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The Role of Strategic Attention Deployment in Development of Self-Regulation: Predicting Preschoolers' Delay of Gratification from Mother-Toddler Interactions.Toddlers' use of effective attention deployment strategies to cope with separation from the mother and with maternal behavior predicted the use of effective delay-of-gratification strategies at age 5, even though the contexts, measures, and manifest …
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Neighborhood Poverty I: Context and Consequences for ChildrenDrawing from national and city-based sources, Volume I reports the empirical evidence concerning the relationship between children and community. As the essays demonstrate, poverty entails a host of problems that affects the quality of educational, …
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Neighborhood Poverty II: Policy Implications for Studying NeighborhoodsVolume II incorporates empirical data on neighborhood poverty into discussions of policy and program development. The contributors point to promising community initiatives and suggest methods to strengthen neighborhood-based service programs for children. …
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The External Effects of Place-Based Subsidized HousingPrior research has provided little evidence that subsidized housing investments generate significant external benefits to their neighborhoods. This paper revisits the external effects of subsidized housing, exploring the case of New York City. Relying on …
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Nonprofit Housing and Neighborhood SpilloversNonprofit organizations play a critical role in U.S. housing policy, a role typically justified by the claim that their housing investments produce significant neighborhood spillover benefits. However, little work has actually been done to measure these …
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The State of New York City's Housing and Neighborhoods 2004The State of New York City’s Housing and Neighborhoods 2004 provides an overview of housing and neighborhood conditions in the City and summarizes recent developments in policy, law, and research related to …
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Governance, Management, and AccountabilityHow do we understand and also assess the health care of America? Where is health care provided? What are the characteristics of those institutions which provide it? Over the short term, how are changes in health care provisions affecting the health of the …
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The State of Health Delivery in the United StatesHow do we understand and also assess the health care of America? Where is health care provided? What are the characteristics of those institutions which provide it? Over the short term, how are changes in health care provisions affecting the health of the …
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Diagnostic Tools to Estimate Consequences of Terrorism Attacks Against Critical InfrastructureDiagnosing historical incidents of terrorism events within a risk management framework is an important tool for understanding the likelihood and form of future terrorist attacks and their consequences, particularly for critical infrastructure. Critical …
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The Next Step: Quantifying Infrastructure Interdependencies to Improve SecurityIn International Journal of Critical Infrastructures, Vol. 2, (2/3), pp. 215-230, UK: Inderscience Enterprises, Ltd.: "Understanding cascading effects among interdependent infrastructure systems can have an important effect on public policies that aim to …
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Performance Measurement for Managing Infrastructure AssetsPerformance measures are central to managing infrastructure assets, since they provide quantitative benchmarks and express values and preferences that are important for decision making. For example, one performance measure for decisions on upgrading an …
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Stability and Change in Mothers' Representations of Their Relationship with Their ToddlersThis study examined several issues in the developmental dynamics of parents' representations of their relationship with their toddlers. The authors studied 125 mothers and their firstborn toddler sons over a 13-month period. Mothers took the Parent …
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Mother’s Representations of Their Toddlers: Links to Adult Attachment and Observed MotheringMothers (N = 125) and their firstborn sons were studied over an 11-month period to examine relations between mothers' representations of their relationships with their children (measured at 15 months by using the Parent Development Interview [PDI]), adult …
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The Risk and Protective Function of Perceived Family and Peer Microsystems Among Urban Adolescents in PovertyUtilized a pattern-based approach to discover the different constellations of perceived social transactions separately for family and peer systems and explored the risk and protective functions of these microsystem profiles for both depression and …
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The Relations Between Maternal Behaviors and Urban Preschool Children's Internal Working Models of Attachment SecurityInterviewed 93 African-American, low-income women who had become pregnant as teenagers and their preschool-aged children in their homes. Mothers answered questions regarding their everyday stresses and feelings of depression. Children were assessed for …
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Contextualism and Developmental PsychopathologyThe field of developmental psychopathology has grown rapidly over the past several decades and research conducted within this framework has made substantial contributions to our understanding of human adaptation and maladaptation (Cicchetti & Cohen, …
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Neighborhood Effects on Health: Exploring the Links and Assessing the EvidenceThis article is an extensive review of the relationship between neighborhood and health and methodological challenges. The authors categorize the ways neighborhood might affect health in three ways: direct threats created by the neighborhood's …
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Use of Preventive Care Services, Beneficiary Characteristics, and Medicare HMO Performance.The superior performance of HMOs in providing preventive care--both in the population at-large (Miller and Luft, 1994), and within the elderly Medicare population (Ballard et al., 1997; Potosky et al., 1998; Retchin and Brown, 1990)--may be due to the …
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Nutrient Intake of Adolescents with DiabetesThe purposes of this paper are to (1) review the 24-hour intake of a nationally representative sample of adolescents, (2) describe data from a 24-hour food intake record from a sample of adolescents with diabetes, and (3) discuss the implications of this …
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The Effects of Poverty on Child Health and DevelopmentPoverty has been shown to negatively influence child health and development along a number of dimensions. For example, poverty-net of a variety of potentially confounding factors-is associated with increased neonatal and post-neonatal mortality rates, …
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The Evaluation of the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program: An OverviewAber, J.L., Brown, J.L., Chaudry, N., Jones, S.M. & Samples, F. …
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Spatial Lock-in: Do Falling House Prices Constrain Residential MobilityFalling house prices have caused numerous homeowners to suffer capital losses. Those with little home equity may be prevented from moving because of imperfections in housing finance markets: the proceeds from the sale of their home may be insufficient to …
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Regulatory Barriers to Housing Development in the United StatesSchill, M., Gambaro, A. & Jordan, M. …
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Building Homes, Reviving Neighborhoods: Spillovers from Subsidized Construction of Owner-Occupied Housing in New York CityThis article examines the impact of two New York City homeownership programs on surrounding property values. Both programs, Nehemiah Program and the Partnership New Homes program subsidize the construction of affordable owner-occupied homes in distressed …