Transitions from AFDC to SSI Prior to Welfare Reform – Policy Brief

The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) programs serve overlapping target groups. SSI serves adults and children with disabilities from low-income families, while TANF serves low-income families with children. Consequently, policy changes in one program can affect the other. The target group for Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), TANF’s predecessor, also overlapped with SSI’s target group. Many have anticipated that the replacement of AFDC with TANF in August 1996 would eventually increase SSI participation as TANF recipients with disabilities sought SSI benefits to avoid TANF work requirements and time limits

Adapting precision farming principles to organic crop production

Precision farming is a discipline that aims to increase efficiency in the management of agriculture throughout new technologies. Organic crop production systems in the future need to combine satisfactory productivity with long term sustainability. The aim of this paper is to present potentials and limits using precision farming priciples in organic crop productio

Summary Review of Data Sources for School to Work Transitions by Youth with Disabilities - Policy Brief

This brief summarizes our findings from a review of potential data sources to examine school-to-work transitions by youth with disabilities (Wittenburg and Stapleton, 2000). Our objective was to identify data sources for future school-to-work analyses that contain longitudinal information on youth with disabilities. We conclude that the following data sources are most promising based on our selection criteria: Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP); National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health); Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) 911 Database and RSA’s Longitudinal Study of Vocational Rehabilitation (VR); state administrative data (multiple states); National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88); National Longitudinal Transition Study of Special Education Students (NLTS); National Longitudinal Transition Study of Special Education Students-2 (NLTS-2); and National Longitudinal Survey of Youth: 1997 (NLSY:97)

Spiral lead platen robotic end effector

A robotic end effector is disclosed which makes use of a rotating platen with spiral leads used to impact lateral motion to gripping fingers. Actuation is provided by the contact of rolling pins with the walls of the leads. The use of the disclosed method of actuation avoids jamming and provides excellent mechanical advantage while remaining light in weight and durable. The entire end effector is compact and easily adapted for attachment to robotic arms currently in use

Express Versus Automatic Assignment of Section 10(b) Causes of Action

In Lowry v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 1 the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit considered whether the owner of a security may assert his seller\u27s section 10(b) cause of action if the current owner did not receive an express assignment of the seller\u27s rights. 2 That is, if the seller of a security has a section 10(b) claim, does the seller\u27s cause of action run with the security so that the seller\u27s purchaser takes the seller\u27s cause of action by automatic assignment, or must the purchaser secure an express assignment of the seller\u27s cause of action in order for the purchaser to sue the party who defrauded the seller? This note addresses the issue whether a section 10(b) cause of action should run with the security where existence of the cause of action has become a matter of public knowledge. The note first reviews the law of assignments of causes of action in general, 3 and then summarizes three possible resolutions of the issue: adopting a rule of automatic assignments, 4 inferring the parties\u27 intent from the facts, 5 and requiring an expression of the parties\u27 intent. 6 In discussing these three resolutions, the note evaluates the various arguments expressed in Lowry, 7 the consistency of each argument with the law of assignments 8 and with federal securities law, 9 and the ramifications of each argument for maintaining class actions. 10 The note concludes that an express assignment of the seller\u27s cause of ..

Book Review: River of Compassion: A Christian Commentary on the Bhagavad Gita

A review of River of Compassion: A Christian Commentary on the Bhagavad Gita by Bede Griffiths

Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics and Painlev\'e IV Equation

As it has been proven, the determination of general one-dimensional Schr\"odinger Hamiltonians having third-order differential ladder operators requires to solve the Painlev\'e IV equation. In this work, it will be shown that some specific subsets of the higher-order supersymmetric partners of the harmonic oscillator possess third-order differential ladder operators. This allows us to introduce a simple technique for generating solutions of the Painlev\'e IV equation. Finally, we classify these solutions into three relevant hierarchies.Comment: Proceedings of the Workshop 'Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics and Spectral Design' (July 18-30, 2010, Benasque, Spain