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Marshall Magazine Spring 2000, Marshall University

Marshall Magazine

No abstract provided.

Afterschool Matters Spring 2000, National Institute On Out-Of-School Time

Afterschool Matters

A Tale from the Youth Field: Using Stories to Understand Community-Based Youth Programs
By Sara Hill
A vivid portrait of a little girl, her mother, and their experience at a neighborhood agency demonstrates how stories taken from the field can illustrate the power of peer education and motivate staff toward more inspired educational after school programming. 8 pages.

The Power of Play: A Literature-Based After School Sports Program for Urban Youth
By Tom Zierk
A program that combines sports and literature can improve students’ reading, writing, and comprehension skills. What’s more, it promotes children’s personal development and selfesteem, and forges …

Rural Towns As Partners In The Utilization Of Financial Credit: A Viable Option For Accelerated Development In Africa, Napoleon Bamfo

Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review

One option of development that governments in Africa can pursue but which does not appear to have crossed their minds, is encouraging towns, represented as incorporated units, to borrow financial credit. There are several reasons why this appears to be a viable option of development. No government has the financial capacity to address the social and developmental needs of every town under its jurisdiction. A government that encourages or makes it easy for individual towns to utilize credit available from financial institutions, therefore, will be opening a hitherto underutilized component of development in the form of local savings and entrepreneurship …

Locations Of Black Identity: Community Canning Centers In Texas, 1915-1935, Debra Ann Reid

Localités/Localities

In 1915, African Americans in rural Texas observed communities in transition when they looked out the doors of their wood-frame houses. In that year approximately 72 percent of all blacks in the state, or 511,321 individuals, lived in rural areas. During the 1920s low commodity prices and high inflation combined to ruin many, but few left the land. Instead they rented land on the shares and struggled to earn enough of a living to keep families together. Yet the Great Depression intensified the poverty and forced many blacks to leave rural life behind. In addition, the violence and disfranchisement of …

Creating Affordable Rural Housing With Services: Options And Strategies, Elise J. Bolda, Sara T. Salley, Robert G. Keith, Mark F. Richards, Romaine M. Turyn, Patricia Dempsey

Long Term Services and Supports

No abstract provided.

Columbia Poetry Review, Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Poetry Review

Literary journal produced annually. Student editors: Dennis Sangmin Kim, Kerri Sonnenberg. Cover: Joseph Jachna, Sarah Faust.

Evaluation Of Dcof-Funded Peace Corps Youth-At-Risk Programming, Usaid-Leahy

Global CWD Repository

This report was the result of an evaluation of the collaboration between USAID and the Peace Corps in implementing DCOF-funded activities. The evaluation primarily explored the impact the partnership has had on intended beneficiaries, but also examined each agency’s assessments of this joint effort and the vitality of their partnership. The evaluation, the first conducted on the Participating Agency Service Agreement (PASA) which frames USAID/Peace Corps at-risk youth programming, was undertaken by an independent consultant with considerable awareness of the fund and its purposes.

Friend-In-Need Society Jaipur Foot Project: A Review And Recommendations For Upgrading Prosthetic And Patient Care Services, Usaid-Leahy

Global CWD Repository

In 1985, the Friend-in-Need Society (FINS) pioneered its Jaipur Foot Program to fill a need scarcely affected by government hospitals. Since 1991, USAID, through the Global Bureau’s Leahy War Victims Fund (LWVF), has partnered with FINS to extend services to more than 6,000 amputees. Several small private organizations address the physical mobility needs of civilian amputees and other persons with physical disabilities, but the number of prosthetic devices they contribute is quite small compared to the number contributed by FINS, and the cost of their services is beyond the means of the average Sri Lankan. FINS, Sri Lanka’s oldest social …

April 2000: Internet Caveats, Electronic Classroom, Dacus Library

Dacus Focus

No abstract provided.

The Political Economy Of International Debt And Third World Development, Fredoline Anunobi, Leo U. Ukpong

African Social Science Review

This article examines the causes and implications of the international debt crisis. It begins by first defining the debt crisis and offers some basic explanations for the crisis. The analysis examines the costs of the debt crisis and develops some basic explanations for the crisis. It explores the same conditions in both the North and South countries. Also, the article addresses the role of international financial institutions, and pays some close attention to the problems of international financial establishments in the 1980s. Finally, it reviews some general solutions to the debt crisis and provides some tentative suggestions for future considerations.

School Foodservice Director’S Perceived Compliance With The Dietary Guidelines For Americans, Melanie Burns

Faculty Research & Creative Activity until 2018 (FCS)

No abstract provided.

