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  1. ACC Study Guide Series (Revised Edition).

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Staples, Katherine; And Others

    Designed for the beginning college student who needs to search for information, prepare written assignments, or take tests, the ACC (Austin Community College) Study Guide Series comprises 17 one-page study guides. Printed on card stock with colored headings, the guides are highlighted with cartoon illustrations and are intended to provide…

  2. Classroom Web Pages: A "How-To" Guide for Educators.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Fehling, Eric E.

    This manual provides teachers, with very little or no technology experience, with a step-by-step guide for developing the necessary skills for creating a class Web Page. The first part of the manual is devoted to the thought processes preceding the actual creation of the Web Page. These include looking at other Web Pages, deciding what should be…

  3. Competency Based Curriculum Guide for Practical Nursing Education in Virginia. Final Report.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA. Dept. of Industrial Arts Education.

    This final report contains a three-page narrative and extensive appendixes, including correspondence, surveys, field test evaluation and guide, and the Competency-Based Curriculum Guide for Practical Nursing Education in Virginia developed by the project. The over 200-page curriculum guide presents a suggested master curriculum for a twelve or…

  4. Implementing LibGuides 2: An Academic Case Study

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Duncan, Vicky; Lucky, Shannon; McLean, Jaclyn

    2015-01-01

    Since 1997, the University of Saskatchewan Library has used "subject pages" to highlight key library resources. When Springshare announced it was launching LibGuides v2, a project team was assembled to transition a mixture of locally produced guides and guides created with the original LibGuides v1 software. This article synthesizes best…

  5. ToxGuides: Quick Reference Pocket Guide for Toxicological Profiles

    MedlinePlus

    ... Favorites Del.icio.us Digg Facebook Google Bookmarks Yahoo MyWeb Get email updates To receive email updates ... Favorites Del.icio.us Digg Facebook Google Bookmarks Yahoo MyWeb Page last reviewed: January 21, 2015 Page ...

  6. A Guide to Fast and Simple Web Site Development. Using Microsoft FrontPage.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    La, Minh; Beachler, Judith

    Designed by California's Los Rios Community College District for use in instructional workshops, this guide is intended to help institutional researchers create World Wide Web sites using Microsoft FrontPage (MF) software. The first part of the guide presents practical suggestions for working with the software to create a site, covering the…

  7. ACC Study Guide Series.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Austin Community Coll., TX. Rio Grande Campus.

    Ten one-page instructional guides designed to assist Austin Community College (ACC) students in using the library and in writing research papers are presented in this series. The titles of the guides are: (1) "The Media Collection (We have more than books in the LRC)"; (2) "Encyclopedias"; (3) "Finding Books"; (4)…

  8. Traumatic Brain Injury: A Guide for Caregivers of Service Members and Veterans

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2010-01-01

    Fracture - Module 1, pages 2, 15, 22, 26...pages 6, 9, 13-16, 20, 22, 25, 27 Skull Fracture - Companion, page 9; Module 1, pages 14-15, 22, 26 Simple Fracture - Module 1, page 15 Compound... Fracture - Module 1, page 15 Depressed Skull Fracture - Module 1, page 15 Basal Skull Fracture - Module 1, page 15 Sleep Changes - Module 2, pages

  9. Completeness, accuracy, and readability of Wikipedia as a reference for patient medication information.

    PubMed

    Candelario, Danielle M; Vazquez, Victoria; Jackson, William; Reilly, Timothy

    This study determined the completeness, accuracy, and reading level of Wikipedia patient drug information compared with the corresponding United States product insert medication guides. From the Top 200 Drugs of 2012, the top 33 medications with medication guides were analyzed. Medication guides and Wikipedia pages were downloaded on a single date to ensure continuity of Wikipedia content. To quantify the completeness and accuracy of the Wikipedia medication information, a scoring system was adapted from previously published work and compared with the 7 core domains of medication guides. Wikipedia did not provide patient information that was as complete or accurate as the information within the medication guides: 14.73 out of 42 (SD 5.75). Wikipedia medication pages were written at a significantly higher reading level compared with medication guides (Flesch reading ease score 52.93 vs. 33.24 [P <0.001]; Flesch-Kincaid grade level 10.26 vs. 6.86 [P <0.001]). Wikipedia medication pages include incomplete and inaccurate patient information compared with the corresponding product medication guides. Wikipedia patient drug information was also written at reading levels above that of medication guides and substantially above the average United States consumer health literacy level. As the public use of Wikipedia increases, the need for educating patients about the quality of information on Wikipedia and the availability of adequate patient education resources is ever more important to minimize inaccuracies and incomplete information sharing. Copyright © 2017 American Pharmacists Association®. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  10. 47 CFR 24.202 - Service areas.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) COMMON CARRIER SERVICES PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS... 1992 Commercial Atlas & Marketing Guide, 123rd Edition, at pages 38-39 (“BTA/MTA Map”). Rand McNally... Commercial Atlas & Marketing Guide, 123rd Edition, at pages 38-39, with the following exceptions and...

  11. 47 CFR 24.202 - Service areas.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) COMMON CARRIER SERVICES PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS... 1992 Commercial Atlas & Marketing Guide, 123rd Edition, at pages 38-39 (“BTA/MTA Map”). Rand McNally... Commercial Atlas & Marketing Guide, 123rd Edition, at pages 38-39, with the following exceptions and...

  12. A Modular Set of Mixed Reality Simulators for blind and Guided Procedures

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2015-08-01

    W81XWH-14-1-0113 – Year 1 Report University of Florida Page 1 of 12 AWARD NUMBER: W81XWH-14-1-0113 TITLE: A Modular Set of Mixed Reality...Simulators for “blind” and Guided Procedures PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Samsun Lampotang CONTRACTING ORGANIZATION: University of Florida Gainesville, FL...designated by other documentation. W81XWH-14-1-0113 – Year 1 Report University of Florida Page 2 of 12 REPORT DOCUMENTATION PAGE Form Approved OMB No

  13. Guided Rocket Weapon,

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1982-06-11

    nyn;tei% (fuel/propellant ir, extruded trent the tanks by *C Cc:’ njie d g a. Work liquid-propellant engines on the same principle, as on the ~c~A t...82052705 PAGE 44-- Fig. 26. Starting/launcing of the guided winged missile * Snack ". Page 49.1 Ballistic short-range missiles. The most widely used short

  14. Fun with The Plant Nutrient Team. Teacher's Guide.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Potash and Phosphate Inst., Atlanta, GA.

    This guide is a work in progress; to be continually updated with further information (more stimulating experiments and unusual facts), consequently not every page will have a corresponding page in the activity book. It was created to provide teachers with a useful, informative resource regardless of their educational emphasis. It aims at helping…

  15. nu-TRLan User Guide Version 1.0: A High-Performance Software Package for Large-Scale Harmitian Eigenvalue Problems

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    Yamazaki, Ichitaro; Wu, Kesheng; Simon, Horst

    2008-10-27

    The original software package TRLan, [TRLan User Guide], page 24, implements the thick restart Lanczos method, [Wu and Simon 2001], page 24, for computing eigenvalues {lambda} and their corresponding eigenvectors v of a symmetric matrix A: Av = {lambda}v. Its effectiveness in computing the exterior eigenvalues of a large matrix has been demonstrated, [LBNL-42982], page 24. However, its performance strongly depends on the user-specified dimension of a projection subspace. If the dimension is too small, TRLan suffers from slow convergence. If it is too large, the computational and memory costs become expensive. Therefore, to balance the solution convergence and costs,more » users must select an appropriate subspace dimension for each eigenvalue problem at hand. To free users from this difficult task, nu-TRLan, [LNBL-1059E], page 23, adjusts the subspace dimension at every restart such that optimal performance in solving the eigenvalue problem is automatically obtained. This document provides a user guide to the nu-TRLan software package. The original TRLan software package was implemented in Fortran 90 to solve symmetric eigenvalue problems using static projection subspace dimensions. nu-TRLan was developed in C and extended to solve Hermitian eigenvalue problems. It can be invoked using either a static or an adaptive subspace dimension. In order to simplify its use for TRLan users, nu-TRLan has interfaces and features similar to those of TRLan: (1) Solver parameters are stored in a single data structure called trl-info, Chapter 4 [trl-info structure], page 7. (2) Most of the numerical computations are performed by BLAS, [BLAS], page 23, and LAPACK, [LAPACK], page 23, subroutines, which allow nu-TRLan to achieve optimized performance across a wide range of platforms. (3) To solve eigenvalue problems on distributed memory systems, the message passing interface (MPI), [MPI forum], page 23, is used. The rest of this document is organized as follows. In Chapter 2 [Installation], page 2, we provide an installation guide of the nu-TRLan software package. In Chapter 3 [Example], page 3, we present a simple nu-TRLan example program. In Chapter 4 [trl-info structure], page 7, and Chapter 5 [trlan subroutine], page 14, we describe the solver parameters and interfaces in detail. In Chapter 6 [Solver parameters], page 21, we discuss the selection of the user-specified parameters. In Chapter 7 [Contact information], page 22, we give the acknowledgements and contact information of the authors. In Chapter 8 [References], page 23, we list reference to related works.« less

  16. Managing World Wide Web Information in a Frames Environment: A Guide to Constructing Web Pages Using Frames.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Gilstrap, Donald L.

    1998-01-01

    Explains how to build World Wide Web home pages using frames-based HTML so that librarians can manage Web-based information and improve their home pages. Provides descriptions and 15 examples for writing frames-HTML code, including advanced concepts and additional techniques for home-page design. (Author/LRW)

  17. Great Scenes From Shakespeare: An Introduction to the Bard.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Carter, Candy

    An introductory unit on Shakespeare suitable for grades 8-10 is described. (The unit is intended for use with "A Visual Guide to Shakespeare's Life and Times" (Washington Square Press) and "Kings, Lovers, and Fools" (Scholastic). Activities include a 3-page study guide on Shakespeare's life and times; a chart for recording the…

  18. Consumer's Choice: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Consumer Education. Developed for Grades K-4.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Allegheny Intermediate Unit, Pittsburgh, PA.

    This manual suggests teaching strategies for integrating consumer education into art, language arts, mathematics, science/health, and social studies in grades K-4. The guide lists consumer education competencies, interdisciplinary structures for consumer education, and provides a chart which relates competencies to page numbers in the guide.…

  19. A Study to Determine the Role of Competition in Contracting for the Movement of Air Freight within the Domestic Market.

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1980-06-01

    ES2ABLISHMENT OF MOBILIZATION VALUES FOR SELECTED AIRCRAFT ... ............ 83 B. INTERVIEW GUIDE , SUBPROBLEM 1 .. ......... 87 C. INTERVIEW GUIDE , SUBPROBLEM...2 (PEACETIME). ... 91 D. INTERVIEW GUIDE , SUBPROBLEM 2 (EMERGENCY) . 96 E. FORMAL QUESTIONNAIRE, SUBPROBLEM 3 ........ .100 vi Page F. INTERVIEW GUIDE ... ratemaking func- tion under part 288 [of the FAA Act of 19581. On the basis of this review, we propose for three principal reasons to amend Part 288 to

  20. The Shadow of Hate: A History of Intolerance in America. Student Text ("Us and Them") and Teacher's Guide.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Carnes, Jim; Roberson, Houston

    "The Shadow of Hate" resource kit provides a videotape program (40 minutes), 20 copies of a 128-page student text ("Us and Them"), and a 32-page teacher's guide. This document consists of single copies of the two printed components of this kit. The resource traces the history of racial, religious, and social intolerance in the…

  1. Breastfeeding: Planning Ahead

    MedlinePlus Videos and Cool Tools

    ... Page Next Page It's Only Natural resources Related information Breastfeeding Pregnancy Resources Your Guide to Breastfeeding Support ... Our vision and mission Programs and Activities Health Information Gateway It's Only Natural Make the Call, Don' ...

  2. The Design of Lightning Protection

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    1983-01-01

    Engineering study guides design and monitoring of lightning protection. Design studies for project are collected in 150-page report, containing wealth of information on design of lightning protection systems and on instrumentation for monitoring current waveforms of lightning strokes.

  3. "The Grapes of Wrath": Scrapbooks and Artifacts. Ethnographic Field Studies in Fiction. Learning Page Lesson Plan.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Specht, Linda; Lackey, David

    This three-week high school American Literature lesson plan guides students to show how cultural artifacts from "The Grapes of Wrath" support one of the book's many themes. The teacher's guide describes the five lessons that constitute this lesson plan: (1) ethnography; (2) photo analysis; (3) oral history; (4) material artifacts and…

  4. 76 FR 38212 - Notice of Issuance of Regulatory Guide

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-06-29

    ... NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [NRC-2010-0275] Notice of Issuance of Regulatory Guide AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Notice of Issuance and Availability of Revision 1 of Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.179, ``Standard Format [[Page 38213

  5. Using Genes to Guide Prescriptions

    MedlinePlus

    ... Science > Using Genes to Guide Prescriptions Inside Life Science View All Articles | Inside Life Science Home Page Using Genes to Guide Prescriptions By ... to Zoloft: Ways Medicines Work This Inside Life Science article also appears on LiveScience . Learn about related ...

  6. Base-Matics. Teacher's Guide.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Frame, Laurence

    This teacher's guide contains the following sections: Teacher Objectives; Student Objectives; Teacher Aid Suggestions; Objectives Overview; Teacher's Guide; Drawing Page; American League Team Addresses; National League Team Addresses; Student Activities; Baseball Field Dimensions; Age Problems; Statistics from a Newspaper; Time Problems; Height…

  7. Learning About Acid Rain: A Teacher's Guide for Grades 6 through 8

    EPA Pesticide Factsheets

    Find on this page a link to the Acid Rain Teacher's Guide for Students Grades 6-8. This guide contains information, class discussions and experiments teachers can use to teach students about acid rain.

  8. Exploring the Moon: A Teacher's Guide with Activities for Earth and Space Sciences

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Martel, Linda M. V. (Editor)

    1997-01-01

    The "Teacher's Guide" tells the story of the Moon's geological history and how scientists try to decipher the story. This background information may be useful reading for students as well. Key facts about the Moon appear on the "Moon ABCs" and "Rock ABCs" pages. These pages were named to emphasize the basic nature of the information. The "Progress in Lunar Science Chart" summarizes our knowledge about the Moon from 1959 to 1997.

  9. Economic and Societal Factors Instructional Guide. Spanish Student Materials.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Hendrix, Mary W.; And Others

    This document is the Spanish language version of the student materials component designed to accompany the Economic and Societal Factors Instructional Guide. Page numbers are consistent with the numbering in that guide. The guide's nine units deal with the following topics: (1) job acquisition (sources of employment, job application, completing…

  10. Economic and Societal Factors Instructional Guide. Student Materials.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Hendrix, Mary W.

    These student materials are designed to accompany the Economic and Societal Factors Instructional Guide. Page numbers are consistent with the numbering in that guide. The guide's nine units deal with the following topics: (1) job acquisition (sources of employment, job application, completing the application form, resume, job interview, follow-up…

  11. Foot-Matics. Teacher's Guide.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Frame, Laurence

    This teacher's guide contains the following sections: Teacher Objectives; Student Objectives; Teacher Aide Suggestions; Objectives Overview; Scope and Sequence (K-8); Teacher's Guide; NFL Public Relations Director; NFL Team Addresses and Art (Helmet) Pages; Football Field Dimensions; Age Problems; Statistics from a Newspaper; Standings; Weight…

  12. Traumatic Brain Injury: A Guide for Caregivers of Service Members and Veterans. Welcome

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2010-04-01

    Reed Army Medical Center, 33 percent had traumatic brain injury (as of March 2009). Due to medical and technological advances, we have seen a...Right to Appeal PEB Decision - Module 4, pages 139-141 PEG Tube (Per Cutaneous Gastronomy Tube) - Module 1, page 23 PRC (VA Polytrauma Rehabilitation...Per Cutaneous Gastronomy Tube (PEG tube) - Module 1, page 23 Peripheral Fatigue - Module 2, page 17 IN D EX 29 Permanent Disability Retired List (PDRL

  13. A Teacher's Guide to the Energy 80 Student Booklet for the 1981-82 School Year.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Lord, John, Ed.

    This teaching guide was developed for use with Energy 80 program student booklets. Although the program was designed for junior high/middle school students in science/social studies classes, it is indicated that the materials are suitable for use at higher grades and, to a lesser extent, in upper elementary grades. The first 80 pages of the guide…

  14. Images of Conflict: Learning from Media Coverage of the Persian Gulf War. A Media Literacy Workshop Kit.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Osborn, Barbara; Davis, J. Francis

    This workshop kit consists of: (1) 30-page "Leaders Guide and Handout Masters"; (2) 12-minute videotape, "Lines in the Sand"; (3) special 24-page issue of the journal "Media & Values" on the theme "The Media: in War and Peace"; and (4) an 8-page booklet on the basics of media literacy, "From…

  15. Grouping of Items in Mobile Web Questionnaires

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Mavletova, Aigul; Couper, Mick P.

    2016-01-01

    There is some evidence that a scrolling design may reduce breakoffs in mobile web surveys compared to a paging design, but there is little empirical evidence to guide the choice of the optimal number of items per page. We investigate the effect of the number of items presented on a page on data quality in two types of questionnaires: with or…

  16. Guiding Principles for Sustainable Federal Buildings

    EPA Pesticide Factsheets

    This page provides and overview of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) which was voluntarily committed the Agency to follow the Guiding Principles for Federal Leadership in High Performance and Sustainable Buildings.

  17. 76 FR 34890 - Pacific Halibut Fisheries; Limited Access for Guided Sport Charter Vessels in Alaska

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-06-15

    .... 110601314-1313-01] RIN 0648-BA99 Pacific Halibut Fisheries; Limited Access for Guided Sport Charter Vessels... to vessels operating in the guided sport (charter) fishery for halibut in International Pacific... charter vessels in the [[Page 34891

  18. Bullying 101: The Club Crew's Guide to Bullying Prevention

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    PACER Center, 2013

    2013-01-01

    "Bullying 101" is the Club Crew's Guide to Bullying Prevention. A visually-friendly, age-appropriate, 16-page colorful guide for students to read or for parents to use when talking with children, this guide describes and explains what bullying is and is not, the roles of other students, and tips on what each student can do to prevent…

  19. Medical Assisting Learning Guides.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Meyer, Rose

    Eight student learning guides are provided for a medical assisting program at the secondary, postsecondary, or adult level. Each learning guide is composed of these component parts: a title page that states the task, purpose, program and task numbers, estimated time, and prerequisites; an optional learning contract that includes terminal…

  20. National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for Area Source Boilers Tune-up Guides

    EPA Pesticide Factsheets

    This page contains two tune-up guides for area source boilers for industrial, commercial, and institutional boilers and process heaters. The first guide is for owners and operators, and the second is for technicians for the area source boilers.

  1. Submitting Electronic Notification of Compliance Status to the Compliance and Emissions Data Reporting Interface (CEDRI)

    EPA Pesticide Factsheets

    This page contains a document to help you find out how to create and submit the Notification of Compliance Status by using CEDRI. This page also contains a User Guide for EPA's OAR CEDRI submission service

  2. Green Streets, Green Jobs, Green Towns (G3) Guides and Publications

    EPA Pesticide Factsheets

    This page provides links to guides and resources for: policy, regulations, and incentives; planning and design; construction, operation, and maintenance; financing and economic benefits; and, green jobs and training.

  3. Healthy Water Healthy People Water Quality Educators Guide

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Project WET Foundation, 2003

    2003-01-01

    This 200-page activity guide for educators of students in grades six through university level raises the awareness and understanding of water quality issues and their relationship to personal, public and environmental health. "Healthy Water Healthy People Water Quality Educators Guide" will help educators address science standards through 25…

  4. Book Review :The Essential Guide to Rocky Mountain Mushrooms by Habitat

    USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

    A mushroom guide book, 'The Essential Guide to Rocky Mountain Mushrooms by Habitat' by Cathy L. Cripps, Vera S. Evenson, and Michael Kou (University of Illinois Press, 260 pages), is reviewed in non-technical fashion from the standpoints of format, comprehensiveness, and clarity. Postive features (...

  5. [Book review] A field guide to western reptiles and amphibians (Second Edition, Revised), by Robert C. Stebbins and Roger Tory Peterson

    USGS Publications Warehouse

    Jennings, M.R.

    1987-01-01

    Review of: A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians (Peterson Field Guides, No. 16). Robert C. Stebbins and Roger Tory Peterson. Houghton Mifflin; 2nd Revised edition (June 10, 1985). 448 pages. ISBN: 978-0395382530.

  6. Career Opportunities Instructional Guide. Spanish Student Materials.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Hendrix, Mary W.; And Others

    This document is the Spanish language version of the student materials component designed to accompany the Career Opportunities Instructional Guide. Page numbers are consistent with numbering in that guide. Seventeen units are provided. The materials in Unit 1 concern various aspects of locating information about occupations; Unit 2 provides an…

  7. Career Opportunities Instructional Guide. Student Materials.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Hendrix, Mary W.

    These student materials are designed to accompany the Career Opportunities Instructional Guide. Page numbers are consistent with the numbering in that guide. Seventeen units are provided. The materials in Unit 1 concern aspects of locating information about occupations; Unit 2 provides an introduction to the 15 occupational clusters. Each of the…

  8. Hospitality Services. Curriculum Guide.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock. Home Economics Curriculum Center.

    This guide, which was developed as part of Texas' home economics education program, is intended to assist teachers of a hospitality services course focusing on the food and lodging segments of the hospitality and tourism industry. The first 40% of the approximately 600-page guide consists of strategies for teaching each of 29 essential…

  9. Guide for evaluating sweetgum sites

    Treesearch

    W. M. Broadfoot; Roger M. Krinard

    1959-01-01

    Studies at the Stonevill Research Center1 have established 3 practical methods of estimating the ability of Midsouth soils to grow sweetgum (liquidambar styraciflua). The methods were developed from data collected from 104 sweetgum plots in the area mapped on the opposite page.

  10. Industrial Maintenance, Volume II-A. Post Secondary Curriculum Guide.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Butler, Raymond H.; And Others

    This volume is the second of four volumes that comprise a curriculum guide for a postsecondary industrial maintenance program. It contains part of section 3 of the guide which contains the unit guides for two of the 12 duties included in the course. Each of the 197 tasks included in these two duties is presented on a separate page and contains the…

  11. A Guide to Two Cultures: American. A Guide to Two Cultures: Indochinese. Publication 8.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Interagency Task Force for Indochina Refugees, Washington, DC.

    This guide was adapted from an article by Arthur Gordon originally titled "How to Understand Those Mystifying Americans." Each page of the text is divided into two parts, with the English version given on one side and the Vietnamese on the other. The guide is composed of two main sections. The first is addressed to Indochinese refugees…

  12. Industrial Maintenance, Volume II-B. Post Secondary Curriculum Guide.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Butler, Raymond H.; And Others

    This volume is the third of four volumes that comprise a curriculum guide for a postsecondary industrial maintenance program. It contains part of section 3 of the guide which contains the unit guides for 10 of the 12 duties included in the course. Each of the 247 tasks included in these 10 duties is presented on a separate page and contains the…

  13. Arizona Conserve Water Educators Guide

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Project WET Foundation, 2007

    2007-01-01

    This award-winning, 350-page, full-color book provides a thorough study of Arizona water resources from a water conservation perspective. Its background section contains maps, graphs, diagrams and photos that facilitate the teaching of 15 interactive, multi-disciplinary lessons to K-12 students. In addition, 10 Arizona case studies are highlighted…

  14. Guide to Developing an Environmental Management System - Act

    EPA Pesticide Factsheets

    This page takes you though the basic steps (Plan, Do, Check, Act) of building an Environmental Management System (EMS) as they are outlined in the 2001 Second Edition of Environmental Management Systems: An Implementation Guide. Act section.

  15. Guide to Developing an Environmental Management System - Plan

    EPA Pesticide Factsheets

    This page takes you though the basic steps (Plan, Do, Check, Act) of building an Environmental Management System (EMS) as they are outlined in the 2001 Second Edition of Environmental Management Systems: An Implementation Guide. Plan section.

  16. Guide to Developing an Environmental Management System - Check

    EPA Pesticide Factsheets

    This page takes you though the basic steps (Plan, Do, Check, Act) of building an Environmental Management System (EMS) as they are outlined in the 2001 Second Edition of Environmental Management Systems: An Implementation Guide. Check section.

  17. Library Online! A Guide to Computer Research.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Turrell, Linda

    The world of electronic technology is opening up vast new opportunities for learning, gathering, and sharing information. This guide is for teachers and students in grades 4-8 to learn how to use electronic tools to conduct research to find information at school or around the world. The guide includes introductory pages for each topic, student…

  18. Shogun: A Guide for Classroom Use.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Stanford Univ., CA. Center for Research in International Studies.

    This teacher's guide will help secondary teachers teach about Japan using the best selling novel or television mini-series "Shogun." In preparing the guide, it was not possible to preview the television program before going to press. Therefore the lessons are keyed to the novel. The pages referred to in the lessons are in the paperback…

  19. Industrial Electrical Maintenance Learning Guides and Task Listing by Occupational Titles.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Whitmer, Melvin

    Seven student learning guides are provided for an industrial electrical maintenance program at the secondary, postsecondary, or adult level. Each learning guide is composed of these component parts: a title page that states the task, purpose, program and task numbers, estimated time, and prerequisites; an optional learning contract that includes…

  20. 1. Photocopy of engraving by D.C. Baxter (taken from page ...

    Library of Congress Historic Buildings Survey, Historic Engineering Record, Historic Landscapes Survey

    1. Photocopy of engraving by D.C. Baxter (taken from page 24 of the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Balltimore Railroad guide, Fitzgibbon and Van Ness, Philadelphia, 1856) GENERAL VIEW OF STATION (C.1856) - Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, President Street Station, President & Fleet Streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

  1. Searching for Bill and Jane: Electronic Full-Text Literature.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Still, Julie; Kassabian, Vibiana

    1998-01-01

    Examines electronic full-text literature available on the World Wide Web and on CD-ROM. Discusses authors and genres, electronic texts, and fees. Highlights Shakespeare, Jane Austen, and nature writing. Provides a bibliography of Web guides, specialized Shakespeare pages, and pages dealing with the Shakespeare authorship debate and secondary…

  2. Content and Design Features of Academic Health Sciences Libraries' Home Pages.

    PubMed

    McConnaughy, Rozalynd P; Wilson, Steven P

    2018-01-01

    The goal of this content analysis was to identify commonly used content and design features of academic health sciences library home pages. After developing a checklist, data were collected from 135 academic health sciences library home pages. The core components of these library home pages included a contact phone number, a contact email address, an Ask-a-Librarian feature, the physical address listed, a feedback/suggestions link, subject guides, a discovery tool or database-specific search box, multimedia, social media, a site search option, a responsive web design, and a copyright year or update date.

  3. Social Studies Curriculum Guide: Grade 5.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Dependents Schools (DOD), Washington, DC.

    An outline of the knowledge and skills to be taught at grade five in order to meet the Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DoDDS) social studies objectives is provided. Material is divided into four parts. Following an introduction, a one page description overviews the curriculum topic for grade five, American geography and government, and…

  4. Social Studies Curriculum Guide: Grade 8.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Dependents Schools (DOD), Washington, DC.

    An outline of the knowledge and skills to be taught at grade eight in order to meet the Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DoDDS) social studies objectives is provided. Material is divided into three parts. Following an introduction, a one page description overviews the curriculum topic for grade eight, United States history, and specifies…

  5. Social Studies Curriculum Guide: Grade 6.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Dependents Schools (DOD), Washington, DC.

    An outline of the knowledge and skills to be taught at grade six in order to meet the Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DoDDS) social studies objectives is provided. Material is divided into four parts. Following an introduction, a one page description overviews the curriculum topic for grade six, world cultures and geography, and…

  6. Social Studies Curriculum Guide: World History.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Dependents Schools (DOD), Washington, DC.

    An outline of the knowledge and skills to be taught in high school world history courses in order to meet the Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DoDDS) social studies objectives is provided. Material is divided into three parts. Following an introduction, a one page description overviews the curriculum topic for high school world history,…

  7. A Guide to Health Manpower Resources--1970.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Washington State Dept. of Social and Health Services, Olympia.

    The stated objective of this guide is to provide a quantitative description of the current supply of health manpower in the State of Washington. To do so, two methods of data collecting are used, with explanations for each. Precautions for interpreting their data are noted. The major portion (152 of 180 pages) of the guide lists information on…

  8. Guide to Developing an Environmental Management System - Do

    EPA Pesticide Factsheets

    This page takes you though the basic steps (Plan, Do, Check, Act) of building an Environmental Management System (EMS) as they are outlined in the 2001 Second Edition of Environmental Management Systems: An Implementation Guide. This is the Do section.

  9. Geologic road guides for the Southern Canadian Cordillera--Viewing geology and tectonics along major highways

    USGS Publications Warehouse

    Nokleberg, Warren J.; Price, Raymond A.; Bundtzen, Thomas K.; Nokleberg, Warren J.; Price, Raymond A.; Scholl, David W.; Stone, David B.

    2017-01-01

    The Geologic Road Guides for the Southern Canadian Cordillera provide a layperson’s understanding of the major geologic units and their tectonic origins along portions of two sets of major highways corridors, herein termed the Southern Road Guide and the Northern Road Guide. The two routes are shown on the Southern Canadian Cordillera Geologic Map. The first page of each Road Guide is this map that has Hot Spots for each site.

  10. The Economics of Aging: A Guide for Independent Study.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Dawson, George

    The major portion of this publication contains a bibliography of resources which college students can utilize in an independent study of the economic problems of aging. The first two pages of the publication suggest student projects. For example, it is suggested that students might make a thorough study of retirement planning, do research on the…

  11. 12 CFR 309.4 - Publicly available records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... INFORMATION § 309.4 Publicly available records. (a) Records available on the FDIC's World Wide Web page—(1... on the FDIC's World Wide Web page, located at: http://www.fdic.gov. The FDIC has elected to publish a broad range of materials on its World Wide Web page, including consumer guides; financial and...

  12. Occupational Exploration at Ontario Junior High School: 9th Grade.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Bates, Gene; And Others

    The document contains 56 activities for Grade 9. The contents include the following areas: questions about the future; job seeking activities and guidelines; career games; a personal interest check list; unit guides for courses in World of Work (55 pages), and Career Educational Planning (40 pages) which include objectives, activities, evaluation,…

  13. In Tune with Teens: A Guide for Communicating with Adolescents.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Beck, Irene C.; Caps, John, Ed.

    This guide, intended for adults who deal with adolescents, was originally designed as a companion to "No Hang-Ups!," a telephone tape call-in service addressing topics of vital concern to teenagers. The format of the guide consists of a series of brief two-page fact sheets on a wide range of adolescent issues: problems in school, teenage fears,…

  14. FIRE's Guide to Free Speech on Campus. Second Edition. FIRE's Guides to Student Rights on Campus

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Silverglate, Harvey A.; French, David; Lukianoff, Greg

    2012-01-01

    Since its first publication in 2005, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has distributed more than 138,000 print and online copies of its "Guide to Free Speech on Campus." In that time, FIRE's commitment to advocating on behalf of the essential rights discussed in the pages that follow has remained unwavering;…

  15. Invasive Plants Field and Reference Guide: An Ecological Perspective of Plant Invaders of Forests and Woodlands-Supplement

    Treesearch

    Cynthia Huebner; Cassandra Olson; Heather Smith

    2006-01-01

    Supplement 1 makes the following changes to the original guide, which was published in 2004. Replaces the title page. Corrects and clarifies information in the original guide for two species: Microstegium vimineum (Japanese stiltgrass) and Rosa multiflora (multiflora rose). Replaces the Species List. Adds descriptions with photos for five new species. These species are...

  16. Scenario Analysis: An Integrative Study and Guide to Implementation in the United States Air Force

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1994-09-01

    Environmental Analysis ................................ 3-3 Classifications of Environments ......................... 3-5 Characteristics of... Environments ........................ 3-8 iii Page Components of the Environmental Analysis Process ........... 3-12 Forecasting... Environmental Analysis ...................... 3-4 3-2 Model of the Industry Environment ......................... 3-6 3-3 Model of Macroenvironment

  17. Advanced distributed simulation technology: Digital Voice Gateway Reference Guide

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Vanhook, Dan; Stadler, Ed

    1994-01-01

    The Digital Voice Gateway (referred to as the 'DVG' in this document) transmits and receives four full duplex encoded speech channels over the Ethernet. The information in this document applies only to DVG's running firmware of the version listed on the title page. This document, previously named Digital Voice Gateway Reference Guide, BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation, Cambridge, MA 02138, was revised for revision 2.00. This new revision changes the network protocol used by the DVG, to comply with the SINCGARS radio simulation (For SIMNET 6.6.1). Because of the extensive changes to revision 2.00 a separate document was created rather than supplying change pages.

  18. 43 CFR Appendix B to Part 2 - Internet Addresses

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... Page: http://www.doi.gov 2. DOI FOIA Home Page: http://www.doi.gov/foia/ 3. DOI Reference Guide for Obtaining Information: http://www.doi.gov/foia/foitabl.htm 4. List of DOI Public Affairs Offices: http://www.doi.gov/foia/list.html 5. DOI FOIA Contacts: http://www.doi.gov/foia/contacts.html 6. DOI FOIA...

  19. A Comparison of Web Page and Slide/Tape for Instruction in Periapical and Panoramic Radiographic Anatomy.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Ludlow, John B.; Platin, Enrique

    2000-01-01

    Compared self-guided slide/tape (ST) and Web page (WP) instruction in normal radiographic anatomy of periapical and panoramic images using objective test performance and subjective preferences of 74 freshman dental students. Test performance was not different between image types or presentation technologies, but students preferred WP for…

  20. 43 CFR Appendix B to Part 2 - Internet Addresses

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... Page: http://www.doi.gov 2. DOI FOIA Home Page: http://www.doi.gov/foia/ 3. DOI Reference Guide for Obtaining Information: http://www.doi.gov/foia/foitabl.htm 4. List of DOI Public Affairs Offices: http://www.doi.gov/foia/list.html 5. DOI FOIA Contacts: http://www.doi.gov/foia/contacts.html 6. DOI FOIA...

  1. Social Studies Curriculum Guide: United States History.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Dependents Schools (DOD), Washington, DC.

    An outline of the knowledge and skills to be taught in a high school U.S. history course in order to meet the Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DoDDS) social studies objectives is provided. Material is divided into three parts. Following an introduction, a one page description overviews the curriculum topic for high school U.S. history,…

  2. Law: The Language of Liberty. Supplemental Materials for Alabama Social Studies Teachers. Grades 5-6.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Alabama Administrative Office of Courts, Montgomery.

    Student activity pages, teacher background information, and lesson ideas for teaching about the law in social studies classrooms are provided in this supplementary packet. An introductory section provides a rationale for the unit, a guide to bringing law-related resource persons into the classroom, a teacher checklist for helping resource persons…

  3. SmartSearch steganalysis

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Bloom, Jeffrey A.; Alonso, Rafael

    2003-06-01

    There are two primary challenges to monitoring the Web for steganographic media: finding suspect media and examining those found. The challenge that has received a great deal of attention is the second of these, the steganalysis problem. The other challenge, and one that has received much less attention, is the search problem. How does the steganalyzer get the suspect media in the first place? This paper describes an innovative method and architecture to address this search problem. The typical approaches to searching the web for covert communications are often based on the concept of "crawling" the Web via a smart "spider." Such spiders find new pages by following ever-expanding chains of links from one page to many next pages. Rather than seek pages by chasing links from other pages, we find candidate pages by identifying requests to access pages. To do this we monitor traffic on Internet backbones, identify and log HTTP requests, and use this information to guide our process. Our approach has the advantages that we examine pages to which no links exist, we examine pages as soon as they are requested, and we concentrate resources only on active pages, rather than examining pages that are never viewed.

  4. Outing Activities and Winter Sports Guide.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Knierim, Helen, Ed.; Hobson, Barbara B., Ed.

    This guide contains articles on outdoor recreational activities and official winter sports rules for girls and women. The articles on outdoor activities include the techniques, teaching, and organization of camping, canoeing, competitive cycling, and riflery. Four pages of references on nature and outdoor activities are presented along with two…

  5. A Place at the Table: Struggles for Equality in America. Teacher's Guide [and Student Text].

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Foster, Randy; Mapp, Amy; Fleming, Maria, Ed.

    "A Place at the Table" contains a teacher's guide, a 40-minute videotape and a 144-page textbook. The kit is designed to help students explore the historical, ongoing struggle to realize the national ideals of freedom and equality. This teacher's guide comprises 13 lesson plans (one for the video and one for each of the 12 chapters in…

  6. Bakk'autugh Ts'uhuniy = Stories We Live By. Traditional Koyukon Athabaskan Stories Told by Catherine Attla, with Teacher's Guide.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Jones, Eliza, Ed.; And Others

    This collection of eighteen traditional stories are told in Koyukon Athabaskan, an American Indian language variety spoken in Alaska, on the left page and in English translation on the right page. Introductory sections provide background information on the oral tradition from which the stories come, the translations, the storyteller and her…

  7. Skills To Fit Your Life Together.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Draper, Patty; Emmons, Kay; Gregory, Glenda; Lewis, Beverly; Owen, Pat; Rogers, Grenell; Wilson, Cynthia

    This document is a fill-in-the-dates calendar that students in a daily living skills or family life education class can use to remind themselves to live a healthy and productive life. Set up with a page of tips on the top with a monthly calendar page below, the guide covers the following topics: (1) living better with less; (2) home safety rules;…

  8. National Data Buoy Center

    Science.gov Websites

    Click to go to NDBC home page Select to go to the NWS homepage Home About Us Contact Us Search NDBC Web link to RSS feed access page Web Widget Email Access Web Data Guide Maintenance Schedule Station Status Information USA.gov is the U.S. government's official web portal to all federal, state and local government

  9. NDBC DART® Program

    Science.gov Websites

    Click to go to NDBC home page Select to go to the NWS homepage Home About Us Contact Us Search NDBC Web link to RSS feed access page Web Widget Email Access Web Data Guide Maintenance Schedule Station Status Information USA.gov is the U.S. government's official web portal to all federal, state and local government

  10. Error Pattern Analysis Applied to Technical Writing: An Editor's Guide for Writers.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Monagle, E. Brette

    The use of error pattern analysis can reduce the time and money spent on editing and correcting manuscripts. What is required is noting, classifying, and keeping a frequency count of errors. First an editor should take a typical page of writing and circle each error. After the editor has done a sufficiently large number of pages to identify an…

  11. Integrated Swarming Operations for Air Base Defense: Applications in Irregular Warfare

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2006-06-01

    Giordano THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK i REPORT DOCUMENTATION PAGE Form Approved OMB No. 0704-0188 Public...Gray Approved by: John Arquilla Thesis Advisor Frank Giordano Second Reader Gordon McCormick Chairman, Department of Defense...Frank Giordano for all their help in guiding me down the path of swarming, counterinsurgency and applications for air base defense in irregular

  12. Author-Editor Guide to Technical Publications Preparation. Revision

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1990-01-01

    meteorology, climatology, military technical publications. ( ") <- 15: Number of Pages: 68 17. Security Classification of Report: Unclassified 1... Security Classification of this Page: Unclassified 19. Security Classification of Abstract: Unclassified 20. Limitation of Abstract: UL Standard Form 298...34 There are, however, February 1983. numerous exceptions. Although some technical material may not be classified in accordance with security AFR 83-2, Air

  13. Project Path Guide to Preparing Postsecondary Students with Disabilities for Competitive Employment.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL.

    Project Path, at Illinois' College of DuPage, was established to provide pre-employment training and career counseling for disabled students. This guide describes the project's goals, clientele, and procedures to provide a model for preparing disabled postsecondary students for competitive employment. The first section provides background…

  14. Planning and Troubleshooting Guide.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    1994

    This reference guide serves as an index for an 11-volume series of handbooks that offer guidelines to school administrators on the application and implementation of Total Quality Management (TQM) principles to education--Total Quality Education (TQE). The topics are listed in alphabetical order to show the corresponding volume and page number(s).…

  15. Living Effectively in the 70's.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Alexis I. DuPont School District, Greenville, DE.

    GRADES OR AGES: Unspecified. SUBJECT MATTER: Effective living. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: Most of the pages are divided into three columns: concept, some activities, and teacher comments. The guide is offset printed and spiral bound with a soft cover. OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES: The guide is divided into eight units: human growth and…

  16. ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE SERVICEMAN, SUGGESTED GUIDE FOR A TRAINING COURSE.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    LOVE, L. CARL; RONEY, MAURICE W.

