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The Dr. James Still Historic Office and Homestead—home to a nineteenth century, self‐educated, African American doctor, born to formerly captive parents, who would go on to become the third largest landowner in a predominantly White rural community in Southern New Jersey—has been the focus of the Dr. James Still Community Archaeology Project (DJSCAP) since 2013. This paper, however, shifts the target of archaeological exploration and asks what we can glean from the actors in and around the site. Using data collected by DJSCAP, this chapter critically examines how a community comes to understand and commemorate their efforts to protect and preserve Dr. Still's meritocratic narrative via a material engagement with the site. Reflecting on the simultaneous navigation of the past, present, and future via objects, the chapter explores how "things" such as donations and donor plaques do the social work of volunteering, informing perceptions of effort, talent, memory, and entitlement around the site. Using materiality theory and an archaeological lens attuned to nowness, this chapter identifies key instances in which the articulation of bodies, ideas, objects, and labor generate fascinating insights into the theorization of meritocracy as a moral economy that underpins volunteering. This contemporary archaeological approach uncovers the materiality of austerity, informing how communities navigate systemic failures in heritage site management through individual and collective efforts that I call meritocratic stewardship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Multivariate failure time data are frequently analyzed using the marginal proportional hazards models and the frailty models. When the sample size is extraordinarily large, using either approach could face computational challenges. In this paper, we focus on the marginal model approach and propose a divide‐and‐combine method to analyze large‐scale multivariate failure time data. Our method is motivated by the Myocardial Infarction Data Acquisition System (MIDAS), a New Jersey statewide database that includes 73,725,160 admissions to nonfederal hospitals and emergency rooms (ERs) from 1995 to 2017. We propose to randomly divide the full data into multiple subsets and propose a weighted method to combine these estimators obtained from individual subsets using three weights. Under mild conditions, we show that the combined estimator is asymptotically equivalent to the estimator obtained from the full data as if the data were analyzed all at once. In addition, to screen out risk factors with weak signals, we propose to perform the regularized estimation on the combined estimator using its combined confidence distribution. Theoretical properties, such as consistency, oracle properties, and asymptotic equivalence between the divide‐and‐combine approach and the full data approach are studied. Performance of the proposed method is investigated using simulation studies. Our method is applied to the MIDAS data to identify risk factors related to multivariate cardiovascular‐related health outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Stockton University is a mid‐size liberal arts institution in Southern New Jersey. Degree seekers must complete required course work in both liberal studies and core, specialized areas, such as business, health sciences, hospitality, education, social and behavioral sciences, or organizational leadership. Stockton emphasizes Essential Learning Outcomes (ELOs) in undergraduate programs, aligning them to course goals and program outcomes. Faculty implement ELOs in many courses, across disciplines, providing students with opportunities to generalize ELOs in different contexts, in meaningful and relevant ways. Electronic portfolios (ePortfolios) are used to give students opportunities to develop their own personal profiles and expand their goal setting practices, by choosing artifacts that most represent who they are as learners and who they will be as future employees. Students enrolled in the courses included in this case study were encouraged to maintain an electronic portfolio that facilitates skill acquisition of reflective thought, self‐assessment, authentic learning, self‐determination, critical thinking and problem solving in preparation to successfully participate in a 21st century global world. Together with ELOs, ePortfolios give students a means of promoting their value to a future employer. This paper explores multiple case studies through courses that have integrated ELOs and ePortfolios for the purpose of assessing student growth, course objectives, program outcomes, or accreditation assessment. The case studies highlight the use of ELOs merged with ePortfolios for: first‐year students and their involvement in campus and course activities to assess personal and academic growth; first‐year students and the development of their research and information literacy skills to assess academic growth and course objectives; upper level undergraduate students and reflective assessment of student growth and course outcomes; and graduate students and reflective assessment of student growth and evidence for documenting accreditation standards. Examples of how ELOs and ePortfolios can be merged for different disciplines, and different student levels, are explored in detail. Suggestions for additional opportunities to embed ELOs into ePortfolios are discussed and provided for faculty who are interested in the utilization of these merged concepts for the assessment of student growth, course objectives, program outcomes and accreditation standards. