Sample records for collection activities existing
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75 FR 31787 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Existing Collection; Emergency Extension
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-06-04
... EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION Agency Information Collection Activities: Existing Collection; Emergency Extension AGENCY: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. ACTION: Notice of... Paperwork Reduction Act, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC or Commission) announces that it...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-10-31
... technological collection techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic... Information Collection Activities: Extension, With Change, of an Existing Information Collection; Comment Request ACTION: 30-Day Notice of Information Collection for Review; File No. 10-002, Electronic Funds...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-03-10
...-0037] Agency Information Collection Activities: Form I-730, Revision of an Existing Information Collection Request; Comment Request ACTION: 60-Day Notice of Information Collection under Review: Form I- 730..., mechanical, or other technological collection techniques, or other forms of information technology, e.g...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-09-27
... Collection Activities: Form N-600; Revision of an Existing Information Collection; Comment Request ACTION: 60-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review; Form N- 600, Application for Certificate of... the applicable component of the Department of Homeland Security sponsoring the collection: Form N-600...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-02-01
... Collection Activities: Form N-648, Revision of an Existing Information Collection Request; Comment Request ACTION: 60-day notice of information collection under review: Form N- 648, Medical Certification for..., and the applicable component of the Department of Homeland Security sponsoring the collection: Form N...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-01-30
... Collection Activities: USCIS Case Status Online; Extension of an Existing Information Collection; Comment Request ACTION: 60-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review: USCIS Case Status Online. The... following information collection request for review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-12-21
... information technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of responses. Overview of This Information... Information Collection Activities: Extension, Without Change, of an Existing Information Collection; Comment Request. ACTION: 60-Day Notice of Information Collection; No form; Emergency Federal Law Enforcement...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-05-28
... Collection Activities: Form N-648, Revision of an Existing Information Collection Request; Comment Request ACTION: 30[dash]Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review: Form N-648, Medical Certification for..., and the applicable component of the Department of Homeland Security sponsoring the collection: Form N...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-07-20
... Collection Activities: Form AR-11, Extension of an Existing Information Collection; Comment Request ACTION: 30-Day Notice of Information Collection under Review: Form AR- 11, Alien's Change of Address Card... collection: Form AR-11. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. (4) Affected public who will be asked or...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-03-14
..., mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g...; or inquiries for additional information should be directed to: John Ramsay, Forms Program Manager, U... Information Collection Activities: Extension, without Change, of an Existing Information Collection; Comment...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-04-19
... Collection Activities: Form N-644; Extension of an Existing Information Collection; Comment Request ACTION: 60-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review: Form N- 644, Application for Posthumous... 60 days until June 20, 2011 this 60-day period, USCIS will be evaluating whether to revise the Form N...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-08-18
...-0057] Agency Information Collection Activities: Form N-600; Extension of an Existing Information Collection; Comment Request ACTION: 60-Day Notice of Information Collection under Review; Form N- 600... be evaluating whether to revise the Form N-600. Should USCIS decide to revise Form N-600 we will...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-08-18
...-0050] Agency Information Collection Activities: Form N-336; Extension of an Existing Information Collection; Comment Request ACTION: 60-Day Notice of Information Collection under Review; Form N- 336..., 2010. During this 60 day period, USCIS will be evaluating whether to revise the Form N-336. Should...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-04-22
... Collection Activities: Form N-644; Extension of an Existing Information Collection; Comment Request ACTION: 60-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review; Form N- 644, Application for Posthumous... until June 21, 2010. During this 60 day period, USCIS will be evaluating whether to revise the Form N...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-12-15
...-0050] Agency Information Collection Activities: Form N-336, Revision to an Existing Information Collection; Comment Request ACTION: 30-Day notice of information collection under review: Form N- 336... announcing the extension of the Form N-336. The 60-day notice announced that during the 60-day comment period...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-02-15
... DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency Information Collection Activities: Extension, Without Change, of an Existing Information Collection; Comment Request ACTION: 60-Day Notice of Information Collection; File No. I-352, Immigration Bond; OMB Control No. 1653-0022. The Department of Homeland...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-04-19
... DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency Information Collection Activities: Extension, Without Change, of an Existing Information Collection; Comment Request ACTION: 30-Day Notice of Information Collection for Review; File No. I- 352, Immigration Bond; OMB Control No. 1653-0022. The Department of...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-05-03
... Collection Activities: Form G-639; Extension of an Existing Information Collection; Comment Request ACTION: 60-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review; Form G- 639, Freedom of Information/Privacy Act... Form G-639. Should USCIS decide to revise Form G-639 we will advise the [[Page 24909
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-08-18
... Collection Activities: Form N-400; Extension of an Existing Information Collection; Comment Request ACTION: 60-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review; Form N- 400, Application for Naturalization... the Form N-400. Should USCIS decide to revise Form N-400 we will advise the public when we publish the...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-08-18
... Collection Activities: Form N-470; Extension of an Existing Information Collection; Comment Request ACTION: 60-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review; Form N- 470, Application To Preserve Residence... evaluating whether to revise the Form N-470. Should USCIS decide to revise Form N-470 we will advise the...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-05-04
... Collection Activities: Form G-639; Extension of an Existing Information Collection; Comment Request ACTION: 60-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review; Form G- 639, Freedom of Information/Privacy Act... until July 6, 2010. During this 60 day period, USCIS will be evaluating whether to revise the Form G-639...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-05-26
... Sentenced Population Movement--National Prisoner Statistics, Extension and Revision of Existing Collection...) Title of the Form/Collection: Summary of Sentenced Population Movement--National Prisoner Statistics (3...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-01-07
... DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE [OMB Number 1121-0094] Agency Information Collection Activities: Existing...: 60-day notice. The Department of Justice (DOJ), Bureau of Justice Statistics, will be submitting the... information, please contact Todd D. Minton, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 810 Seventh Street NW., Washington...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-04-01
... Collection Activities: Form G-28, and Form G- 28I, Revision of an Existing Information Collection; Comment Request ACTION: 60-Day Notice of Information Collection under Review: Form G- 28, Notice of Entry of Appearance as Attorney or Accredited Representative, and Form G-28I, Notice of Entry of Appearance of Foreign...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-08-09
... Activities: Form G-884, Extension of an Existing Information Collection; Comment Request ACTION: 30-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review: Form G- 884, Request for the Return of Original Document(s... information technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of responses. Overview of This Information...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-08-19
...: 60-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review: Form I- 602, Application by Refugee for Waiver...: Extension of an existing information collection. (2) Title of the Form/Collection: Application by Refugee...
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75 FR 39533 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-07-09
... information dissemination activities. The purpose of this submission is to extend the existing generic... Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request In compliance with Section... proposed collections of information, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-05-10
... Collection Activities: Form AR-11 and Form AR- 11SR, Extension of an Existing Information Collection; Comment Request ACTION: 60-Day Notice of Information Collection under Review: Form AR- 11 and Form AR-11SR, Alien... evaluating whether to revise the Form AR-11 and Form AR-11SR (Forms AR-11). Should USCIS decide to revise...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-06-15
... Collection; Comment Requested Deaths in Custody--Series of Collections From State-Level Law Enforcement... collection: Renewal of existing collection. (2) The title of the Form/Collection: Deaths in Custody Reporting... collection: Forms--Death Report on Inmates Under Jail Jurisdiction (CJ-9); Annual Summary on Inmates Under...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-08-20
... Request ACTION: 60-day notice of information collection; I-515A; Notice to Student or Exchange Visitor... other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of responses. Overview of... existing information collection. (2) Title of the form/collection: Notice to Student or Exchange Visitor...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-06-02
...: 30-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review: Form I- 212, Application for Permission to...: Extension of an existing information collection. (2) Title of the Form/Collection: Application for Permission to Reapply for Admission into the United States after Deportation or Removal. (3) Agency form...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-06-10
...] Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Temporary Marketing... existing FDA regulations governing temporary marketing permit applications. DATES: Submit either electronic... appropriate, and other forms of information technology. Temporary Marketing Permit Applications--21 CFR 130.17...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-06-03
... ACTION: 30-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review: Form I- 730, Refugee/Asylee Relative... existing information collection. (2) Title of the Form/Collection: Refugee/Asylee Relative Petition. (3.... Form I- 730 will be used by an asylee or refugee to file on behalf of his or her spouse and/or children...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-03-01
... FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM Agency Information Collection Activities: Announcement of Board Approval... Reserve System heading, the entry for Agency Information Collection Activities: Announcement of Board... information existed on the exposure of the banking system to those firms as this information was obscured by...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-07-28
... nervous system of infected animals. These measures will further strengthen existing safeguards against BSE... DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Food and Drug Administration [Docket No. FDA-2011-N-0510] Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Substances Prohibited...
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76 FR 3649 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Information
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-01-20
... DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Information AGENCY: U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security. ACTION: 30-Day notice and request for comments; Extension of an existing information collection...
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78 FR 26649 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Trusted Traveler Programs
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-05-07
... DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency Information Collection Activities: Trusted Traveler Programs AGENCY: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Department of Homeland Security. ACTION: 60-Day Notice and request for comments; Extension of an existing collection of...
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77 FR 40892 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Crew Member's Declaration
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-07-11
... DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency Information Collection Activities: Crew Member's Declaration AGENCY: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Department of Homeland Security. ACTION: 60-Day Notice and request for comments; Extension of an existing collection of...
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78 FR 70065 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Customs Declaration
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-11-22
... DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency Information Collection Activities: Customs Declaration AGENCY: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Department of Homeland Security ACTION: 60-Day notice and request for comments; Extension of an existing collection of information...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-11-26
... DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION [Docket No.: ED-2012-ICCD-0059] Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; Mathematics and Science Partnerships Program: Annual Performance Report AGENCY: Office of... revision of an existing information collection. DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on...
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78 FR 78986 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-12-27
... information dissemination activities. The purpose of this submission is to extend the existing generic... Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request Periodically, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) will publish a summary of information...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-07-27
... DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR U.S. Geological Survey [USGS-GX12GL00DT70500] Agency Information Collection Activities: National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program (NGGDPP) AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Interior. ACTION: Notice of an extension of an existing information collection...
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78 FR 25760 - Proposed Information Collection; Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Program Grants
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-05-02
...--renovate or redesign existing close-to- home recreation facilities. Innovation--specific activities that... existing programs. Planning--development of a Recovery Action Program plan. The information collection... recreation system goals. Citizen involvement in the development of the Action Plan is required and may...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-11-05
...-Day Notice of Information Collection for Review; File No. OMB-6, Emergency Federal Law Enforcement...) Title of the Form/Collection: Emergency Federal Law Enforcement Assistance. (3) Agency form number, if...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-05-10
... decision making by existing and potential customers and investors, but also to improve public understanding... Activities Division, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Attention: 1557-0182, 400 7th Street SW...
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75 FR 7304 - Agency Information Collection Activity Seeking OMB Approval
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-02-18
..., vol. 74, no. 199, page 53316. FAR Part 157 requires that each person who intends to construct... Landing Area Proposal. Type of Request: Extension without change of a currently approved collection. OMB... existing airspace structure and projected programs of the FAA, and the effects that existing or proposed...
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76 FR 49757 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-08-11
.... SUMMARY: The EIA is soliciting comments on the proposed new Form EIA- 111, ``Quarterly Electricity Imports and Exports Report.'' This new form would supersede the existing Form OE-781R, ``Monthly Electricity... Power Monthly, and Monthly Energy Review. The existing survey of electricity imports and exports (OE...
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30 CFR 585.114 - Paperwork Reduction Act statements-information collection.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR
2013-07-01
...) Subpart J—RUEs for Energy and Marine-Related Activities Using Existing OCS Facilities To enable BOEM to... collection. 585.114 Section 585.114 Mineral Resources BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ALTERNATE USES OF EXISTING FACILITIES ON THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF...
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30 CFR 585.114 - Paperwork Reduction Act statements-information collection.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR
2012-07-01
...) Subpart J—RUEs for Energy and Marine-Related Activities Using Existing OCS Facilities To enable BOEM to... collection. 585.114 Section 585.114 Mineral Resources BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ALTERNATE USES OF EXISTING FACILITIES ON THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF...
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30 CFR 585.114 - Paperwork Reduction Act statements-information collection.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR
2014-07-01
...) Subpart J—RUEs for Energy and Marine-Related Activities Using Existing OCS Facilities To enable BOEM to... collection. 585.114 Section 585.114 Mineral Resources BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ALTERNATE USES OF EXISTING FACILITIES ON THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF...
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75 FR 78978 - Agency Information Collection Activities Under OMB Review
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-12-17
..., processing and maintaining information and disclosing and providing information; adjust the existing ways to... information, processing and maintaining information and disclosing and providing information; adjust the... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Agency Information Collection Activities Under OMB Review...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-01-24
... DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION [Docket No. ED-2012-ICCD-0057] Agency Information Collection Activities.... chapter 3501 et seq.), ED is proposing a revision of an existing information collection. DATES: Interested... the comment period will not be accepted. Written requests for information or comments submitted by...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-09-14
...; Extension of a Currently Approved Collection; Comment Requested; Deaths in Custody--Series of Collections... collection: Renewal of existing collection. (2) The title of the Form/Collection: Deaths in Custody Reporting... collection: Forms--Death Report on Inmates Under Jail Jurisdiction (CJ-9); Annual Summary on Inmates Under...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-11-15
... ACTION: 30-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review: Form I- 526, Immigrant Petition by Alien...: Extension of an existing information collection. (2) Title of the Form/Collection: Immigrant Petition by...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-07-13
... of Information Collection Under Review: Memorandum of Understanding to Participate in the Basic Pilot... Understanding to Participate in the Basic Pilot Employment Eligibility Program; Verify Employment Eligibility...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-11-08
... System Section Agency Information Collection Activities: Existing collection, comments requested the Voluntary Appeal File (VAF) Brochure ACTION: 60-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review. The... Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Section has submitted the following information collection request...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-06-28
... Request ACTION: 60-Day Notice of Information Collection; G-146; Non-Immigrant Check Letter; OMB Control No... collection. (2) Title of the Form/Collection: Non-Immigrant Check Letter. (3) Agency form number, if any, and...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-08-20
... Request ACTION: 60-day notice of information collection; G-146; Non-Immigrant Check Letter; OMB Control No... collection. (2) Title of the Form/Collection: Non-Immigrant Check Letter. (3) Agency form number, if any, and...
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77 FR 69843 - Proposed Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-11-21
... insurance product or annuity concerning its uninsured nature and the existence of the investment risk, if... FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM Proposed Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request AGENCY... institutions (IDIs), savings and loan holding companies (SLHCs) and nongovernmental entities or persons (NGEPs...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-02-07
... Collection Activities: Forms G-325, G-325A, G- 325B, and G-325C; Extension of an Existing Information Collection; Comment Request ACTION: 60-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review; Forms 325, G-325A, G-325B, and G-325C, Biographic Information; OMB Control No. 1615-0008. The Department of Homeland...
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78 FR 41062 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Existing Collection; Emergency Extension
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-07-09
... Information Collection--Emergency Extension without Change: Demographic Information on Applicants for Federal... gathering data on the race, sex and national origin status of applicants. Overview of Information Collection..., national origin, sex and disability status of applicants for both permanent and temporary employment...
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75 FR 9435 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Existing collection, Comments Requested
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-03-02
... collection for renewal. Three Fingerprint Cards: Arrest and Institution; Applicant; Personal Identification...-0046. (2) The title of the form/collection: Three Fingerprint Cards: Arrest and Institution; Applicant... Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) of the FBI. (5) An estimate of the total...
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77 FR 73038 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Application for Allowance in Duties
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-12-07
... DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency Information Collection Activities: Application for Allowance in Duties AGENCY: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Department of Homeland Security. ACTION: 60-day notice and request for comments; Extension of an existing...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-03-07
... tip messages to Facebook or Twitter using their personal social media account. Through leveraging the user's existing social network, the user is more likely to experience positive feedback and encouragement in achieving their dietary and/or physical activity goals. Social media functionality is provided...
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78 FR 76851 - Agency Information Collection Activities: BP Regulations Pertaining to Customs Brokers
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-12-19
... DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency Information Collection Activities: BP Regulations Pertaining to Customs Brokers AGENCY: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Department of Homeland Security. ACTION: 60-day notice and request for comments; extension of an existing...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-01-29
... Activities; Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP for Miscellaneous Organic Chemical Manufacturing (Renewal) AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: In... review and approval. This is a request to renew an existing approved collection. The ICR which is...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-06-27
... Customer Satisfaction Surveys (Headstone/Marker)) Activity Under OMB Review AGENCY: National Cemetery... Customer Satisfaction Surveys. OMB Control Number: 2900-0571. Type of Review: Revision of a currently... they want and their level of satisfaction with existing service. VA will use the data collected to...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-04-23
... collection: Extension of the time frame required to complete approved and ongoing methodological research on... methodological research on the National Crime Victimization Survey. (2) Title of the Form/Collection: National.... This generic clearance will cover methodological research that will use existing or new sampled...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-12-15
... of information collection under review; Form G- 646, Sworn Statement of Refugee Applying for... the Form/Collection: Sworn Statement of Refugee Applying for Admission to the United States. (3... the applicants to the United States as refugees. (5) An estimate of the total number of respondents...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-03-07
... collection techniques or the use of other forms of information technology; and (e) the annual cost burden to... DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency Information Collection... existing collection of information. SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and...
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76 FR 3628 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Existing Collection; Emergency Extension
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-01-20
... Collection; Emergency Extension AGENCY: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. ACTION: Notice of Information Collection--Emergency Extension Without Change: Local Union Report (EEO-3). SUMMARY: In accordance... Division, 131 M Street, NE., Room 4SW30F, Washington, DC 20507; (202) 663-4958 (voice) or (202) 663-7063...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-08-20
... Request ACTION: 60-day notice of information collection; 10-002; Electronic Funds Transfer Waiver Request... appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms of.... (2) Title of the Form/Collection: Electronic Funds Transfer Waiver Request. (3) Agency form number...
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Robbins, Lisa L.; Wynn, Jonathan; Knorr, Paul O.; Onac, Bogdan; Lisle, John T.; McMullen, Katherine Y.; Yates, Kimberly K.; Byrne, Robert H.; Liu, Xuewu
2014-01-01
During the cruise, underway continuous and discrete water samples were collected, and discrete water samples were collected at stations to document the carbonate chemistry of the Arctic waters and quantify the saturation state of seawater with respect to calcium carbonate. These data are critical for providing baseline information in areas where no data have existed prior and will also be used to test existing models and predict future trends.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-12-23
... concluded that two existing applications of the Gun Control Act (GCA) by ATF impose restrictions upon the... Collection The form is used to determine the eligibility, under the Gun Control Act, of a person to receive a...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-06-02
... their most serious offense domestic violence, sex offense, other violent offense, property offense, drug... the U.S. Congress, Executive Office of the President, practitioners, researchers, students, the media...
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77 FR 23264 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-04-18
... the existing home health prospective payment system. The study team's analytic plan focuses on... populations that cannot be learned through analyses of administrative data. Form Number: CMS-10429 (OCN: 0938...
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75 FR 63179 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Existing Collection; Emergency Extension
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-10-14
... reports as the Commission prescribes by regulation or order. Accordingly, the EEOC issued regulations... accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC or Commission... (TTY). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EEOC has collected information from certain private employers on...
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75 FR 6391 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Existing Collection; Emergency Extension
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-02-09
... Commission prescribes by regulation or order. Accordingly, the EEOC issued regulations prescribing the EEO-1... accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC or Commission... (202) 663-7063 (TTY). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EEOC has collected information from certain...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-03-13
...-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review: Form I- 829, Petition by Entrepreneur to Remove... existing information collection. (2) Title of the Form/Collection: Petition by Entrepreneur to Remove... households. This form is used by a conditional resident alien entrepreneur who obtained such status through a...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-11-30
... ACTION: 60-Day notice of information collection under review: Form I- 829, Petition by Entrepreneur to... existing information collection. (2) Title of the Form/Collection: Petition by Entrepreneur to Remove... households. This form is used by a conditional resident alien entrepreneur who obtained such status through a...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-06-07
... ACTION: 60-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review: Form I- 829, Petition by Entrepreneur to...: Extension of an existing information collection. (2) Title of the Form/Collection: Petition by Entrepreneur...: Individuals and households. This form is used by a conditional resident alien entrepreneur who obtained such...
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76 FR 8774 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Existing Collection; Comments Requested
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-02-15
... revision of a Currently Approved Collection; Survey of Sexual Violence. The Department of Justice (DOJ.... (2) Title of the Form/Collection: Survey of Sexual Violence. (3) Agency form number, if any, and the.... The data will be used to develop estimates for the incidence and prevalence of sexual assault within...
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78 FR 74142 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-12-10
... dedicated to the IDSM. Still other warrantors have created posters to alert consumers to the existence of.... The graphic design work entails creating pamphlets, brochures, posters, or other materials aimed at...
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78 FR 77139 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Small Vessel Reporting System
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-12-20
... DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency Information Collection... Security. ACTION: 30-Day notice and request for comments; Extension of an existing information collection: 1651-0137. SUMMARY: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) of the Department of Homeland Security...
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75 FR 40829 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Existing Collection; Emergency Extension
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-07-14
... produce reports from the data. The EEOC issued regulations requiring referral local unions with 100 or... with the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC or Commission... (TTY). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EEOC has collected information from local unions on the EEO-3...
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75 FR 6392 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Existing Collection; Emergency Extension
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-02-09
... produce reports from the data. The EEOC issued regulations requiring referral local unions with 100 or... with the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC or Commission... (TTY). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EEOC has collected information from local unions on the EEO-3...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-02-06
... COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION [OMB Control Number 3038-0007] Agency Information Collection... Trading Commission. ACTION: Extension of an Existing Collection, correction. SUMMARY: This document... Ryne Miller, Division of Market Oversight, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, 1155 21st Street...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-02-25
...: 30-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review: Form I- 290B, Notice of Appeal to the Office of Administrative Appeals (AAO); OMB Control No. 1615-0095. The Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship... submission of responses. Overview of this information collection: (1) Type of Information Collection...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-09-30
...: 60-Day notice of information collection under review; Form I- 130, Petition for Alien Relative; OMB... collection. (2) Title of the form/collection: Petition for Alien Relative. (3) Agency form number, if any... citizens or lawful permanent residents of the United States to petition on behalf of certain alien...
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78 FR 9391 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-02-08
... extend the existing PRA clearance for the information collection requirements associated with the... burden of the FCLCA and Rule based on its knowledge of, and information from, the eye care industry... party prescriber. No substantive provisions in the Rule have been amended or changed since staff's prior...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-09-21
... forms of information technology; and (e) the annual cost burden to respondents or record keepers from... DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency Information Collection... of an existing collection of information. SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort to reduce...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-02-22
... ACTION: 30-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review. The Department of Justice (DOJ) FBI... Information Services (CJIS) Division of the FBI, Department of Justice (DOJ). (4) Affected Public who will be... the Voluntary Appeal File (VAF) of the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division's...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-04-14
...-training institution, to include approved private elementary and secondary schools and public secondary..., mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g... directs the Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Education...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-01-13
... are required to comply with the affirmative action provisions of the Vietnam Era Veterans... Training Service. ACTION: 60-Day Notice of Information Collection for Review; Federal Contractor Veterans...''), 38 U.S.C. 4212(d), requires Federal contractors and subcontractors subject to the Act's affirmative...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-08-26
.... ACTION: 60-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review: OMB 25, Special Immigrant Visas for Fourth.../Collection: Special Immigrant Visas for Fourth Preference Employment-Based Broadcasters. (3) Agency form... preference Employment-based immigrant broadcasters. (5) An estimate of the total number of respondents and...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-06-06
...; Integrated Public Alert and Warning Systems (IPAWS) Inventory AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency... proposed revision of the information collection concerning public alert and warning systems at the Federal... evaluation and assessment of existing public alert and warning resources and their integration with the...
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75 FR 63179 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Existing Collection; Emergency Extension
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-10-14
... EEOC issued regulations requiring referral local unions with 100 or more members to submit EEO-3... with the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC or Commission...). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EEOC has collected information from local unions on the EEO-3 form since 1966...
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75 FR 18833 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Existing Collection; Emergency Extension
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-04-13
... EEOC issued regulations requiring referral local unions with 100 or more members to submit EEO-3... with the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC or Commission...). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EEOC has collected information from local unions on the EEO-3 form since 1966...
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77 FR 69660 - Data Collection Available for Public Comments and Recommendations
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-11-20
... research firm to conduct quantitative data analysis of existing and available data to sketch the current... on a new information collection activity that is part of an ongoing research program. DATES: Submit... the collections to Emily Bruno, Director of Research and Policy, National Women's Business Council...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-01-11
... Collection, Comments Requested: The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Point-of-Contact... Background Check System (NICS) Point-of-Contact (POC) State Final Determination Electronic Submission. (3... required to respond, as well as a brief abstract: Primary: Full Point-of-Contact (POC) States; Partial POC...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-07-29
... Request. ACTION: 30-Day Notice of Information Collection; 73-028; ICE Mutual Agreement between Government... technological collection techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic... program. The information provided by the company plays a vital role in determining that company's...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-03-15
... DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency Information Collection... Protection, Department of Homeland Security. ACTION: 30-Day notice and request for comments; Extension of an existing information collection: 1651-0061. SUMMARY: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) of the...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-05-07
... DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency Information Collection... Protection, Department of Homeland Security. ACTION: 30-Day notice and request for comments; Extension of an existing information collection. SUMMARY: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) of the Department of...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-02-21
... DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY U.S. Customs And Border Protection Agency Information Collection.... Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security. ACTION: 30-Day notice and request for comments; Extension of an existing information collection. SUMMARY: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-03-19
... DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Agency Information... Immigration Services (USCIS) will be submitting the following information collection request for review and... Security sponsoring the collection: Form I-589; U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). (4...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-05-10
... DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Agency Information... Immigration Services (USCIS) has submitted the following information collection request for review and... sponsoring the collection: Form I-687; U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). (4) Affected public...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-11-19
... Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) of the FBI. (5) An estimate of the total... approximately 74,793 agencies as respondents at 10 minutes per fingerprint card completed. (6) An estimate of...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-04-14
... burden and associated response time should be directed to the Office of the Chief Financial Officer/OAA... Chief Financial Officer/OAA/Records Branch, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 500 12th Street...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-08-17
... time spent in prison and jail, and prior felony convictions Total sentence length imposed Additional... military service, date and type of last discharge BJS uses the information gathered in NCRP in published...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-10-31
... Request ACTION: 30-Day Notice of Information Collection for Review; File No. G- 146, Non-Immigrant...: Non-Immigrant Checkout Letter. (3) Agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of the...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-09-27
... respond, as well as a brief abstract: Primary: Business or other for-profit. Other: Federal Government... existence of the firearm. (5) An estimate of the total number of respondents and the amount of time...
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Global data collection and the surveillance of active volcanoes
Ward, P.L.
1990-01-01
Data relay systems on existing earth-orbiting satellites provide an inexpensive way to collect environmental data from numerous remote sites around the world. This technology could be used effectively for fundamental monitoring of most of the world's active volcanoes. Such global monitoring would focus attention on the most dangerous volcanoes that are likely to significantly impact the geosphere and the biosphere. ?? 1990.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-03-09
... of information collection under review; Form G- 646, Sworn Statement of Refugee Applying for...: Sworn Statement of Refugee Applying for Admission to the United States. (3) Agency form number, if any... States as refugees. (5) An estimate of the total number of respondents and the amount of time estimated...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-11-28
...: 30-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review; Form I- 602, Application by Refugee for Waiver...) Title of the Form/Collection: Application by Refugee for Waiver of Grounds of Excludability. (3) Agency... Application by Refugee for Waiver of Grounds of Excludability, Form I- 602, is necessary to establish...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-02-07
...: 60-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review: Form I- 290B, Notice of Appeal or Motion...., permitting electronic submission of responses. Overview of this information collection: (1) Type of...: Notice of Appeal or Motion. (3) Agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of the...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-06-18
... Management and Budget (OMB) on or before July 18, 2013. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Hinch at the... level in two States. Information on attitudes, awareness, knowledge, and self-reported behavior would be collected. The findings from the proposed information collection would build on existing knowledge and...
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76 FR 17152 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-03-28
... Department sponsoring the collection: Forms: CJ-7 Annual Parole Survey; CJ-8 Annual Probation Survey; and CJ... for which a central reporting authority does not exist. For the CJ-7 form, the affected public...; and one local authority) responsible for keeping records on parolees. For the CJ-8 form, the affected...
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76 FR 5800 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-02-02
....regulations.gov Web site is an ``anonymous access'' system, which means EPA will not know your identity or... renew an existing approved Information Collection Request (ICR) 2258.02-- Implementation of the 1997 and...-566-1741 Mail: Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2007-0265, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-01-27
...-Day Notice of Information Collection for Review; File No. OMB-6, Emergency Federal Law Enforcement... Federal Law Enforcement Assistance. (3) Agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of the... Federal Register on November 5, 2010, Vol. 75 No. 214, 68371 allowing for a 60 day comment period. No...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-12-28
...-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review: Form I- 131, Application for Travel Document. The... burden and associated response time should be directed to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS... estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the methodology...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-09-28
... Jackson at the above address, or at (303) 445-2712. You may also view the Information Collection Request...- 477). In addition, collected information will permit relevant program assessments of resources managed... enables Reclamation to (1) evaluate the effectiveness of program management based on existing recreation...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-03-05
... Notice of Information Collection Under Review: Form I- 212, Application for Permission to Reapply for... the Form/Collection: Application for Permission to Reapply for Admission into the United States after...: Individuals or households. The information provided on Form I-212 is used to adjudicate applications filed by...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-03-08
... ACTION: 30-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review: Form I- 829, Petition by Entrepreneur to... the Form/Collection: Petition by Entrepreneur to Remove Conditions. (3) Agency form number, if any... conditional resident alien entrepreneur who obtained such status through a qualifying investment, to apply to...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-06-15
... Entrepreneur to Remove Conditions. On June 7, 2012, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship... information collection. (2) Title of the Form/Collection: Petition by Entrepreneur to Remove Conditions. (3.... This form is used by a conditional resident alien entrepreneur who obtained such status through a...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-04-25
...) State Plan Guide AGENCY: Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE), Department of Education (ED... et seq.), ED is proposing an extension of an existing information collection. DATES: Interested... interested in public comment addressing the following issues: (1) Is this collection necessary to the proper...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-07-02
...) State Plan Guide AGENCY: Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE), Department of Education (ED... et seq.), ED is proposing an extension of an existing information collection. DATES: Interested... interested in public comment addressing the following issues: (1) Is this collection necessary to the proper...