    THE PURPOSE OF THIS GUIDE IS TO AID IN PLANNING AND DEVELOPING A COURSE FOR TRAINING ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE SERVICEMEN. OUTLINES (ONE PAGE EACH) COVER -- (1) RELATED INSTRUCTION, (2) FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRICITY, (3) BASIC CONTROLS AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS, (4) RESISTANCE HEATING APPLIANCES, (5) MOTORS FOR ELECTRIC APPLIANCES, (6) MOTOR DRIVEN…

  17. An Evaluation of Heat Strain Monitoring Methods for Workers in Encapsulating, Impermeable Protective Clothing

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1987-05-01

    LIST OF TABLES Table Page I Estimation of Energy Expenditure from AIHA Ergonomie Guides for Moderate Work at A Hazardous Waste Site 44... Ergonomie Guide. Am. Ind. Hyg. Assoc. J. 32:560 (1971). 3. Ramsey, J.D. Heat Stress Standard: OSHA’s Advisory Committee

  18. 77 FR 72245 - Pears Grown in Oregon and Washington; Committee Membership Reapportionment for Processed Pears

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2012-12-05

    ... small business guide on complying with fruit, vegetable, and specialty crop marketing agreements and orders may be viewed at: www.ams.usda.gov/MarketingOrderSmallBusinessGuide . Any questions about the..., December 5, 2012 / Proposed Rules#0;#0; [[Page 72245

  19. Advanced Woodworking (Industrial Arts) Curriculum Guide. Bulletin 1752.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Louisiana State Dept. of Education, Baton Rouge. Div. of Vocational Education.

    This curriculum guide contains materials for a 12-unit course in advanced woodworking for grades 11-12. It is intended for use by industrial arts teachers, supervisors, counselors, administrators, and teacher educators. A two-page course overview provides a brief course description; indicates target grade level, prerequisites, course goals, and…

  20. NEWTON'S APPLE 14th Season Teacher's Guide.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Wichmann, Sue, Ed.

    This guide was developed to help teachers use the 14th season of NEWTON'S APPLE in their classrooms and contains lessons formatted to follow the National Science Education Standards. The "Overview,""Main Activity," and "Try-This" sections were created with inquiry-based learning in mind. Each lesson page begins with…

  1. Healthy Water Healthy People Field Monitoring Guide

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Project WET Foundation, 2003

    2003-01-01

    This 100-page manual serves as a technical reference for the "Healthy Water, Healthy People Water Quality Educators Guide" and the "Healthy Water Healthy People Testing Kits". Yielding in-depth information about ten water quality parameters, it answers questions about water quality testing using technical overviews, data interpretation guidelines,…

  2. Product Guide/1972 [Air Pollution Control Association].

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Journal of the Air Pollution Control Association, 1971

    1971-01-01

    Reprinted in this pamphlet is the fifth annual directory of air pollution control products as compiled in the "Journal of the Air Pollution Control Association" for December, 1971. The 16-page guide lists manufacturers of emission control equipment and air pollution instrumentation under product classifications as derived from McGraw-Hill's "Air…

  3. An evaluation of Spanish and English on-line information sources regarding pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period.

    PubMed

    Artieta-Pinedo, Isabel; Paz-Pascual, Carmen; Grandes, Gonzalo; Villanueva, Gemma

    2018-03-01

    the aim of this study is to evaluate the quality of web pages found by women when carrying out an exploratory search concerning pregnancy, childbirth, the postpartum period and breastfeeding. a descriptive study of the first 25 web pages that appear in the search engines Google, Yahoo and Bing, in October 2014 in the Basque Country (Spain), when entering eight Spanish words and seven English words related to pregnancy, childbirth, the postpartum period, breastfeeding and newborns. Web pages aimed at healthcare professionals and forums were excluded. The reliability was evaluated using the LIDA questionnaire, and the contents of the web pages with the highest scores were then described. a total of 126 web pages were found using the key search words. Of these, 14 scored in the top 30% for reliability. The content analysis of these found that the mean score for "references to the source of the information" was 3.4 (SD: 2.17), that for "up-to-date" was 4.30 (SD: 1.97) and the score for "conflict of interest statement" was 5.90 (SD: 2.16). The mean for web pages created by universities and official bodies was 13.64 (SD: 4.47), whereas the mean for those created by private bodies was 11.23 (SD: 4.51) (F (1,124)5.27. p=0.02). The content analysis of these web pages found that the most commonly discussed topic was breastfeeding, followed by self-care during pregnancy and the onset of childbirth. in this study, web pages from established healthcare or academic institutions were found to contain the most reliable information. The significant number of web pages found in this study with poor quality information indicates the need for healthcare professionals to guide women when sourcing information online. As the origin of the web page has a direct effect on reliability, the involvement of healthcare professionals in the use, counselling and generation of new technologies as an intervention tool is increasingly essential. Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

  4. Using SPSS syntax: a beginner's guide Jacqueline Collier Using SPSS syntax: a beginner's guide Sage Pages: 216 £24.99 9781412922180 1412922186 [Formula: see text].

    PubMed

    2011-01-21

    As someone who is comfortable with analysing data in SAS using coding language, it is perplexing that I run from the use of syntax in SPSS. But, my apprehension has subsided with the Collier's guide. Syntax command can automate processes, increase reproducibility and give the user broader access to features otherwise unavailable in SPSS.

  5. Civil Engineering Work Information Management System (WIMS) Planning Guide,

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1985-04-01

    WORK INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PLANNING GUIDE l-!O L~ JAUG 0)12 13 "’ ’’’ " " 𔄂 5 7 2 2 0 0 9 W WTVF--- DISCLAIMER The views and conclusions...y CHAPTER PAGE I INTRODUCTION What is WIMS? --------------------------------- 1I Why Do We Need A WIMS Planning Guide? ------------ I The Target...Administrator ------------------ 21 6 EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES Introduction ------------------------------- 22 Magnetic Media Supplies

  6. Netscape Communicator 4.5. Volume II: Beyond the Basics. Advanced Searches, Multimedia, and Composing a Web Page.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Gallo, Gail; Wichowski, Chester P.

    This second of two guides on Netscape Communicator 4.5 contains six lessons on advanced searches, multimedia, and composing a World Wide Web page. Lesson 1 is a review of the Navigator window, toolbars, and menus. Lesson 2 covers AltaVista's advanced search tips, searching for information excluding certain text, and advanced and nested Boolean…

  7. A New and Improved MPB Web Site

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Warner, Brian D.

    2018-01-01

    The Minor Planet Bulletin home page has a new URL: http://www.MinorPlanet.info/MPB/mpb.php. The new home page features free access (data rates may apply) to almost all papers from Volume 1 (1973) to present. Also included are a basic search feature that allows finding papers by title/abstract and/or authors and links to download the MPB authors guide and cumulative indices.

  8. Bile Duct Cancer (Cholangiocarcinoma)

    MedlinePlus

    ... and pediatric oncologists, oncology nurses, physician assistants, social workers, and patient advocates. Cancer.Net Guide Bile Duct Cancer (Cholangiocarcinoma) ... Team Additional Resources View All Pages f ...

  9. Advanced Metals (Industrial Arts) Curriculum Guide. Bulletin 1750.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Louisiana State Dept. of Education, Baton Rouge. Div. of Vocational Education.

    This curriculum guide contains materials for a 13-unit course in advanced metals, the second metals course in the industrial arts curriculum for grades 10-12. It is intended for use by industrial arts teachers, supervisors, counselors, administrators, and teacher educators. A two-page course overview provides a brief course description; indicates…

  10. Advanced Technical Drafting (Industrial Arts) Curriculum Guide. Bulletin 1751.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Louisiana State Dept. of Education, Baton Rouge. Div. of Vocational Education.

    This curriculum guide contains materials for a 17-unit course in advanced technical drafting, a followup to the basic technical drafting course in the industrial arts curriculum for grades 10-12. It is intended for use by industrial arts teachers, supervisors, counselors, administrators, and teacher educators. A three-page course overview provides…

  11. Maximizing Energy Savings for Small Businesses | Buildings | NREL

    Science.gov Websites

    significant amounts of money and energy, increase profits, promote their business, and cut greenhouse gas goals and save money: NREL's four-page lender's guide with discussion on timing and low-cost methods for information and design and decision support guides, available for free download The USDA's Business and

  12. Residential Wiring. Fourth Edition. Teacher Edition [and] Student Guide [and] Student Workbook.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Taylor, Mark

    Residential Wiring, the second publication in a series of three wiring publications, prepares students for entry-level employment in the residential wiring trade. Instructional materials include a teacher edition, student guide, and student workbook. The teacher edition begins with introductory pages, including a training and competency profile,…

  13. Profit--The Key. Principles of the American Free Enterprise System for Distributive Education Students. Student Guide.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Hook, Sallie A.; And Others

    In this distributive education student's guide on the free enterprise system, principles of the American economic system are introduced as they relate to marketing and distribution. This twenty-four-page document includes directions and an introduction to the material. Twelve "Principle Sheets" on various economic concepts contain…

  14. Book Review: Stars (Copyright 1985, Golden Press; New York)

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Marigza, R. N., Jr.

    2009-06-01

    Stars is a part of the Golden Guides collection produced by Golden Press. It is a small 160 page paperback guide to the constellations, the sun, the moon, planets, and other celestial bodies. The book is convenient to carry along wherever you go, making it an easy to access reference material.

  15. A Guided Summary Completion Test for Long Academic Texts.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Bensoussan, Marsha

    Because testing comprehension of long (5- to 10-page) second-language texts is more complex than testing shorter texts, an alternative form of second language reading comprehension test is needed. In a guided summary completion test, students are presented with a greatly shortened version of the text (e.g., one-paragraph summary), containing…

  16. What Instills Trust? A Qualitative Study of Phishing

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Jakobsson, Markus; Tsow, Alex; Shah, Ankur; Blevis, Eli; Lim, Youn-Kyung

    This paper reports the highlights of a user study which gauges reactions to a variety of common "trust indicators" - such as logos, third party endorsements, and padlock icons - over a selection of authentic and phishing stimuli. In the course of the think-aloud protocol, participants revealed different sensitivities to email messages and web pages. Our principal result is the analysis of what makes phishing emails and web pages appear authentic. This is not only of interest from a pure scientific point of view, but can also guide the design of legitimate material to avoid unnecessary risks. A second result of ours are observations of what makes legitimate content appear dubious to consumers. This is a result with obvious applications to online advertising.

  17. Science Curriculum Guide, Levels 1 and 2.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Newark School District, DE.

    The first two of four levels in a K-12 science curriculum are outlined. In Level 1 (grades K-2) and Level 2 (grades 3-5), science areas include the study of living things, matter and energy, and solar system and universe. Conveniently listed are page locations for educational and instructional objectives, cross-referenced to science area and coded…

  18. Yearbook and Magazine Layout, English, Journalism. Language Arts: 5113.200.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Adams, Marlene E.

    Developed as a quinmester unit for the high school on yearbook and magazine layout, this guide provides the teacher with suggested teaching strategies for a study of the theory and practice of page layout, photo cropping and editing, use of color and special effects, copy fitting and headline writing and fitting, and principles of typography.…

  19. Learning in a Sheltered Internet Environment: The Use of WebQuests

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Segers, Eliane; Verhoeven, Ludo

    2009-01-01

    The present study investigated the effects on learning in a sheltered Internet environment using so-called WebQuests in elementary school classrooms in the Netherlands. A WebQuest is an assignment presented together with a series of web pages to help guide children's learning. The learning gains and quality of the work of 229 sixth graders…

  20. Creating Readable Handouts, Worksheets, Overheads, Tests, Review Materials, Study Guides, and Homework Assignments through Effective Typographic Design.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Hoener, Arthur; And Others

    1997-01-01

    This article presents guidelines for using the principles of typography to enhance the readability and legibility of classroom print materials for students with mild disabilities. Different elements of type, line length, page margins, and spacing are addressed. Recommendations for preparing materials that promote student performance are provided.…

  1. Program of Studies: Industrial Arts: Grades 7-12.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Fairfax County Schools, VA.

    The first part of the industrial arts curriculum guide provides brief descriptions of the program and course goals for grades K-12 and a one-page chart of program courses. Part 2 contains unit plans for grades 7-12 which provide unit descriptions, credit values, minimum class times, maximum students per class, prerequisites, and various unit…

  2. Latino Art & Culture: From the Series "America Past and Present." [Multimedia Resource Kit.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC.

    This resource kit contains a 26-minute video, close-captioned and subtitled in Spanish, a 68-page bilingual study guide, 10 color reproductions of paintings, and 14 slides. The video program, "Latino Voices: Artists and Community," features the work of seven contemporary Latino artists living in the United States. Through personal…

  3. Study Modules for Calculus-Based General Physics. [Includes Modules 24-26: Electric Potential; Ohm's Law; and Capacitors].

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Fuller, Robert G., Ed.; And Others

    This is part of a series of 42 Calculus Based Physics (CBP) modules totaling about 1,000 pages. The modules include study guides, practice tests, and mastery tests for a full-year individualized course in calculus-based physics based on the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI). The units are not intended to be used without outside materials;…

  4. Certification of Professional School Personnel in Manitoba: A Handbook for Graduates of Manitoba's Teacher Training Institutions = Delivrance des brevets au personnel professionnel du Manitoba: Guide a l'attention des diplomes des etablissements de formation d'enseignants du Manitoba.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Manitoba Dept. of Education and Training, Winnipeg.

    This guide, with alternating pages of text in English and French, provides information about the process of obtaining teacher certification in Manitoba (Canada). The guide discusses professional and vocational certification; application procedures; teaching prior to certification; salary classification; salary reclassification; official statements…

  5. The Potato People in "School Daze": Presented by Theatre Beyond Words. Cue Sheet for Students.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Briley, Rachel

    This performance guide is designed for teachers to use with students before and after a performance of the Potato People in "School Daze." The guide, called a "Cuesheet," contains seven pages of reproducible activity sheets for use in class with activities and discussion questions on the following topics: (1) Meet the…

  6. Interpersonal Communication & Problem Solving. Workplace Education. Instructor's Guide (Revised Edition for Publication). Project ALERT.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Blount, Joan, Comp.; Ruetz, Nancy, Ed.

    This instructor's guide contains materials for a 40-hour course that explores interpersonal communication and improves participants' ability to communicate with fellow workers and family members. A title page provides a course description with target audience and general objective. An introduction covers design of the 10-week course, with 2 2-hour…

  7. Healthy Water, Healthy Habits, Healthy People Educators Guide

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Project WET Foundation, 2008

    2008-01-01

    Clean water, proper sanitation and good hygiene form a solid foundation for a student's health education. This activities guide is designed to enable teachers to take an active role in making a real difference in the lives of children and their families. Its 40 pages are filled with engaging ways to impart an understanding about how common…

  8. User's Guide and Metadata to Coastal Biodiversity Risk Analysis Tool (CBRAT): Framework for the Systemization of Life History and Biogeographic Information

    EPA Science Inventory

    ABSTRACTUser’s Guide & Metadata to Coastal Biodiversity Risk Analysis Tool (CBRAT): Framework for the Systemization of Life History and Biogeographic Information(EPA/601/B-15/001, 2015, 123 pages)Henry Lee II, U.S. EPA, Western Ecology DivisionKatharine Marko, U.S. EPA,...

  9. Family Literacy: Community & Family Life Materials. A Guide to Recent and Recommended Books.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Lane, Martha A.; And Others

    The books in this family literacy guide are listed alphabetically by title in each of three sections. The author, publisher, copyright date, reading level, type of book, number of pages, International Standard Book Number, price, and annotation comprise each entry. The topic of the family contains 11 titles: "Angry Feelings"; "Beginning with…

  10. Suggestions for Teaching Mathematics Using Laboratory Approaches in Grades 1-3. 7. The Metric System.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of General Education Curriculum Development.

    This guide is the seventh teachers' guide developed by the Division for Curricular Services and the Bureau of Mathematics Education in cooperation with the Division of Federal Education Opportunity Programs, ESEA Title I. It contains 100 mathematics activities within 37 pages for primary students. The activities are planned for teachers to use…

  11. Study Modules for Calculus-Based General Physics. [Includes Modules 11-14: Collisions; Equilibrium of Rigid Bodies; Rotational Dynamics; and Fluid Mechanics].

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Fuller, Robert G., Ed.; And Others

    This is part of a series of 42 Calculus Based Physics (CBP) modules totaling about 1,000 pages. The modules include study guides, practice tests, and mastery tests for a full-year individualized course in calculus-based physics based on the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI). The units are not intended to be used without outside materials;…

  12. Study Modules for Calculus-Based General Physics. [Includes Modules 8-10: Conservation of Energy; Impulse and Momentum; and Rotational Motion].

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Fuller, Robert G., Ed.; And Others

    This is part of a series of 42 Calculus Based Physics (CBP) modules totaling about 1,000 pages. The modules include study guides, practice tests, and mastery tests for a full-year individualized course in calculus-based physics based on the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI). The units are not intended to be used without outside materials;…

  13. Study Modules for Calculus-Based General Physics. [Includes Modules 3-5: Planar Motion; Newton's Laws; and Vector Multiplication].

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Fuller, Robert G., Ed.; And Others

    This is part of a series of 42 Calculus Based Physics (CBP) modules totaling about 1,000 pages. The modules include study guides, practice tests, and mastery tests for a full-year individualized course in calculus-based physics based on the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI). The units are not intended to be used without outside materials;…

  14. Study Modules for Calculus-Based General Physics. [Includes Modules 27-30: Direct-Current Circuits; Magnetic Forces; Ampere's Law; and Faraday's Law].

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Fuller, Robert G., Ed.; And Others

    This is part of a series of 42 Calculus Based Physics (CBP) modules totaling about 1,000 pages. The modules indlude study guides, practice tests, and mastery tests for a full-year individualized course in calculus-based physics based on the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI). The units are not intended to be used without outside materials;…

  15. Navigating comics: an empirical and theoretical approach to strategies of reading comic page layouts.

    PubMed

    Cohn, Neil

    2013-01-01

    Like the sequence of words in written language, comic book page layouts direct images into a deliberate reading sequence. Conventional wisdom would expect that comic panels follow the order of text: left-to-right and down - a "Z-path" - though several layouts can violate this order, such as Gestalt groupings of panels that deny a Z-path of reading. To examine how layouts pressure readers to choose pathways deviating from the Z-path, we presented participants with comic pages empty of content, and asked them to number the panels in the order they would read them. Participants frequently used strategies departing from both the traditional Z-path and Gestalt groupings. These preferences reveal a system of constraints that organizes panels into hierarchic constituents, guiding readers through comic page layouts.

  16. Flooding

    MedlinePlus

    ... flooding For communities, companies, or water and wastewater facilities: Flood Resilience Guide is your one-stop resource ... Zika Top of Page For water and wastewater facilities: For water and wastewater facilities : Suggested post-hurricane ...

  17. Human Factors Engineering. A Self-Paced Text, Lessons 36-40,

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1981-08-01

    proposed contract does not involve ’significant human interface for operation/ maintenance /control,’ the selection guide should not be used. Turn to Page 98... work space configuration, packaging, and labeling. These are all aspects of maintenance which need to be incorporated into the original design plans... work done. An ROC is a ’Required Operational Capability’ statement that is required by the Army during the system acquisition process . Return to Page

  18. Expanding Library Services and Instruction Through LibGuides.

    PubMed

    Ream, Tim; Parker-Kelly, Darlene

    2016-01-01

    Beginning in 2012, the Charles R. Drew University (CDU) Health Sciences Library used LibGuides in a number of innovative ways. Librarians constructed e-book databases, in-depth tutorials on technology-related topics, and web pages highlighting special events. To assess similar LibGuides innovation, CDU librarians developed an eight-question survey distributed to health sciences and hospital libraries throughout Southern California and Arizona. Results showed that libraries used LibGuides primarily to deliver access to online resources and to provide supplementary materials supporting instruction. Responses also revealed that many libraries had not yet adopted LibGuides. These findings were analyzed and compared to past and current LibGuides design at CDU.

  19. Trouble Shooting Guide: Index to Problems and Solutions. Successful Schools: Guidebooks to Effective Educational Leadership. Volume 10.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    English, Fenwick W., Ed.

    An index to the problems and solutions discussed in the the first 9 volumes of the 10-volume series, Successful Schools: Guidebooks to Effective Educational Leadership, is provided in this handbook. This "troubleshooting guide" lists topics in alphabetical order, describes the issue, and lists the corresponding volume and page number. (LMI)

  20. Films on Jobs, Training, and the Ghetto; An Evaluative Guide.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    American Foundation on Automation and Employment, Inc., New York, NY.

    This 47-page evaluative guide to films on jobs, training, and the ghetto was prepared at the first International Job Film Fair. The Fair was held in New York City, May 21-22, 1969, and was sponsored by the American Foundation on Automation and Employment. Films were obtained through a variety of film, industrial, and educational media. The panel…

  1. Assessing and Improving Student Organizations: Student Workbook. The Assessing and Improving Student Organization (AISO) Program

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Nolfi, Tricia; Ruben, Brent D.

    2010-01-01

    This "Workbook" is intended for student participants during the AISO (Assessing and Improving Student Organization) assessment and planning sessions, and to be used in tandem with the "Guide for Students". Each page presents an action or reflection slide from the "Guide" with a space below for participants to note their own ideas, outcomes of…

  2. The Police, Traffic Tickets, and You. A Guide for New English Learners in Washington State.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Saunders, Janet; Marutani, Mio

    The 58-page reproducible text is an introductory guide to the role of police and the procedures surrounding traffic tickets in the state of Washington. It is designed for high-beginning to intermediate adult learners of English as a second language. In 17 brief, simply illustrated units, students are introduced to the police officer's job, types…

  3. A field guide to predict delayed mortality of fire-damaged ponderosa pine: application and validation of the Malheur model.

    Treesearch

    Walter G. Thies; Douglas J. Westlind; Mark Loewen; Greg Brenner

    2008-01-01

    The Malheur model for fire-caused delayed mortality is presented as an easily interpreted graph (mortality-probability calculator) as part of a one-page field guide that allows the user to determine postfire probability of mortality for ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Dougl. ex Laws.). Following both prescribed burns and wildfires, managers need...

  4. Guide to the Preparation of an Area of Distribution Manual.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Hayes, Philip

    This semester-length guide for high school distributive education students is geared to start the student thinking about the vocation he would like to enter by exploring one area of interest in marketing and distribution and then presenting the results in a research paper known as an area of distribution manual. The first 25 pages of this document…

  5. Deborah Tannen: He Said, She Said--Gender, Language, & Communication [and] Deborah Tannen: In Depth. Part 2. [Videotapes and Teaching Guide].

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Tannen, Deborah

    These curriculum-related materials include two videotapes and a 36-page teaching guide. The first videotape, "Deborah Tannen: He Said, She Said," with a running time of 50 minutes discusses: boys and girls, status and connection, directness and indirectness, public talk and private talk, ritual opposition, and conversational style, and a…

  6. Using the World Wide Web and Creating Home Pages. A How-To-Do-It Manual. How-To-Do-It Manuals for Librarieans, Number 67.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Metz, Ray E.; Junion-Metz, Gail

    This book provides basic information about the World Wide Web and serves as a guide to the tools and techniques needed to browse the Web, integrate it into library services, or build an attractive, user-friendly home page for the library. Chapter 1 provides an overview of Web basics and chapter 2 discusses some of the big issues related to…

  7. Style Guide for AFIT Dissertations, Theses, and Graduate Research Papers

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2007-05-01

    1989 Changeover in Assembly Plants .” Report to Directors of GMC automotive divisions. Fisher Body Division, General Motors Corporation, Warren...to fit on an 8 ½ x 11 inch page, consider having the base printing plant or photo lab reduce it, or consider designing it across several pages with...printing plant is 11 x 17 inches. Any larger foldouts will be sent to off-base printers; orders for such foldouts must be placed with the base printing

  8. Aviation System Analysis Capability Quick Response System Report Server User’s Guide.

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1996-10-01

    primary data sources for the QRS Report Server are the following: ♦ United States Department of Transportation airline service quality per- formance...and to cross-reference sections of this document. is used to indicate quoted text messages from WWW pages. is used for WWW page and section titles...would link the user to another document or another section of the same document. ALL CAPS is used to indicate Report Server variables for which the

  9. Study Modules for Calculus-Based General Physics. [Includes Modules 18-20: Sound; Temperature, Heat, and Thermodynamics: First Law; and Kinetic Theory of Gases].

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Fuller, Robert G., Ed.; And Others

    This is part of a series of 42 Calculus Based Physics (CBP) modules totaling about 1,000 pages. The modules include study guides, practice tests, and mastery tests for a full-year individualized course in calculus-based physics based on the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI). The units are not intended to be used without outside materials;…

  10. Study Modules for Calculus-Based General Physics. [Includes Modules 31-34: Inductance; Wave Properties of Light; Interference; and Introduction to Quantum Physics].

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Fuller, Robert G., Ed.; And Others

    This is Part of a series of 41 Calculus Based Physics (CBP) modules totaling about 1,000 Pages. The modules include study guides, practice tests, and mastery tests for a full-year individualized courses in calculus-based physics based on the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI). The units are not intended to be used without outside materials;…

  11. Isolating the Terrorists: The Abu Sayyaf Group Case Study

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2011-02-23

    classification level on the top and bottom of this page. · 17. LIMITATION OF ABSTRACT. This block must be completed to assign a distribution limitation to...paradigm shift and come up with operational doctrine that would guide commanders at all levels of command in defeating the ASG and other insurgents...study. Knowledge I learned from the subjects offered by the Command and Staff College supplemented my experience to better understand insurgency and

  12. Study Modules for Calculus-Based General Physics. [Includes Modules 1 and 2: Dimensions and Vector Addition; Rectilinear Motion; plus a Trigonometry and Calculus Review].

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Fuller, Robert G., Ed.; And Others

    This is part of a series of 42 Calculus Based Physics (CBP) modules totaling about 1,000 pages. The modules include study guides, practice tests, and mastery tests for a full-year individualized course in calculus-based physics based on the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI). The units are not intended to be used without outside materials;…

  13. Correspondence and Guides Regarding the Chesapeake Bay TMDL

    EPA Pesticide Factsheets

    This page provides various correspondence between EPA and the jurisdictions (Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia) during the development of the Chesapeake Bay TMDL.

  14. Development and demonstration of marketing techniques for establishment of ride-sharing corporations in New York State. Final report

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    Peters, E.W.

    1987-10-01

    Convincing commuters to join car or vanpools can be a challenging task. Through the Energy Authority project, two guides were produced to assist in establishing ride-sharing corporations and in marketing ride-sharing services in New York State. The first guide explains how to set up a ride-sharing corporation; the second guide, developed following the completion of a Commuter Behavior Study and a six-month demonstration, discusses marketing ride-share services. The Commuter Behavior Study centered on an 18-page questionnaire mailed to 6,000 households in Long Island and upstate New York. The study's findings were incorporated into a marketing plan followed by the contractor,more » Island Rides, a Long Island-based ridesharing corporation, during a six-month demonstration project. By using the promotional techniques identified in the study, Island Rides experienced a 68% increase in ride-sharing applications during this successful demonstration. The results of both the study and the demonstration are presented in the report.« less

  15. Setting Goals and Getting There: Planning Tomorrow Today. BANK-ED II: Personal Money Management Series.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Butterfield, Sherri M.

    The three units in this guide are designed to teach language, mathematics, and social studies skills associated with earning and managing money to students in grades 7-9. Each unit includes notes to aid the teacher in preparing and presenting the material, pre/post tests, and a series of one-page reproducible sheets which contain information or…

  16. Navigating Comics: An Empirical and Theoretical Approach to Strategies of Reading Comic Page Layouts

    PubMed Central

    Cohn, Neil

    2013-01-01

    Like the sequence of words in written language, comic book page layouts direct images into a deliberate reading sequence. Conventional wisdom would expect that comic panels follow the order of text: left-to-right and down – a “Z-path” – though several layouts can violate this order, such as Gestalt groupings of panels that deny a Z-path of reading. To examine how layouts pressure readers to choose pathways deviating from the Z-path, we presented participants with comic pages empty of content, and asked them to number the panels in the order they would read them. Participants frequently used strategies departing from both the traditional Z-path and Gestalt groupings. These preferences reveal a system of constraints that organizes panels into hierarchic constituents, guiding readers through comic page layouts. PMID:23616776

  17. Knowledge Based Text Generation

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1989-08-01

    Number 4, October-December, 1985, pp. 219-242. de Joia , A. and Stenton, A., Terms in Linguistics: A Guide to Halliday, London: Batsford Academic and...extraction of text schemata and their corresponding rhetorical predicates; design of a system motivated by the desire for domain and language independence...semantics and semantics effects syntax. Functional Linguistic Framework Page 19 The design of GENNY was guided by the functional paradigm. Provided a

  18. Using Desktop Publishing To Create Newsletters, Handouts, and Web Pages: A How-To-Do-It Manual. How-To-Do-It Manuals for Librarians. Number 74.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Maxymuk, John

    This guide provides desktop publishing basics and instructions for specific library applications, enabling any librarian to function as the writer, editor, designer, proofreader, and printer of a variety of different publications. The guide is designed to help librarians create publications that are attractive, effective, useful, and easily read.…

  19. Tube Feeding Troubleshooting Guide

    MedlinePlus

    ... in place. (For example, does it have a balloon, a mushroom bumper, or other internal device, or ... Frequent vomiting. • See “Nausea and Vomiting” page 3. Balloon deflates or bursts. • Be sure the balloon under ...

  20. Frequently Asked Questions about Energy Savings Plus Health

    EPA Pesticide Factsheets

    The Energy Savings Plus Health Guide equips school districts to integrate indoor air quality protections into school energy efficiency retrofits and other building upgrade projects. This page asks and answers Frequently-Asked Questions.

  1. Molds in the Environment

    MedlinePlus

    ... visit this page: About CDC.gov . Mold Cleanup & Remediation Homeowner’s and Renter’s Guide to Mold Cleanup After ... Home or Building with Mold Damage Prevention and Remediation Strategies for the Control and Removal of Fungal ...

  2. Comparison Between Self-Guided Langevin Dynamics and Molecular Dynamics Simulations for Structure Refinement of Protein Loop Conformations

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2011-01-01

    SECURITY CLASSIFICATION OF: 17. LIMITATION OF ABSTRACT Same as Report (SAR) 18 . NUMBER OF PAGES 9 19a. NAME OF RESPONSIBLE PERSON a. REPORT...unclassified b. ABSTRACT unclassified c. THIS PAGE unclassified Standard Form 298 (Rev. 8-98) Prescribed by ANSI Std Z39- 18 sampling is based on...atom distance-scaled ideal-gas reference state (DFIRE-AA) statistical potential func- tion.[ 18 ] The third approach is the Rosetta all-atom energy func

  3. Study Modules for Calculus-Based General Physics. [Includes Modules 21-23: Second Law and Entropy; Coulomb's Law and the Electric Field; and Flux and Gauss' Law].

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Fuller, Robert G., Ed.; And Others

    This is part of a series of 42 Calculus Based Physics (CBP) modules totaling about 1,000 pages. The modules include study guides, practice tests, and mastery tests for a full-year individualized course in calculus-based physics based on the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI). The units are not intended to be used without outside materials;…

  4. Plain words for nurses Alison Turnbull Plain words for nurses The Foundation of Nursing Studies 86 pages £6.50 0 9540091 0 X 095400910X [Formula: see text].

    PubMed

    2002-03-01

    This inspirational publication is one that practises what it preaches. It is about clear writing and provides very useful guidance to the nursing professional who wants to get an unclouded message across. It provides useful examples throughout to guide the reader and highlights how simple interventions can make big improvements.

  5. Technical Resources for Energy Savings Plus Health

    EPA Pesticide Factsheets

    The Energy Savings Plus Health Guide equips school districts to integrate indoor air quality protections into school energy efficiency retrofits and other building upgrade projects. This page lists additional resources related to Energy Savings Plus Health

  6. Medical Research | NIH MedlinePlus the Magazine

    MedlinePlus

    ... this page please turn Javascript on. Feature: Medical Research Research Results in the News: A Users Guide Past ... scientists the most reliable results. Where was the research done? Scientists at a medical school or large ...

  7. Guide for Commenting on NEEDS and IPM

    EPA Pesticide Factsheets

    Find on this page a document intended to provide guidance on submitting clear, concise, and impactful comments on NEEDS (National Electric Energy Data System), other inputs to the Integrated Planning Model (IPM), or outputs from IPM.

  8. CSYSG | The Collective School Garden Network

    Science.gov Websites

    materials consist of the following free resources: Download CSGN's complete guide book, Gardens for Learning page below for handouts, videos and additional links on each topic from the book and the training

  9. FIRE I - Marine Stratocumulus Data Sets

    Atmospheric Science Data Center

    2017-12-21

    FIRE I - Marine Stratocumulus Data Sets First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE) I - Marine Stratocumulus was conducted off the southwestern coast of California. ... FIRE Project Guide FIRE I - Marine Stratocumulus Home Page (tar file) SCAR-B Block:  ...

  10. Home Page: Division of Mammals: Department of Vertebrate Zoology: NMNH

    Science.gov Websites

    Search Field: Search Submit: Submit {search_item} Advanced Search Plan Your Visit Exhibitions Education Resources Databases Marine Mammal Program Beaked Whale Identification Guide 3D Primates VZ Libraries Related

  11. Nutrition Education: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Revised Edition, 1978. Developed through an Inservice Program of the Nutrition Education Development Project. Administered by Luzerne Intermediate Unit 18.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Grogan, Jane, Ed.; Armillay, Joy, Ed.

    This curriculum guide was developed to help teachers from pre-school through secondary grade levels provide an interdisciplinary approach to teaching nutrition. This guide begins with eleven instructional units, varying from two to twenty pages in length, on basic nutrition and other selected topics. Each unit includes some or all of the…

  12. Job Briefs. Career Education Guide.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Dependents Schools (DOD), Washington, DC. European Area.

    The document contains 288 one-page job descriptions based on 1973 information for the following 11 career clusters: automotive technology, business/clerical/sales, computer technology, electricity/electronics, graphic communications, health/cosmetology, agriculture/conservation, artistic/literary/music, mechanical/transportation/construction,…

  13. FIRE I - Extended Time Observations Data Sets

    Atmospheric Science Data Center

    2017-12-21

    FIRE I - Extended Time Observations Data Sets First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE) I - Extended Time Observations were conducted in Utah. Relevant ... FIRE Project Guide FIRE I - Extended Time Observations Home Page (tar file) SCAR-B Block:  ...

  14. Healthy Indoor Environment Protocols for Home Energy Upgrades

    EPA Pesticide Factsheets

    This page contains the EPA-developed Healthy Indoor Environment Protocols for Home Energy Upgrades, a PDF guide that provides a set of best practices for improving indoor air quality in conjunction with energy upgrade work in homes.

  15. SmartWay Mark Signature Page: Tractors & Trailers

    EPA Pesticide Factsheets

    This SmartWay agreement is for companies and organizations who wish to comply with the SmartWay Graphic Standards and Usage Guide guidelines and requirements for using the SmartWay logos on SmartWay designated Tractors and Trailers.

  16. Fiscal Year 2005 Solid Waste Pollution Prevention Annual Data Summary, (SW P2ADS) Guide (User’s Guide)

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2005-09-01

    services were procured? 19. IS YOUR INSTALLATION USING GREEN CLEANING PRODUCTS OR SERVICES? Enter “yes” or “no.” Return to Page 1, GPP INFO Tab...X___ If yes, please explain. 19. IS YOUR INSTALLATION USING GREEN CLEANING PRODUCTS OR SERVICES? (Check one) Yes _X__ No...Yes ____ No ____ If yes, please explain 19. IS YOUR INSTALLATION USING GREEN CLEANING PRODUCTS OR SERVICES? (Check

  17. Rooftop Unit Comparison Calculator User Manual

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    Miller, James D.

    This document serves as a user manual for the Packaged rooftop air conditioners and heat pump units comparison calculator (RTUCC) and is an aggregation of the calculator’s website documentation. Content ranges from new-user guide material like the “Quick Start” to the more technical/algorithmic descriptions of the “Methods Pages.” There is also a section listing all the context-help topics that support the features on the “Controls” page. The appendix has a discussion of the EnergyPlus runs that supported the development of the building-response models.

  18. Current Materials on Barrier-Free Design. Revised.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    National Easter Seal Society for Crippled Children and Adults, Chicago, IL.

    An eight-page annotated bibliography contains material available from the National Easter Seal Society and current material available from other sources. The annotations are grouped under design, guides, planning resources, standards/legislation, and general. Ordering information is provided. (MLF)

  19. 78 FR 35321 - Solicitation for a Cooperative Agreement-IBM Instructional Guide and Assessment Tool Development

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-06-12

    ... DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE National Institute of Corrections Solicitation for a Cooperative Agreement.... Department of Justice. ACTION: Solicitation for a Cooperative Agreement. SUMMARY: The National Institute of... public or private [[Page 35322

  20. ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board /ACLASS

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2011-03-28

    unclassified c. THIS PAGE unclassified Standard Form 298 (Rev. 8-98) Prescribed by ANSI Std Z39-18  Laboratories – ISO / IEC 17025  Inspection...Bodies – ISO / IEC 17020  RMPs – ISO Guide 34 (Reference Materials)  PT Providers – ISO 17043  Product Certifiers – ISO Guide 65  Government...Programs: DoD ELAP, EPA Energy Star, CPSC Toy Safety, NRC, NIST IPV6, NLLAP, NEFAP  TRAINING Programs  Certification Bodies – ISO / IEC 17021

  1. Atlas of Yellowstone

    USGS Publications Warehouse

    Pierce, Kenneth L.; Marcus, A. W.; Meachan, J. E.; Rodman, A. W.; Steingisser, A. Y.; Allan, Stuart; West, Ross

    2012-01-01

    Established in 1872, Yellowstone National Park was the world’s first national park. In a fitting tribute to this diverse and beautiful region, the Atlas of Yellowstone is a compelling visual guide to this unique national park and its surrounding area. Ranging from art to wolves, from American Indians to the Yellowstone Volcano, and from geysers to population, each page explains something new about the dynamic forces shaping Yellowstone. Equal parts reference and travel guide, the Atlas of Yellowstone is an unsurpassed resource.

  2. TCP/IP Implementations and Vendors Guide,

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1986-02-01

    DOCUMENTATION PAGE la. REPORT SECURITY CLASSIFICATION lb. RESTRICTIVE MARKINGS 2a. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION AUTHORITY 3. DISTRIBUTION/ AVAILABILIT OF...UNIX System V (5.2) IMPLEMENTATION-LANGUAGE: C DISTRIBUTOR: UNIQ Digital Technologies 28 S. Water St. Batavia, fI1 60510 (312) 879-1008 CONTACT

  3. 78 FR 6192 - Federal Acquisition Regulation; Federal Acquisition Circular 2005-65; Small Entity Compliance Guide

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-01-29

    ... incorporated in the United States and then reincorporated in a tax haven. Item II--Extension of Sunset Date for... minimal economic impact on small businesses because the 2 percent excise tax is [[Page 6193

  4. Drug Testing: MedlinePlus Lab Test Information

    MedlinePlus

    ... Internet]. Bethesda (MD): U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Resource Guide: Screening for Drug Use in General Medical ... Bethesda, MD 20894 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health Page last updated on 11 October 2017

  5. Giardia and Drinking Water from Private Wells

    MedlinePlus

    ... boiling water is using a point-of-use filter. Not all home water filters remove Giardia . Filters that are designed to remove the parasite should ... learn more, visit CDC’s A Guide to Water Filters page. As you consider ways to disinfect your ...

  6. Premier(e) Books.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Searcher, 1999

    1999-01-01

    This month's previewed book is "Neal-Schuman Authoritative Guide To Evaluating Information on the Internet" by Alison Cooke. The excerpted chapter, "Evaluating Particular Types of Sources," looks at a variety of Internet sources, such as organizational World Wide Web sites, personal home pages, FTP archives, current awareness…

  7. Swahili Basic Course.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Defense Language Inst., Washington, DC.

    This basic audiolingual course in standard Swahili appears in six volumes, Lesson Units 1-56. Units consist of a "blueprint" prefatory page outlining the phonological, morphological, and syntactic structures and new vocabulary to be presented; perception drills; Swahili dialog with cartoon guides and English translation; pattern and recombination…

  8. Provider software buyer's guide.

    PubMed

    1994-03-01

    To help long term care providers find new ways to improve quality of care and efficiency, Provider magazine presents the fourth annual listing of software firms marketing computer programs for all areas of nursing facility operations. On the following five pages, more than 80 software firms display their wares, with programs such as minimum data set and care planning, dietary, accounting and financials, case mix, and medication administration records. The guide also charts compatible hardware, integration ability, telephone numbers, company contacts, and easy-to-use reader service numbers.

