Sample records for united states 1988-1994

  1. Trends in No Leisure-Time Physical Activity--United States, 1988-2010

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    Moore, Latetia V.; Harris, Carmen D.; Carlson, Susan A.; Kruger, Judy; Fulton, Janet E.

    2012-01-01

    Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine trends in the prevalence of no leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) from 1988 to 2010. Method: Using the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data, 35 states and the District of Columbia reported information on no LTPA from 1988 to 1994; all states reported no LTPA from 1996 to 2010. Results: No…

  2. RADIUS: Research Archive on Disability in the United States. [CD-ROMs].

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    Sociometrics Corp., Los Altos, CA.

    This Research Archive on Disability in the United States (RADIUS), a database on CD-ROM, contains 19 data sets on the prevalence, incidence, correlates, and consequences of disability in the United States. The 19 data sets are: (1) 1991 National Maternal and Infant Health Follow-Up Survey; (2) National Pediatric Trauma Registry, 1988-1994; (3)…

  3. Attitudes about Childlessness in the United States: Correlates of Positive, Neutral, and Negative Responses

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    Koropeckyj-Cox, Tanya; Pendell, Gretchen

    2007-01-01

    The study used cross-sectional analyses of the National Survey of Families and Households (1987-1988, 1992-1994) to examine attitudes about childlessness in the United States. It (a) assesses prevalence of positive, neutral, and negative attitudes about childlessness and (b) identifies the correlates of different attitudes in the population. About…

  4. Changes in the prevalence of the most common causes of chronic liver diseases in the United States from 1988 to 2008.

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    Younossi, Zobair M; Stepanova, Maria; Afendy, Mariam; Fang, Yun; Younossi, Youssef; Mir, Hesham; Srishord, Manirath

    2011-06-01

    Chronic liver diseases (CLDs) are major causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. We assessed changes in the prevalence of different types of CLD in the United States. National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys conducted between 1988 and 2008 were used to estimate changes in the prevalence and predictors of CLDs. Serologic and clinical data were used to establish the diagnoses of CLDs in 39,500 adults. Statistical analyses were conducted with SUDAAN 10.0 (SAS Institute, Inc, Cary, NC). The prevalence rates for CLD were 11.78% (1988-1994), 15.66% (1999-2004), and 14.78% (2005-2008). During the same period, the prevalence of hepatitis B virus infection (0.36%, 0.33%, and 0.34%), hepatitis C virus (1.95%, 1.97%, and 1.68%), and alcoholic liver disease (1.38%, 2.21%, and 2.05%) remained generally stable. In contrast, the prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) increased from 5.51% to 9.84% to 11.01%. From 1988 to 1994, NAFLD accounted for 46.8% of CLD cases; from 1994 to 2004 its prevalence increased to 62.84%, and then to 75.1% from 2005 to 2008. During these time periods, steady increases were observed in obesity (21.74%, 30.02%, and 33.22%), visceral obesity (35.18%, 48.16%, and 51.43%), type II diabetes (5.55%, 7.88%, and 9.11%), insulin resistance (23.29%, 32.50%, and 35.00%), and hypertension (22.68%, 33.11%, and 34.08%). A multivariate analysis showed that during all time periods, obesity was an independent predictor of NAFLD. National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys data collected from 1988 to 2008 show that the prevalence of major causes of CLD remained stable, except for NAFLD, which increased steadily, along with the prevalence of metabolic conditions. Given the increasing rates of obesity, NAFLD prevalence is expected to contribute substantially to the burden of CLD in the United States. Copyright © 2011 AGA Institute. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  5. Secular trends for skinfolds differ from those for BMI and waist circumference among adults examined in NHANES from 1988-1994 through 2009-2010.

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    Freedman, David S; Zemel, Babette S; Ogden, Cynthia L

    2017-01-01

    Although the prevalence of a body mass index [BMI (in kg/m 2 )] ≥30 has tripled among US adults since the 1960s, BMI is only moderately correlated with body fatness. Because skinfolds can more accurately estimate body fatness than can BMI, it is possible that skinfolds could be useful in monitoring secular trends in body fatness. We examined whether there were similar secular trends for skinfolds (triceps and subscapular), BMI, and waist circumference between US adults. This study was an analysis of 45,754 adults who participated in the NHANES from 1988-1994 through 2009-2010. Approximately 19% of the subjects were missing ≥1 skinfold-thickness measurement. These missing values were imputed from other characteristics. Trends in mean levels and in the prevalence of high levels of the 4 body size measures were fairly similar between men, with mean levels increasing by ≥5% from 1988-1994 through 2009-2010. Slightly larger increases were seen in women for BMI and waist circumference (7-8%), but trends in skinfolds were markedly different. The mean triceps skinfold, for example, increased by 2 mm through 2003-2004, but subsequently decreased so that the mean in 2009-2010 did not differ from that in 1988-1994. Compared with obese women in 1988-1994, the mean BMI of obese women in 2009-2010 was 1 higher, but mean levels of both skinfolds were 5-10% lower. Although there were fairly similar trends in levels of BMI, waist circumference, and skinfold thicknesses in men in the United States from 1988-1994 through 2009-2010, there were substantial differences in women. Our results indicate that it is unlikely that skinfold thicknesses could be used to monitor trends in obesity. © 2017 American Society for Nutrition.

  6. 40 CFR 272.1601 - New Mexico State-Administered Program: Final Authorization.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... inspect a copy at EPA Region 6, 1445 Ross Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75202 (Phone number (214) 665-8533), or at... 13, 1988; September 14, 1988; July 19, 1989; July 23, 1992; February 14, 1994; July 18, 1994; July 20...

  7. Trends and racial/ethnic disparities in gluten-sensitive problems in the United States: findings from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys from 1988 to 2012.

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    Choung, Rok Seon; Ditah, Ivo C; Nadeau, Ashley M; Rubio-Tapia, Alberto; Marietta, Eric V; Brantner, Tricia L; Camilleri, Michael J; Rajkumar, S Vincent; Landgren, Ola; Everhart, James E; Murray, Joseph A

    2015-03-01

    Racial disparities in the prevalence of celiac disease (CD) and the number of people without CD avoiding gluten (PWAG) in the United States are unknown. We aimed to describe racial differences in the prevalence of CD and PWAG, and evaluate the trends of CD in the noninstitutionalized civilian adult population of the US between 1988 and 2012. A population-based cross-sectional study was conducted using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) from 1988 to 1994, 1999 to 2004, and 2009 to 2012. Serum samples from the NHANES participants were tested for CD serology, which included IgA tissue transglutaminase (tTG IgA) and, if findings were abnormal, for IgA endomysial antibodies. Information about adherence to a gluten-free diet was obtained by means of an interviewer-administered questionnaire. In NHANES 2009-2012, the adjusted prevalence of CD was significantly higher (P<0.0001) among non-Hispanic whites (1.0%) than among non-Hispanic blacks (0.2%) and Hispanics (0.3%), whereas the adjusted prevalence of PWAG was significantly higher (P=0.01) in blacks (1.2%) as compared with Hispanics (0.5%) and whites (0.7%). The seroprevalence of CD in adults aged 50 years and older increased from 0.17% (95% confidence interval (CI) 0.03-0.33) in 1988-1994 to 0.44% (95% CI 0.24-0.81) in 2009-2012 (P<0.05). The overall prevalence of CD increased between 1988 and 2012 and is significantly more common in whites. In addition, a higher proportion of individuals maintaining a gluten-free diet in the absence of a diagnosis of CD are blacks.

  8. 34 CFR 263.20 - What definitions apply to the Demonstration Grants for Indian Children program?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... the Indian Education Act of 1988 as it was in effect October 19, 1994. Indian institution of higher education means an accredited college or university within the United States cited in section 532 of the... under the Tribally Controlled College or University Assistance Act of 1978, and the Navajo Community...

  9. 34 CFR 263.20 - What definitions apply to the Demonstration Grants for Indian Children program?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... the Indian Education Act of 1988 as it was in effect October 19, 1994. Indian institution of higher education means an accredited college or university within the United States cited in section 532 of the... under the Tribally Controlled College or University Assistance Act of 1978, and the Navajo Community...

  10. 34 CFR 263.20 - What definitions apply to the Demonstration Grants for Indian Children program?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... the Indian Education Act of 1988 as it was in effect October 19, 1994. Indian institution of higher education means an accredited college or university within the United States cited in section 532 of the... under the Tribally Controlled College or University Assistance Act of 1978, and the Navajo Community...

  11. 34 CFR 263.20 - What definitions apply to the Demonstration Grants for Indian Children program?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... the Indian Education Act of 1988 as it was in effect October 19, 1994. Indian institution of higher education means an accredited college or university within the United States cited in section 532 of the... under the Tribally Controlled College or University Assistance Act of 1978, and the Navajo Community...

  12. 34 CFR 263.20 - What definitions apply to the Demonstration Grants for Indian Children program?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... the Indian Education Act of 1988 as it was in effect October 19, 1994. Indian institution of higher education means an accredited college or university within the United States cited in section 532 of the... under the Tribally Controlled College or University Assistance Act of 1978, and the Navajo Community...

  13. The Gender Gap in Attitudes about Childlessness in the United States

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    Koropeckyj-Cox, Tanya; Pendell, Gretchen

    2007-01-01

    Acceptance of childlessness has increased since the 1970s, with women reporting greater acceptance than men. Using the National Survey of Families and Households (1987-1988; N = 10,648) and the General Social Survey (1994; N =1,395), we examined this gender gap as it relates to both structural and sociocultural factors, including religion, gender…

  14. The impact of smoke-free workplaces on declining cigarette consumption in Australia and the United States.

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    Chapman, S; Borland, R; Scollo, M; Brownson, R C; Dominello, A; Woodward, S

    1999-01-01

    OBJECTIVES: This study estimates the contribution of smoke-free workplaces to the recent national declines in cigarette consumption in Australia and the United States. METHODS: Nineteen studies of the impact of smoke-free workplaces on workday cigarette consumption were reviewed. The number and cost of cigarettes forgone were calculated and extrapolated to a scenario in which all indoor work areas were smoke-free. RESULTS: Of the 19 studies, 18 reported declines in daily smoking rates, and 17 reported declines in smoking prevalence. Smoke-free workplaces are currently responsible for an annual reduction of some 602 million cigarettes, or 1.8% of all cigarettes that might otherwise be consumed, in Australia, and an annual reduction of 9.7 billion cigarettes (2%) in the United States. Approximately 22.3% of the 2.7 billion decrease in cigarette consumption in Australia between 1988 and 1995 can be attributed to smoke-free workplaces, as can 12.7% of the 76.5 billion decrease in the United States between 1988 and 1994. CONCLUSIONS: If workplaces were universally smoke-free, the number of cigarettes forgone annually would increase to 1.14 billion (3.4%) in Australia and 20.9 billion (4.1%) in the United States. PMID:10394309

  15. Diffusion of breast conserving surgery in medical communities.

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    Jerome-D'Emilia, Bonnie; Begun, James W

    2005-01-01

    Excluding skin cancers, breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women. Due to an increased focus on early detection, many more cases of breast cancer are now diagnosed at an early stage, which makes the use of breast conserving surgery (BCS) an efficacious and often more desirable treatment choice than mastectomy. An analysis of the variation in the use of BCS in the United States was performed using data from the years 1988 and 1994, and stratifying hospitals on the basis of teaching status. In both 1988 and 1994, BCS was highest in academic teaching hospitals and lowest in community hospitals. This finding is interpreted within the framework of classical diffusion theory. Social and cultural norms in local medical communities have a strong effect on the degree to which innovations diffuse rapidly or not. This analysis is useful in the understanding of geographic and hospital-based variations in treatment for early stage breast cancer and other illnesses that have long and strongly held traditions of treatment.

  16. Metabolic Syndrome Prevalence by Race/Ethnicity and Sex in the United States, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-2012.

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    Moore, Justin Xavier; Chaudhary, Ninad; Akinyemiju, Tomi

    2017-03-16

    Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of cardiometabolic risk factors associated with increased risk of multiple chronic diseases, including cancer and cardiovascular disease. The objectives of this study were to estimate the prevalence of metabolic syndrome overall, by race and sex, and to assess trends in prevalence from 1988 through 2012. We analyzed data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) for 1988 through 2012. We defined metabolic syndrome as the presence of at least 3 of these components: elevated waist circumference, elevated triglycerides, reduced high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, high blood pressure, and elevated fasting blood glucose. Data were analyzed for 3 periods: 1988-1994, 1999-2006, and 2007-2012. Among US adults aged 18 years or older, the prevalence of metabolic syndrome rose by more than 35% from 1988-1994 to 2007-2012, increasing from 25.3% to 34.2%. During 2007-2012, non-Hispanic black men were less likely than non-Hispanic white men to have metabolic syndrome (odds ratio [OR], 0.77; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.66-0.89). However, non-Hispanic black women were more likely than non-Hispanic white women to have metabolic syndrome (OR, 1.20; 95% CI, 1.02-1.40). Low education level (OR, 1.56; 95% CI, 1.32-1.84) and advanced age (OR, 1.73; 95% CI, 1.67-1.80) were independently associated with increased likelihood of metabolic syndrome during 2007-2012. Metabolic syndrome prevalence increased from 1988 to 2012 for every sociodemographic group; by 2012, more than a third of all US adults met the definition and criteria for metabolic syndrome agreed to jointly by several international organizations.

  17. Indoor tanning knowledge, attitudes, and behavior among young adults from 1988-2007.

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    Robinson, June K; Kim, Julie; Rosenbaum, Sara; Ortiz, Sara

    2008-04-01

    To compare knowledge, attitudes, and behavior about indoor tanning and sources of information among young adults in the summer of 1988, 1994, and 2007. Convenience survey of 100 Chicago, Illinois, beachgoers aged 18 to 30 years who were age- and sex-matched with Chicago-area residents who participated in random-digit-dialed telephone interviews in 1988 and 1994. Lakefront beach on weekday afternoons in July 2007. Knowledge of melanoma/skin cancer link with tanning, and limiting tanning to help prevent melanoma/skin cancer; attitude about the appearance of tanned people; and knowledge of relevant information sources; and UV indoor tanning use in the past year. Knowledge of the melanoma/skin cancer link with tanning changed from 1988 (42%) to 1994 (38%) to 2007 (87%). Knowledge of limiting tanning to help prevent melanoma increased from 1988 (25%) to 1994 (77%), but decreased from 1994 to 2007 (67%). This decline in knowledge about limiting tanning was concurrent with an increase in the attitude that having a tan looks better (1994, 69%; 2007, 81%). Use of indoor tanning beds increased from 1988 (1%) to 1994 (26%) and remained at the same level in 2007 (27%). Although physicians, especially dermatologists, were sources of information about tanning (1988, 2%; 1994, 18%; 2007, 31%) and were considered the most trusted source, only 14% of respondents in 1994 and 2007 reported ever talking to a doctor about indoor tanning. Conclusion Because young adults report that physicians are their most trusted source of information about tanning, a potential opportunity exists for physicians to influence indoor tanning behavior by counseling their patients.

  18. Avian tick paralysis caused by Ixodes brunneus in the southeastern United States

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    Luttrell, M.P.; Creekmore, L.H.; Mertins, J.W.

    1996-01-01

    Between 1988 and 1994, 16 definitive and 26 presumptive cases of tick paralysis were diagnosed in 10 species of birds from five southeastern states in the USA. All birds had engorged adult female Ixodes brunneus ticks on the head region and were partially paralyzed or dead. Cases occurred in the winter and early spring months, and most birds were passerines found in private yards or near feeders. All stages of I. brunneus feed exclusively on birds, and this species previously has been associated with avian tick paralysis. Little is known concerning the life cycle of this ixodid tick and its impact on wild bird populations.

  19. 40 CFR 272.951 - Louisiana State-administered program: Final authorization.

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    2010-07-01

    ..., 1997. Copies of the document can be obtained from EPA Region 6, 1445 Ross Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75202... November 20, 1988 LR 18:1375 December 20, 1992. LAC § 303.K.1 (previously LHWR § 3.2(k)(1)) July 20, 1984 LR 14:790 November 20, 1988. LAC § 901 (LHWR § 6.1) March 20, 1984 LR 20:1000 September 20, 1994. LAC...

  20. Reshaping Education in the 1990s: Perspectives on Secondary Schooling.

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    Pole, Christopher J., Ed.; Chawla-Duggan, Rita, Ed.

    The 1988 Education Reform Act precipitated major educational change in the United Kingdom. This book is a compilation of papers originally presented at the 1994 Centre for Educational Development Appraisal and Research (CEDAR) conference at the University of Warwick (England). The papers focus on changes that have occurred and are occurring in the…

  1. Changing perspectives on marijuana use during early adolescence and young adulthood: Evidence from a panel of cross-sectional surveys.

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    Salas-Wright, Christopher P; Vaughn, Michael G; Perron, Brian E; Gonzalez, Jennifer M Reingle; Goings, Trenette Clark

    2016-12-01

    Prior research has often overlooked potential cohort differences in marijuana views and use across adolescence and young adulthood. To begin to address this gap, we conduct an exploratory examination of marijuana views and use among American youth using a panel of cross-sectional surveys. Findings are based on repeated, cross-sectional data collected annually from adolescents (ages 12-17; n=230,452) and young adults (ages 18-21; n=120,588) surveyed as part of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health between 2002 and 2014. For each of the birth years between 1986 and 1996, we combined a series of nationally representative cross-sections to provide multi-year data strings designed to approximate nationally representative cohorts. Compared to youth born in the mid-to-late 1980s, youth born in the mid-1990s reported significantly higher levels of marijuana disapproval during the early adolescent years (Age 14: 1988=64.7%, 1994=70.4%) but lower levels of disapproval during the young adult years (Age 19: 1988=32.0%, 1994=25.0%; Age 20: 1988=27.9%, 1994=19.7%). Moreover, the prevalence of marijuana use among youth born in 1994 was significantly lower-compared to youth born in 1988-at age 14 (1988: 11.39%, 1994: 8.19%) and significantly higher at age 18 (1988: 29.67%, 1994: 34.83%). This pattern held even when adjusting for potential confounding by demographic changes in the population across the study period. We see evidence of changes in the perceptions of marijuana use among youth born during the late twentieth century. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

  2. Superfund record of decision amendment (EPA Region 5): Mid State Disposal Site, Marathon County, WI, August 4, 1995

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    NONE

    The United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPS) is changing the remedy selected in the Original Record of Decision (ROD) dated September 30, 1988 (PB89-189559). The remedial design was completed in 1993, with construction completed in the Spring of 1994. Of the nine remedial components noted above, all except Component 4, the AWS, have been implemented or initiated as part of the Operation and Maintenance. During the course of the Pre-design activities, an initial hydrogeologic evaluation of the area around the site was completed to address the potential of establishing high-capacity water supply wells. The results of the study indicatedmore » that an AWS consisting of two upgradient wells was not a feasible alternative.« less

  3. Agreement between The State of New York and United University Professions, 1985-1988.

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    New York State Executive Office, Albany.

    The collective bargaining agreement between The State of New York and United University Professions, an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers, for 1985 to 1988 is presented. Items covered in the agreement include: unit recognition, grievance procedure, arbitration procedure, grievance appeals, labor-management meetings, academic…

  4. Agreement between the State of New York and United University Professions--1988-1991.

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    New York State Executive Office, Albany.

    The collective bargaining agreement between the State of New York and United University Professions, an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers, for the period July 1, 1988 to June 30, 1991 is presented. The contract's 50 articles cover the following: recognition, unchallenged representation, exclusive negotiations, definitions, policies,…

  5. Chlor-alkali producers evaluate safer alternatives to asbestos

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    Stadig, W.

    Until recently, 75% of all US capacity for producing chlor-alkali - more than 40% of the world's capacity - has used asbestos diaphragm-cell technology. Although the Environmental Protection Agency continues to exempt asbestos use in diaphragms from restrictions, producers are considering alternatives. In Germany, stringent regulations will ban asbestos in chlor-alkali production after 1994. Heavy fines were levied recently against some chlor-alkali producers in the United States when EPA inspectors found asbestos fibers in cell renewal areas. Restrictions on the mining of asbestos raise the cost of obtaining adequate amounts of high-quality asbestos and gradually raise the cost of transportingmore » and discarding spent diaphragms. Two alternatives are to use newly developed, non-asbestos diaphragms or to convert to existing ion-exchange membrane-cell technology. Only the former seems economical in the United States. The non-asbestos diaphragm is based on an inorganic polymer composite developed in 1988 as an asbestos substitute. The composite received Du Pont's Plunkett Award for Innovation with Teflon[trademark], landed on the National Development Association's 1991 Honor Roll and became a 1991 R D 100 Award winner. 6 figs.« less

  6. The Technology-Related Assistance to Individuals with Disabilities Act: Relevance to Individuals with Learning Disabilities and Their Advocates.

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    Bryant, Brian R.; Seay, Penny Crews

    1998-01-01

    Discusses implications of the Technology-Related Assistance to Individuals with Disabilities Act (1988, 1994) for people with learning disabilities. It discusses the rationale for the act; its provisions and goals; and systems change and advocacy activities of state projects concerning policy analysis, funding, interagency collaboration, consumer…

  7. The Computer Software Rental Amendments Act of 1988. Hearing on S. 2727 before the Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trrademarks of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate. One Hundredth Congress, Second Session (Provo, Utah, August 24, 1988).

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    Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on the Judiciary.

    A statement by Senator Orrin G. Hatch opened the hearing on The Computer Software Rental Amendments Act of 1988, a bill which would amend title 17, United States Code, the Copyright Act, to protect certain computer programs. The text of the bill is then presented, followed by the statements of four witnesses: (1) Dr. Alan C. Ashton, president,…

  8. Survey of United States Army Reserve (USAR) Troop Program Unit (TPU) soldiers 1989. Tabulation of Questionnaire Responses: Longitudinal Sample: Junior Enlisted Stayers from 1988 to 1989. 1989 Questionnaire Responses

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1989-09-30

    AD-A237 531 1989 SURVEY OF UNITED STATES ARMY RESERVE (USAR) TROOP PROGRAM UNIT (TPU) SOLDIERS Tabulation of Questionnaire Responses: Longitudinal...Program Unit (TPU) Soldiers . The Tabulation Volumes list questionnaire items and the percent of respondents (weighted to population estimates) who have...Reserve population eligible for selection was defined by the number of personnel rec,,rds on a Dpeber 1988 SIDPERS data base; this totalled 280,265

  9. A 1998 Workshop on Heterogeneous Computing

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1998-09-18

    of Sussex, England, in 1994. From 1988 to 1990 he was a Lecturer with the UNAM. In 1994, he joined the Laboratorio Nacional de Informatica Avanzada...1984) and at the UNAM (1988-1991). Since 1992, he is titular Researcher and consultant at the Laboratorio Nacional de Informatica Avanzada (LANIA). He...Box 1331 Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331 Tel: + 1-908-981-1393 Fax: + 1-908-981-9667 mis.custserv@computer.org IEEE Computer Society 13, Avenue de

  10. Traffic safety facts 1994 : motorcycles

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    1995-01-01

    In 1994, 2,304 motorcyclists were killed in traffic crashes in the United States-6 percent less than the 2,449 motorcyclist fatalities reported in 1993. Motorcycles make up 2 percent of all registered vehicles in the United States and account for onl...

  11. Arboviral disease--United States, 1994.

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    1995-09-08

    Arboviruses are mosquitoborne and tickborne agents that persist in nature in complex cycles involving birds and mammals, including humans. Characteristics of arboviral infection include fever, headache, encephalitis, and sometimes death. In 1994, health departments in 20 states reported 100 presumptive or confirmed human cases of arboviral disease to CDC. Of these, 76 were California (CAL) serogroup encephalitis; 20, St. Louis encephalitis (SLE); two, western equine encephalomyelitis (WEE); one, eastern equine encephalomyelitis (EEE); and one, Powassan encephalitis (POW). This report summarizes information about arboviral disease in the United States during 1994.

  12. Valuable Work, Minimal Rewards: A Report on the Wisconsin Child Care Work Force.

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    Burton, Alice; And Others

    A 1994 state-wide survey examined the status of child care profession in Wisconsin. Surveyed were 326 family child care providers, 104 child care center directors, and 254 center teaching staff. Responses indicated that child care teaching staff have experienced a wage increase of just over 1 percent per year since 1988, and continue to earn low…

  13. Legislative Studies in State Education Policy, 1976-1988: A Final Summary.

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    National Conference of State Legislatures, Denver, CO.

    During the period from 1976 through 1988, the National Conference of State Legislatures and the United States Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement collaborated to develop a program supporting educational policy studies for state legislatures. The program contributed 69 studies on a variety of topics. This report…

  14. Irrigation drainage studies of the Angostura Reclamation Unit and the Belle Fourche Reclamation Project, western South Dakota : results of 1994 sampling and comparisons with 1988 data

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    Sando, Steven K.; Williamson, Joyce E.; Dickerson, Kimberly K.; Wesolowski, Edwin A.

    2001-01-01

    The U.S. Department of the Interior started the National Irrigation Water Quality Program in 1985 to identify the nature and extent of irrigation-induced water-quality problems that might exist in the western U.S. The Angostura Reclamation Unit (ARU) and Belle Fourche Reclamation Project (BFRP) in western South Dakota were included as part of this program. The ARU and BFRP reconnaissance studies were initiated in 1988, during below-normal streamflow conditions in both study areas. Surface water, bottom sediment, and fish were resampled in 1994 at selected sites in both study areas during generally near-normal streamflow conditions to compare with 1988 study results. Concentrations of major ions in water for both the ARU and BFRP study areas are high relative to national baseline levels. Major-ion concentrations for both areas generally are lower for 1994 than for 1988, when low-flow conditions prevailed, but ionic proportions are similar between years. For ARU, dissolved-solids concentrations probably increase slightly downstream from Angostura Reservoir; however, the available data sets are insufficient to confidently discern effects of ARU operations on dissolved-solids loading. For BFRP, dissolved-solids concentrations are slightly higher at sites that are affected by irrigation drainage; again, however, the data are inconclusive to determine whether BFRP operations increase dissolved-solids loading. Most trace-element concentrations in water samples for both study areas are similar between 1988 and 1994, and do not show strong relations with discharge. ARU operations probably are not contributing discernible additional loads of trace elements to the Cheyenne River. For BFRP, concentrations of some trace elements are slightly higher at sites downstream from irrigation operations than at a site upstream from irrigation operations. BFRP operations might contribute to trace-element concentrations in the Belle Fourche River, but available data are insufficient to quantify increases. For both study areas, concentrations of several trace elements occasionally exceed National Irrigation Water Quality Program guidelines. Selenium routinely occurs in concentrations that could be problematic at sites upstream and downstream from both study areas. Elevated selenium concentrations at sites upstream from irrigation operations indicate that naturally occurring selenium concentrations are relatively high in and near the study areas. While ARU operations probably do not contribute discernible additional loads of selenium to the Cheyenne River, BFRP operations might contribute additional selenium loads to the Belle Fourche River. Concentrations of most trace elements in bottom sediment, except arsenic and selenium, are similar to typical concentrations for western U.S. soils for both study areas. Bottom-sediment arsenic and selenium (1988) concentrations in both study areas can reach levels that might be of concern; however, there is insufficient information to determine whether irrigation operations contribute to these elevated concentrations. Concentrations of most trace elements in fish in both study areas are less than values known to adversely affect fish or birds, although there are occasional exceedances of established criteria. However, selenium concentrations in fish samples routinely are within the National Irrigation Water Quality Program level of concern, and also commonly exceed the dietary guideline for avian consumers for both study areas. Selenium concentrations in fish samples generally are higher at sites downstream from irrigation operations. For BFRP, arsenic and mercury concentrations are elevated in fish samples from site B-18, which is influenced by mine tailings.

  15. Counterfactuals cannot count: a rejoinder to David Chalmers.

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    Bishop, Mark

    2002-12-01

    The initial argument presented herein is not significantly original--it is a simple reflection upon a notion of computation originally developed by Putnam (Putnam 1988; see also Searle, 1990) and criticised by Chalmers et al. (Chalmers, 1994; 1996a, b; see also the special issue, What is Computation?, in Minds and Machines, 4:4, November 1994). In what follows, instead of seeking to justify Putnam's conclusion that every open system implements every Finite State Automaton (FSA) and hence that psychological states of the brain cannot be functional states of a computer, I will establish the weaker result that, over a finite time window every open system implements the trace of FSA Q, as it executes program (P) on input (I). If correct the resulting bold philosophical claim is that phenomenal states--such as feelings and visual experiences--can never be understood or explained functionally. Copyright 2002 Elsevier Science (USA)

  16. The 1995 revision of the joint US/UK geomagnetic field models. II: Main field

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    Quinn, J.M.; Coleman, R.J.; Macmillan, S.; Barraclough, D.R.

    1997-01-01

    This paper presents the 1995 main-field revision of the World Magnetic Model (WMM-95). It is based on Project MAGNET high-level (??? 15,000 ft.) vector aeromagnetic survey data collected between 1988 and 1994 and on scalar total intensity data collected by the Polar Orbiting Geomagnetic Survey (POGS) satellite during the period 1991 through 1993. The spherical harmonic model produced from these data describes that portion of the Earth's magnetic field generated internal to the Earth's surface at the 1995.0 Epoch. When combined with the spherical harmonic model of the Earth's secular variation described in paper I, the Earth's main magnetic field is fully characterized between the years 1995 and 2000. Regional magnetic field models for the conterminous United States, Alaska and, Hawaii were generated as by-products of the global modeling process.

  17. Trends and correlates in meat consumption patterns in the US adult population

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    Wang, Youfa; Beydoun, May A; Caballero, Benjamin; Gary, Tiffany L; Lawrence, Robert

    2010-01-01

    Objective Few studies have examined recent shifts in meat consumption (MC), differences among US population groups, and the influence of psychosocial–behavioural factors. Design Nationally representative data collected for US adults aged ≥18 years in the 1988–1994 and 1999–2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) and the 1994–1996 Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals (CSFII) and Diet and Health Knowledge Survey (DHKS) were used. Results We found a U-shaped trend in MC, a decrease between 1988–1994 and 1994–1996, and an increase from 1994–1996 to 1999–2004. NHANES 1988–1994 and 1999–2004 indicate that MC did not change significantly, particularly for all meat, red meat, poultry and seafood. Between 1994–1996 and 1999–2004, average MC, including red meat, poultry, seafood and other meat products, increased in men. Women’s total MC decreased, mainly due to decreased red meat and other meat products, except for increased seafood. Noticeable differences existed in the changes across population groups. Black men had the largest increase in consumption of total meat, poultry and seafood; Mexican American men had the smallest increase in poultry, seafood and other meat products. In 1999–2004, ethnic differences in MC became greater in women than among women in 1994–1996. Associations between MC and energy intake changed over time. Perceived benefit of dietary quality and food label use were associated with reduced red MC. Conclusions Noticeable differences exist in the shifts in MC across population groups and surveys. MC increased in men but decreased in women in recent years. PMID:20188005

  18. Money Income and Poverty Status in the United States: 1987. (Advance Data from the March 1988 Current Population Survey). Current Population Reports: Consumer Income.

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    Current Population Reports, 1988

    1988-01-01

    This report presents data from the March 1988 Current Population Survey (CPS) on the income and poverty status of families and persons in the United States for the calender year 1987. The following family characteristics are examined: (1) family income; (2) family composition, race, and Hispanic origin; (3) educational attainment of householder;…

  19. Sexual Harassment in the United States Military: The Development of the DoD Survey

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    1988-09-30

    confirmed equal opportunity complaints in the first half of fiscal year 1988 and in all of fiscal year 1987 (USAF Social 7 Actions Program Statistical Summary...State University Normal, Illinois for The Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute Patrick Air Force Base, Florida United States Navy-ASEE 1988...Month, Day) 5. PAGE COUNT Final FROM 16ay TO _2_3J 880930 20 16. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTATION Prepared as a part of the Defense Equal Opportunity Management

  20. Prevalence of Prediabetes and Abdominal Obesity Among Healthy-Weight Adults: 18-Year Trend.

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    Mainous, Arch G; Tanner, Rebecca J; Jo, Ara; Anton, Stephen D

    2016-07-01

    Trends in sedentary lifestyle may have influenced adult body composition and metabolic health among individuals at presumably healthy weights. This study examines the nationally representative prevalence of prediabetes and abdominal obesity among healthy-weight adults in 1988 through 2012. We analyzed the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) III (1988-1994) and NHANES for the years 1999 to 2012, focusing on adults aged 20 years and older who have a body mass index (BMI) of 18.5 to 24.99 and do not have diabetes, either diagnosed or undiagnosed. We defined prediabetes using glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) level ranges from 5.7% to 6.4%, as specified by the American Diabetes Association. Abdominal obesity was measured by waist circumference and waist-to-height ratio. The prevalence of prediabetes among healthy-weight adults, aged 20 years and older and without diagnosed or undiagnosed diabetes, increased from 10.2% in 1988-1994 to 18.5% in 2012. Among individuals aged 45 years and older, the prevalence of prediabetes increased from 22.0% to 33.1%. The percentage of adults aged 20 years and older with an unhealthy waist circumference increased from 5.6% in 1988-1994 to 7.6% in 2012. The percentage of individuals with an unhealthy waist-to-height ratio increased from 27.2% in 1988-1994 to 33.7% in 2012. Adjusted models found that measures of abdominal obesity were not independent predictors of prediabetes among adults with a healthy BMI. Among individuals within a healthy BMI range, the prevalence of prediabetes and abdominal obesity has substantially increased. Abdominal obesity does not appear to be the primary cause of the increase. © 2016 Annals of Family Medicine, Inc.

  1. Prevalence of Prediabetes and Abdominal Obesity Among Healthy-Weight Adults: 18-Year Trend

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    Mainous, Arch G.; Tanner, Rebecca J.; Jo, Ara; Anton, Stephen D.

    2016-01-01

    PURPOSE Trends in sedentary lifestyle may have influenced adult body composition and metabolic health among individuals at presumably healthy weights. This study examines the nationally representative prevalence of prediabetes and abdominal obesity among healthy-weight adults in 1988 through 2012. METHODS We analyzed the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) III (1988–1994) and NHANES for the years 1999 to 2012, focusing on adults aged 20 years and older who have a body mass index (BMI) of 18.5 to 24.99 and do not have diabetes, either diagnosed or undiagnosed. We defined prediabetes using glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) level ranges from 5.7% to 6.4%, as specified by the American Diabetes Association. Abdominal obesity was measured by waist circumference and waist-to-height ratio. RESULTS The prevalence of prediabetes among healthy-weight adults, aged 20 years and older and without diagnosed or undiagnosed diabetes, increased from 10.2% in 1988–1994 to 18.5% in 2012. Among individuals aged 45 years and older, the prevalence of prediabetes increased from 22.0% to 33.1%. The percentage of adults aged 20 years and older with an unhealthy waist circumference increased from 5.6% in 1988–1994 to 7.6% in 2012. The percentage of individuals with an unhealthy waist-to-height ratio increased from 27.2% in 1988–1994 to 33.7% in 2012. Adjusted models found that measures of abdominal obesity were not independent predictors of prediabetes among adults with a healthy BMI. CONCLUSIONS Among individuals within a healthy BMI range, the prevalence of prediabetes and abdominal obesity has substantially increased. Abdominal obesity does not appear to be the primary cause of the increase. PMID:27401417

  2. Thyroid hormone use: trends in the United States from 1960 through 1988.

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    Kaufman, S C; Gross, T P; Kennedy, D L

    1991-01-01

    Thyroid hormone preparations comprised over 1% of all prescriptions filled by retail pharmacies during 1988 in the conterminous United States, i.e., the 48 contiguous states. Their large market share gives the patterns of their use substantial public health importance. This article describes prescription thyroid hormone use in the United States from 1960 through 1988, using pharmaceutical marketing research data collected from panels of retail pharmacies and office-based physicians. Although the use of natural products has declined by over 50% since 1960, about one fourth of all thyroid hormone prescriptions were for natural preparations as recently as 1988. Per capita thyroid mentions (i.e., patient-physician contacts during which a thyroid agent of any kind was recommended, prescribed, dispensed, administered, ordered to be given by a hospital, or given as a sample) doubled during this period among those over 59 years old. Per capita mentions for synthetic thyroid products increased fourfold and tenfold among men and women in this age group, respectively. Use for weight loss, despite the label's boxed warning indicating it to be ineffective and potentially dangerous, has diminished but persists. Obesity was second only to hypothyroidism among the diagnoses underlying thyroid product mentions.

  3. The State of Working America, 1994-95.

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    Mishel, Lawrence; Bernstein, Jared

    Numerous sources of data about family incomes, taxes, wages, unemployment, wealth, and poverty were used to analyze the impact of the economy on living standards in the United States in 1994-1995. It was discovered that most individuals in the United States are worse off in the 1990s than they were at the end of the 1970s. Between 1979 and 1989,…

  4. Decreasing trends in cardiovascular mortality in Turkey between 1988 and 2008

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    2013-01-01

    Background Cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality increased in developed countries until the 1970s then started to decline. Turkey is about to complete its demographic transition, which may also influence mortality trends. This study evaluated trends in coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke mortality between 1988 and 2008. Methods The number of deaths by cause (ICD-8), age and sex were obtained from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) annually between 1988 and 2008. Population statistics were based on census data (1990 and 2000) and Turkstat projections. European population standardised mortality rates for CHD and stroke were calculated for men and women over 35 years old. Joinpoint Regression was used to identify the points at which a statistically significant (p < 0.05) change of the trend occurred. Results The CHD mortality rate increased by 2.9% in men and 2.0% in women annually from 1988 to 1994, then started to decline. The annual rate of decline for men was 1.7% between 1994–2008, whilst in women it was 2.8% between 1994–2000 and 6.7% between 2005–2008 (p < 0.05 for all periods). Stroke mortality declined between 1990–1994 (annual fall of 3.8% in both sexes), followed by a slight increase between 1994–2004 (0.6% in men, 1.1% in women), then a further decline until 2008 (annual reduction of 4.4% in men, 7.9% in women) (p < 0.05 for all periods). Conclusions A decrease in CVD mortality was observed from 1995 onwards in Turkey. The causes need to be explored in detail to inform future policy priorities in noncommunicable disease control. PMID:24079269

  5. Exposure to Alcoholism in the Family: United States, 1988. Advance Data from Vital and Health Statistics of the National Center for Health Statistics. Number 205.

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    Schoenborn, Charlotte A.

    This report is based on data from the 1988 National Health Interview Survey on Alcohol (NHIS-Alcohol), part of the ongoing National Health Interview Survey conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics. Interviews for the NHIS are conducted in person by staff of the United States Bureau of the Census. Information is collected on each…

  6. Forest statistics for Southwest Mississippi counties - 1994

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    Joanne L. Faulkner; Andrew J. Hartsell; Jack D. London

    1995-01-01

    Tabulated results were derived from data obtained during a 1994 forest inventory of southwest Mississippi counties (fig. I). These data are considered preliminary. Field work was conducted from February to august 1994. Core tables 1 through 25 are compatible among forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) units in the Eastern United States. Supplemental tables 26 through 44...

  7. Agreement between Central State University and the American Association of University Professors Central State University Chapter. September 1, 1988-August 31, 1991.

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    American Association of Univ. Professors, Washington, DC.

