... Accession Number : ADA198925. Title : Demographic and Regional Determinants of Participation in Specific Exercise Activities. ...

... Accession Number : AD0651098. Title : CONSUMER BEHAVIOR AND WORKER PARTICIPATION IN RECOVERY ACTIVITIES,. ...

... Accession Number : ADA020091. Title : Relation of Airmen Job Attitudes to Participation in Sports and Leisure Activities. ...

... Accession Number : ADA269311. Title : Participation in Armed Forces, National, and International Sports Activities. Descriptive ...

This site is intended to get kids to think about people with disabilities and some of the issues related to participation in daily activities, health, and accessibility.

"The aims of the Game Accessibility project are: -to inform gamers with disabilities about the availability of accessible games -to provide resources for developers, publishers and researchers -to raise awareness of game accessibility -to gain more knowledge on accessible game design The main ...

In this essay, the author traces the rich legislative history associated with access to Reserve component forces, focusing principally on the post-Cold War period. With active participation by various elements of the federal executive and legislative bran...

demonstrate the potential for leadership and intellectual development and are committed to becoming engaged of experiences and activities designed to foster leadership development and personal growth. Access to various a future test date scheduled. Leadership experience through participation in school or community ...

"Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can use the Web. More specifically, Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web, and that they can contribute to the Web. Web accessibility also benefits others, including older people with changing abilities ...

Research on constraints to leisure and recreation participation has focused on various types of activities in which people would like to participate, are currently participating, or have stopped participating. However, little attention has been made to identify constraints associated with art ...

This study investigated the effects of visualization of participation during computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL). It is hypothesized that visualization of participation could contribute to successful CSCL. A CSCL-environment was augmented with the Participation Tool (PT). The PT visualizes how much each group member ...

... Accession Number : AD0705203. Title : OFFENDER PARTICIPATION IN JUVENILE COURT DECISIONS,. Corporate Author ...

... Accession Number : ADA077821. Title : Interviewing by Admissions Participants,. Corporate Author : MILITARY ACADEMY ...

This investigation explored the ways in which English language learners (ELLs) included in an English-dominant, mainstream second-grade classroom gained access to classroom activities and to the language that conveyed them, and the ways in which these students came to participate in the classroom context. These questions were ...

for leadership and intellectual development and are committed to becoming engaged citizens of the university leadership development and personal growth. Access to various support services and other resources a future test date scheduled. Leadership experience through participation in school or community activities

May 27, 2010 ... "The agency's participation in W3C activities such as eGovernment, Linked Open Data and Semantic Web technologies will bring great depth and ...

Take an active role in your professional development by accessing online resources available ... NES extends its reach beyond the classroom and school year by ... Based on levels of participation and implementation, teachers, students, ...

Dec 1, 2005 ... On December 3rd, a customized teacher workshop was presented by ..... Written in Java, MathTrax uses the Java Accessibility Bridge and .... Student recorded their perceptions of the Inspiration Challenge at the moment the timer rang. ..... Participant and feedback data will be collected during its ...

Providing access to information is critical for allowing the public to meaningfully participate in Agency decisions. However, just as important as how much we communicate, is how well we communicate. Through the use of customer satisfaction surveys and public meeting evaluation...

...Controlling the Access to the Fort Lewis Main Cantonment Area and Prohibiting Certain Conduct Upon Fort Lewis Military Reservation § 552...sponsoring the activity, the number of participants, and the...address and local telephone number where the requester or...

The purpose of this study was to examine levels of physical activity engagement, motor competence, and physical fitness as related to child access to physical activity facilities in the home and school environments. The present investigation attempts to further efforts to examine the relationship between physical ...

...4 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false Access to a nonprofit participant's records. 603...Administrative Matters Records Retention and Access Requirements § 603.915 Access to a nonprofit participant's records....

Nursing, gerontology, and information communications technologies are well positioned to influence gerontological health system development by promoting global access to evidence-based best practices that facilitate local access to knowledge. Gerontological nurses, as members of the global community, are encouraged to become partners in promoting ...

Solar Week is a week-long set of games and activities allowing students to interact directly with solar science and solar scientists. Solar Week was developed as a spin-off of the highly successful Yohkoh Public Outreach Project (YPOP). While YPOP provided access to solar images, movies and activities, the main goal of Solar Week was ...

This hands-on activity gives students the opportunity to use skills and concepts developed in a unit on cells with an unknown organism. They are asked to design and complete a controlled experiment which attempts to answer a simple question about the slime mold Physarum. The activity includes background information, preparation time, abstract, materials, ...