  9. 5th Annual Provider Software Buyer's Guide.

    PubMed

    1995-03-01

    To help long term care providers find new ways to improve quality of care and efficiency, PROVIDER presents the fifth annual listing of software firms marketing computer programs for all areas of long term care operations. On the following five pages, more than 70 software firms display their wares, with programs such as minimum data set and care planning, dietary, accounting and financials, case mix, and medication administration records. The guide also charts compatible hardware, integration ability, telephone numbers, company contacts, and easy-to-use reader service numbers.

  10. Provider software buyer's guide.

    PubMed

    1993-03-01

    To help long term care providers find new ways to improve quality of care and efficiency. Provider magazine presents the third annual listing of software firms marketing computer programs for all areas of nursing facility operations. On the following five pages, more than 80 software firms display their wares, with programs such as minimum data set and care planning, dietary, accounting and financials, case mix, and medication administration records. The guide also charts compatible hardware, integration ability, telephone numbers, company contacts, and easy-to-use reader service numbers.

  11. Grounded Theory: A practical guide for management, business and market researchers Christina Goulding Grounded Theory: A practical guide for management, business and market researchers Sage Publications No of pages: 186 £18.99 0761966838 0761966838 [Formula: see text].

    PubMed

    Woods, Leslie

    2003-10-01

    Much has been written about the grounded theory approach to qualitative research, however the number of books devoted solely to this methodology remains relatively few. Therefore, any new book dedicated to the subject is always likely to attract attention - especially given the increasing popularity of grounded theory in healthcare research.

  12. A Guide to the Microform Collections of the USMA (United States Military Academy) Library,

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1983-01-01

    array of material about the Manhattan Project and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; none of it was declassified until 1976. Foremost among...1946. The twenty-one page printed A Guide to the Manhattan Project : Official History and Documents, located on top of the metal cabinets in Room 212, is...organizational characteristics of the Manhattan Project . The seven succeeding books discussed the 49 various sub-projects of the effort, such as Book III

  13. NATO Reference Mobility Model. Edition I. Users Guide. Volume I

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1979-10-01

    C TOTAL ERAKING FCRCE - SCIL /SLOPE/VEHICLE C --- ----.----------- C 275 R-2WJ58# VCLUIJE I PAGE A-103 APPEND-IX A - LISTING CF O.CFAt’ NRtPM C 1...sGCW vN1RAV ,SFTYPC 9TBF I- c r-------------------------~e e C tPAXIMUP BRAKING FCRCE * SCIL /SL OP E/V ENICLE/ DRIVER C --------------------- C C 1. VAR...CONTINUE GO TC 2160 ,ýObO IFl IST ,NE, 21 GC TG 2110i 317 R-20358, VOLUME I PAGE A-145 APPENDIX A - LISTING CF FRGG/iAM NAMM C 8. COARSE GRAINED SCIL IF

  14. Web pages: What can you see in a single fixation?

    PubMed

    Jahanian, Ali; Keshvari, Shaiyan; Rosenholtz, Ruth

    2018-01-01

    Research in human vision suggests that in a single fixation, humans can extract a significant amount of information from a natural scene, e.g. the semantic category, spatial layout, and object identities. This ability is useful, for example, for quickly determining location, navigating around obstacles, detecting threats, and guiding eye movements to gather more information. In this paper, we ask a new question: What can we see at a glance at a web page - an artificial yet complex "real world" stimulus? Is it possible to notice the type of website, or where the relevant elements are, with only a glimpse? We find that observers, fixating at the center of a web page shown for only 120 milliseconds, are well above chance at classifying the page into one of ten categories. Furthermore, this ability is supported in part by text that they can read at a glance. Users can also understand the spatial layout well enough to reliably localize the menu bar and to detect ads, even though the latter are often camouflaged among other graphical elements. We discuss the parallels between web page gist and scene gist, and the implications of our findings for both vision science and human-computer interaction.

  15. MOPITT V7 Level 1 & Level 2 Release Announcement

    Atmospheric Science Data Center

    2016-08-02

    ...  - MOPITT Level 1 Radiances   Several significant retrieval algorithm and product format changes are introduced in the V7 ... in the V7 User's Guide available on the MOPITT Data and Information landing pages. Featured improvements in the V7 retrieval products ...

  16. PdWriter. Technical Reference and User’s Guide

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1994-05-01

    fitness center with gymnasium, exercise, weightlifting , sauna, and solarium facilities. 4. Recreation Assistant, GS-189-4. Responsible for the overall day...requires occasional lifting of objects weighing over 50 pounds and extreme care to avoid serious injuries from machinery. [Continued on next page

  17. Making the Business Case for Energy Savings Plus Health: Indoor Air Quality Guidelines for School Building Upgrades

    EPA Pesticide Factsheets

    The Energy Savings Plus Health Guide equips school districts to integrate indoor air quality protections into school energy efficiency retrofits and other building upgrade projects. This page describes the business case for energy savings in schools.

  18. Home Page

    Science.gov Websites

    Audit Manual Selected Area of Cost Guidebook: FAR 31.205 Cost Principles MRDs - Audit Guidance Memos CAS - Cost Accounting Standards FAR - Federal Acquisition Regulation FAR Cost Principles Guide DFARS Proposal Adequacy Checklist Forward Pricing Rate Proposal Adequacy Checklist Incurred Cost Submission

  19. Literacy Toolkit

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Center for Best Practices in Early Childhood Education, 2005

    2005-01-01

    The toolkit contains print and electronic resources, including (1) "eMERGing Literacy and Technology: Working Together", A 492 page curriculum guide; (2) "LitTECH Interactive Presents: The Beginning of Literacy", a DVD that provides and overview linking technology to the concepts of emerging literacy; (3) "Your Preschool Classroom Computer Center:…

  20. Earth & Us Green Pages.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    KUED, Salt Lake City, UT.

    This guide is part of a campaign to encourage individuals to adopt an environmentally friendly lifestyle. All available information, tools, and resources are provided to help individuals, neighborhoods, and communities live in a cleaner, healthier environment. Resources from both local and national levels include titles of organizations, brief…

  1. Where's the Hayward Fault? A Green Guide to the Fault

    USGS Publications Warehouse

    Stoffer, Philip W.

    2008-01-01

    This report describes self-guided field trips to one of North America?s most dangerous earthquake faults?the Hayward Fault. Locations were chosen because of their easy access using mass transit and/or their significance relating to the natural and cultural history of the East Bay landscape. This field-trip guidebook was compiled to help commemorate the 140th anniversary of an estimated M 7.0 earthquake that occurred on the Hayward Fault at approximately 7:50 AM, October 21st, 1868. Although many reports and on-line resources have been compiled about the science and engineering associated with earthquakes on the Hayward Fault, this report has been prepared to serve as an outdoor guide to the fault for the interested public and for educators. The first chapter is a general overview of the geologic setting of the fault. This is followed by ten chapters of field trips to selected areas along the fault, or in the vicinity, where landscape, geologic, and man-made features that have relevance to understanding the nature of the fault and its earthquake history can be found. A glossary is provided to define and illustrate scientific term used throughout this guide. A ?green? theme helps conserve resources and promotes use of public transportation, where possible. Although access to all locations described in this guide is possible by car, alternative suggestions are provided. To help conserve paper, this guidebook is available on-line only; however, select pages or chapters (field trips) within this guide can be printed separately to take along on an excursion. The discussions in this paper highlight transportation alternatives to visit selected field trip locations. In some cases, combinations, such as a ride on BART and a bus, can be used instead of automobile transportation. For other locales, bicycles can be an alternative means of transportation. Transportation descriptions on selected pages are intended to help guide fieldtrip planners or participants choose trip destinations based on transportation options, interests, or special needs.

  2. Naval Justice School Procedure Study Guide. Revision

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1990-01-01

    preferring charges. The preferral of charges is accomplished by the signing and swearing to charges in Block 11 on page 1 of the charge sheet (DD Form 458...by the Naval Investigative Service (NIS) or similar agency; or upon receipt of signed and sworn charges (i.e., preferred charges on DD Form 458). 2-1 4...imcludiag. if loppropriatte in tkv astolrsoa# of joistiro sod 4.. ap4.e. the preferring of such charges alt app..? to yes to be mssimed by expected

  3. 77 FR 39201 - 16 CFR Part 23

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2012-07-02

    ... review, the Commission requests public comments on the overall costs, benefits, necessity, [[Page 39202... the continuing need for the rule or guide, as well as its costs and benefits to consumers and... benefits or reduce their costs to consumers? (a) How would these modifications affect the costs and...

  4. Marine Publications

    Science.gov Websites

    ) - Free Marine Service Charts (MSC) list frequencies, schedules and locations of stations disseminating ) (Page 2) Free6 NWS Observing Handbook NO.1 (05/10) Free 6 Marine Report User Guide Worldwide Marine ) Tsunami Safety Brochure TSUNAMI The Great Waves - Free 11 NOAA SEA GRANT PUBLICATIONS Hawaii Boater's

  5. Publications - GMC 233 | Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical

    Science.gov Websites

    Tidal Datum Portal Climate and Cryosphere Hazards Coastal Hazards Program Guide to Geologic Hazards in geologic field program in Lower Cook Inlet, Alaska Authors: Roberts, Chuck, Coastal Science Laboratories publication sales page for more information. Bibliographic Reference Roberts, Chuck, Coastal Science

  6. Research in NASA History: A Guide to the NASA History Program

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Garber, Stephen J. (Compiler)

    1997-01-01

    This monograph details the archival and other related resources held by the NASA History Office at Headquarters, and at NASA's Field Centers and other related government agencies. It also gives information on the NASA History publications, World Wide Web pages and the like.

  7. The Worker's Cooperative = Cooperativas de Trabajadores Duenos.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Hernandez, Mayra Lee

    Written in Spanish and English (on facing pages), this manual is a practical guide for those interested in forming a worker-owned cooperative. It includes examples based on the personal experience of teaching about cooperativism and worker-owned cooperatives to a group of construction workers with diverse levels of education; vocabulary and…

  8. Guide for the Development of Safety Assessment Report (SAR)

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1987-08-01

    Di ’:t ib ityioe I A,;!i~abiiity Codes Dist SpdIt ora bloe INSia OEapy r TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE III SAFETY ASSESSMENT REPORT...above. Potential hazards associated with the maintenance of the turbine engine (i.e., use of cleaning agents ) are not addressed .in the accompanying

  9. The Traveler's Guide to E-mail Access.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Clyde, Anne

    1999-01-01

    Presents options that travelers can use to keep in e-mail contact. Discusses equipment/access issues related to traveling with a laptop; Internet cafes; free e-mail services; accessing home mail via a Web page; and new options e-mail access for travelers. Includes Internet resources on Internet access providers. (AEF)

  10. Science Curriculum Guide, Level 3.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Newark School District, DE.

    The third of four levels in a K-12 science curriculum is outlined. In Level 3 (grades 6-8), science areas include life science, earth science, and physical science (physics and chemistry). Conveniently listed are page locations for educational and instructional objectives, cross-referenced to science area (i.e., life science, animals, genetics)…

  11. The Herb Garden Guide.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Montgomery County Public Schools, Rockville, MD.

    The booklet, intended to acquaint students or visitors with the herb garden at the Lathrop E. Smith Environmental Education Center (Rockville, Maryland), describes 25 herbs and suggests ways to extend learning further by providing historic background and other information about the herbs. Each herb is described on a separate page, with each…

  12. 78 FR 58326 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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    2013-09-23

    ... alcohol-exposed pregnancies among women of childbearing age and pregnant women and to improve the quality... appropriate interventions based on their pregnancy status. The FASD CFE will be integrating Screening and... guide the program. Participants in SBI will be assessed throughout their pregnancy to monitor [[Page...

  13. Sustainable Materials Management (SMM) Web Academy Webinar Series: A Step-by-Step Guide to Conducting a Wasted Food Assessment with the Reducing Wasted Food & Packaging Toolkit

    EPA Pesticide Factsheets

    This is a webinar page for the Sustainable Management of Materials (SMM) Web Academy webinar titled Let’s WRAP (Wrap Recycling Action Program): Best Practices to Boost Plastic Film Recycling in Your Community

  14. Technology for Transition and Postsecondary Success: Supporting Executive Function

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Hayes, Gillian; Hosaflook, Stephen

    2015-01-01

    This six-page (tri-fold) laminated reference guide by Gillian Hayes and Stephen Hosaflook focuses on readily available tools for augmenting and supporting the development of executive function skills, such as time and task management, organization, and self-regulation. These skills are crucial for accomplishing a variety of transition-related…

  15. Haircutting Guide for Cosmetology Students.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Baker, Linda M.

    Intended for use at any point in a beauty culture course, this student manual on haircutting implements and techniques focuses on two basic haircuts--page and short summer cut--to describe and illustrate basic cutting and shaping techniques. There are four major sections in the manual: (1) Hairshaping Implements and Techniques (Implements Used In…

  16. An Analysis of the Ticonderoga Class Guided Missile Cruisers 1B1B Account

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2008-12-01

    and shapes 96 Ores, minerals , and their primary products 97 Unassigned 98 Unassigned 99 Miscellaneous 30 THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK... flotation vests, which totaled $29,137. Table 90. 2006 Expense Element “W” Sustainment Phase Expenditures Ship Total Months in Phase Mean Per

  17. Music Handbook for Primary Grades.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Bowman, Doris; And Others

    GRADES OR AGES: Primary grades (1, 2, and 3). SUBJECT MATTER: Music. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: This guide contains a detailed outline of the basic music concepts for elementary grades with suggestions for activities which may develop understanding of the concepts. The pages of activities are color coded by grade level. There are three…

  18. Welcome to Choctaw Fair!

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Boykin, Deborah; And Others

    Designed to assist students in math, language, and reading, the booklet illustrates five events that may occur at the Choctaw Fair, such as a princess pageant, dancing, riding a ferris wheel, eating hominy, and throwing rabbit sticks. A teacher's guide on the last page offers four suggested activities for preschoolers based on the booklet.…

  19. Air Force Reserve Command

    Science.gov Websites

    Page Get One Now AFR Mission and Vision Statement Social Media Facebook Logo #AlwaysThere Facebook Logo Technician job vacancies on USAJobs.gov 2017 AFR Modernization Book AFR Vision and Guiding Principles 2013 AFR Vision Update 2015 Contact Air Force Reserve AFRC Public Affairs AF Reserve Recruiting Service

  20. 76 FR 33771 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-06-09

    ... disorders treatment workforce. The quantitative survey and the qualitative interviews and analysis will be... purpose of this survey and data collection is to gather information to guide the formation of effective... Clinical Director Survey (also available in paper format). On-line Focus Groups. [[Page 33772

  1. 47 CFR 101.1007 - Geographic service areas and number of licenses.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 47 Telecommunication 5 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Geographic service areas and number of licenses. 101.1007 Section 101.1007 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) SAFETY AND... in the Rand McNally 1992 Commercial Atlas & Marketing Guide, 123rd Edition, at pages 38-39, that...

  2. Fishing Facts Unlimited. Enterprise: Man & Technology.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale. Dept. of Technical and Industrial Education.

    Fishing Facts Unlimited, a student conducted enterprise in Technical and Industrial Education at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale has been a very successful operation, both financially and in providing a community service. The service provided by the enterprise was the production and sales of a 48-page fishing guide to Southern Illinois.…

  3. Exploring Cultural Rituals. Learning Page Lesson Plan.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Douglas, Nanci; Ruddy, Mary

    This two-week lesson plan exploring cultural rituals guides students to: improve their oral and written communication skills; write correct bibliographic citations for primary sources; and gain tolerance and acceptance of all cultures through the exploration and analysis of holiday and stages of life rituals. Aimed at students in grades 6 through…

  4. New Campus Crime Prevention Resources Available

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Campus Law Enforcement Journal, 2012

    2012-01-01

    The Campus Crime Prevention Committee has compiled a list of university and college crime prevention agencies and resources, which includes contact information, links to agency crime prevention web pages, and a list of resources they offer (i.e., brochures, guides, PowerPoint programs, videos, etc.) as well as a spreadsheet showing organizations…

  5. The Guide to Better Hospital Computer Decisions

    PubMed Central

    Dorenfest, Sheldon I.

    1981-01-01

    A soon-to-be-published major study of hospital computer use entitled “The Guide to Better Hospital Computer Decisions” was conducted by my firm over the past 2½ years. The study required over twenty (20) man years of effort at a cost of over $300,000, and the six (6) volume final report provides more than 1,000 pages of data about how hospitals are and will be using computerized medical and business information systems. It describes the current status and future expectations for computer use in major application areas, such as, but not limited to, finance, admitting, pharmacy, laboratory, data collection and hospital or medical information systems. It also includes profiles of over 100 companies and other types of organizations providing data processing products and services to hospitals. In this paper, we discuss the need for the study, the specific objectives of the study, the methodology and approach taken to complete the study and a few major conclusions.

  6. Do government brochures affect physical activity cognition? A pilot study of Canada's physical activity guide to healthy active living.

    PubMed

    Kliman, Aviva M; Rhodes, Ryan

    2008-08-01

    Health Canada has published national physical activity (PA) guidelines, which are included in their 26-page Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living (CPAG). To date, the use of CPAG as a motivational instrument for PA promotion has not been evaluated. The purpose of this study was to determine whether reading CPAG 1) increased motivational antecedents to engage in regular PA, and 2) increased regular PA intention and behaviour over 1 month. Participants included 130 randomly sampled Canadian adults (18 years or older) who were randomly mailed pack ages consisting of either 1) a questionnaire and a copy of CPAG, or 2) a questionnaire. Questionnaire items pertained to participants' sociodemographics, previous PA behaviours (Godin Leisure-Time Questionnaire) and PA motivation (theory of planned behaviour). Participants were then sent a follow-up questionnaire pertaining to their PA behaviours throughout the previous month. Results revealed significant interactions between the guide condition and previous activity status on instrumental behavioural beliefs about strength activities and subjective norms about endurance activities (p < 0.05), but all other factors were not significantly different. It was concluded that among previously inactive people, receiving this guide may change some informational/motivational constructs, but key motivational antecedents (affective attitude, perceived behavioural control) and outcomes (intention, behaviour) seem unaffected.

  7. The Rhetoric of the Paneled Page: Comics and Composition Pedagogy

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Sealey-Morris, Gabriel

    2015-01-01

    While comics have received widespread acceptance as a literary genre, instructors and scholars in Rhetoric and Composition have been slower to adopt comics, largely because of a lingering difficulty understanding how the characteristics of the form relate to our work in the classroom. Using as guides the "WPA Outcomes Statement for First-Year…

  8. Occupational Exploration at Ontario Junior High School: 7th Grade.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Bates, Gene; And Others

    The document contains 47 activities for Grade 7. The contents include the following areas: vocabulary; a large variety of inventory and other forms focusing especially on self awareness, self evaluation, and value clarification; a 44-page unit guide for a course called Know Yourself, which includes objectives, activities, evaluation, and…

  9. Preparing Students to Write a Professional Philosophy of Recreation Paper

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Stevens, Cheryl; Schneider, Paige P.; Johnson, Corey W.

    2012-01-01

    This paper describes a process for guiding students through the writing of a Professional Philosophy of Recreation Paper and a one-page philosophy statement suitable for use in students' professional portfolios. The authors describe how the review of recreation education literature, scholarship on teaching and learning, and assessment of student…

  10. Career Choices: Working toward a Better Environment. Revised.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC.

    This brief guide to environmental careers first provides a history of this job market and then in two sections (covering six pages), describes specific jobs and steps to planning a career. The first section describes each job in each of the major categories of careers in the environmental field: (1) Environmental Equipment Operation (attendants…

  11. User's Guide: Innovation Configurations for NSDC's Standards for Staff Development

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Roy, Patricia

    2007-01-01

    This 75-page guidebook is a companion to "Moving NSDC's Staff Development Standards into Practice: Innovation Configurations" Volumes I (ED522734) and II (ED522581). Innovation Configurations are a tool that helps educators better understand what the standards look like in practice. Roy, who co-authored the original volumes, introduces a process…

  12. From Surfing to Diving: A Beginner's Guide to Enhancing the Foreign Language Classroom through Templates.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Lally, Carolyn

    1998-01-01

    Provides a background to the development of the Internet; discusses Web sites as foreign-language-learning tools; and describes the Nicenet Internet Classroom Assistant that can be used as a software template for teachers to create their own Internet pages for foreign-language instruction. (Author/LRW)

  13. 75 FR 61321 - Domestic Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities; Updates to Incorporation by...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2010-10-05

    ... electronic reading room at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html . From this page, the public can gain... Regulatory Guides dated April 2009. The NRC's electronic reading room contains later versions of these Draft... in the training provided to examiners. Computer-based training, through the use of animations...

  14. ACER Chemistry Test Item Collection. ACER Chemtic Year 12.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Australian Council for Educational Research, Hawthorn.

    The chemistry test item banks contains 225 multiple-choice questions suitable for diagnostic and achievement testing; a three-page teacher's guide; answer key with item facilities; an answer sheet; and a 45-item sample achievement test. Although written for the new grade 12 chemistry course in Victoria, Australia, the items are widely applicable.…

  15. 75 FR 54918 - Draft Regulatory Guide, DG-1247, “Design-Basis Hurricane and Hurricane Missiles for Nuclear Power...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2010-09-09

    ... that the staff uses in evaluating specific problems or postulated accidents, and data that the staff... turbine missiles. NUREG/CR 7004 is the technical basis for regulatory guidance on design-basis hurricane... hurricane wind speeds for new nuclear power plants. [[Page 54919

  16. A Vocational Program for Recreational Vehicle Maintenance/Repair. A Report, 1977-78.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    1978

    This report contains a secondary school curriculum guide designed to be used by vocational teachers in a one- or two-year recreational vehicle maintenance/repair program. In the preliminary pages, a description is given of the project that developed the curriculum, outlining its objectives and procedures in formulating the model interdisciplinary…

  17. MAST

    Science.gov Websites

    Guide Related Sites submenu NASA Datacenters ADS HEASARC IRSA LAMBDA NED NSSDC MAST Services submenu Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) is a NASA funded project to support and provide to the astronomical : STScI may provide links to Web pages that are not part of the STScI, AURA, NASA, or ESA domain. These

  18. Everyday TLC: Teaching, Learning, Caring, 2000.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Durkin, Lisa L., Ed.

    2000-01-01

    This document is comprised of weekly newsletters for family child care providers for the year 2000. Each theme-based four-page newsletter contains: (1) creative activities for use with mixed-age groups of 2- to 5-year-olds; (2) ideas on guiding behavior, organization tips, and a Monthly Planning Calendar; (3) special sections for infants and…

  19. Everyday TLC: Teaching, Learning, Caring, 2003.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Durkin, Lisa L., Ed.; Miller, Sandy, Ed.

    2003-01-01

    This document is comprised of weekly newsletters, compiled by month, for family child care providers for the year 2003. Each theme-based four-page newsletter contains: (1) creative activities for use with mixed-age groups of 2- to 5-year-olds; (2) ideas on guiding behavior, organization tips, and Monthly Planning Calendar; (3) special sections for…

  20. Integrated and Applied Curricula Discussion Group and Data Base Project. Final Report.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Wisconsin Univ. - Stout, Menomonie. Center for Vocational, Technical and Adult Education.

    A project was conducted to compile integrated and applied curriculum resources, develop databases on the World Wide Web, and encourage networking for high school and technical college educators through an Internet discussion group. Activities conducted during the project include the creation of a web page to guide users to resource banks…

  1. Indiana Reading Diagnostic Assessment: Resource & Intervention Guide, Kindergarten. Additional Activities and Assessments

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Indiana Department of Education, 2006

    2006-01-01

    The materials included in this manual are organized according to the Indiana's Kindergarten Academic Standards for English/Language Arts. In each section teachers will find: (1) Indiana's Kindergarten Academic Standards for English/Language Arts Assessments: Black Line Masters of diagnostic/practice pages for skill areas, checklists, and rubrics;…

  2. Mathematics Technical Report: Exercise Volume. National Assessment of Educational Progress. Report No. 04-MA-20.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. National Assessment of Educational Progress.

    Included in Chapter 1 of this report are background information on the 1972-73 mathematics assessment; details of the computational formulas used in reporting results; and explanations of the technical documentation, exercise presentation, documentation pages, scoring guides, and data tables for released and unreleased exercises. The remainder of…

  3. High-Velocity Impact Fragmentation of Projectiles Experimental Results

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2016-10-01

    Program (JIMTP) Tube -Launched, Optically Tracked, Wire-Guided (TOW) 2B Insensitive Munitions (IM) Warhead effort. The referenced experiments were...conducted to determine the velocity reduction and fragmentation profile of barrier materials subjected to impact by the IM Fragment Impact (FI) test...9 LIST OF TABLES Table Title Page 1. Single Material Test Matrix

  4. Advanced Electronics. Curriculum Development. Bulletin 1778.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Eppler, Thomas

    This document is a curriculum guide for a 180-hour course in advanced electronics for 11th and 12th grades that has four instructional units. The instructional units are orientation, discrete components, integrated circuits, and electronic systems. The document includes a course flow chart; a two-page section that describes the course, lists…

  5. Ni Zhisinisszi. Nee Nahnah Aideenau (I Speak Cheyenne. I Speak Arapaho).

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Berlin, William

    This is a primary-level reader to be used in connection with a bilingual education program. The story is preceded by a pronunciation guide, which lists Cheyenne and Arapaho sound symbols and their approximate English equivalents. Each illustrated page contains a Cheyenne and an Arapaho caption with an English translation. (AM)

  6. Young Children's Representations of Earth Materials on the Science Journal Page.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Shepardson, Daniel P.; Britsch, Susan J.

    The value of children's drawing and writing in science lies in its potential to assist children in making observations, remembering events, and communicating understandings. However, a neglected aspect of children's representations is that they can serve the teacher as guide to children's understandings and as a diagnostic tool. By creating their…

  7. Basic Workshops for Medical Record Clerical Personnel.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Intermountain Regional Medical Program, Salt Lake City, UT.

    This curriculum guide is an outline of the content for basic workshop training sessions of hospital medical record personnel. Following a two-page topical outline of five content areas, there is a detailed presentation of this content as follows: (1) the medical record and its contribution to patient care (Joint Commission for Accreditation of…

  8. PageMan: an interactive ontology tool to generate, display, and annotate overview graphs for profiling experiments.

    PubMed

    Usadel, Björn; Nagel, Axel; Steinhauser, Dirk; Gibon, Yves; Bläsing, Oliver E; Redestig, Henning; Sreenivasulu, Nese; Krall, Leonard; Hannah, Matthew A; Poree, Fabien; Fernie, Alisdair R; Stitt, Mark

    2006-12-18

    Microarray technology has become a widely accepted and standardized tool in biology. The first microarray data analysis programs were developed to support pair-wise comparison. However, as microarray experiments have become more routine, large scale experiments have become more common, which investigate multiple time points or sets of mutants or transgenics. To extract biological information from such high-throughput expression data, it is necessary to develop efficient analytical platforms, which combine manually curated gene ontologies with efficient visualization and navigation tools. Currently, most tools focus on a few limited biological aspects, rather than offering a holistic, integrated analysis. Here we introduce PageMan, a multiplatform, user-friendly, and stand-alone software tool that annotates, investigates, and condenses high-throughput microarray data in the context of functional ontologies. It includes a GUI tool to transform different ontologies into a suitable format, enabling the user to compare and choose between different ontologies. It is equipped with several statistical modules for data analysis, including over-representation analysis and Wilcoxon statistical testing. Results are exported in a graphical format for direct use, or for further editing in graphics programs.PageMan provides a fast overview of single treatments, allows genome-level responses to be compared across several microarray experiments covering, for example, stress responses at multiple time points. This aids in searching for trait-specific changes in pathways using mutants or transgenics, analyzing development time-courses, and comparison between species. In a case study, we analyze the results of publicly available microarrays of multiple cold stress experiments using PageMan, and compare the results to a previously published meta-analysis.PageMan offers a complete user's guide, a web-based over-representation analysis as well as a tutorial, and is freely available at http://mapman.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/pageman/. PageMan allows multiple microarray experiments to be efficiently condensed into a single page graphical display. The flexible interface allows data to be quickly and easily visualized, facilitating comparisons within experiments and to published experiments, thus enabling researchers to gain a rapid overview of the biological responses in the experiments.

  9. BOOK REVIEW: The Complete A-Z Physics Handbook, Second Edition

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Breithaupt, Jim

    2000-11-01

    The first edition of this book was published in 1997 and reviewed in Physics Education in March 1988. This second edition is 13 pages longer and contains a significant number of new entries, mostly in particle physics and astrophysics, to match the latest AS/A-level specifications. Some entries on topics such as surface tension that were removed from previous AS/A-level syllabuses have now been deleted. The revised book thus provides an effective alphabetical guide to key terms used in the latest AS/A-level specifications as most AS/A-level core terms are included, apart from terms for some of the new topics such as image processing in the new IOP AS/A-level specification. The style of the second edition is the same as the first, each entry commencing with the key term in bold print followed by an explanation of the term, accompanied by the relevant equation and/or a simple diagram where appropriate. Cross-references are given in italics. For example, the entry under quarks (which is one of the new entries) lists the six quarks and their characteristic properties in bullet point format then follows up with the information about the quark composition of baryons and mesons, giving the composition of the proton, the neutron and the pions as examples. The change of quark composition due to beta decay is mentioned with a cross-reference to beta decay. Other cross-references link to entries on the proton, the neutron and the four fundamental interactions. Lengthy entries such as the photoelectric effect each cover several pages, thus providing opportunities for in-depth revision. Useful theme entries provided in the first edition have been retained and referred to in a new two-page appendix on preparing for synoptic questions. Some proofs are provided such as the proof of the kinetic theory equation. Some experiments are described, each under an appropriate entry. Technically, the entries are reasonably accurate and usually expressed in appropriate and familiar language. The book ends with the same appendices as in the first edition (units, formulae, physical constants, examiners' terms, a suggested revision list and notes on examination preparation) plus the two-page synoptic appendix. The second edition with its additional entries on particle physics and astrophysics should prove useful as a study guide to supplement a textbook or as a revision guide as AS or A2 examinations approach. In addition, the concise nature of many of the entries could be valuable in helping physics students sharpen their written communication skills, thereby securing marks which all too often they lose on account of inadequate answers to descriptive questions.

  10. Guide to the Internet. The world wide web.

    PubMed Central

    Pallen, M.

    1995-01-01

    The world wide web provides a uniform, user friendly interface to the Internet. Web pages can contain text and pictures and are interconnected by hypertext links. The addresses of web pages are recorded as uniform resource locators (URLs), transmitted by hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), and written in hypertext markup language (HTML). Programs that allow you to use the web are available for most operating systems. Powerful on line search engines make it relatively easy to find information on the web. Browsing through the web--"net surfing"--is both easy and enjoyable. Contributing to the web is not difficult, and the web opens up new possibilities for electronic publishing and electronic journals. Images p1554-a Fig 5 PMID:8520402

  11. Helping Yourself Heal: A Recovering Woman's Guide to Coping with Childhood Abuse Issues.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (DHHS/PHS), Rockville, MD. Center for Substance Abuse Treatment.

    This eight-page brochure identifies the many different feelings that recovering women have during substance abuse treatment. In addition, it identifies experiences generally considered as abuse, and common symptoms of adults who were abused as children. It also provides guidance on how to address childhood abuse issues while in treatment, as well…

  12. National Information Clearinghouse on Children Who Are Deaf-Blind (DB-LINK). National Resource Directory.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    National Information Clearinghouse on Children Who Are Deaf-Blind, Monmouth, OR.

    This resource guide, consisting of pages downloaded from the DB-LINK Web site, is designed to assist parents, professionals, and others in identifying services that hold the potential for supporting and improving the lives of children and youth who experience combined vision and hearing loss. Information is provided on: (1) the American…

  13. Working in America and in Hawaii--A Humanities Guide.

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    Hawaii Committee for the Humanities, Honolulu.

    This eight-page tabloid-style report presents an overview of past and present working conditions in the United States as a whole and in Hawaii in particular, with emphasis on women and on lower-level workers. The seven articles in the paper cover the following topics: "A Brief History of Labor in Hawaii" (William J. Puette); "The…

  14. ESL for Parents of School-Age Children. Special Project, 1980-1981.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Watson, Elizabeth A.

    This packet contains both teacher's guides and learners' materials for a course on English as a Second Language (ESL) for parents of schoolaged children. Developed for use in the DuPage High School District (Villa Park, Illinois), the materials can be used with adaptations by other continuing education programs. The packet contains 14 lessons. For…

  15. Operational Based Vision Assessment Automated Vision Test Collection User Guide

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2017-05-15

    repeatability to support correlation analysis. The AVT research grade tests also support interservice, international, industry, and academic partnerships...software, provides information concerning various menu options and operation of the test, and provides a brief description of each of the automated vision...2802, 6 Jun 2017. TABLE OF CONTENTS (concluded) Section Page 7.0 OBVA VISION TEST DESCRIPTIONS

  16. Vulnerability Analyst’s Guide to Geometric Target Description

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1992-09-01

    not constitute indorsement of any commercial product. Form Approved REPORT DOCUMENTATION PAGE OMB No. 0704-O,8 public reporting burden for this...46 5.3 Surrogacy ..............................................46 5.4 Specialized Targets......................................46 5.5... commercially available documents for other large-scale software. The documentation is not a BRL technical report, but can be obtained by contacting

  17. Library Information Made to Order: An Open Source Project Built for and with Librarians

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    Griggs, Kim

    2009-01-01

    Oregon State University (OSU) libraries, where the author serves as lead programmer, have developed a tool to make it easier for librarians to build and maintain interactive course assignment pages (ICAPs) and subject research guides (SRGs). That tool, Library a la Carte, enables librarians with minimal technical expertise to create dynamic…

  18. Caring for Kids: Useful Information and Hard-to-Find Facts about Child Health and Development.

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    Keener, Patricia A.

    With input and recommendations from physicians, health care professionals, and parents, this book for parents, grandparents, and child caregivers provides numerous interesting facts, pages of useful information, and listings of resources to guide and inform anyone who cares for children. Section 1, on child health care, provides a brief history of…

  19. Helicopter Drive System R and M Design Guide

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1979-04-01

    Section Page Misalignment and Shaft Runout ...... .................. ... 50 Seal Materials .............. ......................... ... 53 Environmental...rotor brake analysis differs from aircraft wheel brake analysis in two respects. First, advantage is taken of the aerodynamic drag on the rotating...expected transmission cavity pressure and shaft runout . It is stressed that both the pressure and runout must be considered, since they drastically affect

  20. The Clubbers' Guide: Ideas for Science/STEM Clubs from... Books!

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    Howarth, Sue

    2013-01-01

    The internet is certainly a speedy way of finding plenty of information when searching for ideas for science or other STEM clubs. There are many helpful websites, such as that of the British Science Association, with their "free project resources" pages, which include "pick up and run" projects that can be linked to CREST…

  1. Microcomputers in Small Business Management. Leadership and Training Series No. 64.

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    Heath, Betty; Camp, William G.

    This guide is designed to assist vocational educators in training individuals at the secondary, postsecondary, and adult levels to use microcomputers in small business management. An overview of the use of microcomputers in the small business setting is provided in the introduction. Included in the next section is a multi-page matrix dealing with…

  2. Community-campus partnership in action: lessons learned from the DuPage County Patient Navigation Collaborative.

    PubMed

    Samaras, Athena T; Murphy, Kara; Nonzee, Narissa J; Endress, Richard; Taylor, Shaneah; Hajjar, Nadia; Bularzik, Rosario; Frankovich, Carmi; Dong, XinQi; Simon, Melissa A

    2014-01-01

    Using community-based participatory research (CBPR), the DuPage County Patient Navigation Collaborative (DPNC) developed an academic campus-community research partnership aimed at increasing access to care for underserved breast and cervical cancer patients within DuPage County, a collar county of Chicago. Given rapidly shifting demographics, targeting CBPR initiatives among underserved suburban communities is essential. To discuss the facilitating factors and lessons learned in forging the DPNC. A patient navigation collaborative was formed to guide medically underserved women through diagnostic resolution and if necessary, treatment, after an abnormal breast or cervical cancer screening. Facilitating factors included (1) fostering and maintaining collaborations within a suburban context, (2) a systems-based participatory research approach, (3) a truly equitable community-academic partnership, (4) funding adaptability, (5) culturally relevant navigation, and (6) emphasis on co-learning and capacity building. By highlighting the strategies that contributed to DPNC success, we envision the DPNC to serve as a feasible model for future health interventions.

  3. Learning, techniques, and complications of endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided sampling in gastroenterology: European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) Technical Guideline.

    PubMed

    Polkowski, M; Larghi, A; Weynand, B; Boustière, C; Giovannini, M; Pujol, B; Dumonceau, J-M

    2012-02-01

    This article is the second of a two-part publication that expresses the current view of the European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) about endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided sampling, including EUS-guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) and EUS-guided Trucut biopsy. The first part (the Clinical Guideline) focused on the results obtained with EUS-guided sampling, and the role of this technique in patient management, and made recommendations on circumstances that warrant its use. The current Technical Guideline discusses issues related to learning, techniques, and complications of EUS-guided sampling, and to processing of specimens. Technical issues related to maximizing the diagnostic yield (e.g., rapid on-site cytopathological evaluation, needle diameter, microcore isolation for histopathological examination, and adequate number of needle passes) are discussed and recommendations are made for various settings, including solid and cystic pancreatic lesions, submucosal tumors, and lymph nodes. The target readership for the Clinical Guideline mostly includes gastroenterologists, oncologists, internists, and surgeons while the Technical Guideline should be most useful to endoscopists who perform EUS-guided sampling. A two-page executive summary of evidence statements and recommendations is provided. © Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York.

  4. Using the Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD) for analysis of genomic information

    PubMed Central

    Skrzypek, Marek S.; Hirschman, Jodi

    2011-01-01

    Analysis of genomic data requires access to software tools that place the sequence-derived information in the context of biology. The Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD) integrates functional information about budding yeast genes and their products with a set of analysis tools that facilitate exploring their biological details. This unit describes how the various types of functional data available at SGD can be searched, retrieved, and analyzed. Starting with the guided tour of the SGD Home page and Locus Summary page, this unit highlights how to retrieve data using YeastMine, how to visualize genomic information with GBrowse, how to explore gene expression patterns with SPELL, and how to use Gene Ontology tools to characterize large-scale datasets. PMID:21901739

  5. DLA Information Systems Technology Integration Guide for the Fiscal Year of 1991

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1991-01-01

    systems which currently exist. In addition, the institution of full and open - opetition for acquisitions for our information systems has driven us...00 U,~c U U C )C/) III 0. -- -------- U)) 0 i U) U)C )z~ w nU U )c < ID a oE co 0 )C c ) 0 cu cuwwwwww Pag E0 I-- I - 0 < 0~0 I- a)) -Jc oo Page...0 -- co Ea -- LL . 0 E c 0) E- I-- w > G, 0 4A 0 .9 Page 1 0u 0 Q. x cts C0 m 0o > n0 ) 0-6 V (t) co .0=)E: Go c ’V x 0- 0 V) E Cc~ E C) ~ < o a

  6. Globe Teachers Guide and Photographic Data on the Web

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Kowal, Dan

    2004-01-01

    The task of managing the GLOBE Online Teacher s Guide during this time period focused on transforming the technology behind the delivery system of this document. The web application transformed from a flat file retrieval system to a dynamic database access approach. The new methodology utilizes Java Server Pages (JSP) on the front-end and an Oracle relational database on the backend. This new approach allows users of the web site, mainly teachers, to access content efficiently by grade level and/or by investigation or educational concept area. Moreover, teachers can gain easier access to data sheets and lab and field guides. The new online guide also included updated content for all GLOBE protocols. The GLOBE web management team was given documentation for maintaining the new application. Instructions for modifying the JSP templates and managing database content were included in this document. It was delivered to the team by the end of October, 2003. The National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) continued to manage the school study site photos on the GLOBE website. 333 study site photo images were added to the GLOBE database and posted on the web during this same time period for 64 schools. Documentation for processing study site photos was also delivered to the new GLOBE web management team. Lastly, assistance was provided in transferring reference applications such as the Cloud and LandSat quizzes and Earth Systems Online Poster from NGDC servers to GLOBE servers along with documentation for maintaining these applications.