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Understanding and improving how humans adapt to climate change are priorities in our research community, and coastal settlements are good places to study adaptation. Severe storm events and sea‐level rise are threatening coastal communities with increasing levels of flood damage. Because ownership of coastal assets is distributed among many private and public actors, both individual property owners and public officials must take adaptive actions. This paper introduces an integrated agent‐based and hedonic pricing modeling system to simulate coastal real estate market performance under non‐equilibrium conditions that reflect the effects of storm events. The modeling system, which is used for policy analysis, is calibrated to conditions in two towns in Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA, which were badly damaged by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. The key findings are that (a) coastal real estate markets capitalize flood risk into property values but this discount diminishes rapidly as time passes between storm events, and (b) there is a distinct equity versus efficiency tradeoff in designing public policies to reduce the cost to society of coastal flooding. Stringent regulation of building practices reduces flood damage but drives away poorer home buyers and owners, whereas informational and incentive‐based policies are fairer but less effective. Hands‐off, market‐based retreat from risky areas is socially costly but allows less wealthy people to remain at the shore, albeit in vulnerable situations. Managed retreat should emphasize improved recreational access to coastal amenities while discouraging people from living there. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the time trend coefficients in the temperatures in 48 US states using monthly data from January 1895 to December 2017, as well as in their anomalies with respect to the base period 1901–2000. For this purpose, we use techniques based on fractional integration, which is a more general approach than the standard methods used in the literature based on integer differentiation. The results indicate that with the exception of 10 states, in the remaining 38, the temperature anomalies have increased across time, with the increase being higher than the one expected under the other more standard approaches. The highest increases correspond to New Jersey and Rhode Island, with an increase of approximately 2.9°C over the last 100 years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines how, as in the past in their home community in Mexico, Mexican immigrants in the United States use a system of flexible kinship and ritual practices to adapt to new circumstances of living and working in communities with new neighbours, new challenges and new threats. The paper focuses particularly on how the increased presence of women who have not always been a large part of the Mexican migrant community in the United States and their 'kin work' allows migrants to maintain and extend their social networks. Through various family and ritual events, migrants integrate new friends and acquaintances with new resources into their social networks and thus facilitate their survival in their new home. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the interdependency of food relations through young people's accounts of food insecurity. Drawing on ethnographic research with a youth urban agriculture program in Camden, New Jersey (USA), I show how young people articulate experiences of food insecurity through the lens of maternal foodwork, describing efforts to support mothers who are struggling to provide in the context of poverty. As these teens articulate efforts to share foodwork with mothers, they not only challenge common conceptions of generational feeding relations but also reveal the inadequacy of individualizing approaches to the autonomous food consumer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents an abstract of the study `Excessive gestational weight gain and chronic disease risk,' by T.O. Scholl, M.L. Hediger and J.I. Schall. Highlights of the Camden Study of pregnancy in urban, low-income women in New Jersey; Influence of gestational weight gain on change in weight and the site of fat deposition over two consecutive pregnancies.

This paper reviews the debate on the relative virtues of "workfare" and examines how successful earlier workfare programs have been. The central focus of this paper is on the New Jersey General Assistance Employability Program, a workfare program imposed on New Jersey's General Assistance recipients in mid-1978. A general description of the mechanics of the New Jersey workfare program and the services offered by this program is provided. An interrupted time series regression model is presented to measure the impact of workfare on the enrollment in the General Assistance programs Results from this model allow an assessment of the cost-effectiveness of New Jersey workfare. It is found that the reduction in transfer payments generated by the program exceed its operating costs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents abstracts of papers that appear in the August 1985 issue of the journal "Policy Studies Review." The paper "Perspectives on Agricultural Policy, 1985," by Don Hadwiger focuses on farm policy which is aimed at ending farm subsidies based on the assumption that this will improve farm income and make farmers more efficient. The paper "Workfare in New Jersey: A Five Year Assessment," by Valerie Englander and Fred Engtander reviews the debate on the relative virtues of "workfare" and examines how successful earlier workfare programs have been. The central focus of the paper is on the New Jersey General Assistance Employability Program, a workfare program imposed on New Jersey's General Assistance recipients in mid-1978.

