How current Tax Laws affect Woodlands Owners, August 1998

This report is on the effects of the tax reforam act of 1986 on timber production activites.

Executive Order Number Sixty Eight, November 23, 1998

Prohabits use of all tobacco products in the areas of buildings under Governor's control in the State Capital Complex and all offices occupied by state government.

Executive Order Number Sixty Two, January 9, 1998

Rescinds Executive Order #54 and replaces it with a new team called the Primary Iowa Harzard Mitigation Team to coordinate state response to natural and technological disaters.

Executive Order Number Sixty Three, Februray 10, 1998

Establishes a nine-number committee for the Automated Fingerprint Identification System.

Executive Order Number Sixty Four, May 18, 1998

Amends Executive Order #48 only by changing the name from the Iowa Commission for National and Community Service to the Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service.

Government Spending and Re-election

Does additional government spending improve the electoral chances of incumbent political parties? This paper provides the first quasi-experimental evidence on this question. Our research design exploits discontinuities in federal funding to local governments in Brazil around several population cutoffs over the period 1982-1985. We find that extra fiscal transfers resulted in a 20% increase in local government spending per capita, and an increase of about 10 percentage points in the re-election probability of local incumbent parties. We also find positive effects of the government spending on education outcomes and earnings, which we interpret as indirect evidence of public service improvements. Together, our results provide evidence that electoral rewards encourage incumbents to spend part of additional revenues on public services valued by voters, a finding in line with agency models of electoral accountability.

Executive Order Number Sixty Seven, August 21, 1998

Establishs the Council for continuous improvment in Education to facilitation statewide effort to prepare, recruit, induct, retrain effective educational infrastrucational

Measuring trauma severity using the 1998 and 2005 revisions of the Abbreviated Injury Scale

Objetivo: Comparar a gravidade das lesões e do trauma mensurada pelas versões da Abbreviated Injury Scale 1998 e 2005 e verificar a mortalidade nos escores Injury Severity Score e New Injury Severity Score nas duas versões.Método: Estudo transversal e retrospectivo analisou lesões de pacientes de trauma, de três hospitais universitários do município de São Paulo, Brasil. Cada lesão foi codificada com Abbreviated Injury Scale 1998 e 2005. Os testes estatísticos aplicados foram Wilcoxon, McNemar-Bowker, Kappa e teste Z.Resultados: A comparação das duas versões resultou em discordância significante de escores em algumas regiões corpóreas. Com a versão 2005 os níveis de gravidade da lesão e do trauma foram significantemente reduzidos e a mortalidade foi mais elevada em escores mais baixos. Conclusão: Houve redução da gravidade da lesão e do trauma e alteração no percentual de mortalidade com o uso da Abbreviated Injury Scale 2005.





Study Circles Newsletter, Summer 1998

Study Circles a publication produced by the Iowa Civil Right Commission as a newsletter.

Study Circles Newsletter, Winter 1997-1998

Study Circles a publication produced by the Iowa Civil Right Commission as a newsletter.

Study Circles Newsletter, Spring 1998

Study Circles a publication produced by the Iowa Civil Right Commission as a newsletter.

Message from the Ombudsman, 1998

Annual report for the Iowa Citizens’ Aide/Ombudsman Office.

Team Diversity Newsletter, Vol 3, no.1, March/April 1998

Newsletter produced by Iowa Civil Right Commission for the community about the community.

Team Diversity Newsletter, Vol 2, no.6, January/February 1998

Newsletter produced by Iowa Civil Right Commission for the community about the community.

Team Diversity Newsletter, Vol 3, no.1, March/April 1998

Newsletter produced by Iowa Civil Right Commission for the community about the community.