Taking Animal Welfare Seriously: Minimizing Pain And Distress In Research Animals, The Humane Society Of The United States

ANIMAL RESEARCH

Pain and distress caused by specific research models and techniques raise serious concerns for those in the animal welfare community as well as in the scientific community. Yet good estimates of how much animal pain and/or animal distress is caused by particular techniques or methods are not yet available. The HSUS has compiled a preliminary list of research models and techniques that cause pain and distress. Analyses by the USDA and HSUS indicate that the majority of the animals reported in Column E are used in various testing procedures, with vaccine testing prominent among them. More data are needed to …

Aquaculture Plan For The Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Fisheries Western Australia

Fisheries Management Papers

The objective of this aquaculture plan is to : Provide a sound basis for developing a new aquaculture industry in the Abrolhos Islands, while at the same time conserving the unique environment of the islands for present and future generations, and minimising conflict between aquaculture and existing and future users of the islands.

Com Outlook April 2000, College Of Osteopathic Medicine

COM Outlook

No abstract provided.

Predicting Vintage Quantity And Quality In Coastal California Using Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures, Ramakrishna R. Nemani, Michael A. White, Daniel R. Cayan, Gregory V. Jones, Steven W. Running

Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group Publications

California produces 90% of all wine within the U.S. and dominates the $33 billion/year domestic retail wine industry. Since the 1950s, wine grape growers in California have seen dramatic increases in premium wine quality, grape yield, and crop value. Advances in viticultural practices (irrigation, nutrition, pest/disease control, trellising etc.) and experience in wine making have certainly contributed to the success (Jackson and Lombard 1993). In spite of such advances, wine growers generally believe climate plays a significant role in determining the quantity and quality of a given vintage.

Dietary Fish Oil Sensitizes A549 Lung Xenografts To Doxorubicin Chemotherapy, W. Elaine Hardman, Mary Pat Moyer, Ivan L. Cameron

Biochemistry and Microbiology

A549 xenografts were allowed to grow in nude mice to about 5 mm in diameter, then diets were changed to modified AIN-76 diets containing 19% wt/wt. fish oil (FO) or 20% wt./wt. com oil (CO). Ten days later dietary ferric citrate (0.3% wt./dry wt.) was added and doxoribicin (DOX) treatment (3.6 mg/kg i.v. each of the 5 days for 18 days) commenced. Treatment with DOX halted the growth of tumors in the CO fed mice. However, in those mice, which consumed FO or FO with ferric citrate, treatment with DOX caused significant tumor regression.

Stony Brook Press, V. 21, N. 12, Stony Brook University. Stony Brook Press.

Stony Brook Press

v. 21, n. 12, v.:ill. ; 38 cm (original analog pub.)

Faculty Senate Degree Candidates, Spring 2000, Vol 26, P 380-524, Unm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Documents

No abstract provided.

Water Current, Volume 32, No. 2, April 2000

Water Current Newsletter

July Water and Natural Resources Tour to Examine NE/CO Water Transfers and Marketing
From the Director: April 22 Marks the 30th Anniversary of National Earth Day Celebrations...How Far Have We Come?
Preventing and Controlling Pollution Top Priorities in Water Conference Voting
Research in Brief: Effect of Herbicides on Aquatic Environments Needs Research, Says UNL Ecologist
Water Rates Vary Widely
Water News Briefs
New EPA Water Guide Available
Free Tabloids Still Available
2000 Groundwater Foundation Fall Conference
2000 Groundwater University

Center For Grassland Studies Newsletter, Spring 2000, Volume 6, No. 2

Center for Grassland Studies: Newsletters

Contents:

Use of Prescribed Fire in Grassland Management by James Stubbendieck and Robert Masters, Department of Agronomy, UNL

Bison and Grasslands: Living in Harmony with Nature by David Hutchinson, Perfect Ten Bison Ranch, Rose, Nebraska

Plains Bison Bison bison bison

Act Now to Adjust for Drought by Bruce Anderson, Department of Agronomy, UNL

Turfgrass Drought Stress by Robert (Bob) Shearman, Department of Horticulture, UNL

Fertilisers For Wine Grapes : An Information Package To Promote Efficient Fertiliser Practices, B. H. Goldspink, Neil Lantzke, Bob Paulin, Diana Louise Fisher, Colin Gordon, N. Cross, J M. Campbell-Clause

Bulletins 4000 -

No abstract provided.

