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Intended for use by teachers on the junior high and high school levels, this curriculum guide, which is one in a series of guides for consumer and homemaking education in Kentucky, outlines three courses in the area of child development. The seventh grade level unit discusses young children, their development, and babysitting for them, including safety practices; the comprehensive I level unit covers the growth and development of young children, the influence of others on them, the importance of play, their daily care and discipline, and community agencies which care for children of working parents; and the comprehensive II level course treats the subjects of reproduction; pregnancy; childbirth; community agencies that provide help during pregnancy, childbirth, and adoption; postnatal care; infant development; and job opportunities in the child development area. For each unit, major concepts are identified as well as behavioral objectives which are stated in terms of student competencies, and the specific teaching strategies are accompanied by references to outside resources (primarily books and pamphlets) and supporting generalizations. Unit 1, which is to be used in the seventh grade, requires two to three weeks for completion while the comprehensive level units need four to six weeks each. A separate publication (CE 017 499) outlines a semester course on the same subject, and the appendix to the entire series (CE 017 496) includes activities for each instructional unit. (ELG)

As the appendix for a series of curriculum guides for consumer and homemaking education on the secondary level in Kentucky, this booklet contains instructional activities for classroom use in conjunction with the units in the comprehensive curriculum guides. Included are games, puzzles, skits, quizzes, survey forms, checklists, and review sheets in the areas of child development, clothing and textiles, food and nutrition, housing, management, and personal and family development. The largest section is devoted to food and nutrition on the comprehensive I and II levels (senior high school). Since the instructional activities for the semester courses in this series are provided in their own curriculum guides, they are not included here. (ELG)

We investigate the value relevance of the financial statement information about convertible financial instruments. Our findings indicate that the classification of convertibles provides incremental information over and above the book value of equity and net income. This finding is not as strong for convertibles that are classified as a form of mezzanine financing between debt and equity as for those classified as debt or equity. We also find that investors make use of information contained in the notes but only with respect to mandatory convertibles and convertibles where the right to make the decision about conversion or redemption rests with the issuer.

Several possible functions have been proposed for antiphonal duetting in birds, including pair-bond maintenance, cooperative territorial defence and acoustic mate guarding. Previous work has suggested that duetting in magpie-larks was consistent with both defence of the territory and guarding the mate against usurpation. We conducted playback experiments designed to distinguish between these two functions. Responses of males and females to simulated intrusion (broadcasts of unfamiliar solo songs) suggested functional differences for solo songs and duets. Both sexes initiated more songs in response to same-sex conspecific song, suggesting that solo songs are used to deter same-sex rivals in the context of territory defence. Contrary to predictions of the mate-guarding and pair-bond maintenance hypotheses, the sex of playback song had no effect on the likelihood of either sex answering their partner's song to form a duet. Thus, duets are most likely to be performed for the purpose of cooperative territorial defence.

4 continuous tone images, Responses to survey mailed by the University of Michigan Alumnae Council to women who had attended the University in the period 1870-1924. The survey included information on activities, memories of faculty and college life, descriptions of influence of University on their lives, occupations, public services, etc., (dlps) 8730.0240.001, (voicesdb) 239, https://www.lib.umich.edu/about-us/policies/copyright-policy

4 continuous tone images, Responses to survey mailed by the University of Michigan Alumnae Council to women who had attended the University in the period 1870-1924. The survey included information on activities, memories of faculty and college life, descriptions of influence of University on their lives, occupations, public services, etc., (dlps) 8730.0239.001, (voicesdb) 238, https://www.lib.umich.edu/about-us/policies/copyright-policy