Provision was first made in 1940 for including in the regular statistical reporting program special reports from State agencies in which employers' contribution rates had been modified in accordance with the experience-rating provisions of their unemployment compensation laws, or in which experience-rating provisions were being administered but contribution rates had not yet been modified. This...

Dr. Robert W. Frederick, p r in cipal of the Milne school, Dr. J . Allan Hicks, professor of guidance, Dr. C. C. Smith, assistant professor of education, Mr. Paul G. Bulger, secretary of the student employment bureau, and Mr. Warren I. Dens more, supervisor of English, r epre sented State at the fifty-fifth a n nual holiday conference of the Associated Academic Principals of the Sta te of New Y...

This article presents four measures of equivalent retirement ages to be considered when analyzing retirement age issues. Insofar as previous research reveals significant sex differences in life expectancy at the older ages, the analysis here extends the question of equity when increased retirement age is considered by examining each measure separately for men and for women. The measures are app...

One of the pioneering spirits of protein crystallography has passed away. Professor Louise Napier Johnson, DBE, FRS, died on 25 September 2012, the day before her 72nd birthday. Throughout her career Louise was a leading figure, applying an incisive physics intelligence to problems in biology. Many years later she assumed leadership roles at Oxford University and at the Diamond synchrotron in O...

Rafael Pont-Lezica, Plant Physiology, Biochemistry, and Biotechnology Emeritus Professor at the Université de Toulouse, passed away on September 26, 2011 after losing his fight with cancer. He had studied agronomy at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, in Argentina, and in 1978 earned a Ph. D. at the Université de Gembloux, Belgium. Rafael began his scientific career as a Research Assistant in Pl...

This report contains data from the Current Population Survey conducted by the Bureau of the Census in March of 1982-1985. Detailed tables present data on years of school completed by persons 15+ by age, sex, race, Spanish origin, type of residence, occupation, marital status, and education of spouse. Summary data are also presented for the 15 largest states and metropolitan areas. Highlights...

This study evaluates associations between soil lead concentrations (SPb), age of housing, and blood lead levels (BPb) of children in metropolitan New Orleans and Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. The database includes over 2,600 SPb and 6,000 BPb samples paired by their median values and pre-1940 housing percentages for 172 census tracts. Associations were evaluated with Fisher's exact test and Spea...

The Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) is the most endangered wild feline species and the only feline listed as critically endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Successful conservation actions rely on accurate knowledge of the species’ distribution and decline. Anecdotal unverified reports have overestimated the distribution of the Iberian lynx and misrepresented the s...