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Review Of Applied Urban Research 1981, Vol. 09, No. 01, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

Publications

This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Human Services Utilization by Older Hispanics in Nebraska," by David R. DiMartino.

Older Americans make up an increasingly significant part of the total United States population.¹ Older citizens comprised about 11 percent of the national population, and numbered approximately 24 million in 1978.² More importantly, older Americans have increased as a proportion of the total population and have increased in number by 23 percent between 1970 and 1980.³ In Nebraska, an estimated 13 percent of the population are "elderly," and only a few other states, mostly in the …

Caur Annual Report: 1980-81, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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The Center for Applied Urban Research continued to fulfill its mission of applied research, community service and training during 1980-81. Two major events that took place during the past year have greatly strengthened the ability of CAUR to carry out this mission. In October, CAUR moved into new quarters at the Peter Kiewit Conference Center at 1313 Farnam on the Mall in downtown Omaha. With just over 7,000 square feet of space, CAUR has been able to carry out project activity in a more efficient manner. More importantly, the downtown location of CAUR has provided an expanded clientele with greater …

Center For Applied Urban Research Brochure, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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The Center for Applied Urban Research provides professional services in applied research, training, and community service. Primarily these services are provided to state provided and local governmental units in Nebraska, though some activities may be national or international in scope. To a lesser extent, services are provided to private groups and agencies. CAUR, a unit within the College of Public Affairs and Community Service at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, was initially established in 1963 as the Urban Studies Center at the Municipal University of Omaha.

Human Services Useage By Older Hispanics In Nebraska, David R. Dimartino, Carole Davis

Publications

The original report on which this article is based resulted from research conducted by CAUR for the Nebraska Mexican American Commission with funding from the Nebraska Commission on Aging. Dr. DiMartino and Carole M. Davis were co-investigators for the project and co-authored the lengthier report. The cooperation and assistance provided by so many members of the Hispanic communities in Lincoln, Omaha, and Scottsbluff made the study possible.

Public Policy: No Longer A Spectator Sport For Business, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

This piece shows the huge growth of federal regulation in the 1970s. In turn, business needs to become more involved in the public arena to improve business-government relations.

1980 July - December, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Morehead State University press releases from July to December of 1980.

The Elderly Have Spoken: Is Anybody Listening? The Impact Of Fuel Costs On The Elderly, Scott A. Bass, Richard Rowland

Gerontology Faculty Publication Series

This report contains the findings of a study carried out by the Gerontology Program at the University of Massachusetts Boston concerning the effects of the escalating fuel costs on the lives of the elderly who must pay for their own heat. Through the use of an interview format known as "modified critical incident" technique, a team of mostly elderly students spent several weeks during the winter of 1980 eliciting responses from more than 100 elderly individuals from throughout the greater Boston area. Not surprisingly , this study has revealed a number of profound impacts that the radical turn of economic …

The Impact Of Consumerism On Health Care Change: Alternatives For The Future?, Allen W. Imershein, Eugenia T. Miller

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The quest for consumer participation in the management of health care delivery may have experienced its first signs of success, but the implications of that success are as yet unclear. The establishment of consumer majorities on the newly developed health systems agency (HSA) boards was seen as an important milestone in the development of the consumer movement in America over the last ten years. The initial wave of optimism over the Great Society programs that in part gave birth to the consumer movement has long since vanished, but some of the organizational results of those attempts at innovation have become …

Eliminates Mandatory Fluoridation Of City Water (Municipal Measure 51), City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

The Carter Administrative Elite: A Background Analysis, Susan Adomaitis Armstrong

Institute for the Humanities Theses

This study is an inter-disciplinary analysis of the backgrounds of the Carter administrative elite. Various theories of political science, public administration, and ethics are presented in relation to Jimmy Carter's appointees. A background composite is presented of the elites' education, career before government service, age, sex, and geographic region of birth and socialization. Information about the elites was obtained from biographical listings, and was stored and processed by an electronic data processing system.

The Carter administrative elite has included persons who have been named to positions that do not maximize their experiences and qualifications in the most appropriate manner. This …

Executive Summary For Mcc, Murray Frost

Publications

The Educational Needs Assessment and Impact Survey of the Metropolitan Technical Community College conducted by the Center for Applied Urban Research of 'the University of Nebraska at Omaha was an extensive effort involving almost two dozen individual reports based on data from more than 7,000 surveys.

Msu Update, 1980, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Communications and Marketing Publications Archive

MSU Update Newsletters for 1980.

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1980, Vol. 08, No. 01, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

Publications

This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "A Needs Assessment of Older Hispanics," David R. Martino.

The successful delivery of human services requires rational program planning. Rational program planning, in turn, requires evaluation of 1) the needs of targeted client groups, 2) the availability of established services to the potential clients, and 3) the utilization of available services by the client population(s). The success of human service delivery systems, therefore, must incorporate the assessment of public programs in terms of the correspondence between client needs and service provision and usage.

