York River Water Quality Curriculum: Using Real Water Quality Data to Investigate Water Quality Cycles and Answer Applied Marine Science Questions

Considering that Virginia has approximately 50,000 miles of rivers and streams, 2,500 square miles of estuarine water and 100 lakes greater than 100 acres, water quality monitoring with your students is a great hands-on activity that gets students thinking about the properties and processes occurring in classroom aquaria, lake, stream, river, estuarine and marine environments. It can be difficult to elucidate water quality patterns or trends with student generated data due to the low number of samples taken, the possibility of inaccurate results due to user error or expired test kit reagents as well as the innate lack of accuracy and precision associated with low-cost water quality test kits. These activities were designed to enable teachers to expand upon their water quality and Chesapeake Bay curricula and incorporate real-world data collected in the Chesapeake Bay to address biology, earth science, computer mathematics, chemistry, and probability and statistics Standards of Learning for the Commonwealth of Virginia (specific SOL’s are listed at the end of the Teachers Pages). The activities investigate applied marine science issues that deal with various living resources using water quality data gathered by the Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Virginia (CBNERRVA) research and monitoring staff

Flooding and schools: experiences in Hull in 2007

Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom, suffered severe flooding in June 2007, affecting some 8,600 households and most schools. Despite the potential for damage in such disasters, no studies of the effects of floods on teachers and schools in the UK appear to have been published previously. This study analysed the impacts of the floods on teachers in Hull in two stages: first through correspondence with Hull City Council and a mailed questionnaire to 91 head teachers of primary, secondary, and special schools; and second, through in-depth interviews with head teachers from six flooded schools, representing different degrees of flood experience, and a questionnaire completed by eight teachers from the same schools. The findings reveal the importance and the complexity of the role of the school in the wider community in a time of crisis. The study highlights issues concerning preparedness for floods, support for schools, and flood protection for schools

Pegasus First Mission - Flight Results

On April 5, 1990, after release from the wing of a B-52 carrier aircraft over the Pacific ocean at an altitude of 43,198 ft, the three stage Pegasus solid propellant rocket successfully completed its maiden flight by injecting its 423 lb payload into a 273 X 370 nautical mile 94 degree inclination orbit. The first flight successfully achieved all mission objectives; validating Pegasus\u27s unique air launched concept, the vehicle\u27s design, as well as its straightforward ground processing, integration and test methods. This report summarizes the results of the first launch, including measured vs. predicted motor performance, drag and lift coefficients, payload environmental parameters, structural loads, aerodynamic heating, and vehicle trajectory. In all areas, measured flight results were close to design predictions, and in the ease of the actual payload environment, were significantly less than predictions. The Pegasus first flight validated the fundamental aerodynamic design, established a baseline performance capability, validated the vehicle\u27s GN&C system, and validated the aerodynamic and aero-thermal models

Final report for the public consultation on the “Closer to Home” proposals for Cumbria Primary Care Trust

Cumbria Primary Care Trust has developed a strategy in consultation with key partners to provide health services closer to people’s homes in North Cumbria. Proposals on the strategy have been subject to a consultation period of three months during which time the public and organisations have been asked to respond to the proposals through a questionnaire or through other form of feedback including a series of public meetings. A document containing relevant information about the proposals was made available to the public with the questionnaire in pull out form in the centre pages. It was also made available on a dedicated website. The consultation process was subject to scrutiny by the Health and Wellbeing Overview and Scrutiny Committee of Cumbria County Council. The Centre for Health Research and Practice Development, University of Cumbria was commissioned to undertake the analysis of the responses to the consultation. The questionnaire was devised by the PCT not the University. The questionnaire data took the form of paper-based and web-based responses completed by the respondents. Some questionnaires were completed with the help of, or by, interviewers in GPs’ surgeries. These often provided poor data responses and there were many questions not answered compared to the other responses. Personal details were masked in accordance with data protection requirements. The analysis took the form of highlighting and coding the main points in answers to the questions in the questionnaires and in other written responses and categorising these coded responses. Main themes cutting across the categories were then identified

‘Getting the kids back to school’: education and the emotional geographies of the 2007 Hull floods

