meretoja r. & koponen l. (2011)?A systematic model to compare nurses' optimal and actual competencies in the clinical setting. Journal of Advanced Nursing. ABSTRACT: Aim.? This paper is a report of a study to develop a model to compare nurses' optimal and actual competencies in the clinical setting. ...

Discusses the strategic role of learning in information age organizations; analyzes parallels between the application of technology to business and the application of technology to learning; and proposes a learning architecture that aligns with the knowledge-based view of the firm and optimizes the application of technology to achieve proficiency levels of ...

Small munition effectiveness is a function of miss distance from the target and ability to achieve a steep flight path angle at the target. Many small guided munitions have limited control authority to achieve these competing objectives due to system hard...

Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization Algorithm Nazan Khan, David E. Goldberg & Martin Pelikan Illi-5705 #12; Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization Algorithm Nazan Khan, David E. Goldberg, Martin Pelikan Illinois algorithms has been achieved (Goldberg, 1999). By competent genetic algorithm we mean genetic algo- ...

Millions of Americans are living with, and managing, their chronic health problems. Patient education plays an essential role in promoting safe self-management practice. To ensure that patients attain the required abilities, patient education needs to be competency-based. When developing and applying a competency-based patient education lesson/program, ...

... An Assessment of Competing Facility Location Optimization Parameters: A Case Study of the United States Navy, Morale Welfare and Recreation ...

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The Achieving Competence in Computing, Engineering and Space Science project, or ACCESS, provides summer internships to highly qualified students with ...

The effects of well pattern and well spacing on uranium recovery and oxidant utilization are considered. As expected, formation permeability heterogeneities and anisotropies are found to be important issues requiring careful consideration; however, it also is shown that the oxidant efficiency and the produced uranium solution concentrations are sensitive to the presence of other minerals ...

This paper was written to accompany the author's keynote talk for the Workshop on Computational Science in Software Engineering held in conjunction with International Conference in Computational Science 2006 in Reading, UK. The paper explains how software engineering activities can be viewed as a search for solutions that balance many competing constraints to ...

We consider the question of whether there are any fundamental limits to the maximum time delay that can be achieved for a pulse propagating through a slow-light medium. We include in our analysis what we consider to be the dominant competing effects, and we show that in principle they do not lead to a limitation on the maximum ...

This paper proposes a game theoretical rate control technique for video compression. Using a cooperative gaming approach, which has been utilized in several branches of natural and social sciences because of its enormous potential for solving constrained optimization problems, we propose a dual-level scheme to optimize the perceptual quality while ...

The spread of Quality concepts and process control in industries and services has meant that the educational field has become increasingly affected by the concepts of activities optimization and quality assurance. Teaching is comparable to any other service supplied in terms of program quality, quality control, quality assurance, and quality management. Teaching is a service ...

An investigation of the relationship between communication apprehension (CA) and the attainment of media competencies employs the first null hypothesis that there would be no significant difference in the achievement of media competencies and the second n...

Control in SIT is achieved by the massive release of sterile males which copulate with wild females. Females mated by sterile males produce no offspring and rarely copulate again. For the optimization of SIT sterile males must compete equally with wild males for females. Detailed studies have shown ...

intent. Basis for Achievement, Initiative, Optimism and Courage. 1. Self-control: ability to name. Focus on learning & teaching was to do better so continually work to reaching goals. 5. Initiative (Turknett & Turknett): Accountability Courage Self-confidence Focusing on the Whole #12;COACHING KEYS

The never-ending organizational challenge is to allocate available resources to best achieve its goals. Out of this fundamental question several models have evolved. One is a conceptual model--a way to think about how organizations operate. A second is a statistical model estimating the magnitude of relationships among goals and elements of the organization. This article ...

Artificial metalloenzymes result from the introduction of a catalytically competent non-native metal cofactor within a protein environment. In the present contribution, we summarize the recent achievements in the design and the optimization of such protein-based hybrid catalysts, with an emphasis on enantioselective transformations. ...