The first of these two studies extended preliminary evidence on the use of technology-based programs for enabling students with severe and profound multiple disabilities to choose and access environmental stimuli on their own. Each of the three participants had two microswitches linked to specific sets of stimuli through a computer system. The ...

An ecological approach, emphasizing the importance of understanding multiple contexts for learning, underpins this study of libraries as activity spaces for young children's literacy participation. Five libraries serving a diversity of communities were the subject of ethnographic investigation incorporating participant observation, ...

We replicated and extended previous research on microswitch facilitated choice making by individuals with profound multiple disabilities. Following an assessment of stimulus preferences, we taught 6 adults with profound multiple disabilities to emit 2 different responses to activate highly preferred stimuli. All participants learnt to ...

The two case histories on risk-related information flow illustrate the complexity of the problem and the high level of cooperation between the participants. Unorthodox channels of transfer - CHEMTREX, NUCLEAR NOTEPAD - were developed to satisfy specific needs. As computers are becoming more widely accessible, real-time contact beween ...

Female participation in military deployments and operations has increased significantly over the past decade. With the reduction in gender-specific barriers and the downsizing of military forces, this trend will continue. Both the number of women particip...

Nursing faculty are not only charged with educating students in creative and engaging ways but also expected to participate in service activities that benefit the surrounding community. One such initiative was the creation of a television health education series hosted by nursing faculty. The authors describe the evolution of a partnership between a ...

The accessibility of stored knowledge has been found to decline over time after activation without further stimulation. A special case is goal pursuit; goal-related knowledge remains accessible until goal completion, and then its accessibility declines rapidly. We hypothesized that after goal completion the decline ...

In this article I explore the ethical terrain of experiential learning activities drawing on my experiences leading college students on field trips into criminal justice settings. Though there are numerous educational benefits to adopting experiential learning activities, the rewards must be evaluated in light of the potential harms to nonstudent ...

... Accession Number : ADA461744. Title : Node Activation with Polling Channel Access. Descriptive Note : Conference paper. ...

... Accession Number : ADA463800. Title : Government Access to Phone Calling Activity and Related Records: Legal Authorities. ...

... Accession Number : ADA450736. Title : Government Access to Phone Calling Activity and Related Records: Legal Authorities. ...

From January 1980 through December 1982 the Illinois Valley Library System (IVLS) and 33 of its participating libraries conducted an experimental project to test the costs and benefits of OCLC use in small and medium-sized libraries. A series of 8 reports on the project have been produced, and the tables from the first report, which give descriptive statistics for the project ...

A national scholarship program provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is designed to improve access to and success in higher education for low-income high-achieving minority students by providing them with full tuition scholarships and non-monetary support. We use a regression discontinuity approach to investigate whether the receipt of the scholarship changes the ...

Computers, telephones, and assistive technology hold promise for increasing the independence, productivity, and participation of individuals with disabilities in academic, employment, recreation, and other activities. However, to reach this goal, technology must be accessible to, available to, and usable by everyone. The authors of ...

The accessibility of dogs in urban areas of Kathmandu valley was measured using the following approaches: determination of the proportion of dogs that bore signs of having been the objects of religious worship and other signs of household association, supplemented by information obtained by interviewing people in the neighbourhood; and the vaccination coverage attained in a ...

Minimising discrepancies between Australia's rural and the more favourable urban health status relates to more than workforce recruitment, retention and access to health services: A proactive strategy, using resources at hand, can empower people to improve their health. Academics from a nurse education unit have, therefore, regularly engaged with local communities in various ...

... Accession Number : ADA401556. Title : US Participation in Balkan Peacekeeping: The Rice Proposal. Corporate Author ...

... Accession Number : ADA311575. Title : US Participation In IFOR: A Marathon, Not a Sprint. Descriptive Note : Final rept.,. ...

... Accession Number : ADA174420. Title : The Relationship Between Sports Participation and Managerial Behavior: An Exploratory Study. ...

... Accession Number : ADD324215. Title : THE USA PARTICIPATION ON THE PISC II PROGRAM. Corporate Author : Personal ...

... Accession Number : ADD326938. Title : THE USA PARTICIPATION IN THE PISC II PROGRAM. Corporate Author : Personal ...

... Accession Number : ADA028956. Title : Participation in Source Selection - A Case Study. Descriptive Note : Student study rept.,. ...

... Accession Number : ADA281838. Title : Nuclear Science: Performance of Participants in DOE's Inertial Confinement Fusion Program. ...

