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Not Working: Latina Immigrants, Low-Wage Jobs And The Failure Of Welfare Reform. Alejandra Marchevsky And Jeanne Theorharis., Rose Barretto

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book note for Rik Pinxten and Ellen Preckler, Racism in Metropolitan Areas. New York: Berghahn Books, 2006. $70.00 hardcover, $22.50 papercover.

Racism In Metropolitan Areas. Rik Pinxten And Ellen Preckler., Rose Barretto

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book note for Rik Pinxten and Ellen Preckler, Racism in Metropolitan Areas. New York: Berghahn Books, 2006. $70.00 hardcover, $22.50 papercover.

Eu Membership And An Independent Basque State, Lindsay Murphy

Pace International Law Review

No abstract provided.

"Second Or Successive" Habeas Petitions And Late-Ripening Claims After Panetti V Quarterman, Kyle P. Reynolds

University of Chicago Law Review

No abstract provided.

Rrh Library Newsletter, September 2007, Libraries At Rochester Regional Health

Rochester Regional Health authored publications and proceedings

Newsletter sections include: Resistance to Change

A Risk Stratification Tool To Assess Commecial Influences On Continuing Medical Education, Barbara E. Barnes, Jeanne G. Cole, Catherine Thomas King, Rebecca Zukowski, Tracy Allgier-Baker, Doris Mcgartland Rubio, Luanne E. Thorndyke

Office of Continuing Medical Education

Introduction: Heightened concerns about industry influence on continuing medical education (CME) have prompted tighter controls on the management of commercial funding and conflict of interest. As a result, CME providers must closely monitor their activities and intervene if bias or noncompliance with accreditation standards is likely. Potential for industry influence can be difficult to assess at a stage in the planning process when mitigation strategies can assure balance and content validity. Few tools exist to aid providers in this regard.

Methods: A 12-item instrument was designed to assess risk for commercial influence on CME. To determine reliability and validity, a …

Floating Ramps, Daniel B. Hess

RIT Digital Archives

A first hand account of flood damage caused to accessible ramps by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans is provided. The impacts of this damage to and destruction of ramps on the mobility and evacuation older adults and disabled people in affected areas is discussed, and the extent and causes of the damages are explained and quantified. An overview of various sponsors of existing ramp design guidelines is provided. Interventions are proposed, such as the establishment of additional specifications to enhance and strengthen ramp connections and mitigate future flood damage affecting the disabled and elderly. Issues for future investigation and research …

September 2007 Alumni Newsletter, New York Law School

Alumni Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Distribution And Disease Prevalence Of Feral Hogs In Missouri, R. Edwin Hartin, Mark R. Ryan, Tyler A. Campbell

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

No attempts have been made to document the distribution of feral hogs (Sus scrofa) in Missouri. Also, antibody prevalence for pseudorabies virus and swine brucellosis have not been reported from Missouri. Our objectives were to characterize the current distribution of feral hogs in Missouri and to determine prevalence and distribution of feral hogs with antibodies against selected important diseases. We collected feral hog sighting data both from the public and Missouri Wildlife Services and Missouri Department of Conservation wildlife biologists. We determined prevalence of antibodies against pseudorabies virus, swine brucellosis, tularemia, and classical swine fever. From 2000 to …

The Big Questions Of Personality Psychology: Defining Common Pursuits Of The Discipline, John D. Mayer

Psychology

Big questions of personality are those that are simple, important, and often have been asked repeatedly over time, such as “Who am I?” “What is human nature?” and “How does personality work?” This article identifies 20 big questions relevant to personality psychology. The historical background of each question is briefly described, and the questions are arranged into a model of big questions about personality. The questions, it is argued, both reflect and help to clarify the intrinsic interest in studying personality psychology. They offer insight into the cohesive nature of the field of personality by helping to define its common …

The Country Team: Restructuring America’S First Line Of Engagement, Robert B. Oakley, Michael Casey

Strategic Forums

U.S. Embassies face unprecedented challenges. The kinds of issues that confound governments today—from organized crime, drug trafficking, and terrorism to nuclear proliferation, human rights, ethnosectarian conflict, global disease, and climate change—no longer fit within diplomacy’s traditional categories.¹ Just as nonstate actors everywhere are becoming more powerful, regions of geostrategic importance in the developing world find themselves beset by weak or dysfunctional governments and increasingly perilous socioeconomic situations. While some might reasonably question the categorical quality of the 2002 National Security Strategy’s assertion that “America is now threatened less by conquering states than we are by failing ones,” there is …

Que Ondee Sola - Septemeber-October 2007, Xavier Luis Burgos

Que Ondee Sola

Student publication founded in 1972, articles include: Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez Speaks on Immigration Reform, The Long Battle for a Latina/o Open House, FBI Repress Puerto Rican Independence Movement, Nicole Perez Latina LGBT Activist, Paseo Boricua Celebrates El Grito de Lares, Zori4: Breaking Down Gender Roles with Graffiti, Elvira Arellano A Voice for the Voiceless, Marching Through Congress for Elvira Arellano, Poetry

