Food Programs, Family Demographics and Food Security of Children

Replaced with revised version of paper 01/27/06.Food Security and Poverty,

An Analysis of the Determinants of Food Insecurity with Severe Hunger in Selected Southern States

This study predicts food insecurity with severe hunger versus food insecurity with moderate hunger among low-income households with children and without children. Data for the study was generated from a survey of the clients of nonprofit food assistance agencies in selected southern states. The questionnaire incorporated the 18 core questions for assessing food insecurity, as well as the socio-demographic characteristics of users. A two-stage process involving the application of the Rasch measurement scale and the Logit model was employed to analyze the data. Results indicate that for both households with children and households without children, income was a significant predictor of food insecurity with severe hunger. However, the food stamp recipient variable was an equally important predictor of severe food insecurity among households with children. State and rural-urban differences were also analyzed

University Physics Volume 2

University Physics is a three-volume collection that meets the scope and sequence requirements for two- and three-semester calculus-based physics courses. Volume 1 covers mechanics, sound, oscillations, and waves. Volume 2 covers thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism, and Volume 3 covers optics and modern physics. This textbook emphasizes connections between theory and application, making physics concepts interesting and accessible to students while maintaining the mathematical rigor inherent in the subject. Frequent, strong examples focus on how to approach a problem, how to work with the equations, and how to check and generalize the result.https://commons.erau.edu/oer-textbook/1002/thumbnail.jp

Food Programs, Family Demographics and Food Security of Children

Young families with least experienced parents (children 0-2) and more experienced parents (children 3-5) are compared on family demographics and food security of children among Food Stamp and WIC participants. Children of a never married, least experienced parent that uses FS exhibit the greatest degree of food insecurity. Children of a more experienced parent not receiving food stamps with less than high school diploma generally have the most hunger

Making the link: households and small business activity in a multi-ethnic context

The ‘family’ is frequently mentioned in assessments of the apparent distinctiveness of ethnic minority enterprise. Family involvement can account for the ‘success’ of some ethnic groups, and low rates of small business activity in others. Implicitly, such debates are recognition of the importance of the nature of the household and small business. However, few studies in Britain make explicit the link between household dynamics and ethnic minority business activity. This paper examines how households from a variety of ethnic communities impinge upon ‘family’ enterprise operating in the independent restaurant sector. In-depth interviews with family members from 37 micro-business households are drawn upon to illuminate three particular issues: the role of family members in the business; the impact of household dynamics on business activity; and the nature of ‘second-generation’ involvement in the family business. The ? ndings highlight the gendered nature of roles within the micro-business household, and the importance of extended family ties to small business activity. However, the involvement of predominantly second-generation family members could not be regarded as an example of uncomplicated family collectivities at work. Rather, their presence was more a product of limited labour market choices, socialisation, and power relations within the household

L’Enfant’s Washington: the figure of the President in the capital of the Republic

Pierre L’Enfant’s plan for the permanent seat of government on the banks of the Potomac River was completed in 1791. Evidence of L’Enfant’s intentions is limited and the documentation of the debate surrounding its organisation, surprisingly small. However, an examination of the plan, and its correlation with the existing topography and surrounding landscape yields new evidence related to the structure of the most significant axes of the new city. This paper demonstrates the central role of the figure of the President to the location of key buildings and the orientation of avenues. It examines the creation of the persona of George Washington as part of a republican tradition of heroic virtue and explores the extent to which the adoption of a symbolic structure associated with kingship was reconciled with the republican ideals of the new nation. This work questions received ideas as to the distribution of and location of significant institutions and the sequence of design ideas that informed the 1791 plan. More importantly, it embeds Washington, D.C. in a wider history of urbanism as a key location for the early embodiment of American ceremonial life and an early example of structured civic space