Religion, Religiosity and Educational Attainment of Immigrants to the USA

This paper quantifies the association between religions, religiosity and educational attainment of new lawful immigrants to the U.S. This paper considers a broad set of religions that includes most of the major religions of the world. Using data from the New Immigrant Survey (2003), we show that affiliation with religion is not necessarily associated with an increase in educational attainment. Muslim and “Other religion” immigrants have less education compared to the immigrants who are not affiliated with any religion. However, affiliation with the Jewish religion is associated with higher educational attainment for males. With regard to religiosity, our results show that high religiosity is associated with lower educational attainment, especially for females. We also outline alternative frameworks that provide insight about the mechanisms that link religion and religiosity with educational attainment.Immigration; Religion; Religiosity; Education

Making of wing models by tangent-milling

Wings whose surfaces arc developable have been milled on a jig-borer at the National Aeronautical Laboratory, Bangalore, employing tangential milling. In this process, the Wing cross-section is approximated by a polygon which can be smoothened by hand-finish. The polygonal approximation itself is such that each side of the polygon is a tangent to the aerofoil. The aerofoil is defined by a finite set of points got from experiments or otherwise. These points are joined smoothly by using Spline approximation to achieve continuity of first and second13; derivatives. The splines and the settings of the jig-borer (for tangential milling) were obtained on the NAL SIRIUS Computer. Each setting of the jig-borer consists of the cutter-height and two turnings of the turnables one about the axis perpendicular to the turntable and the other about a fixed horizontal axis, so that the plane of milling becomes horizontal. The two angles of rotation and the cutter height depend upon the Wing geometry besides some of the machine parameters