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Providing Foster Care for Young Adults: Early Implementation of California's Fostering Connections Act
This report examines the planning process for implementing California's Fostering Connections to Success Act, as well as the new law's early implementation. It is based on data collected from in-depth interviews with key informants who played a critical role in passage of the law, in implementation planning, or in early implementation at the county and state level and from focus groups with young people who stood to benefit directly from the legislation. Although extended foster care is likely to look different in different states, California's experience offers many lessons from which other states might learn
Testing Verlinde's emergent gravity in early-type galaxies
Verlinde derived gravity as an emergent force from the information flow,
through two-dimensional surfaces and recently, by a priori postulating the
entanglement of information in 3D space, he derived the effect of the
gravitational potential from dark matter (DM) as the entropy displacement of
dark energy by baryonic matter. In Emergent Gravity (EG) this apparent DM
depends only on the baryonic mass distribution and the present-day value of the
Hubble parameter. In this paper we test the EG proposition, formalized by
Verlinde for a spherical and isolated mass distribution, using the central
velocity dispersion, and the light distribution in a sample of 4260
massive and local early-type galaxies (ETGs) from the SPIDER sample. Our
results remain unaltered if we consider the sample of 807 roundest field
galaxies. We derive the predictions by EG for the stellar mass-to-light ratio
(M/L) and the Initial Mass Function (IMF), and compare them with the same
inferences derived from a) DM-based models, b) MOND and c) stellar population
models. We demonstrate that, consistently with a classical Newtonian framework
with a DM halo component, or alternative theories of gravity as MOND, the
central dynamics can be fitted if the IMF is assumed non-universal. The results
can be interpreted with a IMF lighter than a standard Chabrier at low-,
and bottom-heavier IMFs at larger . We find lower, but still
acceptable, stellar M/L in EG theory, if compared with the DM-based NFW model
and with MOND. The results from EG are comparable to what is found if the DM
haloes are adiabatically contracted and with expectations from spectral
gravity-sensitive features. If the strain caused by the entropy displacement
would be not maximal, as adopted in the current formulation, then the dynamics
of ETGs could be reproduced with larger M/L. (abridged)Comment: 12 pages, 2 figures, submitted to MNRAS. The updated manuscript
presents significantly altered conclusions, after discovering an internal bug
in an older version of the Mathematica package, leading to incorrect
numerical results when calculating the derivatives of Gamma function
Effect of information about organic production on beef liking and consumer willingness to pay
The present study was aimed to assess the effect of information about organic production on beef liking and consumer willingness to pay. Mean scores of perceived liking were higher for organic beef (OB) as
compared to conventional beef (CB). Expected liking scores were higher for OB than for CB. For OB the expected liking was significantly higher than the perceived liking expressed in blind conditions (negative disconfirmation), whereas for CB no difference was observed. Consumers completely assimilated their liking for OB in the direction of expectations. Consumers showed a willingness to pay for OB higher than the suggested price (P < 0.001), the latter corresponding to the local commercial value for organic beef.
We conclude that the information about organic farming can be a major determinant of beef liking, thus providing a potential tool for meat differentiation to traditional farms
Findings from the California Youth Transitions to Adulthood Study (CalYOUTH): Conditions of Foster Youth at Age 17
This report presents findings from the Baseline Youth Survey, providing the most comprehensive view to date of young people approaching the transition to adulthood from foster care in the wake of the federal Fostering Connections Act. Information gathered during interviews with 727 youths who were an average of 17 years old at the time, offers insight into the needs and aspirations of transition-age foster youth. Study findings can help inform efforts to improve policies and services for foster youths' transitioning to adulthood
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