Major flood events almost inevitably affect education and are likely to have a lasting impact on a school and community. In this paper, based on interviews with head teachers carried out in Hull during December 2008, we focus on the 2007 flood event in Hull and the way this affected schools and pupils in the city. The paper indicates the importance of reintegrating children (and families) into community structures such as schools as soon as possible after the flood and of creating safe spaces (‘circle time’) within the school classroom for pupils to explore their flood experiences. While we have commented on the potential therapeutic value of circle time in a post-disaster situation, we acknowledge that more research is required

Health and social impacts of a flood disaster: responding to needs and implications for practice

Carlisle in northwest England suffered its worse floods for more than 180 years in 2005. A study, reported here, was undertaken to assess the health and social impacts of these floods via in-depth, taped individual and focus-group interviews with people whose homes had been flooded and with agency workers who helped them. Respondents spoke of physical health ailments, psychological stress, water health-and-safety issues related to the floods, and disputes with insurance and construction companies, which they felt had caused and exacerbated psychological health problems. Support workers also suffered from psychological stress. Furthermore, it was found that people had low expectations of a flood and were not prepared. The findings are presented in five sections covering flood risk awareness, water contamination issues, physical health, mental health, and impact on frontline support workers. The discussion focuses on the implications of the findings for policy and practice vis-à-vis psychological health provision, contamination issues, training and support for frontline support workers, matters relating to restoration, and preparation for flooding

B fields in OB stars (BOB): The discovery of a magnetic field in a multiple system in the Trifid Nebula, one of the youngest star forming regions

Recent magnetic field surveys in O- and B-type stars revealed that about 10% of the core-hydrogen-burning massive stars host large-scale magnetic fields. The physical origin of these fields is highly debated. To identify and model the physical processes responsible for the generation of magnetic fields in massive stars, it is important to establish whether magnetic massive stars are found in very young star-forming regions or whether they are formed in close interacting binary systems. In the framework of our ESO Large Program, we carried out low-resolution spectropolarimetric observations with FORS2 in 2013 April of the three most massive central stars in the Trifid nebula, HD164492A, HD164492C, and HD164492D. These observations indicated a strong longitudinal magnetic field of about 500-600G in the poorly studied component HD164492C. To confirm this detection, we used HARPS in spectropolarimetric mode on two consecutive nights in 2013 June. Our HARPS observations confirmed the longitudinal magnetic field in HD164492C. Furthermore, the HARPS observations revealed that HD164492C cannot be considered as a single star as it possesses one or two companions. The spectral appearance indicates that the primary is most likely of spectral type B1-B1.5V. Since in both observing nights most spectral lines appear blended, it is currently unclear which components are magnetic. Long-term monitoring using high-resolution spectropolarimetry is necessary to separate the contribution of each component to the magnetic signal. Given the location of the system HD164492C in one of the youngest star formation regions, this system can be considered as a Rosetta Stone for our understanding of the origin of magnetic fields in massive stars.Comment: Five pages, six figures, accepted for publication in A&

Prospectus, February 16, 1983

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Exile Vol. V No. 2

EDITORIAL 4-6 Jamais (poem) by Iris Carroll 6 The Minister\u27s Narcissus by Julia Santucci 7-18 DRAWING by Anne Irgens 12 Solitude (poem) by Christine Condit 18 Island Lady\u27s Bill-Green Sky (poem) by Robert Wehling 19 Looking for Enchantment (poem) by Dennis Trudell 19 Silence (woodcut) by Carol Wilson 20 Saturday Night (story) by Ed Grimm 21-25 On Unemployment (poem) by William Bennett 25 Atlas (poem) by Bob Canary 26 A Psychology of Confrontation (essay) by Barbara Haupt 27-35 Urban (woodcut) by Carol Wilson 36 The Way They Make Guys (story) by Dennis Trudell 37-38 This story [ The Minister\u27s Narcissus ] by Julia Santucci has been awarded the semi-annual EXILE-Denison Bookstore creative writing prize. (pg 18

1976: Abilene Christian College Bible Lectures - Full Text

FREEDOM IN CHRIST Being the Abilene Christian College Annual Bible Lectures 1976 Published by ABILENE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE Book Store ACC Station Abilene, Texas 7960