The current state of the art for linear optimization in Flux Balance Analysis has been limited to single objective functions. Since mammalian systems perform various functions, a multiobjective approach is needed when seeking optimal flux distributions in these systems. In most of the available multiobjective optimization methods, ...

... optimal conditions for acquiring intercultural competence. ... KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, BEHAVIOR, FEEDBACK, SOCIAL COMMUNICATION. ...

Optimal design problem are widely known by their multiple performance measures that are often competing with each other. In this paper, an optimal multiproduct batch chemical plant design is presented. The design is firstly formulated as a multiobjective optimization problem, to be solved using the well suited non ...

Help young adolescents develop a sense of competence and achievement through positive recognition for their work.

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Biological Sciences is the science core competency area for the Spaceport Technology Center. This has the vision of achieving a better understanding of ...

The growth of silicon macropores under high current densities and high HF concentrations is studied. A new growth mode for porous Si has been found where pores resemble the so-called current line oriented pores previously discovered in InP. For the achievement of that the electrolyte had to be optimized in respect to the oxidation power of the electrolyte ...

The performance of a distributed sensor field that seeks to achieve surveillance coverage against moving targets is tied to many different constraints and competing objectives. Understanding these tradeoffs is paramount if such systems are to be efficiently designed and employed. When physically deploying the sensor field, the placement of sensors in ...

Early warning systems based on standoff detection of biological aerosols require real-time signal processing of a large quantity of high-dimensional data, challenging the systems efficiency in terms of both computational complexity and classification accuracy. Hence, optimal feature selection is essential in forming a stable and efficient classification system. This involves ...

Due to increasing requirements on the accuracy and reproducibility of measurement results together with a rapid development of novel technologies for the execution of measurements, there is a high demand for adequately qualified metrologists. Accordingly, a variety of training offers are provided by machine manufacturers, universities and other institutions. Yet, for an interested learner it is ...

One of the goals of education in Nigeria is to develop in children the ability to adapt to their changing environment. This goal could be achieved through competency in life skills. Therefore, this study examines the competency level of Nigerian Primary 4 pupils in the life skills achievement test. The test was ...

In this paper, we study the optimal bandwidth allocation for scalable video coding (SVC) streaming in multiple overlays. We model the whole bandwidth request and distribution process as a set of decentralized auction games between the competing peers. For the upstream peer, a bandwidth allocation mechanism is introduced to maximize the aggregate revenue. ...

We consider a mixture of two-component Fermi and (one-component) dipolar Bose gases in which both dipolar interaction and s-wave scattering between fermions of opposite spins are tunable. We show that in the long-wavelength limit, the anisotropy in the Fermi-Fermi interaction induced by phonons of the dipolar condensate can strongly enhance the scattering in the triplet channel. We investigate in ...

Therapeutic angiogenesis and myogenesis restore perfusion of ischemic myocardium and improve left ventricular contractility. These therapeutic modalities must be considered as complementary rather than competing to exploit their advantages for optimal beneficial effects. The resistant nature of cardiomyocytes to gene transfection can be overcome by ex vivo ...

The low-temperature Evans-Tishchenko coupling of a range of functionalized heteroaryl aldehydes with ?-hydroxy ketones in the presence of a Sm(III) catalyst has been achieved with high yields (90-99%) and good to excellent diastereoselectivity (90:10 ? 95:5 dr). However, at room temperature a retro-aldol aldol-Tishchenko reaction was found to compete with ...

This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in 2005 and 2008 to evaluate self-reported competency achievement by occupational health nursing program graduates. Twelve competencies were evaluated at three levels: competent, proficient, and expert. In 2005, most graduates believed they were at the proficient ...

There is substantial evidence that Specialist Breast Nurses (SBNs) make an important contribution to improved outcomes for women with breast cancer, by providing information and support and promoting continuity of care. However, a recent study has identified significant variation in how the role functions across individual nurses and settings, which is likely to contribute to varied outcomes for ...