  7. Come In Spaceship Earth. Kids as Crew Members. Peace Works Series.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Schmidt, Fran; Friedman, Alice

    This program, for grades 4 through 12, introduces students to the concepts that result in cooperative work for the survival and improvement of the quality of life of the human family. In addition to the teacher's guide presented here, the program comes with a music video recorded in seven languages, reproducible pages, a class simulation game, and…

  8. Selling Addiction: A Workshop Kit on Tobacco and Alcohol Advertising. A Media Literacy Workshop Kit.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Barnes, Mary Ellen; And Others

    This kit consists of: (1) a leader's guide; (2) an 18-minute videotape containing three 6-minute discussion starter segments analyzing typical commercials and advertising techniques; (3) a special issue of "Media Values" magazine on the theme "Fatal Attraction: The Selling of Addiction"; (4) an 8-page booklet "Awareness to Action: Media Literacy…

  9. LUT Wrap Up

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2011-09-30

    1 DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A. Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. LUT Wrap Up Curtis D. Mobley Sequoia Scientific, Inc...NUMBER 5f. WORK UNIT NUMBER 7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) Sequoia Scientific, Inc,2700 Richards Road, Suite 107,Bellevue,WA...2010. EcoLight-S 1.0 Users’ Guide and Technical Documentation. Sequoia Scientific, Inc., 40 pages. Mobley, C. D., 2011. Fast light

  10. Global History. A Curriculum Guide. Third Semester. Theme VI: Nineteenth Century Imperialism Affected the Imperial Powers and the Colonies. Student Worksheets. Experimental Edition.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Div. of Curriculum and Instruction.

    The worksheets contained in this bulletin are designed for use in conjunction with the teaching strategies for Theme VI entitled, "Nineteenth Century Imperialism Affected the Imperial Powers and the Colonies." The worksheets correspond to specific teaching strategies with accompanying questions on the appropriate strategy page. Included are…

  11. Building the Service-Based Library Web Site: A Step-by-Step Guide to Design and Options.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Garlock, Kristen L.; Piontek, Sherry

    The World Wide Web, with its captivating multimedia features and hypertext capabilities, has brought millions of new users to the Internet. Library staff who could create a home page on the Web could present basic information about the library and its services, showcase its resources, create links to quality material inside and outside the…

  12. A Guide to Alternative Education In the Bay Area. Second Edition.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    McCausland, Leigh; Rockbottom, Gwendolyn

    More than 150 schools that offer alternatives to traditional education in San Francisco and the Bay Area are listed in this 60-page catalog. Each entry lists the name, address, phone number and name of the director of each school. Many entries include a 20-200 word description of the school's philosophy, cost, student teacher ratio, total…

  13. Steppin' out This Summer

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Texley, Juliana

    2009-01-01

    Ready to kick off your shoes and make tracks toward vacation? Whether you run to the nearest beach, or just prop your feet up and relax, there's no better path to renewal than one that runs through the pages of a good book. Again this year, the team at NSTA Recommends has volunteered to be your guide; reviewers have convened a virtual meeting in…

  14. Contingency Contractor Optimization Phase 3 Sustainment Cost by JCA Implementation Guide

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    Durfee, Justin David; Frazier, Christopher Rawls; Arguello, Bryan

    This document provides implementation guidance for implementing personnel group FTE costs by JCA Tier 1 or 2 categories in the Contingency Contractor Optimization Tool – Engineering Prototype (CCOT-P). CCOT-P currently only allows FTE costs by personnel group to differ by mission. Changes will need to be made to the user interface inputs pages and the database

  15. Global History. A Curriculum Guide. Second Semester. Theme V: The Industrial Revolution Had Global Impact. Student Worksheets. Experimental Edition.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Div. of Curriculum and Instruction.

    The worksheets contained in this bulletin are designed for use in conjunction with the teaching strategies for Theme V entitled, "The Industrial Revolution Had Global Impact." The worksheets correspond to specific strategies with accompanying questions on the appropriate strategy page. Included are activities for the seven subthemes: (1)…

  16. Global History. A Curriculum Guide. Second Semester. Theme III: The Emergence of the Modern World. Student Worksheets. Experimental Edition.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Div. of Curriculum and Instruction.

    This bulletin of student worksheets complements teacher strategies for Theme III entitled, "Changes in Thought and Action Led to the Emergence of the Modern World." The worksheets contain materials corresponding to specific strategies, and the questions which accompany each worksheet are included on the appropriate strategy page. Included are…

  17. Medicines and You: A Guide for Older Adults = Las medicinas y usted: Guia para las personas mayores.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    National Coalition of Hispanic Health and Human Services Organizations.

    Most people over 65 take many prescription and nonprescription medicines. Because the body is changing and more medicines are taken, many older adults experience harmful reactions to the medicines they take. This booklet, written in both English and Spanish (on facing pages), was developed to help older adults learn more about medicines, recognize…

  18. Recruitment Strategies for Women in Nontraditional Careers. Adapted from Fair Recruitment Model and Strategies.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Stitt, Beverly; Stitt, Tom

    This guide presents 21 one- or two-page recruitment strategies for women in nontraditional careers. Each entry includes sections on what, when, where, who, and how. Strategies included are: (1) attention-getter giveaways; (2) bias-fee brochure; (3) bias-free slide-tape; (4) "bring a friend" day; (5) brochures with utility bills; (6) craftperson…

  19. What Matters Most for School Leaders: 25 Reminders of What Is Really Important

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Ramsey, Robert D.

    2004-01-01

    A primer of what is truly important for today's school leaders at all levels, this how-to book is made up of twenty-five fundamental insights and baseline beliefs that never change. Staying focused on what really matters, each page reminds administrators of the simple, guiding truths and timeless values that made them want to become educators in…

  20. Combating Tobacco Use in the United States Army

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2010-04-01

    videogame , tobacco use, military. 16. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION OF: 17. LIMITATION OF ABSTRACT 18. NUMBER OF PAGES 19a. NAME OF RESPONSIBLE... videogame is theory-guided and uses animations, videos and interactive activities to provide facts about smoking and tobacco use, as well as provides...prevention and cessation interactive multimedia tool ( videogame ) among active Army personnel stationed at Fort Hood, Texas. Body Throughout the

  1. Wind-US Users Guide Version 4.0

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Yoder, Dennis A.

    2016-01-01

    Wind-US is a computational platform which may be used to numerically solve various sets of equations governing physical phenomena. Currently, the code supports the solution of the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations of fluid mechanics, along with supporting equation sets governing turbulent and chemically reacting flows. Wind-US is a product of the NPARC Alliance, a partnership between the NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC) and the Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) dedicated to the establishment of a national, applications-oriented flow simulation capability. The Boeing Company has also been closely associated with the Alliance since its inception, and represents the interests of the NPARC User's Association. The "Wind-US User's Guide" describes the operation and use of Wind-US, including: a basic tutorial; the physical and numerical models that are used; the boundary conditions; monitoring convergence; the files that are read and/or written; parallel execution; and a complete list of input keywords and test options. For current information about Wind-US and the NPARC Alliance, please see the Wind-US home page at http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/winddocs/ and the NPARC Alliance home page at http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/wind/.

  2. Do We Really Need to Catch Them All? A New User-Guided Social Media Crawling Method

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Erlandsson, Fredrik; Bródka, Piotr; Boldt, Martin; Johnson, Henric

    2017-12-01

    With the growing use of popular social media services like Facebook and Twitter it is challenging to collect all content from the networks without access to the core infrastructure or paying for it. Thus, if all content cannot be collected one must consider which data are of most importance. In this work we present a novel User-guided Social Media Crawling method (USMC) that is able to collect data from social media, utilizing the wisdom of the crowd to decide the order in which user generated content should be collected to cover as many user interactions as possible. USMC is validated by crawling 160 public Facebook pages, containing content from 368 million users including 1.3 billion interactions, and it is compared with two other crawling methods. The results show that it is possible to cover approximately 75% of the interactions on a Facebook page by sampling just 20% of its posts, and at the same time reduce the crawling time by 53%. In addition, the social network constructed from the 20% sample contains more than 75% of the users and edges compared to the social network created from all posts, and it has similar degree distribution.

  3. [Development of Web-based multimedia content for a physical examination and health assessment course].

    PubMed

    Oh, Pok-Ja; Kim, Il-Ok; Shin, Sung-Rae; Jung, Hoe-Kyung

    2004-10-01

    This study was to develop Web-based multimedia content for Physical Examination and Health Assessment. The multimedia content was developed based on Jung's teaching and learning structure plan model, using the following 5 processes : 1) Analysis Stage, 2) Planning Stage, 3) Storyboard Framing and Production Stage, 4) Program Operation Stage, and 5) Final Evaluation Stage. The web based multimedia content consisted of an intro movie, main page and sub pages. On the main page, there were 6 menu bars that consisted of Announcement center, Information of professors, Lecture guide, Cyber lecture, Q&A, and Data centers, and a site map which introduced 15 week lectures. In the operation of web based multimedia content, HTML, JavaScript, Flash, and multimedia technology (Audio and Video) were utilized and the content consisted of text content, interactive content, animation, and audio & video. Consultation with the experts in context, computer engineering, and educational technology was utilized in the development of these processes. Web-based multimedia content is expected to offer individualized and tailored learning opportunities to maximize and facilitate the effectiveness of the teaching and learning process. Therefore, multimedia content should be utilized concurrently with the lecture in the Physical Examination and Health Assessment classes as a vital teaching aid to make up for the weakness of the face-to- face teaching-learning method.

  4. AM63-30 : biomedical research studies in acceleration.

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    1963-01-01

    This report is extremely large and divided into 16 parts. Pages 1 - 200 Pages 201 - 400 Pages 401 - 600 Pages 601 - 766 Pages 767 - 864 Pages 865 - 1100 Pages 1101 - 1300 Pages 1301 - 1517 Pages 1518 - 1715 Pages 1716 - 1895 Pages 1896 - 2130 Pages 2...

  5. The Wisconsin Frog and Toad Survey: Update and 1984-97 trends [abstract

    USGS Publications Warehouse

    Mossman, M.J.; Hartman, L.; Sauer, J.; Hay, R.; Dhuey, B.

    1998-01-01

    The Wisconsin Frog and Toad Survey (WFTS) is a volunteer-based, roadside auditory count that began in 1981. It's protocols were recently modified for continent-wide use by the North American Amphibian Monitoring Plan (NAAMP). In 1997 we initiated a study to compare data collected by the WFTS and NAAMP protocols, in order to guide WFTS transition from its current methodology to one more compatible with NAAMP, without losing the use of data collected since 1981. In this paper we present results from the first year of this study, along with results from analyses of WFTS data, including distributional maps, 1984-97 population trends, phenological information, and progress on a new web page.

  6. Uterine Artery Embolization: An Analysis of Online Patient Information Quality and Readability with Historical Comparison.

    PubMed

    Murray, Timothy E; Mansoor, Tayyaub; Bowden, Dermot J; O'Neill, Damien C; Lee, Michael J

    2018-05-01

    Investigators aimed to assess online information describing uterine artery embolization (UAE) to examine the quality and readability of websites patients are accessing. A list of applicable, commonly used searchable terms was generated, including "Uterine Artery Embolization," "Fibroid Embolization," "Uterine Fibroid Embolization," and "Uterine Artery Embolisation." Each possible term was assessed across the five most-used English language search engines to determine the most commonly used term. The most common term was then investigated across each search engine, with the first 25 pages returned by each engine included for analysis. Duplicate pages, nontext content such as video or audio, and pages behind paywalls were excluded. Pages were analyzed for quality and readability using validated tools including DISCERN score, JAMA Benchmark Criteria, HONcode Certification, Flesch Reading Ease Score, Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, and Gunning-Fog Index. Secondary features such as age, rank, author, and publisher were recorded. The most common applicable term was "Uterine Artery Embolization" (492,900 results). Mean DISCERN quality of information provided by UAE websites is "fair"; however, it has declined since comparative 2012 studies. Adherence to JAMA Benchmark Criteria has reduced to 6.7%. UAE website readability remains more difficult than the World Health Organization-recommended 7-8th grade reading levels. HONcode-certified websites (35.6%) demonstrated significantly higher quality than noncertified websites. Quality of online UAE information remains "fair." Adherence to JAMA benchmark criteria is poor. Readability is above recommended 7-8th grade levels. HONcode certification was predictive of higher website quality, a useful guide to patients requesting additional information. Copyright © 2018 The Association of University Radiologists. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  7. Energy Guiding and Harvesting through Phonon-Engineered Graphene

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2016-01-28

    improve the performance of carbon nanotube array transistors. Such transistors suffer about two orders of magnitude performance penalty due to high... nanotube - nanotube resistances in the current pathways from source to drain. Thus, under normal operation CNT array 1. REPORT DATE (DD-MM-YYYY) 4. TITLE...Research Office P.O. Box 12211 Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2211 Carbon Nanotubes , FETs, Nanosoldering REPORT DOCUMENTATION PAGE 11. SPONSOR

  8. Education and Thinking: The Role of Knowledge

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1983-06-21

    failing to construct a representation of the problem. Through carefully designed problem " exercises , the program elicits procedures for reasoning and...guiding spirits. Polya -. .,• . . .. ~ -, • ° -. -- , ",r , • , , . . .. • . . , . .-r. Page9 9 recommends that explicit attention be paid to heuristic...reflects, according to Carey, a reorganization of knowledge brought about by school learning and world knowledge: for 4- to 7-year olds, biological

  9. Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Pocket Guide (CONUS)

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2010-01-01

    Cognitive Rehab Driving Following TBI Patient Education Clinical Tools and Resources Report Documentation Page Form ApprovedOMB No. 0704-0188 Public... Rehab Driving Following TBI Patient Education Clinical Tools and Resources 2 3 TBI Basics VA/DoD CPG Management of Headaches Management of Other...Symptoms ICD-9 Coding Cognitive Rehab Driving Following TBI Patient Education Clinical Tools and Resources TBI BASICS 4 5 TBI BASICS dod definition

  10. Global History. A Curriculum Guide. Second Semester. Theme IV: Developing Democratic and Nationalist Movements Have Had an Effect around the World. Student Worksheets. Experimental Edition.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Div. of Curriculum and Instruction.

    The worksheets contained in this bulletin are designed for use in conjunction with the teaching strategies for Theme IV entitled, "Developing Democratic and Nationalist Movements Have Had an Effect Around the World." The worksheets correspond to specific strategies with accompanying questions on the appropriate strategy page. Included are…

  11. M1 Abrams Tank Procedure Guides

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1982-07-01

    Vemp =. ... . Mheek mustlam- sitlee no"Ageper- 2. Cal.5 . . swetgh: (PAge LI) 3. CaLS . ... Zen (pag 13) BOUzSzMT M CAL. SO I.. Teak peatima. .. lafel...Cleee ,-. 13.~~ .eds a." . .ege ..... abeW "d us (P P U) :. -z KINK CAL. 50 3. vempe " .. ... .led (pg ) 2. o . .. .ad tio"ge mgety .. 1 4. IC omee .C.1

  12. Manufacturing Methods and Technology Program Plan. Update.

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1981-11-01

    INDUSTRIAL BASE ENGINEERING ACTIVITY ROCK ISLAND. ILLINOIS 61299 82 INDEX PAGE I. INTRODUCTION The MMT Program Plan Update ........... 1 Industry Guide...obtained from that Plan, extra copies of which are available upon request from the Industrial Base Engineering Activity. Other sources for this data are...Major Subcommands (SUBMACOM’S). The SUBMACOM’S plan, formulate, budget, and execute individual projects. The Industrial Base Engineering Activity

  13. Telemetry Attributes Transfer Standard (TMATS) Handbook

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2017-01-01

    information regarding the project’s security classification guide and/or downgrading information should be provided as a comment. (G\\ COM ) G\\SC:U; The...96TH TEST WING 412TH TEST WING ARNOLD ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT COMPLEX NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION This page intentionally...TMATS) Handbook, RCC Document 124-17, January 2017 v Figure 2-16. “Look and Feel” D-Group Engine Temperature Measurement Example XML

  14. Labor Mobilization Project (1980).

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1980-05-15

    inventory was compiled by the National Defense Transportation Association for King and Snohomish Counties under a subcontract with the King County...Council, AFL-CIO, to the rank and .-- Executive Summary Page xv file membership. A resolution was presented at the National Building Trades Convention in...and planning, along with operational plans for all other types of emergencies. 3"Comprehensive Emergency Management--A Governors Guide" by National

  15. Learning Skills of Peace through Every Day Conflicts: Practical Activities and Resources for Families, Teachers and Other Caregivers. [Loose-Leaf Pages and Pack of Cards].

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Ohio Commission on Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management, Columbus.

    Noting that the conflicts arising daily for young children provide an opportunity for adults to model and teach skills for handling conflict peacefully, this guide provides tips for preventing unnecessary conflict, offers "first aid" for conflict moments, and provides resources for addressing common situations that can cause conflict.…

  16. Analysis of Technique to Extract Data from the Web for Improved Performance

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Gupta, Neena; Singh, Manish

    2010-11-01

    The World Wide Web rapidly guides the world into a newly amazing electronic world, where everyone can publish anything in electronic form and extract almost all the information. Extraction of information from semi structured or unstructured documents, such as web pages, is a useful yet complex task. Data extraction, which is important for many applications, extracts the records from the HTML files automatically. Ontologies can achieve a high degree of accuracy in data extraction. We analyze method for data extraction OBDE (Ontology-Based Data Extraction), which automatically extracts the query result records from the web with the help of agents. OBDE first constructs an ontology for a domain according to information matching between the query interfaces and query result pages from different web sites within the same domain. Then, the constructed domain ontology is used during data extraction to identify the query result section in a query result page and to align and label the data values in the extracted records. The ontology-assisted data extraction method is fully automatic and overcomes many of the deficiencies of current automatic data extraction methods.

  17. Parents on the web: risks for quality management of cough in children.

    PubMed

    Pandolfini, C; Impicciatore, P; Bonati, M

    2000-01-01

    Health information on the Internet, with respect to common, self-limited childhood illnesses, has been found to be unreliable. Therefore, parents navigating on the Internet risk finding advice that is incomplete or, more importantly, not evidence-based. The importance that a resource such as the Internet as a source of quality health information for consumers should, however, be taken into consideration. For this reason, studies need to be performed regarding the quality of material provided. Various strategies have been proposed that would allow parents to distinguish trustworthy web documents from unreliable ones. One of these strategies is the use of a checklist for the appraisal of web pages based on their technical aspects. The purpose of this study was to assess the quality of information present on the Internet regarding the home management of cough in children and to examine the applicability of a checklist strategy that would allow consumers to select more trustworthy web pages. The Internet was searched for web pages regarding the home treatment of cough in children with the use of different search engines. Medline and the Cochrane database were searched for available evidence concerning the management of cough in children. Three checklists were created to assess different aspects of the web documents. The first checklist was designed to allow for a technical appraisal of the web pages and was based on components such as the name of the author and references used. The second was constructed to examine the completeness of the health information contained in the documents, such as causes and mechanism of cough, and pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatment. The third checklist assessed the quality of the information by measuring it against a gold standard document. This document was created by combining the policy statement issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics regarding the pharmacological treatment of cough in children with the guide of the World Health Organization on drugs for children. For each checklist, the web page contents were analyzed and quantitative measurements were assigned. Of the 19 web pages identified, 9 explained the purpose and/or mechanism of cough and 14 the causes. The most frequently mentioned pharmacological treatments were single-ingredient suppressant preparations, followed by single-ingredient expectorants. Dextromethorphan was the most commonly referred to suppressant and guaifenesin the most common expectorant. No documents discouraged the use of suppressants, although 4 of the 10 web documents that addressed expectorants discouraged their use. Sixteen web pages addressed nonpharmacological treatment, 14 of which suggested exposure to a humid environment and/or extra fluid. In most cases, the criteria in the technical appraisal checklist were not present in the web documents; moreover, 2 web pages did not provide any of the items. Regarding content completeness, 3 web pages satisfied all the requirements considered in the checklist and 2 documents did not meet any of the criteria. Of the 3 web pages that scored highest in technical aspect, 2 also supplied complete information. No relationship was found, however, between the technical aspect and the content completeness. Concerning the quality of the health information supplied, 10 pages received a negative score because they contained more incorrect than correct information, and 1 web page received a high score. This document was 1 of the 2 that also scored high in technical aspect and content completeness. No relationship was found, however, among quality of information, technical aspect, and content completeness. As the results of this study show, a parent navigating the Internet for information on the home management of cough in children will no doubt find incorrect advice among the search results. (ABSTRACT TRUNCATED)

  18. Health Communication in Social Media: Message Features Predicting User Engagement on Diabetes-Related Facebook Pages.

    PubMed

    Rus, Holly M; Cameron, Linda D

    2016-10-01

    Social media provides unprecedented opportunities for enhancing health communication and health care, including self-management of chronic conditions such as diabetes. Creating messages that engage users is critical for enhancing message impact and dissemination. This study analyzed health communications within ten diabetes-related Facebook pages to identify message features predictive of user engagement. The Common-Sense Model of Illness Self-Regulation and established health communication techniques guided content analyses of 500 Facebook posts. Each post was coded for message features predicted to engage users and numbers of likes, shares, and comments during the week following posting. Multi-level, negative binomial regressions revealed that specific features predicted different forms of engagement. Imagery emerged as a strong predictor; messages with images had higher rates of liking and sharing relative to messages without images. Diabetes consequence information and positive identity predicted higher sharing while negative affect, social support, and crowdsourcing predicted higher commenting. Negative affect, crowdsourcing, and use of external links predicted lower sharing while positive identity predicted lower commenting. The presence of imagery weakened or reversed the positive relationships of several message features with engagement. Diabetes control information and negative affect predicted more likes in text-only messages, but fewer likes when these messages included illustrative imagery. Similar patterns of imagery's attenuating effects emerged for the positive relationships of consequence information, control information, and positive identity with shares and for positive relationships of negative affect and social support with comments. These findings hold promise for guiding communication design in health-related social media.

  19. PC-based web authoring: How to learn as little unix as possible while getting on the Web

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    Gennari, L.T.; Breaux, M.; Minton, S.

    1996-09-01

    This document is a general guide for creating Web pages, using commonly available word processing and file transfer applications. It is not a full guide to HTML, nor does it provide an introduction to the many WYSIWYG HTML editors available. The viability of the authoring method it describes will not be affected by changes in the HTML specification or the rapid release-and-obsolescence cycles of commercial WYSIWYG HTML editors. This document provides a gentle introduction to HTML for the beginner, and as the user gains confidence and experience, encourages greater familiarity with HTML through continued exposure to and hands-on usage ofmore » HTML code.« less

  20. Mac-based Web authoring: How to learn as little Unix as possible while getting on the Web.

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    Gennari, L.T.

    1996-06-01

    This document is a general guide for creating Web pages, using commonly available word processing and file transfer applications. It is not a full guide to HTML, nor does it provide an introduction to the many WYSIWYG HTML editors available. The viability of the authoring method it describes will not be affected by changes in the HTML specification or the rapid release-and-obsolescence cycles of commercial WYSIWYG HTML editors. This document provides a gentle introduction to HTML for the beginner and as the user gains confidence and experience, encourages greater familiarity with HTML through continued exposure to and hands-on usage ofmore » HTML code.« less

  1. Using food-web theory to conserve ecosystems

    PubMed Central

    McDonald-Madden, E.; Sabbadin, R.; Game, E. T.; Baxter, P. W. J.; Chadès, I.; Possingham, H. P.

    2016-01-01

    Food-web theory can be a powerful guide to the management of complex ecosystems. However, we show that indices of species importance common in food-web and network theory can be a poor guide to ecosystem management, resulting in significantly more extinctions than necessary. We use Bayesian Networks and Constrained Combinatorial Optimization to find optimal management strategies for a wide range of real and hypothetical food webs. This Artificial Intelligence approach provides the ability to test the performance of any index for prioritizing species management in a network. While no single network theory index provides an appropriate guide to management for all food webs, a modified version of the Google PageRank algorithm reliably minimizes the chance and severity of negative outcomes. Our analysis shows that by prioritizing ecosystem management based on the network-wide impact of species protection rather than species loss, we can substantially improve conservation outcomes. PMID:26776253

  2. Beyond Words: Amplification of Cancer Risk Communication on Social Media.

    PubMed

    Strekalova, Yulia A; Krieger, Janice L

    2017-10-01

    Social media provide a unique channel for disseminating evidence-based information to diverse audiences and organizational and private stakeholders, thus facilitating a dialog about health and health risks. Guided by the social amplification of risk framework, the goal of this study was to assess the level of audience engagement with messages posted on the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Facebook page and evaluate the differences in the audience information behavior toward risk-related and non-risk posts. Data included 1,975 posts published on the NCI Facebook page as well as the corresponding 4,537 comments, 77,298 shares, and 145,462 likes. Links and images were the top two most frequent types of content for both risk-related and non-risk posts, but risk-related messages were more amplified through comments, shares, and likes. Comparing the modality of risk-related messages, videos, contrary to the prediction, were not more effective in attracting audience engagement than images. Finally, comments to risk-related posts did not repeat risk-related language suggesting that future studies should examine risk signal recognition and dissemination as separate behaviors. This study's findings emphasize the importance of focused investigation of message design strategies and message effects on the dissemination and amplification of communication related to health risks.

  3. Vapor Intrusion Estimation Tool for Unsaturated Zone Contaminant Sources. User’s Guide

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2016-08-30

    324449 Page Intentionally Left Blank iii Executive Summary Soil vapor extraction (SVE) is a prevalent remediation approach for volatile contaminants...strength and location, vadose zone transport, and a model for estimating movement of soil -gas vapor contamination into buildings. The tool may be...framework for estimating the impact of a vadose zone contaminant source on soil gas concentrations and vapor intrusion into a building

  4. A Guide to IRUS-II Application Development

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1989-09-01

    Stallard (editors). Research and Develo; nent in Natural Language b’nderstan,;ng as Part of t/i Strategic Computing Program . chapter 3, pages 27-34...Development in Natural Language Processing in the Strategic Computing Program . Compi-nrional Linguistics 12(2):132-136. April-June, 1986. [24] Sidner. C.L...assist developers interested in adapting IRUS-11 to new application domains Chapter 2 provides a general introduction and overviev ,. Chapter 3 describes

  5. Navy Program Guide 2011

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2011-01-01

    no person shall be subject to a penalty for failing to comply with a collection of information if it does not display a currently valid OMB control...ABSTRACT Same as Report (SAR) 18. NUMBER OF PAGES 180 19a. NAME OF RESPONSIBLE PERSON a . REPORT unclassified b. ABSTRACT unclassified c. THIS...demonstrating the speed, agility, and flexibility required by a nation with global interests in a time of increasing unpredictability. On any given

  6. AE9/AP9/SPM Radiation Environment Model: User’s Guide

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2014-02-18

    5776 DTIC COPY NOTICE AND SIGNATURE PAGE Using Government drawings, specifications, or other data included in this document for any purpose other...specifications, or other data does not license the holder or any other person or corporation; or convey any rights or permission to manufacture, use...collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources

  7. Improved Ecosystem Predictions of the California Current System via Accurate Light Calculations

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2011-09-30

    System via Accurate Light Calculations Curtis D. Mobley Sequoia Scientific, Inc. 2700 Richards Road, Suite 107 Bellevue, WA 98005 phone: 425...7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) Sequoia Scientific, Inc,2700 Richards Road, Suite 107,Bellevue,WA,98005 8. PERFORMING...EcoLight-S 1.0 Users’ Guide and Technical Documentation. Sequoia Scientific, Inc., Bellevue, WA, 38 pages. Mobley, C. D., 2011. Fast light calculations

  8. Guide to Regulated Facilities in ECHO | ECHO | US EPA

    EPA Pesticide Factsheets

    There are multiple ways ECHO can be used to search compliance data. By default, ECHO searches focus on larger, more regulated facilities. Each search page allows users to search a more comprehensive group of facilities by electing to search for minor or smaller facilities. Information is presented that explains the types and approximate numbers of facilities that are included in searches when the default and custom options are used.

  9. Characteristics of State Plans for Aid to Families with Dependent Children Under the Social Security Act Title IV-A (and for Guam, Puerto Rico, & Virgin Islands).

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Miller, Catherine M., Ed.; Chief, Elizabeth H., Ed.

    This program guide covers in outline form the characteristics of state public assistance plans for operating programs of Aid to Families with Dependent Children. The information for each state is presented in a series of pages with four subdivisions: Administration, Eligibility Requirements, Need Determination, and Extension of the Program. In…

  10. Adaptive Harmonic Balance Method for Unsteady, Nonlinear, One-Dimensional Periodic Flows

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2002-09-01

    Design and Implemen- tation. May 1999. REF-2 23. Toro , Eleuterio F . Fiemann Solvers and Numerical Methods for Fluid Dynamics, chapter 15. New York...prominent for high-frequency unsteady-flows. Experimental Analysis of Splitting-induced Error To assess the actual effect of splitting error on a...VITA-1 vi List of Figures Figure Page 1.1. Experimental Pressure Data on Inlet Guide Vane Upstream of Transonic Rotating

  11. DETECT: Detection of Events in Continuous Time Toolbox: User’s Guide, Examples, and Function Reference Documentation

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2013-06-01

    benefitting from rapid, automated discrimination of specific predefined signals , and is free-standing (requiring no other plugins or packages). The...previously labeled dataset, and comparing two labeled datasets. 15. SUBJECT TERMS Artifact, signal detection, EEG, MATLAB, toolbox 16. SECURITY... CLASSIFICATION OF: 17. LIMITATION OF ABSTRACT UU 18. NUMBER OF PAGES 56 19a. NAME OF RESPONSIBLE PERSON W. David Hairston a. REPORT

  12. Air Force Research Laboratory Wright Site Guide to Technical Publishing

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2005-04-01

    Scientific and Technical Reports—Elements, Organization, and Design manual (and a version modified for documents generated for AFRL) • Merriam-Webster’s...notice page --SF 298 --original graphics /halftones Indicate the following on the letter of transmittal sheet: --quantity of copies required for...Elements, Organization and Design ? The WRS CDRL for a final report requires that the standard be followed. The only exception is SBIR Phase 1

  13. Buscando Hallaras. Que Bonito Es Leer, II. Libro II. Libro de Lectura (Looking You Will Find. How Nice Reading Is, II. Book II. Reading Book).

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Dissemination and Assessment Center for Bilingual Education, Austin, TX.

    The Spanish reader, which has an accompanying workbook and teacher's guide, is the second in a series of readers designed for second grade supplementary Spanish reading instruction. The book contains eight stories, each about fifteen pages long. The first four have cultural themes and the last four, animal themes. There are black and white…

  14. Identity of Artificial Color on Oranges; Analysis for Spoilage Indicators in Butter; Rapid Identity of Margarine and Butter; Identity of Synthetic Colors in Foods. FDA's Science Project Series.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Food and Drug Administration (DHEW), Washington, DC.

    These guides are four of several prepared through the F.D.A.'s Science Project Series for senior high school chemistry students and teachers investigating the quality of constituents of foods through experimentation. Each eight page pamphlet gives background information on the subject, equipment and reagents needed for the experiment, the…

  15. Migrant Mexican Traditions = Tradiciones Migrantes Mexicanas. An Exhibit of Folk Art by Mexican Migrant Farmworkers (Geneseo, New York, September 22-October 4, 1990).

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Camacho, Juana; Gomez, Jose Luis

    This exhibit guide (in Spanish, with translation in English printed on adjoining columns on each page), describes an exhibition of folk art by Mexican migrant farmworkers presented by thre Folk Arts Program of the BOCES Geneseo Migrant Center. The exhibit is divided into four major themes that farmworkers presented by the BOCES Geneseo Migrant…

  16. Defining and Assessing Learning: Exploring Competency-Based Initiatives. Report of the National Postsecondary Education Cooperative Working Group on Competency-Based Initiatives in Postsecondary Education. Brochure [and] Report.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Jones, Elizabeth A.; Voorhees, Richard A.

    This document includes a 3-page brochure describing the main report and the main report. The report explores competency-based models in postsecondary institutions and other learning environments. It is intended primarily as a guide for postsecondary educators who are interested in establishing such efforts at their institutions. The following…

  17. Systems Analysis Directorate Activities Summary - September 1977. Volume 1

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1977-10-01

    Identify by block number) Chemical agent Censor criteria Purity of the agent Statistical samples 20. ABSTRACT (Continue on reverse side U... chemical agent lots. Volume II (CONF) contains an analysis fo the operational capability as the 105rom MIOIAI and M102 Hpwltzej^g, DD , FORM JAN 73...Data Entered) CONTENTS Page Procedure for Determining the Serviceability Category of Chemical Agent Lots •• 5 User’s Guide to the Computer

  18. Opportunistic Constructive Induction: Using Fragments of Domain Knowledge to Guide Construction

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1991-01-01

    contribute to its success in ways which they are often unaware of and, unfortunately, which go by unacknowledged. At the risk of omitting some people I am...ference on Machine Learning, pages 322 -329, Austin, TX, June 1990. [Blumer e_1 al... 19871 Anselm Blurner, Andrzej Ehrenfeucht, David Haussler, and...and Ryszard S. Michalki. A Comparative Review of Selected Methods fur Learning from Examples. In- Machine Learning: An A rtificialIntelligence

  19. Modeling and Analysis of Resolve and Morale for the Long War’

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2007-12-01

    Alexandria, Virginia, 1995 Bratley, Paul , Bennett L. Fox, and Linus E. Schrage, A Guide to Simulation (2nd ed.), Springer-Verlag, New York, 1987 Bross... Paul J., Measuring the “Will to Fight” in Simulation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, 73rd MORS Symposium Working Group 33 Presentation, DTIC...115, 2004 MacKay, Niall, “Lanchester combat models”, Mathematics Today, Volume 42, Number 5, Pages 170-173, 2006 Macioce, Paul , “Viscoelastic

  20. Office of Education Guide to Graphic Art Software

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Davis, Angela M.

    1995-01-01

    During the summer experience in the LARSS program, the author created a performance support system showing the techniques of creating text in Quark XPress, placed the text into Adobe Illustrator along with scanned images, signatures and art work partially created in Adobe Photoshop. The purpose of the project was to familiarize the Office of Education Staff with Graphic Arts and the computer skills utilized to typeset and design certificates, brochures, cover pages, manuals, etc.

  1. Evaluation of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Potential for the Turkish Navy

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2006-09-01

    THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK v ABSTRACT Peace at home, peace in the world. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk The founder and... Yavuz , Gabya (Perry), Tepe (Knox) class frigates and Kilic, Kartal, Dogan, Ruzgar, Yildiz class Guided Missile-Fast Attack craft for littoral combat...of Turkey’s trade is realized via sea routes. The Turkish Navy currently uses: • Burak (Type A 69) • Barbaros • Yavuz • Gabya (Perry) • Tepe

  2. The Development of a Design Database for the Computer Aided Prototyping System

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1991-09-01

    COMPUTER AIDED PROTOTYPING SYSTEM by Andrew Patrick Dwyer Captain, United States Marine Corps B.S., Juniata College, 1980 M.B.A. Webster University...Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, May 1990. Page-Jones, M., The Practical guide to Structured Systems Design, Yourdon Press, 1980 . Rumbaugh, J. and...United States Laboratory Command Army Research Office Attn: Dr. David Hislop P. 0. Box 12211 Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2211 50. George Mason

  3. Guidance for Habitat Restoration Monitoring: Framework for Monitoring Plan Development and Implementation (User’s Guide)

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2004-08-01

    release; distribution is unlimited. ENGINEERING SERVICE CENTER Port Hueneme, California 93043-4370 (This page intentionally blank.) REPORT DOCUMENTATION...responses. For example, an extended period of drought may greatly retard, set back, or even prevent establishment of a desired plant species or...Categories of Potential Chemical Monitoring Dataa Monitoring Variable Habitat Type Water Quality pH REDOX DO Salinity Freshwater wetlands S−M S–M M S–M

  4. A System Approach to Navy Medical Education and Training. Appendix 5. Neuropsychiatric Technician.

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1974-08-31

    phrased behavioral statements. Through the use of special programs, task inventories are prepared, printouts for special purposes are created following ...the Response Guide (p. xiii) at the perforation, and use the correct side to respond to each task or instrument found on the following white pages...response data. They can be processed and manipulated only by high speed computer capability using rigorously designed specialty programs. In addition to

  5. Investigators’ Guide to Sources of Information.

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1997-04-01

    identification purposes. As part of the 1995 Crime Bill, Congress mandated the Secret Service to provide forensic /technical assistance-to federal, state, and...missing and sexually exploited children. Much of the forensic assistance is used in the United States by the Secret Service’s Forensic Services Division...The forensic technology allows the document examiner to scan and digitize text and writings, and later search that material against Page 27 GAO/OSI-97

  6. Children of Military Service Members Resource Guide

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2012-01-01

    follows 9-year-old lizzie as she writes to her mother, who is deployed overseas. child-like handwriting and colorful illustrations are used as lizzie...978-1615467242 Pages: 32 My Daddy is a Soldier uses simple words and images to help young children understand what it means when parents say ...Military Mom follows 9-year-old lizzie as she writes to her mother, who is deployed overseas. child-like handwriting and colorful illustrations are used as

  7. Cost and Training Effectiveness Analysis Performance Guide

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1980-07-23

    U8 tämat^iimiäimmm .. ·•· THIS DOCUMENT IS BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE. THE COPY FURNISHED TO DTIC CONTAINED A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF PAGES WHICH...Effectiveness Analyses (CTEA). It provides strategies for planning the CTEA and provides illustrative methods to be adapted to the particular data...Resolution D. Strategies for Conducting the CTEA E. Summary III Process Procedures A. Generation of Task List 1. DIVAD Gun 2. Improved Hawk vHawk PIP

  8. The Organizations and Functions of Documentation and Information Centres in Defence and Aerospace Environments

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1988-10-20

    express my sincere gratitude to Mrs. D. Patrinou, of the Hellenic Aerospace Industry, for her valuable and constructive comments during the preparation of...cognitive awareness, we get closer to constructing the elusive user model. 3-7 REFERENCES 1 Ziman, J. Knowing everything about nothing: specialization and...Collection, with information from 18 abstract journals - the Construction Criteria Base. with over 50,000 pages of guide specifications and standards

  9. A Guide for Estimation of Aeroacoustic Loads on Flight Vehicle Surfaces

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1977-02-01

    Nozzle aspect ratio correction of one-third octave band sound pressure levels of USB noise . 122 31. Impingement angle correction of one-third octave...breech weapons ....................... 175 IX •: •-•,..i .•,z. •... LIST OF FIGURES (Cont.) page Figure 61. Rectangular cavity ...and a nozzle aspect ratio of 4.0, and without a deflector. Obtain the corrected one-third octave band level SPL from the baseline level, from " b

  10. Buscando Hallaras. Que Bonito Es Leer, II. Libro II. Cuaderno de Ejercicios (Looking You Will Find. How Nice Reading Is, II. Book II. Workbook).

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Dissemination and Assessment Center for Bilingual Education, Austin, TX.

    Designed for bilingual Spanish-English supplemental reading instruction for second grade students, this workbook is intended to be used with the reader of the same title. There is also a teacher's guide. The workbook provides about five pages of reinforcing exercises for each of the eight stories in the reader. The exercises are in the form of…

  11. Hombres y Lugares. Que Bonito Es Leer, II. Libro IV. Libro de Lectura (Men and Places. How Nice Reading Is, II. Book IV. Reading Book).

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Dissemination and Assessment Center for Bilingual Education, Austin, TX.