... Accession Number : AD0631260. Title : MPL PARTICIPATION IN SEALAB II,. Corporate Author : SCRIPPS INSTITUTION ...

... Accession Number : ADA480075. Title : Guard and Reserve Participation in the Air Mobility System. Roles and Constraints. ...

... Accession Number : AD0280044. Title : DEGREES OF COMPUTER PARTICIPATION IN LINGUISTIC RESEARCH. Descriptive Note : Technical ...

... Accession Number : ADA278109. Title : Civilianization and Health-Welfare Resource Participation on an Army Post. Corporate ...

... Accession Number : ADA431868. Title : Challenges Facing Mongolia's Participation in Coalition Military Operations. Descriptive ...

... Accession Number : ADA535282. Title : Barriers to Greater Participation by Women in Afghan Elections. Descriptive Note : Audit rept. ...

... Accession Number : ADB065028. Title : Analysis of MTMC Participation in the REFORGER 81 Exercise,. Corporate Author ...

... Accession Number : ADB038097. Title : Analysis of MTMC Participation in the REFORGER 79 Exercise. Descriptive Note : Final rept.,. ...

... Accession Number : ADB024755. Title : Analysis of MTMC Participation in the REFORGER 77 Exercise. Descriptive Note : Final rept.,. ...

... Accession Number : ADA089458. Title : An Analysis: US Participation in the OECD Committee on Scientific and Technological Policy (CSTP),. ...

... Accession Number : ADM001215. Title : ACETEF Participation in Joint Advanced Distribution Simulation (JADS) EW (Videotape). ...

We use rich data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey to assess the relationship between mothers' access to social capital via participation in community activities and their children's health. We exploit the advantages of longitudinal data and community fixed effects to mitigate some of the concerns about spuriousness and reverse ...

We use rich data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey to assess the relationship between mothers' access to social capital via participation in community activities and their children's health. We exploit the advantages of longitudinal data and community fixed effects to mitigate some of the concerns about spuriousness and reverse ...

Purpose: Chances for a healthy life are not equally distributed across society. Instead, genetic, social, and environmental factors help determine the probability that a child will be healthy and active. We investigate the probability that youth will be physically active by examining 3 consistent correlates of physical activity. The ...

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This project was designed to improve natural resource decisionmaking by encouraging citizen participation in and citizen access to technical and scientific information. A series of three workshops was held in rural Colorado areas, each of which was experiencing a different type and level of resource development. Case studies of each workshop site provide ...

Two experiments were conducted measuring self-paced reading to study language access and language selection in professional translators and bilinguals when they understood sentences randomly presented in their first language (L1, Spanish) and second language (L2, English). These sentences contained a critical cognate word or a control matched word. The effect of cognate words ...

A primer about student accommodations is presented. An accommodation is an adjustment to an activity or a setting that removes a barrier that is caused by a disability so that the person with the disability can have access equal to that of a person without a disability. An accommodation does not guarantee success or a specific level of performance. ...

Abstract Background Most people with a disability want to remain living in their own home as they age. Without additional support, people with a disability may not be able to avoid moving into residential aged care, attending day programs, or becoming isolated from participation in the wider community. This study examined whether participants perceived ...

This mixed methods study investigated personal, interpersonal and environmental factors salient to decisions about being active in neighborhoods of different levels of deprivation. METHODS: Twenty-five participants aged 70 years and older (10 females) with diverse physical activity levels provided data on their weekly ...

ObjectiveTo institute and evaluate the response to a program providing access to electronic library resources for pharmacy preceptors.DesignThe pharmacy experiential office and the library collaborated using existing programs and technology to provide and market secure remote access for preceptors.AssessmentPreceptor participation was ...

Discusses factors contributing to the nonparticipation of African-American women in outdoor recreation activities including (1) historical oppression and racism; (2) stereotyping by race and gender; (3) lack of role models; (4) insufficient exposure to activity options; (5) limited accessibility to outdoor recreation areas; and (6) ...

EMPOWER is a CD-ROM-based education and support program for adults who are newly diagnosed with cancer. Changes in the healthcare system and greater access to information are compelling a growing segment of patients to participate more actively in their healthcare, and to be increasingly pro-active within medical ...

Scientists are often dismayed at how the public discourse of controversial topics, such as global climate change, is often missing critical science developments. Active and focused scientist participation can help turn this trend around. Researchers who receive public funding for exploration into fundamental science have a wealth of information to share ...

We aimed to explore the interactive effects of the accessibility of information and the degree of carbon footprint score on consumers' value judgments of food products. Participants (n=151, undergraduate students in Japan) rated their maximum willingness to pay (WTP) for four food products varying in information accessibility ...