Minimum cost subset selection with two competing agents ... DERIVATIVE-FREE METHODS FOR BOUND CONSTRAINED MIXED-INTEGER OPTIMIZATION ...

Minimum cost subset selection with two competing agents ... DERIVATIVE-FREE METHODS FOR BOUND CONSTRAINED MIXED-INTEGER OPTIMIZATION ...

Much attention has been focused on integrating competency-based curricula into educational programs in health management. Achieving the benefits of competency-based curricula requires substantial effort to identify competencies that are both specific and comprehensive, and that reflect consensus among faculty and ...

A model of honey bee social foraging is introduced to create an algorithm that solves a class of optimal resource allocation problems. We prove that if several such algorithms (�hives�) compete in the same problem domain, the strategy they use is a Nash equilibirium and an evolutionarily stable strategy. Moreover, for a single or multiple hives we ...

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... SENSOR SCHEDULING FOR MULTIPLE HYPOTHESIS TESTING I. Introduction The problem: Often several competing hypotheses exist about the ...

teachers are investigated as key factors influencing student achievement. If the competencies of the next demonstrates both the complexity of mathematics teachers' professional competence and, by implication in Germany. Her area of specialization is the measurement of teacher competencies. Bl�meke is the Na- ...

We examined whether perceived competence moderated the relationships between implicit theories, 2 x 2 achievement goals, and intrinsic motivation for sports and physical activity. We placed 309 university students into high and moderate perceived competence groups. When perceived competence was high, entity beliefs ...

Performance benchmarks are proposed to assist undergraduate psychology programs in defining their missions and goals as well as documenting their effectiveness. Experienced academic program reviewers compared their experiences to formulate a developmental framework of attributes of undergraduate programs focusing on activity in 8 domains: curriculum, assessment issues, student learning outcomes, ...

The Affordable Care Act of 2010 promotes a clinically integrated, systems-based approach to health care. This means coordinating a patient's care over time and across all conditions, diseases, providers, and care settings. The aim is to achieve optimal results in terms of the overall quality of care as well as its efficiency, cost, safety, and timeliness. ...

Oncology nursing is a rapidly evolving specialty with increasing demands upon nurses to respond to the complex needs of cancer patients and their families. Primary nursing (PN) has been the model of care delivery utilized at our cancer centre for more than two decades. The nursing department determined it was time that a review and redefining of the role be undertaken. These objectives were ...

teachers recommended as competent by their principals in two selected high-achieving high schools of India of mathematics teachers recommended as competent by their principals in two selected high-achieving high schools play an important role in teacher's competence in mathematical discourse, ...

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... Abstract : Orthogonal block design, regression analysis, and optimization of spraying variables (ORO) is applied to achieve a quantitative and ...

... Accession Number : ADA540097. Title : Achieving an Optimal Medium Altitude UAV Force Balance in Support of COIN Operations. ...

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Biological Sciences is the KSC science core competency working toward achieving a better understanding of managing closed biological and natural ecological ...

ObjectivesTo define cultural competence.To understand the need for cultural competence.To understand the changing child demographics of the United States.To understand the process of becoming a more culturally competent clinician.To learn tools and techniques that help achieve cultural ...

Teachers rated social competence and academic achievement of Bermudian children exposed to various amounts and qualities of day care. Found that quality of care was important to children's intellectual and social development while in day care but not after one to four years of primary schooling. Family background, not day care, predicted primary school ...

The surface of the sperm cell, after its production in the testis is heterogeneous and subjected to continuous surface remodelling during its voyage through the male and female genital tracts to reach the oocyte. This remodelling will result in a competent sperm that is suitably equipped to bind to the zona pellucida and to follow the processes required for fertilization. ...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the mediating effects of social goals and perceived competence on students' perceptions of motivational climates and dispositional flow in physical education. At the beginning of the physical education unit, 779 students, 12 to 16 years old, were asked to complete four questionnaires: Perceived Motivational Climate in Sport ...