    This document presents the agreement between Central State University and the Central State University Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) for the period September 1, 1988-August 31, 1991. The contract details the following 48 articles: agreement; agreement construction; recognition of the bargaining unit; AAUP…

  8. Epidemiology of rubella and congenital rubella syndrome in Japan before 1989.

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    Ueda, Kohji

    2016-04-07

    Epidemiological studies of rubella and congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) in Japan have been conducted since the first nationwide rubella epidemic of 1965-1969 and subsequent epidemics of 1975-1977, 1982, 1987-1988, and 1992-1993. Rubella was non-endemic in Japan before the 1975-1977 epidemic, and endemic thereafter. Japan started a selective rubella vaccination program for junior high school girls in 1977, and universal rubella vaccination of children of both sexes in 1989. No nationwide rubella epidemics have occurred since 1994. Only three children with CRS were reported in Japan before 1964; however, many children with CRS were identified in 1965 when a rubella epidemic struck Okinawa, which has many the United States military bases. After the 1965-1969 and 1975-1977 rubella epidemics on the Japanese mainland, small numbers of children with CRS were identified (hospital survey). These findings led to the hypothesis that, compared to U.S. rubella virus strains, Japanese strains of rubella virus are less teratogenic. This hypothesis strongly affected the development of rubella vaccines in Japan. However, retrospective seroepidemiological studies attributed the CRS in many children in Okinawa to the high rate of rubella infection in pregnant women. According to the survey conducted at special schools for the deaf, 83, 232, 77, and 167 children were born with CRS on the Japanese mainland respectively after the 1965-1969, 1975-1977, 1982, and 1987-1988 nationwide rubella epidemics, suggesting that the incidence of CRS in Japan is in fact comparable to that in the U.S. and Europe. Rubella epidemics in children have been effectively prevented since 1994. However, a rubella outbreak among adult males and CRS occurred between 2012 and 2014. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

  9. Secular and race/ethnic trends in glycemic outcomes by BMI in US adults: The role of waist circumference.

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    Albrecht, Sandra S; Mayer-Davis, Elizabeth; Popkin, Barry M

    2017-07-01

    For the same body mass index (BMI) level, waist circumference (WC) is higher in more recent years. How this impacts diabetes and prediabetes prevalence in the United States and for different race/ethnic groups is unknown. We examined prevalence differences in diabetes and prediabetes by BMI over time, investigated whether estimates were attenuated after adjusting for waist circumference, and evaluated implications of these patterns on race/ethnic disparities in glycemic outcomes. Data came from 12 614 participants aged 20 to 74 years from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (1988-1994 and 2007-2012). We estimated prevalence differences in diabetes and prediabetes by BMI over time in multivariable models. Relevant interactions evaluated race/ethnic differences. Among normal, overweight, and class I obese individuals, there were no significant differences in diabetes prevalence over time. However, among individuals with class II/III obesity, diabetes prevalence rose 7.6 percentage points in 2007-2012 vs 1988-1994. This estimate was partly attenuated after adjustment for mean waist circumference but not mean BMI. For prediabetes, prevalence was 10 to 13 percentage points higher over time at lower BMI values, with minimal attenuation after adjustment for WC. All patterns held within race/ethnic groups. Diabetes disparities among blacks and Mexican Americans relative to whites remained in both periods, regardless of BMI, and persisted after adjustment for WC. Diabetes prevalence rose over time among individuals with class II/III obesity and may be partly due to increasing waist circumference. Anthropometric measures did not appear to account for temporal increases in prediabetes, nor did they attenuate race/ethnic disparities in diabetes. Reasons underlying these trends require further investigation. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

  10. Traffic safety facts 1994 : pedestrians

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    1995-01-01

    In 1994, 5,472 pedestrians were killed in traffic crashes in the United States. Figure 1 shows trends in pedestrian and total traffic fatalities, 1984-1994; and Figure 2, pedestrian fatalities by time of day and day of week, 1994. Of the tables, Tabl...

  11. Metabolic syndrome: prevalence among American Indian and Alaska native people living in the southwestern United States and in Alaska.

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    Schumacher, Catherine; Ferucci, Elizabeth D; Lanier, Anne P; Slattery, Martha L; Schraer, Cynthia D; Raymer, Terry W; Dillard, Denise; Murtaugh, Maureen A; Tom-Orme, Lillian

    2008-12-01

    Metabolic syndrome occurs commonly in the United States. The purpose of this study was to measure the prevalence of metabolic syndrome among American Indian and Alaska Native people. We measured the prevalence rates of metabolic syndrome, as defined by the National Cholesterol Education Program, among four groups of American Indian and Alaska Native people aged 20 years and older. One group was from the southwestern United States (Navajo Nation), and three groups resided within Alaska. Prevalence rates were age-adjusted to the U.S. adult 2000 population and compared to rates for U.S. whites (National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey [NHANES] 1988-1994). Among participants from the southwestern United States, metabolic syndrome was found among 43.2% of men and 47.3% of women. Among Alaska Native people, metabolic syndrome was found among 26.5% of men and 31.2% of women. In Alaska, the prevalence rate varied by region, ranging among men from 18.9% (western Alaska) to 35.1% (southeast), and among women from 22.0% (western Alaska) to 38.4 % (southeast). Compared to U.S. whites, American Indian/Alaska Native men and women from all regions except western Alaska were more likely to have metabolic syndrome; men in western Alaska were less likely to have metabolic syndrome than U.S. whites, and the prevalence among women in western Alaska was similar to that of U.S. whites. The prevalence rate of metabolic syndrome varies widely among different American Indian and Alaska Native populations. Differences paralleled differences in the prevalence rates of diabetes.

  12. Geographic distribution of selected elements in the livers of polar bears from Greenland, Canada and the United States.

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    Rush, Scott A; Borgå, Katrine; Dietz, Rune; Born, Erik W; Sonne, Christian; Evans, Thomas; Muir, Derek C G; Letcher, Robert J; Norstrom, Ross J; Fisk, Aaron T

    2008-06-01

    To assess geographic distributions of elements in the Arctic we compared essential and non-essential elements in the livers of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) collected from five regions within Canada in 2002, in Alaska between 1994 and 1999 and from the northwest and east coasts of Greenland between 1988 and 2000. As, Hg, Pb and Se varied with age, and Co and Zn with gender, which limited spatial comparisons across all populations to Cd, which was highest in Greenland bears. Collectively, geographic relationships appeared similar to past studies with little change in concentration over time in Canada and Greenland for most elements; Hg and Se were higher in some Canadian populations in 2002 as compared to 1982 and 1984. Concentrations of most elements in the polar bears did not exceed toxicity thresholds, although Cd and Hg exceeded levels correlated with the formation of hepatic lesions in laboratory animals.

  13. Mask industry quality assessment

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    Strott, Al; Bassist, Larry

    1994-12-01

    Product quality and timely delivery are two of the most important parameters in determining the success of a mask manufacturing facility. Because of the sensitivity of this data, very little was known about industry performance in these areas until an assessment was authored and presented at the 1993 BACUS Symposium by Larry Regis of Intel Corporation, Neil Paulsen of Intel Corporation, and James A. Reynolds of Reynolds Consulting. This data has been updated and will be published and presented at this year's BACUS Symposium. Contributor identities will again remain protected by utilizing Arthur Andersen & Company to compile the submittals. Participation was consistent with last year's representation of over 75% of the total merchant and captive mask volume in the United States. The data compiled includes shipments, customer return rate, customer return reasons from 1988 through Q2, 1994, performance to schedule, plate survival yield, and throughput time (TPT).

  14. De La Salle Christian Brothers' Experiences of Catholic Identity in Higher Education in the United States

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    Kier, Scott A.

    2012-01-01

    Catholic identity is considered to be the single most important issue facing Catholic higher education in the United States. Scholars (Burtchaell, 1998; Gallin, 1999; Gleason, 1995; Heft, 2003; Marsden, 1994; O'Brien, 1994) have suggested that sustaining Catholic identity and preventing secularization depends on the integration of the…

  15. 42 CFR 410.175 - Alien absent from the United States.

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    2014-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 2 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false Alien absent from the United States. 410.175... Alien absent from the United States. (a) Medicare does not pay Part B benefits for services furnished to... during the first full calendar month the alien is back in the United States. [53 FR 6634, Mar. 2, 1988] ...

  16. 42 CFR 410.175 - Alien absent from the United States.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 2 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false Alien absent from the United States. 410.175... Alien absent from the United States. (a) Medicare does not pay Part B benefits for services furnished to... during the first full calendar month the alien is back in the United States. [53 FR 6634, Mar. 2, 1988] ...

  17. 42 CFR 410.175 - Alien absent from the United States.

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    2012-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 2 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false Alien absent from the United States. 410.175... Alien absent from the United States. (a) Medicare does not pay Part B benefits for services furnished to... during the first full calendar month the alien is back in the United States. [53 FR 6634, Mar. 2, 1988] ...

  18. 42 CFR 410.175 - Alien absent from the United States.

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    2011-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 2 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Alien absent from the United States. 410.175... Alien absent from the United States. (a) Medicare does not pay Part B benefits for services furnished to... during the first full calendar month the alien is back in the United States. [53 FR 6634, Mar. 2, 1988] ...

  19. 42 CFR 410.175 - Alien absent from the United States.

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    2010-10-01

    ... 42 Public Health 2 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Alien absent from the United States. 410.175... Alien absent from the United States. (a) Medicare does not pay Part B benefits for services furnished to... during the first full calendar month the alien is back in the United States. [53 FR 6634, Mar. 2, 1988] ...

  20. Traffic safety facts 1994 : state traffic data

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    1995-01-01

    Nationwide in 1994, traffic fatalities were up 1 percent for a total of 40,676 traffic deaths. These tables provide summary data of fatal crashes for the United States and individually for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico (not...

  1. 25 CFR 1000.351 - Does the Tribal Self-Governance Act of 1994 alter the trust responsibility of the United States...

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    2010-04-01

    ... 25 Indians 2 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Does the Tribal Self-Governance Act of 1994 alter the trust responsibility of the United States to Indian Tribes and individuals under self-governance? 1000... INTERIOR ANNUAL FUNDING AGREEMENTS UNDER THE TRIBAL SELF-GOVERNMENT ACT AMENDMENTS TO THE INDIAN SELF...

  2. Shifts in patterns and consumption of beverages between 1965 and 2002.

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    Duffey, Kiyah J; Popkin, Barry M

    2007-11-01

    Beverage patterning may play a role in partially explaining the rising rates of obesity in the United States, yet little work on overall trends and patterns exits. Our objective was to examine trends and patterns of beverage consumption among U.S. adults. We used data from the nationally representative Nationwide Food Consumption Surveys (1965, 1977 to 1978) and the National Health and Nutrition Surveys (1988 to 1994, 1999 to 2002). To examine trends we determined percent consuming and per capita and per consumer caloric intake from all beverages. We used cluster analysis to determine year-specific beverage patterns in 1977 and 2002. The percentage of calories from beverages significantly increased between 1965 (11.8%), 1977 (14.2%), 1988 (18.5%), and 2002 (21.0%); this represents an overall increase of 222 calories per person per day from beverages, resulting largely from increased intake of calorically sweetened beverages. Beverage patterns in 2002 were more complex than in 1977 and were dominated by a greater number of beverages, reflecting the increase in alcohol, soda, and diet beverages. Calories from beverages increased substantially from 1965 to 2002, providing a considerable source of daily calories. Given the upward trends in calorically sweetened, nutrient-deficient beverages and the shifts in overall beverage patterns, addressing beverage intake is a salient issue for adults.

  3. Trends in the Prevalence of Reduced GFR in the United States: A Comparison of Creatinine- and Cystatin C-Based Estimates

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    Grams, Morgan E.; Juraschek, Stephen P.; Selvin, Elizabeth; Foster, Meredith C.; Inker, Lesley A.; Eckfeldt, John H.; Levey, Andrew S.; Coresh, Josef

    2013-01-01

    Background The US prevalence of reduced estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) based on serum creatinine increased over the decade ending in 2002. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) cystatin C measurements were recently calibrated to the international standard, allowing for an independent test of the trend in prevalence of reduced eGFR using cystatin C. Study Design Cross-sectional surveys performed during two periods. Setting & Participants Nationally representative subsamples of adult participants from NHANES III (1988–1994) and the NHANES 1999–2002 surveys. Predictor Survey period. Outcomes Prevalence of reduced GFR, defined as eGFR<60ml/min/1.73m2 based on serum creatinine, cystatin C, or both (eGFRcr, eGFRcys, eGFRcr-cys), using estimating equations developed by the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKDEPI). Measurements Serum cystatin C, measured from stored samples in 2006, calibrated to the international standard in 2012. Results Between 1988–1994 and 1999–2002, the prevalence of reduced eGFRcr, eGFRcys and eGFRcr-cys increased from 4.7% (95% CI, 4.1%–5.3%) to 6.5% (95% CI, 5.9%–7.1%; p<0.001), from 5.5% (95% CI, 4.6%–6.5%) to 8.7% (95% CI, 7.5%–10.0%; p<0.001), and from 4.4% (95% CI, 3.7%–5.2%) to 7.1% (95% CI, 6.2%–8.0%; p<0.001), respectively. The higher prevalence of reduced GFR in the later period was observed in all subgroups of age, race, sex, and GFR categories. After adjusting for changes in the US population by age, sex, race, diabetes, hypertension, and body mass index, the prevalence ratio of reduced GFR in the later versus earlier survey was 1.24 (95% CI, 1.09–1.45), 1.34 (95% CI, 1.15–1.67), and 1.33 (95% CI, 1.17–1.65) using eGFRcr, eGFRcys, and eGFRcr-cys, respectively. Limitations Likely under-ascertainment of persons with GFR<15 ml/min/1.73m2; GFR was estimated and not measured; comparability of laboratory assays based on a calibration subsample. Conclusions The prevalence of reduced eGFRcys in the US civilian, non-institutionalized population increased between 1988–1994 and 1999–2002, confirming the increase observed in the prevalence of reduced eGFRcr. PMID:23619125

  4. Safety Management Information Statistics (SAMIS) - 1994 Annual Report

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    1996-07-01

    The Safety Management Information Statistics 1994 Annual Report is a compilation and analysis of mass transit accident and casualty statistics reported by transit systems in the United States during 1994, reported under the Federal Transit Administra...

  5. What are the Ethical Problems Raised by the Increase of Cognitive Capabilities in the Defence Structure: The French Legal Structure, the Ethical Position of the French Military Health Service

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2009-10-01

    principles for conducting research on humans as animals has been defined in 1988 and confirmed in the bioethical law in 1994 [3]. Some modifications...ethical principles for conducting research on humans as animals has been defined in 1988 and confirmed in the bioethical law in 1994 [3]. Some...partly, to the doctors and it had become necessary to think of the power of man outside of medicine. According to the German Hans Jonas “ bioethics

  6. Book Review: Book review

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    da Costa, Newton C. A.; Krause, Décio

    This book contains a representative selection of Erhard Scheibe's writings on the philosophy of physics. It encompasses eight sections, with 38 papers, distributed as follows: (I) Between Rationalism and Empiricism (five papers from 1969 to 1994); (II) The Philosophy of the Physicists (five papers from 1988 to 1995); (III) Reconstruction (four papers, from 1979 to 1988); (IV) Laws of Nature (five papers, from 1989 to 1998); (V) Reduction (five papers from 1973 to 1995); (VI) Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (six papers from 1985 to 1993); (VII) Spacetime, Invariance, Covariance (four papers from 1982 to 1994), and (VIII) Mathematics and Physics (four papers from 1977 to 1997).

  7. Temporal trends in early clinical outcomes and health care resource utilization for liver transplantation in the United States.

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    Scarborough, John E; Pietrobon, Ricardo; Marroquin, Carlos E; Tuttle-Newhall, Janet E; Kuo, Paul C; Collins, Bradley H; Desai, Dev M; Pappas, Theodore N

    2007-01-01

    Procedures such as liver transplantation, which entail large costs while benefiting only a small percentage of the population, are being increasingly scrutinized by third-party payors. The purpose of our study was to conduct a longitudinal analysis of the early clinical outcomes and health care resource utilization for liver transplantation in the United States. The Nationwide Inpatient Sample database was used to conduct a longitudinal analysis of the clinical outcome and resource utilization data for liver transplantation procedures in adult recipients performed in the United States over three time periods (Period I: 1988-1993; Period II: 1994-1998: Period III: 1999-2003). Compared to Period I, adult liver transplant recipients were more likely to be male, older, and non-White in Period III. Recipients were more likely to have at least one major comorbidity preoperatively than in Period I. The in-hospital mortality rate after liver transplantation decreased significantly from Period I to Period III, but the major intraoperative and postoperative complication rates increased over the same time period. Mean length of hospital stay decreased over the 15-year period, but the percentage of patients with a non-routine discharge status increased. Our findings indicate that the rate of postoperative complications and non-routine discharges after liver transplantation is increasing. However, these negative changes in the cost-outcomes relationship for liver transplantation are balanced by improving postoperative survival rates and reductions in the length of hospital stay.

  8. Leave No City Behind: England/United States Dialogue on Urban Education Reform

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    Hannaway, Jane; Murphy, Marilyn; Reed, Jodie

    2004-01-01

    Both the United States and England initiated ambitious standards-based education reform to eliminate large gaps between their highest and lowest achievers. England appears to be ahead, having started in 1988 with a national curriculum, tests, and performance tables. The United States' No Child Left Behind Act began rewriting state rules in 2002…

  9. Ground deformation at Merapi Volcano, Java, Indonesia: distance changes, June 1988-October 1995

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    Young, K.D.; Voight, B.; ,; ,; ,; Casadevall, T.J.

    2000-01-01

    Edifice deformations are reported here for the period 1988–1995 at Merapi volcano, one of the most active and dangerous volcanoes in Indonesia. The study period includes a major resumption in lava effusion in January 1992 and a major dome collapse in November 1994. The data comprise electronic distance measurements (EDM) on a summit trilateration network, slope distance changes measured to the upper flanks, and other data collected from 1988 to 1995. A major consequence of this study is the documentation of a significant 4-year period of deformation precursory to the 1992 eruption. Cross-crater strain rates accelerated from less than 3×10−6/day between 1988 and 1990 to more than 11×10−6/day just prior to the January 1992 activity, representing a general, asymmetric extension of the summit during high-level conduit pressurization. After the vent opened and effusion of lava resumed, strain occurred at a much-reduced rate of less than 2×10−6/day. EDM measurements between lower flank benchmarks and the upper edifice indicate displacements as great as 1 m per year over the four years before the 1992 eruption. The Gendol breach, a pronounced depression formed by the juxtaposition of old lava coulées on the southeast flank, functioned as a major displacement discontinuity. Since 1993, movements have generally not exceeded the 95% confidence limits of the summit network. Exceptions to this include 12 cm outward movement for the northwest crater rim in 1992–1993, probably from loading by newly erupted dome lava, and movements as much as 7 cm on the south flank between November 1994 and September 1995. No short-term precursors were noted before the November 1994 lava dome collapse, but long-term adjustments of crater geometry accompanied lava dome growth in 1994. Short-term 2-cm deflation of the edifice occurred following the November 1994 dome collapse.

  10. Unintentional drownings among New York State residents, 1988-1994.

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    Browne, Marilyn L.; Lewis-Michl, Elizabeth L.; Stark, Alice D.

    2003-01-01

    OBJECTIVE: This study examines situations in which drownings occur (environmental risk factors) and the victims' personal risk factors (age, gender, use of personal flotation device, medical condition, alcohol or drug use) to provide guidance for future drowning prevention efforts. METHODS: The authors investigated 883 non-bathtub drownings among New York State residents for the years 1988 to 1994 using medical examiner, coroner, police, and/or hospital records in addition to death certificate data. RESULTS: Males, children ages 0-4 years, and African American males ages 5-14 years residing in New York State outside New York City experienced the highest rates of drowning. The majority of drownings occurred in a natural body of water for all age groups, with the exception of children ages 0-4 years. Most drownings among children ages 0-4 years occurred in residential swimming pools. The child usually gained access to the pool via inadequate fencing, an open or ineffective gate, or a ladder (to an above-ground pool) left in the "down" position. Less than 10% of victims of watercraft-related drownings were wearing personal flotation devices. Blood alcohol concentration (BAC) tests were positive for 44% of 250 persons 15 years of age and older for whom valid toxicology results were provided; 30% had BACs of 100 mg/dl or more. CONCLUSIONS: Suggested prevention efforts include stricter enforcement of fencing requirements for residential swimming pools and drowning prevention education stressing personal flotation device use while boating and the danger of mixing alcohol and water-related activities. PMID:12941857

  11. STATE SOIL GEOGRAPHIC (STATSGO) DATA BASE FOR THE COTERNIMOUS UNITED STATES

    EPA Science Inventory

    USSOILS is an Arc 7.0 coverage containing hydrology-relevant information for 10,498 map units covering the entire conterminous United States. The coverage was compiled from individual State coverages contained in the October 1994 State Soil Geographic (STATSGO) Data Base produce...

  12. Superfund record of decision amendment (EPA Region 5): Ninth Avenue Dump, Gary, IN, September 13, 1994

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    Not Available

    The decision document, together with Records of Decision dated June 30, 1989 (PB90-114810) and September 20, 1988 (PB89-153837) and an Explanation of Significant Differences dated October 1991, present the selected remedial action for the Ninth Avenue Dump site. The remedial action for the site consists of two operable units. The first operable unit addressed an oil layer floating on the groundwater by means of oil and groundwater extraction, oil storage, reintroduction of the groundwater, containment with a slurry wall, and management of excess surface water. The extracted groundwater was treated prior to reintroduction. The second operable unit, which is beingmore » amended by this decision document, addresses the remaining threats at the site.« less

  13. FAA Vertical Flight Bibliography, 1962 - 1994

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1994-08-01

    high altitude conditions. A UH-1H aircraft will be used. This project is similar to the work documented in FAA/CT-TN87/40 "Heliport Approach and... work . TITLE: TEST PLAN FOR HELICOPTER VISUAL SEGMENT APPROACH LIGHTING SYSTEM (HALS) REPORT #: FAA/CT-TN88/19 NTIS: N/ A DATE: November 1988 AUTHORS...Hiering, Robert H. Ahlers) (NTIS: N/ A ) RD-64-4 State-of-the-Art Survey for Minimum Approach , Landing and Takeoff Intervals as Dictated by Wakes

  14. Adaptive Nonlinear Tracking Control of Kinematically Redundant Robot Manipulators with Sub-Task Extensions

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2005-01-01

    C. Hughes, Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics, New York, NY: Wiley, 1994. [8] H. K. Khalil, “Adaptive Output Feedback Control of Non- linear Systems...Closed-Loop Manipulator Control Using Quaternion Feedback ”, IEEE Trans. Robotics and Automation, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 434-440, (1988). [23] E...full-state feedback quaternion based controller de- veloped in [5] and focuses on the design of a general sub-task controller. This sub-task controller

  15. Insects Intercepted on Wood Articles at ports-of-Entry in the United States: 1985-1996

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    Robert A. Haack; Joseph F. Cavey

    1997-01-01

    Of the more than 2000 exotic insects now established in the United States (US Congress 1993), more than 400 feed on trees and shrubs (Haack et al. 1997b, Mattsonet et al. 1994, Niemela and Mattson 1996).Several of these exotic insects have greatly altered forest ecosystems in the US (Campbell and Schlarbaum 1994, Ciesla 1993, Liebhold etal. 1995, Wallner 1996)....

  16. Forest Statistics for Kentucky - 1975 and 1988

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    Carol L. Alerich

    1990-01-01

    A statistical report on the fourth forest survey of Kentucky (1988). Findings are displayed in 204 tables containing estimates of forest area, number of trees, timber volume, tree biomass, and timber products output. Data are presented at three levels: state, geographic unit, and county.

  17. Educational Attainment in the United States: March 1989 and 1988.

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    Kominski, Robert

    1991-01-01

    Data from the Bureau of the Census' March 1988 and 1989 Current Population Surveys (CPS) on the educational attainment of Americans are provided in 22 tables and 5 graphs. Summary data on the years of school completed by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin are shown for 1988 and 1989 in Table 1. Other detailed data are shown for 1989 in Tables 2…

  18. Measuring New-Voter Learning via Three Channels of Political Information.

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    Martinelli, Kathleen A.; Chaffee, Steven H.

    1995-01-01

    Reports on a cross-sectional survey of newly naturalized United States citizens before the 1988 United States presidential election. Finds that newspaper, television news, and television ads each made a separate, significant contribution to issue learning. (SR)

  19. Northern Saw-whet Owls (Aegolius acadicus) captured at Cape May Point, NJ, 1980-1994: comparison of two capture techniques

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    Katharine E. Duffy; Patrick E. Matheny

    1997-01-01

    During autumn migration 1980-1994, 1,270 Northern Saw-whet Owls (Aegolius acadicus) (NSWO) were captured and banded at Cape May Point, NJ. From 1980-1988, captures were effected by passive mist-netting. From 1989-1994, an audiolure (NSWO territorial song broadcast loudly from dusk to dawn in the trapping area) was used to enhance capture rate. 638...

  20. MITRE Adaptive Processing Capability

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1994-06-01

    consultant and advisor to several radar acquisition programs. 1988 - 1989: Project Leader of a MOIE investigation of the application of track - before - detect methods...34 Proceedings of ICASSP 1994, April 1994. Kramer, J. D. R., Jr., W. S. Reid, " Track - Before - Detect Processing for a Range-Ambiguous Radar," Proceedings of

  1. 49 CFR Appendix A to Part 593 - List of Vehicles Determined To Be Eligible for Importation

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ...-Spaw EMA Mobile Stage Trailer 2009 42 Alfa Romeo 164 1989 196 Alfa Romeo 164 1991 76 Alfa Romeo 164 1994 156 Alfa Romeo Spider 1987 70 Alfa Romeo Spyder 1992 503 Alpina B12 5.0 Sedan 1988-1994 41 Alpina...

  2. Traffic safety facts 1998 : older population

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    1999-01-01

    There are nearly 25 million people age 70 years and older in the United : States. In 1998, this age group made up 9 percent of the total U.S. : resident population, compared with 8 percent in 1988. From 1988 to : 1998, this older segment of the popul...

  3. Investigating a Case of Hidden Misinterpretations of an Additive Word Problem: Structural Substitution

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    Polotskaia, Elena; Savard, Annie; Freiman, Viktor

    2016-01-01

    According to numerous studies (Barrouillet & Camos 2002; Brousseau 1988; Chevallard 1988; Riley et al. 1984; Schubauer-Leoni & Ntamakiliro, "Revue Des Sciences de L'éducation," 20(1): 87-113, 1994; Vergnaud 1982; Xin, "The Journal of Educational Research," 100(6):347-360, 2007), a combination of many factors, including…

  4. The Gun Violence Prevention Act of 1994: Public Health and Child Safety. Hearing on S. 1882, A Bill To Amend Title 18, United States Code, To Promote the Safe Use of Guns and To Reduce Gun Violence before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary. United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session (March 23, 1994).

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    Congress of the U. S., Washington, DC. Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution.

    The first of several hearings on the Gun Violence Prevention Act of 1994 introduced and discussed the Act as comprehensive legislation to address gun violence through six discrete initiatives: (1) handgun licensing; (2) prohibition of firearms possession by persons convicted of violent misdemeanors; (3) regulation of gun dealers; (4) limitation of…

  5. Indicators of Ecological Change

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    2005-03-03

    1943. Effects of fire on vegetation of the southeastern United States. Bot. Rev. 9: 617-654. Godfrey, R.K. 1988. Trees, shrubs , and woody vines of...Florida longleaf pine savannas. Ecol. Monogr., 65: 441-476. Godfrey, R.K., 1988. Trees, Shrubs , and Woody Vines of Northern Florida and Adjacent...Plant Ecol. 140, 15–26. Godfrey, R., 1988. Trees, Shrubs , and Woody Vines of Northern Florida and Adjacent Georgia and Alabama. University of Georgia

  6. Hunger in America: Hearings on Hunger and Related Nutritional Issues, before the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Investigations of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, United States Senate, and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, United States Senate. One Hundredth Congress, Second Session (Cedar Rapids, Iowa, January 30, 1988; Washington, D.C., March 1 and 28, 1988).

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    Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

    This report presents the testimony of numerous expert witnesses who appeared at three hearings on the following topics: (1) Hunger and Related Nutritional Issues; (2) U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Assistance Programs; and (3) Domestic Hunger and Related Nutritional Issues. The following major issues were discussed: (1) the number of…

  7. Selection for salt tolerance in tidal freshwater swamp species: Advances using baldcypress as a model for restoration: Chapter 14

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    Krauss, Ken W.; Chambers, Jim L.; Creech, David L.

    2007-01-01

    Worldwide, the intrusion of salinity into irrigated and natural landscapes has major economic and cultural impacts and has resulted in large reductions in crop yields (Epstein et al. 1980; Flowers 2003). Losses have prompted wide-scale programs to improve the salt tolerance of many agronomic species or to identify crop species that can tolerate lands affected by low levels of salinity. Few historic research efforts have considered forest tree species in the United States, especially in nonurban areas. Newer programs have focused on identifying salt tolerance in forest tree species but have mainly limited these efforts to compiling lists of salt tolerant species to be used in afforestation projects (Gogate et al. 1984; Shrivastava et al. 1988; Beckmann 1991; Bell 1999). Gogate et al. (1984), for instance, listed 26 potential species from Australia with silvicultural application to salt affected lands in India. More comprehensive efforts have considered species lists along with specific site requirements (Bell 1999); species tolerant to saline irrigation waters on dry land, for example, will not often be tolerant of salinity increases in wetland settings. Similar ideas have spawned field trials of native and nonnative tree species in India, Pakistan, Thailand, Australia, and the United States (Thomson 1988; Beckmann 1991; Krauss et al. 2000; Conner and Ozalp 2002; Marcar and Crawford 2004; Conner and Inabinette 2005). Concerted attempts at salt tolerance improvement of forest tree species have been limited, owing in part to the diversity of regional issues that such programs must consider. Whereas food, fodder, and pulp yield may be the major improvement goal on salt affected lands in India (Mathur and Sharma 1984), identifying trees that can survive deicing salts (Townsend 1989), oil and gas brine discharges (Auchmoody and Walters 1988), or sea-level rise induced salinity changes (Pezeshki et al. 1987, 1990) are of greater interest to larger industrial nations. Nevertheless, salt tolerance research on a range of tree species has converged on one very important finding; among the mechanisms proposed for salt tolerance in nonhalophytes (Greenway and Munns 1980; Munns and Termaat 1986; Cheeseman 1988), ion exclusion from cellular processes, especially exclusion of Cl- , ranks high (Townsend 1989). Identifying the principal mechanism and location of ion exclusion and determining the range of additive genetic variation available among physiological, morphological, and growth attributes for individual species have been the major elements of salt tolerance improvement programs for trees (Allen et al. 1994a).

  8. Private forest-land owners of the United States, 1994

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    Thomas W. Birch; Thomas W. Birch

    1996-01-01

    A statistical analytical report on mail canvass of private forest-land owners in the United States. It discusses landowner characteristics, attitudes, harvesting experience, tenure, and management planning.

  9. Traffic safety facts 1994 : older population

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    1995-01-01

    There are more than 23.2 million people age 70 years and older in the United States. In 1994, this age group made up 8.9 percent of the total U.S. resident population, compared with 7.9 percent in 1984. From 1984 to 1994, this older segment of the po...

  10. Survey of School Library Media Programs in Wisconsin. A Brief Report of Statistics, 1994.

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    Sorensen, Richard J.

    In 1994, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction repeated its 1988 survey of public school library media programs. Included in this report are statistics considered most significant, and those most often requested. The 147-item survey included questions about staffing, services, operation, automation, and facilities related to the library…

  11. Re-Evaluation of Constant versus Varied Punishers Using Empirically Derived Consequences

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    Toole, Lisa M.; DeLeon, Iser G.; Kahng, Sung Woo; Ruffin, Geri E.; Pletcher, Carrie A.; Bowman, Lynn G.

    2004-01-01

    Charlop, Burgio, Iwata, and Ivancic [J. Appl. Behav. Anal. 21 (1988) 89] demonstrated that varied punishment procedures produced greater or more consistent reductions of problem behavior than a constant punishment procedure. More recently, Fisher and colleagues [Res. Dev. Disabil. 15 (1994) 133; J. Appl. Behav. Anal. 27 (1994) 447] developed a…

  12. Sex Stereotypes in the United States Revisited: 1972-1988.

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    Bergen, David J.; Williams, John E.

    1991-01-01

    Reports the results of a 1988 replication of a sex stereotype study done in 1972. There were minor qualitative changes such as the perception of women as more and men as less reality-oriented, but there was no evidence that the two stereotypes had become significantly less differentiated. (CJS)

  13. Prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and risk factors for advanced fibrosis and mortality in the United States.

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    Le, Michael H; Devaki, Pardha; Ha, Nghiem B; Jun, Dae Won; Te, Helen S; Cheung, Ramsey C; Nguyen, Mindie H

    2017-01-01

    In the United States, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common liver disease and associated with higher mortality according to data from earlier National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 1988-1994. Our goal was to determine the NAFLD prevalence in the recent 1999-2012 NHANES, risk factors for advanced fibrosis (stage 3-4) and mortality. NAFLD was defined as having a United States Fatty Liver Index (USFLI) > 30 in the absence of heavy alcohol use and other known liver diseases. The probability of low/high risk of having advanced fibrosis was determined by the NAFLD Fibrosis Score (NFS). In total, 6000 persons were included; of which, 30.0% had NAFLD and 10.3% of these had advanced fibrosis. Five and eight-year overall mortality in NAFLD subjects with advanced fibrosis was significantly higher than subjects without NAFLD ((18% and 35% vs. 2.6% and 5.5%, respectively) but not NAFLD subjects without advanced fibrosis (1.1% and 2.8%, respectively). NAFLD with advanced fibrosis (but not those without) is an independent predictor for mortality on multivariate analysis (HR = 3.13, 95% CI 1.93-5.08, p<0.001). In conclusion, in this most recent NHANES, NAFLD prevalence remains at 30% with 10.3% of these having advanced fibrosis. NAFLD per se was not a risk factor for increased mortality, but NAFLD with advanced fibrosis was. Mexican American ethnicity was a significant risk factor for NAFLD but not for advanced fibrosis or increased mortality.

  14. The joint contribution of neighborhood poverty and social integration to mortality risk in the United States.

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    Marcus, Andrea Fleisch; Echeverria, Sandra E; Holland, Bart K; Abraido-Lanza, Ana F; Passannante, Marian R

    2016-04-01

    A well-established literature has shown that social integration strongly patterns health, including mortality risk. However, the extent to which living in high-poverty neighborhoods and having few social ties jointly pattern survival in the United States has not been examined. We analyzed data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1988-1994) linked to mortality follow-up through 2006 and census-based neighborhood poverty. We fit Cox proportional hazards models to estimate associations between social integration and neighborhood poverty on all-cause mortality as independent predictors and in joint-effects models using the relative excess risk due to interaction to test for interaction on an additive scale. In the joint-effects model adjusting for age, gender, race/ ethnicity, and individual-level socioeconomic status, exposure to low social integration alone was associated with increased mortality risk (hazard ratio [HR]: 1.42, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.28-1.59) while living in an area of high poverty alone did not have a significant effect (HR: 1.10; 95% CI: 0.95-1.28) when compared with being jointly unexposed. Individuals simultaneously living in neighborhoods characterized by high poverty and having low levels of social integration had an increased risk of mortality (HR: 1.63; 95% CI: 1.35-1.96). However, relative excess risk due to interaction results were not statistically significant. Social integration remains an important determinant of mortality risk in the United States independent of neighborhood poverty. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  15. Defense and Arms Control Studies Program, Annual Report, 1988-1989

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1989-09-01

    meetings of the U.S. and British History of Science Societies, Manchester, England, July 1988. Sapolsky, Harvey, "The Future of Technology Policy Studies... of Science Societies, Manchester, England "Politics of Weapon Acquisition Corruption," Political Science Seminar, Washington University, St. Louis...December 1988 March 1989 April 1989 "Military Support for Academic Research in the United States," paper at the joint meetings of U.S. and British History

  16. Private forest-land owners of the Southern United States, 1994

    Treesearch

    Thomas W. Birch; Thomas W. Birch

    1997-01-01

    A statistical analytical report on mail canvass of private forest-land owners in the Southern United States. Landowner characteristics, attitudes, harvesting experience, tenure, and management planning are discussed.

  17. Private forest-land owners of the Northern United States, 1994

    Treesearch

    Thomas W. Birch; Thomas W. Birch

    1996-01-01

    A statistical analytical report on mail canvass of private forest-land owners in the Northern United States. Landowner characteristics attitudes harvesting experience tenure and management planning are discussed.

  18. Private forest-land owners of the Western United States, 1994

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    Thomas W. Birch; Thomas W. Birch

    1997-01-01

    A statistical analytical report on mail canvass of private forest-land owners in the Western United States. Landowner characteristics attitudes harvesting experience tenure and management planning are discussed.

  19. Electric power monthly, June 1988

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    Not Available

    1988-09-15

    Total net generation by electric utilities in the United States for the month of June 1988 was 232,183 gigawatthours, 3 percent higher than the amount reported a year ago. Although temperatures (measured by cooling degree days) for June 1988 were 9 percent warmer than normal, they were 3 percent cooler than for June 1987. A large portion of that higher demand for electricity was met by nuclear-powered generation. Net generation from nuclear power during June 1988 (44,079 gigawatthours) was only 1 percent below the record set in January of this year, and 21 percent above that reported in June 1987more » (36,560 gigawatthours). The only energy source other than nuclear that reported higher levels of net generation during June 1988 was coal, up 2 percent over the same period last year. Warmer-than-normal temperatures did, however, have an affect on various parts of the country. For example, on Wednesday, June 22, 1988, unseasonably high temperatures forced the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland Interconnection (PJM) into a system-wide 5-percent voltage reduction for 2 hours. Contributing to that reduction in voltage was the shutdown of the Three Mile Island, Unit 1, for refueling and the closing of the Peach Bottom Units 2 and 3 by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Three Mile Island, Unit 1, normally provides the PJM system with about 800 megawatts while the two Peach Bottom units, combined, provide approximately 2100 megawatts. 10 refs., 1 fig., 27 tabs.« less

  20. Chapter 8. Current management situation: Boreal owls

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    Jon Verner

    1994-01-01

    The range of boreal owls (Aegolius funereus) in the United States includes Alaska, the mountains of the western United States, and the northern tier states from the Atlantic to Pacific (see Chapter 9). Based on the species' documented distribution (see National Geographic Society 1987, Hayward et al. 1987, Johnsgard 1988, and others) the owl may...

  1. Influence of cigarette smoking on the overall perception of dental health among adults aged 20-79 years, United States, 1988-1994.

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    Morin, Nathalie M.; Dye, Bruce A.; Hooper, Tomoko I.