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76 FR 4347 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Existing Collection; Emergency Extension
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-01-25
... records, and to produce reports as the Commission prescribes by regulation or order. Accordingly, the EEOC... Commission (EEOC or Commission) announces that it submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a... 20507; (202) 663-4958 (voice) or (202) 663-7063 (TTY). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EEOC has collected...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-06-09
... Services (USCIS) has submitted the following information collection request to the Office of Management and... Homeland Security (DHS), and to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) USCIS Desk Officer. Comments may... citizen of the United States. This collection is also used to satisfy documentary requirements for those...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-03-31
... DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency... and Local Agency Assessment; OMB Control No. 1653-0040. The Department of Homeland Security, U.S... Security sponsoring the collection: Form 70-003, Form 70-004, Form 75-001 and Form 75-002; U.S. Immigration...
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78 FR 15712 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-03-12
... Request. SUMMARY: The EIA has submitted the Financial Reporting EIA-28 Survey package to the Office of... Financial Reporting System, Form EIA-28 collects data used to analyze the energy industry's competitive.... This is a request to conduct a comprehensive voluntary evaluation of an existing data collection to...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-06-15
... counts per inmate for a maximum of three convicted offenses per inmate Prior time spent in prison and... parole discharge or parole office FBI identification number Prior military service, date and type of last...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-08-24
... and number of counts per inmate for a maximum of three convicted offenses per inmate Prior time spent... military service, date and type of last discharge BJS uses the information gathered in NCRP in published...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-12-14
... the collection of information through http://www.Regulations.gov or to VA's OMB Desk Officer, OMB... and existence of any dependent child(ren). The information is used by VA to determine eligibility and...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-08-28
... the collection of information through www.Regulations.gov , or to Office of Information and Regulatory... information to confirm marital status and existence of any dependent child(ren). The information is used by VA...
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77 FR 35396 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-06-13
... on transitional care, including needs assessment, discharge planning, post-discharge intervention... test modifications to address the particular circumstances related to Medicaid readmissions and safety... and test existing strategies to reduce avoidable readmissions for their adequacy and applicability to...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-07-26
... asked or required to respond, as well as a brief abstract: Primary: Business or other for-profit. Other... registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record as proof of the lawful existence of the...
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76 FR 11513 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Existing Collection; Comments Requested
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-03-02
... Justice (DOJ), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS... Information Services Division, National Instant Criminal Background Check System Section, Module A-3, 1000... Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-12-14
... notified via email and/or text message on their cell phone that their application or petition has been accepted, they are requested to provide their email address and/or cell phone number on Form G-1145, and...
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76 FR 70456 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-11-14
... in developing mechanisms for reviewing and disseminating Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) and... through its Effective Healthcare Program (EHCP). CER directly compares the benefits, potential risks, and... augment AHRQ's existing CER dissemination efforts performed by the Eisenberg Center and other initiatives...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-10-16
... DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Federal Bureau of Investigation [OMB Number 1110-0026] Agency Information.... The Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Criminal Justice Information..., Management and Program Analyst, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-10-15
... DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Federal Bureau of Investigation [OMB Number 1110-0026] Agency Information.... The Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Criminal Justice Information..., Management and Program Analyst, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-10-14
... planning to submit a request to renew one existing approved Information Collection Requests (ICRs) to the... planning to submit a request to revise ICR 1684.16, which is scheduled to expire on July 31, 2012. Before... to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted by...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-08-26
...: 60-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review; Form I- 130, Petition for Alien Relative; OMB... the Form/Collection: Petition for Alien Relative. (3) Agency form number, if any, and the applicable... the United States to petition on behalf of certain alien relatives who wish to immigrate to the United...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-06-06
... Request ACTION: 30-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review; No Form, Emergency Federal Law... Form/Collection: Emergency Federal Law Enforcement Assistance. (3) Agency form number, if any, and the... published in the Federal Register on December 21, 2011, Vol. 76 No. 245, pg 79204, allowing for a 60-day...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-09-08
... Collection; Comment Request ACTION: 60-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review; Form I- 914 and Supplements A and B, Application for T Nonimmigrant Status; Application for Immediate Family Member of T-1... from the public and affected agencies. Comments are encouraged and will be accepted for sixty days...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-04-20
..., Genealogy Index Search Request and Genealogy Records Request. The Department of Homeland Security, U.S... existing information collection. (2) Title of the Form/Collection: Genealogy Index Search Request and... response to genealogy index search and records requests. (5) An estimate of the total number of respondents...
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Extending the role of a healthcare digital library environment to support orthopaedic research.
Miles-Board, Timothy; Carr, Leslie; Wills, Gary; Power, Guillermo; Bailey, Christopher; Hall, Wendy; Stenning, Matthew; Grange, Simon
2006-06-01
A digital archive, together with its users and its contents, does not exist in isolation; there is a cycle of activities which provides the context for the archive's existence. In arguing for the broadening of the traditional view of digital libraries as merely collections towards the processes of collecting and deploying, we have developed an extend ed digital library environment for orthopaedic surgeons which bridges the gap between the undertaking of experimental work and the dissemination of its results through electronic publication.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-06-28
... Other Solid Waste Incineration Units (Renewal) AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION...: Emission Guidelines for Existing Other Solid Waste Incineration Units (Renewal). ICR Numbers: EPA ICR... disclose the information. Respondents/Affected Entities: Owners or operators of other existing solid waste...
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75 FR 1410 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Existing Collection; Comments Requested
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-01-11
... DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Bureau of Justice Statistics [OMB Number 1121-0094] Agency Information... of Justice (DOJ), Bureau of Justice Statistics, will be submitting the following information... contact Todd D. Minton, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 810 Seventh Street, NW., Washington, DC 20531 (phone...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-05-11
... (DOJ), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division's... Information Services (CJIS) Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Justice (DOJ... Investigation (FBI) Criminal Justice Information Services Division's National Instant Criminal Background Check...
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78 FR 18676 - Information Collection Activities; Rail Depreciation Studies
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-03-27
... Management and Budget, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Attention: Patrick Fuchs, Surface.... Type of Review: Collection in existence without a Control Number. Respondents: Class I railroads... other depreciable property. Total Annual Hour Burden: 3,605 hours (515 hours x 7 Class I railroads...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-04-18
...; Comment Request; IEPS International Resource Information System (IRIS) AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary... System (IRIS). OMB Control Number: 1840-0759. Type of Review: a revision of an existing information... reporting system, International Resource Information System (IRIS) that IFLE uses to collect annual...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-03-08
... Collection; Comment Request; Marianas Trench Marine National Monument Knowledge and Attitudes Survey AGENCY... questions on awareness, knowledge, and attitudes regarding the Monument, preferences for management and... activities. Additional questions include experiences with and attitudes toward existing uses of coastal and...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-09-16
... DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Federal Bureau of Investigation [OMB Number 1110-0046] Agency Information... Palm Print ACTION: 60-day Notice. The Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI..., Supervisory Management and Program Analyst, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Justice Information...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-11-06
... (FBI), Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division's NICS Section will be submitting the... Program Analyst, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Justice Information Services Division, National... Information Services (CJIS) Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Justice (DOJ...
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75 FR 69672 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-11-15
... exists, the minimum content for an application, and reporting requirements for recipients of such funding... types of substance abuse and mental health emergency response grants: Immediate awards and Intermediate... assessment, other data and related budgetary detail. The Intermediate awards have no predefined budget limit...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-04-09
...; Comment Request; Streamlined Clearance Process for Discretionary Grants AGENCY: Department of Education... also helps the public understand the Department's information collection requirements and provide the... for Discretionary Grants OMB Control Number: 1894-0001 Type of Review: An extension of an existing...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-09-28
...; Federal Emergency Management Agency Individual Assistance Customer Satisfaction Surveys AGENCY: Federal... Agency Individual Assistance Customer Satisfaction Surveys. Type of Information Collection: Revision of a... quality of services customers want and their level of satisfaction with existing services. FEMA Managers...
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77 FR 21980 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Existing Collection; Reinstatement
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-04-12
... regulation or order. Accordingly, the EEOC issued regulations prescribing the reporting requirements for... accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC or Commission... and secondary public school systems and districts have been required to submit EEO-5 reports to EEOC...
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75 FR 70927 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-11-19
... DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services [Document... Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan; Use: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is... law establishes a ``temporary high risk health insurance pool program'' (which has been named the Pre...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-12-19
... Reimbursement, Forms FNS-806-A and FNS-806-B, respectively, are used to collect meal and milk data from school... order to determine the amount of reimbursement for meals and milk served, the school food authorities... based on performance that is measured as an assigned rate per meal or half pint of milk served. To...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-04-02
...In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that EPA is planning to submit a request to renew an existing approved Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). This request is to renew an ICR that will expire on July 31, 2010.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-03-05
...: 30[dash]Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review; Form I-929, Petition for Qualifying Family... 24, 2009, at 74 FR 61360, allowing for a 60-day public comment period. USCIS did not receive any comments for this information collection. The purpose of this notice is to allow an additional 30 days for...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-03-23
... impact of its actions on the environment, look at potential alternatives to that action, inform both decision-makers and the public of those impacts through a transparent process, and pursue mitigation if... and existing laws and regulations related to environment and historic preservation. Compliance under...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-03-18
... decision making by existing and potential customers and investors, but also to improve public understanding... Comptroller of the Currency, Public Information Room, Mailstop 2-3, Attention: 1557-0182, 250 E Street, SW... information. Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit. Burden Estimates: Estimated Number of...
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76 FR 11277 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Extension of a Currently Approved Collection
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-03-01
...- Annual Progress Report for Grantees From the Grants To Support Tribal Domestic Violence and Sexual...-Annual Progress Report for Grantees from the Grants to Support Tribal Domestic Violence and Sexual... development and operation of new or existing nonprofit tribal domestic violence and sexual assault coalitions...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-02-16
... DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Agency Information... Naturalization. The Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will be... and associated response time should be directed to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), USCIS...
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75 FR 12566 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Existing Collection; Comments Requested
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-03-16
...: the number of inmate deaths while confined and the number of deaths attributed to suicide and the number of confined inmates that attempted suicide; (f) At midyear, the total rated capacity of jail... obtain community mental health services, etc.); (e) Types of specific suicide prevention procedures (e.g...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-09-21
... for Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators (Renewal) AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [EPA-HQ-OECA-2011-0272; FRL-9522-7] Agency Information Collection... of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. This is a request to renew an existing...
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77 FR 20613 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection, Comment Request
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-04-05
... registered entity that it is staying the certification because there exist novel or complex issues that... final rulemaking on ``Provisions Common to Registered Entities'' under which the Commission would... (77 FR 8817). In the Commission's final rulemaking on provisions common to registered entities,\\3\\ the...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-01-20
... Transactions--12 CFR parts 12 and 151.'' DATES: You should submit comments by March 20, 2012. ADDRESSES... Transactions--12 CFR parts 12 and 151. OMB Number: 1557-0142. Description: This submission covers an existing... securities through these financial institutions. The transaction confirmation information provides customers...
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75 FR 38114 - [Docket ID FEMA-2010-0008
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-07-01
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2010-06-30
... measures, collects data on overall project performance related to the Bureau's strategic goals, objectives, outcomes, and indicators. Progress will be measured based on the objectives of the grant project, and... health professions and nursing education and training programs. The reporting system measures the grantee...
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2013-05-29
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75 FR 18832 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Existing Collection; Emergency Extension
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-04-13
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75 FR 63180 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Existing Collection; Emergency Extension
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-10-14
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77 FR 39238 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Existing Collection; Emergency Extension
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-07-02
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75 FR 63180 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Existing Collection; Emergency Extension
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-10-14
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75 FR 6391 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Existing Collection; Emergency Extension
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-02-09
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-06-17
... to EEOC, comments may be submitted to EEOC electronically on the Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov . After accessing this web site, follow its instructions for submitting comments. All comments received will be posted without change to http://www.regulations.gov , including any...
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75 FR 6392 - Ageny Information Collection Activities: Existing Collection; Emergency Extension
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-02-09
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75 FR 40828 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Existing Collection; Emergency Extension
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2010-07-14
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2011-11-22
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2012-12-18
... Office of Management and Budget, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Attention Department of... 3,000 enrollments per year. The average response time for reading the directions for the Federal... = 100 hours. The entire process of reading the letter and completing both forms would take 15 minutes...
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2012-05-10
... DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Agency Information... Disability Exceptions. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services... Security sponsoring the collection: Form N-648. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). (4...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-12-27
...In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that an Information Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. This is a request to renew an existing approved collection. The ICR, which is abstracted below, describes the nature of the information collection and its estimated burden and cost.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-04-01
...In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that an Information Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. This is a request to renew an existing approved collection. The ICR which is abstracted below describes the nature of the collection and the estimated burden and cost.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-05-08
...In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that an Information Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. This is a request to renew an existing approved collection. The ICR which is abstracted below describes the nature of the collection and the estimated burden and cost.
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2012-04-17
...In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that an Information Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. This is a request to renew an existing approved collection. The ICR which is abstracted below describes the nature of the collection and the estimated burden and cost.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-01-02
...In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that an Information Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. This is a request to renew an existing approved collection. The ICR which is abstracted below describes the nature of the collection and the estimated burden and cost.
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2010-08-11
...In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that an Information Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. This is a request to renew an existing approved collection. The ICR which is abstracted below describes the nature of the collection and the estimated burden and cost.
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2010-07-15
...In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that an Information Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. This is a request to renew an existing approved collection. The ICR which is abstracted below describes the nature of the collection and the estimated burden and cost.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-06-24
...In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that an Information Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. This is a request to renew an existing approved collection. The ICR which is abstracted below describes the nature of the collection and the estimated burden and cost.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-09-25
... reference existing standard operating procedures (SOPs) or other documents. The draft guidance specifies that a monitoring plan may reference existing policies and procedures in order to minimize the burden... risk device studies are already required under Sec. 812.25(e) to submit and maintain written procedures...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-05-13
... Rule), 16 CFR part 315. The document contained an incorrect OMB Control No. for the pre-existing..., Attorney, Division of Advertising Practices, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission, 600... comment while seeking OMB approval to renew the pre-existing clearance for the Rule (OMB Control No. 3084...
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Second-Order Active NLO Chromophores for DNA Based Electro-Optics Materials
2010-09-21
REPORT DOCUMENTATION PAGE Form Approved OMB No. 0704-0188 Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour...per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources , gathering and maintaining the data needed, and...completing and reviewing the collection of information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information
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Transitions between homogeneous phases of polar active liquids
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Dauchot, Olivier; Nguyen Thu Lam, Khanh Dang; Schindler, Michael; EC2M Team; PCT Team
2015-03-01
Polar active liquids, composed of aligning self-propelled particle exhibit large scale collective motion. Simulations of Vicsek-like models of constant-speed point particles, aligning with their neighbors in the presence of noise, have revealed the existence of a transition towards a true long range order polar-motion phase. Generically, the homogenous polar state is unstable; non-linear propagative structures develop; and the transition is discontinuous. The long range dynamics of these systems has been successfully captured using various scheme of kinetic theories. However the complexity of the dynamics close to the transition has somewhat hindered more basics questions. Is there a simple way to predict the existence and the order of a transition to collective motion for a given microscopic dynamics? What would be the physically meaningful and relevant quantity to answer this question? Here, we tackle these questions, restricting ourselves to the study of the homogeneous phases of polar active liquids in the low density limit and obtain a very intuitive understanding of the conditions which particle interaction must satisfy to induce a transition towards collective motion.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-12-23
...In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that an Information Collection Request (ICR) has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. This is a request to renew an existing approved collection. The ICR, which is abstracted below, describes the nature of the information collection and its estimated burden and cost.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-02-27
... decision making by existing and potential customers and investors, but also to improve public understanding... Currency, Attention: 1557-0182, 400 7th Street SW., Suite 3E-218, Mail Stop 9W- 11, Washington, DC 20219... information. Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit. Burden Estimates: Estimated Number of...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-03-27
... Request ACTION: 60-Day Notice of Information Collection for Review; File No. 70-009, 287(g) Candidate Questionnaire; OMB Control No. 1653-0047. The Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs... Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Scott Elmore, Forms Manager, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-02-08
...-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review: Form I- 129, Petition for Nonimmigrant Worker; OMB Control Number 1615-0009. The Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services... by e-mail please add the OMB Control Number 1615-0009 in the subject box. Written comments and...
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78 FR 73211 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-12-05
... to request the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB's) approval for renewal of an existing...? The public may examine and have copied, for a fee, publicly available documents, including the draft supporting statement, at the NRC's Public Document Room, Room O-1F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville...
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76 FR 9375 - Proposed Extension of Existing Information Collection; Sealing of Abandoned Areas
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-02-17
... prevent potentially explosive or toxic gases from migrating into the active working areas of underground... behind the seal must be monitored to prevent methane from reaching the explosive range. Miners rely on... used; Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and Minimize the...
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2012-05-01
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2011-03-16
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2010-11-10
... necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency's, including whether the information... Status--For Academic and Language Students/ICE Form I- 20 (Students). 90,000 Certificate of 0.5 Eligibility for Nonimmigrant (M-1) Student Status--For Academic and Language Students/ICE Form I- 20 (Spouse...
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76 FR 3628 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Existing Collection; Emergency Extension
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-01-20
... records, and to produce reports as the Commission prescribes by regulation or order. Accordingly, the EEOC... Commission (EEOC or Commission) announces that it submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a... secondary public school systems and districts have been required to submit EEO-5 reports to EEOC since 1974...
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2013-08-14
... International Resource Information System (IRIS) AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE), Department of... Resource Information System (IRIS). OMB Control Number: 1840-0759. Type of Review: Revision of an existing... Information System (IRIS) that IFLE uses to collect annual performance reports from Title VI and Fulbright...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-05-16
... entity in the private sector to participate in the program and the information obtained from the company... Request ACTION: 60-Day Notice of Information Collection; 73-028; ICE Mutual Agreement between Government... other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of responses. Overview of...
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77 FR 4854 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Request and Comment Request
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-01-31
... spousal applicant if the applicant claims a common-law marriage to the insured in a state in which such marriages are recognized, and no formal marriage documentation exists. SSA uses information we collect on... common-law marriage under state law. The respondents are applicants for spouse's Social Security benefits...
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Data standards for clinical research data collection forms: current status and challenges.
Richesson, Rachel L; Nadkarni, Prakash
2011-05-01
Case report forms (CRFs) are used for structured-data collection in clinical research studies. Existing CRF-related standards encompass structural features of forms and data items, content standards, and specifications for using terminologies. This paper reviews existing standards and discusses their current limitations. Because clinical research is highly protocol-specific, forms-development processes are more easily standardized than is CRF content. Tools that support retrieval and reuse of existing items will enable standards adoption in clinical research applications. Such tools will depend upon formal relationships between items and terminological standards. Future standards adoption will depend upon standardized approaches for bridging generic structural standards and domain-specific content standards. Clinical research informatics can help define tools requirements in terms of workflow support for research activities, reconcile the perspectives of varied clinical research stakeholders, and coordinate standards efforts toward interoperability across healthcare and research data collection.
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Analyzing the posting behaviors in news forums with incremental inter-event time
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Sun, Zhi; Peng, Qinke; Lv, Jia; Zhong, Tao
2017-08-01
Online human behaviors are widely discussed in various fields. Three key factors, named priority, interest and memory are found crucial in human behaviors. Existing research mainly focuses on the identified and active users. However, the anonymous users and the inactive ones exist widely in news forums, whose behaviors do not receive enough attention. They cannot offer abundant postings like the others. It requires us to study posting behaviors of all the users including anonymous ones, identified ones, active ones and inactive ones in news forums only at the collective level. In this paper, the memory effects of the posting behaviors in news forums are investigated at the collective level. On the basis of the incremental inter-event time, a new model is proposed to describe the posting behaviors at the collective level. The results on twelve actual news events demonstrate the good performance of our model to describe the posting behaviors at the collective level in news forums. In addition, we find the symmetric incremental inter-event time distribution and the similar posting patterns in different durations.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-08-18
...In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that EPA is planning to submit a request to renew an existing Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). This ICR is scheduled to expire on December 31, 2011. Before submitting the ICR to OMB for review and approval, EPA is soliciting comments on specific aspects of the proposed information collection as described below.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-02-16
...In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that EPA is planning to submit a request to renew an existing approved Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). This ICR is scheduled to expire on April 30, 2012. Before submitting the ICR to OMB for review and approval, EPA is soliciting comments on specific aspects of the proposed information collection as described below.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-03-11
...The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (the PRA), Federal agencies are required to publish notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information, including each proposed extension of an existing collection of information, and to allow 60 days for public comment in response to the notice. This notice solicits comments on the estimated reporting and recordkeeping burden associated with the Mammography Quality Standards Act requirements.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-11-21
... order form a decision as to whether or not a condition of ``decline or fail'' exists at the State and... cases where State and local governments have declined or failed to prepare emergency plans. To implement... procedures for a licensee submission of a certification of ``decline or fail'', and for FEMA determination...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-04-14
... should be directed to: Office of the Chief Financial Officer/OAA/Records Branch, U.S. Immigration and... the estimated public burden and associated response time should be directed to the Office of the Chief Financial Officer/OAA/Records Branch, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 500 12th Street, SW., STOP...
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75 FR 40830 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Existing Collection; Emergency Extension
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-07-14
.... Form Number: Standard Form 100. Abstract: Section 709(c) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964... provide information about the employment status of minorities and women. The data is shared with the... Federal agencies. Pursuant to Sec. 709(d) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, EEO-1...
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2013-05-30
... Request ACTION: 30-Day notice of information collection for review; File No. 70-009, 287(g) Candidate Questionnaire; OMB Control No. 1653-0047. The Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs... Budget. Comments should be addressed to the OMB Desk Officer for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-06-30
...-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review: Form I- 129, Petition for Nonimmigrant Worker; OMB Control Number 1615-0009. The Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services... submitting comments by e-mail please make sure to add OMB Control Number 1615-0009 in the subject box...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-05-03
...: 30-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review: Form I- 929, Petition for Qualifying Family... on February 24, 2011, at 76 FR 10387, allowing for a 60-day public comment period. USCIS did not... 30 days for public comments. Comments are encouraged and will be accepted until June 2, 2011. This...
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2011-02-24
...: 60-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review; Form I- 929, Petition for Qualifying Family... will be accepted for sixty days until April 25, 2011. Written comments and/or suggestions regarding the...: Petition for Qualifying Family Member of a U-1 Nonimmigrant. (3) Agency form number, if any, and the...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-05-22
... >200 meters but Reserve Audit = $18,750 right to audit (1 audit every 6 years) after production starts... profit share specified in OCS oil and gas leases to promote increased production. The DWRRA also... West longitude. Section 302 of the DWRRA provides that new production from a lease in existence on...
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77 FR 69664 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-11-20
...) If it will apply to existing plants, new plants, or both; (2) the estimated number of licensed facilities planning to use the approved TR; (3) any specific operating or new plant type that indicated intent to include the safety evaluation in licensing actions if the TR is approved by the staff; and (4...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-03-15
... the month of June), the number of inmates confined in jail facilities including; male and female adult... including; male and female adult and juvenile inmates; persons under age 18 held as adults; convicted and unconvicted males and females; persons held for a felony, misdemeanor; their most serious offense (e.g...
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76 FR 14073 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Existing Collection; Comments Requested
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-03-15
... year, one year or less; and unsentenced inmates; (b) The number of inmates housed in privately operated... average respondent to respond to both forms: 51 respondents each taking an average 6.5 total hours to respond to the NPS-1B. Burden hours are down by 76 hours since the last clearance because we are...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-06-22
... Activities; Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Aerospace Manufacturing and Rework...: Entities potentially affected by this action are owners or operators of existing aerospace manufacturing... Manufacturing. 336414 Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing. 336415 Guided Missile and Space Vehicle...
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TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DATA COLLECTION AND DATA VISUALIZATION
Major routes of human impact on the Great Lakes are through localized input by rivers, embayment/harbor development, or shore line activities. Stress is expected to be greatest around the origin of activity and to dissipate with distance. A need exists for assessment strategies o...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-03-19
... Activities; Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Solid Waste Disposal Facility.... For further information about the electronic docket, go to www.regulations.gov . Title: Solid Waste... include owners or operators of new municipal solid waste landfills (MSWLFs), existing MSWLFs, and lateral...
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2010-01-21
... Customer Satisfaction Surveys (Headstone/Marker)) Activity Under OMB Review AGENCY: National Cemetery... Clearance for NCA, and IG Customer Satisfaction Surveys. OMB Control Number: 2900-0571. Type of Review... kind and quality of services they want and their level of satisfaction with existing service. VA will...
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78 FR 56693 - Agency Information Collection Activities OMB Responses
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-09-13
... filed comment on 08/ 13/2013. Withdrawn and Continue EPA ICR Number 1696.07; Fuels and Fuel Additives: Health-Effects Research Requirements for Manufacturers; Withdrawn from OMB and Continue existing...
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78 FR 78329 - Information Collection Activity; Comment Request
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-12-26
... America is adequately protected, electric borrowers conduct a Vulnerability and Risk Assessment (VRA) of... vulnerabilities, if present, to review existing mitigation procedures and to assist in the development of new and...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-04-26
...The OCC, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to comment on a continuing information collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), Federal agencies are required to publish notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information, including each proposed extension of an existing collection of information and to allow 60 days for public comment in response to the notice. In accordance with the requirements of the PRA, the OCC may not conduct or sponsor, and the respondent is not required to respond to, an information collection unless it displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control number. The OCC is soliciting comment concerning renewal of its information collection titled, ``Interagency Guidance on Asset Securitization Activities.''
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2013-11-22
... disclosures \\7\\...... 1,988,244 5 minutes 165,687 Term account renewal notices \\8\\ 7,112,023 1 minute 118,534... after the collection has concluded the approval process. 12. Burden estimate: \\1\\ \\1\\ In the absence of... existing accountholders \\3\\...... 95,032,999 1.5 minutes 2,375,825 Initial training and education of staff...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-07-10
...In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), this document announces that EPA is planning to submit a request to renew an existing approved Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). This ICR is scheduled to expire on November 30, 2012. Before submitting the ICR to OMB for review and approval, EPA is soliciting comments on specific aspects of the proposed information collection as described below.
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2011-03-22
... Activities: Record of Vessel Foreign Repair or Equipment Purchase AGENCY: U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security. ACTION: 30-Day notice and request for comments; Extension of an existing... Act: Record of Vessel Foreign Repair or Equipment Purchase (CBP Form 226). This is a proposed...
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2012-10-22
... Activities; Submission to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; TSCA Section 5(a)(2) Significant New Use Rules for Existing Chemicals AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice... (OMB) for review and approval. The ICR, which is abstracted below, describes the nature of the...
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2012-07-27
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-10-19
... diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs). All TSEs affect the central nervous system of infected animals. These measures will further strengthen existing safeguards against BSE. In...
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75 FR 63476 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Request for OMB Review; Comment Request
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-10-15
..., Investigator, Division of Marketing Practices, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission, Room H... new warranties and changes to existing warranties comply with the Rule--requires a mix of legal...
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77 FR 46752 - Agency Information Collection Activities OMB Responses
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-08-06
... Pollution Contingency Plan (NCP)(Renewal); Withdrawn from OMB on 07/19/ 2012 while existing approved... change. EPA ICR Number 2310.02; RCRA Definition of Solid Waste (Renewal); 40 CFR parts 260 and 261; was...
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Hernandes, Camila; Taleb-Contini, Silvia H; Bartolomeu, Ana Carolina D; Bertoni, Bianca W; França, Suzelei C; Pereira, Ana Maria S
2014-09-01
Reports on the chemical and pharmacological profile of the essential oil of Schinus weinmannifolius do not exist, although other Schinus species have been widely investigated for their biological activities. This work aimed to evaluate the chemical composition and antimicrobial activity of the essential oil of S. weinmannifolius collected in the spring and winter. The essential oils were extracted by hydrodistillation, analyzed by GC/MS and submitted to microdilution tests, to determine the minimum inhibitory concentration. The oils displayed different chemical composition and antimicrobial action. Bicyclogermacrene and limonene predominated in the oils extracted in the winter and spring, respectively, whereas only the latter oil exhibited antifungal activity.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2013-02-28
...The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the Agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (the PRA), Federal Agencies are required to publish notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information, including each proposed extension of an existing collection of information, and to allow 60 days for public comment in response to the notice. This notice solicits comments on the estimated reporting, recordkeeping, and third-party disclosure burden associated with the Mammography Quality Standards Act requirements.
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ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Allen, Rodney F., Ed.
This booklet is a collection of energy activities to be infused into existing science and social studies courses at the seventh and ninth grade levels. The activities were written for students at different levels of problem solving ability, emphasizing the learning and use of knowledge about energy. By using energy knowledge in these…
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78 FR 44931 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Manduca, C. A.
2017-12-01
To develop a diverse geoscience workforce, the EarthConnections collective impact alliance is developing regionally focused, Earth education pathways. These pathways support and guide students from engagement in relevant, Earth-related science at an early age through the many steps and transitions to geoscience-related careers. Rooted in existing regional activities, pathways are developed using a process that engages regional stakeholders and community members with EarthConnections partners. Together they connect, sequence, and create multiple learning opportunities that link geoscience education and community service to address one or more local geoscience issues. Three initial pilots are demonstrating different starting points and strategies for creating pathways that serve community needs while supporting geoscience education. The San Bernardino pilot is leveraging existing academic relationships and programs; the Atlanta pilot is building into existing community activities; and the Oklahoma Tribal Nations pilot is co-constructing a pathway focus and approach. The project is using pathway mapping and a collective impact framework to support and monitor progress. The goal is to develop processes and activities that can help other communities develop similar community-based geoscience pathways. By intertwining Earth education with local community service we aspire to increase the resilience of communities in the face of environmental hazards and limited Earth resources.
