David P Smith
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 281098 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David P Smith |
| NOMBRES | David P |
| APELLIDO | Smith |
| FIRMA | SMITH D P |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Texas Health Science Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1474-3214 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1969 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Generative AI in Higher Education
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is rapidly transforming the landscape of higher education, offering novel opportunities for personalised learning and innovative assessment methods. This paper explores the dual-edged nature of GenAI’s integration into educational practices, focusing on both its potential to enhance student engagement and learning outcomes and the significant challenges it poses to academic integrity and equity. Through …
How Students’ Inspirations and Aspirations Impact Motivation and Engagement in the First Year of Study
Within this study, we aim to better understand the inspirations and aspirations of first year Biosciences and Chemistry undergraduates, how these change over the first year of study and their impact on motivation and engagement. Participants were asked to write a short reflective piece at the start of Welcome Week in their first year of undergraduate study. Thematic analysis identified four themes surrounding inspirations and aspirations. The mos…
The role of mindfulness in distress and quality of life for men with advanced prostate cancer
Trial Registration: ACTRN12612000306819
Sociodemographic and health-related predictors of self-reported mammogram, faecal occult blood test and prostate specific antigen test use in a large Australian study
These results add to the literature on sociodemographic discrepancies related to cancer screening uptake and highlight the fact that many people are being screened for one cancer when they could be screened for two
The Gambling Urge Scale
The aim of this study was to establish reliability and validity of the Gambling Urge Scale (GUS) in a clinical population of problem gamblers. This cohort study was conducted in South Australia between March 2008 and March 2009. Participants were problem gamblers aged ≥18 years (n = 158) who were seeking treatment from a range of gambling help services. Measures included gambling urge, problem gambling screening, gambling behaviour and problems c…
Cancer screening among migrants in an Australian cohort; cross-sectional analyses from the 45 and Up Study
Certain migrant groups within the population may require targeted intervention to improve their uptake of cancer screening, particularly screening for bowel cancer
Smith and Bradshaw Respond
Between 1980 and 1990, the Hispanic population aged 65 years and older in Texas increased by 75% with the change from surname classification to origin classification. With the same change in classification, deaths in the Hispanic population aged 65 years and older increased 43%. In that decade, the “Hispanic paradox” was born. Using US national data in the only way we are aware it could be used, we found a similar discrepancy between populations …
The Impact of Pregnancy Intention on Breastfeeding Duration in Bolivia and Paraguay
Research has demonstrated that prolonged duration of breastfeeding promotes child survival. This study examines the impact of unintended—mistimed or unwanted—pregnancy on breastfeeding duration. We use data from the 1990 Paraguay and 1994 Bolivia Demographic and Health Surveys and restrict our analysis to last‐born, surviving children younger than 36 months from singleton births. To assess the association, unintended and intended pregnancies are …
Rethinking the Hispanic Paradox
Objectives. We examined the “Hispanic paradox,” whereby persons of Hispanic origin seemed to experience lower mortality than the non-Hispanic White population. This paradox coincided with a change from the classification of deaths and population by Spanish surname to the use of Hispanic-origin questions in the census and vital statistics. Methods. To estimate US Hispanic and non-Hispanic White mortality, we applied a familiar relation between dea…
Influences of Age on Emotional Reactivity During Picture Processing
We compared emotional reactivity to affective pictures for 32 older (60-71 years) and 34 younger (18-23 years) adults. We collected the startle-blink reflex, N1 and P3 components of the probe-evoked event-related brain potential, corrugator electromyogram, heart rate, and self-report measures of pleasure and arousal. Self-report findings indicated that older, compared with younger, adults reported greater overall pleasure and arousal. Older adult…
Reconciling heart disease mortality and ICD codes
This study uses 61 years of death certificates for Bexar County, Texas, uniformly coded under ICD 9, to describe the transition in heart disease mortality from 1935-1995. We find that life expectancy for persons dying with heart diseases increased throughout this period, with clear differences in rates of increase for males and females, associated with acute ischemic heart disease. Our data point to an epidemic of AIHD in the 1950s and 1960s, whi…
Decline of tuberculosis mortality in an urban Mexican-origin population, 1935-1984
Through a series of life table analyses, this paper describes the natural history of tuberculosis mortality in a Mexican-origin community over five decades (1935-84) during which the disease underwent a transition from a major underlying cause of death to a disease conditioned mentioned more often on death certificates as contributing to death than causing death. The decline in death rates from 1940 to 1950 was especially remarkable. Successive b…
Frontier Defense in the Civil War
Frontier Defense in the Civil War
Formal Demography
Frontier Defense in the Civil War
Frontier Defense in the Civil War
