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U.S. Farm Policy Reforms: Domestic and International Implications
(CUL Initiatives in Publishing (CIP), 2007)With the Doha Round of World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations at a standstill, substantial liberalization of agricultural trade remains elusive. One obstacle to progress is that “dirty decoupling” of farm subsidies ... -
U.S. teen demographics, health, and behaviors
(ACT for Youth Center of Excellence, 2010)Updated in 2010, this fact sheet offers selected statistics regarding U.S. youth in the following areas: general demographics, health (including violence and mortality, sexual health, substance use), education, civic ... -
Update of the Quality System of International Maritime University of Panama
(2016-03-23)The International Maritime University of Panama is the most recent public university in the Republic of Panama. This higher education institution specializes in the maritime and marine sector, and also has a Quality System ... -
Urban Agriculture in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
(CUL Initiatives in Publishing (CIP), 2011)Rapid urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa has led to serious concerns about household food security in urban areas. Urban agriculture, which includes both crop production and livestock raising, has been recognized as serving ... -
Using a P90/P10 Ratio to Measure Inequality Trends with the Public Use Current Population Survey: A View from Inside the Census Bureau Vaults
(2009)The March Current Population Survey (CPS) is the primary data source for estimation of levels and trends in U.S. earnings and income inequality. However, time-inconsistency problems related to top coding lead many CPS ... -
Using Internal CPS Data to Reevaluate Trends in Labor-Earnings Gaps
(2009)The Current Population Survey provides data that are used to compare gaps in the labor earnings of women and men, people of different races, and people of different levels of education; this article presents a data series ... -
Valerie Reyna Faculty Bio
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Vegetable gardening poster
(2009-06-10)CHEER Vegetable gardening event poster, April 2009, with Bob Kozlowski -
Vietnam's Aquaculture Trade: Food Safety and Sanitation Issues
(CUL Initiatives in Publishing (CIP), 2010)Vietnam's rapidly increasing seafood exports have made a significant contribution to the country's economic development over the past few years, largely as a result of vastly increased production from aquaculture. Currently, ... -
Watchful Weighing: The Body Politics of Home Economics 1920-1950
(2011-03-03)Not long after the turn of the century, home economists, physicians, and public health workers made the height-weight chart into a household term. Historian Rachel Moran examines the spread of tables in schools, agricultural ... -
Water and Land Management and Agricultural Policy in Support of Food Security: The Amu Darya Delta in Uzbekistan
(CUL Initiatives in Publishing (CIP), 2016)Like other deltas in the world, the delta of the Amu Darya river is a very dynamic natural system that reflects all the processes and developments that occur in a river basin. Water and terrestrial ecosystems of the Amu ... -
Welcome Back Courtyard event poster
(2009-07)College celebration - Belkin Courtyard reopens after long closure due to construction. Dean Alan Mathios serves water melon. -
Wendy Williams Faculty Bio
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Wenming Luh Faculty Bio
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What Does It Cost Physician Practices to Interact With Health Insurance Plans?
(2009)Physicians have long expressed dissatisfaction with the time they and their staffs spend interacting with health plans. However, little information exists about the extent of these interactions.We conducted a national ... -
When the Pieces Do Not Quite Fit: The Role of Anomalous Information in Evaluating Explanations
(2010-05-22)No explanation is perfect. There are usually data that are anomalous to an explanation. We investigated two variables, resolving an anomaly and supporting an explanation, that make strong vs. weak anomalies more or less ... -
Why Calories Count
(2012-09-06)Calories are the source of health problems affecting billions of people in today's globalized world and these units of energy are a mystery to many of us. Marion Nestle (Paulette Goddard Professor of nutrition, food studies ... -
Will the United States Have a Shortage of Physicians in 10 Years?
(2009)Researchers and other experts continue to debate whether the United States will have a shortage of physicians in the future and, if so, whether the government should act now to expand medical school capacity and ... -
William D White Faculty Bio
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William Trochim Faculty Bio
(2015-05-01)
