Andrew Kramer
Biographic Data
| ID | 85616 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Kramer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Kramer |
| SIGNATURE | KRAMER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8109-8449 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 240 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Parent‐Reported Academic Outcomes After a Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in the Pediatric Population
BACKGROUND: Millions of children are diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury (TBI) each year, most being mild TBI (mTBI). The effect of mTBIs on academic performance is of significant importance. We investigate mTBI's impact on parent-reported academic outcomes in school-aged pediatric participants. METHODS: This cross-sectional survey study queried parents (N = 285) regarding letter grade performance and the presence or absence of academic accom…
Zones of exposure
This paper addresses the problem that compact cities have higher human exposure to traffic-related air pollution (TRAP), even as they have lower emissions overall. We use high resolution data to measure the change in human exposure over time related to transit-oriented development policy (TOD). The micro-environments of urban planning policy and air pollution reveal the influence of hierarchical zoning and TOD in placing high density residential …
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Contrasting cases in Toronto, New York, and Vancouver, we identify benefits and drawbacks associated with the publicly owned variety of community land trust, which we call a public land trust (PLT). Public ownership can obviate the need to finance a land sale, and enable sustained access to ongoing technical assistance and professional expertise, thereby reducing burdens on community capacity. While a degree of community control can also be maint…
The United States and Allies Provide Military and Intelligence Support to Ukraine
economic fragility." To mitigate some of the harms to low-income countries, the United States has announced that it will provide $670 million in aid to Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, and Yemen in response to food insecurity exacerbated by the invasion of Ukraine. 37 Even after the fighting ceases, remediating the conflict's effects on civilian life in Ukraine will take significant resources and time. The remnants of war, particular…
Russia Invades Ukraine
In the lead up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the United States and its allies attempted a delicate balancing act of diplomacy and deterrence. While the United States and the North American Treaty Organization (NATO) brought Russia to the negotiating table, they also issued threats of sanctions and disclosed intelligence to undermine pretextual claims that Russia might make to justify an invasion. Despite these efforts, Russia announced on Febr…
Banishment through Branding
This paper analyzes how the City of Montréal employed tools of urban planning-including a district plan, street redesign, rezoning, selective public consultation, expropriation, policing and surveillance-to spatially banish sex work from its historic district, using the red light symbol as a branding strategy. This coincided with a change in federal law (Bill C-36) and a policy shift to reposition sex workers as passive victims of sex trafficking…
The non-invention of the ceramic arrowhead in world archaeology
Controlled ballistics tests of ground, percussion-flaked, and pressure-flaked projectile point impact durability
Experimental assessment of proximal-lateral edge grinding on haft damage using replicated Late Pleistocene (Clovis) stone projectile points
The unaffordable city
Recentralization as an Alternative to Urban Dispersion
Growing dissatisfaction with the prevailing dispersed urban form and its generalized reliance on the automobile has resulted in the formulation of planning models seeking to substitute dispersed development with recentralization. A survey of 301 planning documents with a metropolitan focus, originating from the 58 US and Canadian urban regions with a population exceeding one million, reveals widespread support for urban recentralization. But inte…
Brief communication
This study examines the effect of a measurement size bias in coefficients of variation on the evaluation of intraspecific skeletal variability in a sample of eight prosimian species ( Eulemur fulvus , Hapalemur griseus , Lemur catta , Varecia variegata , Galago senegalensis , Otolemur crassicaudatus , Nycticebus coucang , and Tarsius syrichta ). Measurements with smaller means were expected to have higher coefficients of variation (CVs) due to th…
Transformative Metropolitan Development Models in Large Canadian Urban Areas
The paper centres on the content of metropolitan-scale plans of the six largest Canadian urban regions. Plans in all these regions promote intensification and alternatives to automobile use, and thus adhere to smart growth and sustainability principles. In all cases save one, reliance on nodal development is the preferred manner of achieving intensification and ensuring its co-ordination with public transit services. Meanwhile, however, results p…
Metropolitan-scale Planning in Neo-liberal Times
