KEY OUTCOMES FOR CHILDREN: NEW EVIDENCE FROM GROWING UP IN IRELAND. ESRI Research Bulletin 2010/1/1

The welfare of children is a key concern of Irish society and of government policy. A major new project, Growing Up in Ireland, aims to describe the lives of a large scale representative sample of Irish children, and to analyse the factors associated with positive and negative outcomes in terms of such areas as health and education. Such evidence is of critical importance in guiding policy choices affecting children. The study is a longitudinal one, i.e. it will follow two groups or “cohorts” of children over time: a cohort of 11,000 infants (nine months old) and cohort of 8,500 nine-year olds. A recently published report† based on initial data gathered on the nine-year old group already provides a great deal of interesting evidence on several domains of child outcomes including: • physical health and well-being, • educational achievement and intellectual development, • social, emotional and behavioural well-being

Peter L. Berger\u27s Early Conception of Agency: Exposition and Evaluation.

Peter L. Berger\u27s conception of agency in his earliest writings (c.1954-1960) is logically and empirically inadequate. At the root of this inadequacy is an idealism that prevents him from providing a compelling account of actual empirical agency. Chapter 1 asserts that Berger\u27s earlier works warrant analysis. Chapter 2 discusses Berger\u27s earliest influences, particularly Max Weber and The Swedish Lund School of motif research. Chapter 3 identifies a unique commitment to Christian Humanism at the base of Berger\u27s conception of agency. Chapter 4 clarifies how Berger\u27s Christian humanism interacts with his Weberian, and Parsonian-inspired functional analysis of the American religious establishment. The thesis concludes (Chapter 5) by identifying more specifically how and why Berger\u27s Christian humanism undermines his attempt to empirically ground human agency

A Study of comparable identifiably predictions of some resolving power targets by Fourier spectra considerations

This report documents a study conducted to examine the correlation between identification thresholds and difference spectra of some resolving power target characters. The experiment included the USAF Tri-bar target, the RIT Alpha-numeric Resolving Power Target, and a set of targets called the Granger Modified Tri-bar targets. Assuming that target identification is a filtering process and primarily a function of its frequency spectrum, this study began with a prediction of targets that would have equal identification thresholds from difference spectra considerations. Target images were viewed at various sizes to confirm/refute the original hypothesis. The USAF targets demonstrated adequate control of experimental variables. The RIT and Granger characters both revealed the existence of one or more factors in addition to difference spectra which significantly contribute to target identification. It is conjectured that boundary effects may be that important contributor to image identification

The Use of Fluorite in Assessing Fluid History and Metal Endowment in Hydrothermal Sn-W-Mo Deposits: An Example from Mt. Pleasant, Canada

The Mount Pleasant Sn-W-Mo deposit is located in southern New Brunswick, Canada and consists of two zones: the North Zone (NZ) and the Fire Tower Zone (FTZ). The North Zone hosts predominantly Sn with minor W-Mo mineralization, whereas the Fire Tower Zone hosts predominantly Mo and W with minor Sn mineralization. Fluorite is an important gangue mineral as it is ubiquitous throughout the deposit and is used to provide a record of fluid evolution. The complexity of the deposit is apparent from the deposit-scale to micrometer-scale trace-element variations in fluorite crystals such that fluorite is key to understanding the composition of the ore-forming fluids and their relationship to the metal endowment of the deposit. Tungsten- and Mo-related fluorite crystals from the FTZ generally exhibit homogenous to simply-zoned cathodoluminescent (CL) character, whereas Sn-related fluorite from the NZ is complexly zoned. Based on LA-ICP-MS analysis, distinct bivariate trends (most notably between Fe and Rb) that are unique to each mineralization assemblage suggest that three compositionally different fluids were responsible for the three types of mineralization. Intra-crystal trace-element variability in single fluorite crystals define trends consistent with Rayleigh fractionation during fluid exsolution and suggest these three fluids originated from three magmas that underwent pulsed crystallization. The W/Mo ratio in W-related fluorite (~3) is higher than in Mo-related fluorite (~0.5), reflecting precipitation from chemically distinct fluids with metal signatures that in part reflect the associated ore bodies. No Sn was detected in samples of fluorite from Mount Pleasant

Approaches to breath support and control

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Advice’s Effect: The Role of Western Advisors on Russian Privatization Policy

This paper seeks to investigate the role that western advisors played in Russia’s transition to a market economy during the 1990s. In order to answer this question a wide variety of sources were consulted. Scholarly papers, books on the subject, and works by the participants themselves all played. Through my investigation it became clear that advisors played little, if any, role in influencing policy. A host of domestic ideas and political factors were far more important in determining what strategy was pursued