City, poverty, hut. Contributions of the poor to the construction of popular housing

Este texto desarrolla en diez temas las prácticas identificadas en el trabajo con comunidades pobres en tugurios de África, Asia y América Latina. Se invita en él a reflexionar sobre el potencial que tienen los pobres para aportar a la construcción de mejores ciudades en nuestros países y a renovar algunas premisas que han fundamentado las políticas convencionales en relación con la pobreza urbana y la precariedad del alojamiento. Entre otras cuestiones, nos preguntamos qué significa para estas comunidades ubicarse en las ciudades y se comparan los conceptos que subyacen a nuestra manera de entender la pobreza, la precariedad y la segregación urbanas con aquellos que están detrás de las formas en que los pobres localizan y construyen su hábitat. Finalmente se identifican algunos recursos estratégicos que los movimientos populares están aprendiendo a usar para fortalecer los procesos de mejoramiento del hábitat precario, la articulación de intereses, las ventajas de una información oportuna y el desarrollo de capacidades en materia financiera y tecnológica

The Implications of Nesting in California Redistricting

Evaluates the process of nesting -- aggregating or dividing assembly and senate districts -- on redistricting outcomes, including compactness, minimizing city and county divisions, and the creation of majority minority seats

Has the introduction of “Project Maths” at post-primary level affected the attitudes of first-year higher education engineering students in Ireland?

Mathematics is increasingly a focus of educational studies nationally and internationally, due to the growing need of mathematical skills in today’s technological, economical, and industrial world (European Commission 2011, Conway and Sloane 2005). It is widely known that mathematics is a core subject for science and engineering disciplines. As Project Maths was implemented on a phased basis over a four-year period, our study is directed upon testing the mathematical skills and investigating first year engineering students' attitudes towards mathematics over the course of the implementation. In this paper, we give a detailed overview of the results of a pilot attitudinal survey conducted in 2012 on a cohort of students who studied phase one of Project Maths. Overall, the results show quite a negative attitude towards mathematics, a fact that is naturally of concern among a cohort of engineering students who will rely heavily upon mathematics for the duration of their studies and beyond. Possible reasons for these attitudes will be further investigated in the following years, along with comparisons as to whether there are any improvements in students' mathematical skills and attitudes evident in the data we collect

The D3/2 Neutron Scattering Resonance in the Shell Model of O16

Model Hamiltonian for neutron scattering resonance in shell model of molecular oxyge

Association between 5-Year clinical outcome in patients with nonmedically evacuated mild blast traumatic brain injury and clinical measures collected within 7 days postinjury in combat

Importance: Although previous work has examined clinical outcomes in combat-deployed veterans, questions remain regarding how symptoms evolve or resolve following mild blast traumatic brain injury (TBI) treated in theater and their association with long-term outcomes. Objective: To characterize 5-year outcome in patients with nonmedically evacuated blast concussion compared with combat-deployed controls and understand what clinical measures collected acutely in theater are associated with 5-year outcome. Design, Setting, and Participants: A prospective, longitudinal cohort study including 45 service members with mild blast TBI within 7 days of injury (mean 4 days) and 45 combat deployed nonconcussed controls was carried out. Enrollment occurred in Afghanistan at the point of injury with evaluation of 5-year outcome in the United States. The enrollment occurred from March to September 2012 with 5-year follow up completed from April 2017 to May 2018. Data analysis was completed from June to July 2018. Exposures: Concussive blast TBI. All patients were treated in theater, and none required medical evacuation. Main Outcomes and Measures: Clinical measures collected in theater included measures for concussion symptoms, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, depression symptoms, balance performance, combat exposure intensity, cognitive performance, and demographics. Five-year outcome evaluation included measures for global disability, neurobehavioral impairment, PTSD symptoms, depression symptoms, and 10 domains of cognitive function. Forward selection multivariate regression was used to determine predictors of 5-year outcome for global disability, neurobehavior impairment, PTSD, and cognitive function. Results: Nonmedically evacuated patients with concussive blast injury (n = 45; 44 men, mean [SD] age, 31 [5] years) fared poorly at 5-year follow-up compared with combat-deployed controls (n = 45; 35 men; mean [SD] age, 34 [7] years) on global disability, neurobehavioral impairment, and psychiatric symptoms, whereas cognitive changes were unremarkable. Acute predictors of 5-year outcome consistently identified TBI diagnosis with contribution from acute concussion and mental health symptoms and select measures of cognitive performance depending on the model for 5-year global disability (area under the curve following bootstrap validation [AUCBV] = 0.79), neurobehavioral impairment (correlation following bootstrap validation [RBV] = 0.60), PTSD severity (RBV = 0.36), or cognitive performance (RBV = 0.34). Conclusions and Relevance: Service members with concussive blast injuries fared poorly at 5-year outcome. The results support a more focused acute screening of mental health following TBI diagnosis as strong indicators of poor long-term outcome. This extends prior work examining outcome in patients with concussive blast injury to the larger nonmedically evacuated population

Research and development of the dry tape battery concept Quarterly report no. 2, 9 Sep. - 8 Dec. 1965

Magnesium-aluminum chloride, hydrogen chloride- trichlorotriazinetrione system for dry tape batterie

Electronic structure and exchange constants in magnetic semiconductors digital alloys: chemical and band-gap effects

First-principles simulations have been performed for [001]-ordered Mn/Ge and Mn/GaAs "digital alloys", focusing on the effects of i) a larger band-gap and ii) a different semiconducting host on the electronic structure of the magnetic semiconductors of interest. Our results for the exchange constants in Mn/Ge, evaluated using a frozen-magnon scheme, show that a larger band-gap tends to give a stronger nearest-neighbor ferromagnetic coupling and an overall enhanced in-plane ferromagnetic coupling even for longer-ranged coupling constants. As for the chemical effects on the exchange constants, we show that Mn/GaAs shows a smaller nearest-neighbor ferromagnetic coupling than Mn/Ge, but exchange constants for higher Mn-Mn distance show an overall increased ferromagnetic behavior in Mn/GaAs. As a result, from the magnetic-coupling point of view, the two systems behave on average rather similarly

Research and development of the dry tape battery concept Quarterly report no. 1, 9 Jun. - 8 Sep. 1965

Cell discharge measurements for dry tape battery couple - anode and cathode development in aqueous and nonaqueous electrolyte

In Situ Localization of Proline in Oral Bacteria and on Lingual Epithelium

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/66958/2/10.1177_00220345740530010801.pd