Malone saying goodbye to UAF job but not to Alaska forests

Research Forester Tom Malone retires from UAF

Return to school 1 year after traumatic brain injury: A study using the Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems National Database

For many individuals, recovery from moderate to severe brain injuries involves returning to a level of pre-injury productivity. Specifically, previous research has focused extensively on factors predicting return to employment, where students are inconsistently categorized with those in competitive employment. Moreover, research dedicated to return to school for students in secondary and tertiary education is largely qualitative; very few studies have utilized predictive modeling on a sample composed solely of students. For this study, a model including days of post-traumatic amnesia (PTA), length of stay (LOS), rehabilitation discharge Disability Rating Scale (DRS) scores, and educational level was used to predict return to school one year post-injury in a sample of 196 students within the Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems National Database. For this sample, the overall return to school rate was 63.78%. Logistic regression results indicated that lower scores on the DRS and being in high school pre-injury resulted in the highest probabilities of returning to school one year post-injury. Results also suggested that for some, productivity post-injury was possible outside of the school setting, and for others, returning to school did not indicate long-term productivity, which highlights that productivity defined within a school setting and within a work setting may be somewhat distinct concepts. College students were much less likely to return to school within a year following injury than high school students. Consequently, more outreach and support for those students may improve awareness of disability services and heighten the return to school rate in the future. Further implications and suggestions by which to improve future models are discussed

Az ökológiai szőlőtermesztés elmélete és gyakorlata

Az Ökológiai Mezőgazdasági Kutatóintézet (ÖMKi), a Biocont Magyarország Kft. és a Vindependent Ökológiai szekciója 2012. november 21-én, Szekszárdon a fenti címmel szervezett, az MNVh által támogatott és akkreditált képzést. Az esemény az ÖMKi októberben elhunyt munkatársának, Dr. Illyés Eszternek is emléket állított. Többek között ő állította össze a képzés anyagát a 2012 folyamán végzett szőlősorköz-gyepesítési kísérletek eredményeire is támaszkodva. Az alábbi cikk nagymértékben az ő munkáira épül. Itt tölthető le

The hunger of the Russian bear - Soviet occupiers in the capital and in the countryside of Hungary, 1945–1947

The study presents the problems, difficulties, and conflicts associated with the presence of foreign powers in the period of 1945-47, starting with the Soviet occupation and the appearance of the Allied Control Commission. I intend to compare the situation in the countryside (especially in Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County) and the capital by emphasizing the occupation, the relationship between the occupiers and the population, and the costs of the occupation, especially the sustenance. Is it possible to weight between the hardships of the countryside or the capital? What are the similarities and differencies? How did they cope with the “feeding of the Russian Bear”? In terms of sources, I used the materials of the National Archives of Hungary Pest County Archives, Bács-Kiskun County Archives, Budapest City Archives, as well as memoirs and diaries

FUNCTIONAL TESTING OF MICROCOMPUTER RAILWAY INTERLOCKING EQUIPMENT

The tests are carried out under real circumstances or by their simulation. Simulation is an excellent method if the tests to be performed on real systems are too expensive, slow or dangerous to the enviroument. Taking this into consideration it is worthwhile to test the station interlocking systems by the simulation of their operation and the railway traffic without connection to on-site equipment