Testing under the Microscope: How Common Core-Aligned Assessments Place Demands on Time, Technology, and Connectivity

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Stephens, Wendy

2014-01-01

School librarians and other specialists should take note of the new wave of computer-based assessments required by the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), testing that is only now beginning to get off the ground. The new testing necessitates that districts possess the right hardware, install the requisite software, and, in some cases, create…

40 CFR 86.094-22 - Approval of application for certification; test fleet selections; determinations of parameters...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

..., and for 1985 and Later Model Year New Gasoline Fueled, Natural Gas-Fueled, Liquefied Petroleum Gas... with gasoline-fueled or methanol-fueled engines only. The Administrator does not approve the test... development and application of the requisite technology, giving appropriate consideration to the cost of...

RAT Requisition Approval Team - A L6S Initiative

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Hall, Valerie

2004-01-01

L6S Project Description - Problem: The current cycle time for generating and approving Requisitions does not meet "Best-In-Class." . Scope: Only looking at the Florida Requisition Approval process for Orbiter (ORBF & ORBG) and Ground (GFAC) stocked items. This includes the time from when a requirement is generated by Logistics Planning and Supportability in Florida until it is approved and received by Procurement. Requisitions generated at other sites or for non stocked items will be out of scope of this Project

76 FR 13423 - Notice of Submission of Proposed Information Collection to OMB; Contractor's Requisition-Project...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2011-03-11

... Proposed Information Collection to OMB; Contractor's Requisition--Project Mortgages AGENCY: Office of the.... Contractor's monthly application for distribution of insured mortgage proceeds for construction costs... Following Information Title of Proposal: Contractor's Requisition--Project Mortgages. OMB Approval Number...

24 CFR 968.130 - Fund requisitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... 24 Housing and Urban Development 4 2011-04-01 2011-04-01 false Fund requisitions. 968.130 Section 968.130 Housing and Urban Development REGULATIONS RELATING TO HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT (CONTINUED... PUBLIC HOUSING MODERNIZATION General § 968.130 Fund requisitions. To draw down modernization funds...

24 CFR 968.416 - Fund requisitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... 24 Housing and Urban Development 4 2011-04-01 2011-04-01 false Fund requisitions. 968.416 Section 968.416 Housing and Urban Development REGULATIONS RELATING TO HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT (CONTINUED... PUBLIC HOUSING MODERNIZATION Vacancy Reduction Program § 968.416 Fund requisitions. To request funds...

24 CFR 968.130 - Fund requisitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... 24 Housing and Urban Development 4 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Fund requisitions. 968.130 Section 968.130 Housing and Urban Development Regulations Relating to Housing and Urban Development (Continued... PUBLIC HOUSING MODERNIZATION General § 968.130 Fund requisitions. To draw down modernization funds...

24 CFR 968.416 - Fund requisitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... 24 Housing and Urban Development 4 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Fund requisitions. 968.416 Section 968.416 Housing and Urban Development Regulations Relating to Housing and Urban Development (Continued... PUBLIC HOUSING MODERNIZATION Vacancy Reduction Program § 968.416 Fund requisitions. To request funds...

Evaluation of Preanalytical Quality Indicators by Six Sigma and Pareto`s Principle.

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Kulkarni, Sweta; Ramesh, R; Srinivasan, A R; Silvia, C R Wilma Delphine

2018-01-01

Preanalytical steps are the major sources of error in clinical laboratory. The analytical errors can be corrected by quality control procedures but there is a need for stringent quality checks in preanalytical area as these processes are done outside the laboratory. Sigma value depicts the performance of laboratory and its quality measures. Hence in the present study six sigma and Pareto principle was applied to preanalytical quality indicators to evaluate the clinical biochemistry laboratory performance. This observational study was carried out for a period of 1 year from November 2015-2016. A total of 1,44,208 samples and 54,265 test requisition forms were screened for preanalytical errors like missing patient information, sample collection details in forms and hemolysed, lipemic, inappropriate, insufficient samples and total number of errors were calculated and converted into defects per million and sigma scale. Pareto`s chart was drawn using total number of errors and cumulative percentage. In 75% test requisition forms diagnosis was not mentioned and sigma value of 0.9 was obtained and for other errors like sample receiving time, stat and type of sample sigma values were 2.9, 2.6, and 2.8 respectively. For insufficient sample and improper ratio of blood to anticoagulant sigma value was 4.3. Pareto`s chart depicts out of 80% of errors in requisition forms, 20% is contributed by missing information like diagnosis. The development of quality indicators, application of six sigma and Pareto`s principle are quality measures by which not only preanalytical, the total testing process can be improved.

78 FR 64143 - 30-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Contractor's Requisition-Project Mortgages

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2013-10-25

... DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT [Docket No. FR-5683-N-88] 30-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Contractor's Requisition--Project Mortgages AGENCY: Office of the Chief Information... Title of Information Collection: Contractor's Requisition--Project Mortgages. OMB Approval Number: 2502...

78 FR 45945 - 60-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Contractor's Requisition-Project Mortgages

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2013-07-30

... DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT [Docket No. FR-5687-N-34] 60-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Contractor's Requisition--Project Mortgages AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary... Section A. A. Overview of Information Collection Title of Information Collection: Contractor's Requisition...

75 FR 76708 - Extension of the Date by Which Youth All-Terrain Vehicles Must Be Tested and Certified

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2010-12-09

... Cooperation-Mutual Recognition Arrangement (``ILAC/MRA'') signatory. For firewalled conformity assessment... is a signatory to the ILAC/MRA, a prerequisite for such conformity assessment bodies to be accepted... assessment bodies that have the requisite accreditation by an ILAC-MRA signatory to test for conformity to 16...

Understanding Differential Item Performance as a Consequence of Gender Differences in Academic Background.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Doolittle, Allen E.

Differential item performance (DIP) is discussed as a concept that does not necessarily imply item bias or unfairness to subgroups of examinees. With curriculum-based achievement tests, DIP is presented as a valid reflection of group differences in requisite skills and instruction. Using data from a national testing of the ACT Assessment, this…

Materials requirements for optical processing and computing devices

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Tanguay, A. R., Jr.

1985-01-01

Devices for optical processing and computing systems are discussed, with emphasis on the materials requirements imposed by functional constraints. Generalized optical processing and computing systems are described in order to identify principal categories of requisite components for complete system implementation. Three principal device categories are selected for analysis in some detail: spatial light modulators, volume holographic optical elements, and bistable optical devices. The implications for optical processing and computing systems of the materials requirements identified for these device categories are described, and directions for future research are proposed.

41 CFR 101-26.508-2 - Requisitioning data processing tape not available from Federal Supply Schedule contracts.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... contracts. (a) Requisitions for types of EDP tape and instrumentation tape (wide and intermediate band... is located. (b) Requisitions for all types of EDP tape and instrumentation tape (wide and... and $5,000 for instrumentation tape. However, regardless of the amount involved (including...

29 CFR 102.29 - Intervention; requisites; rulings on motions to intervene.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... 29 Labor 2 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Intervention; requisites; rulings on motions to intervene... Practices 1 Intervention § 102.29 Intervention; requisites; rulings on motions to intervene. Any person... order permit intervention in person or by counsel or other representative to such extent and upon such...

29 CFR 102.29 - Intervention; requisites; rulings on motions to intervene.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... 29 Labor 2 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Intervention; requisites; rulings on motions to intervene... Practices 1 Intervention § 102.29 Intervention; requisites; rulings on motions to intervene. Any person... order permit intervention in person or by counsel or other representative to such extent and upon such...

29 CFR 102.29 - Intervention; requisites; rulings on motions to intervene.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... 29 Labor 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Intervention; requisites; rulings on motions to intervene... Practices 1 Intervention § 102.29 Intervention; requisites; rulings on motions to intervene. Any person... order permit intervention in person or by counsel or other representative to such extent and upon such...

29 CFR 102.29 - Intervention; requisites; rulings on motions to intervene.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... 29 Labor 2 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Intervention; requisites; rulings on motions to intervene... Practices 1 Intervention § 102.29 Intervention; requisites; rulings on motions to intervene. Any person... order permit intervention in person or by counsel or other representative to such extent and upon such...

29 CFR 102.29 - Intervention; requisites; rulings on motions to intervene.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... 29 Labor 2 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false Intervention; requisites; rulings on motions to intervene... Practices 1 Intervention § 102.29 Intervention; requisites; rulings on motions to intervene. Any person... order permit intervention in person or by counsel or other representative to such extent and upon such...

7 CFR 1735.77 - Release of loan funds, requisitions, advances.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

...-TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROGRAM Acquisitions Involving Loan Funds § 1735.77 Release of loan funds, requisitions, advances. (a) RUS will not approve the advance of loan funds until the borrower has fulfilled all loan contract... 7 Agriculture 11 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Release of loan funds, requisitions, advances. 1735...

Improving Student Success in Calculus I Using a Co-Requisite Calculus I Lab

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Vestal, Sharon Schaffer; Brandenburger, Thomas; Furth, Alfred

2015-01-01

This paper describes how one university mathematics department was able to improve student success in Calculus I by requiring a co-requisite lab for certain groups of students. The groups of students required to take the co-requisite lab were identified by analyzing student data, including Math ACT scores, ACT Compass Trigonometry scores, and…

41 CFR 101-26.509-2 - Requisitioning tabulating machine cards not available from Federal Supply Schedule contracts.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... machine cards not available from Federal Supply Schedule contracts. 101-26.509-2 Section 101-26.509-2... Programs § 101-26.509-2 Requisitioning tabulating machine cards not available from Federal Supply Schedule contracts. (a) Requisitions for tabulating machine cards covered by Federal Supply Schedule contracts which...

Risk factors for inappropriate blood requisition among hospitals in Tanzania.

PubMed

Mauka, Wilhellmuss I; Mtuy, Tara B; Mahande, Michael J; Msuya, Sia E; Mboya, Innocent B; Juma, Abdul; Philemon, Rune N

2018-01-01

Blood is a critical aspect of treatment in life saving situations, increasing demand. Blood requisition practices greatly effect sufficient supply in blood banks. This study aimed to determine the risk factors for inappropriate blood requisition in Tanzania. This was a cross sectional study using secondary data of 14,460 patients' blood requests from 42 transfusion hospitals. Primary data were obtained by using cluster-sampling design. Data were analysed using a two-level mixed-effects Poisson regression to determine fixed-effects of individual-level factors and hospital level factors associated with inappropriate blood requests. P-value <0.05 (2-tails) was considered statistically significant. Inappropriate requisition was 28.8%. Factors significantly associated with inappropriate requisition were; reporting pulse rate and capillary refill decrease the risk (RR 0.74; 95% CI 0.64, 0.84) and (RR 0.73; 95% CI 0.63, 0.85) respectively and the following increased the risk; having surgery during hospital stay (RR 1.22; 95% CI 1.06, 1.4); being in general surgical ward (RR 3.3; 95% CI 2.7, 4.2), paediatric ward (RR 1.8; 95% CI 1.2, 2.7), obstetric ward (RR 2.5; 95% CI 2.0, 3.1), gynaecological ward (RR 2.1; 95% CI 1.5, 2.9), orthopaedics ward (RR 3.8; 95% CI 2.2, 6.7). Age of the patient, pallor and confirmation of pre-transfusion haemoglobin level were also significantly associated with inappropriate requisition. Majority of appropriate requisitions within the wards were marked in internal medicine (91.7%) and gynaecological wards (77.8%). The proportion of inappropriate blood requests was high. Blood requisition was determined by clinical and laboratory findings and the ward patients were admitted to. Adherence to transfusion guidelines is recommended to assure the best use of limited blood supply.

Assessing Medical Students' Moral Judgment over the Course of a Four-Year Professionalism and Humanism Curriculum

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Riegle, Sandra E.; Frye, Ann W.; Glenn, Jason; Smith, Kirk L.

2012-01-01

Teachers tasked with developing moral character in future physicians face an array of pedagogic challenges, among them identifying tools to measure progress in instilling the requisite skill set. One validated instrument for assessing moral judgment is the Defining Issues Test (DIT-2). Based on the work of Lawrence Kohlberg, the test's main…

Controlled Confrontation: The Ward Grievance Procedure of the California Youth Authority. An Exemplary Project.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

National Inst. of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice (Dept. of Justice/LEAA), Washington, DC.

The Ward Grievance Procedure of the California Youth Authority is one of 17 programs that earned the National Institute's "Exemplary" label. This brochure provides the requisite practical information for those who wish to test or consider testing the ward grievance procedure. The program was developed as a way of dealing with the questions raised…

Aero-Optics Measurement System for the AEDC Aero-Optics Test Facility

DTIC Science & Technology

1991-02-01

Pulse Energy Statistics , 150 Pulses ........................................ 41 AEDC-TR-90-20 APPENDIXES A. Optical Performance of Heated Windows...hypersonic wind tunnel, where the requisite extensive statistical database can be developed in a cost- and time-effective manner. Ground testing...At the present time at AEDC, measured AO parameter statistics are derived from sets of image-spot recordings with a set containing as many as 150

Computer-aided-engineering system for modeling and analysis of ECLSS integration testing

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Sepahban, Sonbol

1987-01-01

The accurate modeling and analysis of two-phase fluid networks found in environmental control and life support systems is presently undertaken by computer-aided engineering (CAE) techniques whose generalized fluid dynamics package can solve arbitrary flow networks. The CAE system for integrated test bed modeling and analysis will also furnish interfaces and subsystem/test-article mathematical models. Three-dimensional diagrams of the test bed are generated by the system after performing the requisite simulation and analysis.

Naval Logistics Integration Through Interoperable Supply Systems

DTIC Science & Technology

2014-06-13

having large stocks of materials in-theater has proven to be no assurance that the combat forces will get the supplies they need, when they need them...must maintain an auditable record of all life cycle events. Individual property records must be maintained for each asset managed in the APSR...requisitions input, requisition status, requisition audit , shipment status, file/text upload, batch queries, order list, PIR/Backorders, MILSTRIP templates

Improving the Transcription of Patient Information From Image Requisitions to the Radiology Information System.

PubMed

DiRoberto, Cole; Lehto, Crystal; Baccei, Steven J

2016-08-01

The purpose of this study was to improve the transcription of patient information from imaging study requisitions to the radiology information database at a single institution. Five hundred radiology reports from adult outpatient radiographic examinations were chosen randomly from the radiology information system (RIS) and categorized according to their degree of concordance with their corresponding clinical order indications. The number and types of grammatical errors and types of order forms were also recorded. Countermeasures centered on the education of the technical staff and referring physician offices and the implementation of a checklist. Another sample of 500 reports was taken after the implementation of the countermeasures and compared with the baseline data using a χ(2) test. The number of RIS indications perfectly concordant with their corresponding clinical order indications increased from 232 (46.4%) to 314 (62.8%) after the implementation of the countermeasures (P < .0001). The number of partially concordant matches due to inadequate RIS indications dropped from 162 (32.4%) to 114 (22.8%) (P < .001), whereas the number of partially concordant matches due to inadequate clinical order indications increased from 22 (4.4%) to 57 (11.4%) (P < .0001). The number of discordant pairings dropped from 84 (16.8%) to 15 (3%) (P < .0001). Technologists began to input additional patient information obtained from the patients (not present in the image requisitions) in the RIS after the implementation of the countermeasures. The education of technical staff members and the implementation of a checklist markedly improved the information provided to radiologists on image requisitions from referring providers. Copyright © 2016 American College of Radiology. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

[Clinical and medico - legal aspects of sexual aggressions at Gabriel Toure teaching hospital].

