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- 26651: The Nature and Scope of School Violence State and Local Perspective
- ... programs. YRBS data are collected every two years. In 1997, 12 States did not conduct the survey. CDC provides technical assistance to States interested in conducting the YRBS. States that want assistance should contact CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health at 770-488-3259. More information about the YRBS may be found at Eleven States and seven cities have data that can be used to compare 1993 and 1997 ... at the State and local levels to address the need for collecting uniform data on violent and/or criminal incidents in schools and to improve data collection and reporting. A major effort by the U.S. Department of Justice to improve national crime data, the redesign of the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program, will have a major impact on the quality of school crime statistics. The redesigned program, called the National ... reported is a "school/college." NIBRS has been implemented in about 2,100 jurisdictions in 13 States (Colorado, Idaho, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, and Wisconsin). The U.S. Department of Education has also launched a major initiative to improve data collection and reporting. In 1995, the National Forum on Education Statistics established a Crime, Violence, and Discipline Task Force. This Task Force ...
- 26652: Communication Skills
- ... training. Most people do not resist changes that they are involved in making. A good leader directs and supports his or her team, helping each team member achieve his or her full potential. The leader’s role is one of teacher, coach, counselor, and trainer. Research on problem solving in groups suggests that there are two types of leadership roles, the task specialist and the social emotional specialists. Years ago, Robert ... colleagues performed a set of experiments on leadership. The subjects were groups of male college students. They were brought together in a laboratory and given certain intellectual problems to solve. This research measured each man’s verbal behaviors as objectively as they could. At the end of each session the subjects were asked to rate each member of their group in a number of ways. including how much they liked each ... short the “social emotional specialist”: shapes the group into moving further toward its goals. According to Bales, The “ task specialist” directs the cognitive or intellectual resources of the group, and the group respects the specialist’s knowledge and expertise. The “social facilitator” directs the emotional resources of the group, and the group warmly likes this person for keeping the group functioning as a cohesive unit. (Bales, 1953) Today many different ...
- 26653: Did Duhem Show That Scientific Theories Can Be Neither True
- The question as to whether scientific theories can be shown to be true or false is a complex one. The answer depends on one's interpretation of the meaning of theory. To what does it refer? Is its role to reveal the nature of reality, or is it merely a human construct? In which case what do we mean by ... confirmed. However, the more successful a system of hypotheses becomes, particularly in the prediction of laws not yet observed, the greater the indication of a natural classification. So, having defined a physical theory in Duhem's terms, we once again ask the question of whether a theory can be shown to be true or false. As to the question of the truth of reality the answer is still no; although Duhem's reference to natural classification hints that we might be approaching the truth of real relations even if we can never confirm it. We are therefore restricted to 'agreement with experiment' being the only criterion ...
- 26654: The Scarlet Letter: Summary
- ... indigenes, but he is special in this regard. "You're the only [white man] who comes [to us] with open heart," says the tribal chieftain, Metacomet, who then proceeds to list the settlers' injustices. Metacomet's remarks sound an ominous note. It turns out that Arthur and Running Moose have a "great experiment" in view, involving racial harmony and social diversity, but their dream is not to be. Not yet. The ... seventies, when, historically, a series of attacks by the federated local tribes devastated the English settlements. As the story ends, the assault is underway. And yet the conclusion is hardly tragic. For one thing, it's clear that the settlers have brought their troubles upon themselves. More important, a romance has flowered between Arthur and the beautiful Hester Prynne, a romance that actually occupies most of our attention, and whose harvest ... that American heroic tradition. Needless to say, this does not make it a partisan tract. The novel is no more a polemic against individualist democracy than it is a polemic against adultery. The materials it's made of provide a full-scale representation of the dynamics of liberal democracy, civic and individualist principles entwined, legal obligations interlocked with personal rights. Entwined, interlocked: The Scarlet Letter has a double plot. It ...
- 26655: Bulletproof Vests
- ... to permit relatively free movement by the wearer while affording him adequate protection against fragments from artillery shells, mortar shells, and anti-aircraft shells. They could not stop armor piercing bullets however. In the 1960's new types of vests were developed whose plates were made of composite layers of steel or a very hard ceramic, boron carbide. However, the discovery that numerous layers of nylon fabric could dissipate the energy ... of steel or hard plastic armor is to be impervious to a bullet. The function of ceramic armor is to slow the bullet abruptly by the hardness of the ceramic and to dissipate the bullet's energy as it destroys the armor at the point of impact; the tiles or plates of ceramic bulletproof vest thus have to be replaced once they have stopped a bullet. The textile vest deforms the bullet and then dissipates its energy, entangling it in the vest's many layers. A textile bulletproof vest is fashioned of sixteen to twenty-four layers of nylon cloth of a heavy weave, the layers stitched together like quilt. Any ordinary pistol or sub-machine gun ...
