Adam Thomas
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3959139 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Adam Thomas |
| NOMBRES | Adam |
| APELLIDO | Thomas |
| FIRMA | THOMAS A |
| AFILIACIONES | Child Trends |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7156-4477 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
“Woven into the fabric”
This article examines the crucial roles Black people played in the development of Western Carolina University (WCU) in the mountains of Southern Appalachia, and the university's failure to fully acknowledge the contributions those people have made. After introducing some relevant oral history projects, we focus on the history of the WCU land. We first describe the Indigenous dispossession by which the white Rogers family acquired the land in Cull…
How do medical schools influence their students’ career choices? A realist evaluation
Our initial theories about career decision-making were refined as follows: It involves a process of testing for fit of potential careers. This process is asymmetric with multiple experiences needed before deciding a career fits ('easing in') but sometimes only a single negative experience needed for a choice to be ruled out. Developing a preference for a speciality aligns with Person-Environment-Fit decision theories. Ruling out a potential caree…
Moryam VanOpstal
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A Bargain with His Brother”
In August 1831, around sixty enslaved people fought a war against enslavers in Southampton County, Virginia. It became known as the “Nat Turner Revolt.” Four months later, perhaps sixty thousand enslaved people fought their own emancipation war, commonly known as the “Baptist War,” throughout much of Jamaica. These uprisings differed in size, strategy, and outcome. The Virginian episode allowed slaveholders to strengthen their grip on slavery, wh…
Outcasts from the world’
In 1839, Jamaican plantation attorney Alexander Grant sued missionaries John Stainsby and Samuel Oughton for slander; they had accused Grant of ‘lewd and indecent practices’ with enslaved and apprenticed men. Missionaries and abolitionist supporters on one side, and Grant and the plantocracy on the other, used the scandal to challenge their opponents’ suitability to shape post-emancipation society. The trials show that sex – and same-sex sexualit…
Long-Acting Reversible Contraception
"Long-Acting Reversible Contraception: A Silver Bullet Solution for Unintended Pregnancy?." , 108(8), pp. 1007–1008
Linking Changes in Contraceptive Use to Declines in Teen Pregnancy Rates
Using a unique microsimulation tool, Teen FamilyScape, the present study explores how changes in the mix of contraceptive methods used by teens contributed to the decline in the U.S. teen pregnancy rate between 2002 and 2010. Results indicate that changes in contraceptive use contributed to approximately half of the decline in the teen pregnancy rate during this time period (48%) and that a little more than half of this “contraceptive effect” was…
The Relationship Between Academic Achievement And Nonmarital Teenage Childbearing
"Little Boats" in the Storm
“Little Boats” in the Storm:Racial Ambiguity and Gender in Two Postemancipation Adoptions Adam Thomas (bio) Exactly what transgression Mary Ann Lamb committed is unknown, but her adoptive parents, Loren and Nancy Thompson, considered them serious things “which we had to reprove her for.” Lamb, a young black woman of “about 20,” had visited the city of Kingston, Jamaica, to bid the Thompsons farewell as they departed for their native home in the U…
American Slavery, Atlantic Slavery, and Beyond
Comparative methodologies may have taken a back seat in slavery scholarship since the transnational turn, but works in the last decade by the likes of David Brion Davis, Seymour Drescher, Stanley E
Three Strategies to Prevent Unintended Pregnancy
This paper presents results from fiscal impact simulations of three national‐level policies designed to prevent unintended pregnancy: A media campaign encouraging condom use, a pregnancy prevention program for at‐risk youth, and an expansion in Medicaid family planning services. These simulations were performed using FamilyScape, a recently developed agent‐based simulation model of family formation. In some simulation specifications, policies’ be…
Promoting health, preserving culture
HIV/AIDS prevention strategies often neglect traditions and cultural practices relevant to the spread of HIV. The role of women in the HIV/AIDS context has typically been relegated to high-risk female groups such as sex workers, or those engaged in transactional sex for survival. Consequently, these perceptions are born out in the escalation of HIV/AIDS among communities, and female populations in particular where prevention frameworks remain cul…
Unintended Pregnancy and Taxpayer Spending
The prevention of unintended pregnancy represents an important opportunity for the public to reap substantial savings, especially given the current fiscal climate. The enactment or expansion of cost-effective policies to prevent unintended pregnancies is therefore a timely and sensible strategy
Leslie, Alfred
For richer or for poorer
This study examines the effects of changes in family structure on children's economic well‐being. An initial shift‐share analysis indicates that, had the proportion of children living in female‐headed families remained constant since 1970, the 1998 child poverty rate would have been 4.4 percentage points lower than its actual 1998 level of 18.3 percent. The March 1999 Current Population Survey is then used to conduct a second analysis in which ma…
For richer or for poorer
This study examines the effects of changes in family structure on children's economic well‐being. An initial shift‐share analysis indicates that, had the proportion of children living in female‐headed families remained constant since 1970, the 1998 child poverty rate would have been 4.4 percentage points lower than its actual 1998 level of 18.3 percent. The March 1999 Current Population Survey is then used to conduct a second analysis in which ma…
Three Strategies to Prevent Unintended Pregnancy
This paper presents results from fiscal impact simulations of three national‐level policies designed to prevent unintended pregnancy: A media campaign encouraging condom use, a pregnancy prevention program for at‐risk youth, and an expansion in Medicaid family planning services. These simulations were performed using FamilyScape, a recently developed agent‐based simulation model of family formation. In some simulation specifications, policies’ be…