PubMed

Traore, Y; Mounkoro, N; Teguete, I; Djire, M Y; Diallo, A; Bagayogo, M; Sissoko, A; Dolo, T; Dolo, A

2010-01-01

The sexual aggressions pose an important medico - legal problem. The implication of several services is often indispensable to determine the future of this aggression. Our survey objectives were to determine epidemiological and clinical characteristics of sexual aggressions and to specify the judicial continuations. We did historical cohort survey while recruiting all cases of consultation in the service for sexual aggressions. This survey spreads on a period of 60 months going from January 2004 to December 2008. A systematic health evaluation (HIV test, vaginal screeming, lever inflammatory deseases) is asked to every sexual abuse patients.Data have been recorded from patients' clinical files, cards of requisition and accounts returned of verbal suit of auditions and police custodies. khi 2 test has been used to appreciate relationship between variables, significativity doorstep P value < 5%. The sexual aggression frequency in relation to admissions to emergencies is 3.12%. The age group <15 years were the more represented with 59.18%. The police authority referred the patients with a requisition in 65.17% of cases (p<0,005). Presumed aggressor was known by the patient in 63.67% of cases (p<5%) and in 72.28% of cases the aggression has been made by night (p=0,001) It was about one aggressor in 65.54% of cases; they were 2 and 3 numbers in 17.23%. (p=0,002). We noted a sexual penetration notion in 80.52% of cases against 19.48% of sexual attouchements. The threat has been noted in any case: 40.82% by weapon and 30.71% by stroke of point. More of the half of the patients (60.30%) had had sexual intercourse before the aggression. The clinic exam was normal in 76.40% of cases (P<5%). The main types of lesions were: hymeneal injuries (13.48%), vulva injuries (7.87%). The judicial continuations have been marked by 10.48% of condemnations, 46.06% of acquittal and 40.06% of friendly regulation (P<5%). The number of sexual aggressions, although under valued, is raised in our country. The collaboration between the judicial, police and medical services should permit to reduce the frequency of these aggressions.

EBOV Protection Is Supported by T Cell-Dependent Humoral Responses But Is Not Requisite for Survival

DTIC Science & Technology

2016-06-03

EBOV protection is supported by T cell- dependent humoral responses but is not requisite for survival. 1 Christopher L. Cooper, Karen A. Martins...platforms of a requisite role for antibody-5 dependent protection and extensive efforts in development of antibody therapy against lethal EBOV 6... dependent 12 mechanisms. We show that Hiltonol both augmented and sustained eVLP-mediated GC B cell formation 13 and increased antigen-specific B cell

Testing of the McMath-Pierce 0.8-Meter East Auxiliary Telescope's Acquisition and Slewing Accuracy

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Harshaw, Richard; Ray, Jimmy; Prause, Lori; Douglass, David; Branston, Detrick; Genet, Russell M.

2015-09-01

Following mediocre results with pointing tests of the McMath-Pierce 0.8-meter East Auxiliary Telescope in April 2014, a team of astronomers/engineers met again in May 2014 to test other pointing models and assess the telescope's ability to point with enough accuracy to permit the efficient use of speckle interferometry. Results show that accurate collimation is a pre-requisite for such accuracy. Once attained, the telescope performs extremely well.

Developing and Implementing an Effective Online Educational Leadership Internship

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Goldsmith, Lloyd; Martin, Gary E.

2009-01-01

Graduate students seeking to be educational leaders in today's high-demand society require more than lectures and textbooks to learn the requisite leadership skills. They must also have the opportunity to develop and test job skills in an on-the-job environment. Future leaders need the opportunity to grapple with the dilemmas principals face…

Study on the expropriation (requisition) price of cultivated land in China: take Nanyang City, Henan Province as an example

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Zhang, Zhi; Liu, Yaolin; Gong, Jian

2009-10-01

With currently China's farmland transformation for non-agricultural advancement is speeding up, such disadvantages as low standard and simplified mode of compensation obviously appears in our land expropriation (requisition) system. And land expropriation (requisition) price has been distorted seriously, which has caused a series of social problems aroused more attention from many fields. It's high time to establish new criteria of land compensation. This paper presents a new method to analyze the compensation standard of cultivated-land Expropriation and requisition respectively through defining and normalize the connotation of tenure system and relevant rights of cultivated land in China, and to explore the value composition of rights over cultivated land. Methods of logic analysis, comparison and empirical analysis were applied. The results show that the tenure system of cultivated land is composed of five parts: natural productive price, social security price, social stabilization price, ecological security price and development right price. The values of all these rights vary under different socio-economic conditions, and they have to be embodied gradually in the process of land Expropriation and requisition. Moreover, the new proposed methodology has been applied to a case study of paddy lands located in Nanyang City, Henan Province in order to demonstrate its goodness. From the results of this work we can conclude that the approach proposed stands out as a good alternative to current compensation standard of cultivated-land Expropriation (requisition).

Industrial Fuel Gas Demonstration Plant Program. Bid packages for materials (Deliverable No. 28)

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

None

1979-01-01

Fixed-price supply type bid packages for materials and/or service essentially are comprised of two parts, namely: (1) a technical requisition of the material, equipment, or service to be supplied; and (2) commercial and legal requirements, normally referred to as terms and conditions. Requisitions, providing technical requirements, for all equipment items identified for the Industrial Fuel Gas Demonstration Plant may be found in the 12 volumes of the Demonstration Plant Mechanical Design. The requisitions have been included within separate sections of the design report, sorted by appropriate plant unit. Combined with any General Notes Requisition and the necessary FWEC Job Standards,more » these various item requisitions provide all technical information for the prospective vendor to furnish his bid. The terms and conditions (boiler plate) to be included in the bid package identify all the contractual requirements which will be imposed upon the bidder. These requirements cover the conditions he must meet to bid on the particular item as well as the clauses to be included within the eventual purchase order/subcontract. A typical package of such terms and conditions is included.« less

Beyond the Call: Preserving Reflection in the Preparation of "Highly Qualified" Teachers

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Amobi, Funmi A.

2006-01-01

Many teacher education programs are working at a feverish pitch to ensure that their graduates are considered "highly qualified" in light of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation, which reduces teacher competency to proof of subject matter knowledge as demonstrated by passing a state test and completing requisite number of courses in the…

Self-care and HIV/AIDS patients: nursing care systematization.

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Caetano, Joselany Afio; Pagliuca, Lorita Marlena Freitag

2006-01-01

This research aimed at systematizing nursing care to HIV/aids patients in view of Orem's Self-care Deficit Nursing Theory, using the convergent-care method and the Self-Care Nursing Process. Subjects were thirteen HIV/AIDS patients attended at a non-governmental organization in Fortaleza/CE, Brazil. We used interview techniques, physical examination, observation and information records, with a structured instrument, addressing requisites related to universal self-care, development and health alterations. Self-care deficits corresponded to nineteen nursing diagnoses, named according to NANDA's Taxonomy II, ten of which were based on the requisites for universal self-care, five on the requisites for self-care related to development and four on the requisites for self-care related to health deviations. In care planning, goals were established and the system and health methods were selected, prioritizing support-education actions in order to engage HIV/aids patients in self-care.

Assessing the Performance of Medical Personnel Involved in the Diagnostic Imaging Processes in Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda

PubMed Central

Kawooya, Michael G.; Pariyo, George; Malwadde, Elsie Kiguli; Byanyima, Rosemary; Kisembo, Harrient

2012-01-01

Objectives: Uganda, has limited health resources and improving performance of personnel involved in imaging is necessary for efficiency. The objectives of the study were to develop and pilot imaging user performance indices, document non-tangible aspects of performance, and propose ways of improving performance. Materials and Methods: This was a cross-sectional survey employing triangulation methodology, conducted in Mulago National Referral Hospital over a period of 3 years from 2005 to 2008. The qualitative study used in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, and self-administered questionnaires, to explore clinicians’ and radiologists’ performancerelated views. Results: The study came up with following indices: appropriate service utilization (ASU), appropriateness of clinician's nonimaging decisions (ANID), and clinical utilization of imaging results (CUI). The ASU, ANID, and CUI were: 94%, 80%, and 97%, respectively. The clinician's requisitioning validity was high (positive likelihood ratio of 10.6) contrasting with a poor validity for detecting those patients not needing imaging (negative likelihood ratio of 0.16). Some requisitions were inappropriate and some requisition and reports lacked detail, clarity, and precision. Conclusion: Clinicians perform well at imaging requisition-decisions but there are issues in imaging requisitioning and reporting that need to be addressed to improve performance. PMID:23230543

The Effects of Military Advertising: Evidence from the Advertising Mix Test

DTIC Science & Technology

1989-03-01

services with monthly infornation on contracts, recruiters, quotas, market characteristics, and advertising expenditures. First, advertising programs...Demographic market data: ADI averages for FY 84 ......................... 25 B.3. DoD advertising mix data: ADI averages, FY 84...data were available with all the requisite goal and advertising information. Detailed information on market demographics were not available, nor were

Post-Literacy: A Pre-Requisite for Literacy. Literacy Lessons.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Dumont, Bernard

Post-literacy is all the means and activities that allow persons who have recently become literate to make use of their skills and to increase and deepen the knowledge acquired. There are many kinds of literacy. What they all have in common is the merciless test of the durability of literacy's effect: After 1, 2, or 5 years, what will the…

Calibration of an Item Bank for the Assessment of Basque Language Knowledge

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Lopez-Cuadrado, Javier; Perez, Tomas A.; Vadillo, Jose A.; Gutierrez, Julian

2010-01-01

The main requisite for a functional computerized adaptive testing system is the need of a calibrated item bank. This text presents the tasks carried out during the calibration of an item bank for assessing knowledge of Basque language. It has been done in terms of the 3-parameter logistic model provided by the item response theory. Besides, this…

Requisite Participant Characteristics for Effective Peer Group Mentoring

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Kroll, Jonathan

2017-01-01

Effective mentorship, due to the developmental nature of the experience, hinges upon the people involved--specifically, the personal characteristics of the mentoring collaborators. In this paper, the author explored requisite participant characteristics for peer group mentoring. One dozen executive-level professional women shared their…

41 CFR 101-26.508-3 - Consolidation of requisitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 true Consolidation of requisitions. 101-26.508-3 Section 101-26.508-3 Public Contracts and Property Management Federal Property Management Regulations System FEDERAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS SUPPLY AND PROCUREMENT 26-PROCUREMENT...

41 CFR 101-26.509-3 - Consolidation of requisitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 true Consolidation of requisitions. 101-26.509-3 Section 101-26.509-3 Public Contracts and Property Management Federal Property Management Regulations System FEDERAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS SUPPLY AND PROCUREMENT 26-PROCUREMENT...

48 CFR 245.7101-2 - DD Form 1149, Requisition and Invoice Shipping Document.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

... DEFENSE ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE CONTRACT MANAGEMENT GOVERNMENT PROPERTY Plant Clearance Forms 245.7101-2 DD Form 1149, Requisition and Invoice Shipping Document. Use for transfer and donation of contractor inventory. Donations of industrial plant equipment may be shipped via...

The Full Costs of Ballistic Missile Defense

DTIC Science & Technology

2003-01-01

following words: “We assess that countries developing ballistic missiles would also develop various responses to US theater and national defenses. Russia...and China each have developed numerous countermeasures and probably are willing to sell the requisite technologies. • Many countries , such as North...penetration aids and countermeasures. • These countries could develop countermeasures based on these technologies by the time they flight test their missiles

Glia-neuron interactions in neurological diseases: Testing non-cell autonomy in a dish.

PubMed

Meyer, Kathrin; Kaspar, Brian K

2017-02-01

For the past century, research on neurological disorders has largely focused on the most prominently affected cell types - the neurons. However, with increasing knowledge of the diverse physiological functions of glial cells, their impact on these diseases has become more evident. Thus, many conditions appear to have more complex origins than initially thought. Since neurological pathologies are often sporadic with unknown etiology, animal models are difficult to create and might only reflect a small portion of patients in which a mutation in a gene has been identified. Therefore, reliable in vitro systems to studying these disorders are urgently needed. They might be a pre-requisite for improving our understanding of the disease mechanisms as well as for the development of potential new therapies. In this review, we will briefly summarize the function of different glial cell types in the healthy central nervous system (CNS) and outline their implication in the development or progression of neurological conditions. We will then describe different types of culture systems to model non-cell autonomous interactions in vitro and evaluate advantages and disadvantages. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled SI: Exploiting human neurons. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

X-29A flight control system performance during flight test

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Chin, J.; Chacon, V.; Gera, J.

1987-01-01

An account is given of flight control system performance results for the X-29A forward-swept wing 'Advanced Technology Demonstrator' fighter aircraft, with attention to its software and hardware components' achievement of the requisite levels of system stability and desirable aircraft handling qualities. The Automatic Camber Control Logic is found to be well integrated with the stability loop of the aircraft. A number of flight test support software programs developed by NASA facilitated monitoring of the X-29A's stability in real time, and allowed the test team to clear the envelope with confidence.

41 CFR 101-26.306 - Planned requisitioning for GSA stock items.

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2010-07-01

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41 CFR 101-26.508-2 - Requisitioning data processing tape not available from Federal Supply Schedule contracts.

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2010-07-01

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41 CFR 101-26.509-1 - Requisitioning tabulating machine cards available from Federal Supply Schedule contracts.

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2011-07-01

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2010-07-01

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Forecasting Fuels Support Equipment Requisitions

DTIC Science & Technology

2015-03-26

Blackstone , & Hoffmann, 1991). Problem Statement Which forecasting method is most appropriate to forecast fuels support equipment requisitions...over allocating financial resources. 14 Characteristics According to Fogarty, Blackstone , and Hoffman (1991), service, repair, replacement...Econometrica , 187-222. Fogarty, D., Blackstone , J., & Hoffmann, T. (1991). Production & Inventory Management (2d ed.). Cincinnati, OH: South-Western

49 CFR 236.308 - Mechanical or electric locking or electric circuits; requisites.

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2010-10-01

... 49 Transportation 4 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Mechanical or electric locking or electric..., AND APPLIANCES Interlocking Standards § 236.308 Mechanical or electric locking or electric circuits; requisites. Mechanical or electric locking or electric circuits shall be installed to prevent signals from...

41 CFR 60-741.3 - Exceptions to the definitions of “disability” and “qualified individual.”

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2014-07-01

... individual satisfies the requisite skill, experience, education, and other job-related requirements of such... individual, provided that such individual satisfies the requisite skill, experience, education, and other job..., voyeurism, gender identity disorders not resulting from physical impairments, or other sexual behavior...

37 CFR 1.51 - General requisites of an application.

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Requisite Competencies and Skills for E-Merchandisers: Developing an Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Program

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Crutsinger, Christy; Forney, Judith C.; Brandon, Lynn; Jackson, Renee S.

2006-01-01

New career opportunities exist for family and consumer sciences (FCS)professionals as traditional formats for shopping service, and information transition to a virtual environment. The requisite competencies and skills necessary for effective online operations are identified. Interactions with industry personnel and supporting literature revealed…

The graphical brain: Belief propagation and active inference

PubMed Central

Friston, Karl J.; Parr, Thomas; de Vries, Bert

2018-01-01

This paper considers functional integration in the brain from a computational perspective. We ask what sort of neuronal message passing is mandated by active inference—and what implications this has for context-sensitive connectivity at microscopic and macroscopic levels. In particular, we formulate neuronal processing as belief propagation under deep generative models. Crucially, these models can entertain both discrete and continuous states, leading to distinct schemes for belief updating that play out on the same (neuronal) architecture. Technically, we use Forney (normal) factor graphs to elucidate the requisite message passing in terms of its form and scheduling. To accommodate mixed generative models (of discrete and continuous states), one also has to consider link nodes or factors that enable discrete and continuous representations to talk to each other. When mapping the implicit computational architecture onto neuronal connectivity, several interesting features emerge. For example, Bayesian model averaging and comparison, which link discrete and continuous states, may be implemented in thalamocortical loops. These and other considerations speak to a computational connectome that is inherently state dependent and self-organizing in ways that yield to a principled (variational) account. We conclude with simulations of reading that illustrate the implicit neuronal message passing, with a special focus on how discrete (semantic) representations inform, and are informed by, continuous (visual) sampling of the sensorium. Author Summary This paper considers functional integration in the brain from a computational perspective. We ask what sort of neuronal message passing is mandated by active inference—and what implications this has for context-sensitive connectivity at microscopic and macroscopic levels. In particular, we formulate neuronal processing as belief propagation under deep generative models that can entertain both discrete and continuous states. This leads to distinct schemes for belief updating that play out on the same (neuronal) architecture. Technically, we use Forney (normal) factor graphs to characterize the requisite message passing, and link this formal characterization to canonical microcircuits and extrinsic connectivity in the brain. PMID:29417960

Knowledge of commercial bus drivers about road safety measures in Lagos, Nigeria.

