Building Resilience in Young Black Males: Determining the Factors that Lead to Success for Black Men in America

It is no secret that Black men have struggled over the years to obtain the same level of high earning financial success as their White counterparts. Black men face an incredible challenge with regard to educational obtainment, career success, and physical health. Black men are often revered as the most dangerous, least educated, and more unhealthy than any other race or gender. This must change. This researcher investigated the lives of eight successful Black men with the hope of determining how they were able to attain their success. The findings of this research suggest that there are several factors that are key contributors in becoming a successful Black man in America. With a greater understanding of how Black men have managed to gain success, despite the obstacles they have faced, it is hopeful that this research will help other Black men reach the level of success that is often desired and seldom realized.

Ecos de Europa: la representación parlamentaria en el Chile liberal del siglo XIX

This paper explores the significant influences of European liberalism, and in particular French liberalism, in the Chilean thought and political culture/praxis during the construction of the State in the mid-19th century. It reveals and discusses the significant circulation of ideas that an array of Chilean travelers and exiles in several European countries generated and promoted in Chile in the middle of the 19th century. Among the intellectuals and politicians treated by this article are Andrés Bello, Manuel Antonio Tocornal, Santiago Arcos, Francisco Bilbao, Manuel Antonio Matta and Ángel Custodio Gallo.

Processos e práticas de avaliação de centros novas oportunidades: o caso do CNO da escola secundária Gabriel Pereira

A presente investigação assentou na temática da Educação e Formação de Adultos, nomeadamente no processo de Reconhecimento, Validação e Certificação de Competências. Sob a configuração metodológica de um estudo de caso, teve como objeto de estudo o Centro Novas Oportunidades da Escola Secundária Gabriel Pereira. Neste trabalho de investigação procurou-se não só analisar os resultados em matéria de satisfação pessoal e profissional, decorrentes da realização de um processo de RVCC, manifestados pelos diferentes intervenientes (adultos certificados, famílias e entidades empregadoras de adultos certificados e equipa técnico-pedagógica) como também, compreender até que ponto a avaliação do processo permite consubstanciar esses mesmos resultados. Ao longo de toda a pesquisa foi definida uma estratégia metodológica que permitiu combinar uma variedade de métodos, incluindo técnicas de natureza quantitativa e qualitativa. Com o desenvolvimento desta investigação foi possível concluir que os resultados alcançados pelos adultos certificados são, do ponto de vista dos diferentes participantes, mais positivos no domínio da satisfação pessoal comparativamente à dimensão profissional, corroborando, aliás, outros estudos dirigidos à mesma problemática.

Table 1: Main characteristics of the BIOTA observatories included in this study & Table 3: Occurrence of termite taxa at the observatories

Termites are the most important soil ecosystem engineers of semi-arid and arid habitats. They enhance decomposition processes as well as the subsequent mineralisation of nutrients by bacteria and fungi. Through their construction of galleries, nests and mounds, they promote soil turnover and influence the distribution of nutrients and also alter texture and hydrological properties of soils, thereby affecting the heterogeneity of their ecosystem. The main aim of the present thesis was to define the impact of termites on ecosys-tem functioning in a semi-arid ecosystem. In a baseline study, I assessed the diversity of termite taxa in relation to the amount of precipitation, the vegetation patterns and the land use systems at several sites in Namibia. Subsequently, I focussed on a species that is highly abundant in many African savannas, the fungus growing and mound building species Macro-termes michaelseni (Sjöstedt, 1914). I asked how this species influences the spatial hetero-geneity of soil and vegetation patterns. From repeated samplings at 13 sites in Namibia, I obtained 17 termite taxa of 15 genera. While the type of land use seems to have a minor effect on the termite fauna, the mean annual precipitation explained 96% and the Simpson index of vascular plant diversity 81% of the variation in taxa diversity. The number of termite taxa increased with both of these explanation variables. In contrast to former studies on Macrotermes mounds in several regions of Africa that I reviewed, soil analyses from M. michaelseni mounds in the central Namibian savanna revealed that they contain much higher nitrogen contents when compared to their parent material. Further analyses revealed that nitrate forms a major component of the nitrogen content in termite mounds. As nitrate solves easily in water, evaporation processes are most probably responsible for the transport of solved nitrates to the mound surface and their accumulation there. The analysed mounds in central Namibia contained higher sand propor-tions compared to the mounds of the former studies. Through the higher percentage of coarse and middle sized pores, water moves more easily in sandy soils compared to more clayey soils. In consequence, evaporation-driven nitrate accumulation can occur in the studied mounds at high rates. ff...

Bibliography for urban and regional planning in Latin America /

"Sponsored by Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin and Department of Urban and Regional Planning, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Texas A&M University."

Economic consequences of urbanization in Mexico /

Mode of access: Internet.

The souls of black folk : essays and sketches /

Of our spiritual strivings -- Of the dawn of freedom -- Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and others -- Of the meaning of progress -- Of the wings of Atalanta -- Of the training of black men -- Of the black belt -- Of the quest of the golden fleece -- Of the sons of master and man -- Of the faith of the fathers -- Of the passing of the first-born -- Of Alexander Crummell -- Of the coming of John -- The sorrow songs.

NASA initiatives with historically black colleges & universities.

Includes bibliographical references.

The FAA's historically Black colleges and universities program : preserving the past-- preparing for the future : continued partnership between Federal Aviation Administration and historically Black colleges and universities.

Mode of access: Internet.

Families for black children, the search for adoptive parents; an experience survey

Cooperative report of the Division of Research and Evaluation, Children's Bureau, Office of Child Development, and the Social Research Group, The George Washington University.

Young black male victims : National Crime Victimization Survey /

"December 1994."

Traditionally Black institutions : a profile and an institutional directory /

Mode of access: Internet.

Disciplinary Conquest : U.S. Scholars in South America, 1900–1945 /

Highlights five influential U.S. scholars who helped shape understandings of South America in the early 20th century, showing how Latin American Studies began and how academic knowledge affected foreign policy and helped build an informal American empire. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.