Population Regulation In Wolves, Jane M. Packard, L. David Mech

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

The possibility of social regulation of wolf populations has been discussed in the literature for several years. Some of the first ecological studies of wolves indicated that their populations did not increase as rapidly as was theoretically possible, and that they reached a saturation point apparently not set by food. Subsequent captive studies demonstrated the existence of social mechanisms possibly capable of regulating population growth. However, the importance of these factors in wild populations has not been established. This paper has four objectives: (1) to evaluate the existing concept of "intrinsic limitation," (2) to propose that wolf population dynamics may …

Servicios Para Ciudadanos Mayuores, University Of Nebraska At Omaha

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Servicios para Ciudadanos Mayuores

Employer And Training Needs: Report 04 Agriculture, Joan V. Holley

Publications

Metropolitan Technical Community College offers four programs in Agricultural Technology. The purpose of this study is to determine the employer and training needs in agricultural fields related to three of these four courses of studies : Agriculture Business Management, Agriculture Cooperative Management, and Agriculture Chemicals Technology.

Connie Caregiver's Cook Book, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

Publications

Compiled by the staff of the Day Care Training Program for Regions I, II, III, and IV at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Proceedings Of Perdix Ii: Gray Partridge Workshop, Forest, Wildlife And Range Experiment Station, University Of Idaho, The Wildlife Society, Idaho Cahpter, Wildlife Management Institute

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Conference Proceedings

Proceedings of Perdix II: Gray Partridge Workshop (March 18-20, 1980, Moscow, Idaho, United States)

The proceedings for this symposium have been divided into three parts: professional papers, a continent-wide management/research plan, and a bibliography. All of the papers were refereed by two or three people working in the field.

Papers Presented

The Distribution and Density of Gray Partridge in Northern New York, David E. Austin

Habitat Utilization by Gray Partridge (Perdix perdix L.) Prenesting Pairs in East-Central Wisconsin, Kevin E. Church, Hallett J. Harris, and Richard B. Stiehl

An Evaluation of Gray Partridge (Perdix perdix) Aging Criteria, …

Toward The Democratization Of The Social Policy Process, L. K. Northwood

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the nature of social policies and the public policymaking process. It is demonstrated that public social policies tend to accrue an aura or ideology of benevolence that is only partially warranted, and that may be quite misleading to policy analysts and citizenry. The major thrust of the paper is to consider the social policy process as a strategy for public decision-making. As such, properly organized, it can provide an alternative and complementary strategy to electoral politics and protest movements. To be effective as a strategy, three major barriers must be overcome: …

Will Carter's Welfare Reform Plan Reform Welfare?: Evidence From Empirical Research, Mary Bryna Sanger

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This paper introduces the central dimensions which have emerged in the current welfare reform debate. They include adaquacy, work incentives, family stability and cost. The last legislative session introduced a new group of "welfare reform" proposals, each attempting to address these critiques of the current welfare system. Considering four major bills including Carter's Comprehensive Program for Better Jobs and Income on the basis of recent research findings, results in a tentative preference for Carter's plan. It addresses the major reform dimensions better than the others and would result in modest improvements. Nevertheless, true reform is unlikely to be achieved by …

Program, Police Athletic League Boxing Event Jeff Foster Vs Marvis Frazier November 9, 1979, Edna Louise Saffy

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Police Athletic League Boxing Event featuring Jeff Foster vs. Marvis Frazier plus P.A.L. Southeastern Boxing Team vs Smoking Joe Frazier Boxing Club also featuring World Rated Poncho Carter program with photographs listing all participants and donors for the event. It includes statistics for the clubs. The Police Athletic League officers are also listed.

The Future Of Government Regulation: The Public Response, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

Public interest groups, academics, and the media have an obligation to respond constructively to issues in government policy that affect the lives of people.

1979 July - December, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Morehead State University press releases from July to December of 1979.

Government And The Citizen, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

This paper examines some of the impacts of government expansion on the private sector.

Day By Day Care Newsletter: October 1979 - June 1980, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

Publications

Issues of Day by Day Care Newsletter, October 1979 though Fall 1980.

Utilization Of Services By Omaha's Older Mexican-Americans, Genevieve Burch, Carol M. Davis

Publications

Today's elderly population has become a major focus of concern. Modern technology and improved health care have contributed to longevity and consequently increased the senior citizen population. Lay (1975) has estimated that by the year 2000 approximately 25 million elderly will be living in the United States.

State Plans Inventory, Maine State Planning Office

Maine Collection

State Plans Inventory

Maine State Planning Office, Comprehensive Planning Assistance Divsion

Augusta, Maine (December, 1978).

"The preparation of this report was financially aided by a 701 Comprehensive Planning Assistance grant fro the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development."

Contents: Letter of Transmittal / Introduction / State Plans Inventory / Indices of State Plans / Tables

The Flor-Ala Vol. 48 No. 9, University Of North Alabama

Flor-Ala 1970-1979

1978-10-18

1978 July - December, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Morehead State University press releases from July to December of 1978.

Leisure Preferences Of The Elderly In Bowling Green Nutrition Programs, Lawrence Prochazka

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The objective was to identify the leisure preferences of elderly in Bowling Green Nutrition Programs. This objective was to be accomplished through the utilization of a leisure preference test. Since no leisure preference test was found, the study was significant not only for the results obtained but also to evaluate this new test.

The test was designed after the format utilized in the Edwards Personal Preference Test. Major categories were selected and each was composed of five leisure opportunity statements. Each category was placed in opposition to every other category four times to comprise the test. A test was then …