Where do young people work?

The current policy intention, that all young people remain in some form of accredited education or training to the age of 18 by 2015, poses significant challenges. The jobs without training (JWT) group includes young people who are in full-time work and not in receipt of training leading to National Vocational Qualification level 2 (or above); knowing more about them and meeting their needs will be crucial for the delivery of the Raising of the Participation Age agenda. This paper presents findings from a study of the JWT group, from the perspective of employers, which formed part of wider research including policymakers, young people and their parents. It concludes that the label JWT fails to describe the heterogeneity of this group and the needs of those who employ them. If routes into the labour market remain open to 16- and 17-year-olds, attention must be given to supporting young people's transitions through a more active role in job placement and securing greater support for formalised training

Analysis of ATP Synthase Super-Complex Assembly and Mitochondrial Morphology in Pcp1 Mutants

Mitochondria are double membraned organelles responsible for the majority of ATP production in eukaryotic cells. The mitochondrial inner membrane is folded into cristae structures and is the site of the electron transport chain which terminates in ATP generation. ATP is produced by ATP synthase, a protein complex that has also been shown to have a role in the maintenance of cristae folding. This activity is dependent on Tim11p, a subunit required for the dimerization of ATP synthase super-complexes. Additional proteins located within the inner membrane that are important to mitochondrial morphology include Pcp1p, a serine protease, and its substrate, Mgm1p. Mgm1p is required for mitochondrial fusion and cells deleted for MGM1 do not contain detectable Tim11p. Using biochemical assays and transmission electron microscopy, this study characterized pcp1 mutants in order to analyze the link between Pcp1p functionality, ATP synthase super-complex assembly, and mitochondrial morphology

Cultural Studies and the Multicultural Curriculum.

Although some of the most recent work in the field of multicultural education has acknowledged and begun to theorize about what has been called the new cultural politics of difference, problems concerning the very notions of marginality, boundaries, and their accompanying essentialist thought remain undertheorized. It is my intention to bring discussions about marginality and essentialism from literary theory, feminist psychoanalytic theory and poststructuralist philosophy more explicitly into the conversation about multicultural curriculum theorizing. In this study I have attempted to further develop this conversation around notions of translation as generated by philosophers Michel Serres (1982) and John Rajchmann (1991) as well as literary critics Alan Nadel (1988) and Henry Louis Gates (1987), and novelist and critic Wilson Harris (1983, 1989). These translations expose another kind of communication across difference--that is, across difference within (Johnson, B., 1980, 1987). I approached possibilities for this sort of communication through the interweaving of translation, autobiographical, and psychoanalytic theories. Such communication theorizing, I believe, remains insufficient without consideration of the powerful significance of place (Pinar, 1991). Through the literary, sometimes explicitly autobiographical, examples of both Black and White southern American authors as well as African-Caribbean authors (and, sometimes, myself), I have attempted to expose the ways in which encounters between are constitutive of and are constituted by place

Corporate Fitness Members' Perceptions of the Environment and Their Intrinsic Motivation

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of employees' perceptions of the motivational climate in their corporate fitness center to their intrinsic motivation toward exercise, and their perceptions of their employer's concern for their health behaviors. Members of corporate fitness centers (N = 143) in the Midsouthern region of the US were invited to complete a survey with the following measures: 1) the Perceived Motivational Climate in Exercise Questionnaire (i.e., task- and ego-involving scales), 2) Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (four subscales), and 3) Valued by Employer Scale. Regression analysis revealed that perceptions of a task-involving climate were positively related to employees' interest/enjoyment, perceived competence, effort/importance with regard to exercise, and their sense of feeling valued by their employer. The PMCEQ can be a valuable tool in the exercise psychology literature to measure employees' perceptions of their fitness center environment

Fairmeadows Elementary School West Des Moines, Iowa I-WALK Report 2010

In the past three decades, the number of obese and overweight individuals in Iowa and across the nation has skyrocketed. With obesity comes the greater risk of health complications and life expectancy reduction. As a result, the current generation of youth face a new and growing threat to their overall quality of life. In Iowa alone, 37.1% of 3rd grade students identify as either overweight or obese.https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/iwalk_reports/1034/thumbnail.jp

Hull Christian School Hull, Iowa I-WALK Report 2010

In the past three decades, the number of obese and overweight individuals in Iowa and across the nation has skyrocketed. With obesity comes the greater risk of health complications and life expectancy reduction. As a result, the current generation of youth face a new and growing threat to their overall quality of life. In Iowa alone, 37.1% of 3rd grade students identify as either overweight or obese.https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/iwalk_reports/1036/thumbnail.jp

Schuler Elementary School Atlantic, Iowa I-WALK Report 2010

In the past three decades, the number of obese and overweight individuals in Iowa and across the nation has skyrocketed. With obesity comes the greater risk of health complications and life expectancy reduction. As a result, the current generation of youth face a new and growing threat to their overall quality of life. In Iowa alone, 37.1% of 3rd grade students identify as either overweight or obese.https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/iwalk_reports/1040/thumbnail.jp

Johnson Elementary School Spencer, Iowa I-WALK Report 2010

In the past three decades, the number of obese and overweight individuals in Iowa and across the nation has skyrocketed. With obesity comes the greater risk of health complications and life expectancy reduction. As a result, the current generation of youth face a new and growing threat to their overall quality of life. In Iowa alone, 37.1% of 3rd grade students identify as either overweight or obese.*https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/iwalk_reports/1037/thumbnail.jp

West Elementary School Independence, Iowa I-WALK Report 2010

In the past three decades, the number of obese and overweight individuals in Iowa and across the nation has skyrocketed. With obesity comes the greater risk of health complications and life expectancy reduction. As a result, the current generation of youth face a new and growing threat to their overall quality of life. In Iowa alone, 37.1% of 3rd grade students identify as either overweight or obese.https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/iwalk_reports/1042/thumbnail.jp

Lincoln Elementary School Fort Madison, Iowa I-WALK Report 2010

In the past three decades, the number of obese and overweight individuals in Iowa and across the nation has skyrocketed. With obesity comes the greater risk of health complications and life expectancy reduction. As a result, the current generation of youth face a new and growing threat to their overall quality of life. In Iowa alone, 37.1% of 3rd grade students identify as either overweight or obese.https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/iwalk_reports/1044/thumbnail.jp