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'The task of Fort Hare in terms of the Transkei and Ciskei': educational planning at Fort Hare in the 1960's

Paper presented at the Wits History Workshop: Structure and Experience in the Making of Apartheid, 6-10 February, 1990This paper examines government intervention at Fort Hare after 1960. The first part of the paper will examine how the Department of Bantu Education and the new administrators of the college tried to transform Fort Hare into an institution where students were prepared, in terms both of skill and attitude, for a political future in the homelands; the second part of the paper accesses the success of this project, by examining courses of study chosen by students, their pass rates and where graduates were employed

Farm Co-ops in Iowa

Farmer cooperatives have taken root and grown rapidly throughout Iowa in the past 50 years. Probably 70 percent of Iowa farmers are co-op members; the remainder also probably have benefited because of the competitive influence of the co-ops

Are Farmers Satisfied With Their Co-Ops?

Earlier studies showed that member satisfaction was highly related to participation of members in their cooperatives. What makes members satisfied or dissatisfied? A new study furnishes some of the answers

Tracking ocean wave spectrum from SAR images

An end to end algorithm for recovery of ocean wave spectral peaks from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images is described. Current approaches allow precisions of 1 percent in wave number, and 0.6 deg in direction

Enhancing the Capacity of Community Health Centers to Achieve High Performance

Based on a survey of community health centers, assesses access to care, care coordination, quality improvement efforts, health information technology adoption, and ability to serve as patient-centered medical homes. Suggests policy to strengthen clinics

Dissemination of farm market news and its importance in decision-making

This study seeks to determine the sources of market news used by Iowa farmers, particularly radio reports. It examines farmers\u27 preferences concerning market reports and the extent to which radio farm news is being used. Finally, it analyzes suggestions of farmers on how market news reports may be improved. Twenty-one farm couples were selected by a random sampling procedure from each of seven Iowa counties (Adair, Bremer, Carroll, Keokuk, Marshall, Palo Alto and Wright). They were interviewed for information concerning the farm market news they receive and its value to them in making farming decisions. These 147 families were contacted twice during the last part of March and the first part of April 1961. On the initial visit, they were provided with information log forms (charts) and asked to keep an accurate record of all their radio listening and television viewing during the predetermined 2-day period. The second visit to the farm was made immediately after the 2-day recording period. On this second visit, detailed, separate interview schedules were administered to the farmer and his wife, and their radio-listening and television-viewing charts were collected