Social Egalitarianism: How Does Marginalization Affect an Individual’s Support for Welfare Recipients?

This work examines how identification in a historically marginalized group in the United States affects individuals\u27 opinions towards welfare recipients. Using three marginalized groups: African Americans, Hispanic/Latinos, and Women, this study compares how each group views welfare recipients while discussing how people in general view welfare recipients. This study finds that there are some statistical differences between the opinions of welfare recipients between certain groups, but not amongst other groups, indicating the importance of society on American politics in the present day

Exercise issues related to the neuromuscular function and adaptation to microgravity

Explored here is the question of whether astronauts can perform extravehicular activities effectively, efficiently, and productively. The loss of muscle mass, movement control, central nervous system function, muscle atrophy and fatigue, all consequent to weightlessness exposure, are discussed. The author recommends more research in these areas

ON THE ESTIMATION OF SEPARABLE DEMAND MODELS

Alternative stochastic specification of conditional demand models are considered. The results of LaFrance concerning the inconsistency of least squares are supported, but the class of models that allow standard instrumental variable estimation is broadened considerably.Demand and Price Analysis,

A survey of the remedial reading programs in the elementary schools of Massachusetts

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

Human experience in the natural and built environment : implications for research policy and practice

22nd IAPS conference. Edited book of abstracts. 427 pp. University of Strathclyde, Sheffield and West of Scotland Publication. ISBN: 978-0-94-764988-3

Snow parameters from Nimbus-6 electrically scanned microwave radiometer

Two sites in Canada were selected for detailed analysis of the ESMR-6/ snow relationships. Data were analyzed for February 1976 for site 1 and January, February and March 1976 for site 2. Snowpack water equivalents were less than 4.5 inches for site 1 and, depending on the month, were between 2.9 and 14.5 inches for site 2. A statistically significant relationship was found between ESMR-6 measurements and snowpack water equivalents for the Site 2 February and March data. Associated analysis findings presented are the effects of random measurement errors, snow site physiolography, and weather conditions on the ESMR-6/snow relationship

Construction of Readership in \u3cem\u3eEbony\u3c/em\u3e, \u3cem\u3eEssence\u3c/em\u3e, and \u3cem\u3eO, the Oprah Magazine\u3c/em\u3e

Miller et al examine the construction of readership in Ebony, Essence and O, The Oprah magazine, three popular magazines that purport to be a vehicle of identity and awareness for their target audience. Upon evaluation, they found that Ebony and Essence both challenge the hegemonic process with the incorporation of cultural artifacts that call upon collective memory to form reader association

Revenue implications of New York City's tax system

A study of New York City's tax system finds that over the past three decades, the system has become less reliant on property and general sales taxes and more dependent on corporate and personal income taxes. This shift has made the city's tax revenues less stable than the revenues of the 1970s and more sensitive to cyclical swings.Taxation - New York (N.Y.) ; Revenue ; Federal Reserve District, 2nd ; Local government

Venus Radar Mapper (VRM): Multimode radar system design

The surface of Venus has remained a relative mystery because of the very dense atmosphere that is opaque to visible radiation and, thus, normal photographic techniques used to explore the other terrestrial objects in the solar system are useless. The atmosphere is, however, almost transparent to radar waves and images of the surface have been produced via Earth-based and orbital radars. The technique of obtaining radar images of a surface is variously called side looking radar, imaging radar, or synthetic aperture radar (SAR). The radar requires a moving platform in which the antenna is side looking. High resolution is obtained in the cross-track or range direction by conventional radar pulse encoding. In the along-track or azimuth direction, the resolution would normally be the antenna beam width, but for the SAR case, a much longer antenna (or much sharper beam) is obtained by moving past a surface target as shown, and then combining the echoes from many pulses, by using the Doppler data, to obtain the images. The radar design of the Venus Radar Mapper (VRM) is discussed. It will acquire global radar imagery and altimetry data of the surface of Venus