Carr, S. & Landau, S. (2011). Consciously identified attachment hierarchies: Cognitive accessibility of attachment figure names as a function of threat primes in a lexical decision task. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. Studies have linked the subliminal priming of threat-related words to heightened cognitive accessibility directed towards the names ...

This paper sets out to investigate issues of access to continuous professional development faced by teachers in England. Specifically, the paper attempts to understand the types of CPD activities that are offered to teachers, the types of activities in which teachers participated and whether a disconnect occurs ...

A checklist and instructions are presented for evaluating the level of accessibility to school buildings, grounds, curricula, technology, and extracurricular activities for students with physical (mobility) disabilities. Legislative mandates (including The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) for ...

AbstractObjective: Computer-tailored and Internet-based interventions to promote physical activity behavior have shown some promise, but only few have been tested among African Americans. We examined the feasibility and efficacy of three 1-year, multiple contact physical activity interventions (Tailored Internet, Tailored Print, Standard Internet) in a ...

The relative contribution of walking to overall leisure-time physical activity participation rates was studied among respondents from the 45 states that participated in the 1990 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (n = 81,557). The percentages of low income, unemployed, and obese persons who engaged in leisure-time physical ...

Objective:Previous research suggests that insufficient access to health care may contribute to health disparities in arthritis-related outcomes. The purpose of this article is to document whether racial disparities in health status, health-related quality of life (HRQOL), and activity limitations exist for individuals living with arthritis who have ...

Equipping youth with and without disabilities for the world of work has been the focus of ongoing legislative and policy initiatives. The authors examined the extent to which career development and vocational activities were available to and accessed by youth with severe disabilities or emotional and behavioral disorders attending 34 urban, suburban, and ...

Jun 30, 1998 ... Next: Observations Up: Testing for the learning Previous: Implementation. Student Participation. Through the active participation of the ...

Participate in interest groups preparing for the Forum ... that will be accessible to a broad range of scientists and helpful to science policy makers. ...

... for participation in the Flex Program is the creation of a state rural health plan. The Flex ...

... tool for accessing literature citations and linking to full-text journals at Web sites of participating publishers. Search ...

At the end of any of these training workshops, participants are considered certified to facilitate the program for children, and will receive access to the ...

The School of Nursing, part of the Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences within Kingston University/St George's, University of London, has undertaken a number of initiatives to address the widening participation agenda. The student life-cycle underpins the framework for the university's widening participation strategy and ...

The Mars Public Mapping Project is a web-based education and public outreach tool developed by the Mars Space Flight Facility at Arizona State University. This tool allows the general public to identify and map geologic features on Mars, utilizing Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) visible images, allowing public participation in authentic scientific research. In ...

The Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing during September 4-15, 1995, was a major success. The platform for action adopted by consensus at the conference is comprised of the mission statement, a global framework, critical areas of concern, strategic objectives and actions, and institutional and financial arrangements. The conference was an extension of other large international ...

People with a disability do not have equitable access to the modern telecommunication medium. Many experience difficulty typing, handling the phone, dialing, or answering calls. For those who are unable to speak, the only option is to type messages using whatever functional control site exists on their body. The provision of accessible mobile phones for ...

Two reports of the National Council on Disability (NCD), Livable Communities for Adults with Disabilities and Creating Livable Communities, set forth a livable community framework. These reports propose necessary changes in public policies regarding housing; transportation that is reliable and accessible; environments that are physically accessible, ...

This paper evaluates Beautiful Serbia, an active labor market program operating in Serbia and Montenegro since January 2004, administered and co-financed by the United Nations Development Program. Program participants proceed through two stages: a vocational training stage and a temporary employment stage in private firms contracted for refurbishment ...

BackgroundMany youth today are physically inactive. Recent attention linking the physical or built environment to physical activity in adults suggests an investigation into the relationship between the built environment and physical activity in children could guide appropriate intervention strategies.MethodThirty three quantitative studies that assessed ...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of perceived neighborhood environment on physical activity among schoolchildren in urban and rural areas in Taiwan. Five hundred and twenty three children of grades five and six selected from ten primary schools in urban and rural areas participated in the study. A modified International Physical ...

BackgroundThe amount of medical education offered through the Internet continues to increase, providing unprecedented access for physicians nationwide. However, the process of evaluating these activities is ongoing. This study is a continuation of an earlier report that found online continuing medical education (CME) to be highly effective in making ...

