Sample records for specification change requests

  1. 77 FR 30306 - Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Comment Request; Request for Acceptance of Changes in...

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    2012-05-22

    ... Information Collection: Comment Request; Request for Acceptance of Changes in Approved Drawings and... also lists the following information: Title of Proposal: Changes in Approved Drawings and... proposed use: Builders who request changes to HUD's accepted drawings and specifications for proposed...

  2. Instruction and Pragmatic Change during Study Abroad Email Communication

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    Alcón-Soler, Eva

    2015-01-01

    The study deals with the effect of instruction and study abroad (SA) on pragmatic knowledge. More specifically, the focus is on gains in explicit knowledge of request mitigators, and whether learners draw on this knowledge when they perform email requests. Email requests produced by 60 Spanish students staying abroad (30 treatment/30 control…

  3. Changing effects of direct-to-consumer broadcast drug advertising information sources on prescription drug requests.

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    Lee, Annisa Lai

    2009-06-01

    This study tracks the changes of the effects of 4 information sources for direct-to-consumer drug advertising on patients' requests for prescription drugs from physicians since the inception of the "Guidance for Industry about Consumer-directed Broadcast Advertisements." The Guidance advises pharmaceuticals to use four information sources for consumers to seek further information to supplement broadcast drug advertisements: small-print information, the Internet, a toll-free number, and health-care providers (nurses, doctors, and pharmacists). Logistic models were created by using survey data collected by the Food and Drug Administration in 1999 and 2002. Results show that throughout the years, health-care providers remain the most used and strongest means associated with patients' direct requests for nonspecific and specific prescription drugs from doctors. The small-print information source gains power and changes from an indirect means associated with patients' discussing drugs with health-care providers to a direct means associated with patients' asking about nonspecific and specific drugs from their doctors. The Internet is not directly related to drug requests, but the effect of its association with patients seeking information from health-care providers grew 11-fold over the course of the study. The toll-free number lost its power altogether for both direct request for a prescription drug and further discussion with health-care providers. Patient demographics will be considered for specific policy implications.

  4. Coal Transportation Rate Sensitivity Analysis

    EIA Publications

    2005-01-01

    On December 21, 2004, the Surface Transportation Board (STB) requested that the Energy Information Administration (EIA) analyze the impact of changes in coal transportation rates on projected levels of electric power sector energy use and emissions. Specifically, the STB requested an analysis of changes in national and regional coal consumption and emissions resulting from adjustments in railroad transportation rates for Wyoming's Powder River Basin (PRB) coal using the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS). However, because NEMS operates at a relatively aggregate regional level and does not represent the costs of transporting coal over specific rail lines, this analysis reports on the impacts of interregional changes in transportation rates from those used in the Annual Energy Outlook 2005 (AEO2005) reference case.

  5. 32 CFR 312.7 - Request for correction or amendment.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... 32 National Defense 2 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Request for correction or amendment. 312.7 Section 312.7 National Defense Department of Defense (Continued) OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE... be changed as specifically as possible, the type of amendment (e.g., deletion, correction, amendment...

  6. 32 CFR 312.7 - Request for correction or amendment.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... 32 National Defense 2 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Request for correction or amendment. 312.7 Section 312.7 National Defense Department of Defense (Continued) OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE... be changed as specifically as possible, the type of amendment (e.g., deletion, correction, amendment...

  7. 32 CFR 312.7 - Request for correction or amendment.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... 32 National Defense 2 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false Request for correction or amendment. 312.7 Section 312.7 National Defense Department of Defense (Continued) OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE... be changed as specifically as possible, the type of amendment (e.g., deletion, correction, amendment...

  8. 32 CFR 312.7 - Request for correction or amendment.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... 32 National Defense 2 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Request for correction or amendment. 312.7 Section 312.7 National Defense Department of Defense (Continued) OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE... be changed as specifically as possible, the type of amendment (e.g., deletion, correction, amendment...

  9. 76 FR 12712 - Announcing Draft Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 201-2, Personal Identity...

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    2011-03-08

    ... FIPS 201-2 AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Commerce. ACTION: Notice and request for comments. SUMMARY: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) publishes this... 201-1, and specific changes requested by Federal agencies and implementers. NIST has received numerous...

  10. 40 CFR 35.114 - Amendments and other changes.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... Amendments and other changes. The provisions of 40 CFR 31.30 do not apply to environmental program grants.... Recipients must request, in writing, grant amendments for changes requiring increases in environmental... specific recipients and costs contained in OMB cost principles. (e) Changes in consolidated grants...

  11. 40 CFR 35.114 - Amendments and other changes.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... Amendments and other changes. The provisions of 40 CFR 31.30 do not apply to environmental program grants.... Recipients must request, in writing, grant amendments for changes requiring increases in environmental... specific recipients and costs contained in OMB cost principles. (e) Changes in consolidated grants...

  12. Changing by degrees : steps to reduce greenhouse gases

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    1991-02-01

    The six congressional committees requesting this assessment asked OTA to focus on a very specific question: "Can the United States reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the near term?" To answer the question Congress posed, OTA focuses specifically on p...

  13. An Ontology for Requesting Distant Robotic Action: A Case Study in Naming and Action Identification for Planning on the Mars Exploration Rover Mission

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    Wales, Roxana C.; Shalin, Valerie L.; Bass, Deborah S.

    2004-01-01

    This paper focuses on the development and use of the abbreviated names as well as an emergent ontology associated with making requests for action of a distant robotic rover during the 2003-2004 NASA Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission, run by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The infancy of the domain of Martian telerobotic science, in which specialists request work from a rover moving through the landscape, as well as the need to consider the interdisciplinary teams involved in the work required an empirical approach. The formulation of this ontology is grounded in human behavior and work practice. The purpose of this paper is to identify general issues for an ontology of action (specifically for requests for action), while maintaining sensitivity to the users, tools and the work system within a specific technical domain. We found that this ontology of action must take into account a dynamic environment, changing in response to the movement of the rover, changes on the rover itself, as well as be responsive to the purposeful intent of the science requestors. Analysis of MER mission events demonstrates that the work practice and even robotic tool usage changes over time. Therefore, an ontology must adapt and represent both incremental change and revolutionary change, and the ontology can never be more than a partial agreement on the conceptualizations involved. Although examined in a rather unique technical domain, the general issues pertain to the control of any complex, distributed work system as well as the archival record of its accomplishments.

  14. 78 FR 59378 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for Reinstatement, With Change, of a...

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    2013-09-26

    ... for Reinstatement, With Change, of a Previously Approved Collection; Comment Request AGENCY: National... institutions to disclose to consumers certain information, including interest rates, bonuses, and fees... specific disclosures when an account is opened, when a disclosed term changes or a term account is close to...

  15. 78 FR 47424 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for Reinstatement, With Change, of a...

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    2013-08-05

    ... for Reinstatement, With Change, of a Previously Approved Collection; Comment Request AGENCY: National... institutions to disclose to consumers certain information, including interest rates, bonuses, and fees... specific disclosures when an account is opened, when a disclosed term changes or a term account is close to...

  16. 75 FR 13253 - Plan Revision for Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, Alpine, El Dorado, and Placer Counties, CA...

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    2010-03-19

    ... need for change document, the ``CER'' (Nov 2006) is available online at: http://fs.usda.gov/ltbmu... Report (CER)'' and request for public and partner agency comments specific to the unit's need for change...

  17. Requests for electroencephalography in a district general hospital: retrospective and prospective audit

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    Smith, D; Bartolo, R; Pickles, R M; Tedman, B M

    2001-01-01

    Objectives To determine the number of inappropriate requests for electroencephalography (EEG) and whether guidelines on use could reduce this number. Design Audit with retrospective and prospective components. Setting EEG department in district general hospital and centre for neurology and neurosurgery. Participants Retrospective: 368 at the general hospital and 143 patients at the neurology centre. Prospective: 241 patients undergoing EEG at the general hospital. Interventions Guidelines for EEG issued to users of service at the general hospital. Outcomes Retrospective: differences in requesting practice, result in different clinical scenarios, relative roles of procedure, clinical acumen in establishing diagnosis, usefulness of procedure. Prospective: change of requesting practice, impact on use. Results There were considerable differences in requesting practice. Non-specialists seem to use EEG as a diagnostic tool, especially in patients with “funny turns,” when it is much more likely to yield potentially misleading than clinically useful information. The overall proportion of procedures considered to influence management, to be justifiable, and to be inappropriate were 16% (59), 28.3% (104), and 55.7% (205), respectively. In the prospective study the total number of requests was significantly reduced (χ2=33.85, df=5, P<0.0001), mainly because of fewer requests in patients with non-specific “funny turns” (χ2=21.90, df=6, P=0.0013). There was a concomitant change in the usefulness of EEG (χ2 =26.99, df=2, P<0.0001). Conclusions This original audit informed clinical practice and had potential benefits for patients, clinicians, and provision of service. Systematic replication of this project, possibly on a regional basis, could result in financial savings, which would allow development of accessible local neurophysiology services. What is already known on this topicThere is unrestricted access to EEG in most district general hospitals throughout the United KingdomThe combination of equivocal symptoms and non-specific abnormalities carries a risk of misdiagnosis of epilepsyWhat this study addsAn audit of requests for EEG showed that a large proportion were inappropriate, mainly because of the prevalent misconception that the procedure could prove or exclude a diagnosis of epilepsy in patients with “funny turns”After intervention with clinicians, which used an educative approach, there was a considerable and sustained change in requesting practice PMID:11312226

  18. 77 FR 24634 - Magnuson-Stevens Act Provisions; Fisheries off West Coast States; Biennial Specifications and...

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    2012-04-25

    ... Specifications and Management Measures; Inseason Adjustments AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS... to biennial groundfish management measures; request for comments. SUMMARY: This final rule announces an inseason change to management measures in the Pacific Coast groundfish fisheries. This action...

  19. 77 FR 22679 - Magnuson-Stevens Act Provisions; Fisheries off West Coast States; Biennial Specifications and...

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    2012-04-17

    ... Specifications and Management Measures; Inseason Adjustments AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS... to biennial groundfish management measures; request for comments. SUMMARY: This final rule announces inseason changes to management measures in the Pacific Coast groundfish fisheries. These actions, which are...

  20. 77 FR 12503 - Magnuson-Stevens Act Provisions; Fisheries off West Coast States; Biennial Specifications and...

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    2012-03-01

    ... Specifications and Management Measures; Inseason Adjustments AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS... to biennial groundfish management measures; request for comments. SUMMARY: This final rule announces inseason changes to management measures in the Pacific Coast groundfish fisheries. These actions, which are...

  1. 76 FR 77963 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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    2011-12-15

    ... containing coral reefs. Specifically, NOAA is seeking information on the knowledge, attitudes and reef use patterns, as well as information on knowledge and attitudes related to specific reef protection activities... protection programs. Because many of our efforts to protect reefs rely on education and changing attitudes...

  2. 38 CFR 20.1304 - Rule 1304. Request for change in representation, request for personal hearing, or submission of...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... change in representation, request for personal hearing, or submission of additional evidence following... Miscellaneous § 20.1304 Rule 1304. Request for change in representation, request for personal hearing, or...) Request for a change in representation, request for a personal hearing, or submission of additional...

  3. 23 CFR 635.112 - Advertising for bids and proposals.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ... change to the approved plans or specifications during the advertising period. Minor addenda need not... result in major changes to the Request for Proposals document. Minor addenda need not receive prior... local boundaries and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or handicap. If...

  4. 23 CFR 635.112 - Advertising for bids and proposals.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... change to the approved plans or specifications during the advertising period. Minor addenda need not... result in major changes to the Request for Proposals document. Minor addenda need not receive prior... local boundaries and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or handicap. If...

  5. 23 CFR 635.112 - Advertising for bids and proposals.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... change to the approved plans or specifications during the advertising period. Minor addenda need not... result in major changes to the Request for Proposals document. Minor addenda need not receive prior... local boundaries and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or handicap. If...

  6. 23 CFR 635.112 - Advertising for bids and proposals.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-04-01

    ... change to the approved plans or specifications during the advertising period. Minor addenda need not... result in major changes to the Request for Proposals document. Minor addenda need not receive prior... local boundaries and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or handicap. If...

  7. 75 FR 42346 - Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Colorado; Attainment Demonstration...

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    2010-07-21

    ... Demonstration F. Weight of Evidence G. Specific OAP Language H. SIP Control Measures I. Transportation... disagree; suggest alternatives and substitute language for your requested changes. Describe any assumptions.... Specific OAP Language We are proposing to disapprove the last paragraph on page IV-1 and the first...

  8. 75 FR 30305 - Drawbridge Operation Regulation; Perquimans River, Hertford, NC

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    2010-06-01

    ..., at mile 12.0, across Perquimans River at Hertford, NC. The requested change would have allowed the bridge to operate without a tender during specific times of the year on an advance notice basis. DATES... basis during specific times of the year. Officials from the Town of Hertford commented that not...

  9. Reduction in Operating Room Plasma Waste After Evidence-Based Quality Improvement Initiative.

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    Meyer, Matthew J; Dzik, Walter H; Levine, Wilton C

    2018-05-01

    Anesthesiologists request units of plasma in anticipation of transfusion. The amount of plasma transfused intraoperatively is less than that issued (requested, thawed, and sent). We presented institutional-specific data on plasma usage including anesthesiologist-specific ratios of plasma issued-to-transfused. In month-to-month comparisons from the year before the presentation (June-December 2015) to 7 months after (June-December 2016), plasma issued to the operating room was reduced from 434.9 ± 81 to 327.3 ± 65 units, a change of 107.6 units per month (95% confidence interval [CI], 22-193); plasma discarded by the blood bank was reduced from 109.7 ± 48 units to 69.1 ± 9 units, a change of 40.6 units per month (95% CI, 0.2-81); and plasma transfused went from 188.4 ± 42 units to 160.7 ± 52 units, a nonsignificant change of 27.7 units per month (95% CI, -27 to 83).

  10. 77 FR 49003 - Notice of Proposed Information Collection for Public Comment: Request for Acceptance of Changes...

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    2012-08-15

    ... changes may affect the value shown on the DUD commitment. HUD requires the builder to use form HUD-92577... changes may affect the value shown on the DUD commitment. HUD requires the builder to use form HUD -92577... specifications for proposed construction properties as required by homebuyers or determined by the builder use...

  11. Using pathology-specific laboratory profiles in Clinical Pathology to reduce inappropriate test requesting: two completed audit cycles

    PubMed Central

    2012-01-01

    Background Systematic reviews have shown that, although well prepared, the Consensus Guidelines have failed to change clinical practice. In the healthcare district of Castelnovo né Monti (Reggio Emilia, Italy), it became necessary for the GPs and Clinical Pathologists to work together to jointly define laboratory profiles. Methods Observational study with two cycles of retrospective audit on test request forms, in a primary care setting. Objectives of the study were to develop pathology-specific laboratory profiles and to increase the number of provisional diagnoses on laboratory test request forms. A Multiprofessional Multidisciplinary Inter-hospital Work Team developed pathology-specific laboratory profiles for more effective test requesting. After 8 training sessions that used a combined strategy with multifaceted interventions, the 23 General Practitioners (GPs) in the trial district (Castelnovo nè Monti) tested the profiles; the 21 GPs in the Puianello district were the control group; all GPs in both districts participated in the trial. All laboratory tests for both healthcare districts are performed at the Laboratory located in the trial district. A baseline and a 1-year audit were performed in both districts on the GPs’ request forms. Results Seven pathology-specific laboratory profiles for outpatients were developed. In the year after the first audit cycle: 1) the number of tests requested in the trial district was distinctly lower than that in the previous year, with a decrease of about 5% (p < 0.001); 2) the provisional diagnosis on the request forms was 52.8% in the trial district and 42% in the control district (P < 0.001); 3) the decrease of the number of tests on each request form was much more marked in the trial district (8.73 vs. 10.77; p < 0.001). Conclusions The first audit cycle showed a significant decrease in the number of tests ordered only in the trial district. The combined strategy used in this study improved the prescriptive compliance of most of the GPs involved. The presence of the clinical pathologist is seen as an added value. PMID:22759353

  12. Using pathology-specific laboratory profiles in clinical pathology to reduce inappropriate test requesting: two completed audit cycles.

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    Baricchi, Roberto; Zini, Michele; Nibali, Maria Grazia; Vezzosi, Walter; Insegnante, Vincenzo; Manfuso, Clotilde; Polese, Alessandra; Costoli, Valmer; Spelti, Antonio; Formisano, Debora; Orlandini, Danilo; Nicolini, Fausto; Poli, Antonio

    2012-07-03

    Systematic reviews have shown that, although well prepared, the Consensus Guidelines have failed to change clinical practice. In the healthcare district of Castelnovo né Monti (Reggio Emilia, Italy), it became necessary for the GPs and Clinical Pathologists to work together to jointly define laboratory profiles. Observational study with two cycles of retrospective audit on test request forms, in a primary care setting. Objectives of the study were to develop pathology-specific laboratory profiles and to increase the number of provisional diagnoses on laboratory test request forms. A Multiprofessional Multidisciplinary Inter-hospital Work Team developed pathology-specific laboratory profiles for more effective test requesting. After 8 training sessions that used a combined strategy with multifaceted interventions, the 23 General Practitioners (GPs) in the trial district (Castelnovo nè Monti) tested the profiles; the 21 GPs in the Puianello district were the control group; all GPs in both districts participated in the trial. All laboratory tests for both healthcare districts are performed at the Laboratory located in the trial district. A baseline and a 1-year audit were performed in both districts on the GPs' request forms. Seven pathology-specific laboratory profiles for outpatients were developed. In the year after the first audit cycle: 1) the number of tests requested in the trial district was distinctly lower than that in the previous year, with a decrease of about 5% (p < 0.001); 2) the provisional diagnosis on the request forms was 52.8% in the trial district and 42% in the control district (P < 0.001); 3) the decrease of the number of tests on each request form was much more marked in the trial district (8.73 vs. 10.77; p < 0.001). The first audit cycle showed a significant decrease in the number of tests ordered only in the trial district. The combined strategy used in this study improved the prescriptive compliance of most of the GPs involved. The presence of the clinical pathologist is seen as an added value.

  13. Anticipating impacts of climate change on fish habitat to support decisionmaking in hydropower licensing: a climate risk study for the Hiram Dam, Saco River, ME

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Lagron, C. S.; Ray, A. J.; Barsugli, J. J.

    2016-12-01

    The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issues licenses for non-federal hydropower projects through its Integrated Licensing Process (ILP). Through this multi-stage, multi-year decision process, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) can request studies needed to prescribe license conditions to mitigate dams' effects on trust resources, e.g. fish passages and flow requirements. NMFS must understand the combined effects of hydropower projects and climate change to fulfill its mandates to maintain fisheries and protected species. Although 30-50 year hydropower licenses and renewals are within the time frame of anticipated risks from changing climate, FERC has consistently rejected NMFS' climate study requests, stating climate science is "too uncertain," and therefore not actionable. The ILP is an opportunity to incorporate climate change risks in this decision process, and to make decisions now to avoid failures later in the system regarding both hydropower reliability (the concern of FERC and the applicant) and ecosystem health (NMFS's concern). NMFS has partnered with climate scientists at the ESRL Physical Sciences Division to co-produce a climate study request for the relicensing of the Hiram Project on the Saco River in Southern Maine. The Saco hosts Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) runs which are not currently self-sustaining. This presentation will describe basin-to-basin variability in both historic river analyses (Hydro-Climate Data Network, HCDN) and projected hydrologic responses of New England rivers to climate forcings using statewide Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System (PRMS) demonstrate the need to develop Saco-specific watershed models. Furthermore, although methods for projecting fishery-relevant metrics (heat waves, flood annual exceedance probabilities) have been proven in nearby basins, this modeling has not been conducted at fishery-relevant thresholds. Climate study requests are an example of bridging between science and applications. We argue that the current state of climate science provides actionable information on climate risks in the region, and will articulate the need and required elements for a Saco-specific climate study request.

  14. Audit of Trichomonas vaginalis test requesting by community referrers after a change from culture to molecular testing, including a cost analysis.

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    Bissessor, Liselle; Wilson, Janet; McAuliffe, Gary; Upton, Arlo

    2017-06-16

    Trichomonas vaginalis (TV) prevalence varies among different communities and peoples. The availability of robust molecular platforms for the detection of TV has advanced diagnosis; however, molecular tests are more costly than phenotypic methodologies, and testing all urogenital samples is costly. We recently replaced culture methods with the Aptima Trichomonas vaginalis nucleic acid amplification test on specific request and as reflex testing by the laboratory, and have audited this change. Data were collected from August 2015 (microbroth culture and microscopy) and August 2016 (Aptima TV assay) including referrer, testing volumes, results and test cost estimates. In August 2015, 10,299 vaginal swabs, and in August 2016, 2,189 specimens (urogenital swabs and urines), were tested. The positivity rate went from 0.9% to 5.3%, and overall more TV infections were detected in 2016. The number needed to test and cost for one positive TV result respectively was 111 and $902.55 in 2015, and 19 and $368.92 in 2016. Request volumes and positivity rates differed among referrers. The methodology change was associated with higher overall detection of TV, and reductions in the numbers needed to test/cost for one TV diagnosis. Our audit suggests that there is room for improvement with TV test requesting in our community.

  15. Impact of peer review on reports of randomised trials published in open peer review journals: retrospective before and after study

    PubMed Central

    Collins, Gary S; Boutron, Isabelle; Yu, Ly-Mee; Cook, Jonathan; Shanyinde, Milensu; Wharton, Rose; Shamseer, Larissa; Altman, Douglas G

    2014-01-01

    Objective To investigate the effectiveness of open peer review as a mechanism to improve the reporting of randomised trials published in biomedical journals. Design Retrospective before and after study. Setting BioMed Central series medical journals. Sample 93 primary reports of randomised trials published in BMC-series medical journals in 2012. Main outcome measures Changes to the reporting of methodological aspects of randomised trials in manuscripts after peer review, based on the CONSORT checklist, corresponding peer reviewer reports, the type of changes requested, and the extent to which authors adhered to these requests. Results Of the 93 trial reports, 38% (n=35) did not describe the method of random sequence generation, 54% (n=50) concealment of allocation sequence, 50% (n=46) whether the study was blinded, 34% (n=32) the sample size calculation, 35% (n=33) specification of primary and secondary outcomes, 55% (n=51) results for the primary outcome, and 90% (n=84) details of the trial protocol. The number of changes between manuscript versions was relatively small; most involved adding new information or altering existing information. Most changes requested by peer reviewers had a positive impact on the reporting of the final manuscript—for example, adding or clarifying randomisation and blinding (n=27), sample size (n=15), primary and secondary outcomes (n=16), results for primary or secondary outcomes (n=14), and toning down conclusions to reflect the results (n=27). Some changes requested by peer reviewers, however, had a negative impact, such as adding additional unplanned analyses (n=15). Conclusion Peer reviewers fail to detect important deficiencies in reporting of the methods and results of randomised trials. The number of these changes requested by peer reviewers was relatively small. Although most had a positive impact, some were inappropriate and could have a negative impact on reporting in the final publication. PMID:24986891

  16. Problems for clinical judgement: 5. Principles of influence in medical practice

    PubMed Central

    Redelmeier, Donald A.; Cialdini, Robert B.

    2002-01-01

    THE BASIC SCIENCE OF PSYCHOLOGY HAS IDENTIFIED specific ingrained responses that are fundamental elements of human nature, underpin common influence strategies and may apply in medical settings. People feel a sense of obligation to repay a perceived debt. A request becomes more attractive when preceded by a marginally worse request. The drive to act consistently will persist even if demands escalate. Peer pressure is intense when people face uncertainty. The image of the requester influences the attractiveness of a request. Authorities have power beyond their expertise. Opportunities appear more valuable when they appear less available. These 7 responses were discovered decades ago in psychology research and seem intuitively understood in the business world, but they are rarely discussed in medical texts. An awareness of these principles can provide a framework for physicians to help patients change their behaviour and to understand how others in society sometime alter patients' choices. PMID:12126325

  17. 76 FR 67092 - Magnuson-Stevens Act Provisions; Fisheries Off West Coast States; Pacific Coast Groundfish...

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    2011-10-31

    ... Coast Groundfish Fishery; Biennial Specifications and Management Measures; Inseason Adjustments AGENCY.... ACTION: Final rule; inseason adjustments to biennial groundfish management measures; request for comments. SUMMARY: This final rule announces inseason changes to management measures in the commercial Pacific Coast...

  18. 75 FR 33806 - Proposed Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request

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    2010-06-15

    ... with Regulation CC (Expedited Funds Availability Act (EFAA)). Agency form number: Reg CC. OMB control... response: Banks: Specific availability policy disclosure and initial disclosures, 1 minute; notice in... consumer deposits, 15 minutes; annual notice of new automated teller machines (ATMs), 5 hours; ATM changes...

  19. 75 FR 27999 - Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Hanford

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    2010-05-19

    ...: Red Lion Hotel Hanford House, 802 George Washington Way, Richland, WA 99352. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION...; and Budgets and Contracts Committee Beryllium update CERCLA 5-year review scoping update Lifecycle... [cir] TPA proposed change packages (M-15, M-91) [cir] 2012 Budget Request Board Business Public...

  20. 76 FR 32997 - Submission for Review: RI 20-120, Request for Change to Unreduced Annuity

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    2011-06-07

    ... Annuity AGENCY: U.S. Office of Personnel Management. ACTION: 60-day notice and request for comments..., Request for Change to Unreduced Annuity. As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104... Management. Title: Request for Change to Unreduced Annuity. OMB Number: 3206-0245. Frequency: On occasion...

  1. Gender-partitioned patient medians of serum albumin requested by general practitioners for the assessment of analytical stability.

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    Hansen, Steen Ingemann; Petersen, Per Hyltoft; Lund, Flemming; Fraser, Callum G; Sölétormos, György

    2018-04-25

    Recently, the use of separate gender-partitioned patient medians of serum sodium has revealed potential for monitoring analytical stability within the optimum analytical performance specifications for laboratory medicine. The serum albumin concentration depends on whether a patient is sitting or recumbent during phlebotomy. We therefore investigated only examinations requested by general practitioners (GPs) to provide data from sitting patients. Weekly and monthly patient medians of serum albumin requested by GP for both male and female patients were calculated from the raw data obtained from three analysers in the hospital laboratory on examination of samples from those >18 years. The half-range of medians were applied as an estimate of the maximum bias. Further, the ratios between the two medians were calculated (females/males). The medians for male and female patients were closely related despite considerable variation due to the current analytical variation. This relationship was confirmed by the calculated half-range for the monthly ratio between the genders of 0.44%, which surpasses the optimum analytical performance specification for bias of serum albumin (0.72%). The weekly ratio had a half-range of 1.83%, which surpasses the minimum analytical performance specifications of 2.15%. Monthly gender-partitioned patient medians of serum albumin are useful for monitoring of long-term analytical stability, where the gender medians are two independent estimates of changes in (delta) bias: only results requested by GP are of value in this application to ensure that all patients are sitting during phlebotomy.

  2. 78 FR 27400 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request

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    2013-05-10

    ... tests ``furnished in a place of residence used as the patient's home,'' and are designed to ensure that... specific attachment designed to capture physician-owned hospital ownership and investment interest data was... interested entities in the Advance Notice of Methodological Changes for MA Payment Rates (every February) and...

  3. 77 FR 262 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Geographic Partnership Programs

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  4. 24 CFR 970.15 - Specific criteria for HUD approval of demolition requests.

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    2011-04-01

    ... modifications is cost-effective to return the public housing project or portion of the project to useful life...: Structural deficiencies that cannot be corrected in a cost-effective manner (settlement of earth below the... of the neighborhood; change from residential to industrial or commercial development; or...

  5. 78 FR 17943 - Draft Program-Specific Guidance About Fixed Gauge Licenses

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    ... is requesting public comment on draft NUREG-1556, Volume 4, Revision 1, ``Consolidated Guidance About... sensitive information, and changes in regulatory policies and practices. This document is intended for use...-415- 4737, or by email to [email protected] . The draft NUREG-1556, Volume 4, Revision 1, is...

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    ..., NOAA is seeking information on the knowledge, attitudes and reef use patterns, as well as information on knowledge and attitudes related to specific reef protection activities. In addition, this survey... the efforts to protect reefs rely on education and changing attitudes toward reef protection, the...

  7. 76 FR 18810 - Submission for Review: Request To Change Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Enrollment for...

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    ...) 3206-0202, Request to Change Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Enrollment for Spouse Equity... to Change Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Enrollment for Spouse Equity/Temporary... OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT Submission for Review: Request To Change Federal Employees Health...

  8. 78 FR 33409 - Proposed Information Collection Request; Comment Request; See Item Specific ICR Titles Provided...

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    ... Item Specific ICR Titles Provided in the Text AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION... request (ICR) (See item specific ICR title, EPA ICR Number, and OMB Control Number provided in the text... additional comments to OMB. (1) Docket ID Number: EPA-HQ-OECA-2013-0337; Title: NESHAP for Portland Cement...

  9. 78 FR 35023 - Proposed Information Collection Request; Comment Request; See Item Specific ICR Titles Provided...

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  10. 22 CFR 505.8 - Agency review of requests for changes.

