A profile of the secondary principalship in the Clark County School District with recommendations for intra-district and district-university articulation

The study described the principalship involving perceptions of instruction, educational programs, and assistant principals\u27 responsibilities, in the secondary schools of the Clark County School District; Compared for similarities and differences between junior and senior high C.C.S.D. principals, and a 1988 national survey of 716 high school administrators, the resultant data was used to suggest training and educational planning within the Clark County School District and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas; The research utilized descriptive statistics to profile and compare Clark County School District secondary school principals to the 1988 National Association of Secondary School Principals survey, National Profile of High School Leaders and Their Schools. The questionnaire was completed by thirty-four of thirty-five secondary school principals in the Clark County School District, Nevada, in 1990; Findings described problems relating to the principals\u27 job related tasks. These included managing administrative detail and student behavior while developing shared decision making and long range planning. Principals wanted to spend time on program development and the aspects of personnel interaction but even with fifty-five hour work weeks they were hindered by constraints of apathetic parents and students, central office site control and detail demands, student population and facility space constraints, and state guidelines. Roadblocks included the size of student population and satisfaction with time devoted to the job. Local principals believed in teaching basics to children, yet felt a need to provide for positive self-concept as a readiness requirement so basic skills and critical reasoning could be taught. They believed good teachers have interpersonal skills, as well as subject matter knowledge, and a goodly portion of principal time should be spent in communicating with teachers. They foresaw student motivation, student attendance, teen psychological and substance problems, within a larger context of a changed family structure, as strongly affecting education in the near future. They desired increased parent and community involvement in the schools; Consistency existed between the local principals in delegating responsibilities to assistant principals

Change is the Challenge in Auditing, Spring Meeting of Council, May 5, 1970

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Old Auditors Never Die, A Report To Council of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants New York, New York, September 19, 1970

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Report to Council of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Denver, Colorado, September 30, 1972

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Defensive Auditing - Taking the Offensive, Report to Council, Colorado Springs. Colorado, May 10 1971

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Rising Expectations, A Report to Council of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Boca Raton, Florida, May 1, 1972

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Wind Forced Variability in Eddy Formation, Eddy Shedding, and the Separation of the East Australian Current

The East Australian Current (EAC), like many other subtropical western boundary currents, is believed to be penetrating further poleward in recent decades. Previous observational and model studies have used steady state dynamics to relate changes in the westerly winds to changes in the separation behavior of the EAC. As yet, little work has been undertaken on the impact of forcing variability on the EAC and Tasman Sea circulation. Here using an eddy‐permitting regional ocean model, we present a suite of simulations forced by the same time‐mean fields, but with different atmospheric and remote ocean variability. These eddy‐permitting results demonstrate the nonlinear response of the EAC to variable, nonstationary inhomogeneous forcing. These simulations show an EAC with high intrinsic variability and stochastic eddy shedding. We show that wind stress variability on time scales shorter than 56 days leads to increases in eddy shedding rates and southward eddy propagation, producing an increased transport and southward reach of the mean EAC extension. We adopt an energetics framework that shows the EAC extension changes to be coincident with an increase in offshore, upstream eddy variance (via increased barotropic instability) and increase in subsurface mean kinetic energy along the length of the EAC. The response of EAC separation to regional variable wind stress has important implications for both past and future climate change studies

A 14-day ground-based hypokinesia study in nonhuman primates: A compilation of results

A 14 day ground based hypokinesia study with rhesus monkeys was conducted to determine if a spaceflight of similar duration might affect bone remodeling and calcium homeostatis. The monkeys were placed in total body casts and sacrificed either immediately upon decasting or 14 days after decasting. Changes in vertebral strength were noted and further deterioration of bone strength continued during the recovery phase. Resorption in the vertebrae increased dramatically while formation decreased. Cortical bone formation was impaired in the long bones. The immobilized animals showed a progressive decrease in total serum calcium which rebounded upon remobilization. Most mandibular parameters remained unchanged during casting except for retardation of osteon birth or maturation rate and density distribution of matrix and mineral moieties

Magic Numbers for the Photoelectron Anisotropy in Li-Doped Dimethyl Ether Clusters

Photoelectron velocity map imaging of Li(CH$_3$OCH$_3$)$_n$ clusters (1 $\leq$ n $\leq$ 175) is used to search for magic numbers related to the photoelectron anisotropy. Comparison with density functional calculations reveals magic numbers at n=4, 5, and 6, resulting from the symmetric charge distribution with high s-character of the highest occupied molecular orbital. Since each of these three cluster sizes correspond to the completion of a first coordination shell, they can be considered as 'isomeric motifs of the first coordination shell'. Differences in the photoelectron anisotropy, the vertical ionization energies and the enthalpies of vaporization between Li(CH$_3$OCH$_3$)$_n$ and Na(CH$_3$OCH$_3$)$_n$ can be rationalized in terms of differences in their solvation shells, atomic ionization energies, polarizabilities, metal-oxygen bonds, ligand-ligand interactions, and by cooperative effects