PubMed

Okafor Ifeoma, P; Odeyemi Kofoworola, A; Dolapo Duro, C

2013-01-01

Road traffic injuries have persisted as a serious public health problem and much of the health burden is in developing countries. Over-speeding, poor enforcement of traffic regulations and commuter buses have been highly implicated in road traffic injuries in developing countries. The aim of this study was to determine drivers' knowledge of selected road safety measures, i.e. the pre-requisites for driver's license, road signs and speed limits. This was a cross-sectional study carried out in Lagos, Nigeria. Simple random sampling was used to select the two motor parks used for the study and all the consenting commercial minibus drivers operating within the parks (407) were included in the study. Data was collected with a pre-tested, structured, interviewer-administered questionnaire and analyzed with epi-info statistical software. Two hundred and sixty-one (64.1%) of them knew that Visual Acuity test should be done before obtaining driver's license and 53.8% knew the correct minimum age for obtaining driver's license. Only 1% of the drivers had correct knowledge of the driver's license authorities in Nigeria. The drivers had poor knowledge of road signs (59.0%) and poor knowledge of maximum speed limits (100%). The oldest, least educated and least experienced drivers had the poorest level of knowledge. The drivers demonstrated poor knowledge of road safety measures. There is need for driver education to improve their knowledge.

41 CFR 101-26.508-1 - Requisitioning data processing tape available through Federal Supply Schedule contracts.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 true Requisitioning data... Contracts and Property Management Federal Property Management Regulations System FEDERAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS SUPPLY AND PROCUREMENT 26-PROCUREMENT SOURCES AND PROGRAM 26.5-GSA Procurement Programs § 101-26...

26 CFR 1.1033(a)-2 - Involuntary conversion into similiar property, into money or into dissimilar property.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... property under threat or imminence of requisition or condemnation. (b) Conversion into similar property. If... condemnation or threat or imminence thereof) is compulsorily or involuntarily converted only into property... result of its destruction in whole or in part, theft, seizure, or requisition or condemnation or threat...

38 CFR 11.85 - Condition requisite for redemption.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... Certificates Under Section 502 of the World War Adjusted Compensation Act § 11.85 Condition requisite for... of the loan, or any other loan made by the bank under the provisions of section 502 of the World War... of Veterans Affairs Under Section 502 of the World War Adjusted Compensation Act, as Amended (Pub. L...

38 CFR 11.85 - Condition requisite for redemption.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

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38 CFR 11.85 - Condition requisite for redemption.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... Certificates Under Section 502 of the World War Adjusted Compensation Act § 11.85 Condition requisite for... of the loan, or any other loan made by the bank under the provisions of section 502 of the World War... of Veterans Affairs Under Section 502 of the World War Adjusted Compensation Act, as Amended (Pub. L...

38 CFR 11.85 - Condition requisite for redemption.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... Certificates Under Section 502 of the World War Adjusted Compensation Act § 11.85 Condition requisite for... of the loan, or any other loan made by the bank under the provisions of section 502 of the World War... of Veterans Affairs Under Section 502 of the World War Adjusted Compensation Act, as Amended (Pub. L...

38 CFR 11.85 - Condition requisite for redemption.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... Certificates Under Section 502 of the World War Adjusted Compensation Act § 11.85 Condition requisite for... of the loan, or any other loan made by the bank under the provisions of section 502 of the World War... of Veterans Affairs Under Section 502 of the World War Adjusted Compensation Act, as Amended (Pub. L...

Voices from the United Arab Emirates: Engineering Graduates' Labour Market Requisite Competencies

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

EL-Sakran, Tharwat M.; Awad, Asmaa

2012-01-01

This study reports on engineering graduates' labour market requisite communication competences and skills in the work environment in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Its main purpose was to investigate whether internationally required engineering graduates' communication competences were the same in third world countries or different. It used a…

78 FR 21392 - Notice of Submission of Proposed Information Collection to OMB Requisition for Disbursement of...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2013-04-10

... Proposed Information Collection to OMB Requisition for Disbursement of Sections 202 & 811 Capital Advance... information collection requirement described below has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget... capital advance/loan funds. The information will also be used to identify the Owner, the project, the type...

78 FR 18622 - Notice of Submission of Proposed Information Collection to OMB; Requisition for Disbursement of...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2013-03-27

... Proposed Information Collection to OMB; Requisition for Disbursement of Sections 202 & 811 Capital Advance... information collection requirement described below has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget... capital advance/loan funds. The information will also be used to identify the Owner, the project, the type...

Space reflector technology and its system implications

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Billman, K. W.; Gilbreath, W. P.; Bowen, S. W.

1979-01-01

The technical feasibility of providing nearly continuous solar energy to a world-distributed set of conversion sites by means of a system of orbiting, large-area, low-areal-density reflecting structures is examined. Requisite mirror area to provide a chosen, year-averaged site intensity is shown. A modeled reflector structure, with suitable planarity and ability to meet operational torques and loads, is discussed. Typical spatial and temporal insolation profiles are presented. These determine the sizing of components and the output electric power from a baselined photovoltaic conversion system. Technical and economic challenges which, if met, would allow the system to provide a large fraction of future world energy needs at costs competitive to circa-1995 fossil and nuclear sources are discussed.

Negotiating White science in rural Black America: A case for navigating the landscape of teacher knowledge domains

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Yerrick, Randy; Johnson, Joseph

2011-12-01

The purpose of this study was to explore the nature of requisite teacher knowledge for teaching lower-track science students. Using video accounts, student focus groups, and teacher reflections researchers documented missteps, dead-ends, and unfruitful trajectories informed by the teacher's incoming knowledge and compared these instances to necessary modifications informed by students' voices and cultural artifacts. Our study revealed the shifting nature of sociocultural and pedagogical content knowledge of the teacher immersed in a context unlike that he experienced as a student. Results showed that teachers of majority backgrounds could learn to teach diverse students with at least moderate success from the perspective of their students. Implications for research and teacher education in diverse settings are discussed.

Designing a Gunnery Training Strategy

DTIC Science & Technology

1990-06-01

more direct test of the effects of subgoal commonality would not compare part and whole training; it would instead compare groups whose training is...speech production, and musical performance is that a higher level of control determines the nature of a given activity, while a lower level governs the...necessarily correspond to successive training requisites. In fact, Hoffman et al. (1983) compared top-down and bottom-up training strategies using similar

Professional Content Knowledge of Grades One--Three Teachers in Sweden for Reading and Writing Instruction: Language Structures, Code Concepts, and Spelling Rules

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Alatalo, Tarja

2016-01-01

In this study, Swedish teachers of grades 1-3, with various teacher-training backgrounds, were tested to determine if they have the requisite awareness of language elements and the way these elements are represented in writing. The results were poor, yet the indication was that teachers with a good educational background in literacy and a good…

Testing Ceramics for Diesel Engines

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Schneider, H. W.

1985-01-01

Adaptation of diesel engine allows prestressed ceramic materials evaluated under realistic pressure, temperature, and stress without introducing extraneous stress. Ceramic specimen part of prechamber of research engine. Specimen held in place by clamp, introduces required axial compressive stress. Specimen -- cylindrical shell -- surrounded by chamber vented or pressurized to introduce requisite radial stress in ceramic. Pressure chamber also serves as safety shield in case speimen disintegrates. Materials under consideration as cylinder liners for diesel engines.

Environment, Health and Safety (EH&S): Division Liaisons

Science.gov Websites

, NSD, PHY EHS Groups: Training Name Role Phone James Basore EHS Training Manager (510) 486-7524 Carmen Ayala EHS Training Program Assistant (510-495-2228) Fax (510) 486-2384 EHS Groups: Waste Management Name Hazardous Waste Electronic Requisition For training on use of the electronic requisition, see your Generator

7 CFR 504.2 - Fees for deposit and requisition of microbial cultures.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... 7 Agriculture 6 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Fees for deposit and requisition of microbial cultures... cultures. (a) Depositors of microbial cultures must pay a one-time $500 user fee for each culture deposited on or after November 1, 1983. (b) For cultures deposited on or after November 1, 1983, requesters...

The Ubiquitous Laplacian Assumption: Reply to Lee and Wagenmakers (2005)

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Trafimow, David

2005-01-01

In their comment on D. Trafimow, M. D. Lee and E. Wagenmakers argued that the requisite probabilities to use in Bayes's theorem can always be found. In the present reply, the author asserts that M. D. Lee and E. Wagenmakers use a problematic assumption and that finding the requisite probabilities is not straightforward. After describing the…

A Tale of Two Curricula: The Case for Pre-Requisites in the IS Model Curriculum

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Reynolds, John H.; Ferguson, Roger C.; Leidig, Paul M.

2016-01-01

The most recent Information Systems (IS) Model Curriculum recommendations is IS2010. While the goal of this revision was to update the curriculum from IS2002, the end result was a change in curriculum design philosophy whereby a pre-requisite structure that fostered increasing depth of knowledge was flattened to make the curriculum easier to…

Integrated Evaluation of Closed Loop Air Revitalization System Components

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Murdock, K.

2010-01-01

NASA s vision and mission statements include an emphasis on human exploration of space, which requires environmental control and life support technologies. This Contractor Report (CR) describes the development and evaluation of an Air Revitalization System, modeling and simulation of the components, and integrated hardware testing with the goal of better understanding the inherent capabilities and limitations of this closed loop system. Major components integrated and tested included a 4-Bed Modular Sieve, Mechanical Compressor Engineering Development Unit, Temperature Swing Adsorption Compressor, and a Sabatier Engineering and Development Unit. The requisite methodolgy and technical results are contained in this CR.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Should We "Fear the Fear"?

PubMed Central

Walls, Helen L.; Hanefeld, Johanna; Smith, Richard D.

2017-01-01

RLabonté et al entitle their paper in this issue of the International Journal of Health Policy and Management "The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Is It Everything We Feared for Health?" Tantalisingly, they do not directly answer the question they pose, and in this commentary, we suggest that it is the wrong question; we should not ‘fear’ the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) at all, rather we should ask how we are to respond. The public health community is right to be concerned with the potential implications of trade and investment agreements (TIAs) for health, particularly with shifts from multilateral to regional/bilateral agreements including provisions with greater risk to public health. But it is critical to understand also the potential health benefits, and especially the mitigating policy and governance mechanisms to respond to adverse TIA implications. Given entrenched and divergent sectoral worldviews and perspectives between trade and health communities on these issues, achieving the requisite understanding will also likely require characterisation of these perspectives and identification of areas of common understanding and agreed solutions. PMID:28812829

Joint Tactical Radio System Handheld, Manpack, and Small Form Fit Radios (JTRS HMS)

DTIC Science & Technology

2013-12-01

requisitions through the Standard Army Supply System ( SASS ). All radios procured under the Full Rate Production (FRP) phase that become unserviceable...will be turned-in to TYAD through the SASS . Radios will be returned to the original equipment manufacturer vendor for warranty repair, or replacement...procure sustainment spares to replace unserviceable radios and ancillary items requisitioned through SASS , operations, maintenance, training

Whys and hows of in-house writing

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Lane, J. C.

1981-01-01

The combining of requisite technical knowledge with requisite writing ability is addressed. Considerations in the development of in-house writing courses, in-plant training, are presented and evaluated. Specific problems in past methodology are also detailed. It is suggested that teachers of technical writing should be technical people themselves, preferably with working experience in industry or business; the training provided should be user-oriented, not theory oriented.

Improving Department of Defense Global Distribution Performance Through Network Analysis

DTIC Science & Technology

2016-06-01

network performance increase. 14. SUBJECT TERMS supply chain metrics, distribution networks, requisition shipping time, strategic distribution database...peace and war” (p. 4). USTRANSCOM Metrics and Analysis Branch defines, develops, tracks, and maintains outcomes- based supply chain metrics to...2014a, p. 8). The Joint Staff defines a TDD standard as the maximum number of days the supply chain can take to deliver requisitioned materiel

TR-IA payload recovery system

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Kochiyama, Jiro; Kinai, Shigeki; Morita, Shinya

The TR-IA microgravity-experimentation sounding rocket baseline configuration and recovery system are presented. Aerodynamic braking is incorporated through the requisite positioning of the reentry-body center of gravity. The recovery sequence is initiated by baroswitches, which eject the pilot chute. Even in the event of flotation bag malfunction, the structure containing the experiment is watertight. An account is given of the nature and the results of the performance tests conducted to establish the soundness of various materials and components.

Techniques for evaluating optimum data center operation

DOEpatents

Hamann, Hendrik F.; Rodriguez, Sergio Adolfo Bermudez; Wehle, Hans-Dieter

2017-06-14

Techniques for modeling a data center are provided. In one aspect, a method for determining data center efficiency is provided. The method includes the following steps. Target parameters for the data center are obtained. Technology pre-requisite parameters for the data center are obtained. An optimum data center efficiency is determined given the target parameters for the data center and the technology pre-requisite parameters for the data center.

Measuring student learning using initial and final concept test in an STEM course

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Kaw, Autar; Yalcin, Ali

2012-06-01

Effective assessment is a cornerstone in measuring student learning in higher education. For a course in Numerical Methods, a concept test was used as an assessment tool to measure student learning and its improvement during the course. The concept test comprised 16 multiple choice questions and was given in the beginning and end of the class for three semesters. Hake's gain index, a measure of learning gains from pre- to post-tests, of 0.36 to 0.41 were recorded. The validity and reliability of the concept test was checked via standard measures such as Cronbach's alpha, content and criterion-related validity, item characteristic curves and difficulty and discrimination indices. The performance of various subgroups such as pre-requisite grades, transfer students, gender and age were also studied.

Patient safety in the clinical laboratory: a longitudinal analysis of specimen identification errors.

PubMed

Wagar, Elizabeth A; Tamashiro, Lorraine; Yasin, Bushra; Hilborne, Lee; Bruckner, David A

2006-11-01

Patient safety is an increasingly visible and important mission for clinical laboratories. Attention to improving processes related to patient identification and specimen labeling is being paid by accreditation and regulatory organizations because errors in these areas that jeopardize patient safety are common and avoidable through improvement in the total testing process. To assess patient identification and specimen labeling improvement after multiple implementation projects using longitudinal statistical tools. Specimen errors were categorized by a multidisciplinary health care team. Patient identification errors were grouped into 3 categories: (1) specimen/requisition mismatch, (2) unlabeled specimens, and (3) mislabeled specimens. Specimens with these types of identification errors were compared preimplementation and postimplementation for 3 patient safety projects: (1) reorganization of phlebotomy (4 months); (2) introduction of an electronic event reporting system (10 months); and (3) activation of an automated processing system (14 months) for a 24-month period, using trend analysis and Student t test statistics. Of 16,632 total specimen errors, mislabeled specimens, requisition mismatches, and unlabeled specimens represented 1.0%, 6.3%, and 4.6% of errors, respectively. Student t test showed a significant decrease in the most serious error, mislabeled specimens (P < .001) when compared to before implementation of the 3 patient safety projects. Trend analysis demonstrated decreases in all 3 error types for 26 months. Applying performance-improvement strategies that focus longitudinally on specimen labeling errors can significantly reduce errors, therefore improving patient safety. This is an important area in which laboratory professionals, working in interdisciplinary teams, can improve safety and outcomes of care.

Customer Driven Uniform Manufacture (CDUM) Program. Customer Driven Uniform Management Apparel Research

DTIC Science & Technology

2008-11-13

Final Technical Report 4 consumption patterns, and production status. The current version of the AAVS DataMart contains apparel and textile data...which stores the summary of the activity by item; Daily Issues which contains all the issues for the day; Daily Receipts which contains all receipts...entered for the day; and, Open Requisitions which contains all open DSCP Requisitions and Local Purchase Orders. Supply and financial transactions are

First Spacelab mission status and lessons learned

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Craft, H. G., Jr.; Smith, M. J.; Mullinger, D.

