James C Young

Biographic Data

ID78839
NAMEJames C Young
GIVEN NAMESJames C
FAMILY NAMEYoung
SIGNATUREYOUNG J C
AFFILIATIONSKern High School District
ORCID0000-0002-9512-9477
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS102
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1926
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX3

  • Social sensing of flood impacts in India

    Open AccessJames C Young, Rudy Arthur et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Disaster…2022

    Flooding is a major hazard that is responsible for substantial damage and risks to human health worldwide. The 2018 flood event in Kerala, India, killed 433 people and displaced more than 1 million people from their homes. Accurate and timely information can help mitigate the impacts of flooding through better preparedness (e.g. forecasting of flood impacts) and situational awareness (e.g. more effective civil response and relief). However, good …

  • Variation in the choice of treatment in two Mexican communities

    Open AccessJ Young, James C Young et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine1982Cited by: 25References: 7

  • A model of illness treatment decisions in a Tarascan town

    Open AccessJ Young, James C YoungARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1980Cited by: 50References: 18

    This paper describes the rationale underlying illness treatment decisions in a rural Tarascan community in west-central Mexico. The focus is the development and verification of a formal model of treatment choice. The model, based on cognitive-ethnographic methods, describes the principal kinds of information involved in treatment decisions and the process whereby actors use this information in selecting among the available treatment alternatives.…

  • Illness categories and action strategies in a Tarascan town

    Open AccessJames C YoungARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1978Cited by: 27References: 13

    A set of Mexican folk illness terms is examined using cluster analysis. The distinctions that best explain the resulting illness categories are found to be also among the most important considerations involved in the formulation of strategies for preventing and alleviating illness. The "hot-cold" distinction is found to be less important than has been assumed in accounting for the classification

  • The Validity of the Tests of Achievement in Basic Skills (Tabs), Level B, for Predicting Achievement in Elementary Mathematics

    Open AccessJames C Young, Richard Regedal et al.ARTICLEEducational and Psychological…1973

  • The Validity of the Tests of Achievement in Basic Skills for Predicting Achievement in General Mathematics and Algebra

    Open AccessJames C Young, Robert R Knapp et al.ARTICLEEducational and Psychological…1970

  • Explorers have Nowhere to Go

    James C YoungARTICLECurrent History1926

    Essay| October 01 1926 Explorers have Nowhere to Go James C. Young James C. Young Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1926) 25 (1): 34–40. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1926.25.1.34 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation James C. Young; E…

  • The Dead Hand in Philanthropy

    J Young, James C YoungARTICLECurrent History1926

    Essay| March 01 1926 The Dead Hand in Philanthropy James C. Young James C. Young Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1926) 23 (6): 837–842. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1926.23.6.837 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation James C. Young;…