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Parent training for foster parents is mandated by federal law and supported by state statues in nearly all states; however, little is known about the efficacy of that training, and recent reviews underscore that the most widely used curricula in the child welfare system (CWS) have virtually no empirical support (Grimm, Youth Law News , April–June:3–29, 2003). On the other hand, numerous theoretically based, developmentally sensitive parent training interventions have been found to be effective in experimental clinical and prevention intervention trials (e.g., Kazdin and Wassell, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry , 39:414–420, 2000; McMahon and Forehand, Helping the noncompliant child , Guilford Press, New York, USA, 2003; Patterson and Forgatch, Parents and adolescents: I. Living together , Castalia Publishing, Eugene, OR, USA, 1987; Webster-Stratton et al., Journal of Clinical Child Pyschology Psychiatry , 42:943–952, 2001). One of these, Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC; Chamberlain, Treating chronic juvenile offenders: Advances made through the Oregon Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care model , American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, USA, 2003), has been used with foster parents of youth referred from juvenile justice. The effectiveness of a universal intervention, KEEP (Keeping Foster Parents Trained and Supported) based on MTFC (but less intensive) was tested in a universal randomized trial with 700 foster and kinship parents in the San Diego County CWS. The goal of the intervention was to reduce child problem behaviors through strengthening foster parents’ skills. The trial was designed to examine effects on both child behavior and parenting practices, allowing for specific assessment of the extent to which improvements in child behavior were mediated by the parenting practices targeted in the intervention. Child behavior problems were reduced significantly more in the intervention condition than in the control condition, and specific parenting practices were found to mediate these reductions, especially for high-risk children in foster families reporting more than six behavior problems per day at baseline.

King Saul was not only Israel’s first monarch, but he was also her first sacrilegious ruler, a point on which the two historiographical books in the Hebrew Bible agree. However, each respective corpus delineates Saul’s portrayal in uneven and distinctive representations, varying in theological perspective and emphasis. 1 Samuel presents a complex account of Saul’s rise to power and his subsequent fall from divine favor, and culminates with Saul’s battlefield suicide. 1 Chronicles, however, shows no interest in Saul’s life, but begins and ends with his suicide. Though Chronicles uses the antecedent Samuel as a source, the story of Saul’s suicide and its ramifications experience a conceptual metamorphosis, resulting in considerable shifts in the perception of human and divine agency. Relatedly, Chronicles is temporally posterior to Samuel, finding its inception following the Judean restoration in the Second Temple period’s postexilic milieu. This paper seeks to uncover these shifts manifested in Chronicles by elucidating each account, highlighting the relationship between human and divine agency. Attention to the shifts yields a different sacrilegious Saul and an altered concept of divine transcendence, both birthed in the cradle of the Judean community in the Second Temple period.

The Proton EDM Experiment (pEDM) is the first direct search for the proton electric dipole moment (EDM) with the aim of being the first experiment to probe the Standard Model (SM) prediction of any particle EDM. Phase-I of pEDM will achieve \\(10^{-29} e\\cdot\\)cm, improving current indirect limits by four orders of magnitude. This will establish a new standard of precision in nucleon EDM searches and offer a unique sensitivity to better understand the Strong CP problem. The experiment is ideally positioned to explore physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM), with sensitivity to axionic dark matter via the signal of an oscillating proton EDM and across a wide mass range of BSM models from \\(\\mathcal{O}(1\\text{GeV})\\) to \\(\\mathcal{O}(10^3\\text{TeV})\\). Utilizing the frozen-spin technique in a highly symmetric storage ring that leverages existing infrastructure at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), pEDM builds upon the technological foundation and experimental expertise of the highly successful Muon $g$$-$$2$ Experiments. With significant R\\&D and prototyping already underway, pEDM is preparing a conceptual design report (CDR) to offer a cost-effective, high-impact path to discovering new sources of CP violation and advancing our understanding of fundamental physics. It will play a vital role in complementing the physics goals of the next-generation collider while simultaneously contributing to sustaining particle physics research and training early-career researchers during gaps between major collider operations.

Mr. John Semmens, a retired transportation economist, responded to light-rail advocates in the Mesa Republic by pointing out: \"Light rail is the most costly mode of transit per person-mile of travel. Small, family-owned businesses will be closed because of Mesa's decision to build an obsolete light-rail system.

Mr. John Semmens, a retired transportation economist, responded to light-rail advocates in the Mesa Republic by pointing out: \"Light rail is the most costly mode of transit per person-mile of travel. Small, family-owned businesses will be closed because of Mesa's decision to build an obsolete light-rail system.

The District 1 freshman commissioner stated that the question of whether to raise the GRT in Otero County should not be presented as a referendum on a public ballot because the people of Otero County would almost certainly vote it down and this could create a situation where, as I understand it, the carry-over reserve might, in an emergency, have to be dipped into instead of grow.

While the U.N. does not privilege one religion over others, it draws upon religious commitments to improve the human condition by promoting peace, by countering racism, by improving health, by relieving poverty, by addressing oppression, and by responding to natural disasters. In these ways, the U.N. expresses the charge of the Hebrew prophets to \"hate evil, love good, and establish justice\" (Amos 5:15). Although wars and armed conflicts continue to erupt throughout world, the U.N. has helped to forestall the massive devastation characterized by global conflicts. During the 30-year period prior to the founding of the U.N., the world suffered the deaths of 75 million people in two world wars. Thankfully, the loss of human life in warfare has been greatly reduced in part because of the effectiveness of the U.N.'s forum for dialogue and negotiation. The U.N.'s commitment to promoting human harmony enables it to address the welfare of people throughout the world. As the writer of the Epistle of James indicates, \"a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace for those who make peace\" (James 3:18). The \"harvest of righteousness\" is evident in the accomplishments of the U.N.

We describe a proposal to search for an intrinsic electric dipole moment (EDM) of the proton with a sensitivity of \\targetsens, based on the vertical rotation of the polarization of a stored proton beam. The New Physics reach is of order \\(10^~3\\)TeV mass scale. Observation of the proton EDM provides the best probe of CP-violation in the Higgs sector, at a level of sensitivity that may be inaccessible to electron-EDM experiments. The improvement in the sensitivity to \\(\\theta_{QCD}\\), a parameter crucial in axion and axion dark matter physics, is about three orders of magnitude.