical comparisons were made between the results of this review and those reported in an earlier review by Casper, Eby, Bordeaux, Lockwood, and Lambert (2007). Results show that multiwave as well as qualitative research designs have been used more frequently since the period reviewed by Casper and colleagues. Still, there is room for improvement in the methodological rigor with which WF research is undertaken. In particular, WF scholars are encouraged to give more attention to sampling-related considerations, and to more strongly consider the use of experimental research designs, data/measurement triangulation, and the collection of data beyond the individual level of analysis.

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Flood, Dawn Rae. Conclusion. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036897.003.0007.

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This concluding chapter considers the myriad legal and medical reforms that have been established since the 1970s in enhancing access to justice for rape victims. At the same time the chapter looks at contemporary rape cases and the media storm surrounding them, once again confronting the racial rape myths that prevail in contemporary American society. The chapter argues that, while institutionalized support for those navigating the complexities of rape trials has grown in recent decades, historic myths about race, gender, and sexual violence still uncomfortably intervene in sensationalized media coverage of sex crimes and in the contemporary justice system, forcing us to continue to confront and challenge our own understandings of rape.

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Morning, Ann. The Constructivist Concept of Race. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190465285.003.0004.

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This chapter follows up on the issue of the American public's reception of constructivist ideas. Interviews were conducted with anthropologists, biologists, and undergraduate students, and a sample of high school textbooks was consulted due to their better representation of what is being taught to the general public than college-level textbooks. Most of the textbooks transmitted essentialist views of the definition of race. When undergraduate students were asked how they would define race, most equated race with culture or utilized biological descriptions. The professors with essentialist views believe the academics who see race constructively are not real or competent scientists, and vice versa. Because natural sciences hold a prestige advantage over social sciences, essentialism has the upper hand when it comes to perceptions of scientificity.

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Anderson, Michael, and Corinne Roughley. Scottish National Mortality and its Wider Context. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805830.003.0016.

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In historical studies of Scottish mortality compared with other countries, expectation of life at birth is highly misleading because, until the early twentieth century, Scotland’s relatively low infant mortality conceals the fact that age-specific death rates at almost all other ages were higher than the closest comparators in western Europe. Scotland has continued to have worse mortality at all ages because Scottish infant mortality, along with death rates at most other ages, failed to decline at the same rate as these other countries in Europe. Nevertheless, expectation of life at all ages did eventually improve at all ages (except most recently for young adult males), though at very varying speeds over time. This allowed survival rates to increase quite markedly, with very few children dying in childhood, most still-married couples living long enough to celebrate many more wedding anniversaries, and most children to know their grand- or even their great-grandparents.

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Akyüz, Yilmaz. External Vulnerabilities. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198797173.003.0004.

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The deepened financial integration of EDEs has heightened their susceptibility to global financial shocks and increased the instability in their credit, assets, and currency markets. It has led to significant loss of autonomy over monetary policy and the entire spectrum of interest rates. At the same time, these countries are said to have become more resilient because they have adopted more flexible exchange rate regimes, accumulated large stocks of international reserves, and reduced their exposure to the exchange rate risk by shifting from foreign currency to local currency debt. This chapter critically examines these contentions and concludes that none of these practices provides adequate protection against external financial shocks, taking into account the new vulnerabilities entailed by the increased depth and changed pattern of integration, particularly greater presence of foreigners in domestic financial markets and of the nationals of emerging economies in markets abroad.

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Derry, William, and Scott Genshaft. Extreme Thoracic Biopsies. Edited by S. Lowell Kahn, Bulent Arslan, and Abdulrahman Masrani. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199986071.003.0068.