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Norris, J. Michael; Hren, Janet; Myers, Donna N.; Chaney, Thomas H.; Childress, Carolyn J. Oblinger
1990-01-01
During the past several years, a growing number of questions have been raised by members of Congress and others about the status of current waterquality conditions in the Nation, trends in water quality, and the major factors that affect water-quality conditions and trends. One area of particular interest and concern has been the suitability of existing water-quality data for addressing these types of questions at regional and national scales. In response to these questions and concerns, the U.S. Geological Survey began a pilot study in Colorado and Ohio to (1) determine the characteristics of current water-quality data-collection activities of Federal, State, regional, and local agencies and universities; and (2) determine how well the data from these activities, collected for various purposes and using different procedures, can be used to improve our ability to address the aforementioned questions.Colorado and Ohio were chosen for the pilot study because they represent regions with different types of water-quality issues and programs. The results of the study are specific to the two States and are not intended to be extrapolated to other States.The study was divided into three phases whose objectives were:Phase I Identify and inventory 1984 water-quality data-collection programs, including costs, in Colorado and Ohio, and identify those programs that meet a set of broad criteria for producing data that potentially are appropriate for water-quality assessments of regional and national scope. Phase II Evaluate the quality assurance of field and laboratory procedures used to produce the data from programs that met the broad criteria of Phase I. Phase III Compile the qualifying data from Phase II and evaluate the extent to which the resulting data base can be used to address selected water-quality questions for the two States.This report presents the results of Phase III, focusing on (1) the number of measurements made at each data-collection site for selected constituents, (2) the areal distribution of those sites that have sufficient data for selected types of analyses, and (3) the availability of key ancillary information such as streamflow to address broad-scope questions such as:What are existing water-quality conditions?Has the water quality changed? andHow do existing water-quality conditions and changes in these conditions relate to natural factors and human-induced activities?
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Relationship of plasma nonesterified fatty acids and walking activity in postpartum dairy cows.
Adewuyi, A A; Roelofs, J B; Gruys, E; Toussaint, M J M; van Eerdenburg, F J C M
2006-08-01
To survive and produce milk, postpartum dairy cows use their reserves through lipolysis. If the negative energy balance is severe, nonesterified fatty acids (NEFA) are formed that can impair several physiological processes. A pilot study suggested that increased walking activity after calving may be related to a reduced serum concentration of NEFA. The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between plasma concentrations of NEFA and walking activity in dairy cattle during the postpartum period. Data were collected from 33 multiparous Holstein-Friesian dairy cows. Walking activities were quantified using pedometry, and blood samples were collected for determination of NEFA. Results of this study indicated that a negative relationship existed between walking activity and plasma NEFA concentrations in postpartum dairy cows.
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Wang, Jue; Kwan, Mei-Po; Chai, Yanwei
2018-04-09
Scholars in the fields of health geography, urban planning, and transportation studies have long attempted to understand the relationships among human movement, environmental context, and accessibility. One fundamental question for this research area is how to measure individual activity space, which is an indicator of where and how people have contact with their social and physical environments. Conventionally, standard deviational ellipses, road network buffers, minimum convex polygons, and kernel density surfaces have been used to represent people's activity space, but they all have shortcomings. Inconsistent findings of the effects of environmental exposures on health behaviors/outcomes suggest that the reliability of existing studies may be affected by the uncertain geographic context problem (UGCoP). This paper proposes the context-based crystal-growth activity space as an innovative method for generating individual activity space based on both GPS trajectories and the environmental context. This method not only considers people's actual daily activity patterns based on GPS tracks but also takes into account the environmental context which either constrains or encourages people's daily activity. Using GPS trajectory data collected in Chicago, the results indicate that the proposed new method generates more reasonable activity space when compared to other existing methods. This can help mitigate the UGCoP in environmental health studies.
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Chai, Yanwei
2018-01-01
Scholars in the fields of health geography, urban planning, and transportation studies have long attempted to understand the relationships among human movement, environmental context, and accessibility. One fundamental question for this research area is how to measure individual activity space, which is an indicator of where and how people have contact with their social and physical environments. Conventionally, standard deviational ellipses, road network buffers, minimum convex polygons, and kernel density surfaces have been used to represent people’s activity space, but they all have shortcomings. Inconsistent findings of the effects of environmental exposures on health behaviors/outcomes suggest that the reliability of existing studies may be affected by the uncertain geographic context problem (UGCoP). This paper proposes the context-based crystal-growth activity space as an innovative method for generating individual activity space based on both GPS trajectories and the environmental context. This method not only considers people’s actual daily activity patterns based on GPS tracks but also takes into account the environmental context which either constrains or encourages people’s daily activity. Using GPS trajectory data collected in Chicago, the results indicate that the proposed new method generates more reasonable activity space when compared to other existing methods. This can help mitigate the UGCoP in environmental health studies. PMID:29642530
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Pentecost, Claire; Farrand, Paul; Greaves, Colin J; Taylor, Rod S; Warren, Fiona C; Hillsdon, Melvyn; Green, Colin; Welsman, Jo R; Rayson, Kat; Evans, Philip H; Taylor, Adrian H
2015-08-20
Depression is associated with physical inactivity, which may mediate the relationship between depression and a range of chronic physical health conditions. However, few interventions have combined a psychological intervention for depression with behaviour change techniques, such as behavioural activation (BA), to promote increased physical activity. To determine procedural and clinical uncertainties to inform a definitive randomised controlled trial (RCT), a pilot parallel-group RCT was undertaken within two Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services in South West England. We aimed to recruit 80 adults with depression and randomise them to a supported, written self-help programme based on either BA or BA plus physical activity promotion (BAcPAc). Data were collected at baseline and 4 months post-randomisation to evaluate trial retention, intervention uptake and variance in outcomes to inform a sample size calculation. Qualitative data were collected from participants and psychological wellbeing practitioners (PWPs) to assess the acceptability and feasibility of the trial methods and the intervention. Routine data were collected to evaluate resource use and cost. Sixty people with depression were recruited, and a 73 % follow-up rate was achieved. Accelerometer physical activity data were collected for 64 % of those followed. Twenty participants (33 %) attended at least one treatment appointment. Interview data were analysed for 15 participants and 9 study PWPs. The study highlighted the challenges of conducting an RCT within existing IAPT services with high staff turnover and absences, participant scheduling issues, PWP and participant preferences for cognitive focussed treatment, and deviations from BA delivery protocols. The BAcPAc intervention was generally acceptable to patients and PWPs. Although recruitment procedures and data collection were challenging, participants generally engaged with the BAcPAc self-help booklets and reported willingness to increase their physical activity. A number of feasibility issues were identified, in particular the under-use of BA as a treatment for depression, the difficulty that PWPs had in adapting their existing procedures for study purposes and the instability of the IAPT PWP workforce. These problems would need to be better understood and resolved before proceeding to a full-scale RCT. ISRCTN74390532 . Registered on 26 March 2013.
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Borchert, Jeff N; Eisen, Rebecca J; Holmes, Jennifer L; Atiku, Linda A; Mpanga, Joseph T; Brown, Heidi E; Graham, Christine B; Babi, Nackson; Montenieri, John A; Enscore, Russell E; Gage, Kenneth L
2012-01-01
Quantifying the abundance of host-seeking fleas is critical for assessing risk of human exposure to flea-borne disease agents, including Yersinia pestis, the etiological agent of plague. Yet, reliable measures of the efficacy of existing host-seeking flea collection methods are lacking. In this study, we compare the efficacy of passive and active methods for the collection of host-seeking fleas in both the laboratory and human habitations in a plague-endemic region of northwest Uganda. In the laboratory, lighted "Kilonzo" flea traps modified with either blinking lights, the creation of shadows or the generation of carbon dioxide were less efficient at collecting Xenopsylla cheopis Rothchild and Ctenocephalides felis Bouché fleas than an active collection method using white cotton socks or cotton flannel. Passive collection using Kilonzo light traps in the laboratory collected significantly more X. cheopis than C. felis and active collection, using white socks and flannel, collected significantly more C. felis than X. cheopis. In field studies conducted in Uganda, Kilonzo traps using a flashlight were similar in their collection efficacy to Kilonzo traps using kerosene lamps. However, in contrast to laboratory studies, Kilonzo flea traps using flashlights collected a greater number of fleas than swabbing. Within human habitations in Uganda, Kilonzo traps were especially useful for collecting C. felis, the dominant species found in human habitations in this area.
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Beukelman, Timothy; Anink, Janneke; Berntson, Lillemor; Duffy, Ciaran; Ellis, Justine A; Glerup, Mia; Guzman, Jaime; Horneff, Gerd; Kearsley-Fleet, Lianne; Klein, Ariane; Klotsche, Jens; Magnusson, Bo; Minden, Kirsten; Munro, Jane E; Niewerth, Martina; Nordal, Ellen; Ruperto, Nicolino; Santos, Maria Jose; Schanberg, Laura E; Thomson, Wendy; van Suijlekom-Smit, Lisette; Wulffraat, Nico; Hyrich, Kimme
2017-04-19
To characterize the existing national and multi-national registries and cohort studies in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) and identify differences as well as areas of potential future collaboration. We surveyed investigators from North America, Europe, and Australia about existing JIA cohort studies and registries. We excluded cross-sectional studies. We captured information about study design, duration, location, inclusion criteria, data elements and collection methods. We received survey results from 18 studies, including 11 national and 7 multi-national studies representing 37 countries in total. Study designs included inception cohorts, prevalent disease cohorts, and new treatment cohorts (several of which contribute to pharmacosurveillance activities). Despite numerous differences, the data elements collected across the studies was quite similar, with most studies collecting at least 5 of the 6 American College of Rheumatology core set variables and the data needed to calculate the 3-variable clinical juvenile disease activity score. Most studies were collecting medication initiation and discontinuation dates and were attempting to capture serious adverse events. There is a wide-range of large, ongoing JIA registries and cohort studies around the world. Our survey results indicate significant potential for future collaborative work using data from different studies and both combined and comparative analyses.
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Correlation of unsupported ²¹⁰Pb activity in soil and moss.
Krmar, M; Radnović, D; Hansman, J
2014-03-01
The activities of unsupported (210)Pb, a naturally occurring radionuclide, were measured in samples of soil and terrestrial mosses collected in Serbia. Considering that clay particles in soil have a high affinity for Pb adsorption, and that mosses usually capture aerosol particles to obtain necessary nutrients, measurable amounts of airborne (210)Pb, the daughter of (222)Rn, can be registered in both soil and mosses. The objective of the present study was to determine if it is possible to compare the activity of unsupported (210)Pb in soil and moss collected at the same sampling site, and to establish if a correlation exists between these measured values. Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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2016-04-15
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Baseline Inventory of amphibians and reptiles of Kurupukari, Guyana
MacCulloch, Ross D.; Reynolds, Robert P.
2013-01-01
The habitat in the vicinity of Kurupukari, on the Essequibo River in central Guyana, is tall evergreen lowland forest. The area has suffered some human disturbance from agriculture, road construction and ferry activity. The area was sampled for 10 days in 1990 and 12 days in 1997; seven days in rainy season and 15 in dry season. During this sampling 23 anuran and 17 reptile species were collected. Some differences exist between species collected on either side of the river. Comparisons are made with collections from other locations in Guyana.
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Kazanjian, Wendy C.
1982-01-01
Describes Project COLD (Climate, Ocean, Land, Discovery) a scientific study of the Polar Regions, a collection of 35 modules used within the framework of existing subjects: oceanography, biology, geology, meterology, geography, social science. Includes a partial list of topics and one activity (geodesic dome) from a module. (Author/SK)
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Many Thousand Words . . . Work Pictures.
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This collection of photographs and discussion questions for elementary students is designed to complement and supplement already existing instructional materials by showing females and males engaged in nonstereotyped jobs and activities. The guide provides definitions of terms such as work, career, duty, sexism, and stereotype; fourteen facts on…
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Zhou, Y.; Fang, Z.
2017-09-01
There existing a significant social and spatial differentiation in the residential communities in urban city. People live in different places have different socioeconomic background, resulting in various geographically activity patterns. This paper aims to label the characteristics of residential communities in a city using collective activity patterns derived from taxi trip data. Specifically, we first present a method to allocate the O/D (Origin/Destination) points of taxi trips to the land use parcels where the activities taken place in. Then several indices are employed to describe the collective activity patterns, including both activity intensity, travel distance, travel time, and activity space of residents by taking account of the geographical distribution of all O/Ds of the taxi trip related to that residential community. Followed by that, an agglomerative hierarchical clustering algorithm is introduced to cluster the residential communities with similar activity patterns. In the case study of Wuhan, the residential communities are clearly divided into eight clusters, which could be labelled as ordinary communities, privileged communities, old isolated communities, suburban communities, and so on. In this paper, we provide a new perspective to label the land use under same type from people's mobility patterns with the support of big trajectory data.
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Assessing Information Needs for a Personal Multiple Sclerosis Application.
Tonheim, Aleksander Nygård; Babic, Ankica
2018-01-01
This paper presents a prototype of a mobile application for patient self-management within the field of Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Five study subjects provided information needs by suggesting functionalities and evaluating three existing MS applications. Prominent functionalities were to collect data about symptoms, physical activities, mood and goals in a form of a mobile diary. Collected data would be visually presented in a graph to support self-management and motivation. A low-fidelity prototype relies in first hand on four selected modules, two Diary modules, one Visualisation module and a Physical activity module. A high-fidelity prototype is being implemented and will be further evaluated by the experts.
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Effects of departing individuals on collective behaviors
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Nishiyama, Yuta; Okuda, Shoma; Migita, Masao; Murakami, Hisashi; Tomaru, Takenori
2017-07-01
Utilizing living organisms' abilities is an effective approach to realize flexible and unconventional computing. One possible bio-inspired computer might be developed from animal collective research by clarifying collective behaviors. Therefore, it is important to reveal how collective animal behaviors emerge. In many studies, individuals departing from the other individualsare generally ignored. Is it not possible that such departing individuals contribute to the organization of such collectives? To investigate the effects of individuals departing from a collective against collective behaviors, we observed and analyzed the behaviors of 40 soldier crabs in four types of experimental arenas. The recorded behaviors demonstrate a temporally changing pattern and the existence of departing individuals. We analyzed the relationship between global activity and cohesion levels and verified the features of departing individuals. The results imply that departing individuals contribute to collective behaviors.
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Lee, I-Min; Shiroma, Eric J
2013-01-01
Background Current guidelines for aerobic activity require that adults carry out ≥150 minutes/week of moderate-intensity physical activity, with a large body of epidemiologic evidence showing this level of activity to decrease the incidence of many chronic diseases. Less is known about whether light-intensity activities also have such benefits, and whether sedentary behavior is an independent predictor of increased risks of these chronic diseases, as imprecise assessments of these behaviours and cross-sectional study designs have limited knowledge to date. Methods Recent technological advances in assessment methods have made the use of movement sensors, such as the accelerometer, feasible for use in longitudinal, large-scale epidemiologic studies. Several such studies are collecting sensor-assessed, objective measures of physical activity with the aim of relating these to the development of clinical endpoints. This is a relatively new area of research; thus, in this paper, we use the Women’s Health Study (WHS) as a case study to illustrate challenges related to data collection, data processing, and analyses of the vast amount of data collected. Results The WHS plans to collect 7 days of accelerometer-assessed physical activity and sedentary behavior in ~18,000 women aged ≥62 years. Several logistical challenges exist in collecting data; nonetheless as of 31 August 2013, 11,590 women have already provided some data. Additionally, the WHS experience on data reduction and data analyses can help inform other similar large-scale epidemiologic studies. Conclusions Important data on the health effects of light-intensity activity and sedentary behaviour will emerge from large-scale epidemiologic studies collecting objective assessments of these behaviours. PMID:24297837
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Memory-induced mechanism for self-sustaining activity in networks
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Allahverdyan, A. E.; Steeg, G. Ver; Galstyan, A.
2015-12-01
We study a mechanism of activity sustaining on networks inspired by a well-known model of neuronal dynamics. Our primary focus is the emergence of self-sustaining collective activity patterns, where no single node can stay active by itself, but the activity provided initially is sustained within the collective of interacting agents. In contrast to existing models of self-sustaining activity that are caused by (long) loops present in the network, here we focus on treelike structures and examine activation mechanisms that are due to temporal memory of the nodes. This approach is motivated by applications in social media, where long network loops are rare or absent. Our results suggest that under a weak behavioral noise, the nodes robustly split into several clusters, with partial synchronization of nodes within each cluster. We also study the randomly weighted version of the models where the nodes are allowed to change their connection strength (this can model attention redistribution) and show that it does facilitate the self-sustained activity.
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National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC. Committee on Solar Energy in the Heating and Cooling of Buildings.
This report is essentially a collection of information gathered from a broad cross-section of the building community that provides a description of the state of affairs existing mid-1974 through mid-1975 in the private sector of the building community with regard to solar heating and cooling of buildings. The report additionally contains…
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McCloskey, Rose; Donovan, Cindy; Stewart, Connie; Donovan, Alicia
2015-09-01
Calls for improved conditions in nursing homes have pointed to the importance of optimizing the levels and skills of care providers. Understanding the work of care providers will help to determine if staff are being used to their full potential and if opportunities exist for improved efficiencies. To explore the activities of care providers in different nursing homes and to identify if variations exist within and across homes and shifts. A multi-centre cross-sectional observational work flow study was conducted in seven different nursing homes sites in one Canadian province. Data were collected by a research assistant who conducted 368 h of observation. The research assistant collected data by following an identical route in each site and recording observations on staff activities. Findings indicate staff activities vary across roles, sites and shifts. Licensed practical nurses (nursing assistants) have the greatest variation in their role while registered nurses have the least amount of variability. In some sites both registered nurses and licensed practical nurses perform activities that may be safely delegated to others. Care providers spend as much as 53.7% of their time engaged in non-value added activities. There may be opportunities for registered nurses and licensed practical nurses to delegate some of their activities to non-regulated workers. The time care providers spend in non-value activities suggest there may be opportunities to improve efficiencies within the nursing home setting. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Kadi-Hanifi, Karima
2010-01-01
This paper addresses the tensions that exist between policy-makers and practitioners about what learning and teaching should really be about. It adds to the collective reflection on what learning is about and how we should never stop engaging in reflection about it in an active, revolving and changing manner. Similarities between second language…
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Collective purchase behavior toward retail price changes
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Ueno, Hiromichi; Watanabe, Tsutomu; Takayasu, Hideki; Takayasu, Misako
2011-02-01
By analyzing a huge amount of point-of-sale data collected from Japanese supermarkets, we find power law relationships between price and sales numbers. The estimated values of the exponents of these power laws depend on the category of products; however, they are independent of the stores, thereby implying the existence of universal human purchase behavior. The rate of sales numbers around these power laws are generally approximated by log-normal distributions implying that there are hidden random parameters, which might proportionally affect the purchase activity.
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Modeling Patterns of Activities using Activity Curves
Dawadi, Prafulla N.; Cook, Diane J.; Schmitter-Edgecombe, Maureen
2016-01-01
Pervasive computing offers an unprecedented opportunity to unobtrusively monitor behavior and use the large amount of collected data to perform analysis of activity-based behavioral patterns. In this paper, we introduce the notion of an activity curve, which represents an abstraction of an individual’s normal daily routine based on automatically-recognized activities. We propose methods to detect changes in behavioral routines by comparing activity curves and use these changes to analyze the possibility of changes in cognitive or physical health. We demonstrate our model and evaluate our change detection approach using a longitudinal smart home sensor dataset collected from 18 smart homes with older adult residents. Finally, we demonstrate how big data-based pervasive analytics such as activity curve-based change detection can be used to perform functional health assessment. Our evaluation indicates that correlations do exist between behavior and health changes and that these changes can be automatically detected using smart homes, machine learning, and big data-based pervasive analytics. PMID:27346990
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Modeling Patterns of Activities using Activity Curves.
Dawadi, Prafulla N; Cook, Diane J; Schmitter-Edgecombe, Maureen
2016-06-01
Pervasive computing offers an unprecedented opportunity to unobtrusively monitor behavior and use the large amount of collected data to perform analysis of activity-based behavioral patterns. In this paper, we introduce the notion of an activity curve , which represents an abstraction of an individual's normal daily routine based on automatically-recognized activities. We propose methods to detect changes in behavioral routines by comparing activity curves and use these changes to analyze the possibility of changes in cognitive or physical health. We demonstrate our model and evaluate our change detection approach using a longitudinal smart home sensor dataset collected from 18 smart homes with older adult residents. Finally, we demonstrate how big data-based pervasive analytics such as activity curve-based change detection can be used to perform functional health assessment. Our evaluation indicates that correlations do exist between behavior and health changes and that these changes can be automatically detected using smart homes, machine learning, and big data-based pervasive analytics.
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Advancing from offline to online activity recognition with wearable sensors.
Ermes, Miikka; Parkka, Juha; Cluitmans, Luc
2008-01-01
Activity recognition with wearable sensors could motivate people to perform a variety of different sports and other physical exercises. We have earlier developed algorithms for offline analysis of activity data collected with wearable sensors. In this paper, we present our current progress in advancing the platform for the existing algorithms to an online version, onto a PDA. Acceleration data are obtained from wireless motion bands which send the 3D raw acceleration signals via a Bluetooth link to the PDA which then performs the data collection, feature extraction and activity classification. As a proof-of-concept, the online activity system was tested with three subjects. All of them performed at least 5 minutes of each of the following activities: lying, sitting, standing, walking, running and cycling with an exercise bike. The average second-by-second classification accuracies for the subjects were 99%, 97%, and 82 %. These results suggest that earlier developed offline analysis methods for the acceleration data obtained from wearable sensors can be successfully implemented in an online activity recognition application.
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Shedlock, Robert J.; Denver, J.M.; Hayes, M.A.; Hamilton, P.A.; Koterba, M.T.; Bachman, L.J.; Phillips, P.J.; Banks, W.S.
1999-01-01
A regional ground-water-quality assessment of the Delmarva Peninsula was conducted as a pilot study for the U.S. Geological Survey's National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program. The study focused on the surficial aquifer and used both existing data and new data collected between 1988 and 1991. The new water samples were analyzed for major ions, nutrients, radon, volatile organic compounds, and a suite of herbicides and insecticides commonly used on corn, soybeans, and small grains. Samples also were collected from wells completed in deeper, confined aquifers and from selected streams, and analyzed for most of these constituents. The study employed a multi-scale network design. Regional networks were chosen to provide broad geographic coverage of the study area and to ensure that the major hydrogeologic settings of the surficial aquifer were adequately represented. Both the existing data and the data from samples collected during the study showed that agricultural activities had affected the quality of water in the surficial aquifer over most of the Peninsula.
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Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition in a Multi-user Scenario
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Wang, Liang; Gu, Tao; Tao, Xianping; Lu, Jian
Existing work on sensor-based activity recognition focuses mainly on single-user activities. However, in real life, activities are often performed by multiple users involving interactions between them. In this paper, we propose Coupled Hidden Markov Models (CHMMs) to recognize multi-user activities from sensor readings in a smart home environment. We develop a multimodal sensing platform and present a theoretical framework to recognize both single-user and multi-user activities. We conduct our trace collection done in a smart home, and evaluate our framework through experimental studies. Our experimental result shows that we achieve an average accuracy of 85.46% with CHMMs.
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Little data exists assessing the relationship between functional limitations in children with cerebral palsy (CP) and their participation in everyday activities. This prospective study evaluates the relationship between the Pediatric Outcomes Data Collection Instrument (PODCI), a functional health-related quality of life instrument for children…
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The Relationship Between Personality Type and the Participation in Education of Older Adults.
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Gerads, Betsy I.
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Making Connections: Outreach to Preschoolers through Satellite Library Collections.
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Arredondo-Jiménez, J I; Gimnig, J; Rodríguez, M H; Washino, R K
1996-09-01
Biting activity and population genetic studies of the malaria vector Anopheles vestitipennis were conducted in southern México. Three subpopulations were collected from 2 villages; 2 subpopulations were from the same village, one on human bait and one with an animal-baited trap; the third was collected from a cattle corral in the 2nd village (280 km away SSE). The anthropophilic subpopulation had steady activity with 61% of bites occurring before midnight, significantly different from those of the 2 zoophilic subpopulations, which had 78-82% of bites before midnight and 2 biting peaks, one at 1900-2100 h and the other at 0400-0500 h. Isozyme analysis (13 enzymes) of these subpopulations indicated that differences between the 2 sympatric subpopulations (D = 0.07), collected using 2 different methods, were greater than that between the 2 allopatric ones (D = 0.03). These studies suggest the existence of 2 genetically different subpopulations of An. vestitipennis with specific host preferences.
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Dreissenid mussels from the Great Lakes contain elevated thiaminase activity
Tillitt, D.E.; Riley, S.C.; Evans, A.N.; Nichols, S.J.; Zajicek, J.L.; Rinchard, J.; Richter, C.A.; Krueger, C.C.
2009-01-01
We examined thiaminase activity in dreissenid mussels collected at different depths and seasons, and from various locations in Lakes Michigan, Ontario, and Huron. Here we present evidence that two dreissenid mussel species (Dreissena bugensis and D. polymorpha) contain thiaminase activity that is 5-100 fold greater than observed in Great Lakes fishes. Thiaminase activity in zebra mussels ranged from 10,600 to 47,900??pmol g- 1??min- 1 and activities in quagga mussels ranged from 19,500 to 223,800??pmol g- 1??min- 1. Activity in the mussels was greatest in spring, less in summer, and least in fall. Additionally, we observed greater thiaminase activity in dreissenid mussels collected at shallow depths compared to mussels collected at deeper depths. Dreissenids constitute a significant and previously unknown pool of thiaminase in the Great Lakes food web compared to other known sources of this thiamine (vitamin B1)-degrading enzyme. Thiaminase in forage fish of the Great Lakes has been causally linked to thiamine deficiency in salmonines. We currently do not know whether linkages exist between thiaminase activities observed in dreissenids and the thiaminase activities in higher trophic levels of the Great Lakes food web. However, the extreme thiaminase activities observed in dreissenids from the Great Lakes may represent a serious unanticipated negative effect of these exotic species on Great Lakes ecosystems.
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Coastal zone problems and environmental strategies to be implemented at Edremit Bay, Turkey.
Irtem, Emel; Kabdasli, Sedat; Azbar, Nuri
2005-07-01
This case study examines the coastal zone problems focusing on the existing conflicts between tourism and commercial activities on the coasts of Edremit Bay, Turkey, and attempts to suggest solutions to these problems. Edremit Bay is a characteristic example of such a conflict in collective use of natural resources. The study area, with its 100-km-long sandy beach, naturally attracts different coastal user groups with different beneficial expectations: in terms of rest and recreation for one group and commercial gain offered in a variety of ways for another group. Significant coastal zone problems exist in the study area. Deterioration of shoreline due to tourism activities and illegal constructions, damage to the coastal ecosystem due to domestic/industrial wastewater discharges and some agricultural activities, and disordered urbanization are only a few of the many problems. The data presented here were partly derived from field study and partly collected from local state or private organizations. In this study, it is emphasized that there is a need for viable economic and environmental strategies to be designated in Edremit Bay, Turkey, in order to provide sustainable resource use. For this purpose, an integrated project together with a relevant planning chart including subprojects is also suggested. The success of a local environmental protection management project depends on active participation of all stakeholders including governmental organizations and nongovernmental organizations.
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Fehr, M
2014-09-01
Business opportunities in the household waste sector in emerging economies still evolve around the activities of bulk collection and tipping with an open material balance. This research, conducted in Brazil, pursued the objective of shifting opportunities from tipping to reverse logistics in order to close the balance. To do this, it illustrated how specific knowledge of sorted waste composition and reverse logistics operations can be used to determine realistic temporal and quantitative landfill diversion targets in an emerging economy context. Experimentation constructed and confirmed the recycling trilogy that consists of source separation, collection infrastructure and reverse logistics. The study on source separation demonstrated the vital difference between raw and sorted waste compositions. Raw waste contained 70% biodegradable and 30% inert matter. Source separation produced 47% biodegradable, 20% inert and 33% mixed material. The study on collection infrastructure developed the necessary receiving facilities. The study on reverse logistics identified private operators capable of collecting and processing all separated inert items. Recycling activities for biodegradable material were scarce and erratic. Only farmers would take the material as animal feed. No composting initiatives existed. The management challenge was identified as stimulating these activities in order to complete the trilogy and divert the 47% source-separated biodegradable discards from the landfills. © The Author(s) 2014.
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Iyer, Maithili; Kumar, Satish; Mathew, Sangeeta
Enhancing energy efficiency of the commercial building stock is an important aspect of any national energy policy. Understanding how buildings use energy is critical to formulating any new policy that may impact energy use, underscoring the importance of credible data. Data enables informed decision making and good quality data is essential for policy makers to prioritize energy saving strategies and track implementation. Given the uniqueness of the buildings sector and challenges to collecting relevant energy data, this study characterizes various elements involved in pertinent data collection and management, with the specific focus on well-defined data requirements, appropriate methodologies and processes,more » feasible data collection mechanisms, and approaches to institutionalizing the collection process. This report starts with a comprehensive review of available examples of energy data collection frameworks for buildings across different countries. The review covers the U.S. experience in the commercial buildings sector, the European experience in the buildings sector and other data collection initiatives in Singapore and China to capture the more systematic efforts in Asia in the commercial sector. To provide context, the review includes a summary and status of disparate efforts in India to collect and use commercial building energy data. Using this review as a key input, the study developed a data collection framework for India with specific consideration to relevant use cases. Continuing with the framework for data collection, this study outlines the key performance indicators applicable to the use cases and their collection feasibility, as well as immediate priorities of the participating stakeholders. It also discusses potential considerations for data collection and the possible approaches for survey design. With the specific purpose of laying out the possible ways to structure and organize data collection institutionally, the study collates existing mechanisms to analyze building energy performance in India and opportunities for standardizing data collection. This report describes the existing capacities and resources for establishing an institutional framework for data collection, the legislation and mandates that support such activity, and identifies roles and responsibilities of the relevant ministries and organizations. Finally, the study presents conclusions and identifies two major data collection strategies within the existing legal framework.« less
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Electrospinning for nano- to mesoscale photonic structures
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Skinner, Jack L.; Andriolo, Jessica M.; Murphy, John P.; Ross, Brandon M.