    With the accompanying workbook and teacher's guide, this reader comprises the fourth and last level of a series of supplementary instructional materials for teaching reading in Spanish to second grade students. There are six stories, each from 8 to 14 pages in length, and one "corrido". All are written in Spanish. Black and white illustrations…

  12. A Practical Guide to the Open Standards for Unattended Sensors (OSUS)

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2018-01-01

    collection of information if it does not display a currently valid OMB control number. PLEASE DO NOT RETURN YOUR FORM TO THE ABOVE ADDRESS. 1. REPORT DATE...in OSUS development and some of the benefits of implementing an OSUS controller as the central processing platform in a smart sensing device. The... controller 16. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION OF: 17. LIMITATION OF ABSTRACT UU 18. NUMBER OF PAGES 91 19a. NAME OF

  13. Russia’s Role in the Emerging Eurasian Security Environment

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2008-01-01

    China for generations, racism, raw materials and land , are even more pressing in today‘s globalized environment. As far as Iran goes, Russian...THIS PAGE unclassified Standard Form 298 (Rev. 8-98) Prescribed by ANSI Std Z39-18 2 multipolar counterbalance, but neither Russia and China ...a decided amount of realpolitik geo-strategy guiding Russian relations with the United States, the European Union, China , the Central Asian states as

  14. Thin-Film Optical Switch.

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1976-09-01

    UNCLASSIFIED St Cu* ITY C LA S S I F I C A T I O N OF tIllS PAGE (W~I. , 0.i. Ent.,.~d) REPODT rVW IIMEIITATIAII PACE READ INSTRUCTIONS...MEASUREMENTS 10 A. Ef fec t ive Channel Guide Width 10 13. Rid ge For mation St udies 10 C. Wave guide Loss Measurement s 10 D. Tape r Coup ling Eff...of less coup l ing e f f i c i e n c y at t h e t aper l e n g t h of 900 ~ rn . Ne l son 2 has c o n s i d e r e d the e f f i c i e n c y of

  15. KSC-2010-4939

    NASA Image and Video Library

    2010-09-30

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians guide the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) onto a rotation stand where it will be tested and processed for launch. AMS, a state-of-the-art particle physics detector, is designed to operate as an external experiment on the International Space Station. It will use the unique environment of space to study the universe and its origin by searching for dark matter. AMS will fly to the station aboard space shuttle Endeavour's STS-134 mission targeted to launch February, 2011. For more information visit: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts134/index.html. Photo credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller

  16. Thirteen Week Oral Toxicity Study of WR238605 with a Thirteen Week Recovery Period in Rats. Volume 3 of 3

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1993-06-18

    Page 1 REVISED PAGE A u STUDY Mfr CBM, INITIAL (77 DATE-y-Hl^. 5.0 7.0 Contract No.: DAMD17-92-C-2C01 Task Order No.: UIC-5B Study No.: 098 ® i...Report. The results will not be Page 6 REVISED PAGE /?. STUDY Mfr 2M INITIAL: (jLL i OATF- \\yjuftl.’ I I 1’ II II II II II II II...necessary) recovery animals. . Page 7 REVISED PAGE A,. INITIALIZE cninvwyO^g DATE: ><-/*’ fr ?. i u JU ft Contract No. Task Order No. Study No

  17. The Effects of Profile Pictures and Friends' Comments on Social Network Site Users' Body Image and Adherence to the Norm.

    PubMed

    Flynn, Mark A

    2016-04-01

    This study sought to explore the effects of exposure to Facebook body ideal profile pictures and norm conforming comments on users' body image. In addition, the social identity and self-categorization theoretical frameworks were used to explore users' endorsement of a body ideal norm. A mock Facebook page was used to conduct a pretest posttest 2 × 2 between-group web-based experiment that featured body ideal profile pictures (body ideal vs. no body) and body ideal comments (conforming vs. nonconforming). Five hundred and one participants completed the experiment and passed all manipulation checks. Participants viewed pictures and comments on the status page and were able to leave their own comment before exiting. Results demonstrated no significant main effects. However, predispositional body satisfaction significantly moderated the relationship between body ideal pictures and body satisfaction. Most comments supported the body ideal norm. However, in support of self-categorization theory, participants exposed to nonconforming comments made nonconforming comments themselves significantly more than those exposed to conforming comments. The findings demonstrated the importance of continued body image research in social network sites, as well as the potential for self-categorization theory to guide such research.

  18. Demystifying APA style.

    PubMed

    Cuddy, Claudia M

    2002-01-01

    Many nursing schools and health care journals have adopted the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA stylebook) as their guide to achieve uniformity and consistency in manuscript preparation as well as in usage and writing style. Published in 2001, the fifth edition of the APA stylebook contains 440 pages and can overwhelm someone who tries to use it for the first time. This article delineates main points in the areas of manuscript preparation, reference lists, in-text citations, and style choices.

  19. Environmental Compliance Assessment Protocol-Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (ECAP-CDC)

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1993-10-01

    propellers, or appliances. 2. Military weapons or equipment designed for combat use. 3. Rockets or equipment designed for research, or experimental or...should be reproduced and used during the assessment to take notes. It is designed to be inserted between each page of the protocols, allowing the...procedures are designed as an aid and should not be considered exhaus- tive. Use of the guide requires the evaluator’s judgement to play a role in

  20. Plamonics for Biomolecular Sensors and THz Metamaterial Waveguides (Near and Far-Field Interfaces to DNA. Guided Nanostructures from RF to Lightwave: Exploiting the Spectrum)

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2014-12-17

    surface bound modes named spoofed surface plasmon polariton (SSPP) modes. Such modes mimic the common optical surface plasmon mode traveling at...Triangle Park, NC 27709-2211 Terahertz, Biosensing, Mach Zehnder Interferometer, Multiplexer and Spoof surface Plasmon Polariton REPORT DOCUMENTATION PAGE...frequencies, the textured surfaces on a subwavelength scale can support surface bound modes named spoofed surface plasmon polariton (SSPP) modes. Such modes

  1. User’s Guide to the SOLAR Bibliography File

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1974-12-30

    Corporation "lO Colorado Avenue Santa Monica, California 90406 10. PROGRAM ELEMENT. PROJECT, TASK AREA i WORK UNIT NUMQCRS ARPA Order 2254... Program Code 5D30 It CONTROLLING OFFICE NAME AND ADDRESS 12. REPORT OATF. 30 December 1974 13 NUML’EH OF PAGES 28 n MONITORING...yet been produced, its StlUCture has be» n specified and codmc ot the programs neede«! to build it nas begun. is»lhis

  2. Programmer/Analyst Guide for the Army Unit Resiliency Analysis (AURA) computer Simulation Model. Volume 1. AURA Methodology

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1990-10-01

    involving a heavy artillery barrage, the impact point output alone could consume upwards of 10,000 pages of computer paper. For this reason, AURA provides...but pervasive factor: the asset allocation model must be compatible with the mathematical behavior of the input data. Thus, for example, if assets are...described as expendable during repair or decontamination activities, it must have HOMELINKS which appear in the consuming repair SUBCHAINs

  3. Noche del Sol. Que Bonito Es Leer, II. Libro III. Libro de Lectura (Night of the Sun. How Nice Reading Is, II. Book III. Reading Book).

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    Dissemination and Assessment Center for Bilingual Education, Austin, TX.

    Third in a series of materials designed to supplement the teaching of reading in Spanish at the second grade level, this reader is accompanied by a workbook and a teacher's guide of the same title. There are seven stories in Spanish, from six to fourteen pages in length, and illustrated in black and white. The first four stories demonstrate the…

  4. A Human-Automation Interface Model to Guide Automation of System Functions: A Way to Achieve Manning Goals in New Systems

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    2006-06-01

    levels of automation applied as per Figure 13. .................................. 60 x THIS PAGE...models generated for this thesis were set to run for 60 minutes. To run the simulation for the set time, the analyst provides a random number seed to...1984). The IMPRINT 59 workload value of 60 has been used by a consensus of workload modeling SMEs to represent the ‘high’ threshold, while the

  5. A Human-Automation Interface Model to Guide Automation Design of System Functions: A Way to Achieve Manning Goals in New Systems

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2005-12-01

    60 x THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK xi LIST OF TABLES Table 1...anywhere from one minute to several hours, depending on the needs of the analyst. The models generated for this thesis were set to run for 60 ...of a workload threshold goes back to the original LHX analysis from McCracken and Aldrich (1984). The IMPRINT 59 workload value of 60 has been

  6. Students' Navigational Pattern and Performance in an E-Learning Environment: A Case from UP Open University, Philippines

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    Bagarinao, Ricardo T.

    2015-01-01

    The study analyzed the navigational patterns of learners in an online course in Science, Technology, and Society using movement ecological concept. The course site consists of five important pages, namely: home page, resource page, user page, forum page, forum discussion page, and forum add post page. About 11,413 logged data were mined and…

  7. The Universal Book of Astronomy: From the Andromeda Galaxy to the Zone of Avoidance

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    Darling, David

    2003-10-01

    The ultimate guide to the final frontier This alphabetical tour of the universe provides all the history, science, and up-to-the-minute facts needed to explore the skies with authority. Packed with more than 3,000 entries that cover everything from major observatories and space telescopes to biographies of astronomers throughout the ages, it showcases an extraordinary array of newfound wonders, including microquasars, brown dwarfs, and dark energy, as well as a host of individual comets, asteroids, moons, planets, stars, nebulas, and galaxies. Featuring nearly 200 illustrations and eight pages of color photographs, this comprehensive guide provides easy lookup of topics and offers more in-depth information than can be found in existing star guides or astronomy dictionaries. It's an ideal resource for the amateur astronomer or anyone with an interest in the mysteries of the cosmos. David Darling, PhD (Brainerd, MN), is the author of The Complete Book of Spaceflight (0-471-05649-9) and Equations of Eternity, a New York Times Notable Book.

  8. Public Health England's Migrant Health Guide: an online resource for primary care practitioners.

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    Crawshaw, A F; Kirkbride, H

    2018-05-01

    Approximately 13% of the UK population in 2015 was born overseas. Most migrants have come to the UK to work or study although there has been a small increase in the number of asylum applications in the UK in recent years, reflective of the ongoing humanitarian situation across Europe. Migrants in the UK tend to be young and healthy, but some may face unique health needs as a result of their experiences before, during and after migration. For these needs to be appropriately recognised and addressed, evidence-based advice is needed for UK professionals. The Migrant Health Guide is a free online tool for healthcare professionals. It was launched in 2011 and is widely used in the UK and internationally. It has four sections: 1) Migrants and the NHS-information on access and entitlements to the National Health Service (NHS); 2) Assessing patients-includes a checklist for initial healthcare assessments and advice for patients travelling abroad to visit friends and relatives; 3) Countries-country-specific advice on infectious diseases, women's health and nutritional and metabolic concerns; and 4) Health topics-information about communicable and non-communicable diseases and other health issues. The guide has undergone an extensive update in 2017. In particular, the pages on mental health and human trafficking have been expanded. A formal evaluation will obtain feedback on the guide and measure changes in awareness, knowledge, opinions, attitudes and behaviour of end users. Findings will inform future revisions and updates to the guide. Public Health England's Migrant Health Guide is a valuable resource for healthcare professionals. The relaunched guide builds on the previous version in raising awareness of key issues and providing evidence-based advice to improve the health of migrants and refugees internationally and in the UK. Crown Copyright © 2018. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

  9. The impact of visual layout factors on performance in Web pages: a cross-language study.

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    Parush, Avi; Shwarts, Yonit; Shtub, Avy; Chandra, M Jeya

    2005-01-01

    Visual layout has a strong impact on performance and is a critical factor in the design of graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and Web pages. Many design guidelines employed in Web page design were inherited from human performance literature and GUI design studies and practices. However, few studies have investigated the more specific patterns of performance with Web pages that may reflect some differences between Web page and GUI design. We investigated interactions among four visual layout factors in Web page design (quantity of links, alignment, grouping indications, and density) in two experiments: one with pages in Hebrew, entailing right-to-left reading, and the other with English pages, entailing left-to-right reading. Some performance patterns (measured by search times and eye movements) were similar between languages. Performance was particularly poor in pages with many links and variable densities, but it improved with the presence of uniform density. Alignment was not shown to be a performance-enhancing factor. The findings are discussed in terms of the similarities and differences in the impact of layout factors between GUIs and Web pages. Actual or potential applications of this research include specific guidelines for Web page design.

  10. Scientific Outreach for K-6 Students: The LTER Schoolyard Children's Book Series

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    Williams, M.; McKnight, D.

    2009-04-01

    Here we present information on the many steps involved in writing and publishing a science book for children. This talk builds on the success of the children's' book: My Water Comes from the Mountains, written by Tiffany Fourment and illustrated by Dorothy Emerling, and sponsored by the NWT LTER outreach program. The narrative of the book takes children of ages 7-10 on an illustrative journey from glacial and snowpack sources high on the Continental Divide to the plains and water in their faucet tap, introducing them to the distinctive wildlife and ecosystems along the way, including the diverse uses and human impact of water in Boulder Creek and St. Vrain watersheds. We then talk about developing and distributing a teachers guide and materials packet developed for instructional use in the classroom and based on the children's book: MY H2O: My Water Comes from the Mountains Teacher's Curriculum Guide and Kit; edited by Colleen Flanagan, organizational authors Colleen Flanagan, Kenneth Nova, and Tiffany Fourment. The Teacher's Guide adds accompanying lessons, incorporation of water-wise sustainability in the classroom and community, and improvement of environmental education teaching skills with exemplary projects and practical edification. Direct feedback from the teachers was incorporated into the Guide, and their questions about the water cycle in the Front Range were addressed thoroughly. Utilizing local expertise and resources, the Guide encompassed four themes: 1) Water cycle, 2) Watershed, 3) Flora/Fauna/Life Zones, and 4) Human Interaction/Impact with Water. Each section includes a thorough explanation of 7-8 interactive projects, along with corresponding background information, suggested approaches and the book's parallel page number(s) for supplementary purposes. We end by showing how this model was used to develop the children's book "The Lost Seal (http://www.mcmlter.org/lostseal/) as the next stage in a national program. The Lost Seal children's story, written by Antarctic scientist Diane McKnight, describes the first documented encounter with a live seal in the remote McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica. Additional website information on the children's book "My Water Comes from the Mountains" is available at http://intranet.lternet.edu/archives/documents/Newsletters/NetworkNews/fall04/fall04_pg15.htm. All 433 pieces of orginal artwork for My Water Comes from the Mountains can be viewed at http://culter.colorado.edu/exec/Mywater/mywater_search_page.cgi.

  11. Fluid Mechanics: The Pamphlet

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    Variano, Evan

    2012-11-01

    One impediment to student learning in introductory fluid mechanics courses is that the fundamental laws of physics can become lost in the ``noise'' of dozens of semi-empirical equations describing special cases. This can be exacerbated by trends in textbooks and other teaching media. This talk will explore a minimalist approach, whereby the entire content of introductory fluids is distilled to a single 1-page pamphlet, designed to emphasize the governing equations and their near-universal applicability. We are particularly interested in hearing feedback from the audience on ways to further distill the content while keeping it accessible and useful. To further emphasize the difference between the fundamental laws and the many specific cases, we have begun assembling a complementary resource: a field guide to fluid phenomena, which mixes the approach of Van Dyke's book with a standard field guide. This is designed to emphasize that there is a ``zoology'' of fluid phenomena, to which the same small set of fundamental laws has been applied repeatedly. These materials may be useful in helping AP Physics teachers cover fluid mechanics, which is an under-utilized opportunity to introduce young scientists to our field of study.

  12. Introduction in IND and recursive partitioning

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    Buntine, Wray; Caruana, Rich

    1991-01-01

    This manual describes the IND package for learning tree classifiers from data. The package is an integrated C and C shell re-implementation of tree learning routines such as CART, C4, and various MDL and Bayesian variations. The package includes routines for experiment control, interactive operation, and analysis of tree building. The manual introduces the system and its many options, gives a basic review of tree learning, contains a guide to the literature and a glossary, and lists the manual pages for the routines and instructions on installation.

  13. Applied Mathematicians and Naval Operators. Revised.

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    1982-03-01

    sensor . They guided me into areas that few of the officers were aware of. 2.4. Hemibel Thinking. A complicated analysis that leads to a 2 percent increase...Editor, Journal of Documentation, Vol. 31, PP 226 No. 4. pages 298-501), Deceber 1975), AD A054 426 Ralston, J. N. and J. W. Mann,* " Temperatura end...Apr 78, AD A054 443 AD A058 542 PP 221 PP 231 Wainlad. Robert G.. "Superpower Navel Diplo nacy In the Wilson, De ond P., Jr., "Noval Projection

  14. User’s Guide for SHIPINT - A Computer Program to Compute Two Ship Interaction in Waves

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    1996-08-01

    P500693.PDF [Page: 1 of 84] Image Cover Sheet CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM NUMBER 500693 UNCLASSIFIED I llllll 111111111111111111111111111111111 TITLE...Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3J 2X4 1 ---------· CONTRACTOR REPORT I I I I I iii;,"’: · 1 Defence Research Establishment Atlantic Canada...SUMMARY 1 Introduction 2 Coordinate Systems and Two Ship Motions 3 Flow Chart 4 Input Data File Description 4.1 shipint.in ........ . 4.2 paneLa.in

  15. Corrosion Mitigation and Materials Selection Guide for Military Construction in a Severely Corrosive Environment

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    1988-07-01

    Skylights 33 OGS Section No. 07840: Ventilators, Roof: Gravity Type 33 SOGS Section No. 07951: Calking and Sealants 34 4 CONTENTS (Cont’d) Page 7 DOORS...shall be fully bonded to the primed surface. The finished surface shall be smooth, lustrous, and impervious to moisture. Dull or porous spots shall be...Type 1 21, Type I Gloss, TT-P-645 TT-E-1593 TT-E-1593 Sunlight Resistant SOGS Section No. 07810: Skylights Environment - Exposure Materials Selection

  16. Improving Synchronization and Functional Connectivity in Autism Spectrum Disorders through Plasticity-Induced Rehabilitation Training

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    2011-08-01

    EEG ; neurofeedback ; autism spectrum disorders 16. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION OF: 17. LIMITATION OF ABSTRACT 18. NUMBER OF PAGES 19a. NAME OF...Since  PIRT  or   neurofeedback  training  is  to  be  guided  by  a   quantitative  analysis  of  the   EEG ,  it  was...software for the neurofeedback training at UCSD and SLDC have been acquired, piloted, and are working • Training of Research Assistants has

  17. United States Air Force Summer Faculty Research Program. Program Technical Report. 1990. Volume 3

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    1991-06-05

    flowchart of the progran "NCHIPSIM" is shown o. the following two pages. 95-7 SSTAR ’ ’.Choose-Chip type; Microprocessor or Gate,-Array Choose...oeet ~alulaew ntegrionRsut YEYES FLOW CHART FOR NCHIPSIM" 95-9 IV. THE PROGRAM "NCHIPSIM": Using the flowchart and the steps outlined in the above...would make the technique more versatile in flaw detection in metallic materials. 113-16 REFERENCES 1. RUDLIN, J.R., "A Beginners Guide to-Eddy Current

  18. QNAP 1263U Network Attached Storage (NAS)/ Storage Area Network (SAN) Device Users Guide

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    2016-11-01

    standard Ethernet network. Operating either a NAS or SAN is vital for the integrity of the data stored on the drives found in the device. Redundant...speed of the network itself. Many standards are in place for transferring data, including more standard ones such as File Transfer Protocol and Server ...following are the procedures for connecting to the NAS administrative web page: 1) Open a web browser and browse to 192.168.40.8:8080. 2) Enter the

  19. NittanySat Final Report for University Nanosatellite-5 Program

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    2009-10-12

    Figures 9 through 12 and tabulated in Table 2. Figure 9 – 14-MHz BPF . Figure 10 – 21-MHz BPF .   Page 13   Figure 11 – 28-MHz BPF ...Figure 12 – 50-MHz BPF . Table 2 - Narrow Band-pass Filter Parameters Frequency Band [MHz] Bandwidth Range [MHz] Insertion Loss [dB] Return Loss...surface area, and surface properties (e.g., absorptivity, emissivity) of the various components. In order to make predictions and guide design choices, an

  20. Consumable Guide Electroslag Welding of 4 to 24 Inch Thick Carbon Steel Castings (The National Shipbuilding Research Program)

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    1986-08-01

    aware that notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person shall be subject to a penalty for failing to comply with a collection of information if...SECURITY CLASSIFICATION OF: 17. LIMITATION OF ABSTRACT SAR 18. NUMBER OF PAGES 168 19a. NAME OF RESPONSIBLE PERSON a. REPORT unclassified b. ABSTRACT...States, nor the Maritime Administration, nor any person acting on behalf of the Maritime Administration (A) makes any warranty or representation, expressed

  1. Software Assurance in Acquisition: Mitigating Risks to the Enterprise. A Reference Guide for Security-Enhanced Software Acquisition and Outsourcing

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    2009-02-01

    management, available at <http://www.iso.org/ iso /en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=39612&ICS1=35&ICS2=40 &ICS3=>. ISO /IEC 27001 . Information...Management of the Systems Engineering Process. [ ISO /IEC 27001 ] ISO /IEC 27001 :2005. Information technology -- Security techniques -- Information security...software life cycles [ ISO /IEC 15026]. Software assurance is a key element of national security and homeland security. It is critical because dramatic

  2. Skylight book. Capturing the Sun and the Moon: a guide to creating natural light

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    Burns, A.

    1976-01-01

    The following topics are covered: planning; essential tools: hand and power; safety hints; curb installation; plexiglas or plate glass skylight; the plexiglas box skylight; tips on working with plexiglas; checking for leaks; framing the shaftway; electric work; shaftwall insulation; covering the shaftway with drywall; other kinds of wall coverings; internal storm windows; plants under your skylight; skylight manufacturers; and places to buy things. There are 38 pages of pictures of the use of skylights. (MHR)

  3. High Velocity Jet Noise Source Location and Reduction. Task 6. Noise Abatement Nozzle Design Guide.

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    1979-04-01

    the Conical Nozzle 255 on the Bertin Aerotrain . xvi ji4 ’ . _______ p .. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS (Continued) Figure Page D-37. Predicted and Measured...Moving-Frame Noise from the 256 Conical Nozzle on the Bertin Aerotrain . D-38. Predicted and Measured Static Noise from the 104-Tube 257 Nozzle on the...Bertin Aerotrain . D-39. Predicted and Measured Moving-Frame Noise from the 104- 258 Tube Nozzle on the Bertin Aerotrain . D-40. Relative Velocity Index m

  4. Modeling the Effect of a Hydrophobic Concrete Admixture on Chloride Ingress: Contractors Supplemental Report for CPC Project F09-AR05A

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    2017-12-01

    of acronyms  ASTM: American Society for Testing and Materials  CSA: Canadian Standard Association  FA: fly ash  GU: general use ( cement )  ICP...OES: inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry  OPC: Ordinary Portland cement  RH: relative humidity  UFGS: Unified Facilities Guide...Specifications  w/b: water-to-binder ratio  w/c: water-to- cement ratio SIMCO Technologies Inc. 2013 Page | 3 1 Executive summary SIMCO

  5. NASA Publications Guide

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    1982-01-01

    The publication programs and management policies of NASA are described and the details that authors and publication specialists need to know to carry out the agency's mission of disseminating the scientific and technical information derived from its activities are highlighted. Topics covered include the various kinds of NASA formal publications; selection of publication medium; printing and distribution; and requirements concerning style and format standards, copyright transfers, the cover, color, and foldouts. The sections of a report are delineated and editorial and page make-up responsibilities are also discussed.

  6. Prevention of Bone Loss after Acute SCI by Zoledronic Acid: Durability, Effect on Bone Strength, and Use of Biomarkers to Guide Therapy

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    2016-10-01

    6 and 12 months during the first year; participants are re-randomized after 12 months with subsequent data collection at 18 and 24 months. Currently...bone mass, bone strength, osteoporosis, zoledronic acid 16. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION OF: 17. LIMITATION OF ABSTRACT 18 . NUMBER OF PAGES 19a. NAME...and bone markers will be obtained at baseline, 3 months, 6 months, 12 months, 18 months and 24 months. KEYWORDS: spinal cord

  7. Percept User Manual.

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    Carnes, Brian; Kennon, Stephen Ray

    2017-05-01

    This document is the main user guide for the Sierra/Percept capabilities including the mesh_adapt and mesh_transfer tools. Basic capabilities for uniform mesh refinement (UMR) and mesh transfers are discussed. Examples are used to provide illustration. Future versions of this manual will include more advanced features such as geometry and mesh smoothing. Additionally, all the options for the mesh_adapt code will be described in detail. Capabilities for local adaptivity in the context of offline adaptivity will also be included. This page intentionally left blank.

  8. Community nursing research. Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

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    Rappsilber, C; Castillo, A A; Gallegos, E C

    1998-01-01

    After a 10-year history of community health nursing research conducted by graduate students at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León in Monterrey, Mexico, the faculty recognized a need to synthesize their work into a monograph. The purpose was to guide nursing practice, incorporate the findings into the body of nursing knowledge, and identify future research needs. Starting in 1994, three faculty members reviewed 29 theses written by community nursing majors from 1986 to 1993 to meet the requirements for the master's degree in nursing. They classified the studies according to their principal focus and synthesized the findings to derive common phenomena and themes. The endeavor resulted in a 40-page document and a proposed model in the form of an unpublished monograph.

  9. Automatic digital photo-book making system

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    Wang, Wiley; Teo, Patrick; Muzzolini, Russ

    2010-02-01

    The diversity of photo products has grown more than ever before. A group of photos are not only printed individually, but also can be arranged in specific order to tell a story, such as in a photo book, a calendar or a poster collage. Similar to making a traditional scrapbook, digital photo book tools allow the user to choose a book style/theme, layouts of pages, backgrounds and the way the pictures are arranged. This process is often time consuming to users, given the number of images and the choices of layout/background combinations. In this paper, we developed a system to automatically generate photo books with only a few initial selections required. The system utilizes time stamps, color indices, orientations and other image properties to best fit pictures into a final photo book. The common way of telling a story is to lay the pictures out in chronological order. If the pictures are proximate in time, they will coincide with each other and are often logically related. The pictures are naturally clustered along a time line. Breaks between clusters can be used as a guide to separate pages or spreads, thus, pictures that are logically related can stay close on the same page or spread. When people are making a photo book, it is helpful to start with chronologically grouped images, but time alone wont be enough to complete the process. Each page is limited by the number of layouts available. Many aesthetic rules also apply, such as, emphasis of preferred pictures, consistency of local image density throughout the whole book, matching a background to the content of the images, and the variety of adjacent page layouts. We developed an algorithm to group images onto pages under the constraints of aesthetic rules. We also apply content analysis based on the color and blurriness of each picture, to match backgrounds and to adjust page layouts. Some of our aesthetic rules are fixed and given by designers. Other aesthetic rules are statistic models trained by using customer photo book samples. We evaluate our algorithm with test photo sets, and ask participants both quantitative and qualitative questions for feedback. We have seen the improvement on the time it takes users to produce a photo book and on the satisfaction with the overall quality.

  10. Required Discussion Web Pages in Psychology Courses and Student Outcomes

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    Pettijohn, Terry F., II; Pettijohn, Terry F.

    2007-01-01

    We conducted 2 studies that investigated student outcomes when using discussion Web pages in psychology classes. In Study 1, we assigned 213 students enrolled in Introduction to Psychology courses to either a mandatory or an optional Web page discussion condition. Students used the discussion Web page significantly more often and performed…

  11. EHW Approach to Temperature Compensation of Electronics

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    Stoica, Adrian

    2004-01-01

    Efforts are under way to apply the concept of evolvable hardware (EHW) to compensate for variations, with temperature, in the operational characteristics of electronic circuits. To maintain the required functionality of a given circuit at a temperature above or below the nominal operating temperature for which the circuit was originally designed, a new circuit would be evolved; moreover, to obtain the required functionality over a very wide temperature range, there would be evolved a number of circuits, each of which would satisfy the performance requirements over a small part of the total temperature range. The basic concepts and some specific implementations of EHW were described in a number of previous NASA Tech Briefs articles, namely, "Reconfigurable Arrays of Transistors for Evolvable Hardware" (NPO-20078), Vol. 25, No. 2 (February 2001), page 36; Evolutionary Automated Synthesis of Electronic Circuits (NPO- 20535), Vol. 26, No. 7 (July 2002), page 37; "Designing Reconfigurable Antennas Through Hardware Evolution" (NPO-20666), Vol. 26, No. 7 (July 2002), page 38; "Morphing in Evolutionary Synthesis of Electronic Circuits" (NPO-20837), Vol. 26, No. 8 (August 2002), page 31; "Mixtrinsic Evolutionary Synthesis of Electronic Circuits" (NPO-20773) Vol. 26, No. 8 (August 2002), page 32; and "Synthesis of Fuzzy-Logic Circuits in Evolvable Hardware" (NPO-21095) Vol. 26, No. 11 (November 2002), page 38. To recapitulate from the cited prior articles: EHW is characterized as evolutionary in a quasi-genetic sense. The essence of EHW is to construct and test a sequence of populations of circuits that function as incrementally better solutions of a given design problem through the selective, repetitive connection and/or disconnection of capacitors, transistors, amplifiers, inverters, and/or other circuit building blocks. The connection and disconnection can be effected by use of field-programmable transistor arrays (FPTAs). The evolution is guided by a search-andoptimization algorithm (in particular, a genetic algorithm) that operates in the space of possible circuits to find a circuit that exhibits an acceptably close approximation of the desired functionality. The evolved circuits can be tested by mathematical modeling (that is, computational simulation) only, tested in real hardware, or tested in combinations of computational simulation and real hardware.

  12. [An evaluation of the quality of health web pages using a validated questionnaire].

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    Conesa Fuentes, Maria del Carmen; Aguinaga Ontoso, Enrique; Hernández Morante, Juan José

    2011-01-01

    The objective of the present study was to evaluate the quality of general health information in Spanish language web pages, and the official Regional Services web pages from the different Autonomous Regions. It is a cross-sectional study. We have used a previously validated questionnaire to study the present state of the health information on Internet for a lay-user point of view. By mean of PageRank (Google®), we obtained a group of webs, including a total of 65 health web pages. We applied some exclusion criteria, and finally obtained a total of 36 webs. We also analyzed the official web pages from the different Health Services in Spain (19 webs), making a total of 54 health web pages. In the light of our data, we observed that, the quality of the general information health web pages was generally rather low, especially regarding the information quality. Not one page reached the maximum score (19 points). The mean score of the web pages was of 9.8±2.8. In conclusion, to avoid the problems arising from the lack of quality, health professionals should design advertising campaigns and other media to teach the lay-user how to evaluate the information quality. Copyright © 2009 Elsevier España, S.L. All rights reserved.

  13. Analysis of Web Spam for Non-English Content: Toward More Effective Language-Based Classifiers

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    Alsaleh, Mansour; Alarifi, Abdulrahman

    2016-01-01

    Web spammers aim to obtain higher ranks for their web pages by including spam contents that deceive search engines in order to include their pages in search results even when they are not related to the search terms. Search engines continue to develop new web spam detection mechanisms, but spammers also aim to improve their tools to evade detection. In this study, we first explore the effect of the page language on spam detection features and we demonstrate how the best set of detection features varies according to the page language. We also study the performance of Google Penguin, a newly developed anti-web spamming technique for their search engine. Using spam pages in Arabic as a case study, we show that unlike similar English pages, Google anti-spamming techniques are ineffective against a high proportion of Arabic spam pages. We then explore multiple detection features for spam pages to identify an appropriate set of features that yields a high detection accuracy compared with the integrated Google Penguin technique. In order to build and evaluate our classifier, as well as to help researchers to conduct consistent measurement studies, we collected and manually labeled a corpus of Arabic web pages, including both benign and spam pages. Furthermore, we developed a browser plug-in that utilizes our classifier to warn users about spam pages after clicking on a URL and by filtering out search engine results. Using Google Penguin as a benchmark, we provide an illustrative example to show that language-based web spam classifiers are more effective for capturing spam contents. PMID:27855179

  14. Analysis of Web Spam for Non-English Content: Toward More Effective Language-Based Classifiers.

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    Alsaleh, Mansour; Alarifi, Abdulrahman

    2016-01-01

    Web spammers aim to obtain higher ranks for their web pages by including spam contents that deceive search engines in order to include their pages in search results even when they are not related to the search terms. Search engines continue to develop new web spam detection mechanisms, but spammers also aim to improve their tools to evade detection. In this study, we first explore the effect of the page language on spam detection features and we demonstrate how the best set of detection features varies according to the page language. We also study the performance of Google Penguin, a newly developed anti-web spamming technique for their search engine. Using spam pages in Arabic as a case study, we show that unlike similar English pages, Google anti-spamming techniques are ineffective against a high proportion of Arabic spam pages. We then explore multiple detection features for spam pages to identify an appropriate set of features that yields a high detection accuracy compared with the integrated Google Penguin technique. In order to build and evaluate our classifier, as well as to help researchers to conduct consistent measurement studies, we collected and manually labeled a corpus of Arabic web pages, including both benign and spam pages. Furthermore, we developed a browser plug-in that utilizes our classifier to warn users about spam pages after clicking on a URL and by filtering out search engine results. Using Google Penguin as a benchmark, we provide an illustrative example to show that language-based web spam classifiers are more effective for capturing spam contents.

  15. NIMBUS 7 Earth Radiation Budget (ERB) Matrix User's Guide. Volume 2: Tape Specifications

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    Ray, S. N.; Vasanth, K. L.

    1984-01-01

    The ERB MATRIX tape is generated by an IBM 3081 computer program and is a 9 track, 1600 BPI tape. The gross format of the tape given on Page 1, shows an initial standard header file followed by data files. The standard header file contains two standard header records. A trailing documentation file (TDF) is the last file on the tape. Pages 9 through 17 describe, in detail, the standard header file and the TDF. The data files contain data for 37 different ERB parameters. Each file has data based on either a daily, 6 day cyclic, or monthly time interval. There are three types of physical records in the data files; namely, the world grid physical record, the documentation mercator/polar map projection physical record, and the monthly calibration physical record. The manner in which the data for the 37 ERB parameters are stored in the physical records comprising the data files, is given in the gross format section.

  16. Insights into Facebook Pages: an early adolescent health research study page targeted at parents.

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    Amon, Krestina L; Paxton, Karen; Klineberg, Emily; Riley, Lisa; Hawke, Catherine; Steinbeck, Katharine

    2016-02-01

    Facebook has been used in health research, but there is a lack of literature regarding how Facebook may be used to recruit younger adolescents. A Facebook Page was created for an adolescent cohort study on the effects of puberty hormones on well-being and behaviour in early adolescence. Used as a communication tool with existing participants, it also aimed to alert potential participants to the study. The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed description of the development of the study Facebook Page and present the fan response to the types of posts made on the Page using the Facebook-generated Insights data. Two types of posts were made on the study Facebook Page. The first type was study-related update posts and events. The second was relevant adolescent and family research and current news posts. Observations on the use of and response to the Page were made over 1 year across three phases (phase 1, very low Facebook use; phase 2, high Facebook use; phase 3, low Facebook use). Most Page fans were female (88.6%), with the largest group of fans aged between 35 and 44 years. Study-related update posts with photographs were the most popular. This paper provides a model on which other researchers could base Facebook communication and potential recruitment in the absence of established guidelines.

  17. Working Together to Promote Diabetes Control: A Practical Guide for Diabetes Health Care Providers in Establishing a Working Alliance to Achieve Self-Management Support.

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    Jones, Allan; Vallis, Michael; Cooke, Debbie; Pouwer, François

    2016-01-01

    The quality of the "patient-carer" relationship is the foundation of self-management support and has been shown to influence treatment outcome in relation to psychological and somatic illness, including diabetes. It has long been accepted within applied psychology that the quality of the client-therapist relationship--termed the working alliance--is of central importance to treatment outcome and may account for a significant degree of the overall treatment effect. Diabetes healthcare providers have recently expressed a need for further training in communication techniques and in the psychological aspects of diabetes. Could we take a page from the psychological treatment manual on working alliance in therapy to guide the diabetes healthcare provider in their role of supporting the person with diabetes achieve and maintain better metabolic control? This paper examines the role of the working alliance in diabetes care and offers a practical guide to the diabetes healthcare provider in establishing a working alliance with the person with diabetes in managing diabetes.

  18. Goals, History and Current Programs of Workshop

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    2001-01-01

    Mr. Robert Fusaro, coordinator for the Glenn Research Center Space Mechanisms program, presented the goals of the workshop, history of previous workshops and gave an overview of current space mechanisms work performed by Glenn Research Center. Highlights of his presentation are shown. Following the presentation, Mr. Fusaro demonstrated the new NASA Space Mechanisms Handbook and Reference Guide CD ROM, which was featured as a highlight of the workshop. The handbook is an authoritative guide for design and testing of space mechanisms and related components. Over 600 pages of guidelines written by 25 experts in the field provide in-depth information on how to design space mechanisms and components, including: deployables, release devices, latches, rotating and pointing mechanisms, dampers, motors, gears, fasteners, valves, etc. The handbook provides details on appropriate environmental and tribological testing methods and practices required to evaluate new mechanisms and components. Distribution of the Handbook and Reference Guide is limited by ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations). It is available only to US companies and citizens. A request form for the CD ROM can be found on the Space Mechanisms Project website at http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/spacemech/.

  19. Reliability and type of consumer health documents on the World Wide Web: an annotation study.

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    Martin, Melanie J

    2011-01-01

    In this paper we present a detailed scheme for annotating medical web pages designed for health care consumers. The annotation is along two axes: first, by reliability (the extent to which the medical information on the page can be trusted), second, by the type of page (patient leaflet, commercial, link, medical article, testimonial, or support). We analyze inter-rater agreement among three judges for each axis. Inter-rater agreement was moderate (0.77 accuracy, 0.62 F-measure, 0.49 Kappa) on the page reliability axis and good (0.81 accuracy, 0.72 F-measure, 0.73 Kappa) along the page type axis. We have shown promising results in this study that appropriate classes of pages can be developed and used by human annotators to annotate web pages with reasonable to good agreement. No.

  20. Format and style for environmental documents prepared as part of the Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Program

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    Not Available

    1980-06-01

    The Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Program will require the preparation of several environmental impact statements and several environmental assessments. This guide begins with a section describing in general terms the efforts required to make these documents readable. The sections describe the formats to be used for the pages, headings, front matter, footnotes, lists, figures, tables, references, glossaries, indexes, and appendixes in these documents. A final section presents some rules of style to be followed in writing the texts.

  1. Format and style for environmental documents prepared as part of the Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Program. [Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project

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    Not Available

    1980-06-01

    The Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Program will require the preparation of several environmental impact statements and several environmental assessments. This guide begins with a section describing in general terms the efforts required to make these documents readable. The sections describe the formats to be used for the pages, headings, front matter, footnotes, lists, figures, tables, references, glossaries, indexes, and appendixes in these documents. A final section presents some rules of style to be followed in writing the texts.

  2. A media maniac's guide to removable mass storage media

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    Kempster, Linda S.

    1996-01-01

    This paper addresses at a high level, the many individual technologies available today in the removable storage arena including removable magnetic tapes, magnetic floppies, optical disks and optical tape. Tape recorders represented below discuss logitudinal, serpantine, logitudinal serpantine,and helical scan technologies. The magnetic floppies discussed will be used for personal electronic in-box applications.Optical disks still fill the role for dense long-term storage. The media capacities quoted are for native data. In some cases, 2 KB ASC2 pages or 50 KB document images will be referenced.

  3. Outreach and Prevention Staff Focus Guide. Building Bridges: Supporting the Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury Needs of Military and Veteran Families

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    2010-01-01

    Documentation Page Form ApprovedOMB No. 0704-0188 Public reporting burden for the collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response...failing to comply with a collection of information if it does not display a currently valid OMB control number. 1 . REPORT DATE 2010 2. REPORT TYPE...DCoE) 6 DCoE Component Centers 8 Military OneSource 11 Military HOMEFRONT 13 Department of Defense Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office

  4. DDN New User Guide, 3rd Edition

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    1993-04-05

    Network Security Officer) 38. 58 MILNET 1, 87, 88 contacts (CMMC, EMMC , PMMC) 71, 72 Packet-switched network 5 , 6 definition of 1. 7-9 Passwords 24, 28...2* `1CUMENTATION PAGE jA4 Nom 0704-41 AD A2 P’fo ~W. Uf ýto JI toot IPU ~ 409 -�.s~ I ~ 2.REPORT OAT[ 3. REPORT TYPE AND DATES COVERED 4- 5 -9 Draft...Systems Interconnection Profile (COSIP), and gateway, concentrators. BES 93 4- ý 0 APBLE COPY .93-07561 14. SUBJECT TERMS NIC, TAG, WIIOIS, DDN, MILNET

  5. Introduction to IND and recursive partitioning, version 1.0

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    Buntine, Wray; Caruana, Rich

    1991-01-01

    This manual describes the IND package for learning tree classifiers from data. The package is an integrated C and C shell re-implementation of tree learning routines such as CART, C4, and various MDL and Bayesian variations. The package includes routines for experiment control, interactive operation, and analysis of tree building. The manual introduces the system and its many options, gives a basic review of tree learning, contains a guide to the literature and a glossary, lists the manual pages for the routines, and instructions on installation.

