A guide for the preparation, presentation and evaluation of F.F.A. radio programs in Tennessee

The purpose of the study Is to develop a guide for preparing, presenting, and evaluating F.F.A. Radio Programs in Tennessee. The work of the F.F.A. is a many-pronged tool for good and useful service. Its purpose is to improve citizenship. It nurtures better agricultural practices and better agricultural leaders. Possibly even more important is its immense educational value. The educational value is not entirely a new one, but it has not been fully recognised and exploited for the good of American agriculture. Although radio is one of our important public relations means, it may and can be used to enrich our instructional program by providing opportunity for boys to learn by doing, to express themselves in writing as well as orally, and to organize their thinking around certain problems related to specific needs. One of the beneficial and educational values is to have the boys prepare the script and then to present the broadcast

Only the Rich Can Afford a Remedy: The Unconscionable Enforcement of Arbitration Provisions against the Indigent

In Overstreet v. Contigroup Cos., Inc.,2 the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that neither economic disadvantage nor undisclosed arbitration fees may form the basis for striking down an arbitration provision on the grounds of unconscionability.3 While the Supreme Court and the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) expressly authorize the use of the doctrine of unconscionability to invalidate arbitration provisions, courts are sharply divided on its proper application. 4 The difficult juxtaposition of the Supreme Court\u27s interpretation of the FAA as a liberal federal policy favoring arbitration and the traditional application of unconscionability as a means of policing unfair contracts has produced a significant amount of disagreement and confusion among the states.5 This Note addresses the Fifth Circuit\u27s application of the doctrine of unconscionability under Georgia law and argues that the court not only misapplied Georgia law but rendered a holding that both disregards the foundational public policy behind the doctrine of unconscionability and does violence to the fundamental right to due process of law

Project Case Study: Structural Analysis, Design and Laboratory Testing of a Complex Masonry Facade

This paper is a case study for the structural analysis, design and laboratory testing of the complex façade of Frank Gehry's Dr Chau Chak Wing Building, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. It presents the design philosophy adopted for the overall brick support system and the final design solution. It also gives an overview of the analysis and design process, and laboratory testing used to arrive at the final solution

Using sources of opportunity to compensate for receiver mismatch in HF arrays

© 2001 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE.The spatial processing performance of adaptive sensor arrays is often limited by the nonidentical frequency responses of the receivers in the array over the passband of interest. Addressed here is the problem of estimating digital compensation for mismatches between receiver passbands in high frequency (HF) antenna arrays using interference sources of opportunity. A mathematical model of ionospherically-propagated multipath HF interference is used to develop an adaptive algorithm which estimates the receiver frequency response corrections for each receiver. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is experimentally demonstrated and compared against (1) a commonly used least squares technique, and (2) a highly accurate calibration system using data collected by the receiving antenna array of the Jindalee over-the-horizon radar near Alice Springs in central AustraliaFabrizio, G.A.; Gray, D.A.; Turley, M.D

Weight management: lifestyle services for overweight or obese children and young people

This guideline covers lifestyle weight management services for children and young people aged under 18 who are overweight or obese. It advises how to deliver effective weight management programmes that support children and young people to change their lifestyle and manage their weight

Exploratory studies to inform full-scale evaluations of complex public health interventions: the need for guidance

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The Effects of Oxidation on the Refractive Index of Uranium Thin Films in the Extreme Ultraviolet

We measured the transmittance and reflectance of two samples in the extreme ultraviolet (XUV) at the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The samples were prepared with approximately 20 nm of UOx with one reactively sputtered onto a diode, and one allowed to oxidize naturally on an identical diode. Fitting the reflectance data to the Parratt model yielded a more precise thickness of the UOx film. This thickness combined with a simple analysis of the transmission measurements provides estimates for the imaginary part of the index of refraction for UOx at approximately every tenth of a nanometer from about 3 nm to 30 nm with emphasis in the 12- to 13-nm range. Using these values, a first approximation for the real part of the refractive index has also been calculated. These values provide researchers with information for modeling, design, and fabrication of optical systems in the extreme ultraviolet