Which of the following proposed studies would constitute human subjects research as defined under the federal regulations? a researcher uses ships' manifest records of people who entered america between 1875 and 1880 to track the restrictions immigration laws imposed on certain ethnic immigrant groups. a researcher from a school of social work obtains access to students' academic records (including identifiable information) to assess the effect of drug awareness programs on student academic achievement. a researcher conducts a comparison of the comments made in a publicly available blog and the blogger's comments on a similar topic in a weekly magazine. an organization for women academics in engineering asks a federal agency to provide the number of women investigators funded by that agency to include in a report for its membership.