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Percutaneous transthoracic biopsy is a commonly used procedure in the diagnosis of intrathoracic pathology. With modern imaging and interventional devices, percutaneous transthoracic biopsy allows access to locations inaccessible by mediastinoscopy or bronchoscopic biopsy. This chapter presents tips for performing successful percutaneous biopsy of lesions in precarious intrathoracic locations. The practices highlighted should help maximize the chances for a successful tissue yield while minimizing the rate of biopsy-associated complications. Mediastinal, hilar, and juxtapleural lesions present anatomic challenges that can decrease the chance of safely obtaining tissue and increase complication rates. The use of techniques to displace injury-prone anatomical structures and to open access windows can allow the interventionalist to obtain diagnostic tissue samples from almost all intrathoracic locations. A well-planned approach is the most important factor in maximizing yield and preventing complications.

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Bailey, Richard A. Puritans and Race. Edited by Paul Harvey and Kathryn Gin Lum. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190221171.013.22.

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In scholarly discussions about “race” in the Americas, colonial New England often receives little attention. While race-based slavery perhaps never commanded the same attention in the northern colonies as in regions farther south, “race” factored into nearly every aspect of life in New England from the outset. This chapter not only discusses how scholars have approached this conversation but also investigates some of the ways in which New Englanders made sense of themselves and the peoples of varying ethnicities, relying at times on the specific theological context of New England puritanism. Focusing on the ways in which New Englanders wrestled with the dilemma of racial thinking within their theological system brings New England fully into the discussion of the intersections between “race” and religion in colonial America.

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Taxman, Faye S., and Mary Mun. Recidivism. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199374847.003.0013.

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High rates of rearrest and recidivism, especially among drug-involved individuals, are of grave concern for the justice system and society at large. This chapter looks at the factors affecting recidivism rates of substance-involved individuals involved in the justice system. We begin by considering the complexity of measuring recidivism and the meaning of this concept; the term is fraught with difficulties due to the complexities of generalizing findings across studies with varying sampling frames and time-frames for follow-up, and differences in the types of recidivism events studied. Recent research illustrates that recidivism rates among drug users vary by drug of choice and are typically higher among individuals who use amphetamines, heroin, and/or cocaine. Recidivism rates may also vary depending on the presence of certain comorbid factors, although this is an emerging area of research. Factors that appear to elevate recidivism rates include personality disorders, co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders, other psychiatric disorders, and other serious mental illness. The location of an individual’s residence also appears to impact the recidivism rate, possibly mediated by the presence or absence of various protective factors in the community. While the nature of the relationship between drugs and crime is still unclear, the same is true for our understanding of recidivism among substance users in the justice system. There is a need for a greater understanding of the relationship between substance use and recidivism, in order to fill existing knowledge gaps.

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Pasquier, Mike. Catholicism and Race. Edited by Paul Harvey and Kathryn Gin Lum. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190221171.013.18.

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Historical accounts of American Catholicism are not complete without some recognition of the racial contours of life in the United States. As a people both racist and racialized, American Catholics have lived along a spectrum of racial identification, both reinforcing and confounding the black-and-white boundaries that so dominate American racial ideology. European Catholic colonizers introduced race-based notions of slavery to North America as early as the fifteenth century. Some Catholics of African descent challenged the institutionalization of white supremacy in the American Catholic Church during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, at the same time that many white Protestant Americans categorized Catholic immigrants of Europe as dark-skinned outsiders. The immigration of people from Latin America and Asia has only added to the racial diversification of American Catholicism in the twenty-first century, further reinforcing the importance of race to the study of Catholicism in American history.

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Stowe, David W. Religion and Race in American Music. Edited by Paul Harvey and Kathryn Gin Lum. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190221171.013.4.

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Religious music functions both to create group identities and to dissolve social boundaries. Historically, American music has been characterized by racial and religious crossover. While many ethnic groups have participated in constituting American music, the most seminal crossovers have occurred between African and European Americans. Jazz was shaped largely by the interactions of Jews and African Americans. Gospel music developed from the interaction of vernacular slave spirituals, Protestant hymns, and the secular blues. Christian hymns have been thoroughly indigenized by many Native American groups. Compared to Buddhists and Jews, American Hindus and Muslims have made few musical adaptations of their worship music, but their music has been widely sampled in American popular styles. In recent decades, mainline Protestant hymnals have come to reflect the deeply multicultural reality of American sacred song.