  6. AptRank: an adaptive PageRank model for protein function prediction on   bi-relational graphs.

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    Jiang, Biaobin; Kloster, Kyle; Gleich, David F; Gribskov, Michael

    2017-06-15

    Diffusion-based network models are widely used for protein function prediction using protein network data and have been shown to outperform neighborhood-based and module-based methods. Recent studies have shown that integrating the hierarchical structure of the Gene Ontology (GO) data dramatically improves prediction accuracy. However, previous methods usually either used the GO hierarchy to refine the prediction results of multiple classifiers, or flattened the hierarchy into a function-function similarity kernel. No study has taken the GO hierarchy into account together with the protein network as a two-layer network model. We first construct a Bi-relational graph (Birg) model comprised of both protein-protein association and function-function hierarchical networks. We then propose two diffusion-based methods, BirgRank and AptRank, both of which use PageRank to diffuse information on this two-layer graph model. BirgRank is a direct application of traditional PageRank with fixed decay parameters. In contrast, AptRank utilizes an adaptive diffusion mechanism to improve the performance of BirgRank. We evaluate the ability of both methods to predict protein function on yeast, fly and human protein datasets, and compare with four previous methods: GeneMANIA, TMC, ProteinRank and clusDCA. We design four different validation strategies: missing function prediction, de novo function prediction, guided function prediction and newly discovered function prediction to comprehensively evaluate predictability of all six methods. We find that both BirgRank and AptRank outperform the previous methods, especially in missing function prediction when using only 10% of the data for training. The MATLAB code is available at https://github.rcac.purdue.edu/mgribsko/aptrank . gribskov@purdue.edu. Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online. © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com

  7. Web-based encyclopedia on physical effects

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    Papliatseyeu, Andrey; Repich, Maryna; Ilyushonak, Boris; Hurbo, Aliaksandr; Makarava, Katerina; Lutkovski, Vladimir M.

    2004-07-01

    Web-based learning applications open new horizons for educators. In this work we present the computer encyclopedia designed to overcome drawbacks of traditional paper information sources such as awkward search, low update rate, limited copies count and high cost. Moreover, we intended to improve access and search functions in comparison with some Internet sources in order to make it more convenient. The system is developed using modern Java technologies (Jave Servlets, Java Server Pages) and contains systemized information about most important and explored physical effects. It also may be used in other fields of science. The system is accessible via Intranet/Internet networks by means of any up-to-date Internet browser. It may be used for general learning purposes and as a study guide or tutorial for performing laboratory works.

  8. "What is Palliative Care?"

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    Kozlov, Elissa; Carpenter, Brian D

    2017-04-01

    Americans rely on the Internet for health information, and people are likely to turn to online resources to learn about palliative care as well. The purpose of this study was to analyze online palliative care information pages to evaluate the breadth of their content. We also compared how frequently basic facts about palliative care appeared on the Web pages to expert rankings of the importance of those facts to understanding palliative care. Twenty-six pages were identified. Two researchers independently coded each page for content. Palliative care professionals (n = 20) rated the importance of content domains for comparison with content frequency in the Web pages. We identified 22 recurring broad concepts about palliative care. Each information page included, on average, 9.2 of these broad concepts (standard deviation [SD] = 3.36, range = 5-15). Similarly, each broad concept was present in an average of 45% of the Web pages (SD = 30.4%, range = 8%-96%). Significant discrepancies emerged between expert ratings of the importance of the broad concepts and the frequency of their appearance in the Web pages ( r τ = .25, P > .05). This study demonstrates that palliative care information pages available online vary considerably in their content coverage. Furthermore, information that palliative care professionals rate as important for consumers to know is not always included in Web pages. We developed guidelines for information pages for the purpose of educating consumers in a consistent way about palliative care.

  9. Cooperative Tertiary Interaction Network Guides RNA Folding

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    Behrouzi, Reza; Roh, Joon Ho; Kilburn, Duncan

    2013-04-08

    Noncoding RNAs form unique 3D structures, which perform many regulatory functions. To understand how RNAs fold uniquely despite a small number of tertiary interaction motifs, we mutated the major tertiary interactions in a group I ribozyme by single-base substitutions. The resulting perturbations to the folding energy landscape were measured using SAXS, ribozyme activity, hydroxyl radical footprinting, and native PAGE. Double- and triple-mutant cycles show that most tertiary interactions have a small effect on the stability of the native state. Instead, the formation of core and peripheral structural motifs is cooperatively linked in near-native folding intermediates, and this cooperativity depends onmore » the native helix orientation. The emergence of a cooperative interaction network at an early stage of folding suppresses nonnative structures and guides the search for the native state. We suggest that cooperativity in noncoding RNAs arose from natural selection of architectures conducive to forming a unique, stable fold.« less

  10. Intention to continue using Facebook fan pages from the perspective of social capital theory.

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    Lin, Kuan-Yu; Lu, Hsi-Peng

    2011-10-01

    Social network sites enable users to express themselves, establish ties, and develop and maintain social relationships. Recently, many companies have begun using social media identity (e.g., Facebook fan pages) to enhance brand attractiveness, and social network sites have evolved into social utility networks, thereby creating a number of promising business opportunities. To this end, the operators of fan pages need to be aware of the factors motivating users to continue their patronization of such pages. This study set out to identify these motivating factors from the point of view of social capital. This study employed structural equation modeling to investigate a research model based on a survey of 327 fan pages users. This study discovered that ties related to social interaction (structural dimension), shared values (cognitive dimension), and trust (relational dimension) play important roles in users' continued intention to use Facebook fan pages. Finally, this study discusses the implications of these findings and offers directions for future research.

  11. Reader Response to Front Pages with Modular Format and Color [and] Newspaper Errors: Source Perception, Reporter Response and Some Causes. American Newspaper Publishers Association (ANPA) News Research Report No. 35.

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    Click, J. W.; And Others

    Two studies were conducted, the first to determine reader response to newspaper front pages with modular format and color, and the second to examine source perception and reporter response to errors in news stories. Results of the first study revealed that respondents in three cities preferred modular front pages to other modern format pages and…

  12. Teaching E-Commerce Web Page Evaluation and Design: A Pilot Study Using Tourism Destination Sites

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    Susser, Bernard; Ariga, Taeko

    2006-01-01

    This study explores a teaching method for improving business students' skills in e-commerce page evaluation and making Web design majors aware of business content issues through cooperative learning. Two groups of female students at a Japanese university studying either tourism or Web page design were assigned tasks that required cooperation to…

  13. Accessibility assessment of assistive technology for the hearing impaired.

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    Áfio, Aline Cruz Esmeraldo; Carvalho, Aline Tomaz de; Caravalho, Luciana Vieira de; Silva, Andréa Soares Rocha da; Pagliuca, Lorita Marlena Freitag

    2016-01-01

    to assess the automatic accessibility of assistive technology in online courses for the hearing impaired. evaluation study guided by the Assessment and Maintenance step proposed in the Model of Development of Digital Educational Material. The software Assessor and Simulator for the Accessibility of Sites (ASES) was used to analyze the online course "Education on Sexual and Reproductive Health: the use of condoms" according to the accessibility standards of national and international websites. an error report generated by the program identified, in each didactic module, one error and two warnings related to two international principles and six warnings involved with six national recommendations. The warnings relevant to hearing-impaired people were corrected, and the course was considered accessible by automatic assessment. we concluded that the pages of the course were considered, by the software used, appropriate to the standards of web accessibility.

  14. World Wide Web home page for the South Platte NAWQA

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    Qi, Sharon L.; Dennehy, Kevin F.

    1997-01-01

    A World Wide Web home page for the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program, South Platte River Basin study is now online. The home page includes information about the basinwide investigation and provides viewing and downloading access to physical, chemical, and biological data collected by the study team.

  15. Paleozoic and mesozoic GIS data from the Geologic Atlas of the Rocky Mountain Region: Volume 1

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    Graeber, Aimee; Gunther, Gregory

    2017-01-01

    The Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists (RMAG) is, once again, publishing portions of the 1972 Geologic Atlas of the Rocky Mountain Region (Mallory, ed., 1972) as a geospatial map and data package. Georeferenced tiff (Geo TIFF) images of map figures from this atlas has served as the basis for these data products. Shapefiles and file geodatabase features have been generated and cartographically represented for select pages from the following chapters:• Phanerozoic Rocks (page 56)• Cambrian System (page 63)• Ordovician System (pages 78 and 79)• Silurian System (pages 87 - 89)• Devonian System (pages 93, 94, and 96 - 98)• Mississippian System (pages 102 and 103)• Pennsylvanian System (pages 114 and 115)• Permian System (pages 146 and 149 - 154)• Triassic System (pages 168 and 169)• Jurassic System (pages 179 and 180)• Cretaceous System (pages 197 - 201, 207 - 210, 215, - 218, 221, 222, 224, 225, and 227).The primary purpose of this publication is to provide regional-scale, as well as local-scale, geospatial data of the Rocky Mountain Region for use in geoscience studies. An important aspect of this interactive map product is that it does not require extensive GIS experience or highly specialized software.

  16. A Review of AA Psych Corps Involvement in the Allocation of Soldiers to corps and Employment. Executive Summary

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    1990-11-01

    Compiled I Lecture Additional Iation/ _____ Testing L J week 2 week 3- 4 week 5 wee 6 week 8 -9 week 10 wee: Allocation Guide: Shows suitability -:r - n cl...the Document box only (Document) la. A R Number lb. Establishment Number 2. Document Date AR-006-388 PSRU RR 4 /90 NOVEMBER 1990 UNCLASSIFIED 3. Title 4 ...of 7 Number of EMI4IIJYM [itl Pages References Title 17 15 8 . Author(s) 9. Downgrading or Delimiting Instructions LTCOL R.C. FURRY I Oa. Corporate

  17. Improved Ball-and-Socket Docking Mechanism

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    Cloyd, Richard; Bryan, Tom

    2004-01-01

    A proposed docking mechanism would form a ball-and-socket joint in the docked condition. The mechanism could tolerate significant initial misalignment because it would include an alignment cone that would guide the ball into the socket. Like other ball-and-socket joints, the joint would have three rotational degrees of freedom. This docking mechanism would be a successor to the one described in Passive Capture Joint With Three Degrees of Freedom (MFS-31146), NASA Tech Briefs, Vol. 22, No. 7 (July 1998), page 65. It would contain most of the components of the prior mechanism, plus some additional components that would expand its capabilities.

  18. American Journal of Physics Resource Letters - The Future of Nuclear Power

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    Parks, Cecil V; Flanagan, George F; Kulynych, George E

    2010-01-01

    This Resource Letter is intended to summarize the status of nuclear power in the world today, prospects of significant expansion of nuclear power over the next several decades, the planning of and forecasts for the addition of new power reactors, and issues surrounding the addition of these new reactors. Owing to the breadth of this subject, the list of references includes journal articles, web pages, and reports to guide the reader on the subject. The subject of nuclear power and its related issues are dynamic, so the most current information is likely to be found on reputable websites.

  19. Modular Air Defense Effectiveness Model, Program Documentation and User’s Guide. Volume II. MADEM Programmer Manual.

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1980-01-31

    Nuclear Agency 13 NUMFIER OF PAGES Washington, D.C. 20305 534 14 MONITORING AGENCY NAME 8 ADDRESS(,! itI(reI t &,n, ( f n ... o.I.n. Offi,e) 15...Initialization 13 3. Storage Management 13 4. Event Control 14 E. Diagnostics 17 1. Debug Routines 17 2. Data Structure Display Routines 19 F . Software...Structures 71 1. Player Lists 72 2. C2 Trees 78 3. Passive Target List 86 F . RED Structures 89 1. Red Theater Commander 90 2. Potential Target List 98 3

  20. Hazardous Materials Management System. A Guide for Local Emergency Managers.

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1981-07-01

    UDE OIL OCA EM~GENY ~A~iGRS𔄀. PERFORMING ORG. REPORT NUMBER F O . . . S . C O N T R A T l C R .Y N U BE R ) (i MYRAJ/LEE a&PENELOPE G./ROE *OCP41-79...out of, through, and within the area. Estimate the frequencies of shipments and the types and quanti ti es of ma teri al s i nvol ved. F (NOTE: Rer...reactions 4. Double- replacement reactions S . Oxidation- reduction reactions - Page 44 - B. Rate of Chemical Reactions I. Nature of material 2. Subdivision of

  1. Wind energy applications guide

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    anon.

    2001-01-01

    The brochure is an introduction to various wind power applications for locations with underdeveloped transmission systems, from remote water pumping to village electrification. It includes an introductory section on wind energy, including wind power basics and system components and then provides examples of applications, including water pumping, stand-alone systems for home and business, systems for community centers, schools, and health clinics, and examples in the industrial area. There is also a page of contacts, plus two specific example applications for a wind-diesel system for a remote station in Antarctica and one on wind-diesel village electrification in Russia.

  2. A Survey of Ionospheric Models A Preliminary Report on the Development of an Ionospheric Model Thesaurus and Users Guide.

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1982-07-13

    AD-AL17 659 NAVAL RESI ARCH LAB WASHIINTON DC F/ 4/1SURVEY OF IONOSPHIC MODELS A PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE OEVE--ETCCWI IUL. 62 .J N GOODMAN. E 0...TASK Naval Research LaboratoryARA&WKUNTN916 Washington, DC 20375 41-0149-0-2 It- CONYROLLING OFFICE NAME AND ADDRESS 12. REPORT OATS Department of...the Navy July 13, 1982 Office of Naval Research 13. NUMBER Of PAGES Washington, DC 20360 44 14. MONITORING AGENCY N4AME A ADDRESS(iI different freest

  3. Guiding Users to Sea Level Change Data Through Content

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    Quach, N.; Abercrombie, S. P.; Boening, C.; Brennan, H. P.; Gill, K. M.; Greguska, F. R., III; Huang, T.; Jackson, R.; Larour, E. Y.; Shaftel, H.; Tenenbaum, L. F.; Zlotnicki, V.; Boeck, A.; Moore, B.; Moore, J.

    2017-12-01

    The NASA Sea Level Change Portal (https://sealevel.nasa.gov) is an immersive and innovative web portal for sea level change research that addresses the needs of diverse audiences, from scientists across disparate disciplines to the general public to policy makers and businesses. Since sea level change research involves vast amounts of data from multiple fields, it becomes increasingly important to come up with novel and effective ways to guide users to the data they need. News articles published on the portal contains links to relevant data. The Missions section highlights missions and projects as well as provide a logical grouping of the data. Tools available on the portal, such as the Data Analysis Tool, a data visualization and high-performance environment for sea level analysis, and the Virtual Earth System Laboratory, a 3D simulation application, describes and links to the source data. With over 30K Facebook followers and over 23K Twitter follower, the portal outreach team also leverages social media to guide users to relevant data. This presentation focuses on how the portal uses news articles, mission and project pages, tools, and social media to connect users to the data.

  4. Forum Page Letters in the "Straits Times" of Singapore during Relatively Free and Restricted Press Periods.

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    Ramaprasad, Jyotika; Ong, James

    In order to identify the scope or limits of the practice of development journalism, a study examined the content of the Forum page in the "Straits Times" of Singapore during relatively free (1979-1980) and restricted (1986-1987) press periods. The study had two major objectives: (1) to study the nature of the Forum page (a readers'…

  5. Sign language Web pages.

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    Fels, Deborah I; Richards, Jan; Hardman, Jim; Lee, Daniel G

    2006-01-01

    The WORLD WIDE WEB has changed the way people interact. It has also become an important equalizer of information access for many social sectors. However, for many people, including some sign language users, Web accessing can be difficult. For some, it not only presents another barrier to overcome but has left them without cultural equality. The present article describes a system that allows sign language-only Web pages to be created and linked through a video-based technique called sign-linking. In two studies, 14 Deaf participants examined two iterations of signlinked Web pages to gauge the usability and learnability of a signing Web page interface. The first study indicated that signing Web pages were usable by sign language users but that some interface features required improvement. The second study showed increased usability for those features; users consequently couldnavigate sign language information with ease and pleasure.

  6. THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2017/18: Overview.

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    Alexander, Stephen Ph; Kelly, Eamonn; Marrion, Neil V; Peters, John A; Faccenda, Elena; Harding, Simon D; Pawson, Adam J; Sharman, Joanna L; Southan, Christopher; Buneman, O Peter; Cidlowski, John A; Christopoulos, Arthur; Davenport, Anthony P; Fabbro, Doriano; Spedding, Michael; Striessnig, Jörg; Davies, Jamie A

    2017-12-01

    The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2017/18 is the third in this series of biennial publications. This version provides concise overviews of the key properties of nearly 1800 human drug targets with an emphasis on selective pharmacology (where available), plus links to an open access knowledgebase of drug targets and their ligands (www.guidetopharmacology.org), which provides more detailed views of target and ligand properties. Although the Concise Guide represents approximately 400 pages, the material presented is substantially reduced compared to information and links presented on the website. It provides a permanent, citable, point-in-time record that will survive database updates. The full contents of this section can be found at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bph.13882/full. In addition to this overview, in which are identified 'Other protein targets' which fall outside of the subsequent categorisation, there are eight areas of focus: G protein-coupled receptors, ligand-gated ion channels, voltage-gated ion channels, other ion channels, nuclear hormone receptors, catalytic receptors, enzymes and transporters. These are presented with nomenclature guidance and summary information on the best available pharmacological tools, alongside key references and suggestions for further reading. The landscape format of the Concise Guide is designed to facilitate comparison of related targets from material contemporary to mid-2017, and supersedes data presented in the 2015/16 and 2013/14 Concise Guides and previous Guides to Receptors and Channels. It is produced in close conjunction with the Nomenclature Committee of the Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (NC-IUPHAR), therefore, providing official IUPHAR classification and nomenclature for human drug targets, where appropriate. © 2017 The Authors. British Journal of Pharmacology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Pharmacological Society.

  7. Cannabis and Kratom online information in Thailand: Facebook trends 2015-2016.

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    Thaikla, Kanittha; Pinyopornpanish, Kanokporn; Jiraporncharoen, Wichuda; Angkurawaranon, Chaisiri

    2018-05-09

    Our study aims to evaluate the trends in online information about cannabis and kratom on Facebook in Thailand, where there is current discussion regarding legalizing these drugs. Between April and November 2015, reviewers searched for cannabis and kratom Facebook pages in the Thai language via the common search engines. Content analysis was performed and the contents of each page were categorized by the tone of the post (positive, negative or neutral). Then, a one-year follow-up search was conducted to compare the contents. Twelve Facebook pages each were initially identified for cannabis and for kratom. Follower numbers were higher for cannabis pages. Kratom pages were less active but were open for a longer time. Posts with positive tones and neutral tones were found for both drugs, but none had negative tones. Other drugs were mentioned on the cannabis pages, but they were different from those mentioned on the kratom pages. Issues regarding drug legalization were found on the cannabis pages but not on the kratom pages during the searching period. One year later, the tone of the posts was in the same direction, but the page activity had increased. The information currently available on the sampled Facebook pages was positive towards the use of cannabis and kratom. No information about harm from these drugs was found through our search.

  8. Exploring the use of a Facebook page in anatomy education.

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    Jaffar, Akram Abood

    2014-01-01

    Facebook is the most popular social media site visited by university students on a daily basis. Consequently, Facebook is the logical place to start with for integrating social media technologies into education. This study explores how a faculty-administered Facebook Page can be used to supplement anatomy education beyond the traditional classroom. Observations were made on students' perceptions and effectiveness of using the Page, potential benefits and challenges of such use, and which Insights metrics best reflect user's engagement. The Human Anatomy Education Page was launched on Facebook and incorporated into anatomy resources for 157 medical students during two academic years. Students' use of Facebook and their perceptions of the Page were surveyed. Facebook's "Insights" tool was also used to evaluate Page performance during a period of 600 days. The majority of in-class students had a Facebook account which they adopted in education. Most students perceived Human Anatomy Education Page as effective in contributing to learning and favored "self-assessment" posts. The majority of students agreed that Facebook could be a suitable learning environment. The "Insights" tool revealed globally distributed fans with considerable Page interactions. The use of a faculty-administered Facebook Page provided a venue to enhance classroom teaching without intruding into students' social life. A wider educational use of Facebook should be adopted not only because students are embracing its use, but for its inherent potentials in boosting learning. The "Insights" metrics analyzed in this study might be helpful when establishing and evaluating the performance of education-oriented Facebook Pages. © 2013 American Association of Anatomists.

  9. Information about epilepsy on the internet: An exploratory study of Arabic websites.

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    Alkhateeb, Jamal M; Alhadidi, Muna S

    2018-01-01

    The aim of this study was to explore information about epilepsy found on Arabic websites. The researchers collected information from the internet between November 2016 and January 2017. Information was obtained using Google and Yahoo search engines. Keywords used were the Arabic equivalent of the following two keywords: epilepsy (Al-saraa) and convulsion (Tashanoj). A total of 144 web pages addressing epilepsy in Arabic were reviewed. The majority of web pages were websites of medical institutions and general health websites, followed by informational and educational websites, others, blogs and websites of individuals, and news and media sites. Topics most commonly addressed were medical treatments for epilepsy (50% of all pages) followed by epilepsy definition (41%) and epilepsy etiology (34.7%). The results also revealed that the vast majority of web pages did not mention the source of information. Many web pages also did not provide author information. Only a small proportion of the web pages provided adequate information. Relatively few web pages provided inaccurate information or made sweeping generalizations. As a result, it is concluded that the findings of the present study suggest that development of more credible Arabic websites on epilepsy is needed. These websites need to go beyond basic information, offering more evidence-based and updated information about epilepsy. Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  10. Wind-US Users Guide Version 3.0

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    Yoder, Dennis A.

    2016-01-01

    Wind-US is a computational platform which may be used to numerically solve various sets of equations governing physical phenomena. Currently, the code supports the solution of the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations of fluid mechanics, along with supporting equation sets governing turbulent and chemically reacting flows. Wind-US is a product of the NPARC Alliance, a partnership between the NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC) and the Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) dedicated to the establishment of a national, applications-oriented flow simulation capability. The Boeing Company has also been closely associated with the Alliance since its inception, and represents the interests of the NPARC User's Association. The "Wind-US User's Guide" describes the operation and use of Wind-US, including: a basic tutorial; the physical and numerical models that are used; the boundary conditions; monitoring convergence; the files that are read and/or written; parallel execution; and a complete list of input keywords and test options. For current information about Wind-US and the NPARC Alliance, please see the Wind-US home page at http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/winddocs/ and the NPARC Alliance home page at http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/wind/. This manual describes the operation and use of Wind-US, a computational platform which may be used to numerically solve various sets of equations governing physical phenomena. Wind-US represents a merger of the capabilities of four CFD codes - NASTD (a structured grid flow solver developed at McDonnell Douglas, now part of Boeing), NPARC (the original NPARC Alliance structured grid flow solver), NXAIR (an AEDC structured grid code used primarily for store separation analysis), and ICAT (an unstructured grid flow solver developed at the Rockwell Science Center and Boeing).

  11. Library links on medical school home pages.

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    Thomas, Sheila L

    2011-01-01

    The purpose of this study was to assess the websites of American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC)-member medical schools for the presence of library links. Sixty-one percent (n = 92) of home pages of the 150 member schools of the AAMC contain library links. For the 58 home pages not offering such links, 50 provided a pathway of two or three clicks to a library link. The absence of library links on 39% of AAMC medical school home pages indicates that the designers of those pages did not consider the library to be a primary destination for their visitors.

  12. [Analysis of the web pages of the intensive care units of Spain].

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    Navarro-Arnedo, J M

    2009-01-01

    In order to determine the Intensive Care Units (ICU) of Spanish hospitals that had a web site, to analyze the information they offered and to know what information they needed to offer according to a sample of ICU nurses, a cross-sectional observational, descriptive study was carried out between January and September 2008. For each ICU website, an analysis was made on the information available on the unit, its care, teaching and research activity on nursing. Simultaneously, based on a sample of intensive care nurses, the information that should be contained on an ICU website was determined. The results, expressed in absolute numbers and percentage, showed that 66 of the 292 hospitals with ICU (22.6%) had a web site; 50.7% of the sites showed the number of beds, 19.7% the activity report, 11.3% the published articles/studies and followed research lines and 9.9% the organized formation courses. 14 webs (19.7%) displayed images of nurses. However, only 1 (1.4%) offered guides on the actions followed. No web site offered a navigation section for nursing, the E-mail of the chief nursing, the nursing documentation used or if any nursing model of their own was used. It is concluded that only one-fourth of the Spanish hospitals with ICU have a web site; number of beds was the data offered by the most sites, whereas information on care, educational and investigating activities was very reduced and that on nursing was practically omitted on the web pages of intensive care units.

  13. [Health information on the Internet and trust marks as quality indicators: vaccines case study].

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    Mayer, Miguel Angel; Leis, Angela; Sanz, Ferran

    2009-10-01

    To find out the prevalence of quality trust marks present in websites and to analyse the quality of these websites displaying trust marks compared with those that do not display them, in order to put forward these trust marks as a quality indicator. Cross-sectional study. Internet. Websites on vaccines. Using "vacunas OR vaccines" as key words, the features of 40 web pages were analysed. These web pages were selected from the page results of two search engines, Google and Yahoo! Based on a total of 9 criteria, the average score of criteria fulfilled was 7 (95% CI 3.96-10.04) points for the web pages offered by Yahoo! and 7.3 (95% CI 3.86-10.74) offered by Google. Amongst web pages offered by Yahoo!, there were three with clearly inaccurate information, while there were four in the pages offered by Google. Trust marks were displayed in 20% and 30% medical web pages, respectively, and their presence reached statistical significance (P=0.033) when fulfilling the quality criteria compared with web pages where trust marks were not displayed. A wide variety of web pages was obtained by search engines and a large number of them with useless information. Although the websites analysed had a good quality, between 15% and 20% showed inaccurate information. Websites where trust marks were displayed had more quality than those that did not display one and none of them were included amongst those where inaccurate information was found.

  14. Search Engine Ranking, Quality, and Content of Web Pages That Are Critical Versus Noncritical of Human Papillomavirus Vaccine.

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    Fu, Linda Y; Zook, Kathleen; Spoehr-Labutta, Zachary; Hu, Pamela; Joseph, Jill G

    2016-01-01

    Online information can influence attitudes toward vaccination. The aim of the present study was to provide a systematic evaluation of the search engine ranking, quality, and content of Web pages that are critical versus noncritical of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination. We identified HPV vaccine-related Web pages with the Google search engine by entering 20 terms. We then assessed each Web page for critical versus noncritical bias and for the following quality indicators: authorship disclosure, source disclosure, attribution of at least one reference, currency, exclusion of testimonial accounts, and readability level less than ninth grade. We also determined Web page comprehensiveness in terms of mention of 14 HPV vaccine-relevant topics. Twenty searches yielded 116 unique Web pages. HPV vaccine-critical Web pages comprised roughly a third of the top, top 5- and top 10-ranking Web pages. The prevalence of HPV vaccine-critical Web pages was higher for queries that included term modifiers in addition to root terms. Compared with noncritical Web pages, Web pages critical of HPV vaccine overall had a lower quality score than those with a noncritical bias (p < .01) and covered fewer important HPV-related topics (p < .001). Critical Web pages required viewers to have higher reading skills, were less likely to include an author byline, and were more likely to include testimonial accounts. They also were more likely to raise unsubstantiated concerns about vaccination. Web pages critical of HPV vaccine may be frequently returned and highly ranked by search engine queries despite being of lower quality and less comprehensive than noncritical Web pages. Copyright © 2016 Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  15. Navigating Space by the Stars

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    2018-06-19

    A tool that has helped guide sailors across oceans for centuries is now being tested aboard the International Space Station as a potential emergency navigation tool for guiding future spacecraft across the cosmos. The Sextant Navigation investigation tests use of a hand-held sextant aboard the space station. Sextants have a telescope-like optical sight to take precise angle measurements between pairs of stars from land or sea, enabling navigation without computer assistance. NASA’s Gemini missions conducted the first sextant sightings from a spacecraft, and designers built a sextant into Apollo vehicles as a navigation backup in the event the crew lost communications from their spacecraft. Jim Lovell demonstrated on Apollo 8 that sextant navigation could return a space vehicle home. Astronauts conducted additional sextant experiments on Skylab. Read more about the Sextant experiment happening aboard the space station: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/Sextant_ISS HD Download: https://archive.org/details/jsc2018m000418_Navigating_Space_by_the_Stars

  16. Navigating Space by the Stars - 16x9

    NASA Image and Video Library

    2018-06-18

    A tool that has helped guide sailors across oceans for centuries is now being tested aboard the International Space Station as a potential emergency navigation tool for guiding future spacecraft across the cosmos. The Sextant Navigation investigation tests use of a hand-held sextant aboard the space station. Sextants have a telescope-like optical sight to take precise angle measurements between pairs of stars from land or sea, enabling navigation without computer assistance. NASA’s Gemini missions conducted the first sextant sightings from a spacecraft, and designers built a sextant into Apollo vehicles as a navigation backup in the event the crew lost communications from their spacecraft. Jim Lovell demonstrated on Apollo 8 that sextant navigation could return a space vehicle home. Astronauts conducted additional sextant experiments on Skylab. Read more about the Sextant experiment happening aboard the space station: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/Sextant_ISS HD Download: https://archive.org/details/jsc2018m000418_Navigating_Space_by_the_Stars

  17. Reporting on post-menopausal hormone therapy: an analysis of gynaecologists' web pages.

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    Bucksch, Jens; Kolip, Petra; Deitermann, Bernhilde

    2004-01-01

    The present study was designed to analyse Web pages of German gynaecologists with regard to postmenopausal hormone therapy (HT). There is a growing body of evidence, that the overall health risks of HT exceed the benefits. Making one's own informed choice has become a central concern for menopausal women. The Internet is an important source of health information, but the quality is often dubious. The study focused on the analysis of basic criteria such as last modification date and quality of the HT information content. The results of the Women's Health Initiative Study (WHI) were used as a benchmark. We searched for relevant Web pages by entering a combination of key words (9 x 13 = 117) into the search engine www.google.de. Each Web page was analysed using a standardized questionnaire. The basic criteria and the quality of content on each Web page were separately categorized by two evaluators. Disagreements were resolved by discussion. Of the 97 websites identified, basic criteria were not met by the majority. For example, the modification date was displayed by only 23 (23.7%) Web pages. The quality of content of most Web pages regarding HT was inaccurate and incomplete. Whilst only nine (9.3%) took up a balanced position, 66 (68%) recommended HT without any restrictions. In 22 cases the recommendation was indistinct and none of the sites refused HT. With regard to basic criteria, there was no difference between HT-recommending Web pages and sites with balanced position. Evidence-based information resulting from the WHI trial was insufficiently represented on gynaecologists' Web pages. Because of the growing number of consumers looking online for health information, the danger of obtaining harmful information has to be minimized. Web pages of gynaecologists do not appear to be recommendable for women because they do not provide recent evidence-based findings about HT.

  18. Development and usage of eXtension's HorseQuest: an online resource.

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    Greene, E A; Griffin, A S; Whittle, J; Williams, C A; Howard, A B; Anderson, K P

    2010-08-01

    eXtension (pronounced e-extension) is an online resource transforming how faculty can collaborate and deliver equine education. As the first Community of Practice launched from eXtension, HorseQuest (HQ) offers free, interactive, peer-reviewed, online resources on a variety of equine-related topics at http://www.extension.org. This group has adapted traditional educational content to the online environment to maximize search engine optimization, to be more discoverable and relevant in the online world. This means that HQ resources are consistently being found on the first page of search results. Also, by researching key words searched by Internet users, HQ has guided new content direction and determined potential webcast topics based on relevance and frequency of those searches. In addition to establishing good search engine optimization, HQ has been utilizing the viral networking aspect of YouTube by uploading clips of existing equine educational videos to YouTube. HorseQuest content appears in mainstream media, is passed on by the user, and helps HQ effectively reach their community of interest (horse enthusiasts). HorseQuest partners with My Horse University to produce webcasts that combine concise knowledge exchange via a scripted presentation with viewer chat and incoming questions. HorseQuest has produced and published content including 12 learning modules, 8 webchats, 21 webcasts, and 572 videos segments. After the official public launch, there was a steady increase in average number of visits/mo and average page views/mo over the 26-mo period. These regressions show a statistically significant increase in visits (P < 0.001) of approximately 450 visits per month and a significant increase in page views (P = 0.004) of about 373 page views per month. HorseQuest is a resource for several state 4-H advancement and competition programs and will continue to be incorporated into traditional extension programs, while reaching and affecting global audiences.

  19. TAILSIM Users Guide

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Hiltner, Dale W.

    2000-01-01

    The TAILSIM program uses a 4th order Runge-Kutta method to integrate the standard aircraft equations-of-motion (EOM). The EOM determine three translational and three rotational accelerations about the aircraft's body axis reference system. The forces and moments that drive the EOM are determined from aerodynamic coefficients, dynamic derivatives, and control inputs. Values for these terms are determined from linear interpolation of tables that are a function of parameters such as angle-of-attack and surface deflections. Buildup equations combine these terms and dimensionalize them to generate the driving total forces and moments. Features that make TAILSIM applicable to studies of tailplane stall include modeling of the reversible control System, modeling of the pilot performing a load factor and/or airspeed command task, and modeling of vertical gusts. The reversible control system dynamics can be described as two hinged masses connected by a spring. resulting in a fifth order system. The pilot model is a standard form of lead-lag with a time delay applied to an integrated pitch rate and/or airspeed error feedback. The time delay is implemented by a Pade approximation, while the commanded pitch rate is determined by a commanded load factor. Vertical gust inputs include a single 1-cosine gust and a continuous NASA Dryden gust model. These dynamic models. coupled with the use of a nonlinear database, allow the tailplane stall characteristics, elevator response, and resulting aircraft response, to be modeled. A useful output capability of the TAILSIM program is the ability to display multiple post-run plot pages to allow a quick assessment of the time history response. There are 16 plot pages currently available to the user. Each plot page displays 9 parameters. Each parameter can also be displayed individually. on a one plot-per-page format. For a more refined display of the results the program can also create files of tabulated data. which can then be used by other plotting programs. The TAILSIM program was written straightforwardly assuming the user would want to change the database tables, the buildup equations, the output parameters. and the pilot model parameters. A separate database file and input file are automatically read in by the program. The use of an include file to set up all common blocks facilitates easy changing of parameter names and array sizes.

  20. Basics. [A Compilation of Learning Activities Pages from Seven Issues of Instructor Magazine, September 1982 through March 1983 and May 1983.

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    Instructor, 1983

    1983-01-01

    This collection of 18 learning activities pages focuses on the subject areas of science, language arts, mathematics, and social studies. The science activities pages concern the study of earthquakes, sound, environmental changes, snails and slugs, and friction. Many of the activities are in the form of experiments for the students to perform.…

  1. Collaborative filtering to improve navigation of large radiology knowledge resources.

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    Kahn, Charles E

    2005-06-01

    Collaborative filtering is a knowledge-discovery technique that can help guide readers to items of potential interest based on the experience of prior users. This study sought to determine the impact of collaborative filtering on navigation of a large, Web-based radiology knowledge resource. Collaborative filtering was applied to a collection of 1,168 radiology hypertext documents available via the Internet. An item-based collaborative filtering algorithm identified each document's six most closely related documents based on 248,304 page views in an 18-day period. Documents were amended to include links to their related documents, and use was analyzed over the next 5 days. The mean number of documents viewed per visit increased from 1.57 to 1.74 (P < 0.0001). Collaborative filtering can increase a radiology information resource's utilization and can improve its usefulness and ease of navigation. The technique holds promise for improving navigation of large Internet-based radiology knowledge resources.

  2. Direct cellular vs. indirect pager communication during orthopaedic surgical procedures: a prospective study.

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    Ortega, Gil R; Taksali, Sudeep; Smart, Ryan; Baumgaertner, Michael R

    2009-01-01

    Cellular phone use within the hospital setting has increased as physicians, nurses, and ancillary staff incorporate wireless technologies in improving efficiencies, cost, and maintaining patient safety and high quality healthcare [11]. Through the use of wireless, cellular communication, an overall improvement in communication accuracy and efficiency between intraoperative orthopaedic surgeons and floor nurses may be achieved. Both communication types occurred while the surgeon was scrubbed in the operating room (OR). Indirect communication occurred when the pager call was answered by the OR circulating nurse with communication between the surgeon, circulating nurse, and floor nurse. Direct communication consisted of cell phone and Jabra Bluetooth BT200 wireless ear piece used by the surgeon. The surgeon answered the floor nurse's cellular call by phone ring-activated automatic answering. The study was conducted during scheduled orthopaedic procedures. An independent observer measured time variables with a stop-watch while orthopaedic nurses randomly called via pager or cell phone. The nurses asked for patient caregiver confirmation and answers to 30 different patient-care questions. Sixty trials were performed with 30 cell and 30 page communications. Direct cellular communication showed a better response rate than indirect page (Cell 100%, Page 73%). Indirect page communication allowed a 27% and 33% error rate with patient problem and surgeon solution communications, respectively. There were no reported communication errors while using direct wireless, cellular communication. When compared to page communications, cellular communications showed statistically significant improvements in mean time intervals in response time (Cell = 11s, Page = 211s), correct patient identification (Cell = 5s, Page = 172s), patient problem and solution time (Cell = 13s, Page = 189s), and total communication time (Cell = 32s, Page = 250s) (s = seconds, all P < 0.001). Floor nurse satisfaction ratings (dependent on communication times and/or difficulties) were improved with direct cellular communication (Cell = 29 excellent, Page = 11 excellent). Intraoperative case interruptions (defined as delaying surgical progress) were more frequent with indirect page communication (10 page v. 0 cell). Our study demonstrates that direct wireless communication may be used to improve intraoperative communication and enhance patient safety. Direct wireless, cellular intraoperative communication improves communication times, communication accuracy, communication satisfaction, and minimizes intraoperative case interruption. As a result of this study, we hope to maintain our transition to direct wireless, cellular intraoperative orthopaedic communication to reduce medical errors, improve patient care, and enhance both orthopaedic surgeon and nursing efficiencies.

  3. Comparative Analysis of Opioid Queries on Erowid.org: An Opportunity to Advance Harm Reduction.

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    Wightman, Rachel S; Perrone, Jeanmarie; Erowid, Fire; Erowid, Earth; Meisel, Zachary F; Nelson, Lewis S

    2017-08-24

    Many individuals who use opioids turn to online resources to gather information on effects, availability, and safety. Describe opioid index page views on Erowid.org to assess trends in public interest in particular opioids. Retrospective analysis of Erowid.org site traffic was performed to identify unique average daily visits to opioid pages. All data was normalized to that of visits to the heroin index page. Average daily visits to the index pages of each of 6 commonly abused opioids were assessed during the period of 2009 to 2015. Similarly, visits to 15 distinct opioid index pages at 5 time points (July, October 2014 and Jan, April, and July 2015) were described. From 2009 to 2015 a decrease in the number of page visits versus heroin (1.00) occurred for hydrocodone (0.87 to 0.59, -32%), oxycodone (1.38 to 0.99, -28%), and morphine (0.26 to 0.25, -6%). Increases in page visits compared to heroin occurred for fentanyl (0.18 to 0.47, +157%), tramadol (0.43 to 0.88, +106%), hydromorphone (0.19 to 0.24, +29%), and oxymorphone (0.11 to 0.13, +18%). Indexed to heroin (1.00) average opioid page visit frequencies from July 2014 to July 2015 were highest for oxycodone (1.02) and tramadol (0.81). Conclusion/Importance: Oxycodone and tramadol represent the greatest number of Erowid.org opioid page visits compared to heroin. The largest increase in visits over the study periods was for fentanyl and tramadol. The relationship of page visits on Erowid.org creates a unique opportunity for real-time evaluation of emerging drug trends and epidemiological study.

