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Ensuring Public Safety And Justice In Rural America., Unknown Jan 1997

Ensuring Public Safety And Justice In Rural America., Unknown

Native Health Database Full Text

This publication, the second annual report documenting comprehensive evaluation efforts across all the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies and offices, evaluates the success of the Department's program in basic and applied science, public health, income support, child and adolescent development, the financing of health and social services, and regulation. Individual, family, and community health is measured against a standard of well being that includes the capacity and resources to enjoy a fulfilling and productive life. Program evaluations were conducted using various methods, the data collected was used to access needs, priorities, and opportunities in safeguarding the nation's …

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Evaluation Of Medical Care Provided To Alaska Natives, Volumes 1, 2, And 3., Unknown Jan 1997

Evaluation Of Medical Care Provided To Alaska Natives, Volumes 1, 2, And 3., Unknown

Native Health Database Full Text

The purpose of this report is to develop life tables for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) population residing in the geographic area in which the Indian Health Service (IHS) has responsibilities and to make comparisons of Indian life expectancy to the total, White, and Black U.S. populations. Life tables provide a more refined means of measuring mortality levels in a population than crude, age-specific, or age-adjusted mortality rates. They allow comparison of mortality rates between population without requiring adjustment to an actual standard population in order to account for differences in age distributions between those populations. The tables included …

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The Effect Of Implementation Of A Critical Pathway In Elderly Congestive Heart Failure Patients In Home Care And The Number Of Unscheduled Hospitalizations, Debra K. Schmaltz Jan 1997

The Effect Of Implementation Of A Critical Pathway In Elderly Congestive Heart Failure Patients In Home Care And The Number Of Unscheduled Hospitalizations, Debra K. Schmaltz

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The Location And Restructuring Of The Uk Defence Industry: The Case Of The South West, Timothy Neil Williams Jan 1997

The Location And Restructuring Of The Uk Defence Industry: The Case Of The South West, Timothy Neil Williams

Plymouth Business School Theses

The objective of this thesis is to determine the factors influencing the location of the defence industry in the UK and assess the impact of recent changes at the regional level. Such changes include cuts in defence expenditure and a re-evaluation of the methods of military procurement. The thesis begins with a descriptive analysis of defence markets and an explanation of the way in which the post-war UK defence sector has been supported by a relatively large and stable defence equipment budget. A review of the relevant literature suggests that defence markets are characterised by a number of unique features. …

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Growth And Performance Of Small And Medium Sized Enterprises In Rural Peripheral Locations, Matthew John Gorton Jan 1997

Growth And Performance Of Small And Medium Sized Enterprises In Rural Peripheral Locations, Matthew John Gorton

Plymouth Business School Theses

Since the 1970s the number of small firms in the UK has risen, but at temporally and spatially uneven rates. These trends have heightened interest in the role of local economies in shaping small firm growth and performance. This thesis considers the growth and performance of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) based in rural peripheral locations in the UK. In measuring this, quantitative survey work was undertaken in rural core as well as rural peripheral localities, with the former acting as a benchmark for comparison. lJtilising returns from standardised postal questiormaires both the performance of the agricultural and non-agricultural …

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Junior High School Students' Perception Of The Messages Conveyed Through The Lyrics Of Rock Music, Steven M. Russey Jan 1997

Junior High School Students' Perception Of The Messages Conveyed Through The Lyrics Of Rock Music, Steven M. Russey

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to discover whether or not the accompaniment of a lyric sheet while listening to rock music would aid a student's correct identification of the message conveyed by that song. Participants included one 7th and one 8th grade class of "gifted" students (N = 62). Other elements examined involved students' judgment of the messages as negative or positive, as well as the tonality of each song as pleasant or unpleasant and how these judgments related to correct or incorrect identification of the messages. Results indicated that there was no statistically significant difference regarding correct or …

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