Effects Of Cutbacks Research Articles

Effect of Cutbacks on Tip Leakage Flow and Film-Cooling Effectiveness of a Turbine Blade Tip under Relative Moving Condition

Effect of Cutbacks on Tip Leakage Flow and Film-Cooling Effectiveness of a Turbine Blade Tip under Relative Moving Condition

Effects of competition between short-rotation willow and weeds on performance of different clones and associated weed flora during the first harvest cycle

In order to assess the ability of willow clones to compete with weeds, willow shoot biomass and plant mortality were measured over the first harvest cycle for 10 commercial and two breeding clones at three different sites in southern Sweden. Two levels of weed pressure (weeded and not weeded) were employed and the effects of cutback or not after the first growing season were compared for willow clones under weed pressure. There were significant differences between clones in their ability to compete with weeds, measured as willow shoot growth reduction in plots with weeds, at two of the three sites. However, shoot biomass reduction due to weeds was large in all the clones, with Stina and SW Inger among the least affected. Mean shoot growth reduction after the first harvest cycle for the commercial clones was 68.3%, 91.2% and 94.3% at the three sites and the corresponding plant mortality was 9.8%, 57.3% and 56.2% under weed pressure. Significant clonal differences in yield, under weed-free conditions, were found at all three sites. Significant clone-site interactions were found for both growth reduction and biomass production. Cutting back shoots after the establishment season, under weed pressure, resulted in higher mean plant mortality and lower mean willow shoot biomass after one harvest cycle at two of the three sites. The weed flora was initially dominated by annuals, but became dominated by perennial weeds during the first harvest cycle.

Effects of cutbacks on services are being ignored

Effects of cutbacks on services are being ignored

The Home Care Allowance Program

This paper reports the findings of a study exploring the effects of cutbacks in Colorado Home Care programs on frail elderly. Results indicate that these cutbacks put the respondents, who live in their own homes but are dependent on relatives, friends, or strangers for assistance in activities of daily living, at risk for long term institutionalization. These households are precursors of a growing healthcare crisis in aging populations where homecare assistance programs must supplement or supplant the resources of a thinning network of kin and friends.

Community Service and the Hospitality Curriculum

Students in a required human-relations course at Cornell's School of Hotel Administration were assigned the responsibility of "volunteering" in a local humanservices agency. The students chose their assignments, which included visiting with residents in nursing homes, tutoring at-risk children, and serving in soup kitchens. The students gained information about the effects of cutbacks in government programs for the disadvantaged and insights into their own motivations and the effects of interpersonal interaction. Ironically, although students agreed that volunteerism is important, none continued their volunteer assignments in subsequent semesters.

From swords to plowshares (defense spending)

The effects of cutbacks in defense spending on employment are addressed. Issues discussed include early retirement of the 1950's engineering graduates and transfer of skills from defense to civilian work. Past cycles are examined in an attempt to learn some lessons that could be useful today. Suggestions are made as to what individual engineers can do to convert to civilian work.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>

Testing the Social Safety Net: The Impact of Changes in Support Programs during the Reagan Administration.

This study assesses the effects of cutbacks in social welfare spending on three populations: abused, neglected, and dependent children; the chronically mentally ill; and low-income elderly. The authors trace the impacts of federal changes through state and local levels to the service agencies and the needy themselves.