This paper is one of a series being prepared by the Center for Law and Social Policy that is intended to inform the decisions of state legislators, program administrators, service providers, and advocates and to enable policy choices that simultaneously help low income families improve their labor market success and states meet federal participation rates. The paper summarizes ...

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The NERIES project (NEtwork of Research Infrastructures for European Seismology) is an EC-funded Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (I3) under the 6th Framework Programme developed to integrate data and service resources for the seismological community. The NERIES data portal (http://www.seismicportal.eu) provides a single integrated point of access to distributed data sets ...

The USA has undergone extraordinary changes over the past 35 years with respect to women's access to equality in education, employment and participation in political life. This has come about because of the introduction of anti-discrimination legislation and because of the activities of professional organisations in ...

The Genome Consortium for Active Teaching (GCAT) facilitates the use of modern genomics methods in undergraduate education. Initially focused on microarray technology, but with an eye toward diversification, GCAT is a community working to improve the education of tomorrow's life science professionals. GCAT participants have access to ...

The Genome Consortium for Active Teaching (GCAT) facilitates the use of modern genomics methods in undergraduate education. Initially focused on microarray technology, but with an eye toward diversification, GCAT is a community working to improve the education of tomorrow's life science professionals. GCAT participants have access to ...

The Genome Consortium for Active Teaching (GCAT) facilitates the use of modern genomics methods in undergraduate education. Initially focused on microarray technology, but with an eye toward diversification, GCAT is a community working to improve the education of tomorrow's life science professionals. GCAT participants have access to ...

Purpose.?This paper aims to: (1) explore usage and accessibility of sign language interpreters, (2) appraise the levels of quality of life (QOL) of deaf adults residing in New Zealand, and (3) consider the impact of access to and usage of sign language interpreters on QOL. Method.?Sixty-eight deaf adults living in New Zealand ...

This document contains the appendices for the Non-Federal Participation in AC Intertie Final Environmental Impact Statement. It contains all the supporting materials, documents and data for the EIS in nine appendices: A. Life-of-facilities capacity ownership proposal; B. Long-term Intertie access policy; C. Glossary; D. Biological assessment and supporting ...

This lesson allows students to compare and contrast three NASA satellites: The Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE), The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE), and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The lesson includes access to data and images from these three NASA astronomy satellites, contrasting the way the sky appears in three very different electromagnetic wavelengths or ...

Introduction. Interactive electronic games are popular and are believed to contribute to physical activity accrual. The purpose of this study was to examine children's electronic game use during conditions in which they had free access to selecting interactive and seated screen-based versions of electronic games and during the interactive versions had free ...

An Alabama initiative aimed to improve access to oral health care for Medicaid-eligible children through four components: improved Medicaid claims processing, increased reimbursement for providers, outreach and educational activities to support providers, and parent and patient education about children's oral health. In the first 3 program years, ...

At the heart of any promising plan to transform the health care system lie two priorities: broader access to care for patients, and deeper engagement in health care by patients. Although the problem of expanding access to affordable care remains unresolved, new tools for deepening consumers' engagement in health care are proliferating like viral spores in ...

In this paper we explore current access to and barriers to health information for consumers. We discuss how computers and other developments in information technology are ushering in the era of consumer health informatics , and the potential that lies ahead. It is clear that we witness a period in which the public will have unprecedented ability to access ...

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The authors examined the relationship between physical activity, exercise, and sedentary behaviors in 493 college students who were enrolled in 10 conditioning activity classes and had completed questionnaires at the beginning of the course. They analyzed sedentary activities and indicators of participation in ...

BackgroundPopulation-based registries have been promoted as an effective method to improve childhood immunization rates, yet rates of registry participation in the private sector are low. We sought to describe, through a national overview, the perspectives of childhood immunization providers in private practice regarding factors associated with ...

This web site features a lab activity designed by teacher-participants of the 1999 Summer Biology Institute. The activity guides students through the isolation of amoebae from different soil habitats. It can be used to illustrate biodiversity in a microenvironment and can be appropriately taught as a parallel investigation of the ...

As part of the ExploreLearning organization, ExploreMath offers an outstanding collection of interactive activities for students in "elementary algebra through pre-calculus." The online multimedia applications are easy to use and demonstrate almost 40 concepts across twelve general categories. One activity, for example, explains some fundamentals of ...

Questions of participant understanding of the nature of an activity have been addressed in anthropology and sociolinguistics with the concepts of frames and framing. For example, a student may frame a learning activity as an opportunity for sensemaking or as an assignment to fill out a worksheet. The student's understanding of the ...