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LINGUISTICS
LOOKing for Multi-word Expressions in American Sign Language
Hou, Lynn (2022)
Dataset collating usage of the family of ‘look’ and ‘see’ signs in a sampling of videos in American Sign Language.
PSYCHOLOGY
US and Japanese adolescents’ emotions across time: variation by valence and arousal
Kyeong, Yena et al. (2023)
Levels and trajectories of self-reported emotions among US and Japanese adolescents.
ECONOMICS
Drivers of global variation in land ownership – dataset
Kavanagh, Patrick et al. (2022)
Information on settlement patterns, population density, geography, and other potential drivers of land ownership and territoriality across 102 global societies.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Data from: Faithfulness-boost effect: loyal teammate selection correlates with skill acquisition improvement in online games
Landfried, Gustavo; Fernandez Slezak, Diego; Mocskos, Esteban E. (2020)
Activity and chat logs and other materials from an online game designed to study the effects of grouping strategies on learning.
RELIGION
Data from: Religion does matter for climate change attitudes and behavior
Morrison, Mark; Duncan, Roderick; Parton, Kevin (2015)
Results from an online survey of 1,927 Australians examining links between membership of four religious groupings and climate change attitudes and behaviors.
GENDER STUDIES
Change in gender roles as a factor in gender participation and empowerment in the oil mining industry: A case of Lokichar, Turkana county, Kenya
Shikuku, Caroline; Mburugu, Prof. Edward; Kabiru, Dr. Joseph (2022)
Results from a survey of labour force participants in Turkana County, Kenya, exploring factors influencing participation in the oil mining industry by gender.
RELIGION
Data from: Sacred groves and serpent-gods moderate human-snake relations
Landry Yuan, Felix et al. (2019)
Results from a survey of individuals from Southwestern India exploring the prevalence of snake deity worship and its effect on pacifistic human-snake relations.
BIBLIOMETRICS
Data from: An origin of citations: Darwin’s collaborators and their contributions to the Origin of Species
Navarro, Pedro L.; Machado, Cristina A. (2020)
Comprehensive catalog of works cited in Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species.
CULTURAL HISTORY
Frequencies per million words for 5 epidemiologically relevant search terms in a dozen British 19th century newspapers
Gatherer, Derek (2022)
Corpus of word frequencies from historical newspapers, gathered to look for evidence of previously unsuspected coronavirus pandemics.
GEOGRAPHY
Dock‐based and dockless bikesharing systems: analysis of equitable access for disadvantaged communities
Qian, Xiaodong; Jaller, Miguel; Niemeier, Debbie; Hu, Miao (2021)
Historical bikeshare trip data comparing docked and dockerless models quantify bikeshare service levels for disadvantaged communities in the San Francisco area.
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