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This paper will include details on knowledge and ambition levels found between Latino-ethnic K-5 students located in a Southern Region of Texas from a college going culture presentation. The purpose is to understand how ambition and knowledge about higher education was influenced among Latino-ethnic K-5 students in impoverished areas. A low-income public school located in South Texas was included in this study. An open-ended questionnaire was provided to 26 teachers. 511 students were targeted for a presentation with information about college, universities, degrees, careers, and income facts. Teachers documented ambition levels before and after students received a college-going presentation. Wilcoxon signed-rank test was used to analyze the responses for 10 pre and post surveys. Findings indicate ambition and knowledge was increased with a higher education presentation among Latino-ethnic K-5 students in highly impoverished areas. Recommendations were made to continue to research the Latino-ethnic impoverished population and variables that influence higher education success rates. Results, discussion, limitations, and future recommendations were elaborated on. [For the complete volume, "Proceedings of International Conference on Social and Education Sciences (IConSES) (Chicago, Illinois, October 15-18, 2020). Volume 1," see ED626033.]

The following work is based on an experience of reading promotion, held in a special library, from a library collection of topics related to the different races given in the Faculty of Engineering of the UNLP. We considered creating a special collection of technical literature aroused no interest in our users, which attracted other readings and thus contribute to their personal development. To collect data, we used a survey and reports generated from our database. They demonstrate the student reader preferences, teachers and staff at our faculty, as well as their families. It is our goal to continue the promotion of reading and promoting this service that has given us so much satisfaction.

The idea began in late 2008 as part of the library's contribution to the organization of the 1st Argentine Congress of Aeronautical Engineering (CAIA) conducted Faculty of Engineering. In this Congress, besides the material exhibited from the library collection, books and magazines related with this topic. There was no a formal project at library, but the great response received by users motivated us to create this new service with the addition of other engineering disciplines. This was possible thanks to the collaboration of Popular Library Mario Sureda that gave us the books with which we approach this new proposal. The aim of this service is to entertain the user with non-technical materials and attract other types of readings. While at first the collection was available related to the various engineering specialties, currently has extended to subjects such as history, politics, etc.

The New Technologies of Information and Communication have changed and revolutionized our standards of living. Among them, mobile telephony has been one of the best new technologies that have been inserted into modern life. It is easy to see that it is almost time for the phones become the main platform for Internet access. The power of the cell lies in the Java language have made. This language is easy to program and allows access to all resources, such as the Internet connection easily. In this context, and to supplement the work begun with the implementation of software and system Koha library management was thought to offer new types of services, adding to the features typical or traditional. Given the characteristics of users of the Library of Engineering (users are very familiar with technology and computers), and to provide, in a practical, fast and economical, the basic features that 75% of users make to enter the library's website, it was decided to make available to a MIDlet (cell program) to operate from mobile phones.

College students, when writing essays in writing courses, are generally called upon to show that they have an ability to organize the essay according to an established pattern which includes an introduction, the body of the text, and a conclusion. This pattern of discourse, called "Essayist Literacy," is most favored by mainstream society. However, enlisting students to learn and use the language of mainstream academia is obviously not all there is to learning how to write well. Writing instructors must look beyond what they teach to how they teach it. To examine how writing teachers teach and the effects of that teaching on students, a study was conducted by observing one basic writing course for an entire semester, audiotaping all class sessions, and taping conversations with the students and instructor as well as conferences. The discourse patterns of the essayist literacy style dominated the class both in written and oral communication. This discourse pattern is not limited to composition courses, but pervades the college and virtually all social groups. Composition textbooks and handbooks also strongly hold to these patterns. Writing instructors must look at this model of discourse carefully in terms of its implications for the classroom. Clearly, the farther a student's culture is from the mainstream culture, the more problems that student will have when it come to doing well in schools based on the essayist literacy pattern. (Eighteen references are attached.) (HB)

The focus of our study is to understand the effects of the 2008-2009 Great Recession on non- Hispanic white attitudes towards blacks using consumer uncertainty as in indicator of economic stress. We use 2006, 2008, and 2010 cross-sectional data from the General Social Survey, and we limit our analysis to only non-Hispanic whites. We use logistic regression for each year to examine the impact of consumer sentiment on the racial attitudes of whites. Our preliminary results indicate that only post-recession consumer sentiment is negatively associated with the probability of the view that the U.S. is spending too much on improving the living conditions of blacks, which contrasts to the positive relationship we find between consumer sentiment and the probability of the view that the U.S. is spending too much on national defense. Overall, we conclude that the Great Recession does affect the racial attitudes of whites and that consumer sentiment is a strong predictor of policy preferences. Only post-Recession (2010), whites are more likely to think that the U.S. is spending too much to improve the living conditions of blacks when consumer sentiment is low than when consumer sentiment is high. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Flame spreading over liquid fuels has been experimentally characterized for four different alcohols in a complete range of temperatures. Five different spreading regimes (and four critical temperatures T[sub 1], T[sub 2], T[sub 3], T[sub 4] have been observed. The critical temperature T[sub 1] has been described as steady state bifurcation, T[sub 2] resembles a transcritical bifurcation, while T[sub 3] corresponds to a Hopf bifurcation, and T[sub 4] is a homoclinic connection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]