Efficient analytical and computational tools for simultaneous optimal design of the structural and control components of aeroservoelastic systems are presented. The optimization objective is to achieve aircraft performance requirements and sufficient flut...

This article is a literature review that aimed to collect more information about the competencies management, understand the concepts of profile and competencies in the managing people; understand the issue of professional competence and its relationship with the organization's competencies; and finally identify ...

Optimizing resource productivity, operational effectiveness and business profitability. IBM Competing in any business environment means oper- ating efficiently, increasing resource productivity efficiency and asset management. We can help you optimize operations by automating asset management functions

It is shown that in a family of competing experimental designs with unequal block sizes and unequal replications, a design which is completely symmetric is universally optimal. To show this the author used some optimality techniques recently developed by ...

Adaptive management has a long history in the natural resource management literature, but despite this, few practitioners have developed adaptive strategies to conserve threatened species. Active adaptive management provides a framework for valuing learning by measuring the degree to which it improves long-run management outcomes. The challenge of an active adaptive approach is to find the correct ...

Recent efforts to improve medical education include adopting a new framework based on 6 broad competencies defined by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. In this article, the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine Education Redesign Task Force II examines the advantages and challenges of a competency-based educational framework for ...

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In social species animals should fine-tune the expression of their social behavior to social environments in order to avoid the costs of engaging in costly social interactions. Therefore, social competence, defined as the ability of an animal to optimize the expression of its social behavior as a function of the available social information, should be ...

Traditional methods of oocyte selection for in vitro studies have proven inefficient with respect to achieving a level of predictability for competency. In this study, a novel method of oocyte selection was implemented that identified a relationship between oocyte morphological parameters (as defined by a ratio of a shape factor (SF) to average ...

An attachment theory framework is applied toward understanding the emergence of depressive symptomatology and lower perceived competence in maltreated and nonmaltreated children. Confirmed hypotheses that maltreated children with nonoptimal patterns of relatedness show elevated depressive symptomatology and lower competence, whereas nonmaltreated children ...

Competency specification and competency-based education (CBE) are increasingly being viewed as essential for optimizing educational outcomes for the next generation of global health workers. An overview is provided of this movement in graduate health professions education in the United States, the Association of Schools of Public ...

In recent experiments on ultracold matter, molecules have been produced from ultracold atoms by photoassociation, Feshbach resonances, and three-body recombination. The created molecules are translationally cold, but vibrationally highly excited. This will eventually lead them to be lost from the trap due to collisions. We propose shaped laser pulses to transfer these highly excited molecules to ...

Managing, modeling and optimizing refinery steam systems with computers is an area that has achieved a great deal of attention over the last 15 years. The 1993 Hydrocarbon Processing covering advanced control strategies lists seven competing products for utility system monitoring, control and optimization. ...

Children's number competencies over 6 time points, from the beginning of kindergarten to the middle of 1st grade, were examined in relation to their mathematics achievement over 5 later time points, from the end of 1st grade to the end of 3rd grade. The relation between early number competence and mathematics ...

Children�s number competencies over 6 time points, from the beginning of kindergarten to the middle of 1st grade, were examined in relation to their mathematics achievement over 5 later time points, from the end of 1st grade to the end of 3rd grade. The relation between early number competence and mathematics ...

Implantable devices in cardiac electrophysiology have developed from simple machines that prevent bradycardia to complex systems that treat malignant tachyarrhythmias and severe heart failure. Optimal therapeutic utilization of these systems requires profound knowledge of those who treat patients with devices. To account for that, the German Cardiac Society has published ...

ObjectiveTo assess the number of procedures required to achieve optimal competency (time required for surgery with minimal adverse events) in Rakai, Uganda, and thus facilitate the development of guidelines for training providers, as male circumcision reduces the acquisition of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in men and is ...

The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) requires that students demonstrate communication competency. It is up to the institution to demonstrate how these competencies are achieved. Broward Community College (Florida) chose to identify competencies using the National Communication Association (NCA) ...

