Buffalo\u27s Community Health Centers: Healthcare for People with Low Incomes

Community health centers are non-profit, community-oriented healthcare providers. Generally, they are a subset of Federally Qualified Health Centers, institutions that receive special funding because they provide medical care to underserved populations. They offer preventative and primary healthcare, including physical exams, routine testing and screening, immunizations, dental care, pediatrics, women’s health, prenatal care, and nutritional services. These clinics are open to all, but designed to reach out to underserved populations, especially low-income individuals, racial and ethnic minorities, recent immigrants, and rural populations. The National Association of Community Health Centers estimates that nationally, their clinics provide health services for over 23 million people, and this number is increasing. To give one example from Buffalo, the Jericho Road Family Practice serves more than 30,000 people each year

Multiperiodic Galactic field RR Lyrae stars in the ASAS catalog

The All Sky Automated Survey (ASAS) monitors bright stars (8 mag < V < 14 mag) south of declination +28 deg. The ASAS Catalogue of Variable Stars (ACVS) presently contains 50,099 objects; among them are 2212 objects classified as RR Lyrae pulsating variables. We use ASAS photometric V band data to search for multiperiodicity in those stars. We find that 73 of 1435 RRab stars and 49 of 756 RRc stars exhibit the Blazhko effect. We observe a deficiency of RRab Blazhko variables with main pulsation periods greater than 0.65 days. The Blazhko periods of RRc stars exhibit a strongly bimodal distribution. During our study we discovered the Blazhko effect with multiple periods in object ASAS 050747-3351.9 = SU Col. Blazhko periods of 89.3 d and 65.8 d and a candidate of 29.5 d were identified with periodogram peaks near the first three harmonics of the main pulsation. These observations may inspire new models of the Blazhko effect, which has eluded a consistent theory since its discovery about one hundred years ago. Long term lightcurve changes were found in 29 stars. We also found 19 Galactic double mode pulsators (RRd), of which 4 are new discoveries, raising the number of ASAS discoveries of such objects to 16, out of 27 known in the field of our Galaxy.Comment: 12 pages, 10 figures, published in MNRA

Manufacturing of tubes by forming

Práce se zabývá základními metodami výroby trubek, především se zaměřuje na technologie výroby trubek švových. Posuzuje vhodnost a nevhodnost jednotlivých metod výroby a popisuje technologie a typy linek užívaných v praxi. Podrobně se zabývá postupem výroby švové trubky o průměru 116 mm a délce 97 m v závodě ArcelorMittal Tubular Products Karviná a.s. Detailně zpracovává jednotlivé operace v pracovním úseku přípravy pásu, svařovny a redukovny.This thesis deals with the basic methods of manufacture of tubes, especially focuses on the technology of seamless tubes. Assess the appropriateness and inappropriateness of individual production methods used and presents technology and types of lines used in practice. It describes in detail process of production seam pipes with a diameter of 116 mm and a length of 97 m in the plant ArcelorMittal Tubular Products Karviná a.s. Also describes in detail each operation in the working section of the strip preparation, welding and is reduced.

Geographies of Poverty: Buffalo-Niagara Metropolitan Area

The local economy is often discussed in terms of the Buffalo-Niagara Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), a multi-county area with a population of over one million. While it is useful to take a regional perspective, it is also useful to consider individual cities, towns or villages. The economic picture in the city of Buffalo (population 266,012) is so quite different than that of the town of Holland (population 3,430). The poverty rates in the cities of Buffalo (29.6%) and Niagara Falls (21.8%) are vastly higher than in the remaining parts of the MSA (just over 8%). The 2010 poverty rates for a sampling (52) of the municipalities and “census designated areas” (densely settled areas that may or may not be municipalities) in the Buffalo-Niagara MSA are detailed below

Social movement learning about violence

The article analyses learning related to experiencing violence in social actions and social movements. Activists may experience physical abuse from individuals and from organised entities such as the police, both accidentally and as a form of intentional repression. Applying the social movement learning approach to the analysis of individual experience, collective responses to violence, and preparations for the eventuality of its occurrence allowed us to identify the functionalities of protest culture towards de-escalation of violence. The article offers a review of literature as well as an analysis of empirical data from our previous research projects. The result of the analysis is a model of social movements learning about violence, linking individual suffering with the potential of social change. (DIPF/Orig.