2017-08-01
The fabrication of photonic and electronic structures and devices has directed the manufacturing industry for the last 50 years. Currently, the majority of small-scale photonic devices are created by traditional microfabrication techniques that create features by processes such as lithography and electron or ion beam direct writing. Microfabrication techniques are often expensive and slow. In contrast, the use of electrospinning (ES) in the fabrication of micro- and nano-scale devices for the manipulation of photons and electrons provides a relatively simple and economic viable alternative. ES involves the delivery of a polymer solution to a capillary held at a high voltage relative to the fiber deposition surface. Electrostatic force developed between the collection plate and the polymer promotes fiber deposition onto the collection plate. Issues with ES fabrication exist primarily due to an instability region that exists between the capillary and collection plate and is characterized by chaotic motion of the depositing polymer fiber. Material limitations to ES also exist; not all polymers of interest are amenable to the ES process due to process dependencies on molecular weight and chain entanglement or incompatibility with other polymers and overall process compatibility. Passive and active electronic and photonic fibers fabricated through the ES have great potential for use in light generation and collection in optical and electronic structures/devices. ES produces fiber devices that can be combined with inorganic, metallic, biological, or organic materials for novel device design. Synergistic material selection and post-processing techniques are also utilized for broad-ranging applications of organic nanofibers that span from biological to electronic, photovoltaic, or photonic. As the ability to electrospin optically and/or electronically active materials in a controlled manner continues to improve, the complexity and diversity of devices fabricated from this process can be expected to grow rapidly and provide an alternative to traditional resource-intensive fabrication techniques.
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Mechanosensory Interactions Drive Collective Behaviour in Drosophila
Ramdya, Pavan; Lichocki, Pawel; Cruchet, Steeve; Frisch, Lukas; Tse, Winnie; Floreano, Dario; Benton, Richard
2014-01-01
Collective behaviour enhances environmental sensing and decision-making in groups of animals1,2. Experimental and theoretical investigations of schooling fish, flocking birds and human crowds have demonstrated that simple interactions between individuals can explain emergent group dynamics3,4. These findings imply the existence of neural circuits that support distributed behaviours, but the molecular and cellular identities of relevant sensory pathways are unknown. Here we show that Drosophila melanogaster exhibits collective responses to an aversive odour: individual flies weakly avoid the stimulus, but groups show enhanced escape reactions. Using high-resolution behavioural tracking, computational simulations, genetic perturbations, neural silencing and optogenetic activation we demonstrate that this collective odour avoidance arises from cascades of appendage touch interactions between pairs of flies. Inter-fly touch sensing and collective behaviour require the activity of distal leg mechanosensory sensilla neurons and the mechanosensory channel NOMPC5,6. Remarkably, through these inter-fly encounters, wild-type flies can elicit avoidance behaviour in mutant animals that cannot sense the odour – a basic form of communication. Our data highlight the unexpected importance of social context in the sensory responses of a solitary species and open the door to a neural circuit level understanding of collective behaviour in animal groups. PMID:25533959
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Current limitations and recommendations to improve testing ...
In this paper existing regulatory frameworks and test systems for assessing potential endocrine-active chemicals are described, and associated challenges discussed, along with proposed approaches to address these challenges. Regulatory frameworks vary somewhat across organizations, but all basically evaluate whether a chemical possesses endocrine activity and whether this activity can result in adverse outcomes either to humans or the environment. Current test systems include in silico, in vitro and in vivo techniques focused on detecting potential endocrine activity, and in vivo tests that collect apical data to detect possible adverse effects. These test systems are currently designed to robustly assess endocrine activity and/or adverse effects in the estrogen, androgen, and thyroid hormonal pathways; however, there are some limitations of current test systems for evaluating endocrine hazard and risk. These limitations include a lack of certainty regarding: 1)adequately sensitive species and life-stages, 2) mechanistic endpoints that are diagnostic for endocrine pathways of concern, and 3) the linkage between mechanistic responses and apical, adverse outcomes. Furthermore, some existing test methods are resource intensive in regard to time, cost, and use of animals. However, based on recent experiences, there are opportunities to improve approaches to, and guidance for existing test methods, and to reduce uncertainty. For example, in vitro high throughput
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Amplitude mediated chimera states with active and inactive oscillators
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Mukherjee, Rupak; Sen, Abhijit
2018-05-01
The emergence and nature of amplitude mediated chimera states, spatio-temporal patterns of co-existing coherent and incoherent regions, are investigated for a globally coupled system of active and inactive Ginzburg-Landau oscillators. The existence domain of such states is found to shrink and shift in parametric space with the increase in the fraction of inactive oscillators. The role of inactive oscillators is found to be twofold—they get activated to form a separate region of coherent oscillations and, in addition, decrease the common collective frequency of the coherent regions by their presence. The dynamical origin of these effects is delineated through a bifurcation analysis of a reduced model system that is based on a mean field approximation. Our results may have practical implications for the robustness of such states in biological or physical systems where age related deterioration in the functionality of components can occur.
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Haupt, C; Spaeth, J; Ahne, T; Goebel, U; Steinmann, D
2016-05-01
To evaluate differences in product characteristics and user preferences of safety-engineered protection mechanisms of winged blood collection needles. Randomized model-based simulation study. University medical center. A total of 33 third-year medical students. Venipuncture was performed using winged blood collection needles with 4 different safety mechanisms: (a) Venofix Safety, (b) BD Vacutainer Push Button, (c) Safety-Multifly, and (d) Surshield Surflo. Each needle type was used in 3 consecutive tries: there was an uninstructed first handling, then instructions were given according to the operating manual; subsequently, a first trial and second trial were conducted. Study end points included successful activation, activation time, single-handed activation, correct activation, possible risk of needlestick injury, possibility of deactivation, and preferred safety mechanism. The overall successful activation rate during the second trial was equal for all 4 devices (94%-100%). Median activation time was (a) 7 s, (b) 2 s, (c) 9 s, and (d) 7 s. Single-handed activation during the second trial was (a) 18%, (b) 82%, (c) 15%, and (d) 45%. Correct activation during the second trial was (a) 3%, (b) 64%, (c) 15%, and (d) 39%. Possible risk of needlestick injury during the second trial was highest with (d). Possibility of deactivation was (a) 0%, (b) 12%, (c) 9%, and (d) 18%. Individual preferences for each system were (a) 11, (b) 17, (c) 5, and (d) 0. The main reason for preference was the comprehensive safety mechanism. Significant differences exist between safety mechanisms of winged blood collection needles.
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Algorithm Visualization: The State of the Field
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Shaffer, Clifford A.; Cooper, Matthew L.; Alon, Alexander Joel D.; Akbar, Monika; Stewart, Michael; Ponce, Sean; Edwards, Stephen H.
2010-01-01
We present findings regarding the state of the field of Algorithm Visualization (AV) based on our analysis of a collection of over 500 AVs. We examine how AVs are distributed among topics, who created them and when, their overall quality, and how they are disseminated. There does exist a cadre of good AVs and active developers. Unfortunately, we…
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Zhang, Yi; Monsen, Karen A; Adam, Terrence J; Pieczkiewicz, David S; Daman, Megan; Melton, Genevieve B
2011-01-01
Time and motion (T&M) studies provide an objective method to measure the expenditure of time by clinicians. While some instruments for T&M studies have been designed to evaluate health information technology (HIT), these instruments have not been designed for nursing workflow. We took an existing open source HIT T&M study application designed to evaluate physicians in the ambulatory setting and rationally adapted it through empiric observations to record nursing activities in the inpatient setting and linked this instrument to an existing interface terminology, the Omaha System. Nursing activities involved several dimensions and could include multiple activities occurring simultaneously, requiring significant instrument redesign. 94% of the activities from the study instrument mapped adequately to the Omaha System. T&M study instruments require customization in design optimize them for different environments, such as inpatient nursing, to enable optimal data collection. Interface terminologies show promise as a framework for recording and analyzing T&M study data. PMID:22195228
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Meng, Pingping; Deng, Shubo; Maimaiti, Ayiguli; Wang, Bin; Huang, Jun; Wang, Yujue; Cousins, Ian T; Yu, Gang
2018-07-01
Aqueous film-forming foams (AFFFs) used in fire-fighting are one of the main contamination sources of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) to the subterranean environment, requiring high costs for remediation. In this study, a method that combined aeration and foam collection was presented to remove PFOS from a commercially available AFFF solution. The method utilized the strong surfactant properties of PFOS that cause it to be highly enriched at air-water interfaces. With an aeration flow rate of 75 mL/min, PFOS removal percent reached 96% after 2 h, and the PFOS concentration in the collected foam was up to 6.5 mmol/L, beneficial for PFOS recovery and reuse. Increasing the aeration flow rate, ionic strength and concentration of co-existing surfactant, as well as decreasing the initial PFOS concentration, increased the removal percents of PFOS by increasing the foam volume, but reduced the enrichment of PFOS in the foams. With the assistance of a co-existing hydrocarbon surfactant, PFOS removal percent was above 99.9% after aeration-foam collection for 2 h and the enrichment factor exceeded 8400. Aeration-foam collection was less effective for short-chain perfluoroalkyl substances due to their relatively lower surface activity. Aeration-foam collection was found to be effective for the removal of high concentrations of PFOS from AFFF-contaminated wastewater, and the concentrated PFOS in the collected foam can be reused. Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Male involvement in child care activities: a review of the literature in Botswana.
Jorosi-Tshiamo, Wananani B; Mogobe, Keitshokile D; Mokotedi, Mosidi T
2013-12-01
Engaging men as partners in childrearing is critical because of the positive aspects on the child's development and reduction of childhood illnesses. The paper presents findings from a literature review whose aim was to assess the extent to which males are involved in child care activities. Findings revealed a limited number of studies conducted in the area of male involvement. Sociocultural factors have a negative influence on men's participation on child care activities. In addition, some laws were prohibitive to male involvement. It was difficult to assess the extent to which males were involved due to inadequate data collection tools. Recommendations include a study on male involvement, review of the existing Sexual and Reproductive Health data collection tools, development of a policy on paternity leave, strengthening training on male involvement; community sensitization on cultural stereotypes and harmonization of customary and common laws.
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Escobar, Juan V; Sornette, Didier
2015-01-01
We investigate the laws governing people's decisions and interactions by studying the collective dynamics of a well-documented social activity for which there exist ample records of the perceived quality: the attendance to movie theaters in the US. We picture the flows of attendance as impulses or "shocks" driven by external factors that in turn can create new cascades of attendances through direct recommendations whose effectiveness depends on the perceived quality of the movies. This corresponds to an epidemic branching model comprised of a decaying exponential function determining the time between cause and action, and a cascade of actions triggered by previous ones. We find that the vast majority of the ~3,500 movies studied fit our model remarkably well. From our results, we are able to translate a subjective concept such as movie quality into a probability of the deriving individual activity, and from it we build concrete quantitative predictions. Our analysis opens up the possibility of understanding other collective dynamics for which the perceived quality or appeal of an action is also known.
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Escobar, Juan V.; Sornette, Didier
2015-01-01
We investigate the laws governing people’s decisions and interactions by studying the collective dynamics of a well-documented social activity for which there exist ample records of the perceived quality: the attendance to movie theaters in the US. We picture the flows of attendance as impulses or “shocks” driven by external factors that in turn can create new cascades of attendances through direct recommendations whose effectiveness depends on the perceived quality of the movies. This corresponds to an epidemic branching model comprised of a decaying exponential function determining the time between cause and action, and a cascade of actions triggered by previous ones. We find that the vast majority of the ~3,500 movies studied fit our model remarkably well. From our results, we are able to translate a subjective concept such as movie quality into a probability of the deriving individual activity, and from it we build concrete quantitative predictions. Our analysis opens up the possibility of understanding other collective dynamics for which the perceived quality or appeal of an action is also known. PMID:25612292
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Oliver, Sarah; Willard, Francis S.; Heidler, Steven; Peery, Robert B.; Oler, Jennifer; Chu, Shaoyou; Southall, Noel; Dexheimer, Thomas S.; Smallwood, Jeffrey; Huang, Ruili; Guha, Rajarshi; Jadhav, Ajit; Cox, Karen; Austin, Christopher P.; Simeonov, Anton; Sittampalam, G. Sitta; Husain, Saba; Franklin, Natalie; Wild, David J.; Yang, Jeremy J.; Sutherland, Jeffrey J.; Thomas, Craig J.
2015-01-01
Phenotypic assays have a proven track record for generating leads that become first-in-class therapies. Whole cell assays that inform on a phenotype or mechanism also possess great potential in drug repositioning studies by illuminating new activities for the existing pharmacopeia. The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) pharmaceutical collection (NPC) is the largest reported collection of approved small molecule therapeutics that is available for screening in a high-throughput setting. Via a wide-ranging collaborative effort, this library was analyzed in the Open Innovation Drug Discovery (OIDD) phenotypic assay modules publicly offered by Lilly. The results of these tests are publically available online at www.ncats.nih.gov/expertise/preclinical/pd2 and via the PubChem Database (https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) (AID 1117321). Phenotypic outcomes for numerous drugs were confirmed, including sulfonylureas as insulin secretagogues and the anti-angiogenesis actions of multikinase inhibitors sorafenib, axitinib and pazopanib. Several novel outcomes were also noted including the Wnt potentiating activities of rotenone and the antifolate class of drugs, and the anti-angiogenic activity of cetaben. PMID:26177200
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Lee, Jonathan A; Shinn, Paul; Jaken, Susan; Oliver, Sarah; Willard, Francis S; Heidler, Steven; Peery, Robert B; Oler, Jennifer; Chu, Shaoyou; Southall, Noel; Dexheimer, Thomas S; Smallwood, Jeffrey; Huang, Ruili; Guha, Rajarshi; Jadhav, Ajit; Cox, Karen; Austin, Christopher P; Simeonov, Anton; Sittampalam, G Sitta; Husain, Saba; Franklin, Natalie; Wild, David J; Yang, Jeremy J; Sutherland, Jeffrey J; Thomas, Craig J
2015-01-01
Phenotypic assays have a proven track record for generating leads that become first-in-class therapies. Whole cell assays that inform on a phenotype or mechanism also possess great potential in drug repositioning studies by illuminating new activities for the existing pharmacopeia. The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) pharmaceutical collection (NPC) is the largest reported collection of approved small molecule therapeutics that is available for screening in a high-throughput setting. Via a wide-ranging collaborative effort, this library was analyzed in the Open Innovation Drug Discovery (OIDD) phenotypic assay modules publicly offered by Lilly. The results of these tests are publically available online at www.ncats.nih.gov/expertise/preclinical/pd2 and via the PubChem Database (https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) (AID 1117321). Phenotypic outcomes for numerous drugs were confirmed, including sulfonylureas as insulin secretagogues and the anti-angiogenesis actions of multikinase inhibitors sorafenib, axitinib and pazopanib. Several novel outcomes were also noted including the Wnt potentiating activities of rotenone and the antifolate class of drugs, and the anti-angiogenic activity of cetaben.
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77 FR 34416 - Proposed Collection; Comment Request
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Lau, Eric HY; So, Hau Chi; Xiao, Jingyi; Lam, Chi Kin; Fang, Vicky J; Tam, Yat Hung; Leung, Gabriel M; Cowling, Benjamin J
2017-01-01
Background School-aged children have the highest incidence of respiratory virus infections each year, and transmission of respiratory viruses such as influenza virus can be a major concern in school settings. School absenteeism data have been employed as a component of influenza surveillance systems in some locations. Data timeliness and system acceptance remain as key determinants affecting the usefulness of a prospective surveillance system. Objective The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility of implementing an electronic school absenteeism surveillance system using smart card–based technology for influenza-like illness (ILI) surveillance among a representative network of local primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong. Methods We designed and implemented a surveillance system according to the Protocol for a Standardized information infrastructure for Pandemic and Emerging infectious disease Response (PROSPER). We employed an existing smart card–based education and school administration platform for data capture, customized the user interface, and used additional back end systems built for other downstream surveillance steps. We invited local schools to participate and collected absenteeism data by the implemented system. We compared temporal trend of the absenteeism data with data from existing community sentinel and laboratory surveillance data. Results We designed and implemented an ILI surveillance system utilizing smart card–based attendance tracking approach for data capture. We implemented the surveillance system in a total of 107 schools (including 66 primary schools and 41 secondary schools), covering a total of 75,052 children. The system successfully captured information on absences for 2 consecutive academic years (2012-2013 and 2013-2014). The absenteeism data we collected from the system reflected ILI activity in the community, with an upsurge in disease activity detected up to 1 to 2 weeks preceding other existing surveillance systems. Conclusions We designed and implemented a novel smart card technology–based school absenteeism surveillance system. Our study demonstrated the feasibility of building a large-scale surveillance system riding on a routinely adopted data collection approach and the use of simple system enhancement to minimize workload implication and enhance system acceptability. Data from this system have potential value in supplementing existing sentinel influenza surveillance for situational awareness of influenza activity in the community. PMID:28986338
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ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Nilsen, Sigurd R.
The General Accounting Office (GAO) reviewed existing procedures to manage Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) contracting and also identified problems with regard to management of TANF contracting. The major data collection activities were as follows: (1) a national survey of all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the 10 counties…
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Activity Recognition for Agent Teams
2007-07-01
Uncertainty in Artifcial Intelligence (UAI), 1994. [47] S. Intille and A. Bobick. Visual tracking using closed-worlds. Technical Report 294, MIT Media Lab...information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and...maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other
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The environmental audit. I. Concepts
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Schaeffer, David J.; Kerster, Harold W.; Perry, James A.; Cox, David K.
1985-05-01
Extensive criticism of water quality monitoring programs has developed as costs are compared with the benefits produced by monitoring efforts. Collecting water quality data while developing understanding of the functional character of the environment will improve water quality monitoring data utility in environmental management. The “environmental audit” characterizes the attributes of the natural environment (that is, attribute type, intensity, and variability), providing a theoretical as well as practical foundation for data interpretation. In the view proposed here, traditional monitoring means the very narrow activity of collecting samples and perhaps analyzing them and storing the analyses. In the environmental audit, these activities are a mechanism to systematically improve environmental monitoring and assessment by improving the design and implementation of environmental programs. Major reasons why existing programs fail to meet the needs of legislators, regulators, and conservationists are identified.
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Templin, W.E.; Schluter, R.C.
1990-01-01
This report evaluates existing data collection networks and possible additional data collection to monitor quantity and quality of precipitation, surface water, and groundwater in the northern Salinas River drainage basin, California. Of the 34 precipitation stations identified, 20 were active and are concentrated in the northwestern part of the study area. No precipitation quality networks were identified, but possible data collection efforts include monitoring for acid rain and pesticides. Six of ten stream-gaging stations are active. Two surface water quality sites are sampled for suspended sediment, specific conductance, and chloride; one U.S. Geological Survey NASOAN site and one site operated by California Department of Water Resources make up the four active sampling locations; reactivation of 45 inactive surface water quality sites might help to achieve objectives described in the report. Three local networks measure water levels in 318 wells monthly, during peak irrigation, and at the end of the irrigation season. Water quality conditions are monitored in 379 wells; samples are collected in summer to monitor saltwater intrusion near Castroville and are also collected annually throughout the study area for analysis of chloride, specific conductance, and nitrate. An ideal baseline network would be an evenly spaced grid of index wells with a density of one per section. When baseline conditions are established, representative wells within the network could be monitored periodically according to specific data needs. (USGS)
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77 FR 72893 - Proposed Collection; Comment Request
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Periodicity in Age-Resolved Populations
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Esipov, Sergei
We discuss the interplay between the non-linear diffusion and age-resolved population dynamics. Depending on the age properties of collective migration the system may exhibit continuous joint expansion of all ages or continuous expansion with age segregation. Between these two obvious limiting regimes there is an interesting window of periodic expansion, which has been previously used by us in modeling bacterial colonies of Proteus mirabilis. In order to test whether the age-dependent collective migration leads to periodicity in other systems we performed a Fourier analysis of historical data on ethnic expansions and found multiple co-existing periods of activity.
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Coady, Katherine K.; Biever, Ronald C.; Denslow, Nancy D.; Gross, Melanie; Guiney, Patrick D.; Holbech, Henrik; Karouna-Renier, Natalie K.; Katsiadaki, Ioanna; Krueger, Hank; Levine, Steven L.; Maack, Gerd; Williams, Mike; Wolf, Jeffrey C.; Ankley, Gerald T.
2017-01-01
In the present study, existing regulatory frameworks and test systems for assessing potential endocrine active chemicals are described, and associated challenges are discussed, along with proposed approaches to address these challenges. Regulatory frameworks vary somewhat across geographies, but all basically evaluate whether a chemical possesses endocrine activity and whether this activity can result in adverse outcomes either to humans or to the environment. Current test systems include in silico, in vitro, and in vivo techniques focused on detecting potential endocrine activity, and in vivo tests that collect apical data to detect possible adverse effects. These test systems are currently designed to robustly assess endocrine activity and/or adverse effects in the estrogen, androgen, and thyroid hormone signaling pathways; however, there are some limitations of current test systems for evaluating endocrine hazard and risk. These limitations include a lack of certainty regarding: 1) adequately sensitive species and life stages; 2) mechanistic endpoints that are diagnostic for endocrine pathways of concern; and 3) the linkage between mechanistic responses and apical, adverse outcomes. Furthermore, some existing test methods are resource intensive with regard to time, cost, and use of animals. However, based on recent experiences, there are opportunities to improve approaches to and guidance for existing test methods and to reduce uncertainty. For example, in vitro high-throughput screening could be used to prioritize chemicals for testing and provide insights as to the most appropriate assays for characterizing hazard and risk. Other recommendations include adding endpoints for elucidating connections between mechanistic effects and adverse outcomes, identifying potentially sensitive taxa for which test methods currently do not exist, and addressing key endocrine pathways of possible concern in addition to those associated with estrogen, androgen, and thyroid signaling.
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Ledley, T. S.; Gold, A. U.; Niepold, F., III
2015-12-01
Numerous climate change education efforts exist that aim to enable citizens and society to make informed decisions addressing environmental and societal issues arising from climate change. To extend the reach and impact of these efforts, it is necessary to coordinate them in order to reach a greater collective impact. The Collective Impact model, as described by Kania & Kramer (2011), requires five elements: 1) a common agenda; 2) shared measurement systems; 3) mutually reinforcing activities; 4) continuous communication; and 5) a well-funded backbone support organization. The CLEAN Network, as an example of a rudimentary form of such an organization, engages in continuous communication through weekly teleconferences, an active listserv and other activities to share resources, activities, and ideas that is moving the network to develop common understandings that will likely lead to the development of effective collective impact on increasing climate and energy literacy. A Spring 2013 survey of the CLEAN Network provided insight as to how the CLEAN Network was addressing member needs and identified what other support was needed to increase its collective impact. In addition, community discussions identified the components needed for an effective overarching backbone support organization. A Fall 2015 survey of the CLEAN Network and the broader climate change education community is being conducted to examine 1) how the CLEAN Network make up and needs have evolved and how they compare to the broader community, and 2) to gather further input into the shaping of the elements of collective impact on climate and energy literacy. This presentation will describe the results from the 2015 survey and compare them to the 2013 survey and the community discussions. This will include describing the CLEAN Network's evolving professional make up, engagement of its members network activities, the importance of the network to members; how the findings compare with the broader climate change education community, and how the collective impact can be increased.
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Telomerase activity as a marker for malignancy in feline tissues.
Cadile, C D; Kitchell, B E; Biller, B J; Hetler, E R; Balkin, R G
2001-10-01
To establish the diagnostic significance of the telomeric repeat amplification protocol (TRAP) assay in detecting feline malignancies. Solid tissue specimens collected from 33 client-owned cats undergoing diagnostic or therapeutic procedures at the University of Illinois Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital between July 1997 and September 1999 and an additional 20 tissue samples were collected from 3 clinically normal control cats euthanatized at the conclusion of an unrelated study. The TRAP assay was used for detection of telomerase activity. Each result was compared to its respective histopathologic diagnosis. Twenty-nine of 31 malignant and 1 of 22 benign or normal tissue samples had telomerase activity, indicating 94% sensitivity and 95% specificity of the TRAP assay in our laboratory. The diagnostic significance of telomerase activity has been demonstrated in humans and recently in dogs by our laboratory. We tested feline samples to determine whether similar patterns of telomerase activity exist. On the basis of our results, the TRAP assay may be clinically useful in providing a rapid diagnosis of malignancy in cats. The telomerase enzyme may also serve as a therapeutic target in feline tumors.
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All health is local: state and local planning for physical activity promotion.
Kohl, Harold W; Satinsky, Sara B; Whitfield, Geoffrey P; Evenson, Kelly R
2013-01-01
Physical activity is a leading cause of death in the world. Although state and local public health planning is a useful strategy to address noncommunicable disease health concerns such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and obesity, physical activity frequently is subsumed in such disease-centric planning efforts. This strategy could dilute broader efforts to promote physical activity, create administrative silos that may be trying to accomplish similar goals, and weaken efforts to more collectively address a variety of noncommunicable diseases. Currently, few stand-alone state plans directed specifically at physical activity exist. The reasons and barriers for this situation are not understood. In 2011, we surveyed public health care practitioners to describe state and local efforts for physical activity planning. Cross-sectional study. Survey of physical activity practitioners in the United States. A total of 227 former or current members of the US National Society of Physical Activity Practitioners in Public Health who completed a survey. Overall, 48.0% of respondents indicated that they were aware of public health plans for physical activity promotion in their state, whereas 36.6% indicated that they did not know. Respondents at the state level more frequently reported awareness of a plan (62.1%) than those with local-level (52.4%) or other job responsibilities (36.0%). A greater proportion of respondents reported that stand-alone physical activity plans existed in their state than actually did exist in the respective states. Integration with the National Physical Activity Plan was least often identified as a moderately or extremely relevant aspect of a state-level physical activity plan, although it was chosen at a high percentage (75.7%). Respondents identified financial support (88.0%) and political will and support (54.6%) most frequently as very or somewhat difficult barriers to moving forward with state-level physical activity plans. These data suggest that despite efforts to increase development and use of stand-alone physical activity plans, most practitioners rely on existing chronic disease- or obesity-related plans to guide their efforts. Barriers to developing stand-alone physical activity plans must be addressed to develop such plans.
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Investigation of Seasonal and Latitudinal Effects on the Expression of Clock Genes in Drosophila
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Hosseini, Seyede Sanaz; Nazarimehr, Fahimeh; Jafari, Sajad
The primary goal in this work is to develop a dynamical model capturing the influence of seasonal and latitudinal variations on the expression of Drosophila clock genes. To this end, we study a specific dynamical system with strange attractors that exhibit changes of Drosophila activity in a range of latitudes and across different seasons. Bifurcations of this system are analyzed to peruse the effect of season and latitude on the behavior of clock genes. Existing experimental data collected from the activity of Drosophila melanogaster corroborate the dynamical model.
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Brooks, C M
1987-01-01
One of the 1990 Health Objectives established by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is for 60 per cent of adults 18-65 years of age to be participating regularly in vigorous physical exercise. Unfortunately, no valid and practical measurement system is available that will allow assessment of leisure time physical activity participation of large populations. Consequently, not only is it difficult to assess progress toward the 1990 goal, an accurate baseline from which to measure potential progress does not exist. This paper presents a time diary technique for measuring aggregate population physical activity participation and utilizes actual time diaries collected from adults by the Institute for Social Research in 1981 to arrive at a possible baseline. The results indicated that time diaries are a viable method for assessing aggregate physical activity behavior of large populations. American Adults were quite sedentary in 1981. Over a period of one week, 31% undertook no leisure time physical activity. Only 14 per cent expended more than 1600 kcals/week in leisure time physical activity, and 10 per cent met the DHHS physical activity requirements. PMID:3826464
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An analysis of wildfire prevention
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Heineke, J. M.; Weissenberger, S.
1974-01-01
A model of the production of wildfire ignitions and damages is developed and used to determine wildland activity-regulation decisions, which minimize total expected cost-plus-loss due to wildfires. In this context, the implications of various policy decisions are considered. The resulting decision rules take a form that makes it possible for existing wildfire management agencies to readily adopt them upon collection of the required data.
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Annual Research Progress Report.
1979-09-30
will be trained in SLRL test procedures and the methodology will be developed for the incorporation of test materials into the standard rearing diet ...requirements exist for system software maintenance and development of software to report dosing data, to calculate diet preparation data, to manage collected...influence of diet and exercise on myo- globin and metmyoglobin reductase were evaluated in the rat. The activity of inetmyo- globin reductase was
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Modelling regulation of decomposition and related root/mycorrhizal processes in arctic tundra soils
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Linkins, A.E.
1992-01-01
Since this was the final year of this project principal activities were directed towards either collecting data needed to complete existing incomplete data sets or writing manuscripts. Data sets on Imnaviat Creek watershed basin are functionally complete and data finialized on the cellulose mineralizaiton and dust impact on soil organic carbon and phsophorus decomposition. Seven manuscripts were prepared, and are briefly outlined.
