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The Legislature established the Graduation: A Team Effort (GATE) Advisory (originally known as Building Bridges Workgroup) in 2007 to keep all students visible and on track to graduate from high school. The state's ongoing engagement and reengagement efforts are based on the three major recommendations of the original Building Bridges Workgroup: (1) Set an educational goal for youth and family-serving agencies and coordinate efforts to achieve it; (2) Build local dropout prevention and intervention systems and practices at every grade level; and (3) Create a dropout reengagement system for 16-24-year-old youth who are not likely to return to high school. The GATE Advisory Committee met regularly over the course of the 2022-23 school year to promote and expand effective dropout prevention, intervention, and reengagement policy and programming. As a result of these discussions, the Committee proposed the following recommendations to the legislature: (1) Develop a statewide early warning and intervention system; (2) Build capacity to create school schedules that are inclusive and driven by high expectations; (3) Increase capacity for the implementation of Ninth Grade Success Teams; (4) Support youth reengagement efforts through the establishment of barrier reduction funding for Open Doors Youth Reengagement programs; and (5) Expand resources to support school/community dropout prevention, intervention, and reengagement system support.

From 08-12 August, 2022, 32 individuals participated in a workshop, Stability and Fluctuations in Complex Ecological Systems, at the Lorentz Center, located in Leiden, The Netherlands. An interdisciplinary dialogue between ecologists, mathematicians, and physicists provided a foundation of important problems to consider over the next 5-10 years. This paper outlines eight areas including (1) improving our understanding of the effect of scale, both temporal and spatial, for both deterministic and stochastic problems; (2) clarifying the different terminologies and definitions used in different scientific fields; (3) developing a comprehensive set of data analysis techniques arising from different fields but which can be used together to improve our understanding of existing data sets; (4) having theoreticians/computational scientists collaborate closely with empirical ecologists to determine what new data should be collected; (5) improving our knowledge of how to protect and/or restore ecosystems; (6) incorporating socio-economic effects into models of ecosystems; (7) improving our understanding of the role of deterministic and stochastic fluctuations; (8) studying the current state of biodiversity at the functional level, taxa level and genome level., Comment: 22 pages

We prove the existence of at least three weak solutions for the fourth-order problem with indefinite weight involving the Leray-Lions operator with nonstandard growth conditions. The proof of our main result uses variational methods and the critical theorem of Bonanno and Marano (Appl. Anal. 89 (2010), 1-10).

We investigate existence and multiplicity of weak solutions for fourth-order problems involving the Leray-Lions type operators in variable exponent spaces and improve a result of Bonanno and Chinn\`{i} (2011). We use variational methods and apply a multiplicity theorem of Bonanno and Marano (2010).

Complex networks have become the main paradigm for modelling the dynamics of interacting systems. However, networks are intrinsically limited to describing pairwise interactions, whereas real-world systems are often characterized by higher-order interactions involving groups of three or more units. Higher-order structures, such as hypergraphs and simplicial complexes, are therefore a better tool to map the real organization of many social, biological and man-made systems. Here, we highlight recent evidence of collective behaviours induced by higher-order interactions, and we outline three key challenges for the physics of higher-order systems., Comment: pre-peer-reviewed version of the Nature Physics perspective, 7 pages, 4 figures

This article presents a Benchmarking methodology to support decision-making for international market selection (IMS). In order to do so, we will be using an output-oriented Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model. This methodology considers multiple variables validated with a correlation analysis. The methodology is applied to all of the products directly exported from Spain, it takes into consideration different Inputs variables and returns us the efficient and regions generating higher benefits to access international markets with the lowest costs possible., Comment: 6 pages, 1 figure

Mutualistic networks have attracted increasing attention in the ecological literature in the last decades as they play a key role in the maintenance of biodiversity. Here, we develop an analytical framework to study the structural stability of these networks including both mutualistic and competitive interactions. Analytical and numerical analyses show that the structure of the competitive network fundamentally alters the necessary conditions for species coexistence in communities. Using 50 real mutualistic networks, we show that when the relative importance of shared partners is incorporated via weighted competition, the feasibility area in the parameter space is highly correlated with May's stability criteria and can be predicted by a functional relationship between the number of species, the network connectance and the average interaction strength in the community. Our work reopens a decade-long debate about the complexity-stability relationship in ecological communities, and highlights the role of the relative structures of different interaction types., Comment: 33 pages including main text, supplementary material and figures. Submitted for publication

The objective of this paper is to measure the degree of home bias (HB) within holdings portfolio and to identify their determining factors. By following literature and an international capital asset pricing model, we have chosen quite a number of susceptible factors that impact HB. This model is, hence, estimated for 20 countries, with cross-section econometrics, between 2008 and 2013. Our results show that all countries have recorded a high level of HB in their holdings portfolio. After that, we test if the HB of the emerging markets and that of the developed markets react differently to the determining factors. The volatility of the exchange rate is statistically significant with emerging markets, while it is hardly remarkable for the developed countries. Co-variance, size, distance, language, legal framework and foreign organization stocks prevents American investors to invest abroad.