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    2010-04-01

    ... 22 Foreign Relations 2 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 true Agency review of requests for changes. 505.8... review of requests for changes. (a) In reviewing a record in response to a request to amend or correct a... record in the review. (b) If we agree with you to amend your records, we will: (1) Advise you in writing...

  11. Cognitive Structuring and Its Cognitive-Motivational Determinants as an Explanatory Framework of the Fear-Then-Relief Social Influence Strategy.

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    Dolinski, Dariusz; Dolinska, Barbara; Bar-Tal, Yoram

    2017-01-01

    According to the fear-then-relief technique of social influence, people who experience anxiety whose source is abruptly withdrawn usually respond positively to various requests and commands addressed to them. This effect is usually explained by the fact that fear invokes a specific program of action, and that when the source of this emotion is suddenly and unexpectedly removed, the program is no longer operative, but the person has not yet invoked a new program. This specific state of disorientation makes compliance more likely. In this paper, an alternative explanation of the fear-then-relief effect is offered. It is assumed that the rapid change of emotions is associated with feelings of uncertainty and confusion. The positive response to the request is a form of coping with uncertainty. In line with this reasoning, while individuals with a high need for closure (NFC) should comply with a request after a fear-then-relief situation, low NFC individuals who are less threatened by uncertainty should not. This assumption was confirmed in the experiment.

  12. Proceedings of the Symposium on the Role of Behavioral Science in Physical Security (6th Annual) Held at Springfield, Virginia, 3-4 June l981

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    1983-11-16

    paper 22 V. Recommendations 23 A. General 23 B. Specific 23 Reference-s 24 7 I. INTRODUCTION A. BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE FOR THE PAPER The impact of...frequent shift changes. People reporting lower back pains indicated a reduction of symptoms when supervisors expressed support and emphasis of CCTV...survey. Approximately 40 people interviewed acknowledged requesting job change away from monitoring 18 tasks. The reasons stated for the job change

  13. Unbiased and unnoticed verbal conditioning: the double agent robot procedure1

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    Rosenfeld, Howard M.; Baer, Donald M.

    1970-01-01

    Subjects who were told they were “experimenters” attempted to reinforce fluent speech in a supposed subject with whom they spoke via intercom. The supposed subject was to say nouns, one at a time, on request by the “experimenter”, who reinforced fluent pronunciation with points. Actually, the “experimenter” was talking to a multi-track tape recording, one track of which contained fluently spoken nouns, the other track containing disfluently spoken nouns. If the “experimenter's” request for the next noun was in a specified form a word from the fluent track was played to him as reinforcement; requests in any other form produced the word from the disfluent track. Repeated conditioning of specific forms of requests was accomplished with two subject-“experimenters,” who were unable to describe changes in their own behavior, or the contingencies applied. This technique improved upon an earlier method that had yielded similar results, but was less thoroughly controlled against possible human bias. PMID:16811461

  14. Environmental Cues and Attempts to Change in Daily Cannabis Users: An Intensive Longitudinal Study

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    Hughes, John R.; Naud, Shelly; Budney, Alan J.; Fingar, James R.; Callas, Peter W.

    2016-01-01

    Introduction We tested whether environmental cues prompt or inhibit quit or reduction attempts among heavy cannabis users. Methods We recruited 196 daily cannabis users who intended to stop or reduce at some point in the next 3 months. Users called an Interactive Voice Response system daily over 3 months to report on cues that might prompt an attempt to quit or reduce (e.g., a request to stop), cues that might inhibit a quit/reduction attempt (e.g., someone offering cannabis), cannabis use, and attempts to stop or reduce cannabis. No treatment was provided. Results Our major findings were a) cost and health/psychological problems were the most common prompting cues, and seeing others use and being offered cannabis were the most common inhibiting cues, b) the number of different types of prompting cues prospectively predicted an increase in attempts to change in a dose-related manner, c) more proximal cues appeared to be more strongly related to change, d) requests to stop or reduce, and physical or psychological problems from cannabis, best predicted change attempts, and e) inhibiting cues did not consistently predict the probability of an attempt to change. Conclusion These preliminary results suggest several environmental cues prompt attempts to change cannabis use. Thus, interventions to increase the frequency of these cues, and specifically requests to stop or reduce cannabis use, and reinforcing concerns about health and mental adverse events from cannabis use may increase cannabis reduction or cessation. PMID:26872879

  15. Environmental cues and attempts to change in daily cannabis users: An intensive longitudinal study.

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    Hughes, John R; Naud, Shelly; Budney, Alan J; Fingar, James R; Callas, Peter W

    2016-04-01

    We tested whether environmental cues prompt or inhibit quit or reduction attempts among heavy cannabis users. We recruited 196 daily cannabis users who intended to stop or reduce at some point in the next 3 months. Users called an Interactive Voice Response system daily over 3 months to report on cues that might prompt an attempt to quit or reduce (e.g., a request to stop), cues that might inhibit a quit/reduction attempt (e.g., someone offering cannabis), cannabis use, and attempts to stop or reduce cannabis. No treatment was provided. Our major findings were (a) cost and health/psychological problems were the most common prompting cues, and seeing others use and being offered cannabis were the most common inhibiting cues, (b) the number of different types of prompting cues prospectively predicted an increase in attempts to change in a dose-related manner, (c) more proximal cues appeared to be more strongly related to change, (d) requests to stop or reduce, and physical or psychological problems from cannabis, best predicted change attempts, and (e) inhibiting cues did not consistently predict the probability of an attempt to change. These preliminary results suggest several environmental cues prompt attempts to change cannabis use. Thus, interventions to increase the frequency of these cues, and specifically requests to stop or reduce cannabis use, and reinforcing concerns about health and mental adverse events from cannabis use, may increase cannabis reduction or cessation. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

  16. Collecting Unsolicited User-Generated Change Requests

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    2015-12-01

    change requests, although the core principles of the steps apply equally to non- software change requests ( Champagne and April, 2014:pp 6-9). The...Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS). JCIDS Manual. Washington: CJCS, 12 February 2015. Champagne , Roger and Alain April. “Software

  17. 76 FR 79650 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Survey of Income and Program Participation...

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    ... household-based survey designed as a continuous series of national panels. New panels are introduced every... with questions designed to address specific needs, such as obtaining information on household members... economic well-being and permitted changes in these levels to be measured over time. The 2008 panel is...

  18. 75 FR 9990 - Self-Regulatory Organizations; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of Proposed Rule...

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    ... transactions on NASDAQ's own motion. The text of the proposed rule change is available on the Exchange's Web... and adjustment of options transactions. Specifically, NASDAQ proposes to adopt a provision which... officer''), may, on his or her own motion or upon request, determine to review any transaction occurring...

  19. 7 CFR 932.155 - Special purpose shipments.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... this section which have not been disposed of by the end of the test market period, shall be handled in... such packaged olives to test markets, and report progress or changes to the committee, as requested...) Specific market outlet; (3) Flavorings or other ingredients added to the olives; (4) Style of olives used...

  20. 7 CFR 932.155 - Special purpose shipments.

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    2011-01-01

    ... this section which have not been disposed of by the end of the test market period, shall be handled in... such packaged olives to test markets, and report progress or changes to the committee, as requested...) Specific market outlet; (3) Flavorings or other ingredients added to the olives; (4) Style of olives used...

  1. 7 CFR 932.155 - Special purpose shipments.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... this section which have not been disposed of by the end of the test market period, shall be handled in... such packaged olives to test markets, and report progress or changes to the committee, as requested...) Specific market outlet; (3) Flavorings or other ingredients added to the olives; (4) Style of olives used...

  2. 7 CFR 932.155 - Special purpose shipments.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... this section which have not been disposed of by the end of the test market period, shall be handled in... such packaged olives to test markets, and report progress or changes to the committee, as requested...) Specific market outlet; (3) Flavorings or other ingredients added to the olives; (4) Style of olives used...

  3. 7 CFR 932.155 - Special purpose shipments.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... this section which have not been disposed of by the end of the test market period, shall be handled in... such packaged olives to test markets, and report progress or changes to the committee, as requested...) Specific market outlet; (3) Flavorings or other ingredients added to the olives; (4) Style of olives used...

  4. Preserving professional credibility: grounded theory study of medical trainees' requests for clinical support.

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    Kennedy, Tara J T; Regehr, Glenn; Baker, G Ross; Lingard, Lorelei

    2009-02-09

    To develop a conceptual framework of the influences on medical trainees' decisions regarding requests for clinical support from a supervisor. Phase 1: members of teaching teams in internal and emergency medicine were observed during regular clinical activities (216 hours) and subsequently completed brief interviews. Phase 2: 36 in depth interviews were conducted using videotaped vignettes to probe tacit influences on decisions to request support. Data collection and analysis used grounded theory methods. Three teaching hospitals in an urban setting in Canada. 124 members of teaching teams on general internal medicine wards and in the emergency department, comprising 31 attending physicians, 57 junior and senior residents, 28 medical students, and eight nurses. Purposeful sampling to saturation was conducted. Trainees' decisions about whether or not to seek clinical support were influenced by three issues: the clinical question (clinical importance, scope of practice), supervisor factors (availability, approachability), and trainee factors (skill, desire for independence, evaluation). Trainees perceived that requesting frequent/inappropriate support threatened their credibility and used rhetorical strategies to preserve credibility. These strategies included building a case for the importance of requests, saving requests for opportune moments, making a plan before requesting support, and targeting requests to specific team members. Trainees consider not only clinical implications but also professional credibility when requesting support from clinical supervisors. Exposing the complexity of this process provides the opportunity to make changes to training programmes to promote timely supervision and provides a framework for further exploration of the impact of clinical training on quality of care of patients.

  5. Behavior change techniques used in group-based behavioral support by the English stop-smoking services and preliminary assessment of association with short-term quit outcomes.

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    West, Robert; Evans, Adam; Michie, Susan

    2011-12-01

    To develop a reliable coding scheme for components of group-based behavioral support for smoking cessation, to establish the frequency of inclusion in English Stop-Smoking Service (SSS) treatment manuals of specific components, and to investigate the associations between inclusion of behavior change techniques (BCTs) and service success rates. A taxonomy of BCTs specific to group-based behavioral support was developed and reliability of use assessed. All English SSSs (n = 145) were contacted to request their group-support treatment manuals. BCTs included in the manuals were identified using this taxonomy. Associations between inclusion of specific BCTs and short-term (4-week) self-reported quit outcomes were assessed. Fourteen group-support BCTs were identified with >90% agreement between coders. One hundred and seven services responded to the request for group-support manuals of which 30 had suitable documents. On average, 7 BCTs were included in each manual. Two were positively associated with 4-week quit rates: "communicate group member identities" and a "betting game" (a financial deposit that is lost if a stop-smoking "buddy" relapses). It is possible to reliably code group-specific BCTs for smoking cessation. Fourteen such techniques are present in guideline documents of which 2 appear to be associated with higher short-term self-reported quit rates when included in treatment manuals of English SSSs.

  6. 40 CFR 63.1285 - Reporting requirements.

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    2014-07-01

    ... the owner or operator is requested by the Administrator to conduct a performance evaluation for a... requested by the Administrator, a site-specific test plan is not required by this subpart. If requested by the Administrator, the owner or operator must also submit the site-specific test plan required by § 63...

  7. Cross-Border Healthcare Requests to Publicly Funded Healthcare Insurance: Empirical Analysis.

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    Stewart Ferreira, Lydia

    2016-02-01

    Despite the legal authority to confirm, override or modify healthcare insurance decisions made by physicians and government officials, health tribunal decisions have not been empirically analyzed. Using a novel quantitative methodology, all 387 Health Services Appeal and Review Board written and publicly available electronic decisions released over a five-year time period were statistically analyzed with respect to Ontario public health insurance requests for global cross-border healthcare. The statistical results found that patients knew their diagnosis prior to requesting cross-border healthcare, and 84% of patients requested specific northern US facilities for specific treatment. Two specific healthcare facilities in the US were requested for either surgery or assessments. A significant number of patients were seeking cross-border healthcare for pain treatment. This research challenges the assumption that cross-border treatment requests result only from domestic delay when instead patients are seeking specific treatments at specific facilities. This novel quantitative research methodology and data source of written and publicly available electronic Health Services Appeal and Review Board decisions should be used to inform policy decision regarding the utilization and evaluation of Canada's healthcare system and publicly funded healthcare insurance. Copyright © 2016 Longwoods Publishing.

  8. Traffic Aware Strategic Aircrew Requests (TASAR) Concept of Operations

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    Henderson, Jeffrey

    2013-01-01

    Aircrews submit trajectory change requests to air traffic control (ATC) to better achieve the operator's preferred business trajectory. Requests are currently made with limited information and are often denied because the change is not compatible with traffic. Also, request opportunities can be overlooked due to lack of automation that advises aircrews of trajectory changes that improve flight time, fuel burn, and other objectives. The Traffic Aware Strategic Aircrew Requests (TASAR) concept leverages Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) surveillance information to advise the aircrew of beneficial trajectory changes that are probed for traffic compatibility prior to issuing the request to ATC. This document describes the features, benefits, and limitations of TASAR automation hosted on an Electronic Flight Bag. TASAR has two modes: (1) auto mode that continuously assesses opportunities for improving the performance of the flight and (2) manual mode that probes trajectory changes entered by aircrews for conflicts and performance objectives. The roles and procedures of the aircrew and ATC remain unchanged under TASAR.

  9. 76 FR 67558 - Proposed Information Collection (Request for Change of Program or Place of Training) Activity...

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    ... information needed to determine a claimant's eligibility for continued educational assistance when he or she... use of other forms of information technology. Title: Request for Change of Program or Place of... collection. Abstract: Claimants receiving educational benefits complete VA Form 22-1995 to request a change...

  10. 19 CFR 103.5 - Specific requests for records.

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    2011-04-01

    ... 19 Customs Duties 1 2011-04-01 2011-04-01 false Specific requests for records. 103.5 Section 103.5 Customs Duties U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY; DEPARTMENT OF THE... United States Customs Service is required, by 5 U.S.C. 552(a)(3), upon a request for reasonably-described...

  11. 19 CFR 103.5 - Specific requests for records.

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    2013-04-01

    ... 19 Customs Duties 1 2013-04-01 2013-04-01 false Specific requests for records. 103.5 Section 103.5 Customs Duties U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY; DEPARTMENT OF THE... United States Customs Service is required, by 5 U.S.C. 552(a)(3), upon a request for reasonably-described...

  12. 19 CFR 103.5 - Specific requests for records.

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    2012-04-01

    ... 19 Customs Duties 1 2012-04-01 2012-04-01 false Specific requests for records. 103.5 Section 103.5 Customs Duties U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY; DEPARTMENT OF THE... United States Customs Service is required, by 5 U.S.C. 552(a)(3), upon a request for reasonably-described...

  13. 19 CFR 103.5 - Specific requests for records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... 19 Customs Duties 1 2014-04-01 2014-04-01 false Specific requests for records. 103.5 Section 103.5 Customs Duties U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY; DEPARTMENT OF THE... United States Customs Service is required, by 5 U.S.C. 552(a)(3), upon a request for reasonably-described...

  14. 20 CFR 220.59 - Requesting examination by a specific physician, psychologist or institution-hearings officer...

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    2010-04-01

    ...—hearings officer hearing level. In an unusual case, a hearings officer may have reason to request an... 20 Employees' Benefits 1 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Requesting examination by a specific physician, psychologist or institution-hearings officer hearing level. 220.59 Section 220.59 Employees...

  15. Pilot In-Trail Procedure Validation Simulation Study

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    Bussink, Frank J. L.; Murdoch, Jennifer L.; Chamberlain, James P.; Chartrand, Ryan; Jones, Kenneth M.

    2008-01-01

    A Human-In-The-Loop experiment was conducted at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center (LaRC) to investigate the viability of the In-Trail Procedure (ITP) concept from a flight crew perspective, by placing participating airline pilots in a simulated oceanic flight environment. The test subject pilots used new onboard avionics equipment that provided improved information about nearby traffic and enabled them, when specific criteria were met, to request an ITP flight level change referencing one or two nearby aircraft that might otherwise block the flight level change. The subject pilots subjective assessments of ITP validity and acceptability were measured via questionnaires and discussions, and their objective performance in appropriately selecting, requesting, and performing ITP flight level changes was evaluated for each simulated flight scenario. Objective performance and subjective workload assessment data from the experiment s test conditions were analyzed for statistical and operational significance and are reported in the paper. Based on these results, suggestions are made to further improve the ITP.

  16. 76 FR 58277 - Animal Generic Drug User Fee Act; Public Meeting; Request for Comments

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    ... including specific suggestions for changes to the goals referred to in section 740A(a) of FD&C Act; (3... performance goals for certain submissions over 5 years from fiscal year (FY) 2009 through FY 2013. These review performance goals strive to expedite the review of abbreviated new animal drug applications...

  17. 78 FR 5518 - Self-Regulatory Organizations; NASDAQ OMX PHLX LLC; Notice of Filing of Proposed Rule Change To...

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    ... the request of such traders,\\7\\ unless specifically exempted from such quoting (market-making... currently, with two exceptions, the same for both types of streaming quoters: (1) Significant market-making... a market making capacity in classes of options in which the SQT is assigned.\\21\\ \\20\\ The proposed...

  18. 76 FR 77052 - Proposed Collection; Comment Request for Regulation Project

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    ... 1995, Public Law 104-13 (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)). The IRS is soliciting comments concerning... requires large banks to change from reserve method of accounting to the specific charge off method of accounting for bad debts. Section 1.585-8 of the regulation contains reporting requirements in cases in which...

  19. Nurse leaders' role in medical assistance in dying: A relational ethics approach.

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    Thiele, Tracy; Dunsford, Jennifer

    2017-01-01

    Recent changes to the Criminal Code of Canada have resulted in the right of competent adult Canadians to request medical assistance in dying (MAID). Healthcare professionals now can participate if the individual meets specific outlined criteria. There remains confusion and lack of knowledge about the specific role of nurses in MAID. MAID is a controversial topic and nurses may be faced with the challenge of balancing the duty to provide routine care, with moral reservations about MAID. The role of a nursing leader is to support nurses by ensuring they have the knowledge they require to care for patients requesting the service, whether or not the nurse is directly involved in the MAID process. The moral dilemmas raised by MAID provide an opportunity to look at a relational ethics approach to nursing leadership both for MAID and other difficult situations that arise in nursing practice. Relational ethics is a framework that proposes that the ethical moments in healthcare are based on relationships and fostering growth, healing, and health through the foundational concepts of mutual respect, engagement, embodiment, and environment. This article will use a relational ethics framework to examine how nursing leadership can support nurses who care for patients requesting MAID.

  20. 78 FR 52005 - 30-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Multifamily Project Construction Contract...

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    ... Construction Contract, Building Loan Agreement, & Construction Change Request AGENCY: Office of the Chief... Information Collection Title of Information Collection: Multifamily Project Construction Contract, Building Loan Agreement, & Construction Change Request. OMB Approval Number: 2502-0011. Type of Request...

  1. 22 CFR 303.8 - Requests for records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-04-01

    ..., a requester should try to provide the following kinds of information, if known; (1) The specific... determination may be expected to be dispatched, and the requester's right to treat the delay as a denial and to... extension thereof, the requester may deem the request denied, and exercise a right of appeal in accordance...

  2. 22 CFR 303.8 - Requests for records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ..., a requester should try to provide the following kinds of information, if known; (1) The specific... determination may be expected to be dispatched, and the requester's right to treat the delay as a denial and to... extension thereof, the requester may deem the request denied, and exercise a right of appeal in accordance...

  3. 22 CFR 303.8 - Requests for records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ..., a requester should try to provide the following kinds of information, if known; (1) The specific... determination may be expected to be dispatched, and the requester's right to treat the delay as a denial and to... extension thereof, the requester may deem the request denied, and exercise a right of appeal in accordance...

  4. 22 CFR 303.8 - Requests for records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ..., a requester should try to provide the following kinds of information, if known; (1) The specific... determination may be expected to be dispatched, and the requester's right to treat the delay as a denial and to... extension thereof, the requester may deem the request denied, and exercise a right of appeal in accordance...

  5. 22 CFR 505.3 - Procedures for requests.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... Foreign Relations BROADCASTING BOARD OF GOVERNORS PRIVACY ACT REGULATION § 505.3 Procedures for requests... to herself/himself as a request made under the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended (5 U.S.C. 552a) whether or not the individual specifically cites the Privacy Act when making the request. (b) All requests...

  6. USING ONLINE MARKETING TO INCREASE PARTICIPATION IN A WEB-BASED CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION CULTURAL COMPETENCE CURRICULUM

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    Estrada, Carlos A.; Krishnamoorthy, Periyakaruppan; Smith, Ann; Staton, Lisa; Korf, Michele J.; Allison, Jeroan J.; Houston, Thomas K.

    2012-01-01

    Introduction CME providers may be interested in identifying effective marketing strategies to direct users to specific content. The use of online advertisements to recruit participants for clinical trials, public health programs, and Continuing Medical Education (CME) has been shown to be effective in some but not all studies. The purpose of this study was to compare the impact of two marketing strategies in the context of an online CME cultural competence curriculum (www.c-comp.org). Methods In an interrupted time-series quasi-experimental design, two marketing strategies were tested: a) wide dissemination to relevant organizations over a period of approximately four months, and b) Internet paid search using Google Ads (five consecutive eight-week periods--control 1, cultural/ CME advertisement, control 2, hypertension/ content advertisement, control 3). Outcome measures were CME credit requests, Web traffic (visits per day, page views, pages viewed per visit), and cost. Results Overall, the site was visited 19,156 times and 78,160 pages were viewed. During the wide dissemination phase, the proportion of visits requesting CME credit decreased between the first (5.3%) and second halves (3.3%) of this phase (p= .04). During the Internet paid search phase, the proportion of visits requesting CME credit was highest during the cultural/ CME advertisement period (control 1, 1.4%; cultural/CME ad, 4.3%; control 2, 1.5%; hypertension/content ad, 0.6%; control 3, 0.8%; p<.001). All measures of Web traffic changed during the Internet paid search phase (p<.01); however, changes were independent of the advertisement periods. The incremental cost for the cultural advertisement per CME credit requested was $0.64US. Discussion Internet advertisement focusing on cultural competence and CME was associated with about a three-fold increase in requests for CME credit at an incremental cost of under $1; however, Web traffic changes were independent of the advertisement strategy. PMID:21425356

  7. 18 CFR 347.1 - Material to support request for newly established or changed property account depreciation studies.

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    2010-04-01

    ... will protect individual shippers. (1) A brief summary relating to the general principles on which the proposed depreciation rates are based (e.g., why the economic life of the pipeline section is less then the... a physical basis and on an economic basis. (5) The following specific background data must be...

  8. 78 FR 12117 - Self-Regulatory Organizations; NYSE Arca, Inc.; Notice of Filing of Proposed Rule Change Amending...

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    ... designed to protect investors and the public interest. Granting Market Makers more time to request a review... addresses errors in series with zero or no bid. Specifically, the Exchange proposes replacing reference to ``series quoted no bid on the Exchange'' with ``series where the NBBO bid is zero.'' This is being done to...

  9. 78 FR 28899 - Proposed Collection; Comment Request

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    ... approval of changes in fundamental investment policies of the Fund. Through rule 20a-1, any person making a... under Section 20(a) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (``1940 Act'') (15 U.S.C. 80a-20(a)) and... registered investment companies (``Funds''). More specifically, rule 20a-1 under the 1940 Act (15 U.S.C. 80a...

  10. Distraction or cognitive overload? Using modulations of the autonomic nervous system to discriminate the possible negative effects of advanced assistance system.

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    Ruscio, D; Bos, A J; Ciceri, M R

    2017-06-01

    The interaction with Advanced Driver Assistance Systems has several positive implications for road safety, but also some potential downsides such as mental workload and automation complacency. Malleable attentional resources allocation theory describes two possible processes that can generate workload in interaction with advanced assisting devices. The purpose of the present study is to determine if specific analysis of the different modalities of autonomic control of nervous system can be used to discriminate different potential workload processes generated during assisted-driving tasks and automation complacency situations. Thirty-five drivers were tested in a virtual scenario while using head-up advanced warning assistance system. Repeated MANOVA were used to examine changes in autonomic activity across a combination of different user interactions generated by the advanced assistance system: (1) expected take-over request without anticipatory warning; (2) expected take-over request with two-second anticipatory warning; (3) unexpected take-over request with misleading warning; (4) unexpected take-over request without warning. Results shows that analysis of autonomic modulations can discriminate two different resources allocation processes, related to different behavioral performances. The user's interaction that required divided attention under expected situations produced performance enhancement and reciprocally-coupled parasympathetic inhibition with sympathetic activity. At the same time, supervising interactions that generated automation complacency were described specifically by uncoupled sympathetic activation. Safety implications for automated assistance systems developments are considered. Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

  11. Function Point Analysis Depot

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Muniz, R.; Martinez, El; Szafran, J.; Dalton, A.

    2011-01-01

    The Function Point Analysis (FPA) Depot is a web application originally designed by one of the NE-C3 branch's engineers, Jamie Szafran, and created specifically for the Software Development team of the Launch Control Systems (LCS) project. The application consists of evaluating the work of each developer to be able to get a real estimate of the hours that is going to be assigned to a specific task of development. The Architect Team had made design change requests for the depot to change the schema of the application's information; that information, changed in the database, needed to be changed in the graphical user interface (GUI) (written in Ruby on Rails (RoR and the web service/server side in Java to match the database changes. These changes were made by two interns from NE-C, Ricardo Muniz from NE-C3, who made all the schema changes for the GUI in RoR and Edwin Martinez, from NE-C2, who made all the changes in the Java side.

  12. Polite Requestive Strategies in Emails: An Investigation of Pragmatic Competence of Chinese EFL Learners

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Zhu, Wuhan

    2012-01-01

    This paper is motivated by the premise that little is known about the use of requestive strategies in request emails in Chinese English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) context. Specifically, the paper examines and compares requestive strategies in request emails between two groups of university students, namely English majors (EM) and non-English…

  13. Direct-to-consumer ads can influence behavior. Advertising increases consumer knowledge and prescription drug requests.

    PubMed

    Peyrot, M; Alperstein, N M; Van Doren, D; Poli, L G

    1998-01-01

    This study examines the impact of direct-to-consumer (DTC) pharmaceutical advertising on prescription drug knowledge and the requesting behavior of consumers. The authors developed and tested a conceptual model of prescription drug knowledge and requests. Consumers' belief that drug advertising can educate them was associated with a greater amount of drug knowledge, and the belief they would upset physicians by asking for specific drugs was associated with less knowledge. The belief that drug advertising reduces prices was associated with greater probability of drug requests, and the belief that physicians should be the sole source of drug information was associated with lesser probability of request. Preference for generic drugs was associated with a lesser likelihood of requesting a specific drug. Media exposure and drug advertising awareness were associated with higher drug knowledge and a greater probability of drug requesting.

  14. NCO Production Management Branch

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    Climate Climate Prediction Climate Archives Weather Safety Storm Ready NOAA Central Library Photo Library Management Branch Production Management Branch About the Production Management Branch NCO REQUEST FOR CHANGE (RFC) DATABASE ACCESS NCO Request For Change (RFC) Archive [For INTERNAL Use Only] NCO Request For

  15. 75 FR 33584 - Request for Comments on Proposed Changes to Restriction Practice in Patent Applications

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    2010-06-14

    ... DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE United States Patent and Trademark Office [Docket No.: PTO-P-2010-0030] Request for Comments on Proposed Changes to Restriction Practice in Patent Applications AGENCY: United States Patent and Trademark Office, Commerce. ACTION: Request for comments. SUMMARY: In situations in...

  16. Decision Making and Communications Process Assessment of NASA Using Three Change Requests from the Space Launch System Program

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Hicks, Karen Campbell

    2015-01-01

    This thesis investigated the communication and decision making process as part of the Systems Engineering practices at the NASA/Marshall Center to determine its level of effectiveness. Data was collected across three change requests to assess how decisions were made, how the decisions were communicated, and whether a process mattered in the formulation and dissemination of those decisions. Data results revealed the comprehensive decision making process for the technical change requests to be effective. Evidence revealed that the process was sufficiently tailored to accommodate the need of each individual technical change which promoted effective communication amongst the stakeholders in the formulation of the strategic decision recommendations elevated to upper management. However, data results also revealed the dissemination of the final decision and approval of the change requests from the higher organizational level down to all stakeholders was less effective. An establishment of a culmination meeting at the end of the change request decision process in which to close the communication loop with all entities would be beneficial.

  17. Advanced Strategic and Tactical Relay Request Management for the Mars Relay Operations Service

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Allard, Daniel A.; Wallick, Michael N.; Gladden, Roy E.; Wang, Paul; Hy, Franklin H.