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Back, Kerry E. Explaining Puzzles. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190241148.003.0011.

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Various models proposed to explain the equity premium or risk‐free rate puzzle are explained: external habits (Abel’s “catching up with the Joneses” model and the Campbell‐Cochrane model), rare disasters, Epstein‐Zin‐Weil utility, long run risks, and idiosyncratic uninsurable labor income risk. External habits allow the SDF to be variable without requiring high variability of consumption. The SDF for a representative investor with Epstein‐Zin‐Weil utility depends on consumption and the market return. It is most useful when the world is not IID, as in the long‐run risks model. With uninsurable labor income risk, there is no representative investor even if investors all have the same CRRA utility, and there is additional exibility to explain asset returns.

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Zambrana, Rocío. Hegel, History, and Race. Edited by Naomi Zack. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190236953.013.13.

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Hegel’s philosophy of history and his treatment of race are inextricably entwined. Reflection on this entwinement reveals the complexities of any attempt that aims to mark the limits of Hegel’s thought and Hegel scholarship while at the same time recovering Hegelian insights. Considering Hegel’s conceptions of history and race in the Anthropology and the Lectures on the Philosophy of History helps assess Susan Buck-Morss’ s Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History. Buck-Morss defends a reconstructed notion of universal history despite her own important account of the problematic entwinement of history and race in Hegel.

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Carter, Scott. Latin American Migrations to the U.S. Heartland. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037665.003.0012.

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This chapter offers a descriptive analysis of the demographic presence and economic activity of the Hispanic population in six core Heartland states: Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma; hereafter referred to collectively as the Heartland 6 (HL6). It gives an overall view of the underlying trends in Hispanic demography, productivity, employment, and other relevant socioeconomic variables from 2000–2007. It shows that the HL6 experienced increased rates of growth in its Hispanic population, a trend consistent with evidence reported in the recent “new destinations” literature. At the same time, traditional growth states vis-à-vis Hispanic presence report decreasing trends in their growth rate. This represents a diffusion, or convergence, of Latin American migrations throughout the United States. Economic performance, income distribution, employment, and the age-gender profile are also descriptively presented.

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Walsh, Bruce, and Michael Lynch. Using Molecular Data to Detect Selection: Signatures from Multiple Historical Events. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198830870.003.0010.

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This chapter examines the search for a pattern of repetitive adaptive substitutions over evolutionary time. In contrast with the previous chapter, only a modest number of tests toward this aim have been proposed. The HKA and McDonald-Kreitman tests contrast the polymorphism to divergence ratio between different genomic classes (such as different genes or silent versus replacement sites within the same gene). These approaches can detect an excess of substitutions, which allows one to estimate the fraction of adaptive sites. This chapter reviews the empirical data on estimates of this fraction and discusses some of the sources of bias it its estimation. Over an even longer time scale, one can contrast the rate of change of sites in a sequence over a phylogeny. These tests require a rather special type of selection, wherein the same specific site (usually a codon) experiences multiple adaptive substitutions over a phylogeny, such as might occur in arms-race genes.

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Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. Race for Profit. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653662.001.0001.

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By the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally worked to end the practice of redlining. Reasoning that the turbulence could be calmed by turning Black city-dwellers into homeowners, they passed the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, and set about establishing policies to induce mortgage lenders and the real estate industry to treat Black homebuyers equally. The disaster that ensued revealed that racist exclusion had not been eradicated, but rather transmuted into a new phenomenon of predatory inclusion. Race for Profit uncovers how exploitative real estate practices continued well after housing discrimination was banned. The same racist structures and individuals remained intact after redlining’s end, and close relationships between regulators and the industry created incentives to ignore improprieties. Meanwhile, new policies meant to encourage low-income homeownership created new methods to exploit Black homeowners. The federal government guaranteed urban mortgages in an attempt to overcome resistance to lending to Black buyers – as if unprofitability, rather than racism, was the cause of housing segregation. Bankers, investors, and real estate agents took advantage of the perverse incentives, targeting the Black women most likely to fail to keep up their home payments and slip into foreclosure, multiplying their profits. As a result, by the end of the 1970s, the nation’s first programs to encourage Black homeownership ended with tens of thousands of foreclosures in Black communities across the country. The push to uplift Black homeownership had descended into a goldmine for realtors and mortgage lenders, and a ready-made cudgel for the champions of deregulation to wield against government intervention of any kind. Narrating the story of a sea-change in housing policy and its dire impact on African Americans, Race for Profit reveals how the urban core was transformed into a new frontier of cynical extraction.

