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Relationships between university and practice, and the role of the link lecturer
Mentorship: is the fourteenth series of ‘Midwifery basics’ targeted at practising midwives. It aims to provide information to raise awareness of the impact of the work of midwives on student learning and ultimately on women’s experience and encourage midwives to seek further information through a series of activities. In this fifth article Pat Jones and Joyce Marshall consider the relationships between university and practice, and the role of the link lecturer in supporting mentors and students. Midwives are encouraged to seek further information through a series of activities
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Joyce E. Jones, Using information in purchasing decisions, Kansas State University, May 1989
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Joyce E. Jones, Planning major purchases around seasonal sales, Kansas State University, September 1992
The geometry of the Toda equation
I show that solutions of the SU(infinity) Toda field equation generating a
fixed Einstein-Weyl space are governed by a linear equation on the
Einstein-Weyl space. From this, obstructions to the existence of Toda solutions
generating a given Einstein-Weyl space are found. I also give a classification
of Einstein-Weyl spaces arising from the Toda equation in more than one way.
This classification coincides with a class of spaces found by Ward and hence
clarifies some of their properties. I end by discussing the simplest examples.Comment: AMS-LaTeX 11 pages; minor changes to title, keywords and reference
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How an after school environmental science club can increase environmental knowledge: Awareness and sensitivity towards the environment for third and fourth grade students
Children today are disconnected from the natural environment around them, sometimes finding it annoying, lacking in excitement, and little use to them. Their attention and focus are spent inside watching TV, playing games on computers or a variety of other electronic devices. The purpose of this project was to see if after-school exposure to an Enirovnmental Science Club on the school grounds can impact student attitudes toward our local environment and to increase these third and fourth grade students\u27 knowledge and awareness of their environment
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Funded in cooperation with the Kansas Extension Homemakers Council.Joyce E. Jones & Doris "Katey" Walker, Consumer choice, Kansas State University, September 1992
Financial Management Education: Its Role in Changing Behavior
Managing personal finances is a crucial but difficult issue. Many writers are concerned about whether or not Americans are prepared to handle their finances as personal debt and bankruptcies grow. While some educators believe that financial education can improve a family\u27s financial security, others question the effectiveness of such programs. The study reported here examined the results of Money 2000â„¢ and its ability to influence behavior and financial preparedness. Participants made greater use of banks and less use of loan and check cashing services, increased savings, and decreased debt. The data supports financial literacy training as enhancing financial well-being
Spatial and observational homogeneities of the galaxy distribution in standard cosmologies
This work discusses the possible empirical verification of the geometrical
concept of homogeneity of the standard relativistic cosmology considering its
various definitions of distance. We study the physical consequences of the
distinction between the usual concept of spatial homogeneity (SH), as defined
by the Cosmological Principle, and the concept of observational homogeneity
(OH), arguing that OH is in principle falsifiable by means of astronomical
observations, whereas verifying SH is only possible indirectly. Simulated
counts of cosmological sources are produced by means of a generalized
number-distance expression that can be specialized to produce either the counts
of the Einstein-de Sitter (EdS) cosmology, which has SH by construction, or
other types of counts, which do, or do not, have OH by construction.
Expressions for observational volumes and differential densities are derived
with the various cosmological distance definitions in the EdS model. Simulated
counts that have OH by construction do not always exhibit SH features. The
reverse situation is also true. Besides, simulated counts with no OH features
at low redshift start showing OH characteristics at high redshift. The comoving
distance seems to be the only distance definition where both SH and OH appear
simultaneously. The results show that observations indicating possible lack of
OH do not necessarily falsify the standard Friedmannian cosmology, meaning that
this cosmology will not necessarily always produce observable homogeneous
densities. The general conclusion is that the use of different cosmological
distances in the characterization of the galaxy distribution lead to
significant ambiguities in reaching conclusions about the behavior of the
large-scale galaxy distribution in the Universe.Comment: 12 pages, 12 figures, LaTeX. Matches the final version sent to the
journal. Accepted for publication in "Astronomy and Astrophysics
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