Weak-Light Reinforcement and Response Facilitation

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Student agricultural work experiences in San Joaquin County, with particular reference to the work experiences of students of Stockton and Lodi public schools in the summer of 1942

As early as February, 1942, fears of an agricultural labor shortage began to be expressed in California. The Pacific Southwest Area Committee of the Young Men’s Christian Association asserts in a statement of policy on Emergency Harvest Camps, “The California State Chamber of Commerce’s Central Coast Council’s Agricultural Committee points out that ‘the removal of enemy aliens from coastal areas, the absorption of migrant workers into defense industries, and increased government quotas for the production of many crops has created a serious agricultural problem.’ (News release, February 28, 1942).” In San Joaquin County 5,000 Japanese were evacuated. Most of these were farm workers. This made it necessary for 23,709 acres in production to be taken over by outside sources. As most farmers in San Joaquin County had increased acreage in response to President Roosevelt’s and the United States Department of Agriculture’s plea for increased production to aid in the “food for victory drive”, the threatened shortage of farm labor was a matter of much concern to many of them

Design and fabrication of a mid infra-red photonic crystal defect laser in indium antimonide

This paper presents 2D FDTD modelling and prototype fabrication of a mid-infrared photonic crystal defect laser. The device is fabricated using a two stage Focused Ion Beam process which results in improved hole profiles

Labor Law In Great Britain And France In the 1980’s: The Unintended Effects Of Legal Reforms On Organized Labor

This paper compares two instances where the political use of law, specifically labor legislation, was used to effect broader social change during the early 1980s. The two cases focused on are the Thatcher administration in Great Britain and the Mitter and government in France. These divergent cases are instructive as much for their similarities as for their differences. Though the two governments had opposite intentions in terms of the role that organized labor would play in their respective societies, each relied on extensive labor law reform as a means to achieve their objectives. The eventual outcomes of these two political experiments were also similar: power of organized labor was undermined in both countries, albeit in the one case intentionally and in the other unintentionally. Overall this comparison provides insight into the problematic nature of state projects, particularly when law is used to achieve specific social and political aims

Federal Policies and Local Realities: The Case of Appalachian Senior Programs

National senior service programs have had a long and relatively success-ful history. Emerging at the intersection of federal aging and poverty policy initiatives in the early 1960s, projects such as the Foster Grand-parent Program (FGP) and the Senior Companion Program (SCP) have expanded in size and scope over the last several decades. These two pro-grams were first introduced into northwestern North Carolina in the 1980s. While the experiences of FGP and SCP in the region have broadly mirrored the successes of programs located elsewhere, they have also con-fronted difficulties unique to their local realities that federal policy guidelines are often not sensitive to

What is Known About Species Richness and Distribution on the Outer-Shelf South Texas Banks?

The outer-shelf South Texas Banks, also known as the snapper banks, are known by fishermen to be excellent fishing grounds. However, few scientific studies have been conducted to describe the ecology of these uncommon but distinctive habitats. This paper describes results of a literature review and an assessment to determine what is known about the biota of the South Texas Banks and to assist in developing renewed interest and focus on these topographic highs. The outer-shelf South Texas Banks include relict coralgal reefs and relict barrier islands, and we also include data for a nearshore site, which is geographically and geologically separated from the offshore banks. Obtainable scientific literature was reviewed, and biodiversity data were compiled. Results indicate that one of the most studied sites, Southern Bank, could be used as a surrogate to describe potential biodiversity at other, less studied South Texas Banks. Conclusions support the need for more biological studies at all of the South Texas Banks. Results of future studies, when combined with existing results, could be used to identify sites as potential candidates for place-based protection