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Bacterial Degradation of DNT and TNT Mixtures
2005-10-31
deletion derivatives and subclones that allowed isolated synthesis of the other gene products shown in Figure II- 1 , did not provide activity to transform...Research Laboratories, Tyndall AFB, Florida) Glenn R. Johnson Air Force Research Laboratories, Tyndall AFB, Florida October 31, 2005 Version 1 ...burden for the collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing
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ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Davis, Christa Ann
2013-01-01
This dissertation describes two studies, based on data collection within a pre-existing collegiate course for pre-service teachers in a children's dance setting at a northwest public university. The overall purpose of these experimental studies was to compare traditional movement/dance with the influence of a relevance-based instructional model,…
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ECOLES: a Citizen Observers network engaging communities to map climate change at the local level
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Thejll, Peter; Walker, Nicholas; Sandholt, Inge; Brown, Ian; Solberg, Rune; Suwala, Jason; Kelly, Richard; Tangen, Helge; Berglund, Robin; Dean, Andy; Engset, Rune; Siewertsen, Bjarne
2016-04-01
Engaging people in environmental studies is an important way to bring across awareness of expected future climate changes, and also a way to measure environmental change in ways that are better or complementary to remote sensing methods. With a hands-on approach, people are more likely to embrace the idea that climate change is occurring, and with modern technologies it is possible to collect quite stunning amounts of relevant data. We suggest several national activities tailored to conditions in each of the participating countries and also to existing national CO-projects. The project focuses on gathering data on biological changes, on weather, and on snow-pack information in Nordic countries as well as Greenland and Canada. Data will be gathered with existing equipment (mobile phones and internet-connected weather stations) and the project provides the means for collation of data into a database for dissemination and quality control. Numerical data collected by small non-professional weather stations or mobile phones with sensors are not directly useful quantitatively for e.g. numerical weather prediction without validation of data quality, but with validation there is a huge untapped potential due to the number of observers. Students are a central part of the project, which also seeks to engage people out and about in nature, and people with their own weather stations or other environmental data-collection activities, as well as passive data collection from mobile phone data sensors in people's bags and pockets. Appropriate software, educational and training materials will be designed with end-users in mind; school-age materials will be produced in the appropriate languages (e.g. Kalaallisut for COs of school age in Greenland).
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Essential Autonomous Science Inference on Rovers (EASIR)
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Roush, Ted L.; Shipman, Mark; Morris, Robert; Gazis, Paul; Pedersen, Liam
2003-01-01
Existing constraints on time, computational, and communication resources associated with Mars rover missions suggest on-board science evaluation of sensor data can contribute to decreasing human-directed operational planning, optimizing returned science data volumes, and recognition of unique or novel data. All of which act to increase the scientific return from a mission. Many different levels of science autonomy exist and each impacts the data collected and returned by, and activities of, rovers. Several computational algorithms, designed to recognize objects of interest to geologists and biologists, are discussed. The algorithms represent various functions that producing scientific opinions and several scenarios illustrate how the opinions can be used.
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Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) for Coal Storage Area Stabilization Project
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Project and Design Engineering
2011-03-01
The scope of this project is to stabilize the abandoned coal storage area and redirect the storm water runoff from sanitary sewer system to the storm drain system. Currently, the existing storm water runoff is directed to a perimeter concrete drainage swale and collected in a containment basin. The collected water is then pumped to a treatment facility and after treatment, is discharged to the Y-12 sanitary sewer system. The existing drainage swale and collection basin along with silt fencing will be used during aggregate placement and grading to provide erosion and sediment control. Inlet protection will also be installedmore » around existing structures during the storm water diversion construction. This project scope will include the installation of a non-woven geotextile fabric and compacted mineral aggregate base (paving optional) to stabilize the site. The geotextile specifications are provided on the vendor cut sheets in Appendix B. The installation of a storm water collection/retention area will also be installed on the southern side of the site in accordance with EPA Technical Guidance on Implementing the Stormwater Runoff Requirements for federal Projects under Section 438 of the Energy Independence and Security Act. The total area to be disturbed is approximately 2.5 acres. The order of activities for this Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) will be: (1) post notice of coverage (NOC) in a prominent display near entrance of the site; (2) install rain gauge on site or contact Y-12 Plant Shift Superintendent daily for Met tower rain gauge readings; (3) install stabilized construction exit on site; (4) install silt fencing along perimeter as indicated on the attached site plan; (5) regrade site; (6) install geotextile fabric and compacted mineral aggregate base; (7) install catch basin inlet protection where required; (8) excavate and lower existing catch basin tops, re-grade and asphalt to drain; and (9) when all disturbed areas are re-stabilized, remove silt fencing and any other temporary erosion control.« less
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Active Layer and Water Geochemistry Dynamics throughout the Yukon River Basin
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Mutter, E. A.; Toohey, R.; Herman-Mercer, N. M.; Schuster, P. F.
2017-12-01
The hydrology of the Yukon River Basin has changed over the last several decades as evidenced by a variety of discharge, gravimetric, and geochemical analyses. The Indigenous Observation Network (ION), a community-based project, was initiated by the Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council and USGS. Capitalizing on existing USGS monitoring and research infrastructure and supplementing USGS collected data, ION investigates changes in surface water geochemistry and active layer dynamics throughout the Yukon River Basin. Over 1600 samples of surface water geochemistry (i.e., major ions, dissolved organic carbon, and 18O and 2H) have been collected at 35 sites throughout the Yukon River and its major tributaries over the past 15 years. Active layer dynamics (maximum thaw depth, soil temperature and moisture) have been collected at 20 sites throughout the Yukon River Basin for the past eight years. Important regional differences in geochemistry and active layer parameters linked to permafrost continuity and tributaries will be highlighted. Additionally, annual trends and seasonal dynamics describing the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of the watershed will be presented in the context of observed hydrological changes. These data assist the global effort to characterize arctic river fluxes and their relationship to the carbon cycle, weathering and permafrost degradation.
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How to acquire new biological activities in old compounds by computer prediction
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Poroikov, V. V.; Filimonov, D. A.
2002-11-01
Due to the directed way of testing chemical compounds' in drug research and development many projects fail because serious adverse effects and toxicity are discovered too late, and many existing prospective activities remain unstudied. Evaluation of the general biological potential of molecules is possible using a computer program PASS that predicts more than 780 pharmacological effects, mechanisms of action, mutagenicity, carcinogenicity, etc. on the basis of structural formulae of compounds, with average accuracy ˜85%. PASS applications to both databases of available samples included hundreds of thousands compounds, and small collections of compounds synthesized by separate medicinal chemists are described. It is shown that 880 compounds from Prestwick chemical library represent a very diverse pharmacological space. New activities can be found in existing compounds by prediction. Therefore, on this basis, the selection of compounds with required and without unwanted properties is possible. Even when PASS cannot predict very new activities, it may recognize some unwanted actions at the early stage of R&D, providing the medicinal chemist with the means to increase the efficiency of projects.
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The Effect of New Shower Facilities on Physical Activity Behaviors of Employees: A Quasi-experiment.
Nehme, Eileen K; Pérez, Adriana; Ranjit, Nalini; Amick, Benjamin C; Kohl, Harold W
2017-02-01
This quasi-experimental study assessed the effects of new workplace showers on physical activity behaviors in a sample of downtown employees in Austin, TX. The study design was quasi-experimental with 2 comparison groups. Data were collected via internet-based surveys before and 4 months after shower installation at 1 worksite. Differences across study groups in the ranks of change in past-week minutes of physical activity from baseline to follow-up were assessed. Adjusted odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals for reporting an increase of ≥10 min past-week physical activity and workday physical activity among those with new showers and existing showers relative to those with no showers were also assessed. No significant differences in changes in physical activity from baseline to follow-up across study groups were found. One-quarter of participants with new workplace showers and 46.9% of those with existing workplace showers at baseline reported ever using the showers. This prospective study did not find significant changes in employee physical activity 4 months after installation of worksite showers. Worksite shower users were highly active at baseline, suggesting a possible early adopter effect, with potential for diffusion. Future studies may benefit from longer exposure times and larger samples.
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Zhou, Xiaolu; Li, Dongying
2018-05-09
Advancement in location-aware technologies, and information and communication technology in the past decades has furthered our knowledge of the interaction between human activities and the built environment. An increasing number of studies have collected data regarding individual activities to better understand how the environment shapes human behavior. Despite this growing interest, some challenges exist in collecting and processing individual's activity data, e.g., capturing people's precise environmental contexts and analyzing data at multiple spatial scales. In this study, we propose and implement an innovative system that integrates smartphone-based step tracking with an app and the sequential tile scan techniques to collect and process activity data. We apply the OpenStreetMap tile system to aggregate positioning points at various scales. We also propose duration, step and probability surfaces to quantify the multi-dimensional attributes of activities. Results show that, by running the app in the background, smartphones can measure multi-dimensional attributes of human activities, including space, duration, step, and location uncertainty at various spatial scales. By coordinating Global Positioning System (GPS) sensor with accelerometer sensor, this app can save battery which otherwise would be drained by GPS sensor quickly. Based on a test dataset, we were able to detect the recreational center and sports center as the space where the user was most active, among other places visited. The methods provide techniques to address key issues in analyzing human activity data. The system can support future studies on behavioral and health consequences related to individual's environmental exposure.
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Hieronimo, Proches; Gulinck, Hubert; Kimaro, Didas N; Mulungu, Loth S; Kihupi, Nganga I; Msanya, Balthazar M; Leirs, Herwig; Deckers, Jozef A
2014-07-01
Since 1980 plague has been a human threat in the Western Usambara Mountains in Tanzania. However, the spatial-temporal pattern of plague occurrence remains poorly understood. The main objective of this study was to gain understanding of human activity patterns in relation to spatial distribution of fleas in Lushoto District. Data were collected in three landscapes differing in plague incidence. Field survey coupled with Geographic Information System (GIS) and physical sample collections were used to collect data in wet (April to June 2012) and dry (August to October 2012) seasons. Data analysis was done using GIS, one-way ANOVA and nonparametric statistical tools. The degree of spatial co-occurrence of potential disease vectors (fleas) and humans in Lushoto focus differs significantly (p ≤ 0.05) among the selected landscapes, and in both seasons. This trend gives a coarse indication of the possible association of the plague outbreaks and the human frequencies of contacting environments with fleas. The study suggests that plague surveillance and control programmes at landscape scale should consider the existence of plague vector contagion risk gradient from high to low incidence landscapes due to human presence and intensity of activities.
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Cradock, Angie L; Barrett, Jessica L; Giles, Catherine M; Lee, Rebekka M; Kenney, Erica L; deBlois, Madeleine E; Thayer, Julie C; Gortmaker, Steven L
2016-02-01
Millions of children attend after-school programs in the United States. Increasing physical activity levels of program participants could have a broad effect on children's health. To test the effectiveness of the Out of School Nutrition and Physical Activity (OSNAP) Initiative in increasing children's physical activity levels in existing after-school programs. Cluster-randomized controlled trial with matched program pairs. Baseline data were collected September 27 through November 12, 2010, with follow-up data collected April 25 through May 27, 2011. The dates of our analysis were March 11, 2014, through August 18, 2015. The setting was 20 after-school programs in Boston, Massachusetts. All children 5 to 12 years old in participating programs were eligible for study inclusion. Ten programs participated in a series of three 3-hour learning collaborative workshops, with additional optional opportunities for training and technical assistance. Change in number of minutes and bouts of moderate to vigorous physical activity, vigorous physical activity, and sedentary activity and change in total accelerometer counts between baseline and follow-up. Participants with complete data were 402 racially/ethnically diverse children, with a mean age of 7.7 years. Change in the duration of physical activity opportunities offered to children during program time did not differ between conditions (-1.2 minutes; 95% CI, -14.2 to 12.4 minutes; P = .87). Change in moderate to vigorous physical activity minutes accumulated by children during program time did not differ significantly by intervention status (-1.0; 95% CI, -3.3 to 1.3; P = .40). Total minutes per day of vigorous physical activity (3.2; 95% CI, 1.8-4.7; P < .001), vigorous physical activity minutes in bouts (4.1; 95% CI, 2.7-5.6; P < .001), and total accelerometer counts per day (16,894; 95% CI, 5101-28,686; P = .01) increased significantly during program time among intervention participants compared with control participants. Although programs participating in the OSNAP Initiative did not allot significantly more time for physical activity, they successfully made existing time more vigorously active for children receiving the intervention. clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT01396473.
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Summary information of human health hazard assessment of existing chemical substances (I).
Matsumoto, Mariko; Kobayashi, Katsumi; Takahashi, Mika; Hirata-Koizumi, Mutsuko; Ono, Atsushi; Hirose, Akihiko
2015-01-01
Under the Chemical Substances Control Law (CSCL) in Japan, initial hazard information tor existing chemical substances has been collected by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan (MHLW) to assess potential initial risks to human health. We have reviewed all collected toxicity information pertaining to acute toxicity, repeated dose toxicity, genotoxicity, and/or reproductive/developmental toxicity and performed hazard assessments. Approximately 150 substances are currently undergoing review and assessment. For clarification and evaluation of each toxicity study, we have created a dossier (a collection of study data containing a detailed summary of the methods, results, and conclusions of each study) in English using the International Uniform Chemical Information Database (IUCLID) version 5. The IUCLID dossier format is widely used and has been accepted as one of the most beneficial formats for providing summarized chemical substance toxicity assessments. In this report, as a contribution to our ongoing hazard assessment activity, we present summary hazard information related to the potential human health effects of the following 5 chemical substances: 4-chlorobenzoyl chloride (CAS: 122-01-0); benzenesulfonic acid, 4-hydroxy-, tin (2+) salt (CAS: 70974- 33-3); chlorocyclohexane (CAS: 542-18-7); 1,3-cyclohexanedimethanamine (CAS: 2579-20-6); and 1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6 (1H,3H,5H) -trithione (CAS: 638-16-4). The IUCLID dossiers created for these 5 chemical substances will be made available via the Japan Existing Chemical Data Base (JECDB) at
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28 CFR 11.3 - Compliance with existing laws.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR
2010-07-01
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28 CFR 11.3 - Compliance with existing laws.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR
2011-07-01
... 28 Judicial Administration 1 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Compliance with existing laws. 11.3... for Debt Collection § 11.3 Compliance with existing laws. The procurement of the services of private attorneys for debt collection shall be accomplished in accordance with the competitive procurement...
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Physician tracking in sub-Saharan Africa: current initiatives and opportunities
2014-01-01
Background Physician tracking systems are critical for health workforce planning as well as for activities to ensure quality health care - such as physician regulation, education, and emergency response. However, information on current systems for physician tracking in sub-Saharan Africa is limited. The objective of this study is to provide information on the current state of physician tracking systems in the region, highlighting emerging themes and innovative practices. Methods This study included a review of the literature, an online search for physician licensing systems, and a document review of publicly available physician registration forms for sub-Saharan African countries. Primary data on physician tracking activities was collected as part of the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) - through two rounds over two years of annual surveys to 13 medical schools in 12 sub-Saharan countries. Two innovations were identified during two MEPI school site visits in Uganda and Ghana. Results Out of twelve countries, nine had existing frameworks for physician tracking through licensing requirements. Most countries collected basic demographic information: name, address, date of birth, nationality/citizenship, and training institution. Practice information was less frequently collected. The most frequently collected practice fields were specialty/degree and current title/position. Location of employment and name and sector of current employer were less frequently collected. Many medical schools are taking steps to implement graduate tracking systems. We also highlight two innovative practices: mobile technology access to physician registries in Uganda and MDNet, a public-private partnership providing free mobile-to-mobile voice and text messages to all doctors registered with the Ghana Medical Association. Conclusion While physician tracking systems vary widely between countries and a number of challenges remain, there appears to be increasing interest in developing these systems and many innovative developments in the area. Opportunities exist to expand these systems in a more coordinated manner that will ultimately lead to better workforce planning, implementation of the workforce, and better health. PMID:24754965
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Physician tracking in sub-Saharan Africa: current initiatives and opportunities.
Chen, Candice; Baird, Sarah; Ssentongo, Katumba; Mehtsun, Sinit; Olapade-Olaopa, Emiola Oluwabunmi; Scott, Jim; Sewankambo, Nelson; Talib, Zohray; Ward-Peterson, Melissa; Mariam, Damen Haile; Rugarabamu, Paschalis
2014-04-23
Physician tracking systems are critical for health workforce planning as well as for activities to ensure quality health care - such as physician regulation, education, and emergency response. However, information on current systems for physician tracking in sub-Saharan Africa is limited. The objective of this study is to provide information on the current state of physician tracking systems in the region, highlighting emerging themes and innovative practices. This study included a review of the literature, an online search for physician licensing systems, and a document review of publicly available physician registration forms for sub-Saharan African countries. Primary data on physician tracking activities was collected as part of the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) - through two rounds over two years of annual surveys to 13 medical schools in 12 sub-Saharan countries. Two innovations were identified during two MEPI school site visits in Uganda and Ghana. Out of twelve countries, nine had existing frameworks for physician tracking through licensing requirements. Most countries collected basic demographic information: name, address, date of birth, nationality/citizenship, and training institution. Practice information was less frequently collected. The most frequently collected practice fields were specialty/degree and current title/position. Location of employment and name and sector of current employer were less frequently collected. Many medical schools are taking steps to implement graduate tracking systems. We also highlight two innovative practices: mobile technology access to physician registries in Uganda and MDNet, a public-private partnership providing free mobile-to-mobile voice and text messages to all doctors registered with the Ghana Medical Association. While physician tracking systems vary widely between countries and a number of challenges remain, there appears to be increasing interest in developing these systems and many innovative developments in the area. Opportunities exist to expand these systems in a more coordinated manner that will ultimately lead to better workforce planning, implementation of the workforce, and better health.
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BOREAS AFM-04 Twin Otter Aircraft Flux Data
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
MacPherson, J. Ian; Hall, Forrest G. (Editor); Knapp, David E. (Editor); Desjardins, Raymond L.; Smith, David E. (Technical Monitor)
2000-01-01
The BOREAS AFM-5 team collected and processed data from the numerous radiosonde flights during the project. The goals of the AFM-05 team were to provide large-scale definition of the atmosphere by supplementing the existing AES aerological network, both temporally and spatially. This data set includes basic upper-air parameters collected from the network of upper-air stations during the 1993, 1994, and 1996 field campaigns over the entire study region. The data are contained in tabular ASCII files. The data files are available on a CD-ROM (see document number 20010000884) or from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC).
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BOREAS HYD-6 Moss/Humus Moisture Data
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Peck, Eugene L.; Hall, Forrest G. (Editor); Knapp, David E. (Editor); Carroll, Thomas; Smith, David E. (Technical Monitor)
2000-01-01
The Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (BOREAS) Hydrology (HYD)-6 team collected several data sets related to the moisture content of soil and overlying humus layers. This data set contains water content measurements of the moss/humus layer, where it existed. These data were collected along various flight lines in the Southern Study Area (SSA) and Northern Study Area (NSA) during 1994. The data are available in tabular ASCII files. The HYD-06 moss/humus moisture data are available from the Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC). The data files are available on a CD-ROM (see document number 20010000884).
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BOREAS HYD-9 Belfort Rain Gauge Data
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Hall, Forrest G. (Editor); Kouwen, Nick; Soulis, Ric; Jenkinson, Wayne; Graham, Allyson; Knapp, David E. (Editor); Smith, David E. (Technical Monitor)
2000-01-01
The Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (BOREAS) Hydrology (HYD)-6 team collected several data sets related to the moisture content of soil and overlying humus layers. This data set contains water content measurements of the moss/humus layer, where it existed. These data were collected along various flight lines in the Southern Study Area (SSA) and Northern Study Area (NSA) during 1994. The data are available in tabular ASCII files. The HYD-9 Belfort rain gauge data are available from the Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC). The data files are available on a CD-ROM (see document number 20010000884).
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Women in medicine: historical perspectives and recent trends.
Jefferson, Laura; Bloor, Karen; Maynard, Alan
2015-06-01
Women now outnumber men in British medical schools. This paper charts the history of women in medicine and provides current demographic trends. A historical literature review and routinely collected data from Department of Health and the Health and Social Care Information Centre. Clear gender differences are apparent in working practices, including greater likelihood of working part time and specializing in certain areas of medicine. The increasing need to increase activity among the existing medical workforce is timely amidst a changing workforce demographic. Workforce planners, policymakers and Royal Colleges should continue to develop interventions that may reduce disparities in career choices, as well as considering ways to increase participation and activity. Further research is needed to explore the cost-effectiveness of existing and future interventions in this field. © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.
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Lázaro Silva Inácio, Cássio; Hilário Tavares da Silva, José; César de Melo Freire, Renato; Antonaci Gama, Renata; Brisola Marcondes, Carlos; de Fátima Freire de Melo Ximenes, Maria
2017-05-01
The distribution of mosquito species in Rio Grande do Norte state, Brazil, was compiled from published data mid-2016 and a review of specimens deposited in the entomological collection of the Entomology Laboratory of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. The existing records exist for 40 of the 167 municipalities in the state. The specimens in the Entomology Laboratory were collected using Shannon traps and by active search for immature individuals and from aquatic habitats using standard methods, in preserved Atlantic Forest and Caatinga remnants, located in urban and rural areas of the state. In total were recorded 76 species distributed into 25 subgenera, 15 genera, nine tribes, and two subfamilies, in addition to 15 new species records for the state. © The Authors 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Entomological Society of America. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com.
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DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Linkins, A.E.
1992-09-01
Since this was the final year of this project principal activities were directed towards either collecting data needed to complete existing incomplete data sets or writing manuscripts. Data sets on Imnaviat Creek watershed basin are functionally complete and data finialized on the cellulose mineralizaiton and dust impact on soil organic carbon and phsophorus decomposition. Seven manuscripts were prepared, and are briefly outlined.
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2013-11-15
features and designed a classifier that achieves up to 95% classification accuracy on classifying the occupancy with indoor footstep data. MDL-based...information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and...maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other
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A novel mobile-cloud system for capturing and analyzing wheelchair maneuvering data: A pilot study.
Fu, Jicheng; Jones, Maria; Liu, Tao; Hao, Wei; Yan, Yuqing; Qian, Gang; Jan, Yih-Kuen
2016-01-01
The purpose of this pilot study was to provide a new approach for capturing and analyzing wheelchair maneuvering data, which are critical for evaluating wheelchair users' activity levels. We proposed a mobile-cloud (MC) system, which incorporated the emerging mobile and cloud computing technologies. The MC system employed smartphone sensors to collect wheelchair maneuvering data and transmit them to the cloud for storage and analysis. A k-nearest neighbor (KNN) machine-learning algorithm was developed to mitigate the impact of sensor noise and recognize wheelchair maneuvering patterns. We conducted 30 trials in an indoor setting, where each trial contained 10 bouts (i.e., periods of continuous wheelchair movement). We also verified our approach in a different building. Different from existing approaches that require sensors to be attached to wheelchairs' wheels, we placed the smartphone into a smartphone holder attached to the wheelchair. Experimental results illustrate that our approach correctly identified all 300 bouts. Compared to existing approaches, our approach was easier to use while achieving similar accuracy in analyzing the accumulated movement time and maximum period of continuous movement (p > 0.8). Overall, the MC system provided a feasible way to ease the data collection process and generated accurate analysis results for evaluating activity levels.
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A Novel Mobile-Cloud System for Capturing and Analyzing Wheelchair Maneuvering Data: A Pilot Study
Fu, Jicheng; Jones, Maria; Liu, Tao; Hao, Wei; Yan, Yuqing; Qian, Gang; Jan, Yih-Kuen
2016-01-01
The purpose of this pilot study was to provide a new approach for capturing and analyzing wheelchair maneuvering data, which are critical for evaluating wheelchair users’ activity levels. We proposed a mobile-cloud (MC) system, which incorporated the emerging mobile and cloud computing technologies. The MC system employed smartphone sensors to collect wheelchair maneuvering data and transmit them to the cloud for storage and analysis. A K-Nearest-Neighbor (KNN) machine-learning algorithm was developed to mitigate the impact of sensor noise and recognize wheelchair maneuvering patterns. We conducted 30 trials in an indoor setting, where each trial contained 10 bouts (i.e., periods of continuous wheelchair movement). We also verified our approach in a different building. Different from existing approaches that require sensors to be attached to wheelchairs’ wheels, we placed the smartphone into a smartphone holder attached to the wheelchair. Experimental results illustrate that our approach correctly identified all 300 bouts. Compared to existing approaches, our approach was easier to use while achieving similar accuracy in analyzing the accumulated movement time and maximum period of continuous movement (p > 0.8). Overall, the MC system provided a feasible way to ease the data collection process, and generated accurate analysis results for evaluating activity levels. PMID:26479684
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Invisible Brain: Knowledge in Research Works and Neuron Activity.
Segev, Aviv; Curtis, Dorothy; Jung, Sukhwan; Chae, Suhyun
2016-01-01
If the market has an invisible hand, does knowledge creation and representation have an "invisible brain"? While knowledge is viewed as a product of neuron activity in the brain, can we identify knowledge that is outside the brain but reflects the activity of neurons in the brain? This work suggests that the patterns of neuron activity in the brain can be seen in the representation of knowledge-related activity. Here we show that the neuron activity mechanism seems to represent much of the knowledge learned in the past decades based on published articles, in what can be viewed as an "invisible brain" or collective hidden neural networks. Similar results appear when analyzing knowledge activity in patents. Our work also tries to characterize knowledge increase as neuron network activity growth. The results propose that knowledge-related activity can be seen outside of the neuron activity mechanism. Consequently, knowledge might exist as an independent mechanism.
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Invisible Brain: Knowledge in Research Works and Neuron Activity
Segev, Aviv; Curtis, Dorothy; Jung, Sukhwan; Chae, Suhyun
2016-01-01
If the market has an invisible hand, does knowledge creation and representation have an “invisible brain”? While knowledge is viewed as a product of neuron activity in the brain, can we identify knowledge that is outside the brain but reflects the activity of neurons in the brain? This work suggests that the patterns of neuron activity in the brain can be seen in the representation of knowledge-related activity. Here we show that the neuron activity mechanism seems to represent much of the knowledge learned in the past decades based on published articles, in what can be viewed as an “invisible brain” or collective hidden neural networks. Similar results appear when analyzing knowledge activity in patents. Our work also tries to characterize knowledge increase as neuron network activity growth. The results propose that knowledge-related activity can be seen outside of the neuron activity mechanism. Consequently, knowledge might exist as an independent mechanism. PMID:27439199
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Collective Motion in Behaviorally Heterogeneous Systems
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Copenhagen, Katherine
Collective motion is a widespread phenomenon in nature where individuals actively propel themselves, gather together and move as a group. Some examples of collective motion are bird flocks, fish schools, bacteria swarms, cell clusters, and crowds of people. Many models seek to understand the effects of activity in collective systems including things such as environmental disorder, density, and interaction details primarily at infinite size limits and with uniform populations. In this dissertation I investigate the effects of finite sizes and behavioral heterogeneity as it exists in nature. Behavioral heterogeneity can originate from several different sources. Mixed populations of individuals can have inherently different behaviors such as mutant bacteria, injured fish, or agents that prefer individualistic behavior over coordinated motion. Alternatively, agents may modify their own behavior based on some local environmental dependency, such as local substrate, or density. In cases such as mutant cheaters in bacteria or malfunctioning drones in swarms, mixed populations of behaviorally heterogeneous agents can be modelled as arising in the form of aligning and non-aligning agents. When this kind of heterogeneity is introduced, there is a critical carrying capacity of non-aligners above which the system is unable to form a cohesive ordered group. However, if the cohesion of the group is relaxed to allow for fracture, the system will actively sort out non-aligning agents the system will exist at a critical non-aligner fraction. A similar heterogeneity could result in a mixture of high and low noise individuals. In this case there is also a critical carry capacity beyond which the system is unable to reach an ordered state, however the nature of this transition depends on the model details. Agents which are part of an ordered collective may vary their behavior as the group changes environments such as a flock of birds flying into a cloud. Using a unique model of a flock where the group behaves as a rigid disk reveals interesting behaviors as the system crosses a boundary between interfaces. The collective rotates and reorients or becomes stuck on the boundary as it crosses. I also investigate the effects of variable behavior depending on local density, and find that a frustration driven transient rotational phase arises in clusters where agents with low local density move faster than those with high local density as in cell clusters. All together I have shown that behavioral heterogeneity in collective motion can lead to unique phases and behaviors that are not seen in their homogeneous counterparts.
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Ilovitsh, Tali; Meiri, Amihai; Ebeling, Carl G.; Menon, Rajesh; Gerton, Jordan M.; Jorgensen, Erik M.; Zalevsky, Zeev
2013-01-01
Localization of a single fluorescent particle with sub-diffraction-limit accuracy is a key merit in localization microscopy. Existing methods such as photoactivated localization microscopy (PALM) and stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM) achieve localization accuracies of single emitters that can reach an order of magnitude lower than the conventional resolving capabilities of optical microscopy. However, these techniques require a sparse distribution of simultaneously activated fluorophores in the field of view, resulting in larger time needed for the construction of the full image. In this paper we present the use of a nonlinear image decomposition algorithm termed K-factor, which reduces an image into a nonlinear set of contrast-ordered decompositions whose joint product reassembles the original image. The K-factor technique, when implemented on raw data prior to localization, can improve the localization accuracy of standard existing methods, and also enable the localization of overlapping particles, allowing the use of increased fluorophore activation density, and thereby increased data collection speed. Numerical simulations of fluorescence data with random probe positions, and especially at high densities of activated fluorophores, demonstrate an improvement of up to 85% in the localization precision compared to single fitting techniques. Implementing the proposed concept on experimental data of cellular structures yielded a 37% improvement in resolution for the same super-resolution image acquisition time, and a decrease of 42% in the collection time of super-resolution data with the same resolution. PMID:24466491
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Ip, Dennis Km; Lau, Eric Hy; So, Hau Chi; Xiao, Jingyi; Lam, Chi Kin; Fang, Vicky J; Tam, Yat Hung; Leung, Gabriel M; Cowling, Benjamin J
2017-10-06
School-aged children have the highest incidence of respiratory virus infections each year, and transmission of respiratory viruses such as influenza virus can be a major concern in school settings. School absenteeism data have been employed as a component of influenza surveillance systems in some locations. Data timeliness and system acceptance remain as key determinants affecting the usefulness of a prospective surveillance system. The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility of implementing an electronic school absenteeism surveillance system using smart card-based technology for influenza-like illness (ILI) surveillance among a representative network of local primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong. We designed and implemented a surveillance system according to the Protocol for a Standardized information infrastructure for Pandemic and Emerging infectious disease Response (PROSPER). We employed an existing smart card-based education and school administration platform for data capture, customized the user interface, and used additional back end systems built for other downstream surveillance steps. We invited local schools to participate and collected absenteeism data by the implemented system. We compared temporal trend of the absenteeism data with data from existing community sentinel and laboratory surveillance data. We designed and implemented an ILI surveillance system utilizing smart card-based attendance tracking approach for data capture. We implemented the surveillance system in a total of 107 schools (including 66 primary schools and 41 secondary schools), covering a total of 75,052 children. The system successfully captured information on absences for 2 consecutive academic years (2012-2013 and 2013-2014). The absenteeism data we collected from the system reflected ILI activity in the community, with an upsurge in disease activity detected up to 1 to 2 weeks preceding other existing surveillance systems. We designed and implemented a novel smart card technology-based school absenteeism surveillance system. Our study demonstrated the feasibility of building a large-scale surveillance system riding on a routinely adopted data collection approach and the use of simple system enhancement to minimize workload implication and enhance system acceptability. Data from this system have potential value in supplementing existing sentinel influenza surveillance for situational awareness of influenza activity in the community. ©Dennis KM Ip, Eric HY Lau, Hau Chi So, Jingyi Xiao, Chi Kin Lam, Vicky J Fang, Yat Hung Tam, Gabriel M Leung, Benjamin J Cowling. Originally published in JMIR Public Health and Surveillance (http://publichealth.jmir.org), 06.10.2017.
