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A progress report on the educational programs in the Navajo area, 1970-1971. Topics discussed include: bicultural and bilingual programs; school boards bridging the gap between the schools and the Navajo people; the Navajo Tribal Education Committee; an increase in school enrollment; a decrease in the drop-out rate amongst high school students; the use of English as a Second Language materials; the Consultants in Teaching English program; accelerated classes; special education; programs for the physically handicapped; social studies units; the dormitory program; and the food program to encourage nutrition and health. This collection pertains to Public Health Nursing among Native American people, with emphasis on the Navajo Tribe. This collection consists of correspondence, a manuscript, a questionnaire and responses, personal reminiscences, articles, essays, government documents and pamphlets, as well as photographs (see Photographic Collection), which depict Reservation life through the eyes of Public Health nurses, Native Americans, and government officials, and includes a wealth of statistical material and government data. Spanning roughly sixty-five years, this collection offers insights into many facets of Public Health Nursing on Native American Reservations. One will find many personal reminiscences, interesting essays and stories, newspaper articles, and innumerable US Government documents, statistics, and memoranda pertaining to Reservation life

Analizamos la crisis automotriz internacional (1978-1982), buscandodeterminar sus causas y consecuencias, como ser el ascenso de Japón, loscambios técnicos y en las escalas, la modernización del proceso y lasmodificaciones organizativas ocurridas. A su vez, entender su efecto enArgentina en un contexto de recesión económica y en una década signadapor cambios fundamentales en los participantes del complejo con la salidade grandes multinacionales y la aparición de capitales locales.Nos remitimos a diversas fuentes: informes oficiales, estadísticasgubernamentales, publicaciones especializadas en temas empresariales odel sector, y aportes de otros autores. ; We analyze the international automotive crisis (1978-1982), seeking to determine its causes and consequences, such as the rise of Japan, technical and scale changes, modernization of the process and organizational changes. Then, we seek to understand its effect in Argentina in a context of economic recession and in a period with transformations in the participants of the complex with the exit of large multinationals and the emergence of local capitals. We refer to various sources: official reports, government statistics, business publications and contributions from other authors. ; Fil: Bil, Damián Andrés. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Centro de Estudios Urbanos y Regionales; Argentina

Objective: The goal of this current short communication research was to critically analysis and systematically collect data during this pandemic situation, government strategies and their implementation to counter the pandemic virus-Novel COVID-19 within the Sikkim state and its border areas. Methods: It highlighted data obtained by the different agencies prvided by government and independent media houses. Here we highlighted data focused on factors such Home quarantin, Facility Quarantine, Triage facility, details of patients admitted, Logistic supplies and details of test for COVID-19. Result: Total cumulatative number of passengers screened were 6,03,370 at the major entrance(Rangpo check post), persons in home quarantine, Triage facility, total number of sample sent for examination and total number of sample found positive and found negative were 2954, 2, 59, 0 and 59 respectively till dated:11/04.2020. Conclusion: With the State Government's bold move towards mandatory quarantine of the population inside the state for total 40 days lockdown (including both 1st phase and 2nd phase). Sikkim reports zero COVID-19 positive cases as on 19/04/2020. These statistics are first of its kind for the communication and to keep the scientific evidence for future knowledge.

Over the past several decades there has been extensive research done in an attempt to determine what demographic characteristics affect economic growth, measured in GDP per capita. Understanding what influences the growth of a country will vastly help policy makers enact policies to lead the country in a positive direction. This research focuses on isolating a new variable, women in the work force. As well as isolating a new variable, this research will modify a preexisting variable that was shown to be significant in order to make the variable more robust and sensitive to recessions. The intent of this thesis is to explore the relationship between several demographic characteristics and their effect on the growth rate of GDP per capita. The first step is to reproduce the work done by Barlow (1994) to ensure that the United States follows similar rules as the countries in his research. Afterwards, we will introduce new variables into the model, comparing the goodness of fit through the methods of R-squared, AIC and BIC. There have been several models developed to answer each of the research questions independently. ; 2011-05-01 ; B.S. ; Sciences, Dept. of Statistics ; Masters ; This record was generated from author submitted information.

The ADPs were designed in response to a fall in agricultural productivity and hence a concern to sustain domestic food supplies. The study examined "Financing Agriculture in Nigeria through Agricultural Extension Services of Agricultural Development Programmes." It sought to ascertain the extent to which agricultural extension services of the agricultural development programmes have impacted the financing of agriculture in six selected local government areas in Edo South senatorial district, Nigeria using a sample of 120 respondents. Stratified random sampling was used to select the respondents. Interview schedule served as the research instrument. The research data were analyzed using t-test and Pearson correlation, which served as the inferential statistics. The research findings showed that the extension services of ADP have impacted significantly on crop development in the selected communities but have not had significant impact on employment creation and the development of infrastructural facilities. The study also revealed that there was no significant difference between the implementation of the projects in the selected communities, as revealed by the correlation test. On the basis of the research findings, the need for a complete redesign of the project to ensure that it achieves its stated goals as well as ensure proper monitoring of its implementation were suggested, among others