    2013-01-01

    This software provides a new set of capabilities for the Mars Relay Operations Service (MaROS) in support of Strategic and Tactical relay, including a highly interactive relay request Web user interface, mission control over relay planning time periods, and mission management of allowed strategic vs. tactical request parameters. Together, these new capabilities expand the scope of the system to include all elements critical for Tactical relay operations. Planning of replay activities spans a time period that is split into two distinct phases. The first phase is called Strategic, which begins at the time that relay opportunities are identified, and concludes at the point that the orbiter generates the flight sequences for on board execution. Any relay request changes from this point on are called Tactical. Tactical requests, otherwise called Orbit - er Relay State Changes (ORSC), are highly restricted in terms of what types of changes can be made, and the types of parameters that can be changed may differ from one orbiter to the next. For example, one orbiter may be able to delay the start of a relay request, while another may not. The legacy approach to ORSC management involves exchanges of e-mail with "requests for change" and "acknowledgement of approval," with no other tracking of changes outside of e-mail folders. MaROS Phases 1 and 2 provided the infrastructure for strategic relay for all supported missions. This new version, 3.0, introduces several capabilities that fully expand the scope of the system to include tactical relay. One new feature allows orbiter users to manage and "lock" Planning Periods, which allows the orbiter team to formalize the changeover from Strategic to Tactical operations. Another major feature allows users to interactively submit tactical request changes via a Web user interface. A third new feature allows orbiter missions to specify allowed tactical updates, which are automatically incorporated into the tactical change process. This software update is significant in that it provides the only centralized service for tactical request management available for relay missions.

  18. 24 CFR 58.71 - Request for release of funds and certification.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... Certifying Officer. The request shall describe the specific project and activities covered by the request and... entity with all available project and environmental information and refrain from undertaking any physical activities or choice limiting actions until HUD (or the State, if applicable) has approved its request for...

  19. 24 CFR 58.71 - Request for release of funds and certification.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... Certifying Officer. The request shall describe the specific project and activities covered by the request and... entity with all available project and environmental information and refrain from undertaking any physical activities or choice limiting actions until HUD (or the State, if applicable) has approved its request for...

  20. 45 CFR 1602.8 - Requests for records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... should try to provide the following kinds of information, if known: (1) The specific event or action to... on which a determination may be expected to be dispatched, and the requester's right to treat the... thereof, the requester may deem the request denied, and exercise a right of appeal in accordance with...

  1. 45 CFR 1602.8 - Requests for records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... should try to provide the following kinds of information, if known: (1) The specific event or action to... on which a determination may be expected to be dispatched, and the requester's right to treat the... thereof, the requester may deem the request denied, and exercise a right of appeal in accordance with...

  2. 45 CFR 1602.8 - Requests for records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... should try to provide the following kinds of information, if known: (1) The specific event or action to... on which a determination may be expected to be dispatched, and the requester's right to treat the... thereof, the requester may deem the request denied, and exercise a right of appeal in accordance with...

  3. 45 CFR 1602.8 - Requests for records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... should try to provide the following kinds of information, if known: (1) The specific event or action to... on which a determination may be expected to be dispatched, and the requester's right to treat the... thereof, the requester may deem the request denied, and exercise a right of appeal in accordance with...

  4. General practitioner views on the determinants of test ordering: a theory-based qualitative approach to the development of an intervention to improve immunoglobulin requests in primary care.

    PubMed

    Cadogan, S L; McHugh, S M; Bradley, C P; Browne, J P; Cahill, M R

    2016-07-19

    Research suggests that variation in laboratory requesting patterns may indicate unnecessary test use. Requesting patterns for serum immunoglobulins vary significantly between general practitioners (GPs). This study aims to explore GP's views on testing to identify the determinants of behaviour and recommend feasible intervention strategies for improving immunoglobulin test use in primary care. Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with GPs requesting laboratory tests at Cork University Hospital or University Hospital Kerry in the South of Ireland. GPs were identified using a Health Service Executive laboratory list of GPs in the Cork-Kerry region. A random sample of GPs (stratified by GP requesting patterns) was generated from this list. GPs were purposively sampled based on the criteria of location (urban/rural); length of time qualified; and practice size (single-handed/group). Interviews were carried out between December 2014 and February 2015. Interviews were transcribed verbatim using NVivo 10 software and analysed using the framework analysis method. Emerging themes were mapped to the theoretical domains framework (TDF), which outlines 12 domains that can enable or inhibit behaviour change. The behaviour change wheel and behaviour change technique (BCT) taxonomy were then used to identify potential intervention strategies. Sixteen GPs were interviewed (ten males and six females). Findings suggest that intervention strategies should specifically target the key barriers to effective test ordering, while considering the context of primary care practice. Seven domains from the TDF were perceived to influence immunoglobulin test ordering behaviours and were identified as 'mechanisms for change' (knowledge, environmental context and resources, social/professional role and identity, beliefs about capabilities, beliefs about consequences, memory, attention and decision-making processes and behavioural regulation). Using these TDF domains, seven BCTs emerged as feasible 'intervention content' for targeting GPs' ordering behaviour. These included instructions on how to effectively request the test (how to perform behaviour), information on GPs' use of the test (feedback on behaviour), information about patient consequences resulting from not doing the test (information about health consequences), laboratory/consultant-based advice/education (credible source), altering the test ordering form (restructuring the physical environment), providing guidelines (prompts/cues) and adding interpretive comments to the results (adding objects to the environment). These BCTs aligned to four intervention functions: education, persuasion, environmental restructuring and enablement. This study has effectively applied behaviour change theory to identify feasible strategies for improving immunoglobulin test use in primary care using the TDF, 'behaviour change wheel' and BCT taxonomy. The identified BCTs will form the basis of a theory-based intervention to improve the use of immunoglobulin tests among GPs. Future research will involve the development and evaluation of this intervention.

  5. 77 FR 39921 - D&C Red No. 6 and D&C Red No. 7; Change in Specification

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    2012-07-06

    ..., OH 45232, had filed a color additive petition (CAP 1C0290) requesting that FDA amend its regulations....2306 and 74.2307. Both color additives are required to be batch certified by FDA before they may... D&C Red Nos. 6 and 7 contained ether-soluble matter for which the proponents of the color additives...

  6. 75 FR 80861 - Agency Forms Submitted for OMB Review, Request for Comments

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    2010-12-23

    ... to ERS. The RRB proposes no changes to Form BA-12. Form G-440, Report Specifications Sheet, serves as... compensation to the RRB as needed for administering the RRA and RUIA. To pay benefits due on a deceased... employees hired within the last year (new-hires). Form BA-6a, Form BA-6 Address Report, is used by the RRB...

  7. 78 FR 63375 - List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks: Transnuclear, Inc. Standardized NUHOMS® Cask System

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    2013-10-24

    ... include: adding a new transfer cask (TC), the OS197L, for use with the 32PT and 61BT dry shielded.... 1004. Specifically, Transnuclear, Inc. requested changes to: (1) add a new TC, the OS197L, for use with... with NUREG-1745 requirements. Deleting the TC dose rates for all currently licensed payloads (TSs 1.2...

  8. The higher the farther: distance-specific referential gestures in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

    PubMed

    Gonseth, Chloe; Kawakami, Fumito; Ichino, Etsuko; Tomonaga, Masaki

    2017-11-01

    Referential signals, such as manual pointing or deictic words, allow individuals to efficiently locate a specific entity in the environment, using distance-specific linguistic and/or gestural units. To explore the evolutionary prerequisites of such deictic ability, the present study investigates the ability of chimpanzees to adjust their communicative signals to the distance of a referent. A food-request paradigm in which the chimpanzees had to request a close or distant piece of food on a table in the presence/absence of an experimenter was employed. Our main finding concerns the chimpanzees adjusting their requesting behaviours to the distance of the food such that higher manual gestures and larger mouth openings were used to request the distant piece of food. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to demonstrate that chimpanzees are able to use distance-specific gestures. © 2017 The Authors.

  9. 39 CFR 3001.72 - Filing of formal requests.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... Requests for Changes in the Nature of Postal Services § 3001.72 Filing of formal requests. Whenever the... in the nature of postal services subject to this subpart, the Postal Service shall file with the... Postal Service proposes to make effective the change in the nature of postal services involved. Within 5...

  10. Direct-to-consumer advertising affects provider / patient relationship.

    PubMed

    1998-12-01

    Family planning program clients are increasingly seeking oral contraceptive pills by brand name. Direct-to-consumer ads have spurred this recent increase in brand-specific requests for prescription drugs. While print consumer pitches for prescription drugs have been around for a long time, proposed guidance issued by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in August 1997 allows pharmaceutical companies to more easily broadcast product claim commercials on television and radio. Now, half of all direct-to-consumer advertising dollars spent by pharmaceutical companies during January-February 1998 were directed to television ads, almost twice the share spent upon television last year. Last year, pharmaceutical companies spent more than $1 billion on direct-to-consumer advertising. The effects of this new policy are presenting in providers' offices. Before the FDA guidance, 41% of physicians participating in a national survey observed an increase in patients' requests for brand name drugs. However, since the change, 65% surveyed to date have observed an increase in such requests. With the increase in advertising comes a potential for violations of the US Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, which regulates provider and consumer prescription drug advertising. 125 companies were cited for violations in 1998, 6 specifically for violations connected with contraceptive information they disseminated.

  11. 7 CFR 800.115 - Who may request original services.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... elevator at an export port location shall cover all lots shipped or received in a specific type of carrier. At all other elevators, the request shall cover all lots shipped from or to a specific location in a...

  12. 7 CFR 800.115 - Who may request original services.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... elevator at an export port location shall cover all lots shipped or received in a specific type of carrier. At all other elevators, the request shall cover all lots shipped from or to a specific location in a...

  13. 7 CFR 800.115 - Who may request original services.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... elevator at an export port location shall cover all lots shipped or received in a specific type of carrier. At all other elevators, the request shall cover all lots shipped from or to a specific location in a...

  14. 7 CFR 800.115 - Who may request original services.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... elevator at an export port location shall cover all lots shipped or received in a specific type of carrier. At all other elevators, the request shall cover all lots shipped from or to a specific location in a...

  15. 25 CFR 700.241 - Request for records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... Records § 700.241 Request for records. (a) Submission of requests. A request to inspect or copy records shall be made to the installation where the records are located. If the records are located at more than one installation or if the specific location of the records is not known to the person wishing to...

  16. 30 CFR 47.86 - Denial of a written request for disclosure.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... EDUCATION AND TRAINING HAZARD COMMUNICATION (HazCom) Trade Secret Hazardous Chemical § 47.86 Denial of a written request for disclosure. To deny a written request for disclosure of the identity of a trade secret... claim that the chemical's identity is a trade secret, (2) Stating the specific reasons why the request...

  17. 30 CFR 47.86 - Denial of a written request for disclosure.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... EDUCATION AND TRAINING HAZARD COMMUNICATION (HazCom) Trade Secret Hazardous Chemical § 47.86 Denial of a written request for disclosure. To deny a written request for disclosure of the identity of a trade secret... claim that the chemical's identity is a trade secret, (2) Stating the specific reasons why the request...

  18. 30 CFR 47.86 - Denial of a written request for disclosure.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... EDUCATION AND TRAINING HAZARD COMMUNICATION (HazCom) Trade Secret Hazardous Chemical § 47.86 Denial of a written request for disclosure. To deny a written request for disclosure of the identity of a trade secret... claim that the chemical's identity is a trade secret, (2) Stating the specific reasons why the request...

  19. 30 CFR 47.86 - Denial of a written request for disclosure.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... EDUCATION AND TRAINING HAZARD COMMUNICATION (HazCom) Trade Secret Hazardous Chemical § 47.86 Denial of a written request for disclosure. To deny a written request for disclosure of the identity of a trade secret... claim that the chemical's identity is a trade secret, (2) Stating the specific reasons why the request...

  20. 10 CFR 110.82 - Hearing request or intervention petition.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 2 2013-01-01 2013-01-01 false Hearing request or intervention petition. 110.82 Section... intervention petition. (a) A person may request a hearing or petition for leave to intervene on a license application for an import or export requiring a specific license. (b) Hearing requests and intervention...

  1. 10 CFR 110.82 - Hearing request or intervention petition.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 2 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false Hearing request or intervention petition. 110.82 Section... intervention petition. (a) A person may request a hearing or petition for leave to intervene on a license application for an import or export requiring a specific license. (b) Hearing requests and intervention...

  2. 10 CFR 110.82 - Hearing request or intervention petition.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 2 2012-01-01 2012-01-01 false Hearing request or intervention petition. 110.82 Section... intervention petition. (a) A person may request a hearing or petition for leave to intervene on a license application for an import or export requiring a specific license. (b) Hearing requests and intervention...

  3. 10 CFR 110.82 - Hearing request or intervention petition.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 2 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Hearing request or intervention petition. 110.82 Section... intervention petition. (a) A person may request a hearing or petition for leave to intervene on a license application for an import or export requiring a specific license. (b) Hearing requests and intervention...

  4. 10 CFR 110.82 - Hearing request or intervention petition.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 2 2014-01-01 2014-01-01 false Hearing request or intervention petition. 110.82 Section... intervention petition. (a) A person may request a hearing or petition for leave to intervene on a license application for an import or export requiring a specific license. (b) Hearing requests and intervention...

  5. 33 CFR 117.35 - Temporary change to a drawbridge operating schedule.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... District Commander for approval of the change. (2) The request must describe the reason for the closure and... receipt of the request. If the request is denied, the reasons for the denial will be set out in the... broken into separate time periods on the same day or on consecutive days, the drawbridge must provide...

  6. 75 FR 33886 - Proposed Collection; Comment Request for Form 5308

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    2010-06-15

    ..., Public Law 104-13 (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)). Currently, the IRS is soliciting comments concerning Form 5308, Request for Change in Plan/Trust Year. DATES: Written comments should be received on or before... INFORMATION: Title: Request for Change in Plan/Trust Year. OMB Number: 1545-0201. Form Number: 5308. Abstract...

  7. 78 FR 57372 - Northern Pass Transmission Line Project Environmental Impact Statement: Announcement of Change in...

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    2013-09-18

    ... p.m. Requests to speak at one or more public scoping meeting(s) should be received at the address... ADDRESSES section. ADDRESSES: Requests to speak at a public scoping meeting(s), and requests for individuals... Impact Statement: Announcement of Change in Public Meeting Location AGENCY: Department of Energy. ACTION...

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

    Ward, Morris A.; Parker, Elissa A.

    The Environmental Law Institute, the grantee, in the final quarter of operation under Department of Energy Grant DE-FG02-02ER63414, successfully completed the following tasks associated with the grant: (1) published ''Reporting on Climate Change: Understanding the Science'', the third edition of this resource intended primarily to help print and broadcast journalists report more effectively on scientific aspects of global climate change; (2) distributed the reporters guide directly to roughly 500 journalists and journalism educators participating in the annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Journalists in New Orleans, La.; (3) distributed the reporters guide to an additional 1,500 journalists and journalismmore » educators by mail; (4) provided journalism educators bulk copies, upon specific request, for their use in upper-level science journalism and environmental journalism classes; (5) conducted outreach to science editors and environmental reporters on availability and use of the reporter's guide; (6) completed financial reporting associated with the reporter's guide grant. ELI has provided requested bulk numbers of copies of ''Reporting on Climate Change: Understanding the Science'' to the DOE Project Officer, David C. Bader, Ph.D., and to Jeffrey Amthor, Ph.D., in the Office of Science. ELI currently has a remaining inventory of roughly 500 copies from the original printing of more than 3,000 copies of the guide. These copies are used for responding to continuing requests from journalists and educators for the guide. ELI is currently exploring opportunities for reprinting additional copies to help meet the continuing demand from the educational and journalism communities.« less

  9. COMPONENT COMMANDS

    Science.gov Websites

    EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS CONTACT REQUEST A SPEAKER REQUEST A COLOR GUARD OPERATIONAL CONTRACT SUPPORT every two years and makes recommendations to the President, through the Secretary of Defense, on changes Preparedness Contact Request A Speaker Request A Color Guard Stay Connected Privacy & Security Inspector

  10. 36 CFR 242.20 - Request for reconsideration.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... statement of the facts of the dispute, the issues raised by the request, and specific references to any law... implement a final decision on a request for reconsideration after compliance with 5 U.S.C. 551-559 (APA). (g...

  11. 50 CFR 100.20 - Request for reconsideration.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... raised by the request, and specific references to any law, regulation, or policy that you believe to be... reconsideration after compliance with 5 U.S.C. 551-559 (APA). (g) If the request is denied, the decision of the...

  12. 77 FR 53237 - Submission for Review; Information Collection: Freedom of Information/Privacy Act Record Request...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2012-08-31

    ... of data elements specific to FOIA and Privacy Act record requests submitted to FIS. Current FOIA and... consistent with the published regulations at 5 CFR 294 and 297, respectively. Often the requests are missing data elements which require contact with the requester via mail, thereby adding time to the access...

  13. 21 CFR 1401.12 - Fees to be charged-categories of requesters.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ...; representatives of the news media; and all other requesters. (b) The specific levels of fees for each of these... representatives of the news media. ONDCP will charge the cost of reproduction, excluding charges for the first 100... commercial use. A request that supports the news dissemination function of the requester shall not be...

  14. 43 CFR 3216.15 - When must I file my transfer request?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... complete the transfer. (b) There is no specific time deadline for filing estate transfers, corporate... 43 Public Lands: Interior 2 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false When must I file my transfer request? 3216... Transfers § 3216.15 When must I file my transfer request? (a) File a request to transfer record title or...

  15. 43 CFR 3216.15 - When must I file my transfer request?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... complete the transfer. (b) There is no specific time deadline for filing estate transfers, corporate... 43 Public Lands: Interior 2 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false When must I file my transfer request? 3216... Transfers § 3216.15 When must I file my transfer request? (a) File a request to transfer record title or...

  16. 43 CFR 3216.15 - When must I file my transfer request?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... complete the transfer. (b) There is no specific time deadline for filing estate transfers, corporate... 43 Public Lands: Interior 2 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false When must I file my transfer request? 3216... Transfers § 3216.15 When must I file my transfer request? (a) File a request to transfer record title or...

  17. 43 CFR 3216.15 - When must I file my transfer request?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... complete the transfer. (b) There is no specific time deadline for filing estate transfers, corporate... 43 Public Lands: Interior 2 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false When must I file my transfer request? 3216... Transfers § 3216.15 When must I file my transfer request? (a) File a request to transfer record title or...

  18. 31 CFR 1.5 - Specific requests for other records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    .... Bureaus shall promptly advise the requester in what respect the request or appeal is deficient so that it... not respond within 30 days to a communication from a bureau to amend the request in order for it to be... Information,” require the responsible bureau to review the information to determine whether it continues to...

  19. A multifaceted strategy for implementation of the Ottawa ankle rules in two emergency departments

    PubMed Central

    Clark, Robyn; Shakib, Sepehr; Hughes, Geoffrey

    2009-01-01

    Problem Despite widespread acceptance of the Ottawa ankle rules for assessment of acute ankle injuries, their application varies considerably. Design Before and after study. Background and setting Emergency departments of a tertiary teaching hospital and a community hospital in Australia. Key measures for improvement Documentation of the Ottawa ankle rules, proportion of patients referred for radiography, proportion of radiographs showing a fracture. Strategies for change Education, a problem specific radiography request form, reminders, audit and feedback, and using radiographers as “gatekeepers.” Effects of change Documentation of the Ottawa ankle rules improved from 57.5% to 94.7% at the tertiary hospital, and 51.6% to 80.8% at the community hospital (P<0.001 for both). The proportion of patients undergoing radiography fell from 95.8% to 87.2% at the tertiary hospital, and from 91.4% to 78.9% at the community hospital (P<0.001 for both). The proportion of radiographs showing a fracture increased from 20.4% to 27.1% at the tertiary hospital (P=0.069), and 15.2% to 27.2% (P=0.002) at the community hospital. The missed fracture rate increased from 0% to 2.9% at the tertiary hospital and from 0% to 1.6% at the community hospital compared with baseline (P=0.783 and P=0.747). Lessons learnt Assessment of case note documentation has limitations. Clinician groups seem to differ in their capacity and willingness to change their practice. A multifaceted change strategy including a problem specific radiography request form can improve the selection of patients for radiography. PMID:19675080

  20. 78 FR 19025 - Submission for Review; New Information Collection: Freedom of Information/Privacy Act Record...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-03-28

    ... requests are missing data elements that require contact with the requester by mail, thereby adding time to... standardize collection of data elements specific to FOIA and Privacy Act record requests submitted to FIS...

  1. 12 CFR 4.15 - Specific requests for records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... FUNCTIONS, AVAILABILITY AND RELEASE OF INFORMATION, CONTRACTING OUTREACH PROGRAM, POST-EMPLOYMENT RESTRICTIONS FOR SENIOR EXAMINERS Availability of Information Under the Freedom of Information Act § 4.15 Specific requests for records. (a) Available information. Subject to the exemptions described in § 4.12(b...

  2. From customer satisfaction survey to corrective actions in laboratory services in a university hospital.

    PubMed

    Oja, Paula I; Kouri, Timo T; Pakarinen, Arto J

    2006-12-01

    To find out the satisfaction of clinical units with laboratory services in a university hospital, to point out the most important problems and defects in services, to carry out corrective actions, and thereafter to identify the possible changes in satisfaction. and Senior physicians and nurses-in-charge of the clinical units at Oulu University Hospital, Finland. Customer satisfaction survey using a questionnaire was carried out in 2001, indicating the essential aspects of laboratory services. Customer-specific problems were clarified, corrective actions were performed, and the survey was repeated in 2004. In 2001, the highest dissatisfaction rates were recorded for computerized test requesting and reporting, turnaround times of tests, and the schedule of phlebotomy rounds. The old laboratory information system was not amenable to major improvements, and it was renewed in 2004-05. Several clinical units perceived turnaround times to be long, because the tests were ordered as routine despite emergency needs. Instructions about stat requesting were given to these units. However, no changes were evident in the satisfaction level in the 2004 survey. Following negotiations with the clinics, phlebotomy rounds were re-scheduled. This resulted in a distinct increase in satisfaction in 2004. Satisfaction survey is a screening tool that identifies topics of dissatisfaction. Without further clarifications, it is not possible to find out the specific problems of customers and to undertake targeted corrective actions. Customer-specific corrections are rarely seen as improvements in overall satisfaction rates.

  3. Randomised controlled trial of routine individual feedback to improve rationality and reduce numbers of test requests.

    PubMed

    Winkens, R A; Pop, P; Bugter-Maessen, A M; Grol, R P; Kester, A D; Beusmans, G H; Knottnerus, J A

    1995-02-25

    Feedback can be described as a way to provide information on doctors' performance to enable changes in future behaviour. Feedback is used with the aim of changing test-ordering behaviour. It can lead to reductions in test usage and cost savings. It is not sufficiently clear, however, whether feedback leads to more appropriate test use. Since 1985, the Diagnostic Coordinating Center Maastricht has been giving feedback on diagnostic tests as a routine health care activity to all family doctors in its region. Both quantity and quality of requests are discussed. In a randomised, controlled trial over 2.5 years, discussion of tests not included previously was added to the existing routine feedback. One group of family doctors (n = 39) received feedback on test-group A (electrocardiography, endoscopy, cervical smears, and allergy tests), the other (n = 40) on test-group B (radiographic and ultrasonographic tests). Thus, each group of doctors acted as a control group for the other. Changes in volume and rationality of requests were analysed. The number of requests decreased during the trial (p = 0.036). Request numbers decreased particularly for test-group A (p = 0.04). The proportion of requests that were non-rational decreased more in the intervention than in the control groups (p = 0.009). Rationality improved predominantly for test-group B (p = 0.043). Thus, routine feedback can change the quantity and quality of requests.

  4. Marketing to increase participation in a Web-based continuing medical education cultural competence curriculum.

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    Estrada, Carlos A; Krishnamoorthy, Periyakaruppan; Smith, Ann; Staton, Lisa; Korf, Michele J; Allison, Jeroan J; Houston, Thomas K

    2011-01-01

    CME providers may be interested in identifying effective marketing strategies to direct users to specific content. Online advertisements for recruiting participants into activities such as clinical trials, public health programs, and continuing medical education (CME) have been effective in some but not all studies. The purpose of this study was to compare the impact of 2 marketing strategies in the context of an online CME cultural competence curriculum (www.c-comp.org). In an interrupted time-series quasi-experimental design, 2 marketing strategies were tested: (1) wide dissemination to relevant organizations over a period of approximately 4 months, and (2) Internet paid search using Google Ads (5 consecutive 8-week periods--control 1, cultural/CME advertisement, control 2, hypertension/ content advertisement, control 3). Outcome measures were CME credit requests, Web traffic (visits per day, page views, pages viewed per visit), and cost. Overall, the site was visited 19,156 times and 78,160 pages were viewed. During the wide dissemination phase, the proportion of visits requesting CME credit decreased between the first (5.3%) and second (3.3%) halves of this phase (p = .04). During the Internet paid search phase, the proportion of visits requesting CME credit was highest during the cultural/CME advertisement period (control 1, 1.4%; cultural/CME ad, 4.3%; control 2, 1.5%; hypertension/content ad, 0.6%; control 3, 0.8%; p < .001). All measures of Web traffic changed during the Internet paid search phase (p < .01); however, changes were independent of the advertisement periods. The incremental cost for the cultural advertisement per CME credit requested was US $0.64. Internet advertisement focusing on cultural competence and CME was associated with about a threefold increase in requests for CME credit at an incremental cost of under US $1; however, Web traffic changes were independent of the advertisement strategy. Copyright © 2011 The Alliance for Continuing Medical Education, the Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education, and the Council on CME, Association for Hospital Medical Education.

  5. Method and apparatus for granting processors access to a resource

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    Blumrich, Matthias A.; Salapura, Valentina

    2010-03-16

    An apparatus and method for granting one or more requesting entities access to a resource in a predetermined time interval. The apparatus includes a first circuit receiving one or more request signals, and implementing logic for assigning a priority to the one or more request signals, and, generating a set of first_request signals based on the priorities assigned. One or more priority select circuits for receiving the set of first_request signals and generating corresponding one or more fixed grant signals representing one or more highest priority request signals when asserted during the predetermined time interval. A second circuit device receives the one or more fixed grant signals generates one or more grant signals associated with one or more highest priority request signals assigned, the grant signals for enabling one or more respective requesting entities access to the resource in the predetermined time interval, wherein the priority assigned to the one or more request signals changes each successive predetermined time interval. In one embodiment, the assigned priority is based on a numerical pattern, the first circuit changing the numerical pattern with respect to the first_request signals generated at each successive predetermined time interval.

  6. 19 CFR 181.96 - Change in status of transaction.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... Change in status of transaction. Each person submitting a request for an advance ruling in connection... described in the advance ruling request as prospective becomes current and under the jurisdiction of a...

  7. 19 CFR 181.96 - Change in status of transaction.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... Change in status of transaction. Each person submitting a request for an advance ruling in connection... described in the advance ruling request as prospective becomes current and under the jurisdiction of a...

  8. 77 FR 58364 - Agency Information Collection Extension

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    ..., proposes to extend without changes for three years the Form DOE-887, ``DOE Customer Surveys'' with the... Collection Request Title: ``DOE Customer Surveys;'' (3) Type of Request: Three-year extension without changes; [[Page 58365

  9. 39 CFR 3001.71 - Applicability.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... Requests for Changes in the Nature of Postal Services § 3001.71 Applicability. The rules in this subpart... requesting from the Commission an advisory opinion on changes in the nature of postal services which will...

  10. 76 FR 16393 - Commission Information Collection Activities, Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Extension

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    ...] Commission Information Collection Activities, Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Extension AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, DOE. ACTION: Notice of proposed information collection and request for... public comment on the specific aspects of the information collection described below. DATES: Comments in...

  11. 17 CFR Appendix A to Part 40 - Guideline No. 1

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... trading unit 7. Delivery pack or composition of delivery units 8. Delivery instrument (e.g., warehouse... specifically requested, such additional evidence, information or data relating to whether the contract meets... (4) As specifically requested, such additional evidence, information or data relating to whether the...

  12. 78 FR 58608 - Proposed Collection; Comment Request for the EFTPS Primary Contact Information Change Form

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    ... EFTPS Primary Contact Information Change Form AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Treasury. ACTION..., the IRS is soliciting comments concerning the EFTPS Primary Contact Information Change Form. DATES... Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20224. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional...

  13. 75 FR 61245 - Proposed Collection; Comment Request for the EFTPS Primary Contact Information Change Form

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    2010-10-04

    ... EFTPS Primary Contact Information Change Form AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Treasury. ACTION..., the IRS is soliciting comments concerning the EFTPS Primary Contact Information Change Form. DATES... Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20224. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional...

  14. 78 FR 341 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request

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    ..., Parkersburg, WV 26106-1328, (304) 480-8150. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Form Numbers and Title: PD F 5354--FHA Transaction Request; PD F 5366--FHA New Account Request; PD F 5367--FHA Debenture Transfer Request. OMB Number: 1535-0102. Abstract: The information is used to (1) Establish a book-entry account; (2) change...

  15. 29 CFR 2201.6 - Responses to requests.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... information substantially change the estimated time to process a request, the requester will be notified in... given to be true and correct to the best of his or her knowledge and belief. The certification...

  16. 78 FR 59341 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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    2013-09-26

    ...: Title, Associated Form and OMB Number: TRICARE Plus Enrollment Application (DD 2853) and TRICARE Plus Disenrollment Request (DD 2854); OMB Control Number 0720-0028. Type of Request: Reinstatement with Change Number...

  17. Direct-to-consumer advertising: physicians' views of its effects on quality of care and the doctor-patient relationship.