1982-01-01

There are 38 experiments and/or facilities currently under development, or undergoing testing, which will be incorporated into Spacelab for its first mission. These experiments cover a range of scientific disciplines which includes atmospheric research, life sciences, space plasma research, materials science, and space industrialization technology. In addition to the full development of individual experiments, the final design of the integrated payload and the development of all requisite integration hardware have been accomplished. Attention is given to the project management lessons learned during payload integration development.

Automated Chemical Warfare Respirator Quantitative Fit Test Instrument

DTIC Science & Technology

1985-04-01

i requisite to assessment of the level of protection provided by the respirator. Quantitative measurement of the variability of fit of the face- plec ...ACQUISITION SYSTEM CORN OIL FILlE RESERVOIR -~ HEATER CONCENTRATIOA ZAONVU~C RB EAHG1FECO PHOTOMETER- STA RT CIL RESERVOIR BOTTGM TEMPERATURE SWITCH...30 .........-.-.-... % L4* . 3.3.4 HP 3497A Control and Data Acquisition Unit lI, "%a.infraoc" i.; a box with five slots for plug-in modules pll u; a

Progesterone and the luteal phase: a requisite to reproduction.

PubMed

Mesen, Tolga B; Young, Steven L

2015-03-01

Progesterone production from the corpus luteum is critical for natural reproduction. Progesterone supplementation seems to be an important aspect of any assisted reproductive technology treatment. Luteal phase deficiency in natural cycles is a plausible cause of infertility and pregnancy loss, though there is no adequate diagnostic test. This article describes the normal luteal phase of the menstrual cycle, investigates the controversy surrounding luteal phase deficiency, and presents the current literature for progesterone supplementation during assisted reproductive technologies. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

A model for the topology of excitatory amino acid transporters determined by the extracellular accessibility of substituted cysteines.

PubMed

Seal, R P; Leighton, B H; Amara, S G

2000-03-01

Excitatory amino acid transporters (EAATs) function as both substrate transporters and ligand-gated anion channels. Characterization of the transporter's general topology is the first requisite step in defining the structural bases for these distinct activities. While the first six hydrophobic domains can be readily modeled as conventional transmembrane segments, the organization of the C-terminal hydrophobic domains, which have been implicated in both substrate and ion interactions, has been controversial. Here, we report the results of a comprehensive evaluation of the C-terminal topology of EAAT1 determined by the chemical modification of introduced cysteine residues. Our data support a model in which two membrane-spanning domains flank a central region that is highly accessible to the extracellular milieu and contains at least one reentrant loop domain.

Pregnant Women's Knowledge of and Attitudes to HIV Testing at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi.

PubMed

Addo, Vn

2005-06-01

SummaryA questionnaire survey on the knowledge about human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) and attitudes to voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) in pregnancy of 334 antenatal attendants at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) was conducted. The survey showed that HIV/AIDS is recognized as a life-threatening condition and is mainly acquired through unprotected sexual intercourse with an infected partner, use of unsterile sharp instruments and blood transfusion. Knowledge about mother to child transmission (MTCT) was lacking.The majority of women who had done the test did so as a pre-requisite for church blessing of their marriage.VCT would be acceptable especially when anonymity is ensured and drug treatment is available for mother and child should the pregnant woman test positive for HIV.

A Simulation Model of Issue Processing at Naval Supply Depot Yokosuka, Japan.

DTIC Science & Technology

1986-03-01

DEMANDS RECEIVED DURING THE WORKDAY AM** *AMDD VARIABLE (((V$DDMND*V$NITDD)/1000)*800)/1525 **DEMANDS RECEIVED DURING THE WORKDAY PM ** PMDD VARIABLE...TRANSFER TO NEXT BLOCK IF ON A WORKDAY, ELSE TO RQTRM SPLIT V$ PMDD ,PMAD SPLIT TRANSACTION INTO THE NUMBER OF REQS REC’D DURING WORKDAY PM PMAD ADVANCE...DURING WORKDAY DAYAD ADVANCE 437,437 SPREAD REQUISITION FLOW UNIFORMLY * THROUGHOUT WORKDAY TRANSFER ,PRIAS TRANSFER ALL TO PRIAS, ** PM REQUISITION

Computerized provider order entry in the clinical laboratory

PubMed Central

Baron, Jason M.; Dighe, Anand S.

2011-01-01

Clinicians have traditionally ordered laboratory tests using paper-based orders and requisitions. However, paper orders are becoming increasingly incompatible with the complexities, challenges, and resource constraints of our modern healthcare systems and are being replaced by electronic order entry systems. Electronic systems that allow direct provider input of diagnostic testing or medication orders into a computer system are known as Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) systems. Adoption of laboratory CPOE systems may offer institutions many benefits, including reduced test turnaround time, improved test utilization, and better adherence to practice guidelines. In this review, we outline the functionality of various CPOE implementations, review the reported benefits, and discuss strategies for using CPOE to improve the test ordering process. Further, we discuss barriers to the implementation of CPOE systems that have prevented their more widespread adoption. PMID:21886891

Job security at isfahan university of medical sciences: implications on employees and types of contracts.

PubMed

Alavi, Seyyed Salman; Alaghemandan, Hamed; Jannatifard, Fereshte

2013-01-01

Medical universities are of those organizations that serve many individuals. As a result, the employees who work at medical universities should have adequate job qualifications and requisite conditions for work. Job security is one of these needed conditions. The current study aims to determine the main components of job security among the employees of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences (IUMS). The study had a cross-sectional design. The sample included 300 employees which were selected from the faculties of IUMS. The sample was recruited using quota sampling. First, demographic and Job security questionnaires were completed by each employee. Then, data was analyzed by descriptive methods and ANOVA in SPSS16. The study results showed that there was no significant difference among five subscales of Job security questionnaire and as a result, job security among the employees of IUMS but there was a significant difference in job security among male and female employees and a significant difference in job security based on type of job contract. Lower rate of job security among female employees with temporary job contracts has professional and psychological implication for both females and IUMS which should be considered in designing professional programs of IUMS.

Proceedings of the Guidelines for Seismometer Testing Workshop, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 9-10 May 2005 ("GST2")

USGS Publications Warehouse

Hutt, Charles R.; Nigbor, Robert L.; Evans, John R.

2009-01-01

Testing and specification of seismic and earthquake-engineering sensors and recorders has been marked by significant variations in procedures and selected parameters. These variations cause difficulty in comparing such specifications and test results. In July 1989, and again in May 2005, the U.S. Geological Survey hosted international public/private workshops with the goal of defining widely accepted guidelines for the testing of seismological inertial sensors, seismometers, and accelerometers. This document reports the Proceedings of the 2005 workshop and includes as Appendix 6 the report of the 1989 workshop. In a future document, we will attempt to collate and rationalize a single set of formal guidelines for testing and specifying seismic sensors, supplementing Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS) guidelines on instrumentation likely used by ANSS as its standard for verification, acceptance, and intermittent testing, as well as for responses to ANSS instrument requisitions.

Faulty judgment, expert opinion, and decision-making capacity.

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Silberfeld, M; Checkland, D

1999-08-01

An assessment of decision-making capacity is the accepted procedure for determining when a person is not competent. An inferential gap exists between the criteria for capacity specific abilities and the legal requirements to understand relevant information and appreciate the consequences of a decision. This gap extends to causal influences on a person's capacity to decide. Using a published case of depression, we illustrate that assessors' uses of diagnostic information is frequently not up to the task of bridging this inferential gap in a justifiable way. We then describe cases of faulty judgement which challenge the understanding of diagnostic causal influences. These cases help to clarify the nature of the expertise required for capacity assessments. In practice, the requirements of decision-making capacity are often abandoned to other considerations due to a lack of requisite expertise. The legal policy supporting decision-making capacity as a means to protective intervention is justified only if the requisite expertise is developed. We propose the requisite expertise to be developed in the long term as a distinct multidisciplinary endeavour.

The other side of the safety coin. [aerospace operations

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Roth, Gilbert L.

1986-01-01

The development, inspection and testing requirements for successful production and launch and safe operation of spaceflight hardware are discussed. Emphasis is placed on paying acute attention to malfunctions, which could be caused by contaminants (particles in docking rings), insufficiently durable materials (Orbiter brakes), etc. Generic and specific problems which occur in propulsion, avionics, mechanical and computer systems and in configuration management, manufacturing and process control efforts are explored. Case histories of deficiencies found in LOX fuel lines, contaminated hydraulic control systems, the Solar Maximum Mission thermal insulation grommets, are summarized. Thorough inspection and testing procedures and design change recording during manufacture of spacecraft components are identified as requisites for successful space missions.

High Efficiency Centrifugal Compressor for Rotorcraft Applications

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Medic, Gorazd; Sharma, Om P.; Jongwook, Joo; Hardin, Larry W.; McCormick, Duane C.; Cousins, William T.; Lurie, Elizabeth A.; Shabbir, Aamir; Holley, Brian M.; Van Slooten, Paul R.

2017-01-01

A centrifugal compressor research effort conducted by United Technologies Research Center under NASA Research Announcement NNC08CB03C is documented. The objectives were to identify key technical barriers to advancing the aerodynamic performance of high-efficiency, high work factor, compact centrifugal compressor aft-stages for turboshaft engines; to acquire measurements needed to overcome the technical barriers and inform future designs; to design, fabricate, and test a new research compressor in which to acquire the requisite flow field data. A new High-Efficiency Centrifugal Compressor stage -- splittered impeller, splittered diffuser, 90 degree bend, and exit guide vanes -- with aerodynamically aggressive performance and configuration (compactness) goals were designed, fabricated, and subquently tested at the NASA Glenn Research Center.

On BC1 RNA and the fragile X mental retardation protein

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Iacoangeli, Anna; Rozhdestvensky, Timofey S.; Dolzhanskaya, Natalia; Tournier, Barthélémy; Schütt, Janin; Brosius, Jürgen; Denman, Robert B.; Khandjian, Edouard W.; Kindler, Stefan; Tiedge, Henri

2008-01-01

The fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP), the functional absence of which causes fragile X syndrome, is an RNA-binding protein that has been implicated in the regulation of local protein synthesis at the synapse. The mechanism of FMRP's interaction with its target mRNAs, however, has remained controversial. In one model, it has been proposed that BC1 RNA, a small non-protein-coding RNA that localizes to synaptodendritic domains, operates as a requisite adaptor by specifically binding to both FMRP and, via direct base-pairing, to FMRP target mRNAs. Other models posit that FMRP interacts with its target mRNAs directly, i.e., in a BC1-independent manner. Here five laboratories independently set out to test the BC1–FMRP model. We report that specific BC1–FMRP interactions could be documented neither in vitro nor in vivo. Interactions between BC1 RNA and FMRP target mRNAs were determined to be of a nonspecific nature. Significantly, the association of FMRP with bona fide target mRNAs was independent of the presence of BC1 RNA in vivo. The combined experimental evidence is discordant with a proposed scenario in which BC1 RNA acts as a bridge between FMRP and its target mRNAs and rather supports a model in which BC1 RNA and FMRP are translational repressors that operate independently. PMID:18184799

"The nurse satisfaction, service quality and nurse retention chain": implications for management of recruitment and retention.

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Newman, Karin; Maylor, Uvanney; Chansarkar, Bal

2002-01-01

This paper presents the findings of a qualitative study, based on interviews with over 130 nurses and midwives in four London Trust hospitals on: the main factors influencing nurse satisfaction and retention; empirical support for the robustness of a conceptual framework or model "the nurse satisfaction, service quality and nurse retention chain"; and some managerial considerations for recruitment and retention. The three main factors influencing job satisfaction were patients, the inherent characteristics of nursing and the nursing team; the two main sources of job dissatisfaction were staff shortages and poor management and amongst nurse retention strategies improving working conditions was more important than increased pay. For recruitment, as well as retention, improving the image and reputation of nursing along with improvements in work-life balance were pre-requisites for meeting the challenging target of an additional 20,000 nurses on the wards by 2004.

Magnetism, iron minerals, and life on Mars.

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Rochette, P; Gattacceca, J; Chevrier, V; Mathé, P E; Menvielle, M

2006-06-01

A short critical review is provided on two questions linking magnetism and possible early life on Mars: (1) Did Mars have an Earth-like internal magnetic field, and, if so, during which period and was it a requisite for life? (2) Is there a connection between iron minerals in the martian regolith and life? We also discuss the possible astrobiological implications of magnetic measurements at the surface of Mars using two proposed instruments. A magnetic remanence device based on magnetic field measurements can be used to identify Noachian age rocks and lightning impacts. A contact magnetic susceptibility probe can be used to investigate weathering rinds on martian rocks and identify meteorites among the small regolith rocks. Both materials are considered possible specific niches for microorganisms and, thus, potential astrobiological targets. Experimental results on analogues are presented to support the suitability of such in situ measurements.

The fatigued anesthesiologist: A threat to patient safety?

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Sinha, Ashish; Singh, Avtar; Tewari, Anurag

2013-01-01

Universally, anesthesiologists are expected to be knowledgeable, astutely responding to clinical challenges while maintaining a prolonged vigilance for administration of safe anesthesia and critical care. A fatigued anesthesiologist is the consequence of cumulative acuity, manifesting as decreased motor and cognitive powers. This results in impaired judgement, late and inadequate responses to clinical changes, poor communication and inadequate record keeping. With rising expectations and increased medico-legal claims, anesthesiologists work round the clock to provide efficient and timely services, but are the "sleep provider" in a sleep debt them self? Is it the right time to promptly address these issues so that we prevent silent perpetuation of problems pertinent to anesthesiologist’s health and the profession. The implications of sleep debt on patient safety are profound and preventive strategies are quintessential. Anesthesiology governing bodies must ensure requisite laws to prevent the adverse outcomes of sleep debt before patient care is compromised. PMID:23878432

The Effect of Psychological Suzhi on Problem Behaviors in Chinese Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Subjective Social Status and Self-esteem

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Liu, Guangzeng; Zhang, Dajun; Pan, Yangu; Ma, Yuanxiao; Lu, Xingyue

2017-01-01

In this study, we examined subjective social status (SSS) and self-esteem as potential mediators between the association of psychological suzhi and problem behaviors in a sample of 1271 Chinese adolescents (44.5% male, grades 7–12). The results showed that SSS and self-esteem were fully mediating the relationship between psychological suzhi and problem behaviors. Moreover, the indirect effect was stronger via self-esteem than via SSS. These findings perhaps provide insight into the preliminary effect that SSS and self-esteem underlie psychological suzhi’s effect on adolescents’ problem behaviors, and also are important in helping school-teachers and administrators to develop a better understanding of problem behaviors in their schools as a pre-requisite to the development of more effective behaviors management practices from the perspective of psychological suzhi. Implications and limitations in the present study have also been discussed. PMID:28912744

High particle export over the continental shelf of the west Antarctic Peninsula

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Buesseler, Ken O.; McDonnell, Andrew M. P.; Schofield, Oscar M. E.; Steinberg, Deborah K.; Ducklow, Hugh W.

2010-11-01

Drifting cylindrical traps and the flux proxy 234Th indicate more than an order of magnitude higher sinking fluxes of particulate carbon and 234Th in January 2009 than measured by a time-series conical trap used regularly on the shelf of the west Antarctic Peninsula (WAP). The higher fluxes measured in this study have several implications for our understanding of the WAP ecosystem. Larger sinking fluxes result in a revised export efficiency of at least 10% (C flux/net primary production) and a requisite lower regeneration efficiency in surface waters. High fluxes also result in a large supply of sinking organic matter to support subsurface and benthic food webs on the continental shelf. These new findings call into question the magnitude of seasonal and interannual variability in particle flux and reaffirm the difficulty of using moored conical traps as a quantitative flux collector in shallow waters.

Understanding Engineers' Responsibilities: A Prerequisite to Designing Engineering Education : Commentary on "Educating Engineers for the Public Good Through International Internships: Evidence from a Case Study at Universitat Politècnica de València".