Commentary: The Use Of Focus Groups For Design And Implementation Of Collaborative Environmental Administrative Programs: A Comparison Of Two State-Level Processes In Ohio, Wendy Kellogg, Kevin E. O'Brien, Claudette Robey, Kirstin Toth

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

Development and implementation of administrative programs are important steps in the process of change through public law and policy. These programs set the specific mechanisms that will be used to carry out the intent of the law or policy as best an agency can determine. Administrative personnel may involve the general public and stakeholders in program development and implementation in order to improve program design, increasingly used as part of collaborative environmental management strategies. This article examines the use of focus groups as a stakeholder participation method in collaborative program development and implementation processes in two different environmentally-oriented agency …

Nursing Faculty Leading From The Bottom: Implementing Service Learning Through The Governance Structure, Paula K. Reams, Darla J. Twale

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which organizational infrastructure and institutional leadership facilitated or hindered institutionalizing service learning as pedagogy at a small health professions college. Through interviews and content and discourse analysis, we found that data supported the notion that service learning "fit" the mission, however, data also revealed some resistance to using service learning on the part of some faculty members and administrators. Consequently, governance and communication channels appeared as barriers to institutionalization because the administration's words and deeds were incongruent. Nursing faculty'S espoused values and actual behaviors were congruent thus forcing them …

Indiana Emergency Medical Services Needs Assessment: Workforce And Training Issues, George H. Avery Ph.D., Mpa, Kelly Manicke Rn, Marie Fialkowski Ms, Deborah Koester Msn, Ann Fogler Bs

RCHE Reports

A mail survey was conducted to assess issues related to the EMS workforce and EMS workforce training in Indiana. Responses were received from approximately 45% of individuals and EMS organization contacted.

Major findings are:

Evidence exists of a shortage of EMS personnel in Indiana due to high vacancy rates. This is particularly acute in volunteer organizations, which report the greatest difficulty in recruiting EMS personnel.

Paid EMS personnel work on average significantly more than a standard 40 hour week, and high percentages of EMS personnel add a second job. Because excessive working hours have been linked to low quality healthcare, …

Rape And The Exception In Turkish And International Law, Ruth A. Miller

Washington and Lee Law Review

This Comment suggests, first, that Turkey's new (2004) rape law is indebted to recent trends in international sexual legislation, and second, that both Turkish and international rape law are in turn the product of a century of European exceptionalism. The 2004 Turkish criminal code is a text that has redefined the Turkish state's approach to issues ranging from torture to corruption to immigrant smuggling to rape and adultery. Fundamentally a domestic document, it is aimed at rearticulating and liberalizing the state-citizen relationship in Turkey. At the same time, it is emphatically an international text-a spectacle geared toward moving Turkey one …

Benchmarking Transit Research In The United States, Richard Marshment

Journal of Public Transportation

The national transit research program in the United States commands fewer resources than research on other surface transportation modes. In real dollars, expenditures on the national transit research program declined over the past six years. While the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, and Efficient Transportation Equity Act of 2005 reverses this trend by increasing transit research funding over the next five fiscal years, transit research funding still lags aviation, highways, and railroads. The low priority assigned transit research at the national level is also prevalent at the state, transit industry, and university levels. In an effort to focus resources on the transit …

Business Outlook, Vol. 23, No. 3, September 2007

Business Outlook for West Michigan

No abstract provided.

Advocate, September 2007, Vol. [19], No. [1], Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

With Clancy Gone, Health Services Down But Not Out; VP: Contract Woes Hinder Finding a Successor (p. 1)

Wireless at Last: Service in Place in Library, Commons, and Other Sites (p. 1)

CUNY Tightens Admissions Standards for Senior Colleges (p. 1)

From the Editor’s Desk: It Can’t Happen Here: Or Has It? (p. 2)

Graduate Center Technology: New Computer Blitz for Library, Computer Labs (p. 3)

Dispatches from the Front: Learning Teaching Excellence (the Hard Way). Rachel Porter (p. 6)

Adjuncting: Towards Adjunct Empowerment. Carl Lindskoog (p. 6)

Grad Life: On the Other Side of the Table …

Retirement Plans And Perceptions Among Rural Nebraskans, David J. Peters, Randolph L. Cantrell, Miguel A. Carranza, Bruce B. Johnson, Rebecca J. Vogt

Publications from the Center for Applied Rural Innovation (CARI)

• Most rural Nebraskans indicate an ideal retirement age of between 55-64 years (about 55%), or an ideal age of between 65-70 years (under 30%).

• However, only one-third of those ideally retiring between ages 55-64 think they will have sufficient income to do so, while nearly one-half of those ideally retiring between ages 65-70 think they will have enough retirement income.

• Over 40 percent of rural Nebraskans say they plan to work during retirement. People in their 40s and 50s are more likely to plan on working than those in their 20s and 30s.

• A majority of …