Abstract The Pew Research Center’s survey, Jewish Americans in 2020 , was designed to provide estimates of the size US population, sociodemographic data on issues such as intermarriage, child-rearing, engagement communal life, and a description American attitudes. A sophisticated sample design employed ensure accurate generalizable assessments population. Because Jews are small sub-group govern...

We propose an approach for age estimation using solely people’s first names by extending an already existing method proposed by Chang et al. for ethnicity estimation. We demonstrate that proposed method is able to predict age of a person as well as the age breakdown of an entire population better than the natural alternatives. We then apply both the age and the ethnicity method to Twitter US us...

Serum transferrin, estimated by total iron-binding capacity (TIBC), may be a marker of protein-energy wasting (PEW) in maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients. We hypothesized that low TIBC or its fall over time is associated with poor clinical outcomes. In 807 MHD patients in a prospective 5-year cohort, associations of TIBC and its changes over time with outcomes were examined after adjustmen...

This paper examines how farmers in rural Ghana search for information. We use data on farmer’s decisions to connect with other farmers when facing different problems to explore the role played by identity in constraining access to information. We show that farmers target different sub–sets of acquaintances when searching for different types of information, supporting the view that identity cann...

This report, commissioned in 1995 by The Pew Charitable Trusts, presents the findings of a study of arts and cultural resources for children and youth in Philadelphia. The purpose of the project was to examine access to and opportunities in the arts for young people and to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the citywide system of resources. The project used two perspectives to assess resour...

Although rational models of risk-averse consumers have difficulty explaining limited annuity demand, we have shown in previous work that re-framing the decision in consumption terms rather than investment terms significantly increases the relative attractiveness of life annuities. In this paper we test the relative effectiveness of our two framing contexts when different reference points are in...

The growth of the Internet as a means of communication has sparked a need for researchers to investigate the issues surrounding different social behaviors associated with Internet use. Of particular interest is the importance of a user's perception of anonymity. The independent variables for the study were demographic information, social networking habits and prior negative experience. The depe...

Protein energy wasting (PEW) is common in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and is associated with adverse clinical outcomes, especially in individuals receiving maintenance dialysis therapy. A multitude of factors can affect the nutritional and metabolic status of CKD patients requiring a combination of therapeutic maneuvers to prevent or reverse protein and energy depletion. These in...