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1. Primitive methods of maize seed preparation

Author:
Biggar, H.H.
Source:
Agronomy journal 1918 v.10 no.4 pp. 183-185
ISSN:
0002-1962
Subject:
American Indians,   etc   ; Zea mays; ethnobotany; seedbed preparation; crop production; Minnesota; North Dakota; South Dakota; Nebraska; Montana; Manitoba;     Show all 11 Subjects
DOI:
10.2134/agronj1918.00021962001000040010x

2. The Influence of the Social Factor upon the Voting Behavior of South Carolina Urban Negroes

Author:
McConaughy, John B.; Gauntlett, John H.
Source:
TheAmerican behavioral scientist 1960 v.3 no.9 pp. 15-17
ISSN:
0002-7642
Subject:
African Americans,   etc   ; cities; politics; social factors; South Carolina;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... Sampling within five wards in five cities, the authors find striking relations between organizational membership and political behavior: voting participation increases as organizational membership increases and, in the group studied, the more organizations to which the respondent belonged, the more likely he was to be a Republican or independent voter. The most general conclusion is that the confl ...
DOI:
10.1177/000276426000300904

3. Income and the Social Factor in Negro Voting

Author:
McConaughy, John B.; Gauntlett, John H.
Source:
TheAmerican behavioral scientist 1961 v.4 no.5 pp. 39
ISSN:
0002-7642
Subject:
African Americans,   etc   ; income; social factors; South Carolina;     Show all 4 Subjects
Abstract:
... The May 1960 issue of ABS (then PROD) carried an article by the present authors on "The Influence of the Social Factor upon the Voting Behavior of South Carolina Urban Negroes." They found that in this group, voting participation increases as organ izational membership increases, and the more organizations to which a person belonged the more likely he was to vote Republican or independent. In a fu ...
DOI:
10.1177/000276426100400512

4. The Determination of Pricing Policy in the Health Care Delivery System

Author:
Palley, Howard A.; Palley, Marian Lief
Source:
TheAmerican behavioral scientist 1975 v.19 no.1 pp. 104-121
ISSN:
0002-7642
Subject:
Americans,   etc   ; health services; issues and policy; prices;     Show all 4 Subjects
Abstract:
... For millions of Americans-the poor and near poor who live in rural backwaters of this nation or populate its inner cities-the medical care system is not merely inadequate. It is almost non-existent. In addition, it is often an added source of injustice and oppression. For Americans who are not poor, but earn less than $20,000 a year, adequate medical care is becoming ever more elusive and more exp ...
DOI:
10.1177/000276427501900105

5. American Indian Farm Planning: An Analytical Approach to Tribal Decision Making

Author:
Norton, George W.; Easter, K. William; Roe, Terry L.
Source:
American journal of agricultural economics 1980 v.62 no.4 pp. 689-699
ISSN:
0002-9092
Subject:
American Indians,   etc   ; analytical methods; decision making; farm planning; farming systems; farms; investment planning; linear programming; livestock; models;     Show all 10 Subjects
Abstract:
... A multiyear linear programming model is used to assist an American Indian tribe develop agricultural plans for their tribal farm. Five‐year crop, livestock, and investment plans are generated consistent with the tribal resource base, goals, and decision‐making structure. The model has influenced the tribal farm decision‐making process and provided the primary farming guide for 1979 and 1980. Frequ ...
DOI:
10.2307/1239767

6. Cultural Challenges in Nutrition Education Among American Indians

Author:
Jackson, M. Yvonne; Broussard, Brenda A.
ISSN:
1554-6063
Subject:
American Indians,   etc   ; nutrition education; diabetes; food beliefs; health beliefs; United States;     Show all 6 Subjects
Abstract:
... Nutritional management is the cornerstone of any treatment program for diabetes. This paper presents a descriptive overview of the cultural factors influenc ing nutrition behavior and its relevance for nutrition education and diabetes management among American Indians. Techniques to improve diabetes educator effec tiveness to bridge cultural gaps are described. ...
DOI:
10.1177/014572178701300110
PubMed:
3643098

