Literacy Narratives of Pre-Literate and Non-Literate Adult Refugee Women

This study focuses on the Literacy Narratives of Pre-Literate and Non-Literate Adult Refugee Women in the Fargo-Moorhead community. Personal interviews were conducted to gather data. The recorded interviews were then transcribed and analyzed using three predetermined categories. Findings from the categories: motivation, learning strategies, and preferred materials are presented in the results section. Through analysis, five main motivators have emerged in the findings of the four literacy narratives: being committed to learning, being a role model for their kids, getting better employment opportunities for supporting the family, getting a GED, and being competent in English. The participants’ literacy narratives show that the commitment, energy, and effort to develop one’s literacy plays a vital role in the lives of preand non-literate learners once they arrive in the United States. This study’s participants are largely motivated to increase their literacy skills to be more self-sufficient and become independent individuals in their community

CASE STUDY ON SAFETY MANAGEMENT IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECT

There have been significant reductions in the number and the rate of injury over the last 20 years or more. Nevertheless, construction remains as the one of the high risk industry. The purpose of this study is to examine safety management in the Malaysian construction industry, as well as to highlight the importance of construction safety management. The industry has contributed significantly to the economic growth of the country. However, when construction safety management is not implemented systematically, accidents will happen and this can affect the economic growth of the country. This study will try to put the safety management in construction project as one of the important elements to project performance and success. The study will focus on construction project in Malaysia and a case study will be done at “Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 – New Low Cost Terminal Project”. The study will also emphasize on awareness and the importance of safety management in construction project. The data will be collected by doing the questionnaire and a case study. The analysis of the survey will be done by using the Relative Importance Index (RII) and Cronbach's alpha using SPSS software. The scores were then transformed to importance indices based on the formula

The Use of Marine Sand in Bituminous Mix•

Over the past decade, dramatic increasing in truck traffic, heavier axle loads, various environmental impacts and higher tire pressure had contributed to severe pavement distortions. In Malaysia, permanent deformation (creep deformation) is a continuously pavement distortion problems which caused by effect of temperature, successive stresses, excessive high bitumen content from improper mix design and insufficient compaction during roadway construction. In bituminous mix, fine aggregate's recent trend is using mining sand. Comparison in term of performance towards creep deformation between marine sand and mining sand as fine aggregate are key purpose for the study. For experiments, aggregate gradation are done for coarse aggregate; granite, fine aggregate; marine sand and mining sand as "well as filler; ordinary Portland cement. It is to determine the percentages of material used for making Marshall Mix sample. After conducting Marshall Mix design, stability tests is conducted upon each of sample to determine the optimum bitumen content by plotting graph of stability, density and void in mineral aggregate versus binder content. Dynamic creep test is performed to compare the performance of both samples. The result revealed that marine sand reaching stages of failures is twice as much compared with mining sand. It proves that usage of marine sand in bituminous mix increased its resistance towards permanent deformation (creep deformation)

The distributional impact of common-pool resource regulations

Regulating common-pool resources is welfare enhancing for society but not necessarily for all users who therefore may oppose regulations. We examine the short-term impact of common-pool resource regulations on welfare distribution. Market-based regulations such as fees and subsidies or tradable quotas achieve a higher reduction of extraction from free-access than individual quotas with the same proportion of betteroff users. They make also more users better-off for the same resource preservation. The quota regulation has attractive fairness properties: it reduces inequality while still rewarding the more efficient users