Just as rising concern about its environmental, economic, social, health and quality of life downsides generates loud calls for a departure from the dispersed car-oriented urban model, conditions for such a transition have become more uncertain. The intended urban shift is hampered by dissonance between the generation of metropolitan-scale planning visions and the anti-interventionist characteristics of the current neo-liberal age. The paper iden…
Neanderthals in the Levant
Extended Use of Indwelling Urinary Catheters in Postoperative Hip Fracture Patients
BACKGROUND: Indwelling urinary catheters are used postoperatively in hip fracture care. Their use beyond the immediate postoperative period may result in excess nosocomial infections. OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this study were to explore the relationship between extended indwelling urinary catheterization and outcomes for patients sustaining hip fracture discharged to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), and to describe patient and hospital pred…
The first hominid fossil recovered from West Java, Indonesia
A century of Indonesian paleoanthropology, or from Java with love
Out of Africa and into the Levant
Paleoanthropology in the 1990s
Jones, Steve, Robert Martin and David Pilbeam, eds. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xiii + 504 pp. including appendices, further reading, and index. $34.95 paper. Walker, Alan, and Richard Leakey, eds. The Nariokotome Homo erectus Skeleton. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993. 457 pp. including references and index. $125.00 cloth
Testing for multiple species in fossil samples
Tests for equal relative variation are valuable and frequently used tools for evaluating hypotheses about taxonomic heterogeneity in fossil hominids. In this study, Monte Carlo methods and simulated data are used to evaluate and compare 11 tests for equal relative variation. The tests evaluated include CV-based parametric bootstrap tests, modifications of Levene's test, and modified weighted scores tests. The results of these simulations show tha…
Recognizing species diversity among large-bodied hominoids
A persistent problem in paleoanthropology is the recognition of intra- vs. inter-specific differences within fossil samples. Exacerbating this situation is the often fragmentary nature of the fossils themselves, thus precluding rote applications of many multivariate approaches designed for complete case analyses. In this paper we apply finite mixture analysis to samples of large-bodied hominoids to test this procedure's efficacy in clustering ind…
Contemporary issues in human evolution
Edited by W. Eric Meikle, F. Clark Howell, and Nina G. Jablonski. 1996. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences. 193 pp. ISBN 0-940228-45-9. $35.00 (cloth).
Craniometric variation in large-bodied hominoids
A critical analysis of claims for the existence of Southeast Asian australopithecines
Neanderthals in the Levant
Craniometric variation in large-bodied hominoids
Human taxonomic diversity in the pleistocene
Recently, nomina such as “Homo heidelbergensis” and “H. ergaster” have been resurrected to refer to fossil hominids that are perceived to be specifically distinct from Homo sapiens and Homo erectus . This results in a later human fossil record that is nearly as speciose as that documenting the earlier history of the family Hominidae. However, it is agreed that there remains only one extant hominid species: H. sapiens . Has human taxonomic diversi…
Out of Africa and into the Levant
Experimental assessment of proximal-lateral edge grinding on haft damage using replicated Late Pleistocene (Clovis) stone projectile points
Controlled ballistics tests of ground, percussion-flaked, and pressure-flaked projectile point impact durability
A critical analysis of claims for the existence of Southeast Asian australopithecines
Modern human origins in Australasia
The controversies surrounding the origins of modern humans have spawned two competing hypotheses, namely Replacement and Multiregional Evolution. The first suggests that modern Homo sapiens evolved first in Africa, as late as 140 ka, and subsequently inhabited the balance of the Old World. Conversely, the second hypothesis posits that modern humans evolved principally from local populations of archaic hominids indigenous to the major regions of t…
The unaffordable city
The non-invention of the ceramic arrowhead in world archaeology
Recognizing species diversity among large-bodied hominoids
A persistent problem in paleoanthropology is the recognition of intra- vs. inter-specific differences within fossil samples. Exacerbating this situation is the often fragmentary nature of the fossils themselves, thus precluding rote applications of many multivariate approaches designed for complete case analyses. In this paper we apply finite mixture analysis to samples of large-bodied hominoids to test this procedure's efficacy in clustering ind…
Recentralization as an Alternative to Urban Dispersion
Growing dissatisfaction with the prevailing dispersed urban form and its generalized reliance on the automobile has resulted in the formulation of planning models seeking to substitute dispersed development with recentralization. A survey of 301 planning documents with a metropolitan focus, originating from the 58 US and Canadian urban regions with a population exceeding one million, reveals widespread support for urban recentralization. But inte…
Hominid‐pongid distinctiveness in the miocene‐pliocene fossil record