    PubMed

    Murray, Elizabeth; Lo, Bernard; Pollack, Lance; Donelan, Karen; Lee, Ken

    2003-01-01

    The objective of the study was to determine physicians' views of the effects of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising (DTCA) on health service utilization, quality of care, and the doctor-patient relationship. Cross-sectional survey of a nationally representative sample of US physicians to determine their perceptions of the effects of patients discussing information from DTCA on time efficiency; requests for specific interventions; health outcomes; and the doctor-patient relationship. Physicians reported that more than half (56%) of patients who discussed information from DTCA in a visit did so because they wanted a specific intervention, such as a test, change in medication, or specialist referral. The physician deemed 49% of these requests clinically inappropriate. Physicians filled 69% of requests they deemed clinically inappropriate; 39% of physicians perceived DTCA as damaging to the time efficiency of the visit, and 13% saw it as helpful. Thirty-three percent of physicians thought discussing DTCA had improved the doctor-patient relationship; 8% felt it had worsened it. The effect on the relationship was strongly associated with doing what the patient wanted. DTCA can have good and bad effects on quality of care, the doctor-patient relationship, and health service utilization. The benefits might be maximized, and the harms minimized, by increasing the accuracy of information in advertisements; enhancing physicians' communication and negotiation skills; and encouraging patients to respect physicians' clinical expertise.

  18. 20 CFR 422.110 - Individual's request for change in record.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... change in records to any Social Security office, or, if you are outside the U.S., to the Department of... limitations specified in § 422.103(e)(2) for replacement social security number cards representing a change of... 20 Employees' Benefits 2 2011-04-01 2011-04-01 false Individual's request for change in record...

  19. 20 CFR 422.110 - Individual's request for change in record.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... change in records to any Social Security office, or, if you are outside the U.S., to the Department of... limitations specified in § 422.103(e)(2) for replacement social security number cards representing a change of... 20 Employees' Benefits 2 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Individual's request for change in record...

  20. Traffic Aware Strategic Aircrew Requests (TASAR)

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Ballin, Mark G.; Wing, David J.

    2012-01-01

    Under Instrument Flight Rules, pilots are not permitted to make changes to their approved trajectory without first receiving permission from Air Traffic Control (ATC). Referred to as "user requests," trajectory change requests from aircrews are often denied or deferred by controllers because they have awareness of traffic and airspace constraints not currently available to flight crews. With the introduction of Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) and other information services, a rich traffic, weather, and airspace information environment is becoming available on the flight deck. Automation developed by NASA uses this information to aid flight crews in the identification and formulation of optimal conflict-free trajectory requests. The concept of Traffic Aware Strategic Aircrew Requests (TASAR) combines ADS-B and airborne automation to enable user-optimal in-flight trajectory replanning and to increase the likelihood of ATC approval for the resulting trajectory change request. TASAR may improve flight efficiency or other user-desired attributes of the flight while not impacting and potentially benefiting the air traffic controller. This paper describes the TASAR concept of operations, its enabling automation technology which is currently under development, and NASA s plans for concept assessment and maturation.

  1. Requests for electromyography in Rome: a critical evaluation

    PubMed Central

    Di Fabio, Roberto; Castagnoli, Claudio; Madrigale, Andrea; Barrella, Massimo; Serrao, Mariano; Pierelli, Francesco

    2013-01-01

    Summary To date, there exist no data reporting the level of suitability of requests for electromyography examinations (EMGs) in Rome. The records of 1,220 consecutive patients (age: 57.6±15.0 years; 400 M, 820 F) in two neurophysiology laboratories were collected and analyzed. In total, 1,317 EMGs were requested, mainly by general practitioners (GPs) (57%) and orthopedic specialists (18%). The most common diagnoses were L4-L5 radiculopathy (22%) and carpal tunnel syndrome (21%); 332 examinations (25%) were normal. 68% of requests were not accompanied by any specific query. The concordance between initial hypothesis/final post-EMG diagnosis was low (<20%). When a specific query was indicated, the initial suspicion was confirmed by EMG in 54% of GP requests and 64% of requests by specialists (p=0.03). No difference in diagnostic ability was found between specialists (p>0.05). In 17% of cases, the EMG was deemed diagnostically useless by the neurophysiologist, which seems to indicate potentially suboptimal prescription of EMGs. PMID:24598396

  2. 40 CFR 63.775 - Reporting requirements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... the owner or operator is required by the Administrator to conduct a performance evaluation for a... requested by the Administrator, a site-specific test plan is not required by this subpart. If requested by the Administrator, the owner or operator must also submit the site-specific test plan required by § 63...

  3. Responding to an RFP: A Vendor's Viewpoint.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Kington, Robert A.

    1987-01-01

    Outlines factors used by online vendors to decide whether to bid on RFPs (requests for proposals) for library automation systems, including specifications for software, hardware or performance requirements not met by the vendor; specifications based on competitors' systems; the size and complexity of the request itself; and vendors' time…

  4. 78 FR 72687 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Reinstatement, Without Change; Comment Request

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    2013-12-03

    ... Information Collection Activities: Reinstatement, Without Change; Comment Request ACTION: 30-Day Notice of Information Collection for Review; Form No. I- 333, Obligor Change of Address; OMB Control No. 1653-0042. The... appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms of...

  5. Energy Costs and Energy Conservation Programs in Colleges and Universities: 1972-73, 1974-75. Higher Education Panel Reports, Number 31.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Atelsek, Frank J.; Gomberg, Irene L.

    A survey was initiated at the request of the U.S. Office of Education and the Energy Task Force to: (1) measure the increase in energy expenditures since the OPEC oil embargo of 1973-74; (2) assess changes in energy consumption over a two-year period; and (3) examine some of the specific conservation practices of higher education institutions.…

  6. At Your Request(®) room service dining improves patient satisfaction, maintains nutritional status, and offers opportunities to improve intake.

    PubMed

    Doorduijn, Astrid S; van Gameren, Yvonne; Vasse, Emmelyne; de Roos, Nicole M

    2016-10-01

    Malnutrition in hospitals may be combatted by improving the meal service. To evaluate whether At Your Request(®), a meal service concept by Sodexo with a restaurant style menu card and room service, improved patient satisfaction, nutritional status, and food intake compared to the traditional 3-meals per day service. We prospectively collected data in Hospital Gelderse Vallei (Ede, the Netherlands) before (2011/2012; n = 168, age 63 ± 15 y) and after (2013/2014; n = 169, 66 ± 15 y) implementing At Your Request(®). Patient satisfaction increased after implementing At Your Request(®) from 7.5 to 8.1 (scale 1-10) and from 124.5 to 132.9 points on a nutrition-related quality of life questionnaire (p < 0.05). Body weight and handgrip strength did not significantly change in both periods. At admission, more patients in the At Your Request(®) period had risk of malnutrition (MUST ≥ 1; 47 vs 37). MUST scores improved in 18 patients in both periods. With At Your Request(®) 0.92 g protein per kg (g/kg) bodyweight was ordered. Protein intake based on food records from patients on an energy and protein enriched diet was 0.84 g/kg during At Your Request(®) (n = 38) versus 0.91 g/kg during the traditional meal service (n = 34). At Your Request(®) is a highly rated hospital menu concept that helps patients to maintain nutritional status. The concept offers options for improving the intake of specific nutrients and foods, which should be evaluated in further studies. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ltd and European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism. All rights reserved.

  7. Evaluating changes to reservoir rule curves using historical water-level data

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    Mower, Ethan; Miranda, Leandro E.

    2013-01-01

    Flood control reservoirs are typically managed through rule curves (i.e. target water levels) which control the storage and release timing of flood waters. Changes to rule curves are often contemplated and requested by various user groups and management agencies with no information available about the actual flood risk of such requests. Methods of estimating flood risk in reservoirs are not easily available to those unfamiliar with hydrological models that track water movement through a river basin. We developed a quantile regression model that uses readily available daily water-level data to estimate risk of spilling. Our model provided a relatively simple process for estimating the maximum applicable water level under a specific flood risk for any day of the year. This water level represents an upper-limit umbrella under which water levels can be operated in a variety of ways. Our model allows the visualization of water-level management under a user-specified flood risk and provides a framework for incorporating the effect of a changing environment on water-level management in reservoirs, but is not designed to replace existing hydrological models. The model can improve communication and collaboration among agencies responsible for managing natural resources dependent on reservoir water levels.

  8. 25 CFR 115.607 - How do you request a hearing to challenge the BIA's decision to restrict your IIM account?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... decision and notified you of the restriction. Your request must: (a) Be in writing; (b) Specifically request a hearing to challenge the restriction; and (c) Be hand delivered to the BIA office or postmarked...

  9. 78 FR 51806 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Requests for Comments; Clearance of Renewed Approval of...

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    2013-08-21

    ... issue, reissue, or amend applicant's operating certificates and operations specifications. DATES... Operations AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT. ACTION: Notice and request for comments... intention to request the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval to renew an information collection...

  10. 76 FR 7591 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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    2011-02-10

    ... NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request AGENCY: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). ACTION... in a timely fashion the volume of requests received for these records and the need to obtain specific...

  11. 78 FR 32623 - Endangered Species; File No. 17452

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    2013-05-31

    ... individuals requesting a public hearing should submit a written request to the Chief, Permits and Conservation Division at the address listed above. The request should set forth the specific reasons why a hearing on... with a more comprehensive understanding of the presence, abundance, and distribution of protected...

  12. 76 FR 70209 - Proposed Information Collection Request; Notice of New Requirements and Procedures for Grant...

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    2011-11-10

    ... Procedures for Grant Payment Request Submission. OMB Control Number: XXXX-XXXX. Type of Request: New... Administrations (OAs).\\1\\ DOT is updating systems that support grant payments and there will be changes to the way... requesting payment electronically through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Grant Tracking...

  13. Nonuniformity of Temperatures in Microwave Steam Heating of Lobster Tail.

    PubMed

    Fleischman, Gregory J

    2016-11-01

    The biennial Conference for Food Protection provides a formal process for all interested parties to influence food safety guidance. At a recent conference, an issue was raised culminating in a formal request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to change its Food Code recommendation for safe cooking of seafood using microwave energy when steaming was also employed. The request was to treat microwave steam cooked seafood as a conventionally cooked raw animal product rather than a microwave cooked product, for which the safe cooking recommendation is more extensive owing to the complex temperature distributions in microwave heating. The request was motivated by a literature study that revealed a more uniform temperature distribution in microwave steam cooked whole lobster. In that study, single-point temperatures were recorded in various sections of the whole lobster, but only one temperature was recorded in the tail, although the large size of the tail could translate to multiple hot and cold points. The present study was conducted to examine lobster tail specifically, measuring temperatures at multiple points during microwave steam cooking. Large temperature differences, greater than 60°C at times, were found throughout the heating period. To compensate for such differences, the Food Code recommends a more extensive level of cooking when microwave energy, rather than conventional heat sources, is used. Therefore, a change in the Food Code regarding microwave steam heating cannot be recommended.

  14. 32 CFR 1900.34 - Requests for expedited processing.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... processing and will notify the requester of its decision. The certification shall set forth with specificity... 32 National Defense 6 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Requests for expedited processing. 1900.34... AGENCY PUBLIC ACCESS TO CIA RECORDS UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA) Additional Administrative...

  15. 22 CFR 1102.5 - Categories of requesters for fee purposes.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... MEXICO, UNITED STATES SECTION FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT § 1102.5 Categories of requesters for fee... prescribes specific levels of fees for each of these categories. The Section will take into account information provided by requesters in determining their eligibility for inclusion in one of these categories...

  16. 77 FR 32087 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Participation by...

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    2012-05-31

    ... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [EPA-HQ-OA-2006-0278; FRL-9669-9] Agency Information Collection... submit a request to reinstate an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and... approval, EPA is soliciting comments on specific aspects of the proposed information collection as...

  17. 50 CFR 600.1003 - Content of a request for a financed program.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... requester's endorsement in principle of the reduction amendment specifications in the business plan. Endorsement in principle is non-binding. (h) Request that NMFS conduct, at the appropriate time, a referendum... operating economics of typical harvesters in the reduction fishery, with particular emphasis on the extent...

  18. 75 FR 7268 - Agency Information Collection Request; 60-Day Public Comment Request

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    2010-02-18

    ... information collection request for public comment. Interested persons are invited to send comments regarding... plans, employers, and health care providers. We know very little about why consumers, and specifically... the newer, more robust Internet-based tools for tracking their health and health care services. This...

  19. Analysis of Impacts of a Clean Energy Standard as requested by Chairman Hall

    EIA Publications

    2011-01-01

    This report responds to a request from Chairman Ralph M. Hall for an analysis of the impacts of a Clean Energy Standard (CES). The request, as outlined in the letter included in Appendix A, sets out specific assumptions and scenarios for the study.

  20. 78 FR 75947 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Welding...

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    2013-12-13

    ... for OMB Review; Comment Request; Welding, Cutting, and Brazing Standard ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The... information collection request (ICR) titled, ``Welding, Cutting, and Brazing Standard,'' to the Office of... the Welding, Cutting, and Brazing Standard, regulations 29 CFR part 1910, subpart Q. More specifically...

  1. 75 FR 22404 - Clofencet; Notice of Receipt of Request to Voluntarily Cancel Certain Pesticide Registrations

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    2010-04-28

    ... EPA of a request from the registrant, Monsanto Company, to cancel certain clofencet product.... In a letter dated February 5, 2010, Monsanto Company requested EPA to cancel the pesticide product registrations identified in Table 1. Specifically, Monsanto Company, the sole registrant of this active...

  2. 78 FR 5858 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Requests for Comments; Clearance of Renewed Approval of...

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    2013-01-28

    ... Activities: Requests for Comments; Clearance of Renewed Approval of Information Collection: Operations... intention to request the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for to renew an information collection. The FAA assesses the information collected and issues operations specifications to foreign air...

  3. 40 CFR 2.102 - Procedures for making requests.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... envelope or e-mail subject line “Freedom of Information Act Request.” You should also include your name... request should include specific information about each record sought, such as the date, title or name, author, recipient, and subject matter. If known, you should include any file designations or descriptions...

  4. 40 CFR 2.102 - Procedures for making requests.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... envelope or e-mail subject line “Freedom of Information Act Request.” You should also include your name... request should include specific information about each record sought, such as the date, title or name, author, recipient, and subject matter. If known, you should include any file designations or descriptions...

  5. 20 CFR 418.2255 - What kind of evidence of a major life-changing event will you need to support your request for us...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-04-01

    ...-changing event will you need to support your request for us to use a more recent tax year? 418.2255 Section... Adjustments to Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage Premiums Determinations Using A More Recent Tax Year's... need to support your request for us to use a more recent tax year? We will follow the rules in § 418...

  6. 20 CFR 418.2255 - What kind of evidence of a major life-changing event will you need to support your request for us...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ...-changing event will you need to support your request for us to use a more recent tax year? 418.2255 Section... Adjustments to Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage Premiums Determinations Using A More Recent Tax Year's... need to support your request for us to use a more recent tax year? We will follow the rules in § 418...

  7. 20 CFR 418.2255 - What kind of evidence of a major life-changing event will you need to support your request for us...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-04-01

    ...-changing event will you need to support your request for us to use a more recent tax year? 418.2255 Section... Adjustments to Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage Premiums Determinations Using A More Recent Tax Year's... need to support your request for us to use a more recent tax year? We will follow the rules in § 418...

  8. 24 CFR 970.15 - Specific criteria for HUD approval of demolition requests.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... HOUSING PROJECTS § 970.15 Specific criteria for HUD approval of demolition requests. (a) In addition to... public housing project must certify that the project: (1) Is obsolete as to physical condition, location... modifications is cost-effective to return the public housing project or portion of the project to useful life...

  9. 76 FR 329 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Reporting Requirements for the Ocean Salmon...

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    ... Collection; Comment Request; Reporting Requirements for the Ocean Salmon Fishery Off the Coasts of Washington..., designated regulatory areas in the commercial ocean salmon fishery off the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and... requirements to land salmon within specific time frames and in specific areas may be implemented in the...

  10. 18 CFR 281.211 - Filing and documentation.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... belief. (2) Local distribution companies. Each request for classification of essential agricultural...) Subsequent request. (i) For 1979, changes in priority 2 entitlements for essential agricultural use... that there has been a change in essential agricultural requirements. (Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978...

  11. WIPP Magnesium Oxide (MgO) - Planned Change Request

    EPA Pesticide Factsheets

    On April 10, 2006, the DOE submitted a planned change request pertaining to the amount of MgO emplaced in the WIPP repository. MgO is an engineered barrier that DOE included as part of the original WIPP Certification Decision.

  12. 76 FR 64377 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comments Requested: Alien's Change...

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    ... Collection; Comments Requested: Alien's Change of Address Forms: 33/BIA Board of Immigration Appeals and 33... approved collection. (2) Title of the Form/Collection: Alien's Change of Address Forms: 33/BIA Board of... determine where to send notices of the next administrative action or of any decisions in an alien's case. (5...

  13. 76 FR 80403 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed collection; Comments Request: Alien's Change...

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    2011-12-23

    ... collection; Comments Request: Alien's Change of Address Form: 33/BIA Board of Immigration Appeal; 33/IC... Collection. (2) Title of the Form/Collection: Alien's Change of Address Forms 33/BIA Board of Immigration... send notices of the next administrative action or of any decisions in an alien's case. (5) An estimate...

  14. 29 CFR 4903.19 - How does a debtor request a special review based on a change in circumstances such as...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... change in circumstances such as catastrophic illness, divorce, death, or disability? 4903.19 Section 4903... debtor request a special review based on a change in circumstances such as catastrophic illness, divorce... not limited to, catastrophic illness, divorce, death, or disability. (b) Inability to pay. For...

  15. 29 CFR 4903.19 - How does a debtor request a special review based on a change in circumstances such as...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... change in circumstances such as catastrophic illness, divorce, death, or disability? 4903.19 Section 4903... debtor request a special review based on a change in circumstances such as catastrophic illness, divorce... not limited to, catastrophic illness, divorce, death, or disability. (b) Inability to pay. For...

  16. 29 CFR 4903.19 - How does a debtor request a special review based on a change in circumstances such as...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... change in circumstances such as catastrophic illness, divorce, death, or disability? 4903.19 Section 4903... debtor request a special review based on a change in circumstances such as catastrophic illness, divorce... not limited to, catastrophic illness, divorce, death, or disability. (b) Inability to pay. For...

  17. 29 CFR 4903.19 - How does a debtor request a special review based on a change in circumstances such as...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... change in circumstances such as catastrophic illness, divorce, death, or disability? 4903.19 Section 4903... debtor request a special review based on a change in circumstances such as catastrophic illness, divorce... not limited to, catastrophic illness, divorce, death, or disability. (b) Inability to pay. For...

  18. Cost Estimation of Post Production Software Support in Ground Combat Systems

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2007-09-01

    request, year of the request, EINOMEN (a word description of the system), and a PRON (a unique identifier containing the year and weapons system...variance. The fiscal year of request, descriptive name (coded as EINOMEN), unique program identifier ( PRON ), amount funded, and total amount requested...entire data set loses this sophistication. Most of the unique PRONs in the database map to a specific ground combat system, as described in the

  19. 77 FR 30325 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comments Requested: Notification...

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    ...] Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comments Requested: Notification of Change... through the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection... currently approved collection. (2) Title of the Form/Collection: Notification of Change of Mailing or...

  20. 78 FR 45275 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed collection; Comments Requested: Notification...

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    ...] Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed collection; Comments Requested: Notification of Change... technological collection techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic... currently approved collection. (2) Title of the Form/Collection: Notification of Change of Mailing or...

  1. 32 CFR 1701.7 - Requests for notification of and access to records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ADMINISTRATION OF RECORDS UNDER THE PRIVACY ACT OF 1974 Protection of Privacy and Access to Individual Records Under the Privacy Act of 1974 § 1701.7 Requests for... the specific Privacy Act System of Records Notice. To ensure proper routing and tracking, requesters...

  2. 42 CFR 401.128 - Where requests for records may be made.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... studies authorized by the Social Security Act in the field of health care financing. (c) Requests for... individuals. Disclosure of such records is generally prohibited by section 1106 of the Social Security Act (42... office of the Social Security Administration. If the specific material requested is not available in the...

  3. 42 CFR 401.128 - Where requests for records may be made.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... studies authorized by the Social Security Act in the field of health care financing. (c) Requests for... individuals. Disclosure of such records is generally prohibited by section 1106 of the Social Security Act (42... office of the Social Security Administration. If the specific material requested is not available in the...

  4. 42 CFR 401.128 - Where requests for records may be made.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... studies authorized by the Social Security Act in the field of health care financing. (c) Requests for... individuals. Disclosure of such records is generally prohibited by section 1106 of the Social Security Act (42... office of the Social Security Administration. If the specific material requested is not available in the...

  5. 42 CFR 401.128 - Where requests for records may be made.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... studies authorized by the Social Security Act in the field of health care financing. (c) Requests for... individuals. Disclosure of such records is generally prohibited by section 1106 of the Social Security Act (42... office of the Social Security Administration. If the specific material requested is not available in the...

  6. 78 FR 21617 - Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Comment Request; Multifamily Project Construction...

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    2013-04-11

    ... Information Collection: Comment Request; Multifamily Project Construction Contract, Building Loan Agreement, and Construction Change Request AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Housing, HUD. ACTION.... This Notice also lists the following information: Title of Proposal: Multifamily Project Construction...

  7. 5 CFR 841.1005 - State responsibilities.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ....1005 State responsibilities. The State will, in performance of this agreement: (a) Accept requests and...) Convert these requests on a monthly basis to a machine-readable magnetic tape using specifications...

  8. 5 CFR 841.1005 - State responsibilities.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ....1005 State responsibilities. The State will, in performance of this agreement: (a) Accept requests and...) Convert these requests on a monthly basis to a machine-readable magnetic tape using specifications...

  9. Requests from professional care providers for consultation with palliative care consultation teams.

    PubMed

    Groot, Marieke M; Vernooij-Dassen, Myrra J F J; Courtens, Annemie M; Kuin, Annemieke; van der Linden, Barbara A; van Zuylen, Lia; Crul, Ben J P; Grol, Richard P T M

    2005-11-01

    Professional care providers need a substantial basis of competence and expertise to provide appropriate palliative care. Little is known about the problems professionals experience in their palliative care provision in daily practice or about the nature of the advice and support they request from experts. Our aim was to investigate the extent to which professionals requested assistance from palliative care consultation teams and the reasons behind these requests to trace any gaps they experience in the provision of palliative care. As part of a large national palliative care development programme, we studied requests for consultation made by professional care providers over a 2-year period. The requests for consultation were recorded on a specially developed standard registration form and classified according to 11 domains relevant to palliative care. Professional care providers requested 4351 consultations on account of 8413 specific problems in 11 quality-of-life and quality-of-care domains. The distribution of problems over these domains was unbalanced: 42.2% of the specific problems were physical, while the percentages of psychological, pharmacological and organizational problems were 7.7, 12.5 and 12.8%, respectively. In contrast, issues of a spiritual nature or concerned with daily functioning were raised infrequently (1.1 and 0.9%). Details of the specific problems in all the domains are described in the text and tables. The results of our study form a valid basis on which to develop and implement improvements in palliative care. We recommend that future well-founded policies for palliative care should incorporate palliative care consultation as well as educational and organizational interventions.

  10. 75 FR 76951 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request The Department of Commerce will... harassment/refusal to board, safety or performance concerns, 15 minutes each; observer provider change in... of contracts with observers or vessels, change in ownership information, and reports of harassment of...

  11. 78 FR 77667 - Proposed Agency Information Collection Extension With Changes

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    ... with changes, under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, for the Electricity and.../electricity/ . SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This information collection request contains: (1) OMB No.: 1905-0129; (2) Information Collection Request Title: Electricity and Renewables Power Surveys; (3) Type of...

  12. 77 FR 44270 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comments Requested: Notification...

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    ...] Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comments Requested: Notification of Change... automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms of...: Notification of Change of Mailing or Premise Address. (3) Agency form number, if any, and the applicable...

  13. 78 FR 59722 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comments Requested; Notification...

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    2013-09-27

    ...] Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comments Requested; Notification of Change... automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms of...: Notification of Change of Mailing or Premise Address. (3) Agency form number, if any, and the applicable...

  14. The changing face of informed surgical consent.

    PubMed

    Oosthuizen, J C; Burns, P; Timon, C

    2012-03-01

    To determine whether procedure-specific brochures improve patients' pre-operative knowledge, to determine the amount of information expected by patients during the consenting process, and to determine whether the recently proposed 'Request for Treatment' consenting process is viable on a large scale. A prospective, questionnaire-based study of 100 patients admitted for selected, elective surgical procedures. In total, 99 per cent of patients were satisfied with the information received in the out-patient department, regarding the proposed procedure. However, 38 per cent were unable to correctly state the nature of the surgery or specific procedure they were scheduled to undergo. Although the vast majority of patients were able to state the intended benefits to be gained from the procedure, only 54 per cent were able to list at least one potential complication, and 80 per cent indicated that they wished to be informed about all potential complications, even if these occurred in less than 1 per cent of cases. The introduction of procedure-specific brochures improved patients' pre-operative knowledge. Although the failings of current consenting practice are clear, the Request for Treatment consenting process would not appear to be a viable alternative because of the large number of patients unable to accurately recall the nature of the proposed surgery or potential complications, following consent counselling.

  15. Patient-initiated electronic health record amendment requests

    PubMed Central

    Hanauer, David A; Preib, Rebecca; Zheng, Kai; Choi, Sung W

    2014-01-01

    Background and objective Providing patients access to their medical records offers many potential benefits including identification and correction of errors. The process by which patients ask for changes to be made to their records is called an ‘amendment request’. Little is known about the nature of such amendment requests and whether they result in modifications to the chart. Methods We conducted a qualitative content analysis of all patient-initiated amendment requests that our institution received over a 7-year period. Recurring themes were identified along three analytic dimensions: (1) clinical/documentation area, (2) patient motivation for making the request, and (3) outcome of the request. Results The dataset consisted of 818 distinct requests submitted by 181 patients. The majority of these requests (n=636, 77.8%) were made to rectify incorrect information and 49.7% of all requests were ultimately approved. In 6.6% of the requests, patients wanted valid information removed from their record, 27.8% of which were approved. Among all of the patients requesting a copy of their chart, only a very small percentage (approximately 0.2%) submitted an amendment request. Conclusions The low number of amendment requests may be due to inadequate awareness by patients about how to make changes to their records. To make this approach effective, it will be important to inform patients of their right to view and amend records and about the process for doing so. Increasing patient access to medical records could encourage patient participation in improving the accuracy of medical records; however, caution should be used. PMID:24863430

  16. 78 FR 59671 - Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP...

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    2013-09-27

    ... anticipated to change over the next three years; and (2) the growth rate for the respondents is very low... is that all comments received will be included in the public docket without change including any... 40 CFR part 63, subpart A, and any changes, or additions, to the Provisions specified at 40 CFR part...

  17. 75 FR 45600 - Information Collection; Customer Data Worksheet Request for Service Center Information Management...

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    2010-08-03

    ... DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Farm Service Agency Information Collection; Customer Data Worksheet Request for Service Center Information Management System (SCIMS) Record Changes AGENCY: Farm Service... Customer Data Worksheet Request for Service Center Information Management System (SCIMS) that contains the...

  18. Analysis of Operational Hazards and Safety Requirements for Traffic Aware Strategic Aircrew Requests (TASAR)

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    Koczo, Stefan, Jr.

    2013-01-01

    Safety analyses of the Traffic Aware Strategic Aircrew Requests (TASAR) Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) application are provided to establish its Failure Effects Classification which affects certification and operational approval requirements. TASAR was developed by NASA Langley Research Center to offer flight path improvement opportunities to the pilot during flight for operational benefits (e.g., reduced fuel, flight time). TASAR, using own-ship and network-enabled information concerning the flight and its environment, including weather and Air Traffic Control (ATC) system constraints, provides recommended improvements to the flight trajectory that the pilot can choose to request via Change Requests to ATC for revised clearance. This study reviews the Change Request process of requesting updates to the current clearance, examines the intended function of TASAR, and utilizes two safety assessment methods to establish the Failure Effects Classification of TASAR. Considerable attention has been given in this report to the identification of operational hazards potentially associated with TASAR.

  19. 26 CFR 601.702 - Publication, public inspection, and specific requests for records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... requests for records. 601.702 Section 601.702 Internal Revenue INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE... distribute (by sale or otherwise) copies of each index or supplements thereto unless it determines by order... rules and procedures set forth in this section. Any request or any appeal from the initial denial of a...

  20. 26 CFR 601.702 - Publication, public inspection, and specific requests for records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... requests for records. 601.702 Section 601.702 Internal Revenue INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE... distribute (by sale or otherwise) copies of each index or supplements thereto unless it determines by order... rules and procedures set forth in this section. Any request or any appeal from the initial denial of a...

  1. Summary and Analysis of President Obama's Education Budget Request, Fiscal Year 2012: Issue Brief

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    New America Foundation, 2011

    2011-01-01

    President Barack Obama submitted his third budget request to Congress on February 14th, 2011. The detailed budget request includes proposed funding levels for federal programs and agencies in aggregate for the upcoming 10 fiscal years, and specific fiscal year 2012 funding levels for individual programs subject to appropriations. Congress will use…

  2. 77 FR 25692 - Marine Mammals; File No. 16479

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    2012-05-01

    ...], 300 Maalaea Road, Suite 211, Wailuku, HI 96793, has requested a change in Principal Investigator to..., environmental variables, vessel behavior, whale abundance, and individual sex and age classes. Up to 567... activities. Under the pending permit application, The Pacific Whale Foundation is requesting a change in...

