Gaps and Vantages in Mental Health and Homeless Veterans

This project explored the current homeless population in New Hampshire’s Hillsborough County for veterans with mental health challenges. The objective was to identify the gaps and vantages between two important identifiers. One important statistic in the SWOT analysis is the demand for more veterans to be advocates for themselves as well as organizations merging their services to decrease and potentially end the homeless veteran challenges. Government funding has reached a high percentage of veterans. The results have been overall positive as the facts show trends leading to potentially ending homelessness and aiding mental illness in homeless veterans. The conclusions derived from this report are positive trends in the homeless veteran population. An evaluated takeaway is that approved legislation for continued funding will be a significant value for future mental health and homeless veterans’ futures. A video recording of this presentation is available here

The History of Brick Making in and Around Vancouver

"The Hudson's Bay Company were the first to make brick in Vancouver, some time before 1846…

Linking waterfowl distribution and abundance to spatial and temporal distribution and abundance of wetland habitat

Abstract from introductionWetlands are dynamic ecosystems providing immense value to wildlife and humans. Wetlands store and purify water, recharge aquifers and reduce extreme flooding events (Acharya 2000). Wetlands also reduce soil erosion, decrease sediment loads, and sequester and transform nutrient runoff in agricultural areas and the surrounding landscape (Mitsch and James 2000, Woodward and Wui 2000). Wetlands provide essential resources for many biota and because of unique selective pressures, are home to numerous plant and animal species that rely on wetland ecosystems to persist (Brinson 1993, Gibbs 1993, Schweiger et al. 2002). For example, wetlands are important to many waterbird species for completing the annual cycle by providing foraging habitat in mid-latitude states to facilitate energy accumulation to over-winter or complete migration (Anderson and Smith 1991, Ma et al. 2009, Hagy and Kaminsky 2012). Specifically, dabbling ducks meet their autumn and winter food energy requirements through foraging in inundated wetlands and agricultural fields throughout their migratory range (Gruenhagen and Fredrickson 1990, Gibbs 2000, Checket et al. 2002, Brasher et al. 2006, Hagy and Kaminsky 2012)

ILRI research publishing procedure 6: Open access checklist

Dans un premier temps, les auteurs dressent le panorama de l’évolution du rôle de la grammaire en didactique d’une langue, de la grammaire pour structurer ses énoncés à la grammaire pour le discours. Ils passent ensuite de la grammaire pour le discours à la grammaire pour la littéracie en travaillant sur la prise en compte de la polyphonie textuelle. Puis, ils décrivent deux marquages de cette polyphonie textuelle en français : le conditionnel et le discours rapporté. Ils présentent ensuite un travail empirique en classe de FLE à partir de textes de presse mettant en scène cette polyphonie. Ils étudient les réactions des apprenants et terminent sur des propositions didactiques.The authors first provide a comprehensive overview of the evolution of the role of grammar in language learning, from grammar as structuration of utterances to grammar for discourse. Secondly they move on to grammar for “littéracie” by working on text polyphony. Then, they outline two markings of this polyphony in French language: French “conditionnel” and the reported speech. They continue by presenting an empirical work produced in “French as a Foreign Language” classes, drawing on press articles demonstrating the use of polyphony. They end with an analysis of how learners react and proposals for language learning

Hidden Supersymmetry

Inspired by the concept of complementarity, we present a illustrative model for the weak interactions with unbroken gauge symmetry and unbroken supersymmetry. The observable particles are bound states of some more fundamental particles. Supersymmetry is broken at the macroscopic scale of the observable particles by a discrete symmetry but remains exact at the scale of the fundamental particle and is thus hidden. This provides a link between theories at very high energies and the observed particle physics. Supersymmetric particles are confined in usual matter.Comment: 9 page