Preventing Tax Foreclosures in the City of Buffalo

Over the past three years, tax foreclosures have risen approximately 150% in the city of Buffalo. While tax foreclosures are spread across the city, they are heavily concentrated in the Masten and Fillmore districts of the city. To combat the increase in tax foreclosures, Buffalo should study the principle causes of tax foreclosures in the area and be prepared to provide financial education classes, payment plans extending for more than one year, and financial assistance to qualified individuals (low to 0% interest loans). Unfortunately, the lack of definitive information on the causes of tax foreclosures in Buffalo makes it impossible to provide a specific combination/ratio that the city should follow in applying these remedies to prevent tax foreclosures

Self-Evaluation in Youth Media and Technology Programs: A Report to the Time Warner Foundation

This 2003 report documents the self-evaluation practices, challenges, and concerns of the Time Warner Foundation's Community Grantees; reviews the resources available to youth media programs wishing to conduct program and outcome evaluations; and begins to identify useful directions for further exploration

Growing Resistance: Canadian Farmers and the Politics of Genetically Modified Wheat by Emily Eaton

Review of Growing Resistance: Canadian Farmers and the Politics of Genetically Modified Wheat by Emily Eaton

Isolation by distance in a population of a small land snail Trochoidea geyeri : evidence from direct and indirect methods

Population structure was estimated in a continuous population of a small land snail (Trochoidea geyeri). Mark-recapture experiments and randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analyses indicate that the population structure can be described by the isolation by distance model of Wright (1946). Estimates of density and dispersal suggest a neighbourhood size of 70-208 individuals on an area of 13-21 m². A principal component analysis of the randomly amplified polymorphic DNA data reveals clinal variation of genetic composition across the population, as predicted by the neighbourhood concept. An analysis of molecular variance indicates substantial genetic structuring. Comparisons of the genetic distances, expressed as euclidean distances among individuals, versus the geographic distance between sampling sites yield a highly significant positive correlation (Mantel test: r = 0.567, p<0.0001). The revealed pattern of populational subdivision on a microgeographic scale seems to be one of the principal processes generating and maintaining genetic diversity within populations of small land gastropods