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Murphy, Colleen; Gardoni, Paolo

2017-07-18

The development of the curriculum for engineering education (course requirements as well as extra-curricular activities like study abroad and internships) should be based on a comprehensive understanding of engineers' responsibilities. The responsibilities that are constitutive of being an engineer include striving to fulfill the standards of excellence set by technical codes; to improve the idealized models that engineers use to predict, for example, the behavior of alternative designs; and to achieve the internal goods such as safety and sustainability as they are reflected in the design codes. Globalization has implications for these responsibilities and, in turn, for engineering education, by, for example, modifying the collection of possible solutions recognized for existing problems. In addition, international internships can play an important role in fostering the requisite moral imagination of engineering students.

B lymphocytes not required for progression from insulitis to diabetes in non-obese diabetic mice.

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Charlton, B; Zhang, M D; Slattery, R M

2001-12-01

Previous studies have implicated B lymphocytes in the pathogenesis of diabetes in the non-obese diabetic (NOD) mouse. While it is clear that B lymphocytes are necessary, it has not been clear at which stage of disease they play a role; early, late or both. To clarify when B lymphocytes are needed, T lymphocytes were transferred from 5-week-old NOD female mice to age-matched NOD/severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) recipient mice. NOD/SCID mice, which lack functionally mature T and B lymphocytes, do not normally develop insulitis or insulin-dependent diabetes melitus (IDDM). The NOD/SCID mice that received purified T lymphocytes from 5-week-old NOD mice subsequently developed insulitis and diabetes even though they did not have detectable B lymphocytes. This suggests that while B lymphocytes may be essential for an initial priming event they are not requisite for disease progression in the NOD mouse.

The Effect of Psychological Suzhi on Problem Behaviors in Chinese Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Subjective Social Status and Self-esteem.

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Liu, Guangzeng; Zhang, Dajun; Pan, Yangu; Ma, Yuanxiao; Lu, Xingyue

2017-01-01

In this study, we examined subjective social status (SSS) and self-esteem as potential mediators between the association of psychological suzhi and problem behaviors in a sample of 1271 Chinese adolescents (44.5% male, grades 7-12). The results showed that SSS and self-esteem were fully mediating the relationship between psychological suzhi and problem behaviors. Moreover, the indirect effect was stronger via self-esteem than via SSS. These findings perhaps provide insight into the preliminary effect that SSS and self-esteem underlie psychological suzhi 's effect on adolescents' problem behaviors, and also are important in helping school-teachers and administrators to develop a better understanding of problem behaviors in their schools as a pre-requisite to the development of more effective behaviors management practices from the perspective of psychological suzhi. Implications and limitations in the present study have also been discussed.

Experimental evaluation of high performance base course and road base asphalt concrete with electric arc furnace steel slags.

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Pasetto, Marco; Baldo, Nicola

2010-09-15

The paper presents the results of a laboratory study aimed at verifying the use of two types of electric arc furnace (EAF) steel slags as substitutes for natural aggregates, in the composition of base course and road base asphalt concrete (BBAC) for flexible pavements. The trial was composed of a preliminary study of the chemical, physical, mechanical and leaching properties of the EAF steel slags, followed by the mix design and performance characterization of the bituminous mixes, through gyratory compaction tests, permanent deformation tests, stiffness modulus tests at various temperatures, fatigue tests and indirect tensile strength tests. All the mixtures with EAF slags presented better mechanical characteristics than those of the corresponding asphalts with natural aggregate and satisfied the requisites for acceptance in the Italian road sector technical standards, thus resulting as suitable for use in road construction. Copyright 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

MILSTRIP. MILitary, STandard, Requisitioning and Issue Procedures.

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1987-05-01

Reduction in the Use of Exception Data Requisitions (Staffed by PMCL 483A), fully implements the use of Status Code D6 under chapter 2 and appendix B16 ...and appendices BI, B16 , C4, and C17. (1 Nov 92) C. AMCL 16, Revised Dollar Threshold for Shipment Status (DI AS3) to DRMS (Staffed by PMCL 13A...and appendices Bi, B16 , and C46, and adds new appendix A34. (1 Nov 92) F. AMCL 165A, Status Codes for Nonconsumable Items (Staffed by PMCL 478

Institutional authorisation and accreditation of Transfusion Services and Blood Donation Sites: results of a national survey

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Liumbruno, Giancarlo Maria; Panetta, Valentina; Bonini, Rosaria; Chianese, Rosa; Fiorin, Francesco; Lupi, Maria Antonietta; Tomasini, Ivana; Grazzini, Giuliano

2011-01-01

Introduction The aim of the survey described in this article was to determine decisional and strategic factors useful for redefining minimum structural, technological and organisational requisites for transfusion structures, as well as for the production of guidelines for accreditation of transfusion structures by the National Blood Centre. Materials and methods A structured questionnaire containing 65 questions was sent to all Transfusion Services in Italy. The questions covered: management of the quality system, accreditation, conformity with professional standards, structural and technological requisites, as well as potential to supply transfusion medicine-related health care services. All the questionnaires returned underwent statistical analysis. Results Replies were received from 64.7% of the Transfusion Services. Thirty-nine percent of these had an ISO 9001 certificate, with marked differences according to geographical location; location-related differences were also present for responses to other questions and were confirmed by multivariate statistical analysis. Over half of the Transfusion Services (53.6%) had blood donation sites run by donor associations. The statistical analysis revealed only one statistically significant difference between these donation sites: those connected to certified Transfusion Services were more likely themselves to have ISO 9001 certification than those connected to services who did not have such certification. Conclusions The data collected in this survey are representative of the Italian national transfusion system. A re-definition of the authorisation and accreditation requisites for transfusion activities must take into account European and national legislation when determining these requisites in order to facilitate their effective applicability, promote their efficient fulfilment and enhance the development of homogeneous and transparent quality systems. PMID:21839026

Resonant tunneling diodes as energy-selective contacts used in hot-carrier solar cells

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Takeda, Yasuhiko, E-mail: takeda@mosk.tytlabs.co.jp; Sugimoto, Noriaki; Ichiki, Akihisa

2015-09-28

Among the four features unique to hot-carrier solar cells (HC-SCs): (i) carrier thermalization time and (ii) carrier equilibration time in the absorber, (iii) energy-selection width and (iv) conductance of the energy-selective contacts (ESCs), requisites of (i)-(iii) for high conversion efficiency have been clarified. We have tackled the remaining issues related to (iv) in the present study. The detailed balance model of HC-SC operation has been improved to involve a finite value of the ESC conductance to find the required values, which in turn has been revealed to be feasible using resonant tunneling diodes (RTDs) consisting of semiconductor quantum dots (QDs)more » and quantum wells (QWs) by means of a formulation to calculate the conductance of the QD- and QW-RTDs derived using the rigorous solutions of the effective-mass Hamiltonians. Thus, all of the four requisites unique to HC-SCs to achieve high conversion efficiency have been elucidated, and the two requisites related to the ESCs can be fulfilled using the QD- and QW-RTDs.« less

Proposal of a punch biopsy protocol as a pre-requisite for the establishment of a tissue bank from resected esophageal tumors.

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Bonavina, Luigi; Laface, Letizia; Picozzi, Stefano; Nencioni, Marco; Siboni, Stefano; Bona, Davide; Sironi, Andrea; Sorba, Francesca; Clemente, Claudio

2010-09-01

With the development of tissue banking, a need for homogeneous methods of collection, processing, and storage of tissue has emerged. We describe the implementation of a biological bank in a high-volume, tertiary care University referral center for esophageal cancer surgery. We also propose an original punch biopsy technique of the surgical specimen. The method proved to be simple, reproducible, and not expensive. Unified standards for specimen collection are necessary to improve results of specimen-based diagnostic testing and research in surgical oncology.

Job Security at Isfahan University of Medical Sciences: Implications on Employees and Types of Contracts

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Alavi, Seyyed Salman; Alaghemandan, Hamed; Jannatifard, Fereshte

2013-01-01

Introduction: Medical universities are of those organizations that serve many individuals. As a result, the employees who work at medical universities should have adequate job qualifications and requisite conditions for work. Job security is one of these needed conditions. The current study aims to determine the main components of job security among the employees of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences (IUMS). Method and materials: The study had a cross-sectional design. The sample included 300 employees which were selected from the faculties of IUMS. The sample was recruited using quota sampling. First, demographic and Job security questionnaires were completed by each employee. Then, data was analyzed by descriptive methods and ANOVA in SPSS16. Results: The study results showed that there was no significant difference among five subscales of Job security questionnaire and as a result, job security among the employees of IUMS but there was a significant difference in job security among male and female employees and a significant difference in job security based on type of job contract. Discussion: Lower rate of job security among female employees with temporary job contracts has professional and psychological implication for both females and IUMS which should be considered in designing professional programs of IUMS. PMID:23687464

ODC1 is a critical determinant of MYCN oncogenesis and a therapeutic target in neuroblastoma

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Hogarty, Michael D.; Norris, Murray D.; Davis, Kim; Liu, Xueyuan; Evageliou, Nicholas F.; Hayes, Candace S.; Pawel, Bruce; Guo, Rong; Zhao, Huaqing; Sekyere, Eric; Keating, Joanna; Thomas, Wayne; Cheng, Ngan Ching; Murray, Jayne; Smith, Janice; Sutton, Rosemary; Venn, Nicola; London, Wendy B.; Buxton, Allan; Gilmour, Susan K.; Marshall, Glenn M; Haber, Michelle

2008-01-01

Neuroblastoma is a frequently lethal childhood tumor in which MYC gene deregulation, commonly as MYCN amplification, portends poor outcome. Identifying the requisite biopathways downstream of MYC may provide therapeutic opportunities. We used transcriptome analyses to show that MYCN-amplified neuroblastomas have co-ordinately deregulated myriad polyamine enzymes (including ODC1, SRM, SMS, AMD1, OAZ2, and SMOX) to enhance polyamine biosynthesis. High-risk tumors without MYCN amplification also overexpress ODC1, the rate-limiting enzyme in polyamine biosynthesis, when compared with lower risk tumors, suggesting this pathway may be pivotal. Indeed, elevated ODC1 (independent of MYCN amplification) was associated with reduced survival in a large independent neuroblastoma cohort. As polyamines are essential for cell survival and linked to cancer progression, we studied polyamine antagonism to test for metabolic dependence on this pathway in neuroblastoma. The Odc inhibitor α-difluoromethylornithine (DFMO) inhibited neuroblast proliferation in vitro and suppressed oncogenesis in vivo. DFMO treatment of neuroblastoma-prone genetically-engineered mice (TH-MYCN GEM) extended tumor latency and survival in homozygous mice, and prevented oncogenesis in hemizygous mice. In the latter, transient Odc ablation permanently prevented tumor onset consistent with a time-limited window for embryonal tumor initiation. Importantly, we show that DFMO augments anti-tumor efficacy of conventional cytotoxics in vivo. This work implicates polyamine biosynthesis as an arbiter of MYCN oncogenesis and demonstrates initial efficacy for polyamine depletion strategies in neuroblastoma, a strategy that may have utility for this and other MYC-driven embryonal tumors. PMID:19047152

ODC1 is a critical determinant of MYCN oncogenesis and a therapeutic target in neuroblastoma.

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Hogarty, Michael D; Norris, Murray D; Davis, Kimberly; Liu, Xueyuan; Evageliou, Nicholas F; Hayes, Candace S; Pawel, Bruce; Guo, Rong; Zhao, Huaqing; Sekyere, Eric; Keating, Joanna; Thomas, Wayne; Cheng, Ngan Ching; Murray, Jayne; Smith, Janice; Sutton, Rosemary; Venn, Nicola; London, Wendy B; Buxton, Allen; Gilmour, Susan K; Marshall, Glenn M; Haber, Michelle

2008-12-01

Neuroblastoma is a frequently lethal childhood tumor in which MYC gene deregulation, commonly as MYCN amplification, portends poor outcome. Identifying the requisite biopathways downstream of MYC may provide therapeutic opportunities. We used transcriptome analyses to show that MYCN-amplified neuroblastomas have coordinately deregulated myriad polyamine enzymes (including ODC1, SRM, SMS, AMD1, OAZ2, and SMOX) to enhance polyamine biosynthesis. High-risk tumors without MYCN amplification also overexpress ODC1, the rate-limiting enzyme in polyamine biosynthesis, when compared with lower-risk tumors, suggesting that this pathway may be pivotal. Indeed, elevated ODC1 (independent of MYCN amplification) was associated with reduced survival in a large independent neuroblastoma cohort. As polyamines are essential for cell survival and linked to cancer progression, we studied polyamine antagonism to test for metabolic dependence on this pathway in neuroblastoma. The Odc inhibitor alpha-difluoromethylornithine (DFMO) inhibited neuroblast proliferation in vitro and suppressed oncogenesis in vivo. DFMO treatment of neuroblastoma-prone genetically engineered mice (TH-MYCN) extended tumor latency and survival in homozygous mice and prevented oncogenesis in hemizygous mice. In the latter, transient Odc ablation permanently prevented tumor onset consistent with a time-limited window for embryonal tumor initiation. Importantly, we show that DFMO augments antitumor efficacy of conventional cytotoxics in vivo. This work implicates polyamine biosynthesis as an arbiter of MYCN oncogenesis and shows initial efficacy for polyamine depletion strategies in neuroblastoma, a strategy that may have utility for this and other MYC-driven embryonal tumors.

Comparison of the fibronectin-binding ability and antitumor efficacy of various mycobacteria.

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Hudson, M A; Ritchey, J K; Catalona, W J; Brown, E J; Ratliff, T L

1990-07-01

Although the mechanism by which Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) exerts an antitumor effect on superficial bladder tumors is not fully understood, recent evidence has implicated binding of BCG organisms to fibronectin (FN) as requisite for this antitumor efficacy. Various substrains of BCG and other mycobacteria were tested in vitro for their relative capacities to bind both matrix and soluble FN. A substrain of Mycobacterium kansasii, designated the "high-binding strain," was found to bind FN more readily (P less than 0.05) in in vitro studies, when compared to commercially available substrains of BCG (Tice, Connaught, and Armand Frappier). The binding by the three commercial strains of BCG to FN in vitro appeared to be equivalent. The high-binding strain was further demonstrated to attach more readily in vivo to the acutely injured murine bladder (P less than 0.005) than the Armand Frappier substrain. Finally, using the MB49 murine bladder tumor model, an enhanced antitumor effect (P less than 0.05) was noted in mice treated with intravesical high-binding strain, in comparison to the Armand Frappier substrain, during five weekly treatments. It appears not only that the commercial substrains of BCG bind FN in an equivalent manner but also that the relative binding capacities of the substrains correlate directly with antitumor activity. A substrain of M. kansasii appears to have been identified which may prove more clinically effective than the currently available strains of BCG.

Aquaporin-1 Facilitates Angiogenic Invasion in the Pathologic Neovasculature that Accompanies Cirrhosis

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Huebert, Robert C.; Vasdev, Meher M.; Shergill, Uday; Das, Amitava; Huang, Bing Q.; Charlton MR, Michael R.; LaRusso, Nicholas F.; Shah, Vijay H.

2010-01-01

Increasing evidence suggests that hepatic fibrosis and pathologic angiogenesis are inter-dependent processes that occur in parallel. Endothelial cell invasion is requisite for angiogenesis and thus studies of the mechanisms governing liver endothelial cell (LEC) invasion during cirrhosis are of great importance. Emerging research implicates amoeboid-type motility and membrane blebbing as features that may facilitate invasion through matrix-rich microenvironments. Aquaporins (AQPs) are integral membrane water channels, recognized for their importance in epithelial secretion and absorption. However, recent studies also suggest links between water transport and cell motility / invasion. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that AQP-1 is involved in amoeboid motility and angiogenic invasion during cirrhosis. AQP-1 expression and localization was examined in normal and cirrhotic liver tissues derived from human and mouse. AQP-1 levels were modulated in LEC using retroviral overexpression or siRNA knockdown and functional effects on invasion, membrane blebbing dynamics, and osmotic water permeability were assayed. Results demonstrate that AQP-1 is up-regulated in the small, angiogenic, neo-vasculature within the fibrotic septa of cirrhotic liver. AQP-1 overexpression promotes FGF-induced dynamic membrane blebbing in LEC which is sufficient to augment invasion through extracellular matrix. Additionally, AQP-1 localizes to plasma membrane blebs where it increases osmotic water permeability and locally facilitates the rapid, trans-membrane flux of water. CONCLUSION AQP-1 enhances osmotic water permeability and FGF-induced dynamic membrane blebbing in LEC and thereby drives invasion and pathologic angiogenesis during cirrhosis PMID:20578142

Radiopacity of 28 Composite Resins for Teeth Restorations.

