The Local Unit Criteria and Indicator Development (LUCID) project was a pilot project conducted from 1999 through 2002 by the USDA Forest Service Inventory and Monitoring Institute in conjunction with eight national forests on six sites to appraise the feasibility of monitoring sustainable systems at the forest management unit scale. The sustainability assessment will: provide forest managers a...

We present a theory of why some countries negotiate trade agreements during economic downturns. We argue that political leaders can gain from such agreements because of the signals they send to their publics. Publics are less likely to blame leaders for bad economic conditions when they have implemented sound economic policies, such as signing and implementing agreements designed to liberalize ...

AWIS President Susan M. Fitzpatrick can be contacted at [email protected] In 1923 a young woman named Susan Gill left her home in Ireland for New York City. Like many of the “greenhorn” girls making a similar transition to the new country from the old, she first found work as a housekeeper, and eventually transitioned to a position working the night shift at the Tetley tea bag factory. Her husband...

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A number of organisations have concluded that Australia has suffered from a housing shortage in recent years, which is also predicted to worsen in the future. The housing shortage is in turn identified as a primary cause of rising house prices in recent years, with an increase in new housing construction offered as the solution to low affordability. The National Housing Supply Council (NHSC), e...

An informal research study for background information The Soviet Union invariably supports the peace movement. The World Peace Council, in its turn, positively reacts to a// Soviet initiatives in international affairs. Wider mobilization of public opinion in support of the Soviet Union’s peaceful initiatives ... would help further to improve the world climate. (WPC President Romesh Chandra, New...

In his State of the Union address, President Obama referred to long lines faced at the polls on November 6, 2012, and said, “we have to fix that.” Although it seems to have received relatively little national attention, Richland County, South Carolina, with more than 12% of its votes cast after polls were officially closed, was probably among the very worst counties in the nation for lines and ...

This study uses new nationally representative data from the National Financial Capability State-by-State Survey to examine the relationship between state-level alternative financial service (AFS) policies (prohibitions, price caps, disclosures) and consumer use of five AFS products: payday loans, auto title loans, pawn broker loans, refund anticipation loans, and rent-to-own transactions. Looki...

background:  elbow surgery is shared by several subspecialties. we were curious about the most common elbow surgeries and their corresponding diagnoses in the united states.   methods:  we used the national hospital discharge survey (nhds) and the national survey of ambulatory surgery (nsas) data gathered in 2006-databases that together provide an estimate of all inpatient and ambulatory surgic...