    2005-01-01

    OBJECTIVE: Investigation into the relationship between lifestyle factors (particularly cigarette smoking) and perceived oral health has been limited. Data from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES II), 1988-1994, were used to explore this relationship in a large sample of U.S. adults. METHODS: This study used data on 13,357 dentate participants in NHANES III aged 20-79 years. In NHANES III, information on perceived dental health, sociodemographic attributes, smoking status, frequency of dental visits, dental insurance, and general health perception were collected during a home interview, and oral health status was assessed at a mobile examination center. RESULTS: Overall, 34.4% of individuals in the study sample reported having an unfavorable perception of their dental health by qualifying it as "fair" or "poor." Furthermore, 46.6% of smokers had an unfavorable dental health perception, compared to 28.3% of non-smokers. An interaction between smoking and race/ethnicity was found in logistic regression modeling. Stratified results show that cigarette smoking was not a significant predictor for an unfavorable dental health perception among individuals who self-identified as Mexican American, but smoking was a significant predictor for an unfavorable dental health perception among those who identified as non-Hispanic black or non-Hispanic white. CONCLUSIONS: This is the first study to describe the effects of smoking on dental health perception while controlling for examined oral health status. Because perceived dental health is a potential indicator for dental care utilization, a better knowledge of the factors that influence dental health perception is not only important for dental services planning, but also for understanding oral health-related quality of life issues. Additionally, given that smoking may negatively affect dental health perception, these findings have potential implications for smoking cessation activities conducted by dental care providers. PMID:15842113

  2. Changes in the treatment and outcomes of acute myocardial infarction in Quebec, 1988-1995

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    Pilote, L; Lavoie, F; Ho, V; Eisenberg, M J

    2000-01-01

    BACKGROUND: Few studies have reported population-based information on the treatment trends and outcomes of patients who have had an acute myocardial infarction (AMI). We therefore examined patterns of care and outcomes for AMI patients in Quebec, Canada, between 1988 and 1995. METHODS: Longitudinal data files of hospital admissions in Quebec (Med-Echo database) and inpatient and outpatient services (Régie de l'Assurance Maladie du Québec database) were used to construct cohorts of all AMI patients in the province between 1988 and 1995. Temporal trends in the use of cardiac procedures after an AMI, discharge prescriptions and mortality rates were examined. RESULTS: Between 1988 and 1995 the age- and sex-adjusted rates of AMI in the Quebec population declined (148 per 100,000 in 1988 to 137 per 100,000 in 1995). The use of intensive cardiac procedures increased in the same period; the 1-year cumulative incidence rate of catheterization increased from 28% in 1988 to 31% in 1994, that of angioplasty rose from 8% to 15% and that of coronary artery bypass surgery from 6% to 8%. Prescriptions for ASA, beta-blockers, lipid-lowering agents and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors increased, and prescriptions for nitrates and calcium antagonists decreased. These temporal changes were paralleled by a decrease in mortality rates post-AMI. All-cause 1-year cumulative incidence mortality rates decreased from 23% in 1988 to 19% in 1994. INTERPRETATION: The decrease in AMI-related mortality in Quebec between 1988 and 1995 may be linked to changes in treatment strategies (i.e., increased use of cardiac surgical procedures and medications shown to increase survival). PMID:10920727

  3. Motor Vehicle Traffic Crashes as a Leading Cause of Death in the U. S., 1994

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    1998-03-01

    Motor vehicle traffic crashes ranked 9th behind heart disease, cancer, and : stroke as a leading cause of death in the United States in 1994, accounting for : 41,507 lives or 1.8% of all deaths in 1994. Data on the leading causes of death : from the ...

  4. The Indigenous World, 1994-95 = El Mundo Indigena, 1994-95.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Jensen, Marianne, Comp.; Sjorslev, Inger, Comp.

    1995-01-01

    This annual publication examines political, legal, social, and educational issues concerning indigenous peoples in various countries around the world during 1994-95. Part I highlights news events and ongoing situations in specific countries. In the United States and Canada, these include: (1) the arrest of three Canadian Inuit hunters for the…

  5. Self-Advocacy Groups: 1994-95 Directory for North America.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Hayden, Mary F.; Senese, Dick

    This 1994-95 directory of disability self-advocacy groups contains listings of over 700 organizations in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. The associations are organized by country and state or province. Listings typically contain the following information: the name of a contact (the name of the member who is the chair, president, or…

  6. Forest statistics for South Florida, 1995

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    Michael T. Thompson

    1996-01-01

    This report highlights the principal findings of the seventh forest survey of South Florida. Field work began in September 1994 and was completed in November 1994. Six previous surveys, completed in 1936, 1949, 1959, 1970, 1980, and 1988 provide statistics for measuring changes and trends over the past 59 years. This report primarily emphasizes the changes and trends...

  7. Higher Education Policies in Mexico in the 1990s: A Critical Balance

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    Rodriguez-Gomez, Roberto; Casanova-Cardiel, Hugo

    2005-01-01

    This article analyses recent policies in higher education in Mexico. The last two decades provide the starting point, and the interpretation centres around higher education policies drawn up by successive presidential administrations of Salinas de Gortari (1988-1994) and Zedillo Ponce de Leon (1994-2000). The second part sets out an initial…

  8. United States National Commission on Libraries and Information Science. Annual Report, 1988-1989.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, Washington, DC.

    Activities of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Services (NCLIS) during fiscal year 1988-1989 are reported under three broad headings--Literacy, Democracy, and Productivity. The report under Literacy features two major projects: working with the American Association of School Librarians to initiate and convene a Symposium on…

  9. DataView: National Health Expenditures, 1994

    PubMed Central

    Levit, Katharine R.; Lazenby, Helen C.; Sivarajan, Lekha; Stewart, Madie W.; Braden, Bradley R.; Cowan, Cathy A.; Donham, Carolyn S.; Long, Anna M.; McDonnell, Patricia A.; Sensenig, Arthur L.; Stiller, Jean M.; Won, Darleen K.

    1996-01-01

    This article presents data on health care spending for the United States, covering expenditures for various types of medical services and products and their sources of funding from 1960 to 1994. Although these statistics for 1994 show the slowest growth in more than three decades, health spending continued to grow faster than the overall economy. The Federal Government continued to fund an increasing share of health care expenditures in 1994, offset by a falling share from out-of-pocket sources. Shares paid by State and local governments and by other private payers including private health insurance remained unchanged from 1993. PMID:10158731

  10. Phocine Distemper Virus in Seals, East Coast, United States, 2006

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    Earle, J.A. Philip; Melia, Mary M.; Doherty, Nadine V.; Nielsen, Ole

    2011-01-01

    In 2006 and 2007, elevated numbers of deaths among seals, constituting an unusual mortality event, occurred off the coasts of Maine and Massachusetts, United States. We isolated a virus from seal tissue and confirmed it as phocine distemper virus (PDV). We compared the viral hemagglutinin, phosphoprotein, and fusion (F) and matrix (M) protein gene sequences with those of viruses from the 1988 and 2002 PDV epizootics. The virus showed highest similarity with a PDV 1988 Netherlands virus, which raises the possibility that the 2006 isolate from the United States might have emerged independently from 2002 PDVs and that multiple lineages of PDV might be circulating among enzootically infected North American seals. Evidence from comparison of sequences derived from different tissues suggested that mutations in the F and M genes occur in brain tissue that are not present in lung, liver, or blood, which suggests virus persistence in the central nervous system. PMID:21291591

  11. Depression in grandparents raising grandchildren: results of a national longitudinal study.

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    Minkler, M; Fuller-Thomson, E; Miller, D; Driver, D

    1997-01-01

    To assess the effect of undertaking custodial care of a grandchild on grandparents' depression levels and to determine what characteristics are associated with higher depression levels among caregiving grandparents. A longitudinal national probability panel study: the National Survey of Families and Households. The first wave of data (n= 13 008) was collected in 1987 and 1988, and the second wave of data (n=10008) was collected from 1992 through 1994. The survey was conducted in respondents' households in the coterminous United States. The subsample for this study was composed of 3111 respondents who reported being grandparents during the 1992-1994 interviews and for whom complete depression information was available. Of these grandparents, 158 were the primary caregivers for their grandchildren in the 1990s. Depression was measured using a modified version of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale. Those who provide primary care for a grandchild are almost twice as likely to have levels of depressive symptoms above the traditional Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale cut point of 16 (25.1% vs 14.5%). Even when controlling for baseline depression and demographic variables known to affect depressive symptoms, undertaking the care of a grandchild was associated significantly with higher depression levels in a multivariate prospective analysis (P<.01). Among caregiving grandparents, those who recently assumed caregiving responsibilities (P<.05) and women (P<.10) were more depressed and older respondents (P<.10) and those in good health (P<.001) were less depressed. Undertaking the primary care of a grandchild is associated with an increase in levels of depression. Particularly in light of the recent dramatic increase in the prevalence of grandparent caregiving in the United States, physicians need to explore familial role changes with midlife and older patients who have symptoms of depression. Special attention should be paid to the most at-risk subsets of grandparent caregivers: those who are new caregivers, those in poor health, those who are younger, and women.

  12. Fishes of Southwestern Grasslands: Ecology, Conservation, and Management

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    Bob Calamusso

    2005-01-01

    The world possesses an amazing number and variety of freshwater fishes. Fish, the most diverse taxon on Earth, exhibit more species than all vertebrate taxa combined (Hocutt and Wiley 1986, May 1988, Nelson 1994, Matthews 1998) (table 5-1). Worldwide, an estimated 28,500 fish species are in 57 orders and 482 families (Nelson 1994). The North American freshwater fish...

  13. HIV Antibody Testing among Adults in the United States: Data from 1988 NHIS.

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    Hardy, Ann M.; Dawson, Deborah A.

    1990-01-01

    Analyzes statistical data from 1988 National Health Interview Survey to determine adult awareness of and experience with HIV antibody testing. Following findings reported: most knew of test; 17 percent had been tested; Blacks and Hispanics were more likely than Whites to have been voluntarily tested; and high-risk group members were more likely…

  14. Base-Year to Fourth Follow-up Data File User's Manual. National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988. NCES 2002-323

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    Curtin, Thomas R.; Ingels, Steven; Wu, Shiying; Heuer, Ruth

    2002-01-01

    A nationally representative sample of eighth-graders were first surveyed in the spring of 1988. A sample of these respondents were then resurveyed through four follow-ups in 1990, 1992, 1994, and 2000. On the questionnaire, students reported on a range of topics including: school, work, and home experiences; educational resources and support; the…

  15. Urine sodium excretion increased slightly among U.S. adults between 1988 and 2010.

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    Pfeiffer, Christine M; Hughes, Jeffery P; Cogswell, Mary E; Burt, Vicki L; Lacher, David A; Lavoie, Donna J; Rabinowitz, Daniel J; Johnson, Clifford L; Pirkle, James L

    2014-05-01

    Little information is available on temporal trends in sodium intake in the U.S. population using urine sodium excretion as a biomarker. Our aim was to assess 1988-2010 trends in estimated 24-h urine sodium (24hUNa) excretion among U.S. adults (age 20-59 y) participating in the cross-sectional NHANES. We used subsamples from a 1988-1994 convenience sample, a 2003-2006 one-third random sample, and a 2010 one-third random sample to comply with resource constraints. We estimated 24hUNa excretion from measured sodium concentrations in spot urine samples by use of calibration equations (for men and women) derived from the International Cooperative Study on Salt, Other Factors, and Blood Pressure study. Estimated 24hUNa excretion increased over the 20-y period [1988-1994, 2003-2006, and 2010; means ± SEMs (n): 3160 ± 38.4 mg/d (1249), 3290 ± 29.4 mg/d (1235), and 3290 ± 44.4 mg/d (525), respectively; P-trend = 0.022]. We observed significantly higher mean estimated 24hUNa excretion in each survey period (P < 0.001) for men compared with women (31-33%) and for persons with a higher body mass index (BMI; 32-35% for obese vs. normal weight) or blood pressure (17-26% for hypertensive vs. normal blood pressure). After adjusting for age, sex, and race-ethnicity, temporal trends in mean estimated 24hUNa excretion remained significant (P-trend = 0.004). We observed no temporal trends in mean estimated 24hUNa excretion among BMI subgroups, nor after adjusting for BMI. Although several limitations apply to this analysis (the use of a convenience sample in 1988-1994 and using estimated 24hUNa excretion as a biomarker of sodium intake), these first NHANES data suggest that mean estimated 24hUNa excretion increased slightly in U.S. adults over the past 2 decades, and this increase may be explained by a shift in the distribution of BMI.

  16. Cooperative Security in the Pacific Basin. The 1988 Pacific Symposium,

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    1990-01-01

    show the same pattern which Taiwan established and Singapore is following closely. Among the four Asian NICs Hong Kong led the pattern early, followed...government, have become a driving force for the tri- angular trade pattern among the United States, Japan, and the East Asian countries. JAPANESE DIRECT...Division of roles between the United States and Japan in East Asia has unintentionally effected a triangular trade pattern among the United States, Japan

  17. United States Transuranium and Uranium Registries. Annual report October 1, 1994 - September 30, 1995

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    Kathren, R.L.; Harwick, L.A.; Markel, M.J.

    1996-07-01

    The United States Transuranium and Uranium Registries (USTUR) comprise a human tissue research program studying the deposition, biokinetics and dosimetry of the actinide elements in humans with the primary goals of providing data fundamental to the verification, refinement, or future development of radiation protection standards for these and other radionuclides, and of determining possible bioeffects on both a macro and subcellular level attributable to exposure to the actinides. This report covers USTUR activities during the year from October 1994 through September 1995.

  18. REGIONAL LAKE TROPHIC PATTERNS IN THE NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES: THREE APPROACHES

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    During the summers of 1991-1994, the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Progam (EMAP) conducted variable probability sampling on 344 lakes throughout the northeastern United States. Trophic state data were analyzed for the Northeast as a whole and for each of its three major...

  19. Early Childhood Education, The Year in Review: A Look at 1988.

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    Hymes, James L., Jr.

    This is a report on the happenings in early childhood education in the United States in 1988. Contents focus on: (1) the week, the year, and the decade of the young child; (2) the proposed Act for Better Child Care Services; (3) other child care developments; (4) other early childhood programs; (5) growth of pre-kindergarten programs; (6) the need…

  20. 40 CFR Appendix Vii to Part 268 - LDR Effective Dates of Surface Disposed Prohibited Hazardous Wastes

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    2012-07-01

    ... Dates of Surface Disposed Wastes (Non-Soil and Debris) Regulated in the LDRS a—Comprehensive List Waste... radioactive wastes June 30, 1994. F039 Wastewater Aug. 8, 1990. F039 Nonwastewater May 8, 1992. K001 (organics.... K085 All Aug. 8, 1990. K086 (organics) b All Aug. 8, 1988. K086 All others Aug. 8, 1988. K087 All Aug...

  1. 40 CFR Appendix Vii to Part 268 - LDR Effective Dates of Surface Disposed Prohibited Hazardous Wastes

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    2010-07-01

    ... Dates of Surface Disposed Wastes (Non-Soil and Debris) Regulated in the LDRS a—Comprehensive List Waste... radioactive wastes June 30, 1994. F039 Wastewater Aug. 8, 1990. F039 Nonwastewater May 8, 1992. K001 (organics.... K085 All Aug. 8, 1990. K086 (organics) b All Aug. 8, 1988. K086 All others Aug. 8, 1988. K087 All Aug...

  2. 40 CFR Appendix Vii to Part 268 - LDR Effective Dates of Surface Disposed Prohibited Hazardous Wastes

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    2014-07-01

    ... Dates of Surface Disposed Wastes (Non-Soil and Debris) Regulated in the LDRS a—Comprehensive List Waste... radioactive wastes June 30, 1994. F039 Wastewater Aug. 8, 1990. F039 Nonwastewater May 8, 1992. K001 (organics.... K085 All Aug. 8, 1990. K086 (organics) b All Aug. 8, 1988. K086 All others Aug. 8, 1988. K087 All Aug...

  3. 40 CFR Appendix Vii to Part 268 - LDR Effective Dates of Surface Disposed Prohibited Hazardous Wastes

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    2011-07-01

    ... Dates of Surface Disposed Wastes (Non-Soil and Debris) Regulated in the LDRS a—Comprehensive List Waste... radioactive wastes June 30, 1994. F039 Wastewater Aug. 8, 1990. F039 Nonwastewater May 8, 1992. K001 (organics.... K085 All Aug. 8, 1990. K086 (organics) b All Aug. 8, 1988. K086 All others Aug. 8, 1988. K087 All Aug...

  4. 40 CFR Appendix Vii to Part 268 - LDR Effective Dates of Surface Disposed Prohibited Hazardous Wastes

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    2013-07-01

    ... Dates of Surface Disposed Wastes (Non-Soil and Debris) Regulated in the LDRS a—Comprehensive List Waste... radioactive wastes June 30, 1994. F039 Wastewater Aug. 8, 1990. F039 Nonwastewater May 8, 1992. K001 (organics.... K085 All Aug. 8, 1990. K086 (organics) b All Aug. 8, 1988. K086 All others Aug. 8, 1988. K087 All Aug...

  5. A People in Two Communities: Puerto Ricans on the Island and in the United States. An Exploration of the Emergence of the Puerto Rican People into Two Communities.

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    National Puerto Rican Coalition, Washington, DC.

    This booklet describes the issues and findings of a series of symposia on Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico and in the United States. From 1988 to 1992, six symposia were held, three in the United States and three in Puerto Rico, on topics such as migration, culture and language, community characteristics, strengthening relations between the two…

  6. Research on Anoplophora glabripennis in the United States

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    Robert A. Haack

    2003-01-01

    In the mid-1990s it was estimated that more than 400 exotic (non-native) forest insects had already become established in the United States (HAACK and BYLER, 1993; MATTSON et al., 1994; NIEMELA and MATTSON, 1996). This number has continued to grow with new exotics discovered annually in the United States (HAACK, 2002; HAACK and POLAND, 2001; HAACK et al., 2002). One...

  7. 76 FR 12984 - Privacy Act of 1974; Notice of a Computer Matching Program Between HUD and the United States...

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    2011-03-09

    ... of a Computer Matching Program Between HUD and the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) AGENCY: Office of the Chief Information Officer, HUD. ACTION: Notice of a computer matching program... the Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988 (Pub. L. 100-503), and the Office of...

  8. Outpatient care programs of mental health organizations, United States, 1988.

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    Redick, R W; Witkin, M J; Atay, J E; Manderscheid, R W

    1991-09-01

    In 1988, 2,989 (60 percent) of the 4,961 mental health organizations in the United States (including the territories) offered outpatient care programs. A total of 5.8 million patient care episodes were generated by these organized outpatient programs. These episodes included 3.1 million outpatient additions, produced 54 million outpatient visits, and represented 67 percent of all patient care episodes in mental health organizations in 1988. Although the number of mental health organizations with outpatient care programs increased by less than one percent between 1986 and 1988, the number of outpatient additions showed an 11 percent gain during this period. Multiservice mental health organizations were the primary locus of outpatient care in 1988, accounting for 41 percent of the 2,989 mental health organizations providing this care. Ranking next in this respect, were free-standing psychiatric outpatient clinics, and the separate psychiatric outpatient services in non-Federal general hospitals, with 25 and 16 percent, respectively, of the total outpatient care programs. In general, these three organization types had similar rankings with respect to the volume of the outpatient caseload. By definition, all of the freestanding psychiatric outpatient clinics provided outpatient care, and almost all of the VA mental health programs and multiservice mental health organizations also offered this care (99 and 92 percent, respectively). In contrast, psychiatric outpatient care was available in only 37 percent of non-Federal general hospitals with separate psychiatric services, 36 percent of private psychiatric hospitals, 29 percent of State mental hospitals, and 22 percent of RTCs for emotionally disturbed children. Outpatient care was available in mental health organizations in all States in 1988, with every State having at least two or more organization types providing this service. In general, the most populous States had the largest number and the greatest variety of mental health organizations with outpatient care programs. Of the 2.87 million clients receiving outpatient care in mental health organizations at the end of 1988, 23 percent were under 18 years of age, 68 percent were 18 to 64, and 9 percent were 65 and older. Male outpatient clients slightly outnumbered female clients. The majority (77 percent) of the outpatient clients were white, with blacks representing 21 percent; native Americans and Asians/Pacific Islanders, the remaining two percent. Eleven percent of the total client population were reported to be of Hispanic origin.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

  9. Traffic safety facts 1994 : large trucks

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    1995-01-01

    In 1994, 4,615 large trucks (gross vehicle weight rating greater than 10,000 pounds) were involved in fatal traffic crashes in the United States. A total of 5,112 people died in those crashes-13 percent of the 40,676 traffic fatalities reported in 19...

  10. The Study of Educational Politics. 1994 Commemorative Yearbook of the Politics of Education Association (1969-1994). Education Policy Perspectives Series.

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    Scribner, Jay D., Ed.; Layton, Donald H., Ed.

    This book surveys major trends in the politics of education over the last 25 years. Chapters synthesize political and policy developments at local, national, and state levels in the United States, as well as in the international arena. The chapters examine the emerging micropolitics of education and policy-analysis, cultural, and feminist studies.…

  11. Acetochlor in the hydrologic system in the midwestern United States, 1994

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    Kolpin, D.W.; Nations, B.K.; Goolsby, D.A.; Thurman, E.M.

    1996-01-01

    The herbicide acetochlor [2-chloro-N-(ethoxymethyl)-N-(2-ethyl-6-methylphenyl)acetamide] was given conditional registration in the United States by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in March 1994. This registration provided a rare opportunity to investigate the occurrence of a pesticide during its first season of extensive use in the midwestern United States. Water samples collected and analyzed by the U.S. Geological Survey during 1994 documented the distribution of acetochlor in the hydrologic system; it was detected in 29% of the rain samples from four sites in Iowa, 17% of the stream samples from 51 sites across nine states, and 0% of the groundwater samples from 38 wells across eight states. Acetochlor exhibited concentration increases in rain and streams following its application to corn in the midwestern United States, with 75% of the rainwater and 35% of the stream samples having acetochlor detected during this time period. Acetochlor concentrations in rain decreased as the growing season progressed. Based on the limited data collected for this study, it is anticipated that acetochlor concentrations will have a seasonal pattern in rain and streams similar to those of other acetanilide herbicides examined. Possible explanations for the absence of acetochlor in groundwater for this study include the rapid degradation of acetochlor in the soil zone, insufficient time for this first extensive use of acetochlor to have reached the aquifers sampled, and the possible lack of acetochlor use in the recharge areas for the wells examined.

  12. Tracking of overweight from early childhood to adolescence in cohorts born 1988 and 1994: overweight in a high birth weight population.

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    Johannsson, E; Arngrimsson, S A; Thorsdottir, I; Sveinsson, T

    2006-08-01

    To investigate the prevalence and tracking of overweight and obesity in childhood cohorts born 1988 and 1994 in a population of high birth weight. Icelandic cohorts born in 1988 and 1994. Out of 1328, 9- and 15-year-old children from 18 randomly selected schools all over Iceland, 934 participated (71%). Height and mass were measured by the investigators. Also, height and mass at birth, and at age 2.5, 6, 9, and 12 years, were collected from maternity wards and school health registers. The prevalence of overweight children ranged from 10.1% for 2.5-year-olds to 18.7% for 9-year-olds. No difference was observed between the two cohorts or sex. The prevalence of obesity in the 1994 cohort (4.3%) was significantly higher (P = 0.01) at age 6 years, compared to the 1988 cohort (1.1%). The children who were overweight at age 2.5 years were more likely to be overweight at age 6 (OR=12.2) and 9 years (OR=4.9), but not significantly at age 12 or 15 years, compared with normal weight 2.5-year-olds. Overweight children at age 6 or 9 years were much more likely (OR 10.4 and OR 18.6, respectively) to be overweight at age 15 years compared to their normal weight peers. Of overweight 6-year-olds, 51% were overweight at 15 years, and were about one-third of all overweight children at that age. The children that weighed above the 85th percentile at birth were more likely than the other children to be overweight at the age of 6 years (OR = 1.8), 9 years (OR = 2.1), and 15 (OR = 2.0) years. The results show high prevalence of overweight and obesity even before the start of compulsory schooling. Approximately, 51% of overweight 6-year-olds were still overweight after puberty. Therefore, preschool overweight prevention, along with prevention at school age, seems to be of uttermost importance.

  13. Are Differences in Disability-Free Life Expectancy by Gender, Race, and Education Widening at Older Ages?

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    Solé-Auró, Aïda; Beltrán-Sánchez, Hiram; Crimmins, Eileen M.

    2018-01-01

    To examine change from 1991 to 2001 in disability-free life expectancy in the age range 60–90 by gender, race, and education in the United States. Mortality is estimated over two 10-year follow-up periods for persons in the National Health Interview Surveys of 1986/1987 and 1996/1997. Vital status is ascertained through the National Death Index. Disability prevalence is estimated from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys of 1988–1994 and 1999–2002. Disability is defined as ability to perform four activities of daily living without difficulty. Disability-free life expectancy increased only among white men. Disabled life expectancy increased for all groups—black and white men and women. Racial differences in disability-free life expectancy widened among men; gender differences were reduced among whites. Expansion of socioeconomic differentials in disability-free life at older ages occurred among white men and women and black women. The 1990s was a period where the increased years of life between ages 60 and 90 were concentrated in disabled years for most population groups. PMID:29681672

  14. What is the Role of Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists in the Indian Health Service

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    1996-09-04

    Aune for their advice, guidance, and patience. Gratitude is also expressed to Or . Maura McAuliffe for sharing her expertise and recommendations...1991); Kelly , (1991 ) ; Lester and Thomson (1989b) i Mannino, (1994); Stoll, (1988); and Thatcher, (1953). In considering the evolution of the...1975; Gunn, 1977; Gunn, 1991; Kelly , 1991; Stoll, 1988; and Thatcher, 1953 ). Bankert (1993) emphasizes the need to document in pointing to "early

  15. Japan: Domestic Change and Foreign Policy.

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    1995-01-01

    investing abroad may be more likely to export back to the United States (Graham and Anzai, 1994; Urata , 1993). Nevertheless, to pay for the imports...Toyo Keizai Shinposha, 1994. Urata , Shujiro, "Changing Patterns of Direct Investment and the Implications for Trade and Development," in C. Fred

  16. NASA Historical Data Book. Volume 5; NASA Launch Systems, Space Transportation, Human Spaceflight and Space Science, 1979-1988

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    Rumerman, Judy A. (Compiler)

    1999-01-01

    In 1973, NASA published the first volume of the NASA Historical Data Book, a hefty tome containing mostly tabular data on the resources of the space agency between 1958 and 1968. There, broken into detailed tables, were the facts and figures associated with the budget, facilities, procurement, installations, and personnel of NASA during that formative decade. In 1988, NASA reissued that first volume of the data book and added two additional volumes on the agency's programs and projects, one each for 1958-1968 and 1969-1978. NASA published a fourth volume in 1994 that addressed NASA resources for the period between 1969 and 1978. This fifth volume of the NASA Historical Data Book is a continuation of those earlier efforts. This fundamental reference tool presents information, much of it statistical, documenting the development of four critical areas of NASA responsibility for the period between 1979 and 1988. This volume includes detailed information on the development and operation of launch systems, space transportation, human spaceflight, and space science during this era. As such, it contains in-depth statistical information about the early Space Shuttle program through the return to flight in 1988, the early efforts to build a space station, the development of new launch systems, and the launching of seventeen space science missions. A companion volume will appear late in 1999, documenting the space applications, support operations, aeronautics, and resources aspects of NASA during the period between 1979 and 1988. NASA began its operations as the nation's civilian space agency in 1958 following the passage of the National Aeronautics and Space Act. It succeeded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). The new organization was charged with preserving the role of the United States "as a leader in aeronautical and space science and technology" and in its application, with expanding our knowledge of the Earth's atmosphere and space, and with exploring flight both within and outside the atmosphere. By the 1980s, NASA had established itself as an agency with considerable achievements on record. The decade was marked by the inauguration of the Space Shuttle flights and haunted by the 1986 Challenger accident that temporarily halted the program. The agency also enjoyed the strong support of President Ronald Reagan, who enthusiastically announced the start of both the Space Station program and the National Aerospace Plane program.

  17. Worksite Wellness Media Report Research Update 1988. Worksite Wellness Series.

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    Behrens, Ruth; Weiss, Joanne

    This report is the 15th in a series of updates on worksite health promotion activities in the United States. The first section summarizes the results of three recent surveys: a study of the extent of worksite wellness activities in the United States (funded by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion); a 1986 Harris poll of Americans…

  18. The Growth in Mergers and Acquisitions in the United States Publishing Industry: 1984-1988.

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    Greco, Albert N.

    This paper argues that because of a recent, sizable increase in the number of mergers and acquisitions, especially by foreign corporations in the United States, it is possible that a small number of firms could dominate the publishing and information processing industry in the world. The paper outlines briefly the patterns of mergers and…

  19. Increasing Time to Baccalaureate Degree in the United States. NBER Working Paper No. 15892

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    Bound, John; Lovenheim, Michael F.; Turner, Sarah

    2010-01-01

    Time to completion of the baccalaureate degree has increased markedly in the United States over the last three decades, even as the wage premium for college graduates has continued to rise. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of the High School Class of 1972 and the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988, we show that the…

  20. General aviation accidents : the United States Air Force Aero Club solution

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    1998-08-01

    Aviation if an intrisically safe mode of travel. In 1994, the United States Air Force system of Aero Clubs put forth substantial effort to put a program in place (Fly Smart) to improve flying safety in it aircraft. This study compares the accident ra...

  1. Performance of Stone Matrix Asphalt (SMA) Mixtures in the United States

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    1997-01-01

    Stone Matrix Asphalt (SMA) mixtures have been used in the United States since 1991. The traffic rate has been high on many of these pavements resulting in a significant amount of traffic during a short period of time. In 1994 the Federal Highway Admi...

  2. Study Abroad by U.S. Students, 1994-95.

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    Chronicle of Higher Education, 1996

    1996-01-01

    Data on United States students studying abroad in 1994-95 include information on geographic distribution by host region and country, noting enrollment change over the previous year, program characteristics, and student characteristics. The home institutions with the highest numbers of students studying abroad are listed by type (research,…

  3. ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES CONTROLLING NITRIC OXIDE EMISSIONS FROM AGRICULTURAL SOILS IN THE SOUTHEAST UNITED STATES

    EPA Science Inventory

    Fluxes of nitric oxide (NO) were measured during the summer of 1994 (12 July to 11 August) in the Upper Coastal Plain of North Carolina in a continuing effort to characterize NO emissions from intensively managed agricultural soils in the southeastern United States. Previous work...

  4. Actinomyces Species Isolated from Breast Infections.

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    Bing, A U; Loh, S F; Morris, T; Hughes, H; Dixon, J M; Helgason, K O

    2015-10-01

    Actinomycosis is a chronic infection caused by Actinomyces species characterized by abscess formation, tissue fibrosis, and draining sinuses. The spectrum of infections caused by Actinomyces species ranges from classical invasive actinomycosis to a less invasive form of superficial skin and soft tissue infection. We present a review detailing all Actinomyces species isolated from breast infections in NHS Lothian between 2005 and 2013, Actinomyces species isolated from breast infections referred to the United Kingdom Anaerobe Reference Unit between 1988 and 2014, and cases describing Actinomyces breast infections published in the medical literature since 1994. Actinomyces species are fastidious organisms which can be difficult to identify and are likely to be underascertained as a cause of breast infections. Due to improved diagnostic methods, they are increasingly associated with chronic, recurrent breast infections and may play a more significant role in these infections than has previously been appreciated. Copyright © 2015, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

  5. Actinomyces Species Isolated from Breast Infections

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    Loh, S. F.; Morris, T.; Hughes, H.; Dixon, J. M.

    2015-01-01

    Actinomycosis is a chronic infection caused by Actinomyces species characterized by abscess formation, tissue fibrosis, and draining sinuses. The spectrum of infections caused by Actinomyces species ranges from classical invasive actinomycosis to a less invasive form of superficial skin and soft tissue infection. We present a review detailing all Actinomyces species isolated from breast infections in NHS Lothian between 2005 and 2013, Actinomyces species isolated from breast infections referred to the United Kingdom Anaerobe Reference Unit between 1988 and 2014, and cases describing Actinomyces breast infections published in the medical literature since 1994. Actinomyces species are fastidious organisms which can be difficult to identify and are likely to be underascertained as a cause of breast infections. Due to improved diagnostic methods, they are increasingly associated with chronic, recurrent breast infections and may play a more significant role in these infections than has previously been appreciated. PMID:26224846

  6. Curriculum Perspectives: Challenges for the Future. Proceedings of a Binational Symnposium = Perspectivas curriculares: Retos para el futuro. Actas del simposio binacional (Austin, Texas, November 9-10, 1994).

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    Southwest Educational Development Lab., Austin, TX.

    This proceedings, in English and Spanish, describes the first U.S./Mexico Curriculum Symposium, held in Austin, Texas, in November 1994. The symposium grew out of an ongoing exchange between educators in the Republic of Mexico and the United States and was attended by over 200 teachers, administrators, staff from state and regional education…

  7. The Lack of a Long-Term Growth Effect of Annosus Control in Southeastern United States

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    F. H. Tainter; J. G. Williams; N. J. Hess; S. W. Oak; D. A. Starkey

    1989-01-01

    An evaluation of basal area increment was made in 1988 of six pine plantations located across the southeastern United States. These plantations had been thinned in 1969-1970 and stumps treated with borax to measure long-term efficacy of annosus root rot control. In the present study, no long-term growth effects were identified. There were neither negative growth...

  8. Cuba after Fidel Castro: Issues and Strategic Considerations for the Employment of United States Armed Forces.

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    1998-04-01

    revolution. Castro "is the ^glue’ that holds the regime together and binds the masses.൨ Jose Luis Llovio- Menendez , a one-time minister who defected...8. "Suchlicki, 81. ,2Jose Luis Llovio- Menendez , Insider (New York: Bantam, 1988), 12. ,3Ibid., 58. 14Gunn, 11. 15Philip Brenner, "Cuba’s...Relations with the United States," in The Cuba Reader, (New York: Grove Press, 1989), 316. 16Jorge I. Dominguez , "United States-Cuban Relations: From Cold

  9. Residential Services for Persons with Developmental Disabilities: Status and Trends through 1994. Report #46.

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    Prouty, Robert, Ed.; Lakin, K. Charlie, Ed.

    This report from the ongoing National Residential Information Systems Project provides statistics on persons with mental retardation and related developmental disabilities (MR/DD) receiving residential services in the United States for the year ending June 30, 1994, as well as comparative statistics from earlier years. An executive summary…

  10. Increased Prevalence of Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Adults

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    Peppard, Paul E.; Young, Terry; Barnet, Jodi H.; Palta, Mari; Hagen, Erika W.; Hla, Khin Mae

    2013-01-01

    Sleep-disordered breathing is a common disorder with a range of harmful sequelae. Obesity is a strong causal factor for sleep-disordered breathing, and because of the ongoing obesity epidemic, previous estimates of sleep-disordered breathing prevalence require updating. We estimated the prevalence of sleep-disordered breathing in the United States for the periods of 1988–1994 and 2007–2010 using data from the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort Study, an ongoing community-based study that was established in 1988 with participants randomly selected from an employed population of Wisconsin adults. A total of 1,520 participants who were 30–70 years of age had baseline polysomnography studies to assess the presence of sleep-disordered breathing. Participants were invited for repeat studies at 4-year intervals. The prevalence of sleep-disordered breathing was modeled as a function of age, sex, and body mass index, and estimates were extrapolated to US body mass index distributions estimated using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The current prevalence estimates of moderate to severe sleep-disordered breathing (apnea-hypopnea index, measured as events/hour, ≥15) are 10% (95% confidence interval (CI): 7, 12) among 30–49-year-old men; 17% (95% CI: 15, 21) among 50–70-year-old men; 3% (95% CI: 2, 4) among 30–49-year-old women; and 9% (95% CI: 7, 11) among 50–70 year-old women. These estimated prevalence rates represent substantial increases over the last 2 decades (relative increases of between 14% and 55% depending on the subgroup). PMID:23589584

  11. Redefining the Role of "Permanent Temps": Proving Ourselves Professionals. Proceedings of a Roundtable Session at the Annual Meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (45th, Nashville, Tennessee, March 16-19, 1994).

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    Lemon, Hallie S., Comp.; And Others

    This 1994 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Roundtable was composed of "Permanent Temps" from schools across the United States; it originated in audience reaction to one session in San Diego (California) in 1993 (ERIC ED 356 483). This 1994 session highlighted ways in which these permanent temporary faculty are…

  12. Public Entrepreneurs and the Adoption of Broad-Based Merit Aid beyond the Southeastern United States

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    Ingle, William Kyle; Petroff, Ruth Ann

    2013-01-01

    The concentration of broad-based merit aid adoption in the southeastern United States has been well noted in the literature. However, there are states that have adopted broad-based merit aid programs outside of the Southeast. Guided by multiple theoretical frameworks, including innovation diffusion theory (e.g., Gray, 1973, 1994; Rogers, 2003),…

  13. Arthritis Impact on U.S. Life Quality: Morbidity and Mortality Effects from National Health Interview Survey Data 1986-1988 And 1994 Using Qwbx1 Estimates of Well-Being

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    Anderson, John P.; Kaplan, Robert M.; Ake, Christopher F.

    2004-01-01

    Objective: To estimate the impact of arthritis using a general health index and National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data. Methods: Morbidity data came from NHIS Public Use data, from the years 19861988 and 1994. The data are 423 400 cases, representing 975 421 153 person-years. Quality of Well-being Scale (QWB) morbidity scores were imputed…

  14. The High School Curriculum in the United States and the United Kingdom: Perspectives on Reform and Control.

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    Holt, Maurice

    1993-01-01

    Examines the interplay of political and educational factors influencing current U.S. and British school reform. The dominant characteristic of educational policymaking in both countries is "hyperpoliticalization." Britain's 1988 Education Reform Act, motivated by conservative political considerations, represents a setback to secondary…

  15. Finance.

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    MacPhail-Wilcox, Bettye; Beezer, Bruce

    In 1988, there were two United States Supreme Court decisions regarding school finance. One decision upheld the constitutionality of a North Dakota statute regarding transportation fees, and the other decision ruled that interest from state and local government bearer bonds was subject to federal income taxation. Cases discussed in this chapter…

  16. Importance of Winds and Soil Moistures to the US Summertime Drought of 1988: A GCM Simulation Study

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    Mocko, David M.; Sud, Y. C.; Lau, William K. M. (Technical Monitor)

    2001-01-01

    The climate version of NASA's GEOS 2 GCM did not simulate a realistic 1988 summertime drought in the central United States (Mocko et al., 1999). Despite several new upgrades to the model's parameterizations, as well as finer grid spacing from 4x5 degrees to 2x2.5 degrees, no significant improvements were noted in the model's simulation of the U.S. drought.

  17. State energy price and expenditure report 1994

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    1997-06-01

    The State Energy Price and Expenditure Report (SEPER) presents energy price and expenditure estimates individually for the 50 States and the District of Columbia and in aggregate for the United States. The price and expenditure estimates developed in the State Energy Price and Expenditure Data System (SEPEDS) are provided by energy source and economic sector and are published for the years 1970 through 1994. Consumption estimates used to calculate expenditures and the documentation for those estimates are taken from the State Energy Data Report 1994, Consumption Estimates (SEDR), published in October 1996. Expenditures are calculated by multiplying the price estimatesmore » by the consumption estimates, which are adjusted to remove process fuel; intermediate petroleum products; and other consumption that has no direct fuel costs, i.e., hydroelectric, geothermal, wind, solar, and photovoltaic energy sources. Documentation is included describing the development of price estimates, data sources, and calculation methods. 316 tabs.« less

  18. Teaching Economics Conference (5th, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, February 10-12, 1994).

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    Dudley, Bobby G., Ed.

    This collection of 21 papers delivered by university professors and other representatives from throughout the United States focuses on economics teaching in the classroom from a variety of perspectives. The papers include: (1) "Internationalizing the Curriculum: The United States in a Global Economy: International Issues for the Beginning Student"…

  19. Application of a Non-linear Program to the Establishment of a Hub and Spoke System in Africa

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    2010-06-01

    barriers, religious fanaticism, and hostage taking (King, 1994). Perhaps the greatest impact on the history of Africa and its relations with the United......areas of commerce, light manufacturing, and the tourism industry (United States Department of State, 2009). Generally speaking, Kenya maintains a

  20. 78 FR 66899 - International Trade Administration, North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Article 1904...

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    ... (NAFTA), Article 1904 Binational Panel Reviews AGENCY: NAFTA Secretariat, United States Section... Article 1904 of the Agreement, which came into force on January 1, 1994, the Government of the United States, the Government of Canada and the Government of Mexico established Rules of Procedure for Article...

  1. 75 FR 20567 - North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Article 1904 Binational Panel Reviews

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    ... (NAFTA), Article 1904 Binational Panel Reviews AGENCY: NAFTA Secretariat, United States Section... Article 1904 of the Agreement, which came into force on January 1, 1994, the Government of the United States, the Government of Canada and the Government of Mexico established Rules of Procedure for Article...

  2. 76 FR 56156 - North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Article 1904 Binational Panel Reviews

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    ... (NAFTA), Article 1904 Binational Panel Reviews AGENCY: NAFTA Secretariat, United States Section... Article 1904 of the Agreement, which came into force on January 1, 1994, the Government of the United States, the Government of Canada and the Government of Mexico established Rules of Procedure for Article...