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Raitz, Ricardo; Moruzzi, Patrizia Dubinskas; Vieira, Glauco; Fenyo-Pereira, Marlene

2016-02-01

Radiopacity is a fundamental requisite to check marginal adaptation of restorations. Our objective was to assess the radiopacity of 28 brands of light-cured composite resins and compare their radiopacity with that of enamel, dentin, and aluminum of equivalent thickness. Composite resin disks (0.2, 0.5, and 1 mm) were radiographed by the digital method, together with an aluminum penetrometer and a human tooth equivalent tooth section. The degree of radiopacity of each image was quantified using digital image processing. Wilcoxon nonparametric test was used for comparison of the mean thickness of each material. All of the materials tested had an equal or greater radiopacity than that of aluminum of equivalent thickness. Similar results for enamel were found with the exception of Durafill, which was less radiopaque than enamel (p < 0.05). All the specimens were more radiopaque than dentin, except for P90 (which was equally radiopaque) and Durafill (which was less radiopaque). The thickness of the specimens may influence the similarity to the enamel's radiopacity. All of the composite resins comply with specification #27 of the American Dental Association. The radiopacity of Amelogen Plus, Aph, Brilhiante, Charisma, Concept Advanced, Evolux X, Exthet X, Inten S, Llis, Master Fill, Natural Look, Opallis, P60, Tetric, Tph, Z100, and Z250 was significantly higher than that of enamel (p < 0.05). With these composites, it is possible to observe the boundaries between restoration and tooth structure, thus allowing clinicians to establish the presence of microleakage or restoration gap. Suitable radiopacity is an essential requisite for good-quality esthetic restorative materials. We demonstrate that only some composites have the sufficient radiopacity to observe the boundaries between restoration and tooth structure, which is the main cause of restoration failure.

Darwin's "strange inversion of reasoning".

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Dennett, Daniel

2009-06-16

Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection unifies the world of physics with the world of meaning and purpose by proposing a deeply counterintuitive "inversion of reasoning" (according to a 19th century critic): "to make a perfect and beautiful machine, it is not requisite to know how to make it" [MacKenzie RB (1868) (Nisbet & Co., London)]. Turing proposed a similar inversion: to be a perfect and beautiful computing machine, it is not requisite to know what arithmetic is. Together, these ideas help to explain how we human intelligences came to be able to discern the reasons for all of the adaptations of life, including our own.

The relationship between gender role stereotypes and requisite managerial characteristics: the case of nursing and midwifery professionals.

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Berkery, Elaine; Tiernan, Siobhan; Morley, Michael

2014-09-01

To examine the relationship between gender role stereotypes and requisite managerial characteristics within the nursing and midwifery profession. Studies have been carried out to determine gender role stereotypes and requisite managerial characteristics across a number of industries and among student samples. No study has been carried out within the nursing and midwifery profession. In order to allow for direct comparisons with previous research Schein's Descriptive Index (SDI) was used. A total 239 undergraduate and 171 postexperience responses were collected. Female nurses and midwives did not gender type the managerial role, whereas males gender typed the managerial role in favour of men. Student nurses and midwives recorded a stronger correlation between women and management than their qualified counterparts. Males gender typed the managerial role in favour of men. With an increase in numbers of men joining the profession and increased representation of males at the Clinical Nurse Manager (CMN) level there is a possibility that the profession will become two tiered. Health care organisations should pay careful consideration to career development and implement career structures which ensure equal access to managerial roles for both genders. © 2012 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Accurate Binding Free Energy Predictions in Fragment Optimization.

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Steinbrecher, Thomas B; Dahlgren, Markus; Cappel, Daniel; Lin, Teng; Wang, Lingle; Krilov, Goran; Abel, Robert; Friesner, Richard; Sherman, Woody

2015-11-23

Predicting protein-ligand binding free energies is a central aim of computational structure-based drug design (SBDD)--improved accuracy in binding free energy predictions could significantly reduce costs and accelerate project timelines in lead discovery and optimization. The recent development and validation of advanced free energy calculation methods represents a major step toward this goal. Accurately predicting the relative binding free energy changes of modifications to ligands is especially valuable in the field of fragment-based drug design, since fragment screens tend to deliver initial hits of low binding affinity that require multiple rounds of synthesis to gain the requisite potency for a project. In this study, we show that a free energy perturbation protocol, FEP+, which was previously validated on drug-like lead compounds, is suitable for the calculation of relative binding strengths of fragment-sized compounds as well. We study several pharmaceutically relevant targets with a total of more than 90 fragments and find that the FEP+ methodology, which uses explicit solvent molecular dynamics and physics-based scoring with no parameters adjusted, can accurately predict relative fragment binding affinities. The calculations afford R(2)-values on average greater than 0.5 compared to experimental data and RMS errors of ca. 1.1 kcal/mol overall, demonstrating significant improvements over the docking and MM-GBSA methods tested in this work and indicating that FEP+ has the requisite predictive power to impact fragment-based affinity optimization projects.

Long-term proton pump induced hypergastrinaemia does induce lineage-specific restitution but not clonal expansion in benign Barrett's oesophagus in vivo.

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Obszynska, Jolanta A; Atherfold, Paul A; Nanji, Manoj; Glancy, Deborah; Santander, Sonia; Graham, Trevor A; Otto, William R; West, Kevin; Harrison, Rebecca F; Jankowski, Janusz A Z

2010-02-01

Barrett's oesophagus is a common premalignant lesion caused partly by acid reflux. Although the requisite therapy, proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), have been implicated in the progression of Barrett's oesophagus in animal models, harmful effects of prolonged PPI therapy in Barrett's oesophagus is both inconclusive and controversial. We therefore aimed to test the role of PPI-induced hypergastrinaemia in vitro and see whether any biological parameters were useful surrogates of long-term therapy in man. We undertook detailed serological and tissue assessment of gastrin and CCK(2) receptors in 90 patients randomised to different doses of PPI therapy during a detailed 2-year follow-up. We also undertook a comprehensive study of cell models to study the consequential biological effects of gastrin on the mucosa. Gastrin and its cognate receptor CCK(2)R were expressed highest in the stomach, then less in Barrett's oesophagus and least in squamous oesophagus (SqE) (n=20 paired t-test, p<0.01). Analysis of the change in Barrett's oesophagus segment length change in 70 patients who were randomised to high or low PPI dose showed no difference over 2 years (n=70 t-test, p=0.8). Prolonged PPI use did, however, increase the serum gastrin, (36 pg/ml+/-57 pg/ml to 103 pg/ml+/-94 pg/ml (paired t test, p<0.05)). In vitro gastrin also induced changes in OE33(E)(cckr) Barrett's oesophagus cells, but not OE21(E)(cckr) squamous cells, transfected with CCK(2)R; migration was induced by 1 ng/ml of gastrin but proliferation only increased with 100 ng/ml (paired t-test, p<0.01) and both were abolished by antagonists. While the short-term effects of gastrin enhance epithelial restitution in Barrett's oesophagus (but not squamous mucosa) there is no clinical evidence that Barrett's oesophagus length expands over time. This study, which is the largest and longest term randomised controlled trial of gastrin biology in Barrett's oesophagus, is further proof of the clinical safety of PPI therapy.

Slow dynamics of electron glasses: The role of disorder

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Ovadyahu, Z.

2017-04-01

We examine in this work the role of disorder in contributing to the sluggish relaxation observed in intrinsic electron glasses. Our approach is guided by several empirical observations: First and foremost, Anderson localization is a pre-requisite for observing these nonequilibrium phenomena. Secondly, sluggish relaxation appears to favor Anderson insulators with relatively large Fermi energies (hence proportionally large disorder). These observations motivated us to consider a way to measure the underlying disorder in a realistic Anderson insulator. Optical studies using a series of amorphous indium oxide (InxO ) establish a simple connection between carrier concentration and the disorder necessary to approach the metal-insulator transition from the insulating side. This is used to estimate the typical magnitude of the quenched potential fluctuation in the electron-glass phase of this system. The implications of our findings on the slow dynamics of Anderson insulators are discussed. In particular, the reason for the absence of a memory dip and the accompanying electron-glass effects in lightly-doped semiconductors emerges as a natural consequence of their weak disorder.

The effects of shift work on physical and mental health.

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Vogel, Matthias; Braungardt, Tanja; Meyer, Wolfgang; Schneider, Wolfgang

2012-10-01

Occupational engagement is a pre-requisite for continuous income opportunities. Among the changing social circumstances work-related conditions play an increasingly eminent role in psychological and mental well-being. The public discusses the question of a possible association between the demands of modern work life and the increases of psychological, psychosomatic and cardiovascular disorders. Given the socioeconomic implications of psychiatric and psychosomatic suffering in the general population, there is a need to further elucidate the causes of their increasing incidence. From a medical point of view, any organization of work disrupting the phased circadian rhythms for bio-psycho-social processes and functioning of the individual are interesting against the background of clock genes and certain biological functions that are organized in a circadian fashion. The authors review the influence of shift work as a form of systematic desynchronization of inner clock systems on the endocrine, the physical, and the mental level. The significance of the findings in the field is discussed along with future directions of conclusive research.

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Yarnall, C.A.; Caruthers, J.R.

This study was performed under FUTURE LOOK, a joint Defense Nuclear Agency/Department of Energy (DNA/DOE) sponsored study. The intent of FUTURE LOOK is to identify and develop means of providing requisite security and survivability to the Non-Strategic Nuclear Forces (NSNF) in the Twenty-First Century. Our current thinking about the future world in Europe is summarized. In this report we develop four scenarios/stockpile cases to cover the spectrum of potential happenings in Europe; we also develop general security and survivability implications and recommendations for each case. The four cases are: (1) a substantially reduced (factor of 2--10) European stockpile; (2) amore » near-zero stockpile, with no Army weapons remaining in Europe; (3) current stockpile in Europe remains; and (4) current stockpile numbers remain, but aggressive modernization is allowed. We plan to use the information in this report to assist in developing detailed security and survivability options as part of our follow-on to FUTURE LOOK studies. 8 refs., 6 tabs.« less

Experimental Trapped-ion Quantum Simulation of the Kibble-Zurek dynamics in momentum space

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Cui, Jin-Ming; Huang, Yun-Feng; Wang, Zhao; Cao, Dong-Yang; Wang, Jian; Lv, Wei-Min; Luo, Le; del Campo, Adolfo; Han, Yong-Jian; Li, Chuan-Feng; Guo, Guang-Can

2016-01-01

The Kibble-Zurek mechanism is the paradigm to account for the nonadiabatic dynamics of a system across a continuous phase transition. Its study in the quantum regime is hindered by the requisite of ground state cooling. We report the experimental quantum simulation of critical dynamics in the transverse-field Ising model by a set of Landau-Zener crossings in pseudo-momentum space, that can be probed with high accuracy using a single trapped ion. We test the Kibble-Zurek mechanism in the quantum regime in the momentum space and find the measured scaling of excitations is in accordance with the theoretical prediction. PMID:27633087

Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling: Recent Experimental Approaches to Probe the Properties of Supercooled Liquids near the Glass Transition.

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Smith, R Scott; Kay, Bruce D

2012-03-15

Experimental measurements of the properties of supercooled liquids at temperatures near their glass transition temperatures, Tg, are requisite for understanding the behavior of glasses and amorphous solids. Unfortunately, many supercooled molecular liquids rapidly crystallize at temperatures far above their Tg, making such measurements difficult to nearly impossible. In this Perspective, we discuss some recent alternative approaches to obtain experimental data in the temperature regime near Tg. These new approaches may yield the additional experimental data necessary to test current theoretical models of the dynamical slowdown that occurs in supercooled liquids approaching the glass transition.

Microplastic Generation in the Marine Environment Through Degradation and Fragmentation

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Perryman, M. E.; Jambeck, J.; Woodson, C. B.; Locklin, J.

2016-02-01

Plastic use has become requisite in our global economy; as population continues to increase, so too, will plastic production. At its end-of-life, some amount of plastic is mismanaged and ends up in the ocean. Once there, various environmental stresses eventually fragment plastic into microplastic pieces, now ubiquitous in the marine environment. Microplastics pose a serious threat to marine biota and possibly humans. Though the general mechanisms of microplastic formation are known, the rate and extent is not. Currently, no standard methodology for testing the formation of microplastic exists. We developed a replicable and flexible methodology for testing the formation of microplastics. We used this methodology to test the effects of UV, thermal, and mechanical stress on various types of plastic. We tested for fragmentation by measuring weight and size distribution, and looked for signs of degraded plastic using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Though our results did not find any signs of fragmentation, we did see degradation. Additionally, we established a sound methodology and provided a benchmark for additional studies.

A case study for a digital seabed database: Bohai Sea engineering geology database

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Tianyun, Su; Shikui, Zhai; Baohua, Liu; Ruicai, Liang; Yanpeng, Zheng; Yong, Wang

2006-07-01

This paper discusses the designing plan of ORACLE-based Bohai Sea engineering geology database structure from requisition analysis, conceptual structure analysis, logical structure analysis, physical structure analysis and security designing. In the study, we used the object-oriented Unified Modeling Language (UML) to model the conceptual structure of the database and used the powerful function of data management which the object-oriented and relational database ORACLE provides to organize and manage the storage space and improve its security performance. By this means, the database can provide rapid and highly effective performance in data storage, maintenance and query to satisfy the application requisition of the Bohai Sea Oilfield Paradigm Area Information System.

The next generation in aircraft protection against advanced MANPADS

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Chapman, Stuart

2014-10-01

This paper discusses the advanced and novel technologies and underlying systems capabilities that Selex ES has applied during the development, test and evaluation of the twin head Miysis DIRCM System in order to ensure that it provides the requisite levels of protection against the latest, sophisticated all-aspect IR MANPADS. The importance of key performance parameters, including the fundamental need for "spherical" coverage, rapid time to energy-on-target, laser tracking performance and radiant intensity on seeker dome is covered. It also addresses the approach necessary to ensure that the equipment is suited to all air platforms from the smallest helicopters to large transports, while also ensuring that it achieves an inherent high reliability and an ease of manufacture and repair such that a step change in through-life cost in comparison to previous generation systems can be achieved. The benefits and issues associated with open architecture design are also considered. Finally, the need for extensive test and evaluation at every stage, including simulation, laboratory testing, platform and target dynamic testing in a System Integration Laboratory (SIL), flight trial, missile live-fire, environmental testing and reliability testing is also described.

[To improve the quality of requisitions for radiologic examinations].

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Roussel, P; Lelièvre, N

2002-05-01

This article presents the different steps implemented in order to improve the quality of requisitions for radiologic examinations in a hospital. and methods. The radiology requests sent from clinical units are periodically analyzed using criteria about tracking, prescription and security required for a good examination. Results are discussed with the clinical units in order to achieve improvements. The periodical analysis of nonconformities shows a gradual improvement of practices. This action contributes to the realization of a single document for every request of examination or analysis in the hospital. The described action is in the context of French regulations, first about the practice of radiology, second about the obligation of quality improvement that health care facilities now have to implement for their accreditation.

[Informed consent in anaesthesiology: period of notice as a requisite of validity].

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Galán Gutiérrez, J C; Galán Cortés, J C

2014-02-01

The analysis of one of the requisites of the validity of the informed consent, the notice period, during which the patient should be provided with information, so that he/she can reflect and fully exercise his/her Kantian right of self-determination. National legislation appears to be insufficient when dealing with this issue, which is compensated for in some regional legislations. We conclude by pointing the need to provide the patient with information with sufficient notice prior to operations, so that he/she can ponder over his/her decision. Copyright © 2013 Sociedad Española de Anestesiología, Reanimación y Terapéutica del Dolor. Published by Elsevier España. All rights reserved.

