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The nesting chronology of three captive and two wild pairs of Australian kestrels and the development of nine captive-bred and five wild-bred nestlings are presented. Clutch and brood sizes and dates when eggs and young were found in nests, collected from a number of sources, are discussed.

Breeding biology was similar to that of other species of kestrel. Wing length of nestlings gave the best estimate of age up to about 6 weeks, and the pulling of a rectrix was found to have potential as a method of sexing nestlings and first-year birds.

From measurement of 472 eggs of the peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) collected in Australia between 1885 and 1977 inclusive, shells were thinner by 10.4 to 38% after 1947-49 and corresponded with the introduction of DDT into Australia. Victoria seemed to have the greatest mean thinning.

SummaryBasic hospital admitting procedures and surgical protocols have been provided to assist hospital trained dentists in treating patients in the operating room. It is understood that many qualified practitioners do not routinely use this treatment modality and a guideline to ensure proper patient routing would be helpful.

Part I Setting Up Systematic Mixed Methods Research (SMMR) -- 1 Mixed Methods for Research on Open Systems -- 1.1 The Link Between Quantification and Mixed Methods -- 1.2 A Conceptual Introduction to Methodology and Ontology -- 1.3 Triangulation -- 1.4 Three Domains of Reality, As Realists Approach Research -- 1.5 Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- 2 Mixed Methods with Weakly Structuralist Regression Models -- 2.1 Modelling and Methodology for Mixed Methods -- 2.2 Strategic Structuralism -- 2.3 Logics Used in Strategic Structuralist Research -- 2.4 Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- Part II SMMR Approaches in Practical Terms -- 3 Causality in Mixed-Methods Projects That Use Regression -- 3.1 Causality in a Regression Model -- 3.2 Stages of Research Design Amendment for Mixed-Methods Research -- 3.3 Deduction Cannot Stand Alone -- 3.4 A Quantitatively Complex Example -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Multiple Logics in Systematic Mixed-Methods Research -- 4.1 Multiple Logics in Statistical Research: Some Exemplars -- 4.2 An Exemplar Using Participatory Research with Panel Data -- 4.3 A Statistical Exemplar with a Randomised Control Trial for a Social Intervention -- 4.4 Warranted Arguments and Two Caveats for Strategic Structuralism -- 4.5 An Exemplar Using Correspondence Analysis Without Regression -- Appendix -- References -- 5 Factor Analysis in a Mixed-Methods Context -- 5.1 Latent Variables and Entities -- 5.2 One Could Use Exploratory or Confirmatory Factor Analysis -- 5.3 Measurement Issues for the Manifest Variables in a Confirmatory Model -- 5.4 Mixed-Methods Research Designs Using Latent Variables -- 5.5 Whether to Use Scoping Analysis or Primary Field Research -- 5.6 Research Scope and Feedback Loops -- 5.7 Closed and Open Retroduction in a Factor Analysis Context -- 5.8 The Ontological Element -- 5.9 Conclusion -- References -- 6 Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): A Classic Mixed Method Using Theory -- 6.1 QCA Is an Umbrella Over Many Procedures -- 6.2 Tables Help to Summarise Qualitative Comparative Evidence -- 6.3 Data Reduction Has Been Well Theorised -- 6.4 Threshold Tests, Quasi-Sufficiency, and Next Steps in QCA -- 6.5 Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- 7 Calibration of Fuzzy Sets, Calibration of Measurement: A Realist Synthesis -- 7.1 Two Forms of Calibration: Ordered Categories or Fuzzy Sets -- 7.2 Features of Multiple Hypothesis Tests Using Fuzzy Sets -- 7.3 Asymmetry of the Causal Mechanisms? Issues Around Counterfactuals -- 7.4 How to Make and Illustrate Deep Linkages -- Appendix -- References -- 8 From Content Analysis to Discourse Analysis: Using Systematic Analysis of Meanings and Discourses -- 8.1 Methods of Qualitative Analysis and Elaboration of Findings -- 8.2 Qualitative Methods, with a Content Analysis Example -- 8.3 Three Illustrations Demonstrating Deep Arguments Based on Depth Ontology -- 8.4 Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- Part III Interpretation and the Validity of Research -- 9 Interpretations, Meanings, and Validity in Mixed-Methods Research -- 9.1 Truth Is Not Simple in a Complex Society -- 9.2 Epistemology for Late-Modern Mixed Methods -- 9.3 Falsifying Hypotheses: Possible and Desirable, but Not Necessary -- 9.4 A Retroductive Approach -- 9.5 Conclusion -- References -- 10 Summary of the Logics and Methods for Systematic Mixed-Methods Research -- 10.1 Induction -- 10.2 Deduction -- 10.3 Retroduction -- 10.4 Synthesis -- 10.5 Recognising Relevant Irreducible Phenomena (Holism) -- 10.6 Logical Linkage -- 10.7 Conclusion -- References -- 11 Glossary.