  3. 40 CFR 149.107 - Request for information.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... funding Federal agency which is pertinent to reaching a decision. If full evaluation of the groundwater... Administrator may specifically request that the Federal agency submit a groundwater impact evaluation of whether...

  4. 40 CFR 149.107 - Request for information.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... funding Federal agency which is pertinent to reaching a decision. If full evaluation of the groundwater... Administrator may specifically request that the Federal agency submit a groundwater impact evaluation of whether...

  5. 40 CFR 149.107 - Request for information.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... funding Federal agency which is pertinent to reaching a decision. If full evaluation of the groundwater... Administrator may specifically request that the Federal agency submit a groundwater impact evaluation of whether...

  6. 40 CFR 149.107 - Request for information.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... funding Federal agency which is pertinent to reaching a decision. If full evaluation of the groundwater... Administrator may specifically request that the Federal agency submit a groundwater impact evaluation of whether...

  7. 40 CFR 149.107 - Request for information.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... funding Federal agency which is pertinent to reaching a decision. If full evaluation of the groundwater... Administrator may specifically request that the Federal agency submit a groundwater impact evaluation of whether...

  8. Other Requests under Renewable Fuel Standard

    EPA Pesticide Factsheets

    Outside parties can submit a request to EPA to waive the standards, provide reconsideration of a specific requirement or approve of an alternative compliance approach using one of the mechanisms listed below.

  9. 40 CFR 1068.105 - What other provisions apply to me specifically if I manufacture equipment needing certified engines?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... inventory practice is to keep on hand a one-month supply of engines based on your upcoming production...) Send a request for duplicate labels in writing on your company's letterhead to the engine manufacturer. Include the following information in your request: (i) Identify the type of equipment and the specific...

  10. Interlibrary loan in US and Canadian health sciences libraries 2005: update on journal article use.

    PubMed

    Lacroix, Eve-Marie; Collins, Maria Elizabeth

    2007-04-01

    The authors analyzed 2.48 million interlibrary loan (ILL) requests entered in the National Library of Medicine's (NLM's) DOCLINE system from 3,234 US and Canadian medical libraries during fiscal year (FY) 2005 to study their distribution and nature and the journals in which requested articles were published. Data from DOCLINE and NLM's indexing system and online catalog were used to analyze all DOCLINE ILL transactions acted on from October 2004 to September 2005. The authors compared results from this analysis to previous data collected in FY 1992. Overall ILL volume in the United States and Canada is at about the same level as FY 1992 despite marked growth in online searching, knowledge discovery tools, and journals available online. Over 21,000 unique journal titles and 1.4 million unique articles were used to fill 2.2 million ILL requests in FY 2005. Over 1 million of the articles were requested only once by any network library. Fifty-two percent (11,022) of journals had 5 or fewer requests for articles from all the years of a journal by all libraries in the network. Fifty-two percent of the articles requested were published within the most recent 5 years. The overall ILL profile in the libraries studied has changed little since FY 1992, notable given other changes in publishing. Small changes, however, may reveal developing trends. Total ILL traffic has been declining in recent years following a peak in 2002, and fewer of the articles requested were published in the most recent five years compared to requests from 1992.

  11. Defense Energy Information System (DEIS): DEIS-80 Design System Specification. Revision B,

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1982-07-01

    are samples of the queries that may be requested. - Display the data for DoDAAC = XXYMOX, Date = MMYY, Product Code = XXX. - What is the total...consumption in gallons. What is the percent change in total consumption (or average daily consumption) for Major Command = X---X, between this month and this...month a year ago (or this quarter and the previous 5 quarters) for distillates (or fuel oil)? What is the total consumption for each Service for the

  12. 77 FR 31832 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Procedures for Considering Requests and...

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    ... Section 328 of the United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement Implementation Act (the ``Act... of the United States- Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement (the ``Agreement''). This safeguard... directly competitive article; and (5) all data available to the requester showing changes in productivity...

  13. Enhanced Oceanic Operations Human-In-The-Loop In-Trail Procedure Validation Simulation Study

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Murdoch, Jennifer L.; Bussink, Frank J. L.; Chamberlain, James P.; Chartrand, Ryan C.; Palmer, Michael T.; Palmer, Susan O.

    2008-01-01

    The Enhanced Oceanic Operations Human-In-The-Loop In-Trail Procedure (ITP) Validation Simulation Study investigated the viability of an ITP designed to enable oceanic flight level changes that would not otherwise be possible. Twelve commercial airline pilots with current oceanic experience flew a series of simulated scenarios involving either standard or ITP flight level change maneuvers and provided subjective workload ratings, assessments of ITP validity and acceptability, and objective performance measures associated with the appropriate selection, request, and execution of ITP flight level change maneuvers. In the majority of scenarios, subject pilots correctly assessed the traffic situation, selected an appropriate response (i.e., either a standard flight level change request, an ITP request, or no request), and executed their selected flight level change procedure, if any, without error. Workload ratings for ITP maneuvers were acceptable and not substantially higher than for standard flight level change maneuvers, and, for the majority of scenarios and subject pilots, subjective acceptability ratings and comments for ITP were generally high and positive. Qualitatively, the ITP was found to be valid and acceptable. However, the error rates for ITP maneuvers were higher than for standard flight level changes, and these errors may have design implications for both the ITP and the study's prototype traffic display. These errors and their implications are discussed.

  14. 78 FR 78694 - Airworthiness Directives; Airbus Airplanes

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    ... all Airbus Model A330-200 and -300 series airplanes, and Model A340-200 and -300 series airplanes. AD..., and corrective actions if needed. This new AD expands the applicability, reduces the compliance time... the comment received. Request To Change Compliance Time US Airways requested that we change the...

  15. 75 FR 39619 - Proposed Information Collection (Dependent's Request for Change of Program or Place of Training...

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    ... Benefits Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Veterans Benefits... the notice. This notice solicits comments on the information needed to request a change of education... to Nancy J. Kessinger, Veterans Benefits Administration (20M35), Department of Veterans Affairs, 810...

  16. 78 FR 65764 - Information Collection Proposed Renewal Without Change; Comment Request; Anti-Money Laundering...

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    ... Renewal Without Change; Comment Request; Anti-Money Laundering Programs; Due Diligence Programs for... policies, procedures, and controls reasonably designed to detect and report money laundering through... Enforcement Network, P.O. Box 39, Vienna, VA 22183, Attention: Comments on Anti-Money Laundering Program and...

  17. 75 FR 16899 - Public Notice for a Change in Use of Aeronautical Property at Houlton International Airport...

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration Public Notice for a Change in Use of Aeronautical Property at Houlton International Airport, Houlton, ME AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT. ACTION: Request for Public Comments. SUMMARY: The FAA is requesting public comment on the...

  18. 76 FR 2757 - Proposed Information Collection (Application for Change of Permanent Plan (Medical); Comment Request

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    ... (Application for Change of Permanent Plan (Medical); Comment Request AGENCY: Veterans Benefits Administration... collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, Federal agencies are required to publish notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of...

  19. 78 FR 33452 - International Product Change-Global Reseller Expedited Package Contracts 2

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    ... POSTAL SERVICE International Product Change--Global Reseller Expedited Package Contracts 2 AGENCY... request with the Postal Regulatory Commission to add Global Reseller Expedited Package Contracts 2 to the... Regulatory Commission, a request to add Global Reseller Expedited Package Contracts 2 (GREP Contracts 2) to...

  20. 44 CFR 72.5 - Exemptions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ...) Requests for map changes based on mapping or study analysis errors; (b) Requests for map changes based on... and hydraulic studies conducted by Federal, State, or local agencies to replace approximate studies... information meant to improve upon that shown on the flood map or within the flood study will be exempt from...

  1. 44 CFR 72.5 - Exemptions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ...) Requests for map changes based on mapping or study analysis errors; (b) Requests for map changes based on... and hydraulic studies conducted by Federal, State, or local agencies to replace approximate studies... information meant to improve upon that shown on the flood map or within the flood study will be exempt from...

  2. 75 FR 8188 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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    ...-9, and RP 2008-52, RP 2009-XX; Changes in Methods of Accounting. Description: The information... taxpayer properly is requesting to change its method of accounting and the terms and conditions of the... approved collection. Title: REG-141402-02 Limitation on Use of the Nonaccrual-Experience Method of...

  3. 78 FR 63521 - Product Change-Parcel Select & Parcel Return Service Negotiated Service Agreement

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    ... POSTAL SERVICE Product Change--Parcel Select & Parcel Return Service Negotiated Service Agreement AGENCY: Postal Service TM . ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Postal Service gives notice of filing a request... Request of the United States Postal Service to Add Parcel Select & Parcel Return Service Contract 5 to...

  4. 78 FR 59671 - Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; NESHAP...

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    ... in the public docket without change including any personal information provided, unless the comment...: 144 (total). Frequency of response: Initially, quarterly, and semiannually. Total estimated burden: 23... year), includes $800 annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs. Changes in the Estimates...

  5. 76 FR 33326 - Agency Information Collection Activities, Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Severe...

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    ... request for comments; extension, without change, of a currently approved information collection; FEMA Form...) Appeals. Type of information collection: Extension, without change, of a currently approved information... owners with the ability to appeal an increase in their flood insurance premium rate if they refuse an...

  6. Does counsellor's attitude influence change in a request for a caesarean in women with fear of birth?

    PubMed

    Halvorsen, Lotta; Nerum, Hilde; Sørlie, Tore; Oian, Pål

    2010-02-01

    the attitudes of two counsellors towards women requesting a caesarean section due to fear of birth were identified. One emphasised the ability to overcome any emotional obstacle to vaginal birth ('coping attitude'), and the other emphasised that the ultimate choice of mode of birth was the womans' ('autonomy attitude'). Two research questions were asked: (1) What are the predictors of change in a wish for a caesarean and of vaginal birth in women with fear of birth? (2) Does a change from an 'autonomy attitude' to a 'coping attitude' increase the number of women who change their request for a caesarean and who give birth vaginally? the study population consisted of two samples of pregnant women with fear of birth and concurrent request for a caesarean, referred for crisis-oriented counselling at the antenatal clinic, University Hospital of North Norway between 2000-2002 (n=86) and 2004-2006 (n=107). Data were gathered from referral letters, counseling and antenatal, intra- and postpartum records. a coping attitude of the counsellor was positively associated with change in the request for a caesarean and with vaginal birth. A change from an autonomy attitude to a coping attitude was associated with a significant increase in the percentage of women who changed their desire for a caesarean from 77 to 93, and who had a vaginal birth from 42 to 81. a coping attitude was strongly associated with change in the desire for a caesarean and giving birth vaginally. A coping attitude can be learned through critical reflection and awareness of the counsellor's attitude, with measurable clinical results. Copyright 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

  7. 78 FR 25337 - Federal Aviation Administration

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    2013-04-30

    ... DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration Agency Information Collection Activities: Requests for Comments; Clearance of Renewed Approval of Information Collection: Operations Specifications AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT. ACTION: Notice and request for comments...

  8. 42 CFR 495.328 - Request for reconsideration of adverse determination.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... RECORD TECHNOLOGY INCENTIVE PROGRAM Requirements Specific to the Medicaid Program § 495.328 Request for... planning document or State Medicaid HIT Plan under this subpart, or determines that requirements are met...

  9. 22 CFR 503.2 - Making a request.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... addressed to The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), FOIA/Privacy Act Officer, Office of the General... the Internet on BBG's World Wide Web site (http://www.ibb.gov). The more specific the request for...

  10. Learning needs in clinical biochemistry for doctors in foundation years.

    PubMed

    Khromova, Victoria; Gray, Trevor A

    2008-01-01

    Most medical school curricula have reduced the amount of time available for teaching in pathology despite the fact that junior staff in the early stages of their training were responsible for requesting the majority of pathology tests on acutely ill hospital patients. So, the lack of specific training in this area means that test requesting may be poorly performed and the results ill understood by these staff. This paper describes a questionnaire, which was designed to assist laboratory staff providing targeted teaching in this area. Doctors in Foundation year 1 (F1) and Foundation year 2 (F2) in Sheffield teaching hospitals were given a questionnaire to ascertain how confident they were in requesting and interpreting the results of clinical biochemistry tests. The doctors were also asked about which areas of laboratory medicine they would like to be taught. Responses were received from 82 doctors, about half those in F1 and F2. The survey revealed areas where juniors are less confident in requesting tests and interpreting results. Despite lack of confidence in interpreting the result, 18% were confident about requesting tests. Doctors were also unsure of the effects of common problems like haemolysis on the interpretation of results. More than 70% of the doctors requested specific teaching in these areas. Foundation doctors have learning needs in clinical biochemistry, addressing which would assist them in patient care. While better training in medical school may help in future, there are specific needs for those on the wards now that require targeted teaching.

  11. 20 CFR 418.2255 - What kind of evidence of a major life-changing event will you need to support your request for us...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ...-changing event will you need to support your request for us to use a more recent tax year? 418.2255 Section 418.2255 Employees' Benefits SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION MEDICARE SUBSIDIES Income-Related Monthly... Modified Adjusted Gross Income § 418.2255 What kind of evidence of a major life-changing event will you...

  12. 78 FR 58350 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Operations...

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  13. 76 FR 52956 - Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request

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    ... of the ETA-5130 Benefit Appeals Report; Comment Request on Extension Without Change (OMB Control [email protected] . SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Background The ETA-5130, Benefit Appeals Report, contains... Training Administration is soliciting comments concerning the proposed extension collection of the ETA-5130...

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  18. 44 CFR 72.3 - Fee schedule.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... structural measures; (8) Requests for LOMRs and PMRs based on as-built information for projects for which...) Requests for CLOMRs based on projects involving levees, berms, or other structural measures. (d) If a... PROCESSING MAP CHANGES § 72.3 Fee schedule. (a) For requests for CLOMRs, LOMRs, and PMRs based on structural...

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    ... Request ACTION: 60-day notice of information collection; 10-002; Electronic Funds Transfer Waiver Request... appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms of.... (2) Title of the Form/Collection: Electronic Funds Transfer Waiver Request. (3) Agency form number...

  20. Influence of Patients’ Requests for Directly Advertised Antidepressants: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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    Kravitz, Richard L.; Epstein, Ronald; Feldman, Mitchell D.; Franz, Carol E.; Azari, Rahman; Wilkes, Michael S.; Hinton, Ladson; Franks, Peter

    2011-01-01

    Context Direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising of prescription drugs in the United States is both ubiquitous and controversial. Critics charge that DTC advertising leads to over-prescribing, while proponents counter that it helps avert under-use of effective treatments, especially for conditions such as depression that are poorly recognized or stigmatized. Objective To ascertain the effects of patients’ DTC-related requests on physicians’ initial treatment decisions (prescribing, referral, and follow-up) in patients with depressive symptoms. Design Randomized trial using Standardized Patients (SPs). Six SP roles (experimental cells) were created by crossing two conditions (major depression or adjustment disorder) with three request types (brand-specific, general, or none). Setting Offices of primary care physicians in Sacramento, CA; San Francisco, CA; and Rochester, NY. Participants 152 family physicians and general internists recruited from solo and group practices and health maintenance organizations; cooperation rates ranged from 53% to 61%. Interventions SPs were randomly assigned to make 298 unannounced visits, with assignments constrained so physicians saw 1 SP with major depression and 1 with adjustment disorder (approximately 50 visits per experimental cell). Main Outcome Measures Data on prescribing, mental health referral, and primary care follow-up were obtained from SP written reports, visit audio-recordings, chart review, and analysis of written prescriptions and drug samples. The effects of request type on prescribing were evaluated using contingency tables and confirmed in generalized linear mixed models that accounted for clustering and adjusted for site, physician, and visit characteristics. Results SP role fidelity was excellent, and the detection rate was 12%. In major depression, rates of antidepressant prescribing were 53%, 76%, and 31% for SPs making brand-specific requests, general requests, and no requests, respectively (p<.0001). In adjustment disorder, antidepressant prescribing was 55%, 39%, and 10%, respectively (p<.0001). The results were confirmed in multivariate models. “Minimally acceptable initial care” (any combination of an antidepressant, mental health referral, or follow-up within two weeks) in the major depression role was offered to 98% of SPs making a general request, 90% of those making a brand-specific request, and 56% of those making no request (p<0.001). Conclusions Patients’ requests have a profound effect on physician prescribing in major depression and adjustment disorder. DTC advertising may have competing effects on quality, potentially both averting under-use and promoting over-use. PMID:15855433

  1. 36 CFR 1260.50 - What procedures does NARA follow when it receives a request for Executive Branch records under...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... the past 2 years, or if the specific information is the subject of pending litigation, NARA will... requested records are less than 25 years old, NARA refers copies of the records to the originating agency... the requested records are more than 25 years old, NARA will review the records using systematic...

  2. Key Questions on the Obama Administration's 2013 Education Budget Request: Federal Education Budget Project. Issue Brief

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    New America Foundation, 2012

    2012-01-01

    President Barack Obama submitted his third budget request to Congress on February 13th, 2012. The budget request includes proposed funding levels for all federal programs and agencies in aggregate for the upcoming 10 fiscal years, and specific fiscal year 2013 funding levels for programs subject to the annual appropriations process. It is…

  3. 77 FR 59690 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Request and Comment Request

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    ... uses form SSA-7011-F4 to document the alleged wages. Specifically, the agency uses the form to resolve... benefits. We only send Form SSA-7011-F4 to employers if we are unable to locate the earnings information in... (minutes) (hours) SSA-7011-F4 462,000 1 20 154,000 2. Request for Deceased Individual's Social Security...

  4. 77 FR 19177 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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    ... Respondents: 100. Average Hours Per Response: 30 minutes. Needs and Uses: The Sensor Science Division (SSD) of... in recent years there have been numerous inquiries and requests for NIST to address specific needs...

  5. 15 CFR 4.4 - Requirements for making requests.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... request should include specific information about each record sought, such as the date, title or name, author, recipient, and subject matter of the record, and the name and location of the office where the...

  6. 28 CFR 16.3 - Requirements for making requests.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... request should include specific information about each record sought, such as the date, title or name, author, recipient, and subject matter of the record. In addition, if you want records about a court case...

  7. 15 CFR 4.4 - Requirements for making requests.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... request should include specific information about each record sought, such as the date, title or name, author, recipient, and subject matter of the record, and the name and location of the office where the...

  8. 28 CFR 16.3 - Requirements for making requests.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... request should include specific information about each record sought, such as the date, title or name, author, recipient, and subject matter of the record. In addition, if you want records about a court case...

  9. 31 CFR 1.5 - Specific requests for other records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... threat to the life or physical safety of an individual. The requester shall fully explain the... information for the purpose of creating a record or records that do not exist. (h) Initial determination—(1...

  10. Spent fuel pool storage calculations using the ISOCRIT burnup credit tool

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    Kucukboyaci, Vefa; Marshall, William BJ J

    2012-01-01

    In order to conservatively apply burnup credit in spent fuel pool criticality safety analyses, Westinghouse has developed a software tool, ISOCRIT, for generating depletion isotopics. This tool is used to create isotopics data based on specific reactor input parameters, such as design basis assembly type; bounding power/burnup profiles; reactor specific moderator temperature profiles; pellet percent theoretical density; burnable absorbers, axial blanket regions, and bounding ppm boron concentration. ISOCRIT generates burnup dependent isotopics using PARAGON; Westinghouse's state-of-the-art and licensed lattice physics code. Generation of isotopics and passing the data to the subsequent 3D KENO calculations are performed in an automated fashion,more » thus reducing the chance for human error. Furthermore, ISOCRIT provides the means for responding to any customer request regarding re-analysis due to changed parameters (e.g., power uprate, exit temperature changes, etc.) with a quick turnaround.« less

  11. Interlibrary loan in US and Canadian health sciences libraries 2005: update on journal article use

    PubMed Central

    Lacroix, Eve-Marie; Collins, Maria Elizabeth

    2007-01-01

    Purpose: The authors analyzed 2.48 million interlibrary loan (ILL) requests entered in the National Library of Medicine's (NLM's) DOCLINE system from 3,234 US and Canadian medical libraries during fiscal year (FY) 2005 to study their distribution and nature and the journals in which requested articles were published. Methods: Data from DOCLINE and NLM's indexing system and online catalog were used to analyze all DOCLINE ILL transactions acted on from October 2004 to September 2005. The authors compared results from this analysis to previous data collected in FY 1992. Results: Overall ILL volume in the United States and Canada is at about the same level as FY 1992 despite marked growth in online searching, knowledge discovery tools, and journals available online. Over 21,000 unique journal titles and 1.4 million unique articles were used to fill 2.2 million ILL requests in FY 2005. Over 1 million of the articles were requested only once by any network library. Fifty-two percent (11,022) of journals had 5 or fewer requests for articles from all the years of a journal by all libraries in the network. Fifty-two percent of the articles requested were published within the most recent 5 years. Conclusion: The overall ILL profile in the libraries studied has changed little since FY 1992, notable given other changes in publishing. Small changes, however, may reveal developing trends. Total ILL traffic has been declining in recent years following a peak in 2002, and fewer of the articles requested were published in the most recent five years compared to requests from 1992. PMID:17443252

  12. 48 CFR 252.243-7002 - Requests for equitable adjustment.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... the change, and shall not include any costs that already have been reimbursed or that have been separately claimed. All indirect costs included in the request shall be properly allocable to the change in... supporting data are accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief. (Official's Name) (Title...

  13. 76 FR 19515 - Public Notice for a Change in Use of Aeronautical Property at Bradford Regional Airport (BFD...

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    ... Aeronautical Property at Bradford Regional Airport (BFD), Bradford, PA AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration... Administration is requesting public comment on the Bradford Regional Airport Authority's request to change 35.46... Bradford Regional Airport (BFD) in Lafayette Township, McKean County, PA. The property is currently...

  14. 78 FR 11619 - Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule: Revision to Best Available Monitoring Method Request Submission...

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    ... is (202) 566-1742. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carole Cook, Climate Change Division, Office of... Rule must submit requests for use of best available monitoring methods to the Administrator. This proposed revision does not change any other requirements for owners or operators as outlined in the best...

  15. 77 FR 38731 - Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Updates to Wide Area WorkFlow (DFARS Case 2011...

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    2012-06-29

    ... generating invoices and receiving reports. TEDS is an accepted system for processing payment requests for... follows: A. Summary of Significant Changes Changes to the proposed rule to clarify language were made at... receive payment requests and receiving reports and clarify language and to clarify instructions for...

  16. 78 FR 29433 - Proposed Information Collection (Dependent's Request for Change of Program or Place of Training...

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    2013-05-20

    ... Benefits Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Veterans Benefits... request a change of education program or place of training. DATES: Written comments and recommendations on...) at www.Regulations.gov or to Nancy J. Kessinger, Veterans Benefits Administration (20M35), Department...

  17. 78 FR 47426 - Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station, Units 2 and 3; South Carolina Electric and Gas; Change to the...

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    2013-08-05

    ... Additional Electrical Penetration Assemblies AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Exemption and... requested adding four electrical penetration assemblies to the containment vessel and shield building in... assemblies to containment and the shield building. As part of this request, the licensee needed to change...

  18. Requests for new oral antibiotic prescriptions in children within 2 days: a Norwegian population-based study.

    PubMed

    Bergene, E H; Nordeng, H; Rø, T B; Steinsbekk, A

    2018-05-09

    Children commonly refuse to take antibiotics, which may induce parents to request new antibiotic prescriptions with different pharmaceutical characteristics. To investigate prescription changes for children 0-12 years receiving oral liquid or solid antibiotic formulations and to explore the relationships between prescription changes and characteristics related to the child, prescriber and antibiotic. A population-based registry study based on data from the Norwegian Prescription Database (NorPD) from 2004 to 2016. Antibiotic prescription changes were defined as the dispensing of subsequent antibiotics with different pharmaceutical characteristics to the same child within 2 days after initial prescriptions. Data were analysed using multivariable logistic regression and generalized estimating equations. Requests for new prescriptions followed 3.0% of 2 691 483 initial antibiotic prescriptions for children. Young children who received solid formulations (10.9%) and certain poor-tasting antibiotics (8.6%) had the highest proportions of new prescriptions. Penicillin V was most commonly changed, while macrolides/lincosamides dominated subsequent prescriptions. In order of magnitude, the characteristics associated with requests for new prescriptions were the children's ages, poor taste and concentration of liquids, size and shape of solids, prescribers born in recent decades, and girl patients. Reimbursed prescriptions and scored solids were associated with fewer requests. While only 3% of the antibiotic prescriptions were changed, the preference of broad-spectrum over narrow-spectrum antibiotics for young children in this study mirrors international prescription patterns. Avoiding the costs of children's refusal and consequent changes may thus be a motivation for choosing more preferred antibiotics.

  19. Training evaluation final report

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Sepulveda, Jose A.

    1992-01-01

    In the area of management training, 'evaluation' refers both to the specific evaluation instrument used to determine whether a training effort was considered effective, and to the procedures followed to evaluate specific training requests. This report recommends to evaluate new training requests in the same way new procurement or new projects are evaluated. This includes examining training requests from the perspective of KSC goals and objectives, and determining expected ROI of proposed training program (does training result in improved productivity, through savings of time, improved outputs, and/or personnel reduction?). To determine whether a specific training course is effective, a statement of what constitutes 'good performance' is required. The user (NOT the Training Branch) must define what is 'required level of performance'. This 'model' will be the basis for the design and development of an objective, performance-based, training evaluation instrument.

  20. The impact of the written request process on drug development in childhood cancer.

    PubMed

    Snyder, Kristen M; Reaman, Gregory; Avant, Debbie; Pazdur, Richard

    2013-04-01

    The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Modernization Act, enacted in 1997, created a pediatric exclusivity incentive allowing sponsors to qualify for an additional 6 months of marketing exclusivity after satisfying the requirements outlined in the Written Request (WR). This review evaluates the impact of the WR mechanism on the development of oncology drugs in children. A search of the FDA document archiving, reporting, and regulatory tracking system was performed for January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2010. Drugs were identified and pediatric-specific labeling information was obtained from Drugs@fda.gov and FDA Pediatric Labeling Changes Table. Fifty WRs have been issued for oncology drugs. Pediatric studies have been submitted for 14 drugs. Thirteen received pediatric exclusivity. As of December 31, 2010, labeling changes have been made for 11 drugs. Three drugs were approved for pediatric use. WRs have provided a mechanism to promote the study of drugs in pediatric malignancies. Information from studies resulting from the WRs regarding safety, pharmacokinetics, and tolerability of oncology drugs has been incorporated into pediatric labeling for 11/14 of the drugs. Earlier communication and collaboration between the FDA, National Cancer Institute, clinical investigators, and commercial sponsors are envisioned to facilitate the identification and prioritization of emerging new drugs of interest for WR consideration. Since this is the only regulatory mechanism, resulting from specific legislative initiatives relevant to cancer drug development for children, efforts to enhance its impact on increasing drug approval for pediatric cancer indications are warranted. Copyright © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

  1. Who Is Influencing Whom? Latino Parent–Child Request Interactions and Product Purchases in Food Retail Environments

    PubMed Central

    Castro, Iana A.; Calderon, Joanna; Ayala, Guadalupe X.

    2017-01-01

    This study examines Latino parent–child interactions about foods and beverages requested in food retail environments in San Diego, CA. It seeks to extend our understanding of parent–child request interactions and purchases by studying how the number of product request interactions and purchases differ based on four factors that have been understudied in previous parent–child interaction research: parent gender, child gender, product healthfulness, and who initiated the request interaction (parent or child). By unobtrusively observing Latino parent–child dyads for the duration of a brief shopping trip, we found that parent and child gender are related to the number of request interactions initiated by parents and children. For gender-specific child-initiated request interactions, sons initiated more request interactions with fathers while daughters initiated more request interactions with mothers. Most request interactions were for products that were categorized as calorie dense, and a higher percentage of these products were purchased as a result of parent-initiated (vs. child-initiated) request interactions. The results provide important considerations for practitioners and researchers working on improving nutrition and reducing obesity. Assumptions about who is influencing whom in food store request interactions are challenged, requiring more research. PMID:29081718

  2. 5 CFR 1650.17 - Changes and cancellation of a withdrawal request.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... processes withdrawal requests each business day and those that are entered into the record keeping system by 12:00 noon eastern time will ordinarily be processed that night; those entered after 12:00 noon eastern time will be processed the next business day. Consequently, a cancellation request must be...

  3. 77 FR 12444 - Airworthiness Directives; General Electric Company (GE) Turbofan Engines

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    ... support the NPRM as written. Request To Correct Part Number Commenters GE and Delta Airlines (Delta... packing configuration either on-wing or in the shop and to determine if further actions are necessary. We.... Request To Modify Compliance Time Commenters GE and Delta requested that we change the compliance time of...

  4. 75 FR 27557 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Final Collection; Comment Request

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    ... many FTEs were supported or created for this deal; and d. Changed the amount of financeable local costs... transaction requests submitted to the Export Import Bank under its long term guarantee and direct loan... transaction requests submitted to the Export Import Bank under its long term guarantee and direct loan...

