Dr. Ramona Hernandez, director of the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute at City College of New York, said New Jersey Dominicans are getting more politically involved.
Three to five years hardly calls for puma and cougar jokes, said Hugo Schwyzer, a professor of history and gender studies at Pasadena City College.
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"They're not small businesses anymore, " said Ramona Hernandez, a professor at the City College of New York who studies Dominican entrepreneurship.
Unfortunately no uniform studies on infidelity by city exist, so we were unable to consider rates of cheating, an age-old cause of relationship breakdown.
The university offers tremendous opportunities for internships, field studies and research in the Windy City.
But about ten years ago studies began to show that the city was still dying younger than it should have done.
Women feel more comfortable than men taking social risks, such as moving to a new city or wearing unconventional clothes, according to studies using this new, domain-specific risk-taking scale.
The city's obesity rate is rising, and studies have linked sugary drinks to weight gain, they note.
The group includes a political scientist, the head of an African-American studies department, an English professor and a former city attorney.
He studied law in his home city, which he now represents as an MP, and pursued his studies in Paris.
The committee looked at Portsmouth, which introduced a city-wide 20mph speed limit in 2006, and Graz in Austria as case studies for the report.
Martin van Vliet, a researcher at the African Studies Center in Leiden, the Netherlands, said that while Timbuktu was no longer a city of vital economic or military importance, it stood out as an important prize for the rebels due to its symbolic significance.
Marijn Nieuwenhuis, from the University of Warwick's Department of Politics and International Studies, and contributing author to the book "Shanghai New Towns, " explained that the city's boom began in the early 1990s with the construction of the Pudong commercial district.
Studies show that drivers in the U.S. spend an average of eight minutes cruising for city parking, mainly so they can find a space free or at the lowest price possible within the shortest distance of their destination, according to Donald Shoup, a professor of urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles.
"There have been a lot of studies that indicate that there are probably other mechanisms, " says the senior author of the New York City study, Robin Whyatt, DrPH, a professor of clinical environmental health sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.
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