Journal Article Frontier Defense in the Civil War: Texas' Rangers and Rebels. By David Paul Smith. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1992. xiv + 237 pp. $39.50, ISBN 0-89096-484-X.) Get access Robert Wooster Robert Wooster Corpus Christi State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1619–1620, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080278 …
Frontier Defense in the Civil War
Journal Article Frontier Defense in the Civil War: Texas' Rangers and Rebels Get access Frontier Defense in the Civil War: Texas' Rangers and Rebels. By Smith David Paul. (College Station: Texas A ' M University Press, 1992. xiv + 237 pp. Maps, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $39.50.) Ruth Tone Ruth Tone El Paso, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 23, Issue 4…
Conscription and Conflict on the Texas Frontier, 1863-1865
Conscription and Conflict on the Texas Frontier, 1863-1865 David P. Smith The state-rights thesis once expounded by the disciples of historian Frank Owsley and later in its modified form by David Donald has rightly come under ardent scrutiny by modern-day critics. The most current extended look came in a recent, controversial book that included a historiographical survey of Confederate failure, and provided insightful new perceptions which, if no…
Life Table Techniques and their Applications
This work introduces the vast and growing literature on the statistical analysis of factors affecting lifetime with a focus on a nonnegative right-censored response variable exhibiting appreciable variation. More specifically this book is written for demographers epidemiologists and others who are interested in descriptive or explanatory analyses of duration of occupancy of a state such as being in school. In describing the time pattern of exit f…
The current differential in black and white life expectancy
The 1980 National Center for Health Statistics life tables for the U. S. black and white populations reveal a difference in life expectancy of 7 years between black and white males and 6 years between black and white females. Using cause-substituted life tables, we show that a number of causes of death contribute to the difference. The largest contributors are cardiovascular disease for both sexes and homicide and cancer for males
Comment on barbara devaney’s “An analysis of variations in U.S. Fertility and female labor force participation trends”
Devaney presents an extension of the basic Easterlin relative income/fertility model incorporating wages (following Butz and Ward 1977) work experience and education as potential determinants of fertility but preserving the models underlying cohort approach and its essential indifference to period fertility behavior. In the Devaney model period effects occur principally with respect to the timing of fertility. When confronting a strong period eff…
Breastfeeding in the United States
The breastfeeding of U.S. infants born in 1974–76 is analyzed using data from the 1976 National Survey of Family Growth. It is found that the proportion of infants breastfed was increasing rapidly, with the highest rates found among white, college‐educated, western mothers and lowest rates among black mothers and mothers with less than a high‐school education. For children who were breastfed, the median duration was about 4.5 months and the mean …
Breastfeeding, Contraception, and Birth Intervals in Developing Countries
Numerous studies have demonstrated a strong correlation between breastfeeding and the duration of amenorrhea and between breastfeeding and the birth interval at the individual level. In the present study, both these correlations are shown to hold at the national level, in developing countries. In countries where the median durations of breastfeeding are relatively long or the rates of contraceptive use are relatively high, median birth intervals …
Breastfeeding in the United States
The breastfeeding of U.S. infants born in 1974–76 is analyzed using data from the 1976 National Survey of Family Growth. It is found that the proportion of infants breastfed was increasing rapidly, with the highest rates found among white, college‐educated, western mothers and lowest rates among black mothers and mothers with less than a high‐school education. For children who were breastfed, the median duration was about 4.5 months and the mean …
Rethinking the Hispanic Paradox
Objectives. We examined the “Hispanic paradox,” whereby persons of Hispanic origin seemed to experience lower mortality than the non-Hispanic White population. This paradox coincided with a change from the classification of deaths and population by Spanish surname to the use of Hispanic-origin questions in the census and vital statistics. Methods. To estimate US Hispanic and non-Hispanic White mortality, we applied a familiar relation between dea…
The current differential in black and white life expectancy
The 1980 National Center for Health Statistics life tables for the U. S. black and white populations reveal a difference in life expectancy of 7 years between black and white males and 6 years between black and white females. Using cause-substituted life tables, we show that a number of causes of death contribute to the difference. The largest contributors are cardiovascular disease for both sexes and homicide and cancer for males
Breastfeeding, Contraception, and Birth Intervals in Developing Countries
Numerous studies have demonstrated a strong correlation between breastfeeding and the duration of amenorrhea and between breastfeeding and the birth interval at the individual level. In the present study, both these correlations are shown to hold at the national level, in developing countries. In countries where the median durations of breastfeeding are relatively long or the rates of contraceptive use are relatively high, median birth intervals …
A reconsideration of Easterlin cycles