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75 FR 51503 - Existing Collection in Use Without an OMB Control Number
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-08-20
... collection in use without an OMB Control Number, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Update Form. This process is... Number: N/A. Title: Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Update Form. Type of Review: Existing collection in use without an OMB Control Number. Respondents: Returned Peace Corps Volunteers. Respondents...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-10-10
...] Information Collection: Renewable Energy and Alternate Uses of Existing Facilities on the Outer Continental... requirements in the regulations under ``Renewable Energy and Alternate Uses of Existing Facilities on the Outer..., transportation, or transmission of energy from sources other than oil and gas (renewable energy). Specifically...
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McCann, Liza J; Pilkington, Clarissa A; Huber, Adam M; Ravelli, Angelo; Appelbe, Duncan; Kirkham, Jamie J; Williamson, Paula R; Aggarwal, Amita; Christopher-Stine, Lisa; Constantin, Tamas; Feldman, Brian M; Lundberg, Ingrid; Maillard, Sue; Mathiesen, Pernille; Murphy, Ruth; Pachman, Lauren M; Reed, Ann M; Rider, Lisa G; van Royen-Kerkof, Annet; Russo, Ricardo; Spinty, Stefan; Wedderburn, Lucy R
2018-01-01
Objectives This study aimed to develop consensus on an internationally agreed dataset for juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM), designed for clinical use, to enhance collaborative research and allow integration of data between centres. Methods A prototype dataset was developed through a formal process that included analysing items within existing databases of patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies. This template was used to aid a structured multistage consensus process. Exploiting Delphi methodology, two web-based questionnaires were distributed to healthcare professionals caring for patients with JDM identified through email distribution lists of international paediatric rheumatology and myositis research groups. A separate questionnaire was sent to parents of children with JDM and patients with JDM, identified through established research networks and patient support groups. The results of these parallel processes informed a face-to-face nominal group consensus meeting of international myositis experts, tasked with defining the content of the dataset. This developed dataset was tested in routine clinical practice before review and finalisation. Results A dataset containing 123 items was formulated with an accompanying glossary. Demographic and diagnostic data are contained within form A collected at baseline visit only, disease activity measures are included within form B collected at every visit and disease damage items within form C collected at baseline and annual visits thereafter. Conclusions Through a robust international process, a consensus dataset for JDM has been formulated that can capture disease activity and damage over time. This dataset can be incorporated into national and international collaborative efforts, including existing clinical research databases. PMID:29084729
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ICPP environmental monitoring report CY-1994
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
NONE
1995-05-01
Summarized in this report are the data collected through Environmental Monitoring programs conducted at the Idaho Chemical Processing Plant (ICPP) by the Environmental Protection Department. The ICPP is responsible for complying with all applicable Federal, State, Local and DOE Rules, Regulations and Orders. Radiological effluent and emissions are regulated by the DOE in accordance with the Derived Concentration Guides (DCGs) as presented in DOE Order 5400.5. The State of Idaho regulates nonradiological waste resulting from the ICPP operations including airborne, liquid, and solid waste. The Environmental Department updated the Quality Assurance (QA) Project Plan for Environmental Monitoring activities during themore » third quarter of 1992. QA activities have resulted in the ICPP`s implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules and guidelines pertaining to the collection, analyses, and reporting of environmentally related samples. Where no EPA methods for analyses existed for radionuclides, LITCO methods were used.« less
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A kinase-focused compound collection: compilation and screening strategy.
Sun, Dongyu; Chuaqui, Claudio; Deng, Zhan; Bowes, Scott; Chin, Donovan; Singh, Juswinder; Cullen, Patrick; Hankins, Gretchen; Lee, Wen-Cherng; Donnelly, Jason; Friedman, Jessica; Josiah, Serene
2006-06-01
Lead identification by high-throughput screening of large compound libraries has been supplemented with virtual screening and focused compound libraries. To complement existing approaches for lead identification at Biogen Idec, a kinase-focused compound collection was designed, developed and validated. Two strategies were adopted to populate the compound collection: a ligand shape-based virtual screening and a receptor-based approach (structural interaction fingerprint). Compounds selected with the two approaches were cherry-picked from an existing high-throughput screening compound library, ordered from suppliers and supplemented with specific medicinal compounds from internal programs. Promising hits and leads have been generated from the kinase-focused compound collection against multiple kinase targets. The principle of the collection design and screening strategy was validated and the use of the kinase-focused compound collection for lead identification has been added to existing strategies.
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Discovering Activities to Recognize and Track in a Smart Environment.
Rashidi, Parisa; Cook, Diane J; Holder, Lawrence B; Schmitter-Edgecombe, Maureen
2011-01-01
The machine learning and pervasive sensing technologies found in smart homes offer unprecedented opportunities for providing health monitoring and assistance to individuals experiencing difficulties living independently at home. In order to monitor the functional health of smart home residents, we need to design technologies that recognize and track activities that people normally perform as part of their daily routines. Although approaches do exist for recognizing activities, the approaches are applied to activities that have been pre-selected and for which labeled training data is available. In contrast, we introduce an automated approach to activity tracking that identifies frequent activities that naturally occur in an individual's routine. With this capability we can then track the occurrence of regular activities to monitor functional health and to detect changes in an individual's patterns and lifestyle. In this paper we describe our activity mining and tracking approach and validate our algorithms on data collected in physical smart environments.
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Development of a Compendium of Energy Expenditures for Youth
Ridley, Kate; Ainsworth, Barbara E; Olds, Tim S
2008-01-01
Background This paper presents a Compendium of Energy Expenditures for use in scoring physical activity questionnaires and estimating energy expenditure levels in youth. Method/Results Modeled after the adult Compendium of Physical Activities, the Compendium of Energy Expenditures for Youth contains a list of over 200 activities commonly performed by youth and their associated MET intensity levels. A review of existing data collected on the energy cost of youth performing activities was undertaken and incorporated into the compendium. About 35% of the activity MET levels were derived from energy cost data measured in youth and the remaining MET levels estimated from the adult compendium. Conclusion The Compendium of Energy Expenditures for Youth is useful to researchers and practitioners interested in identifying physical activity and energy expenditure values in children and adolescents in a variety of settings. PMID:18782458
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Suminski, Richard R; Petosa, Rick L; Jones, Larry; Hall, Lisa; Poston, Carlos W
2009-01-01
There is a scientific and practical need for high-quality effectiveness studies of physical activity interventions in "real-world" settings. To use a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach to develop, implement, operate, and evaluate an intervention for promoting physical activity called Neighborhoods on the Move. Two communities with similar physical and social characteristics participated in this study. One community was involved in Neighborhoods on the Move; the other (comparison community) participated only in the assessments. Academic personnel and residents/organizations in the Neighborhoods on the Move community worked together to create a community environment that was more conducive for physical activity. Pre- and posttest data on new initiatives promoting physical activity, existing physical activity initiatives, and business policies supporting physical activity were collected simultaneously in both communities. The success of the CBPR approach was evidenced by several developments, including substantial resident involvement and the formation of a leadership committee, marketing campaign, and numerous community partnerships. The number of businesses with policies promoting physical activity and breadth of existing physical activity initiatives (participants, activities, hours) increased substantially more in the Neighborhoods on the Move community than in the comparison community. A total of sixty new initiatives promoting physical activity were implemented in the Neighborhoods on the Move community during the intervention. The CBPR approach is an effective strategy for inducing environmental changes that promote physical activity. Additional research is needed to assess the portability and sustainability of Neighborhoods on the Move.
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2012-06-08
This research effectively argues the existence and importance of the very “human dynamic” of social mobilization and social revolutions. While there...managed to mobilize activism and protest. Many emerged and achieved success without the luxury of modern media and communications technologies let alone...were able to achieve significant social and political effects using social mobilization and non-violent collective action. Activists in both Tunisia
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ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Principal Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific.
This collection of science activities is designed to supplement traditional science education by encompassing an issues-based approach to helping students develop scientific and technological literacy. Each unit can be used within an existing teaching sequence and includes an introduction specifying scientific issues and educational objectives, a…
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Regional Anesthesia and Valproate Sodium for the Prevention of Chronic Post Amputation Pain
2016-10-01
our Clinical Research Coordinator (CRC), Veda Byrd, unfortunately left Duke for family reasons. After her departure, we activated separate existing...was held with Mary McDuffie, Veda Byrd, Dr John Hsia, and Dr Thomas Buchheit. New data collection points and protocol language were discussed...Thomas Buchheit, Dr Thomas Van de Ven, Veda Byrd, Rachel Morales, Kelly Kiser, Nancy Kwon, Peter Bedocs, and Mary McDuffie. The advantages of whole
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2012-05-28
operation in Europe OSINT Open Source Intelligence PDA Personal Digital Assistant SME Subject Matter Expert SWGCA Special Working Group on the...Form Approved Report Documentation Page OMB No. 0704-0/88 · 1 d’ the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources , gathering and...illegal and covert activity of exploiting vulnerabilities and collecting protected information or intelligence in cyberspace (MNE 7 Outcome 3 Working
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sarA as a Target for the Treatment and Prevention of Staphylococcal Biofilm-Associated Infection
2015-02-01
M.S., Compadre, C.M. 2011. Sesquiterpene lactons from Gynoxys verrucosa and their anti - MRSA activity. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 137:1055-1059. 11...estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data...needed, and completing and reviewing this collection of information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this
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Runkel, Robert L.; Kimball, Briant A.; Steiger, Judy I.; Walton-Day, Katherine
2009-01-01
Mineral Creek, an acid mine drainage stream in south-western Colorado, was the subject of a water-quality study that employed a paired synoptic approach. Under the paired synoptic approach, two synoptic sampling campaigns were conducted on the same study reach. The initial synoptic campaign, conducted August 22, 2005, documented stream-water quality under existing ambient conditions. A second synoptic campaign, conducted August 24, 2005, documented stream-water quality during a pH-modification experiment that elevated the pH of Mineral Creek. The experimental pH modification was designed to determine the potential reductions in dissolved constituent concentrations that would result from the implementation of an active treatment system for acid mine drainage. During both synoptic sampling campaigns, a solution containing lithium bromide was injected continuously to allow for the calculation of streamflow using the tracer-dilution method. Synoptic water-quality samples were collected from 30 stream sites and 11 inflow locations along the 2-kilometer study reach. Data from the study provide spatial profiles of pH, concentration, and streamflow under both existing and experimentally-altered conditions. This report presents the data obtained August 21-24, 2005, as well as the methods used for sample collection and data analysis.
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Shukla, Rohit; Shukla, Harish; Tripathi, Timir
2018-01-01
Mycobacterium tuberculosis isocitrate lyase (MtbICL) is a crucial enzyme of the glyoxylate cycle and is a validated anti-tuberculosis drug target. Structurally distant, non-active site mutation (H46A) in MtbICL has been found to cause loss of enzyme activity. The aim of the present work was to explore the structural alterations induced by H46A mutation that caused the loss of enzyme activity. The structural and dynamic consequences of H46A mutation were studied using multiple computational methods such as docking, molecular dynamics simulation and residue interaction network analysis (RIN). Principal component analysis and cross correlation analysis revealed the difference in conformational flexibility and collective modes of motions between the wild-type and mutant enzyme, particularly in the active site region. RIN analysis revealed that the active site geometry was disturbed in the mutant enzyme. Thus, the dynamic perturbation of the active site led to enzyme transition from its active form to inactive form upon mutation. The computational analyses elucidated the mutant-specific conformational alterations, differential dominant motions, and anomalous residue level interactions that contributed to the abrogated function of mutant MtbICL. An understanding of interactions of mutant enzymes may help in modifying the existing drugs and designing improved drugs for successful control of tuberculosis. Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Smith, Lee; Kipps, Courtney; Aggio, Daniel; Fox, Paul; Robinson, Nigel; Trend, Verena; Munnery, Suzie; Kelly, Barry; Hamer, Mark
2014-01-01
Physical activity is essential for every facet of children's health. However, physical activity levels in British children are low. The school environment is a promising setting to increase children's physical activity but limited empirical evidence exists on how a change in the outdoor physical school environment influences physical activity behaviour. The London Borough of Camden is redesigning seven existing school playgrounds to engage children to become more physically active. The primary aim of this project is to evaluate the impact of the redesigned playgrounds on children's physical activity, well-being and physical function/fitness. This project will use a longitudinal quasi-experimental design. Seven experimental schools and one control school will take part. One baseline data collection session and two follow-ups will be carried out. Between baseline and follow-up, the experimental school playgrounds will be redesigned. At baseline, a series of fitness tests, anthropometric and questionnaire measurements, and 7-day objective physical activity monitoring (Actigraph accelerometer) will be carried out on children (aged 5–16 years). This will be repeated at follow-up. Changes in overall physical activity levels and levels during different times of the day (eg, school breaks) will be examined. Multilevel regression modelling will be used to analyse the data. The results of this study will be disseminated through peer-review publications and scientific presentations. Ethical approval was obtained through the University College London Research Ethics Committee (Reference number: 4400/002).
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Contaminant-associated health effects in fishes from the Ottawa and Ashtabula Rivers, Ohio
Iwanowicz, Luke R.; Blazer, Vicki S.; Walsh, Heather L.; Shaw, Cassidy H.; DeVault, David S.; Banda, Jo A.
2018-01-01
The health of resident fishes serves as a biologically relevant barometer of aquatic ecosystem integrity. Here, the health of the Ottawa River and Ashtabula River (both within the Lake Erie Basin) were assessed using morphological and immunological biomarkers in brown bullheads (Ameiurus nebulosus) and largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides). Biomarker metrics were compared to fish collected from a reference site (Conneaut Creek). Data utilized for analyses were collected between 2003 and 2011. Fish collected from all three river systems had markedly different contaminant profiles. Total PCBs were the dominant contaminant class by mass. In bullhead, PCBs were highest in fish from the Ashtabula River and there were no differences in fish collected pre- or post-remediation of Ashtabula Harbor (median = 4.6 and 5.5 mg/kg respectively). Excluding PCBs, the Ottawa River was dominated by organochlorine pesticides. Liver tumor prevalence exceeded the 5% trigger level at both the Ashtabula (7.7%) and Ottawa Rivers (10.2%), but was not statistically different than that at the reference site. There was no statistically significant association between microscopic lesions, gross pathology and contaminant body burdens. Collectively, contaminant body burdens were generally negatively correlated with functional immune responses including bactericidal, cytotoxic-cell and respiratory burst activity in both species. Exceptions were positive correlations of HCB and heptachlor epoxide with respiratory burst activity in largemouth bass, and HCB with respiratory burst activity in bullhead and ΣBHC for all three functional assays in bullhead. Data here provide additional support that organochlorine contamination is associated with immunomodulation, and that species differences exist within sites.
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Krieger, James; Lee, Ji Young; Greger, Ingo H; Bahar, Ivet
2018-02-23
Ionotropic glutamate receptors (iGluRs) are ligand-gated ion channels that are key players in synaptic transmission and plasticity. They are composed of four subunits, each containing four functional domains, the quaternary packing and collective structural dynamics of which are important determinants of their molecular mechanism of function. With the explosion of structural studies on different members of the family, including the structures of activated open channels, the mechanisms of action of these central signaling machines are now being elucidated. We review the current state of computational studies on two major members of the family, AMPA and NMDA receptors, with focus on molecular simulations and elastic network model analyses that have provided insights into the coupled movements of extracellular and transmembrane domains. We describe the newly emerging mechanisms of activation, allosteric signaling and desensitization, as mainly a selective triggering of pre-existing soft motions, as deduced from computational models and analyses that leverage structural data on intact AMPA and NMDA receptors in different states. Copyright © 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Grammatikakis, Ioannis Emm
2011-07-01
Minoan Civilization (3000-1150 BC) was the first European civilization on the GREEK island of Crete. Fabulous architectonical constructions like great palaces, wonderful frescoes, and pottery as well as jewellery characterize this amazing civilization. According to all existing descriptions from ancient Greek historians and philosophers like Plato, Thucydides, Strabon but also from all the archaeological findings men and women lived freely and peacefully participating equal in all daily activities, sports, and games. The women were predominating. Minoan women enjoyed a higher social status than other women in later civilizations. Investigation of all the existing data concerning the Minoan culture. Archaeological databases, as well as data from the National University of Athens and other Greek historical institutions were collected and analyzed in order to present the Minoan culture. The Minoic civilization represents a paradigm of a well being society in which the woman played a dominant role. She was the 'mother' but also the 'active woman', who participated in all city activities. Four thousand years later a prototype of a society in which the role of the mother was recognized in an admirably way remains a magnificent paradigm.
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Lexical neutrality in environmental health research: Reflections on the term walkability.
Hajna, Samantha; Ross, Nancy A; Griffin, Simon J; Dasgupta, Kaberi
2017-12-08
Neighbourhood environments have important implications for human health. In this piece, we reflect on the environments and health literature and argue that precise use of language is critical for acknowledging the complex and multifaceted influence that neighbourhood environments may have on physical activity and physical activity-related outcomes. Specifically, we argue that the term "neighbourhood walkability", commonly used in the neighbourhoods and health literature, constrains recognition of the breadth of influence that neighbourhood environments might have on a variety of physical activity behaviours. The term draws attention to a single type of physical activity and implies that a universal association exists when in fact the literature is quite mixed. To maintain neutrality in this area of research, we suggest that researchers adopt the term "neighbourhood physical activity environments" for collective measures of neighbourhood attributes that they wish to study in relation to physical activity behaviours or physical activity-related health outcomes.
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DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Fulle, D.J.; Bilello, M.A.; Armstrong, J.A.
The US Trade and Development Agency is partially funding the initial phase of an ambient air quality monitoring program for the Metropolitan Municipality of Istanbul in Turkey. The objectives of the monitoring program are fourfold: (1) to ascertain existing levels of air pollution within the urban area; (2) to identify locations where there may be health concerns associated with existing levels of air pollution; (3) to determine the portion of air pollution arising from specific anthropogenic sources within the urban area; and (4) to target the major sources for an emission-reduction program. This program is being carried out in phases.more » A feasibility study has recently been completed. This initial activity will be followed by three main program phases. Phase 1 will involve the installation of several air quality monitoring stations to collect area-wide background data within and surrounding the Municipality. Phase 2 will consist of taking detailed pollutant measurements near specific sources and in specific areas of high pollutant concentrations identified in Phase 1. Phase 3 would target the major sources for emission reductions to improve local air quality and would institute revisions to the existing air quality permitting program. The feasibility study included determining the pollutants of concern, specifying the equipment that should be utilized in Phase 1 for the collection of the data, recommending the number and location of sites where data should be collected, determining site preparation and security needs, and defining the data reduction and analysis techniques which should be employed. This paper describes the results of the feasibility study and outlines plans for the remaining phases of the program.« less
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Intestinal CCL25 expression is increased in colitis and correlates with inflammatory activity
Trivedi, Palak J.; Bruns, Tony; Ward, Stephen; Mai, Martina; Schmidt, Carsten; Hirschfield, Gideon M.; Weston, Chris J.; Adams, David H.
2016-01-01
CCL25-mediated activation of CCR9 is critical for mucosal lymphocyte recruitment to the intestine. In immune-mediated liver injury complicating inflammatory bowel disease, intrahepatic activation of this pathway allows mucosal lymphocytes to be recruited to the liver, driving hepatobiliary destruction in primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC). However, in mice and healthy humans CCL25 expression is restricted to the small bowel, whereas few data exist on activation of this pathway in the inflamed colon despite the vast majority of PSC patients having ulcerative colitis. Herein, we show that colonic CCL25 expression is not only upregulated in patients with active colitis, but strongly correlates with endoscopic Mayo score and mucosal TNFα expression. Moreover, approximately 90% (CD4+) and 30% (CD8+) of tissue-infiltrating T-cells in colitis were identified as CCR9+ effector lymphocytes, compared to <10% of T-cells being CCR9+ in normal colon. Sorted CCR9+ lymphocytes also demonstrated enhanced cellular adhesion to stimulated hepatic sinusoidal endothelium compared with their CCR9– counterparts when under flow. Collectively, these results suggest that CCR9/CCL25 interactions are not only involved in colitis pathogenesis but also correlate with colonic inflammatory burden; further supporting the existence of overlapping mucosal lymphocyte recruitment pathways between the inflamed colon and liver. PMID:26873648
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Health technology assessment of medical devices: a survey of non-European union agencies.
Ciani, Oriana; Wilcher, Britni; Blankart, Carl Rudolf; Hatz, Maximilian; Rupel, Valentina Prevolnik; Erker, Renata Slabe; Varabyova, Yauheniya; Taylor, Rod S
2015-01-01
The aim of this study was to review and compare current health technology assessment (HTA) activities for medical devices across non-European Union HTA agencies. HTA activities for medical devices were evaluated from three perspectives: organizational structure, processes, and methods. Agencies were primarily selected upon membership of existing HTA networks. The data collection was performed in two stages: stage 1-agency Web-site assessment using a standardized questionnaire, followed by review and validation of the collected data by a representative of the agency; and stage 2-semi-structured telephone interviews with key informants of a sub-sample of agencies. In total, thirty-six HTA agencies across twenty non-EU countries assessing medical devices were included. Twenty-seven of thirty-six (75 percent) agencies were judged at stage 1 to have adopted HTA-specific approaches for medical devices (MD-specific agencies) that were largely organizational or procedural. There appeared to be few differences in the organization, process and methods between MD-specific and non-MD-specific agencies. Although the majority (69 percent) of both categories of agency had specific methods guidance or policy for evidence submission, only one MD-specific agency had developed methodological guidelines specific to medical devices. In stage 2, many MD-specific agencies cited insufficient resources (budget, skilled employees), lack of coordination (between regulator and reimbursement bodies), and the inability to generalize findings from evidence synthesis to be key challenges in the HTA of medical devices. The lack of evidence for differentiation in scientific methods for HTA of devices raises the question of whether HTA needs to develop new methods for medical devices but rather adapt existing methodological approaches. In contrast, organizational and/or procedural adaptation of existing HTA agency frameworks to accommodate medical devices appear relatively commonplace.
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A Scalable, Reconfigurable, and Dependable Time-Triggered Architecture
2003-07-01
burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching...existing data sources, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of...information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Artous, Sébastien; Bombardier, Pierre; Derrough, Samir; Locatelli, Dominique; Nobile, Pierre; Durand, Catherine
2013-04-01
The implementation in many products of manufactured nanoparticles is in strong growth and raises new questions. For this purpose, the CEA - NanoSafety Platform is developing various research topics for health and safety, environment and nanoparticles exposure in professional activities. The working group Nano-CERT/MTD, driven by INERIS, federates actors of the sector: experts, research organizations, industrial users and manufacturers of collective protection. The main activity of this group is to establish specific guidelines or a voluntary certification of collective protection, at a national scale, but with the possibility of a further extension at an European level. The group aims to establish an experimental protocol of certification to characterize collective protections for workers faced with nanomaterials potential exposure. The NanoSafety Platform provides in this presentation a method of collective protection characterization based on the developments in nanoparticles metrology and on the study of existing standards and practices in related areas (chemicals, dust, microbiological and nuclear). This study presents the results obtained during the experimental characterization of a potential nanoparticles transfer in a prototype laboratory fume hood by the use of a particulate tracer of sodium-fluorescein. The efficiency of the equipment and more specifically the efficiency of dynamical air barrier is evaluated, with the experimental results, by calculating the backward diffusion coefficient.
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2016-01-01
Family Policy’s SECO program, which reviewed existing SECO metrics and data sources, as well as analytic methods of previ- ous research, to determine ...process that requires an iterative cycle of assessment of collected data (typically, but not solely, quantitative data) to determine whether SECO...RAND suggests five steps to develop and implement the SECO inter- nal monitoring system: Step 1. Describe the logic or theory of how activities are
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2011-06-10
the ability of IC leaders to think and manage jointly, while not diluting the specialized activities of collectors and analysts working within their...organizational model and doctrine that are increasingly relics of Cold-War threats and thinking . As the military has learned , it takes decades to...burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instructions , searching existing
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KRAJACICH, BENJAMIN J.; SLADE, JEREMIAH R.; MULLIGAN, ROBERT T.; LABRECQUE, BRENDAN; KOBYLINSKI, KEVIN C.; GRAY, MEG; KUKLINSKI, WOJTEK S.; BURTON, TIMOTHY A.; SEAMAN, JONATHAN A.; SYLLA, MASSAMBA; FOY, BRIAN D.
2014-01-01
Currently, there exists a deficit of safe, active trapping methods for the collection of host-seeking Anopheles and other disease-causing arthropod vectors. The gold-standard approach for mosquito collection is that of human landing catch (HLC), in which an individual exposes bare skin to possibly infected vectors. Here, we present the development of a new method for mosquito collection, the Infoscitex tent, which uses modern tent materials coupled with a novel trap design. This provides an efficacious, a non-labor-intensive, and a safe method for vector collection. In these initial studies, we found it collected an average of 27.7 Anophelesgambiae s.l. per trap per night in rural villages in southeastern Senegal, and 43.8 Culex group V per trap per night in the semiurban town of Kedougou, Senegal. In direct comparisons with HLC, the tent was not statistically different for collection of Culex quinquefasciatus in crepuscular sampling, but was significantly less efficacious at trapping the highly motile dusk-biter Aedes aegypti. These studies suggest that the Infoscitex tent is a viable and safe alternative to HLC for Anopheles and Culex sampling in areas of high vector-borne disease infection risk. PMID:24605476
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Artifact detection in electrodermal activity using sparse recovery
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Kelsey, Malia; Palumbo, Richard Vincent; Urbaneja, Alberto; Akcakaya, Murat; Huang, Jeannie; Kleckner, Ian R.; Barrett, Lisa Feldman; Quigley, Karen S.; Sejdic, Ervin; Goodwin, Matthew S.
2017-05-01
Electrodermal Activity (EDA) - a peripheral index of sympathetic nervous system activity - is a primary measure used in psychophysiology. EDA is widely accepted as an indicator of physiological arousal, and it has been shown to reveal when psychologically novel events occur. Traditionally, EDA data is collected in controlled laboratory experiments. However, recent developments in wireless biosensing have led to an increase in out-of-lab studies. This transition to ambulatory data collection has introduced challenges. In particular, artifacts such as wearer motion, changes in temperature, and electrical interference can be misidentified as true EDA responses. The inability to distinguish artifact from signal hinders analyses of ambulatory EDA data. Though manual procedures for identifying and removing EDA artifacts exist, they are time consuming - which is problematic for the types of longitudinal data sets represented in modern ambulatory studies. This manuscript presents a novel technique to automatically identify and remove artifacts in EDA data using curve fitting and sparse recovery methods. Our method was evaluated using labeled data to determine the accuracy of artifact identification. Procedures, results, conclusions, and future directions are presented.
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DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Marquis Childs
1999-09-01
Material Disposal Area G (Area G) is at Technical Area 54 at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Area G has been the principal facility for the disposal of low-level, solid-mixed, and transuranic waste since 1957. It is currently LANL's primary facility for radioactive solid waste burial and storage. As part of the annual environmental surveillance effort at Area G, surface soil samples are collected around the facility's perimeter to characterize possible radionuclide movement off the site through surface water runoff During 1998, 39 soil samples were collected and analyzed for percent moisture, tritium, plutonium-238 and 239, cesium-137 and americium-241. Tomore » assess radionuclide concentrations, the results from these samples are compared with baseline or background soil samples collected in an undisturbed area west of the active portion Area G. The 1998 results are also compared to the results from analogous samples collected during 1996 and 1997 to assess changes over this time in radionuclide activity concentrations in surface soils around the perimeter of Area G. The results indicate elevated levels of all the radionuclides assessed (except cesium-137) exist in Area G perimeter surface soils vs the baseline soils. The comparison of 1998 soil data to previous years (1996 and 1997) indicates no significant increase or decrease in radionuclide concentrations; an upward or downward trend in concentrations is not detectable at this time. These results are consistent with data comparisons done in previous years. Continued annual soil sampling will be necessary to realize a trend if one exists. The radionuclide levels found in the perimeter surface soils are above background but still considered relatively low. This perimeter surface soil data will be used for planning purposes at Area G, techniques to prevent sediment tm.nsport off-site are implemented in the areas where the highest radionuclide concentrations are indicated.« less
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Preliminary Characterization Results from the DebriSat Project
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Rivero, M.; Shiotani, B.; Kleespies, J.; Toledo-Burdett, R.; Moraguez, M.; Carrasquila, M.; Fitz-Coy, N.; Liou, J.-C.; Sorge, M.; Huynh, T.
