Home Interaction Program: HIP

A Home Interaction Program (HIP) was designed and implemented for Title I parents and students. The components of the program included monthly newsletters, libraries, and workshops. It was found that parents of Title I students participated in HIP activities as long as they could be done in the home. The conclusion was reached that if schools want Title I parents to become involved in their child\u27s education learning experiences, programs must be developed to reach into the home

Can Community Water Projects Combat Child Diarrhea? Results From the Solomon Islands

There is a vast amount of existing literature that has empirically scrutinized whether or not community water projects have the ability to mitigate diarrheal disease. A strong and persistent belief thinks that community water projects do have the means, however, over the decades empirical work commonly finds this to simply not be true. This study expands the research question to the Solomon Islands. The research tests the hypothesis using a differences-in-differences identification strategy by utilizing the government’s staggered timing rollout of community water subprojects with whether or not a village received a community water subproject to test for a program effect. The research does not, however, find a statistically significant RDP water subproject effect on child diarrhea. Instead rather only a statistically significant correlation can be suggested. Alternatively, the research then explores plausible outcomes that could have also been affected by RDP water subprojects that are correlated and controlled for in the child diarrhea model to try and gain traction on explaining the non-effect child diarrhea results. The analysis on the sub-outcomes also concludes little significant effects. The results find suggest that households living in villages that received a water subproject are 27 percent more likely to consume water from an improved water source in the dry season, and that the time to fetch water could have been cut by nearly half. Although the results suggest that RDP water subprojects affected these two outcomes the analysis overall struggles to find statistical significance to be able to identify changes and determinants of child diarrhea

Review of: Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California edited by Kevin Starr and Richard J. Orsi

This article reviews the book Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California edited by Kevin Starr and Richard J. Orsi

Review of: Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge by Linda Nash

This article reviews the book Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge by Linda Nash

High resolution sonar concept formulation

An assessment is made of the impact of current technological developments on future research in high resolution sonar. The philosophical approach is from the point of view of examining the rate of information flow at each stage through the system. It is concluded that large computer memories under microprocessor control and fiber optic data links can be fruitfully applied in future system architecture. In addition, the necessity for further research in precision naviagation systems and pattern recognition algorithms #20--became apparent, in order to achieve reliable classification of underwater objects along with high area search ratesPrepared for: Coastal Technology Department, naval Coastal Systems Center, Panama City, FL 32407.http://archive.org/details/highresolutionso00sackN6133W9-WR-90113N

Review of: Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge by Linda Nash

This article reviews the book Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge by Linda Nash

A Study of Helium Bubble Formation by Single and Dual Ion Implantation

Helium bubble formation in materials is a concern for both modern day nuclear reactors as well as the next generation. Helium trapped in an atomic lattice has a tendency to form bubbles that may cause blisters, flaking, and increased porosity on the surface of a material. For this experiment a 10 kV linear accelerator was rebuilt and joined with a 1.7 MV linear accelerator to create a system where multiple ion species could be implanted in a sample material simultaneously. This dual ion beam system was used to examine the development of helium bubbles in stainless steel under both helium only implantation and helium with simultaneous implantation of a heavier ion species. It was observed in both a 5.0·10¹⁵ and 3.0·10¹⁶ ions·cm⁻² implantation that the additional damage from a second iron ion caused an increase in helium bubble nucleation across the entire range of 10 keV He⁺ in a 316L stainless steel target

On the Execution of Ambients

Successfully harnessing multi-threaded programming has recently received renewed attention. The GHz war of the last years has been replaced with a parallelism war, each manufacturer seeking to produce CPUs supporting a greater number of threads in parallel execution. The Ambient calculus offers a simple yet powerful means to model communication, distributed computation and mobility. However, given its first class support for concurrency, we sought to investigate the utility of the Ambient calculus for practical programming purposes. Although too low-level to be considered as a general-purpose programming language itself, the Ambient calculus is nevertheless a suitable virtual machine for the execution of mobile and distributed higher-level languages. We present the Glint Virtual Machine: an interpreter for the Safe Boxed Ambient calculus. The GlintVM provides an effective platform for mobile, distributed and parallel computation and should ease some of the difficulties of writing compilers for languages that can exploit the new thread-parallel architectures