  5. 76 FR 27665 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Consumer...

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    ... INFORMATION: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by... for OMB Review; Comment Request; Consumer Price Index Commodities and Services Survey ACTION: Notice...) sponsored information collection request (ICR) titled, ``Consumer Price Index Commodities and Services...

  6. 77 FR 60742 - Proposed Collection; Comment Request for TD 9178

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    ... receipt of a request or demand for disclosure of IRS records or information. The purpose of the final... make requests or demands for disclosure. Current Actions: There is no change in the paperwork burden... forms of information technology; and (e) estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of operation...

  7. 41 CFR 102-38.30 - How does an executive agency request a deviation from the provisions of this part?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... which are distinct from the standard deviation process and specific to the requirements of the Federal... agency request a deviation from the provisions of this part? 102-38.30 Section 102-38.30 Public Contracts... executive agency request a deviation from the provisions of this part? Refer to §§ 102-2.60 through 102-2...

  8. 75 FR 5328 - Agency Information Collection Request; 60-Day Public Comment Request

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    ... center (REC) will be provided with a customer relationship management (CRM) software tool, which they... selecting a CRM vendor. Once this is completed it will submit the specific reports for clearance. [[Page...

  9. 19 CFR 103.5 - Specific requests for records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... requirement for a reasonably description is not a device for improperly withholding records from the public... materal. The latest of those dates is the date of receipt of the request. As soon as the date of receipt...

  10. Multi-National Information Sharing -- Cross Domain Collaborative Information Environment (CDCIE) Solution. Revision 4

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2005-04-12

    Hardware, Database, and Operating System independence using Java • Enterprise-class Architecture using Java2 Enterprise Edition 1.4 • Standards based...portal applications. Compliance with the Java Specification Request for Portlet APIs (JSR-168) (Portlet API) and Web Services for Remote Portals...authentication and authorization • Portal Standards using Java Specification Request for Portlet APIs (JSR-168) (Portlet API) and Web Services for Remote

  11. Group-oriented coordination models for distributed client-server computing

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Adler, Richard M.; Hughes, Craig S.

    1994-01-01

    This paper describes group-oriented control models for distributed client-server interactions. These models transparently coordinate requests for services that involve multiple servers, such as queries across distributed databases. Specific capabilities include: decomposing and replicating client requests; dispatching request subtasks or copies to independent, networked servers; and combining server results into a single response for the client. The control models were implemented by combining request broker and process group technologies with an object-oriented communication middleware tool. The models are illustrated in the context of a distributed operations support application for space-based systems.

  12. 78 FR 49551 - Vogtle Electric Generating Station, Units 3 and 4; Southern Nuclear Operating Company; Change to...

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    ... design and layout of the turbine building. As part of this request, the licensee needed to change the... information related to the design and layout of the Turbine Building detailed in the amendment request. These... Structures and Layout AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Exemption and combined license amendment...

  13. 77 FR 2573 - International Product Change-Global Plus 1C and 2C Negotiated Service Agreements

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    ... POSTAL SERVICE International Product Change--Global Plus 1C and 2C Negotiated Service Agreements... a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission to add Global Plus 1C and 2C Negotiated Service... with the Postal Regulatory Commission, Requests of United States Postal Service to Add Global Plus 1C...

  14. 78 FR 72079 - Information Collection Request Submitted to OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request...

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    ... of the true value of the audit sample to the compliance authority (state, local or EPA Regional... AASP. The AASP would report the true value of the audit sample to the compliance authority (state..., validating, disturbing and reporting the audit results. Changes in the Estimates: There are no changes in the...

  15. 76 FR 55458 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Notice of request for approval of a new information...

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    ... substantial changes to our business including funding, the workforce, State and National policy dynamics and the systems used to deliver products and services to the public. What has not changed is the... collection. SUMMARY: The FHWA invites public comments about our intention to request the Office of Management...

  16. 76 FR 20451 - Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Renewal Without Change of the Registration of Money...

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    ... Request; Renewal Without Change of the Registration of Money Services Business, FinCEN Form 107 AGENCY... Money Services Business, FinCEN Form 107. The form will be used by currency dealers or exchangers; check cashers; issuers of traveler's checks, money orders or stored value; sellers of traveler's checks, money...

  17. 43 CFR 3106.3 - Fees.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... of this chapter. Each request for a transfer to an heir or devisee, request for a change of name, or notification of a corporate merger under § 3106.8, must include payment of the processing fee for name changes, corporate mergers or transfers to heir/devisee found in the fee schedule in § 3000.12 of this chapter. Each...

  18. 43 CFR 3106.3 - Fees.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... of this chapter. Each request for a transfer to an heir or devisee, request for a change of name, or notification of a corporate merger under § 3106.8, must include payment of the processing fee for name changes, corporate mergers or transfers to heir/devisee found in the fee schedule in § 3000.12 of this chapter. Each...

  19. 43 CFR 3106.3 - Fees.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... of this chapter. Each request for a transfer to an heir or devisee, request for a change of name, or notification of a corporate merger under § 3106.8, must include payment of the processing fee for name changes, corporate mergers or transfers to heir/devisee found in the fee schedule in § 3000.12 of this chapter. Each...

  20. 43 CFR 3106.3 - Fees.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... of this chapter. Each request for a transfer to an heir or devisee, request for a change of name, or notification of a corporate merger under § 3106.8, must include payment of the processing fee for name changes, corporate mergers or transfers to heir/devisee found in the fee schedule in § 3000.12 of this chapter. Each...

  1. 76 FR 9615 - Agency Forms Submitted for OMB Review, Request for Comments

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    ... Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to request an extension without change of a... the Social Security Act, states may enter into ``buy-in agreements'' with the Secretary of Health and... voluntary. One response is received from each respondent. The RRB proposes no changes to Form RL-380-F...

  2. 42 CFR 495.362 - Retroactive approval of FFP with an effective date of February 18, 2009.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... HEALTH RECORD TECHNOLOGY INCENTIVE PROGRAM Requirements Specific to the Medicaid Program § 495.362... payments to providers, a State may request consideration of FFP by recorded request in a HIT advance...

  3. 75 FR 8953 - Agency Information Collection Request; 30-Day Public Comment Request

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    ... identify parents who are willing for their child to participate in the study and whose child is eligible... online. The specific aim of this study is to assess qualitatively what kinds of information about sex...

  4. System of and method for transparent management of data objects in containers across distributed heterogenous resources

    DOEpatents

    Moore, Reagan W.; Rajasekar, Arcot; Wan, Michael Y.

    2004-01-13

    A system of and method for maintaining data objects in containers across a network of distributed heterogeneous resources in a manner which is transparent to a client. A client request pertaining to containers is resolved by querying meta data for the container, processing the request through one or more copies of the container maintained on the system, updating the meta data for the container to reflect any changes made to the container as a result processing the request, and, if a copy of the container has changed, changing the status of the copy to indicate dirty status or synchronizing the copy to one or more other copies that may be present on the system.

  5. System of and method for transparent management of data objects in containers across distributed heterogenous resources

    DOEpatents

    Moore, Reagan W.; Rajasekar, Arcot; Wan, Michael Y.

    2010-09-21

    A system of and method for maintaining data objects in containers across a network of distributed heterogeneous resources in a manner which is transparent to a client. A client request pertaining to containers is resolved by querying meta data for the container, processing the request through one or more copies of the container maintained on the system, updating the meta data for the container to reflect any changes made to the container as a result processing the request, and, if a copy of the container has changed, changing the status of the copy to indicate dirty status or synchronizing the copy to one or more other copies that may be present on the system.

  6. 32 CFR 767.8 - Requests for amendments or extensions of active permits.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... 32 National Defense 5 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Requests for amendments or extensions of active permits. 767.8 Section 767.8 National Defense Department of Defense (Continued) DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY... extensions of active permits. (a) Requests for amendments to active permits (e.g., a change in study design...

  7. 32 CFR 767.8 - Requests for amendments or extensions of active permits.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... 32 National Defense 5 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false Requests for amendments or extensions of active permits. 767.8 Section 767.8 National Defense Department of Defense (Continued) DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY... extensions of active permits. (a) Requests for amendments to active permits (e.g., a change in study design...

  8. 32 CFR 767.8 - Requests for amendments or extensions of active permits.

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    2014-07-01

    ... 32 National Defense 5 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Requests for amendments or extensions of active permits. 767.8 Section 767.8 National Defense Department of Defense (Continued) DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY... extensions of active permits. (a) Requests for amendments to active permits (e.g., a change in study design...

  9. 32 CFR 767.8 - Requests for amendments or extensions of active permits.

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    2011-07-01

    ... 32 National Defense 5 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Requests for amendments or extensions of active permits. 767.8 Section 767.8 National Defense Department of Defense (Continued) DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY... extensions of active permits. (a) Requests for amendments to active permits (e.g., a change in study design...

  10. 75 FR 26751 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Internet Survey...

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    ...In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that EPA is planning to submit a request for a new Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Before submitting the ICR to OMB for review and approval, EPA is soliciting comments on specific aspects of the proposed information collection as described below.

  11. A system for the management of requests at an image data bank. M.S. Thesis

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Debarrosaguirre, J. L. (Principal Investigator)

    1984-01-01

    An automated system was implemented to supersede existing manual procedures in fulfilling user requests made to a remote sensing data bank, concerning specifically LANDSAT imagery. The system controls the several production steps from request entry to the shipment of each final product. Special solutions and techniques were employed due to the severe limitations, in both hardware and software of the host minicomputer system.

  12. 76 FR 17116 - Notice of Proposed Information Collection Requests

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    ... collection requirements and provide the requested data in the desired format. The Director, Information... Review: Extension. Title of Collection: Experimental Sites Initiative--Data Collection Instrument. OMB... data collection instrument will be used to collect specific information and performance data for...

  13. 76 FR 30367 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Administration for Children and Families Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request Title: Measurement Development: Quality of Caregiver-Child Interactions... child care settings, specifically the quality of caregiver-child interaction for infants and toddlers in...

  14. 76 FR 28989 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Administration for Children and Families Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request Title: Measurement Development: Quality of Caregiver-Child Interactions... child care settings, specifically the quality of caregiver-child interaction for infants and toddlers in...

  15. 76 FR 12966 - Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Administration for Children and Families Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request Title: Measurement Development: Quality of Caregiver-Child... child care settings, specifically the quality of caregiver-child interaction for infants and toddlers in...

  16. 76 FR 31340 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Administration for Children and Families Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request Title: Measurement Development: Quality of Caregiver-Child Interactions... child care settings, specifically the quality of caregiver[hyphen]child interaction for infants and...

  17. 7 CFR 3430.12 - Requests for applications.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... applicable. (13) Directions for obtaining additional requests for applications and application forms. (14) Information about how to obtain application forms and the instructions for completing such forms. (15... of the application evaluation Process. (17) Specific evaluation criteria used in the review Process...

  18. Configuration management issues and objectives for a real-time research flight test support facility

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    Yergensen, Stephen; Rhea, Donald C.

    1988-01-01

    An account is given of configuration management activities for the Western Aeronautical Test Range (WATR) at NASA-Ames, whose primary function is the conduct of aeronautical research flight testing through real-time processing and display, tracking, and communications systems. The processing of WATR configuration change requests for specific research flight test projects must be conducted in such a way as to refrain from compromising the reliability of WATR support to all project users. Configuration management's scope ranges from mission planning to operations monitoring and performance trend analysis.

  19. 76 FR 33761 - Agency Information Collection Request. 30-Day Public Comment Request

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    ... behavior change, interaction design, and service innovation to increase the understanding and adoption of Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) information by physicians and patients. By truly understanding the...

  20. 78 FR 23329 - Notice of Release From Federal Surplus Property and Grant Assurance Obligations at Oroville...

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    ... Airport and serving the interest of civil aviation. The City is also requesting a land-use change for... its sale and a land-use change for approximately 13.62 acres of airport land for long term leasing for... AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration, DOT. ACTION: Notice of request to release airport land. SUMMARY...

  1. Education Reform: School-Based Management Results in Changes in Instruction and Budgeting. Report to Congressional Requesters.

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    General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div.

    This report responds to a request for information on School Based Management (SBM) from Senators Edward M. Kennedy and David Durenberger. It answers the following questions: (1) Under SBM, did administrators and teachers change their schools' instructional programs and budgets and, if so, how? (2) What were key similarities and differences in…

  2. 20 CFR 418.1250 - What evidence will you need to support your request that we use a more recent tax year?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... request that we use a more recent tax year? 418.1250 Section 418.1250 Employees' Benefits SOCIAL SECURITY... determine your income-related monthly adjustment amount, we will ask for evidence of the major life-changing..., additional evidence documenting the major life-changing event(s) will not be needed. ...

  3. 20 CFR 418.1250 - What evidence will you need to support your request that we use a more recent tax year?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... request that we use a more recent tax year? 418.1250 Section 418.1250 Employees' Benefits SOCIAL SECURITY... determine your income-related monthly adjustment amount, we will ask for evidence of the major life-changing..., additional evidence documenting the major life-changing event(s) will not be needed. ...

  4. 75 FR 4080 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Next Series of Tobacco Use Supplements to the Current...

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    ... request: REINSTATEMENT WITH CHANGE of OMB 0925-0368, Expiration 4/30/2009. Need and Use of Information...; health professional advice to stop smoking; and changes in smoking norms and attitudes. The TUS-CPS will... that need to be provided. A unique feature is the ability to link other social and economic Census...

  5. Preliminary Benefits Assessment of Traffic Aware Strategic Aircrew Requests (TASAR)

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    Henderson, Jeff; Idris, Husni; Wing, David J.

    2012-01-01

    While en route, aircrews submit trajectory change requests to air traffic control (ATC) to better meet their objectives including reduced delays, reduced fuel burn, and passenger comfort. Aircrew requests are currently made with limited to no information on surrounding traffic. Consequently, these requests are uninformed about a key ATC objective, ensuring traffic separation, and therefore less likely to be accepted than requests informed by surrounding traffic and that avoids creating conflicts. This paper studies the benefits of providing aircrews with on-board decision support to generate optimized trajectory requests that are probed and cleared of known separation violations prior to issuing the request to ATC. These informed requests are referred to as traffic aware strategic aircrew requests (TASAR) and leverage traffic surveillance information available through Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) In capability. Preliminary fast-time simulation results show increased benefits with longer stage lengths since beneficial trajectory changes can be applied over a longer distance. Also, larger benefits were experienced between large hub airports as compared to other airport sizes. On average, an aircraft equipped with TASAR reduced its travel time by about one to four minutes per operation and fuel burn by about 50 to 550 lbs per operation depending on the objective of the aircrew (time, fuel, or weighted combination of time and fuel), class of airspace user, and aircraft type. These preliminary results are based on analysis of approximately one week of traffic in July 2012 and additional analysis is planned on a larger data set to confirm these initial findings.

  6. 77 FR 12448 - Airworthiness Directives; Pratt & Whitney Division Turbofan Engines

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    ... Delta Airlines, Inc. requested that we specify replacing affected FMUs with FMU P/N 53U044, or later FAA... actual cost of the AD; not other costs. We did not change the AD. Request To Replace FMUs On-Wing United Parcel Service Co. requested that we include in the AD the option to perform on-wing replacements of...

  7. 77 FR 36491 - Request for Information Regarding Senior Financial Exploitation

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    ... Senior Financial Exploitation AGENCY: Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection. ACTION: Request for...'') to facilitate the financial literacy of individuals aged 62 or older (``seniors''), on protection... Monica Jackson at 202-435-7275. For specific questions on senior financial exploitation, please call...

  8. 77 FR 42743 - Proposed Information Collection Activity: Comment Request

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    ... sustainability. Specifically, this data will be collected using the following instruments: (a) A follow-up survey..., Attn: OPRE Reports Clearance Officer. Email address: [email protected] . All requests... within 60 days of this publication. Robert Sargis, Reports Clearance Officer, Administration for Children...

  9. 78 FR 39296 - Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request

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    ... Information Collection Activity; Comment Request Proposed Projects Title: State Abstinence Education Program... accurate and effective abstinence-based plans responsive to their specific needs and inclusive of vulnerable populations. These plans must provide abstinence education, and at the option of the State, where...

  10. 76 FR 34077 - Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request

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    ... materials describing the project and specific survey pre-test. Respondents: The respondents will be... Information Collection Activity; Comment Request Title: Pre-testing of Evaluation Surveys. OMB No.: 0970-0355... field tests, respondent debriefing questionnaires, cognitive interviews and focus groups in order to...

  11. 77 FR 12284 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Diesel Emissions...

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    2012-02-29

    ...In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that EPA is planning to submit a request for a new Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Before submitting the ICR to OMB for review and approval, EPA is soliciting public comments on specific aspects of the proposed information collection as described below.

  12. Vaccine administration decision making: the case of yellow fever vaccine.

    PubMed

    Lown, Beth A; Chen, Lin H; Wilson, Mary E; Sisson, Emily; Gershman, Mark; Yanni, Emad; Jentes, Emily S; Hochberg, Natasha S; Hamer, Davidson H; Barnett, Elizabeth D

    2012-09-01

    Providers must counsel travelers to yellow fever (YF)-endemic areas, although risk estimates of disease and vaccine serious adverse events (SAEs) may be imprecise. The impact of risk information and patients' requests for participation in vaccine decisions on providers' recommendations is unknown. Vaccine providers were surveyed regarding decisions for 4 patient scenarios before and after being presented information about risk of YF disease vs vaccine SAEs. Participants' theoretical attitudes were compared with actual responses to scenarios in which patients wanted to share vaccine decisions. Analyses were done by using χ(2) tests with significance level of .05. Forty-six percent of respondents made appropriate initial YF vaccine administration decisions for a pregnant woman, 73% for an immunosuppressed man, and 49% for an 8-month-old infant. After receiving scenario-specific information, 20%, 54%, and 23% of respondents respectively who initially responded incorrectly changed to a more appropriate decision. Thirty-one percent of participants made consistently appropriate decisions. Among participants who made ≥1 incorrect decision, 35.7% made no decision changes after receiving information. In the scenario in which either a decision to withhold or to administer vaccine was acceptable, 19% of respondents refused a patient's request for vaccine. Targeted information is necessary but insufficient to change the process of vaccine administration decision making. Providers need additional education to enable them to apply evidence, overcome cognitive decision-making errors, and involve patients in vaccine decisions.

  13. SPHERES: Synchronized, Position, Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites: SPHERES/Astrobee Working Group (SAWG)

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    Benavides, Jose

    2017-01-01

    SPHERES/Astrobee Working Group (SAWG) Quarterly meeting. Membership includes MIT, FIT, AFS, DARPA, CASIS, SJSU, and NASA (HQ, KSC, JSC, MSFC, and ARC)Face-to-Face, twice a year Purpose: Information sharing across the SPHERES community Program office shares National Lab Facility availability Status of resources (batteries, CO2 tanks, etc.), Overall Calendar (scheduled Test Sessions, up mass return), and Updates on new PD, Investigations, and ISS infrastructure. Provide the SPHERES community (PD, investigators, etc.) with up-to-date information to determine opportunities to use the NL Facility Discuss proposed changes updates to SPHERES Nat Lab which may be required to support a specific activity or research. Discuss specific support requests made to the ISS Office.

  14. Evaluation of software maintain ability with open EHR - a comparison of architectures.

    PubMed

    Atalag, Koray; Yang, Hong Yul; Tempero, Ewan; Warren, James R

    2014-11-01

    To assess whether it is easier to maintain a clinical information system developed using open EHR model driven development versus mainstream methods. A new open source application (GastrOS) has been developed following open EHR's multi-level modelling approach using .Net/C# based on the same requirements of an existing clinically used application developed using Microsoft Visual Basic and Access database. Almost all the domain knowledge was embedded into the software code and data model in the latter. The same domain knowledge has been expressed as a set of open EHR Archetypes in GastrOS. We then introduced eight real-world change requests that had accumulated during live clinical usage, and implemented these in both systems while measuring time for various development tasks and change in software size for each change request. Overall it took half the time to implement changes in GastrOS. However it was the more difficult application to modify for one change request, suggesting the nature of change is also important. It was not possible to implement changes by modelling only. Comparison of relative measures of time and software size change within each application highlights how architectural differences affected maintain ability across change requests. The use of open EHR model driven development can result in better software maintain ability. The degree to which open EHR affects software maintain ability depends on the extent and nature of domain knowledge involved in changes. Although we used relative measures for time and software size, confounding factors could not be totally excluded as a controlled study design was not feasible. Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

  15. 77 FR 11383 - Change of Address and Electronic Submission of FOIA Requests

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    2012-02-27

    ...The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (Agency) is amending its regulations to reflect its new office address and to permit Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests via electronic mail and facsimile.

  16. 75 FR 63476 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Request for OMB Review; Comment Request

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    ..., Investigator, Division of Marketing Practices, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission, Room H... new warranties and changes to existing warranties comply with the Rule--requires a mix of legal...

  17. 78 FR 76986 - Version 5 Critical Infrastructure Protection Reliability Standards

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    ...].'' The sentence as revised would thus read, ``NERC requests that the CIP version 5 Standards become... 16 is changed to ``[ninth].'' The sentence as revised would thus read, ``NERC requests that the CIP...

  18. 76 FR 26983 - Improving Wireless Coverage Through the Use of Signal Boosters

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    ... Disabilities: To request materials in accessible formats for people with disabilities (braille, large [email protected] . 5. To request materials in accessible formats for people with disabilities (Braille, large... signal boosters. Specifically, the Commission proposes that marketing materials must include a...

  19. 30 CFR 250.612 - Field well-workover rules.

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    2010-07-01

    ... District Manager to determine specific operating requirements, field well-workover rules may be established on the District Manager's initiative or in response to a request from a lessee. Such rules may modify... initiative of the District Manager or upon the request of a lessee. ...

  20. 30 CFR 250.512 - Field well-completion rules.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... the District Manager to determine specific operating requirements, field well-completion rules may be established on the District Manager's initiative or in response to a request from a lessee. Such rules may... the initiative of the District Manager or upon the request of a lessee. ...

  1. Symbolic Communication Between Two Chimpanzees

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    Savage-Rumbaugh, E. Sue; And Others

    1978-01-01

    Through the use of learned symbols, two chimpanzees accurately specified 11 foods by name to one another when the food item's identity was known by only one and requested specific food of one another by name. Requests resulted in cooperative and reciprocal symbolically mediated food exchange. (Author/MA)

  2. 76 FR 59660 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; National Marine Sanctuary Permits

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    2011-09-27

    ... Collection; Comment Request; National Marine Sanctuary Permits AGENCY: National Oceanic and Atmospheric... and extension of this information collection. National Marine Sanctuary regulations at 15 CFR part 922 list specific activities that are prohibited in national marine sanctuaries. These regulations also...

  3. 32 CFR 1800.21 - Processing of requests for records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... components reasonably believed to hold responsive records. (b) Database of “officially released information... database of “officially released information” which contains copies of documents released by NACIC. Searches of this database can be accomplished expeditiously. Moreover, requests that are specific and well...

  4. 32 CFR 1800.21 - Processing of requests for records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... components reasonably believed to hold responsive records. (b) Database of “officially released information... database of “officially released information” which contains copies of documents released by NACIC. Searches of this database can be accomplished expeditiously. Moreover, requests that are specific and well...

  5. 32 CFR 1800.21 - Processing of requests for records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... components reasonably believed to hold responsive records. (b) Database of “officially released information... database of “officially released information” which contains copies of documents released by NACIC. Searches of this database can be accomplished expeditiously. Moreover, requests that are specific and well...

  6. 32 CFR 1800.21 - Processing of requests for records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... components reasonably believed to hold responsive records. (b) Database of “officially released information... database of “officially released information” which contains copies of documents released by NACIC. Searches of this database can be accomplished expeditiously. Moreover, requests that are specific and well...

  7. 78 FR 53134 - Proposed Collection; Comment Request

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    ... and Uses: Require the collection of specific information on prospective Air Force contract flight... DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Department of the Air Force [Docket ID: USAF-2013-0034] Proposed Collection; Comment Request AGENCY: Air Education and Training Command (AETC/A5TS), Department of the Air Force...

  8. 5 CFR 2606.201 - Requests for access.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... and Information Management, Office of Government Ethics, Suite 500, 1201 New York Avenue, NW... specific system of records, it should include other information that will assist in the identification of the records for which access is being requested. Such information may include, for example, the...

  9. The utility of information collected by occupational disease surveillance systems.

    PubMed

    Money, A; Carder, M; Hussey, L; Agius, R M

    2015-11-01

    The Health and Occupation Research (THOR) network in the UK and the Republic of Ireland (ROI) is an integrated system of surveillance schemes collecting work-related ill-health (WRIH) data since 1989. In addition to providing information about disease incidence, trends in incidence and the identification of new hazards, THOR also operates an ad hoc data enquiry service enabling interested parties to request information about cases of WRIH reported to THOR. To examine requests for information made to a network of surveillance schemes for WRIH in the UK. Analysis via SPSS of data requests received by THOR between 2002 and 2014. A total of 631 requests were received by THOR between 2002 and 2014. Requests were predominantly submitted by participating THOR physicians (34%) and the main THOR funder-the UK Health & Safety Executive (HSE) (31%). The majority (67%) of requests were for information about work-related respiratory or skin disease with relatively few requests for other diagnoses, such as musculoskeletal or mental ill-health. Requests frequently related to a specific industry and/or occupation (42%) and/or a specific causal agent (58%). Data collected by occupational disease surveillance systems such as THOR are an extremely useful source of information, the use of which extends beyond informing government on disease incidence and trends in incidence. The data collected provide a framework that can assist a wide range of enquirers with clinical diagnoses, identification of suspected causative agents/exposures and to highlight growing risks in particular industrial and occupational sectors. © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society of Occupational Medicine. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com.

  10. Request Twin Screw Extruder to Enhance DoD Interested Polymer Nanocomposite Research and STEM Program

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    2016-09-25

    can meet specific requirements for a wide range of polymers and composites. Particularly, because of the similarity between twin screw extruder and...Release; Distribution Unlimited UU UU UU UU 25-09-2016 1-Feb-2015 30-Apr-2016 Request Twin Screw Extruder to Enhance DoD Interested Polymer ...Request Twin Screw Extruder to Enhance DoD Interested Polymer Nanocomposite Research and STEM Program Report Title In comparison to our existing melt

  11. Direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising: physician and public opinion and potential effects on the physician-patient relationship.

    PubMed

    Robinson, Andrew R; Hohmann, Kirsten B; Rifkin, Julie I; Topp, Daniel; Gilroy, Christine M; Pickard, Jeffrey A; Anderson, Robert J

    2004-02-23

    Previous studies have shown that direct-to-consumer (DTC) pharmaceutical advertising can influence consumer behavior and that many physicians have negative views of these advertisements. Physician and public opinions about these advertisements and how they may affect the physician-patient relationship are not well established. Mail survey of 523 Colorado physicians and 261 national physicians and telephone survey of 500 Colorado households asking respondents to rate their agreement with statements about DTC advertising. Most physicians tended to view DTC advertisements negatively, indicating that such advertisements rarely provide enough information on cost (98.7%), alternative treatment options (94.9%), or adverse effects (54.8%). Most also believed that DTC advertisements affected interactions with patients by lengthening clinical encounters (55.9%), leading to patient requests for specific medications (80.7%), and changing patient expectations of physicians' prescribing practices (67.0%). Only 29.0% of public respondents agreed that DTC advertising is a positive trend in health care and 28.6% indicated that advertisements make them better informed about medical problems; fewer indicated that advertisements motivated them to seek care (10.5%) or led them to request specific medications from their physicians (13.3%). Most physicians have negative views of DTC pharmaceutical advertising and see several potential effects of these advertisements on the physician-patient relationship. Many public respondents have similarly negative views, and only a few agree that they change their expectations of or interactions with physicians. While these advertisements may be influencing only a few consumers, it seems that the impact on physicians and their interactions with patients may be significant.

  12. Review of the President’s Fiscal Year 2009 Budget Request for the Defense Health Program’s Private Sector Care Budget Activity Group

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2008-05-28

    2009 budget request for the Defense Health Program’s Private Sector Care BAG. To do this, we reviewed (1) DOD’s justification for the request for the... Private Sector Care BAG, including the underlying estimates and the extent to which DOD considered historical information; and (2) changes between this...develop the budget requests for the Private Sector Care BAG in fiscal years 2008 and 2009. We also interviewed officials and analyzed documents from

  13. 77 FR 70994 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council...

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    ... Collection; Comment Request; Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council Stakeholder Communication Survey... Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (Council) has adopted a five-year strategic communications plan that requires the Communications staff to not only implement specific outreach and education...

  14. 78 FR 54249 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Comment Request

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    ... request. Form Title: EIB 92-30 Report of Premiums Payable for Financial Institutions Only. SUMMARY: The... insurance coverage. The Report of Premiums Payable for Financial Institutions Only is used to determine the... financial institution provide the industry code (NAICS) associated with each specific export. The insured...

  15. 32 CFR 286.29 - Collection of fees and fee rates.

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    2013-07-01

    ... consists of two parts; individual time (hereafter referred to as human time), and machine time. (i) Human... support, operator, programmer, database administrator, or action officer). (ii) Machine time. Machine time... the time of providing the documents to the requester or recipient when the requester specifically...