2016-01-01
The DebriSat project is a continuing effort sponsored by NASA and DoD to update existing break-up models using data obtained from two separate hypervelocity impact tests used to simulate on-orbit collisions. To protect the fragments resulting from the impact tests, "soft-catch" arenas made of polyurethane foam panels were utilized. After each impact test, the test chamber was cleaned and debris resulting from the catastrophic demise of the test article were collected and shipped to the University of Florida for post-impact processing. The post-impact processing activities include collecting, characterizing, and cataloging of the fragments. Since the impact tests, a team of students has been working to characterize the fragments in terms of their mass, size, shape, color and material content. The focus of the 20 months since the impact tests has been on the collection of 2 millimeters- and larger fragments resulting from impact test on the 56 kilogram-representative LEO (Low Earth Orbit) satellite referred to as DebriSat. To date we have recovered in excess of 115,000 fragments, 30,000 more than the prediction of 85,000 fragments from the existing model. We continue to collect fragments but have transitioned to the characterization phase of the post-impact activities. Since the start of the characterization phase, the focus has been to utilize automation to (i) expedite fragment characterization process and (ii) minimize human-in-the- loop. We have developed and implemented such automated processes; e.g., we have automated the data entry process to reduce operator errors during transcription of the measurement data. However, at all steps of the process, there is human oversight to ensure the integrity of the data. Additionally, we have developed and implemented repeatability and reproducibility tests to ensure that the instrumentation used in the characterization process is accurate and properly calibrated. In this paper, the implemented processes are described and preliminary results presented. Additionally, lessons learned from the implemented automations and their impacts on the integrity of the results are discussed.
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Developing a Vocational Index for Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Seltzer, Marsha Mailick
2012-01-01
Existing methods of indexing the vocational activities of adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have made significant contributions to research. Nonetheless, they are limited by problems with sensitivity and reliability. We developed an index of vocational and educational outcomes that captures the full range of activities experienced by adults with ASD, and that can be reliably coded across studies using specific decision rules. To develop this index, we used employment, vocational, and educational data collected from nearly 350 adults with ASD at 6 times over 12 years, as part of a larger longitudinal study. The resulting index consists of 11 categories coded on a 9-point scale, ranging from competitive employment and/or postsecondary educational program to no vocational/educational activities. PMID:22466690
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Scaling behavior of online human activity
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Zhao, Zhi-Dan; Cai, Shi-Min; Huang, Junming; Fu, Yan; Zhou, Tao
2012-11-01
The rapid development of the Internet technology enables humans to explore the web and record the traces of online activities. From the analysis of these large-scale data sets (i.e., traces), we can get insights about the dynamic behavior of human activity. In this letter, the scaling behavior and complexity of human activity in the e-commerce, such as music, books, and movies rating, are comprehensively investigated by using the detrended fluctuation analysis technique and the multiscale entropy method. Firstly, the interevent time series of rating behaviors of these three types of media show similar scaling properties with exponents ranging from 0.53 to 0.58, which implies that the collective behaviors of rating media follow a process embodying self-similarity and long-range correlation. Meanwhile, by dividing the users into three groups based on their activities (i.e., rating per unit time), we find that the scaling exponents of the interevent time series in the three groups are different. Hence, these results suggest that a stronger long-range correlations exist in these collective behaviors. Furthermore, their information complexities vary in the three groups. To explain the differences of the collective behaviors restricted to the three groups, we study the dynamic behavior of human activity at the individual level, and find that the dynamic behaviors of a few users have extremely small scaling exponents associated with long-range anticorrelations. By comparing the interevent time distributions of four representative users, we can find that the bimodal distributions may bring forth the extraordinary scaling behaviors. These results of the analysis of the online human activity in the e-commerce may not only provide insight into its dynamic behaviors but may also be applied to acquire potential economic interest.
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Stitt, Tyler; Mountifield, Julie; Stephen, Craig
2007-01-01
Existing sources of wildlife morbidity and mortality data were evaluated and 3 pilot active surveillance projects were undertaken to compare and contrast methods for collecting wildlife disease data on Vancouver Island for public health purposes. Few organizations could collect samples for diagnostic evaluation, fewer still maintained records, and none regularly characterized or reported wildlife disease for public health purposes. Wildlife rehabilitation centers encountered the greatest variety of wildlife from the largest geographic area and frequently received submissions from other organizations. Obstacles to participation included the following: permit restrictions; financial disincentives; staff safety; no mandate to collect relevant data; and lack of contact between wildlife and public health agencies. Despite these obstacles, modest investments in personnel allowed novel pathogens of public health concern to be tracked. Targeted surveillance for known pathogens in specific host species, rather than general surveys for unspecified pathogens, was judged to be a more effective and efficient way to provide useful public health data. PMID:17310627
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McCann, Liza J; Pilkington, Clarissa A; Huber, Adam M; Ravelli, Angelo; Appelbe, Duncan; Kirkham, Jamie J; Williamson, Paula R; Aggarwal, Amita; Christopher-Stine, Lisa; Constantin, Tamas; Feldman, Brian M; Lundberg, Ingrid; Maillard, Sue; Mathiesen, Pernille; Murphy, Ruth; Pachman, Lauren M; Reed, Ann M; Rider, Lisa G; van Royen-Kerkof, Annet; Russo, Ricardo; Spinty, Stefan; Wedderburn, Lucy R; Beresford, Michael W
2018-02-01
This study aimed to develop consensus on an internationally agreed dataset for juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM), designed for clinical use, to enhance collaborative research and allow integration of data between centres. A prototype dataset was developed through a formal process that included analysing items within existing databases of patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies. This template was used to aid a structured multistage consensus process. Exploiting Delphi methodology, two web-based questionnaires were distributed to healthcare professionals caring for patients with JDM identified through email distribution lists of international paediatric rheumatology and myositis research groups. A separate questionnaire was sent to parents of children with JDM and patients with JDM, identified through established research networks and patient support groups. The results of these parallel processes informed a face-to-face nominal group consensus meeting of international myositis experts, tasked with defining the content of the dataset. This developed dataset was tested in routine clinical practice before review and finalisation. A dataset containing 123 items was formulated with an accompanying glossary. Demographic and diagnostic data are contained within form A collected at baseline visit only, disease activity measures are included within form B collected at every visit and disease damage items within form C collected at baseline and annual visits thereafter. Through a robust international process, a consensus dataset for JDM has been formulated that can capture disease activity and damage over time. This dataset can be incorporated into national and international collaborative efforts, including existing clinical research databases. © Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2018. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted.
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Replacing missing data between airborne SAR coherent image pairs
Musgrove, Cameron H.; West, James C.
2017-07-31
For synthetic aperture radar systems, missing data samples can cause severe image distortion. When multiple, coherent data collections exist and the missing data samples do not overlap between collections, there exists the possibility of replacing data samples between collections. For airborne radar, the known and unknown motion of the aircraft prevents direct data sample replacement to repair image features. Finally, this paper presents a method to calculate the necessary phase corrections to enable data sample replacement using only the collected radar data.
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Replacing missing data between airborne SAR coherent image pairs
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Musgrove, Cameron H.; West, James C.
For synthetic aperture radar systems, missing data samples can cause severe image distortion. When multiple, coherent data collections exist and the missing data samples do not overlap between collections, there exists the possibility of replacing data samples between collections. For airborne radar, the known and unknown motion of the aircraft prevents direct data sample replacement to repair image features. Finally, this paper presents a method to calculate the necessary phase corrections to enable data sample replacement using only the collected radar data.
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ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Lamothe, Alain R.
2012-01-01
This paper presents the results from a quantitative and systematic analysis comparing the online usage of an e-reference and an e-monograph collection. A very strong relationship exists between size and usage: the larger the collection, the greater the usage. An equally strong relationship exists between searches and viewings, meaning that the…
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77 FR 62267 - Proposed Extension of Existing Information Collection; Gamma Radiation Surveys
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Smith, Lee; Kipps, Courtney; Aggio, Daniel; Fox, Paul; Robinson, Nigel; Trend, Verena; Munnery, Suzie; Kelly, Barry; Hamer, Mark
2014-01-01
Introduction Physical activity is essential for every facet of children's health. However, physical activity levels in British children are low. The school environment is a promising setting to increase children's physical activity but limited empirical evidence exists on how a change in the outdoor physical school environment influences physical activity behaviour. The London Borough of Camden is redesigning seven existing school playgrounds to engage children to become more physically active. The primary aim of this project is to evaluate the impact of the redesigned playgrounds on children's physical activity, well-being and physical function/fitness. Method and analysis This project will use a longitudinal quasi-experimental design. Seven experimental schools and one control school will take part. One baseline data collection session and two follow-ups will be carried out. Between baseline and follow-up, the experimental school playgrounds will be redesigned. At baseline, a series of fitness tests, anthropometric and questionnaire measurements, and 7-day objective physical activity monitoring (Actigraph accelerometer) will be carried out on children (aged 5–16 years). This will be repeated at follow-up. Changes in overall physical activity levels and levels during different times of the day (eg, school breaks) will be examined. Multilevel regression modelling will be used to analyse the data. Ethics and dissemination The results of this study will be disseminated through peer-review publications and scientific presentations. Ethical approval was obtained through the University College London Research Ethics Committee (Reference number: 4400/002). PMID:25232566
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Kyte, Derek G; Draper, Heather; Ives, Jonathan; Liles, Clive; Gheorghe, Adrian; Calvert, Melanie
2013-01-01
Patient reported outcomes (PROs) are increasingly assessed in clinical trials, and guidelines are available to inform the design and reporting of such trials. However, researchers involved in PRO data collection report that specific guidance on 'in-trial' activity (recruitment, data collection and data inputting) and the management of 'concerning' PRO data (i.e., data which raises concern for the well-being of the trial participant) appears to be lacking. The purpose of this review was to determine the extent and nature of published guidelines addressing these areas. Systematic review of 1,362 articles identified 18 eligible papers containing 'in-trial' guidelines. Two independent authors undertook a qualitative content analysis of the selected papers. Guidelines presented in each of the articles were coded according to an a priori defined coding frame, which demonstrated reliability (pooled Kappa 0.86-0.97), and validity (<2% residual category coding). The majority of guidelines present were concerned with 'pre-trial' activities (72%), for example, outcome measure selection and study design issues, or 'post-trial' activities (16%) such as data analysis, reporting and interpretation. 'In-trial' guidelines represented 9.2% of all guidance across the papers reviewed, with content primarily focused on compliance, quality control, proxy assessment and reporting of data collection. There were no guidelines surrounding the management of concerning PRO data. The findings highlight there are minimal in-trial guidelines in publication regarding PRO data collection and management in clinical trials. No guidance appears to exist for researchers involved with the handling of concerning PRO data. Guidelines are needed, which support researchers to manage all PRO data appropriately and which facilitate unbiased data collection.
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Kyte, Derek G.; Draper, Heather; Ives, Jonathan; Liles, Clive; Gheorghe, Adrian; Calvert, Melanie
2013-01-01
Background Patient reported outcomes (PROs) are increasingly assessed in clinical trials, and guidelines are available to inform the design and reporting of such trials. However, researchers involved in PRO data collection report that specific guidance on ‘in-trial’ activity (recruitment, data collection and data inputting) and the management of ‘concerning’ PRO data (i.e., data which raises concern for the well-being of the trial participant) appears to be lacking. The purpose of this review was to determine the extent and nature of published guidelines addressing these areas. Methods and Findings Systematic review of 1,362 articles identified 18 eligible papers containing ‘in-trial’ guidelines. Two independent authors undertook a qualitative content analysis of the selected papers. Guidelines presented in each of the articles were coded according to an a priori defined coding frame, which demonstrated reliability (pooled Kappa 0.86–0.97), and validity (<2% residual category coding). The majority of guidelines present were concerned with ‘pre-trial’ activities (72%), for example, outcome measure selection and study design issues, or ‘post-trial’ activities (16%) such as data analysis, reporting and interpretation. ‘In-trial’ guidelines represented 9.2% of all guidance across the papers reviewed, with content primarily focused on compliance, quality control, proxy assessment and reporting of data collection. There were no guidelines surrounding the management of concerning PRO data. Conclusions The findings highlight there are minimal in-trial guidelines in publication regarding PRO data collection and management in clinical trials. No guidance appears to exist for researchers involved with the handling of concerning PRO data. Guidelines are needed, which support researchers to manage all PRO data appropriately and which facilitate unbiased data collection. PMID:23560103
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BOREAS AFM-5 Level-2 Upper Air Network Standard Pressure Level Data
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Barr, Alan; Hrynkiw, Charmaine; Hall, Forrest G. (Editor); Newcomer, Jeffrey A. (Editor); Smith, David E. (Technical Monitor)
2000-01-01
The BOREAS AFM-5 team collected and processed data from the numerous radiosonde flights during the project. The goals of the AFM-05 team were to provide large-scale definition of the atmosphere by supplementing the existing AES aerological network, both temporally and spatially. This data set includes basic upper-air parameters interpolated at 0.5 kiloPascal increments of atmospheric pressure from data collected from the network of upper-air stations during the 1993, 1994, and 1996 field campaigns over the entire study region. The data are contained in tabular ASCII files. The data files are available on a CD-ROM (see document number 20010000884) or from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC).
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The global alliance for transplantation.
Groth, C G; Chapman, J R
2006-03-01
In 2002, The Transplantation Society proposed the creation of a Global Alliance for Transplantation, with the purpose of reducing the existing disparity regarding transplantation activities across the globe. This alliance should include major international scientific societies, international governmental organizations, and pharmaceutical companies. Consultations with each of these parties have taken place during the past 18 months and three Strategic Programs have been initiated: (1) the collection of information on transplantation; (2) the expansion of education in transplantation; and (3) the development of professional guidelines for organ donation and transplantation.
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1987-09-01
Reelfoot Lake was formed in a series of meander scars after the earthquake. Most recent active channels have affected only the western margin of the...with a few prominent meander loop scars, and the lower eastern margin as essentially a collective backswamp. Subsidence of Reelfoot Lake itself as a...open river with the various bankline and sandbar habitats involved there. Open water may well have existed dt various times in part of the Reelfoot Lake
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Labor Economists Get Their Microscope: Big Data and Labor Market Analysis.
Horton, John J; Tambe, Prasanna
2015-09-01
This article describes how the fine-grained data being collected by Internet labor market intermediaries, such as employment websites, online labor markets, and knowledge discussion boards, are providing new research opportunities and directions for the empirical analysis of labor market activity. After discussing these data sources, we examine some of the research opportunities they have created, highlight some examples of existing work that already use these new data sources, and enumerate the challenges associated with the use of these corporate data sources.
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Deforestation and Secondary Growth in Rondonia, Brazil from SIR-C SAR and Landsat.SPOT data
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Rignot, Eric; Salas, William A.; Skole, David L.
1996-01-01
Covers problems with existing data collected with high-resolution optical sensors. They say active microwave sensors could complement other sensors in getting through things like cloud cover. They analyzed SIR-C data in combination with Landsat TM data, a 9-year time series of SPOT XS data, and a preliminary field survey. They report findings and draw conclusions, including that SARs operating at long radar wavelengths, with both like and cross-polarizations, are needed for tropical deforestation studies.
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2008-05-22
Prior to the 1980s, politicians aligned with the PIRA conducted an activity called “ abstentionism ,” which meant that they participated in elections... The Prachanda Path and Óglaigh na hÉireann: A Comparative Case Study of the Insurgencies in Nepal and Northern Ireland A Monograph by MAJOR...burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing
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Can Building Design Impact Physical Activity? A Natural Experiment.
Eyler, Amy A; Hipp, Aaron; Valko, Cheryl Ann; Ramadas, Ramya; Zwald, Marissa
2018-05-01
Workplace design can impact workday physical activity (PA) and sedentary time. The purpose of this study was to evaluate PA behavior among university employees before and after moving into a new building. A pre-post, experimental versus control group study design was used. PA data were collected using surveys and accelerometers from university faculty and staff. Accelerometry was used to compare those moving into the new building (MOVERS) and those remaining in existing buildings (NONMOVERS) and from a control group (CONTROLS). Survey results showed increased self-reported PA for MOVERS and NONMOVERS. All 3 groups significantly increased in objectively collected daily energy expenditure and steps per day. The greatest steps per day increase was in CONTROLS (29.8%) compared with MOVERS (27.5%) and NONMOVERS (15.9%), but there were no significant differences between groups at pretest or posttest. Self-reported and objectively measured PA increased from pretest to posttest in all groups; thus, the increase cannot be attributed to the new building. Confounding factors may include contamination bias due to proximity of control site to experimental site and introduction of a university PA tracking contest during postdata collection. Methodology and results can inform future studies on best design practices for increasing PA.
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Structural complexities in the active layers of organic electronics.
Lee, Stephanie S; Loo, Yueh-Lin
2010-01-01
The field of organic electronics has progressed rapidly in recent years. However, understanding the direct structure-function relationships between the morphology in electrically active layers and the performance of devices composed of these materials has proven difficult. The morphology of active layers in organic electronics is inherently complex, with heterogeneities existing across multiple length scales, from subnanometer to micron and millimeter range. A major challenge still facing the organic electronics community is understanding how the morphology across all of the length scales in active layers collectively determines the device performance of organic electronics. In this review we highlight experiments that have contributed to the elucidation of structure-function relationships in organic electronics and also point to areas in which knowledge of such relationships is still lacking. Such knowledge will lead to the ability to select active materials on the basis of their inherent properties for the fabrication of devices with prespecified characteristics.
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Ni, Qin; Patterson, Timothy; Cleland, Ian; Nugent, Chris
2016-08-01
Activity recognition is an intrinsic component of many pervasive computing and ambient intelligent solutions. This has been facilitated by an explosion of technological developments in the area of wireless sensor network, wearable and mobile computing. Yet, delivering robust activity recognition, which could be deployed at scale in a real world environment, still remains an active research challenge. Much of the existing literature to date has focused on applying machine learning techniques to pre-segmented data collected in controlled laboratory environments. Whilst this approach can provide valuable ground truth information from which to build recognition models, these techniques often do not function well when implemented in near real time applications. This paper presents the application of a multivariate online change detection algorithm to dynamically detect the starting position of windows for the purposes of activity recognition. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Ayuningrum, Theresia Vika; Purnaweni, Hartuti
2018-02-01
Potential Karst area in Nusakambangan has an important role in maintaining the balance of nature. But with the existence of mining activities, will automatically change the environmental conditions there. In order for the utilization of resources to meet the rules of optimization between the interests of mining and sustainability of the environment so in every mining sector activities required a variety of environmental studies. The purpose of this study is to find out how the analysis of environmental management due to limestone mining activities in Nusakambangan so that it can be known the management of mining areas are optimal, wise based on ecological principles, and sustainability. In qualitative research methods, data analysis using description percentage, with the type of data collected in the form of primary data and secondary data.
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Billis, Antonis S.; Batziakas, Asterios; Bratsas, Charalampos; Tsatali, Marianna S.; Karagianni, Maria
2016-01-01
Smart monitoring of seniors behavioural patterns and more specifically activities of daily living have attracted immense research interest in recent years. Development of smart decision support systems to support the promotion of health smart homes has also emerged taking advantage of the plethora of smart, inexpensive and unobtrusive monitoring sensors, devices and software tools. To this end, a smart monitoring system has been used in order to extract meaningful information about television (TV) usage patterns and subsequently associate them with clinical findings of experts. The smart TV operating state remote monitoring system was installed in four elderly women homes and gathered data for more than 11 months. Results suggest that TV daily usage (time the TV is turned on) can predict mental health change. Conclusively, the authors suggest that collection of smart device usage patterns could strengthen the inference capabilities of existing health DSSs applied in uncontrolled settings such as real senior homes. PMID:27284457
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Billis, Antonis S; Batziakas, Asterios; Bratsas, Charalampos; Tsatali, Marianna S; Karagianni, Maria; Bamidis, Panagiotis D
2016-03-01
Smart monitoring of seniors behavioural patterns and more specifically activities of daily living have attracted immense research interest in recent years. Development of smart decision support systems to support the promotion of health smart homes has also emerged taking advantage of the plethora of smart, inexpensive and unobtrusive monitoring sensors, devices and software tools. To this end, a smart monitoring system has been used in order to extract meaningful information about television (TV) usage patterns and subsequently associate them with clinical findings of experts. The smart TV operating state remote monitoring system was installed in four elderly women homes and gathered data for more than 11 months. Results suggest that TV daily usage (time the TV is turned on) can predict mental health change. Conclusively, the authors suggest that collection of smart device usage patterns could strengthen the inference capabilities of existing health DSSs applied in uncontrolled settings such as real senior homes.
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Monitoring transcription initiation activities in rat and dog.
Lizio, Marina; Mukarram, Abdul Kadir; Ohno, Mizuho; Watanabe, Shoko; Itoh, Masayoshi; Hasegawa, Akira; Lassmann, Timo; Severin, Jessica; Harshbarger, Jayson; Abugessaisa, Imad; Kasukawa, Takeya; Hon, Chung Chau; Carninci, Piero; Hayashizaki, Yoshihide; Forrest, Alistair R R; Kawaji, Hideya
2017-11-28
The promoter landscape of several non-human model organisms is far from complete. As a part of FANTOM5 data collection, we generated 13 profiles of transcription initiation activities in dog and rat aortic smooth muscle cells, mesenchymal stem cells and hepatocytes by employing CAGE (Cap Analysis of Gene Expression) technology combined with single molecule sequencing. Our analyses show that the CAGE profiles recapitulate known transcription start sites (TSSs) consistently, in addition to uncover novel TSSs. Our dataset can be thus used with high confidence to support gene annotation in dog and rat species. We identified 28,497 and 23,147 CAGE peaks, or promoter regions, for rat and dog respectively, and associated them to known genes. This approach could be seen as a standard method for improvement of existing gene models, as well as discovery of novel genes. Given that the FANTOM5 data collection includes dog and rat matched cell types in human and mouse as well, this data would also be useful for cross-species studies.
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A review of the volatile metabolites of fungi found on wood substrates.
McAfee, B J; Taylor, A
1999-01-01
The holdings of eight collections of fungi have been examined for organisms isolated from wood and/or trees. Further selection of these fungi has been made according to their reported ability to produce volatile, biologically active metabolites. It is emphasized that the isolates in the collections do not necessarily produce such metabolites. The list of fungi fulfilling these conditions is slightly augmented by reports we have found in the literature, where the fungi concerned have not yet been deposited. The biochemistry of these compounds is considered with particular emphasis on their biosynthesis including that by Homo sapiens. The physiological and toxicological activity of these metabolites is reviewed especially with reference to their potential role in the complex symbioses existent in, for example, a tree. The review concludes with a discussion of areas of botany deserving increased attention in the hope that this will stimulate further work. The statements in the review are based on 173 references.
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Carbon mineralization in acidic, xeric forest soils: induction of new activities.
Tate, R L
1985-08-01
Carbon mineralization was examined in Lakehurst and Atsion sands collected from the New Jersey Pinelands and in Pahokee muck from the Everglades Agricultural Area. Objectives were (i) to estimate the carbon mineralization capacities of acidic, xeric Pinelands soils in the absence of exogenously supplied carbon substrate (nonamended carbon mineralization rate) and to compare these activities with those of agriculturally developed pahokee muck, and (ii) to measure the capacity for increased carbon mineralization in the soils after carbon amendment. In most cases, nonamended carbon mineralization rates were greater in samples of the acid- and moisture-stressed Pinelands soils than in Pahokee muck collected from a fallow (bare) field. Carbon amendment resulted in augmented catabolic activity in Pahokee muck samples, suggesting that the microbial community was carbon limited in this soil. With many of the substrates, no stimulation of the catabolic rate was detected after amendment of Pinelands soils. This was documented by the observation that amendment of Pahokee muck with an amino acid mixture, glucose, or acetate resulted in a 3.0-, 3.9-, or 10.5-fold stimulation of catabolic activity, respectively, for the added substrate. In contrast, amendment of the Pinelands soils resulted in increased amino acid and acetate catabolic rates in Lakehurst sand and increased acetate metabolism only in Atsion sand. Other activities were unchanged. The increased glucose respiration rates resulted from stimulation of existing microbial activity rather than from microbial proliferation since no change in the microbial growth rate, as estimated by the rate of incorporation of C-labeled acetate into cell membranes, occurred after glucose amendment of the soils. A stimulation of microbial growth rate was recorded with glucose-amended Lakehurst sand collected from the B horizon.
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Carbon Mineralization in Acidic, Xeric Forest Soils: Induction of New Activities †
Tate, Robert L.
1985-01-01
Carbon mineralization was examined in Lakehurst and Atsion sands collected from the New Jersey Pinelands and in Pahokee muck from the Everglades Agricultural Area. Objectives were (i) to estimate the carbon mineralization capacities of acidic, xeric Pinelands soils in the absence of exogenously supplied carbon substrate (nonamended carbon mineralization rate) and to compare these activities with those of agriculturally developed pahokee muck, and (ii) to measure the capacity for increased carbon mineralization in the soils after carbon amendment. In most cases, nonamended carbon mineralization rates were greater in samples of the acid- and moisture-stressed Pinelands soils than in Pahokee muck collected from a fallow (bare) field. Carbon amendment resulted in augmented catabolic activity in Pahokee muck samples, suggesting that the microbial community was carbon limited in this soil. With many of the substrates, no stimulation of the catabolic rate was detected after amendment of Pinelands soils. This was documented by the observation that amendment of Pahokee muck with an amino acid mixture, glucose, or acetate resulted in a 3.0-, 3.9-, or 10.5-fold stimulation of catabolic activity, respectively, for the added substrate. In contrast, amendment of the Pinelands soils resulted in increased amino acid and acetate catabolic rates in Lakehurst sand and increased acetate metabolism only in Atsion sand. Other activities were unchanged. The increased glucose respiration rates resulted from stimulation of existing microbial activity rather than from microbial proliferation since no change in the microbial growth rate, as estimated by the rate of incorporation of 14C-labeled acetate into cell membranes, occurred after glucose amendment of the soils. A stimulation of microbial growth rate was recorded with glucose-amended Lakehurst sand collected from the B horizon. PMID:16346862
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Discovering Activities to Recognize and Track in a Smart Environment
Rashidi, Parisa; Cook, Diane J.; Holder, Lawrence B.; Schmitter-Edgecombe, Maureen
2011-01-01
The machine learning and pervasive sensing technologies found in smart homes offer unprecedented opportunities for providing health monitoring and assistance to individuals experiencing difficulties living independently at home. In order to monitor the functional health of smart home residents, we need to design technologies that recognize and track activities that people normally perform as part of their daily routines. Although approaches do exist for recognizing activities, the approaches are applied to activities that have been pre-selected and for which labeled training data is available. In contrast, we introduce an automated approach to activity tracking that identifies frequent activities that naturally occur in an individual’s routine. With this capability we can then track the occurrence of regular activities to monitor functional health and to detect changes in an individual’s patterns and lifestyle. In this paper we describe our activity mining and tracking approach and validate our algorithms on data collected in physical smart environments. PMID:21617742
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Garikapati, Venu; Astroza, Sebastian; Bhat, Prerna C.
This paper is motivated by the increasing recognition that modeling activity-travel demand for a single day of the week, as is done in virtually all travel forecasting models, may be inadequate in capturing underlying processes that govern activity-travel scheduling behavior. The considerable variability in daily travel suggests that there are important complementary relationships and competing tradeoffs involved in scheduling and allocating time to various activities across days of the week. Both limited survey data availability and methodological challenges in modeling week-long activity-travel schedules have precluded the development of multi-day activity-travel demand models. With passive and technology-based data collection methods increasinglymore » in vogue, the collection of multi-day travel data may become increasingly commonplace in the years ahead. This paper addresses the methodological challenge associated with modeling multi-day activity-travel demand by formulating a multivariate multiple discrete-continuous probit (MDCP) model system. The comprehensive framework ties together two MDCP model components, one corresponding to weekday time allocation and the other to weekend activity-time allocation. By tying the two MDCP components together, the model system also captures relationships in activity-time allocation between weekdays on the one hand and weekend days on the other. Model estimation on a week-long travel diary data set from the United Kingdom shows that there are significant inter-relationships between weekdays and weekend days in activity-travel scheduling behavior. The model system presented in this paper may serve as a higher-level multi-day activity scheduler in conjunction with existing daily activity-based travel models.« less
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Carrick, Danielle M; Mette, Eliza; Hoyle, Brittany; Rogers, Scott D; Gillanders, Elizabeth M; Schully, Sheri D; Mechanic, Leah E
2014-08-01
Over the past two decades, researchers have increasingly used human biospecimens to evaluate hypotheses related to disease risk, outcomes and treatment. We conducted an analysis of population-science cancer research grants funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to gain a more comprehensive understanding of biospecimens and common derivatives involved in those studies and identify opportunities for advancing the field. Data available for 1,018 extramural, peer-reviewed grants (active as of July 2012) supported by the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS), the NCI Division that supports cancer control and population-science extramural research grants, were analyzed. 455 of the grants were determined to involve biospecimens or derivatives. The most common specimen types included were whole blood (51% of grants), serum or plasma (40%), tissue (39%), and the biospecimen derivative, DNA (66%). While use of biospecimens in molecular epidemiology has become common, biospecimens for behavioral and social research is emerging, as observed in our analysis. Additionally, we found the majority of grants were using already existing biospecimens (63%). Grants that involved use of existing biospecimens resulted in lower costs (studies that used existing serum/plasma biospecimens were 4.2 times less expensive) and more publications per year (1.4 times) than grants collecting new biospecimens. This analysis serves as a first step at understanding the types of biospecimen collections supported by NCI DCCPS. There is room to encourage increased use of archived biospecimens and new collections of rarer specimen and cancer types, as well as for behavioral and social research. To facilitate these efforts, we are working to better catalogue our funded resources and make that data available to the extramural community.
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Biobanking sustainability--experiences of the Australian Breast Cancer Tissue Bank (ABCTB).
Carpenter, Jane E; Clarke, Christine L
2014-12-01
Sustainability of biorepositories is a key issue globally. This article is a description of the different strategies and mechanisms used by the Australian Breast Cancer Tissue Bank (ABCTB) in developing and operating the resource since its inception in 2005. ABCTB operates according to a hub and spoke model, with a central management hub that is responsible for overall management of the resource including financial, ethical, and legal processes, researcher applications for material, clinical follow-up, information/database activities, and security. A centralized processing laboratory also operates from the hub site where DNA and RNA extractions are performed, digital imaging of stained tumor sections occurs, and specimens are assembled for dispatch for research projects. ABCTB collection sites where donors are identified, consent obtained, and specimens collected and processed for initial storage are located across Australia. Each of the activities of the resource requires financial support and different sources of revenue, some of which are allocated to a specific function of the ABCTB. Different models are in use at different collection centers where local variations may exist and local financial support may sometimes be obtained. There is also significant in-kind support by clinics and diagnostic and research facilities that house the various activities of the resource. However, long-term financial commitment to ensure the survival of the resource is not in place, and forward planning of operations remains challenging under these circumstances.