Cover -- BODY AND EARTH -- Title -- Dedication -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Entering the Text: Origins -- Stories of place in our time are often stories of migration. -- Anecdote: "Openings and Closings" -- Introduction -- Anecdote: "Hunting for Hope" -- Preparation: Body and Earth is a book to be done as well as to be read. -- Section I: Underlying Patterns and Perception -- DAY 1 Basic Concepts -- Anecdotes: "Connections" -- To do: Inner and outer awareness -- To do: Finding your place -- Performance text: Farmstories (1994) -- DAY 2 Attitudes -- Anecdotes: "Views" -- To do: Body map -- To do: Place story -- Performance text: Models-The Traveler -- DAY 3 Underlying Patterns: Body -- Anecdotes: "Heritage" -- To do: Pouring the fluid body -- To do: Vessel breath -- To do: Fish swish -- Performance text: Water -- DAY 4 Underlying Patterns: The Upright Stance -- Anecdotes: "Standing Up" -- To do: Postural alignment (Mountain Pose) -- To do: Spinal undulations (Standing) -- Performance text: Arriving -- DAY 5 Underlying Patterns: Earth -- Anecdotes: "Rhythm" -- To do: Bonding with gravity -- To do: Timeline -- To do: De-evolutionary sequence -- Performance text: Soil -- DAY 6 Underlying Patterns: A Bioregional Approach -- Anecdote: "Nature and Culture" -- To do: Place scan -- To do: Telling your place story -- Performance text: Edges -- DAY 7 Mind: Brain and Nervous System -- Anecdotes: "Changing Mind" -- To do: Patterns of mind -- To do: Lobes of the brain -- Performance text: Edges II -- DAY 8 Visceral Body -- Anecdotes: "Needs" -- To do: Pouring the gut body -- To do: The box -- To do: Inner observer -- Performance text: The Cardboard Box -- DAY 9 Perception -- Anecdotes: "Expectations" -- To do: Naming the sensory receptors -- To do: Seeing and being seen (the witness).

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Maidenhood, Wifehood, and Motherhood" -- Timeline of Events -- Glossary -- 1. Domestic Life: "She Has Become a Woman" -- 1. Document: Emelyn Lincoln Coolidge, M.D., "The Young Mother in the Home: How One Mother with Five Children Regulates Her Day" (1907) -- 2. Document: Kathleen Norris, The Treasure (1914) -- 3. Document: Emma Duke, Infant Mortality (1915) -- 2. Economic Life: "Working . . . Since I Knowed What Work Was" -- 1. Document: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics (1898) -- 2. Document: A Negro Nurse, "More Slavery at the South" (1912) -- 3. Intellectual Life: "The Ladies' Course" -- 1. Document: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Solitude of Self: Address Delivered by Mrs. Stanton Before the Committee of the Judiciary of the United States Congress" (1892) -- 2. Document: G. Stanley Hall, "The Ideal School as Based on Child Study" (1901) -- 4. Material Life: "Life in a Cottage" -- 1. Document: W. O. Atwater and Charles D. Woods, Dietary Studies with Reference to the Food of the Negro in Alabama (1897) -- 2. Document: Arthur Goss, Dietary Studies in New Mexico in 1895 (1899) -- 3. Document: Mrs. Burton Kingsland, The Book of Weddings (1907) -- 4. Document: "Home and Farm," The Herald and Presbyter (1919) -- 5. Political Life: "Shall I Fold some more Leaflets?" -- 1. Document: Frances Willard, Address Before the Second Biennial Convention of the World's Woman's Temperance Union (1893) -- 2. Document: L. Frank Baum, The Land of Oz (1904) -- 3. Document: Jane Addams, "The Modern City and the Municipal Franchise for Women" (1906) -- 4. Document: M., "Women Do Not Want the Vote Despite Cry of Suffragists" (1912) -- 5. Document: Emma Goldman, "Woman Suffrage" (1917).

This book presents a new intellectual history of neoliberalism through the exploration of the sovereign consumer. Invented by neoliberal thinkers in the interwar period, this figure has been crucial to the construction and legimitization of neoliberal ideology and politics. Analysis of the sovereign consumer across time and space demonstrates how neoliberals have linked the figure both to the idea of democracy as a method of choice, and also to a re-invention of the market as the democratic forumpar excellence. Moreover, Olsen contemplates how the sovereign consumer has served tomarketize politics and functioned as a major driver in a wide-ranging transformation in political thinking, subjecting traditional political values to the narrow pursuit of economic growth. A politically timely project, The Sovereign Consumerwill have a wide appeal in academic circles, especially for those interested in consumer and welfare studies, and in political, economic and cultural thought in the twentieth century.

"For 30 years the GOP has wrapped itself in the mantle of Ronald Reagan, winning national elections by appealing to free trade, low taxes and small government. Yet today the old Reagan coalition is falling apart, while its ideology has been rejected by the Republican base in favor of the nativist appeals of Donald Trump. Where should the party turn next? Ironically, answers political scientist Henry Olsen, to Reagan himself. Not the Reagan of conservative mythology, but the real Reagan - Reagan the fan of FDR and the supporter and ultimate savior of the New Deal. Reagan began his political career as a proud New Deal Democrat and an admirer of FDR. As Olsen shows in this sharply revisionist political biography, that admiration never changed, even as he eventually developed into an opponent of big government. It wasn't the New Deal that Regan objected to but LBJ's Great Society, which represented a massive expansion of state power in an attempt to solve social and economic problems best left to free market mechanisms. As such, Reagan never saw himself as FDR's political nemesis, but as his natural heir. Indeed Reagan built a philosophy that carried forward the basic promises of the New Deal -- that every American deserves comfort, dignity, and respect provided they work to the best of their ability. Neither party today truly understands what the New Deal represented - and still represents - to the American people. In fact, Olsen argues, the New Deal -- and Roosevelt himself -- were much more conservative than most Americans believe, while Reagan was much more progressive than most - conservatives and liberals alike - understand"--