The Lothagam mandibular fragment, found in 1967 west of Lake Turkana, Kenya, has been dated to 5.5 million years ago. This date is significant because it may lie within the suggested time range during which the hominid and pongid clades diverged. Because of its fragmentary condition and great age, this specimen has run the gamut of taxonomic assignations, from ramapithecine to pongid to hominid. These three nomenclatural categories serve as the b…
The first hominid fossil recovered from West Java, Indonesia
Metropolitan-scale Planning in Neo-liberal Times
Just as rising concern about its environmental, economic, social, health and quality of life downsides generates loud calls for a departure from the dispersed car-oriented urban model, conditions for such a transition have become more uncertain. The intended urban shift is hampered by dissonance between the generation of metropolitan-scale planning visions and the anti-interventionist characteristics of the current neo-liberal age. The paper iden…
Transformative Metropolitan Development Models in Large Canadian Urban Areas
The paper centres on the content of metropolitan-scale plans of the six largest Canadian urban regions. Plans in all these regions promote intensification and alternatives to automobile use, and thus adhere to smart growth and sustainability principles. In all cases save one, reliance on nodal development is the preferred manner of achieving intensification and ensuring its co-ordination with public transit services. Meanwhile, however, results p…
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Contrasting cases in Toronto, New York, and Vancouver, we identify benefits and drawbacks associated with the publicly owned variety of community land trust, which we call a public land trust (PLT). Public ownership can obviate the need to finance a land sale, and enable sustained access to ongoing technical assistance and professional expertise, thereby reducing burdens on community capacity. While a degree of community control can also be maint…
The United States and Allies Provide Military and Intelligence Support to Ukraine
economic fragility." To mitigate some of the harms to low-income countries, the United States has announced that it will provide $670 million in aid to Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, and Yemen in response to food insecurity exacerbated by the invasion of Ukraine. 37 Even after the fighting ceases, remediating the conflict's effects on civilian life in Ukraine will take significant resources and time. The remnants of war, particular…
Russia Invades Ukraine
In the lead up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the United States and its allies attempted a delicate balancing act of diplomacy and deterrence. While the United States and the North American Treaty Organization (NATO) brought Russia to the negotiating table, they also issued threats of sanctions and disclosed intelligence to undermine pretextual claims that Russia might make to justify an invasion. Despite these efforts, Russia announced on Febr…
Banishment through Branding
This paper analyzes how the City of Montréal employed tools of urban planning-including a district plan, street redesign, rezoning, selective public consultation, expropriation, policing and surveillance-to spatially banish sex work from its historic district, using the red light symbol as a branding strategy. This coincided with a change in federal law (Bill C-36) and a policy shift to reposition sex workers as passive victims of sex trafficking…
Hominid‐pongid distinctiveness in the miocene‐pliocene fossil record
The Lothagam mandibular fragment, found in 1967 west of Lake Turkana, Kenya, has been dated to 5.5 million years ago. This date is significant because it may lie within the suggested time range during which the hominid and pongid clades diverged. Because of its fragmentary condition and great age, this specimen has run the gamut of taxonomic assignations, from ramapithecine to pongid to hominid. These three nomenclatural categories serve as the b…
Modern human origins in Australasia
The controversies surrounding the origins of modern humans have spawned two competing hypotheses, namely Replacement and Multiregional Evolution. The first suggests that modern Homo sapiens evolved first in Africa, as late as 140 ka, and subsequently inhabited the balance of the Old World. Conversely, the second hypothesis posits that modern humans evolved principally from local populations of archaic hominids indigenous to the major regions of t…
Human taxonomic diversity in the pleistocene
Recently, nomina such as “Homo heidelbergensis” and “H. ergaster” have been resurrected to refer to fossil hominids that are perceived to be specifically distinct from Homo sapiens and Homo erectus . This results in a later human fossil record that is nearly as speciose as that documenting the earlier history of the family Hominidae. However, it is agreed that there remains only one extant hominid species: H. sapiens . Has human taxonomic diversi…
A critical analysis of claims for the existence of Southeast Asian australopithecines
Craniometric variation in large-bodied hominoids
Contemporary issues in human evolution
Edited by W. Eric Meikle, F. Clark Howell, and Nina G. Jablonski. 1996. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences. 193 pp. ISBN 0-940228-45-9. $35.00 (cloth).