  3. An Ecological Understanding of Kinship Foster Care in the United States

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    Hong, Jun Sung; Algood, Carl L.; Chiu, Yu-Ling; Lee, Stephanie Ai-Ping

    2011-01-01

    We review empirical studies on kinship foster care in the United States. We conceptualize kinship foster care within the context of Urie Bronfenbrenner's (1994) most recent ecological systems theory. Because there are multiple levels of influences on the developmental outcomes of children placed in kinship foster home, understanding the…

  4. Capability Deprivation and Income Poverty in the United States, 1994 and 2004: Measurement Outcomes and Demographic Profiles

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    Wagle, Udaya R.

    2009-01-01

    Shifting focus from income to capability signifies an important milestone toward accurately measuring poverty and deprivation. This paper operationalizes capability deprivation in the United States and compares measurement outcomes among various capability approaches and between capability and income spaces. Of the three capability approaches…

  5. Ideas for Integrating Japan into the Curriculum. ERIC Digest.

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    Wojtan, Linda S.

    This ERIC Digest discusses how, by studying Japan, the larger context of the Asia-Pacific region can be explored and students can be introduced to current realities. The top 5 competitive countries for 1994 were the United States, Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, and Germany. Because of the increasing interdependence between the United States and…

  6. Cardiovascular diseases: a review of the Hispanic perspective. Awareness is the first step to action.

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    López-Candales, Angel

    2002-01-01

    Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death in adults in the United States, accounting for about one-third of all deaths in subjects over age 35 (Thom et al., 1998). Mortality rates for cardiovascular disease and coronary heart disease in men and women and in blacks and whites have fallen in most countries by 24 to 28 percent since 1975, although the decline has slowed since 1990 (Kuulasmaa et al., 2000; McGovern et al., 1996; Capewell et al., 1999; Capewell et al., 2000; Cooper et al., 2000; McGovern et al., 2001; Gillum, 1994). This favorable trend is related partly to a decrease in the rate of fatal myocardial infarction (Gillum, 1987; Goldberg et al., 1988; Pashos et al., 1993; de Vreede et al., 1991), but it is also associated with a decline in the prevalence of risk factors for coronary artery disease (Gillium, 1994; Gillium 1987; Pearson, 1989). These risk factors strongly influence the severity of coronary atherosclerosis (Rhoads et al., 1978; Sorlie et al., 1981; Feinleib et al., 1979; Freedman et al., 1993; Reed and Yano, 1991), a major predictor of survival in patients with coronary disease (Humphries et al., 1974). These observations suggest that the decline in mortality from coronary artery disease is related to a parallel decline in coronary atherosclerosis. Despite great strides regarding the knowledge of coronary artery risk factors and some of its demographic aspects, the incidence and nature of each individual variable in certain ethnic and racial groups remain poorly defined. Over a decade ago the American Heart Association issued a statement regarding cardiovascular disease and stroke in racial minorities in the United States and urged for more participation of minority groups in research studies in order to assess their particular trends and outcomes (American Heart Association Medical/Scientific Statement, 1991). The purpose of this article is to review the current enrollment and participation of Hispanics in major clinical trials relating to cardiovascular disease and propose possible explanations for the observed results as well as suggestions to improve the shortcomings found.

  7. GEO-CAPE Coastal Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics White Paper: EPA Section

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    The Clean Water Act protects all navigable waters in the United States (CWA, 1988). The objective of the CWA is to "restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Nation's waters." This Federal mandate authorizes states, tribes, and U.S. te...

  8. Liftoff of STS-62 Space Shuttle Columbia

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    1994-03-04

    STS062-S-051 (4 March 1994) --- Five veteran astronauts and the United States Microgravity Payload (USMP) are ushered into space via the sixteenth launch of Space Shuttle Columbia. Launch occurred at 8:53 a.m. (EST), March 4, 1994. Onboard were astronauts John H. Casper, Andrew M. Allen, Marsha S. Ivins, Charles D. (Sam) Gemar and Pierre J. Thuot.

  9. Population trends of migratory landbirds along the Middle Rio Grande

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    Wang Yong; Deborah M. Finch

    1997-01-01

    Using standardized mist-netting capture data from the Rio Grande Nature Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico from 1985-1994, and Breeding Bird Survey data from New Mexico and United States from 1980-1994, we compared local, regional, and national population trends of landbird species that migrate along the middle Rio Grande in fall. Evaluations of relationships among...

  10. Petroleum Marketing Practices Act amendments of 1994. Introduced in the Senate of the United States, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, September 29, 1994

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    NONE

    The bill (S. 338) proposes to amend the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act to clarify federal standards governing the termination and nonrenewal of franchise and franchise relationships for the sale of motor fuel. The legislative text of the Bill is given with amendments.

  11. Teacher Supply & Demand in Michigan and the United States 1994-95.

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    Scheetz, L. Patrick; Gratz, Becky

    This publication provides analysis of current data on the supply and demand for teachers nationally and in Michigan in 1994-95 along with tips for new teachers who are still seeking jobs. The text covers areas of education where demand is highest including special education and science education, notes the persistent demand for minority teachers…

  12. Outpatient Nonavailability Statement Procedures, Health Services Command Catchment Areas. Second Quarter, FY 1994 with Comparisons to First Quarter, FY 1994

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    1994-05-01

    Commander, U.S. Army Medical Department Activity, Fort Carson, CO 80913-5101 (1) Commander, U.S. Army Medical Department Activity, Fort Devens , MA 01433...Medical Department Activity, Fort Carson, CO 80913-5101 (1) Director, Coordinated Care, U.S. Army Medical Department Activity, Fort Devens , MA 01433...016 * MAY 1994 I UNITED STATES ARMY HEALTH SERVICES COMMAND.I N FORT SAM HOUSTON, TEXAS 78234-6000 ’I I i TRI-SERVICE CHAMPUS STATISTICAL DATABASE

  13. 76 FR 17104 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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    ... Collection: The Lacey Act, enacted in 1900 and significantly amended in 1988, is the United States' oldest...: Business or other for-profit. Number of Respondents: 20,352. Frequency of Responses: Recordkeeping...

  14. 77 FR 65359 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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    ... Collection: The Lacey Act, first enacted in 1900 and significantly amended in 1988, is the United States.... Description of Respondents: Business or other for-profit. Number of Respondents: 20,352. Frequency of...

  15. A Report to the President of the United States [from the] Intergovernmental Advisory Council on Education, National Networking Conference [on] The Absent Parent (Washington, D.C. May 9-10, 1988).

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    Intergovernmental Advisory Council on Education (ED), Washington, DC.

    This report on child care and the Federal government's role in child care is based on the National Networking Conference on the Absent Parent which was held May 9-10, 1988 under the sponsorship of the President's Intergovernmental Advisory Council on Education (IACE). The report begins with 12 recommendations concerning day care and latchkey…

  16. Cold Rydberg atoms in circular states

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    Anderson, David; Schwarzkopf, Andrew; Raithel, Georg

    2012-06-01

    Circular-state Rydberg atoms are interesting in that they exhibit a unique combination of extraordinary properties; long lifetimes (˜n^5), large magnetic moments (l=|m|=n-1) and no first order Stark shift. Circular states have found applications in cavity quantum electrodynamics and precision measurements [1,2], among other studies. In this work we present the production of circular states in an atom trapping apparatus using an adiabatic state-switching method (the crossed-field method [3]). To date, we have observed lifetimes of adiabatically prepared states of several milliseconds. Their relatively large ionization electric fields have been verified by time-of-flight signatures of ion trajectories. We intend to explore the magnetic trapping of circular state Rydberg atoms, as well as their production and interaction properties in ultra-cold and degenerate samples.[4pt] [1] P. Bertet et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., 88, 14 (2002)[0pt] [2] M. Brune et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., 72, 21 (1994)[0pt] [3] D. Delande and J.C. Gay, Europhys. Lett., 5, 303-308 (1988).

  17. Employment and Earnings. Volume 35, Number 3, March 1988.

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    Employment and Earnings, 1988

    1988-01-01

    This document presents the following monthly statistical data for the population of United States: (1) employment status; (2) characteristics of the unemployed; (3) characteristics of the employed and their job categories; (4) seasonally adjusted employment and unemployment; (5) national employment; (6) employment in states and areas; (7) national…

  18. Annual Report to the Congress, Fiscal Year 1988, Caspar W. Weinberger, Secretary of Defense. Executive Summary.

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    1988-01-01

    these threats are not merely isolated occurrences. Terrorism is increasingly transnacional and state-supported. Drug trafficking is increasingly...deter- rence and defense through their presence abroad and by our capability to deploy them from the continental United States (CONUS) to crisis areas

  19. Standards for Advisement, Invocation, and Waiver of Counsel in Military Intelligence Interrogations

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    2004-04-01

    appointed counsel experienced 288 Id para. 86.1 289 Direccion Nacional contra el Terrorismo . 290 Id para. 86.2. 291 See id. (citing Decree-Law 25,744, art...60 (1st Cir. 2000) ( en banc); United States v. Zabenah, 837 F.2d 1249, 1261 (5th Cir. 1988); Goldstar v. United States, 967 F.2d 965, 968 (4th Cir...Jimenez-Nava, 243 F.3d at 195-98. 135 Jimenez-Nava, 243 F.3d at 198. See also United States v. Lombera-Camorlinga, 206 F.3d 882, 885 (9th Cir. 2000) ( en

  20. Assessing the coal resources of the United States

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    Gluskoter, Harold J.; Flores, R.M.; Hatch, J.; Kirschbaum, M.A.; Ruppert, L.F.; Warwick, Peter D.

    1996-01-01

    In 1994, coal production in the United States reached the highest level in history (slightly more than 909 million metric tons or one billion short tons), continuing the upward trend of coal production and utilization that began 34 years ago. Previous assessments of the coal resources of the United States, which were completed as early as 1909, clearly indicated that the total coal resources of the Nation are large and that utilization at the current rate will not soon deplete them.

  1. Achieving a demographic breakthrough.

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    Taniguchi, H

    1994-09-01

    President Hosni Mubarak received the United Nations Population Award on June 14, 1994, because of his contribution to the promotion of the national population program in Egypt. Egypt has been tackling the population problem on three fronts: high rate of natural increase (2.3% in 1994), unbalanced population distribution along the Nile Valley and the Mediterranean coast that account for just 4% of the land, and insufficient educational and health levels. At present seven major programs are being implemented throughout the country to curb population increase involving information, education and communication; family planning; human resource development; improving maternal and child health, and educational level; increasing employment; the empowerment of women; and systematic land development. The total fertility rate dropped to 3.9 during 1990-1992 from 5.3 during 1979-1980. The crude birth rate dropped to 29.2/1000 population in 1992 from 38.7/1000 in 1986. The crude death rate also decreased to 7.4/1000 in 1992 from 9.2/1000 in 1986. The infant mortality rate decreased to 62 during 1988-1992 from 132 during 1975-1979. The contraceptive prevalence rate climbed from 24.25 in 1980 to 47.1% in 1992. The strong endorsement by the Grand Mufti that Islam supports family planning made many people change their traditional view that family planning was forbidden by the Koran. The political commitment from the President led to the provision of large budgets for the national population program. Technical and program assistance provided by donors including the United States Agency for International Development has greatly contributed to mass media campaigns and service delivery. 63.4% of acceptors received family planning services or contraceptives from the private sector. Egypt is willing to share its population and family planning experience with other developing countries that have similar economic and social conditions particularly if financial assistance by industrialized countries is attainable.

  2. 40 CFR 89.602 - Definitions.

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    2010-07-01

    ... States includes the customs territory of the United States as defined in 19 U.S.C. 1202, and the Virgin... holidays are not working days. [59 FR 31335, June 17, 1994. Redesignated and amended at 63 FR 56996, 57021...

  3. Cigarette smoking and the onset and persistence of panic attacks during mid-adulthood in the United States: 1994-2005.

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    Bakhshaie, Jafar; Zvolensky, Michael J; Goodwin, Renee D

    2016-01-01

    The current study examined the relationship between cigarette smoking (daily) and risk of onset and persistence of panic attacks over a 10-year period among adults in mid-adulthood in the United States and whether quitting smoking reduced the risk for panic attacks. Data were drawn from the Midlife Development in the United States Survey (N = 2,101), a nationally representative sample of adults aged 25 to 74 years at baseline (wave 1, 1994-1995) who were followed up 10 years later at wave 2 (2004-2006). Psychiatric diagnoses were based on the Composite International Diagnostic Interview Short-Form (CIDI-SF [based on DSM-III-R criteria]) scales. Logistic regressions were used to evaluate the associations between smoking status and the onset and persistence of panic attack after controlling for demographic characteristics and substance use problems. Daily smoking in 1994 (OR = 1.9 [95% CI, 1.1-3.3]) and persistent daily smoking in 1994 and 2005 (OR = 2.6 [95% CI, 1.4-4.8]) were associated with a significantly increased likelihood of panic attacks in 2005. Moreover, smoking abstinence significantly reduced the risk of new-onset panic attacks (OR = 0.6 [95% CI, 0.4-0.97]) and persistence of panic attacks (OR = 0.2 [95% CI, 0.1-0.5]). The present data provide novel evidence that smoking is associated with an increased risk of panic attacks and that quitting smoking helps reduce such risk. © Copyright 2016 Physicians Postgraduate Press, Inc.

  4. Occupational exposures associated with work-related asthma and work-related wheezing among U.S. workers.

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    Arif, Ahmed A; Delclos, George L; Whitehead, Lawrence W; Tortolero, Susan R; Lee, Eun S

    2003-10-01

    National estimates of occupational asthma (OA) in the United States are sparse. Using data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) 1988-1994, we analyzed associations between occupation and work-related asthma and work-related wheezing among U.S. workers. This study identified several occupations that were at risk of developing work-related asthma and/or wheezing, with cleaners and equipment cleaners showing the highest risks. Other major occupations identified were farm and agriculture; entertainment; protective services; construction; mechanics and repairers; textile; fabricators and assemblers; other transportation and material moving occupations; freight, stock, and material movers; and motor vehicle operators. The population attributable risks for work-related asthma and work-related wheezing were 26% and 27%, respectively. This study adds evidence to the literature that identifies work-related asthma as an important public health problem. Several occupations are targeted for additional evaluation and study. Of particular interest are cleaners, which are being increasingly reported as a risk group for asthma. Future intervention strategies need to be developed for effective control and prevention of asthma in the workplace. Copyright 2003 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

  5. Contribution of residential exposures to asthma in us children and adolescents.

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    Lanphear, B P; Kahn, R S; Berger, O; Auinger, P; Bortnick, S M; Nahhas, R W

    2001-06-01

    Residential exposures are recognized risk factors for asthma, but the relative contribution of specific indoor allergens and their overall contribution to asthma among older children and adolescents in the United States are unknown. To estimate the relative contributions, population-attributable risks, and costs of residential risk factors for doctor-diagnosed asthma. Design. Nationally representative, cross-sectional survey conducted from 1988 to 1994. A total of 5384 children who were 6 to 16 years old and participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III, a survey of the health and nutritional status of children and adults in the United States. Doctor-diagnosed asthma, as reported by the parent. Five hundred three of 5384 children and adolescents (11.4%) had doctor-diagnosed asthma. After adjusting for age, gender, race, urban status, region of country, educational attainment of the head of household, and poverty, predictors of doctor-diagnosed asthma included a history of allergy to a pet (odds ratio [OR: 2.4; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.7, 3.3), presence of a pet in the household (OR: 1.5; 95% CI: 1.1, 2.1), and immediate hypersensitivity to dust mite (OR: 1.5; 95% CI: 1.05, 2.0), Alternaria (OR: 1.9; 95% CI: 1.3, 2.8), and cockroach allergens (OR: 1.4; CI: 1.04, 1.9). Family history of atopy (OR: 1.7; 95% CI: 1.1, 2.7) and diagnosis of allergic rhinitis (OR: 2.1; CI: 1.1, 3.7) were also predictors for asthma. The population-attributable risk of having 1 or more residential exposures associated with doctor-diagnosed asthma was 44.4% (95% CI: 29-60), or an estimated 2 million excess cases. The attributable cost of asthma resulting from residential exposures was $405 million (95% CI: $264-$547 million) annually. The elimination of identified residential exposures, if causally associated with asthma, would result in a 44% decline in doctor-diagnosed asthma among older children and adolescents in the United States.

  6. Distortion Products Otoacoustic Emissions as Markers of Tinnitus Persistence after Acute Acoustic Trauma

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    2005-04-01

    recovery in animal models ( Lamm and Arnold 1998; Gervais d’Aldin et al. 1999) and in human ( Suc and Asperge 1988; Suc et al. 1994). Afterwards they were...1309-1316, 1990. [36] Suc B, Asperge A. Les acouphènes des traumatismes sonores par FAMAS. Médecine et Armées, 16 :207-210. 1988. [37] Suc B...Poulet M, Asperge A, Vix J, Barberot J-P, Doucet F. Evolution clinique des traumatismes sonores aigus. Bilan d’une étude de 250 cas. Ann. Otolaryngol

  7. Dietary Supplement Use Among U.S. Adults Has Increased Since NHANES III (1988-1994)

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    ... uses a complex, stratified, multistage probability cluster sampling design and oversamples in order to increase precision in estimates for certain groups. NHANES III was one in a series of periodic surveys conducted in two cycles during ...

  8. The United States Air Force Summary, FY 1988/1989 (Amended). Fourteenth Edition

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    1988-05-15

    UNClASSIFIEDI ,••o MARIANA ISLS ....••. 8 GUAM ..o ANDERSEI AFB o () II ,. BONIN ISLSo II • .... to t D ~, # # ()0KAOENA AB i ’or • o USAF MAJOR...Leath, Marvin (TX) McCurdy, Dave (OK) Foglietta, T. M. (PA) Dyson, Roy (MD) Hertel, Dennis M. (MI) Lloyd, Marilyn B. (TN) Sisisky, Norman (VA) Ray...1988) House Research and Development Subcommittee Democrats Price, Melvin (IL) Chmn. Aspin, Les (WI) Schroeder, Patricia (CO) McCurdy, Dave (OK) Hertel

  9. [The panorama of coccidioidomycosis in Nuevo León from 1978 to 1988].

    PubMed

    González-Benavides, J

    1991-01-01

    The coccidioidomycosis is an endemic illness in the southern United States and the Northern of Mexico, the state of Texas and Nuevo Leon are included in this area. In the city of Monterrey from 1978 to 1988 the hospitals have reported one hundred and fifty cases. One hundred eleven of them from the state of Nuevo Leon and the remaining from the neighboring states. The main clinical presentation was in the pulmonary form with one hundred and twelve cases, followed by the cutaneous with thirty-three in the later the most common presentation was the ulcerated form. Therapeutically two new medication have been tried a with encouraging results, the itraconazole and the fluconazole the differential diagnosis is made mainly with tuberculosis and deep mycosis.

  10. Variation in egg size of the northern pintail

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    Flint, Paul L.; Grand, James B.

    1996-01-01

    Egg size is an important determinant of reproductive investment by birds. For many species, total investment in a clutch is limited by the size of stored reserves (Ankney and MacInnes 1978, Esler and Grand 1994a). Egg size determines the unit by which these stored reserves are partitioned. Individual females in most species of waterfowl show a high repeatability for egg size, implying that individual either cannot, or do not, alter their egg size in response to varying environmental conditions (batt and Prince 1979, Duncan 1987, Laurila and Hario 1988, Lessells et al 1989, Flint and Sedinger 1992). Thus differences in egg size appear to represent different reproductive strategies among individuals.Fitness can be measured by the number of offspring an individual contributes to a population. Egg size may be related to fitness in some species fo waterfowl as young from larger eggs are better able to survive extreme conditions (Ankney 1980, Thomas and Brown 1988). Birds laying larger clutches are almost always more fit as they fledge more young (Lessells 1986, Rockwell et al 1987, Flint 1993). These fitness patterns create the potential for a trade-off between clutch size and egg size where females laying large clutches of small eggs have the same fitness as females laying smaller clutches of large eggs. The fact that Northern Pintails (Anas acuta) utilize stored reserves (Mann and Sedinger 1993, esler and Grand 1994a) and have a high repeatability for egg size (i.e. egg size is fixed) (Duncan 1987), makes them candidates to engage in clutch size=egg size trade-offs (Rowher 1988, Rowher and Eisenhauer 1989). An inverse relationship between egg size and clutch size would be indicative of a phenotypic trade-off among these fitness components. Our goal in this study was to describe egg size variation in Northern Pintails (hereafter pintails) with regard to female age, body size, clutch size, year, initiation date, and nesting attempt. We compare our results to those from other populations of nesting pintails and discuss whether phenotypic clutch size-egg size tradeoffs exist for pintails.

  11. United States Catholic Elementary and Secondary Schools 1993-1994. Annual Statistical Report on Schools, Enrollment and Staffing.

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    Brigham, Frederick H., Jr.

    Since 1969-70, the National Catholic Educational Association has published a statistical report on Catholic elementary and secondary schools in the United States. This year's report contains the core school enrollment and staffing data from the Association's database and includes data on Chapter 1 services, extended care programs, school boards of…

  12. Children's Behavior Problems in the United States and Great Britain

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    Parcel, Toby L.; Campbell, Lori Ann; Zhong, Wenxuan

    2012-01-01

    We analyze the effects of family capital on child behavior problems in the United States and Great Britain by comparing a longitudinal survey sample of 5- to 13-year-old children from the 1994 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (N = 3,864) with a similar sample of children from the 1991 National Child Development Study "British Child"…

  13. A multi-level model of blood lead as a function of air lead.

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    Richmond-Bryant, Jennifer; Meng, Qingyu; Davis, J Allen; Cohen, Jonathan; Svendsgaard, David; Brown, James S; Tuttle, Lauren; Hubbard, Heidi; Rice, Joann; Kirrane, Ellen; Vinikoor-Imler, Lisa; Kotchmar, Dennis; Hines, Erin; Ross, Mary

    2013-09-01

    National and local declines in lead (Pb) in blood (PbB) over the past several years coincide with the decline in ambient air Pb (PbA) concentrations. The objective of this work is to evaluate how the relationship between PbB levels and PbA levels has changed following the phase out of leaded gasoline and tightened controls on industrial Pb emissions over the past 30 years among a national population sample. Participant-level data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) were employed for two time periods (1988-1994 and 1999-2008), and the model was corrected for housing, demographic, socioeconomic, and other covariates present in NHANES. NHANES data for PbB and covariates were merged with PbA data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Linear mixed effects models (LMEs) were run to assess the relationship of PbB with PbA; sample weights were omitted, given biases encountered with the use of sample weights in LMEs. The 1988-1994 age-stratified results found that ln(PbB) was statistically significantly associated with ln(PbA) for all age groups. The consistent influence of PbA on PbB across age groups for the years 1988-1994 suggests a ubiquitous exposure unrelated to age of the sample population. The comparison of effect estimates for ln(PbA) shows a statistically significant effect estimate and ANOVA results for ln(PbB) for the 6- to 11-year and 12- to 19-year age groups during 1999-2008. The more recent finding suggests that PbA has less consistent influence on PbB compared with other factors. Copyright © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

  14. Fall Chinook Salmon Spawning Ground Surveys in the Snake River Basin Upriver of Lower Granite Dam, Annual Report 2002.

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    Garcia, Aaron P.; Bradbury, S.M.; Arnsberg, Billy D.

    2003-09-01

    Redd counts were used to document the spawning distribution of fall chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in the Snake River basin upriver of Lower Granite Dam. The first reported redd counts were from aerial searches conducted intermittently between 1959 and 1978 (Irving and Bjornn 1981, Witty 1988; Groves and Chandler 1996)(Appendix 1). In 1986, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife began an annual monitoring program that, in addition to the Snake River, included aerial searches of the Grande Ronde River the first year (Seidel and Bugert 1987), and the Imnaha River in subsequent years (Seidel et al. 1988; Bugert etmore » al. 1989-1991; Mendel et al. 1992). The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Idaho Power Company began contributing to this effort in 1991 by increasing the number of aerial searches conducted each year and adding underwater searches in areas of the Snake River that were too deep to be searched from the air (Connor et al. 1993; Garcia et al. 1994a, 1994b, 1996-2001; Groves 1993; Groves and Chandler 1996). The Nez Perce Tribe added aerial searches in the Clearwater River basin beginning in 1988 (Arnsberg et. al 1992) and the Salmon River beginning in 1992. Currently searches are conducted cooperatively by the Nez Perce Tribe, Idaho Power Company, and U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Our objective for this report was to consolidate the findings from annual redd searches into a single document containing detailed information about the searches from the most recent spawning season, and summary information from previous years. The work conducted in 2002 was funded by the Bonneville Power Administration (Projects 1998-01-003 and 1994-03-400) and the Idaho Power Company.« less

  15. Racial/ethnic- and education-related disparities in the control of risk factors for cardiovascular disease among individuals with diabetes.

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    Chatterji, Pinka; Joo, Heesoo; Lahiri, Kajal

    2012-02-01

    There is limited information on whether recent improvements in the control of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors among individuals with diabetes have been concentrated in particular sociodemographic groups. This article estimates racial/ethnic- and education-related disparities and examines trends in uncontrolled CVD risk factors among adults with diabetes. The main racial/ethnic comparisons made are with African Americans versus non-Latino whites and Mexican Americans versus non-Latino whites. The analysis samples include adults aged ≥20 years from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 1988-1994 and the NHANES 1999-2008 who self-reported having diabetes (n = 1,065, NHANES 1988-1994; n = 1,872, NHANES 1999-2008). By use of logistic regression models, we examined the correlates of binary indicators measuring 1) high blood glucose, 2) high blood pressure, 3) high cholesterol, and 4) smoking. Control of blood glucose, blood pressure, and cholesterol improved among individuals with diabetes between the NHANES 1988-1994 and the NHANES 1999-2008, but there was no change in smoking prevalence. In the NHANES 1999-2008, racial/ethnic minorities and individuals without some college education were more likely to have poorly controlled blood glucose compared with non-Latino whites and those with some college education. In addition, individuals with diabetes who had at least some college education were less likely to smoke and had better blood pressure control compared with individuals with diabetes without at least some college education. Trends in CVD risk factors among individuals with diabetes improved over the past 2 decades, but racial/ethnic- and education-related disparities have emerged in some areas.

  16. A ROK (Republic of Korea) Perspective on Korean Security and Desirable Roles for the United States.

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    1988-03-23

    World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to divide responsiblity for disarming the Japanese forces still in Korea. The line of...from the U.S. while reducing those from Japan. But any significant change, such as lowering import tariffs or removing *monopoly protection, will...1988, has said that it will promote increased democratization with the resolution of a number of outstanding political issues, political- social

  17. Vietnam, the United States, and Japan in the South China Sea

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    2014-10-01

    Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies VIETNAM, THE UNITED STATES, AND JAPAN IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA Dr. Alexander L. Vuving Paper for...since 1988. The standoff also served as a litmus test to identify who will side with whom in this conflict. While most of the world remained neutral...these actors relate to the South China Sea issue. This paper will focus on the three status quo powers; particularly, I will examine the strategies of

  18. JPRS Report, Soviet Union, International Affairs.

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    1988-05-02

    34 62 LITERARY JOURNALISM Joan Didion (United States), "El Salvador" (continua- tion) 75 JPRS-UIA-88-008 2 May 1988 28 LATIN AMERICA PAGES OF...34The Thousand Pictures of an Ecua- doran Artist" No 3 ARTISTIC JOURNALISM Joan Didion (United States), "Salvador." Foreword by A. Zverev, translation...Salvador (continuation) ( Joan Didion , USA) 110 FROM A JOURNALIST’S NOTEBOOK At the IV Festival of Friendship (A. V. Grishin, V. N. Rastorguev) 121

  19. Specialized Study Options U.S.A., 1986-1988. A Guide to Short-Term Educational Programs in the United States for Foreign Nationals. Volume 1: Technical Education. Second Edition.

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    Howard, Edrice, Ed.

    Information is provided on over 1,000 short-term programs offered by United States universities, trade and technical schools, and other organizations that are open to or designed for non-U.S. students. The programs, which range from 2 weeks to 1 year in length, require only a high school diploma as a prerequisite for enrollment. The programs are…

  20. Specialized Study Options U.S.A., 1986-1988. A Guide to Short-Term Educational Programs in the United States for Foreign Nationals. Volume 2: Professional Development. Second Edition.

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    Howard, Edrice, Ed.

    Information is provided on nearly 500 short-term professional development programs offered in the United States that are open to or intended for non-U.S. students. The programs, which range from 2 weeks to 1 year in length, require at least an associate's degree or a corresponding level of academic or nonacademic study for admission. The programs…

  1. Global and Hemispheric Temperature Anomalies: Land and Marine Instrumental Records (1850 - 2015)

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    Jones, P. D. [Climatic Research Unit (CRU), University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom; Parker, D. E. [Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, Berkshire, United Kingdom; Osborn, T. J. [Climatic Research Unit (CRU), University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom; Briffa, K. R. [Climatic Research Unit (CRU), University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom

    2016-05-01

    These global and hemispheric temperature anomaly time series, which incorporate land and marine data, are continually updated and expanded by P. Jones of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) with help from colleagues at the CRU and other institutions. Some of the earliest work in producing these temperature series dates back to Jones et al. (1986a,b,c), Jones (1988, 1994), and Jones and Briffa (1992). Most of the discussion of methods given here has been gleaned from the Frequently Asked Questions section of the CRU temperature data web pages. Users are encouraged to visit the CRU Web site for the most comprehensive overview of these data (the "HadCRUT4" dataset), other associated datasets, and the most recent literature references to the work of Jones et al.

  2. Trouble on Tap.

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    Lewis, Scott Alan

    1995-01-01

    Evaluates the state of drinking-water quality in the United States. Maps the number of reported cases of waterborne disease by state and lists 23 cities with violations of contaminant standards 1 or more times from 1992 to 1994. Briefly describes four primary drinking-water pollution causes and six management options. (LZ)

  3. Hydro-climatic data network (HCDN); a U.S. Geological Survey streamflow data set for the United States for the study of climate variations, 1874-1988

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    Slack, J.R.; Landwehr, Jurate Maciunas

    1992-01-01

    Records of streamflow can provide an account of climatic variation over a hydrologic basin. The ability to do so is conditioned on the absence of confounding factors that diminish the climate signal. A national data set of streamflow records that are relatively free of confounding anthropogenic influences has been developed for the purpose of studying the variation in surface-water conditions throughout the United States. Records in the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Water Storage and Retrieval System (WATSTORE) data base for active and discontinued streamflow gaging stations through water year 1988 (that is, through September 30, 1988) were reviewed jointly with data specialists in each USGS District office. The resulting collection of stations, each with its respective period of record satisfying the qualifying criteria, is called the Hydro-Climatic Data Network, or HCDN. The HCDN consists of 1,659 sites throughout the United States and its territories, totaling 73,231 water years of daily mean discharge values. For each station in the HCDN, information necessary for its identification, along with any qualifying comments about the available record and a set of descriptive watershed characteristics are provided in tabular format in this report, both on paper and on computer disk (enclosed). For each station in the HCDN, the appropriate daily mean discharge values were compiled, and statistical characteristics, including monthly mean discharges and annual mean, minimum and maximum discharges, were derived. The discharge data values are provided in a companion report.

  4. Hypoxia, Color Vision Deficiencies, and Blood Oxygen Saturation

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    2013-11-01

    Richalet, Duval-Arnould, Darnaud, Keromes, & Rutgers, 1988; Richalet et al., 1989; Brandl & Lachenmayr, 1994; Schellart, Pollen , & van der Kley...60, 105-111. Schellart, N.A., Pollen , M. & van der Kley, A. (1997). Effect of dysoxia and moderate air-hyperbarism on red-green color sensitivity

  5. Vandalism: Environmental and Social Factors

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    Brown, Gregory; Devlin, Ann Sloan

    2003-01-01

    To explore the relationship between vandalism, college residence hall size, and a number of social factors, 688 college students completed the Core Alcohol and Drug Survey (Presley, Meilman, & Lyerla, 1994), the University Residence Environment Scale (Moos, 1988), and answered questions about their television habits and athletic participation.…

  6. Changing ethnic disparity in ischemic stroke mortality in US children after the STOP trial.

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    Lehman, Laura L; Fullerton, Heather J

    2013-08-01

    A prior report showed higher stroke mortality in US black children compared with white children (1979-1998), a disparity likely due in part to sickle cell disease, which leads to a high risk of childhood ischemic stroke. We hypothesized that this disparity has diminished since the publication of the Stroke Prevention Trial in Sickle Cell Anemia (STOP trial) in 1998 demonstrating the efficacy of long-term blood transfusions for primary stroke prevention. To evaluate the demographics and secular trends in mortality from ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke (as a primary cause of death) in US children (<20 years) and determine if there has been a decrease in the disparity between white and black children since the publication of the STOP trial in 1998. We used death certificate data from the National Center for Health Statistics, 1988 through 2007. United States. Children who died in 1988 through 2007 in the United States. Publication of the STOP trial. Incidence rate ratios were calculated as the measure of relative risk. Among 1.6 billion person-years of US children (1988-2007), there were 4425 deaths attributed to stroke, yielding an average of 221 deaths per year; 20% were ischemic; 67%, hemorrhagic; and 12%, unspecified. The relative risk of ischemic stroke mortality for black vs white children dropped from 1.74 from 1988 through 1997 to 1.27 from 1998 through 2007. The ethnic disparity in hemorrhagic stroke mortality, however, remained relatively stable between these 2 periods: black vs white relative risk, 1.90 (1988-1997) and 1.97 (1998-2007). The excess risk of death from ischemic, but not hemorrhagic, stroke in US black children has decreased over the past decade. This may be related to the implementation of an effective ischemic stroke prevention strategy for children with sickle cell disease.

  7. Liftoff of STS-62 Space Shuttle Columbia

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    1994-03-04

    STS062-S-053 (4 March 1994) --- Carrying a crew of five veteran NASA astronauts and the United States Microgravity Payload (USMP), the Space Shuttle Columbia heads toward its sixteenth mission in Earth-orbit. Launch occurred at 8:53 a.m. (EST), March 4, 1994. Onboard were astronauts John H. Casper, Andrew M. Allen, Marsha S. Ivins, Charles D. (Sam) Gemar and Pierre J. Thuot.

  8. Monitoring the Rights of Children. Innocenti Global Seminar (Florence, Italy, May 23-June 1, 1994). Summary Report.

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    Black, Maggie

    In spring 1994, a seminar involving children's rights activists and researchers was held to examine how the monitoring of children's rights, within the context of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, supports the monitoring of the goals agreed to at the World Summit for Children. The seminar also reviewed the state of the art…

  9. School Meals for Healthy Children: Meeting the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and Complying with the Requirements of the Healthy Meals for Healthy Americans Act.

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    Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. Bureau for Food and Nutrition Services.

    The Healthy Meals for Healthy American Act of 1994 requires that a variety of meal-planning approaches be available for schools to plan menus. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) regulation "School Meals Initiative for Healthy Children," published in 1995, implements the provisions of the 1994 legislation and incorporates…

  10. Trinational Library Forum [Proceedings] = Memorias del Foro Trinacional de Bibliotecas = [Actes de] Forum Trinational Des Bibliotheques (4th, Monterrey, Mexico, February 24-26, 1994).

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    Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey (Mexico).

    At the fourth Trinational Library Forum in 1994, librarians from the United States, Canada, and Mexico gathered to discuss topics of international librarianship. Presentations, some in English and some in Spanish with a brief English language summary, include: (1) "Perspectivas de la Produccion y Exportaciones de la Industria Editorial…

  11. The 1994-1995 National Health Interview Survey on Disability (NHIS-D): A Bibliography of 20 Years of Research.

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    Ward, Brian W; Ridolfo, Heather; Creamer, Lauren; Gray, Caroline

    The 1994-1995 National Health Interview Survey on Disability (NHIS-D) has been one of the most unique and important data sources for studying disability, impairment, and health in the United States. In celebration of the NHIS-D's twenty-year anniversary, we created an extensive bibliography (n=212) of research that has used these data.

  12. Initial results of experimental studies of prairie dogs in arid grasslands: Implications for landscape conservation and the importance of scale (Resultados Iniciales de Estudios Experimentales en Perros Llaneros de Pastizales Aridos: Implicaciones Para la Conservacion del Paisaje y la Importancia de Escala)

    Treesearch

    Charles Curtin

    2006-01-01

    Numerous ecologists and conservationists believe that prairie dogs increase ecosystem diversity and preserve the function of grasslands (Whicker and Detling 1988, Miller et al. 1994, Jones et al. 1994, Power et al. 1996, Weltzin et al. 1997, Miller et al. 2000), yet this perspective is controversial (Stapp 1998). In contrast, many ranchers and land owners view prairie...

  13. 26 CFR 1.985-2 - Election to use the United States dollar as the functional currency of a QBU.

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    2010-04-01

    ... functional currency of a QBU. 1.985-2 Section 1.985-2 Internal Revenue INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT... Election to use the United States dollar as the functional currency of a QBU. (a) Background and scope—(1... currency for taxable years beginning on or before August 24, 1994. An election to use a dollar functional...

  14. A Comparative Analysis of E-Learning Policy Formulation in the European Union and the United States: Discursive Convergence and Divergence

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    Erichsen, Elizabeth Roumell; Salajan, Florin D.

    2014-01-01

    This study developed a framework that compares the content and purposes of "federal" level European Union (EU) and United States (US) e-learning policy to ascertain trends, patterns, and points of convergence and divergence across the years 1994-2010. It reveals that the EU and US are applying similar rhetoric for policy framing,…

  15. Fuel oil and kerosene sales 1994

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    NONE

    1995-09-27

    This publication contains the 1994 survey results of the ``Annual Fuel Oil and Kerosene Sales Report`` (Form EIA-821). This is the sixth year that the survey data have appeared in a separate publication. Prior to the 1989 report, the statistics appeared in the Petroleum Marketing Annual (PMA)for reference year 1988 and the Petroleum Marketing Monthly (PMM) for reference years 1984 through 1987. The 1994 edition marks the 11th annual presentation of the results of the ongoing ``Annual Fuel Oil and Kerosene Sales Report`` survey. Distillate and residual fuel oil sales continued to move in opposite directions during 1994. Distillate salesmore » rose for the third year in a row, due to a growing economy. Residual fuel oil sales, on the other hand, declined for the sixth year in a row, due to competitive natural gas prices, and a warmer heating season than in 1993. Distillate fuel oil sales increased 4.4 percent while residual fuel oil sales declined 1.6 percent. Kerosene sales decreased 1.4 percent in 1994.« less

  16. Maraschino Cherry: A Laboratory-Lecture Unit

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    Wrolstad, Ronald E.

    2009-01-01

    Oregon State Univ. has offered FST 102 "Maraschino Cherry" as a 1-credit orientation course since 1994. The maraschino cherry serves as a vehicle from which faculty give their disciplinary perspective, for example, the chemistry of the maraschino cherry, processing unit operations, microbiology and food safety, food law, sensory…

  17. Decision Topology Assessment in Engineering Design Under Uncertainity

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    2014-01-01

    those of the United States Government or the DoA, and shall not be used for advertising or product endorsement purposes. REFERENCES 1. Clemen ...Raiffa, H., 1994, Decisions with Multiple Objectives, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom. 6. Lewis, K., W. Chen, and L.C. Schmidt

  18. Epiphytes and the National Wetland Plant List

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    2011-03-07

    list") (Reed 1988 ). The NWPL was updated in 1996 (referred to here as the ඨ list," as posted in a USFWS draft web publication) (Reed 1998), but the...epiphytes. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 74: 205–233. Gleason, H.A. and A . Cronquist . 1991. Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and...National Wetland Plant List (NWPL) is a list of species that occur in wetlands in the United States. It is a product of a collaborative effort of

  19. Improving Access to Preschool and Postsecondary Education. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Education and Health of the Joint Economic Committee. Congress of the United States, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session (December 14-15, 1988).

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    Joint Economic Committee, Washington, DC.

