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Current technology enables instructors to have their spoken words computer-translated into written text on a television screen. In considering the potential application of such a real-time captioning system for communication and as a model of English in classrooms for young deaf students, it is essential to first discover the words teachers in such classrooms most often use so the computer can be programmed to instantly recognize them. The authors of this study generated a list of more than 1,000 most frequently used words through classroom observation and present their findings here. The investigators believe their results have applications beyond the immediate purpose.

Worldwide, over 1.3 billion tonnes of food goes to waste each year, and much of this is disposed of in landfill, which is costly to the economy and the environment. This study targeted food waste management in local food service businesses as the third largest producer of food waste and a sector that has received less academic attention than other food waste producers (such as household food waste). Questionnaires and interviews were used to investigate current food waste management practices within food service businesses in a Local Government Area in Adelaide, South Australia. Twenty-two respondents completed the online questionnaire and three of these businesses also participated in an interview—two in-person at their business premises and one via an online teleconferencing system. It was found that 54% (n = 12) of these businesses have practices in place to recycle their food waste, while 46% (n = 10) do not. Insufficient kitchen space and the difficulty of separating food waste from non-compostable rubbish were reasons given for not recycling food waste, and the single most important factor that would encourage food waste recycling cited by businesses was the provision of a free, green organics bin. Motivations for recycling food waste included compassion for the environment and the desire to divert waste from landfill. These insights may help local government implement solutions to reduce food waste from entering landfill.

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Private activists' undercover tactics and Vice Enforcement in Progressive Era America -- Chapter 3. The Irrelevance of Undercover Tactics to the French Conflict over Whether Prostitution Should be Regulated or Suppressed -- Chapter 4. American activists' efforts to export their undercover tactics and their abolitionist agenda to the League of Nations -- Chapter 5. Conclusion.

In the early twentieth century, an industrial salmon cannery thrived along the Fraser River in British Columbia. Chinese factory workers lived in an adjoining bunkhouse, and Japanese fishermen lived with their families in a nearby camp. Today the complex is nearly gone and the site overgrown with vegetation, but artifacts from these immigrant communities linger just beneath the surface. In this groundbreaking comparative archaeological study of Asian immigrants in North America, Douglas Ross excavates the Ewen Cannery to explore how its immigrant workers formed a new cultural identity in the face of dramatic displacement. Ross demonstrates how some homeland practices persisted while others changed in response to new contextual factors, reflecting the complexity of migrant experiences. Instead of treating ethnicity as a bounded, stable category, Ross shows that ethnic identity is shaped and transformed as cultural traditions from home and host societies come together in the context of local choices, structural constraints, and consumer society.

Violence, including intimate partner violence, is a leading cause of death, disability, and hospitalization in the United States and other regions worldwide. Despite growing awareness, the numbers of reported and unreported incidents continue to rise. Drawing on the contributions of criminal justice practitioners and academic theorists who bring sober insight to a highly charged issue, The War Against Domestic Violence offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of this phenomenon. Topics include:Domestic violence in Caucasian, Latino, African-American, Asian, Native American, and Sub-Saha

Working for survival and liberation: racial uplift and social responsibility -- Womanist theology and "keeping on down the freedom road" -- Witnessing and testifying -- Sojourner Truth: a black religious woman's antebellum activism -- Nannie Helen Burroughs: a turn-of-the-century activist -- Ella Baker: passing on values of attending to the "least" -- Septima Poinsette Clark: education for citizenship -- Empowering local people as a moral value -- Fannie Lou Hamer: realizing promises of religious faith and hope -- Victoria Way DeLee: community activism as religious practice -- Self-realization as moral practice from a grassroots perspective -- Clara Muhammad and the Nation of Islam -- Religious and moral influences in Muhammad's early life -- Muhammad's role in the development of the nation of Islam -- Muhammad's religious and moral perspectives -- Diane Nash: passionate agitation for positive quality of life -- Ruby Doris Smith Robinson: building community and sustaining community protest -- Nash and Robinson: young visionary activists -- Testifying and witnessing -- Values and virtues: models and practices in black religious women's activism -- Black religious women and public life.