Teachers' salaries in Yonkers; a report made by the Institute of Educational Research, Division of Field Studies, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City.

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Studies from the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. Reprints.

Part of the illustrative material is folded.

Partial unemployment; administrative studies of unemployment insurance and of the interrelation of partial and total unemployment benefits including reports submitted by the industrial commissioner to the Legislature during the 1939 and 1940 sessions. Bureau of research and statistics, Meredith B. Givine, director. Division of placement and unemployment insurance, Milton O. Loysen, executive director.

Part II also issued separately.

Studies and research in home economics education reported by colleges and universities, with ... supplement indicating studies reported in published form. U.S. Department of the interior. Office of education. Washington, D.C.

Multigraphed.

Studies in the packing industry [by] the Bureau of business and economic research in co-operation with the Local community research committee of the University of Chicago and the Institute of American meat packers.

Mode of access: Internet.

Studies from the Institute for Medical Research, Federated Malay States

Mode of access: Internet.

Research safety vehicle program (phase II) : producibility studies /

Mode of access: Internet.

Participatory approach for the identification of dairy industry needs in the design of research, development and extension actions: Australian and Brazilian case studies

In both Australia and Brazil there are rapid changes occurring in the macroenvironment of the dairy industry. These changes are sometimes not noticed in the microenvironment of the farm, due to the labour-intensive nature of family farms, and the traditionally weak links between production and marketing. Trends in the external environment need to be discussed in a cooperative framework, to plan integrated actions for the dairy community as a whole and to demand actions from research, development and extension (R, D & E). This paper reviews the evolution of R, D & E in terms of paradigms and approaches, the present strategies used to identify dairy industry needs in Australia and Brazil, and presents a participatory strategy to design R, D & E actions for both countries. The strategy incorporates an integration of the opinions of key industry actors ( defined as members of the dairy and associated communities), especially farm suppliers ( input market), farmers, R, D & E people, milk processors and credit providers. The strategy also uses case studies with farm stays, purposive sampling, snowball interviewing techniques, semi-structured interviews, content analysis, focus group meetings, and feedback analysis, to refine the priorities for R, D & E actions in the region.

Cross-sectional studies in prescribing research

A cross-sectional study aims to describe the overall picture of a phenomenon, a situational problem, an attitude or an issue, by asking a cross-section of a given population at one specified moment in time. This paper describes the key features of the cross-sectional survey method. It begins by highlighting the main principles of the method, then discusses stages in the research process, drawing on two surveys of primary care pharmacists to illustrate some salient points about planning, sampling frames, definition and conceptual issues, research instrument design and response rates. Four constraints in prescribing studies were noted. First the newness of the subject meant a low basis of existing knowledge to design a questionnaire. Second, there was no public existing database for the sampling frame, so a pragmatic sampling exercise was used. Third, the definition of a Primary Care Pharmacist (PCP) [in full] and respondents recognition of that name and identification with the new role limited the response. Fourth, a growing problem for all surveys, but particularly with pharmacists and general practitioners (GP) [in full] is the growing danger of survey fatigue, which has a negative impact on response levels.