What is Youth Voice and Youth Participation?

Jóvenes SANOS is a youth program, under United Way of Santa Cruz County, located in Watsonville, California. Under Jóvenes SANOS (JS), a guidebook was created to address what youth voice and youth participation are. In JS, youth participation is minimal. The contributing factors include the development stage of the program, the partnership between adults and youth, and the misconception that youth are not interested in social change. To tackle this issue, it is important to recruit adults who will listen to youth because it can lead to an increase in youth productivity, instead of having them participate in a passive way. In addition, the program can not grow as a whole if youth are not being involved within the program. The guidebook will be a tool used for future interns or adult allies when wanting to create meaningful youth participation within JS. Lastly, it can be a reminder to include JS youth in the process of choosing upcoming projects or events to participate in

A Comparison of Procedures for the Analysis of Multivariate Repeated Measurements

Three procedures for analyzing within-subjects effects in multivariate repeated measures designs are compared when group covariances are heterogeneous: the multiple regression model (MRM) with a structured covariance, Johansen’s (1980) procedure, and the multivariate Brown and Forsythe (1974) procedure. A preliminary likelihood ratio test of a Kronecker product covariance structure is sensitive to sample size and derivational assumption violations. Error rates of the procedures are generally well-controlled except when the distribution is skewed. The MRM procedure displayed few power advantages over the other procedures

Multivariate Contrasts For Repeated Measures Designs Under Assumption Violations

Conventional and approximate degrees of freedom procedures for testing multivariate interaction contrasts in groups by trials repeated measures designs were compared under assumption violation conditions. Procedures were based on either least-squares or robust estimators. Power generally favored test procedures based on robust estimators for non-normal distributions, but was influenced by the degree of departure from non-normality, definition of power, and magnitude of the multivariate effect size

Robust Measures of Variable Importance for Multivariate Group Designs

Variable importance measures based on discriminant analysis and multivariate analysis of variance are useful for identifying variables that discriminate between two groups in multivariate group designs. Variable importance measures are developed based on trimmed and Winsorized estimators for describing group differences in multivariate non-normal populations

On Statistical Significance of Discriminant Function Coefficients

Discriminant function coefficients are useful for describing group differences and identifying variables that distinguish between groups. Test procedures were compared based on asymptotically approximations, empirical, and exact distributions for testing hypotheses about discriminant function coefficients. These tests are useful for assessing variable importance in multivariate group designs

Semisumergibles de cargas pesada

Los semisumergibles para el transporte de cargas pesadas son los buques capaces de sumergirse parcialmente bajo la superficie del mar, permitiendo a las mercancías flotantes pasar sobre sus cubiertas principales, siendo cargadas cuando este emerge a la superficie de nuevo.Con este trabajo he analizado cual ha sido su evolución, desde cuando únicamente eran una idea nueva en el mercado, hasta hoy en día, que ya se han hecho totalmente comunes entre los transportes de cargas pesadas