The Right of Survivorship as it Relates to Partnership Property in Montana

The Right of Survivorship as it Relates to Partnership Property in Montan

Effects of Dredge Material Placement on Macroinvertebrate Communities: Phase 1

ID: 8809; issued October 1, 1998INHS Technical Report prepared for Rock Island District, US Army Corps of Engineer

Pesticide Properties that Affect Water Quality

16 pp., 9 tables, 6 illustrationsIn order to keep our water supplies safe from pesticide contamination, we must understand which pesticide properties affect water quality, and how. The subject is complex, as properties such as pesticide class, formulation, toxicity, dose, effective dose, persistence, volatility, water solubility, and soil adsorption all must be considered. This publication interprets those characteristics and explains the interaction of chemicals with surface and ground waters

Perceptions of Teachers in a Private Residential Juvenile Treatment Facility

AbstractThe problem for this study was the lack of research about what teachers consider to be the successes, the risks, and the potential dangers of working in a school prison setting. The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate teacher perceptions about successes, risks, and potential dangers of teaching in a prison school setting. This research study was guided by Deci and Ryan’s self-determination theory, which presents a framework for the study of human motivation and personality. The research question examined teachers’ perspectives about the successes, the risks, and dangers of working in a private residential juvenile treatment facility. A basic qualitative design was used to capture the insights of three purposefully selected schoolteachers working in a prison facility through semistructured interviews. Themes were identified through open coding. The trustworthiness of the study was established through member checking, rich and detailed descriptions, and researcher reflexivity. The findings revealed that teachers believed that autonomy and intrinsic motivation were positive self-sustaining sources of motivation for students, while extrinsic motivators like micro-managing were impediments. Teachers also acknowledged that prison students have a need to feel ownership of their behavior. This student need can drive teachers to create activities and lessons to which prison students relate. This study has implications for positive social change by addressing the challenging prison environment as a school setting and by demonstrating how administrators can motivate and guide teachers in this unique setting by building teacher capacity for autonomy and intrinsic motivation

Perceptions of Teachers in a Private Residential Juvenile Treatment Facility

AbstractThe problem for this study was the lack of research about what teachers consider to be the successes, the risks, and the potential dangers of working in a school prison setting. The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate teacher perceptions about successes, risks, and potential dangers of teaching in a prison school setting. This research study was guided by Deci and Ryan’s self-determination theory, which presents a framework for the study of human motivation and personality. The research question examined teachers’ perspectives about the successes, the risks, and dangers of working in a private residential juvenile treatment facility. A basic qualitative design was used to capture the insights of three purposefully selected schoolteachers working in a prison facility through semistructured interviews. Themes were identified through open coding. The trustworthiness of the study was established through member checking, rich and detailed descriptions, and researcher reflexivity. The findings revealed that teachers believed that autonomy and intrinsic motivation were positive self-sustaining sources of motivation for students, while extrinsic motivators like micro-managing were impediments. Teachers also acknowledged that prison students have a need to feel ownership of their behavior. This student need can drive teachers to create activities and lessons to which prison students relate. This study has implications for positive social change by addressing the challenging prison environment as a school setting and by demonstrating how administrators can motivate and guide teachers in this unique setting by building teacher capacity for autonomy and intrinsic motivation

Nurturing theNext Generation of Wisconsin’s Dairy Farmers

A strong dairy economy has both economic and social benefits for Wisconsin. While support for beginning dairy farmers is not the only way to sustain and increase dairy productivity, it is an important strategy that can renew the dairy industry with new farmers. There are many challenges in attracting new people to the dairy business. New dairy farmers often face high start-up costs for land, equipment, and facilities. Volatile milk prices, long hours, and hard work reduce the appeal of a career in dairy farming. In the 1990s, prospective dairy farmers could readily find off-farm jobs that often paid better than dairying. To better understand the start-up strategies used by beginning dairy farmers, a research team from the Program on Agricultural Technology Studies (PATS) and the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS) at UW-Madison surveyed 321 beginning dairy farmers in 1996. The research team then supplemented this survey research with 30 indepth case studies of beginning farmers from a wide range of backgrounds. From this research, a picture emerged showing a wide range of possibilities for getting established in dairying. Dairy farmers can successfully start at different ages and stages in their careers. They can employ a range of production strategies at different scales. Some take over the family farm, while others start out on their own farms. Some enter farming as a second career. Despite all of these differences, the most important characteristic of the successful beginners in this study was the ability to negotiate a good fit between their resources, skills, and farm and family goals. Public and private sector agencies and businesses can help beginning farmers develop “smart” entry strategies based on clear assessments of their resources, skills, and goals

Superconducting Films for Absorber-Coupled MKID Detectors for Sub-Millimeter and Far-Infrared Astronomy

We describe measurements of the properties, at dc, gigahertz, and terahertz frequencies, of thin (10 nm) aluminum films with 10 ohm/{rm square}$ normal state sheet resistance. Such films can be applied to construct microwave kinetic inductance detector arrays for submillimeter and far-infrared astronomical applications in which incident power excites quasiparticles directly in a superconducting resonator that is configured to present a matched-impedance to the high frequency radiation being detected. For films 10 nm thick, we report normal state sheet resistance, resistance-temperature curves for the superconducting transition, quality factor and kinetic inductance fraction for microwave resonators made from patterned films, and terahertz measurements of sheet impedance measured with a Fourier Transform Spectrometer. We compare properties with similar resonators made from niobium 600 nm thick