水介隐孢子虫流行病

分析研究美、英、加三国暴发过的隐孢子虫流行病。该流行病的症状有:中度肠胃炎、水泻等。如果患者免疫力正常,病可自愈,否则可能危及生命。     

水质保护与水致传染病的预防

概述水环境中各种病原体的污染状况和危害。提出发展病原体的近代检测技术、保护水源和强化水处理技术等方面的设想。     

借鉴美国经验,促进广州大数据产业发展

基于海量数据资源的挖掘和应用催生的大数据产业,是新一代信息领域的重点产业及大数据时代的基础支撑产业,是全球下一个发展创新、角力竞争、提高生产力的战略性产业。目前,国内外大数据产业标准和产业格局尚未形成,这是广州促进大数据产业跨越发展的难得机会。广州应借鉴美国等发达国家经验,把握大数据时代到来的机遇,高度重视和超前谋划,整合资源合力加快广州大数据产业跨越发展,抢占战略性新兴产业发展的制高点。     

美国式的自由——论美国文化中的个人主义

欢迎你． 那些疲乏了的和贫困的． 挤在一起渴望自由呼吸的大众． 那熙熙攘攘的被遗弃了的．     

美国的二手店

我不富有，也没有洁癖。可是在我心里总有一个解不开的扣，我不大喜欢穿别人穿过的衣服、用别人用过的杯子及其他用品。     

解析美国“大中东倡议”

2004年2月，美国布什政府提出旨在中东国家推动政治、经济、社会改革的“大中东倡议”(下称倡议)，又被外界称为“大中东民主改革计划”，认为是“冷战后最雄心勃勃”的计划。所谓大中东，是指22个阿拉伯国家和土耳其、以色列、阿富汗、巴基斯坦，但主要针对的是阿拉伯国家，将以色列、     

美国的社区图书馆

毕竟是从小爱读书的好孩子，我以前在国内读大学的时候，几乎每天都去图书馆占座位自习。来美国工作以后，读书的时间少了，但也还会经常到社区的图书馆去翻翻书，顺便借两本回家看。那么多年来，图书馆一直是我生活中的一部分。     

美国的长途公共汽车

介绍美国长途公共汽车为与火车及飞机竞争而改善服务的情况和存在的问题。     

美国免费的午餐

人们常说“天下没有免费的午餐”，对我来说，此话似乎有点儿绝对，因为在美国，确实存在免费的午餐，而我本人即是受惠者之一。     

Air pollution and stock returns in the US

Health related research documents that air pollution has negative mood effects. Experimental works in psychology relate bad mood to increased risk aversion. Studies in financial economics report an observed link between mood effects and stock market returns. This study therefore investigates whether the mood effects caused by air pollution can have economic implications. It examines the relationship between air pollution and stock returns using data from the Air Quality Index, and stock returns from four stock exchanges in the US. We find that air pollution is negatively related to stock returns, even when controlling for other variables. The relationship becomes weaker as the distance of the stock exchange from the polluted area increases. The results also indicate that air pollution may even affect local traders investing in securities exchanges located far from the polluted area. The findings imply that a profitable trading strategy can be constructed.     

Conditional occupational segregation of minorities in the US

We analyze the role of the demographic and human capital characteristics of minorities in the US in explaining their high occupational segregation with respect to whites and the extent to which they are locked into low-paying jobs. We measure conditional segregation based on an estimated counterfactual distribution in which minorities are given the relevant characteristics of whites. Our results show that the different levels of attained education by ethnicity and race explain a substantial share of occupational segregation among non-whites in the US, while English skills or immigration status are especially relevant for explaining segregation among Hispanics and Asians.     

The labor supply of military wives in the US

Despite a slight increase in the labor force participation rate of women age 18–55 in the U.S. between 1990 and 2010, the labor force participation rate of military wives in this age cohort fell from 63 to 57?%. The goal of this paper is twofold: to document and analyze the labor force participation of military wives between 1990 and 2010, using the U.S. Census and American Community Survey data, and to compare the relationship between migration and labor force participation for military and non-military wives. We find that the primary suspects to explain the widening gap are the repeated migration for military wives, and the deepening of the recession.     

Do native-born bilinguals in the US earn more?

This paper uses the pooled data from 2005 to 2009 American Community Survey to analyze the economic benefits associated with bilingualism for adult men born in the United States. Bilingualism among the native born is defined as speaking a language at home other than or in addition to English. Native born bilingualism is rare; only 6.5% report a non-English language, and of those 71% report Spanish. Most of the native-born bilinguals report speaking English “very well” (85%), with most of the others speaking it “well” (10%). Other variables the same, overall bilinguals earn 4.7% less than monolingual English speakers, but the earnings differential varies sharply by the language spoken. Those who speak Native American languages, Pennsylvania Dutch and Yiddish have very low earnings due to a tendency to live in geographic or cultural enclaves. Spanish speakers earn 20% less than the monolingual English speakers overall, and other variables the same, have statistically significant 7% lower earnings. On the other hand, those who speak certain Western European and East Asian languages and Hebrew earn significantly more than monolingual English speakers.     

Critical Race Theory in the US Sociology of Immigration

This article reviews the recent literature that has incorporated critical race theory to study migration. It includes a survey of the uses, approaches, and contributions of critical race theory in the field of migration. Immigration studies have historically/traditionally focused on demographic aspects of population movements, leaving virtually outside of its analysis social processes at the core of migration, like the social construction of race and citizenship. This disconnect is troubling in the current context of globalization, where specific migrant populations have become target of specific forms of violence on the basis of their racialization. Workplace raids, midnight searches, city ordinances, and changes in social services legislation, to name a few, are consistently used against specific groups to perpetuate their oppression and subordination, becoming in a sense new forms of state sponsored violence. This article begins by outlining major CRT concepts and frameworks used in legal scholarship on immigration. Next, we identify emerging themes generated by this approach by highlighting research questions and operationalization of the CRT framework. Thirdly, we highlight areas of distinction to mainstream sociology in US scholarship.