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Humphries, Debbie L; Carroll-Scott, Amy; Mitchell, Leif; Tian, Terry; Choudhury, Shonali; Fiellin, David A
2014-01-01
Although awareness of the importance of the research capacity of community-based organizations (CBOs) is growing, a uniform framework of the research capacity domains within CBOs has not yet been developed. To develop a framework and instrument (the Community REsearch Activity assessment Tool [CREAT]) for assessing the research activity and capacity of CBOs that incorporates awareness of the different data collection and analysis priorities of CBOs. We conducted a review of existing tools for assessing research capacity to identify key capacity domains. Instrument items were developed through an iterative process with CBO representatives and community researchers. The CREAT was then pilot tested with 30 CBOs. The four primary domains of the CREAT framework include 1) organizational support for research, 2) generalizable experiences, 3) research specific experiences, and 4) funding. Organizations reported a high prevalence of activities in the research-specific experiences domain, including conducting literature reviews (70%), use of research terminology (83%), and primary data collection (100%). Respondents see research findings as important to improve program and service delivery, and to seek funds for new programs and services. Funders, board members, and policymakers are the most important dissemination audiences. The work reported herein advances the field of CBO research capacity by developing a systematic framework for assessing research activity and capacity relevant to the work of CBOs, and by developing and piloting an instrument to assess activity in these domains.
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Feature Screening in Ultrahigh Dimensional Cox's Model.
Yang, Guangren; Yu, Ye; Li, Runze; Buu, Anne
Survival data with ultrahigh dimensional covariates such as genetic markers have been collected in medical studies and other fields. In this work, we propose a feature screening procedure for the Cox model with ultrahigh dimensional covariates. The proposed procedure is distinguished from the existing sure independence screening (SIS) procedures (Fan, Feng and Wu, 2010, Zhao and Li, 2012) in that the proposed procedure is based on joint likelihood of potential active predictors, and therefore is not a marginal screening procedure. The proposed procedure can effectively identify active predictors that are jointly dependent but marginally independent of the response without performing an iterative procedure. We develop a computationally effective algorithm to carry out the proposed procedure and establish the ascent property of the proposed algorithm. We further prove that the proposed procedure possesses the sure screening property. That is, with the probability tending to one, the selected variable set includes the actual active predictors. We conduct Monte Carlo simulation to evaluate the finite sample performance of the proposed procedure and further compare the proposed procedure and existing SIS procedures. The proposed methodology is also demonstrated through an empirical analysis of a real data example.
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Oleuropein and Cancer Chemoprevention: The Link is Hot.
Ahmad Farooqi, Ammad; Fayyaz, Sundas; Silva, Ana Sanches; Sureda, Antoni; Nabavi, Seyed Fazel; Mocan, Andrei; Nabavi, Seyed Mohammad; Bishayee, Anupam
2017-04-29
Cancer comprises a collection of related diseases characterized by the existence of altered cellular pathways resulting in an abnormal tendency for uncontrolled growth. A broad spectrum, coordinated, and personalized approach focused on targeting diverse oncogenic pathways with low toxicity and economic natural compounds can provide a real benefit as a chemopreventive and/or treatment of this complex disease. Oleuropein, a bioactive phenolic compound mainly present in olive oil and other natural sources, has been reported to modulate several oncogenic signalling pathways. This review presents and critically discusses the available literature about the anticancer and onco-suppressive activity of oleuropein and the underlying molecular mechanisms implicated in the anticarcinogenic and therapeutic effects. The existence of limitations and the promising perspectives of research on this phenolic compound are also critically analyzed and discussed.
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Understanding the distributed cognitive processes of intensive care patient discharge.
Lin, Frances; Chaboyer, Wendy; Wallis, Marianne
2014-03-01
To better understand and identify vulnerabilities and risks in the ICU patient discharge process, which provides evidence for service improvement. Previous studies have identified that 'after hours' discharge and 'premature' discharge from ICU are associated with increased mortality. However, some of these studies have largely been retrospective reviews of various administrative databases, while others have focused on specific aspects of the process, which may miss crucial components of the discharge process. This is an ethnographic exploratory study. Distributed cognition and activity theory were used as theoretical frameworks. Ethnographic data collection techniques including informal interviews, direct observations and collecting existing documents were used. A total of 56 one-to-one interviews were conducted with 46 participants; 28 discharges were observed; and numerous documents were collected during a five-month period. A triangulated technique was used in both data collection and data analysis to ensure the research rigour. Under the guidance of activity theory and distributed cognition theoretical frameworks, five themes emerged: hierarchical power and authority, competing priorities, ineffective communication, failing to enact the organisational processes and working collaboratively to optimise the discharge process. Issues with teamwork, cognitive processes and team members' interaction with cognitive artefacts influenced the discharge process. Strategies to improve shared situational awareness are needed to improve teamwork, patient flow and resource efficiency. Tools need to be evaluated regularly to ensure their continuous usefulness. Health care professionals need to be aware of the impact of their competing priorities and ensure discharges occur in a timely manner. Activity theory and distributed cognition are useful theoretical frameworks to support healthcare organisational research. © 2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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[A relational database to store Poison Centers calls].
Barelli, Alessandro; Biondi, Immacolata; Tafani, Chiara; Pellegrini, Aristide; Soave, Maurizio; Gaspari, Rita; Annetta, Maria Giuseppina
2006-01-01
Italian Poison Centers answer to approximately 100,000 calls per year. Potentially, this activity is a huge source of data for toxicovigilance and for syndromic surveillance. During the last decade, surveillance systems for early detection of outbreaks have drawn the attention of public health institutions due to the threat of terrorism and high-profile disease outbreaks. Poisoning surveillance needs the ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of harmonised data about poisonings from all Poison Centers for use in public health action to reduce morbidity and mortality and to improve health. The entity-relationship model for a Poison Center relational database is extremely complex and not studied in detail. For this reason, not harmonised data collection happens among Italian Poison Centers. Entities are recognizable concepts, either concrete or abstract, such as patients and poisons, or events which have relevance to the database, such as calls. Connectivity and cardinality of relationships are complex as well. A one-to-many relationship exist between calls and patients: for one instance of entity calls, there are zero, one, or many instances of entity patients. At the same time, a one-to-many relationship exist between patients and poisons: for one instance of entity patients, there are zero, one, or many instances of entity poisons. This paper shows a relational model for a poison center database which allows the harmonised data collection of poison centers calls.
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Morehead, R. L.; Atwell, M. J.; Melcher, J. C.; Hurlbert, E. A.
2016-01-01
A prototype cold helium active pressurization system was incorporated into an existing liquid oxygen (LOX) / liquid methane (LCH4) prototype planetary lander and hot-fire tested to collect vehicle-level performance data. Results from this hot-fire test series were used to validate integrated models of the vehicle helium and propulsion systems and demonstrate system effectiveness for a throttling lander. Pressurization systems vary greatly in complexity and efficiency between vehicles, so a pressurization performance metric was also developed as a means to compare different active pressurization schemes. This implementation of an active repress system is an initial sizing draft. Refined implementations will be tested in the future, improving the general knowledge base for a cryogenic lander-based cold helium system.
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Analyzing Activity Behavior and Movement in a Naturalistic Environment using Smart Home Techniques
Cook, Diane J.; Schmitter-Edgecombe, Maureen; Dawadi, Prafulla
2015-01-01
One of the many services that intelligent systems can provide is the ability to analyze the impact of different medical conditions on daily behavior. In this study we use smart home and wearable sensors to collect data while (n=84) older adults perform complex activities of daily living. We analyze the data using machine learning techniques and reveal that differences between healthy older adults and adults with Parkinson disease not only exist in their activity patterns, but that these differences can be automatically recognized. Our machine learning classifiers reach an accuracy of 0.97 with an AUC value of 0.97 in distinguishing these groups. Our permutation-based testing confirms that the sensor-based differences between these groups are statistically significant. PMID:26259225
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Analyzing Activity Behavior and Movement in a Naturalistic Environment Using Smart Home Techniques.
Cook, Diane J; Schmitter-Edgecombe, Maureen; Dawadi, Prafulla
2015-11-01
One of the many services that intelligent systems can provide is the ability to analyze the impact of different medical conditions on daily behavior. In this study, we use smart home and wearable sensors to collect data, while ( n = 84) older adults perform complex activities of daily living. We analyze the data using machine learning techniques and reveal that differences between healthy older adults and adults with Parkinson disease not only exist in their activity patterns, but that these differences can be automatically recognized. Our machine learning classifiers reach an accuracy of 0.97 with an area under the ROC curve value of 0.97 in distinguishing these groups. Our permutation-based testing confirms that the sensor-based differences between these groups are statistically significant.
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Papathomas, Anthony; Williams, Toni L.; Smith, Brett
2015-01-01
The aim of this study was to identity the types of physical activity narratives drawn upon by active spinal injured people. More than 50 h of semi-structured life-story interview data, collected as part of larger interdisciplinary program of disability lifestyle research, was analysed for 30 physically active male and female spinal cord injury (SCI) participants. A structural narrative analysis of data identified three narrative types which people with SCI draw on: (1) exercise is restitution, (2) exercise is medicine, and (3) exercise is progressive redemption. These insights contribute new knowledge by adding a unique narrative perspective to existing cognitive understanding of physical activity behaviour in the spinal cord injured population. The implications of this narrative typology for developing effective positive behavioural change interventions are critically discussed. It is concluded that the identified narratives types may be constitutive, as well as reflective, of physical activity experiences and therefore may be a useful tool on which to base physical activity promotion initiatives. PMID:26282868
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VANNONI, MICHAEL G.; BIRINGER, KENT L.; TROST, LAWRENCE C.
Missiles are attractive weapon systems because of their flexibility, survivability, and relatively low cost. Consequently, many nations are seeking to build missile forces resulting in regional arms races. Missile forces can be both stabilizing (e.g., providing a survivable force for deterrence) and destabilizing (e.g., creating strategic asymmetries). Efforts to control missile proliferation must account for these effects. A number of strategies to control the destabilizing effects of missiles were developed during the Cold War. Some of these strategies are applicable to regional missile control but new approaches, tailored to regional geographic and security conditions, are needed. Regional missile nonproliferation canmore » be pursued in a variety of ways: Reducing the demand for missiles by decreasing the perception of national threats; Restricting the export of missiles and associated equipment by supplier countries; Restricting information describing missile technology; Limiting missile development activities such as flight or engine tests; Restricting the operational deployment of existing missile forces; and Reducing existing missile forces by number and/or type. Even when development is complete, limits on deployment within range of potential targets or limits on operational readiness can help stabilize potential missile confrontations. Implementing these strategies often involves the collection and exchange of information about activities related to missile development or deployment. Monitoring is the process of collecting information used to for subsequent verification of commitments. A systematic approach to implementing verification is presented that identifies areas where monitoring could support missile nonproliferation agreements. The paper presents both non-technical and technical techniques for monitoring. Examples of non-technical techniques are declarations about planned test launches or on-site inspections. Examples of technical monitoring include remote monitoring (i.e., a sensor that is physically present at a facility) and remote sensing (i.e., a sensor that records activity without being physically present at a facility).« less
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Bit by Bit: Using Design-Based Research to Improve the Health Literacy of Adolescents
St. Jean, Beth; Taylor, Natalie Greene; Kodama, Christie; Follman, Rebecca; Casciotti, Dana
2015-01-01
Background Although a low health literacy level has been found to be among the most powerful predictors of poor health outcomes, there is very little research focused on assessing and improving the health literacy skills of adolescents, particularly those from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds. The vast majority of existing research focuses solely on reading comprehension, despite the fact that health literacy is actually a multifaceted concept, which entails many different types of skills. Objective The aim of this paper is to first mine existing literature to identify the many different skills that have been posited to constitute health literacy, and then, using this collection of skills as an overarching structure, to highlight the challenges that disadvantaged youth participating in our HackHealth after-school program encounter as they identify and articulate their health-related information needs, search for health-related information online, assess the relevance and credibility of this information, and manage and make use of it. Methods We utilized the design-based research method to design, implement, and revise our HackHealth program. To collect data regarding HackHealth participants’ health literacy skills and associated challenges, we used a variety of methods, including participant observation, surveys, interviews, focus groups, and logging of Web browser activities. We also collected data through specialized instructional activities and data collection forms that we developed for this purpose. Quantitative and qualitative techniques were used to analyze this data, as well as all of the artifacts that each student produced, including their final projects. Results We identified the various challenges that the 30 HackHealth participants faced in completing various health-related information activities during the course of the program. Based on these findings, we describe important implications for working with youth from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds, how to assess and improve their health literacy skills, and offer specific recommendations for health literacy instruction aimed at this population. Conclusions With an increased societal focus on health and a shift from viewing patients as passive recipients of medical care to viewing them as active arbiters of their own health, today’s youth need to possess an array of health literacy skills to ensure that they can live long and healthy lives. Working with adolescents to help them develop and practice these skills will also help to break the cycle between poor health literacy and poor health outcomes, thereby reducing health disparities and improving the long-term outlook for the health of our nation. PMID:26025101
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Leith, William S.; Benz, Harley M.; Herrmann, Robert B.
2011-01-01
Evaluation of seismic monitoring capabilities in the central and eastern United States for critical facilities - including nuclear powerplants - focused on specific improvements to understand better the seismic hazards in the region. The report is not an assessment of seismic safety at nuclear plants. To accomplish the evaluation and to provide suggestions for improvements using funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the U.S. Geological Survey examined addition of new strong-motion seismic stations in areas of seismic activity and addition of new seismic stations near nuclear power-plant locations, along with integration of data from the Transportable Array of some 400 mobile seismic stations. Some 38 and 68 stations, respectively, were suggested for addition in active seismic zones and near-power-plant locations. Expansion of databases for strong-motion and other earthquake source-characterization data also was evaluated. Recognizing pragmatic limitations of station deployment, augmentation of existing deployments provides improvements in source characterization by quantification of near-source attenuation in regions where larger earthquakes are expected. That augmentation also supports systematic data collection from existing networks. The report further utilizes the application of modeling procedures and processing algorithms, with the additional stations and the improved seismic databases, to leverage the capabilities of existing and expanded seismic arrays.
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Patient engagement in clinical communication: an exploratory study.
Chaboyer, Wendy; McMurray, Anne; Marshall, Andrea; Gillespie, Brigid; Roberts, Shelley; Hutchinson, Alison M; Botti, Mari; McTier, Lauren; Rawson, Helen; Bucknall, Tracey
2016-09-01
Existing practice strategies for actively involving patients in care during hospitalisation are poorly understood. The aim of this study was to explore how healthcare professionals engaged patients in communication associated with care transitions. An instrumental, collective case study approach was used to generate empirical data about patient transitions in care. A purposive sample of key stakeholders representing (i) patients and their families; (ii) hospital discharge planning team members; and (iii) healthcare professionals was recruited in five Australian health services. Individual and group semi-structured interviews were conducted to elicit detailed explanations of patient engagement in transition planning. Interviews lasted between 30 and 60 minutes and were digitally recorded and transcribed verbatim. Data collection and analysis were conducted simultaneously and continued until saturation was achieved. Thematic analysis was undertaken. Five themes emerged as follows: (i) organisational commitment to patient engagement; (ii) the influence of hierarchical culture and professional norms on patient engagement; (iii) condoning individual healthcare professionals' orientations and actions; (iv) understanding and negotiating patient preferences; and (v) enacting information sharing and communication strategies. Most themes illustrated how patient engagement was enabled; however, barriers also existed. Our findings show that strong organisational and professional commitment to patient-centred care throughout the organisation was a consistent feature of health services that actively engaged patients in clinical communication. Understanding patients' needs and preferences and having both formal and informal strategies to engage patients in clinical communication were important in how this involvement occurred. © 2016 Nordic College of Caring Science.
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Genetic variation in the USDA Chamaecrista fasciculata collection
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Germplasm collections serve as critical repositories of genetic variation. Characterizing genetic diversity in existing collections is necessary to maximize their utility and to guide future collecting efforts. We have used AFLP markers to characterize genetic variation in the USDA germplasm collect...
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Rail Transit Fare Collection : Policy and Technology Assessment
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Gomez, Scarlett Lin; Lichtensztajn, Daphne Y; Parikh, Punam; Hasnain-Wynia, Romana; Ponce, Ninez; Zingmond, David
2014-08-01
California mandates hospitals to collect and report patient race, ethnicity, and primary spoken language (REL). A lack of specific guidelines and standardized practices on how data should be collected has contributed to inconsistent and incomplete data.General acute care hospitals in California completed a survey to elucidate practices regarding collection and auditing of patient REL. Nearly all hospitals reported collecting race and/or ethnicity (97%). The majority of hospitals used standardized forms for collection, and 75% audited patient information for completeness. Popular accepted strategies to improve the quality and completeness of REL included collecting data at the first encounter, routine staff training, incorporating REL questions into existing admissions forms, and developing and enforcing hospital policies regarding data collection.California hospitals are collecting information on patient REL as mandated, but variation in data collection exists. Hospitals endorse many reasonable approaches for standardization, and may benefit from standardized data collection and auditing practices.
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Visser, Ate; Bibby, Richard K.; Moran, Jean E.
A capability for the analysis of krypton-85 ( 85Kr) in groundwater samples was developed at LLNL. Samples are collected by extracting gas from 2000-4000 L of groundwater at the well, yielding approximately 0.2 cm 3 STP krypton. Sample collection takes 1 to 4 hours. Krypton is purified in the laboratory using a combination of molecular sieve and activated charcoal traps, and transferred to a liquid scintillation vial. The 85Kr activity is measured by liquid scintillation on a Quantulus 1220 liquid scintillation counter from PerkinElmer. The detection limit for a typical 0.2 cm 3Kr sample size is 11% of the presentmore » day activity in air, corresponding to the decay corrected activity in air in 1987. The typical measurement uncertainty is below 10% for recently recharged samples. Six groundwater samples were collected, purified and counted. 85Kr was not detected in any of the samples counted at LLNL. 85Kr was detected by the low level counting laboratory of Bern University in all samples between 1.5 and 6.6 decays per minute per cm 3 krypton, corresponding to decay corrected activities in air between 1971 and 1985. The new capability is an excellent complement to tritium-helium, expanding the existing suite of age dating tools available to the GAMA program ( 35S, 3H/ 3He, 14C and radiogenic helium). 85Kr can replace 3H/ 3He in settings where 3H/ 3He ages are impossible to determine (for example where terrigenic helium overwhelms tritiogenic helium) and provides additional insight into travel time distributions in complex mixed groundwater systems.« less
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Linking structure and activity in nonlinear spiking networks
Josić, Krešimir; Shea-Brown, Eric
2017-01-01
Recent experimental advances are producing an avalanche of data on both neural connectivity and neural activity. To take full advantage of these two emerging datasets we need a framework that links them, revealing how collective neural activity arises from the structure of neural connectivity and intrinsic neural dynamics. This problem of structure-driven activity has drawn major interest in computational neuroscience. Existing methods for relating activity and architecture in spiking networks rely on linearizing activity around a central operating point and thus fail to capture the nonlinear responses of individual neurons that are the hallmark of neural information processing. Here, we overcome this limitation and present a new relationship between connectivity and activity in networks of nonlinear spiking neurons by developing a diagrammatic fluctuation expansion based on statistical field theory. We explicitly show how recurrent network structure produces pairwise and higher-order correlated activity, and how nonlinearities impact the networks’ spiking activity. Our findings open new avenues to investigating how single-neuron nonlinearities—including those of different cell types—combine with connectivity to shape population activity and function. PMID:28644840
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Conceptual design for a food production, water and waste processing, and gas regeneration module
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Nicks, O. W.
1986-01-01
During the first six month period, the RECON (Regenerative Concepts Group) team collected reference material, made visits to consult with other researchers, and invited distinguished visitors to speak on the status of closed life support activities. A decision was made to develop the data base and modeling such that artificial intelligence (AI) methods could be used to manipulate data and examine concept alternatives. Six discrete tasks and a project schedule were outlined for the first year. The first two tasks have been essentially completed and have resulted in a sample set of assumptions for general use in defining candidate systems and for the specification of closed system characteristics. To model a closed environment, decisions were necessary to establish the amounts of food, air, water and waste products. Although recognized that data would eventually be normalized on the basis of a single human, the amount of data in existence for four person crews led to the decision to use this as a baseline. Information on existing concepts was collected from NASA sources, from industry, and libraries. Concept modeling was begun, hardware and software obtained, technical tasks identified and experimental work initiated.
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Evaluation of sampling methods for toxicological testing of indoor air particulate matter.
Tirkkonen, Jenni; Täubel, Martin; Hirvonen, Maija-Riitta; Leppänen, Hanna; Lindsley, William G; Chen, Bean T; Hyvärinen, Anne; Huttunen, Kati
2016-09-01
There is a need for toxicity tests capable of recognizing indoor environments with compromised air quality, especially in the context of moisture damage. One of the key issues is sampling, which should both provide meaningful material for analyses and fulfill requirements imposed by practitioners using toxicity tests for health risk assessment. We aimed to evaluate different existing methods of sampling indoor particulate matter (PM) to develop a suitable sampling strategy for a toxicological assay. During three sampling campaigns in moisture-damaged and non-damaged school buildings, we evaluated one passive and three active sampling methods: the Settled Dust Box (SDB), the Button Aerosol Sampler, the Harvard Impactor and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Bioaerosol Cyclone Sampler. Mouse RAW264.7 macrophages were exposed to particle suspensions and cell metabolic activity (CMA), production of nitric oxide (NO) and tumor necrosis factor (TNFα) were determined after 24 h of exposure. The repeatability of the toxicological analyses was very good for all tested sampler types. Variability within the schools was found to be high especially between different classrooms in the moisture-damaged school. Passively collected settled dust and PM collected actively with the NIOSH Sampler (Stage 1) caused a clear response in exposed cells. The results suggested the higher relative immunotoxicological activity of dust from the moisture-damaged school. The NIOSH Sampler is a promising candidate for the collection of size-fractionated PM to be used in toxicity testing. The applicability of such sampling strategy in grading moisture damage severity in buildings needs to be developed further in a larger cohort of buildings.
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Guo, Junqi; Zhou, Xi; Sun, Yunchuan; Ping, Gong; Zhao, Guoxing; Li, Zhuorong
2016-06-01
Smartphone based activity recognition has recently received remarkable attention in various applications of mobile health such as safety monitoring, fitness tracking, and disease prediction. To achieve more accurate and simplified medical monitoring, this paper proposes a self-learning scheme for patients' activity recognition, in which a patient only needs to carry an ordinary smartphone that contains common motion sensors. After the real-time data collection though this smartphone, we preprocess the data using coordinate system transformation to eliminate phone orientation influence. A set of robust and effective features are then extracted from the preprocessed data. Because a patient may inevitably perform various unpredictable activities that have no apriori knowledge in the training dataset, we propose a self-learning activity recognition scheme. The scheme determines whether there are apriori training samples and labeled categories in training pools that well match with unpredictable activity data. If not, it automatically assembles these unpredictable samples into different clusters and gives them new category labels. These clustered samples combined with the acquired new category labels are then merged into the training dataset to reinforce recognition ability of the self-learning model. In experiments, we evaluate our scheme using the data collected from two postoperative patient volunteers, including six labeled daily activities as the initial apriori categories in the training pool. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed self-learning scheme for activity recognition works very well for most cases. When there exist several types of unseen activities without any apriori information, the accuracy reaches above 80 % after the self-learning process converges.
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Beets, Michael W; Weaver, Robert G; Moore, Justin B; Turner-McGrievy, Gabriel; Pate, Russell R; Webster, Collin; Beighle, Aaron
2014-03-01
In 2011, the U.S. Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) adopted activity standards recommending that afterschool programs (ASPs) ensure all children engage in a minimum of 30 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) daily during the ASP. ASPs decide how to accomplish this standard, for which few effective strategies exist. To evaluate strategies designed to help ASPs meet the MVPA standard. Single group intervention with pretest and three follow-up measures repeated-cross-sectional design with a subsample cohort. Four large-scale YMCA ASPs, serving approximately 500 children each day. Community-based participatory development of strategies focused on modification of program schedules, professional development training, and weekly checklists to evaluate activity opportunities. Accelerometry-derived MVPA classified as meet or fail-to-meet the 30 minutes' MVPA/day standard collected over a minimum of 4 nonconsecutive days at baseline (fall 2011) and three follow-up assessments (spring 2012, fall 2012, spring 2013). Random intercept logistic regression models evaluated the probability of meeting the standard for boys and girls, separately (analyzed summer 2013). A total of 895 children (aged 5-12 years, 48.4% girls) representing 3654 daily measures were collected across the four assessments. The percentage of girls and boys meeting the MVPA standard at baseline was 13.3% and 28.0%, respectively. By spring 2013, this increased to 29.3% and 49.6%. These changes represented an increase in the odds of meeting the 30 minutes' MVPA/day standard by 1.5 (95% CI=1.1, 2.0) and 2.4 (95% CI=1.2, 4.8) for girls and boys, respectively. The strategies developed herein represent an effective approach to enhancing current practice within YMCA ASPs to achieve existing MVPA standards. Additional work is necessary to evaluate the scalability of the strategies in a larger sample of ASPs. © 2014 American Journal of Preventive Medicine Published by American Journal of Preventive Medicine All rights reserved.
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webpic: A flexible web application for collecting distance and count measurements from images
2018-01-01
Despite increasing ability to store and analyze large amounts of data for organismal and ecological studies, the process of collecting distance and count measurements from images has largely remained time consuming and error-prone, particularly for tasks for which automation is difficult or impossible. Improving the efficiency of these tasks, which allows for more high quality data to be collected in a shorter amount of time, is therefore a high priority. The open-source web application, webpic, implements common web languages and widely available libraries and productivity apps to streamline the process of collecting distance and count measurements from images. In this paper, I introduce the framework of webpic and demonstrate one readily available feature of this application, linear measurements, using fossil leaf specimens. This application fills the gap between workflows accomplishable by individuals through existing software and those accomplishable by large, unmoderated crowds. It demonstrates that flexible web languages can be used to streamline time-intensive research tasks without the use of specialized equipment or proprietary software and highlights the potential for web resources to facilitate data collection in research tasks and outreach activities with improved efficiency. PMID:29608592
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2011-01-01
Background Physical inactivity is related to many morbidities but the evidence of its link with depression in adolescents needs further investigation in view of the existing conflicting reports. Methods The data for this cross-sectional study were collected from 1,100 Nigerian adolescents aged 12-17 years. Depressive symptomatology and physical activity were assessed using the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI) and the Physical Activity Questionnaire-Adolescent version (PAQ-A) respectively. Independent t tests, Pearson's Moment Correlation and Multi-level logistic regression analyses for individual and school area influences were carried out on the data at p < 0.05. Results The mean age of the participants was 15.20 ± 1.435 years. The prevalence of mild to moderate depression was 23.8%, definite depression was 5.7% and low physical activity was 53.8%. More severe depressive symptoms were linked with lower levels of physical activity (r = -0.82, p < 0.001) and moderate physical activity was linked with reduced risk of depressive symptoms (OR = 0.42, 95% CI = 0.29-0.71). The odds of having depressive symptoms were higher in older adolescents (OR = 2.16, 95% CI = 1.81-3.44) and in females (OR = 2.92, 95% CI = 1.82-3.54). Females had a higher risk of low physical activity than male adolescents (OR = 2.91, 95% CI = 1.51-4.26). Being in Senior Secondary class three was a significant predictor of depressive symptoms (OR = 3.4, 95% CI = 2.55-4.37) and low physical activity. Conclusions A sizable burden of depression and low physical activity existed among the studied adolescents and these were linked to both individual and school factors. Future studies should examine the effects of physical activity among clinical samples of adolescents with depression. PMID:21569581
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[Visually-impaired adolescents' interpersonal relationships at school].
Bezerra, Camilla Pontes; Pagliuca, Lorita Marlena Freitag
2007-09-01
This study describes the school environment and how interpersonal relationships are conducted in view of the needs of visually handicapped adolescents. Data were collected through observations of the physical environment of two schools in Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil, with the support of a checklist, in order to analyze the existence of obstacles. Four visually handicapped adolescents from 14 to 20 years of age were interviewed. Conclusions were that the obstacles that hamper the free locomotion, communication, and physical and social interaction of the blind--or people with other eye disorders--during their activities at school are numerous.
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The use of the DInSAR method in the monitoring of road damage caused by mining activities
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Murdzek, Radosław; Malik, Hubert; Leśniak, Andrzej
2018-04-01
This paper reviews existing remote sensing methods of road damage detection and demonstrates the possibility of using DInSAR (Differential Interferometry SAR) method to identify endangered road sections. In this study two radar images collected by Sentinel-1 satellite have been used. Images were acquired with 24 days interval in 2015. The analysis allowed to estimate the scale of the post-mining deformation that occurred in Upper Silesia and to indicate areas where road infrastructure is particularly vulnerable to damage.
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MAMS: High resolution atmospheric moisture/surface properties
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Jedlovec, Gary J.; Guillory, Anthony R.; Suggs, Ron; Atkinson, Robert J.; Carlson, Grant S.
1991-01-01
Multispectral Atmospheric Mapping Sensor (MAMS) data collected from a number of U2/ER2 aircraft flights were used to investigate atmospheric and surface (land) components of the hydrologic cycle. Algorithms were developed to retrieve surface and atmospheric geophysical parameters which describe the variability of atmospheric moisture, its role in cloud and storm development, and the influence of surface moisture and heat sources on convective activity. Techniques derived with MAMS data are being applied to existing satellite measurements to show their applicability to regional and large process studies and their impact on operational forecasting.