John W Adams
Biographic Data
| ID | 99110 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John W Adams |
| GIVEN NAMES | John W |
| FAMILY NAME | Adams |
| SIGNATURE | ADAMS J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6608-8370 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1924 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Bigram Frequency, Number of Syllables and Morphemes and Their Effects on Lexical Decision and Word Naming
Mapping family connectedness across space and time
Understanding the structure and evolution of family networks embedded in space and time is crucial for various fields such as disaster evacuation planning and provision of care to the elderly. Computation and visualization can potentially play a key role in analyzing and understanding such networks. Graph visualization methods are effective in discovering network patterns; however, they have inadequate capability in discovering spatial and tempor…
Relationship between Cynicism and Job Satisfaction
Personality traits related to evaluation of other people and the world are important to study in relation to job satisfaction, which itself is an evaluation of various facets of a job, including the social dimensions. Accordingly, the relationship between cynicism and job satisfaction was studied. Cynicism was expected to be negatively related to job satisfaction, employees' perceptions of job enrichment, quality of leader-member exchange, and su…
The Role of Syllables in Anagram Solution
Anagrams are frequently used by experimental psychologists interested in how the mental lexicon is organized. Until very recently, research has overlooked the importance of syllable structure in solving anagrams and assumed that solution difficulty was mainly due to frequency factors (e.g., bigram statistics). The present study uses Rasch analysis to demonstrate that the number of syllables is a very important factor influencing anagram solution …
Gender differences in the dispersal of children in northern Sweden and the northern USA in 1850
In the course of time families disperse and kin relationships change. In this study gender differences in spatial dispersion of adult children from their fathers were investigated in two areas of the world in 1850: the Skellefteå region in northern Sweden and the northern part of the USA, both largely rural populations. The results from the Skellefteå region where data on both genders were available were used to estimate gender differences among …
Les sentiers invisibles
n'est autorise que dans les limites des conditions gnrales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas chant, des conditions gnrales de la licence souscrite par votre tablissement. Toute autre reproduction ou reprsentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manire que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord pralable et crit de l'diteur, en dehors des cas prvus par la lgislation en vigueur en France. Il est prcis que son stockage dans une base d…
Migration over the life course in XIXth century Netherlands and the american north
Comme les sources pour l'étude des migrations sont dépendantes de chaque unité territoriale d'enregistrement, dès qu'une personne franchit une frontière, elle échappe ipso facto à l'observation des greffiers locaux. En conséquence, pour pister les individus mobiles, il faut user de sources couvrant une aire régionale, voire nationale. La chronologie et le déroulement des migrations dans la durée de vie des individus sont, pour cette raison, en pr…
The Effects of Migration, Place, and Occupation on Adult Mortality in the American North, 1740–1880
(2000). The Effects of Migration, Place, and Occupation on Adult Mortality in the American North, 1740–1880. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 33, Spatial Variations in Mortality, pp. 115-130
Problems of behaviour, reading and arithmetic
Background. Estimates of academic underachievement among school children vary widely, depending on the geographical location and on the criteria used to define attainment. Aim. To examine the relationship between behaviour problems and academic attainment in a large UK primary school. Method. A school population (364 children from Years 3 to 6 inclusive) were assessed on a range of cognitive ability tasks. These included standardised tests of rea…
The effect of migration on ages at vital events
Symbolic Immortality
The farm family economy in the American North, 1775–1875
On retrouve des différences entre les descendants mâles des fermiers en matière de migration, fertilité et richesse dans la tranche agricole du Nord des Etats-Unis entre 1775 et 1875. Elles varient d'après les dimensions des families. Dans les families nombreuses les parents récoltent les bénéfices de leur déplacement avec les enfants, vers des terres nouvelles. Les enfants nés dans des families extrêmement mobiles connurent la réussite d'après l…
Estimates of Census Underenumeration Based on Genealogies
WE HAVE BEEN STUDYING the migrations of the descendants of nine men who came to Massachusetts before I650 and have compiled a computerized database that includes all the people born before I860 in the patrilines.Thus we have what the nine genealogists who studied these families thought was close to a complete list of family members alive in I850.Here we focus on our attempts to find these individuals on the I850 federal census.To facilitate our t…
Sepik River Societies
Gunboat Frontier
Wealth and Migration in Massachusetts and Maine
We use a genealogical data base to question the idea that the frontier was a “safety valve” for Americans in the years of the founding of the republic. Our findings about the relative wealth of members of nine families show how the frontier affected their migration patterns. We find that it was the middle class, not the poor, who seemed to make best use of the opportunity of the frontier
Migration and the Family in Colonial New England
This paper describes the migrations of the married men of six New England families from 1620 to 1850 using published genealogies as the data source. Their location at the time of vital events is used to investigate (1) per sistence rates; (2) distances between fathers, sons, and brothers during their life times ; and (3) the extent to which kin were found in the same community. Our data show more mobility than do town studies and reveal the impor…
Feasting with Cannibals
Little Injustices
Consensus, Community, and Exoticism
Consensus
Recent Ethnology of the Northwest Coast
