J Adams
Biographic Data
| ID | 9586 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Adams |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Adams |
| SIGNATURE | ADAMS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Denver |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5043-1149 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 155 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1860 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Recommendations for conducting ethical network research
Ethical considerations in social network studies are grounded in the general principles of human subjects’ research, including avoidance of harm, promotion of justice, equitable distribution of burdens and benefits, respect for human dignity, and protection of confidentiality. To help navigate these challenges, this article presents recommendations for conducting ethical network research, developed by a multi-disciplinary and multi-national worki…
Toward a Unified Conceptualization of Social Capital
Social capital is among the most broadly used concepts in social science. Despite its shared understanding as beneficial resources available from the connections between people, authors vary widely in their conceptualizations of social capital. To extract clarity from these disparate perspectives, we offer a systematic framework for conceptualizing social capital, which identifies three primary theoretical dimensions of scholars' conceptualizatio…
Predictors of romantic partner nomination reciprocity in adolescent social networks
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Whose Social Capital
Despite its wide use across the social sciences, social capital research has been regularly criticized as having fuzzy conceptualization, resulting in multiple (potentially conflicting) operationalizations. Our analyses employ bibliometric analytic tools to demonstrate the disconnected structure of social capital research. The resulting visualization illustrates one potential source of the confusion surrounding social capital-that there are many,…
A review of support tools to assess multi-sector interactions in the emerging offshore Blue Economy
Multiple ocean sectors compete for space and resources, creating conflicts but also opportunities to plan for synergistic outcomes that benefit multiple sectors. Planning and management are increasingly informed by qualitative and quantitative methods for assessing multi-sector interactions to identify trade-offs and synergies among sectors and with the environment, but there is a need to critically review the alignment of these tools with the re…
Visualizing Young Men's Fertility Desires
Fertility desires may not indicate precise plans; nonetheless, they contain important clues for understanding future fertility. On the basis of the dual assertion that fertility desires are (1) meaningful and (2) subject to revision with changing circumstances, this visualization provides a snapshot of young men's fertility desires using data from the Tsogolo La Thanzi study set in Balaka, Malawi. Scholars typically measure desires by summarizing…
Peer Network Processes in Adolescents' Health Lifestyles
Combining theories of health lifestyles-interrelated health behaviors arising from group-based identities-with those of network and behavior change, we investigated network characteristics of health lifestyles and the role of influence and selection processes underlying these characteristics. We examined these questions in two high schools using longitudinal, complete friendship network data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to A…
Covid-19
Mobilizing Covid-19 Science
While there are many uncertainties about the ensuing COVID-19 pandemic, scientific mobilization that integrates knowledge from across the wide-ranging intersection of applicable expertise will optimize our response strategy. As we continue to coordinate these efforts, sociological contributions can continue to identify improved social coordination opportunities, even while practicing social distancing
Nuevos retos y perspectivas de investigación en Educación Física (New challenges and research perspectives in Physical Education)
El presente monográfico “Nuevos retos y perspectivas de investigación en Educación Física” es una iniciativa que surge desde la Red internacional de investigación en Educación Física y Promoción de Hábitos Saludables (www.edufisaludable.com). Esta red, financiada por el Consejo Superior de Deportes en sus convocatorias de 2019 y 2020, reúne en la actualidad a más de 50 investigadores de todo el panorama nacional e internacional. En el contexto es…
Florida Geological Survey List of Publications
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Networks and Religion
Crafting Mosaics
This research addresses the intersection of two key domains of adolescents' lives: religion and peer networks. Religion scholars argue that religion is multi-faceted and better understood by focusing on combinations of indicators (i.e., mosaics), versus a variable-centered approach. We adopt this framework and investigate the interplay between religion and peer networks, both in how religious mosaics are shaped by friends and how religious profil…
Evaluating sampling biases from third-party reporting as a method for improving survey measures of sensitive behaviors
Under the Radar
In this visualization, we demonstrate how to use radar plots to represent the class-specific posterior response probabilities from latent class analysis results. These plots allow for a simple representation of the class differences in the distributions across the modeled indicators. We demonstrate the utility of this approach with results from a published model of women's employment and family life circumstances. In doing so, we demonstrate how …
Visualizing Stochastic Actor-based Model Microsteps
This visualization provides a dynamic representation of the microsteps involved in modeling network and behavior change with a stochastic actor-based model. This video illustrates how (1) observed time is broken up into a series of simulated microsteps and (2) these microsteps serve as the opportunity for actors to change their network ties or behavior. The example model comes from a widely used tutorial, and we provide code to allow for adapting…
