OBJECTIVE Cultural competency leads to higher quality care for asthmatic children, yet it is not known whether asthma educational materials targeting minority children and families are culturally competent. The study objective was to evaluate the cultural competency of printed asthma educational materials targeting minorities in Wisconsin. PATIENTS AND METHODS The Wisconsin Asthma Coalition D...

Soil acidity has become a major yield-limiting factor, but it is unclear which indicator the best to use for estimating crop yield changes. In this study, four pH-adjusted Ultisols derived from different parent materials were used Chinese cabbage and wheat pot experiments. Structural equation modeling (SEM), Gompertz linear-plateau models examine main contribution of soil indices determine thei...

Survivable systems—that is, systems that can continue to provide service despite failures, intrusions, and other threats—are increasingly needed in a wide variety of civilian and military application areas. As a step toward realizing such systems, this paper advocates the use of redundancy and adaptation to build survivable services that can provide core functionality for implementing survivabi...

Parent materials greatly influence soil development and the distribution of soils on the southeastern US Coastal Plain. We examined the physical, chemical, and mineralogical properties of 11 pedons in a 1-ha plot on the Upper Coastal Plain of Georgia, USA. Uniformity of parent materials was assessed by sand grain size characteristics. The soils have sandy epipedons of variable thickness and arg...

The parent–provider relationship has been purported to be a central mechanism by which home-based parenting education and family support programs affect child and family outcomes. Despite its centrality in the theory of such programs, we have limited knowledge of how this relationship develops and functions, and how it may influence program outcomes. This article describes three levels of exami...

What is the effect of the AFDC-Unemployed Parent (UP) program on two-parent families? This question has become particularly relevant following the passage of the Family Support Act (FSA) of 1988, effective October 1990, which extended the previously state-optional AFDC-Unemployed Parent program to all states. This study clarifies what is meant by "two-parent" family in the federal legislation a...

allen P10lern (samt den Exilanten auf Z10) – f ¨ ur alle Hilfsbereitschaft und die entspannte und freundschaftliche Zusammenarbeit (und die dazugehörigen Kaffeepausen) meiner Familie – f ¨ ur die uneingeschränkte Unterstützung in allen Lebenslagen