As recently as 1970, Erna Gunther (77) apologized for the enormous effort she had made assembling early travelers' accounts of the Northwest Coast, by reminding her readers that there was virtually no time-depth to our knowledge of the area. Given the prevalence of wooden artifacts and the rainy climate, everyone assumed that little could be. unearthed. But the pioneering of wet-site archaeology in the 19608 soon brought the realization that Coas…
Books with Audiovisuals
Spatial Location and Social Organisation
The idea that the location of people in space may have a profound influence upon social organisation is not a new one to anthropologists. Tylor (1889: 247), for example, proposed that the societies in which people lived close to their in-laws would be the most likely to have rules that prescribed their avoidance. A popular explanation for whether clans are matrilineal or patrilineal is that they arise from residence patterns which cause matrilate…
Ethnology
Ethnology
The effect of migration on ages at vital events
Migration and the Family in Colonial New England
This paper describes the migrations of the married men of six New England families from 1620 to 1850 using published genealogies as the data source. Their location at the time of vital events is used to investigate (1) per sistence rates; (2) distances between fathers, sons, and brothers during their life times ; and (3) the extent to which kin were found in the same community. Our data show more mobility than do town studies and reveal the impor…
Estimates of Census Underenumeration Based on Genealogies
WE HAVE BEEN STUDYING the migrations of the descendants of nine men who came to Massachusetts before I650 and have compiled a computerized database that includes all the people born before I860 in the patrilines.Thus we have what the nine genealogists who studied these families thought was close to a complete list of family members alive in I850.Here we focus on our attempts to find these individuals on the I850 federal census.To facilitate our t…
Spatial Location and Social Organisation
The idea that the location of people in space may have a profound influence upon social organisation is not a new one to anthropologists. Tylor (1889: 247), for example, proposed that the societies in which people lived close to their in-laws would be the most likely to have rules that prescribed their avoidance. A popular explanation for whether clans are matrilineal or patrilineal is that they arise from residence patterns which cause matrilate…
The Effects of Migration, Place, and Occupation on Adult Mortality in the American North, 1740–1880
(2000). The Effects of Migration, Place, and Occupation on Adult Mortality in the American North, 1740–1880. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 33, Spatial Variations in Mortality, pp. 115-130
The farm family economy in the American North, 1775–1875
On retrouve des différences entre les descendants mâles des fermiers en matière de migration, fertilité et richesse dans la tranche agricole du Nord des Etats-Unis entre 1775 et 1875. Elles varient d'après les dimensions des families. Dans les families nombreuses les parents récoltent les bénéfices de leur déplacement avec les enfants, vers des terres nouvelles. Les enfants nés dans des families extrêmement mobiles connurent la réussite d'après l…
Mapping family connectedness across space and time
Understanding the structure and evolution of family networks embedded in space and time is crucial for various fields such as disaster evacuation planning and provision of care to the elderly. Computation and visualization can potentially play a key role in analyzing and understanding such networks. Graph visualization methods are effective in discovering network patterns; however, they have inadequate capability in discovering spatial and tempor…
Gender differences in the dispersal of children in northern Sweden and the northern USA in 1850
In the course of time families disperse and kin relationships change. In this study gender differences in spatial dispersion of adult children from their fathers were investigated in two areas of the world in 1850: the Skellefteå region in northern Sweden and the northern part of the USA, both largely rural populations. The results from the Skellefteå region where data on both genders were available were used to estimate gender differences among …
Consensus, Community, and Exoticism
Consensus
Recent Ethnology of the Northwest Coast
As recently as 1970, Erna Gunther (77) apologized for the enormous effort she had made assembling early travelers' accounts of the Northwest Coast, by reminding her readers that there was virtually no time-depth to our knowledge of the area. Given the prevalence of wooden artifacts and the rainy climate, everyone assumed that little could be. unearthed. But the pioneering of wet-site archaeology in the 19608 soon brought the realization that Coas…
The Role of Syllables in Anagram Solution
Anagrams are frequently used by experimental psychologists interested in how the mental lexicon is organized. Until very recently, research has overlooked the importance of syllable structure in solving anagrams and assumed that solution difficulty was mainly due to frequency factors (e.g., bigram statistics). The present study uses Rasch analysis to demonstrate that the number of syllables is a very important factor influencing anagram solution …
Problems of behaviour, reading and arithmetic
Background. Estimates of academic underachievement among school children vary widely, depending on the geographical location and on the criteria used to define attainment. Aim. To examine the relationship between behaviour problems and academic attainment in a large UK primary school. Method. A school population (364 children from Years 3 to 6 inclusive) were assessed on a range of cognitive ability tasks. These included standardised tests of rea…
Wealth and Migration in Massachusetts and Maine
We use a genealogical data base to question the idea that the frontier was a “safety valve” for Americans in the years of the founding of the republic. Our findings about the relative wealth of members of nine families show how the frontier affected their migration patterns. We find that it was the middle class, not the poor, who seemed to make best use of the opportunity of the frontier
Ethnology
Feasting with Cannibals
Ethnology
Costs and Efficiency in the Wholesaling and Retailing of Coal
Ethnology
Ethnology
Ethnology
Spatial Location and Social Organisation
