EDUCATION ON PUBLIC POLICY IN AGRICULTURE THROUGH THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS

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Cultural Responsiveness, Racial Identity and Academic Success: A Review of Literature

Commissioned by the Heinz Endowments, this paper reviews the literature on "culturally responsive pedagogy" and the arts. Academic success among African Americans is correlated with education that incorporates racial identity and socialization and a focus on resiliency and culturally relevant concepts. The arts are an ideal venue for such educational programs

Tropospheric constituent variability associated with baroclinic waves

Baroclinic waves are fundamental to tropospheric dynamics, and therefore it is of interest to understand their impact on atmospheric constituents. Here we examine the dynamics of the troposphere during baroclinic wave life cycles and study in detail their influence on constituent transport. We incorporate two methods of studying the atmosphere. The first is the study of observations made by remote sensing of the atmosphere by satellites. The second is the examination of the atmosphere through the use of an atmospheric general circulation model;In an observational case study, we used upper tropospheric water vapor measurements from the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite Microwave Limb Sounder to investigate the structure and evolution of eastward traveling medium-scale wave features in Southern Hemisphere summertime and found that the water vapor field is well correlated with meteorological fields and derived potential vorticity fields. These results are consistent with model paradigms for the structure and evolution of baroclinic disturbances;In order to study the details of transport associated with baroclinic waves, we build upon the successes of other studies which use general circulation models to simulate baroclinic wave life cycles. These nonlinear simulations have shown that the wave evolution consists of baroclinic growth, maturity and barotropic decay. In our study, two life cycles are simulated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) community climate model (CCM2), starting with baroclinically unstable initial conditions similar to those used by Thorncroft et al. (1993). The two life cycles differ in the strength and sense of the horizontal shear of the zonal wind. This strongly influences the behavior which ensues. In terms of potential vorticity-potential temperature diagnostics, the basic case is characterized by thinning troughs which are advected anti-cyclonically and equatorward, while the anomalous case has broadening troughs which wrap up cyclonically and poleward. In order to investigate transport during these two life cycles, four passive tracers are included in the simulation to be advected by the semi-Lagrangian transport scheme of CCM2. The resulting tracer budgets are analyzed in terms of the transformed Eulerian mean constituent transport formalism. Results show a net upward and poleward transport and a strong influence of the eddy flux term on the time tendency of the tracer. The largest transport occurs during the nonlinear growth stage of the life cycle. We also find that the transport varies little with the initial tracer distributions

Pension accounting myth

This paper traces the development of pension accounting theory and practice to 1930. It analyzes the early development of pension accounting theory and practice, examines explanations of the nature of pension costs, and reports the results of a survey of pre-1930 pension disclosure practices

Do Prospective Ratings Correct Retrospective Distortions Based on Negative Social Stereotypes of Premenstrual Syndrome?

The Daily Assessment Form (OAF) retrospectively assessed symptoms of late luteal phase dysphoric disorder (LLPDD), both at the beginning and at the end of a 2-month time interval. Ninety-four women between the ages of 18 and 45 entered the study. Half of the subjects viewed a negative-case, stereotypic presentation of LLPDD prior to the pretest. sixty-eight subjects qualified on the pretest to complete the study. Half of the remaining no-case subjects and half of the remaining negative-case subjects completed 8 weeks\u27 prospective ratings via the OAF. Forty-eight subjects remained to complete the posttest at the end of that time interval. Pretest Total and Pretest Criteria scores revealed significant main effects for case-presentation condition (E[l,63] = 7.08, R = .01) and (E[l,63] = 8.34, R = .01) and completion level (E[l,63] = 6.76, R = .01) and (E[l,63] = 3.76, R .06). Effect sizes equalled 0.48 and 0.45 for case presentation and 1.92 and 1.98 for completion

A Follow-Up Study of the 1971-1973 Business Graduates of Powell County (Kentucky) High School

A thesis presented to the faculty of the Graduate School at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Education by Mary Downey Stone on July 24, 1974

USSR space life sciences digest, issue 27

This is the twenty-fifth issue of NASA's Space Life Sciences Digest. It contains abstracts of 30 journal papers or book chapters published in Russian and of 2 Soviet monographs. Selected abstracts are illustrated with figures and tables from the original. The abstracts in this issue have been identified as relevant to 18 areas of space biology and medicine. These areas include: adaptation, aviation medicine, biological rhythms, biospherics, botany, cardiovascular and respiratory systems, endocrinology, enzymology, exobiology, habitability and environmental effects, hematology, immunology, metabolism, musculoskeletal system, neurophysiology, radiobiology, and space medicine. A Soviet book review of a British handbook of aviation medicine and a description of the work of the division on aviation and space medicine of the Moscow Physiological Society are also included

First Year Experience Course: Insights From The First Two Years

Retention rates of students in a business school Freshman Year Experience (FYE) course were compared to overall University retention rates for two successive years. Slightly higher retention was experienced by the business FYE students than for the University overall. Student responses to exit survey questions were compared to retention activity to assess any potential relationships. Contrary to existing theoretical models, no significant correlations existed between measures of academic skill building and retention, and between student connectedness and retention. Significant correlation did exist between student academic expectations and intention to return