7. Designing Culturally Relevant Educational Materials for Mexican American Clients

Author:
Hall, Teri A.
Source:
TheDiabetes educator 1987 v.13 no.3 pp. 281-285
ISSN:
0145-7217
Subject:
Mexican Americans,   etc   ; nutrition education; design; guidelines; educational materials; diabetes;     Show all 6 Subjects
Abstract:
... The California Diabetes Control Program developed a set of pictorial bilingual materials featuring traditional Mexican food patterns to meet a need for culturally relevant diabetes education materials. Culturally appropriate nutrition education materials are not merely translated from English but must be adapted or redesigned, using culturally relevant concepts, methods, activities, and meal plans ...
DOI:
10.1177/014572178701300308
PubMed:
3665715

8. Acculturation and SES effects on Mexican-American parents' concepts of development

Author:
Gutierrez, J.; Sameroff, A.J.; Karrer, B.M.
Source:
Child development 1988 v.59 no.1 pp. 250-255
ISSN:
0009-3920
Subject:
Mexican Americans,   etc   ; parents; parenting; maternal behavior; child development; socioeconomic status; cultural differences; cultural values; acculturation; attitudes and opinions; Illinois;     Show all 11 Subjects
DOI:
10.1111/j.1467-8624.1988.tb03213.x

9. Homework: a cross-cultural examination

Author:
Chen, C.; Stevenson, H.W.
Source:
Child development 1989 v.60 no.3 pp. 551-561
ISSN:
0009-3920
Subject:
Americans,   etc   ; teachers; parent-child relationships; school children; attitudes and opinions; cultural differences; elementary education; academic achievement; duration; cross cultural studies; Illinois; Minnesota; Japan; China;     Show all 14 Subjects
DOI:
10.1111/j.1467-8624.1989.tb02736.x
PubMed:
2737007

10. Ethnobotany of purple coneflower (Echinacea angustifolia, Asteraceae) and other Echinacea species

Author:
Kindscher, K.
Source:
Economic botany 1989 v.43 no.4 pp. 498-507
ISSN:
0013-0001
Subject:
American Indians,   etc   ; Echinacea angustifolia; Echinacea purpurea; ethnobotany; traditional medicine; United States;     Show all 6 Subjects
Abstract:
... The purple coneflower, Echinacea angustifolia, was the most widely used medicinal plant of the Plains Indians. It was used for a variety of ailments, including toothache, coughs, colds, sore throats, snakebite, and as a painkiller. H. C. F. Meyer used it as a patent medicine in the 1870s and introduced it to the medical profession. Recent scientific research (mostly German) onEchinacea species has ...
DOI:
10.1007/BF02935924

11. Developmental outcome of minority infants: a process-oriented look into our beginnings

Author:
Garcia Coll, C.T.
Source:
Child development 1990 v.61 no.2 pp. 270-289
ISSN:
0009-3920
Subject:
American Indians,   etc   ; Hispanics; parent-child relationships; minorities (people); family structure; parents; child care; socioeconomic status; child development; Asians; health services; Blacks; preschool children; infants; United States;     Show all 15 Subjects
DOI:
10.1111/j.1467-8624.1990.tb02779.x
PubMed:
2188805

12. Development of minority children: an introduction

Author:
Spencer, M.B.
Source:
Child development 1990 v.61 no.2 pp. 267-269
ISSN:
0009-3920
Subject:
American Indians,   etc   ; Hispanics; minorities (people); child development; Asians; Blacks; United States;     Show all 7 Subjects
DOI:
10.1111/j.1467-8624.1990.tb02778.x

13. Designing and Evaluating Diabetes Education Material for American Indians

Author:
Hosey, Gwendolyn M.; Freeman, William L.; Stracqualursi, Frances; Gohdes, Dorothy
Source:
TheDiabetes educator 1990 v.16 no.5 pp. 407-414
ISSN:
0145-7217
Subject:
American Indians,   etc   ; program planning; nutrition education; diabetes mellitus; education programs; readability; educational materials; reading; program evaluation; Oregon; Idaho;     Show all 11 Subjects
Abstract:
... This paper describes the methods used to develop and evaluate diabetes education material for American Indians and Alaska Natives living in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Reading skills of individuals and readability of a sample of existing diabetic education material were measured. Using the Wide Range Achievement Test to measure reading skills, the authors found that 66% of the sample read at a ...
DOI:
10.1177/014572179001600514
PubMed:
2390941

14. Detection of American foulbrood of the honeybee, using a monoclonal antibody specific to Bacillus larvae in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

