What's Cooking in Your Food System? A Guide to Community Food Assessment

Learn about Community Food Assessments, a creative way to highlight food-related resources and needs, promote collaboration and community participation, and create lasting change. This Guide includes case studies of nine Community Food Assessments; tips for planning and organizing an assessment; guidance on research methods and strategies for promoting community participation; and ideas for translating an assessment into action for change

Community Food Security: A Guide to Concept, Design, and Implementation

This guidebook details such issues as the concept of CFS, community food planning, needs assessments, building collaborations and coalitions, project implementation, entrepreneurship, funding, program sustainability, case studies, and multiple attachments

Recent Developments in Robocasting of Ceramics and Multimaterial Deposition

Robocasting is a freeform fabrication technique for dense ceramics and composites that is based on layer-wise deposition of highly loaded colloidalslurries. The process is essentially binderless with less than 1% organics and parts can be fabricated, dried, and completely sintered in less than 24 hours. This overview will highlight recent materials developments for structural applications and modelling of slurry flow. Fabrication of preforms for alumina/metal composites will be discussed as well as techniques for multimaterial deposition in both graded structures and discrete placement of fugitive materials.Mechanical Engineerin

The lead and zinc deposits in the sedimentary rocks of East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia

In its geographic and geologic relations this area forms a part of the Appalachian province, which extends from the Atlantic Coastal plain on the East to the Mississippi lowlands on the West and from Central Alabama to Southern New York. All parts of the region thus defined have a common history recorded in its rocks, its geologic structure and its topographic features --Geography, page 1

Development of the Help-Seeker Stereotype Scale

The factor structure, reliability, and validity of the Help-Seeker Stereotype Scale (HSSS), an instrument measuring the strength of respondents\u27 endorsement of negative stereotypes about people who seek help from a psychologist, was explored over the course of three studies. In Study 1, 50 items designed to capture negative, self-esteem harming stereotypes of help seekers were generated. Pilot testing and expert feedback led to a revised item pool of 30 items, which were administered to 587 college students enrolled at a large Midwestern University. A series of initial Exploratory Factor Analyses (EFAs) led to the identification of a two-factor structure and selection of six items for each of the two subscales, entitled Deficient and Unstable. Study 2 used follow-up EFAs on one half (n = 297) of a large, randomly split college student sample to provide further support for the anticipated two-factor structure and allow the trimming of problematic items, which resulted in the establishment of the final version of the HSSS. The factor structure of this final version was then explored via Confirmatory Factor Analysis in the other half (n = 297) of the sample, leading to the identification of a model that best captured the covariance of the HSSS items: a bifactor model. The HSSS total score demonstrated sufficient reliability (Omega Hierarchical = .70) to warrant its calculation and interpretation; the Deficient (Omega Subscale = .36) and Unstable subscales (Omega Subscale = .30) failed to demonstrate sufficient reliability, suggesting that only the HSSS total score should be used in future research. In Study 3, analysis of the responses of 225 college students provided support for the convergent validity of the HSSS via theoretically-expected correlations with self-stigma of seeking help, public stigma of seeking help, attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help, and mental illness stereotype endorsement. In support of its incremental validity, the HSSS explained additional variance in the self-stigma of seeking help beyond the variance accounted for by public stigma of seeking help. The model-based internal consistency (Omega Hierarchical = .86) of the HSSS\u27 total score received further support in Study 3

Regulation of expression of the human carbonic anhydrase 1 gene

The HCAI gene is expressed in a developmental stage-specific manner and also exhibits tissue-specific expression patterns. This thesis describes the cloning and characterisation of the 5'-end of the HCAI gene which contains a large intron within its 5' untranslated region. S1 nuclease and primer extension analysis were used to define the transcription start site and the site of 3'-end maturation. Bandshift assays have been used to show that there are at least six DNA sequences, based on the consensus [5 '-TT/AATCA/T-3'] and flanking the HCAI gene, which bind the erythroid-specific factor, GF-1. The presence of GF-1 binding sites is shown to increase expression from a eukaryotic promoter in erythroid cells and not in non-erythroid cells. A transient heterokaryon system was set up by fusing the erythroieukaemic cell lines MEL C88 (expressing MCAI ) and K562 SAI (a human cell line with an embryonic / foetal phenotype, not expressing CAI. RNAase mapping of RNA from the fused cells showed activation of the human CAI gene. This indicates the developmental stage-specific expression of HCAI to be regulated by trans-acti ng factors. Expression of HCAI mRNA in colon tissue was confirmed. Furthermore as in the case of mouse CAI, the HCAI colon mRNA is transcribed from a different promoter to erythroid HCAI mRNA

Title VII and Rule 301: An Analysis of the Watson and Atonio Decisions

The thesis of this paper is that the recent opinions of the Supreme Court in Watson v. Fort Worth Bank & Trust and Wards Cove Packing Ca v. Atonio are consistent with development of the last fifteen years of antidiscrimination jurisprudence under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and are the logical and necessary result of two independent decisions made by the Congress and by the Supreme Court in 1975: the enactment of Rule 301 of the Federal Rules of Evidence and the decision in Albemarle Paper Ca v. Moody. This paper shall demonstrate that these holdings were logically consistent with previous decisions of the Supreme Court, though not with those of several lower courts; that they reflect the will of Congress as found in its statutory enactment of the Federal Rules of Evidence and thus conform Title VII litigation to the general rules of decision governing all other kinds of civil litigation; and that they effectuate the remedial purpose of Title VII by tending to merge and simplify the two judicially created causes of action - disparate impact and disparate treatment - and their attendant lore into one uncomplicated claim for relief! This operative effect of Rule 301 is not particularly controversial as regards disparate treatment cases: it was discussed in detail by the Supreme Court in an unanimous decision in Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine.\u27 The uncertainty of its logical and lawful effect in disparate impact cases makes this paper pertinent