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Reagan Budget Cuts and City Spending on Welfare and Housing and Community Development
In President Reagan\u27s New Federalism, the federal government had a decreased role in the domestic sector and the state and local governments had increased roles with more of the responsibilities. His grants-in-aid policy made the states play a larger leadership role. Reagan was critical of welfare and redistributive services programs. Under Reagan, was the federal government more apt to cut programs that targeted the poor and were the state and local governments less apt to replace the cuts? The point of the research was to determine the impact of the 1981 Reagan budget cuts on city spending for welfare and spending for housing and community development. The hypothesis is that Reagan\u27s budget cuts will impact city spending for welfare more than spending for housing and community development. If political theorists, like Daniel Elazar, were correct, region and political culture would be the most important predictors of city spending on welfare and spending on housing and community development. If political theorists, like Paul Peterson, were correct, the most important predictors of city spending on welfare would be fiscal pressure and dependency on federal revenue. If political scholars, like David Morgan and Robert England, were correct, city population would be an important predictor of city spending for welfare and spending for housing and community development.
Multiple regression analyses were done on a listing of 118 cities, over 10,000 and less than 1,000,000, which spent for both welfare and housing and community development from 1976-87. A comparison of the spending means for 1976-77, 1981-82 and 1986-87 showed that the 1981 Reagan budget cuts impacted welfare more than housing and community development. Only the moralistic and individualistic political cultures were consistently statistically significant at the .05 level with a positive relationship to welfare spending (other variables in the equation controlled) but they explained little of the variation in spending on welfare for 1976-87. Only city dependency on federal revenue was consistently statistically significant at the .05 level with a positive relationship to housing and community development spending (other variables in the equation controlled) but explained little of the variation in spending on housing and community development for 1976-87. Removing the dummy variables for region and political culture had more of an impact on the prediction of spending for welfare than on spending for housing and community development
Nanoengineered Curie Temperature in Laterally-Patterned Ferromagnetic Semiconductor Heterostructures
We demonstrate the manipulation of the Curie temperature of buried layers of
the ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As using nanolithography to enhance the
effect of annealing. Patterning the GaAs-capped ferromagnetic layers into
nanowires exposes free surfaces at the sidewalls of the patterned (Ga,Mn)As
layers and thus allows the removal of Mn interstitials using annealing. This
leads to an enhanced Curie temperature and reduced resistivity compared to
unpatterned samples. For a fixed annealing time, the enhancement of the Curie
temperature is larger for narrower nanowires.Comment: Submitted to Applied Physics Letters (minor corrections
Equation of state for -stable hot nuclear matter
We provide an equation of state for hot nuclear matter in -equilibrium
by applying a momentum-dependent effective interaction. We focus on the study
of the equation of state of high-density and high-temperature nuclear matter,
containing leptons (electrons and muons) under the chemical equilibrium
condition in which neutrinos have left the system. The conditions of charge
neutrality and equilibrium under -decay process lead first to the
evaluation of proton and lepton fractions and afterwards of internal energy,
free energy, pressure and in total to the equation of state of hot nuclear
matter. Thermal effects on the properties and equation of state of nuclear
matter are assesed and analyzed in the framework of the proposed effective
interaction model. Special attention is dedicated to the study of the
contribution of the components of -stable nuclear matter to the entropy
per particle, a quantity of great interest for the study of structure and
collapse of supernova.Comment: 28 pages, 18 figure
Equation of state for dense supernova matter
We provide an equation of state for high density supernova matter by applying
a momentum-dependent effective interaction. We focus on the study of the
equation of state of high-density and high-temperature nuclear matter
containing leptons (electrons and neutrinos) under the chemical equilibrium
condition. The conditions of charge neutrality and equilibrium under
-decay process lead first to the evaluation of the lepton fractions and
afterwards the evaluation of internal energy, pressure, entropy and in total to
the equation of state of hot nuclear matter for various isothermal cases.
Thermal effects on the properties and equation of state of nuclear matter are
evaluated and analyzed in the framework of the proposed effective interaction
model. Since supernova matter is characterized by a constant entropy we also
present the thermodynamic properties for isentropic case. Special attention is
dedicated to the study of the contribution of the components of -stable
nuclear matter to the entropy per particle, a quantity of great interest for
the study of structure and collapse of supernova.Comment: 23 pages, 15 figure
Evolution of Massive Stars Up to the End of Central Oxygen Burning
We present a detailed study of the evolution of massive stars of masses 15,
20, 25 and 30 \msun assuming solar-like initial chemical composition. The
stellar sequences were evolved through the advanced burning phases up to the
end of core oxygen burning. We present a careful analysis of the physical
characteristics of the stellar models. In particular, we investigate the effect
of the still unsettled reaction C(,)O on the
advanced evolution by using recent compilations of this rate. We find that this
rate has a significant impact on the evolution not only during the core helium
burning phase, but also during the late burning phases, especially the shell
carbon-burning. We have also considered the effect of different treatment of
convective instability based on the Ledoux criterion in regions of varying
molecular weight gradient during the hydrogen and helium burning phases. We
compare our results with other investigations whenever available. Finally, our
present study constitutes the basis of analyzing the nucleosynthesis processes
in massive stars. In particular we will present a detail analysis of the {\it
s}-process in a forthcoming paper.Comment: 46 pages, 15 figures. To be published in ApJ vol 611, August 10, 200
Enhancing consumers' self-reported loyalty intentions in Islamic Banks: the relationship between service quality and the mediating role of customer satisfaction
The main objective of this paper is to investigate how service quality and customer satisfaction are correlated to self-reported loyalty intentions in Islamic banks. The paper presents primary data collected by self-administered questionnaires involving a sample of 655 respondents from all local Islamic Banks in Jordan. The results show that compliance, tangibility, responsiveness, assurance, and empathy positively linked to self-reported loyalty intentions, with compliance and assurance appearing as the greatest correlation with self-reported loyalty intentions compared to other service quality dimensions. Islamic banks should focus on continuous improvement of service quality due to the direct correlation with customer satisfaction and loyalty. It is important for Islamic banks to review and endorse all policies and procedures to ensure that their documents and investments are undertaken in line with the requirements of Islamic law. Managers should pay special attention to the service quality provided by their employees and develop their skill set through training and education programmes based on Islamic principles. As the first study of its kind in Jordan, the paper’s contribution stems from filling the research gap in examining the relationship between the various service quality dimensions and self-reported loyalty intentions in Islamic banks using the CARTER model.
Subjects: Marketing; Services Marketing; Consumer Behaviou
Heart rate variability and cortisol responses during attentional and working memory tasks in naval cadets
The aim of the paper was to study the relationship between heart rate variability (HRV) and cortisol release
during cognitive challenging tasks. Forty-nine male naval cadets from the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy
were administered computerised versions of attentional and working memory tests. The results from this
study support the hypothesis of a negative correlation between HRV and cortisol secretion during cognitive
tasks. Confirmation of the hypothesis with the low HRV group scoring higher on cortisol only during performance
of cognitive tasks and recovery was also found. Furthermore, a replication of the previous findings
of a negative association between cortisol levels and performance were supported when using uncorrected
comparisons. None of the correlations survived Bonferonin corrections. The findings are discussed in
relation to factors increasing HRV, thus improving tolerance to cognitive stress in onboard environments
Synthesis and Characterization of Advanced Carbon-Based Nanowires – Study of Composites Actuation Capabilities Containing These Nanowires as Fillers
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