Epidemic potential by sexual activity distributions
For sexually transmitted infections like HIV to propagate through a population, there must be a path linking susceptible cases to currently infectious cases. The existence of such paths depends in part on the degree distribution . Here, we use simulation methods to examine how two features of the degree distribution affect network connectivity: Mean degree captures a volume dimension, while the skewness of the upper tail captures a shape dimensio…
The coevolution of networks and health
Historically, health has played an important role in network research, and vice versa (Valente, 2010). This intersection has contributed to how we understand human health as well as the development of network concepts, theory, and methods. Throughout, dynamics have featured prominently. Even when limited to static methods, the emphasis in each of these fields on providing causal explanations has led researchers to draw upon theories that are dyna…
How Initial Prevalence Moderates Network-based Smoking Change
We use an empirically grounded simulation model to examine how initial smoking prevalence moderates the effectiveness of potential interventions designed to change adolescent smoking behavior. Our model investigates the differences that result when manipulating peer influence and smoker popularity as intervention levers. We demonstrate how a simulation-based approach allows us to estimate outcomes that arise (1) when intervention effects could pl…
Aids and Social Networks
During the past 30 years, research on the global AIDS pandemic and on social networks has coevolved. Insights from social networks literature have advanced our understandings of AIDS; simultaneously, key empirical insights from the AIDS literature have furthered the development of social network research—especially methodologically. We elaborate on this reciprocal relationship, identifying some of the key developments and future directions for re…
Glee's McKinley High
Writers for popular media frequently draw on insights known about social networks in developing their plotlines and character biographies (whether in books, television, movies, etc.). Perhaps most known to network analysts in this respect, Freeman (2000) presents a collection of network concepts represented in comic strips. These depictions often are consistent with the patterns network analysts observe in real-world empirical examples. For examp…
Aids in Africa
Scientific consensus, the law, and same sex parenting outcomes
The Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project 2004-06
In this paper we evaluate the quality of survey data collected by the Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project by investigating four potential sources of bias: sample representativeness, interviewer effects, response unreliability, and sample attrition. We discuss the results of our analysis and implications of our findings for the collection of data in similar contexts
Stained Glass Makes the Ceiling Visible
While women represent the vast majority of participants in religious organizations in the United States, their participation in top leadership positions within Christian congregations remains remarkably low. In this article, the author uses the National Congregations Study to examine the situations that lead to this 'stained glass ceiling' effect, prohibiting women from attaining top congregational leadership positions. The author also investigat…
White Supremacists, Oppositional Culture and the World Wide Web
Over the previous decade, white supremacist organizations have tapped into the ever emerging possibilities offered by the World Wide Web. Drawing from prior sociological work that has examined this medium and its uses by white supremacist organizations, this article advances the understanding of recruitment, identity and action by providing a synthesis of interpretive and more systematic analyses of thematic content, structure and associations wi…
How Initial Prevalence Moderates Network-based Smoking Change
We use an empirically grounded simulation model to examine how initial smoking prevalence moderates the effectiveness of potential interventions designed to change adolescent smoking behavior. Our model investigates the differences that result when manipulating peer influence and smoker popularity as intervention levers. We demonstrate how a simulation-based approach allows us to estimate outcomes that arise (1) when intervention effects could pl…
Scientific consensus, the law, and same sex parenting outcomes
Crafting Mosaics
This research addresses the intersection of two key domains of adolescents' lives: religion and peer networks. Religion scholars argue that religion is multi-faceted and better understood by focusing on combinations of indicators (i.e., mosaics), versus a variable-centered approach. We adopt this framework and investigate the interplay between religion and peer networks, both in how religious mosaics are shaped by friends and how religious profil…
Hoop inequalities
The popular image of the African American National Basketball Association (NBA) player as rising from the 'ghetto' to international fame and fortune misleads academics and publics alike. This false image is fueled, in part, by critical shortcomings in empirical research on the relationship between race, sport, and occupational mobility: these studies have not adequately examined differences in social class and family structure backgrounds across,…
Peer Network Processes in Adolescents' Health Lifestyles
Combining theories of health lifestyles-interrelated health behaviors arising from group-based identities-with those of network and behavior change, we investigated network characteristics of health lifestyles and the role of influence and selection processes underlying these characteristics. We examined these questions in two high schools using longitudinal, complete friendship network data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to A…
Glee's McKinley High
