" VITAL ARTICLES ON SCIENCE/CREATION " *Dr. Daniel Criswell has a Ph.D. in molecular biology and is a biology professor at the ICR Graduate School. In 2001 the complete human genome was published 1 with great fanfare and excitement. Many anticipated that the knowledge of the human genetic code (the genome) would provide a complete understanding of what makes a human, well—human. In addition to ...

The participation of women in the labor force has increased substantially during the past half century. In 1930, the 10 million women workers represented only 24 percent of all women and 22 percent of the total labor force (table 1). By 1957, the number of women workers had doubled and their labor-force participation had increased to 37 percent. In 1983, 48 million women were in the labor force...

A Bayesian Updating Approach to Crop Insurance Ratemaking by Stephen Milton Stohs Doctor of Philosophy in Agricultural and Resource Economics University of California, Berkeley Professor Peter Berck, Chair The U.S. government operates the multiple peril crop insurance (MPCI) program to provide farmers with comprehensive protection against yield risk due to weather-related causes of loss and cer...

Two issues may have a tremendous impact on the adequacy of retirement income for American workers. The first is the growth of 401(k) pension plans, which allow participants to contribute, before taxes, a portion of their salary to a qualified retirement account.1 By 1998, the most recent year that published information is available, 401(k) plans accounted for about 41 percent of all pension pla...

The global geography of poverty has changed over the last two decades. More than 70 percent of the world’s poor at US$1.25 a day now live not in low-income countries, but in middle-income countries (Kanbur and Sumner 2011). This raises a number of big questions. Is economic growth not sufficient to pull everybody out of poverty? Can middle-income countries or parts thereof suffer from poverty t...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate a pilot occupational therapy wellness program designed to teach elders the importance of participation in meaningful social and community occupations to their quality of life. METHOD Sixty-five older adults participated in this pilot wellness program held at each of three senior apartment complexes. Measures of health-related quality of life...

participation and rule of collective wisdom and ranchers’ involvement in decisions has become common practice nowadays. sustainable development can be followed through targeting and leading participation to the preservation and restoration of natural resources. so, participation concepts and its effective factors have to be investigated carefully. this study was conducted to investigate the soc...