550 research outputs found
Sanitizing Product Contact Surfaces for Fresh Produce Production
No full textDiscussion of how to properly sanitize product contact surfaces in a farm environment
Preparing Produce Growers for Compliance with the Food Safety Modernization Act
No full textThe Rutgers On-Farm Food Safety Team received national recognition as an Extension Risk Management Education (ERME) Success Story for its grant funded work in 2015-2016 educating New Jersey farmers about the Food Safety Modernization Act Produce Safety Rule
Crucial contributors? Re-examining labour market impact and workplace-training intensity in Canadian trades apprenticeship
No full textCanadian apprenticeship policy has recently turned to direct subsidies for participants, including a federal tax incentive for employers. Some assumptions underlying the employer subsidy are: that apprenticeship training is a principal contributor to the skilled trades labour supply; that employers of apprentices typically incur high training cost and risks; and that in the absence of offsetting incentives, these would deter their participation. These assumptions are tested, using an analysis of 2006 census data and a series of 33 employer interviews. The census data reveal that, in 74 “skilled trades†occupations (NOC-S group H), the proportion of the labour force reporting an apprenticeship credential is 37%. When certificates granted to “trade qualifiers†are excluded from the total, registered apprenticeship certification is found to contribute roughly 25% of the skilled trades labour supply. A closer examination of the census data reveals strong inter-occupational differences in the certification rate and in the ratio of certified to less-than-certified workers, suggesting a de facto hierarchy of trades occupations. The interviews reveal sharp variations in employers’ workplace training efforts, challenging the twin suppositions that employers of apprentices are uniformly high contributors to skill formation, and that high training-related costs risks generally deter their participation. Differences in training behaviour are attributed to high-skill versus low-skill business strategies that in turn reflect differing product markets and regulatory constraints. Whatever the level of their training effort, all of the participating employers are able to minimize the training-related risks that have been cited as the principal rationale for employer subsidies. The paper argues for a more nuanced approach to skills policy and research in Canada, with greater attention to the diversity of actors’ strategic interactions with the training system.Apprenticeship, Skill, Trades, Training, Labour Supply, Canada
Chronicles of Oklahoma
No full textArticle discusses the ideas present in Oscar Ameringer's theories of agrarian socialism and its place in Oklahoma society. H. L. Meredith explores his impact as a leader of the Socialist Party in Oklahoma, organizer, and author of socialist literature
Prenatal care advice to see a dentist: results from a population-based study
No full textMeredith L. Vandermeer (Department of Public Health, Oregon State University), Kenneth D. Rosenberg (Office of Family Health, Oregon Department of Human Services), Alfredo P. Sandoval (Oregon Health & Science University).Title from PDF caption (viewed on August 14, 2020).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism
No full textEmily Orlando is co-editor and a contributing author (with Meredith L. Goldsmith), Introduction: Edith Wharton, A Citizen of the World, p.1-15.
Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism shows that Wharton was highly engaged with global issues of her time, due in part to her extensive travel abroad. Examining both her canonical and lesser-known works and including her art historical discoveries, her political writings, and her travel writing, the essays in this volume explore Wharton\u27s diverse, complex, and sometimes problematic relationship to a cosmopolitan vision.-- Publisher\u27s description.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/english-books/1067/thumbnail.jp
REVIEWS: Professional Materials
No full textJerry L. Johns (1991). Basic Reading Inventory; Children\u27s Books: Merry Christmas, Amanda and April; Chicken Man; All the Lights in the Night; Jack and the Beanstalk; The Swineherd; The Worst Person\u27s Christmas; That\u27s Exactly the Way it Wasn’t; An Auto Mechanic, A Carpenter, A Potter; Meredith\u27s Mother Takes the Trai
Dr. James N. Thompson
No full textDr. James N. Thompson (far right) came to Bowman Gray School of Medicine in 1979 as Assistant Professor of Surgery in Otolaryngology. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1981, Professor in 1988, Associate Dean in 1987 and named the eighth Dean of the Medical School following a national search in 1994. Dr. Thompson is shown here with (L-R) Drs. Jesse Meredith and son, Wayne Meredith. The three physicians worked together as a trauma team for nine Catawba County youth who unknowingly gulped a highly corrosive lye-like chemical from a bottle located in a refrigerator. Radical surgical treatment from the three doctors saved their lives.Information from North Carolina Baptist Hospital Topics, vol. 38, no. 2, Spring 1994, p. 2; Topics, vol. 31, no. 3, Fall 1987, p. 1. Published in The Legacy and Promise: 100 Years of Medicine at WFUSM, p. 85
‘We are all in this together’: a creative non-fiction story of older adults participating in power-assisted exercise
No full textIn this study we aimed to explore older adults’ experience of community-based power assisted (PA) exercise and its potential impact on social exclusion, isolation and loneliness (SEI&L). The lead author obtained ethnographic data over a 6-month period using three primary methods: participant observation (900 hours), a reflexive diary, and 10 semi-structured interviews. Participant observation provided a rich lens into a PA exercise centre describing the scene, characters, and dialogue that enabled the ethnographer to interpret stories of SEI&L. Participants expressing stories of SEI&L (6 service-users, age 66–90 years) and participants working at the centre (3 staff members, age 41–50 years; 1 volunteer, age 69 years) were invited for interviews with the purpose of expanding on data from the field. We used dialogical narrative analysis to construct story themes and meaningful structures from the data that enabled a nuanced understanding of the plots and characters woven into the ethnographic creative non-fiction. Shifting our perspective from story analysts to storytellers, we have constructed two emotionally vibrant composite narratives to show the mechanisms and meanings of SEI&L for older adult exercisers following bereavement in later life and when living with a debilitating chronic health condition. The therapy centre provided a safe and inclusive space for older adults to reconnect through accessible modes of exercise and an atmosphere fostering a sense of belonging and togetherness. This work offers rich insight into older adult’s experiences of community-based exercise and raises awareness of SEI&L to help instigate personal and social change across multiple audiences
A survey of attitudes of employers toward hiring educable mentally retarded persons and factors which influence their decisions, 1968
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