This study compared recidivism rates of adult male completers and non-completers
of correctional education programs in ABE/GED/high school, vocational, and
college transfer programs over a five-year period. A total of 1382 releasees was
studied for the five years following their release. Recidivism was the dependent
variable. Recidivism was defined as...
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In 2010 the American taxpayers spent $697 million educating veterans under the provisions of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (commonly referred to as the GI Bill). Most veterans begin their college education at a community college. However, the number of veterans succeeding in community colleges is exceedingly low. Based...
A visitor information study was conducted at the USFS Cape Perpetua
Visitor Center during August, 1973. The study sought to develop a visitor profile
and activity analysis to aid in planning future exhibits and interpretive
developments, analyze vacation travel patterns of persons visiting the center,
determine how people chose their...
Numerous tests were applied to rainbow trout
of eleven months of age to determine whether
ascorbic acid is an essential element of the diet
of these fish. Although previous work had been
done on this question, conflicts in the results,
the large reliance upon abnormal symptoms such as
lordosis and...
Allowable stresses in compression perpendicular to the grain (C-perp) have been too conservative for most structural uses. This study develops stress data for deformations beyond the proportional limit (PL), up to 0.1 inch for hem-fir. Fifteen boards from four western states were cut into small specimens representing three ring angle...
