Assessing Rural Coalitions That Address Safety and Health Issues

Community coalitions can help national organizations meet their objectives. Farm Safety 4 Just Kids depends on coalitions of local people to deliver farm safety and health educational programs to children and their families. These coalitions are called chapters. An evaluation was developed to identify individual coalition\u27s strengths and weaknesses. Ten FS4JK chapter locations conducted a SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) and community focus groups to identify what strategies could be incorporated to improve each coalition\u27s functionality. The findings will help strengthen program delivery, which will guide the national organization toward a more effective support system

Developing nucleon self-energies to generate the ingredients for the description of nuclear reactions

The nucleon self-energies of 40Ca, 48Ca, and 208Pb are determined using a nonlocal dispersive optical model (DOM). By enforcing the dispersion relation connecting the real and imaginary part of the self-energy, both experimental scattering data and nuclear structure data are used to constrain these self-energies. The ability to calculate both bound and scattering states simultaneously puts these self-energies in a unique position to consistently describe exclusive knockout reactions such as (e,e\u27p). Using the well-constrained self-energy describing 40Ca, the distorted-wave impulse approximation (DWIA) description of the (e,e\u27p) reaction is shown to be valid for outgoing proton kinetic energies around 100 MeV. This analysis also reveals the importance of high-energy proton reaction cross section data in constraining spectroscopic factors of the (e,e\u27p) reactions. In particular, it is imperative that high-energy proton reaction cross section data are measured for 48Ca in the near future so that the quenching of the spectroscopic factor in the 48Ca(e,e\u27p)47K reaction can be properly constrained using the DOM. Moreover, DOM generated spectral functions indicate that the quenching of spectroscopic factors is due not only to long-range correlations, but also partly due to the increase in the proton high-momentum content in 48Ca on account of the strong neutron-proton interaction. Single-particle momentum distributions of protons and neutrons in 48Ca and 208Pb calculated from these spectral functions confirm this by clearly showing that neutron excess causes a higher fraction of high-momentum protons than neutrons. In addition to proton reaction cross section data, high-energy neutron total cross section data are also shown to constrain the distribution of neutrons in these nuclei, leading to the prediction of thick neutron skins in both 48Ca and 208Pb. Using the DOM spectral functions, the binding energy density of each nucleus is calculated. These energy densities call into question the degree to which the equation of state for nuclear matter is constrained by the well-known empirical mass formula

A DECOMPOSED REGRESSION MODEL FOR MEASURING STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN THE FLOUR MILLING INDUSTRY

This paper presents a decomposed Poisson regression model based on count data that evaluates the size distribution, the changing number of flour mills for each size class, and the concentration of market power, simultaneously. This model also allows us to test dominant price leadership model.Agribusiness, Industrial Organization,

Response to the State of Washington to statements of issues filed by other parties

Response to Statement of Issues by State of Wash

Investigation of the Effects of the Variation of Heel Gap on the Performance of Electro-Mechanical Relays

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Response of state of Washington in opposition to Colville Indian Tribe\u27s motion for partial summary judgement

Response of State of Wash. In Opposition to Court\u27s Motion for Partial Summary Judgmen

Response of the State of Washington

Response of the State of Wash

Figures of Speech, Divergent Thinking, and Activation Theory

The problem was to investigate the relationships between the incidence of figures of speech in selected types of pupils' compositions and pupils' divergent thinking