Quick response targeting program

Computer program generates and verifies operational launch vehicle targeting presettings for lunar free-return missions and lunar landing missions. Program is applicable in astronomy and nuclear physics, and in areas where improved targeting techniques are valuable

DEAD-END JOBS OR STEPPING STONES? THE LONG-RUN CONSEQUENCES OF EARLY INDUSTRY AND OCCUPATION

Dead-end jobs can be defined as a line of work in ones early work history that leads to lower long-run wages. This study shows how early lines of work predict long-run worker wages and finds that there are significant differences in this relationship based on the skill level of the worker. In general, service-producing lines of work appear to penalize long-run wages, especially for low-skilled workers. Low-skilled workers in retail food/foodservice lines of work rank about in the middle of the spectrum between dead-end jobs and stepping stones. Long-run wage potential is better in retail food/foodservice than in manufacturing/operative jobs. On the other hand, early experience in retail food/foodservice leads to lower long-run wages, all else equal, compared to early experience in a professional services industry (other than health) and a non-business professional occupation. Overall, this research provides evidence that early line of work matters to a workers long run wages at all skill levels; there is little difference between men and women. These results are based on analyzing data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979.Long term wages, early occupations, retail food, foodservice, Labor and Human Capital,

HOW WELFARE REFORM IMPACTS NON-METROPOLITAN AND METROPOLITAN COUNTIES IN VIRGINIA

Labor and Human Capital,

THE IMPACT OF THE 1990s ECONOMIC BOOM ON LESS-EDUCATED WORKERS IN RURAL AMERICA

This article uses National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79) data to investigate the impact of local labor market conditions on the employment and earnings of rural non-college-educated workers. The results suggest that local economic conditions in the late 1990s did have a positive impact on wages, and the effect is larger for workers with no more than a high school degree compared to their college-educated counterparts. Further, there is evidence of a difference between rural and urban labor markets, suggesting that the 1990s boom helped urban less-educated workers but not those in rural areas. The rural/urban difference is most apparent for male workers.employment, local labor markets, NLSY79, rural, unemployment, wages, wage curve, Labor and Human Capital,

Implementation and Evaluation of Teach-back as a Pedagogical Method for Delivering Fall Prevention Education to Older Adults in an Inpatient Hospital Setting

Background: In the United States, the most common cause of both nonfatal injuries and accidental deaths for people older than 65 is falls. In the hospital setting, 700,000 to 1,000,000 falls occur annually resulting in increased cost and reduced reimbursement. There exists a critical need to explore potential interventions for effectiveness in reducing both the incidence and severity of falls. Teach-back is a patient education methodology that is a highly recommended safety practice and may be an effective intervention to reduce patient falls in the hospital setting.;Objectives: 1) To increase the use and documentation of a validated patient education methodology by registered nurses to decrease falls in patients 65 years of age and older in a specific hospital unit. 2) To decrease the rate of falls and falls with injury in patients 65 years of age and older in a specific hospital unit through implementation of the Teach-back patient education methodology.;Method: A quasi-experimental design was used employing a combination of parametric and non-parametric tests to analyze the data for both objectives. Objective One: Two hundred and forty older adult patients comprised the sample. The independent variable was Teach-back education for nurses. The dependent variables were using a caring tone of voice and attitude, displaying comfortable body language, using plain language, providing falls prevention patient education using Teach-back, using open-ended questions, avoiding using yes or no questions, taking responsibility for making sure instructions were clear, explaining instructions again if patients could not Teach-back and documenting the use of Teach-back. Nurses were observed teaching 120 patients about falls prevention prior to Teach-back education and then observed teaching 120 patients about falls prevention following Teach-back education. Objective Two: The independent variable was falls prevention patient education using Teach-back. The dependent variables were falls and falls rate with injury per 1000 patient days. These rates were compared for February, March, and April of 2015 (pre-education) and February, March and April of 2016 (post-education).;Results: Objective One: Analysis of the data indicated no association existed between the independent variable (Teach-back education for the nursing staff) and the dependent variables of using a caring tone of voice and attitude, displaying comfortable body language and using plain language. Statistically significant associations did exist between the independent variable and the remaining six dependent variables. Objective Two: Analysis of the data indicated that there was no significant difference in falls or falls with injury per 1000 patient days between the two timeframes.;Conclusion: Nurses consistently used and documented Teach-back for falls prevention education once provided with the procedure and rationale thereby utilizing an evidence-based methodology to improve communication with the patient. Although there was no significant relationship between Teach-back and falls and falls with injury per 1000 patient days, the simplicity and potential efficacy of Teach-back warrants further study

Caged Birds: The Story of the Youth in the Civil Rights Movement of Americus, Georgia in 1963

Much has been written on the history of the civil rights movement in the U.S. South during the 1960s. Historians have devoted most of their attention to the movement in the urban South and the role of adults. We need more attention to the activism of young people, especially in the small-town and rural South. My thesis shines a light on the youth-led civil rights movement in Americus, Georgia, in the summer and fall of 1963. I focus on the story of thirty-two Black girls who, after being arrested at a protest in Americus, were detained in the Leesburg Stockade, a decrepit Civil War-era building. My thesis investigates what happened, how it was covered at the time, how some of the women recalled their experiences, and how efforts continue to memorialize this significant but still not well-known episode in civil rights history. I hope that my work will reinforce the case for more academic and public attention to the historical contributions of young people to the ongoing Black freedom movement

Analyses Of Pultruded Polyester/ E-Glass Composites Subjected To Environmental Degradation

This paper evaluates the response of experimental mold releases for a pultruded glass fiber reinforced polymer (gfrp). The initial assessment criteria include comparisons between pull forces and surface appearances for each mold release. Composites fabricated using experimental mold releases that exhibited acceptable properties for both were used for further mechanical characterization that included environmental aging for two different exposure lengths (500 hours and 1000 hours) in five different environments: UV, bleach, hydrochloric acid, distilled water at 125â°f, and room temperature salt water. Three-point flexural bending and short beam strength tests were undertaken to determine the effects these environments would have on the composite when compared with the strengths of an unaged sample. This principally will determine how well the matrix is able to distribute the load to the stronger fibers after undergoing environmental degradation. This study found that the bleach environment had the most damaging effects for both flexural and short beam strengths. Notable increases in both flexural and short beam strength were seen for UV, elevated temperature distilled water, and salt water exposures which indicates the poor bonding between the fiber and the matrix material and possible secondary curing of the composite. Additional dma and tga tests were completed on unaged specimens to determine the glass transition temperature and onset temperature values. The mechanical properties for the experimental and commercially available mold releases did not vary significantly and suggests a closeness in chemical composition