Understanding the role of faith in decisions to persist in college for first-generation Black male students

While the admissions rate for Black students is now equivalent to that of White students, there is still a large gap in persistence and graduation rates. Among Black students there is a significant graduation rate gap between Black male and female students. The writer used a qualitative research design to make preliminary observations of the decisions to persist in college of a small sample of first-generation African American male students. As students in a Christian university, the dominant role of faith in decisions to persist emerged as an important theme

QUICKEN AS A FARM ACCOUNTING SYSTEM: A LESSON PLAN ON CASH BASIS RECORDKEEPING WITH ACCRUAL-ADJUSTED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

The purpose of this document is to demonstrate how Quicken, a popular checkbook management software program, can be used to keep a set of records for the farm business that will measure profits, liquidity, and solvency. This is a revision of ERI 95-02, with more detailed explanations. All graphics have been eliminated and fonts have been changed so this document can be printed on most printers. It is based on an example farm used in the Business Management in Agriculture (BMA) series of videos and workbooks developed in the late 1980s, and draws on materials prepared by Dr. Ken Stokes of Texas A&M University. It will best be understood if used as a study guide, and that entries actually be made in Quicken as they are encountered in the guide, and following the instructions given in Appendix A. By the time you complete this exercise, you will have a much better idea how to keep records on your farm, and how useful the reports will be in managing your farm or ranch operation. Appendix A contains instructions for those who received a disk with files already set up. If you did not receive a disk, consider yourself lucky. You will probably learn more just from having to go through the steps of setting up the accounts and categories. This is not intended to be an introductory course in either recordkeeping or Quicken. It requires some previous training in Quicken. Those with a basic understanding of accounting principles will find it easier to understand and will have less trouble making entries for their own business. Yet, almost anyone with a desire and diligence can master the concepts and implement the system for their business.Agricultural Finance,

A LESSON PLAN FOR TEACHING ACCOUNTING FOR THE HOME USING QUICKEN 8.0

Financial Economics, Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession,

USING QUICKEN AS A FARM ACCOUNTING SYSTEM WITH ACCRUAL-ADJUSTED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FROM CASH BASIS FINANCIAL RECORDS

Agricultural Finance,

Topographic Map Acquisition In U.S. Academic Libraries

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Inflow and Loadings from Ground Water to the Great Bay Estuary, New Hampshire

This final report presents the results of a study to evaluate groundwater inflow and nutrient loadings to the Great Bay Estuary, New Hampshire. The evaluation of inflow was accomplished independently by two methods: one, used thermal imagery, and the other, piezometric mapping. The thermal imagery method assessed groundwater that was observed to discharge within the intertidal zone of an inland estuary. The groundwater piezometric mapping method used bedrock wells around the bay to create an overall piezometric map of the near-bay area. Groundwater discharge was evaluated with respect to flow, concentration, and ultimately nitrogen loading to coastal waters. The results represent a snapshot for these variables, examined by a thermal infrared aerial survey in the spring of 2000, and water quality, specific discharge, and piezometric surface maps in the summer of 2001. Monitoring wells upgradient of the Great Bay were analyzed for nitrogen as an indicator of potential discharge source waters. Total groundwater discharge to the estuary was calculated as 24.2 cubic feet per second (cfs) with an average of 0.81± 0.89 mg dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN)/L, with a maximum value of 2.7 mg DIN/L (n=20). Nutrient concentrations, averaging 0.83± 1.34 mg DIN/L, with a maximum value of 10.2 mg DIN/L, were observed in upgradient bedrock groundwater analyzed from 192 wells. Nutrient loading was calculated to be 19.3±21.2 tons of N per year for the total Great Bay Estuary, covering nearly 144 miles of shoreline. The groundwater derived nutrient loading accounts for approximately 5% of the total non-point source load to the estuary. The thermal imagery method was found to be an effective and affordable alternative to conventional groundwater exploration approaches

Regulation of gastric acid secretion in situ by an endogenous activator protein: Studies with activator-specific antibody

Monospecific polyclonal antibody was raised against a homogenous preparation of endogenous activator protein (HAF) for the gastric H+,K+-ATPase system. Antibody was used to assess the regulatory role of the HAF in gastric acid secretion by isolated rabbit glands in situ. Immunohistochemical studies revealed aredistribution of theHAFtowards discrete intracellular zones following stimulation of the glands with histamine. The antibody, when inserted into the stimulated gastric glands by digitonin permeabilization, could effectively block the acid forming ability of the cells. The data offers, for the first time, some concrete in situ evidence for the role of the HAF as an intracellular regulator of gastric H+ transport .The manuscript was written (in the early 1990) soon after the data were collected, but never submitted to a journal with the hope of getting better gel picture and fluorescent micrograph which did not materialize due to unavoidable circumstances

Atom in a qq-Analog Harmonic Oscillator Trap

We study the population inversion and Q-function of a two-level atom, interacting with single-mode laser light field, in a $q$-analog harmonic oscillator trap for increasing $q$. For $\tau=.003(q=e^{\tau})$ the collapses and revivals of population inversion become well defined facilitating experimental observation but for large $\tau \sim 0.1$ the time dependence of population inversion is completely wiped out.Comment: 13 pages, revtex, 4 figures available upon reques

An Inquiry into School-to-Home Communications Among Selected South Dakota Communities

The demand for information about schools is increasing dramatically. War and cancer are the only subjects that claim greater public interest today, according to Leslie J. Stiles, professor of inter-disciplinary studies at Northwestern University. This opinion is shared by others in the field of educational public information, some of whom question the topical-coverage allocation and the display given to educational news by the press and by school officials The contrast between what parents want to know about schools and what is disseminated to them about schools has been described by researchers for nearly forty years. Yet, Stiles says, little progress is evident to show that persons responsible for school information and news have heeded the findings and recommendations of these studies. Virtually all of this research has dealt with the metropolitan daily newspaper and the larger population center, two units not typical of South Dakota. This state has 12 daily newspapers, but only one has a circulation which exceed 50,000. Furthermore six of the dailies have circulations of less than 8,000, and the average circulation of these six is slightly more than 3,500. Only seven per cent of the public-school superintendents of South Dakota work in schools situated in a community having a daily newspaper. Although a total of 18,535 students attend the public high schools of these 12 communities, a total of 31,624 students attend the public high schools in the South Dakota communities which have only weekly newspapers. Thus, those interested in school-to -home communications in South Dakota may well wonder if existing research reports have meaning in rural areas, and also may wonder what the pattern is for school-to-home communication in South Dakota. One might logically ask these questions: (1) Are the findings of studies in other areas applicable to South Dakota small to1tms? (2) Is the weekly newspaper in the small South Dakota community a potentially effective medium for school-to-home communications? (3) How are school-to-home communication patterns in South Dakota regarded by parents, weekly newspaper editors, school superintendents, and school newspaper advisers? (4) What is the nature of the demand for information; how does what is furnished compare with what is desired