In cardiopulmonary cerebral resuscitation (CPCR), advanced cardiovascular life support(ACLS) is a part of "chain of survival" and effects on resuscitation outcome as the interventions which increase the likehood of ROSC and as the continuing step to the post -cardiac arrest care. In order to build effective ACLS intervention, quality of basic life support is essential throughout the resuscitation ...

The primary X-ray mirror for the International X-ray Observatory is arguably the most crucial element of the entire mission concept and the optimization of the optics has a profound influence on the science which can be achieved by the mission. The basic specification aims to provide a collecting area of 3 m2 at 1 keV and an angular resolution of 5 arc ...

Resource allocation problems are concerned with the allocation of limited resources among competing agents so as to achieve the best system performances. In systems which serve many users, like in networking, there is a need to respect some fairness rules while looking for the overall efficiency. The so-called Max-Min Fairness is widely used to meet these ...

The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the roles of two moderators--perceived competence and perceived autonomy--in the relationships of achievement goal orientations with a broad range of learning-related variables, including interest, effort, learning strategy use and academic achievement. Perceived ...

The authors developed competency tests to document students' achievement of essential competencies in food and nutrition classes. Procedures included (1) developing the item pool; (2) determining validity and reliability; and (3) field testing. The study confirmed that it is possible to develop multiple-choice test items for essential ...

This article proposes that simulation has potential as a method to validate critical and reflective thinking skills and continued competency of registered nurses. The authors recognize the challenges and benefits for using simulation in assessing competency. Furthermore, the authors stress that the potential use of simulation in ...

This article provides an overview of issues related to the development and evaluation of competency in psychological assessment. Specifically, we delineate the goals, ideas, and directions identified by the psychological assessment work group in the Competencies Conference: Future Directions in Education and Credentialing in Professional Psychology. This ...

The power industry restructuring in various countries in recent years has created an environment where trading of electric energy is conducted in a market environment. In such an environment, electric power companies compete for the market share through spot and bilateral markets. Being profit driven, electric power companies need to make decisions on spot market bidding, ...

Dental pulp is a promising source of mesenchymal stem cells with the potential for cell-mediated therapies and tissue engineering applications. We recently reported that isolation of dental pulp-derived stem cells (DPSC) is feasible for at least 120h after tooth extraction, and that cryopreservation of early passage cultured DPSC leads to high-efficiency recovery post-thaw. This study investigated ...

Stencil-based kernels constitute the core of many important scientific applications on blockstructured grids. Unfortunately, these codes achieve a low fraction of peak performance, due primarily to the disparity between processor and main memory speeds. In this paper, we explore the impact of trends in memory subsystems on a variety of stencil optimization ...

Dental pulp is a promising source of mesenchymal stem cells with the potential for cell-mediated therapies and tissue engineering applications. We recently reported that isolation of dental pulp-derived stem cells (DPSC) is feasible for at least 120 hours after tooth extraction, and that cryopreservation of early-passage cultured DPSC leads to high-efficiency recovery post thaw. This study ...

This paper is about the interaction between policy and practice, and about how competing policies contributed to a paradoxical tension within that interaction in one school. Within a paradigm of educational renewal, the Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE) has initiated a number of policies designed to give schools autonomy in designing and implementing programmes to ...

We use neutron scattering to demonstrate that electron-doped superconducting Pr{sub 0.88}LaCe{sub 0.12}CuO{sub 4-{delta}} in the underdoped regime is electronically phase separated in the ground state, showing the coexistence of a superconducting phase with a three-dimensional antiferromagnetically ordered phase and a quasi-two-dimensional spin-density wave modulation. The Neel temperature of both ...

Mammalian ovaries contain a large number of oocytes at different stages of growth. To utilize potential female gametes, it is important to develop culture systems that permit oocytes to achieve full growth and competence in order to undergo maturation, fertilization and development. The desired culture systems should meet at least the following three ...

