The cow-calf production system is the primary beef cattle enterprise in the southeastern United States. A high percentage of calves produced in this region are sold at weaning to stocker operators who carry them through the growing or stockering phase in other sections of the country. Higher forage production due to the relatively long growing seasons, adequate rainfall and soils that readily r...

Vaccines are one of the most successful public health achievements of the 20th century and have contributed to improved health and longevity for millions of people in the United States. Between 1900 and 2000 the average life expectancy in the United States increased by .30 years, from 43.7 to 76.8 years, and infant mortality through 12 months of age decreased from 100 per 1000 population to ,7 ...

Concepts and patterns of societal culture are becoming increasingly complex in the context of modern nation-states, which have seen evolving multiculturalism as a result of immigration. Theories of national culture and identity are set out in the first section, followed by analyses of three major industrialized states: Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom. These states, which toge...

Education is a mean of empowerment for nation, and the Palestinian nation no exception. However, since beginning colonization in 1948 until today, has experienced crisis education, main victims are children. One international organizations working to help children conflicts disasters worldwide UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund). In this article, author analyzes role resolving education usi...

T he United Kingdom, with a total population of 48.2 million in 1992, consists of four countries: England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Geographically, it consists of one large island and numerous smaller islands covering 94,500 square miles. Although physically small, its position at the northwest coast of Europe has meant that it has been able to maintain independence as an island a...

When the National Mental Health Act was passed by the United States Congress in 1946, a programme to improve the mental health of the nation became a public responsibility. It is traditional in the United States for the majority of severe cases of mental illness to be cared for in public mental hospitals, but the passage of the Mental Health Act was a significant step forward. It provided Feder...

This paper considers the social forces leading to the establishment of pioneering public health education programs in the United States. Schools of Public Health emerged in the United States as the result of a confluence of factors, including the changing nature of higher education, the development of commerce and industry, the rise to prominence of the science of bacteriology, and the urbaniza...

It was the first election of the new century. The race had been tight and close. The incumbent party might not be able to hold the presidency, despite relative prosperity in the nation. For weeks and weeks, the nation waited without knowing who would be President. No candidate had a clear majority of the electoral votes. The Electoral College might have been designed to insure a smooth election...

The need to call a place home is a very familiar desire. National citizenship can be thought of as a unique status which offers people unbridled access to this peace of mind. Because the nation is the source of this comfort, it is not surprising that people take pride in it. But nationalism stems from the abstract, purely ideological form of a nation. This concrete-less nationalism has been a k...