Setting Funding Priorities in the Voluntary Sector: A Case Study from the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles

Resource scarcity has emerged in the 1980\u27s as a dominant theme in the human services. Although we are acutely aware of the impact that funding cutbacks have had upon human service agencies and their programs, relatively scant attention has been given to the funding body itself as the focus of analysis. The ways in which the funding body addresses the issue of resource distribution under scarcity conditions is of critical concern to the social welfare field. This paper analyzes one model adopted by a large voluntary fundraising and funding organization-planned priorities-setting-to provide a strategic and rational framework for guiding allocations decisions

To Occupy, to Inscribe, to Thicken: Spatial Politics and the Right to the Surface

This essay sits in the warm, multiple and frictional space of the urban surface. The surface is a space: not a boundary but an extension, a thickness, an object. The surface object is cumulative and layered: it results from the gradual addition of individual inscriptions, materials, coatings, paint, markings and erasures. Urban spatial production makes surface. It doesn’t just occupy the surface, it produces it: it generates a new space, a new location, a new object. The surface is therefore qualitatively different from private and public spaces. It blurs these urban ownership regimes and embodies collective spatial production and use: a surface commons. Urban ownership regimes and the politics of spatial production are closely related to the question of the right to the city. In thinking about what, and where, the right to the city is, I will suggest in this essay that the right to the city might be (in) the surface

STRUCTURE, DYNAMICS AND ABUNDANCE OF ARTHROPODS COLLECTED FROM SOME APPLE FRUIT TREE ORCHARDS

For the study of the arthropods species of apple orchards and observations were made of the collected material by the soil traps type Barber. The traps placed in plantation were six in number, it’s situated on two row, by three per line. The traps were put in a formaldehyde solution with a concentration of 3-4%. The gathering of the material was made on the following dates: 15.05; 30.05; 30.06 and 15.07. The most common taxons collected were: Coleoptera, Heteroptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera, Dermaptera, Arahnida, Miriapoda, Lepidoptera, Homoptera

The Importance of Social Abilities in Teaching Practice

The paper presents the results of an evaluation conducted in the Educational Sciences Department of Lucian Blaga University in Sibiu on the interpersonal interaction style and assertiveness of students attending psycho-pedagogical studies, starting in the school-year 2011-2012, and evaluation is still in progress. The research focused on students having accomplished the theoretical stage of their training, before starting the teaching practice stage, compared to those who have already had finished this stage, intending to identify any visible improvement. On the other hand, the research attempts to identify characteristics of interpersonal interaction style and assertiveness shown by teachers with a certain experience in educational activities, and compare the interaction patterns in order to properly evaluate the directions for further training requested

OBSERVATIONS ON THE EPIGEOUS COLEOPTERS FAUNA IN SOME FRUIT APPLE ORCHARDS

Observations were made at the SC Loturi Service SRL Delesti, Vaslui in a fruit tree apple orchards where a vegetal carpet is made especially of garlands between the rows of trees. In the plantation it was chosen to maintain the interval between rows as a black the field and as an overworked interval that could influence the local ecosystem conditions, with multiple effects on the quantity and quality of the fruit and finally on the profitability of the apple culture. To collect the biological material, were used six Barber soil traps which were arranged on a single row of trees at a distance of 10 m between them. The traps worked for 5 days in each of the three months: April, May, June. In April between 25 and 30, in May between 5 and 10 and in June between 10 and 15. At each collection, the trap material was cleansed by plant debris, and the entomofauna collected was brought to the lab and then the useful and harmful species were identified

Specific heat and magnetic structure of GdT2X2 compounds (T=Cu,Ni,X=Sn,Sb)

The magnetic specific heat of GdΝi 2 Sn2 , GdΝi2 Sb2 and GdCu2 Sb2 shows a λ-type anomaly at TN with a noticeable reduction of the discontinuity compared to that expected for a simple antiferromagnet. It can be associated with the existence of amplitude modulated magnetic structure just below TN. Above TN a weak magnetic contribution is observed, evidencing the short-range ordering. From neutron diffraction studies it can be also concluded that investigated compounds have not simple antiferromagnetic structures. For GdΝi2Sn2 the propagation vector Q = (0.3, 1/2, 1/2) was found with the magnetic moments along the [1,0,0] axis

Antiferro and ferromagnetic ordering in PrGe single crystal

The equiatomic PrGe single crystal was grown by Czochralski pulling method. The grown single crystal was found to have CrB-type orthorhombic crystal structure with the space group \textit{Cmcm} (#63). Transport and magnetization data reveal large anisotropy in the electrical resistivity, magnetic susceptibility and magnetization. PrGe was found to exhibit two consecutive magnetic orderings at 44 K and 41.5 K, respectively. The magnetic susceptibility measurement along the three principal directions, in low applied fields, revealed a cusp like behaviour at 44 K while at 41.5 K a ferromagnetic like increase was observed. The hysteritic behaviour in the magnetization measurement at 1.8 K confirmed the ferromagnetic nature of PrGe at low temperatures. The heat capacity data clearly revealed the bulk nature of two magnetic transitions by the presence of two sharp peaks attaining values exceeding 40 J/K$\cdot$mol at the respective temperatures. The absence of Schottky contribution in the magnetic part of heat capacity indicates a quasi-ninefold degenerate J=4 magnetic ground state in this system. The low temperature data of electrical resistivity and the magnetic part of heat capacity show an existence of gap in the spin-wave spectrum.Comment: 14 pages, 8 figure