Fast deformable registration can potentially facilitate the clinical implementation of adaptive radiation therapy (ART), which allows for daily organ deformations not accounted for in radiotherapy treatment planning, which typically utilizes a static organ model, to be incorporated into the fractionated treatment. Existing deformable registration algorithms typically utilize a specific diffusion ...

We prove mathematically that in order to avoid point-optimization at the sampled design points for multipoint airfoil optimization, the number of design points must be greater than the number of free-design variables. To overcome point-optimization at the...

The Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS), appointed by the Secretary of Labor in February 1990, defined the 'know-how' that American students and workers need for solid job performance. The know-how consists of five competencies, b...

the educational contract and quarterly evaluation and determine grade (Credit/No credit). Course Overview Practice methods allows students to build on foundational knowledge and skills regarding social justice competencies in each objective. Progress in achieving core competencies will be evaluated quarterly

The purpose of this research is to achieve consensus among mid-level Navy Nurse Corps officers about the relevant competencies and important skills, knowledge, and abilities (SKAs) required for mid-level leadership. Using two iterations of the Delphi tech...

The essay proposed a wheel model as a means to conceptualize interpersonal behavior and relationships. The conceptual scheme was developed to explore an individual's interpersonal behavior in order to help him achieve interpersonal competence and self-act...

Usually water resources problems consist of multiple objectives that may be conflicting and competing in nature. To evaluate optimal water resources system performances often it is required to obtain a compromise solution satisfying several goals and objectives. For example, in the case of multipurpose reservoir operations, a number of conflicting and ...

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... an optimization problem for the allocation of transmission time slots to different competing nodes and present a gradient-based algorithm suitable ...

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Providing culturally appropriate care is an essential nursing competency for new graduates. Multiple curricular approaches are being used to achieve this end. When measured by Campinha-Bacote's Inventory for Assessing the Process of Cultural Competency Among Healthcare Professionals-R, graduating students (n = 515) from six different ...

This paper describes a process-oriented approach to culturally competent evaluation, focusing on a case study of an evaluation of an HIV/AIDS educational program in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. We suggest that cultural competency in evaluation is not a function of a static set of prescribed steps but is achieved via ongoing reflection, ...

Despite growing emphases on multicultural competence, Native American youth remain tremendously underserved by schools: low achievement, high dropout rates, and over-identification for special education persist. The authors analyzed responses of 403 school psychologists to a national survey regarding their competence gained in ...

Finding ways to achieve higher values of the transition temperature, T(c), in superconductors remains a great challenge. The superconducting phase is often one of several competing types of electronic order, including antiferromagnetism and charge density waves. An emerging trend documented in heavy-fermion and organic conductors is that the maximum T(c) ...

This work performed a Process Optimization Assessment (POA) on behalf of Fort Leonard Wood, MO and Fort Carson, CO to identify process, energy, and environmental improvements that could significantly improve the installation's mission readiness and compet...

We study optimal birth policies for two age-dependent populations in a competing system, which is controlled by fertilities. New results on problems with free final time and integral phase constraints are presented, and the approximate controllability of system is discussed.

Major cultural differences impeded the smooth transfer of a 14 day management education program, which had been very successfully used in Western settings, to an Asian situation. Thirteen Chinese and two Caucasians, all of whom worked in Southeast Asia and had management degrees, attended the program to improve their skills in influencing those with whom they worked. The Positive Power and ...

Urban bus route network design involves determining a route configuration with a set of transit routes and associated frequencies that achieves the desired objective. This can be formulated as an optimization problem of minimizing the overall cost (both the user`s and the operator`s) incurred. In this paper, the use of genetic algorithms (GAs), a search ...

High-temperature superconductivity is achieved by doping copper oxide insulators with charge carriers. The density of carriers in conducting materials can be determined from measurements of the Hall voltage--the voltage transverse to the flow of the electrical current that is proportional to an applied magnetic field. In common metals, this proportionality (the Hall ...

