Geographical mixing of H1N1 influenza A virus in a single university community
2011 study in the Journal of Virology mapping the diffusion and strains of the H1N1 virus as it spread through a university’s student community in 2009.
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Preventing wildfires: Effectiveness of fuel treatment in forests
2011 report from U.S. Forest Service on tree- and plant-thinning techniques used to reduce the chances of intense wildfires breaking out and spreading.
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When prophecy fails: How religious groups cope
Review of four academic studies looking at evidence from historical religious movements to explore behavioral patterns after prophecies fail to materialize.
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U.S. Government Accountability Office: 2011 report on criminal alien statistics
2011 GAO report on criminal activity by undocumented immigrants, their nationality and the estimated costs of such criminality to the United States.
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Test of forecasting model on Japanese earthquakes
2005 study in Pure and Applied Geophysics testing an earthquake forecasting model against the records of Japanese quakes over 36 years.
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State and local immigration enforcement in the United States
2011 study by the Migration Policy Institute on the state and local enforcement of the federal 287(g) section of the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act.
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Relationships between streetcars and the built environment
2010 study from the Transit Cooperative Research Program on recent streetcar systems and their impact on development and land-use patterns.
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Disparities in obesity patterns among adolescents
2010 study by researchers from UCSF, the University of Oklahoma and UC Berkeley on the prevalence of obesity among California public school students.
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Unauthorized immigrants and their U.S.-born children
2010 report by the Pew Hispanic Center on the characteristics of unauthorized immigrants’ families, parenting status and their children.
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Disparities faced by boys and men of color in California
2009 RAND Corporation study on the disparities between Latino and African-American males and their white counterparts in California.
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