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Zack, Naomi. How Mixed Race Is Not Constructed. Edited by Naomi Zack. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190236953.013.6.

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American racial identities change over time and place, as all social constructions do, but they are also stable in historical and generational ways, because people in the same family are usually the same race. This is not the case for mixed race, particularly mixed black and white (MBW). People in mixed-race families belong to different races. Motives from self-interest, to lack of racial solidarity, to a sense of justice could motivate choosing mixed-race identity. Passing for the race others think one is not, and conforming or not, to norms for racial identities raise social and moral questions for members of the unconstructed racial group of mixed-race Americans.

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Jay, Gregory S. White Writers, Race Matters. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190687229.001.0001.

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White liberal race fiction has been an enduringly popular genre in American literary history. It includes widely read and taught works such as Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird along with period bestsellers now sometimes forgotten. Hollywood regularly adapted them into blockbusters, reinforcing their cultural influence. These novels and films protest slavery, confront stereotypes, dramatize social and legal injustices, engage the political controversies of their time, and try to move readers emotionally toward taking action. The literary forms and arguments of these books derive from the cultural work they intend to do in educating the minds and hearts, and propelling the actions, of those who think they are white—indeed, in making the social construction of that whiteness readable and thus more susceptible of reform. The white writers of these fictions struggle with their own place in systems of oppression and privilege while asking their readers to do the same. The predominance of women among this tradition’s authors leads to exploring how their critiques of gender and race norms often reinforced each other. Each chapter provides a case study combining biography, historical analysis, close reading, and literary theory to map the significance of this genre and its ongoing relevance. This tradition remains vital because every generation must relearn the lessons of antiracism and formulate effective cultural narratives for passing on the intellectual and emotional tools useful in fighting injustice.

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Lopez, Berenice, and Patrick J. Twomey. Biochemical investigation of rheumatic diseases. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199642489.003.0062.

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It is important for rheumatologists to have an understanding of biochemical tests including an awareness of their limitations. The biological variability of an analyte both within and between individuals, the limitations of the measurement technology, the sensitivity of laboratory internal quality control and external quality assurance procedures, as well as interlaboratory variations in practices including sample collection procedures, may all impact on the interpretation of a result. Biochemical tests are often requested to monitor organ-specific dysfunction arising as an adverse consequence of pharmacotherapy or as a component of a systemic rheumatic disease, although dysfunction may also reflect infection or coincidental pathology. Patients with rheumatic diseases are at high risk of renal and hepatic disease. Serum creatinine and its derivative estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) are the most readily available surrogate markers of GFR and are used to assess renal impairment and monitor its course. However, the use of creatinine alone lacks sensitivity and a substantial loss of function must occur before creatinine levels are increased. Additional biochemical screening for kidney damage can be performed by assessment of glomerular integrity, including proteinuria or albuminuria and haematuria. A wide spectrum of rheumatic diseases can affect the liver with various degrees of involvement and hepatic pathology. These often present with cholestatic or hepatitic biochemical profiles. The medical management of rheumatic diseases also involves medications that are hepatotoxic, and routine monitoring of liver function is recommended. This approach is not problem-free and may be improved by quantitative determinations of non-invasive markers of liver fibrosis in the future. Together with imaging techniques, biochemical tests play an important role in the assessment and differential diagnosis of metabolic bone disease.

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