GUIDED BY THE INNER LIGHT: A HISTORIOMETRIC STUDY OF QUAKER EDUCATION IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK

The following historiometric analysis examined the historical experiences of Quaker educational institutions during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The researcher utilized artifacts (n = 34) related to Quaker education in New York State in order to ascertain to what extent Quaker testimonies, including integrity, community, simplicity, equality, and peace, were influenced by salient historical experiences, such as war, racial equality, and economic equality. The researcher utilized structural coding to facilitate the conveyance of qualitative data into quantitative data in order to measure statistical differences. MANOVA results examined the significance of the difference among artifacts with different levels of description. MANOVA results established significant differences for the historical experience of war in Quaker educational institutions ([Pillai’s Trace = 1.226], F(15, 84) = 3.872, p \u3c .000, h^2 = .409) and the historical experience of racial equality in Quaker educational institutions ([Pillai’s trace = 1.095], F(15, 84) = 3.221, p \u3c .000, h^2 = .365). Stepwise multiple regression analyses indicated that the historical experience of racial equality predicted 46.5% of the realization of the Quaker testimony of community at Quaker educational institutions (adjusted R^2 = .514), 70.3% of the realization of the Quaker testimony of equality in Quaker educational institutions (adjusted R^2 = .703), and 47.6% of the realization of the Quaker testimony of peace in Quaker educational institutions (adjusted R^2 = .476). The study of historical experiences of Quaker educational institutions and subsequent realization of the Quaker testimonies contribute a myriad of critical discourses regarding the history of Quaker education, the practice of historiometric analysis in educational research, and most importantly, the development of a positive school culture. Through the experiences of war, and advocacy for racial and economic equality, Quaker educational institutions formulated responses and civic action based upon the Quaker testimonies of community, equality, and peace. Further studies should be carried out with a more viable sample size to validate the findings of the present study. For example, a researcher should conduct a historiometric study of Quaker schools in a particular region or country to gain a greater sample size, which would increase the statistical validity of the study

The correlation of various techniques of near phoria measurement

The correlation of various techniques of near phoria measuremen

Representing Interests and Interest Group Representation

Interest groups and other “group concepts” of politics dominated explanations of American government and policy-making in the 1950s and early 1960s and, as filtered through the concept of pluralism, have provided what is arguably the most lasting and perhaps the most persuasive theorizing on political decision-making in the United States. Representing Interests and Interest Group Representation explores both the strengths and weaknesses of the current research on interest groups. It points to what needs to be done, the major intellectual concerns that should guide the research, and some of the more productive ways to approach the significant research questions.https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/representing_interests/1000/thumbnail.jp

Your place or mine? Issues of power, participation and partnership in an urban regeneration area

This study sets out to explore what is characterised as the partnership process in an urban regeneration area. Rather than examine formal processes or policy, the intention was to explore the interaction between the active residents in the study area and the agents of some of the organizations with whom they came into contact. The area (Yoker) is at the western periphery of the city, but is neither a 'peripheral estate' nor until recently an area of formal policy intervention. It is typical of similar small areas in its industrial history and its difficulty in adjusting to changed economic circumstances. Its response has, however, been vigorous and based significantly on its own endogenous resources. In understanding the processes involved, the study has taken two broad approaches: the theoretical and the empirical, and is an attempt to relate the two as they can be seen to 'interact' on the ground. The theoretical approach has three strands (l) to understand the local working of power, (2) to examine the notions of social capital and collaboration and (3) to understand the local partnership process. Power, explored in terms of capacity and legitimacy and developed through consideration of 'circuits of power and 'hidden discourses', is seen not as a discrete entity but as providing the base on which social capital and partnership working might be constructed and as a signifier of other social and economic relationships. Social capital is seen as grounded in local power relations and as providing a matrix within which local networks might be activated, and trust developed; the cognate notion of collaborative planning is seen as a mechanism for bringing 'government' and 'community' into a process of active cooperation. Finally, partnership working is seen as the ideal outcome of the interaction between local power and social capital, dependant not on formal processes or discourses but on the harnessing of local skills founded on capacity and need. The three Yokel' case-studies are intended broadly to illustrate (rather than 'prove') some of these theoretical concerns in the field, but principally to allow local voices to articulate their perceptions of the issues within a semi-structured series of interviews. A brief comparative study in Drumchapel is intended to explore some of the differences between an area with a long history of policy intervention and an area like Yoker with no such history. The study concludes that a structured partnership approach will succeed best if founded firmly on local strengths and perceptions

