Making Ends Meet on Low Wages: The 2008 North Carolina Living Income Standard

Estimates incomes required to meet basic needs in the state by family type, region, and county compared to the federal poverty line and minimum wage. Analyzes changes in labor market conditions and suggests ways to support those who fall below the LIS

Representation of special polynomials by the cycle indicator

Certain classes of special functions have been shown to have Cycle Indicator representations as well as recurrence relations. Most remarkably, it is shown how the Cycle Indicator can be used to unify or generalize special functions. Methods of unifying special functions are elaborated on. It follows that classical special functions with simple logarithms of their generating functions can be classified in this way. Also, there are counter-examples where the Cycle Indicator doesn\u27t represent the special functions given; This thesis represents a study of a journal article called Cycle Indicators and Special Functions by Leetsch C. Hsu and Peter Jau-Shyong Shiue in the Annals of Combinatorics (cf. Hsu and Shiue, [10])

Flying Tigers\u27 22nd Bomb Squadron, 1942-1945: An analysis of management and leadership practices

Many argue that the American educational system is under siege. Students bring with them to school an array of social problems never before seen in this country. Illegal drugs, raging violence, brutal crime, abject poverty, and hopeless desolation pervade our children\u27s lives. Loaded firearms, deadly weapons, and lethal substances are confiscated daily in urban, suburban, and rural schools. Administrators are shot, teachers are mugged, students are stabbed. Schools are in crisis; the war rages. How do school administrators cope?;This investigation concerns the interrelationships, definitions, and applications of several phenomena: war, education, administration, leadership, and power. Through the experiences of the researcher as a fighter-bomber pilot with the 22nd Bomb Squadron,{dollar}\sp1{dollar} the Flying Tigers, during World War II and as an educator for nearly fifty years, comparisons between these two principle environments will be made in light of the phenomena under study; The present study, then, is an historical case study of the development of the Flying Tigers in relation to educational administration and leadership in the current schoolz environment. Historical research was used for detail concerning the development of the squadron and its experiences during World War II. Literature on situational leadership in and outside education was examined in relationship to the experiences of the researcher as a fighter-bomber pilot during the war and as an educator for fifty years. ftn{dollar}\sp1{dollar}In text, the 22nd Bomb Squadron and The Flying Tigers will be used somewhat interchangeably

Zero-Waste Ocean Floor Hydrophone Mooring

Maddie Schroth-Glanz, from the Statistics Department of Cal Poly, requires a system that assists in the deployment and retrieval of a marine hydrophone used to record ocean mammal vocalization patterns, specifically in large whales. This report discusses the final design, including changes to the design after the Critical Design Review, and the tests that were done to ensure the final design achieves the specifications of the project. We will discuss everything from material purchases to manufacturing and assembly for all subsystems of the project, and then discuss how our testing justified the design choices we made. Finally, the report will discuss recommendations and further steps that can be taken to improve upon and complete this project. The appendices include a user manual, risk assessment of the final product, final budget, software, the design verification plan and report, and the test procedures that were followed

An Appetite to Win: Disordered Eating Behaviours amongst Competitive Cyclists

Competitive cyclists may be vulnerable to disordered eating (DE) and eating disorders (ED) due to perceived body composition optimization and external influences within cycling culture and from stakeholders. Therefore, this study aimed to assess DE and ED risk in competitive cyclists using the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26), explore differences in responses based on sex, discipline, and level of competition, and to gain insights into contributing factors towards DE via open-ended survey questions. In total, 203 participants completed a mixed-method questionnaire. Eating disorders were reported by 5.7% (n = 11) of participants, with three being historic cases. The median (inter-quartile range) EAT-26 score was 8 (12) of a total possible score of 78. Disordered eating risk was observed in 16.7% of participants due to an EAT-26 score ≥20. Female participants had significantly higher scores than male participants (12.5 ± 17.5 vs. 6.5 ± 10.0; p = 0.004). There was no significant difference between road cyclists and off-road cyclists (7.0 ± 13.25 vs. 8.0 ± 10.5; p = 0.683). There was a significant difference in scores between novice/club/regional and national/elite/professional cyclists (6.0 ± 11.25 vs. 10.5 ± 12.0; p = 0.007). Thematic analysis of open-text responses found that the social environment of competitive cycling contributed towards DE behaviours and body image issues. These findings indicate competitive cyclists do appear to be an ‘at risk’ population for DE/ED. Therefore, there is need for stakeholders to enhance nutritional services, nutrition education, and create supportive athlete environments

Remote sensing of sea surface glacial meltwater on the Antarctic Peninsula shelf

Glacial meltwater is an important environmental variable for ecosystem dynamics along the biologically productive Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) shelf. This region is experiencing rapid change, including increasing glacial meltwater discharge associated with the melting of land ice. To better understand the WAP environment and aid ecosystem forecasting, additional methods are needed for monitoring and quantifying glacial meltwater for this remote, sparsely sampled location. Prior studies showed that sea surface glacial meltwater (SSGM) has unique optical characteristics which may allow remote sensing detection via ocean color data. In this study, we develop a first-generation model for quantifying SSGM that can be applied to both spaceborne (MODIS-Aqua) and airborne (PRISM) ocean color platforms. In addition, the model was prepared and verified with one of the more comprehensive in-situ stable oxygen isotope datasets compiled for the WAP region. The SSGM model appears robust and provides accurate predictions of the fractional contribution of glacial meltwater to seawater when compared with in-situ data (r = 0.82, median absolute percent difference = 6.38%, median bias = −0.04), thus offering an additional novel method for quantifying and studying glacial meltwater in the WAP region