The idea that the location of people in space may have a profound influence upon social organisation is not a new one to anthropologists. Tylor (1889: 247), for example, proposed that the societies in which people lived close to their in-laws would be the most likely to have rules that prescribed their avoidance. A popular explanation for whether clans are matrilineal or patrilineal is that they arise from residence patterns which cause matrilate…
Books with Audiovisuals
Consensus, Community, and Exoticism
Consensus
Recent Ethnology of the Northwest Coast
As recently as 1970, Erna Gunther (77) apologized for the enormous effort she had made assembling early travelers' accounts of the Northwest Coast, by reminding her readers that there was virtually no time-depth to our knowledge of the area. Given the prevalence of wooden artifacts and the rainy climate, everyone assumed that little could be. unearthed. But the pioneering of wet-site archaeology in the 19608 soon brought the realization that Coas…
Little Injustices
Migration and the Family in Colonial New England
This paper describes the migrations of the married men of six New England families from 1620 to 1850 using published genealogies as the data source. Their location at the time of vital events is used to investigate (1) per sistence rates; (2) distances between fathers, sons, and brothers during their life times ; and (3) the extent to which kin were found in the same community. Our data show more mobility than do town studies and reveal the impor…
Feasting with Cannibals
Wealth and Migration in Massachusetts and Maine
We use a genealogical data base to question the idea that the frontier was a “safety valve” for Americans in the years of the founding of the republic. Our findings about the relative wealth of members of nine families show how the frontier affected their migration patterns. We find that it was the middle class, not the poor, who seemed to make best use of the opportunity of the frontier
Gunboat Frontier
Sepik River Societies
Estimates of Census Underenumeration Based on Genealogies
WE HAVE BEEN STUDYING the migrations of the descendants of nine men who came to Massachusetts before I650 and have compiled a computerized database that includes all the people born before I860 in the patrilines.Thus we have what the nine genealogists who studied these families thought was close to a complete list of family members alive in I850.Here we focus on our attempts to find these individuals on the I850 federal census.To facilitate our t…
The farm family economy in the American North, 1775–1875
On retrouve des différences entre les descendants mâles des fermiers en matière de migration, fertilité et richesse dans la tranche agricole du Nord des Etats-Unis entre 1775 et 1875. Elles varient d'après les dimensions des families. Dans les families nombreuses les parents récoltent les bénéfices de leur déplacement avec les enfants, vers des terres nouvelles. Les enfants nés dans des families extrêmement mobiles connurent la réussite d'après l…
Symbolic Immortality
The effect of migration on ages at vital events
Problems of behaviour, reading and arithmetic
Background. Estimates of academic underachievement among school children vary widely, depending on the geographical location and on the criteria used to define attainment. Aim. To examine the relationship between behaviour problems and academic attainment in a large UK primary school. Method. A school population (364 children from Years 3 to 6 inclusive) were assessed on a range of cognitive ability tasks. These included standardised tests of rea…
The Effects of Migration, Place, and Occupation on Adult Mortality in the American North, 1740–1880
(2000). The Effects of Migration, Place, and Occupation on Adult Mortality in the American North, 1740–1880. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 33, Spatial Variations in Mortality, pp. 115-130
Les sentiers invisibles
n'est autorise que dans les limites des conditions gnrales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas chant, des conditions gnrales de la licence souscrite par votre tablissement. Toute autre reproduction ou reprsentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manire que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord pralable et crit de l'diteur, en dehors des cas prvus par la lgislation en vigueur en France. Il est prcis que son stockage dans une base d…
Migration over the life course in XIXth century Netherlands and the american north
Comme les sources pour l'étude des migrations sont dépendantes de chaque unité territoriale d'enregistrement, dès qu'une personne franchit une frontière, elle échappe ipso facto à l'observation des greffiers locaux. En conséquence, pour pister les individus mobiles, il faut user de sources couvrant une aire régionale, voire nationale. La chronologie et le déroulement des migrations dans la durée de vie des individus sont, pour cette raison, en pr…
Gender differences in the dispersal of children in northern Sweden and the northern USA in 1850
In the course of time families disperse and kin relationships change. In this study gender differences in spatial dispersion of adult children from their fathers were investigated in two areas of the world in 1850: the Skellefteå region in northern Sweden and the northern part of the USA, both largely rural populations. The results from the Skellefteå region where data on both genders were available were used to estimate gender differences among …
Relationship between Cynicism and Job Satisfaction
Personality traits related to evaluation of other people and the world are important to study in relation to job satisfaction, which itself is an evaluation of various facets of a job, including the social dimensions. Accordingly, the relationship between cynicism and job satisfaction was studied. Cynicism was expected to be negatively related to job satisfaction, employees' perceptions of job enrichment, quality of leader-member exchange, and su…
The Role of Syllables in Anagram Solution
Anagrams are frequently used by experimental psychologists interested in how the mental lexicon is organized. Until very recently, research has overlooked the importance of syllable structure in solving anagrams and assumed that solution difficulty was mainly due to frequency factors (e.g., bigram statistics). The present study uses Rasch analysis to demonstrate that the number of syllables is a very important factor influencing anagram solution …
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