This is the final report of a three-year, Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) project at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The main objective of this project was to develop a rapid recombinant antibody production technology. To achieve the objective, the authors employed (1) production of recombinant antigens that are important for cell cycle regulation ...

Functional activation of alpha 2A adrenergic receptors in the crude membranes from rat frontal cortex was studied by a [35S]-guanosine 5'-O-(gamma-thiotriphosphate) ([35S]GTP gamma S) binding assay. alpha 2A agonists UK14304 and guanfacine decreased the ability of GDP to compete with [35S]GTP gamma S binding to the membranes and 0.1 mM GDP was found to be ...

Jun 16, 2011 ... All of these must be optimized in order to achieve the full economic potential of POM based delignification. This report will summarize progress ...

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... time detection of a Gaussian signal in colored Gaussian flow noise ... The study describes potential gains achievable with optimal processing over ...

... a fast psuedospectral optimization method, not only are rapid optimal trajectories achievable, but through successive trajectory generations as a ...

An optimal phase demodulation problem is resolved by the numerical synthesis of the optimal nonlinear filter. The synthesis is achieved by representing the relevant conditional density of phase and phase rate by multiple dimensional interpolative splines ...

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High efficiency will be achieved through optimization of system parameters using a validated numerical optimization method, careful selection and ...

... asked to be relieved or feigned injury to achieve ... that joined in the midst of combat were not assisted as readily because veterans had little time to ...

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... a nation-wide consensus for a common core of knowledge and competency in mathematics and science ... in students? mathematics and science knowledge and skills will not be achieved. K-12 mathematics and ...

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This paper explores the nature and development of competence in speech-language pathology and is informed by the development and validation of a competency-based assessment tool to assess Australian speech-language pathology students' professional performance in the workplace (COMPASS�). Background is provided on speech-language pathology ...

Training and competency criteria in cardiac CT were developed to guide practitioners in the process of achieving and maintaining skills in performing and interpreting cardiac CT studies. Appropriate training and eventual certification in cardiac CT angiography may be obtained by adhering to the recommendations for competency as set ...

This study examined the unique longitudinal effects linking academic competence, social competence, and internalizing symptoms from childhood to adulthood. A multimethod and multi-informant approach was used to assess psychopathology and competence in 205 participants during four developmental periods. Social ...

The purpose of this study is to review the main perspectives or issues dealt with in the research on considered to be key competences, in order to develop a fuller understanding of how human competence functions. As a result of this review, two themes considered as having important implications for the actual practices can be identified: that there exists ...

In this paper, a new game theoretic methodology is developed for interbasin water transfer management with regard to economic, equity, and environmental criteria. The main objective is to supply the competing users in a fair way, while the efficiency and environmental sustainability criteria are satisfied and the utilities of water users are incorporated. Firstly, an ...

The success of the sterile insect technique (SIT) and other genetic strategies designed to eliminate large populations of insects relies on the efficient inundative releases of competitive, sterile males into the natural habitat of the target species. As released sterile females do not contribute to the sterility in the field population, systems for the efficient mass production and separation of ...

While Tidd has achieved many of its original performance and test objectives, current emission standards and the projected performance of competing technologies have caused a reassessment of the goals of AEP`s PFBC program, particularly with regard to sulfur removal and sorbent utilization. The original goal of 90 percent sulfur removal at a Ca/S molar ...

ClusterCarbon implantation has been shown to be an effective process for making Si:C stressor layer, particularly due to the self-amorphization feature of cluster implantation. This work is now extended to show that moderate doses of carbon, producing carbon concentrations near the equilibrium solubility, are very effective at producing stress that is stable with respect to thermal treatments ...

Inquiry is seen as an integral part of science education in the USA; however, few American science programs explicitly focus on the higher order thinking skills that are the precursors to inquiry. In this paper, Australian researchers report the result of using a version of the Cognitive Acceleration through Science Education (CASE) program in a school district in Oregon (USA) to address ...

