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Summer Programming: What Do Children Say?, Nila Cobb, Stacey Harper, Kerri Mccormick, Kimary Mcneil

Journal of Youth Development

Studies document that low-income children lose academic skills over the summer. Six years of reading achievement data collected by Energy Express, a nationally recognized summer reading and nutrition program in West Virginia, has established the efficacy of the intervention. The purpose of this study was to examine characteristics of a voluntary summer program that foster participation. Interview data indicates that children attend because they perceive the program as fun; large creative art (for example, full-body portraits, appliance box castles, wall murals) seems particularly important. Energy Express gives children both the fun they want and the enrichment they need in the …

March 22nd 2006, Hispanic News

Inland Empire Hispanic News

No abstract provided.

2006-03-22 Unm News Minute, University Of New Mexico Communication And Marketing Department

UNM News Minute 2006

No abstract provided.

Mary A. Hill, Mary A. Hill, Institute Of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.

Oral History Project (all interviews)

Mary A. Hill, Executive Director of Food Services for Jackson Public School District in Jackson, MS. She is a native of Jackson, MS, has both BS and MS degrees in Home Economics and a minor in Secondary Education from the University of Southern Mississippi and is credentialed as a Specialist (SNS) in the School Nutrition Association. Prior to beginning a career in school nutrition in 1983, she was a Commercial Food teacher who taught courses to vocational/technical students in Laurel Public Schools in Laurel, MS. Hill has directed the Child Nutrition Program in Jackson, MS for 33 years. The districts’ …

Thelma Becker, Thelma Becker, Institute Of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.

Oral History Project (all interviews)

Thelma Becker, a native Pennsylvanian, grew up in Philadelphia. Becker served as a school food service director in Pennsylvania and is a past-president of the American School Food Service Association, now the School Nutrition Association.

The Bg News March 22, 2006, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. March 22, 2006. Volume 96-Issue 120.

A Conceptual Plan For The Detroit Book And Tower Building: Exploration Of The Conjunction Of Historic Preservation And Sustainable Design Concepts, Chi-Ying Luo

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

This conceptual project generated an adaptive reuse proposal for the Book and Tower Building in a registered historic district. Louis Kamper designed the thirteen-story Book Building in 1917, in the Beaux Arts style, to create elite shops and offices. In 1926 the thirty-six-story Tower Building extended the leaseable space. This proposal preserved and rehabilitated the historic features in the lobby area and renovated the retail spaces. An Asian Café was designed to contrast, but blend with, the Beaux Arts style. The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation were followed in the lobby area so as to make the renovation …

Daily Eastern News: March 21, 2006, Eastern Illinois University

March

No abstract provided.

Anthropology Of Food And Eating Is Topic Unh Lecture March 28, Lori Wright

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

The Black-White Achievement Gap: Do State Policies Matter?, Henry I. Braun, Aubrey Wang, Frank Jenkins, Elliot Weinbaum

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

A longstanding issue in American education is the gap in academic achievement between majority and minority students. The goal of this study is to accumulate and evaluate evidence on the relationship between state education policies and changes in the Black-White achievement gap, while addressing some of the methodological issues that have led to differences in interpretations of earlier findings. To that end, we consider the experiences of ten states that together enroll more than forty percent of the nation's Black students. We estimate the trajectories of Black student and White student achievement on the NAEP 8th grade mathematics assessment over …

Ada News - 03/20/2006, American Dental Association, Publishing Division

ADA News

Established in 1970 as the official newspaper of the American Dental Association, the ADA News serves practicing dentists and others allied to the dental profession in the U.S. and internationally. It is the No. 1 source of news and information about the many benefits and services the ADA delivers to members daily as well as timely information on scientific, social, political and economic developments affecting dentistry and health care.

Education Policy Analysis Archives 14/08 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Black-white achievement gap : do state policies matter? / Henry I. Braun, Aubrey Wang, Frank Jenkins [and] Elliot Weinbaum.

March 20, 2006 Reporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.

The Bg News March 20, 2006, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. March 20, 2006. Volume 96-Issue 118.

The Three Faces Of Retainer Care, Frank A. Pasquale

ExpressO

Retainer care arrangements allow patients to pay a fee directly to a physician’s office in order to obtain special access to care. Practices usually convert to retainer status by concentrating their attention on a small panel and dropping the majority of their patients. Proponents call retainer care a triumph of consumer-directed health care; opponents deride it as “boutique medicine.” Both sides are deploying a variety of legal tactics in order to attain their goals.