Paleoanthropology in the 1990s
Jones, Steve, Robert Martin and David Pilbeam, eds. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xiii + 504 pp. including appendices, further reading, and index. $34.95 paper. Walker, Alan, and Richard Leakey, eds. The Nariokotome Homo erectus Skeleton. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993. 457 pp. including references and index. $125.00 cloth
Testing for multiple species in fossil samples
Tests for equal relative variation are valuable and frequently used tools for evaluating hypotheses about taxonomic heterogeneity in fossil hominids. In this study, Monte Carlo methods and simulated data are used to evaluate and compare 11 tests for equal relative variation. The tests evaluated include CV-based parametric bootstrap tests, modifications of Levene's test, and modified weighted scores tests. The results of these simulations show tha…
Recognizing species diversity among large-bodied hominoids
A persistent problem in paleoanthropology is the recognition of intra- vs. inter-specific differences within fossil samples. Exacerbating this situation is the often fragmentary nature of the fossils themselves, thus precluding rote applications of many multivariate approaches designed for complete case analyses. In this paper we apply finite mixture analysis to samples of large-bodied hominoids to test this procedure's efficacy in clustering ind…
Out of Africa and into the Levant
A century of Indonesian paleoanthropology, or from Java with love
Neanderthals in the Levant
Extended Use of Indwelling Urinary Catheters in Postoperative Hip Fracture Patients
BACKGROUND: Indwelling urinary catheters are used postoperatively in hip fracture care. Their use beyond the immediate postoperative period may result in excess nosocomial infections. OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this study were to explore the relationship between extended indwelling urinary catheterization and outcomes for patients sustaining hip fracture discharged to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), and to describe patient and hospital pred…
The first hominid fossil recovered from West Java, Indonesia
Metropolitan-scale Planning in Neo-liberal Times
Just as rising concern about its environmental, economic, social, health and quality of life downsides generates loud calls for a departure from the dispersed car-oriented urban model, conditions for such a transition have become more uncertain. The intended urban shift is hampered by dissonance between the generation of metropolitan-scale planning visions and the anti-interventionist characteristics of the current neo-liberal age. The paper iden…
Transformative Metropolitan Development Models in Large Canadian Urban Areas
The paper centres on the content of metropolitan-scale plans of the six largest Canadian urban regions. Plans in all these regions promote intensification and alternatives to automobile use, and thus adhere to smart growth and sustainability principles. In all cases save one, reliance on nodal development is the preferred manner of achieving intensification and ensuring its co-ordination with public transit services. Meanwhile, however, results p…
Brief communication
This study examines the effect of a measurement size bias in coefficients of variation on the evaluation of intraspecific skeletal variability in a sample of eight prosimian species ( Eulemur fulvus , Hapalemur griseus , Lemur catta , Varecia variegata , Galago senegalensis , Otolemur crassicaudatus , Nycticebus coucang , and Tarsius syrichta ). Measurements with smaller means were expected to have higher coefficients of variation (CVs) due to th…
Recentralization as an Alternative to Urban Dispersion
Growing dissatisfaction with the prevailing dispersed urban form and its generalized reliance on the automobile has resulted in the formulation of planning models seeking to substitute dispersed development with recentralization. A survey of 301 planning documents with a metropolitan focus, originating from the 58 US and Canadian urban regions with a population exceeding one million, reveals widespread support for urban recentralization. But inte…
The unaffordable city
Controlled ballistics tests of ground, percussion-flaked, and pressure-flaked projectile point impact durability
Experimental assessment of proximal-lateral edge grinding on haft damage using replicated Late Pleistocene (Clovis) stone projectile points
The non-invention of the ceramic arrowhead in world archaeology
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Contrasting cases in Toronto, New York, and Vancouver, we identify benefits and drawbacks associated with the publicly owned variety of community land trust, which we call a public land trust (PLT). Public ownership can obviate the need to finance a land sale, and enable sustained access to ongoing technical assistance and professional expertise, thereby reducing burdens on community capacity. While a degree of community control can also be maint…
The United States and Allies Provide Military and Intelligence Support to Ukraine
economic fragility." To mitigate some of the harms to low-income countries, the United States has announced that it will provide $670 million in aid to Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, and Yemen in response to food insecurity exacerbated by the invasion of Ukraine. 37 Even after the fighting ceases, remediating the conflict's effects on civilian life in Ukraine will take significant resources and time. The remnants of war, particular…
Russia Invades Ukraine
In the lead up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the United States and its allies attempted a delicate balancing act of diplomacy and deterrence. While the United States and the North American Treaty Organization (NATO) brought Russia to the negotiating table, they also issued threats of sanctions and disclosed intelligence to undermine pretextual claims that Russia might make to justify an invasion. Despite these efforts, Russia announced on Febr…
Geography (11 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (11 works) · Biology (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Evolution and Paleontology Studies (6 works) · Evolutionary biology (6 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works)