A study of the performance of the 1951 and 1952 graduates of the Boston University Graduate Workshop in Elementary Education.

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Priorities Survey Report: The Medical System and the Uninsured

Presents results of a survey on the healthcare system, priorities for reform, and views on the uninsured, a public insurance plan, and individual mandates, compared with other surveys. Analyzes how the way reform elements are described affects responses

THE EXPECTED COST OF AN INCOME SUPPORT PROGRAM FOR PROCESSING ORANGES

The Florida citrus industry operates in a competitive global market. However, unlike program crops, producers in this industry do not benefit from direct income support under the new Farm Bill. There is concern about the impact of elimination of the orange juice tariff on the financial health of the Florida orange industry. The purpose of this paper is to examine the level of government expenditure that would be needed to provide income support to orange producers if the orange juice tariff were eliminated. For the span of the Bill direct payments to corn are estimated to total $25.1 billion. By comparison the direct expenditures incurred for an income support program for oranges would be substantially less. In the early years with the tariff in place the expenditures are estimated to be about$300 million and would fall below $200 million by 2007. If the tariff were removed government support would initially be$925 million but would decline to about $700 million in 2007. Over the six-year period, 2002-2007, the direct payment to orange producers would be$1,538.5 million with retention of the tariff and $4,721.8 million if the tariff were eliminated.income support program, oranges, tariff, FSRIA, Agricultural and Food Policy, Crop Production/Industries,

Risk Management Practices for Specialty Crop Producers in Florida

Crop Production/Industries, Risk and Uncertainty,

Gauge Independence of Limiting Cases of One-Loop Electron Dispersion Relation in High-Temperature QED

Assuming high temperature and taking subleading temperature dependence into account, gauge dependence of one-loop electron dispersion relation is investigated in massless QED at zero chemical potential. The analysis is carried out using a general linear covariant gauge. The equation governing the gauge dependence of the dispersion relation is obtained and used to prove that the dispersion relation is gauge independent in the limiting case of momenta much larger than $eT$. It is also shown that the effective mass is not influenced by the leading temperature dependence of the gauge dependent part of the effective self-energy. As a result the effective mass, which is of order $eT$, does not receive a correction of order $e^2T$ from one loop, independent of the gauge parameter.Comment: Revised and enlarged version, 14 pages, Revte

Risk Management Practices for Specialty Crop Producers in California, Florida, New York, and Pennsylvania

Crop Production/Industries, Risk and Uncertainty,

A feasibility study of a hypersonic real-gas facility

A four month feasibility study of a hypersonic real-gas free flight test facility for NASA Langley Research Center (LARC) was performed. The feasibility of using a high-energy electromagnetic launcher (EML) to accelerate complex models (lifting and nonlifting) in the hypersonic, real-gas facility was examined. Issues addressed include: design and performance of the accelerator; design and performance of the power supply; design and operation of the sabot and payload during acceleration and separation; effects of high current, magnetic fields, temperature, and stress on the sabot and payload; and survivability of payload instrumentation during acceleration, flight, and soft catch

Knowledge Sharing Through MS SharePoint

Microsoft SharePoint is being used in Government, private, public and association offices throughout the United States. SharePoint was created to increase accountability for projects within a team environment. How could SharePoint help increase accountability in information management? This article will review SharePoint’s positive and negative characteristics in the hopes of helping information professionals understand what SharePoint really is in the information world and how it can be applied to libraries and other information management organizations

Behavior of logarithmic branch cuts in the self-energy of gluons at finite temperature

We give a simple argument for the cancellation of the log(-k^2) terms (k is the gluon momentum) between the zero-temperature and the temperature-dependent parts of the thermal self-energy.Comment: 4 page