This paper uses data collected from a series of public auctions of used cars in New Jersey to examine how strategic bidding affects price determination in open-outcry English auctions. “Jumps” in the bidding, which occur when a new offer exceeds the old offer by more than the minimum bid increment, are highly pervasive and consistently related to the item’s presale estimated price. The size of the jumps is not affected by the selling order, however. This jump bidding pattern suggests that open-outcry auctions are more appropriately interpreted with models that assume common-item valuations rather than models assuming private valuations. ( JEL D44) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper focuses on retention in the Rowan University undergraduate engineering program with many ‘female-friendly’ features despite its design as best practices for all students. Both male and female ‘stayers’ in the program are compared to ‘leavers’ on a variety of characteristics, including pre-college and family background, grades, satisfaction with the Rowan program, engineering self-confidence, and future expectations about their engineering major and career. Data come from a special survey of all Rowan engineering students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Local SANE activists, like the rest of the peace movement of the late fifties and early sixties, were more left and more female than heretofore understood. By contrast, national SANE’s largely male, social–democratic leadership was more isolated and more autocratic than earlier portraits have acknowledged. The divisions of May 1960 arose with the group’s founding and lasted into the new decade. However, one cannot understand the divisions, and thus understand the actual history of SANE, without studying the local level. New Jersey SANE, which was always SANE’s most vibrant chapter, provides the lens through which this paper contributes to that fuller understanding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ABSTRACT: This paper presents results from a process evaluation conducted by the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE). Representative samples of middle and high school superintendents, principals, lead health teachers, and HIV teachers provided information assessing whether local district policy content was consistent with the state's policy code, the dynamics of local policy development, and school district staff perceptions and practices regarding HIV education policies. NJDOE also was interested in determining: if inservice training was accessible to teachers assigned to provide HIV education; the scope and impact of HIV inservice programs; and the training needs of staff assigned to teach the HIV curriculum. Finally, NJDOE was interested in determining: local curricula scope, sequence, and approach; the extent to which local curricula were skills-based; and local expectations for instructional outcomes. As a result of the evaluation, program staff identified areas needing remediation and planned for program improvement in new areas. (J Sch Health. 2001;71(6):207-212) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the efforts of the faculty of the Family Institute of New Jersey in recent years to develop a collaborative family training program that takes into account issues of gender, race, culture, class, and sexual orientation. We have come to realize how strongly traditional approaches have been skewed in the direction of the dominant culture--white, male, heterosexist, and prioritizing the needs and experience of the middle and upper classes. We have attempted to modify our teaching, supervision, reading lists, and overall training approach to challenge trainees and ourselves to move toward broader, strength-based, and equity-based multicultural perspectives in our training. We describe our vision, how we incorporate it into our program structure, and a few of our training initiatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the past 30 years in both the United Kingdom and the United States there has been an increasing emphasis on the need for the agencies, disciplines and professions who are involved in investigating child abuse allegations and in protecting children from abuse to work together, to cooperate with each other and to coordinate their responses. (See Besharov, 1990; British Paediatric Association, 1966; Kempe and Helfer, 1972; London Borough of Brent, 1985; London Borough of Greenwich, 1987). One way of achieving this has been through the use of multi-disciplinary groups. This paper will describe the initial findings from a study which aimed to examine and compare the working of two such groups, namely, case conferences in the UK and multi-disciplinary teams in one state in the United States, New Jersey. The findings from the study show that while there are some similarities between the two types of multi-disciplinary groups, there are also significant differences in functions, membership, structure of meetings and chairing. However, the major difference that emerges is the more prominent role of representatives from the legal system in New Jersey's multi-disciplinary teams compared with UK case conferences. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research has shown that greater degrees of sunshine experienced directly are associated with greater amounts of compliance and tipping. This paper describes two studies that investigated beliefs about sunshine and tipping. The studies were conducted at a casino hotel in Atlantic City; a male server who delivered food and drinks to guests' rooms acted as the confederate. In Study 1, the server reported to guests the actual sky conditions: sunny, partly sunny, cloudy, or rainy. Tip percentages increased linearly from the worst to the best conditions. Study 2 used an experimental design. The server informed guests that the weather was either warm and sunny, cold and sunny, warm and rainy, or cold and rainy. Guests were gullible because their rooms shielded them from the actual conditions. Belief in sunny skies produced greater tip percentages. The temperature belief manipulation had no effect. This research extended previous research by showing that beliefs about weather, in addition to actual weather, can affect behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background The Clifton area of Nottingham with a total population of nearly 20 000 and a child population of 4500. Aim To track the changes in clinical services provided by community paediatricians in Clifton from 1983 to 1999. Methods The paper tracks changes through a series of reports produced over time by the paediatricians working in the Clifton area. The 5 reports are dated 1983, 1985, 1989–91, 1995, 1999–2000. Results The child population in Clifton dropped somewhat from 4700 to 3900 during the study period. A child health clinic (CHC) with no appointment system and providing Child Health Surveillance was staffed by a senior community paediatric trainee in 1983. This had transformed into a referral clinic with an appointment system by 1995 (still staffed by the trainee). By 2000, the clinic had added a consultation element for GPs, HVs, school nurses and school support teachers for a session a week and added a clinical psychologist to its staff. Trainees staff the clinics still (a lecturer and an SHO) but an Associate Specialist session has been added to provide better continuity of care. In 1983, each infant was seen 26.7 times (range 9–51): 61% at the CHC (mostly for weighing), 31% at the GP surgery. By 1991, GPs had taken on CHS and the clinic had a formal appointment system but with a ‘drop in’ period when necessary. Total attendances dropped by almost a half between 1989 and 1991, as did those attending for immunizations. Primary care referrals accounted for 15.5% of those seen in 1991. Major diagnostic categories included weight and feeding, development, behaviour and ‘minor problems’. By 2000, there were 3 referral clinics a week with the additional consultation clinic. No CHS was provided. Developmental difficulties (61) and behaviour difficulties (60) now top the list of referral categories and the latter include self-harm, anorexia, Tourette’s, ADHD and conduct disorder, with 8 of these... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]