BackgroundThe health care delivery system in the United States is facing cost and quality pressures that will require fundamental changes to remain viable. The optimal structures of the relationships between the hospital, medical school, and physicians have not been determined but are likely to have a large impact on the future of healthcare delivery. Because it is generally ...

Performance level assessment (PLA) is a type of supplementary evidence system for competency-based assessment that is being pilot tested at five technical and further education (TAFE) institutes throughout Queensland, Australia. The PLA system uses the following three levels of performance: competency achieved; ...

The premise of this work is simple: the history of college admission since World War II is a consumer history. The way in which this history unfolds is far more complex. College admission is a contested good. It is simultaneously a consumable good (students purchase a college education for personal and familial reasons) and a social good (various governments and eleemosynary organizations pursue a ...

Purpose: To optimize beam angles and reduce the number of beams used for intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Methods and Materials: An exhaustive search scheme was used to perform beam angle optimization (BAO) for IMRT of NSCLC. This approach involved intercomparison of all possible beam angle combinations ...

A systematic procedure for optimizing homogeneous azeotropic separation sequences has been developed. The procedure uses an explicit design technique which eliminates the need for recycle convergence schemes. The separation of ethanol from water using ethylene glycol as the entrainer is used to illustrate the optimization procedure. Comparisons are made ...

A study is made of an overtaking optimal problem for a population system consisting of two competing species, which is controlled by fertilities. The existence of optimal policy is proved and a maximum principle is carefully derived under less restrictive conditions. Weak and strong turnpike properties of optimal ...

Optimized cellulose membrane structure has been achieved by computer analysis of a statistically designed series of tests. The predicted mean NaCl dialysis time of 54 min, as compared to 185 min for commercial cuprophane is achieved by casting cellulose o...

This paper constructs a local operation and classical communication protocol that achieves the global optimality of conclusive discrimination of any two pure states with arbitrary a priori probability. This can be interpreted that there is no 'nonlocality' in the conclusive discrimination of two multipartite pure states.

The goal of widespread use of solar thermal collectors will only be achieved when they are proven to be economically superior to competing energy sources. Evacuated tubular collectors appear to have the potential to achieve this goal. An advanced evacuate...

In this work a novel plan optimization platform is presented where treatment is delivered efficiently and accurately in a single dynamically modulated arc. Improvements in patient care achieved through image-guided positioning and plan adaptation have resulted in an increase in overall treatment times. Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) has also ...

In this work a novel plan optimization platform is presented where treatment is delivered efficiently and accurately in a single dynamically modulated arc. Improvements in patient care achieved through image-guided positioning and plan adaptation have resulted in an increase in overall treatment times. Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) has also ...

The article examines the effect of two factors on achievement test scores in English as a foreign language for specific purposes in higher education: preexisting linguistic competence and frequency of use of language learner strategies. The rationale for the analysis of language learner strategies as a factor affecting achievement test ...

OPTIMIZATIONS GenPOETScript(roseXform, fname) roseXform: saved ROSE optimization decisions; fname: name of input to achieve portable high performance. We have extended ROSE, a C/C++/Fortran source-to-source optimizing support extra optimizations beyond those available in the ROSE ...

Some of the objectives of modern aircraft development are related to the achievement of reduced fuel

Revisit areas and sites first explored during IGY traverses to observe possible changes. In order to achieve optimal results the scientific efforts along ...

Autonomous vehicles require optimal path planning algorithms to achieve mission goals while avoiding

... �The term �biosurveillance� means the process of active data- gathering � of biosphere data � in order to achieve early ...

... the quality of financial positions based on their ability to achieve desired financial goals. ... Citation: Management Science, to appear. Download: ...

of the principle of as low as reasonably achievable (ALARA) required by federal regulation and normally ignored in mission design studies. ...

... to optimize a specified one of these response surface functions subject to the conditions that the others achieve certain desired activity levels. ...

A technology has been developed to achieve optimal attachment of adhesion-independent lymphocytes to