In the aftermath of World War II the United States found itself in a position of unexpected economic strength and confronting a resurgence in births quite beyond what demographers had come to consider reasonable for a developed country. It has taken nearly 30 years for fertility to become ‘reasonable’ again, and its interim course had seemed to call for exceptional efforts at interpretation. The best known and most respected of these efforts is R…
Influences of Age on Emotional Reactivity During Picture Processing
We compared emotional reactivity to affective pictures for 32 older (60-71 years) and 34 younger (18-23 years) adults. We collected the startle-blink reflex, N1 and P3 components of the probe-evoked event-related brain potential, corrugator electromyogram, heart rate, and self-report measures of pleasure and arousal. Self-report findings indicated that older, compared with younger, adults reported greater overall pleasure and arousal. Older adult…
Reconciling heart disease mortality and ICD codes
This study uses 61 years of death certificates for Bexar County, Texas, uniformly coded under ICD 9, to describe the transition in heart disease mortality from 1935-1995. We find that life expectancy for persons dying with heart diseases increased throughout this period, with clear differences in rates of increase for males and females, associated with acute ischemic heart disease. Our data point to an epidemic of AIHD in the 1950s and 1960s, whi…
Decline of tuberculosis mortality in an urban Mexican-origin population, 1935-1984
Through a series of life table analyses, this paper describes the natural history of tuberculosis mortality in a Mexican-origin community over five decades (1935-84) during which the disease underwent a transition from a major underlying cause of death to a disease conditioned mentioned more often on death certificates as contributing to death than causing death. The decline in death rates from 1940 to 1950 was especially remarkable. Successive b…
Robustness of 5 q x estimators under nonstationarity
When age-specific death rates are available for single year ages any of several formulas may be used to estimate the probability of dying in an age interval, 5qx. For 5-year age intervals, however, the simplest formulas are usually not as precise as some that are more complex. If in addition, the population is stable but nonstationary or is subject to fairly regular birth cycles, a formula due to Keyfitz and Frauenthal performs markedly better th…
Korea
The national surveys conducted every year in Korea give an unmatched glimpse into historic changes. The first survey was taken in early 1964 a perfectly-timed baseline in the national campaign of education and service that was launched that spring. It and subsequent surveys all of similar methodology show marked rises in critical indicators especially in knowledge and use of the intrauterine device (IUD) and in the proportion protected against pr…
Generating Functions for Partial Sex Control Problems
If at each conception couples have some control over the sex of their intended offspring, their chances of reaching a desired ultimate family composition will be influenced by the specific order in which they try for sons and daughters. This article introduces and discusses the mathematics of the strategy decisions that arise where probabilities remain constant at each birth. In the Appendix probabilities and their generating functions for distri…
Mathematical Demography
A reconsideration of Easterlin cycles
In the aftermath of World War II the United States found itself in a position of unexpected economic strength and confronting a resurgence in births quite beyond what demographers had come to consider reasonable for a developed country. It has taken nearly 30 years for fertility to become ‘reasonable’ again, and its interim course had seemed to call for exceptional efforts at interpretation. The best known and most respected of these efforts is R…
A comment on J. Akin et al., “The determinants Of breastfeeding in Sri Lanka”
Robustness of 5 q x estimators under nonstationarity
When age-specific death rates are available for single year ages any of several formulas may be used to estimate the probability of dying in an age interval, 5qx. For 5-year age intervals, however, the simplest formulas are usually not as precise as some that are more complex. If in addition, the population is stable but nonstationary or is subject to fairly regular birth cycles, a formula due to Keyfitz and Frauenthal performs markedly better th…
Breastfeeding, Contraception, and Birth Intervals in Developing Countries
Numerous studies have demonstrated a strong correlation between breastfeeding and the duration of amenorrhea and between breastfeeding and the birth interval at the individual level. In the present study, both these correlations are shown to hold at the national level, in developing countries. In countries where the median durations of breastfeeding are relatively long or the rates of contraceptive use are relatively high, median birth intervals …
Breastfeeding in the United States
The breastfeeding of U.S. infants born in 1974–76 is analyzed using data from the 1976 National Survey of Family Growth. It is found that the proportion of infants breastfed was increasing rapidly, with the highest rates found among white, college‐educated, western mothers and lowest rates among black mothers and mothers with less than a high‐school education. For children who were breastfed, the median duration was about 4.5 months and the mean …
Regression analysis of “current status” life tables on duration of breastfeeding in Sri Lanka
This paper illustrates the application of conventional regression techniques to the analysis of breastfeeding rates derived from the birth dates of respondents’ recent children and their breastfeeding status at date of interview. Rates of this type have been found to be less biased than rates based on recall of the duration of breastfeeding, but require new analytical approaches to be fully exploited
Comment on barbara devaney’s “An analysis of variations in U.S. Fertility and female labor force participation trends”
