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Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery: October 2006 - Volume 32 - Issue 10 - p 1595-1596 doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2006.08.012

"Quality Sampling and Reliability: New Uses for the Poisson Distribution." Technometrics, 42(3), p. 314

Using an interview/questionnaire procedure, 19 clients reported 200 helpful, significant events that occurred in ongoing counseling. Each event consisted of one issue presented by the client, the counselor's response to that issue, and the immediate impact the client received from the counselor's response. With the use of qualitative analysis, 9 prominent patterns describing sequences of client change emerged from the data. These patterns were grouped into 3 superclusters of events: Dissonant, Question—Answer, and Congruent. These superclusters and the 9 prominent patterns were used to develop a model for counseling change. Implications for counseling theory and practice are discussed.

The top 3 ft. of silage from each of 30 horizontal silos in western Kansas was sampled at three locations across the width of the silo for 2 consecutive years (1990 and 1991). Ninety-five percent of the silages were either corn or forage sorghum, and only 22 percent of the silos were sealed with polyethylene sheeting. Losses of organic matter (OM) from spoilage were estimated by using ash content as an internal marker. Sealing silos dramatically reduced the estimated spoilage losses in the top 3 ft.

The Iowa Tests of Educational Development vocabulary test was administered once to ninth graders following standard procedures (ITED-V) and again using the alternate form in which students listened to a tape-recording of items (PROMPTED-V). Word meaning knowledge was controlled by entering the PROMPTED-V score first into a multiple regression equation to predict reading comprehension. The ITED-V score made a significant addition to the prediction equation, suggesting that the ability to decode printed words is a component of comprehension performance. Poor decoders were operationally defined as students with an ITED-V score more than two standard errors below their PROMPTED-V score. Their reading comprehension, as indicated by several measures, was significantly below that of good decoders who showed no discrepancy between their PROMPTED-V and ITED-V scores. Among poor decoders, there was a range in comprehension performance which suggests the possible influence of a third component of comprehension, such as ability to use contextual prediction.

Journal Article Brian Jenkins. Britain and the War for the Union. Volume 2. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. 1980. Pp. 470. $26.50 Get access Jenkins Brian. Britain and the War for the Union. Volume 2. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. 1980. Pp. 470. $26.50. David F. Krein David F. Krein Scott Community College Bettendorf, Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 87, Issue 1, February 1982, Pages 176–177, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/87.1.176 Published: 01 February 1982

LAST summer in France I made a collection-of a kind-of various and sundry signs which have proved to be of interest to my French classes. The labels serve as a sort of road-marker of my journey through la douce France. It is difficult to catalogue many of the signs since they are simply road signs or advertisements of well-known products; others are mottoes on public buildings of interest to American students, still others are neither one nor the other.