Nebline, April 2000

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

Earth Wellness Festival: A Splashing Success!
Rhubarb in the Garden
Thank You Master Gardeners!
Plant a Tree
Great Plants: 2000 Plants of the Year
Prevent Termites With Landscaping, Home Maintenance
Let’s Make a Difference – Earth Day 2000
A Plague of Rabbits
What’s Buggin’ You?
Effect of Soaring Fuel Prices on Cost of Field Operations
Managing Fertilizer Use in Dry Soils
SNAP Producer Alliance Takes Next Steps
The Management Team
Road Maintenance
Rodent Proofing Your Home
Knowledge of Animal Laws Important-State Leash Law
Good Nutrition, Better Health
You Can’t Serve From an Empty Plate. So, F-E-A-S-T Frequently
Focus on Food …

Second Chances: Insuring That Poor Families Remain Intact By Minimizing Socioeconomic Ramification Of Poverty, Cynthia R. Mabry

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Feeding Habits Of Young-Of-Year Striped Bass, Morone Saxatilis, And White Perch, Morone Americana, In Lower James River, Va, Paul J. Rudershausen, Joseph G. Loesch

Virginia Journal of Science

A total of 188 young-of-year (YOY) striped bass, Morone saxatilis, and 199 YOY white perch, Morone americana, were collected by pushnet, seine and trawl during 24-hour periods from June through August, 1992 in lower James River, Virginia. The purpose was to identify prey and temporal and spatial feeding habits. Copepods were the most numerous prey of both species. Fishes and mysids comprised the largest volumetric percentage of diets of striped bass and white perch, respectively. Using an index of relative importance, leptodorids and copepods were the most important prey of striped bass and white perch, respectively. Both species …

University Of New Hampshire Undergraduate Catalog, 2000-2001 Bulletin, University Of New Hampshire

Undergraduate Catalog

No abstract provided.

Strengths And Stresses Of Omaha Indian Families Living On The Reservation, Douglas A. Abbott, Glenna Slater

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

We studied current strengths and contemporary stresses of Omaha Indian families living on the reservation in northeast Nebraska. Interviews with 60 tribal members revealed that major family and tribal strengths included: extended family support, spiritual values and religious practices, community generosity and support, Omaha culture and traditions, and a determination of many tribal members to recognize and overcome their problems. Respondents also identified major stresses that included: alcohol use, family breakdown, tribal leadership, unemployment and their children's education. Social Interaction Theory suggests that the identification of stresses should be more common than the identification of strengths by an oppressed minority. …

Review Of The Making Of The 1996 Farm Act By Lyle P. Schertz And Otto C. Doering Iii, Roy Frederick

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Schertz and Doering have produced a useful, comprehensive volume that details key actions leading to passage of the 1996 Farm Act. Although both authors are distinguished economists, the book is more about the political process-and associated policymakers-than economics. It should have lasting value, if for no other reason than that the 1996 legislation differed greatly from the twenty or so farm acts preceding it. For anyone who has wondered why the outcome was different in 1996, this book is must reading.

The authors begin, correctly, with a chapter on the 1994-95 setting for farm legislation, since farm bills are typically …

Influence Of Past Interactions On The Prairie Today: A Hypothesis, Kathleen H. Keeler

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Past conditions in North American prairies have left behind animals and plants whose features were shaped by interactions, some of which no longer exist. For example, pronghorns are fast runners but there are now no fast predators to chase them. Similarly, bison activity structured grasslands, but few prairie reserves now have bison. Here I draw attention to possible cases where ecological patterns are best explained by conditions not present in the modern prairie and propose that such outcomes may be more important than presently thought. My aim is to stimulate a reevaluation of prairie organisms and the effect of their …

The Voice, Spring 2000: Volume 45, Issue 3, Dordt College

The Voice Archive

Students Get a New Look at Missions and the Church; Including Every Square Inch; Diversity Brings Challenges and Joys; New Off-Campus Semester Puts Students at Oxford; Calendar Wins Bronze in Regional Competition; Ugly Afghan is Growing; New Scholarships; Dordt and Northwestern Students Worship Together; Pre-Meds Get Support; Land O' Lakes and Students Pair Up; Grant Improves Student Access to Financial Aid Information; Web Site Expands KDCR's Audience; Students Search for Internships On-Line; E-Books Expand Collection; Why We Do Theater; How We Choose and Put On Plays; What Goes Into Designing Costumes; Matheis Earns Award in Final Play; Alum Du Mez …

In Search Of "Sound Practices" For Microfinance, Christopher Dunford

Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review

The notion of "best practices" for all microfinance is challenged in favor of "sound practices" that are appropriate for particular organizational strategies and situations. A simple conceptual framework is offered to facilitate understanding of the current diversity of experiments with product-market pairs (e.g., group-based lending to poor women struggling to earn enough for family survival). Since the microfinance movement is still in a mode of intensive learning, we should not presume too soon what will be "best" for all product-market pairs. We can expect to discover a somewhat different set of sound practices for each distinct product-market pair.