  16. 32 CFR 286.29 - Collection of fees and fee rates.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... consists of two parts; individual time (hereafter referred to as human time), and machine time. (i) Human... support, operator, programmer, database administrator, or action officer). (ii) Machine time. Machine time... the time of providing the documents to the requester or recipient when the requester specifically...

  17. 32 CFR 286.29 - Collection of fees and fee rates.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... consists of two parts; individual time (hereafter referred to as human time), and machine time. (i) Human... support, operator, programmer, database administrator, or action officer). (ii) Machine time. Machine time... the time of providing the documents to the requester or recipient when the requester specifically...

  18. 77 FR 64111 - Notice of Proposed Information Collection Requests; Office of Postsecondary Education; Annual...

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Notice of Proposed Information Collection Requests; Office of Postsecondary Education; Annual Performance Report for the Gaining Early Awareness for Undergraduate Programs SUMMARY: The GEAR UP annual performance report asks for information specific to the budget year for which...

  19. 47 CFR 64.604 - Mandatory minimum standards.

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    2010-10-01

    ... regarding nondisclosure of company-specific information. (J) The administrator's performance and this plan... may retain information from a particular call in order to facilitate the completion of consecutive calls, at the request of the user. The caller may request the STS CA to retain such information, or the...

  20. 47 CFR 64.604 - Mandatory minimum standards.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... regarding nondisclosure of company-specific information. (J) The administrator's performance and this plan... may retain information from a particular call in order to facilitate the completion of consecutive calls, at the request of the user. The caller may request the STS CA to retain such information, or the...

  1. Lack of Impact of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising on the Physician-Patient Encounter in Primary Care: A SNOCAP Report

    PubMed Central

    Parnes, Bennett; Smith, Peter C.; Gilroy, Christine; Quintela, Javan; Emsermann, Caroline B.; Dickinson, L. Miriam; Westfall, John M.

    2009-01-01

    PURPOSE Direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) has increased tremendously during the past decade. Recent changes in the DTCA environment may have affected its impact on clinical encounters. Our objective was to determine the rate of patient medication inquiries and their influence on clinical encounters in primary care. METHODS Our methods consisted of a cross-sectional survey in the State Networks of Colorado Ambulatory Practices and Partners, a collaboration of 3 practice-based research networks. Clinicians completed a short patient encounter form after consecutive patient encounter for one-half or 1 full day. The main outcomes were the rate of inquiries, independent predictors of inquiries, and overall impact on clinical encounters. RESULTS One hundred sixty-eight clinicians in 22 practices completed forms after 1,647 patient encounters. In 58 encounters (3.5%), the patient inquired about a specific new prescription medication. Community health center patients made fewer inquiries than private practice patients (1.7% vs 7.2%, P<.001). Predictors of inquiries included taking 3 or more chronic medications and the clinician being female. Most clinicians reported the requested medication was not their first choice for treatment (62%), but it was prescribed in 53% of the cases. Physicians interpreted the overall impact on the visit as positive in 24% of visits, neutral in 66%, and negative in 10%. CONCLUSIONS Patient requests for prescription medication were uncommon overall, and even more so among patients in lower income groups. These requests were rarely perceived by clinicians as having a negative impact on the encounter. Future mixed methods studies should explore specific socioeconomic groups and reasons for clinicians’ willingness to prescribe these medications. PMID:19139448

  2. Lack of impact of direct-to-consumer advertising on the physician-patient encounter in primary care: a SNOCAP report.

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    Parnes, Bennett; Smith, Peter C; Gilroy, Christine; Quintela, Javan; Emsermann, Caroline B; Dickinson, L Miriam; Westfall, John M

    2009-01-01

    Direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) has increased tremendously during the past decade. Recent changes in the DTCA environment may have affected its impact on clinical encounters. Our objective was to determine the rate of patient medication inquiries and their influence on clinical encounters in primary care. Our methods consisted of a cross-sectional survey in the State Networks of Colorado Ambulatory Practices and Partners, a collaboration of 3 practice-based research networks. Clinicians completed a short patient encounter form after consecutive patient encounter for one-half or 1 full day. The main outcomes were the rate of inquiries, independent predictors of inquiries, and overall impact on clinical encounters. One hundred sixty-eight clinicians in 22 practices completed forms after 1,647 patient encounters. In 58 encounters (3.5%), the patient inquired about a specific new prescription medication. Community health center patients made fewer inquiries than private practice patients (1.7% vs 7.2%, P<.001). Predictors of inquiries included taking 3 or more chronic medications and the clinician being female. Most clinicians reported the requested medication was not their first choice for treatment (62%), but it was prescribed in 53% of the cases. Physicians interpreted the overall impact on the visit as positive in 24% of visits, neutral in 66%, and negative in 10%. Patient requests for prescription medication were uncommon overall, and even more so among patients in lower income groups. These requests were rarely perceived by clinicians as having a negative impact on the encounter. Future mixed methods studies should explore specific socioeconomic groups and reasons for clinicians' willingness to prescribe these medications.

  3. Automated Computer Access Request System

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Snook, Bryan E.

    2010-01-01

    The Automated Computer Access Request (AutoCAR) system is a Web-based account provisioning application that replaces the time-consuming paper-based computer-access request process at Johnson Space Center (JSC). Auto- CAR combines rules-based and role-based functionality in one application to provide a centralized system that is easily and widely accessible. The system features a work-flow engine that facilitates request routing, a user registration directory containing contact information and user metadata, an access request submission and tracking process, and a system administrator account management component. This provides full, end-to-end disposition approval chain accountability from the moment a request is submitted. By blending both rules-based and rolebased functionality, AutoCAR has the flexibility to route requests based on a user s nationality, JSC affiliation status, and other export-control requirements, while ensuring a user s request is addressed by either a primary or backup approver. All user accounts that are tracked in AutoCAR are recorded and mapped to the native operating system schema on the target platform where user accounts reside. This allows for future extensibility for supporting creation, deletion, and account management directly on the target platforms by way of AutoCAR. The system s directory-based lookup and day-today change analysis of directory information determines personnel moves, deletions, and additions, and automatically notifies a user via e-mail to revalidate his/her account access as a result of such changes. AutoCAR is a Microsoft classic active server page (ASP) application hosted on a Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS).

  4. 77 FR 46683 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Current Population Survey (CPS) School...

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    ... Bureau plans to request clearance for updating the universe of collection of data concerning the school... based on current trends in school enrollment for people over 24. This change in universe will result in...

  5. 78 FR 14838 - Proposed Information Collection Request of the Resource Justification Model (RJM); Comment Request

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    ... submissions of responses. III. Current Actions Type of Review: Extension without change. Title: Resource... hours........ 424 hours. TOTALS 212 6,519 hrs Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): $0. Total Burden Cost...

  6. 40 CFR 63.1417 - Reporting requirements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... compliance with the requirements of this subpart, or changes in methods or equipment for monitoring... submitted on electronic media. (d) Precompliance Report. Owners or operators of affected sources requesting an extension for compliance; requesting approval to use alternative monitoring parameters...

  7. 77 FR 75147 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Interim Procedures for Considering Requests...

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    ... specifications and the production capabilities of Panamanian and U.S. textile producers to determine whether... information collection instrument and instructions should be directed to Laurie Mease, Office of Textiles and... Agreement, pursuant to the textile provisions of the Agreement, fabric, yarn, and fiber produced in Panama...

  8. 76 FR 22364 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Survey of Income and Program Participation...

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    ... of 2012. The SIPP is a household-based survey designed as a continuous series of national panels. The... DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Census Bureau Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Survey of... with questions designed to address specific needs in complementary subject areas. The 2012 SIPP- EHC...

  9. 77 FR 34338 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Survey of Income and Program Participation...

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    ... Calendar (SIPP-EHC) from January to March of 2013. The SIPP is a household-based survey designed as a... DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Census Bureau Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Survey of... questions that are supplemented with questions designed to address specific needs in complementary subject...

  10. 75 FR 35764 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Survey of Income and Program Participation...

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    ... survey designed as a continuous series of national panels. The SIPP is molded around a central ``core... DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE U.S. Census Bureau Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Survey... supplemented with questions designed to address specific needs. Examples of these types of questions include...

  11. 32 CFR Appendix K to Part 275 - Format for Formal Written Request

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... (CONTINUED) MISCELLANEOUS OBTAINING INFORMATION FROM FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS: RIGHT TO FINANCIAL PRIVACY ACT...., and [cite Component's implementation of this Part], you are requested to provide the following account information pertaining to the subject: [Describe the specific records to be examined] The [DoD Component] is...

  12. 17 CFR 270.7d-1 - Specification of conditions and arrangements for Canadian management investment companies...

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    2010-04-01

    ... and arrangements for Canadian management investment companies requesting order permitting registration... arrangements for Canadian management investment companies requesting order permitting registration. (a) A management investment company organized under the laws of Canada or any province thereof may obtain an order...

  13. 75 FR 27346 - Agency Information Collection Request. 30-Day Public Comment Request

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    ... of a proposed collection for public comment. Interested persons are invited to send comments... plans, employers, and health care providers. We know very little about why consumers, and specifically... the newer, more robust Internet-based tools for tracking their health and health care services. This...

  14. 76 FR 38189 - New Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Environmental Science Formative Research Methodology...

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    2011-06-29

    ...; Comment Request; Environmental Science Formative Research Methodology Studies for the National Children's Study SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction... comment was received. The comment questioned the cost and utility of the study specifically and of...

  15. 76 FR 70971 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Societal Response to Tornado Warnings

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    2011-11-16

    ... developing social science, wishes to examine the societal impacts of tornado warnings, specifically the methods of receipt, response, and the impact of false alarms on the rate in which protective actions are... ). FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or copies of the information...

  16. 76 FR 4904 - Agency Information Collection Request; 30-Day Public Comment Request

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    2011-01-27

    ... datasets that are not specific to individual's personal health information to improve decision making by... making health indicator datasets (data that is not associated with any individuals) and tools available.../health . These datasets and tools are anticipated to benefit development of applications, web-based tools...

  17. 78 FR 28284 - Petition for Waiver of Compliance

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    2013-05-14

    ... Railway (CP) has petitioned the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) for a waiver of compliance from... assigned the petition Docket Number FRA-2013-0040. Specifically, CP requests relief from 49 CFR 232.205(c... brake tests--1,000-mile inspection for trains operating in distributive power (DP) mode. CP requests...

  18. 77 FR 48160 - Division of Cardiovascular Devices 30-Day Notices and Annual Reports; Public Workshop; Request...

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    2012-08-13

    ...] Division of Cardiovascular Devices 30-Day Notices and Annual Reports; Public Workshop; Request for Comments... Cardiovascular Devices 30-Day Notices and Annual Reports.'' This public workshop will be cosponsored with... approval applications (PMAs), 30-day notices and annual reports, specifically for cardiovascular devices...

  19. 15 CFR 2006.0 - Submission of petitions requesting action under section 301.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 15 Commerce and Foreign Trade 3 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Submission of petitions requesting action under section 301. 2006.0 Section 2006.0 Commerce and Foreign Trade Regulations Relating to... or restricts United States commerce; and authorizes the Trade Representative, subject to the specific...

  20. 76 FR 36544 - Scientific Evaluation of Modified Risk Tobacco Product Applications; Public Workshop; Request for...

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    2011-06-22

    ... appropriate collection of data regarding the use, consumer perception, and health risks of an MRTP? III...] Scientific Evaluation of Modified Risk Tobacco Product Applications; Public Workshop; Request for Comments... obtain input on specific issues associated with the scientific evaluation of modified risk tobacco...

  1. 76 FR 60817 - Notice of Proposed Information Collection Requests

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    2011-09-30

    ... Statistics (NCES) is seeking a three-year clearance for a new survey data collection for the College... most recent data are available. The clearance being requested is to survey the institutions on this... and sector specific findings from the CATE using descriptive statistics. The main cost areas showing...

  2. 78 FR 52824 - Proposed Information Collection (Bowel and Bladder Care Billing Form) Activity: Comment Request

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    2013-08-26

    ... and Bladder Care Billing Form) Activity: Comment Request AGENCY: Veterans Health Administration.... This notice solicits comments on the information needed to evaluate the Bowel and Bladder Care Billing... specifically to bowel and bladder care. DATES: Written comments and recommendations on the proposed collection...

  3. 76 FR 25331 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; National Oil and...

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    2011-05-04

    ... Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; National Oil and Hazardous Substance Pollution Contingency... http://www.regulations.gov to obtain a copy of the draft collection of information, submit or view... comments: 1. Explain your views as clearly as possible and provide specific examples. 2. Describe any...

  4. 43 CFR 3453.2-2 - Forms and statements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR MINERALS MANAGEMENT (3000) MANAGEMENT OF EXISTING LEASES Transfers by Assignment, Sublease or Otherwise § 3453.2-2 Forms and statements. (a) Transfers of any record title interest...) No specific form need be used for requests for approval of transfers. The request for approval shall...

  5. 43 CFR 3453.2-2 - Forms and statements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR MINERALS MANAGEMENT (3000) MANAGEMENT OF EXISTING LEASES Transfers by Assignment, Sublease or Otherwise § 3453.2-2 Forms and statements. (a) Transfers of any record title interest...) No specific form need be used for requests for approval of transfers. The request for approval shall...

  6. 40 CFR 721.30 - EPA approval of alternative control measures.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ...), must submit the request to EPA via EPA's Central Data Exchange (CDX) using EPA-provided e-PMN software... obtain e-PMN software. Support documents related to these requests must be submitted in the manner set... involved. (5) The specifications of the alternative worker exposure control measures or environmental...

  7. 40 CFR 721.30 - EPA approval of alternative control measures.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ...), must submit the request to EPA via EPA's Central Data Exchange (CDX) using EPA-provided e-PMN software... obtain e-PMN software. Support documents related to these requests must be submitted in the manner set... involved. (5) The specifications of the alternative worker exposure control measures or environmental...

  8. 40 CFR 721.30 - EPA approval of alternative control measures.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ...), must submit the request to EPA via EPA's Central Data Exchange (CDX) using EPA-provided e-PMN software... obtain e-PMN software. Support documents related to these requests must be submitted in the manner set... involved. (5) The specifications of the alternative worker exposure control measures or environmental...

  9. The Naval Research Laboratory’s Ongoing Implementation of the Open Geospatial Consortium’s Catalogue Services Specification

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2010-06-01

    then forwarded to Tomcat for processing. Tomcat receives these requests and sends them to the NRL-created CSW servlet (a servlet is a Java -based...server-side program) running inside it. The CSW servlet identifies which HTTP method is being used and whether KVP or XML is being used to send the...request data. Once the CSW servlet identifies the parameter passing scheme it can extract the parameters from the request. It then identifies and

  10. 76 FR 51362 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Recordkeeping and...

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    2011-08-18

    ...In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that EPA is planning to submit a request to renew an existing Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). This ICR is scheduled to expire on December 31, 2011. Before submitting the ICR to OMB for review and approval, EPA is soliciting comments on specific aspects of the proposed information collection as described below.

  11. 77 FR 9233 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Reporting...

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    2012-02-16

    ...In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that EPA is planning to submit a request to renew an existing approved Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). This ICR is scheduled to expire on April 30, 2012. Before submitting the ICR to OMB for review and approval, EPA is soliciting comments on specific aspects of the proposed information collection as described below.

  12. Defense: FY2017 Budget Request, Authorization, and Appropriations

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2016-04-12

    for FY2016. In addition to the base budget request, the Administration requested $58.8 billion—including $3.4 billion for the European Reassurance...than by enlarging their numbers. Congressional deliberations on the FY2017 defense budget may be influenced, in part, by the broader budget...changing their organization rather than by enlarging their numbers; and  emphasizing innovation. A number of observers have called for DOD to be

  13. 15 CFR 19.18 - How does a debtor request a special review based on a change in circumstances such as...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... 15 Commerce and Foreign Trade 1 2014-01-01 2014-01-01 false How does a debtor request a special....18 Section 19.18 Commerce and Foreign Trade Office of the Secretary of Commerce COMMERCE DEBT COLLECTION Procedures To Collect Commerce Debts § 19.18 How does a debtor request a special review based on a...

  14. 15 CFR 19.18 - How does a debtor request a special review based on a change in circumstances such as...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... 15 Commerce and Foreign Trade 1 2013-01-01 2013-01-01 false How does a debtor request a special....18 Section 19.18 Commerce and Foreign Trade Office of the Secretary of Commerce COMMERCE DEBT COLLECTION Procedures To Collect Commerce Debts § 19.18 How does a debtor request a special review based on a...

  15. 15 CFR 19.18 - How does a debtor request a special review based on a change in circumstances such as...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... 15 Commerce and Foreign Trade 1 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false How does a debtor request a special....18 Section 19.18 Commerce and Foreign Trade Office of the Secretary of Commerce COMMERCE DEBT COLLECTION Procedures To Collect Commerce Debts § 19.18 How does a debtor request a special review based on a...

  16. 15 CFR 19.18 - How does a debtor request a special review based on a change in circumstances such as...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... 15 Commerce and Foreign Trade 1 2012-01-01 2012-01-01 false How does a debtor request a special....18 Section 19.18 Commerce and Foreign Trade Office of the Secretary of Commerce COMMERCE DEBT COLLECTION Procedures To Collect Commerce Debts § 19.18 How does a debtor request a special review based on a...

  17. 15 CFR 19.18 - How does a debtor request a special review based on a change in circumstances such as...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 15 Commerce and Foreign Trade 1 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false How does a debtor request a special....18 Section 19.18 Commerce and Foreign Trade Office of the Secretary of Commerce COMMERCE DEBT COLLECTION Procedures To Collect Commerce Debts § 19.18 How does a debtor request a special review based on a...

  18. Growing an ethics consultation service: A longitudinal study examining two decades of practice.

    PubMed

    Gorka, Christine; Craig, Jana M; Spielman, Bethany J

    2017-01-01

    Little is known about what factors may contribute to the growth of a consultation service or how a practice may change or evolve across time. This study examines data collected from a busy ethics consultation service over a period of more than two decades. We report a number of longitudinal findings that represent significant growth in the volume of ethics consultation requests from 19 in 1990 to 551 in 2013, as well as important changes in the patient population for which ethics help is requested. The findings include (1) a steady growth in requests from primary care providers (e.g., physicians and nurses), as well as increases in ancillary services (e.g., social workers); (2) a decrease in length of stay (days) before ethics help is requested; (3) an increase in the reasons that individuals ask for help from ethics; (4) an upsurge in consults requests from areas outside the intensive care unit (ICU); (5) a decrease in patients that died during hospitalization (e.g., live discharges); and (6) growth in the numbers of patients lacking decision-making capacity. We believe the increases in consult requests reflect appropriate and necessary growth because recent consultations have also been associated with consultations requiring (7) additional interventions and (8) reasonably high time intensity scores.

  19. Assessment of Air Traffic Controller Acceptability of Aircrew Route Change Requests

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Idris, Husni; Enea, Gabriele; Burke, Kelly; Wing, David

    2017-01-01

    NASA developed the traffic aware strategic aircrew requests concept for a cockpit automation that identifies route improvements and advises the aircrew to request the change from the air traffic controller. In order to increase the chance of air traffic control approval, the automation ensures that the route is clear of known traffic, weather, and airspace restrictions. Hence the technology is anticipated to provide benefits in areas such as flight efficiency, flight schedule compliance, passenger comfort, and pilot and controller workload. In support of a field trial of a prototype of the technology, observations were conducted at the Atlanta and Jacksonville air traffic control centers to identify the main factors that affect the acceptability of aircrew requests by air traffic controllers. Observers shadowed air traffic controllers as the test flight pilot made pre-scripted requests to invoke acceptability issues and then they interviewed voluntarily fifty controllers with experience ranging from one to thirty-five years. The most common reason for rejecting requests is conflicting with traffic followed by violating air traffic procedures, increasing sector workload, and conflicting with major arrival and departure flows and flow restrictions. Quantitative parameters such as the distance that a route should maintain from sector boundaries and special use airspace were identified and recommended for inclusion in the automation.

  20. Heat engine generator control system

    DOEpatents

    Rajashekara, K.; Gorti, B.V.; McMullen, S.R.; Raibert, R.J.

    1998-05-12

    An electrical power generation system includes a heat engine having an output member operatively coupled to the rotor of a dynamoelectric machine. System output power is controlled by varying an electrical parameter of the dynamoelectric machine. A power request signal is related to an engine speed and the electrical parameter is varied in accordance with a speed control loop. Initially, the sense of change in the electrical parameter in response to a change in the power request signal is opposite that required to effectuate a steady state output power consistent with the power request signal. Thereafter, the electrical parameter is varied to converge the output member speed to the speed known to be associated with the desired electrical output power. 8 figs.

  1. Heat engine generator control system

    DOEpatents

    Rajashekara, Kaushik; Gorti, Bhanuprasad Venkata; McMullen, Steven Robert; Raibert, Robert Joseph

    1998-01-01

    An electrical power generation system includes a heat engine having an output member operatively coupled to the rotor of a dynamoelectric machine. System output power is controlled by varying an electrical parameter of the dynamoelectric machine. A power request signal is related to an engine speed and the electrical parameter is varied in accordance with a speed control loop. Initially, the sense of change in the electrical parameter in response to a change in the power request signal is opposite that required to effectuate a steady state output power consistent with the power request signal. Thereafter, the electrical parameter is varied to converge the output member speed to the speed known to be associated with the desired electrical output power.

  2. 76 FR 52934 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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    2011-08-24

    ... DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request The Department of Commerce will... Auxiliary members report observations of changes that require additions, corrections or revisions to... writing Diana Hynek, Departmental Paperwork Clearance Officer, (202) 482-0266, Department of Commerce...

  3. 78 FR 60826 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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    2013-10-02

    ... DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request The Department of Commerce will... groundfish fishing behavior and possible responses to potential regulatory changes. Affected Public... writing Jennifer Jessup, Departmental Paperwork Clearance Officer, (202) 482-0336, Department of Commerce...

  4. 76 FR 67454 - Agency Information Collection Request; 30-Day Public Comment Request

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    2011-11-01

    ... revising the collection to include changes adopted by the cross-agency R&R working group. This working... Assistance (Cover); R&R Personal Data; R&R Senior/Key Person Profile; R&R Senior/Key Person Profile (Expanded...

  5. Comments on potential geologic and seismic hazards affecting Mare Island, Solano County, California

    USGS Publications Warehouse

    Holzer, T.L.; Wentworth, C.M.; Bakun, W.H.; Boatwright, J.; Brocher, T.E.; Çelebi, M.; Ellsworth, W.L.; Fletcher, J.P.B.; Geist, E.L.; Graymer, R.W.; Kayen, R.E.; Keefer, D.K.; Oppenheimer, D.H.; Savage, W.U.; Schwartz, D.P.; Simpson, R.W.

    2002-01-01

    This report was prepared in response to a written request from the City of Vallejo, California, to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). By letter of October 4, 2002, the City requested that the USGS "provide advice to the City’s LNG Health and Safety Committee on its review of a potential liquid natural gas project" on the southern portion of Mare Island. The City specifically requested that the USGS advise the committee on potential hazards including fault rupture, earthquake ground motion, soil failure during earthquakes, tsunami and seiche, and landslides. The City requested that the USGS: (1) comment on these hazards, (2) describe its degree of confidence in its opinions, and (3) describe the scope of additional studies that will be needed if the City enters into an agreement with project sponsors. Advice was also requested on the selection of the safe shutdown and operating basis earthquakes as specified in the NFPA 59A standard (NFPA, 2001). This review of published reports and other publicly available information indicates that all of the hazards on which the USGS was asked to comment should be considered for the proposed project on the southern portion of Mare Island. Available information differs greatly for each of these potential hazards, and adequate understanding for design will require detailed site-specific investigations.

  6. [New frontiers of education in healthcare].

    PubMed

    Consorti, Fabrizio

    2014-01-01

    Competency is the ability to use a structured set of knowledge, skills, and attitudes in a specific professional context, or in professional training. Over the past 10 years there has been an acceleration of the trend towards a competency-based design of the education of healthcare professionals, rather than just defining learning objectives or relying on the content of disciplinary programs. The choice for a competency-based curriculum is not only the result of a changed pedagogical vision, but also an answer to the request of accountability toward society about how are the professionals trained and also to allow comparability between universities and nations. In recent years, many international initiatives have defined competency models for medicine and more specifically for public health. This article summarizes these initiatives, putting them in the context of the evolving Italian legislation.

  7. Using Bayesian networks to support decision-focused information retrieval

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

    Lehner, P.; Elsaesser, C.; Seligman, L.

    This paper has described an approach to controlling the process of pulling data/information from distributed data bases in a way that is specific to a persons specific decision making context. Our prototype implementation of this approach uses a knowledge-based planner to generate a plan, an automatically constructed Bayesian network to evaluate the plan, specialized processing of the network to derive key information items that would substantially impact the evaluation of the plan (e.g., determine that replanning is needed), automated construction of Standing Requests for Information (SRIs) which are automated functions that monitor changes and trends in distributed data base thatmore » are relevant to the key information items. This emphasis of this paper is on how Bayesian networks are used.« less

  8. Due Process Hearing Case Study

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Bateman, David F.

    2008-01-01

    Ben is a 16-year-old student who resides with his family in an unnamed School District. He is eligible for special education by reason of specific learning disability and ADHD. His parents requested a due process hearing, alleging that the District failed to provide him with a free appropriate public education (FAPE) and requesting reimbursement…

  9. 75 FR 23251 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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    2010-05-03

    ... and OMB Number: DOD Loan Repayment Program (LRP); DD Form 2475, OMB Number 0704-0152. Type of Request... Reserve service for a specific obligated period. Applicants who qualify for the program forward the DD... Personnel Office forwards the DD Form 2475 to the lending institution. For active-duty Service, the Service...

  10. Principles, Promises, and a Personal Plea: What Is an Evaluator to Do?

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    McDonald, Katherine E.; Myrick, Shannon E.

    2008-01-01

    The client of a student evaluation team has requested that the evaluators provide confidential identifying information gathered in the course of the evaluation. Here, the authors consider their response to the client's request. Specifically, they draw from professional principles developed to guide ethical decision making for evaluators and…

  11. 15 CFR 16.4 - Finding of need to establish a specification for labeling a consumer product.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... writing and will, to the extent practicable, include the following information: (1) Identification of the... difficulty experienced by consumers in making informed purchase decisions because of a lack of knowledge... requests and shall notify the requester of her decision in writing. If the Secretary determines that there...

  12. 15 CFR 16.4 - Finding of need to establish a specification for labeling a consumer product.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... writing and will, to the extent practicable, include the following information: (1) Identification of the... difficulty experienced by consumers in making informed purchase decisions because of a lack of knowledge... requests and shall notify the requester of her decision in writing. If the Secretary determines that there...

  13. 15 CFR 16.4 - Finding of need to establish a specification for labeling a consumer product.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... writing and will, to the extent practicable, include the following information: (1) Identification of the... difficulty experienced by consumers in making informed purchase decisions because of a lack of knowledge... requests and shall notify the requester of her decision in writing. If the Secretary determines that there...

  14. 15 CFR 16.4 - Finding of need to establish a specification for labeling a consumer product.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... writing and will, to the extent practicable, include the following information: (1) Identification of the... difficulty experienced by consumers in making informed purchase decisions because of a lack of knowledge... requests and shall notify the requester of her decision in writing. If the Secretary determines that there...

  15. 47 CFR 64.4002 - Notification obligations of LECs.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... and processing a PIC selection submitted by a customer and placing the customer on the network of the...-submitted PIC order (i.e., mirror image of the original order), unless otherwise specified by this paragraph... request (i.e., the mirror image of the original request), along with the specific reason(s) why the...

  16. 47 CFR 64.4002 - Notification obligations of LECs.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... and processing a PIC selection submitted by a customer and placing the customer on the network of the...-submitted PIC order (i.e., mirror image of the original order), unless otherwise specified by this paragraph... request (i.e., the mirror image of the original request), along with the specific reason(s) why the...

  17. 47 CFR 64.4002 - Notification obligations of LECs.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... and processing a PIC selection submitted by a customer and placing the customer on the network of the...-submitted PIC order (i.e., mirror image of the original order), unless otherwise specified by this paragraph... request (i.e., the mirror image of the original request), along with the specific reason(s) why the...

  18. 47 CFR 64.4002 - Notification obligations of LECs.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... and processing a PIC selection submitted by a customer and placing the customer on the network of the...-submitted PIC order (i.e., mirror image of the original order), unless otherwise specified by this paragraph... request (i.e., the mirror image of the original request), along with the specific reason(s) why the...

  19. 76 FR 55609 - Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products: Request for Exclusion of 120 Volt, 100 Watt...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-09-08

    ... of R20 Short Lamps and Unavailability of Substitutes D. Request for Information I. Background The... or has special characteristics not available in substitute lamp types. Specifically, as the lamp has... manufacturers (including designated beam spread and lumen output), there are no substitute products on the...

  20. 78 FR 76289 - Request for Information To Gather Technical Expertise Pertaining to Data Elements, Metrics, Data...

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    ... information. To assist us in making a determination on your request, we encourage you to identify any specific... consumer decision-making. Organizations that have developed, or are developing, ratings systems for.... The Department is interested in a PIRS that takes into account information important to the Federal...