    Joint hearings on the process of improving access to preschool and postsecondary education in the United States were convened to examine the economic significance of improved access to the nation. James H. Scheuer presided. These 2 days of hearings were the last of 11 days; information given on the previous days, which focused on what the country…

  20. The U.S. Environmental Protection Industry: A Proposed Framework for Assessment (1995)

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    This study defines which goods and services are used for environmental protection activities in the United States. Direct and indirect value added and employment associated with environmental protection activities are calculated for 1977, 1982, 1985, 1988,

  1. Prevalence of antimicrobial resistance among 723 outpatient clinical isolates of Moraxella catarrhalis in the United States in 1994 and 1995: results of a 30-center national surveillance study.

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    Doern, G V; Brueggemann, A B; Pierce, G; Hogan, T; Holley, H P; Rauch, A

    1996-12-01

    Seven hundred twenty-three isolates of Moraxella catarrhalis obtained from outpatients with a variety of infections in 30 medical centers in the United States between 1 November 1994 and 30 April 1995 were characterized in a central laboratory. The overall rate of beta-lactamase production was 95.3%. When the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards MIC interpretive breakpoints for Haemophilus influenzae were applied, percentages of strains found to be susceptible to selected oral antimicrobial agents were as follows: azithromycin, clarithromycin, and erythromycin, 100%; tetracycline and chloramphenicol, 100%; amoxicillin-clavulanate, 100%; cefixime, 99.3%; cefpodoxime, 99.0%; cefaclor, 99.4%; loracarbef, 99.0%; cefuroxime, 98.5%; cefprozil, 94.3%; and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, 93.5%.

  2. Shut Out: Denial of Education to Homeless Children.

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    Friedman, Lorraine; Christiansen, Guy

    The Stewart B. McKinney Act of 1987 was intended to remove barriers and ensure access to education for homeless children. But despite a 1988 consent decree, the United States Department of Education (DOE) has failed to comply with its statutory duties to implement the Act, the states have also failed to implement the Act adequately, and homeless…

  3. [Chancroid in Algeria: the status of this sexually transmitted disease in 1995].

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    Boudghène-Stambouli, O; Merad-Boudia, A

    1997-01-01

    Absent for several decades, the chancroid reappeared in Algeria in 1988. In the unique department of Dermatology and Venereology of the University Hospital of the country of Tlemcen (more than 700,000 inhabitants), we wanted to know the state of this STD seven years after the report of the first cases. The file of the consulting patients were examined. We looked for the principal characteristics of this STD: age, sex, incubation period, place infection contact, type of relation, clinical presentation, evolution without and with treatment, other associated STD (syphilis, HIV). From August 1988 (1st case) to December 1995, 144 cases of chancroid were collected = 1988: 6, 1989: 5, 1990: 7, 1991: 18, 1992: 11, 1993: 33, 1994: 48, 1995: 16. The presentation is quite stereotyped; it concerns males only, singles in must cases, having had sexual relations with prostitutes. The incubation period is short (less than 10 days), the characteristic ulceration presents, very often, some adenopathies. The treatment by cotrimoxazole is efficient. They are no concomitant syphilis or HIV infection. The chancroid is the first cause of genital ulceration in the world. Since 1991, it is the principal STD in our department. It spreads within a male population, young singles associated with prostitutes. It is well installed in Algeria, and its role, although minor, in the transmission of the HIV infection, should not be neglected.

  4. The 1994–1995 National Health Interview Survey on Disability (NHIS-D): A Bibliography of 20 Years of Research

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    Ward, Brian W.; Ridolfo, Heather; Creamer, Lauren; Gray, Caroline

    2015-01-01

    The 1994–1995 National Health Interview Survey on Disability (NHIS-D) has been one of the most unique and important data sources for studying disability, impairment, and health in the United States. In celebration of the NHIS-D’s twenty-year anniversary, we created an extensive bibliography (n=212) of research that has used these data. PMID:26640424

  5. Canadian Decisions in a Shifting North American Security Landscape

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    2003-04-15

    operations. But the biggest bugaboo , National Missile Defense, could change public perceptions, when USSTRATCOM has both the offensive and defensive...Canada and the United States receive a number of benefits out of the close defense relationship. According to the Defense Portfolio 2002, Canadian...Defence, The Defence Portfolio , 2002, 2002. 11, available at http://www.forces.gc.ca. 21 Department of National Defence, 1994 Defence White Paper, 1994

  6. Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide Mixing Ratios NOAA Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory Cooperative Air Sampling Network (1988-1993) (DB1011)

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    Novelli, P. C.; Masarie, K. A.

    1994-01-01

    Individual site files provide CO mixing ratios in parts per billion (ppb) (ppb = parts in 109 by mole fraction) based on measurements from the NOAA/CMDL Cooperative Air Sampling Network beginning 1988. Data are provided through June 1993 for stations at which the first sample was collected before July 1991. All samples were analyzed for CO at the NOAA/CMDL laboratory in Boulder by gas chromatography with mercuric oxide reduction detection, and all measurements are referenced to the CMDL CO scale (Novelli et al., 1991, Novelli et al., 1994).

  7. National health expenditures, 1989

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    Lazenby, Helen C.; Letsch, Suzanne W.

    1990-01-01

    Spending for health care in the United States grew to $604.1 billion in 1989, an increase of 11.1 percent from the 1988 level. Growth in national health expenditures has been edging upward since 1986, when the annual growth in the health care bill was 7.7 percent. Health care spending continues to command a larger and larger proportion of the resources of the Nation: In 1989, 11.6 percent of the Nation's output, as measured by the gross national product, was consumed by health care, up from 11.2 percent in 1988. PMID:10113559

  8. CO2 lidar backscatter profiles over Hawaii during fall 1988

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    Post, Madison J.; Cupp, Richard E.

    1992-01-01

    Aerosol and cloud backscatter data, obtained over a 24-day period in fall 1988 with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Doppler lidar at 10.59-micron wavelength, are analyzed by using a new technique to lessen biases that are due to dropouts. Typical backscatter cross sections were significantly lower than those routinely observed over the continental United States, although episodic backscatter enhancements caused by cirrus and mineral dust also occurred. Implications of these data on the proposed Laser Atmospheric Wind Sounder wind profiling satellite sensor are discussed.

  9. Matter in Motion: The Educational Materialism of Gilles Deleuze

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    Cole, David R.

    2012-01-01

    This paper critically examines the materialism that Gilles Deleuze espouses in his oeuvre to the benefit of educational theory. In "Difference and Repetition", he presented transcendental empiricism by underwriting Kant with realism (Deleuze, 1994). Later, in "Capitalism & Schizophrenia I & II" that were co-written with Felix Guattari (1984, 1988)…

  10. Electrically Mediated Trauma Repair

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    1994-07-07

    potential (TEP) (Johnston and Hoshiko, 1971; Rick et al., 1988; Shi and Borgens, 1994). In the axolotl neurulae, a gradient of 10 - 20 mV/mm is...reach 60-80 mV/mm. A more shallow voltage gradient is observed in the transverse plane of axolotl neurulae associated with mirror image outwardly

  11. Economic Impacts and Program Involvement in Agricultural Mechanics Competition Projects in Texas

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    Hanagriff, Roger D.; Rayfield, John; Briers, Gary; Murphy, Tim

    2014-01-01

    Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) is a well-documented, valuable, and integral part of agricultural education programs (Bryant, 2003; Cheek, Arrington, Carter, & Randall, 1994; Deyoe, 1953; Dyer & Osborne, 1996; Moore, 1988; Roberts & Harlin, 2007). Cole and Connell (1993) found that there was little research regarding the…

  12. Predicting nature-based tourist roles: a life span perspective

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    James J. Murdy; Heather J. Gibson; Andrew Yiannakis

    2003-01-01

    The concept of stable, clearly identifiable patterns of tourist behavior, or roles, is a relatively recent development. Yiannakis and Gibson (1988, 1992) identified fifteen tourist roles based on leisure travelers' vacation behaviors. Building on this work, Gibson (1994) used discriminant analysis to determine the combination of needs and demographics are...

  13. 40 CFR 145.52 - Requirements for Tribal eligibility.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... enforcement responsibility for the Underground Injection Control Program if it meets the following criteria... welfare of the affected population within a defined geographic area). (c) The Indian Tribe demonstrates... Underground Injection Control Program. [53 FR 37412, Sept. 26, 1988, as amended at 59 FR 64345, Dec. 14, 1994] ...

  14. 40 CFR 145.52 - Requirements for Tribal eligibility.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... enforcement responsibility for the Underground Injection Control Program if it meets the following criteria... welfare of the affected population within a defined geographic area). (c) The Indian Tribe demonstrates... Underground Injection Control Program. [53 FR 37412, Sept. 26, 1988, as amended at 59 FR 64345, Dec. 14, 1994] ...

  15. 40 CFR 145.52 - Requirements for Tribal eligibility.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... enforcement responsibility for the Underground Injection Control Program if it meets the following criteria... welfare of the affected population within a defined geographic area). (c) The Indian Tribe demonstrates... Underground Injection Control Program. [53 FR 37412, Sept. 26, 1988, as amended at 59 FR 64345, Dec. 14, 1994] ...

  16. 40 CFR 145.52 - Requirements for Tribal eligibility.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... enforcement responsibility for the Underground Injection Control Program if it meets the following criteria... welfare of the affected population within a defined geographic area). (c) The Indian Tribe demonstrates... Underground Injection Control Program. [53 FR 37412, Sept. 26, 1988, as amended at 59 FR 64345, Dec. 14, 1994] ...

  17. 40 CFR 145.52 - Requirements for Tribal eligibility.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... enforcement responsibility for the Underground Injection Control Program if it meets the following criteria... welfare of the affected population within a defined geographic area). (c) The Indian Tribe demonstrates... Underground Injection Control Program. [53 FR 37412, Sept. 26, 1988, as amended at 59 FR 64345, Dec. 14, 1994] ...

  18. HANDBOOK FOR USE OF DATA FROM THE NATIONAL HEALTH AND NUTRITION EXAMINATION SURVEYS (NHANES)

    EPA Science Inventory

    The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has been sponsoring National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) since 1971. There have been four completed surveys, with the last one (NHANES-III) being conducted from 1988-1994, and involving over 40,000 subjects. ...

  19. Entrepreneurship Education Revisited: Perceived Entrepreneurial Role Models Increase Perceived Behavioural Control

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    Fellnhofer, Katharina

    2017-01-01

    Relying on Bandura's (1986) social learning theory, Ajzen's (1988) theory of planned behaviour (TPB), and Dyer's (1994) model of entrepreneurial careers, this study aims to highlight the potential of entrepreneurial role models to entrepreneurship education. The results suggest that entrepreneurial courses would greatly benefit from real-life…

  20. 34 CFR 369.4 - What definitions apply to these programs?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... treatment; (18) Special services for the treatment of individuals with end-stage renal disease, including... material for persons who are blind and captioned films or video cassettes for persons who are deaf; and (vi.... 23, 1985; 53 FR 17143, May 13, 1988; 59 FR 8335, Feb. 18, 1994] ...

  1. 34 CFR 369.4 - What definitions apply to these programs?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... treatment; (18) Special services for the treatment of individuals with end-stage renal disease, including... material for persons who are blind and captioned films or video cassettes for persons who are deaf; and (vi.... 23, 1985; 53 FR 17143, May 13, 1988; 59 FR 8335, Feb. 18, 1994] ...

  2. 34 CFR 369.4 - What definitions apply to these programs?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... treatment; (18) Special services for the treatment of individuals with end-stage renal disease, including... material for persons who are blind and captioned films or video cassettes for persons who are deaf; and (vi.... 23, 1985; 53 FR 17143, May 13, 1988; 59 FR 8335, Feb. 18, 1994] ...

  3. 34 CFR 369.4 - What definitions apply to these programs?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... treatment; (18) Special services for the treatment of individuals with end-stage renal disease, including... material for persons who are blind and captioned films or video cassettes for persons who are deaf; and (vi.... 23, 1985; 53 FR 17143, May 13, 1988; 59 FR 8335, Feb. 18, 1994] ...

  4. 26 CFR 25.7520-4 - Transitional rules.

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    2010-04-01

    ... GIFT TAX; GIFTS MADE AFTER DECEMBER 31, 1954 General Actuarial Valuations § 25.7520-4 Transitional rules. (a) Reliance. If the valuation date is after April 30, 1989, and before June 10, 1994, a donor... an interest in property by gift after December 31, 1988, and before May 1, 1989, retaining an...

  5. [The migration crisis of the summer of 1994. Balance and perspectives of Cuban emigration flows: 1984-1996].

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    Rodriguez Chavez, E

    1996-01-01

    "The article argues that the rafters crisis of 1994 and the resulting migration agreements between the United States and Cuba in 1994 and 1995 were a radical turn in policies and migration flows between the two countries. The article also describes the general evolution of Cuban migration flows towards the U.S. from the 1984 bilateral agreement up to 1996. As a context, it describes the structural elements of recent Cuban emigration and the place Cubans occupy in the general immigration from Latin America and the Caribbean." (EXCERPT)

  6. Improvements in diabetes processes of care and intermediate outcomes: United States, 1988-2002.

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    Saaddine, Jinan B; Cadwell, Betsy; Gregg, Edward W; Engelgau, Michael M; Vinicor, Frank; Imperatore, Giuseppina; Narayan, K M Venkat

    2006-04-04

    Progress of diabetes care is a subject of public health concern. To assess changes in quality of diabetes care in the United States by using standardized measures. National population-based, serial cross-sectional surveys. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1988-1994 and 1999-2002) and the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (1995 and 2002). Survey participants 18 to 75 years of age who reported a diagnosis of diabetes. Glycemic control, blood pressure, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol level, annual cholesterol level monitoring, and annual foot and dilated eye examination, as defined by the National Diabetes Quality Improvement Alliance measures. In the past decade, the proportion of persons with diabetes with poor glycemic control (hemoglobin A1c > 9%) showed a nonstatistically significant decrease of 3.9% (95% CI, -10.4% to 2.5%), while the proportion of persons with fair or good lipid control (LDL cholesterol level < 3.4 mmol/L [<130 mg/dL]) had a statistically significant increase of 21.9% (CI, 12.4% to 31.3%). Mean LDL cholesterol level decreased by 0.5 mmol/L (18.8 mg/dL). Although mean hemoglobin A1c did not change, the proportion of persons with hemoglobin A(1c) of 6% to 8% increased from 34.2% to 47.0%. The blood pressure distribution did not change. Annual lipid testing, dilated eye examination, and foot examination increased by 8.3% (CI, 4.0% to 12.7%), 4.5% (CI, 0.5% to 8.5%), and 3.8% (CI, -0.1% to 7.7%), respectively. The proportion of persons reporting annual influenza vaccination and aspirin use improved by 6.8 percentage points (CI, 2.9 percentage points to 10.7 percentage points) and 13.1 percentage points (CI, 5.4 percentage points to 20.7 percentage points), respectively. Data are self-reported, and the surveys do not have all National Diabetes Quality Improvement Alliance indicators. Diabetes processes of care and intermediate outcomes have improved nationally in the past decade. But 2 in 5 persons with diabetes still have poor LDL cholesterol control, 1 in 3 persons still has poor blood pressure control, and 1 in 5 persons still has poor glycemic control.

  7. Survey of State Education Finance Legislative Activity and Trends, 1994-1997.

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    Crampton, Faith E.

    This paper presents the results of the second annual survey of state school-finance legislation conducted by the Education Finance and Economics Program of the National Education Association's Research Unit. The report, the only comprehensive 50-state survey being conducted, has three major purposes: (1) to provide an annual snapshot of state…

  8. Traffic safety facts 1998 : pedestrians

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    1999-01-01

    In 1998, 5,220 pedestrians were killed in traffic crashes in the United States - a decrease of 24 percent from the 6,870 pedestrians killed in 1988. On average, a pedestrian is killed in a traffic crash every 101 minutes. There were 69,000 pedestrian...

  9. Traffic safety facts 1998 : pedestrian

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    1998-01-01

    In 1998, 5,220 pedestrians were killed in traffic crashes in the United States - a decrease of 24% from the 6,870 pedestrians killed in 1988. On average, a pedestrian is killed in a traffic crash every 101 minutes. There were 69,000 pedestrians injur...

  10. 31 CFR 285.7 - Salary offset.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... Secretary, has waived certain requirements of the Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988, 5 U... process known as centralized salary offset computer matching, identify Federal employees who owe delinquent nontax debt to the United States. Centralized salary offset computer matching is the computerized...

  11. Trends in income-related inequality in untreated caries among children in the United States: findings from NHANES I, NHANES III, and NHANES 1999-2004.

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    Capurro, Diego Alberto; Iafolla, Timothy; Kingman, Albert; Chattopadhyay, Amit; Garcia, Isabel

    2015-12-01

    The goal of this analysis was to describe income-related inequality in untreated caries among children in the United States over time. The analysis focuses on children ages 2-12 years in three nationally representative U.S. surveys: the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 1971-1974, NHANES 1988-1994, and NHANES 1999-2004. The outcome of interest is untreated dental caries. Various methods are employed to measure absolute and relative inequality within each survey such as pair-wise comparisons, measures of association (odds ratios), and three summary measures of overall inequality: the slope index of inequality, the relative index of inequality, and the concentration index. Inequality trends are then assessed by comparing these estimates across the three surveys. Inequality was present in each of the three surveys analyzed. Whether measured on an absolute or relative scale, untreated caries disproportionately affected those with lower income. Trend analysis shows that, despite population-wide reductions in untreated caries between NHANES I and NHANES III, overall absolute inequality slightly increased, while overall relative inequality significantly increased. Between NHANES III and NHANES 1999-2004, both absolute and relative inequality tended to decrease; however, these changes were not statistically significant. Socioeconomic inequality in oral health is an important measure of progress in overall population health and a key input to inform health policies. This analysis shows the presence of socioeconomic inequality in oral health in the American child population, as well as changes in its magnitude over time. Further research is needed to determine the factors related to these changes and their relative contribution to inequality trends. © 2015 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

  12. The Thaw:How Mexico and The United States Thawed Their Cold Peace And What Comes Next

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    2014-04-01

    maintain a Cold Peace--so-called because it constituted a sustained state of political and military distancing between two powers.2 Over time, though...border in an effort to stem the flow of arms, impose order, and enforce neutrality laws .”14 Yet soon enough, the new administration of U.S. President...engagement with the United States, the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) in 1994 was a watershed event, marking a decisive

  13. S. 2195. The National Public Telecommunications Infrastructure Act of 1994. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Communications of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session.

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    Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Subcommittee on Communications.

    This hearing focused on S. 2195, the National Public Telecommunications Infrastructure Act of 1994, which would guarantee that noncommercial and public interest groups would have a place reserved on the information superhighway for the provision of free educational, informational, cultural, civic, or charitable services to the public. It was noted…

  14. Other Than War: The American Military Experience and Operations in the Post-Cold War Decade

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    2013-01-01

    drugs" did not seem to legitimize the en - terprise within the military services that viewed counter-drug operations as outside the normal scope of their... immigration generated considerable work for United States Southern Command was head- quartered first in Panama and by the end of the decade in...1994-1995 immigrant interdiction (Cubans) Sustain Liberty 1994-1997 defense/security During the decade, other Caribbean countries, particularly Cuba

  15. Rates of Household Firearm Ownership and Homicide Across US Regions and States, 1988–1997

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    Miller, Matthew; Azrael, Deborah; Hemenway, David

    2002-01-01

    Objectives. In this study we explored the association between rates of household firearm ownership and homicide across the United States, by age groups. Methods. We used cross-sectional time-series data (1988–1997) to estimate the association between rates of household firearm ownership and homicide. Results. In region- and state-level analyses, a robust association between rates of household firearm ownership and homicide was found. Regionally, the association exists for victims aged 5 to 14 years and those 35 years and older. At the state level, the association exists for every age group over age 5, even after controlling for poverty, urbanization, unemployment, alcohol consumption, and nonlethal violent crime. Conclusions. Although our study cannot determine causation, we found that in areas where household firearm ownership rates were higher, a disproportionately large number of people died from homicide. PMID:12453821

  16. Forest statistics for Ohio, 1991

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    Douglas M. Griffith; Dawn M. DiGiovanni; Teresa L. Witzel; Eric H. Wharton

    1993-01-01

    A statistical report on the fourth forest inventory of Ohio conducted in 1988-90. Findings are displayed in tables containing estimates of forest area, number of trees, sawtimber volume, growing-stock volume, biomass, growth, and removals. Data are presented at three levels: state, geographic unit, and county.

  17. 31 CFR 285.7 - Salary offset.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... requirements of the Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988, 5 U.S.C. 552a, as amended, for... known as centralized salary offset computer matching, identify Federal employees who owe delinquent nontax debt to the United States. Centralized salary offset computer matching is the computerized...

  18. 31 CFR 285.7 - Salary offset.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... requirements of the Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988, 5 U.S.C. 552a, as amended, for... known as centralized salary offset computer matching, identify Federal employees who owe delinquent nontax debt to the United States. Centralized salary offset computer matching is the computerized...

  19. 31 CFR 285.7 - Salary offset.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... requirements of the Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988, 5 U.S.C. 552a, as amended, for... known as centralized salary offset computer matching, identify Federal employees who owe delinquent nontax debt to the United States. Centralized salary offset computer matching is the computerized...

  20. 31 CFR 285.7 - Salary offset.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... requirements of the Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988, 5 U.S.C. 552a, as amended, for... known as centralized salary offset computer matching, identify Federal employees who owe delinquent nontax debt to the United States. Centralized salary offset computer matching is the computerized...

  1. General Aviation Activity and Avionics Survey (Annual Summary Report - 1987 data).

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    1988-11-01

    This report presents the results and a description of the 1987 General Aviation Activity and Avionics Survey. The survey was conducted during 1988 by the FAA to obtain information on the activity and avionics of the United States registered general a...

  2. Chapter E: History and Overview of the U.S. Diatomite Mining Industry, with Emphasis on the Western United States

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    Moyle, Phillip R.; Dolley, Thomas P.

    2003-01-01

    The United States is the largest producer and consumer of diatomite in the world. In 2001, the United States produced about a third of the estimated global production of 1.95 million metric tons (Mt) of diatomite (Dolley, 2003). In any given year, the United States accounts for at least 50 percent of all the diatomite exported in the world (Roskill, 1994). Seven diatomite companies operating in the United States produce diatomite in various grades for a range of applications, including filtration, absorbents, fillers, insulation, and cement manufacture. Economic deposits of diatomite within the United States depend on variations in the physical and chemical properties between and within deposits, potential end uses, and proximity to suitable markets. On the basis of historical production figures, estimated U.S. diatomite-production capacity is currently about 800,000 metric tons per year (t/yr).

  3. Vicarious Collecting: A Review of Some Notable Books about Books - and where to acquire them!

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    Koester, Jack

    Reviews on Milestones of Science, Ruth A. Sparrow, Buffalo Museum of Science, 1972, The Face of the Moon, from the Linda Hall Library, Out of this World - The Golden Age of the Celestial Atlas, Linda Hall Library, including Bayer's Uranometria, Schiller's Coelum Christianum, Hevelius' Firmamentum, Flamsteed's Atlas Coelestis, and Bode's Uranographia, as well as Argelander, Bode, Cellarius, Coronelli, Doppelmaier, Kepler, La Caille, Messier, Piccolomini, and Wollaston, Heavenly Library, Angus MacDonald and A.D. Morrison-Low from Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Library, 1994, Catalogue of the Rare Astronomical Books in the San Diego State University Library, Louis A. Kenney, 1988, and Vanity Fair, from 1869 to 1914, including caricatures of famous astronomers and scientists, such as Airy, Ball, Huggins, and Proctor.

  4. Main steam-line break core shroud loading calculations for BWRs

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    Shoop, U.; Feltus, M.A.; Baratta, A.J.

    1995-12-31

    In July 1994, the U.S. Nuclear regulatory Commission sent out Generic Letter 94-03 to all boiling water reactors in the United States, informing them of intergranular stress corrosion cracking of core shrouds found in 2 reactors. The letter directed all to perform safety analysis of the BWR units. Penn State performed scoping calculations to determine the forces experienced by the core shroud during a main-stream line break transient.

  5. The United States Experience with the Exotic Cerambycid Anoplophora glabripennis: Detection, Quarantine, and Control

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    Robert A. Haack; Therese M. Poland; Rui-Tong Gao

    2000-01-01

    It is estimated that there are at least 4500 exotic (non-indigenous) organisms currently established in the United States(US) (US Congress 1993) and possibly as many as 50,000 (Pimentel et al. 2000). Of the many exotic organisms now in the US, more than 400 are insects that feed on trees and shrubs.(Haack and Byler 1993, Mattson et al. 1994, Niemela and Mattson 1996)....

  6. Insects intercepted on Solid Wood Packing Materials at United States Ports-of-Entry: 1985-1998

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    Robert A. Haack; Joseph F. Cavey

    2000-01-01

    Estimates of the total number of exotic (non-indigenous) organisms that are now established in the United States(US), range from 4,500 (US Congress1993) to more than 50,000 (Pimentel et al. 2000), of which more than 400 are insects that feed on trees and shrubs and another 20 are disease organisms of trees(Haack and Byler 1993, Mattson et al. 1994, Niemela and Mattson...

  7. Foreign Students in U.S. Institutions, 1995-1996.

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    Chronicle of Higher Education, 1996

    1996-01-01

    Data on foreign students in United States higher education institutions in 1994-95 include information about region and country of students' origin, distribution by state, top fields of study, and institution type attended. The 20 institutions of each type (research, doctoral, master's, undergraduate, community college), with highest foreign…

  8. Dose-dependent pheromone responses of mountain pine beetle in stands of lodgepole pine

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    Daniel R. Miller; B. Staffan Lindgren; John H. Borden

    2005-01-01

    We conducted seven behavioral choice tests with Lindgren multiple-funnel traps in stands of mature lodgepole pine in British Columbia, from 1988 to 1994, to determine the dosedependent responses of the mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins, to its pheromones. Amultifunctional dose-dependent response was exhibited by D. ...

  9. 34 CFR 263.3 - What definitions apply to the Professional Development program?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... an organized Indian group that received a grant under the Indian Education Act of 1988 as it was in effect October 19, 1994. Indian institution of higher education means an accredited college or university..., any other institution that qualifies for funding under the Tribally Controlled College or University...

  10. Anatolii Alekseevich Karatsuba (congratulation)

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    2007-02-01

    Anatolii Alekseevich Karatsuba was seventy on 31 January 2007. He has been a member of the Editorial Board of this journal for 30 years, and was Deputy Editor from 1977 to 1988 and from 1994 to 2003. We congratulate Anatolii Alekseevich on his birthday and heartily wish him good health, happiness and every success in his scientific work.

  11. Examining Professional Development and Teacher's Learning about Literacy Instruction

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    Maxwell, Melanie

    2017-01-01

    The purpose of this qualitative case study (Merriam, 1988; Stake, 1994) was to understand how teacher perceptions of their knowledge, practice and students' knowledge change in a professional development learning opportunity that is based on their background knowledge in literacy instruction and what is determined to be their zone of proximal…

  12. Availability of Special Education Teachers: Trends and Tests.

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    Katsiyannis, Antonis; Zhang, Dalun; Conroy, Maureen A.

    2003-01-01

    A study examined trends in teacher availability in special education by analyzing data from annual reports to Congress from 1988-1989 to 1998- 1999. Findings indicate a nationwide shortage of teacher qualified to teach across all disabilities and a dramatic decrease in the teacher shortage rate beginning in the 1993-1994 year. (Contains…

  13. 49 CFR 571.5 - Matter incorporated by reference.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    .../. (1) MIL-S-13192, “Military Specification, Shoes, Men's, Dress, Oxford,” October 30, 1976, into § 571.214. (2) MIL-S-13192P, “Military Specification, Shoes, Men's, Dress, Oxford,” 1988, including Amendment 1, October 14, 1994, into § 571.208. (3) MIL-S-21711E, “Military Specification, Shoes, Women's,” 3...

  14. 49 CFR 571.5 - Matter incorporated by reference.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    .../. (1) MIL-S-13192, “Military Specification, Shoes, Men's, Dress, Oxford,” October 30, 1976, into § 571.214. (2) MIL-S-13192P, “Military Specification, Shoes, Men's, Dress, Oxford,” 1988, including Amendment 1, October 14, 1994, into § 571.208. (3) MIL-S-21711E, “Military Specification, Shoes, Women's,” 3...

  15. 49 CFR 571.5 - Matter incorporated by reference.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    .../. (1) MIL-S-13192, “Military Specification, Shoes, Men's, Dress, Oxford,” October 30, 1976, into § 571.214. (2) MIL-S-13192P, “Military Specification, Shoes, Men's, Dress, Oxford,” 1988, including Amendment 1, October 14, 1994, into § 571.208. (3) MIL-S-21711E, “Military Specification, Shoes, Women's,” 3...

  16. The Governance of Curriculum. 1994 Yearbook of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

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    Elmore, Richard F., Ed.; Fuhrman, Susan H., Ed.

    The United States is moving toward a more national, performance-based view of curriculum policy. The federal government will play a modest role in nationalizing curriculum policy issues, largely by pressuring states and localities through national standards. The chief agents of nationalization will continue to be state and locally based…

  17. Validity of cardiovascular risk prediction models in Latin America and among Hispanics in the United States of America: a systematic review.

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    Cortes-Bergoderi, Mery; Thomas, Randal J; Albuquerque, Felipe N; Batsis, John A; Burdiat, Gerard; Perez-Terzic, Carmen; Trejo-Gutierrez, Jorge; Lopez-Jimenez, Francisco

    2012-08-01

    To assess the use and validity of prediction models to estimate the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Latin America and among Hispanic populations in the United States of America. This was a systematic review of three databases: Ovid MEDLINE (1 January 1950-15 April 2010), LILACS (1 January 1988-15 April 2010), and EMBASE (1 January 1988-15 April 2010). MeSH search terms and domains were related to CVD, prediction rules, Latin America (including the Caribbean), and Hispanics in the United States. Database searches were supplemented by correspondence with experts in the field. A total of 1 655 abstracts were identified, of which five cohorts with a total of 13 142 subjects met inclusion criteria. A Mexican cohort showed that the predicted/observed event-rate ratio for coronary heart disease (CHD) according to the Framingham risk score (FRS) was 1.68 (95% CI, 1.26-2.11); incident myocardial infarction, 1.36 (95% CI, 0.90-1.83); and CHD death, 1.21 (95% CI, 0.43-2.00). In Ecuador, a prediction model for CVD and total deaths in hypertensive patients had an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.79 (95% CI, 0.72-0.86), while the World Health Organization method had an AUC of 0.74 (95% CI, 0.67-0.82). A study predicting mortality risk in people with Chagas' disease had an AUC of 0.81 (95% CI, 0.72-0.90). Among a United State s cohort that included Hispanics, FRS overestimated CVD risk for Hispanics with an AUC of 0.69. Another study in the United States that assessed FRS factors predicting CVD death among Mexican-Americans had an AUC of 0.78. The evidence regarding CVD risk prediction rules in Latin America or among Hispanics in the United States is modest at best. It is likely that the FRS overestimates CVD risk in Hispanics when not properly recalibrated.

  18. Reliability and prevalence of physical performance examination assessing mobility and balance in older persons in the US: data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

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    Ostchega, Y; Harris, T B; Hirsch, R; Parsons, V L; Kington, R; Katzoff, M

    2000-09-01

    This report provides reliability and prevalence estimates by sex, age, and race/ethnicity of an observed physical performance examination (PPE) assessing mobility and balance. The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) 1988-1994. A cross-sectional nationally representative survey. All persons aged 60 and older (n = 5,403) who performed the PPE either in the mobile examination center (MEC) or in the home during NHANES III (conducted 1988-1994). The PPE included timed chair stand, full tandem stand, and timed 8-foot walk. Timed chair stand and 8-foot timed walk were reliable measurements (Intraclass Correlations > 0.5). Women were significantly slower (P < .001) than men for both timed chair stands and timed walk. Non-Hispanic white men and women did the maneuvers in significantly less time than non-Hispanic black men and women and Mexican Americans women (P < .001). Lower extremity functions measured by timed chair stand and walk are reliable. Women at every age group were more physically limited than men.

  19. Assessment of DoD Processes in Support of Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) Determinations and Foreign Ownership, Control, or Influence (FOCI) Mitigation

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    2014-06-10

    that could impair national security). These transactions are defined as covered transactions and were defined as such in the Exon- Florio provision...the United States,” May 7, 1975; • The Exon- Florio Amendment to the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988, Pub. L. No. 100-418, 102 Stat. 1107...Council and the Economic Policy Board, as warranted. Introduction DODIG-2014-080│ 11 Exon‑ Florio Amendment Enacted under the Omnibus Trade and

  20. A Breeding Population of the Western Pacific Crab Hemigrapsus sanguineus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Grapsidae) Established on the Atlantic Coast of North America.

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    McDermott, J J

    1991-08-01

    The west Pacific grapsid crab Hemigrapsus sanguineus was found in the United States for the first time in 1988. Additional crabs were recovered in 1990 from Townsends Inlet and Cape May Harbor, New Jersey (22 males, 16 females), and four of the females collected from June through September were ovigerous. Thus, H. sanguineus has now established itself in southern New Jersey, the first well-documented case of an exotic brachyuran becoming established along the east coast of the United States.

  1. Reasons for Living and Hoping: The Spiritual and Psycho-Social Needs of Southeast Asian Refugee Children and Youth Resettled in the United States. Proceedings from the Multi-Disciplinary, Inter-Religious Conference on the Spiritual and Psycho-Social Needs of Southeast Asian Refugee Children and Youth Resettled in the United States (Washington, DC, October 16-18, 1988).

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    International Catholic Child Bureau, Inc., New York, NY.

    This document presents proceedings of a conference convened to identify the unmet spiritual and other non-material needs of Southeast Asian refugee children and youth and to offer recommendations to strengthen present programs and policies. Participants included leaders in the refugee community, clergy of several faiths, organizational…

  2. Suicide history and mortality: a follow-up of a national cohort in the United States.

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    Al-Sayegh, Hasan; Lowry, Joseph; Polur, Ram N; Hines, Robert B; Liu, Fengqi; Zhang, Jian

    2015-01-01

    Little is known about the cause-specific deaths among young suicide attempters from the general population, and the time window for intervention to reduce the elevated rate of death was unclear. We analyzed a nationally representative sample of young adults (17-39 years old) who participated in the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III, 1988-1994) and were followed up with vital status through December 31, 2006. The history of attempted suicide was associated with an increased rate for all-cause death (HR = 1.52 [95% CI = 0.92-2.52]) with borderline statistical significance. Previous suicide attempters experienced a 3-fold (HR = 2.68[=1.01-7.09]) increased rate for cardiovascular diseases (CVD), and a 7-fold (HR = 7.10 [95% CI = 1.37-36.9]) increased rate of death due to completed suicide compared with non-attempters. The survival curves of the attempters declined rapidly for the first 3 years of follow-up, and the distance between curves remained consistent starting from the third year to the end of the follow-up. Prevention services should be tailored not only for suicide, but also for cardiovascular diseases among populations with suicidal tendency, and the service should be intensified within first 3 years after suicidal behaviors occur.

  3. Trends in mortality and cerebral palsy in a geographically based cohort of very low birth weight neonates born between 1982 to 1994.

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    O'Shea, T M; Preisser, J S; Klinepeter, K L; Dillard, R G

    1998-04-01

    To analyze whether the increasing survival of very low birth weight infants during the 1980s and 1990s has increased the risk of cerebral palsy among survivors. The study cohort consisted of 2076 consecutively born infants, with birth weights of 500 to 1500 g and no major anomaly, born July 1, 1982, through June 30, 1994, to residents of a 17-county region in North Carolina. These infants had a mean birth weight of 1096 g (standard deviation, 251 g) and a mean gestational age of 29 weeks (standard deviation, 3 weeks). One thousand five hundred sixty-eight infants (76%) survived to 1 year adjusted age, at which point 1282 infants (82%) were examined at our medical center. The diagnosis of cerebral palsy was made only if the examining pediatrician and a pediatric physical therapist agreed on the diagnosis. To analyze trends across time, the Cochran-Armitage chi2 test and logistic regression were applied to data for infants categorized into six 2-year epochs according to year of birth. Mortality did not change significantly through 1990, and then began to decrease in 1990 to 1994. During the study period, mortality decreased from 36.8% between 1982 and 1984, to 13.8% between 1992 and 1994. The prevalence of cerebral palsy among survivors was constant from 1982 to 1988 (11.3%), decreased slightly from 1988 to 1990 (9.2%), and was lowest in 1990 to 1994 (5.2%). These secular trends in mortality and cerebral palsy risk remained significant when adjusted for gestational age, gender, and race. When adjusted for surfactant use, the trend in mortality was no longer significant, whereas the trend in cerebral palsy risk persisted. The increasing survival of very low birth weight infants in the 1980s and 1990s has not resulted in an increased prevalence of cerebral palsy among survivors.

  4. Chancroid detected by polymerase chain reaction--Jackson, Mississippi, 1994-1995.

    PubMed

    1995-08-04

    Chancroid is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by infection with Haemophilus ducreyi and is characterized by genital ulceration. Chancroid is underreported in the United States (1), reflecting, in part, difficulties in diagnosis because of clinical similarities between chancroid and other ulcerative STDs. In addition, laboratory confirmation by culture is 53%-84% sensitive and often is unavailable in clinical settings (2). In September 1994, clinicians at the District V STD clinic of the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) in Jackson reported examining patients with genital ulcers characteristic of chancroid but lacked capacity to confirm the diagnosis. To determine the cause of the ulcers, MSDH, in conjunction with CDC, conducted an investigation of all patients with genital ulcers examined at the Jackson STD clinic during October 20, 1994-February 1, 1995. This report summarizes the findings of the investigation.

  5. 49 CFR 665.5 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... used in public transportation service in the United States before October 1, 1988; or (2) Has been used... corresponding baseline bus configuration. Public transportation service means the operation of a vehicle that... 49 Transportation 7 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Definitions. 665.5 Section 665.5 Transportation...

  6. United States Army Medical Materiel Development Activity

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1989-03-10

    and BPL were provided by the contractor to USAMMDA personnel as required. 3 ,I SAutomatic Data Processing Support: During 1988, USAMI.DA procured...PABO, and WRAIR cooperated to immunize 40,000 volunteers in a double blind study of 0. neningitidis Vaccine. Controls received a licensed Group C

  7. Academic Year Abroad. 1988-89.

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    Howard, Edrice Marguerite, Ed.

    This directory of study-abroad programs provides information on over 1,500 postsecondary study programs that take place in countries other than the United States during the academic year. An introductory section describes the organization of the listings (which provide program sponsor and name, location, dates, subjects, credit, eligibility,…

  8. National Bookmobile Guidelines, 1988.

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    Ohio State Library, Columbus.

    These guidelines were developed by the bookmobile community that has met in Columbus, Ohio, since 1985 for their annual conference. The guidelines comprise the collaborative effort of hundreds of conference participants and representatives from 79 libraries throughout the United States and Canada, who discussed the guidelines in regional and state…

  9. 34 CFR 388.4 - What activities may the Secretary fund?

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    2011-07-01

    ... on program areas that are essential to the State unit's operation or on skill areas that will enable... planning; (3) Provide for leadership development and capacity building; and (4) For fiscal year 1994...

  10. Annular Solar Eclipse of 10 May 1994

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    Espenak, Fred; Anderson, Jay

    1993-01-01

    An annular eclipse of the Sun will be widely visible from the Western Hemisphere on 10 May 1994. The path of the Moon's shadow passes through Mexico, the United States of America, maritime Canada, the North Atlantic, the Azores and Morocco. Detailed predictions for this event are presented and include tables of geographic coordinates of the annular path, local circumstances for hundreds of cities, maps of the path of annular and partial eclipse, weather prospects, and the lunar limb profile.

  11. Vocational and Applied Technology Education Annual Performance Report for Program Year 1994. Submitted to the United States Secretary of Education under the Provisions of Public Law 101-392, the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act.

