Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons^™

Social Media Use And Preferences Of Visitors To Crater Lake National Park: Data From A 2014 On-Site Survey, Rosemary B. Keane, Jordan W. Smith

Browse all Datasets

These data describe the use, and preferences for, social media among visitors to Crater Lake National Park (Oregon, USA)

Select Metrics Describing The Operations Of America's State Park Systems, Jordan Smith, Yu-Fai Leung

Browse all Datasets

This dataset contains annual descriptive statistics characterizing the operations of each of the 50 state park systems in the United States between 1984 and 2017.

Risk Perceptions Of Extreme Heat Events At The State, County, And Census Tract Level In The U.S., Peter D. Howe, Jennifer R. Marlon, Xinran Wang, Anthony Leiserowitz

Browse all Datasets

Project summary, description or abstract: This dataset contains model estimates of how Americans perceive the health risks of extreme heat events at the state, county, and census tract level in the U.S. Estimates are produced using a statistical model based on national survey data.

These data are associated with the following publication: Howe, Peter D., Jennifer R. Marlon, Xinran Wang, and Anthony Leiserowitz. “Public perceptions of the health risks of extreme heat across U.S. states, counties, and neighborhoods.” 2019. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1813145116

Walking Behavior Of Individuals With And Without Disabilities At Right-Angle Turning Facility, Nirdosh Gaire, Mohammad Sadra Sharifi, Keith M. Christensen, Anthony Chen, Ziqi Song

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

To accommodate the needs of pedestrians, urban designers need to carefully consider pedestrian walking behavior in different walking environments. Detailed studies of the walking behavior of pedestrians have been conducted and used for pedestrian simulation models. A right-angle turning facility (RATF) is found in many built environments. Hence the study of pedestrians' walking behavior in RATFs is important to build pedestrian simulation models. Previous studies have failed to address the walking behavior of individuals with visual and mobility disabilities even though they comprise a significant portion of the population in the United States. The purpose of this paper is to …

Obligations Of Higher Education To The Social Order, Ernest A. Jacobsen

Faculty Honor Lectures

Search for truth is not limited to the discovery of facts. If wisdom is to result from such discovery, there must be parallel study in the realm of values. Lack of balance in these two aspects of research has tended to result in an enormous mass of information and in a marvelous productive power in our society with a lack of worthy ends toward which to direct and apply them. Wisdom is the product of information and values skillfully integrated.

When values are involved the principal data become the ideas and ideals of man. These must be extensively gathered, classified, …