The focus of the Community Innovation Survey 3 (CIS 3) is the enterprise, conceptually referred to as the 'innovation dynamo' in the Oslo manual for innovation statistics. The CIS was designed to overcome seeing innovation as a linear model, whereby innovation follows on from the creative activity of invention. Instead, the data collected from this survey covers and embodies the diffusion of knowledge. Innovation is a complex process with many interacting components. The CIS3 questionnaire is broken down into 12 different sections:1. Product innovation;2. Process innovation;3. Not yet completed or abandoned innovation activities;4. Innovation activity and expenditure;5. Intramural research and experimental development (R&D);6. Effects of innovation;7. Public funding of innovation;8. Innovation co-operation;9. Sources of information for innovation;10. Hampered innovation activity;11. Patents and other protection methods;12. Other important strategical and organizational changes in the enterprise.In order to ensure comparability across countries, Eurostat, in close cooperation with the EU Member States, developed a standard core questionnaire, with an accompanying set of definitions and methodological recommendations. Countries participated on the basis of gentleman's agreements and usually applied the harmonized concepts, definitions and methodological recommendations

Reports compiled by Virgina Brown to answer the questions surrounding the duties of public health nurses. The reports are: A review of activities of public health nurses at the Sells Service Unit; Automation of public health nursing; some estimated costs of implementing the IHS community health nursing reporting system; Suggestions for using community health nursing reports; Part of a continuing analysis of the community health nursing component of Indian Health Service; An analysis of manpower distribution in the Indian Health Service. This collection pertains to Public Health Nursing among Native American people, with emphasis on the Navajo Tribe. This collection consists of correspondence, a manuscript, a questionnaire and responses, personal reminiscences, articles, essays, government documents and pamphlets, as well as photographs (see Photographic Collection), which depict Reservation life through the eyes of Public Health nurses, Native Americans, and government officials, and includes a wealth of statistical material and government data. Spanning roughly sixty-five years, this collection offers insights into many facets of Public Health Nursing on Native American Reservations. One will find many personal reminiscences, interesting essays and stories, newspaper articles, and innumerable US Government documents, statistics, and memoranda pertaining to Reservation life

The American people have set important social goals to improve the quality of American life. Although there is some evidence of progress toward these goals, there are few accurate indicators of the changes actually taking place and the problems encountered along the road to attainment. The development of statistics and other pertinent information is essential because of the rapid and reverberating changes that are taking place. Significant changes are being generated in the American educational system in terms of people, expendi tures, activities, and innovations. The educational indicators that are developed must take into account the variety of goals, as well as the changes in definitions and emphases of the goals. There is a need for both quantitative and qualitative data. Although some quantitative indicators exist, the data disclose little about the quality of the educational system or its products. New indicators relating to educational oppor tunities, the quality of education, fundamental human behav ior, and political and economic behavior are needed. The responsibility for developing these indicators must be shared by public and private interests—government, business, edu cators, labor unions, and civic and community groups.

An examination of the nat'lity policies of N. S. Khrushchev. Like V. I. Lenin & J. Stalin before him, Khrushchev was confronted with the 'permanent Soviet dilemma of centralism vs multinat'lism.' It is suggested that 1958 marked a turning point in the Soviet nat'lities, a 'leap forward' towards a policy of 'Russifying' the nat'l minorities. The Sch reform of 1958-59, with its new emphasis on the teaching of Russian as 'the 2nd mother tongue' & the XXII Party Congress (1961) with the aim of ultimate fusion of Soviet nat'lities proclaimed in its 3rd Party Program, are the 2 chief landmarks of the new policy. The case of the Ukraine is specially examined, & it is suggested that the Ukrainians are being groomed as junior partners of the Russians-hence there were 5 'Ukrainians' in the Party Presidium at the time of Khrushchev's fall, while the % of Ukrainians in the Central Committee rose from 6.8% in 1952 to 18.5% in 1961. It is concluded that the assimilation drive made an even greater progress under Khrushchev than Soviet statistics indicate & that the Ukraine, for all its 'junior partner' advantages, was effectively kept under control & subjected to further assimilation. I. Langnas.

No specialized empirical res on DEL'cy among immigrants has yet been completed in the UK. Nevertheless, it is possible, on the basis of existing data, to reach some tentative conclusions. Crime among Irish immigrants appears to be relatively high in most offense groups even after allowance has been made for age. Qualifications need to be made, however, with respect to many soc factors. Crime among Commonwealth immigrants tends to be generally low, except in crimes of violence where domestic disputes play an important part in adding to the statistical total/sum of violence. There is need for further information about crime among immigrants in the UK, which can be provided by: (1) inclusion of figures about country of origin in the criminal statistics, & (2) further res to test the formulations derived from US & Israeli experience of immigration. A review of theoretical formulations about crime among immigrants reveals a situation of some uncertainty, & some tendency for theory to outstrip empirical data. There is a need to look more closely at the types of crimes committed by immigrants, & at individual factors in migrations. Immigrant offenders present certain special difficulties in sentencing & treatment, eg they may be liable to be deported after conviction. Modified Author's Summary.