Devaney presents an extension of the basic Easterlin relative income/fertility model incorporating wages (following Butz and Ward 1977) work experience and education as potential determinants of fertility but preserving the models underlying cohort approach and its essential indifference to period fertility behavior. In the Devaney model period effects occur principally with respect to the timing of fertility. When confronting a strong period eff…
Breastfeeding in the United States
The breastfeeding of U.S. infants born in 1974–76 is analyzed using data from the 1976 National Survey of Family Growth. It is found that the proportion of infants breastfed was increasing rapidly, with the highest rates found among white, college‐educated, western mothers and lowest rates among black mothers and mothers with less than a high‐school education. For children who were breastfed, the median duration was about 4.5 months and the mean …
The current differential in black and white life expectancy
The 1980 National Center for Health Statistics life tables for the U. S. black and white populations reveal a difference in life expectancy of 7 years between black and white males and 6 years between black and white females. Using cause-substituted life tables, we show that a number of causes of death contribute to the difference. The largest contributors are cardiovascular disease for both sexes and homicide and cancer for males
Life Table Techniques and their Applications
This work introduces the vast and growing literature on the statistical analysis of factors affecting lifetime with a focus on a nonnegative right-censored response variable exhibiting appreciable variation. More specifically this book is written for demographers epidemiologists and others who are interested in descriptive or explanatory analyses of duration of occupancy of a state such as being in school. In describing the time pattern of exit f…
Conscription and Conflict on the Texas Frontier, 1863-1865
Conscription and Conflict on the Texas Frontier, 1863-1865 David P. Smith The state-rights thesis once expounded by the disciples of historian Frank Owsley and later in its modified form by David Donald has rightly come under ardent scrutiny by modern-day critics. The most current extended look came in a recent, controversial book that included a historiographical survey of Confederate failure, and provided insightful new perceptions which, if no…
Frontier Defense in the Civil War
Journal Article Frontier Defense in the Civil War: Texas' Rangers and Rebels Get access Frontier Defense in the Civil War: Texas' Rangers and Rebels. By Smith David Paul. (College Station: Texas A ' M University Press, 1992. xiv + 237 pp. Maps, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $39.50.) Ruth Tone Ruth Tone El Paso, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 23, Issue 4…
Frontier Defense in the Civil War
Frontier Defense in the Civil War
Formal Demography
Frontier Defense in the Civil War
Frontier Defense in the Civil War
Journal Article Frontier Defense in the Civil War: Texas' Rangers and Rebels. By David Paul Smith. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1992. xiv + 237 pp. $39.50, ISBN 0-89096-484-X.) Get access Robert Wooster Robert Wooster Corpus Christi State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1619–1620, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080278 …
Decline of tuberculosis mortality in an urban Mexican-origin population, 1935-1984
Through a series of life table analyses, this paper describes the natural history of tuberculosis mortality in a Mexican-origin community over five decades (1935-84) during which the disease underwent a transition from a major underlying cause of death to a disease conditioned mentioned more often on death certificates as contributing to death than causing death. The decline in death rates from 1940 to 1950 was especially remarkable. Successive b…
Reconciling heart disease mortality and ICD codes
This study uses 61 years of death certificates for Bexar County, Texas, uniformly coded under ICD 9, to describe the transition in heart disease mortality from 1935-1995. We find that life expectancy for persons dying with heart diseases increased throughout this period, with clear differences in rates of increase for males and females, associated with acute ischemic heart disease. Our data point to an epidemic of AIHD in the 1950s and 1960s, whi…
Influences of Age on Emotional Reactivity During Picture Processing
We compared emotional reactivity to affective pictures for 32 older (60-71 years) and 34 younger (18-23 years) adults. We collected the startle-blink reflex, N1 and P3 components of the probe-evoked event-related brain potential, corrugator electromyogram, heart rate, and self-report measures of pleasure and arousal. Self-report findings indicated that older, compared with younger, adults reported greater overall pleasure and arousal. Older adult…
Rethinking the Hispanic Paradox
Objectives. We examined the “Hispanic paradox,” whereby persons of Hispanic origin seemed to experience lower mortality than the non-Hispanic White population. This paradox coincided with a change from the classification of deaths and population by Spanish surname to the use of Hispanic-origin questions in the census and vital statistics. Methods. To estimate US Hispanic and non-Hispanic White mortality, we applied a familiar relation between dea…
Smith and Bradshaw Respond
Between 1980 and 1990, the Hispanic population aged 65 years and older in Texas increased by 75% with the change from surname classification to origin classification. With the same change in classification, deaths in the Hispanic population aged 65 years and older increased 43%. In that decade, the “Hispanic paradox” was born. Using US national data in the only way we are aware it could be used, we found a similar discrepancy between populations …
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