Clinical practice and the social issues of foster care

Issues of values and commitment to children affect social provisions. A brief review of the historical background of the placement of children suggests that many of the current problems of staffing, funding and legal provisions are perpetuation of neglect of the basic needs of children. this neglect often results in a need for placement that might have been prevented by appropriate preventive supports. Lack of money is not considered the problem. Rather, political issues, values, and little commitment to children determine how the nation allocates its money.Editor of the Child & Adolescent Social Work Journal.     

Pre-War and Post-War Lebanese Immigrants in Melbourne

The following paper forms part of a thesis on the Lebanese community in Melbourne. The Lebanese community in Australia has not been the subject of any systematic study and thus the author attempted to investigate as many facets as possible of the life style of Melbourne's Lebanese immigrants. The purpose of this paper is to examine the causes and characteristics of immigration from Lebanon to Melbourne before and after the Second World War.     

ASYMPTOTIC THEORY FOR PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS: NON-NORMAL CASE1

This paper considers the asymptotic distributions of latent roots and vectors in principal components analysis when the parent population is non-normal. It is shown that sufficient of T. W. Anderson's asymptotic theory in the multivariate normal case carries over for some results to be obtained.     

Solving the two-stage cutting stock problem

This paper describes an important class of cutting stock problems not previously discussed in the literature. The problem is one of determining the patterns to be used in a two-stage cutting process with restrictions imposed on the locations of cuts in the first stage. A particularly difficult version of this problem from the plastic film industry is presented and solved.     

Collection and publication of population census data]

Some characteristics of the 1982 census of China are described. The discussion covers the manual and machine processing of data, how much detailed data will be available, individual and categorized data, and total and desired data. The major categories of data to be made available, including age, sex, fertility, and mortality statistics, are listed. The author notes that the results will be released in three stages, with the final results available by the end of 1984.