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    Texas Education Agency, Austin.

    Approximately 1 million individuals in Texas participated in career and technical programs, services, and activities offered at the secondary, postsecondary, and adult levels of education by public schools and community colleges in program year 1994. Secondary core standards and measures of performance were adopted in 1993. Sixty-nine federally…

  12. Proposal for continued research in intelligent machines at the Center for Engineering Systems Advanced Research (CESAR) for FY 1988 to FY 1991

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    Weisbin, C.R.

    1987-03-01

    This document reviews research accomplishments achieved by the staff of the Center for Engineering Systems Advanced Research (CESAR) during the fiscal years 1984 through 1987. The manuscript also describes future CESAR objectives for the 1988-1991 planning horizon, and beyond. As much as possible, the basic research goals are derived from perceived Department of Energy (DOE) needs for increased safety, productivity, and competitiveness in the United States energy producing and consuming facilities. Research areas covered include the HERMIES-II Robot, autonomous robot navigation, hypercube computers, machine vision, and manipulators.

  13. Full accounting of diabetes and pre-diabetes in the U.S. population in 1988-1994 and 2005-2006.

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    Cowie, Catherine C; Rust, Keith F; Ford, Earl S; Eberhardt, Mark S; Byrd-Holt, Danita D; Li, Chaoyang; Williams, Desmond E; Gregg, Edward W; Bainbridge, Kathleen E; Saydah, Sharon H; Geiss, Linda S

    2009-02-01

    We examined the prevalences of diagnosed diabetes, and undiagnosed diabetes and pre-diabetes using fasting and 2-h oral glucose tolerance test values, in the U.S. during 2005-2006. We then compared the prevalences of these conditions with those in 1988-1994. In 2005-2006, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey included a probability sample of 7,267 people aged > or =12 years. Participants were classified according to glycemic status by interview for diagnosed diabetes and by fasting and 2-h glucoses measured in subsamples. In 2005-2006, the crude prevalence of total diabetes in people aged > or =20 years was 12.9%, of which approximately 40% was undiagnosed. In people aged > or =20 years, the crude prevalence of impaired fasting glucose was 25.7% and of impaired glucose tolerance was 13.8%, with almost 30% having either. Over 40% of individuals had diabetes or pre-diabetes. Almost one-third of the elderly had diabetes, and three-quarters had diabetes or pre-diabetes. Compared with non-Hispanic whites, age- and sex-standardized prevalence of diagnosed diabetes was approximately twice as high in non-Hispanic blacks (P < 0.0001) and Mexican Americans (P = 0.0001), whereas undiagnosed diabetes was not higher. Crude prevalence of diagnosed diabetes in people aged > or =20 years rose from 5.1% in 1988-1994 to 7.7% in 2005-2006 (P = 0.0001); this was significant after accounting for differences in age and sex, particularly in non-Hispanic blacks. Prevalences of undiagnosed diabetes and pre-diabetes were generally stable, although the proportion of total diabetes that was undiagnosed decreased in Mexican Americans. Over 40% of people aged > or =20 years have hyperglycemic conditions, and prevalence is higher in minorities. Diagnosed diabetes has increased over time, but other conditions have been relatively stable.

  14. Trends in intakes and sources of solid fats and added sugars among US children and adolescents: 1994-2010

    PubMed Central

    Slining, Meghan M.; Popkin, Barry M.

    2013-01-01

    Objective There are increasing global concerns about improving the dietary intakes of children and adolescents. In the United States (U.S.) the focus is on reducing energy from foods and beverages that provide empty calories from solid fats and added sugars (SoFAS). We examine trends in intakes and sources of solid fat and added sugars among U.S. 2- to 18- year olds from 1994-2010. Methods Data from five nationally representative surveys, the Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals Surveys (1994-1996) and the What We Eat In America, National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (2003-2004, 2005-2006, 2007-2008 and 2009-2010) were used to examine key food sources and energy from solid fats and added sugars. Sample sizes ranged from 2,594 to 8,259 per survey period, for a total of 17,268 observations across the five surveys. Food files were linked over time to create comparable food groups and nutrient values. Differences were examined by age, race/ethnicity and family income. Results Daily intake of energy from SoFAS among U.S. 2-18 year olds decreased from 1994-2010, with declines primarily detected in the recent time periods. Solid fats accounted for a greater proportion of total energy intake than did added sugars. Conclusions Although the consumption of solid fats and added sugars among children and adolescents in the United States decreased between 1994–1998 and 2009–2010, mean intakes continue to exceed recommended limits. PMID:23554397

  15. State Roles in the Global Climate Change Issue.

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Changnon, Stanley A.

    1995-02-01

    Events in 1988 helped focus the attention of several states on the global climate change issue. Consequently, the National Governors' Association conducted an assessment in 1989 and recommended various actions. By 1994, 22 states have enacted laws or regulations and/or established research programs addressing climate change. Most of these "no regrets" actions are set up to conserve energy or improve energy efficiency and also to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Illinois has adopted an even broader program by 1) establishing a Global Climate Change Office to foster research and provide information and 2) forming a task force to address a wide array of issues including state input to federal policies such as the Clinton administration's 1993 Climate Change Action Plan and to the research dimensions of the U.S. Global Climate Change Research Program. The Illinois program calls for increased attention to studies of regional impacts, including integrated assessments, and to research addressing means to adapt to future climate change. These various state efforts to date help show the direction of policy development and should be useful to those grappling with these issues.

  16. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Volume 43, Number 53. Summary of Notifiable Diseases, United States, 1994.

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1995-10-06

    shock syndrome Varicella Trich- Tuber- Typhoid ( chicken - inosis culosis Tularemia fever pox ) United States New England Maine N.H...enteritidis gastroenteritis transmitted by intact chicken eggs. Ann Intern Med 1991;115:190-4. Mishu B, Koehler J, Lee LA, et al. Outbreaks of Salmonella...etal. Shigella dysenteriaetype 1 infections in U.S. travellers to Mexico . Lancet 1989:543-5. Ries AA, Wells JG, Olivola D, et al. Epidemic Shigella

  17. Second United States Microgravity Payload: One Year Report

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Curreri, Peter A. (Editor); McCauley, Dannah E. (Editor)

    1996-01-01

    The second United States Microgravity Payload (USMP-2), flown in March 1994, carried four major microgravity experiments plus a sophisticated accelerometer system. The USMP program is designed to accommodate experiments requiring extensive resources short of a full Spacelab mission. The four USMP-2 experiments dealt with understanding fundamental aspects of materials behavior, three with the formation of crystals from melts and one with the critical point of a noble gas. This successful, scientifically rich mission also demonstrated telescience operations.

  18. Ethnic differences in the nutrient intake adequacy of premenopausal US women: results from the Third National Health Examination Survey.

    PubMed

    Arab, Lenore; Carriquiry, Alicia; Steck-Scott, Susan; Gaudet, Mia M

    2003-08-01

    To examine the adequacy of dietary intake of calcium; folate; and vitamins C, D, E, B-6, and B-12 in premenopausal US women of differing ethnicity. Analyses of single and duplicate 24-hour recalls were conducted to determine dietary intake during the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Three thousand five hundred eighty-five randomly selected women aged 20 to 50 years from across the United States who were not pregnant or lactating were examined between 1988 and 1994. Usual nutrient intake distributions were estimated using the Iowa State University method for adjustment of the distribution. The Estimated Average Requirement cut-point method was used to determine the proportion of women with inadequate intake for each nutrient in each ethnic group. More than 75% of women irrespective of ethnic group had usual intakes of calcium lower than the new Adequate Intake. More than 90% of the women had inadequate intakes of folate and vitamin E from food sources alone. More than half of smokers had inadequate intakes of vitamin C. Intakes of vitamins B-6 and B-12 were low in less than 10% of these women. This article provides evidence that a high proportion of premenopausal US women are underconsuming a variety of nutrients. Dietary intakes alone are not currently adequate to meet the new recommended intakes. Nutritional supplement use is widespread and effective, but does not eliminate the concerns for at-risk populations. Awareness of the general inadequacies in intakes of vitamin E and folic acid at large, and in many women vitamin C as well, can help direct individual dietary recommendations and place the emphasis in group counseling on nutrients that are of widespread concern. In addition, foods rich in vitamins B-6 and of general nutritional benefit should be emphasized among African American women in the United States as a substantial proportion of this group is still showing inadequate intakes from foods.

  19. MULTI-RESOLUTION LAND CHARACTERISTICS FOR THE MID-ATLANTIC INTEGRATED ASSESMENT (MAIA) STUDY AREA

    EPA Science Inventory

    This data set is a Geographic Information System (GIS) coverage of the land use and land cover for the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Mid-Atlantic Integrated Assessment (MAIA) Project region. The coverage was produced using 1988, 1989, 1991,1992, and 1993...

  20. Teaching About South Korea.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Schisgall, Jane

    1983-01-01

    Identifies reasons why social studies educators should improve their teaching about South Korea. Included in the list is the increasing numbers of Koreans being educated in the United States, the summer Olympics in 1988, and the use of Korean culture as a case study demonstrating the effects of cultural transmission and society in transition. (JDH)

  1. United States Air Force Computer-Aided Acquisition & Logistics Support (CALS): CAD/CAM/CAE Current and Future Environment (1988 - 1998). Version 3.0

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    1988-11-01

    The diffusion and adoption of new technologies across national, sectoral, and : organizational boundaries has been a topic of considerable research. While the : exact transfer mechanism remains a matter of hypothesis, it seems clear that the : direct...

  2. DEVELOPMENT OF A DIETARY EXPOSURE POTENTIAL MODEL FOR EVALUATING DIETARY EXPOSURE TO CHEMICAL RESIDUES IN FOOD

    EPA Science Inventory

    The Dietary Exposure Potential Model (DEPM) is a computer-based model developed for estimating dietary exposure to chemical residues in food. The DEPM is based on food consumption data from the 1987-1988 Nationwide Food Consumption Survey (NFCS) administered by the United States ...

  3. Computer Assisted Instruction. 1988-89. 353 Project.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Granite School District, Salt Lake City, UT.

    The Granite School District (Utah) conducted a project to implement competency-based/technology-assisted instruction in all of its adult high schools. The district adopted the state's core curriculum in order to establish clearly defined instructional goals and objectives; revised and added to the instructional units; made the curriculum uniform…

  4. 48 CFR 52.222-14 - Disputes Concerning Labor Standards.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 48 Federal Acquisition Regulations System 2 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Disputes Concerning Labor....222-14 Disputes Concerning Labor Standards. As prescribed in 22.407(a), insert the following clause: Disputes Concerning Labor Standards (FEB 1988) The United States Department of Labor has set forth in 29...

  5. Ensuring Successful Personnel Management in the Department of Homeland Security

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2002-01-01

    of Public- Private Sector Wages Allowing for Endogenous Choices of Both Government and Union Status,” Journal of Labor Economics , Vol. 6, 1988...Differential in the United States,” Journal of Labor Economics , Vol. 8, No. 2, 1990. Rosenthal, Douglas, Margaret Barton, Douglas Reynolds, and Beverly Dugan

  6. CBO’s Revenue Forecasting Record

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2015-11-01

    1983 1988 1993 1998 2003 2008 2013 -10 0 10 20 30 CBO Administration CBO’s Mean Forecast Error (1.1%) Forecast Errors for CBO’s and the...Administration’s Two-Year Revenue Projections CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE CBO CBO’s Revenue Forecasting Record NOVEMBER 2015...

  7. Child-Centered Group Play Therapy with African American Boys at the Elementary School Level

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    Baggerly, Jennifer; Parker, Max

    2005-01-01

    African American boys face numerous challenges in society within the United States, including prejudice, discrimination, racism, economic hardship, limited access to support services, educational biases, and community violence. According to Pierce (1988), the psychic assault of subtle racism against African American boys erode their…

  8. Forest statistics for Pennsylvania--1978 and 1989

    Treesearch

    Carol L. Alerich; Carol L. Alerich

    1993-01-01

    A statistical report on the fourth forest survey of Pennsylvania (1988-90). Findings are displayed in 157 tables containing estimates of forest area, numbers of trees, wildlife habitat, tree biomass, timber volume, timber products outp~qg, rowth, and change. Data are presented at three levels: state, geographic unit, and county.

  9. Impacts of pear thrips on a Pennsylvania sugarbush: third year results

    Treesearch

    Thomas E. Kolb; Larry H. McCormick

    1993-01-01

    Pear thrips, Taeniothrips inconsequens (Uzel) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), were first positively identified as causing damage to sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marsh.) in forest environments in the United States in 1980. Damage in Pennsylvania from this insect has occurred consistently since 1980, with the most extensive impact in 1988...

  10. Hazelwood Decision: The Complete Text of the Jan. 13 U.S. Supreme Court 5-3 Decision.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Quill and Scroll, 1988

    1988-01-01

    Reprints the complete text of the January 13, 1988 United States Supreme Court decision on Hazelwood School District versus Kuhlmeier, which concerns educators' editorial control over the content of a high school newspaper produced as part of a school's journalism curriculum. (MS)

  11. International Conference on Vocational Guidance (6th, Hyogo, Japan, November 2-4, 1988). Final Report.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Ashiya Univ., Hyogo (Japan).

    This conference report contains the following papers: "Keynote Address" (Fukuyama); "Predictions Regarding the Nature and Significance of Vocational Guidance during the 21st Century in the United States" (Hoyt); "The Changing Workforce and Vocational Guidance" (Inaba); "The 6th International Conference on…

  12. PFOS and PFOSA in Bottlenose Dolphins: An Investigation into Two High Mortality Epizootics (NRMMSTSN2009)

    EPA Science Inventory

    Along the Atlantic coast of the United States during 1987 and 1988, bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) suffered one of this country's largest marine mammal mass mortality events. An estimated 50% of all near-shore bottlenose died during this short period. Two years later a ...

  13. PFOS and PFOSA in Bottlenose Dolphins: An Investigation into Two Unusually High Mortality Epizootics

    EPA Science Inventory

    Along the Atlantic coast of the United States during 1987 and 1988, bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) suffered one of this country's largest marine mammal mass mortality events. An estimated 50% of all near-shore bottlenose died during this short period. Two years later a ...

  14. PFOS and PFOSA in Bottlenose Dolphins: An Investigation into Two Unusual Mortality Epizootics (WDA)

    EPA Science Inventory

    Along the Atlantic coast of the United States during 1987 and 1988, bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) suffered one of this country's largest marine mammal mass mortality events. An estimated 50% of all near-shore bottlenose died during this short period. Two years later a ...

  15. PFOS and PFOSA in Bottlenose Dolphins: An Investigation into Two Unusually High Mortality Events

    EPA Science Inventory

    Along the Atlantic coast of the United States during 1987 and 1988, bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) suffered one of this country's largest marine mammal mass mortality events. An estimated 50% of all near-shore bottlenose died during this short period. Two years later a ...

  16. Reduction of racial/ethnic disparities in vaccination coverage, 1995-2011.

    PubMed

    Walker, Allison T; Smith, Philip J; Kolasa, Maureen

    2014-04-18

    The Presidential Childhood Immunization Initiative was developed in 1993 to address major gaps in childhood vaccination coverage in the United States. Eliminating the cost of vaccines as a barrier to vaccination was one strategy of the Childhood Immunization Initiative; it led to Congressional legislation that authorized creation of the Vaccines for Children program (VFC) in 1994. CDC analyzed National Immunization Survey data for 1995-2011 to evaluate trends in disparities in vaccination coverage rates between non-Hispanic white children and children of other racial/ethnic groups. VFC has been effective in ireducing disparities in vaccination coverage among U.S. children. CDC's Office of Minority Health and Health Equity selected the intervention analysis and discussion that follows to provide an example of a program that has been effective in reducing childhood vaccination coverage-related disparities in the United States. At its inception in 1994, VFC was implemented in 78 Immunization Action Plan areas that covered the entire United States; within each area, concerted efforts were made to improve childhood vaccination coverage. The findings in this report demonstrate that there have been no racial/ethnic disparities in vaccine coverage for measles-mumps-rubella and poliovirus in the United States since 2005. Disparities in coverage for the diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis/diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis vaccine were absent, declining, or inconsistent during this period, depending on the racial/ethnic group examined. The results in this report highlight the effectiveness of VFC.

  17. 76 FR 72677 - North American Free-Trade Agreement, Article 1904 NAFTA Panel Reviews; Request for Panel Review

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-11-25

    ..., Article 1904 NAFTA Panel Reviews; Request for Panel Review AGENCY: NAFTA Secretariat, United States... with the Mexican Section of the NAFTA Secretariat pursuant to Article 1904 of the North American Free... Article 1904 of the Agreement, which came into force on January 1, 1994, the Government of the United...

  18. 75 FR 13494 - North American Free-Trade Agreement, Article 1904; NAFTA Panel Reviews; Request for Panel Review

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    2010-03-22

    ..., Article 1904; NAFTA Panel Reviews; Request for Panel Review AGENCY: NAFTA Secretariat, United States... Secretariat pursuant to Article 1904 of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Panel Review was requested of... Article 1904 of the Agreement, which came into force on January 1, 1994, the Government of the United...

  19. 75 FR 82375 - North American Free Trade Agreement, Article 1904 NAFTA Panel Reviews; Request for Panel Review

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    2010-12-30

    ..., Article 1904 NAFTA Panel Reviews; Request for Panel Review AGENCY: NAFTA Secretariat, United States... to Article 1904 of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Second and Third Requests for Panel... Article 1904 of the Agreement, which came into force on January 1, 1994, the Government of the United...

  20. 31 CFR 515.332 - Information and informational materials.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... promote nonproliferation of antiterrorism policies of the United States, including “software” that is not “publicly available” as these terms are defined in 15 CFR parts 779 and 799.1 (1994); or (2) With respect to...

  1. 31 CFR 515.332 - Information and informational materials.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... promote nonproliferation of antiterrorism policies of the United States, including “software” that is not “publicly available” as these terms are defined in 15 CFR parts 779 and 799.1 (1994); or (2) With respect to...

  2. 31 CFR 515.332 - Information and informational materials.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... promote nonproliferation of antiterrorism policies of the United States, including “software” that is not “publicly available” as these terms are defined in 15 CFR parts 779 and 799.1 (1994); or (2) With respect to...

  3. 31 CFR 515.332 - Information and informational materials.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... promote nonproliferation of antiterrorism policies of the United States, including “software” that is not “publicly available” as these terms are defined in 15 CFR parts 779 and 799.1 (1994); or (2) With respect to...

  4. 31 CFR 515.332 - Information and informational materials.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... promote nonproliferation of antiterrorism policies of the United States, including “software” that is not “publicly available” as these terms are defined in 15 CFR parts 779 and 799.1 (1994); or (2) With respect to...

  5. 31 CFR 500.332 - Information and informational materials.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... nonproliferation or antiterrorism policies of the United States, including “software” that is not “publicly available” as these terms are defined in 15 CFR parts 779 and 799.1 (1994); or (2) With respect to which...

  6. Occupationally related hydrogen sulfide deaths in the United States from 1984 to 1994.

    PubMed

    Fuller, D C; Suruda, A J

    2000-09-01

    Alice Hamilton described fatal work injuries from acute hydrogen sulfide poisonings in 1925 in her book Industrial Poisons in the United States. There is no unique code for H2S poisoning in the International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision; therefore, these deaths cannot be identified easily from vital records. We reviewed US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) investigation records for the period 1984 to 1994 for mention of hazardous substance 1480 (hydrogen sulfide). There were 80 fatalities from hydrogen sulfide in 57 incidents, with 19 fatalities and 36 injuries among coworkers attempting to rescue fallen workers. Only 17% of the deaths were at workplaces covered by collective bargaining agreements. OSHA issued citations for violation of respiratory protection and confined space standards in 60% of the fatalities. The use of hydrogen sulfide detection equipment, air-supplied respirators, and confined space safety training would have prevented most of the fatalities.

  7. Changing perceptions of United States natural-gas resources as shown by successive U. S. Department of the Interior assessments

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    Schmoker, James W.; Dyman, Thaddeus S.

    2001-01-01

    Trends in four successive estimates of United States technically recoverable natural gas resources are examined in this report. The effective dates of these assessments were January 1 of 1975, 1980, 1987, and 1994. The 1994 estimate of the U.S. total gas endowment increased significantly over the previous three estimates, indicating that the technically recoverable endowment of gas is not an absolute volume, but rather is a quantity that can increase through time in response to advances in technology and in geologic understanding. Much of this increase was in the category of reserve growth. Reserve growth refers to additions to the estimated ultimate recovery of fields that typically occur as discovered fields are developed and produced. The potential for U.S. reserve growth, rather than being rapidly used up, appears to be sustainable for many years by intensive engineering efforts coupled with improving technology. Potential additions to reserves in continuous (unconventional) accumulations also represent a type of reserve growth, and were estimated (for the first time) in the 1994 assessment at 358 trillion cubic feet of gas. This resource category provides a significant new contribution to the estimated U.S. total gas endowment.

  8. Advanced Crew Escape Suit.

    PubMed

    1995-09-01

    Design of the S1032 Launch Entry Suit (LES) began following the Challenger loss and NASA's decision to incorporate a Shuttle crew escape system. The LES (see Figure 1) has successfully supported Shuttle missions since NASA's Return to Flight with STS-26 in September 1988. In 1990, engineers began developing the S1035 Advanced Crew Escape Suit (ACES) to serve as a replacement for the LES. The ACES was designed to be a simplified, lightweight, low-bulk pressure suit which aided self donning/doffing, provided improved comfort, and enhanced overall performance to reduce crew member stress and fatigue. Favorable crew member evaluations of a prototype led to full-scale development and qualification of the S1035 ACES between 1990 and 1992. Production of the S1035 ACES began in February 1993, with the first unit delivered to NASA in May 1994. The S1035 ACES first flew aboard STS-68 in August 1994 and will become the primary crew escape suit when the S1032 LES ends its service life in late 1995. The primary goal of the S1035 development program was to provide improved performance over that of the S1032 to minimize the stress and fatigue typically experienced by crew members. To achieve this, five fundamental design objectives were established, resulting in various material/configuration changes.

  9. [Arthrodesis following revision of a knee endoprosthesis. Literature review 1984-1994].

    PubMed

    Kohn, D; Schmolke, S

    1996-04-01

    Two percent of primary and 8% of revision total knee replacements are followed by arthrodesis. Today knee arthrodesis is the most important salvage procedure after failed total knee arthroplasty, resection arthroplasty and above-the-knee amputation being the only alternatives. Analysis of the literature between 1984 and 1994 revealed 533 cases treated with arthrodesis of the knee; 403 were done after failed total knee arthroplasty. The fusion rate was 74%. External fixation, intramedullary nail, plates and combinations of these are currently used for fixation. The literature and an analysis of our own patients from 1988 to 1994 showed that arthrodesis after failed arthroplasty is a difficult procedure, and complications often occur. Bone loss of the distal femur and proximal tibia is the one most important prognostic factor. A new classification system for bone loss is presented.

  10. Spatial distribution of water supply in the coterminous United States

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    Thomas C. Brown; Michael T. Hobbins; Jorge A. Ramirez

    2008-01-01

    Available water supply across the contiguous 48 states was estimated as precipitation minus evapotranspiration using data for the period 1953-1994. Precipitation estimates were taken from the Parameter- Elevation Regressions on Independent Slopes Model (PRISM). Evapotranspiration was estimated using two models, the Advection-Aridity model and the Zhang model. The...

  11. Legislation Pertaining to Special Needs Education.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France).

    This report presents the findings of a UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Social, and Cultural Organization) survey of the state of legislation on special needs education in 52 member states. Most of the information was gathered in 1992-93. This document represents the final work compiled in 1994-95. Part 1 presents an analysis and synthesis of…

  12. Land-Grant Extension as a Global Endeavor: Connecting Knowledge and International Development

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    Collins, Christopher S.

    2012-01-01

    Two land-grant institutions, Michigan State University (MSU) and Texas A&M University (TAMU) used funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to partner with the National University of Rwanda (NUR) to support the agriculture faculty in Rwanda following the 1994 genocide. In addition, the three institutions…

  13. Perturbation of lipids and glucose metabolism associated with previous 2,4-D exposure: a cross-sectional study of NHANES III data, 1988-1994

    EPA Science Inventory

    Background Results from previous population studies showed that mortality rates from acute myocardial infarction and type-2 diabetes during the 1980s and 1990s in rural, agricultural counties of Minnesota, Montana, North and South Dakota, were higher in counties with a higher le...

  14. System analysis in forest resources: proceedings of the 2003 symposium.

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    Michael Bevers; Tara M. Barrett

    2005-01-01

    The 2003 symposium of systems analysis in forest resources brought together researchers and practitioners who apply methods of optimization, simulation, management science, and systems analysis to forestry problems. This was the 10th symposium in the series, with previous conferences held in 1975, 1985, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1997, 2000, and 2002. The forty-two papers...

  15. Do Lower Lender Subsidies Reduce Guaranteed Student Loan Supply?

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    Austin, D. Andrew

    2010-01-01

    The article analyzes effects of borrower interest rates and student lender subsidies on federally guaranteed student loan volumes from 1988 to 1994 and from 1996 to 2006. Some have argued that lender subsidy cuts would reduce loan supply or cause lenders to exit the student loan market. If lenders get economic rents due to overly generous…

  16. Why Not Philosophy? Problematizing the Philosophy of Mathematics in a Time of Curriculum Reform

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    White-Fredette, Kimberly

    2010-01-01

    This article argues that, as teachers struggle to implement curriculum reform in mathematics, an explicit discussion of philosophy of mathematics is missing from the conversation. Building on the work of Ernest (1988, 1991, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2004), Lerman (1990, 1998, 1999), the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (1989, 1991, 2000), Davis…

  17. 78 FR 17714 - Notice of Availability of the HiLine District Draft Resource Management Plan and Draft...

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    2013-03-22

    ... (1988) and Sweet Grass Hills Amendment (1996) and Judith-Valley-Phillips Resource Management Plans (1994..., Kevin Rim, Mountain Plover, Prairie Dog Towns within the 7km Complex, and Sweet Grass Hills; these ACEC... Restrictions: Avoidance area for rights-of-way. Sweet Grass Hills ACEC (7,419 Acres) Relevant and Important...

  18. 12 CFR 210.6 - Status, warranties, and liability of Reserve Bank.

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    2012-01-01

    ... FEDWIRE (REGULATION J) Collection of Checks and Other Items By Federal Reserve Banks § 210.6 Status... it transfers or presents that item that— (A) The electronic image portion of the item accurately... 21984, June 13, 1988; Reg. J, 59 FR 22966, May 4, 1994; 62 FR 48172, Sept. 15, 1997; Reg. J, 69 FR 62559...

  19. 12 CFR 210.6 - Status, warranties, and liability of Reserve Bank.

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    2013-01-01

    ... FEDWIRE (REGULATION J) Collection of Checks and Other Items By Federal Reserve Banks § 210.6 Status... it transfers or presents that item that— (A) The electronic image portion of the item accurately... 21984, June 13, 1988; Reg. J, 59 FR 22966, May 4, 1994; 62 FR 48172, Sept. 15, 1997; Reg. J, 69 FR 62559...

  20. 12 CFR 210.6 - Status, warranties, and liability of Reserve Bank.

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    2011-01-01

    ... FEDWIRE (REGULATION J) Collection of Checks and Other Items By Federal Reserve Banks § 210.6 Status... it transfers or presents that item that— (A) The electronic image portion of the item accurately... 21984, June 13, 1988; Reg. J, 59 FR 22966, May 4, 1994; 62 FR 48172, Sept. 15, 1997; Reg. J, 69 FR 62559...

  1. 12 CFR 210.6 - Status, warranties, and liability of Reserve Bank.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... FEDWIRE (REGULATION J) Collection of Checks and Other Items By Federal Reserve Banks § 210.6 Status... it transfers or presents that item that— (A) The electronic image portion of the item accurately... 21984, June 13, 1988; Reg. J, 59 FR 22966, May 4, 1994; 62 FR 48172, Sept. 15, 1997; Reg. J, 69 FR 62559...

  2. 12 CFR 210.6 - Status, warranties, and liability of Reserve Bank.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... FEDWIRE (REGULATION J) Collection of Checks and Other Items By Federal Reserve Banks § 210.6 Status... it transfers or presents that item that— (A) The electronic image portion of the item accurately... 21984, June 13, 1988; Reg. J, 59 FR 22966, May 4, 1994; 62 FR 48172, Sept. 15, 1997; Reg. J, 69 FR 62559...

  3. Impact of acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome after traumatic brain injury in the United States.

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    Rincon, Fred; Ghosh, Sayantani; Dey, Saugat; Maltenfort, Mitchell; Vibbert, Matthew; Urtecho, Jacqueline; McBride, William; Moussouttas, Michael; Bell, Rodney; Ratliff, John K; Jallo, Jack

    2012-10-01

    Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of disability, morbidity, and mortality. The effect of the acute respiratory distress syndrome and acute lung injury (ARDS/ALI) on in-hospital mortality after TBI remains controversial. To determine the epidemiology of ARDS/ALI, the prevalence of risk factors, and impact on in-hospital mortality after TBI in the United States. Retrospective cohort study of admissions of adult patients>18 years with a diagnosis of TBI and ARDS/ALI from 1988 to 2008 identified through the Nationwide Inpatient Sample. During the 20-year study period, the prevalence of ARDS/ALI increased from 2% (95% confidence interval [CI], 2.1%-2.4%) in 1988 to 22% (95% CI, 21%-22%) in 2008 (P<.001). ARDS/ALI was more common in younger age; males; white race; later year of admission; in conjunction with comorbidities such as congestive heart failure, hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic renal and liver failure, sepsis, multiorgan dysfunction; and nonrural, medium/large hospitals, located in the Midwest, South, and West continental US location. Mortality after TBI decreased from 13% (95% CI, 12%-14%) in 1988 to 9% (95% CI, 9%-10%) in 2008 (P<.001). ARDS/ALI-related mortality after TBI decreased from 33% (95% CI, 33%-34%) in 1988 to 28% (95% CI, 28%-29%) in 2008 (P<.001). Predictors of in-hospital mortality after TBI were older age, male sex, white race, cancer, chronic kidney disease, hypertension, chronic liver disease, congestive heart failure, ARDS/ALI, and organ dysfunctions. Our analysis demonstrates that ARDS/ALI is common after TBI. Despite an overall reduction of in-hospital mortality, ARDS/ALI carries a higher risk of in-hospital death after TBI.

  4. Endangered Species on Military Training Lands: Cooperation Between the Military Services and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service

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    1994-06-17

    required by the Endangered Species Act and its implementing regulations. Federal agencies make certain determinations about the impact of their actions on...marine mammals, 16 U.S.C. 1361-1385 (1985 & 1994 Supp.); Whales, 16 U.S.C. 916-916 1 (1985); African Elephant , 16 U.S.C. 4201-4215 (1994 Supp.). Fish...constraint on military training. The next major impact or. combat training was public opposition to training-related noise. U.S. Army Environmental Policy

  5. Simulation of scenario earthquake influenced field by using GIS

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    Zuo, H.-Q.; Xie, L.-L.; Borcherdt, R.D.

    1999-01-01

    The method for estimating the site effect on ground motion specified by Borcherdt (1994a, 1994b) is briefly introduced in the paper. This method and the detail geological data and site classification data in San Francisco bay area of California, the United States, are applied to simulate the influenced field of scenario earthquake by GIS technology, and the software for simulating has been drawn up. The paper is a partial result of cooperative research project between China Seismological Bureau and US Geological Survey.

  6. Global Positioning System offers evidence of plate motions in eastern Mediterranean

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    Burc Oral, M.; Reilinger, Robert E.; Nafi Toksöz, M.; King, Robert W.; Aykut Barka, A.; Kinik, Ibrahim; Lenk, Onur

    Geophysicists are using the Global Positioning System (GPS), a highly precise satellite navigation system, to monitor the slow movements (cm/yr) of the crustal plates composing the Earth's surface and the deformations where such plates interact. We report the results of repeated GPS measurements in the complex zone of interaction between the Eurasian, Arabian, and African plates in Turkey. The GPS observations made between 1988 and 1992 indicate that western, central, and east central Turkey are decoupled from the Eurasian plate and are moving as a more or less coherent unit about an axis located north of the Sinai peninsula. Other space-based measurements of crustal motion in Greece and along the Hellenic arc [Smith et al., 1994] suggest that this coherent motion includes southern Greece and the south central Aegean Sea. We refer to this region (shaded in Figure 1) as the Anatolian plate.

  7. Plant Community Development within the F- and H-Area Tree-Kill Zones - Changes form 1994 to 2000

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    Nelson, E.A.

    2000-12-15

    The F- and H-Area Seepage Basins received liquid waste from the F and H chemical separation facilities from 1955 through 1988. Tree mortality in seepline-fed wetlands downslope from the basins was observed in the late 1970's, and investigations were conducted to determine the cause and source of the impacts (Loehle and Gladden, 1988; Mackey, 1988; Haselow et al., 1990; LeBlanc and Loehle, 1990; Greenwood et al., 1990). Analysis of the soil and water in the tree-kill zones demonstrated a strong chemical linkage with the F- and H-Area Seepage Basins (Killian et al., 1987a, 1987b). Although no single cause of themore » mortality was determined, it was believed to be the result of interactions of alterations in the hydrology and erosional deposition, along with lowering of pH and increased conductivity, sodium, aluminum, and nitrogen compounds (Looney et al, 1988). A mild drought during the growing season may also have increased the concentration of the chemical contaminants in the soil matrix.« less

  8. North American trade growth continued in 2007

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    2009-02-01

    Trade between the United States and : its North American Free Trade Agreement : (NAFTA) partnersCanada : and Mexicohas more than doubled : in dollar value since the inception of : NAFTA in 1994. In 2007, U.S. trade : with Canada and Mexico reac...

  9. Assessing the potential for Gulf Coast NAFTA maritime trade corridors.

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    2015-12-01

    The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was enacted in 1994 with the expressed intent of : reducing barriers to trade. Since that time, however, transborder congestion and delays between the United : States (US) and Mexico threaten achievemen...

  10. Illicit Drug Trafficking in West Africa -- Primary Surveillance Radar Introduction

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2012-03-22

    States Party. All West African countries are Party to the 1988 United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic ...efforts against illicit drug trafficking and related crimes by Member States at the regional and national levels, especially within the framework of...Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Cape Verde, Mali, Mauritania and Senegal.29 14 Effective airspace management not only aids in countering illicit drug

  11. Changing Perspectives on Civil Rights. United States Commission on Civil Rights Forum (Los Angeles, California, September 8-9, 1988).

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    Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, DC.

    A subcommittee of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission heard testimony on social changes in progress and the future of civil rights, in the first of a series of forums. During the 2-day forum, the Commission received a wide range of information and views from representatives of federal, state, and local governments; civil rights groups; the press;…

  12. Common Rules of Engagement for the Armies of the United States and Australia: A Proposal Stranded on the Moral High Ground

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1995-04-01

    management has between management " "big picture" and employees *Assume subordinates *Assume subordinates have less to contri - share equal bute to...engagement have assumed international importance in light of recent comments by military leaders urging common ROE among allies.3 In 1994, the Commander...of the United States and Australia creating a common set of standing ROE. It will guide the reader through a five -step analysis of influential factors

  13. Effects of all-terrain vehicles on forested lands and grasslands

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    Dexter Meadows; Randy Foltz; Nancy Geehan

    2008-01-01

    As the United States population has grown, so has all-terrain-vehicle (ATV) use on national forests and grasslands and other public lands. Annual sales of ATVs have increased over 272 percent since 1994 to an estimated 876,000 units in 2005 (Specialty Vehicle Institute of America - Special Report Summer 2006). ATVs are a popular choice for outdoor recreation. According...

  14. Langley aerospace test highlights, 1988

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    1989-01-01

    The role of the Langley Research Center is to perform basic and applied research necessary for the advancement of aeronautics and space flight, to generate new and advanced concepts for the accomplishment of related national goals, and to provide research advice, technological support, and assistance to other NASA installations, other government agencies, and industry. Some of the significant tests which were performed during calendar year 1988 in Langley test facilities, a number of which are unique in the world are highlighted. Both the broad range of the research and technology activities at the Langley Research Center and the contributions of this work toward maintaining United States leadership in aeronautics and space research are illustrated.

  15. Effecting Student Learning for Historical Understanding

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    Lee, Gorman

    2014-01-01

    While there have been recent efforts to improve the overall public education system in the United States, American students continue to graduate from U.S. public high schools with limited knowledge of U.S. history (Ravitch, 1988; Evans, 2004; Ross, 2006; St. Jarre, 2008; Dillon, 2011). This qualitative case study investigated how high school…

  16. Ozone bioindicator

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    John W. Coulston; Mark J. Ambrose

    2007-01-01

    Why Is Ozone Important? Ground-level ozone occurs at phytotoxic levels in the United States (Lefohn and Pinkerton 1988). Elevated levels of ozone can cause foliar injury to several tree species, may cause growth loss, and can make trees more susceptible to insects and pathogens (Chappelka and Samuelson 1998). However, tree species have varying degrees of sensitivity to...

  17. Evaluation and Validation: A Look at the Program Effectiveness Panel.

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    Cook, Nancy R.; And Others

    The work of the Program Effectiveness Panel (PEP) of the United States Department of Education was examined. The PEP is the Department of Education's primary means of certifying or validating the effectiveness of educational programs. Thirty-three educational programs were validated by the PEP between January 1988 and December 1990. Over time,…

  18. Theileria equi isolates vary in susceptibility to imidocarb dipropionate but demonstrate uniform in vitro susceptibility to a bumped kinase inhibitor

    USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

    The apicomplexan hemoparasite Theileria equi is a causative agent of equine piroplasmosis, eradicated from the United States in 1988. However, recent outbreaks have sparked renewed interest in treatment options for infected horses. Imidocarb dipropionate is the current drug of choice, however variat...

  19. Physicians in the Academic Marketplace.

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    Burke, Dolores L.

    This book explores the medical professoriate, in particular medical faculty mobility in and out of academic positions as it relates to the organization of academic medicine in United States universities. The work is based on interviews conducted with 300 faculty members in six major medical schools over a period of 6 months in late 1988 and early…

  20. Physical Fitness & Sports Medicine. Specialized Bibliography Series No. 1988-2.

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    Patrias, Karen, Comp.; And Others

    The subjects covered in this bibliogaphy (1,406 citations) include the history of sports and sports medicine, sports injuries, physical fitness throughout various stages of life, and the current status of physical fitness in the United States. The first section includes journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers in three areas: history…

  1. A Candidate Functional Architecture Design for the Detection and Monitoring Process of a Counterdrug Joint Task Force

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1993-06-01

    completes the functional decomposition of the detection and monitoring requirements of the Counterdrug JTF. David Marca in his text SADT, Structural...September 1992. 12. Marca , D. McGowan, C., SADT, Structured Analysis and Design Technique, Mc Graw-Hill , 1988. 13. United States Department of

  2. 19 CFR 210.1 - Applicability of part.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... 19 Customs Duties 3 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Applicability of part. 210.1 Section 210.1 Customs Duties UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION INVESTIGATIONS OF UNFAIR PRACTICES IN IMPORT TRADE..., and 1337) and sections 2 and 1342(d)(1)(B) of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988, Pub...

  3. Transatlantic Dialogue: A Research Exchange; Papers from a Joint Conference (Leeds, England, July 11-13, 1988).

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    Zukas, Miriam, Ed.