Author:
Olsen, P.E.; Grant, G.A.; Nelson, D.L.; Rice, W.A.
Source:
Canadian journal of microbiology 1990 v.36 no.10 pp. 732-735
ISSN:
0008-4166
Subject:
American foul brood,   etc   ; Apis mellifera; larvae; Paenibacillus larvae; detection; monoclonal antibodies; enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay;     Show all 7 Subjects
DOI:
10.1139/m90-124

15. Cretaceous Promecognathinae (Coleoptera: Carabidae): a new genus, phylogenetic reconstruction and zoogeography

Author:
McKAY, IAN J.
Source:
Biological journal of the Linnean Society 1991 v.44 no.1 pp. 1-12
ISSN:
0024-4066
Subject:
African Americans,   etc   ; Carabidae; age determination; lakes; new genus; phylogeny; sediments; zoogeography; Botswana;     Show all 9 Subjects
Abstract:
... A fossil carabid (Coleoptera) belonging to the subfamily Promecognathinae is described from Cretaceous crater lake deposits at Orapa, Botswana. The specimen, which is the first ever fossil promecognathine, is placed in a new genus Palaeoxinidium. The fossil supports a Cretaceous age determination for the sediments, and it indicates that the Orapa crater was, at least in part, heavily vegetated at ...
DOI:
10.1111/j.1095-8312.1991.tb00603.x

16. Making a living in the tropical forest: Yuqui foragers in the Bolivian Amazon

Author:
Stearman, A.M.
Source:
Human ecology 1991 v.19 no.2 pp. 245-260
ISSN:
0300-7839
Subject:
American Indians,   etc   ; tropical rain forests; food availability; human behavior; tribal peoples; foraging; Bolivia;     Show all 7 Subjects
DOI:
10.1007/BF00888747

17. The tropical rain forest: is it a productive environment for human foragers?

Author:
Bailey, R.C.; Headland, T.N.
Source:
Human ecology 1991 v.19 no.2 pp. 261-285
ISSN:
0300-7839
Subject:
American Indians,   etc   ; tropical rain forests; food availability; human behavior; tribal peoples; foraging; yams; Malaysia;     Show all 8 Subjects
DOI:
10.1007/BF00888748

18. Diabetes Education in a Mexican-American Population: Pilot Testing of a Research-Based Videotape

Author:
Brown, Sharon A.; Duchin, Sally P.; Villagomez, Evangelina T
Source:
TheDiabetes educator 1992 v.18 no.1 pp. 47-51
ISSN:
0145-7217
Subject:
Mexican Americans,   etc   ; diabetes; health education; educational methods; blood glucose; nutrition education; men; women; Texas; Mexico;     Show all 10 Subjects
Abstract:
... A diabetes education videotape was designed and pilot tested in a sample of 30 Spanish-speaking Hispanic diabetic adults in a rural Texas-Mexico border community. The videotape provided an overview of diabetes, with emphasis on the concept of blood glucose; relationships between food, medications, exercise, and blood glucose levels; and blood glucose monitoring. Outcomes of videotape effectiveness ...
DOI:
10.1177/014572179201800108
PubMed:
1370266

19. Hypotensive effect and enzyme inhibition activity of Mapuche medicinal plant extracts

Author:
Schmeda-Hirschmann, G.; Loyola, J.I.; Sierra, J.; Retamal, R.; Rodriguez, J.
Source:
Phytotherapy research 1992 v.6 no.4 pp. 184-188
ISSN:
0951-418X
Subject:
American Indians,   etc   ; medicinal plants; plant extracts; antihypertensive agents; enzyme inhibitors; xanthine oxidase; beta-glucuronidase; enzyme activity; traditional medicine; Chile;     Show all 10 Subjects
DOI:
10.1002/ptr.2650060404

20. A Comment on Whether Maquiladoras Are in Mexico for Low Wages or to Avoid Pollution Abatement Costs

Author:
Molina, David J.
Source:
TheJournal of environment & development 1993 v.2 no.1 pp. 221-241
ISSN:
1552-5465
Subject:
North American Free Trade Agreement,   etc   ; industry; labor; pollution; pollution control; surveys; Mexico; United States;     Show all 8 Subjects
Abstract:
... The negotiation and ratification of NAFTA have brought into focus the reasons for the growth of the maquiladora industry in Mexico. At question is whether the maquila industry has grown as a result of pollution abatement cost avoidance or inexpensive labor. This paper reviews the three basic methods used to address this question: surveys, pollution measurement, and historical trends. Using the lat ...
DOI:
10.1177/107049659300200112