Jack Baker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3770913 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jack Baker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jack |
| FAMILY NAME | Baker |
| SIGNATURE | BAKER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-5797-4390 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Socio-technical regional disaster recovery modeling using generative LLM-based agents
Understanding and simulating the interaction between people and infrastructure is critical for planning and managing recovery after disasters. Human decision-making in the post-disaster context is often simulated using agent-based models, where household behavior is represented using decision rules. Such rules can be difficult to calibrate due to data scarcity and become intractable as the number of parameters that affect households increases. Th…
Hijacking or helping?—How political actors use the Covid-19 pandemic in the climate discourse to advocate their policy beliefs and preferences
Many of today’s challenges, such as climate change, war, or health crises, are highly interlinked and intertwined. Actors in the public discourse sometimes use the term “polycrisis” to describe this “causal entanglement of crises”. This article investigates whether this entanglement is visible in the media discourse and whether political actors strategically (mis-)use simultaneous and overlapping crises to influence policymaking in favor of their…
Evidence from personal ornaments suggest nine distinct cultural groups between 34,000 and 24,000 years ago in Europe
Boosted Regression Trees for Small-Area Population Forecasting
Cro-Magnon personal ornaments revisited
The Cro-Magnon rock-shelter hosted the first discovered and certainly one of the most important Gravettian burial sites in Europe. However, the copious ornament collection found among the human skeletons was not analysed with modern techniques. After proposing a synthesis of the complex curatorial history of the Cro-Magnon material, we submitted a large proportion of the personal ornaments found at the site, hosted in five conservation institutio…
Using Synthetic Adjustments and Controlling to Improve County Population Forecasts from the Hamilton–Perry Method
Tayman and Swanson (J Popul Res 34(3):209–231, 2017) found in Washington State counties that a forecast based on the Hamilton–Perry method using a synthetic adjustment (SYN) of cohort change ratios and child-woman ratios had greater accuracy and less bias compared to forecasts holding these ratios constant (CONST). In this paper, we assess the robustness of SYN’s efficacy by evaluating forecast accuracy, bias, and distributional error across age …
The Accuracy of Hamilton–Perry Population Projections for Census Tracts in the United States
An exploration of school mobility
This study explored negative emotional, behavioral, and academic performance outcomes for highly mobile students and potential protective factors. Participants were fourth and fifth‐grade students ( N = 647, 51% male) from three schools with low socioeconomic status, highly mobile student populations within a large, suburban school district in the midwestern United States. Data were collected through student self‐report surveys, teacher‐report su…
Joseph R. Wiebe, The Place of Imagination
Joseph R. Wiebe, The Place of Imagination: Wendell Berry and the Poetics of Community, Affection, and Identity (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2017), 272 pp., $49.95 (cloth), ISBN: 978-1-481-30386-6
Estimating the underlying infant mortality rates for small populations
Birth weight predicted baseline muscular efficiency, but not response of energy expenditure to calorie restriction
Birth size did not influence the sensitivity of metabolic demands to fasting-neither at rest nor during activity. Moreover, small birth size predicted a reduction in the efficiency with which muscles convert energy expended into work accomplished. These results do not support the ascription of adaptive function to phenotypes associated with small birth size. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 28:484-492, 2016. © 2015 Wiley Periodica…
Spatial weighting improves accuracy in small-area demographic forecasts of urban census tract populations
A Comparative Evaluation of Error and Bias in Census Tract-Level Age/Sex-Specific Population Estimates
Low birth weight does not predict the ontogeny of relative leg length of infants and children
Previous research links both low birth weight (LBW) and relative leg length (RLL) to a similar set of adult pathologies, including type II diabetes, coronary vascular disease, and some cancers. Historically, LBW has been frequently used as a broad indicator of the quality of the intrauterine environment, while RLL has been considered a sensitive measure of childhood environmental quality. While these observations have been taken to suggest that t…
The impact of incomplete geocoding on small area population estimates
Brains versus brawn
The Barker model of the in utero origins of diminished muscle mass in those born small invokes the adaptive “sparing” of brain tissue development at the expense of muscle. Though compelling, to date this model has not been directly tested. This article develops an allometric framework for testing the principal prediction of the Barker model—that among those born small muscle mass is sacrificed to spare brain growth—then evaluates this hypothesis …
Developmental plasticity in fat patterning of Ache children in response to variation in interbirth intervals
A firm link between small size at birth and later more centralized fat patterning has been established in previous research. Relationships between shortened interbirth intervals and small size at birth suggest that maternal energetic prioritization may be an important, but unexplored determinant of offspring fat patterning. Potential adaptive advantages to centralized fat storage (Baker et al., 2008: In: Trevathan W, McKenna J, Smith EO, editors.…
Statistical methods for bioarchaeology
The Accuracy of Hamilton–Perry Population Projections for Census Tracts in the United States
Evidence from personal ornaments suggest nine distinct cultural groups between 34,000 and 24,000 years ago in Europe
Spatial weighting improves accuracy in small-area demographic forecasts of urban census tract populations
Statistical methods for bioarchaeology
Using Synthetic Adjustments and Controlling to Improve County Population Forecasts from the Hamilton–Perry Method
Tayman and Swanson (J Popul Res 34(3):209–231, 2017) found in Washington State counties that a forecast based on the Hamilton–Perry method using a synthetic adjustment (SYN) of cohort change ratios and child-woman ratios had greater accuracy and less bias compared to forecasts holding these ratios constant (CONST). In this paper, we assess the robustness of SYN’s efficacy by evaluating forecast accuracy, bias, and distributional error across age …
Low birth weight does not predict the ontogeny of relative leg length of infants and children
