Effects of Urbanism, Race, and Class On Happiness and Physical Health.

The joint effects of urbanism, race, and socioeconomic status on self reported health and happiness are studied. Relationships of a multidimensional scaling technique is employed to produce a social map of the facility. Next, hypotheses about the positions of the department in that map are tested. Disciplinary similarity; scale of phenomena investigated (cellular, molecular, oratomic); availability of appropriate apparatus at the facility; and, for the applied and service institutes, the type of assistance they provide (general or more specific) all help explain the social locations of the institutes within the facility. Then, productivity scores for the institutes of the facility are determined the related to the social map and to likely patterns of communication employed by the institutes. The institutes vary in productivity, measured both with objective indicators and with more qualitative assessments. Centrally located institutes score higher in modes of communication that were most rapid. Institutes on the periphery, communicating more with external partners, rely more than the other institutes on published fo [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]