Physical environment virtualization for human activities recognition

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Poshtkar, Azin; Elangovan, Vinayak; Shirkhodaie, Amir; Chan, Alex; Hu, Shuowen

2015-05-01

Human activity recognition research relies heavily on extensive datasets to verify and validate performance of activity recognition algorithms. However, obtaining real datasets are expensive and highly time consuming. A physics-based virtual simulation can accelerate the development of context based human activity recognition algorithms and techniques by generating relevant training and testing videos simulating diverse operational scenarios. In this paper, we discuss in detail the requisite capabilities of a virtual environment to aid as a test bed for evaluating and enhancing activity recognition algorithms. To demonstrate the numerous advantages of virtual environment development, a newly developed virtual environment simulation modeling (VESM) environment is presented here to generate calibrated multisource imagery datasets suitable for development and testing of recognition algorithms for context-based human activities. The VESM environment serves as a versatile test bed to generate a vast amount of realistic data for training and testing of sensor processing algorithms. To demonstrate the effectiveness of VESM environment, we present various simulated scenarios and processed results to infer proper semantic annotations from the high fidelity imagery data for human-vehicle activity recognition under different operational contexts.

Communication of Information about Genetic Risks: Putting Families at the Center.

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Mendes, Álvaro; Metcalfe, Alison; Paneque, Milena; Sousa, Liliana; Clarke, Angus J; Sequeiros, Jorge

2017-07-16

Genetic information is a family affair. With the expansion of genomic technologies, many new causal genes and variants have been established and the potential for molecular diagnoses increased, with implications not only for patients but also their relatives. The need for genetic counseling and intrafamilial circulation of information on genetic risks grew accordingly. Also, the amount and, particularly, the complexity of the information to convey multiplied. Sharing information about genetic risks with family members, however, has never been an easy matter and often becomes a source of personal and familial conflicts and distress. Ethical requisites generally prevent healthcare professionals from directly contacting their consultands' relatives (affected or still at risk), who often feel unsupported throughout that process. We discuss here the communication of genetic risks to family members. We first consider genomic testing as a basis for family-centered health care, as opposed to a predominant focus on the individual. We reviewed the literature on sharing genetic risk information with family members, and the associated ethical issues for professionals. Some clinical cases are presented and discussed, and key issues for meeting the needs of individuals and families are addressed. We argue that genetic information is inextricably linked to the family and that communicating about genetic risks is a process grounded within the broader milieu of family relationships and functioning. We conclude for the need for a more family-centered approach and interventions that can promote sensitive attitudes to the provision of genetic information to and within the family, as well as its inclusion in educational and training programmes for genetic healthcare professionals. © 2017 Family Process Institute.

Informative markers identification and multivariate analysis of selected DxP for the purpose of QTL mapping

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Hazirah S., Z.; Maizura, I.; Rajinder, S.; Mohd Isa Z., A.; Ismanizan, I.

2014-09-01

A study was carried out to generate a linkage map of oil palm dura x pisifera (DXP) population. A subset of sample from a DXP mapping family was screened using 325 SSR primers, of which 221 were informative. To date, 150 SSRs have been genotyped across the entire DxP population via capillary sequencer, where 73 SSRs had 1:1 segregation ratio, 64 had 1:1:1:1, 3 had 3:1 and ten had 1:2:1 segregation ratios. Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests by SPSS revealed that most of the bunch quality components had normal distribution which fulfilled one of the pre-requisites to carry out phenotype-genotype correlation association.

Real-time identification of residential appliance events based on power monitoring

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Yang, Zhao; Zhu, Zhicheng; Wei, Zhiqiang; Yin, Bo; Wang, Xiuwei

2018-03-01

Energy monitoring for specific home appliances has been regarded as the pre-requisite for reducing residential energy consumption. To enhance the accuracy of identifying operation status of household appliances and to keep pace with the development of smart power grid, this paper puts forward the integration of electric current and power data on the basis of existing algorithm. If average power difference of several adjacent cycles varies from the baseline and goes beyond the pre-assigned threshold value, the event will be flagged. Based on MATLAB platform and domestic appliances simulations, the results of tested data and verified algorithm indicate that the power method has accomplished desired results of appliance identification.

Insulating Material for Next-Generation Spacecraft

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White, Susan; Johnson, Sylvia; Salerno, Louis; Kittel, Peter; Roach, Pat; Helvensteijn, Ben; Kashani, Ali

2006-01-01

A report discusses the development of a flexible thermal-insulation material for cryogenic tanks in next-generation spacecraft. This material is denoted Advanced Reusable All-temperature Multimode Insulation System (ARAMIS). The report begins by describing the need for ARAMIS and the technological challenges of developing a single material that is useable throughout the temperature range from storage of liquid hydrogen (20 K) to atmospheric-reentry heating (>2,000 K), has the requisite low thermal conductivity, resists condensation of moisture without need for a gas purge, and withstands reentry heating for a 400-mission lifetime. The report then discusses laboratory apparatuses for testing materials that have been and will be considered as candidates for the development of ARAMIS.

Sociocultural and structural perpetuators of domestic violence in pregnancy: A qualitative look at what South Indian women believe needs to change.

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D'Silva, Sahana; Frey, Sarah; Kumar, Shuba; Mohanraj, Rani; Manhart, Lisa E; Kaysen, Debra; Andu, Eaden; Rao, Deepa

2018-02-01

In India, reported rates of domestic violence rise as high as 31%. Abuse against pregnant women in India is associated with depressive and PTSD symptoms, and poor birth outcomes, yet no evidence-based interventions have been tested on this population. In this cross-sectional qualitative study, we sought perspective on South Indian women's concerns about abuse during pregnancy and what they believed would help. Participants cited economic dependence on husbands and sociocultural structures as factors perpetuating domestic violence. Women also described resilience factors that can protect against abuse. Our participants highlighted a requisite for interventions within health and social systems.

Auxiliary propulsion system flight package

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Collett, C. R.

1987-01-01

Hughes Aircraft Company developed qualified and integrated flight, a flight test Ion Auxiliary Propulsion System (IAPS), on an Air Force technology satellite. The IAPS Flight Package consists of two identical Thruster Subsystems and a Diagnostic Subsystem. Each thruster subsystem (TSS) is comprised of an 8-cm ion Thruster-Gimbal-Beam Shield Unit (TGBSU); Power Electronics Unit; Digital Controller and Interface Unit (DCIU); and Propellant Tank, Valve and Feed Unit (PTVFU) plus the requisite cables. The Diagnostic Subsystem (DSS) includes four types of sensors for measuring the effect of the ion thrusters on the spacecraft and the surrounding plasma. Flight qualifications of IAPS, prior to installation on the spacecraft, consisted of performance, vibration and thermal-vacuum testing at the unit level, and thermal-vacuum testing at the subsystem level. Mutual compatibility between IAPS and the host spacecraft was demonstrated during a series of performance and environmental tests after the IAPS Flight Package was installed on the spacecraft. After a spacecraft acoustic test, performance of the ion thrusters was reverified by removing the TGBSUs for a thorough performance test at Hughes Research Laboratories (HRL). The TGBSUs were then reinstalled on the spacecraft. The IAPS Flight Package is ready for flight testing when Shuttle flights are resumed.

Validation in Support of Internationally Harmonised OECD Test Guidelines for Assessing the Safety of Chemicals.

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Gourmelon, Anne; Delrue, Nathalie

Ten years elapsed since the OECD published the Guidance document on the validation and international regulatory acceptance of test methods for hazard assessment. Much experience has been gained since then in validation centres, in countries and at the OECD on a variety of test methods that were subjected to validation studies. This chapter reviews validation principles and highlights common features that appear to be important for further regulatory acceptance across studies. Existing OECD-agreed validation principles will most likely generally remain relevant and applicable to address challenges associated with the validation of future test methods. Some adaptations may be needed to take into account the level of technique introduced in test systems, but demonstration of relevance and reliability will continue to play a central role as pre-requisite for the regulatory acceptance. Demonstration of relevance will become more challenging for test methods that form part of a set of predictive tools and methods, and that do not stand alone. OECD is keen on ensuring that while these concepts evolve, countries can continue to rely on valid methods and harmonised approaches for an efficient testing and assessment of chemicals.

PhoneSat: Ground Testing of a Phone-Based Prototype Bus

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Felix, Carmen; Howard, Benjamin; Reyes, Matthew; Snarskiy, Fedor; Hickman, Ryan; Boshuizen, Christopher; Marshall, William

2010-01-01

Most of the key capabilities that are requisite of a satellite bus are housed in today's smart phones. PhoneSat refers to an initiative to build a ground-based prototype vehicle that could all the basic functionality of a satellite, including attitude control, using a smart Phone as its central hardware. All components used were also low cost Commercial off the Shelf (COTS). In summer 2009, an initial prototype was created using the LEGO Mindstorm toolkit demonstrating simple attitude control. Here we report on a follow up initiative to design, build and test a vehicle based on the Google s smart phone Nexus One. The report includes results from initial thermal-vacuum chamber tests and low altitude sub-orbital rocket flights which show that, at least for short durations, the Nexus One phone is able to withstand key aspects of the space environment without failure. We compare the sensor data from the Phone's accelerometers and magnetometers with that of an external microelectronic inertial measurement unit.

Mechanical Properties of Air Plasma Sprayed Environmental Barrier Coating (EBC) Materials

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Richards, Bradley; Zhu, Dongming; Ghosn, Louis; Wadley, Haydn

2015-01-01

Development work in Environmental Barrier Coatings (EBCs) for Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMCs) has focused considerably on the identification of materials systems and coating architectures to meet application needs. The evolution of these systems has occurred so quickly that modeling efforts and requisite data for modeling lag considerably behind development. Materials property data exists for many systems in the bulk form, but the effects of deposition on the critical properties of strength and fracture behavior are not well studied. We have plasma sprayed bulk samples of baseline EBC materials (silicon, ytterbium disilicate) and tested the mechanical properties of these materials to elicit differences in strength and toughness. We have also endeavored to assess the mixed-mode fracture resistance, Gc, of silicon in a baseline EBC applied to SiCSiC CMC via four point bend test. These results are compared to previously determined properties of the comparable bulk material.

Leaching properties of stabilised/solidified cement-admixtures-sewage sludges systems.

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Valls, S; Vàzquez, E

2002-01-01

One of the main objectives of this work is to present an effective alternative for the final destination of sludge from urban waste water treatment plants by its use as a component of mortar or concrete. A binding and stabilizing matrix of sludge-cement and sludge-cement-coal fly-ash was investigated and the effects of various percentages of waste and binder, on the behavior of sludge in the system are presented. Assessment of the environmental quality of the final product and the consequent guarantee of its use in the building industry demand that it meets a number of requisites, one of which is that the effluents extracted by water action should be contamination-free, or at least that the concentration of contaminants should be below certain pre-set limits. For this a number of leaching tests must be carried out, such as the Netherlands Leaching Test .

A cost-effective interdisciplinary approach to microbiologic send-out test use.

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Aesif, Scott W; Parenti, David M; Lesky, Linda; Keiser, John F

2015-02-01

Use of reference laboratories for selected laboratory testing (send-out tests) represents a significant source of laboratory costs. As the use of more complex molecular analyses becomes common in the United States, strategies to reduce costs in the clinical laboratory must evolve in order to provide high-value, cost-effective medicine. To report a strategy that employs clinical pathology house staff and key hospital clinicians in the effective use of microbiologic send-out testing. The George Washington University Hospital is a 370-bed academic hospital in Washington, DC. In 2012 all requisitions for microbiologic send-out tests were screened by the clinical pathology house staff prior to final dispensation. Tests with questionable utility were brought to the attention of ordering clinicians through the use of interdisciplinary rounds and direct face-to-face consultation. Screening resulted in a cancellation rate of 38% of send-out tests, with proportional cost savings. Nucleic acid tests represented most of the tests screened and the largest percentage of cost saved through screening. Following consultation, requested send-out tests were most often canceled because of a lack of clinical indication. Direct face-to-face consultation with ordering physicians is an effective, interdisciplinary approach to managing the use of send-out testing in the microbiology laboratory.

On the possibility of producing piston pins for diesel engines from steel 18KhGT with the use of mechanical and chemical heat treatment

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Zolot'ko, V. A.

1997-06-01

At the present time pisto pins of highly loaded diesel engines are produced by mechanical treatment from tube preforms of steel 12KhN3A and carburized by subsequent heat treatment. The high cost of domestic steel and the absence of preforms of the requisite size make it necessary to choose a less scare material and develop a treatment process that would provide the requisite operational characteristics of the parts. The present work is devoted to a study of the possibility of using for the purpose steel 18KhGT in a state of substructural toughening created by cold plastic straining (CPS) and a stabilizing heat treatment with subsequent ion nitriding.

Development of microcomputer-based mental acuity tests for repeated-measures studies

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Kennedy, R. S.; Wilkes, R. L.; Baltzley, D. R.; Fowlkes, J. E.

1990-01-01

The purpose of this report is to detail the development of the Automated Performance Test System (APTS), a computer battery of mental acuity tests that can be used to assess human performance in the presence of toxic elements and environmental stressors. There were four objectives in the development of APTS. First, the technical requirements for developing APTS followed the tenets of the classical theory of mental tests which requires that tests meet set criteria like stability and reliability (the lack of which constitutes insensitivity). To be employed in the study of the exotic conditions of protracted space flight, a battery with multiple parallel forms is required. The second criteria was for the battery to have factorial multidimensionality and the third was for the battery to be sensitive to factors known to compromise performance. A fourth objective was for the tests to converge on the abilities entailed in mission specialist tasks. A series of studies is reported in which candidate APTS tests were subjected to an examination of their psychometric properties for repeated-measures testing. From this work, tests were selected that possessed the requisite metric properties of stability, reliability, and factor richness. In addition, studies are reported which demonstrate the predictive validity of the tests to holistic measures of intelligence.

Implications of a light “dark Higgs” solution to the g μ - 2 discrepancy

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Chen, Chien-Yi; Davoudiasl, Hooman; Marciano, William J.; ...

2016-02-05

A light scalar Φ with mass ≲1 GeV and muonic coupling O(10 -3) would explain the 3.5σ discrepancy between the Standard Model (SM) muon g-2 prediction and experiment. Such a scalar can be associated with a light remnant of the Higgs mechanism in the “dark” sector. We suggest Φ→l +l - bump hunting in μ→eνmore » $$\\vec{v}$$Φ, μ-p→ν μnΦ (muon capture), and K ±→μ ±νΦ decays as direct probes of this scenario. In a general setup, a potentially observable muon electric dipole moment ≲10 -23 e cm and lepton-flavor-violating decays τ→μ(e)Φ or μ→eΦ can also arise. A deviation in BR(H→μ +μ -) from SM expectations, due to Higgs coupling misalignment, can result depending on certain parameters. Here, we illustrate how the requisite interactions can be mediated by weak-scale vector-like leptons that typically lie within the reach of future LHC measurements.« less

Effect of property gradients on enamel fracture in human molar teeth.