- 26656: Knowledge
- Knowledge in itself is stronger than belief without facts or proof. A justified true belief is a very strong notion, but not nearly as strong as knowledge. In today's world knowledge is the key to a successful everyday or professional life. There are some conditions where beliefs are supported with facts and facts are based on knowledge. A belief or a justified true belief ... belief, it must be purely public and objective. Having those two qualities make it "truth". The truth also must be eternal. If it is true for me than it must be true for you. Last, S must believe that p. P is true. S is completely justified in believing that p. If all of these qualities are posed than the belief is no a justified true belief. The information above is the standards in which a justified true ...
- 26657: Native American Music
- ... to assist in confirming that there is not an individual style to Native American music. Through the Native American styles of music, repetition becomes a prominent feature. This is not because the Native Americans can’t find words to fit into the music, but because repetitions with slight variations are often too insignificant for outside listeners to notice. In the Iroquois Quiver Dance the first thing to strike the ear is ... the call, the other singer answers him in a vocal pattern. This continues throughout the song. In illustrating many of the musical styles among Native American music, this has another name known as the “Warrior’s Stomp Dance.” The voices in the Iroquois Quiver Dance are relatively relaxed compared with that of the Plains singing. Instruments used to portray these various styles of music were often drums of all shapes and ...
- 26658: Current Status of Malaria Vaccinology
- ... of April 1995). The subjects were 63 healthy adults and 56 malaria identified children from an out patient clinic Their test was based on the fact that experimental models of malaria have shown that Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes which kill parasite infected hepatocytes can provide complete protective immunity from certain species of plasmodium in mice. From the tests they carried out in the Gambia they have provided, what they see to be indirect evidence that cytotoxic T lymphocytes play a role against P falciparium in humans Using a human leucocyte antigen based approach termed reversed immunogenetics they previously identified peptide epitopes for CTL in liver stage antigen-1 and the circumsporozoite protein ... to try and create synthetic peptides raised much interest. At the time peptides were thought capable of stimulating only one part of the immune system; the antibody producing B cells whereas the prevailing wisdom required T cells as well in order to achieve protective immunity. Sceptics also pounced on the elaborate and painstaking process of elimination Patarroyo used to find the right peptides. He took 22 "immunologically interesting" proteins from ...
- 26659: Freya Goddess Of Love
- ... material equivalent to the Greek Aprodite, the goddess of love and beauty" (Wilson 39). Freya had a twin brother named Frey, also known as Freyr, who was the Norse god of Peace and prosperity. Freya's father was Niord and her mother was Skadi. Her father, Niord, who was the ruler of the Vanirs went to war with the Asgard. Both of them grew weary and came in peace. To show ... stranger was almost done. The gods were frightened, that the strange man was going to finished in time, so Loki came up with an idea. That night a beautiful mare appeared and whinnied the giant's stallion. These continued for the next few days, until the giant realized that the wall would not be finished in time, so he broke into a rage. He was angry that he was not going ... what had happened and reported it to Odur. Odur said he would believe his story if Loki could steal the necklace from Freya and bring it to him. So Loki went and sneaked into Freya's bedroom and stole the necklace and brought it back to Odur. Odur became furious and took off out of Asgard. The next morning when Freya woke up, she realized the necklace was gone and ...
- 26660: Flowers For Algernon
- ... the capacity to learn, to understand, or to deal with new or trying situations. It is a concrete definition in such a way that it also means the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one’s environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria as tests. Yet the story goes beyond this concrete explanation of what intelligence really is. It shows a whole new perspective of the meaning intelligence ... person that is previously show in the abstract definition. The only positive effects of the intellectual growth that one can gain is to be able to experience what the concrete definition was like in one’s own personal experience. Yet the negative effects of the operation, which were great, was the intellectual and emotional growth colliding. As a human that was born with the intellectual potential and without a disability, would have experienced this over a normal human life span, and the emotional growth would increase along side of the intellectual- set by society’s standards. Reading the novel has a clear definition of the more maturity you gain the less intelligent you are, and the more innocence you have the more intelligence you gain.
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