An environmental impact study of inter-dental cleaning aids

AIM: The aim of this study was to compare the environmental footprint of eight interdental cleaning aids. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A comparative LCA was conducted based on an individual person using interdental cleaning aids every day for 5 years. The primary outcome was a life cycle impact assessment. This comprised of 16 discrete measures of environmental sustainability (known as impact categories), for example greenhouse gas emissions (measured in kg CO2e), ozone layer depletion (measured in kg CFCe), and water use (measured in m3 ). Secondary outcomes included normalised data, disability adjusted life years, and contribution analysis. RESULTS: Interdental cleaning using floss picks had the largest environmental footprint in 13 out of 16 impact categories. Depending on the environmental impact category measured, the smallest environmental footprint came from daily interdental cleaning with either bamboo interdental brushes (5 impact categories, including carbon footprint), replaceable-head interdental brushes (4 impact categories), regular floss (3 impact categories), sponge floss (3 impact categories) and bamboo floss (1 impact category). CONCLUSION: Daily cleaning with interdental cleaning aids has an environmental footprint that varies depending on the product used. Clinicians should consider environmental impact alongside clinical need and cost when recommending interdental cleaning aids to patients

Public health nutrition and food policy

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Understanding the legacy effect of previous forage crop and tillage management on soil biology, after conversion to an arable crop rotation

AbstractThe soil ecosystem provides a habitat for numerous and diverse fauna which hold a pivotal role driving decomposition and nutrient cycling. However, changing land use or management can alter population dynamics, changing soil biology within the system. The implementation of different field management can improve soil fertility, whilst natural variations in plant species growth and root system may create changes to soil structure and properties. All plant species create a legacy effect within the soil to some extent; changing the environment either physically or through remaining plant residues. An experiment investigated the hypothesis that previous forage cropping and tillage management would alter the diversity and abundance of soil fauna, after changing from a stable soil environment for three years to an annual arable crop rotation to complete a five-year rotation cycle. Four replicate plots (crop 1) of either perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne), red clover (Trifolium pratense), white clover (Trifolium repens) or chicory (Cichorium intybus) were grown in a randomised block design (2009–2013) as the first crop, before conversion to an arable crop rotation. Spring wheat (Triticum aestivum) was established in 2013, either by conventional ploughing (CP) or direct drilling (DD); and winter barley (Hordeum vulgare) established using the same methodology the following autumn 2013 and harvested in 2014. Soil fauna abundance was sampled each year after the cereal crop was harvested, and included microfauna (nematodes), mesofauna (mites) and macrofauna (earthworms). Nematodes were found in greatest abundance in the previously ryegrass treatments, with greater numbers of bacterial feeders and herbivores (in 2013). Mesostigmata and oribatid mites had larger abundances in the ryegrass treatments, although Prostigmata were found in numbers five times higher after red clover in DD plots (in 2013); earthworms were found in significantly greater numbers in the previously white clover plots, across both cereal crops. These legacy effects began to diminish by the end of the second cereal crop in the rotation (in 2014). Tillage management also affected abundance, although these were fauna dependent, with earthworm numbers being detrimentally affected by ploughing whilst nematode abundances increased with ploughing. The combination of legacy and tillage elucidated interactions with the different groups of fauna, for example, epigeic earthworms, wireworms, and prostigmatid mites showed changes in abundance dependent on the combined effect of forage and tillage. Overall, legacy effects were found across three organism scales, highlighting the impact agricultural cultivations have across the whole soil food web

Получение модифицированных нефтеполимерных смол и применение их в составе водомасляных эмульсий

Использование нефтеполимерных смол в качестве стабилизаторов в водомасляных эмульсиях.Use of polimeric petroleum resins as stabilizers in water-in-oil emulsions

Enhanced signal of astrophysical tau neutrinos propagating through Earth

Earth absorbs \nue and \numu of energies above about 100 TeV. As is well-known, although \nutau will also disappear through charged-current interactions, the \nutau flux will be regenerated by prompt tau decays. We show that this process also produces relatively large fluxes of secondary \nube and \nubmu, greatly enhancing the detectability of the initial \nutau. This is particularly important because at these energies \nutau is a significant fraction of the expected astrophysical neutrino flux, and only a tiny portion of the atmospheric neutrino flux.Comment: Four pages, two inline figure