Unintended Pregnancy and Taxpayer Spending
The prevention of unintended pregnancy represents an important opportunity for the public to reap substantial savings, especially given the current fiscal climate. The enactment or expansion of cost-effective policies to prevent unintended pregnancies is therefore a timely and sensible strategy
Long-Acting Reversible Contraception
"Long-Acting Reversible Contraception: A Silver Bullet Solution for Unintended Pregnancy?." , 108(8), pp. 1007–1008
Linking Changes in Contraceptive Use to Declines in Teen Pregnancy Rates
Using a unique microsimulation tool, Teen FamilyScape, the present study explores how changes in the mix of contraceptive methods used by teens contributed to the decline in the U.S. teen pregnancy rate between 2002 and 2010. Results indicate that changes in contraceptive use contributed to approximately half of the decline in the teen pregnancy rate during this time period (48%) and that a little more than half of this “contraceptive effect” was…
For richer or for poorer
This study examines the effects of changes in family structure on children's economic well‐being. An initial shift‐share analysis indicates that, had the proportion of children living in female‐headed families remained constant since 1970, the 1998 child poverty rate would have been 4.4 percentage points lower than its actual 1998 level of 18.3 percent. The March 1999 Current Population Survey is then used to conduct a second analysis in which ma…
Leslie, Alfred
Promoting health, preserving culture
HIV/AIDS prevention strategies often neglect traditions and cultural practices relevant to the spread of HIV. The role of women in the HIV/AIDS context has typically been relegated to high-risk female groups such as sex workers, or those engaged in transactional sex for survival. Consequently, these perceptions are born out in the escalation of HIV/AIDS among communities, and female populations in particular where prevention frameworks remain cul…
Unintended Pregnancy and Taxpayer Spending
The prevention of unintended pregnancy represents an important opportunity for the public to reap substantial savings, especially given the current fiscal climate. The enactment or expansion of cost-effective policies to prevent unintended pregnancies is therefore a timely and sensible strategy
Three Strategies to Prevent Unintended Pregnancy
This paper presents results from fiscal impact simulations of three national‐level policies designed to prevent unintended pregnancy: A media campaign encouraging condom use, a pregnancy prevention program for at‐risk youth, and an expansion in Medicaid family planning services. These simulations were performed using FamilyScape, a recently developed agent‐based simulation model of family formation. In some simulation specifications, policies’ be…
American Slavery, Atlantic Slavery, and Beyond
Comparative methodologies may have taken a back seat in slavery scholarship since the transnational turn, but works in the last decade by the likes of David Brion Davis, Seymour Drescher, Stanley E
Linking Changes in Contraceptive Use to Declines in Teen Pregnancy Rates
Using a unique microsimulation tool, Teen FamilyScape, the present study explores how changes in the mix of contraceptive methods used by teens contributed to the decline in the U.S. teen pregnancy rate between 2002 and 2010. Results indicate that changes in contraceptive use contributed to approximately half of the decline in the teen pregnancy rate during this time period (48%) and that a little more than half of this “contraceptive effect” was…
The Relationship Between Academic Achievement And Nonmarital Teenage Childbearing
"Little Boats" in the Storm
“Little Boats” in the Storm:Racial Ambiguity and Gender in Two Postemancipation Adoptions Adam Thomas (bio) Exactly what transgression Mary Ann Lamb committed is unknown, but her adoptive parents, Loren and Nancy Thompson, considered them serious things “which we had to reprove her for.” Lamb, a young black woman of “about 20,” had visited the city of Kingston, Jamaica, to bid the Thompsons farewell as they departed for their native home in the U…
Long-Acting Reversible Contraception
"Long-Acting Reversible Contraception: A Silver Bullet Solution for Unintended Pregnancy?." , 108(8), pp. 1007–1008
Outcasts from the world’
In 1839, Jamaican plantation attorney Alexander Grant sued missionaries John Stainsby and Samuel Oughton for slander; they had accused Grant of ‘lewd and indecent practices’ with enslaved and apprenticed men. Missionaries and abolitionist supporters on one side, and Grant and the plantocracy on the other, used the scandal to challenge their opponents’ suitability to shape post-emancipation society. The trials show that sex – and same-sex sexualit…
A Bargain with His Brother”
In August 1831, around sixty enslaved people fought a war against enslavers in Southampton County, Virginia. It became known as the “Nat Turner Revolt.” Four months later, perhaps sixty thousand enslaved people fought their own emancipation war, commonly known as the “Baptist War,” throughout much of Jamaica. These uprisings differed in size, strategy, and outcome. The Virginian episode allowed slaveholders to strengthen their grip on slavery, wh…
“Woven into the fabric”
This article examines the crucial roles Black people played in the development of Western Carolina University (WCU) in the mountains of Southern Appalachia, and the university's failure to fully acknowledge the contributions those people have made. After introducing some relevant oral history projects, we focus on the history of the WCU land. We first describe the Indigenous dispossession by which the white Rogers family acquired the land in Cull…
How do medical schools influence their students’ career choices? A realist evaluation
Our initial theories about career decision-making were refined as follows: It involves a process of testing for fit of potential careers. This process is asymmetric with multiple experiences needed before deciding a career fits ('easing in') but sometimes only a single negative experience needed for a choice to be ruled out. Developing a preference for a speciality aligns with Person-Environment-Fit decision theories. Ruling out a potential caree…
Moryam VanOpstal
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
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