After surveying these conflicts, this article clarifies what is at stake by analyzing the three key features of retainer care: preventive care, queue-jumping, and amenity-bundling. Most …

Semiparametric Analysis For Correlated Recurrent And Terminal Events, Yining Ye, Jack Kalbfleisch, Doug E. Schaubel

The University of Michigan Department of Biostatistics Working Paper Series

In clinical and observational studies, recurrent event data (e.g. hospitalization) with a terminal event (e.g. death) are often encountered. In many instances, the terminal event is strongly correlated with the recurrent event process. In this article, we propose a semiparametric method to jointly model the recurrent and terminal event processes. The dependence is modeled by a shared gamma frailty that is included in both the recurrent event rate and terminal event hazard function. Marginal models are used to estimate the regression effects on the terminal and recurrent event processes and a Poisson model is used to estimate the dispersion of …

March 18, 2006 (Pages 1205-1348), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau

Volume 36 (2006)

No abstract provided.

Adjusting For Covariate Effects On Classification Accuracy Using The Covariate-Adjusted Roc Curve, Holly Janes, Margaret S. Pepe

UW Biostatistics Working Paper Series

Recent scientific and technological innovations have produced an abundance of potential markers which are being investigated for their use in disease screen- ing and diagnosis. In evaluating these markers, it is often necessary to account for covariates which are associated with the marker of interest. These covariates may include subject characteristics, expertise of the test operator, test proce- dures, or aspects of specimen handling. In this paper, we propose the AROC, a covariate-adjusted measure of the classification accuracy. The AROC is the common covariate-specific ROC curve, when the covariate does not affect dis- crimination, and a weighted average of covariate-specific …

Murray Ledger And Times, March 17, 2006, Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Ua23 Volunteerism Comes Alive, Paul N. Markham, Aurelia Spaulding, Cheryl Kirby-Stokes

ALIVE Center Publications

No abstract provided.

The Early Years: A City Club Report On The Care And Education Of Children From Birth To Age Five, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.), Bethany Wurtz, Julie Young

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

Event Program: 18th Annual Women Of Distinction, Girl Scouts Of Gateway Council

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

No abstract provided.

Soundings 2006-03-17 (V.18 No.20), N/A N/A

Soundings

No abstract provided.

An Experimental Study Of The Effects Of Remote Intercessory Prayer On Depression, Jason Gary Wright

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The present study utilized a double-blind, controlled, pre-test/post-test design to examine the effect of remote intercessory prayer on 20 participants who received counseling for depression in various clinics throughout central Virginia. The researcher randomly drew from a pool of 20 numbers; participants given even numbers were assigned to the experimental group and were prayed for by assigned intercessors for 28 days. Participants given odd numbers were assigned to the control group and were not assigned intercessors. Twenty-eight days (or as soon a possible) after all participants took the first BDI-II (Beck Depression Inventory, second version) they completed the BDI-II for …

Spartan Daily, March 16, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 126, Issue 29

The Eagleville Times,Volume 4, Issue 5, Debbie Ryan

Eagleville Times

No abstract provided.

The Bg News March 16, 2006, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. March 16, 2006. Volume 96-Issue 116.

Association Between Tobacco Use And Body Mass Index In Urban Indian Population: Implications For Public Health In India, Mangesh S. Pednekar, Prakash C. Gupta, Heema C. Shukla, James R. Hébert

Faculty Publications

Background: Body mass index [BMI, weight (kg)/height (m2)], a measure of relative weight, is a good overall indicator of nutritional status and predictor of overall health. As in many developing countries, the high prevalence of very low BMIs in India represents an important public health risk. Tobacco, smoked in the form of cigarettes or bidis (handmade by rolling a dried rectangular piece of temburni leaf with 0.15–0.25 g of tobacco) or chewed, is another important determinant of health. Tobacco use also may exert a strong influence on BMI.

Methods: The relationship between very low BMI (< 18.5 kg/m2) and tobacco use was examined using data from a representative cross-sectional survey of 99,598 adults (40,071 men and 59,527 women) carried out in the city of Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay) in western India. Participants were men and women aged ≥ 35 years who were residents of the main city of Mumbai.

Results: …

Lanthorn, Vol. 40, No. 49, March 16, 2006, Grand Valley State University

Volume 40, July 14, 2005 - June 15, 2006

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Spartan Daily, March 15, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 126, Issue 28