Writers for popular media frequently draw on insights known about social networks in developing their plotlines and character biographies (whether in books, television, movies, etc.). Perhaps most known to network analysts in this respect, Freeman (2000) presents a collection of network concepts represented in comic strips. These depictions often are consistent with the patterns network analysts observe in real-world empirical examples. For examp…
Sex, Drugs, and Race
Objectives. We examined how risk behaviors differentially connect a population at high risk for sexually transmitted infections. Methods. Starting from observed networks representing the full risk network and the risk network among respondents only, we constructed a series of edge-deleted counterfactual networks that selectively remove sex ties, drug ties, and ties involving both sex and drugs and a comparison random set. With these edge-deleted …
The Malawi Religion Project
Scholars have recently become increasingly interested in the role religion plays in the responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. Here, we present the Malawi Religion Project (MRP), which provides data to examine the relationship between religion and HIV/AIDS through surveys and in-depth interviews with denominational leaders, congregational leaders, and congregation members in three districts of rural Malawi. In the paper, we out…
Epidemic potential by sexual activity distributions
For sexually transmitted infections like HIV to propagate through a population, there must be a path linking susceptible cases to currently infectious cases. The existence of such paths depends in part on the degree distribution . Here, we use simulation methods to examine how two features of the degree distribution affect network connectivity: Mean degree captures a volume dimension, while the skewness of the upper tail captures a shape dimensio…
The coevolution of networks and health
Historically, health has played an important role in network research, and vice versa (Valente, 2010). This intersection has contributed to how we understand human health as well as the development of network concepts, theory, and methods. Throughout, dynamics have featured prominently. Even when limited to static methods, the emphasis in each of these fields on providing causal explanations has led researchers to draw upon theories that are dyna…
Visualizing Stochastic Actor-based Model Microsteps
This visualization provides a dynamic representation of the microsteps involved in modeling network and behavior change with a stochastic actor-based model. This video illustrates how (1) observed time is broken up into a series of simulated microsteps and (2) these microsteps serve as the opportunity for actors to change their network ties or behavior. The example model comes from a widely used tutorial, and we provide code to allow for adapting…
Quantifying the Benefits of Link-Tracing Designs for Partnership Network Studies
Difficult-to-reach populations are frequently sampled through various link tracing-based designs, which rely on interpersonal networks to identify members of the population. This article examines the substantive returns to one such multiple-link tracing design in the Colorado Springs "project 90" human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) risk networks study. Cross-links were respondents who were targeted for enrollment because of being named as partners…
Whose Social Capital
Despite its wide use across the social sciences, social capital research has been regularly criticized as having fuzzy conceptualization, resulting in multiple (potentially conflicting) operationalizations. Our analyses employ bibliometric analytic tools to demonstrate the disconnected structure of social capital research. The resulting visualization illustrates one potential source of the confusion surrounding social capital-that there are many,…
Visualizing Young Men's Fertility Desires
Fertility desires may not indicate precise plans; nonetheless, they contain important clues for understanding future fertility. On the basis of the dual assertion that fertility desires are (1) meaningful and (2) subject to revision with changing circumstances, this visualization provides a snapshot of young men's fertility desires using data from the Tsogolo La Thanzi study set in Balaka, Malawi. Scholars typically measure desires by summarizing…
Under the Radar
In this visualization, we demonstrate how to use radar plots to represent the class-specific posterior response probabilities from latent class analysis results. These plots allow for a simple representation of the class differences in the distributions across the modeled indicators. We demonstrate the utility of this approach with results from a published model of women's employment and family life circumstances. In doing so, we demonstrate how …
Laboratories
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On the Roman Station of Spinæ
Infrastructure and Economic Development
Laboratories
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Convergent Issues in Genetics and Demography
J.Adams: Introduction: Genetics and demography and historical information M.Livi-Bacci: Macro versus micro E. Thompson: From history to genes: from genes to history E.E. Castilla & J. Adams: Migration and genetic structure in an isolated population in Argentina: Aicuna P.W. Leslie: Demographic behavior, mating patterns and the distribution of inbreeding A. Piazza: Migration and genetic differentiation in Italy D. Lam & P.E. Smouse: Heterogenous f…
Risk
The (1758) site—an integrated geophysical assessment
Facing the Stained Glass Ceiling
White Supremacists, Oppositional Culture and the World Wide Web
Over the previous decade, white supremacist organizations have tapped into the ever emerging possibilities offered by the World Wide Web. Drawing from prior sociological work that has examined this medium and its uses by white supremacist organizations, this article advances the understanding of recruitment, identity and action by providing a synthesis of interpretive and more systematic analyses of thematic content, structure and associations wi…
To tell the truth
Stained Glass Makes the Ceiling Visible