  4. Impact of a Physician-Led Social Media Sharing Program on a Medical Journal's Web Traffic.

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    Trueger, N Seth; Bokarius, Andrew V; Carroll, Stephen; April, Michael D; Thoma, Brent

    2018-01-01

    The use of social media by health professionals and medical journals is increasing. The aim of this study was to compare online views of articles in press (AIPs) released by Annals of Emergency Medicine before and after a nine-person social media team started actively posting links to AIPs using their personal Twitter accounts. An observational before-and-after study was conducted. Web traffic data for Annals were obtained from the publisher (Elsevier), detailing the number of page views to annemergmed.com by referring websites during the study period. The preintervention time period was defined as January 1, 2013, to June 30, 2014, and the postintervention period as July 1, 2014, to July 31, 2015. The primary outcome was page views from Twitter per AIP released each month to account for the number of articles published each month. Secondary outcomes included page views from Facebook (on which there was no article-sharing intervention) and total article views per month. The median page views from Twitter per individual AIP released each month increased from 33 in the preintervention period to 130, for an effect size of 97 (95% confidence interval, 56-111; P < .001). There was a smaller increase in median page views from Facebook per individual AIP of 21 (95% confidence interval, 10-32). There was no significant increase in these median values for total page views per AIP. Twitter sharing of AIPs increased the number of page views that came from Twitter but did not increase the overall number of page views. Copyright © 2017 American College of Radiology. All rights reserved.

  5. Automated Title Page Cataloging: A Feasibility Study.

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    Weibel, Stuart; And Others

    1989-01-01

    Describes the design of a prototype rule-based system for the automation of descriptive cataloging from title pages. The discussion covers the results of tests of the prototype, major impediments to automatic cataloging from title pages, and prospects for further progress. The rules implemented in the prototype are appended. (16 references)…

  6. An Analysis of Academic Library Web Pages for Faculty

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    Gardner, Susan J.; Juricek, John Eric; Xu, F. Grace

    2008-01-01

    Web sites are increasingly used by academic libraries to promote key services and collections to teaching faculty. This study analyzes the content, location, language, and technological features of fifty-four academic library Web pages designed especially for faculty to expose patterns in the development of these pages.

  7. The Library as Information Provider: The Home Page.

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    Clyde, Laurel A.

    1996-01-01

    Discusses ways in which libraries are using the World Wide Web to provide information via a home page, based on information from a survey in Iceland as well as a larger study that conducted content analyses of home pages of public and school libraries in 13 countries. (Author/LRW)

  8. National Dam Safety Program. Bowling Green Dam, (MO 10262) Mississippi - Kaskaskia - St. Louis Basin, Pike County, Missouri. Phase I Inspection Report.

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    1978-12-01

    4 L-7 hiI<±b fd .rvc~ a .3",d,! i:; ba ’-ii~ y :nztructl~n :).L a -- flattctod r~-%3 i Pazo u-3 and r.). 1yzj. f r 3n- the road-rmy, S11eet 13...Program " Final Report Bowling Green Reservoir Dam (MO 10262) 6. PERFORMING-ORG. REPORT NUMBER Pike County, Missouri 7. AUTHOR( a ) S. CONTRACT OR GRANT...if possible. If a classification is required, identify the classified items on the page by the appropriate symbol. CC; -ETION GUIDE General. Make

  9. User Instructions for the Policy Analysis Modeling System (PAMS)

    DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

    McNeil, Michael A.; Letschert, Virginie E.; Van Buskirk, Robert D.

    PAMS uses country-specific and product-specific data to calculate estimates of impacts of a Minimum Efficiency Performance Standard (MEPS) program. The analysis tool is self-contained in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, and requires no links to external data, or special code additions to run. The analysis can be customized to a particular program without additional user input, through the use of the pull-down menus located on the Summary page. In addition, the spreadsheet contains many areas into which user-generated input data can be entered for increased accuracy of projection. The following is a step-by-step guide for using and customizing the tool.

  10. A physicists guide to The Los Alamos Primer

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Reed, B. Cameron

    2016-11-01

    In April 1943, a group of scientists at the newly established Los Alamos Laboratory were given a series of lectures by Robert Serber on what was then known of the physics and engineering issues involved in developing fission bombs. Serber’s lectures were recorded in a 24 page report titled The Los Alamos Primer, which was subsequently declassified and published in book form. This paper describes the background to the Primer and analyzes the physics contained in its 22 sections. The motivation for this paper is to provide a firm foundation of the background and contents of the Primer for physicists interested in the Manhattan Project and nuclear weapons.

  11. The presence of academic health sciences libraries on Facebook: the relationship between content and library popularity.

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    Garcia-Milian, Rolando; Norton, Hannah F; Tennant, Michele R

    2012-01-01

    Social networks such as Facebook allow libraries to be proactive in reaching their users. While some libraries have popular Facebook pages, it remains unclear what attracts users to these pages. This study evaluates relationships between libraries' Facebook page content and popularity. An analysis of 72 academic health sciences libraries' Facebook pages showed positive correlations between number of library fans and number of tabs, photos, events, and wall posts on Facebook. Libraries posting videos had significantly more fans than libraries without them. This study contributes to an understanding of correlations between content and popularity on Facebook, with implications for library outreach.

  12. Poisson statistics of PageRank probabilities of Twitter and Wikipedia networks

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    Frahm, Klaus M.; Shepelyansky, Dima L.

    2014-04-01

    We use the methods of quantum chaos and Random Matrix Theory for analysis of statistical fluctuations of PageRank probabilities in directed networks. In this approach the effective energy levels are given by a logarithm of PageRank probability at a given node. After the standard energy level unfolding procedure we establish that the nearest spacing distribution of PageRank probabilities is described by the Poisson law typical for integrable quantum systems. Our studies are done for the Twitter network and three networks of Wikipedia editions in English, French and German. We argue that due to absence of level repulsion the PageRank order of nearby nodes can be easily interchanged. The obtained Poisson law implies that the nearby PageRank probabilities fluctuate as random independent variables.

  13. Hera: Using NASA Astronomy Data in the Classroom

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    Lochner, James C.; Mitchell, S.; Pence, W. D.

    2006-12-01

    Hera is a free internet-based tool that provides students access to both analysis software and data for studying astronomical objects such as black holes, binary star systems, supernovae, and galaxies. Students use a subset of the same software, and experience the same analysis process, that an astronomer follows in analyzing data obtained from an orbiting satellite observatory. Hera is accompanied by a web-based tutorial which steps students through the science background, procedures for accessing the data, and using the Hera software. The web pages include a lesson plan in which students explore data from a binary star system containing a normal star and a black hole. The objective of the lesson is for students to use plotting, estimation, and statistical techniques to determine the orbital period. Students may then apply these techniques to a number of data sets and draw conclusions on the natures of the systems (for example, students discover that one system is an eclipsing binary). The web page tutorial is self-guided and contains a number of exercises; students can work independently or in groups. Hera has been use with high school students and in introductory astronomy classes in community colleges. This poster describes Hera and its web-based tutorial. We outline the underlying software architecture, the development process, and its testing and classroom applications. We also describe the benefits to students in developing skills which extend basic science and math concepts into real applications.

  14. Erratum to: Circulating tumor markers: a guide to their appropriate clinical use | Comparative summary of recommendations from clinical practice guidelines (PART 1), (PART 2), (PART 3).

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    2017-10-31

    Erratum To: Circulating tumor markers: a guide to their appropriate clinical use | Comparative summary of recommendations from clinical practice guidelines (PART 1) Gion M, Trevisiol C, Rutjes AW, Rainato G, Fabricio AS. Int J Biol Markers. 2016 Dec 23;31(4):e332-e367. doi: 10.5301/jbm.5000251. Circulating tumor markers: a guide to their appropriate clinical use | Comparative summary of recommendations from clinical practice guidelines (PART 2).Gion M, Trevisiol C, Rutjes AWS, Rainato G, Fabricio ASC. Int J Biol Markers. 2017 Mar 2;32(1):e1-e52. doi: 10.5301/ijbm.5000259. Circulating tumor markers: a guide to their appropriate clinical use | Comparative summary of recommendations from clinical practice guidelines (PART 3).Gion M, Trevisiol C, Rutjes AWS, Rainato G, Fabricio ASC. Int J Biol Markers. 2017 May 4;32(2):e147-e181. doi: 10.5301/ijbm.5000272. We report an amendment in the Detailed summary tables pages of the three parts of the guidelines above. The correct definition of detailed summary tables is reported below. Definition and target audience Detailed summary tables are tables prepared for every tumor type which report recommendations and supplementary information from different guidance documents with enough details to be useful for health care providers, policy makers (for potential adaptation to specific settings) and staff developing educational material informed by available evidence.

  15. Characteristics of emergency pages using a computer-based anesthesiology paging system in children and adults undergoing procedures at a tertiary care medical center.

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    Weingarten, Toby N; Abenstein, John P; Dutton, Claire H; Kohn, Melinda A; Lee, Elizabeth A; Mullenbach, Tami E; Narr, Bradly J; Schroeder, Darrell R; Sprung, Juraj

    2013-04-01

    In our large academic supervisory practice, attending anesthesiologists concomitantly care for multiple patients. To manage communications within the procedural environment, we use a proprietary electronic computer-based anesthesiology visual paging system. This system can send an emergency page that instantly alerts the attending anesthesiologist and other available personnel that immediate help is needed. We analyzed the characteristics of intraoperative emergency pages in children and adults. We identified all emergency page activations between January 1, 2005 and July 31, 2010 in our main operating rooms. Electronic medical records were reviewed for rates and characteristics of pages such as primary etiology, performed interventions, and outcomes. During the study period, 258,135 anesthetics were performed (n = 32,103 children, younger than 18 years) and 370 emergency pages (n = 309 adults, n = 61 children) were recorded (1.4 per 1000 cases; 95% confidence interval, 1.3-1.6). Infants had the highest rates (9.4 per 1000; 95% confidence interval, 5.7-14.4) of emergency page activations (P < 0.001 compared with each other age group). In adults, the most frequent causes were hemodynamic (55%), and in children respiratory and airway (60.7%) events. Emergency pages were rare in patients older than 2 years. Infants were more likely than children 1 to 2 years of age to have emergency page activation, despite both groups being cared for by pediatric fellowship trained anesthesiologists.

  16. Anticipatory guidance preferences of Latina migrant farmworker mothers

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    Kilanowski, Jill F.

    2011-01-01

    Introduction The purpose of the study was to learn preferences of Latina migrant farmworker (MFW) mothers’ in the presentation of health education materials by discussing the strengths and weaknesses of numerous mixed-media samples. Method This community-based participatory study was qualitative and descriptive in design. Focus groups were conducted in Spanish in four Midwest migrant camps with a convenience sample of mothers (n=31). Adult learning and cultural care theories guided the study. Various modes of educational materials on various topics were presented. Results Mothers preferred comic book-style handouts, games, food replicas, text in English/Spanish, and DVDs, but almost all did not have media-playing equipment. They did not like black-and-white photos, or cartoon-like illustrations. Identified themes of importance were colored illustrations, sizes mothers could easily carry in purses, and limited verbiage on a page. Discussion Learned knowledge will be used to customize health promotion interventions that are sensitive to MFW preferred learning styles. The findings from this study can inform other interventions with Latino populations and serve as a prototype for other populations of immigrant non-English speaking mothers. PMID:23611456

  17. The Internet as a Reflective Mirror for a Company's Image.

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    Fahrmann, Jennifer; Hartz, Kim; Wendling, Marijo; Yoder, Kevin

    The Internet is becoming the primary way that businesses communicate and receive information. Corporate Web addresses and home pages have become a valuable tool for leaving a solid mark on potential clients, consumers, and competition. To determine how differences in Web pages design reflect corporate image, a study examined Web pages from two…

  18. Toward a User-Centered Academic Library Home Page

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    McHale, Nina

    2008-01-01

    In the past decade, academic libraries have struggled with the design of an effective library home page. Since librarians' mental models of information architecture differ from those of their patrons, usability assessments are necessary in designing a user-centered home page. This study details a usability sequence of card sort and paper and…

  19. Science on the Web: Secondary School Students' Navigation Patterns and Preferred Pages' Characteristics

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    Dimopoulos, Kostas; Asimakopoulos, Apostolos

    2010-06-01

    This study aims to explore navigation patterns and preferred pages' characteristics of ten secondary school students' searching the web for information about cloning. The students navigated the Web for as long as they wished in a context of minimum support of teaching staff. Their navigation patterns were analyzed using audit trail data software. The characteristics of their preferred Web pages were also analyzed using a scheme of analysis largely based on socio-linguistics and socio-semiotics approaches. Two distinct groups of students could be discerned. The first consisted of more competent students, who during their navigation visited fewer relevant pages, however of higher credibility and more specialized content. The second group consists of weaker students, who visited more pages, mainly of lower credibility and rather popularized content. Implications for designing educational web pages and teaching are discussed.

  20. Representation of health conditions on Facebook: content analysis and evaluation of user engagement.

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    Hale, Timothy M; Pathipati, Akhilesh S; Zan, Shiyi; Jethwani, Kamal

    2014-08-04

    A sizable majority of adult Internet users report looking for health information online. Social networking sites (SNS) like Facebook represent a common place to seek information, but very little is known about the representation and use of health content on SNS. Our goal in this study was to understand the role of SNS in health information seeking. More specifically, we aimed to describe how health conditions are represented on Facebook Pages and how users interact with these different conditions. We used Google Insights to identify the 20 most searched for health conditions on Google and then searched each of the resulting terms on Facebook. We compiled a list of the first 50 Facebook "Pages" results for each health condition. After filtering results to identify pages relevant to our research, we categorized pages into one of seven categories based on the page's primary purpose. We then measured user engagement by evaluating the number of "Likes" for different conditions and types of pages. The search returned 50 pages for 18 of the health conditions, but only 48 pages were found for "anemia" and 5 pages were found for "flu symptoms", yielding a total of 953 pages. A large number of pages (29.4%, 280/953) were irrelevant to the health condition searched. Of the 673 relevant pages, 151 were not in English or originated outside the United States, leaving 522 pages to be coded for content. The most common type of page was marketing/promotion (32.2%, 168/522) followed by information/awareness (20.7%, 108/522), Wikipedia-type pages (15.5%, 81/522), patient support (9.4%, 49/522), and general support (3.6%, 19/522). Health conditions varied greatly by the primary page type. All health conditions had some marketing/promotion pages and this made up 76% (29/38) of pages on acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The largest percentage of general support pages were cancer (19%, 6/32) and stomach (16%, 4/25). For patient support, stroke (67%, 4/6), lupus (33%, 10/30), breast cancer (19%, 6/31), arthritis (16%, 6/36), and diabetes (16%, 6/37) ranked the highest. Six health conditions were not represented by any type of support pages (ie, human papillomavirus, diarrhea, flu symptoms, pneumonia, spine, human immunodeficiency virus). Marketing/promotion pages accounted for 46.73% (10,371,169/22,191,633) of all Likes, followed by support pages (40.66%, 9,023,234/22,191,633). Cancer and breast cancer accounted for 86.90% (19,284,066/22,191,633) of all page Likes. This research represents the first attempts to comprehensively describe publicly available health content and user engagement with health conditions on Facebook pages. Public health interventions using Facebook will need to be designed to ensure relevant information is easy to find and with an understanding that stigma associated with some health conditions may limit the users' engagement with Facebook pages. This line of research merits further investigation as Facebook and other SNS continue to evolve over the coming years.

  1. Practice Audit in Gastroenterology (PAGE) program: A novel approach to continuing professional development

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    Armstrong, David; Hollingworth, Roger; Gardiner, Tara; Klassen, Michael; Smith, Wendy; Hunt, Richard H; Barkun, Alan; Gould, Michael; Leddin, Desmond

    2006-01-01

    BACKGROUND: Practice audit is an important component of continuing professional development that may more readily be undertaken if it were less complex. This qualitative study assessed the use of personal digital assistants to facilitate data collection and review. METHODS: Personal digital assistants programmed with standard questionnaires related to upper gastrointestinal endoscopies (Practice Audit in Gastroenterology-Endoscopy [‘PAGE-Endo’]) and colonoscopies (PAGE-Colonoscopy [‘PAGE-Colo’]) were provided to Canadian gastroenterologists, surgeons and internists. Over a three-week audit period, participants recorded indications, and the expected (E) and reported (R) findings for each procedure. Thereafter, participants recorded compliance with reporting, the ease of use and value of the PAGE program, and their willingness to perform another audit. RESULTS: Over 15 to 18 months, 173 participants completed PAGE-Endo (6168 procedures) and 111 completed PAGE-Colo (4776 procedures). Most respondents noted that PAGE was easy to use (99%), beneficial (88% to 95%), and that they were willing undertake another audit (92% to 95%). In PAGE-Endo, alarm features were prevalent (55%), but major reported findings were less common than expected: esophagitis (E 29.9%, R 14.8%), esophageal stricture (E 8.3%, R 3.6%), gastric ulcer (E 17.0%, R 4.7%), gastric cancer (E 4.3%, R 1.0%) and duodenal ulcer (E 11.5%, R 5.7%). In PAGE-Colo, more colonoscopies were performed for symptom investigation (55%) than for screening (25%) or surveillance (20%). There were marked interprovincial variations with respect to sedation, biopsies and technical aspects of colonoscopy. CONCLUSION: Secure, real-time data entry with review of aggregate and individual data in the PAGE program provided an acceptable, straightforward methodology for accredited practice audit activities. PAGE has considerable potential for continuing professional development in gastroenterology and other specialties. PMID:16779458

  2. Exploring ecology through science terms: A computer-supported vocabulary supplement to the science curriculum in a two-way immersion program

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Herrera, Francisco Javier, Jr.

    This study set out to examine how a web-based tool embedded with vocabulary strategies, as part of the science curriculum in a third grade two-way immersion classroom, would aid students' academic vocabulary development. Fourteen students (seven boys, seven girls; ten of which were English learners) participated in this study. Students utilized web pages as part of their science curriculum on the topic of ecology. The study documented students' use of the web pages as a data-gathering tool on the topic of ecology during science instruction. Students were video and audio taped as they explored the web pages. Results indicated that through the use of the intervention web pages students significantly improved their knowledge of academic English target words.

  3. The influence of the mass media on the selection of physicians.

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    Trandel-Korenchuk, D M

    1998-01-01

    The purpose of this study was to examine now media sources influence an individual's reported choice of a physician as compared to personal referral sources and how consumers use the Yellow Pages to search for health care information. A random sample of 762 residents was systematically selected from the Charlotte, North Carolina White Pages and was asked to participate in a 20-item descriptive phone survey designed and tested by the investigator. Five hundred and seventy-eight individuals completed the survey, with a response rate of 75.9%. This study supports previous research suggesting that personal referrals are the most influential sources in selecting health care services. Therefore, satisfying and delighting the physician's/practice's existing client base may be one of the most potent advertising resources at hand. Mass media sources played a relatively minor role in influencing provider selection in this study. Nevertheless, it should not be dismissed in as much as the media may be an important way for physicians to promote "brand recognition," a problem not considered in this study. Finally, approximately 28% of the participants were "Yellow Pages users"; that is, individuals who tended to be heavy users of the Yellow Pages and used it for multiple information-seeking tasks. The findings related to the Yellow Pages suggest that while it may be useful to advertise in the Yellow Pages, a more modest financial allocation to this source may be considered.

  4. The Impact of Web Page Text-Background Colour Combinations on Readability, Retention, Aesthetics and Behavioural Intention

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    Hall, Richard H.; Hanna, Patrick

    2004-01-01

    The purpose of this experiment was to examine the effect of web page text/background colour combination on readability, retention, aesthetics, and behavioural intention. One hundred and thirty-six participants studied two Web pages, one with educational content and one with commercial content, in one of four colour-combination conditions. Major…

  5. The Owens Valley Epics

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    Bahr, Donald

    2007-01-01

    One of the best-studied, least-discussed texts of Native American oral literature is a long Mojave "epic" taken down from a man named Inyo-kutavere by Alfred Kroeber in 1902 and published in 1951. The text was published in twenty-nine pages along with forty-eight pages of commentary and twenty-five pages of notes. In 1999, Arthur Hatto, an…

  6. Does Navigation Always Predict Performance? Effects of Navigation on Digital Reading Are Moderated by Comprehension Skills

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    Naumann, Johannes; Salmerón, Ladislao

    2016-01-01

    This study investigated interactive effects of navigation and offline comprehension skill on digital reading performance. As indicators of navigation, relevant page selection and irrelevant page selection were considered. In 533 Spanish high school students aged 11-17 positive effects of offline comprehension skill and relevant page selection on…

  7. Exploring Cultural Variation in Eye Movements on a Web Page between Americans and Koreans

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    Yang, Changwoo

    2009-01-01

    This study explored differences in eye movement on a Web page between members of two different cultures to provide insight and guidelines for implementation of global Web site development. More specifically, the research examines whether differences of eye movement exist between the two cultures (American vs. Korean) when viewing a Web page, and…

  8. AH-64D Apache Longbow/Video from UAS for Interoperability Teaming Level II (VUIT-2) Aircrew Workload Assessment

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2009-04-01

    ABR Page 501.9 3% Show Page 138.7 1% Ctrlm Page 500.7 3% Point Page 99.3 1% DTU Page 392.2 2% Load Page 49.3 ə% Flt Page 231.7 1% Video...7573.4 87% Eng Page 835.4 10% Route Menu Page 335.8 4% Flt Page 709 9% DTU Page 327.5 4% ABR Page 458.9 6% Test Status Page 160.3 2% ASE

  9. Automotive Research Center

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    | photos Web page Web page 2016 PDF | photos Web page Web page 2015 PDF | photos | video Web page Web page 2014 PDF | photos | videos Web page Web page 2013 PDF | photos Web page Web page 2012 PDF | photos Web page Web page 2011 PDF | photos PDF Web page 2010 PDF PDF PDF 2009 PDF PDF PDF 2008 PDF PDF PDF 2007

  10. Representation of Health Conditions on Facebook: Content Analysis and Evaluation of User Engagement

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    Pathipati, Akhilesh S; Zan, Shiyi; Jethwani, Kamal

    2014-01-01

    Background A sizable majority of adult Internet users report looking for health information online. Social networking sites (SNS) like Facebook represent a common place to seek information, but very little is known about the representation and use of health content on SNS. Objective Our goal in this study was to understand the role of SNS in health information seeking. More specifically, we aimed to describe how health conditions are represented on Facebook Pages and how users interact with these different conditions. Methods We used Google Insights to identify the 20 most searched for health conditions on Google and then searched each of the resulting terms on Facebook. We compiled a list of the first 50 Facebook “Pages” results for each health condition. After filtering results to identify pages relevant to our research, we categorized pages into one of seven categories based on the page’s primary purpose. We then measured user engagement by evaluating the number of “Likes” for different conditions and types of pages. Results The search returned 50 pages for 18 of the health conditions, but only 48 pages were found for “anemia” and 5 pages were found for “flu symptoms”, yielding a total of 953 pages. A large number of pages (29.4%, 280/953) were irrelevant to the health condition searched. Of the 673 relevant pages, 151 were not in English or originated outside the United States, leaving 522 pages to be coded for content. The most common type of page was marketing/promotion (32.2%, 168/522) followed by information/awareness (20.7%, 108/522), Wikipedia-type pages (15.5%, 81/522), patient support (9.4%, 49/522), and general support (3.6%, 19/522). Health conditions varied greatly by the primary page type. All health conditions had some marketing/promotion pages and this made up 76% (29/38) of pages on acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The largest percentage of general support pages were cancer (19%, 6/32) and stomach (16%, 4/25). For patient support, stroke (67%, 4/6), lupus (33%, 10/30), breast cancer (19%, 6/31), arthritis (16%, 6/36), and diabetes (16%, 6/37) ranked the highest. Six health conditions were not represented by any type of support pages (ie, human papillomavirus, diarrhea, flu symptoms, pneumonia, spine, human immunodeficiency virus). Marketing/promotion pages accounted for 46.73% (10,371,169/22,191,633) of all Likes, followed by support pages (40.66%, 9,023,234/22,191,633). Cancer and breast cancer accounted for 86.90% (19,284,066/22,191,633) of all page Likes. Conclusions This research represents the first attempts to comprehensively describe publicly available health content and user engagement with health conditions on Facebook pages. Public health interventions using Facebook will need to be designed to ensure relevant information is easy to find and with an understanding that stigma associated with some health conditions may limit the users’ engagement with Facebook pages. This line of research merits further investigation as Facebook and other SNS continue to evolve over the coming years. PMID:25092386

  11. NOAA Photo Library - Geodesy

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    Collections page. Takes you to the search page. Takes you to the Links page. Collage with Earth Image and the words Geodesy The Earth is round - true or false? FALSE!!!! The Earth is a solid known as an oblate the work of geodesists who measure and study the shape of the Earth. Geodesy is the science of

  12. Is Domain Highlighting Actually Helpful in Identifying Phishing Web Pages?

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    Xiong, Aiping; Proctor, Robert W; Yang, Weining; Li, Ninghui

    2017-06-01

    To evaluate the effectiveness of domain highlighting in helping users identify whether Web pages are legitimate or spurious. As a component of the URL, a domain name can be overlooked. Consequently, browsers highlight the domain name to help users identify which Web site they are visiting. Nevertheless, few studies have assessed the effectiveness of domain highlighting, and the only formal study confounded highlighting with instructions to look at the address bar. We conducted two phishing detection experiments. Experiment 1 was run online: Participants judged the legitimacy of Web pages in two phases. In Phase 1, participants were to judge the legitimacy based on any information on the Web page, whereas in Phase 2, they were to focus on the address bar. Whether the domain was highlighted was also varied. Experiment 2 was conducted similarly but with participants in a laboratory setting, which allowed tracking of fixations. Participants differentiated the legitimate and fraudulent Web pages better than chance. There was some benefit of attending to the address bar, but domain highlighting did not provide effective protection against phishing attacks. Analysis of eye-gaze fixation measures was in agreement with the task performance, but heat-map results revealed that participants' visual attention was attracted by the highlighted domains. Failure to detect many fraudulent Web pages even when the domain was highlighted implies that users lacked knowledge of Web page security cues or how to use those cues. Potential applications include development of phishing prevention training incorporating domain highlighting with other methods to help users identify phishing Web pages.

  13. Using shadow page cache to improve isolated drivers performance.

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    Zheng, Hao; Dong, Xiaoshe; Wang, Endong; Chen, Baoke; Zhu, Zhengdong; Liu, Chengzhe

    2015-01-01

    With the advantage of the reusability property of the virtualization technology, users can reuse various types and versions of existing operating systems and drivers in a virtual machine, so as to customize their application environment. In order to prevent users' virtualization environments being impacted by driver faults in virtual machine, Chariot examines the correctness of driver's write operations by the method of combining a driver's write operation capture and a driver's private access control table. However, this method needs to keep the write permission of shadow page table as read-only, so as to capture isolated driver's write operations through page faults, which adversely affect the performance of the driver. Based on delaying setting frequently used shadow pages' write permissions to read-only, this paper proposes an algorithm using shadow page cache to improve the performance of isolated drivers and carefully study the relationship between the performance of drivers and the size of shadow page cache. Experimental results show that, through the shadow page cache, the performance of isolated drivers can be greatly improved without impacting Chariot's reliability too much.

  14. Using Shadow Page Cache to Improve Isolated Drivers Performance

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    Dong, Xiaoshe; Wang, Endong; Chen, Baoke; Zhu, Zhengdong; Liu, Chengzhe

    2015-01-01

    With the advantage of the reusability property of the virtualization technology, users can reuse various types and versions of existing operating systems and drivers in a virtual machine, so as to customize their application environment. In order to prevent users' virtualization environments being impacted by driver faults in virtual machine, Chariot examines the correctness of driver's write operations by the method of combining a driver's write operation capture and a driver's private access control table. However, this method needs to keep the write permission of shadow page table as read-only, so as to capture isolated driver's write operations through page faults, which adversely affect the performance of the driver. Based on delaying setting frequently used shadow pages' write permissions to read-only, this paper proposes an algorithm using shadow page cache to improve the performance of isolated drivers and carefully study the relationship between the performance of drivers and the size of shadow page cache. Experimental results show that, through the shadow page cache, the performance of isolated drivers can be greatly improved without impacting Chariot's reliability too much. PMID:25815373

  15. Online nutrition information for pregnant women: a content analysis.

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    Storr, Tayla; Maher, Judith; Swanepoel, Elizabeth

    2017-04-01

    Pregnant women actively seek health information online, including nutrition and food-related topics. However, the accuracy and readability of this information have not been evaluated. The aim of this study was to describe and evaluate pregnancy-related food and nutrition information available online. Four search engines were used to search for pregnancy-related nutrition web pages. Content analysis of web pages was performed. Web pages were assessed against the 2013 Australian Dietary Guidelines to assess accuracy. Flesch-Kincaid (F-K), Simple Measure of Gobbledygook (SMOG), Gunning Fog Index (FOG) and Flesch reading ease (FRE) formulas were used to assess readability. Data was analysed descriptively. Spearman's correlation was used to assess the relationship between web page characteristics. Kruskal-Wallis test was used to check for differences among readability and other web page characteristics. A total of 693 web pages were included. Web page types included commercial (n = 340), not-for-profit (n = 113), blogs (n = 112), government (n = 89), personal (n = 36) and educational (n = 3). The accuracy of online nutrition information varied with 39.7% of web pages containing accurate information, 22.8% containing mixed information and 37.5% containing inaccurate information. The average reading grade of all pages analysed measured by F-K, SMOG and FOG was 11.8. The mean FRE was 51.6, a 'fairly difficult to read' score. Only 0.5% of web pages were written at or below grade 6 according to F-K, SMOG and FOG. The findings suggest that accuracy of pregnancy-related nutrition information is a problem on the internet. Web page readability is generally difficult and means that the information may not be accessible to those who cannot read at a sophisticated level. © 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. © 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

  16. National Program for Inspection of Non-Federal Dams. Palmer Brook Dam MA 00205, Connecticut River Basin, Becket, Massachusetts. Phase I Inspection Report.

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    1981-03-01

    DAMS PALMER BROOK DAM LOCATION MAP 2010 OpO 9 1Q00 20-0 AND DRAINAGE AREA DRAWN ICHECKED APPROVED SCALE AS SHOWN SCALE IN FEET L L R D B W F J. K. DATE...BROOK DAM EXHIBIT C-2-DIKE GUIDE TO PHOTOGRAPHS DRAWN iCHECKED JAPPOVED ,SCALE: 1.1K 5F0FT. L.L.R. D.B.W. F. J.K. JDATE: 2/8I PAGE C-2 ,it PRODUJCED A...ooo opo2000FLOOD IMPACT AREA P SALEIN EETDRAWN ICHECKED IAPPROVED ISCALE AS SHOWN SCALE__________IN______________ L. L. R. D. B. W. IF J. K. JDATE 2

  17. Edwin G. Boring: The Historian's Path in the Pages of The American Journal of Psychology.

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    Gallagher, Shawn R

    2017-01-01

    Although he is best known for his classic textbook, A History of Experimental Psychology, Edwin Garrigues Boring published dozens of articles in The American Journal of Psychology and used its various formats to guide the discipline in the early 20th century. This report reviews a small sample of his publications, including obituaries, notes, and experimental articles, and presents them in historical and biographical context. A central objective is to show how Boring shared the values of his structuralist training with the emerging American schools and how time allowed him to reconsider his approach to history and the legacy of his iconic mentor, Edward Bradford Titchener.

  18. A Guide to the Elements, Rev. Edition (by Albert Stwertka)

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Berger, Reviewed By Daniel

    1999-12-01

    This edition is identical in format and content to the 1996 edition, now sold as the "library edition", except that the names and information for elements 104-109 have been updated. My earlier review still applies; a page-by-page comparison found this edition identical to the first except as noted in the previous sentence. The major revision has been in size and price. The 50% price reduction is welcome, but the format was not changed when the size was reduced, and the resulting 9-point font puts readers at risk of eyestrain. I would like to correct one of the criticisms in my earlier review There is excellent discussion of the industrial uses of each element, as well as its most common source minerals. The more economically important elements are given extensive discussions, detailing industrial uses of the element and its compounds. However, biological activity is given spotty coverage. There is no mention - under "iron" or elsewhere - of the central biological role of iron in oxygen transport or of magnesium in photosynthesis. When coverage appears it is not bad: the roles of calcium in vertebrate and invertebrate skeletons, of fluorine in reducing tooth decay by changing hydroxyapatite to fluorapatite, and of cobalt in vitamin B12 are discussed. While information on transuranium elements has been updated, there has been no attempt to correct several minor errors in spelling, placement, or even information. On page 14 the 1s subshell appears as part of the L (n = 2) shell, and upon the electrolysis of molten sodium chloride on page 54, "sodium collects atthe cathode, and chloride [sic] at...the anode." On page 73 the etymology of "potash" is still given as "potassium-rich ash" rather than "ash burned down in pots", though it is obvious that the latter is intended. On page 74, a picture caption claims that black powder ("potassium nitrate, wood charcoal, and sulfur") is used in modern, high-powered rifle cartridges. In spite of the mistakes, which are relatively few, there is much good information in this book. The essential chemical properties of each element are detailed so that periodic trends may be easily seen; important industrial uses are presented in some detail; transuranium elements and radioisotopes are given careful coverage; and biological activity is (occasionally) discussed. The presentation is interesting and eye-catching, designed to hold the interest of a student who knows little about chemistry. And now, the price has been made more reasonable. While the hardcover edition remains $35.00, the paperback edition, at half price, should bring this useful book into wider use.

  19. Content-Aware DataGuide with Incremental Index Update using Frequently Used Paths

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Sharma, A. K.; Duhan, Neelam; Khattar, Priyanka

    2010-11-01

    Size of the WWW is increasing day by day. Due to the absence of structured data on the Web, it becomes very difficult for information retrieval tools to fully utilize the Web information. As a solution to this problem, XML pages come into play, which provide structural information to the users to some extent. Without efficient indexes, query processing can be quite inefficient due to an exhaustive traversal on XML data. In this paper an improved content-centric approach of Content-Aware DataGuide, which is an indexing technique for XML databases, is being proposed that uses frequently used paths from historical query logs to improve query performance. The index can be updated incrementally according to the changes in query workload and thus, the overhead of reconstruction can be minimized. Frequently used paths are extracted using any Sequential Pattern mining algorithm on subsequent queries in the query workload. After this, the data structures are incrementally updated. This indexing technique proves to be efficient as partial matching queries can be executed efficiently and users can now get the more relevant documents in results.

  20. Guide to using Cuechart, Tellagraf, and Disspla at ANL

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    Bertoncini, P.J.; Thommes, M.M.

    1986-01-01

    Guide to Curchart, Tellagraf, and Disspla at ANL provides information necessary for using the three ISSCO graphics packages at Argonne: Cuechart is a cue-and-response program available in CMS that aids users in creating bar charts, line charts, pie charts, and word charts. It is appropriate for users with little or no previous graphics experience. Cuechart provides much of the capability of Tellagraf without the user's having to learn Tellagraf commands. Tellagraf is a more powerful, easy-to-use graphics package also available in CMS. With a little training, scientists, administrators, and secretaries can produce sophisticated publication-quality log or linear plots, bar charts,more » pie charts, tables, or posters. Disspla is a more versatile and sophisticated graphics package. It is available in both CMS and batch and consists of several hundred Fortran-callable and PL/I-callable subroutines that will enable you to obtain professional quality plots. In addition to log or linear plots, bar charts, pie charts, and pages of text, Disspla provides subroutines for contour plots, 3-D plots, and world maps.« less

  1. Gary Drake at ANL

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    Gary Drake Electrical Engineer Group Leader Electronic Support Group Room E-117 Bldg. 362 High Pages: ATLAS Home Page CDF Home Page Argonne CDF Group Page New MINOS Home page Old MINOS Home page Argonne MINOS Group Page ZEUS Home Page Argonne ZEUS Group Page Soudan 2 Homepage

  2. Chandra Source Catalog: User Interface

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Bonaventura, Nina; Evans, Ian N.; Rots, Arnold H.; Tibbetts, Michael S.; van Stone, David W.; Zografou, Panagoula; Primini, Francis A.; Glotfelty, Kenny J.; Anderson, Craig S.; Chen, Judy C.; Davis, John E.; Doe, Stephen M.; Evans, Janet D.; Fabbiano, Giuseppina; Galle, Elizabeth C.; Gibbs, Danny G., II; Grier, John D.; Hain, Roger; Hall, Diane M.; Harbo, Peter N.; He, Helen; Houck, John C.; Karovska, Margarita; Kashyap, Vinay L.; Lauer, Jennifer; McCollough, Michael L.; McDowell, Jonathan C.; Miller, Joseph B.; Mitschang, Arik W.; Morgan, Douglas L.; Mossman, Amy E.; Nichols, Joy S.; Nowak, Michael A.; Plummer, David A.; Refsdal, Brian L.; Siemiginowska, Aneta L.; Sundheim, Beth A.; Winkelman, Sherry L.

    2009-09-01

    The Chandra Source Catalog (CSC) is intended to be the definitive catalog of all X-ray sources detected by Chandra. For each source, the CSC provides positions and multi-band fluxes, as well as derived spatial, spectral, and temporal source properties. Full-field and source region data products are also available, including images, photon event lists, light curves, and spectra. The Chandra X-ray Center CSC website (http://cxc.harvard.edu/csc/) is the place to visit for high-level descriptions of each source property and data product included in the catalog, along with other useful information, such as step-by-step catalog tutorials, answers to FAQs, and a thorough summary of the catalog statistical characterization. Eight categories of detailed catalog documents may be accessed from the navigation bar on most of the 50+ CSC pages; these categories are: About the Catalog, Creating the Catalog, Using the Catalog, Catalog Columns, Column Descriptions, Documents, Conferences, and Useful Links. There are also prominent links to CSCview, the CSC data access GUI, and related help documentation, as well as a tutorial for using the new CSC/Google Earth interface. Catalog source properties are presented in seven scientific categories, within two table views: the Master Source and Source Observations tables. Each X-ray source has one ``master source'' entry and one or more ``source observation'' entries, the details of which are documented on the CSC ``Catalog Columns'' pages. The master source properties represent the best estimates of the properties of a source; these are extensively described on the following pages of the website: Position and Position Errors, Source Flags, Source Extent and Errors, Source Fluxes, Source Significance, Spectral Properties, and Source Variability. The eight tutorials (``threads'') available on the website serve as a collective guide for accessing, understanding, and manipulating the source properties and data products provided by the catalog.

  3. In vitro pepsin resistance of proteins: Effect of non-reduced SDS-PAGE analysis on fragment observation.

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    Pickles, Juliette; Rafiq, Samera; Cochrane, Stella A; Lalljie, Anja

    2014-01-01

    The introduction of novel proteins to food products carries with it the need to assess the potential allergenicity of such materials. Resistance to in vitro pepsin digestion is one parameter considered in such a risk assessment using a weight of evidence approach; however, the methodology used to investigate this has not been fully standardised. In vitro pepsin resistance assays typically involve SDS-PAGE performed under reducing conditions, with limited published data available on the assay using non-reducing conditions despite the need to consider non-reducing analysis techniques having been highlighted by regulatory bodies such as the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). The purpose of the work reported here was to investigate the applicability of (and additional insight provided by) non-reducing analyses, by digesting a set of proteins using a ring-trial validated method, with analysis by SDS-PAGE under both reducing and non-reducing conditions. In silico prediction of digest fragments was also investigated. Significant differences were observed between results under reduced and non-reduced conditions for proteins in which disulphide bonds have a major role in protein structure, such as ribulose 1,5-diphosphate carboxylase (RUBISCO) and bovine serum albumin. For proteins with no or few disulphide bonds, no significant differences were seen in the results. Structural information such as disulphide bond numbers and positions should be considered during experimental design, as a non-reduced approach may be appropriate for some proteins. The in silico approach was a useful tool to suggest potential digest fragments, however the predictions were not always confirmed in vitro and should be considered a guide only.

  4. Italy: An Open Air Museum

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    Pizzorusso, Ann

    2016-04-01

    Imagine if you could see the River Styx, bathe in the Fountain of Youth, collect water which enhances fertility, wear a gem that heals bodily ailments, understand how our health is affected by geomagnetic fields, venture close to the flames of Hell on Earth and much, much, more. Know something? These things exist - on Earth - today - in Italy and you can visit them because Italy is an open air museum. Ann C. Pizzorusso, in her recent book, reveals how Italy's geology has affected its art, literature, architecture, religion, medicine and just about everything else. She explores the geologic birth of the land, describing the formation of the Alps and Apennines, romantic bays of Tuscany and Lazio, volcanoes of the south and Caribbean-like beaches of Puglia. But that's not all, from the first pages of this visually stunning book, the reader has the impression of being in an art museum, where one can wander from page to page to satisfy one's curiosity-- guided from time to time by the Etruscan priests, Virgil, Dante, Goethe or Leonardo da Vinci himself. Pizzorusso stitches together widely diverse topics - such as gemology, folk remedies, grottoes, painting, literature, physics and religion - using geology as a thread. Quoting everyone from Pliny the Elder to NASA physicist Friedemann Freund, the work is solidly backed scholarship that reads as easily as a summer novel. Wonderfully illustrated with many photos licensed from Italian museums, HRH Elizabeth II and the Ministero Beni Culturali the book highlights the best works in Italian museums and those outside in the "open air museums." This approach can be used in any other country in the world and can be used for cultural tourism (a tour following the book has been organized for cultural and university groups), an ideal way of linking museums to the surrounding landscape.