Solving US Ur problems is an increasingly important concern of the public & of gov officials. Soc sci can make an important contribution to solutions by providing Ur soc indicators. 3 General propositions concerning this process are: (1) Soc sci'ts must be prepared for accusations of betrayal from proponents of causes which they have previously supported, it data conflict with objectives of such causes. (2) flow indicators are developed will influence at what level problems are resolved. (3) Soc indicators will be developed by professors & gov executives whose judgments will be based on a value-background cliff from that of the Ur masses being measured. In the light of these propositions, 4 guidelines for soc indicators are suggested: (a) They should be in the realm of disaggregation & r. (b) As they cannot be apol'at, they must be pan-pol'al. (c) They should be concerned with the future as well as the present. (d) They shout( provide comparisons of local, nat'l, & 'best practice' data. The indicators should report Ur conditions in 3 categories: (i) people as individuals-numbers, distribution, density, mobility, employment, income, behavior, health, & participation rates; (ii) Pam's-unemployment & welfare statistics' is & 'poverty neighborhood' studies; & (iii) his tit's-public service & voluntary org's, business, 1111, (,due, & Ur ecology. IIA.

The effects on performance of the value of detecting a signal, the cost of a miss or false detection, and the size of the set from which the signals were drawn were studied in an auditory vigilance task. Seventy-two subjects were randomly assigned to each cell of a factorial arrangement of the cost and load variables and required to detect and identify each of several 49 db SPL pure tones differing only in frequency. Analyses of the number of correct detections, correct identifications, false detections and detection response time indicated a significant performance decrement with time for all measures and suggested that increasing costs for misses and false detections led to poorer detection performance while value had no effect. Load effected only identification performance, as higher loads led to a decrease in the percentage of signals correctly identified. The ď and β statistics of signal detection theory, indicated sensitivity to be invariant with manipulations of costs and with time. These findings imply that the performance decrement during a vigil is due to an increased strictness in the criterion the subject sets for deciding whether or not a signal was present. The cost factors were effective in manipulating performance by causing changes in the subjects' decision criteria.

Any attempt to gauge the magnitude and composition of Soviet and Chinese economic assistance to North Vietnam since 1955 comes up against the problem of statistical secrecy. The North Vietnamese are the worst offenders: they have published no foreign trade returns, and their general statistical reporting is in the worst Stalinist percentile tradition. In reply to a question put to him by a French correspondent, a Dao Nai coal mine official stated: "Here in the mine we are not interested in tons; we are interested only in percentages. Tons are a matter for the Ministry of Heavy Industry in Hanoi." A Soviet specialist stationed in Hanoi confided to the same correspondent: "They no longer permit us to get near the machines which we furnished them with.… It is worse here than in China." Unfortunately, Chinese statistics, though more plentiful, are not much better. Soviet figures are the best of a bad lot, but they give only a partial, not unbiased, picture. Analysis of the North Vietnamese economy therefore reduces itself to the kind of detective work by which Western economists from 1929 to 1954 tried to piece together such information on the Soviet economy as Stalin's security-minded statisticians released.

An examination of the philosophical att's behind Latin Amer demographic policies; first published in Spanish in El Trimestre Economico (Mexico) Jul-Sep 1964 & to be included in J. A. Kahl, ASPECTOS HUMANOS DE LA INDUSTRIALIZACION EN AMERICA LATINA (Human Aspects of Industrialization of Latin America, Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economical 1965). Traditional att's which hinder the adoption of modern demographic policies include: a nat'list belief that more pop means more power; Catholic opposition to birth control; a hope that ED automatically reduces the birth rate; a naive exaltation of the poor who love children & cannot have too many of them; excessive neo-Malthusianism that can be easily refuted. Against these att's it is argued that: (1) aggregate statistics are misleading;. (2) production of goods increases much faster than job opportunities; (3) excess supply of workers lowers wage rates; (4) the people hardest hit by large fam's are the poor; (5) poor people, esp in Ur areas, usually prefer smaller fam's; & (6) reliance on 'automatic' reduction in fertility is risky & entails high costs. It is concluded that the chief obstacle to a general introduction of birth control lies not in the att's of the poor but in the outdated traditional att's of the elites. I. Langnas.

Not Available ; The Government of India Deep Sea Fishing Station at Bombay and the Offshore Fishing Stations at Veraval, Mangalore, Cochin, Visakhapatnam and Tuticorin have been employing in the exploratory fishing operations different types of power vessels which vary greatly in their gross tonnage, net tonnage, brake horse power, length of body, draught etc. even though most of them use more or less the same or similar types of otter trawls. It is well known that, suitably geared a larger boat would generally bring about a greater fishing mortality than a smaller one in a unit amount of time when fishing in the same ground. The capacity of a vessel to catch more or to catch less as compared with another vessel is independent of the density of the population and is related in some way to the makeup of the vessel itself. In computing catch statistics of different vessels, 'standardisation of fishing time according to their fishing powers' (Beverton and Holt 1957, P. 172) being essential, the present work has been attempted based on available data from the exploratory fishing operations of the vessels viz-, 'Jheenga', 'Bumili' and 'Meera' from Bombay. ; Not Available