  1. 78 FR 48601 - Time Limit for Completion of Voluntary Self-Disclosures and Revised Notice of the Institution of...

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    ... violations, including providing all relevant documentation. If the person making the initial notification... contain. Such requests should show specifically that the person making the request: (1) Began its review... person, and provide that contact person's current business street address, email address, and telephone...

  2. Northern Network Committee Interlibrary Loan Survey Report.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    California State Univ. and Colleges, Los Angeles. Northern Library Regional Cooperation Board.

    All libraries of the 19 campuses in the California State University system were surveyed about their interlibrary loan operations. Information concerning the turnaround time was sought in three specific areas: (1) from date of patron request to date of patron receipt; (2) from date of library request to date of patron notification; and (3) from…

  3. 75 FR 66101 - Agency Information Collection Request. 30-Day Public Comment Request

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    2010-10-27

    ... Medicaid Fraud Control Units' Reports--OMB No. 0990-0162-Extension--Office of Inspector General (OIG... collection of information to specifically comply with the requirements in Title 19 of the Social Security Act... Inspector General (OIG) by the fifty established State Medicaid Fraud Control Units (Units). OIG uses the...

  4. 77 FR 59386 - Privacy Act of 1974, as Amended

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    ... a proceeding, or in connection with criminal law proceedings; (8) A grand jury pursuant either to a federal or state grand jury subpoena, or to a prosecution request that such record be released for the purpose of its introduction to a grand jury, where the subpoena or request has been specifically approved...

  5. 76 FR 68219 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Impact...

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    2011-11-03

    ... for OMB Review; Comment Request; Impact Evaluation of the YouthBuild Program ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY... proposal for a new information collection titled, ``Impact Evaluation of the YouthBuild Program,'' to the... support of an impact evaluation of the YouthBuild Program. Specifically, the DOL seeks to conduct a census...

  6. 75 FR 1068 - Information Collection Request to Office of Management and Budget; OMB Control Numbers: 1625-0087

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY Coast Guard [USCG-2009-1064] Information Collection Request to... March 9, 2010. ADDRESSES: To avoid duplicate submissions to the docket [USCG-2009- 1064], please use... include the docket number [USCG-2009-1064], indicate the specific section of the document to which each...

  7. 32 CFR 1701.7 - Requests for notification of and access to records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... the specific Privacy Act System of Records Notice. To ensure proper routing and tracking, requesters... are not subject to review by subject individuals: (1) Records in ODNI systems of records that ODNI has... existence or nonexistence of responsive records (see § 1701.10(c)(iii)). (2) Records in ODNI systems of...

  8. 75 FR 76731 - Request for Comment for Report on In-State Broadcast Programming

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    ...; solicitation of comments. SUMMARY: This document solicits public comments and data for use in preparation of a.... In addition, the Bureau requests data for use in preparation of the report. 4. Section 304(1... use in preparation of the required report. 2. Specifically, Section 304 of STELA states: SEC. 304...

  9. 77 FR 40342 - Extension of the Full First Action Interview Pilot Program and Request for Comments

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    2012-07-09

    ... Full First Action Interview Pilot Program and Request for Comments AGENCY: United States Patent and... Trademark Office (Office) is extending the First Action Interview (FAI) Pilot Program while completing a... of the examination process. Specifically, the program allows an applicant to conduct an interview...

  10. 47 CFR 73.642 - Subscription TV service.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... available to the FCC upon request. (d) The use of the visual vertical blanking interval or an aural... programming may be used only upon specific FCC authorization. Letter requests to use either the video blanking intervals or aural subcarriers during periods of non-subscription programming are to be sent to the FCC in...

  11. 47 CFR 73.642 - Subscription TV service.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... available to the FCC upon request. (d) The use of the visual vertical blanking interval or an aural... programming may be used only upon specific FCC authorization. Letter requests to use either the video blanking intervals or aural subcarriers during periods of non-subscription programming are to be sent to the FCC in...

  12. 78 FR 37220 - Proposed Information Collection Request; Comment Request; EPA-ICR No. 1774.05-Mobile Air...

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    2013-06-20

    ... appropriate automated electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms of... substances (ODS) are replaced by alternatives that reduce overall risks to human health and the environment... specific use, typically with some condition or limit to minimize risks to human health and the environment...

  13. 40 CFR 721.30 - EPA approval of alternative control measures.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... determination of equivalency to EPA under this part must submit the request to EPA via CDX using e-PMN software... to obtain e-PMN software. Support documents related to these requests must be submitted in the manner... submitted. (4) A detailed description of the activities involved. (5) The specifications of the alternative...

  14. 78 FR 42107 - Certain Wireless Devices With 3G Capabilities and Components Thereof; Notice of Request for...

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    ... INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION [Investigation No. 337-TA-800] Certain Wireless Devices With 3G Capabilities and Components Thereof; Notice of Request for Statements on the Public Interest AGENCY: U.S..., specifically a limited exclusion order against certain wireless devices with 3G capabilities and components...

  15. 76 FR 10366 - Agency Information Collection Request; 60-Day Public Comment Request

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    2011-02-24

    ...). Abstract: This research leverages best practices in behavior change, interaction design, and service innovation to increase the understanding and adoption of Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) information..., translation, and adoption of evidence-based, outcomes- oriented CER findings. Comparative Effectiveness...

  16. 76 FR 72673 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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    2011-11-25

    ... DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request The Department of Commerce will... certificates, and 30 minutes for certificate change notifications and exception to procedures. Needs and Uses... writing Diana Hynek, Departmental Paperwork Clearance Officer, (202) 482-0266, Department of Commerce...

  17. 78 FR 20296 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Marine Recreational Information Program Fishing...

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    ... Collection; Comment Request; Marine Recreational Information Program Fishing Effort Survey AGENCY: National... title will be changed from ``Marine Recreational Information Program'' to ``Marine Recreational Information Program Fishing Effort Survey''. Marine recreational anglers are surveyed to collect catch and...

  18. 75 FR 38090 - Proposed Collection; Comment Request

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Department of the Army [Docket ID USA-2010-0016] Proposed Collection; Comment Request AGENCY: Office of the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army, (OAA-AAHS-RDR... without change, including any personal identifiers or contact information. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT...

  19. 78 FR 50491 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Information Collection Renewal; Comment Request...

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    2013-08-19

    ... 20219. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The OCC is requesting an extension, without change, of the following... requirements. The information collection requirements ensure that national banks and Federal savings... banking statutes and regulations. The information is necessary for regulatory and examination purposes...

  20. 77 FR 31017 - Office of Facilities Management and Program Services; Information Collection; Background...

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    2012-05-24

    ... a Basic National Agency Check Criminal History, GSA Form 176; and 2. Two sets of fingerprints on FBI Fingerprint Cards, for FD-258. This is not a request to collect new information, this is a request to change...

  1. Deciding about patients' requests for extraction: ethical and legal guidelines.

    PubMed

    Broers, Dyonne L M; Brands, Wolter G; Welie, Jos V M; de Jongh, Ad

    2010-02-01

    and Overview. Dentists frequently are faced with patients' requests for an extraction, sometimes of the entire dentition. In this article, the authors offer guidelines to help dentists and oral surgeons make decisions regarding such requests for extraction. In most cases of patients' requesting extractions, the ethical principle of nonmaleficence will play a decisive role in the dentist's decision making. In cases in which the request appears influenced by a specific mental condition such as a phobia of dental treatment, extraction rarely is justifiable. Practice Implications. Dental professionals should keep in mind that they cannot be forced to carry out treatment that is at odds with the ethical principle of nonmaleficence or that is outside of the bounds of accepted treatment. To aid dentists in making treatment decisions in such cases, the authors present a flowchart that integrates possible considerations.

  2. Requests, Blocking Moves, and Rational (Inter)action in Survey Introductions.

    PubMed

    Maynard, Douglas W; Freese, Jeremy; Schaeffer, Nora Cate

    2010-10-01

    We draw on conversation analytic methods and research to explicate the interactional phenomenon of requesting in general and the specific case of requesting participation in survey interviews. Recent work on survey participation has given much attention to leverage-saliency theory, but has not engaged how the key concepts of this theory are exhibited in the actual unfolding interaction of interviewers and potential respondents. We do so using digitally recorded and transcribed calls to recruit participation in the 2004 Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. We describe how potential respondents present interactional environments that are relatively discouraging or encouraging, and how, in response, interviewers may be relatively cautious or presumptive in their requesting actions. We consider how the ability of interviewers to tailor their behavior to their interactional environment can affect whether the introduction reaches the point at which a request to participate is made, the form that this request takes, and the sample person's response. Our analysis contributes to understanding how we might use insights from the analysis of interaction to increase cooperation with requests to participate in surveys.

  3. Requests, Blocking Moves, and Rational (Inter)action in Survey Introductions

    PubMed Central

    Maynard, Douglas W.; Freese, Jeremy; Schaeffer, Nora Cate

    2011-01-01

    We draw on conversation analytic methods and research to explicate the interactional phenomenon of requesting in general and the specific case of requesting participation in survey interviews. Recent work on survey participation has given much attention to leverage-saliency theory, but has not engaged how the key concepts of this theory are exhibited in the actual unfolding interaction of interviewers and potential respondents. We do so using digitally recorded and transcribed calls to recruit participation in the 2004 Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. We describe how potential respondents present interactional environments that are relatively discouraging or encouraging, and how, in response, interviewers may be relatively cautious or presumptive in their requesting actions. We consider how the ability of interviewers to tailor their behavior to their interactional environment can affect whether the introduction reaches the point at which a request to participate is made, the form that this request takes, and the sample person's response. Our analysis contributes to understanding how we might use insights from the analysis of interaction to increase cooperation with requests to participate in surveys. PMID:21691562

  4. Factors that influence patient response to requests to change to a unified restrictive formulary.

    PubMed

    Smetana, Gerald W; Davis, Roger B; Phillips, Russell S

    2004-12-01

    To determine factors that influence patient willingness to accept a medication change to a unified, restrictive formulary. Prospective cohort study. University-affiliated hospital-based primary care internal medicine practice. Two hundred ninety-seven members of a managed care plan who had received a prescription for a nonformulary medication in the previous 4 months and whose primary care physician approved a conversion to a formulary medication. Clinical nurses invited patients to change to a formulary medication at the time of a telephone refill request based on a standard script. The overall conversion rate to the formulary medication was 59.8%. Seventy-four percent of patients who requested a refill by telephone converted to the formulary (odds ratio [OR], 2.24; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.02 to 4.72). Patient age (OR, 1.03; CI, 1.01 to 1.05) and male gender (OR, 2.00; CI, 1.09 to 3.67) were each significant correlates of conversion. After adjustment in a multivariable model, only telephone refill request (adjusted OR, 2.31; CI, 1.07 to 4.97) and age (adjusted OR, 1.03; CI, 1.01 to 1.06) remained significant. Among the patients who made a telephone refill request, those who converted were more likely to completely trust their physician's judgment (P=.04) and to trust their physician to put their health over cost concerns (P=.05). Formulary conversion reduced costs beginning 3 months after the conversion date. A protocol for encouraging conversion to a unified formulary at the point of a telephone refill request increases formulary compliance rates and reduces medication costs. Patients who decline to convert medications are less likely to trust their physician.

  5. 15 CFR 752.10 - Changes to the SCL.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... request for each end-user. Example: end-user XXX is to be “added” and end-user AAA is to be “changed” from... Blocks 1 and 19. In Block 21, cite the end-user requirement or condition (i.e., end-user XXX is requested...

  6. 15 CFR 752.10 - Changes to the SCL.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... request for each end-user. Example: end-user XXX is to be “added” and end-user AAA is to be “changed” from... Blocks 1 and 19. In Block 21, cite the end-user requirement or condition (i.e., end-user XXX is requested...

  7. 15 CFR 752.10 - Changes to the SCL.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... request for each end-user. Example: end-user XXX is to be “added” and end-user AAA is to be “changed” from... Blocks 1 and 19. In Block 21, cite the end-user requirement or condition (i.e., end-user XXX is requested...

  8. 15 CFR 752.10 - Changes to the SCL.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... request for each end-user. Example: end-user XXX is to be “added” and end-user AAA is to be “changed” from... Blocks 1 and 19. In Block 21, cite the end-user requirement or condition (i.e., end-user XXX is requested...

  9. 76 FR 24006 - Notice of Proposed Information Collection Requests

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    2011-04-29

    ... provide low-income parents residing in the District of Columbia with expanded options for the education of... authorizing statute requires the mandated evaluation to address changes in parents' school involvement and... DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Notice of Proposed Information Collection Requests AGENCY: Department of...

  10. 76 FR 48801 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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    2011-08-09

    ... DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request The Department of Commerce will... responsibility over its portfolio. The revision involves a change in reporting including 100% electronic... Clearance Officer, (202) 482-0266, Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 14th and Constitution Avenue, NW...

  11. 77 FR 70416 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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    2012-11-26

    ... DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request The Department of Commerce will... that the requirements of the Magnuson-Stevens Act are being met. Change: Adobe fillable nomination kits... writing Jennifer Jessup, Departmental Paperwork Clearance Officer, (202) 482-0336, Department of Commerce...

  12. 76 FR 60127 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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    2011-09-28

    ... plan administrators will use these forms to submit requests of; changes to their account information... Department of the Treasury will submit the following public information collection requirements to OMB for... Officer listed. Comments regarding these information collections should be addressed to the OMB reviewer...

  13. 77 FR 25706 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2012-05-01

    ... ensure that requested data can be provided in the desired format, reporting burden (time and financial... sections of the collection instrument to reflect changes in the performance measures as approved by OMB and which will capture appropriate data for the Corporation's required performance measurement reporting...

  14. 48 CFR 243.205-71 - Requests for equitable adjustment.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 48 Federal Acquisition Regulations System 3 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Requests for equitable adjustment. 243.205-71 Section 243.205-71 Federal Acquisition Regulations System DEFENSE ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE CONTRACT MANAGEMENT CONTRACT MODIFICATIONS Change Orders 243.205-71...

  15. 17 CFR 242.303 - Record preservation requirements for alternative trading systems.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... malfunctions, changes to system procedures, maintenance of hardware and software, instructions pertaining to... will be surrendered promptly on request of the alternative trading system, and shall include the... alternative trading system shall furnish to any representative of the Commission promptly upon request...

  16. 15 CFR 752.10 - Changes to the SCL.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... request for each end-user. Example: end-user XXX is to be “added” and end-user AAA is to be “changed” from... Blocks 1 and 19. In Block 21, cite the end-user requirement or condition (i.e., end-user XXX is requested...

  17. 78 FR 51176 - Proposed Collection; Comment Request

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    2013-08-20

    ... DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Department of the Army [Docket ID: USA-2013-0012] Proposed Collection; Comment Request AGENCY: Office of the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army, (OAA-AAHS....regulations.gov as they are received without change, including any personal identifiers or contact information...

  18. 78 FR 63970 - Proposed Collection; Comment Request

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    2013-10-25

    ... DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Department of the Army [Docket ID: USA-2013-0034] Proposed Collection; Comment Request AGENCY: Office of the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army (OAA-RPA), DoD... they are received without change, including any personal identifiers or contact information. FOR...

  19. 30 CFR 250.1203 - Gas measurement.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... any changes to the previously-approved measurement and/or allocation procedures. Your application... and reflect the same degree of water saturation as in the gas volume. (8) When requested by the Regional Supervisor, submit copies of gas volume statements for each requested gas meter. Show whether gas...

  20. 77 FR 16870 - Proposed Collection; Comment Request

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    2012-03-22

    ... take into account the frequency, volume, and duration of the employees' unemployment and sickness benefits. Each employer's contribution rate includes a component for administrative expenses as well as a... response is requested quarterly of each respondent and completion is mandatory. The RRB proposes no changes...

  1. 48 CFR 243.205-71 - Requests for equitable adjustment.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... 48 Federal Acquisition Regulations System 3 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Requests for equitable adjustment. 243.205-71 Section 243.205-71 Federal Acquisition Regulations System DEFENSE ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE CONTRACT MANAGEMENT CONTRACT MODIFICATIONS Change Orders 243.205-71...

  2. 77 FR 31005 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; 2013 Hazardous...

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    2012-05-24

    ... Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; 2013 Hazardous Waste Report, Notification of Regulated Waste Activity, and Part A Hazardous Waste Permit Application and Modification AGENCY: Environmental... proposed changes to the Hazardous Waste Report form and instructions designed to clarify long-standing...

  3. 75 FR 70754 - Postal Classification Changes

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    2010-11-18

    ... POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION [Docket No. MC2011-5; Order No. 583] Postal Classification Changes...-filed Postal Service request announcing a classification change affecting bundle and container charges... Commission announcing a classification change [[Page 70755

  4. 40 CFR 86.213-94 - Fuel specifications.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... 40 Protection of Environment 19 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false Fuel specifications. 86.213-94 Section...-Duty Passenger Vehicles; Cold Temperature Test Procedures § 86.213-94 Fuel specifications. Gasoline... manufacturer and shall be made available to the Administrator upon request. Table—Cold CO Fuel Specifications...

  5. 40 CFR 86.213-94 - Fuel specifications.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... 40 Protection of Environment 18 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Fuel specifications. 86.213-94 Section...-Duty Passenger Vehicles; Cold Temperature Test Procedures § 86.213-94 Fuel specifications. Gasoline... manufacturer and shall be made available to the Administrator upon request. Table—Cold CO Fuel Specifications...

  6. 40 CFR 86.213-94 - Fuel specifications.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... 40 Protection of Environment 19 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Fuel specifications. 86.213-94 Section...-Duty Passenger Vehicles; Cold Temperature Test Procedures § 86.213-94 Fuel specifications. Gasoline... manufacturer and shall be made available to the Administrator upon request. Table—Cold CO Fuel Specifications...

  7. 75 FR 6169 - Request for Public Comment on a Commercial Availability Request Under the U.S.-Singapore Free...

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    ... centimeters (52 inches). Finish: (Piece) dyed. Fabric 2 HTS Subheading: 6004.10.00. Fiber Content: 35% rayon...). Finish: (Piece) dyed. Fabric 3 HTS Subheading: 6001.22.00. Fiber Content: 79% rayon made from bamboo/15...: (Piece) dyed. (2) Certain knit fabrics of polyester fiber, of the specifications detailed below...

  8. 32 CFR 701.11 - Processing specific kinds of records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ..., the DON activity shall refuse to confirm or deny the existence or non-existence of the records. This... purpose of this approach would be defeated. A Glomar response is a denial and exemption (b)(1) is cited... request by the DON activity that initially received the request. (2) Non-U.S. Government Records (i.e...

  9. 32 CFR 701.11 - Processing specific kinds of records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ..., the DON activity shall refuse to confirm or deny the existence or non-existence of the records. This... purpose of this approach would be defeated. A Glomar response is a denial and exemption (b)(1) is cited... request by the DON activity that initially received the request. (2) Non-U.S. Government Records (i.e...

  10. 36 CFR 1260.58 - What are the procedures for requesting a mandatory review of White House originated information?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... declassification within the past 2 years, or if the specific information is the subject of pending litigation, NARA... information. (e) If the requested information is less than 25 years old, NARA will consult with agencies... more than 25 years old, NARA will review the records using systematic declassification guidance...

  11. 76 FR 71327 - Privacy Act of 1974, as Amended

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    2011-11-17

    ... litigation is likely to affect the CFPB or any of its components; (6) A grand jury pursuant either to a federal or state grand jury subpoena, or to a prosecution request that such record be released for the purpose of its introduction to a grand jury, where the subpoena or request has been specifically approved...

  12. 49 CFR 7.27 - What are the designated DOT FOIA Requester Service Centers?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... numbers identified at http://www.dot.gov/foia or the mailing addresses indicated below (unless a more up-to-date mailing address has been designated at http://www.dot.gov/foia): (1) FOIA Requester Service... Highway Administration, Room E64-302 (unless a more specific address has been designated by FHWA at http...

  13. 32 CFR 701.11 - Processing specific kinds of records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ..., the DON activity shall refuse to confirm or deny the existence or non-existence of the records. This... purpose of this approach would be defeated. A Glomar response is a denial and exemption (b)(1) is cited... request by the DON activity that initially received the request. (2) Non-U.S. Government Records (i.e...

  14. 32 CFR 701.11 - Processing specific kinds of records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ..., the DON activity shall refuse to confirm or deny the existence or non-existence of the records. This... purpose of this approach would be defeated. A Glomar response is a denial and exemption (b)(1) is cited... request by the DON activity that initially received the request. (2) Non-U.S. Government Records (i.e...

  15. 32 CFR 701.11 - Processing specific kinds of records.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ..., the DON activity shall refuse to confirm or deny the existence or non-existence of the records. This... purpose of this approach would be defeated. A Glomar response is a denial and exemption (b)(1) is cited... request by the DON activity that initially received the request. (2) Non-U.S. Government Records (i.e...

  16. 76 FR 39966 - 30-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collections: ECA/P/V Youth and Leadership Survey Questions

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    2011-07-07

    .../V Youth and Leadership Survey Questions ACTION: Notice of request for public comment and submission... Leadership Programs: Pre Program Survey Questions. OMB Control Number: None. Type of Request: New Collection... focus on youth and leadership. Specifically the programs that bring students to the United States. For...

  17. 76 FR 81943 - Agency Information Collection Request. 30-Day Public Comment Request

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    2011-12-29

    ... performance of the agency's functions; (2) the accuracy of the estimated burden; (3) ways to enhance the... full clearance to collect data using site-specific instruments with a 3-year expiration date. [[Page.../WAIT Training.. 533 1 42/60 373 Princeton Center for Leadership Traning 533 1 36/60 320 (PCLT)/TeenPEP...

  18. 10 CFR 770.6 - May interested persons and entities request that real property at defense nuclear facilities be...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... property at defense nuclear facilities be transferred for economic development? 770.6 Section 770.6 Energy DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY TRANSFER OF REAL PROPERTY AT DEFENSE NUCLEAR FACILITIES FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT § 770.6... transferred for economic development? Any person or entity may request that specific real property be made...

  19. 20 CFR 404.705 - Failure to give requested evidence.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... will be asked to give us by a certain date specific kinds of evidence or information to prove you are... not eligible for benefits. If you are already receiving benefits, you may be asked to give us by a... benefits should be stopped or reduced. If you do not give us the requested information by the date given...

  20. 20 CFR 404.705 - Failure to give requested evidence.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... will be asked to give us by a certain date specific kinds of evidence or information to prove you are... not eligible for benefits. If you are already receiving benefits, you may be asked to give us by a... benefits should be stopped or reduced. If you do not give us the requested information by the date given...

  1. 76 FR 73652 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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    2011-11-29

    ... national and regional levels; and b. Implementation of two surveys to collect the information needed to develop HIV-specific input parameters for the forecasting model, as well as to help address other research questions of the study. HRSA is requesting OMB approval to conduct a HIV clinician survey and a HIV practice...

  2. 77 FR 1495 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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    2012-01-10

    ... regional levels; and b. Implementation of two surveys to collect the information needed to develop HIV-specific input parameters for the forecasting model, as well as to help address other research questions of the study. HRSA is requesting OMB approval to conduct a HIV clinician survey and a HIV practice survey...

  3. 77 FR 9663 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Request for...

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    2012-02-17

    ... specific licensed biological products: Sec. Sec. 660.6 (21 CFR 660.6) (Antibody to Hepatitis B Surface Antigen); 660.36 (21 CFR 660.36) (Reagent Red Blood Cells); and 660.46 (21 CFR 660.46) (Hepatitis B... each lot of Antibody to Hepatitis B Surface Antigen product, and Sec. 660.6(b) provides the...

  4. 78 FR 43943 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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    2013-07-22

    ... and Exchange Commission has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget a request for extension... investment advisory contract and the approval of changes in fundamental investment policies of the Fund... Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, Room 10102, New Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 20503...

  5. 78 FR 38293 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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  18. Effect of the number of request calls on the time from call to hospital arrival: a cross-sectional study of an ambulance record database in Nara prefecture, Japan.

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    Hanaki, Nao; Yamashita, Kazuto; Kunisawa, Susumu; Imanaka, Yuichi

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    In Japan, ambulance staff sometimes must make request calls to find hospitals that can accept patients because of an inadequate information sharing system. This study aimed to quantify effects of the number of request calls on the time interval between an emergency call and hospital arrival. A cross-sectional study of an ambulance records database in Nara prefecture, Japan. A total of 43 663 patients (50% women; 31.2% aged 80 years and over): (1) transported by ambulance from April 2013 to March 2014, (2) aged 15 years and over, and (3) with suspected major illness. The time from call to hospital arrival, defined as the time interval from receipt of an emergency call to ambulance arrival at a hospital. The mean time interval from emergency call to hospital arrival was 44.5 min, and the mean number of requests was 1.8. Multilevel linear regression analysis showed that ∼43.8% of variations in transportation times were explained by patient age, sex, season, day of the week, time, category of suspected illness, person calling for the ambulance, emergency status at request call, area and number of request calls. A higher number of request calls was associated with longer time intervals to hospital arrival (addition of 6.3 min per request call; p<0.001). In an analysis dividing areas into three groups, there were differences in transportation time for diseases needing cardiologists, neurologists, neurosurgeons and orthopaedists. The study revealed 6.3 additional minutes needed in transportation time for every refusal of a request call, and also revealed disease-specific delays among specific areas. An effective system should be collaboratively established by policymakers and physicians to ensure the rapid identification of an available hospital for patient transportation in order to reduce the time from the initial emergency call to hospital arrival. Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://www.bmj.com/company/products-services/rights-and-licensing/.

  19. Effect of the number of request calls on the time from call to hospital arrival: a cross-sectional study of an ambulance record database in Nara prefecture, Japan

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    Hanaki, Nao; Yamashita, Kazuto; Kunisawa, Susumu; Imanaka, Yuichi

    2016-01-01

    Objectives In Japan, ambulance staff sometimes must make request calls to find hospitals that can accept patients because of an inadequate information sharing system. This study aimed to quantify effects of the number of request calls on the time interval between an emergency call and hospital arrival. Design and setting A cross-sectional study of an ambulance records database in Nara prefecture, Japan. Cases A total of 43 663 patients (50% women; 31.2% aged 80 years and over): (1) transported by ambulance from April 2013 to March 2014, (2) aged 15 years and over, and (3) with suspected major illness. Primary outcome measures The time from call to hospital arrival, defined as the time interval from receipt of an emergency call to ambulance arrival at a hospital. Results The mean time interval from emergency call to hospital arrival was 44.5 min, and the mean number of requests was 1.8. Multilevel linear regression analysis showed that ∼43.8% of variations in transportation times were explained by patient age, sex, season, day of the week, time, category of suspected illness, person calling for the ambulance, emergency status at request call, area and number of request calls. A higher number of request calls was associated with longer time intervals to hospital arrival (addition of 6.3 min per request call; p<0.001). In an analysis dividing areas into three groups, there were differences in transportation time for diseases needing cardiologists, neurologists, neurosurgeons and orthopaedists. Conclusions The study revealed 6.3 additional minutes needed in transportation time for every refusal of a request call, and also revealed disease-specific delays among specific areas. An effective system should be collaboratively established by policymakers and physicians to ensure the rapid identification of an available hospital for patient transportation in order to reduce the time from the initial emergency call to hospital arrival. PMID:27940625

  20. Improving the care pathway for women who request Caesarean section: an experience-based co-design study.

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    Kenyon, Sara L; Johns, Nina; Duggal, Sandhya; Hewston, Ruth; Gale, Nicola

    2016-11-09

    Maternal request for Caesarean section is controversial and yet the NICE Caesarean section Guideline recommends that that if this is requested, following discussion of the risks and benefits, women should be supported in their choice. There was a desire to improve the pathway at Birmingham Women's NHS Foundation Trust. Experience-based co-design methodology uses service user and clinicians experiences collected using qualitative methods to jointly re-design services. Firstly semi-structured interviews were conducted to elicit the views and experiences of health care professionals and women who requested Caesarean section (with and without medical indication). Analysis identified key themes arising from the health care professionals' interviews and 'touch points' (key moments or events related to the experience of care) arising from the interviews with women.. Separate workshops were then held with each group to ensure these resonated and to identify key areas for service improvement. At the first joint workshop a pathway using 'audio clips' demonstrating women's agreed 'touch points' prompted discussion and joint working began to change the pathway. A final second workshop was held to agree changes to the pathway. Interviews were conducted with health care professionals (n = 22, 10 consultant obstetricians and 12 midwives) and women (n = 15). The women's 'touch points' included repetition of request, delay in the decision for Caesarean section to be made, feeling judged, and that information was poor with similar findings identified from the health care professionals. Joint working resulted in a revised pathway for women who request Caesarean section. Changes to the pathway for women as a result of the work include written information about 'The way your baby may be born' which is given to the woman followed by a discussion about mode of birth around the 16 week appointment. If the woman wishes to have a Caesarean section, referral is made to appropriate health care professionals (e.g., Consultant Midwife, counsellor) only if support and information would be useful. If Caesarean section is requested, woman is referred to a consultant obstetrician for an appointment at 20/40, with a decision by 28/40. Recording this in the notes minimises repeated challenge described by women. Final consent and timing of Caesarean section remain as recommended. This has resulted in changes to the pathway agreed by a co-design process and which are acceptable to both health care professionals and women. Use of such methodologies should be considered more frequently when implementing service change.

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