While women represent the vast majority of participants in religious organizations in the United States, their participation in top leadership positions within Christian congregations remains remarkably low. In this article, the author uses the National Congregations Study to examine the situations that lead to this 'stained glass ceiling' effect, prohibiting women from attaining top congregational leadership positions. The author also investigat…
The Malawi Religion Project
Scholars have recently become increasingly interested in the role religion plays in the responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. Here, we present the Malawi Religion Project (MRP), which provides data to examine the relationship between religion and HIV/AIDS through surveys and in-depth interviews with denominational leaders, congregational leaders, and congregation members in three districts of rural Malawi. In the paper, we out…
The Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project 2004-06
In this paper we evaluate the quality of survey data collected by the Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project by investigating four potential sources of bias: sample representativeness, interviewer effects, response unreliability, and sample attrition. We discuss the results of our analysis and implications of our findings for the collection of data in similar contexts
Ronan Foley, Healing Waters
Journal Article Ronan Foley, Healing Waters: Therapeutic Landscapes in Historic and Contemporary Ireland Get access Ronan Foley, Healing Waters: Therapeutic Landscapes in Historic and Contemporary Ireland, Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. 170. £50. ISBN 978 0 7546 7652 2. Jane Adams Jane Adams University of Warwick [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volum…
Associations between birth weight and body composition in later life
Background The composition of the body (amount of fat and lean mass) has important implications for health and physical functioning and may be influenced by factors in early life. Studies have reported positive associations between birth weight, an indicator of prenatal growth, and lean mass in adolescence and adulthood. However, inconsistent findings have been reported between birth weight and fat mass, and few studies have been conducted in lat…
Clinical problems in a post war British cohort reaching retirement
Introduction The health of the post war ‘baby boomers’ will dominate the health and social care systems for decades to come. We know little about the prevalence of clinical problems in these postwar birth cohorts. Objectives To describe the prevalence of significant clinical problems at 60–64 years in the Medical Research Council (MRC) National Survey of Heath and Development; to examine whether these problems cluster in the same individuals and …
Capturing context
OP02 Socioeconomic Patterning of fat and lean mass in Later Life
Background Fat and lean mass have important implications for health and physical functioning. Studies have reported associations between low socioeconomic position (SEP) and high body mass index (BMI) in adulthood, but few have examined associations with fat and lean mass which BMI does not completely distinguish. We examined the associations between multiple indicators of SEP across life and objective measures of fat and lean mass in later adult…
Quantifying the Benefits of Link-Tracing Designs for Partnership Network Studies
Difficult-to-reach populations are frequently sampled through various link tracing-based designs, which rely on interpersonal networks to identify members of the population. This article examines the substantive returns to one such multiple-link tracing design in the Colorado Springs "project 90" human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) risk networks study. Cross-links were respondents who were targeted for enrollment because of being named as partners…
Hoop inequalities
The popular image of the African American National Basketball Association (NBA) player as rising from the 'ghetto' to international fame and fortune misleads academics and publics alike. This false image is fueled, in part, by critical shortcomings in empirical research on the relationship between race, sport, and occupational mobility: these studies have not adequately examined differences in social class and family structure backgrounds across,…
Sex, Drugs, and Race
Objectives. We examined how risk behaviors differentially connect a population at high risk for sexually transmitted infections. Methods. Starting from observed networks representing the full risk network and the risk network among respondents only, we constructed a series of edge-deleted counterfactual networks that selectively remove sex ties, drug ties, and ties involving both sex and drugs and a comparison random set. With these edge-deleted …
Live Long and Prosper
Aids and Social Networks
During the past 30 years, research on the global AIDS pandemic and on social networks has coevolved. Insights from social networks literature have advanced our understandings of AIDS; simultaneously, key empirical insights from the AIDS literature have furthered the development of social network research—especially methodologically. We elaborate on this reciprocal relationship, identifying some of the key developments and future directions for re…
Glee's McKinley High
Writers for popular media frequently draw on insights known about social networks in developing their plotlines and character biographies (whether in books, television, movies, etc.). Perhaps most known to network analysts in this respect, Freeman (2000) presents a collection of network concepts represented in comic strips. These depictions often are consistent with the patterns network analysts observe in real-world empirical examples. For examp…
Aids in Africa
Scientific consensus, the law, and same sex parenting outcomes
Sociology (21 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Computer Science (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Geography (11 works) · Artificial Intelligence (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (7 works) · Population (7 works)