The differences in the share of white, black and Latino Americans who said correctly — and yes, we are coming down on the side of the facts here — that the Civil War was fought mainly over slavery were, when compared to other issues in the poll, relatively small.
It provides a unique opportunity to understand the belief systems and intervention in mental health related issues in this relatively isolated and underserved community.
Further explanation had to be given about the term 'rapid' in REA, that it is a method of assessment used to explore the ethical issues in a relatively quick fashion at the beginning of the study and has nothing to do with speeding up the process of ethics review.
While the report's discussions of issues involving land use and air and water polution are extensive, the references to the politically charged matter of climate change -- called "global issues" in the draft -- are relatively cursory.
The recent research of one of us (Nagelkerke, 2004) tackles these issues in the context of a relatively realistic metapopulation model, using simulations as the main tool.
The issues in dispute seem relatively small: the imposition of an $8 increase in registration fees to modernize the division's computers, and the timing of a $6 surcharge to pay for a tamperproof digitized driver's license.
He admits frustration at Canada's lack of a national food policy but, using climate change as an analogy, suggests that we are capable of shifting gears on widely misunderstood issues in a relatively short time.
The Vanguard Value Index fund tracks the roughly 400 relatively cheap issues in the S.& P./Barra Value index, while the Vanguard Small Capitalization Value index fund tracks the S.& P. Small-Cap 600/Barra Value index.
Overall, the 12-item ACTS Burdens scale and 3-item ACTS Benefits scale met the psychometric criteria evaluated at both item and scale levels, with the exception of some relatively minor issues in the Dutch language version, which were just below reliability criteria (i.e. alpha = 0.72, test-retest intraclass correlation = 0.79).
Drugs have always been an issue in prisons, but the relatively low cost and difficulty in detecting New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) has seen their popularity soar behind bars.
