Improving Transition Outcomes: Council Bluffs Youth Connections Prototype: General Information

General information on the Council Bluffs Youth Connections prototype under Improving Transition Outcomes with Iowa Vocational Rehabilitation Services.

Improving Transition Outcomes: Council Bluffs Youth Connections Prototype: Barriers Identified Through the Focus Groups and Interviews

Information gleaned from the focus groups and individual interviews with educators, youth and parents.

Asessing public policies. The case of education in Europe and the interaction between personal and institutional factors

The paper deals with the comparative study of European citizens satisfaction with thestate of education in their respective countries. Individual and contextual effects aretested applying multilevel analysis. The results show that educational public policies(level of decentralization, degree of comprehensiveness and public spending) as well asthe students social environment (socioeconomic and cultural status) have a soundimpact on the opinions about the state of education.

Betting on Hitler: The value of political connections in Nazi Germany

This paper examines the value of connections between German industry andthe Nazi movement in early 1933. Drawing on previously unused contemporarysources about management and supervisory board composition and stock returns,we find that one out of seven firms, and a large proportion of the biggest companies,had substantive links with the National Socialist German Workers Party. Firmssupporting the Nazi movement experienced unusually high returns, outperformingunconnected ones by 5% to 8% between January and March 1933. These resultsare not driven by sectoral composition and are robust to alternative estimatorsand definitions of affiliation.

Weak and strong altruism in traitgGroups: Reproductive suicide, personal fitness and expected value

A simple variant of trait group selection, employing predators as themechanism underlying group selection, supports contingent reproductivesuicide as altruism (i.e., behavior lowering personal fitness whileaugmenting that of another) without kin assortment. The contingentsuicidal type may either saturate the population or be polymorphicwith a type avoiding suicide, depending on parameters. In addition tocontingent suicide, this randomly assorting morph may also exhibitcontinuously expressed strong altruism (sensu Wilson 1979) usuallythought restricted to kin selection. The model will not, however,support a sterile worker caste as such, where sterility occurs beforelife history events associated with effective altruism; reproductivesuicide must remain fundamentally contingent (facultative sensu WestEberhard 1987; Myles 1988) under random assortment. The continuouslyexpressed strong altruism supported by the model may be reinterpretedas probability of arbitrarily committing reproductive suicide, withoutbenefit for another; such arbitrary suicide (a "load" on "adaptive"suicide) is viable only under a more restricted parameter spacerelative to the necessarily concomitant adaptive contingent suicide.

Consumer Advisory Bulletin, Prevent Identity Theft Take Control of Your Personal Information, May 2009

The Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Division receives hundreds of calls and consumer complaints every year. Follow these tips to avoid unexpected expense and disappointments. This record is about: Prevent Identity Theft Take Control of Your Personal Information

Me interesa : web de notícies personal

El projecte tracta d'un portal web que té com a funció principal mostrar informació de diferents pàgines web en una sola plana web a través dels RSS. La web mostra la informació de diferents maneres: - L'usuari visitant podrà consultar aquella informació que desitgi d'entre tota la informació general de la que disposa la web. - L'usuari registrat pot personalitzar aquella informació que és del seu interès i organitzar-la al gust. Es disposa d'una part per l'administració de la web on es gestiona tota la informació general i es poden consultar informes analítics.

Improved statistical evaluation of group differences in connectomes by screening-filtering strategy with application to study maturation of brain connections between childhood and adolescence.

Detecting local differences between groups of connectomes is a great challenge in neuroimaging, because the large number of tests that have to be performed and the impact on multiplicity correction. Any available information should be exploited to increase the power of detecting true between-group effects. We present an adaptive strategy that exploits the data structure and the prior information concerning positive dependence between nodes and connections, without relying on strong assumptions. As a first step, we decompose the brain network, i.e., the connectome, into subnetworks and we apply a screening at the subnetwork level. The subnetworks are defined either according to prior knowledge or by applying a data driven algorithm. Given the results of the screening step, a filtering is performed to seek real differences at the node/connection level. The proposed strategy could be used to strongly control either the family-wise error rate or the false discovery rate. We show by means of different simulations the benefit of the proposed strategy, and we present a real application of comparing connectomes of preschool children and adolescents.

Relación de la función de mando con los factores de riesgo psicosocial y el malestar percibido por el personal de administración y servicios de una universidad

Objetivo: Evaluar la relación entre los factores de riesgo psicosocial y los indicadores de malestar percibido (mal estado de salud general y mental e insatisfacción laboral), según el desempeño de la función de mando, y examinar si el patrón de asociación entre estas dimensiones difiere al ocupar un puesto de jefatura.

La autopromoción del individuo como marca personal en el mundo laboral 3.0

La creació, anàlisi i implementació d’una marca pròpia online i offline com a forma d’autopromoció del valor individual en el món laboral. Amb aquesta finalitat es desenvoluparà una estratègia de comunicació personal que comprengui els coneixements, eines i recursos necessaris per convertir-se en l’opció preferent. L’elaboració d’aquesta estratègia estarà basada en un context real i avalada per casos d’èxit d’un bon Pla de Personal Branding i confrontada per autors de referència.

Folklore Fellows' summer school 1995 : personal recollections

by Isabel, Baiba, Lillis, Maria, and Ermis

Prohibición de Ejercer Facultad de Nombramiento y Contratación de Personal en casos de Parentesco en el IMARPE

Establecer los procedimientos que permitan al IMARPE cumplir con la normativa sobre la prohibición de contratación de personal en casos de parentesco.

Folklore Fellows' summer school 1995 : personal recollections

by Isabel, Baiba, Lillis, Maria, and Ermis