Margaret Garner Explains It to Her Daughter

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Dressing Heads

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To the Snapping Turtle We Killed in July

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Targeting Minority Groups in Community Nutrition

A community nutritionist takes on the immense task of improving the nutrition, and ... health of individuals and groups within communities (1). These objectives are generally met by private sector sponsors such as health care facilities, work-site wellness programs and food banks. If the arena of public health is included, then the dietitian\u27s scope is enlarged to include federally-funded agencies designed to improve public health and disease prevention (1). Skills required of these community dietitians not only include clinical knowledge and assessment skills, but marketing, education, and research competencies. The challenges of community nutrition range from counseling an individual on a gluten-free diet to investigating the dietary patterns of an ethnically-diverse population. The variety of having to shift from the specific scope of an individual\u27s needs to the epidemiologic patterns within the state or country not only is one of the most difficult aspects of this career, but the most charming trait as well

[Review of] Robert Rotenburg and Gary McDonogh, eds. The Cultural Meaning of Urban Space

So begins The Cultural Meaning of Urban Space, a compilation of urban case studies edited by Robert Rotenberg, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the International Studies Program at DePaul University, and Gary W. McDonogh, Visiting Professor and Director of the Growth and Structure of Cities Program at Bryn Mawr. These twelve very diverse chapters attempt to understand the construction of an urban landscape from the cultural and social perspectives of those groups that experience and manipulate the landscape

Understanding the role of grandparents and its factors in early intervention with parents and children with hearing loss

This literature review analyzes the potential benefits and role of grandparent involvement in early intervention in families of children with hearing loss. The study addresses the need for professionals in the field of deaf education to provide support, resources and strategies to facilitate the involvement of grandparents while continuing additional research to better define the role of grandparent involvement in early intervention within the field of deaf education

Letter from G. D. Brimhall

Letter in response of baccalaureate sermon

Design Optimization Using Model Estimation Programming

Model estimation programming provides a method for obtaining extreme solutions subject to constraints. Functions which are continuous with continuous first and second derivatives in the neighborhood of the solution are approximated using quadratic polynomials (termed estimating functions) derived from computed or experimental data points. Using the estimating functions, an approximation problem is solved by a numerical adaptation of the method of Lagrange. The method is not limited by the concavity of the objective function. Beginning with an initial array of data observations, an initial approximate solution is obtained. Using this approximate solution as a new datum point, the coefficients for the estimating function are recalculated with a constrained least squares fit which forces intersection of the functions and their estimating functions at the last three observations. The constraining of the least squares estimate provides a sequence of approximate solutions which converge to the desired extremal. A digital computer program employing the technique is used extensively by Thiokol Chemical Corporation\u27s Wasatch Division, especially for vehicle design optimization where flight performance and hardware constraints must be satisfied simultaneously