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The careers of visually handicapped people who have been educated in post-primary schools and colleges in Plateau State, Nigeria, are evaluated in terms of percentage employment, type of employment and further/higher educatio n. Recommendations for improving the quality of education offered to visually handicapped students in the State are then made.

A reader to accompany Ginsberg and Wagner Hill's Congress: The First Branch.

An introduction to the U.S. Congress, from seasoned political historians and teachers In this accessible overview of the United States Congress's past and present, Ginsberg and Hill introduce students to the country's most democratic institution. This text surveys Congressional elections, the internal structure of Congress, the legislative process, Congress and the President, and Congress and the courts. Congress: The First Branch offers a fresh approach to the First Branch grounded in a historical, positive frame.

Measuring political and policy preferences using item response scaling / Joshua D. Clinton -- Causal inference with observational data / Justin Esarey -- Causal inference with experimental data / David W. Nickerson -- Descriptive network analysis: interest group lobbying dynamics around immigration policy / Alexander Furnas and Lee Drutman -- Learning from place in the era of geolocation / Ryan T. Moore and Andrew Reeves -- Text analysis: estimating policy preferences from written and spoken words / Kenneth Benoit and Alexander Herzog -- Machine learning and governance / Alex C. Engler -- Governing a data-driven society / Kathryn Wagner Hill -- Big data and privacy / Priscilla M. Regan -- Reflections on analytics: knowledge and power / Benjamin Ginsberg.

The first available textbook on the rapidly growing and increasingly important field of government analytics This first textbook on the increasingly important field of government analytics provides invaluable knowledge and training for students of government in the synthesis, interpretation, and communication of "big data," which is now an integral part of governance and policy making. Integrating all the major components of this rapidly growing field, this invaluable text explores the intricate relationship of data analytics to governance while providing innovative strategies for the retrieval and management of information.

Veterans endure a variety of mental health concerns due to the common adversities and traumatic events experienced while in the military. However, veterans who receive a mental health diagnosis often do not reach out to healthcare professionals due to the negative stigma associated with the diagnosis. A component of mental health that is not addressed in the military is military sexual trauma (MST). MST is a problem in which an individual experiences sexual assault or repeated sexual harassment while serving in the military. The symptoms experienced from MST are similar to the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and anxiety. An extensive search was conducted with specific criteria set, utilizing search engines like EBSCOhost, USDVA, PubMed, and USA.gov to bridge the research gap between MST and the modality of equine therapy, which is a therapeutic intervention that utilizes horses as treatment for trauma symptoms. Scientific articles have been collected that focus on the benefits that equine therapy has provided to individuals with PTSD, depression, and anxiety with a specific interest in how it could improve their quality of life moving forward. To conclude, a diverse set of scholarly articles provided ample evidence that equine therapy is a beneficial modality for all three disorders. With further research, equine therapy could potentially be an intervention for individuals with MST.

Context The incorporation of invasive plants into novel ecosystems often has negative effects, but it can also sometimes enhance ecosystem function. The threatened native rodent species Leporillus conditor (greater stick-nest rat) is extinct on the Australian mainland and now lives primarily on small islands off the coast of southern Australia. Many of these are degraded novel ecosystems invaded by African boxthorn (Lycium ferocissimum), a weed of national significance. However, L. conditor does not appear to be negatively affected by the presence of boxthorn, raising the question of how the two species co-exist. Aims To understand how L. conditor uses African boxthorn, we evaluated dietary composition of L. conditor on parts of Reevesby Island by comparing consumption of invasive boxthorn with that of native vegetation. Methods We identified three key vegetation types on the centre of the island and used point-intercept vegetation surveys to estimate relative availability of plant species in each. We then used micro-histological faecal analysis to estimate the proportions of each species in the diet of L. conditor, and quantified plant species selection by using selection ratios (use/availability). Key results Qualitative evidence of L. conditor activity suggested that it was mostly confined to vegetation with greater abundance of boxthorn than the other vegetation types (13.5%, compared with 5.7% total sampled vegetation). Furthermore, 51.7% of the faecal plant content and 11.8% of total sampled vegetation was African boxthorn, resulting in a selection ration for boxthorn of 4.4. Native species that appeared to be favoured food sources of L. conditor included Olearia axillaris, Myoporum insulare and Enchylaena tomentosa. Conclusions Stick-nest rats of Reevesby Island demonstrate a clear selection for African boxthorn, both in terms of diet (tested quantitatively) and nesting (from previous research and our field observations). Implications The strong selection of stick-nest rats for a declared noxious weed as its main food source and persistence of stick-nest rats on Reevesby Island require consideration with regards to vegetation management on islands where L. conditor occurs. More broadly, it highlights that some elements of novel ecosystems may have unexpected positive impacts on parts of original ecosystems.

The research on students who do not graduate from high school has traditionally focused on students who drop out before their expected graduation date. This ignores the experiences of persisters or persisting students—those who remain enrolled in high school on or beyond their expected graduation date, but have yet to earn a diploma. Where data are available persisting students are estimated to be equal to or greater in number than dropouts. Authors argue that persisting students warrant greater attention in research, policy, and practice efforts meant to better understand and promote high school completion and the postsecondary transition. To this end, this article summarizes the existing literature on persisting students, with attention to how they are defined, their sociodemographic and academic characteristics, and the schools they attend. The article also lays out a research agenda and policy implications, highlighting the importance of better understanding this group and meeting their needs more effectively with the twin goals of (1) adding nuance to our understanding of persisting students and (2) improving the precision in educational research more broadly.