    Over 90 papers focus on adult education research. Selected titles include "Karl Marx's Theoretical Contributions to Radical Adult Education" (Allman, Wallis); "Educating Educators" (Armstrong); "Comparative Study of Philosophical Foundations of Adult Education in China and United States" (Bao); "Ethical Value Dilemmas of Professional Adult…

  4. United States Air Force Summer Faculty Research Program. 1988 Program Technical Report. Volume 1

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    1988-12-01

    Laboratory: Rose-Hulman Institute of Tech. Logistics & Human Factors Div. 5500 Wabash Terre Haute, IN 47803 (812) 877-1511 Dr. David R. Cecil Degree...to detect those frequencies with our mercury- cadmium detector at Northridge, we were 16-7 unable to obtain this information with the indium-antinimide

  5. The Centrality of Critical Thinking in Educating for Diversity.

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    Pierce, Gloria

    The cultural crisis in the United States poses a challenge for educators to educate for diversity. According to T. Cross (1988), there are six stages of cultural competence that allow effective cross-cultural functioning. Educators must encourage the movement from the first stage of seeking to destroy another culture to the final advanced cultural…

  6. Defining Old Growth: Implications For Management

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    David L. White; F. Thomas Lloyd

    1994-01-01

    USDA Forest Service (USFS), with the help of scientists from The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Forest Service Research and ther organizations, is developing old-growth definitions for 35 forest types within the Eastern United States (U.S.). Old-growth forests were officially recognized as a resource by the USFS in 1988 and shortly thereafter, the Eastern Old-Growth...

  7. After "Hazelwood": The Role of School Officials in Conflicts over the Curriculum.

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    Whitson, James Anthony

    1993-01-01

    Analyzes in some detail a number of censorship cases affected by the 1988 United States Supreme Court case, Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier. Considers how principals have been affected by the ruling in their relation to the issue of censorship. Presents ideas about how administrators should deal with the issue. (HB)

  8. Wood in transportation program-- an overview

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    Sheila Rimal Duwadi; Michael A. Ritter; Edward Cesa

    2000-01-01

    Research and demonstration bridge projects to further develop wood for transportation structures increased substantially in the United States in 1988 under a legislative action by the U.S. Congress known as the Timber Bridge Initiative. This program, renamed the Wood in Transportation Program, continues today and is administered by the Forest Service. FHWA became...

  9. Benefits from immunization during the vaccines for children program era - United States, 1994-2013.

    PubMed

    Whitney, Cynthia G; Zhou, Fangjun; Singleton, James; Schuchat, Anne

    2014-04-25

    The Vaccines for Children (VFC) program was created by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 and first implemented in 1994. VFC was designed to ensure that eligible children do not contract vaccine-preventable diseases because of inability to pay for vaccine and was created in response to a measles resurgence in the United States that resulted in approximately 55,000 cases reported during 1989-1991. The resurgence was caused largely by widespread failure to vaccinate uninsured children at the recommended age of 12-15 months. To summarize the impact of the U.S. immunization program on the health of all children (both VFC-eligible and not VFC-eligible) who were born during the 20 years since VFC began, CDC used information on immunization coverage from the National Immunization Survey (NIS) and a previously published cost-benefit model to estimate illnesses, hospitalizations, and premature deaths prevented and costs saved by routine childhood vaccination during 1994-2013. Coverage for many childhood vaccine series was near or above 90% for much of the period. Modeling estimated that, among children born during 1994- 2013, vaccination will prevent an estimated 322 million illnesses, 21 million hospitalizations, and 732,000 deaths over the course of their lifetimes, at a net savings of $295 billion in direct costs and $1.38 trillion in total societal costs. With support from the VFC program, immunization has been a highly effective tool for improving the health of U.S. children.

  10. Trends in Disparities in School District Level Expenditures per Pupil.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Hussar, William; Sonnenberg, William

    2000-01-01

    Examines trends in disparities between districts in education expenditures from 1979-1980 to 1993-1994. Uses seven measures of educational disparity to present a cross-section of the different methods available. A majority of disparity measures indicate a decline in disparity in most states, but an increase in disparity for the United States as a…

  11. U.S. timber production, trade, consumption, and price statistics, 1963-1994

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    James L. Howard

    1997-01-01

    This report presents information on trends in production, trade, consumption, and prices of forest product in the United States. Although national trends are dealt with for the most part, some information is given for regions, states, and Canada. The tables presented in this report are from information collected from industry trade associations and government agencies...

  12. Traffic safety facts 1995 : motorcycles

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    1996-01-01

    In 1995, 2,221 motorcyclists were killed and an additional 55,000 were injured in traffic crashes in the United States-4 percent less than the 2,320 motorcyclist fatalities and 3 percent less than the 56,000 motorcyclist injuries reported in 1994. Pe...

  13. Forest Statistics for Maine, 1995

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    Douglas M. Griffith; Carol L. Alerich; Carol L. Alerich

    1996-01-01

    A statistical report on the fourth forest inventory of Maine conducted in 1994-96. Findings are displayed in 117 tables containing estimates of forest area numbers of trees, timber volume, and growth. Data are presented at three levels: state, geographic unit, and county.

  14. Towards the Development of an Academic Word List for Applied Linguistics Research Articles

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    Khani, Reza; Tazik, Khalil

    2013-01-01

    Academic vocabulary, as the most challenging aspect of language learning in EAP and ESP contexts, has received much attention in the last few decades (e.g. Laufer, 1988; Sutarsyah, et al., 1994; Laufer and Nation, 1999; Coxhead, 2000; Nation, 2001a, 2001b; Wang et al., 2008; Martinez et al., 2009). The major attainments of these studies were…

  15. Effects of phosphorus and nitrogen manipulations on tallgrass prairie restoration

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    Patrick Kincaid; Val H. Smith; Bryan L. Foster; Venessa L. Madden

    2002-01-01

    The tallgrass prairie biome of North America once extended from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Only an estimated 1% of this important ecosystem remains today (Diamond and Smeins 1988; Samson and Knopf 1994), and these remnant prairie tracts are currently the focus of intense restoration and conservation efforts (Bock and Bock 1995; Kindscher and Tieszen 1998). In...

  16. Wives' Employment and Spouses' Marital Happiness: Assessing the Direction of Influence Using Longitudinal Couple Data

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    Schoen, Robert; Rogers, Stacy J.; Amato, Paul R.

    2006-01-01

    The authors investigate the direction of the relationship between marital happiness and wives' full-time employment using the 1987 to 1988 and 1992 to 1994 waves of the National Survey of Families and Households. First, the authors predict change in wives' employment between the two waves using marital happiness and other Time 1 characteristics.…

  17. 40 CFR 799.5000 - Testing consent orders for substances and mixtures with Chemical Abstract Service Registry Numbers.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... Environmental Releases Report November 18, 1994. 112-35-6 Triethylene glycol monomethyl ether Health effects... Health effects November 23, 1993. 994-05-8 Tertiary-amyl methyl ether Health effects March 21, 1995. 1634-04-4 Methyl tert-butyl ether Health effects March 31, 1988. 2461-18-9 Lauryl glycidyl ether 1 Health...

  18. The reverse J-shaped association between serum total 25-hydroxyvitamin D and all-cause mortality: the impact of assay standardization

    USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

    The impact of standardizing the originally measured serum total 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] values from Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III, 1988-1994) on the association between 25(OH)D and rate of all-cause mortality was evaluated. Values were standardized to gold ...

  19. Characterization of Uterine Derived Growth Inhibitor (UDGI): A Novel Growth Inhibitor of Estrogen Receptor Negative Breast Cancer Cells

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2000-06-01

    1988. 23. Rawlings, N. D. and Barrett, A. J. Families of serine peptidases . Methods Enzymol., 244: 19-61, 1994. 24. Bork, P. and Beckmann, G. The CUB...suppression of IGF-1 gene expression and serum level by a somatostatin analogue. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 203:254-259 38. Huynh, H., Tetenes, E

  20. Critical Habitat :: NOAA Fisheries

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    82 FR 51186 (comments close 1/02/18) Beluga Whale Cook Inlet 2011 76 FR 20180 Go to Data Hawaiian Monk Seal 1988, 1986, 2015 53 FR 18988, 51 FR 16047, 80 FR 50925 Go to Data [zip] (excluded areas Revise (Feb 2015) 2006 71 FR 69054 Go To Data [zip] North Atlantic Right Whale Northeast Southeast 1994

  1. The Role of Language Contact in Semantic Change: "Ser" and "Estar"--A Response to Geeslin and Guijarro-Fuentes

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    Klee, Carol A.

    2008-01-01

    The role of language contact in linguistic change remains a polemic issue in the field of contact linguistics. Many researchers (Weinreich, 1953; Lefebvre, 1985; Prince, 1988; Silva-Corvalan, 1994; King, 2000; Sankoff, 2002; Labov, 2007) believe that there are limits on the types of linguistic patterns that can be transmitted across languages,…

  2. How Is Self-Determination Conceptualized in Special Education Literature? A Content Analysis of Model Demonstration Projects and Special Education Literature

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    Rosser, Mariola Srednicka

    2010-01-01

    This study investigates the concept of self-determination in special education. The self-determination construct in special education is often described in terms of abilities and attitudes needed to achieve one's goals (Field & Hoffman, 1994a; Ward, 1988; Powers et al., 1996). Despite many similarities among definitions and models of…

  3. Survey of United States Army Reserve (USAR) Troop Program Unit (TPU) soldiers 1989. Tabulation of Questionnaire Responses: Cross-Sectional Sample: Officers and Enlisted Personnel

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1989-09-30

    26 QUESTIONNAIRE INSTRUMENT ri. -I., DATA TABULATION VOLUMES This material provides information for use by readers to interpret...The second longitudinal Tabulation Volume reports the 1988 questionnaire responses of the junior enlisted "stayers" who were used as the sample to...the specific crossing variables used for the cross-sectional and longitudinal Tabulation Volumes. Cross-Sectional Tabulation Volumes. Demographic

  4. Monitoring wetland of Poyang Lake National Nature Reserve zone by remote sensing

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    Le, Xinghua; Fan, Zhewen; Fang, Yu; Yu, Yuping; Zhang, Yun

    2008-10-01

    In order to monitor the wetland of the Poyang Lake national nature reserve zone, we selected three different seasons TM image data which were achieved individually in April 23th in 1988, Nov 2nd in 1994, and Jan 1st in 2000. Based on the band 5, band 4 and band 3of TM image, we divided the land coverage of Poyang Lake national nature reserve zone into three classes--water field, meadow field and the other land use by rule of maximum likelihood. Using the outcome data to make the statistical analysis, combining with the GIS overlay function operation, the land coverage changes of the Poyang Lake national nature reserve zone can be achieved. Clipped by the Poyang Lake national nature reserve zone boundary, the land coverage changes of Poyang Lake national nature reserve zone in three different years can be attained. Compared with the different wetland coverage data in year of 1988, 1994, 2000, the Poyang Lake national nature reserve zone eco-environment can be inferred from it. After analyzing the land coverage changes data, we draw the conclusion that the effort of Poyang Lake national nature reserve administration bureaucracy has worked well in certain sense.

  5. United States Air Force Research Initiation Program for 1988. Volume 2

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1990-04-01

    Specialty: Modeling and Simulation ENGINEERING AND SERVICES CENTER (Tyndall Air Force Base) Dr. Wayne A. Charlie Dr. Peter Jeffers (1987) Colorado State...Michael Sydor University of New Hampshire University of Minnesota Specialty: Systems Modeling & Controls Specialty: Optics, Material Science Dr. John...9MG-025 4 Modeling and Simulation on Micro- Dr. Joseph J. Feeley (1987) computers, 1989 760-7MG-070 5 Two Dimensional MHD Simulation of Dr. Manuel A

  6. JPRS Report, Soviet Union, World Economy and International Affairs, No. 4, April 1988.

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    1988-08-03

    platform of the group of UN socialist states which presented at the session a joint memoran- dum on this question. I would not either dramatize or...threats to mankind (an "ecospasm," the unsettled state of international economic relations, including foreign debt, nonequivalent commodity exchange...mechanisms. When we speak of a nuclear-free, nonvio- lent world, it is inconceivable without the controlling influence of the United Nations. [Question

  7. Private timberland owners of Michigan, 1994.

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    Earl C. Leatherberry; Neal P. Kingsley; Thomas W. Birch

    1998-01-01

    Identifies and profiles Michigan's private timberland owners. Estimates the number and distribution of private timberland owners by owner attitudes and objectives concerning forest ownership, management, and use. Provides 45 tables relating to owner and property characteristics for the state and its four survey units.

  8. Secondary Market Disclosure.

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    Jones, Robert J.; Zehner, Mark R.

    1996-01-01

    In late 1994, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued new rules applicable to issuers of municipal securities (including school districts) concerning disclosure to the investment community. Describes how SEC's existing Rule 15c2-12 has been implemented. Discusses its purpose, jurisdiction, obligated persons, written…

  9. Vision-The Strategic Leader Imperative

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    1998-05-07

    Habits of Highly Effective People . New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989. Estes, Howell M., III. United States Space Command: Vision For 2020...James C. and Jerry I. Porras. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies. New York: Harper Business, 1994. Covey, Stephen R. The 7

  10. NATIONAL SURVEY FOR AMBULATORY SURGERY (NSAS)

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    The National Survey of Ambulatory Surgery (NSAS), which was initiated by the National Center for Health Statistics in 1994, is a national survey designed to meet the need for information about the use of ambulatory surgery services in the United States. For NSAS, ambulatory surge...

  11. ASSESSING THE SUITABILITY OF WINDBREAKS AS WILDLIFE HABITAT - 1994 PILOT PLAN

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    The Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program's (EMAP) Agroecosystem Resource Group is developing a program to monitor and evaluate the ecological condition of United States agricultural lands. indbreaks are an important non-crop element in the Great Plains, an extensive ag...

  12. Identification of NAFTA-induced opportunities for Louisiana's ports and waterways.

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    1996-06-01

    The implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on January 1, 1994, created a trading region extending from the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico to the Yukon region of Alaska with trade between the United States, Canada, and Mexico t...

  13. Performance of International Space Station Alpha Trace Contaminant Control Systems

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    Perry, J. L.

    2016-01-01

    The analysis presented herein was conducted during the early transitional period between the Space Station Freedom and the International Space Station programs as part of an effort to evaluate key design specifications and standards used by the United States and Russia. The analysis was originally documented under NASA cover letter ED62(36-94) dated August 16, 1994. The analysis was revised and rereleased under NASA cover letter ED62(51-94) dated November 14, 1994. These cover letters are provided here to guide programmatic context for the reader.

  14. California's "5 a day--for better health!" campaign: an innovative population-based effort to effect large-scale dietary change.

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    Foerster, S B; Kizer, K W; Disogra, L K; Bal, D G; Krieg, B F; Bunch, K L

    1995-01-01

    The annual toll of diet-related diseases in the United States is similar to that taken by tobacco, but less progress has been achieved in reaching the Public Health Service's Healthy People 2000 objectives for improving food consumption than for reducing tobacco use. In 1988, the California Department of Health Services embarked upon an innovative multi-year social marketing program to increase fruit and vegetable consumption. The 5 a Day--for Better Health! Campaign had several distinctive features, including its simple, positive, behavior-specific message to eat 5 servings of fruits and vegetables every day as part of a low-fat, high fiber diet; its use of mass media; its partnership between the state health department and the produce and supermarket industries; and its extensive use of point-of-purchase messages. Over its nearly three years of operation in California, the 5 a Day Campaign appears to have raised public awareness that fruits and vegetables help reduce cancer risk, increased fruit and vegetable consumption in major population segments, and created an ongoing partnership between public health and agribusiness that has allowed extension of the campaign to other population segments, namely children and Latino adults. In 1991 the campaign was adopted as a national initiative by the National Cancer Institute and the Produce for Better Health Foundation. By 1994, over 700 industry organizations and 48 states, territories, and the District of Columbia were licensed to participate. Preventive medicine practitioners and others involved in health promotion may build upon the 5 a Day Campaign experience in developing and implementing efforts to reach the nation's dietary goals.

  15. BCTR: Biological and Chemical Technologies Research 1994 annual summary report

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    Petersen, G.

    1995-02-01

    The annual summary report presents the fiscal year (FY) 1994 research activities and accomplishments for the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Biological and Chemical Technologies Research (BCTR) Program of the Advanced Industrial Concepts Division (AICD). This AICD program resides within the Office of Industrial Technologies (OIT) of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EE). Although the OIT was reorganized in 1991 and AICD no longer exists, this document reports on efforts conducted under the former structure. The annual summary report for 1994 (ASR 94) contains the following: program description (including BCTR program mission statement, historical background, relevance,more » goals and objectives); program structure and organization, selected technical and programmatic highlights for 1994; detailed descriptions of individual projects; a listing of program output, including a bibliography of published work; patents, and awards arising from work supported by BCTR.« less

  16. Tuberculosis epidemiology, diagnosis and infection control recommendations for dental settings: an update on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines.

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    Cleveland, Jennifer L; Robison, Valerie A; Panlilio, Adelisa L

    2009-09-01

    Although rates of tuberculosis (TB) in the United States have decreased in recent years, disparities in TB incidence still exist between U.S.-born and foreign-born people (people living in the United States but born outside it) and between white people and nonwhite people. In addition, the number of TB outbreaks among health care personnel and patients has decreased since the implementation of the 1994 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines to prevent transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In this article, the authors provide updates on the epidemiology of TB, advances in TB diagnostic methods and TB infection control guidelines for dental settings. In 2008, 83 percent of all reported TB cases in the United States occurred in nonwhite people and 17 percent occurred in white people. Foreign-born people had a TB rate about 10 times higher than that of U.S.-born people. New blood assays for M. tuberculosis have been developed to diagnose TB infection and disease. Changes from the 1994 CDC guidelines incorporated into CDC's "Guidelines for Preventing the Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Health-Care Settings, 2005" include revised risk classifications, new TB diagnostic methods, decreased frequencies of tuberculin skin testing in various settings and changes in terminology. Although the principles of TB infection control have remained the same, the changing epidemiology of TB and the advent of new diagnostic methods for TB led to the development of the 2005 update to the 1994 guidelines. Dental health care personnel should be aware of the modifications that are pertinent to dental settings and incorporate them into their overall infection control programs.

  17. Inflammatory bowel disease is presenting sooner after immigration in more recent US immigrants from Cuba.

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    Damas, O M; Avalos, D J; Palacio, A M; Gomez, L; Quintero, M A; Deshpande, A R; Sussman, D A; McCauley, J L; Lopez, J; Schwartz, S J; Abreu, M T

    2017-08-01

    Despite a rising incidence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in Hispanics in the United States, there are no studies examining the relationship between immigrant generation and IBD onset among Hispanics. To determine whether age of IBD diagnosis, time from immigration to IBD diagnosis and IBD phenotype, differed across immigration periods in South Florida Cuban immigrants. This was a cohort of consecutively identified Cuban-born adults who developed IBD in the United States and were followed in gastroenterology (GI) clinic. We divided time cohorts of immigration by historical relevance: before 1980, 1980-1994 and 1995-to-present. We examined differences across time cohorts in diagnosis age, time from immigration to IBD diagnosis, and IBD phenotype (ie, IBD type, disease location). A total of 130 Cuban patients with IBD were included. Age of IBD diagnosis was older in Cubans arriving before 1980 than in those arriving between 1980-1994 or after 1995 (44.7 vs 33.79 and 33.71, respectively, P<.0001). Time between immigration and diagnosis was shorter in patients arriving to the US after 1980 (31.77 years, Standard deviation (SD) 12.83 (<1980) vs 17.13 years, SD 8.55 (1980-1994) and 8.30 years, SD 4.72 (1995-to-present). IBD phenotype, including type of IBD, disease location and surgeries, did not differ significantly across time cohorts. Our study describes changing patterns of IBD onset following immigration in Cubans, suggesting that environmental changes either in the United States, Cuba or both are resulting in faster IBD onset in younger immigrant generations. These studies can inform the search for environmental triggers that may result in IBD. © 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

  18. Counting the costs of children's smoking.

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    Foulds, J.; Godfrey, C.

    1995-01-01

    The recent publication of the 1994 OPCS survey of smoking among secondary school children confirmed that the Health of the Nation target for children's smoking (a reduction in regular smoking from 8% in 1988 to less than 6% in 1994) has not been achieved. In 1994, 12% of English schoolchildren aged 11-15 were regular smokers (as were 12% in Scotland, 9% in Wales, and 12.5% in Northern Ireland). In 1994 the government spent around 10 million pounds on initiatives to prevent smoking, but received around 8643 million pounds in tax receipts from tobacco sales, about 108 million pounds of which was tax receipts from the illegal sale of cigarettes to children under 16 years old. The tobacco industry spent an estimated 100 million pounds on promotional activities. Improving current trends in children's smoking by the year 2000 will require decisive action by the government. The government should legislate to ban tobacco advertising and should use the 108 million pounds taken each year in taxes from smoking children to fund smoking cessation and prevention initiatives. PMID:7580715

  19. Soil carbon in urban forest ecosystems

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    Richard V. Pouyat; Jonathan Russell-Anelli; Ian D. Yesilonis; Peter M. Groffman

    2003-01-01

    In the contiguous 48 states of the United States, urban areas increased twofold between 1969 and 1994 and currently occupy 3.5% of the land, or 2.81 x 107 ha (Dwyer et al., 1998). On a global scale, more than 476,000 ha of arable land are converled annually to urban areas (World Resources Institute, 1996). This conversion has the potential to...

  20. The hot continental division: Oak forests, fire, and ecosystem management frame fuels management questions

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    Susan L. Stout; Matthew B. Dickinson; Gregory J. Nowacki

    2012-01-01

    The Hot Continental Division is one of the larger ecoregions within the continental United States (McNab and Avers 1994), incorporating portions of 19 States and extending from the eastern seacoast to areas west of the Mississippi River (chapter 1). The Division includes the Eastern (Oceanic) and Eastern (Continental) Broadleaf Forest Provinces and two Mountain...

  1. 75 FR 78093 - Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 12-Month Finding on a Petition To List the Sonoran...

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    2010-12-14

    ..., and Review of One Species'' (50 FR 13054, April 2, 1985); ``Review of Vertebrate Wildlife'' (50 FR... United States, and also includes the Mexican State of Sonora into the northern portion of Sinaloa. One... less of rain annually (Fritts and Jennings 1994, p. 53). One question about the distribution of the...

  2. Assessing the US Urban Forest Resources

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    David J. Nowak; Mary H. Noble; Susan M. Sisinni; John F. Dwyer

    2001-01-01

    Urban areas in the conterminous United States doubled in size between 1969 and 1994, and currently cover 3.5 percent of the total land area and contain more than 75 percent of the US population. Urban areas contain approximately 3.8 billion trees with an average tree canopy cover of 27 percent. The extent and variation of urban forests across the 48 states are explored...

  3. Effects of Israeli Press Restrictions on Coverage of the Palestinian Uprising and on U.S. Public Opinion.

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    Griffin, Jeffrey L.

    Comparing United States television news coverage of the Palestinian uprising in the Israeli-occupied territories before and after press restrictions were introduced in March 1988, a study examined whether Israel's press clampdown (restricting particularly the activities of camera crews, and apparently begun in response to negative foreign opinion…

  4. Potential causes of the pear thrips outbreak in sugar maple

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    Jack C. Schultz

    1991-01-01

    No one knows what caused the 1988 outbreak of pear thrips, Taeniothrips inconsequens (Uzel), in sugar maple, Acer saccharum Marsh., in the northeastern United States. As an entomologist and ecologist who knows even less about this insect than most of the authors of this volume, I cannot presume to understand the causes of this...

  5. Labor-Management Commitment: A Compact for Change. Views from the Collective Bargaining Forum.

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    Bureau of Labor-Management Relations and Cooperative Programs (DOL), Washington, DC.

    In 1988 the Collective Bargaining Forum, a private group of labor and business leaders, adopted a statement of principles recognizing that the institution of collective bargaining is an integral part of economic life in the United States. The purpose of the statement was to facilitate the spread of positive relations between labor and management…

  6. Tuition at PhD-Granting Institutions: A Supply and Demand Model.

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    Koshal, Rajindar K.; And Others

    1994-01-01

    Builds and estimates a model that explains educational supply and demand behavior at PhD-granting institutions in the United States. The statistical analysis based on 1988-89 data suggests that student quantity, educational costs, average SAT score, class size, percentage of faculty with a PhD, graduation rate, ranking, and existence of a medical…

  7. Dropout Rates in the United States: 1989.

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    Kaufman, Phillip; Frase, Mary J.

    This is the second annual report to Congress required by the Hawkins-Stafford Elementary and Secondary School Improvement Amendments of 1988 (P.L. 100-297). It presents data on high school dropout and retention rates for 1989 and time series data since 1968. It also examines high school completion and graduation rates. Two kinds of dropout rates…

  8. Comparison of Perception of Well-Being among Metro and Non-Metro Population in the United States.

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    Mookherjee, Harsha N.

    This paper reports a comparative investigation identifying salient sociological variables associated with the perception of well-being by the U.S. metropolitan and nonmetropolitan populations. Subjective well-being in general and life satisfaction in particular were examined. Data used in this study were derived from the 1978 and 1988 General…

  9. Missouri Journal of Research in Music Education, 1982-1988.

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    Stephenson, Jack R., Ed.; Koch, Franklin W., Ed.

    1988-01-01

    This journal is devoted to the needs and interests of the school and college music teachers of Missouri and the United States. Articles in Volume 5, Number 1 are: "O. Anderson Fuller, The First Black Doctor of Philosophy in Music in America, and his Development of the Music Education Curriculum at Lincoln University" (S. Houser); "A…

  10. Modeling ozone bioindicator injury with microscale and landscape-scale explanatory variables: A logistic regression approach

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    John W. Coulston

    2011-01-01

    Tropospheric ozone occurs at phytotoxic levels in the United States (Lefohn and Pinkerton 1988). Several plant species, including commercially important timber species, are sensitive to elevated ozone levels. Exposure to elevated ozone can cause growth reduction and foliar injury and make trees more susceptible to secondary stressors such as insects and pathogens (...

  11. Drought impacts on tree growth and mortality of southern Appalachian forests

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    Brian D. Kloeppel; Barton D. Clinton; James M. Vose; Aaron R. Cooper

    2003-01-01

    The Coweeta LTER Program represents the eastern deciduous forests of the southem Appalachian Mountains in the United States. Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory was established in 1934 and hence has a long record of climate measurement and vegetation response to both natural and human disturbance (Swank and Crossley 1988). The general climate of the area is classified as...

  12. 77 FR 38292 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request

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    ... purchase from the HCUP Central Distributor for data years beginning in 1988. (2) The Kids' Inpatient Database (KID) is the only all-payer inpatient care database for children in the United States. The KID was... child health issues. The KID contains a sample of over 3 million discharges for children age 20 and...

  13. Avoidance of fire by Louisiana pine snakes, Pituophis melanoleucus ruthveni

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    D. Craig Rudolph; Shirley J. Burgdorf; John C. Tull; Marc Ealy; Richard N. Conner; Richard R. Schaefer; Robert R. Fleet

    1998-01-01

    Wildfire and prescribed fire are important influences on pine ecosystems in the southeastern United States (Komarek 1968, 1974; Platt et al. 1988). Although considerable research on the impact of fire on vertebrates due to changes in vegetation structure has been reported, the direct impact of fire on vertebrates is not well known (Means and Campbell 1981). The...

  14. The Forgotten Half Revisited. American Youth and Young Families, 1988-2008.

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    Halperin, Samuel, Ed.

    The 10 papers in this report review what the United States has accomplished for late-adolescents and young adults in the past decade since publication of "The Forgotten Half." The consensus from the 15 authors is that many developments have not been encouraging. "Today's Forgotten Half: Still Losing Ground" (Samuel Halperin), a review of…

  15. Session IV: Current Insights into Wilderness and Adventure Therapy. Family Crisis and the Enrollment of Children in Wilderness Treatment

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    Harper, Nevin J.

    2009-01-01

    Wilderness camps and programs have long been identified as viable residential treatment options for troubled adolescents (Durkin, 1988). Wilderness treatment programs in the United States, regardless of reputation and service quality, have recently received increased scrutiny from government, mainly by being depicted as in pedagogical alignment…

  16. College Completion and Participation in a Developmental Math Course for Hispanic and White Non-Hispanic Students

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    Glazier, Stephen Gene

    2011-01-01

    Purpose, Scope, and Method of Study. The population of interest in the study consisted of white and Hispanic high school graduates in the United States who attended college and completed a college developmental mathematics course. Data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988 were employed, and a longitudinal, quasi-experimental…

  17. Implementation of Geostar's RDSS system

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    Lepkowski, Ronald J.

    1990-01-01

    The Geostar (Trademark) system began its initial operations in 1988 and was the first domestic satellite system to provide regular service to mobile users within the United States. Here, an overview is given of Geostar's radiodetermination satellite system (RDSS) concept and its development by Geostar, with a focus on the current operational status of Geostar's interim RDSS system and services.

  18. Academic Achievement Trajectories of Adolescents from Mexican and East Asian Immigrant Families in the United States

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    Jeong, Yu-Jin; Acock, Alan C.

    2014-01-01

    Drawing on the National Educational Longitudinal Survey 1988 (NELS:88), this study identified (1) the growth pattern of academic achievement of adolescent children from Mexican and East Asian immigrant families; (2) investigated to what extent ethnicity and family capital influenced the trajectories in the academic achievement of children from…

  19. The Education Almanac, 1987-1988. Facts and Figures about Our Nation's System of Education. Third Edition.

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    Goodman, Leroy V., Ed.

    This is the third edition of the Education Almanac, an assemblage of statistics, facts, commentary, and basic background information about the conduct of schools in the United States. Features of this variegated volume include an introductory section on "Education's Newsiest Developments," followed by some vital educational statistics, a set of…

  20. Report of the Task Force on Pertussis and Pertussis Immunization--1988.

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    American Academy of Pediatrics, Elk Grove Village, IL.

    Pertussis is a severe epidemic and endemic disease with significant morbidity and mortality. The use of whole-cell pertussis vaccines in the United States has been effective in controlling the disease but not in decreasing the circulation of the organism. Whole-cell vaccines commonly cause reactions in children, and in addition, they are often…

  1. A century of sprawl in the United States

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    Barrington-Leigh, Christopher; Millard-Ball, Adam

    2015-01-01

    The urban street network is one of the most permanent features of cities. Once laid down, the pattern of streets determines urban form and the level of sprawl for decades to come. We present a high-resolution time series of urban sprawl, as measured through street network connectivity, in the United States from 1920 to 2012. Sprawl started well before private car ownership was dominant and grew steadily until the mid-1990s. Over the last two decades, however, new streets have become significantly more connected and grid-like; the peak in street-network sprawl in the United States occurred in ∼1994. By one measure of connectivity, the mean nodal degree of intersections, sprawl fell by ∼9% between 1994 and 2012. We analyze spatial variation in these changes and demonstrate the persistence of sprawl. Places that were built with a low-connectivity street network tend to stay that way, even as the network expands. We also find suggestive evidence that local government policies impact sprawl, as the largest increases in connectivity have occurred in places with policies to promote gridded streets and similar New Urbanist design principles. We provide for public use a county-level version of our street-network sprawl dataset comprising a time series of nearly 100 y. PMID:26080422

  2. A century of sprawl in the United States.

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    Barrington-Leigh, Christopher; Millard-Ball, Adam

    2015-07-07

    The urban street network is one of the most permanent features of cities. Once laid down, the pattern of streets determines urban form and the level of sprawl for decades to come. We present a high-resolution time series of urban sprawl, as measured through street network connectivity, in the United States from 1920 to 2012. Sprawl started well before private car ownership was dominant and grew steadily until the mid-1990s. Over the last two decades, however, new streets have become significantly more connected and grid-like; the peak in street-network sprawl in the United States occurred in ∼ 1994. By one measure of connectivity, the mean nodal degree of intersections, sprawl fell by ∼ 9% between 1994 and 2012. We analyze spatial variation in these changes and demonstrate the persistence of sprawl. Places that were built with a low-connectivity street network tend to stay that way, even as the network expands. We also find suggestive evidence that local government policies impact sprawl, as the largest increases in connectivity have occurred in places with policies to promote gridded streets and similar New Urbanist design principles. We provide for public use a county-level version of our street-network sprawl dataset comprising a time series of nearly 100 y.

  3. The Association Between Extreme Precipitation and Waterborne Disease Outbreaks in the United States, 1948–1994

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    Curriero, Frank C.; Patz, Jonathan A.; Rose, Joan B.; Lele, Subhash

    2001-01-01

    Objectives. Rainfall and runoff have been implicated in site-specific waterborne disease outbreaks. Because upward trends in heavy precipitation in the United States are projected to increase with climate change, this study sought to quantify the relationship between precipitation and disease outbreaks. Methods. The US Environmental Protection Agency waterborne disease database, totaling 548 reported outbreaks from 1948 through 1994, and precipitation data of the National Climatic Data Center were used to analyze the relationship between precipitation and waterborne diseases. Analyses were at the watershed level, stratified by groundwater and surface water contamination and controlled for effects due to season and hydrologic region. A Monte Carlo version of the Fisher exact test was used to test for statistical significance. Results. Fifty-one percent of waterborne disease outbreaks were preceded by precipitation events above the 90th percentile (P = .002), and 68% by events above the 80th percentile (P = .001). Outbreaks due to surface water contamination showed the strongest association with extreme precipitation during the month of the outbreak; a 2-month lag applied to groundwater contamination events. Conclusions. The statistically significant association found between rainfall and disease in the United States is important for water managers, public health officials, and risk assessors of future climate change. PMID:11499103

  4. Correlates of mothers' persistent depressive symptoms: a national study.

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    Pascoe, John M; Stolfi, Adrienne; Ormond, Mary B

    2006-01-01

    The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence, persistence, and correlates of mothers' depressive symptoms over a 5-year period in a nationally representative sample of the United States population. Data from 2235 mothers in the National Survey of Families and Households, Wave I, 1987-1988, and Wave II, 1992-1994, were analyzed. Outcome measures were scores on the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D, 12-item version) and a validated three-item depression screen. One fifth of study mothers had positive CES-D scores and almost half (48%) had negative CES-D scores in both waves. Wave I risk factors for persistent "positive" CES-D scores were maternal age less than 30 years (24%), African-American (33%), never married (26%) or divorced (32%), education less than high school (35%), and indigent (32%). Adjusted odds ratios (AOR) and 95% confidence intervals for persistent "positive" versus persistent "negative" CES-D scores were: age less than 30 years (Wave I), AOR = 1.64, (1.22-2.21); unmarried (Wave II), AOR = 2.60, (1.89-3.56); education less than high school (Wave II), AOR = 2.18, (1.41-3.38); and indigent (Wave II), AOR = 2.09 (1.36-3.21). About one fifth of the study sample reported high depressive symptoms twice over a 5-year period. Depression in women, especially mothers, is an urgent public health problem.

  5. From "overweight" to "about right": evidence of a generational shift in body weight norms.

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    Burke, Mary A; Heiland, Frank W; Nadler, Carl M

    2010-06-01

    In this article, we describe differences in the self-perception of weight status in the United States between the two most recent National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) periods (1988-1994 and 1999-2004), and test the hypothesis that secular increases in adult mean BMI, adult obesity, and childhood obesity contributed to changes over time in weight perceptions. We find that the probability of self-classifying as overweight is significantly lower on average in the more recent survey, for both women and men, controlling for objective weight status and other factors. Among women, the decline in the tendency to self-classify as overweight is concentrated in the 17-35 age range, and is more pronounced among women with normal BMI than those with overweight BMI. Among men, the shift away from feeling overweight is roughly equal across age groups. Overweight men exhibit a sharper decline in feeling overweight than normal weight men. Despite the declines in feeling overweight between surveys, weight misperception did not increase significantly for men and decreased by a sizable margin among women. We interpret the findings as evidence of a generational shift in social norms related to body weight. As a result, people may be less likely to desire weight loss than previously, limiting the effectiveness of public health campaigns aimed at weight reduction. On the other hand, there may be health benefits associated with improved body image.

  6. Mourning dove population trend estimates from Call-Count and North American Breeding Bird Surveys

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    Sauer, J.R.; Dolton, D.D.; Droege, S.

    1994-01-01

    The mourning dove (Zenaida macroura) Callcount Survey and the North American Breeding Bird Survey provide information on population trends of mourning doves throughout the continental United States. Because surveys are an integral part of the development of hunting regulations, a need exists to determine which survey provides precise information. We estimated population trends from 1966 to 1988 by state and dove management unit, and assessed the relative efficiency of each survey. Estimates of population trend differ (P lt 0.05) between surveys in 11 of 48 states; 9 of 11 states with divergent results occur in the Eastern Management Unit. Differences were probably a consequence of smaller sample sizes in the Callcount Survey. The Breeding Bird Survey generally provided trend estimates with smaller variances than did the Callcount Survey. Although the Callcount Survey probably provides more withinroute accuracy because of survey methods and timing, the Breeding Bird Survey has a larger sample size of survey routes and greater consistency of coverage in the Eastern Unit.

  7. Analysis of U.S. Public Port Profitability and Self-Sufficiency (1985-1994)

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    1997-06-01

    This is the fourth report published by the Maritime Administration (MARAD) analyzing various factors related to public port financing in the United States. The first report was published in June 1974, and the second in June 1985. The third report, Pu...

  8. Traffic safety facts 1993 : large trucks

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    1994-01-01

    In 1994, 4,615 large trucks (gross vehicle weight rating greater than 10,000 pounds) were involved in fatal traffic crashes in the United States. A total of 5,112 people died in those crashes-13 percent of the 40,676 traffic fatalities reported in 19...

  9. The national bicycling and walking study : 15–year status report.

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    2010-05-01

    This report is the third status update to the National Bicycling and Walking Study, originally published in 1994 as an assessment of bicycling and walking as transportation modes in the United States. Following the 5-year status report (1999) and 10-...

  10. Rural roads and bridges : condition and financing of local bridges

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    1996-09-01

    This report examines the condition of rural county and town bridges across the United States, with comparisons based on two data sets. The first is the results of surveys mailed to highway administrators in 2321 counties and 9064 towns in Fall 1994 a...

  11. Cosmonaut Yuriy Onufriyenko simulates parachute drop into water

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    1994-10-13

    S94-47232 (13 Oct 1994) --- Cosmonaut Yuriy I. Onufriyenko (right), in the United States to participate in training for joint Russia-United States space missions, simulates a parachute drop into water. The training took place in the Johnson Space Center's (JSC) Weightless Environment Training Facility (WET-F) because it contains a 25-feet-deep pool. Onufriyenko, a Mir reserve team member, and a number of other cosmonauts and astronauts participating in the joint program were in Houston, Texas to prepare for upcoming missions which involve crewmembers from the two nations.

  12. Price competition and hospital cost growth in the United States (1989-1994).

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    Bamezai, A; Zwanziger, J; Melnick, G A; Mann, J M

    1999-05-01

    In recent years, most health care markets in the United States (US) have experienced rapid penetration by health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and preferred provider organizations (PPOs). During this same period, the US has also experienced slowing health care costs. Using a national database, we demonstrate that HMOs and PPOs have significantly restrained cost growth among hospitals located in competitive hospital markets, but not so in the case of hospitals located in relatively concentrated markets. In relative terms, we estimate that HMOs have contained cost growth more effectively than PPOs.

  13. Factor structure and sex differences on the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence in China, Japan and United States.

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    Liu, Jianghong; Lynn, Richard

    2011-08-01

    This study presents data on the factor structure of the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI) and sex and cultural differences in WPPSI test scores among 5- and 6-year-olds from China, Japan, and the United States. Results show the presence of a verbal and nonverbal factor structure across all three countries. Sex differences on the 10 subtests were generally consistent, with a male advantage on a subtest of spatial abilities (Mazes). Males in the Chinese sample obtained significantly higher Full Scale IQ scores than females and had lower variability in their test scores. These observations were not present in the Japan and United States samples. Mean Full Scale IQ score in the Chinese sample was 104.1, representing a 4-point increase from 1988 to 2004.