  5. The WHO Green Page - Assessment of the Environmental Health Risks in Children.

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    Kurpas, Donata; Church, Joseph; Mroczek, Bożena; Hans-Wytrychowska, Anna; Rudkowski, Zbigniew

    2014-01-01

    The objective of this study was to assess the possibility of implementation of the WHO Green Page as a tool to supplement basic medical interviews with environmental health risk factors for children. The WHO Green Page questionnaire was tested on parents of children who visited family practice doctors. A total of 159 parents took part in the study. It was noted that 24.3% of caregivers expressed concern about their children's environment without naming the risk factors. It was also found that 23.7% of the parents demonstrated knowledge and awareness of existing real environmental risks, and 7.0% of them stated that their children had sustained injuries in connection with road traffic prior to the questionnaire study. The WHO Green Page will provide additional information to the basic medical interview and, if regularly updated, will allow for monitoring of changing environmental conditions of children.

  6. The WHO Green Page – Assessment of the Environmental Health Risks in Children

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    Kurpas, Donata; Church, Joseph; Mroczek, Bożena; Hans-Wytrychowska, Anna; Rudkowski, Zbigniew

    2013-01-01

    Background: The objective of this study was to assess the possibility of implementation of the WHO Green Page as a tool to supplement basic medical interviews with environmental health risk factors for children. Methods: The WHO Green Page questionnaire was tested on parents of children who visited family practice doctors. Results: A total of 159 parents took part in the study. It was noted that 24.3% of caregivers expressed concern about their children’s environment without naming the risk factors. It was also found that 23.7% of the parents demonstrated knowledge and awareness of existing real environmental risks, and 7.0% of them stated that their children had sustained injuries in connection with road traffic prior to the questionnaire study. Conclusions: The WHO Green Page will provide additional information to the basic medical interview and, if regularly updated, will allow for monitoring of changing environmental conditions of children. PMID:25648271

  7. Youth Attitude Tracking Study. Volume 1. Spring 1977.

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1977-08-01

    such factors as pc.nmotional materials, re- cruiting practices, and advertising strategy . MARKET FACTS Page 4 Study Design The survey involved 16-21 year...cr a Oa: C; C;1 <.- £ K M C, Ui. 00 U- Cd 0 M US MARKET FACTS Page 118 4.6 Advertising Content Recall In past waves respondents1 ability to i-dentify... Advertising Not At All Meaningful Source: Q u. 7e L MARKET FACTS Page 1Z2 Advertising by all services was rated on the average between "Somewhat

  8. Sedative and Analgesic Drugs Online: A Content Analysis of the Supply and Demand Information Available in Thailand.

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    Pinyopornpanish, Kanokporn; Jiraporncharoen, Wichuda; Thaikla, Kanittha; Yoonut, Kulyapa; Angkurawaranon, Chaisiri

    2018-03-21

    Evidence from other countries has suggested that many controlled drugs are also offered online, even though it is illegal to sell these drugs without a license. To evaluate the current contents related to the supply and demand of sedatives and analgesic drugs available online in Thailand, with a particular focus on Facebook. A team of reviewers manually searched for data by entering keywords related to analgesic drugs and sedatives. The contents of the website were screened for supply and demand-related information. A total of 5,352 websites were found publicly available. The number of websites and Facebook pages containing the information potentially related to the supply and demand of analgesic drugs and sedatives was limited. Nine websites sold sedatives, and six websites sold analgesics directly. Fourteen Facebook pages were found, including 7 sedative pages and 7 analgesic pages. Within one year, the three remaining active pages multiplied in the number of followers by three- to nine-fold. The most popular Facebook page had over 2,900 followers. Both the internet and social media contain sites and pages where sedatives and analgesics are illegally advertised. These websites are searchable through common search engines. Although the number of websites is limited, the number of followers on these Facebook pages does suggest a growing number of people who are interested in such pages. Our study emphasized the importance of monitoring and developing potential plans relative to the online marketing of prescription drugs in Thailand.

  9. Use of simulated pages to prepare medical students for internship and improve patient safety.

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    Schwind, Cathy J; Boehler, Margaret L; Markwell, Stephen J; Williams, Reed G; Brenner, Michael J

    2011-01-01

    During the transition from medical school to internship, trainees experience high levels of stress related to pages on the inpatient wards. The steep learning curve during this period may also affect patient safety. The authors piloted the use of simulated pages to improve medical student preparedness, decrease stress related to pages, and familiarize medical students with common patient problems. A multidisciplinary team at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine developed simulated pages that were tested among senior medical students. Sixteen medical students were presented with 11 common patient scenarios. Data on assessment, management, and global performance were collected. Mean confidence levels were evaluated pre- and postintervention. Students were also surveyed on how the simulated pages program influenced their perceived comfort in managing patient care needs and the usefulness of the exercise in preparing them to handle inpatient pages. Mean scores on the assessment and management portions of the scenarios varied widely depending on the scenario (range -15.6 ± 41.6 to 95.7 ± 9.5). Pass rates based on global performance ranged from 12% to 93%. Interrater agreement was high (mean kappa = 0.88). Students' confidence ratings on a six-point scale increased from 1.87 preintervention to 3.53 postintervention (P < .0001). Simulated pages engage medical students and may foster medical student preparedness for internship. Students valued the opportunity to simulate "on call" responsibilities, and exposure to simulated pages significantly increased their confidence levels. Further studies are needed to determine effects on patient safety outcomes.

  10. Use of a novel electronic maternal surveillance system to generate automated alerts on the labor and delivery unit.

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    Klumpner, Thomas T; Kountanis, Joanna A; Langen, Elizabeth S; Smith, Roger D; Tremper, Kevin K

    2018-06-26

    Maternal early warning systems reduce maternal morbidity. We developed an electronic maternal surveillance system capable of visually summarizing the labor and delivery census and identifying changes in clinical status. Automatic page alerts to clinical providers, using an algorithm developed at our institution, were incorporated in an effort to improve early detection of maternal morbidity. We report the frequency of pages generated by the system. To our knowledge, this is the first time such a system has been used in peripartum care. Alert criteria were developed after review of maternal early warning systems, including the Maternal Early Warning Criteria (MEWC). Careful consideration was given to the frequency of pages generated by the surveillance system. MEWC notification criteria were liberalized and a paging algorithm was created that triggered paging alerts to first responders (nurses) and then managing services due to the assumption that paging all clinicians for each vital sign triggering MEWC would generate an inordinate number of pages. For preliminary analysis, to determine the effect of our automated paging algorithm on alerting frequency, the paging frequency of this system was compared to the frequency of vital signs meeting the Maternal Early Warning Criteria (MEWC). This retrospective analysis was limited to a sample of 34 patient rooms uniquely capable of storing every vital sign reported by the bedside monitor. Over a 91-day period, from April 1 to July 1, 2017, surveillance was conducted from 64 monitored beds, and the obstetrics service received one automated page every 2.3 h. The most common triggers for alerts were for hypertension and tachycardia. For the subset of 34 patient rooms uniquely capable of real-time recording, one vital sign met the MEWC every 9.6 to 10.3 min. Anecdotally, the system was well-received. This novel electronic maternal surveillance system is designed to reduce cognitive bias and improve timely clinical recognition of maternal deterioration. The automated paging algorithm developed for this software dramatically reduces paging frequency compared to paging for isolated vital sign abnormalities alone. Long-term, prospective studies will be required to determine its impact on patient outcomes.

  11. Improving Interdisciplinary Provider Communication Through a Unified Paging System.

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    Heidemann, Lauren; Petrilli, Christopher; Gupta, Ashwin; Campbell, Ian; Thompson, Maureen; Cinti, Sandro; Stewart, David A

    2016-06-01

    Interdisciplinary communication at a Veterans Affairs (VA) academic teaching hospital is largely dependent on alphanumeric paging, which has limitations as a result of one-way communication and lack of reliable physician identification. Adverse patient outcomes related to difficulty contacting the correct consulting provider in a timely manner have been reported. House officers were surveyed on the level of satisfaction with the current VA communication system and the rate of perceived adverse patient outcomes caused by potential delays within this system. Respondents were then asked to identify the ideal paging system. These results were used to develop and deploy a new Web site. A postimplementation survey was repeated 1 year later. This study was conducted as a quality improvement project. House officer satisfaction with the preintervention system was 3%. The majority used more than four modalities to identify consultants, with 59% stating that word of mouth was a typical source. The preferred mode of paging was the university hospital paging system, a Web-based program that is used at the partnering academic institution. Following integration of VA consulting services within the university hospital paging system, the level of satisfaction improved to 87%. Significant decreases were seen in perceived adverse patient outcomes (from 16% to 2%), delays in patient care (from 90% to 16%), and extended hospitalizations (from 46% to 4%). Our study demonstrates significant improvement in physician satisfaction with a newly implemented paging system that was associated with a decreased perceived number of adverse patient events and delays in care.

  12. Using a high-speed movie camera to evaluate slice dropping in clinical image interpretation with stack mode viewers.

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    Yakami, Masahiro; Yamamoto, Akira; Yanagisawa, Morio; Sekiguchi, Hiroyuki; Kubo, Takeshi; Togashi, Kaori

    2013-06-01

    The purpose of this study is to verify objectively the rate of slice omission during paging on picture archiving and communication system (PACS) viewers by recording the images shown on the computer displays of these viewers with a high-speed movie camera. This study was approved by the institutional review board. A sequential number from 1 to 250 was superimposed on each slice of a series of clinical Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM) data. The slices were displayed using several DICOM viewers, including in-house developed freeware and clinical PACS viewers. The freeware viewer and one of the clinical PACS viewers included functions to prevent slice dropping. The series was displayed in stack mode and paged in both automatic and manual paging modes. The display was recorded with a high-speed movie camera and played back at a slow speed to check whether slices were dropped. The paging speeds were also measured. With a paging speed faster than half the refresh rate of the display, some viewers dropped up to 52.4 % of the slices, while other well-designed viewers did not, if used with the correct settings. Slice dropping during paging was objectively confirmed using a high-speed movie camera. To prevent slice dropping, the viewer must be specially designed for the purpose and must be used with the correct settings, or the paging speed must be slower than half of the display refresh rate.

  13. Potential of promotion of alleles by genome editing to improve quantitative traits in livestock breeding programs.

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    Jenko, Janez; Gorjanc, Gregor; Cleveland, Matthew A; Varshney, Rajeev K; Whitelaw, C Bruce A; Woolliams, John A; Hickey, John M

    2015-07-02

    Genome editing (GE) is a method that enables specific nucleotides in the genome of an individual to be changed. To date, use of GE in livestock has focussed on simple traits that are controlled by a few quantitative trait nucleotides (QTN) with large effects. The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential of GE to improve quantitative traits that are controlled by many QTN, referred to here as promotion of alleles by genome editing (PAGE). Multiple scenarios were simulated to test alternative PAGE strategies for a quantitative trait. They differed in (i) the number of edits per sire (0 to 100), (ii) the number of edits per generation (0 to 500), and (iii) the extent of use of PAGE (i.e. editing all sires or only a proportion of them). The base line scenario involved selecting individuals on true breeding values (i.e., genomic selection only (GS only)-genomic selection with perfect accuracy) for several generations. Alternative scenarios complemented this base line scenario with PAGE (GS + PAGE). The effect of different PAGE strategies was quantified by comparing response to selection, changes in allele frequencies, the number of distinct QTN edited, the sum of absolute effects of the edited QTN per generation, and inbreeding. Response to selection after 20 generations was between 1.08 and 4.12 times higher with GS + PAGE than with GS only. Increases in response to selection were larger with more edits per sire and more sires edited. When the total resources for PAGE were limited, editing a few sires for many QTN resulted in greater response to selection and inbreeding compared to editing many sires for a few QTN. Between the scenarios GS only and GS + PAGE, there was little difference in the average change in QTN allele frequencies, but there was a major difference for the QTN with the largest effects. The sum of the effects of the edited QTN decreased across generations. This study showed that PAGE has great potential for application in livestock breeding programs, but inbreeding needs to be managed.

  14. Fruit & Vegetable Screeners in the Eating at America's Table Study (EATS): Instruments

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    These instruments are in the public domain and may be used by any investigator. However, because they were used in NCI's Eating at America's Table Study (EATS) project, investigators must remove the first page, which is the EATS identifier page.

  15. The Role of User Control in Adherence to and Knowledge Gained from a Website: Randomized Comparison Between a Tunneled Version and a Freedom-of-Choice Version

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    Cyr, Dianne; de Vries, Nanne K

    2012-01-01

    Background Internet-delivered interventions can effectively change health risk behaviors and their determinants, but adherence to these interventions once they are accessed is very low. Therefore, it is relevant and necessary to systematically manipulate website characteristics to test their effect on website use. This study focuses on user control as a website characteristic. Objective To test whether and how user control (the freedom of choice to skip pages) can increase website use and knowledge gained from the website. Methods Participants older than 18 years were drawn from the Dutch Internet population (in June 2011) and completed a hepatitis knowledge questionnaire. Subsequently, they were randomly assigned to three groups: (1) a tunneled version of the website with less user control; (2) a high user control version of the website where visitors had the freedom of choice to skip pages; and (3) a control group that was not exposed to the website. Participants completed (1) a questionnaire of validated measures regarding user perceptions immediately after exposure to the website (except for the control group), and (2) a hepatitis knowledge questionnaire after one week to test whether participants in the experimental groups only clicked through the website or actually processed and learned its content. Server registrations were used to assess website use. Analyses of covariance (ANCOVA) using all available data were conducted to determine whether user control increases website use. Structural equation models (SEM) using all available data were constructed to test how user control increases website use—a latent variable derived from number of pages visited and time on website. Results Of the 1044 persons invited to participate, 668 took part (668/1044, 64.0%). One half of participants (332/668 49.7%) were female and the mean age was 49 years (SD 16). A total of 571 participants completed the one-week follow-up measure regarding hepatitis knowledge (571/668, 85.5%). The findings demonstrate that having less user control (ie, a tunneled version of the website) had a negative effect on users’ perception of efficiency (F1,452 = 97.69, P < .001), but a positive effect on number of pages visited (F1,452 = 171.49, P < .001), time on the website (F1,452 = 6.32, P = .01), and knowledge gained from the website (F1,452 = 134.32, P < .001). The direct effect of having less user control appeared to surpass the effect mediated by efficiency, because website use was higher among participants exposed to the tunneled version of the website in comparison with those having the freedom of choice to skip pages. Conclusions The key finding that visitors demonstrated increased website use in the tunneled version of the website indicates that visitors should be carefully guided through the intervention for future intervention websites. PMID:22532074

  16. Electronic doors to education: study of high school website accessibility in Iowa.

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    Klein, David; Myhill, William; Hansen, Linda; Asby, Gary; Michaelson, Susan; Blanck, Peter

    2003-01-01

    The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and Sections 504 and 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, prohibit discrimination against people with disabilities in all aspects of daily life, including education, work, and access to places of public accommodations. Increasingly, these antidiscrimination laws are used by persons with disabilities to ensure equal access to e-commerce, and to private and public Internet websites. To help assess the impact of the anti-discrimination mandate for educational communities, this study examined 157 website home pages of Iowa public high schools (52% of high schools in Iowa) in terms of their electronic accessibility for persons with disabilities. We predicted that accessibility problems would limit students and others in obtaining information from the web pages as well as limiting ability to navigate to other web pages. Findings show that although many web pages examined included information in accessible formats, none of the home pages met World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards for accessibility. The most frequent accessibility problem was lack of alternative text (ALT tags) for graphics. Technical sophistication built into pages was found to reduce accessibility. Implications are discussed for schools and educational institutions, and for laws, policies, and procedures on website accessibility. Copyright 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

  17. Schematic representations of local environmental space guide goal-directed navigation

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    Marchette, Steven A.; Ryan, Jack; Epstein, Russell A.

    2016-01-01

    To successfully navigate to a target, it is useful to be able to define its location at multiple levels of specificity. For example, the location of a favorite coffee mug can be described in terms of which room it is in, or in terms of where it is within the room. An appealing hypothesis is that these levels of description are retrieved from memory by accessing the same representation at progressively finer levels of granularity—first remembering the general location of an object and then “zooming in.” Here we provide evidence for an alternative view, in which navigational behavior is guided by independent representations at multiple spatial scales. Subjects learned the locations of objects that were positioned within four visually distinct but geometrically similar buildings, which were in turn positioned within a broader virtual park. They were then tested on their knowledge of object location by asking them to navigate to the remembered location of each object. We examined errors during the test phase for confusions among geometrically analogous locations in different buildings—that is, navigating to the right location in the wrong building. We observed that subjects frequently made these confusions, which are analogous to remembering a passage’s location on the page of a book but not remembering the page that the passage is on. This suggests that subjects were recalling the object’s local location without recalling its global location. Further manipulations across seven experiments indicated that geometric confusions were observed even between buildings that were not metrically identical as long as geometrical equivalence could be defined. However, removing the walls so that the larger environment was no longer divided into subspaces abolished these errors. Taken together, our results suggest that human spatial memory contains two separable representations of “where” an object can be found: (i) a schematic map of where an object lies with respect to local landmarks and boundaries; (ii) a representation of the identity and location of each local environment. PMID:27814459

  18. Online social networking and US poison control centers: Facebook as a means of information distribution.

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    Vo, Kathy; Smollin, Craig

    2015-06-01

    Online social networking services such as Facebook provide a novel medium for the dissemination of public health information by poison control centers in the United States. We performed a cross-sectional study of poison control center Facebook pages to describe and assess the use of this medium. Facebook pages associated with poison control centers were identified during a continuous two-week period from December 24, 2012 to January 7, 2013. Data were extracted from each page, including affiliated poison control center; page duration, measured in years since registration; number of subscribers; number of postings by general toxicological category; and measures of user-generated activity including "likes", "shares", and comments per posting. Among the 56 US poison control centers, 39 Facebook pages were identified, of which 29 were currently active. The total number of active pages has increased by 140% from 2009 to 2013 (average of 25% per year). The total number of all subscribers to active pages was 11,211, ranging from 40 to 2,456 (mean 387, SD 523), equal to 0.006% of all Facebook users in the United States. The number of subscribers per page was associated with page duration, number of postings, and type of postings. The types of toxicological postings were public education (45%), self-promotion (28%), childhood safety (12%), drugs of abuse (8%), environmental poisonings (6%), and general overdoses (1%). Slightly over half of all poison control centers in the United States are supplementing their outreach and education efforts through Facebook. In general, the more active the poison control center on Facebook, the more page followers and follower engagement gained.

  19. CORRIGENDUM: KochenÂ-Specker vectors

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    Pavicic, M.; Merlet, J.-P.; McKay, B.; Megill, N. D.

    2005-04-01

    Some reference citations in the text of this paper are incorrect and should be amended as listed below. The reference list is correct as published. Page 1579, line 5: [23, 34, 38, 39] should read [23, 34, 35, 36] Page 1579, line 9: [40] should read [37] Page 1580, line 8: [31, 33, 35] should read [31, 33, 38] Page 1580, line 14: [36] should read [39] Page 1580, line 36: [36] should read [39] Page 1580, line 38: [37] should read [40] Page 1580, line 42: [38] should read [35] Page 1581, line 3 of caption: [33, 35] should read [33, 38] Page 1583, line 12: [41] should read [42] Page 1587, line 9: [39] should read [36] Page 1587, line 11: [39] should read [36] Page 1587, line 18: [38, 39] should read [35, 36] Page 1587, line 37: [39] should read [36] Page 1589, line 18: [39, 46, 47] should read [36, 46, 47] Page 1590, line 2: [39] should read [36] age 1590, line 3: [39] should read [36

  20. An Arizona Border Wall Case Study

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    2017-12-01

    WALL CASE STUDY by Justin Alexander Bristow December 2017 Thesis Advisor: Erik Dahl Second Reader: Jorge Gonzalez THIS PAGE...4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE AN ARIZONA BORDER WALL CASE STUDY 5. FUNDING NUMBERS 6. AUTHOR(S) Justin Alexander Bristow 7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION...PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK iii Approved for public release. Distribution is unlimited. AN ARIZONA BORDER WALL CASE STUDY Justin Alexander

  1. Cancer and Women

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    ... Radon What We Know What States Can Do Case Study: Reducing Radon in Illinois What Comprehensive Cancer Control ... ePub file RIS file Page last reviewed: May 1, 2018 Page last updated: May 1, 2018 Content ...

  2. Time evolution of Wikipedia network ranking

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    Eom, Young-Ho; Frahm, Klaus M.; Benczúr, András; Shepelyansky, Dima L.

    2013-12-01

    We study the time evolution of ranking and spectral properties of the Google matrix of English Wikipedia hyperlink network during years 2003-2011. The statistical properties of ranking of Wikipedia articles via PageRank and CheiRank probabilities, as well as the matrix spectrum, are shown to be stabilized for 2007-2011. A special emphasis is done on ranking of Wikipedia personalities and universities. We show that PageRank selection is dominated by politicians while 2DRank, which combines PageRank and CheiRank, gives more accent on personalities of arts. The Wikipedia PageRank of universities recovers 80% of top universities of Shanghai ranking during the considered time period.

  3. Strong regularities in world wide web surfing

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    Huberman; Pirolli; Pitkow; Lukose

    1998-04-03

    One of the most common modes of accessing information in the World Wide Web is surfing from one document to another along hyperlinks. Several large empirical studies have revealed common patterns of surfing behavior. A model that assumes that users make a sequence of decisions to proceed to another page, continuing as long as the value of the current page exceeds some threshold, yields the probability distribution for the number of pages that a user visits within a given Web site. This model was verified by comparing its predictions with detailed measurements of surfing patterns. The model also explains the observed Zipf-like distributions in page hits observed at Web sites.

  4. Ndufs4 related Leigh syndrome: A case report and review of the literature.

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    Ortigoza-Escobar, Juan Darío; Oyarzabal, Alfonso; Montero, Raquel; Artuch, Rafael; Jou, Cristina; Jiménez, Cecilia; Gort, Laura; Briones, Paz; Muchart, Jordi; López-Gallardo, Ester; Emperador, Sonia; Pesini, Eduardo Ruiz; Montoya, Julio; Pérez, Belén; Rodríguez-Pombo, Pilar; Pérez-Dueñas, Belén

    2016-05-01

    The genetic causes of Leigh syndrome are heterogeneous, with a poor correlation between the phenotype and genotype. Here, we present a patient with an NDUFS4 mutation to expand the clinical and biochemical spectrum of the disease. A combined defect in the CoQ, PDH and RCC activities in our patient was due to an inappropriate assembly of the RCC complex I (CI), which was confirmed using Blue-Native polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (BN-PAGE) analysis. Targeted exome sequencing analysis allowed for the genetic diagnosis of this patient. We reviewed 198 patients with 24 different genetic defects causing RCC I deficiency and compared them to 22 NDUFS4 patients. We concluded that NDUFS4-related Leigh syndrome is invariably linked to an early onset severe phenotype that results in early death. Some data, including the clinical phenotype, neuroimaging and biochemical findings, can guide the genetic study in patients with RCC I deficiency. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier B.V. and Mitochondria Research Society. All rights reserved.

  5. Optimizing TLB entries for mixed page size storage in contiguous memory

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    Chen, Dong; Gara, Alan; Giampapa, Mark E.; Heidelberger, Philip; Kriegel, Jon K.; Ohmacht, Martin; Steinmacher-Burow, Burkhard

    2013-04-30

    A system and method for accessing memory are provided. The system comprises a lookup buffer for storing one or more page table entries, wherein each of the one or more page table entries comprises at least a virtual page number and a physical page number; a logic circuit for receiving a virtual address from said processor, said logic circuit for matching the virtual address to the virtual page number in one of the page table entries to select the physical page number in the same page table entry, said page table entry having one or more bits set to exclude a memory range from a page.

  6. CIP Training Manual: Collaborative Information Portal Advance Training Information for Field Test Participants

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Schreiner, John; Clancy, Daniel (Technical Monitor)

    2002-01-01

    The Collaborative Information Portal (CIP) is a web-based information management and retrieval system. Its purpose is to provide users at MER (Mars Exploration Rover) mission operations with easy access to a broad range of mission data and products and contextual information such as the current operations schedule. The CIP web-server provides this content in a user customizable web-portal environment. Since CIP is still under development, only a subset of the full feature set will be available for the EDO field test. The CIP web-portal will be accessed through a standard web browser. CIP is intended to be intuitive and simple to use, however, at the training session, users will receive a one to two page reference guide, which should aid them in using CIP. Users must provide their own computers for accessing CIP during the field test. These computers should be configured with Java 1.3 and a Java 2 enabled browser. Macintosh computers should be running OS 10.1.3 or later. Classic Mac OS (OS 9) is not supported. For more information please read section 7.3 in the FIASCO Rover Science Operations Test Mission Plan. Several screen shots of the Beta Release of CIP are shown on the following pages.

  7. Consumer health information on the Internet about carpal tunnel syndrome: indicators of accuracy.

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    Frické, Martin; Fallis, Don; Jones, Marci; Luszko, Gianna M

    2005-02-01

    To identify indicators of accuracy for consumer health information on the Internet. Several popular search engines were used to find websites on carpal tunnel syndrome. The accuracy and completeness of these sites were determined by orthopedic surgeons. It also was noted whether proposed indicators of accuracy were present. The correlation between proposed indicators of accuracy and the actual accuracy of the sites was calculated. A total of 116 websites and 29 candidate indicators were examined. A high Google toolbar rating of the main page of a site, many inlinks to the main page of a site, and an unbiased presentation of information on carpal tunnel syndrome were considered genuine indicators of accuracy. Many proposed indicators taken from published guidelines did not indicate accuracy (e.g., the author or sponsor having medical credentials). There are genuine indicators of the accuracy of health information on the Internet. Determining these indicators, and informing providers and consumers of health information about them, would be useful for public health care. Published guidelines have proposed many indicators that are obvious to unaided observation by the consumer. However, indicators that make use of the invisible link structure of the Internet are more reliable guides to accurate information on carpal tunnel syndrome.

  8. References to contemporary papers on acoustics.

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    White, F E; Teas, D C

    1983-01-01

    In most of the following references, the author's name is followed by the title of the paper or book in boldface, the journal, the volume number in boldface, the issue number in parentheses, the page reference, and lastly, in parentheses, the year. Where reference is made to abstract journals that number their abstracts, the abstract number is given instead of a page reference. Abstracts in Annales des Tèlècommunications are in French and those for Referativnyi Zhurnal, Fizika (three series, E, I, Zh) are in Russian [where, e.g., Ref. Zh. Fiz. 7 E425 (1979) means: July issue, E, abstract no. 425, year 1979.] When possible, the abbreviations for the names of the journals follow those in Bibliographic Guide for Editors & Authors (1974). A number preceded by the letters AD, DE, PB, or N refers to the accession/report number of the Government Reports Announcements & Index. The numbers to the left of the sections and sub-sections in this volume correspond to those that appear in the Classification of Subjects preceding the index in the June 1983 issue of JASA. Compiled from various sources. For many of the journals referred to here, those interested will find their addresses in either the semi-annual Author Index of Physics Abstracts or the annual Physics Briefs: List of Abstracted Periodical and Serial Publications.

  9. An ant colony optimization based feature selection for web page classification.

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    Saraç, Esra; Özel, Selma Ayşe

    2014-01-01

    The increased popularity of the web has caused the inclusion of huge amount of information to the web, and as a result of this explosive information growth, automated web page classification systems are needed to improve search engines' performance. Web pages have a large number of features such as HTML/XML tags, URLs, hyperlinks, and text contents that should be considered during an automated classification process. The aim of this study is to reduce the number of features to be used to improve runtime and accuracy of the classification of web pages. In this study, we used an ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm to select the best features, and then we applied the well-known C4.5, naive Bayes, and k nearest neighbor classifiers to assign class labels to web pages. We used the WebKB and Conference datasets in our experiments, and we showed that using the ACO for feature selection improves both accuracy and runtime performance of classification. We also showed that the proposed ACO based algorithm can select better features with respect to the well-known information gain and chi square feature selection methods.

  10. Sources and Coverage of Medical News on Front Pages of US Newspapers

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    Lai, William Y. Y.; Lane, Trevor; Jones, Alison

    2009-01-01

    Background Medical news that appears on newspaper front pages is intended to reach a wide audience, but how this type of medical news is prepared and distributed has not been systematically researched. We thus quantified the level of visibility achieved by front-page medical stories in the United States and analyzed their news sources. Methodology Using the online resource Newseum, we investigated front-page newspaper coverage of four prominent medical stories, and a high-profile non-medical news story as a control, reported in the US in 2007. Two characteristics were quantified by two raters: which newspaper titles carried each target front-page story (interrater agreement, >96%; kappa, >0.92) and the news sources of each target story (interrater agreement, >94%; kappa, >0.91). National rankings of the top 200 US newspapers by audited circulation were used to quantify the extent of coverage as the proportion of the total circulation of ranked newspapers in Newseum. Findings In total, 1630 front pages were searched. Each medical story appeared on the front pages of 85 to 117 (67.5%–78.7%) ranked newspaper titles that had a cumulative daily circulation of 23.1 to 33.4 million, or 61.8% to 88.4% of all newspapers. In contrast, the non-medical story achieved front-page coverage in 152 (99.3%) newspaper titles with a total circulation of 41.0 million, or 99.8% of all newspapers. Front-page medical stories varied in their sources, but the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Times and the Associated Press together supplied 61.7% of the total coverage of target front-page medical stories. Conclusion Front-page coverage of medical news from different sources is more accurately revealed by analysis of circulation counts rather than of newspaper titles. Journals wishing to widen knowledge of research news and organizations with important health announcements should target at least the four dominant media organizations identified in this study. PMID:19724643

  11. The Evaluation of Carpet Steam/Heat Cleaners as Biological Sampling Device

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    2011-12-08

    Vacuum Cleaner Evaluation as sampling Device Test Plan DHS Page 16 of 16 Fumigants , and Issues Related to Laboratory-scale Studies. Appl. Environ...ECBC Wet/dry Vacuum Cleaner Evaluation as sampling Device Test Plan DHS Page 1 of 16 Test Plan for The Evaluation of Carpet Steam...b. ABSTRACT unclassified c. THIS PAGE unclassified Standard Form 298 (Rev. 8-98) Prescribed by ANSI Std Z39-18 ECBC Wet/dry Vacuum Cleaner

  12. Quality of drug information on the World Wide Web and strategies to improve pages with poor information quality. An intervention study on pages about sildenafil.

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    Martin-Facklam, Meret; Kostrzewa, Michael; Martin, Peter; Haefeli, Walter E

    2004-01-01

    The generally poor quality of health information on the world wide web (WWW) has caused preventable adverse outcomes. Quality management of information on the internet is therefore critical given its widespread use. In order to develop strategies for the safe use of drugs, we scored general and content quality of pages about sildenafil and performed an intervention to improve their quality. The internet was searched with Yahoo and AltaVista for pages about sildenafil and 303 pages were included. For assessment of content quality a score based on accuracy and completeness of essential drug information was assigned. For assessment of general quality, four criteria were evaluated and their association with high content quality was determined by multivariate logistic regression analysis. The pages were randomly allocated to either control or intervention group. Evaluation took place before, as well as 7 and 22 weeks after an intervention which consisted of two letters with individualized feedback information on the respective page which were sent electronically to the address mentioned on the page. Providing references to scientific publications or prescribing information was significantly associated with high content quality (odds ratio: 8.2, 95% CI 3.2, 20.5). The intervention had no influence on general or content quality. To prevent adverse outcomes caused by misinformation on the WWW individualized feedback to the address mentioned on the page was ineffective. It is currently probably the most straight-forward approach to inform lay persons about indicators of high information quality, i.e. the provision of references.

  13. A profile of anti-vaccination lobbying on the South African internet, 2011-2013.

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    Burnett, Rosemary Joyce; von Gogh, Lauren Jennifer; Moloi, Molelekeng H; François, Guido

    2015-11-01

    The South African Vaccination and Immunisation Centre receives many requests to explain the validity of internet-based anti-vaccination claims. Previous global studies on internet-based anti-vaccination lobbying had not identified anti-vaccination web pages originating in South Africa (SA). To characterise SA internet-based anti-vaccination lobbying. In 2011, searches for anti-vaccination content were performed using Google, Yahoo and MSN-Bing, limited to English-language SA web pages. Content analysis was performed on web pages expressing anti-vaccination sentiment about infant vaccination. This was repeated in 2012 and 2013 using Google, with the first 700 web pages per search being analysed. Blogs/forums, articles and e-shops constituted 40.3%, 55.2% and 4.5% of web pages, respectively. Authors were lay people (63.5%), complementary/alternative medicine (CAM) practitioners (23.1%), medical professionals practising CAM (7.7%) and medical professionals practising only allopathic medicine (5.8%). Advertisements appeared on 55.2% of web pages. Of these, 67.6% were sponsored by or linked to organisations with financial interests in discrediting vaccines, with 80.0% and 24.0% of web pages sponsored by these organisations claiming respectively that vaccines are ineffective and that vaccination is profit driven. The vast majority of web pages (92.5%) claimed that vaccines are not safe, and 77.6% of anti-vaccination claims originated from the USA. South Africans are creating web pages or blogs for local anti-vaccination lobbying. Research is needed to understand what influence internet-based anti-vaccination lobbying has on the uptake of infant vaccination in SA.

  14. Collaborative Design of World Wide Web Pages: A Case Study.

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    Andrew, Paige G; Musser, Linda R.

    1997-01-01

    This case study of the collaborative design of an earth science World Wide Web page at Pennsylvania State University highlights the role of librarians. Discusses the original Web site and links, planning, the intended audience, and redesign and recommended changes; and considers the potential contributions of librarians. (LRW)

  15. Some correlations between development and respiration in the sand dollar egg, as shown by cyanide inhibition studies.

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    ROBBIE, W A

    1948-01-30

    Cyanide is a valuable tool for studying respiratory mechanisms and their rôle in embryonic development: it is relatively specific in its action, penetrates cell membranes readily, is active in low concentration, and may be controlled quantitatively (page 217). Echinarachnius is extremely sensitive to cyanide and the oxygen consumption of both eggs and of sperm is almost completely inhibited by 10(-5)M HCN (pages 219 and 221). Cell division is likewise arrested by the same concentration (page 223). One of the pronounced effects of an irreversible dosage of cyanide is the marked cytolysis or breakdown of the egg, both internally and at the cell membrane. This cytolysis appears to be related to the state of metabolism, and its occurrence varies with both the respiratory and developmental activity of the cell (page 224). The lethal dosage of cyanide varies with the state of development of the egg: the unfertilized egg is less susceptible than the fertilized one, and the susceptibility increases as the development of the fertilized egg proceeds (page 228). The Echinarachnius egg differs from that of Arbacia in respiratory behavior chiefly in its inability to survive prolonged anoxia: the sea urchin egg will tolerate for 24 hours a concentration of cyanide that kills the sand dollar eggs in 30 minutes (page 229). The Echinarachnius egg is apparently completely dependent upon cyanide-sensitive catalytic systems for its normal functioning and maintenance. Interference with this aerobic energy release mechanism results in irreversible damage to the egg (page 231).

  16. SOME CORRELATIONS BETWEEN DEVELOPMENT AND RESPIRATION IN THE SAND DOLLAR EGG, AS SHOWN BY CYANIDE INHIBITION STUDIES

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    Robbie, W. A.

    1948-01-01

    Cyanide is a valuable tool for studying respiratory mechanisms and their rôle in embryonic development: it is relatively specific in its action, penetrates cell membranes readily, is active in low concentration, and may be controlled quantitatively (page 217). Echinarachnius is extremely sensitive to cyanide and the oxygen consumption of both eggs and of sperm is almost completely inhibited by 10–5 M HCN (pages 219 and 221). Cell division is likewise arrested by the same concentration (page 223). One of the pronounced effects of an irreversible dosage of cyanide is the marked cytolysis or breakdown of the egg, both internally and at the cell membrane. This cytolysis appears to be related to the state of metabolism, and its occurrence varies with both the respiratory and developmental activity of the cell (page 224). The lethal dosage of cyanide varies with the state of development of the egg: the unfertilized egg is less susceptible than the fertilized one, and the susceptibility increases as the development of the fertilized egg proceeds (page 228). The Echinarachnius egg differs from that of Arbacia in respiratory behavior chiefly in its inability to survive prolonged anoxia: the sea urchin egg will tolerate for 24 hours a concentration of cyanide that kills the sand dollar eggs in 30 minutes (page 229). The Echinarachnius egg is apparently completely dependent upon cyanide-sensitive catalytic systems for its normal functioning and maintenance. Interference with this aerobic energy release mechanism results in irreversible damage to the egg (page 231). PMID:18920609

  17. Giving Students Control over Their Learning; from Self-guided Museum Visits and Field Trips to Using Scanning Technology to Link Content to Earth Samples

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    Kirkby, K. C.; Phipps, M.

    2011-12-01

    While it may seem counterintuitive, sometimes stepping back is one of the more effective pedagogical approaches instructors can make. On museum visits, an instructor's presence fundamentally alters students' experiences and can curtail student learning by limiting questions or discouraging students from exploring their own interests. Students often rely on the instructor and become passive observers, rather than engaged learners. As an alternative to instructor-led visits, self-guided student explorations of museum exhibits proved to be both popular and pedagogically effective. On pre-instruction and post-instruction surveys, these ungraded, self-guided explorations match or exceed the efficacy of traditional graded lab instruction and completely eclipse gains normally achieved by traditional lecture instruction. In addition, these explorations achieve the remarkable goal of integrating undergraduate earth science instruction into students' social lives. Based on the success of the self-guided museum explorations, this fall saw the debut of an attempt to expand this concept to field experiences. A self-guided student field exploration of Saint Anthony Falls focuses on the intersections of geological processes with human history. Students explore the waterfalls' evolution, its early interpretation by 18th and 19th century Dakota and Euro-America societies, and its subsequent social and economic impacts on Upper Midwest societies. Self-guided explorations allow students to explore field settings on their own or with friends and family in a more relaxed manner. At the same time, these explorations give students control over, and responsibility for, their own learning - a powerful pedagogical approach. Student control over their learning is also the goal of an initiative to use scanning technologies, such as linear bar codes, 2D barcodes and radio-frequency identification (RFID), to revolutionize sample identification and study. Scanning technology allows students to practice pattern recognition of earth materials even before they begin to check their properties. As importantly, scanning systems allow students to select a physical earth material sample and link that sample with web page content about its origin, geologic setting, economic uses, or its social and historical relevance. With scanning systems, students are not dependent on instructors for clarification or confirmation, so they can explore earth materials at their own pace and in ways that fit their individual learning style. Despite a greatly reduced emphasis on sample identification in laboratory activities, students who integrated scanning technology and web content with earth material samples did better on unannounced end-of-term identification quizzes than students taught traditional identification methods. Integrating scanning technologies into earth material study represents the first transformative change in how geoscientists have taught introductory sample identification since the 1800's.

  18. Geographically Modified PageRank Algorithms: Identifying the Spatial Concentration of Human Movement in a Geospatial Network.

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    Chin, Wei-Chien-Benny; Wen, Tzai-Hung

    2015-01-01

    A network approach, which simplifies geographic settings as a form of nodes and links, emphasizes the connectivity and relationships of spatial features. Topological networks of spatial features are used to explore geographical connectivity and structures. The PageRank algorithm, a network metric, is often used to help identify important locations where people or automobiles concentrate in the geographical literature. However, geographic considerations, including proximity and location attractiveness, are ignored in most network metrics. The objective of the present study is to propose two geographically modified PageRank algorithms-Distance-Decay PageRank (DDPR) and Geographical PageRank (GPR)-that incorporate geographic considerations into PageRank algorithms to identify the spatial concentration of human movement in a geospatial network. Our findings indicate that in both intercity and within-city settings the proposed algorithms more effectively capture the spatial locations where people reside than traditional commonly-used network metrics. In comparing location attractiveness and distance decay, we conclude that the concentration of human movement is largely determined by the distance decay. This implies that geographic proximity remains a key factor in human mobility.

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