Previous research links both low birth weight (LBW) and relative leg length (RLL) to a similar set of adult pathologies, including type II diabetes, coronary vascular disease, and some cancers. Historically, LBW has been frequently used as a broad indicator of the quality of the intrauterine environment, while RLL has been considered a sensitive measure of childhood environmental quality. While these observations have been taken to suggest that t…
A Comparative Evaluation of Error and Bias in Census Tract-Level Age/Sex-Specific Population Estimates
Cro-Magnon personal ornaments revisited
The Cro-Magnon rock-shelter hosted the first discovered and certainly one of the most important Gravettian burial sites in Europe. However, the copious ornament collection found among the human skeletons was not analysed with modern techniques. After proposing a synthesis of the complex curatorial history of the Cro-Magnon material, we submitted a large proportion of the personal ornaments found at the site, hosted in five conservation institutio…
Boosted Regression Trees for Small-Area Population Forecasting
Estimating the underlying infant mortality rates for small populations
The impact of incomplete geocoding on small area population estimates
Statistical methods for bioarchaeology
Developmental plasticity in fat patterning of Ache children in response to variation in interbirth intervals
A firm link between small size at birth and later more centralized fat patterning has been established in previous research. Relationships between shortened interbirth intervals and small size at birth suggest that maternal energetic prioritization may be an important, but unexplored determinant of offspring fat patterning. Potential adaptive advantages to centralized fat storage (Baker et al., 2008: In: Trevathan W, McKenna J, Smith EO, editors.…
Brains versus brawn
The Barker model of the in utero origins of diminished muscle mass in those born small invokes the adaptive “sparing” of brain tissue development at the expense of muscle. Though compelling, to date this model has not been directly tested. This article develops an allometric framework for testing the principal prediction of the Barker model—that among those born small muscle mass is sacrificed to spare brain growth—then evaluates this hypothesis …
The impact of incomplete geocoding on small area population estimates
Low birth weight does not predict the ontogeny of relative leg length of infants and children
Previous research links both low birth weight (LBW) and relative leg length (RLL) to a similar set of adult pathologies, including type II diabetes, coronary vascular disease, and some cancers. Historically, LBW has been frequently used as a broad indicator of the quality of the intrauterine environment, while RLL has been considered a sensitive measure of childhood environmental quality. While these observations have been taken to suggest that t…
A Comparative Evaluation of Error and Bias in Census Tract-Level Age/Sex-Specific Population Estimates
Spatial weighting improves accuracy in small-area demographic forecasts of urban census tract populations
Birth weight predicted baseline muscular efficiency, but not response of energy expenditure to calorie restriction
Birth size did not influence the sensitivity of metabolic demands to fasting-neither at rest nor during activity. Moreover, small birth size predicted a reduction in the efficiency with which muscles convert energy expended into work accomplished. These results do not support the ascription of adaptive function to phenotypes associated with small birth size. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 28:484-492, 2016. © 2015 Wiley Periodica…
Estimating the underlying infant mortality rates for small populations
An exploration of school mobility
This study explored negative emotional, behavioral, and academic performance outcomes for highly mobile students and potential protective factors. Participants were fourth and fifth‐grade students ( N = 647, 51% male) from three schools with low socioeconomic status, highly mobile student populations within a large, suburban school district in the midwestern United States. Data were collected through student self‐report surveys, teacher‐report su…
Joseph R. Wiebe, The Place of Imagination
Joseph R. Wiebe, The Place of Imagination: Wendell Berry and the Poetics of Community, Affection, and Identity (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2017), 272 pp., $49.95 (cloth), ISBN: 978-1-481-30386-6
Using Synthetic Adjustments and Controlling to Improve County Population Forecasts from the Hamilton–Perry Method
Tayman and Swanson (J Popul Res 34(3):209–231, 2017) found in Washington State counties that a forecast based on the Hamilton–Perry method using a synthetic adjustment (SYN) of cohort change ratios and child-woman ratios had greater accuracy and less bias compared to forecasts holding these ratios constant (CONST). In this paper, we assess the robustness of SYN’s efficacy by evaluating forecast accuracy, bias, and distributional error across age …
The Accuracy of Hamilton–Perry Population Projections for Census Tracts in the United States
Cro-Magnon personal ornaments revisited
The Cro-Magnon rock-shelter hosted the first discovered and certainly one of the most important Gravettian burial sites in Europe. However, the copious ornament collection found among the human skeletons was not analysed with modern techniques. After proposing a synthesis of the complex curatorial history of the Cro-Magnon material, we submitted a large proportion of the personal ornaments found at the site, hosted in five conservation institutio…
Boosted Regression Trees for Small-Area Population Forecasting
Evidence from personal ornaments suggest nine distinct cultural groups between 34,000 and 24,000 years ago in Europe
Hijacking or helping?—How political actors use the Covid-19 pandemic in the climate discourse to advocate their policy beliefs and preferences
Many of today’s challenges, such as climate change, war, or health crises, are highly interlinked and intertwined. Actors in the public discourse sometimes use the term “polycrisis” to describe this “causal entanglement of crises”. This article investigates whether this entanglement is visible in the media discourse and whether political actors strategically (mis-)use simultaneous and overlapping crises to influence policymaking in favor of their…
Socio-technical regional disaster recovery modeling using generative LLM-based agents
Understanding and simulating the interaction between people and infrastructure is critical for planning and managing recovery after disasters. Human decision-making in the post-disaster context is often simulated using agent-based models, where household behavior is represented using decision rules. Such rules can be difficult to calibrate due to data scarcity and become intractable as the number of parameters that affect households increases. Th…
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