  14. The Challenge of Global Poliomyelitis Eradication.

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    Garon, Julie R; Cochi, Stephen L; Orenstein, Walter A

    2015-12-01

    In the United States during the 1950's, polio was on the forefront of every provider and caregiver's mind. Today, most providers in the United States have never seen a case. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), which began in 1988 has reduced the number of cases by over 99%. The world is closer to achieving global eradication of polio than ever before but as long as poliovirus circulates anywhere in the world, every country is vulnerable. The global community can support the polio eradication effort through continued vaccination, surveillance, enforcing travel regulations and contributing financial support, partnerships and advocacy. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  15. Physical Processes Involved in the 1988 Drought and 1993 Floods in North America.

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    Trenberth, Kevin E.; Guillemot, Christian J.

    1996-06-01

    An analysis of the spring-summer 1988 drought and 1993 floods over North America reveals a reversal in the sign of anomalies in several fields. Large sea surface temperature anomalies of opposite signs existed in the tropical Pacific with strong La Niña conditions in 1988 and a mature El Niño in 1993. The distribution of tropical convection in the convergence zones and associated latent heating of the atmosphere were correspondingly altered, implying a large-scale switch in the anomalous tropical heating and forcing of extratropical quasi-stationary waves in the atmosphere, influencing the subtropical jet stream over the North Pacific and across North America. In 1988 the jet stream and the closely related storm track of high-frequency disturbances in the upper troposphere were displaced into Canada well north of the normal location-the farthest north of any year from 1979 to 1993. In 1993 a broader jet stream and the storm track were displaced well south of normal to a more springlike location across the United States-the farthest south by over 200 km of any year from 1979 to 1993. High-frequency eddy activity in the Pacific-North American storm track is shown to reinforce the anomalous jet streams in both years.An analysis of the moisture budgets reveals a stronger river of atmospheric moisture flowing across the Gulf of Mexico into the central and eastern United States in 1993. Also, in the lower atmosphere, the storm track in 1993 was more active, and its lower latitude allowed the cyclonic disturbances to tap into the moisture source, transport moisture into the upper Mississippi River basin, and precipitate it out. It is deduced that local evaporation may have enhanced the precipitation and helped perpetuate and prolong the conditions. In contrast, in 1988 disturbances were weaker and displaced far enough north to avoid most of the moisture source, and the drought was perpetuated by the dry conditions. Consequently, these effects should be viewed as feedbacks that amplify and prolong the response, while from the standpoint of the atmosphere, the anomalous tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures are a notable (but not the sole) external forcing of the patterns.

  16. The MOST - Monitor for Oxygenation of Surface and Tissue.

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1995-10-01

    CAT Reduce need for ICU, low risk groups Central nursing station Office procedures: Dentistry , Endoscopy Monitoring spinal or epidural narcotics Home...obtainable by using laser Doppler methods (Wickramasinghe et al., 1994; Liepsch et al., 1993; Mendelson, Ochs, 1988). While many parameters beyond oxygenation...blood flow include laser Doppler flowmetry sys- tems which are currently commercially available. These systems measure the velocity of blood particles

  17. Not Even if You Were the Last Person on Earth! How Marital Search Constraints Affect the Likelihood of Marriage

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    Raley, R. Kelly; Bratter, Jenifer

    2004-01-01

    Using the 1987-1988 and 1992-1994 waves of the National Survey of Families and Households, the authors measure the association between Wave 1 responses to 12 questions on whom respondents would be "most willing to marry" and the likelihood of marriage by Wave 2. Preliminary analysis indicated that some questions about partner preferences…

  18. Postponing Second Teen Births in the 1990s: Longitudinal Analyses of National Data.

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    Manlove, Jennifer; Mariner, Carrie; Romano, Angela

    A sample of high school-age mothers was followed from 1988 to 1994 in order to examine factors associated with having a second teen birth or closely spaced second teen birth. Factors associated with postponing a second teen birth included characteristics measured prior to the first birth, at the time of the first birth, and after the first birth.…

  19. Effects of Radiation on Proteasome Function in Prostate Cancer Cells

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2012-02-01

    California Breast Cancer Research Program Innovative Development and Exploratory Award (IDEA) Competitive Renewal Modulation of...Weissman IL. Establishment of a normal hemato- poietic and leukemia stem cell hierarchy. Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol 2008;73:439–449. 9 Trott KR...existence of CSCs in solid cancer has been advocated by radiobiologists for decades [Withers et al., 1988; Trott , 1994]. However, until recently this

  20. Temporal decline in filling prescriptions for terfenadine closely in time with those for either ketoconazole or erythromycin.

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    Burkhart, G A; Sevka, M J; Temple, R; Honig, P K

    1997-01-01

    Temporal changes in the rates of filling terfenadine prescriptions within 2 days of those for either oral erythromycin or oral ketoconazole were described with use of paid pharmacy claims data from 1988 through 1994 in state Medicaid programs from Michigan and Ohio and in a large health maintenance organization. There were rapid and significant declines in the rates of filling prescriptions for either erythromycin or ketoconazole within 2 days of prescriptions for terfenadine in all three databases that coincided with 1992 publicity about the cardiovascular risk of terfenadine. These findings suggest that the use of terfenadine with contraindicated medications has declined in response to relabeling and publicity concerning the safe use of terfenadine. Further study is necessary to estimate the absolute level of concurrent use of terfenadine with contraindicated medications.

  1. United States Air Force Summer Faculty Research Program, 1988. Program Technical Report. Volume 4

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    1988-12-01

    Professor SDecialty: Gas Phase Ion-Molecule Chem. Dept. of Chemistry Assigned: Air Force Geophysics Lab. Louisiana State University Choppin Hall...For Lucid Dr. Darin DeForest 55 Pre-Sort Processor Phase Distortion Dr. Paul Dingman Evaluation 56 A PROLOG Natural Language Front End Dr. Hugh...analysis in the electron impact mode. The column used was 25m x 0.25am ID bonded phase FSOT capillary column (#952525 Alltech and Associates), coated with

  2. Memorandum of Understanding between University of California and University Council, American Federation of Teachers, Non-Senate Instructional Unit, July 1 1986-June 30, 1988.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    California Univ. System.

    The collective bargaining agreement between University of California and University Council, American Federation of Teachers, Non-Senate Instructional Unit, for the period covering July 1, 1986-June 30, 1988, is presented. Items covered in the agreement include: unit recognition; academic freedom; academic responsibility; nondiscrimination;…

  3. Multifactorial analysis of renal transplants reported to the United Network for Organ Sharing Registry: a 1994 update.

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    Gjertson, D W

    1994-01-01

    1. From a multivariate log-linear analysis of 57,303 renal transplants between 1988 and 1994, the top 10 factors influencing one-year and 3-year cadaveric graft survival rates were ranked as follows: [table: see text] 2. Center effects accounted for 30% and 28% of all assignable variations in one-year and 3-year outcomes, respectively. Although center variation dominated 32 other variables, most factors were relatively independent of transplant center. 3. Novel to our own multifactorial analyses of the UNOS Kidney Transplant Registry were 6 pretransplant factors (recipient pretransplant dialysis, pregnancy, PRA technique, donor disposition and preservation, and ABO compatibility). Survival rates over the various combinations of these new factors were not significantly different. 4. For the first time in our multivariate analyses, 4 posttransplantation factors (delayed graft function, rejection episodes prior to discharge, induction and maintenance drug therapies) were included in the log-linear model. It is noteworthy that graft survival in both transplant periods was seriously imperiled following delayed graft function or rejection prior to discharge, yet the accounting for these pseudo-outcome variables did not alter the influence of the remaining 31 transplant factors. Finally, maintenance drug therapies strongly influenced short-term outcomes but did not influence long-term results, except for a noteworthy trend toward increased survival rates for FK506 therapy.

  4. "God must have been sleeping": faith as an obstacle and a resource for Rwandan genocide survivors in the United States.

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    Fox, Nicole

    2012-01-01

    In 1994, 1 million Rwandans were violently killed in only 100 days. Devastating for some Rwandan survivors was the significant role that some Catholic parishes and leaders took in ignoring, facilitating, and even perpetuating the genocide. This article seeks to understand how Rwandan genocide survivors draw on religion as they negotiate their postgenocide identities in the United States and comprehend their current faiths, beliefs, and practices. Based on qualitative interviews with Rwandan survivors now located within the United States, I argue that the experiences of religiosity postgenocide serve as both an obstacle and a resource in postgenocide life, creating significant individual and local ramifications for community engagement, reconciliation, and trauma recovery.

  5. Investigation of differences between field and laboratory pH measurements of national atmospheric deposition program/national trends network precipitation samples

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    Latysh, N.; Gordon, J.

    2004-01-01

    A study was undertaken to investigate differences between laboratory and field pH measurements for precipitation samples collected from 135 weekly precipitation-monitoring sites in the National Trends Network from 12/30/1986 to 12/28/1999. Differences in pH between field and laboratory measurements occurred for 96% of samples collected during this time period. Differences between the two measurements were evaluated for precipitation samples collected before and after January 1994, when modifications to sample-handling protocol and elimination of the contaminating bucket o-ring used in sample shipment occurred. Median hydrogen-ion and pH differences between field and laboratory measurements declined from 3.9 ??eq L-1 or 0.10 pH units before the 1994 protocol change to 1.4 ??eq L-1 or 0.04 pH units after the 1994 protocol change. Hydrogen-ion differences between field and laboratory measurements had a high correlation with the sample pH determined in the field. The largest pH differences between the two measurements occurred for high-pH samples (>5.6), typical of precipitation collected in Western United States; however low- pH samples (<5.0) displayed the highest variability in hydrogen-ion differences between field and laboratory analyses. Properly screened field pH measurements are a useful alternative to laboratory pH values for trend analysis, particularly before 1994 when laboratory pH values were influenced by sample-collection equipment.

  6. Immigrant Education: A Fact Sheet.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Aleman, Steven R.

    This report provides information on immigrant education in the United States in the areas of funding, participation, population, services, and allocation method. Additionally, it explores reauthorization issues confronting the Emergency Immigrant Education Act for fiscal year 1994. The report shows that: (1) there has been a steady decrease in…

  7. Forest Statistics for New York 1980 and 1993

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    Carol L. Alerich; David A. Drake; David A. Drake

    1995-01-01

    A statistical report on the fourth forest inventory of New York 1991- 1994. Findings are displayed in 155 tables containing estimates of forest area numbers of trees wildlife habitat timber volume growth change and biomass. Data are presented at three levels; state, geographic unit, and county.

  8. Methodology for rendering household budget and individual nutrition surveys comparable, at the level of the dietary information collected.

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    Naska, A; Paterakis, S; Eeckman, H; Remaut, A M; Trygg, K

    2001-10-01

    To describe the methodology applied in order to render comparable, at the level of the dietary information collected, the household budget survey (HBS) and individual nutrition survey (INS) data from four European countries (Belgium, Greece, Norway and the United Kingdom). In Belgium, data from the HBS of 1987-88 were compared with data from the Belgian Interuniversity Research on Nutrition and Health collected from 1980 to 1985. In Greece, data from the HBS undertaken in 1993-94 in the greater Athens area were compared with data collected around 1994 in the same region, in the context of the Greek segment of the European Prospective Investigation on Cancer and Nutrition study. In Norway, data from the HBS carried out in 1992, 1993 and 1994 were compared with the NORKOST study conducted in 1993-94. In the United Kingdom, data from four HBSs carried out in 1985, 1986, 1987 and 1988 were compared with the National Dietary and Nutritional Survey of British adults conducted in 1987-88. INS-generated data were converted into 'HBS-like' estimates with the application of yield factors for weight changes during cooking, recipe-based calculations and edible proportion coefficients taking into account weight changes during the food preparation. The 'HBS-like' estimates thus obtained were compared with the original HBS values, after applying an adjustment factor for food spoiled or given to pets. The methodological considerations overviewed in the present paper indicate that a number of issues need to be taken into account before a proper comparison of the dietary data collected through surveys implemented with varied methodologies is carried out.

  9. Multivitamin-mineral use is associated with reduced risk of cardiovascular disease mortality among women in the United States.

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    Bailey, Regan L; Fakhouri, Tala H; Park, Yikyung; Dwyer, Johanna T; Thomas, Paul R; Gahche, Jaime J; Miller, Paige E; Dodd, Kevin W; Sempos, Christopher T; Murray, David M

    2015-03-01

    Multivitamin-mineral (MVM) products are the most commonly used supplements in the United States, followed by multivitamin (MV) products. Two randomized clinical trials (RCTs) did not show an effect of MVMs or MVs on cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality; however, no clinical trial data are available for women with MVM supplement use and CVD mortality. The objective of this research was to examine the association between MVM and MV use and CVD-specific mortality among US adults without CVD. A nationally representative sample of adults from the restricted data NHANES III (1988-1994; n = 8678; age ≥40 y) were matched with mortality data reported by the National Death Index through 2011 to examine associations between MVM and MV use and CVD mortality by using Cox proportional hazards models, adjusting for multiple potential confounders. We observed no significant association between CVD mortality and users of MVMs or MVs compared with nonusers; however, when users were classified by the reported length of time products were used, a significant association was found with MVM use of >3 y compared with nonusers (HR: 0.65; 95% CI: 0.49, 0.85). This finding was largely driven by the significant association among women (HR: 0.56; 95% CI: 0.37, 0.85) but not men (HR: 0.79; 95% CI: 0.44, 1.42). No significant association was observed for MV products and CVD mortality in fully adjusted models. In this nationally representative data set with detailed information on supplement use and CVD mortality data ∼20 y later, we found an association between MVM use of >3 y and reduced CVD mortality risk for women when models controlled for age, race, education, body mass index, alcohol, aspirin use, serum lipids, blood pressure, and blood glucose/glycated hemoglobin. Our results are consistent with the 1 available RCT in men, indicating no relation with MVM use and CVD mortality. © 2015 American Society for Nutrition.

  10. The management of hypercholesterolemia in patients with coronary artery disease: guidelines for primary care.

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    Vogel, R A

    1998-01-01

    More than 10 million individuals in the United States currently have symptomatic coronary artery disease (CAD). Asymptomatic CAD is even more prevalent. CAD in the United States is responsible for approximately 1.5 million myocardial infarctions, 500,000 deaths, and a total economic burden in excess of $120 billion annually. Fortunately, CAD is preventable in many individuals. Our understanding of CAD has steadily progressed throughout the 20th century, and now several lines of evidence support the importance of cholesterol in both the genesis and management of coronary atherosclerosis. Following identification of the presence of cholesterol in atheromas, Anitschkov early this century demonstrated that atherosclerotic lesions can be induced in susceptible animals by high-saturated-fat and cholesterol diets. These lesions regressed when low-fat and cholesterol diets were resumed. In the 1970s and 1980s, findings from the landmark Framingham Heart, Seven Countries, and Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial studies firmly established that hypercholesterolemia was a major risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. During the 1980s and 1990s, 21 of 22 angiographic trials demonstrated reduced progression of coronary and/or carotid artery disease using lifestyle, drug, and surgical means for reducing cholesterol. The later trials commonly employed hydroxymethylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibitors (statins), reflecting increasing clinical use of these drugs. In 1988, the Adult Treatment Panel of the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) published guidelines on testing and treating hypercholesterolemic patients, which outlined a more aggressive approach to cholesterol lowering than was currently in practice. Since 1994, five large cardiovascular event trials and a large angiographic trial have shown that aggressive cholesterol lowering reduces both cardiac morbidity and mortality, largely substantiating the NCEP guidelines. Although important clinical questions remain regarding patient subsets and treatment goals, lifestyle changes and appropriate drug therapy have proved to be highly effective in preventing initial and recurrent cardiovascular events.

  11. Authorship, collaboration, and predictors of extramural funding in the emergency medicine literature.

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    Rosenzweig, Jaime S; Van Deusen, Shawn K; Okpara, Okemefuna; Datillo, Paris A; Briggs, William M; Birkhahn, Robert H

    2008-01-01

    The objectives of the study were to examine the last decade of general emergency medicine (EM) literature published in the United States for trends with regard to authorship and multidisciplinary collaboration and to estimate the effect on extramural funding. Print articles published in the Academic Emergency Medicine, Annals of Emergency Medicine, Journal of Emergency Medicine, and American Journal of Emergency Medicine between 1994 and 2003 were reviewed. Original research, case reports/series, and others (consensus/educational) were considered; abstracts, book reviews, and editorials were not. The author byline was reviewed for number, specialty, nationality, collaboration, and presence of extramural funding. Multidisciplinary collaboration was defined as authors from 2 or more specialties, whereas multi-institutional collaboration was defined as EM authors from more than one institution. Logistic regression was used to identify predictors of extramural funding from the variables collected. Of 5728 articles identified, there were 3278 (57%) original research, 1437 (25%) case reports/series, and 975 (17%) classified as others. The percentage funded was 22% for all articles (32% for original research). The literature had at least one EM investigator as coauthor 84% of the time. Article location of origin was the United States (63%), foreign (15%), and combined (22%). Multidisciplinary collaboration increased overall from 33% in 1994 to a high of 43% in 2003. Multi-institutional collaboration also increased from 16% in 1994 to 26% in 2003. The percentage of articles having 6 or more authors increased from 12% to 18% over the decade. Of all variables studied, only article type (original research: odds ratio, 4.8; 95% confidence interval, 4.0-5.6) and foreign source (non-United States: odds ratio, 1.3; 95% confidence interval, 1.1-1.5) predicted extramural funding. The number of authors per article in the EM literature has steadily increased over the last decade, as has evidence of collaboration with other specialties. This increase in collaboration and author number has not been associated with increased extramural funding in the general EM literature published in the United States.

  12. National Water-Quality Assessment Program; the Allegheny-Monongahela River Basin

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    McAuley, Steven D.

    1995-01-01

    In 1991, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) began a National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) program. The three major objectives of the NAWQA program are to provide a consistent description of current water-quality conditions for a large part of the Nation's water resources, define long-term trends in water quality, and identify, describe, and explain the major factors that affect water-quality conditions and trends. The program produces water-quality information that is useful to policy makers and managers at the National, State, and local levels.The program will be implemented through 60 separate investigations of river basins and aquifer systems called study units. These study-unit investigations will be conducted at the State and local level and will form the foundation on which national- and regional-level assessments are based. The 60 study units are hydrologic systems that include parts of most major river basins and aquifer systems. The study-unit areas range from 1,000 to more than 60,000 square miles and include about 60 to 70 percent of the Nation's water use and population served by public water supplies. Twenty studyunit investigations were started in 1991, 20 started in 1994, and 20 more are planned to start in 1997. The Allegheny-Monongahela River Basin was selected to begin assessment activities as a NAWQA study unit in 1994. The study team will work from the office of the USGS in Pittsburgh, Pa.

  13. Development Achievements at Pittsburg State University for Fiscal Year 1988.

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    Smoot, Joseph G.

    The development report for Pittsburg State University's (PSU) fiscal year 1988 is presented. The most important objective of PSU's development program is to provide funding beyond the state support in order to distinguish the university among its U.S. peers. Chapters include an overview of FY 1988 development activities, the Annual Fund, the…

  14. Performances of U.S. Osteopathic and Canadian Medical School Graduates on the American Board of Internal Medicine Certifying Examinations, 1984-1988.

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    Shea, Judy A.; And Others

    1990-01-01

    A study compared the 1984-88 test performances of United States osteopathic medical school graduates and Canadian medical school graduates with those of U.S. and foreign medical school graduates during the same period. Findings, limitations, and implications for recruitment and training of internal medicine specialists are discussed. (Author/MSE)

  15. Dropout and Completion Rates in the United States: 2006. Compendium Report. NCES 2008-053

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    Laird, Jennifer; Cataldi, Emily Forrest; KewalRamani, Angelina; Chapman, Chris

    2008-01-01

    This report builds upon a series of National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) reports on high school dropout and completion rates that began in 1988. It presents estimates of rates in 2006, provides data about trends in dropout and completion rates over the last 3 decades (1972-006), and examines the characteristics of high school dropouts…

  16. Australia's 1988 Bicentennial: National History and Multiculturalism in the Primary School Curriculum

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    Sharp, Heather

    2012-01-01

    As in many countries, such as Germany, Turkey, the United States and Japan the history/culture wars of the past two decades have increased public interest in what is taught in schools. This has resulted in rigorous debates in the general community, encouraged and sustained through regular media coverage. Partly as a response to this, History has…

  17. 26 CFR 20.2101-1 - Estates of nonresidents not citizens; tax imposed.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... the United States at the time of death. In the case of estates of decedents dying after November 10, 1988, the tax is computed at the same rates as the tax that is imposed on the transfer of the taxable... the payment of the tax, see section 2002. For special rules as to the phaseout of the graduated rates...

  18. 26 CFR 20.2101-1 - Estates of nonresidents not citizens; tax imposed.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... the United States at the time of death. In the case of estates of decedents dying after November 10, 1988, the tax is computed at the same rates as the tax that is imposed on the transfer of the taxable... the payment of the tax, see section 2002. For special rules as to the phaseout of the graduated rates...

  19. 26 CFR 20.2101-1 - Estates of nonresidents not citizens; tax imposed.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ... the United States at the time of death. In the case of estates of decedents dying after November 10, 1988, the tax is computed at the same rates as the tax that is imposed on the transfer of the taxable... the payment of the tax, see section 2002. For special rules as to the phaseout of the graduated rates...

  20. 26 CFR 20.2101-1 - Estates of nonresidents not citizens; tax imposed.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-04-01

    ... the United States at the time of death. In the case of estates of decedents dying after November 10, 1988, the tax is computed at the same rates as the tax that is imposed on the transfer of the taxable... the payment of the tax, see section 2002. For special rules as to the phaseout of the graduated rates...

  1. 26 CFR 20.2101-1 - Estates of nonresidents not citizens; tax imposed.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... the United States at the time of death. In the case of estates of decedents dying after November 10, 1988, the tax is computed at the same rates as the tax that is imposed on the transfer of the taxable... the payment of the tax, see section 2002. For special rules as to the phaseout of the graduated rates...

  2. A Comparative Analysis of Word Problems in Selected United States and Russian First Grade Textbooks

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    Grishchenko, Svetlana

    2009-01-01

    The purpose of this study was to explore word problems as a subject matter in mathematics textbook curricula. The motivation for the study derived from the following evidence: (a) American students find some word problems are more difficult than others (Garcia, Jimenez, & Hess, 2006; Riley & Green, 1988; Stern, 2001), and (b) one of the…

  3. 26 CFR 1.861-8 - Computation of taxable income from sources within the United States and from other sources and...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... in taxable years beginning before January 1, 1988. (7) Losses on the sale, exchange, or other disposition of property—(i) Allocation. The deduction allowed for loss recognized on the sale, exchange, or... asset or property during the taxable year or years immediately preceding the sale, exchange, or other...

  4. 26 CFR 1.861-8 - Computation of taxable income from sources within the United States and from other sources and...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ... in taxable years beginning before January 1, 1988. (7) Losses on the sale, exchange, or other disposition of property—(i) Allocation. The deduction allowed for loss recognized on the sale, exchange, or... asset or property during the taxable year or years immediately preceding the sale, exchange, or other...

  5. 26 CFR 1.861-8 - Computation of taxable income from sources within the United States and from other sources and...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-04-01

    ... in taxable years beginning before January 1, 1988. (7) Losses on the sale, exchange, or other disposition of property—(i) Allocation. The deduction allowed for loss recognized on the sale, exchange, or... asset or property during the taxable year or years immediately preceding the sale, exchange, or other...

  6. 26 CFR 1.861-8 - Computation of taxable income from sources within the United States and from other sources and...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... in taxable years beginning before January 1, 1988. (7) Losses on the sale, exchange, or other disposition of property—(i) Allocation. The deduction allowed for loss recognized on the sale, exchange, or... asset or property during the taxable year or years immediately preceding the sale, exchange, or other...

  7. The complementary relationship in estimation of regional evapotranspiration: An enhanced Advection-Aridity model

    Treesearch

    Michael T. Hobbins; Jorge A. Ramirez; Thomas C. Brown

    2001-01-01

    Long-term monthly evapotranspiration estimates from Brutsaert and Stricker’s Advection-Aridity model were compared with independent estimates of evapotranspiration derived from long-term water balances for 139 undisturbed basins across the conterminous United States. On an average annual basis for the period 1962-1988 the original model, which uses a Penman wind...

  8. U.S. Hispanics: Challenging Issues for the 1990s. Population Trends and Public Policy, Number 17.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Valdivieso, Rafael; Davis, Cary

    The number of Hispanics in the United States reached 20 million in 1988, a 34% increase since 1980, reflecting growth that challenges U.S. policymakers in nearly every area, but most urgently in education, job training, and welfare. There is considerable diversity within the U.S. Hispanic community, but Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and other…

  9. Current Readings on the Iran-Iraq Conflict and Its Effects on U.S. Foreign Relations and Policy.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    El-Sherbini, Magda

    1989-01-01

    Provides background on the Iran-Iraq conflict and suggests readings dating from 1980 to 1988 in both English and Arabic which are classified under seven broad categories: the roots of the conflict; Iran-United States relations; the American hostage crisis; the Iran-Contra affair; periodicals and indexes; online databases; and bibliographies. (105…

  10. 1988 Revisions to the 1978 National Fire-Danger Rating System

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    Robert E. Burgan

    1988-01-01

    The 1978 National Fire-Danger Rating System does not work well in the humid environment of the Eastern United States. System modifications to correct problems and their operational impact on System users are described. A new set of 20 fuel models is defined and compared graphically with the 1978 fuel models. Technical documentation of System changes is provided.

  11. Advances in the Prevention of Low Birthweight. Proceedings from an International Symposium (Cape Cod, Massachusetts, May 8-11, 1988).

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    Berendes, Heinz W., Ed.; And Others

    This proceedings document contains papers addressing trends, determinants, and interventions in preventing low birthweight. Papers have the following titles and authors: "Trends in Rates of Low Birthweight in the United States" (Mary McCormick); "Evolution of the Preterm Birth Rate in France" (Gerard Breart); "The Etiology and Prevention of Low…

  12. Education and the Reproduction of Economic Inequality in the United States: An Empirical Investigation

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Rumberger, Russell W.

    2010-01-01

    This study investigates the relationship between family background and both college completion and earnings for a cohort of young adults. The study is based on sample of 8901 respondents from the National Education Longitudinal Study who were first surveyed as eighth graders in 1988 and last surveyed 12 years later and who were working and not…

  13. Results and Recommendations from the 2009 National Surveys of Randomly Selected and Highly Successful Middle Level Schools

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    McEwin, C. Kenneth; Greene, Melanie W.

    2010-01-01

    While a number of studies have yielded useful information regarding the status of middle level schools in the United States, four linked national surveys provide a longitudinal perspective on the degree of implementation of key middle grades programs and practices. These studies were conducted in 1968 (Alexander, 1968), 1988 (Alexander &…

  14. Adolescent Suicide Postvention in Schools: Managing Grief of Peer Survivors.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Mauk, Gary W.

    During 1988 there were 4,929 deaths by suicide among persons 15 to 24 years of age in the United States, making suicide the third leading cause of death in this age group, following accidents and homicide. Adolescent suicide is a particularly toxic form of death for the peers who are left behind. A "survivor of suicide" is defined as…

  15. Aedes albopictus in the United States: ten-year presence and public health implications.

    PubMed Central

    Moore, C. G.; Mitchell, C. J.

    1997-01-01

    Since its discovery in Houston, Texas, in 1987, the Asian "tiger mosquito" Aedes albopictus has spread to 678 counties in 25 states. This species, which readily colonizes container habitats in the peridomestic environment, was probably introduced into the continental United States in shipments of scrap tires from northern Asia. The early pattern of dispersal followed the interstate highway system, which suggests further dispersal by human activities. The Public Health Service Act of 1988 requires shipments of used tires from countries with Ae. albopictus to be treated to prevent further importations. Given the extensive spread of the mosquito in the United States, it is questionable whether such a requirement is still justified. Ae. albopictus, a major biting pest throughout much of its range, is a competent laboratory vector of at least 22 arboviruses, including many viruses of public health importance. Cache Valley and eastern equine encephalomyelitis viruses are the only human pathogens isolated from U.S. populations of Ae. albopictus. There is no evidence that this mosquito is the vector of human disease in the United States. PMID:9284377

  16. The War Crimes Act: Current Issues

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2006-09-25

    entrapment by estoppel , available when a defendant is informed by a government official that certain conduct is legal, and thereafter commits what...United States v. Baptista-Rodriguez, 17 F.3d 1354, 1368 n. 18 (11th Cir. 1994). Unlike the other defenses, the defense of entrapment by estoppel stems

  17. 75 FR 74686 - North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Article 1904 Binational Panel Reviews

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    2010-12-01

    ... (NAFTA), Article 1904 Binational Panel Reviews AGENCY: NAFTA Secretariat, United States Section... determination. Under Article 1904 of the Agreement, which came into force on January 1, 1994, the Government of... Procedure for Article 1904 Binational Panel Reviews (``Rules''). These Rules were published in the Federal...

  18. 77 FR 29965 - North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Article 1904 Binational Panel Reviews

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    2012-05-21

    ... (NAFTA), Article 1904 Binational Panel Reviews AGENCY: NAFTA Secretariat, United States Section... determination. Under Article 1904 of the Agreement, which came into force on January 1, 1994, the Government of... Procedure for Article 1904 Binational Panel Reviews (``Rules''). These Rules were published in the Federal...

  19. 78 FR 51708 - North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Article 1904 Binational Panel Reviews

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    ... (NAFTA), Article 1904 Binational Panel Reviews AGENCY: NAFTA Secretariat, United States Section... determination. Under Article 1904 of the Agreement, which came into force on January 1, 1994, the Government of... Procedure for Article 1904 Binational Panel Reviews (``Rules''). These Rules were published in the Federal...

  20. Modern Air Occupation Strategy Case Study: Operation Southern Watch

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2001-03-25

    American coffins, draped in flags, carried across a lonely tarmac to the echoing, mournful tones of a bugle, haunts responsible United States decision...Patton Papers, Vol. II, 1974, in Peter Tsouras, Warriors Words (London: Arms and Armour Press, 1994), p. 324. 68 Bill Sammon, “Bush rejects claim

  1. Discussions of Educational Change in Canada and the United States.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Webber, Charles F.

    This paper summarizes the collective views of American and Canadian educators who discussed educational differences and similarities between the two countries at a cross-cultural conference. In October 1994, 26 members of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) met in Calgary with 150 educators from across Alberta…

  2. Astronaut Catherine G. Coleman aboard KC-135 aircraft

    NASA Image and Video Library

    1994-05-28

    S94-35542 (June 1994) --- Astronaut Catherine G. Coleman, mission specialist, gets a preview of next year?s United States Microgravity Laboratory (USML-2) mission aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. The weightless experience was afforded by a special parabolic pattern flown by NASA?s KC-135 ?zero gravity? aircraft.

  3. Science and Technology Pocket Data Book.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Div. of Science Resources Studies.

    This pocket guide contains a collection of graphed data, available in 1994, on science and technology funding patterns within the United States, public attitudes toward science and technology, and international trends in science and technology. Sections contain: (1) national research and development (R&D) funding patterns; (2) academic R&D…

  4. Demographic Survey of Female Faculty in Technology Education Programs.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Heidari, Farzin

    A study was conducted to determine the general program information and the demographic status of female faculty in four-year technology education programs in the United States. Information was gathered through a literature review and a questionnaire mailed to all 70 technology education programs listed in the 1994 International Technology…

  5. Railroad safety : DOT faces challenges in improving grade crossing safety, track inspection standards, and passenger car safety

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    1996-04-01

    Accidents at railroad crossings are the leading cause of deaths associated with the railroad industry; almost half of all rail-related deaths in the United States are caused by collisions of trains and vehicles at public railroad crossings. In 1994, ...

  6. 19 CFR 10.2002 - General definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... their natural resources; (v) WTO. “WTO” means the World Trade Organization; and (w) WTO Agreement. “WTO Agreement” means the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization of April 15, 1994. Import.... “Party” means the United States or Panama; (q) Person. “Person” means a natural person or an enterprise...

  7. 19 CFR 10.902 - General definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ... their natural resources; (u) WTO. “WTO” means the World Trade Organization; and (v) WTO Agreement. “WTO Agreement” means the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization of April 15, 1994. Import..., HTSUS; (o) Party. “Party” means the United States or Peru; (p) Person. “Person” means a natural person...

  8. 19 CFR 10.902 - General definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-04-01

    ... their natural resources; (u) WTO. “WTO” means the World Trade Organization; and (v) WTO Agreement. “WTO Agreement” means the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization of April 15, 1994. Import..., HTSUS; (o) Party. “Party” means the United States or Peru; (p) Person. “Person” means a natural person...

  9. 19 CFR 10.902 - General definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... their natural resources; (u) WTO. “WTO” means the World Trade Organization; and (v) WTO Agreement. “WTO Agreement” means the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization of April 15, 1994. Import..., HTSUS; (o) Party. “Party” means the United States or Peru; (p) Person. “Person” means a natural person...

  10. The Controversy on National Standards for History.

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    Chapin, June R.

    This paper examines the controversy generated by the 1994 release of the "National Standards for United States History: Exploring the American Experience (5-12)" and "National Standards for World History: Exploring Paths to the Present (5-12)." The standards engendered protests as conservatives and others charged that it was a "politically…

  11. History of Higher Education, 1994.

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    History of Higher Education, 1994

    1994-01-01

    This annual compilation presents four papers which focus on significant developments in higher education in nineteenth-century Europe and the United States. An introduction to the volume by Roger L. Geiger notes commonalities across the four papers and major trends in historical research on institutions of higher education. The first paper, by…

  12. AFRRI Reports, Third Quarter 1994

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1994-10-01

    with biologic response modifiers (BRMs), such as LPS, 3D monophosphoryl lipid A (MPL), and synthetic trehalose dico- rynomycolate (S-TDCM...monophosphosphoryl lipid A; S-TDCM, synthetic trehalose dicorynomycolate; Sm-BRM, extract from Serratia marcescens; TS, 2% Tween 80 in 0.9% NaCI; RT-PCR...Immun. 58:2429. 42 23. Madonna, G. S.. G, D. Ledney, D. C. Funckes, and E. E. Ribi. 1988. Monophosphoryl lipid A and trehalose dimycolate therapy

  13. The Role of the Nurse Practitioner in Military Deployment

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1996-04-04

    diarrheal and other infectious diseases. These disease entities were also described by Withers et al.(1994). 8. A Comparison of MEDREJE Practice...systems, and parasitic and infectious diseases (Defense Intelligence Agency, Medical Capabilities Study, Republic of Bolivia, 1988, DST-18 IOS-355-88...diarrhea, 44 vomiting, mononucleosis , colds and flu, and many small lacerations. If we could have used 2 or 3 more of anything, I think it would have

  14. Leg ulcer assessment techniques in a remote rural area.

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    Graham, Julia

    Community-based leg ulcer clinics are a cost-effective and efficient way of managing patients with leg ulcers in the community (Blair et al, 1988; Moffatt and Oldroyd, 1994). According to the Scottish Clinical Standards for Vascular Services (NHS Quality Improvement Scotland, 2003): 'It is essential that all vascular patients are seen by a nurse with vascular expertise, who is able to provide information, support and health promotion advice'.

  15. Formal and Informal Work Group Relationships With Performance: A Moderation Model Using Social

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2006-03-01

    networks can be divided into two main categories: formal and informal (Scott, 2000). Similar distinctions have been made between task and social cohesion (Mullen...Cooper, 1994; Carron, Widmeyer, & Brawley, 1985; Zaccaro & Lowe, 1986; Zaccaro & McCoy, 1988). Social cohesion has been defined as...performance and social cohesion and performance (Beal et al., 2003). This move toward a multidimensional view of cohesion is consistent with the

  16. United States Air Force Research Initiation Program for 1988. Volume 4

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1990-04-01

    Wisconsin- Madison , Univ. of - 1 Trinity University - 1 Wright State University - 5 Total 153 vi PARTICIPANTS LABORATORY ASSIGNMENT vii PARTICIPANT...25 M sucrose by resuspension and recent- rifugation. Microsomes are suspended in 84 mL 5 uW Triton X-100(TRI), 50 WM K phosphate, pH 7.4, 5 mM...the litters. Rats in Groups B-i and B-2 were exposed to 300 ug/kg of beryllium sulfate (supplied by Aldridge Chemical Co., Madison , Wisconsin

  17. Description of Fundulus Heteroclitus Ventilatory Data and Water Quality Parameters: A Feasibility Study for Predicting Toxic Pfiesteria Piscicida and P. Piscicida-like Events in Estuarine Environments

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2000-06-30

    Center for Environmental Health Research (USACEHR), the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics...Joanne M. Burkholder and fellow North Carolina State researchers in 1988, has the ability to assume a toxic life cycle stage under appropriate...P. piscicida form. If the toxic form ofP. piscicida is present in the optimal quantity, the fish \\vill usually die within an hour. Dr. Burkholder

  18. The Ibero-American Heritage Curriculum Project. Latinos in the Making of the United States of America: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. Conference Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the International Advisory Panel (2nd, Santillana del Mar, Spain, October 6-9, 1988).

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    New York State Education Dept., Albany.

    The Ibero-American Heritage Curriculum Project is an interdisciplinary curriculum development project designed to integrate the study of Ibero-American heritage and culture into classroom instructional programs, kindergarten through grade 12. The project was initiated by the New York State Education Department and involves the Spanish National…

  19. African American women and men at high and low risk for hypertension: a signal detection analysis of NHANES III, 1988-1994.

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    Collins, Rakale; Winkleby, Marilyn A

    2002-10-01

    African Americans have some of the highest rates of hypertension in the world. This study identified subgroups of U.S. African American women and men with particularly high and low rates of hypertension. Data are presented for 1,911 Black women and 1,657 Black men, ages 25-84 from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-1994. Signal detection methodology identified high and low risk subgroups; stratified analyses characterized the population of hypertensives. We identified 12 distinct subgroups with highly variable rates of hypertension (11-78%). The two groups with the highest rates of hypertension (>70% hypertensive) were more likely to be middle aged or older, less educated, overweight or obese (>80%), physically inactive (50%), and to have diabetes (28 and 100% diabetic). The two groups with the lowest hypertension rates (<18% hypertensive) were more likely to be younger, but were also overweight or obese (>50%). Among hypertensives, those who were uncontrolled and not on antihypertensive medications were distinguished by their male gender, younger age, and infrequent contact with a physician. Hypertension rates vary substantially within African Americans, illustrating the need for effective weight management, diabetes control, and increased access to health care for those at highest risk. Copyright 2002 American Health Foundation and Elsevier Science (USA)

  20. Fall Chinook Salmon Spawning Ground Surveys in the Snake River Basin Upriver of Lower Granite Dam, 2005 Annual Report.

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    Garcia, A.P.; Bradbury, S.; Arnsberg, B.D.

    2006-10-01

    Redd counts are routinely used to document the spawning distribution of fall Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in the Snake River basin upriver of Lower Granite Dam. The first reported redd counts were from aerial searches conducted intermittently between 1959 and 1978 (Irving and Bjornn 1981, Witty 1988; Groves and Chandler 1996)(Appendix 1). In 1986, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife began an annual monitoring program that, in addition to the Snake River, included aerial searches of the Grande Ronde River the first year (Seidel and Bugert 1987), and the Imnaha River in subsequent years (Seidel et al. 1988; Bugertmore » et al. 1989-1991; Mendel et al. 1992). The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Idaho Power Company began contributing to this effort in 1991 by increasing the number of aerial searches conducted each year and adding underwater searches in areas of the Snake River that were too deep to be searched from the air (Connor et al. 1993; Garcia et al. 1994a, 1994b, 1996-2005; Groves 1993; Groves and Chandler 1996). The Nez Perce Tribe added aerial searches in the Clearwater River basin beginning in 1988 (Arnsberg et. al 1992), and the Salmon River beginning in 1992. Currently searches are conducted cooperatively by the Nez Perce Tribe, Idaho Power Company, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Our objective for this report was to consolidate the findings from annual redd searches into a single document, containing detailed information about the searches from the most recent spawning season, and summary information from previous years. The work conducted in 2005 was funded by the Bonneville Power Administration and Idaho Power Company.« less

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