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Barani, Amir; Bush, Mark B; Lawn, Brian R

2012-11-01

A model for the fracture of tooth enamel with graded elastic modulus and toughness is constructed using an extended finite element modeling (XFEM) package. The property gradients are taken from literature data on human molars, with maximum in modulus at the outer enamel surface and in toughness at the inner surface. The tooth is modeled as a brittle shell (enamel) and a compliant interior (dentin), with occlusal loading from a hard, flat contact at the cusp. Longitudinal radial (R) and margin (M) cracks are allowed to extend piecewise along the enamel walls under the action of an incrementally increasing applied load. A simple stratagem is deployed in which fictitious temperature profiles generate the requisite property gradients. The resulting XFEM simulations demonstrate that the crack fronts become more segmented as the property gradients become more pronounced, with enhanced propagation at the outer surface and inhibited propagation at the inner. Whereas the growth history of the cracks is profoundly influenced by the gradients, the ultimate critical loads required to attain full fractures are relatively unaffected. Some implications concerning dentistry are considered. Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Collectivity, Distributivity, and the Interpretation of Plural Numerical Expressions in Child and Adult Language

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Musolino, Julien

2013-01-01

Sentences containing plural numerical expressions (e.g., two boys) can give rise to two interpretations (collective and distributive), arising from the fact that their representation admits of a part-whole structure. We present the results of a series of experiments designed to explore children’s understanding of this distinction and its implications for the acquisition of linguistic expressions with number words. We show that preschoolers access both interpretations, indicating that they have the requisite linguistic and conceptual machinery to generate the corresponding representations. Furthermore, they can shift their interpretation in response to structural and lexical manipulations. However, they are not fully adult-like: unlike adults, they are drawn to the distributive interpretation, and are not yet aware of the lexical semantics of each and together, which should favor one or another interpretation. This research bridges a gap between a well-established body of work in cognitive psychology on the acquisition of number words and more recent work investigating children’s knowledge of the syntactic and semantic properties of sentences featuring numerical expressions. PMID:24223477

Socio-Demographic Factors, Social Support, Quality of Life, and HIV/AIDS in Ghana.

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Abrefa-Gyan, Tina; Cornelius, Llewellyn J; Okundaye, Joshua

2016-01-01

The increase in the access to biomedical interventions for people living with HIV/AIDS in the developing world has not been adequately matched with the requisite psychosocial treatments to help improve the effectiveness of biomedical interventions. Therefore, in this study the author seeks to determine whether socio-demographic characteristics and social support are associated with quality of life in individuals diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in Ghana. A convenience sample of 300 HIV/AIDS support group members was obtained via cross-sectional design survey. The Medical Outcome Studies (MOS) HIV Health Survey, the MOS Social Support Survey (MOS-SSS), and demographic questionnaire instruments were used to assess quality of life, social support, and demographic information respectively. Multiple regression analysis showed that there was a positive association between overall social support and overall quality of life (r = .51). It also showed that being younger, male, attending support group meetings for over a year, and having ≥ 13 years of schooling related to higher quality of life. Implications of the findings for practice, policy, and research in Ghana and the rest of the developing world are discussed.

Spatial and temporal correlation between beach and wave processes: implications for bar-berm sediment transition

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Joevivek, V.; Chandrasekar, N.; Saravanan, S.; Anandakumar, H.; Thanushkodi, K.; Suguna, N.; Jaya, J.

2018-06-01

Investigation of a beach and its wave conditions is highly requisite for understanding the physical processes in a coast. This study composes spatial and temporal correlation between beach and nearshore processes along the extensive sandy beach of Nagapattinam coast, southeast peninsular India. The data collection includes beach profile, wave data, and intertidal sediment samples for 2 years from January 2011 to January 2013. The field data revealed significant variability in beach and wave morphology during the northeast (NE) and southwest (SW) monsoon. However, the beach has been stabilized by the reworking of sediment distribution during the calm period. The changes in grain sorting and longshore sediment transport serve as a clear evidence of the sediment migration that persevered between foreshore and nearshore regions. The Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) analysis and Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) were utilized to investigate the spatial and temporal linkages between beach and nearshore criterions. The outcome of the multivariate analysis unveiled that the seasonal variations in the wave climate tends to influence the bar-berm sediment transition that is discerned in the coast.

Non-responders to cardiac resynchronization therapy: Insights from multimodality imaging and electrocardiography. A brief review.

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Carità, Patrizia; Corrado, Egle; Pontone, Gianluca; Curnis, Antonio; Bontempi, Luca; Novo, Giuseppina; Guglielmo, Marco; Ciaramitaro, Gianfranco; Assennato, Pasquale; Novo, Salvatore; Coppola, Giuseppe

2016-12-15

Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is a successful strategy for heart failure (HF) patients. The pre-requisite for the response is the evidence of electrical dyssynchrony on the surface electrocardiogram usually as left bundle branch block (LBBB). Non-response to CRT is a significant problem in clinical practice. Patient selection, inadequate delivery and sub-optimal left ventricle lead position may be important causes. In an effort to improve CRT response multimodality imaging (especially echocardiography, computed tomography and cardiac magnetic resonance) could play a decisive role and extensive literature has been published on the matter. However, we are so far from routinary use in clinical practice. Electrocardiography (with respect to left ventricle capture and QRS narrowing) may represent a simple and low cost approach for early prediction of potential non-responder, with immediate practical implications. This brief review covers the current recommendations for CRT in HF patients with particular attention to the potential benefits of multimodality imaging and electrocardiography in improving response rate. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

Collectivity, Distributivity, and the Interpretation of Plural Numerical Expressions in Child and Adult Language.

PubMed

Syrett, Kristen; Musolino, Julien

2013-01-01

Sentences containing plural numerical expressions (e.g., two boys ) can give rise to two interpretations (collective and distributive), arising from the fact that their representation admits of a part-whole structure. We present the results of a series of experiments designed to explore children's understanding of this distinction and its implications for the acquisition of linguistic expressions with number words. We show that preschoolers access both interpretations, indicating that they have the requisite linguistic and conceptual machinery to generate the corresponding representations. Furthermore, they can shift their interpretation in response to structural and lexical manipulations. However, they are not fully adult-like: unlike adults, they are drawn to the distributive interpretation, and are not yet aware of the lexical semantics of each and together , which should favor one or another interpretation. This research bridges a gap between a well-established body of work in cognitive psychology on the acquisition of number words and more recent work investigating children's knowledge of the syntactic and semantic properties of sentences featuring numerical expressions.

Forms Management Policy

EPA Pesticide Factsheets

To establish EPA’s Forms Management Program; to describe the requisite roles, responsibilities, and procedures necessary for the successful management of EPA forms; and to more clearly fulfill EPA’s obligations in this regard.

40 CFR 265.16 - Personnel training.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... automatic waste feed cut-off systems; (iii) Communications or alarm -systems; (iv) Response to fires or... bargaining unit, but must include the requisite skill, education, or other qualifications, and duties of...

40 CFR 265.16 - Personnel training.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... automatic waste feed cut-off systems; (iii) Communications or alarm -systems; (iv) Response to fires or... bargaining unit, but must include the requisite skill, education, or other qualifications, and duties of...

40 CFR 265.16 - Personnel training.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... automatic waste feed cut-off systems; (iii) Communications or alarm -systems; (iv) Response to fires or... bargaining unit, but must include the requisite skill, education, or other qualifications, and duties of...

Assessments of Wind-Energy Potential in Selected Sites from Three Geopolitical Zones in Nigeria: Implications for Renewable/Sustainable Rural Electrification

PubMed Central

Okeniyi, Joshua Olusegun; Ohunakin, Olayinka Soledayo; Okeniyi, Elizabeth Toyin

2015-01-01

Electricity generation in rural communities is an acute problem militating against socioeconomic well-being of the populace in these communities in developing countries, including Nigeria. In this paper, assessments of wind-energy potential in selected sites from three major geopolitical zones of Nigeria were investigated. For this, daily wind-speed data from Katsina in northern, Warri in southwestern and Calabar in southeastern Nigeria were analysed using the Gumbel and the Weibull probability distributions for assessing wind-energy potential as a renewable/sustainable solution for the country's rural-electrification problems. Results showed that the wind-speed models identified Katsina with higher wind-speed class than both Warri and Calabar that were otherwise identified as low wind-speed sites. However, econometrics of electricity power simulation at different hub heights of low wind-speed turbine systems showed that the cost of electric-power generation in the three study sites was converging to affordable cost per kWh of electric energy from the wind resource at each site. These power simulations identified cost/kWh of electricity generation at Kaduna as €0.0507, at Warri as €0.0774, and at Calabar as €0.0819. These bare positive implications on renewable/sustainable rural electrification in the study sites even as requisite options for promoting utilization of this viable wind-resource energy in the remote communities in the environs of the study sites were suggested. PMID:25879063

Assessments of wind-energy potential in selected sites from three geopolitical zones in Nigeria: implications for renewable/sustainable rural electrification.

PubMed

Okeniyi, Joshua Olusegun; Ohunakin, Olayinka Soledayo; Okeniyi, Elizabeth Toyin

2015-01-01

Electricity generation in rural communities is an acute problem militating against socioeconomic well-being of the populace in these communities in developing countries, including Nigeria. In this paper, assessments of wind-energy potential in selected sites from three major geopolitical zones of Nigeria were investigated. For this, daily wind-speed data from Katsina in northern, Warri in southwestern and Calabar in southeastern Nigeria were analysed using the Gumbel and the Weibull probability distributions for assessing wind-energy potential as a renewable/sustainable solution for the country's rural-electrification problems. Results showed that the wind-speed models identified Katsina with higher wind-speed class than both Warri and Calabar that were otherwise identified as low wind-speed sites. However, econometrics of electricity power simulation at different hub heights of low wind-speed turbine systems showed that the cost of electric-power generation in the three study sites was converging to affordable cost per kWh of electric energy from the wind resource at each site. These power simulations identified cost/kWh of electricity generation at Kaduna as €0.0507, at Warri as €0.0774, and at Calabar as €0.0819. These bare positive implications on renewable/sustainable rural electrification in the study sites even as requisite options for promoting utilization of this viable wind-resource energy in the remote communities in the environs of the study sites were suggested.

Ordering Molecular Genetic Tests and Reporting Results

PubMed Central

Lubin, Ira M.; Caggana, Michele; Constantin, Carolyn; Gross, Susan J.; Lyon, Elaine; Pagon, Roberta A.; Trotter, Tracy L.; Wilson, Jean Amos; McGovern, Margaret M.

2008-01-01

Previous studies have suggested that patient care may be compromised as a consequence of poor communication between clinicians and laboratory professionals in cases in which molecular genetic test results are reported. To understand better the contributing factors to such compromised care, we investigated both pre- and postanalytical processes using cystic fibrosis mutation analysis as our model. We found that although the majority of test requisition forms requested patient/family information that was necessary for the proper interpretation of test results, in many cases, these data were not provided by the individuals filling out the forms. We found instances in which result reports for simulated diagnostic testing described individuals as carriers where only a single mutation was found with no comment pertaining to a diagnosis of cystic fibrosis. Similarly, reports based on simulated scenarios for carrier testing were problematic when no mutations were identified, and the patient's race/ethnicity and family history were not discussed in reference to residual risk of disease. Remarkably, a pilot survey of obstetrician-gynecologists revealed that office staff, including secretaries, often helped order genetic tests and reported test results to patients, raising questions about what efforts are undertaken to ensure personnel competency. These findings are reviewed in light of what efforts should be taken to improve the quality of test-ordering and result-reporting practices. PMID:18669879

41 CFR 101-26.607 - Billings.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... Defense Logistics Agency and the requisitioning activity, billings for sales will be rendered at least... centers shall be provided with a continental U.S. address for payment of bills for overseas shipments. [42...

41 CFR 101-26.607 - Billings.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... Defense Logistics Agency and the requisitioning activity, billings for sales will be rendered at least... centers shall be provided with a continental U.S. address for payment of bills for overseas shipments. [42...

41 CFR 101-26.607 - Billings.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... Defense Logistics Agency and the requisitioning activity, billings for sales will be rendered at least... centers shall be provided with a continental U.S. address for payment of bills for overseas shipments. [42...

41 CFR 101-26.607 - Billings.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... Defense Logistics Agency and the requisitioning activity, billings for sales will be rendered at least... centers shall be provided with a continental U.S. address for payment of bills for overseas shipments. [42...

41 CFR 101-26.607 - Billings.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... Defense Logistics Agency and the requisitioning activity, billings for sales will be rendered at least... centers shall be provided with a continental U.S. address for payment of bills for overseas shipments. [42...

25 CFR 36.24 - Standard IX-Secondary instructional program.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... STANDARDS FOR THE BASIC EDUCATION OF INDIAN CHILDREN AND NATIONAL CRITERIA FOR DORMITORY SITUATIONS Minimum... technology, industry and business, as well as required special skills and the training requisites. Programs...

25 CFR 36.24 - Standard IX-Secondary instructional program.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... STANDARDS FOR THE BASIC EDUCATION OF INDIAN CHILDREN AND NATIONAL CRITERIA FOR DORMITORY SITUATIONS Minimum... technology, industry and business, as well as required special skills and the training requisites. Programs...

25 CFR 36.24 - Standard IX-Secondary instructional program.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... STANDARDS FOR THE BASIC EDUCATION OF INDIAN CHILDREN AND NATIONAL CRITERIA FOR DORMITORY SITUATIONS Minimum... technology, industry and business, as well as required special skills and the training requisites. Programs...

25 CFR 36.24 - Standard IX-Secondary instructional program.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... STANDARDS FOR THE BASIC EDUCATION OF INDIAN CHILDREN AND NATIONAL CRITERIA FOR DORMITORY SITUATIONS Minimum... technology, industry and business, as well as required special skills and the training requisites. Programs...

25 CFR 36.24 - Standard IX-Secondary instructional program.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... STANDARDS FOR THE BASIC EDUCATION OF INDIAN CHILDREN AND NATIONAL CRITERIA FOR DORMITORY SITUATIONS Minimum... technology, industry and business, as well as required special skills and the training requisites. Programs...

41 CFR 109-27.000-50 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

..., storing, and providing historical data on recurring transactions for each line item of inventory. Sub... warehouses, and issuing to customers by use of a requisitioning system. Systems contracting and just-in-time...

41 CFR 109-27.000-50 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

..., storing, and providing historical data on recurring transactions for each line item of inventory. Sub... warehouses, and issuing to customers by use of a requisitioning system. Systems contracting and just-in-time...

A systems-approach to the design of the Eos data and information system

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Chase, Robert R. P.

1987-01-01

The task of designing a data and information system responsive to the needs of Eos users is stratified by level and approached with contemporary systems design practices. Appropriate systems design principles are applied at the conceptual design level in this paper. A functional, architectural design is described in terms of elemental composition, top-level functions, and external and internal interfaces. The functional validity of this design has been tested and verified through the use of realistic user scenarios consistent with existing plans for the 1990s, the Space Station era. Technologic and management impediments to the development of the requisite data and information system for Eos are examined and a consistent methodology for developing this system is discussed.

Iodine Hall Thruster Propellant Feed System for a CubeSat

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Polzin, Kurt A.; Peeples, Steven

2014-01-01

The components required for an in-space iodine vapor-fed Hall effect thruster propellant management system are described. A laboratory apparatus was assembled and used to produce iodine vapor and control the flow through the application of heating to the propellant reservoir and through the adjustment of the opening in a proportional flow control valve. Changing of the reservoir temperature altered the flowrate on the timescale of minutes while adjustment of the proportional flow control valve changed the flowrate immediately without an overshoot or undershoot in flowrate with the requisite recovery time associated with thermal control systems. The flowrates tested spanned a range from 0-1.5 mg/s of iodine, which is sufficient to feed a 200-W Hall effect thruster.

78 FR 32477 - Collection of Information; Comment Request

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2013-05-30

... to furnish the requisite books and records to the Commission upon demand within 14 days of the demand... through the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology. Consideration...

40 CFR 267.16 - What training must my employees have?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... feed cut-off systems. (iii) Communications or alarm systems. (iv) Response to fires or explosions. (v... section. This description must include the requisite skill, education, or other qualifications, and duties...

40 CFR 267.16 - What training must my employees have?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... feed cut-off systems. (iii) Communications or alarm systems. (iv) Response to fires or explosions. (v... section. This description must include the requisite skill, education, or other qualifications, and duties...

40 CFR 267.16 - What training must my employees have?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... feed cut-off systems. (iii) Communications or alarm systems. (iv) Response to fires or explosions. (v... section. This description must include the requisite skill, education, or other qualifications, and duties...

40 CFR 267.16 - What training must my employees have?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... feed cut-off systems. (iii) Communications or alarm systems. (iv) Response to fires or explosions. (v... section. This description must include the requisite skill, education, or other qualifications, and duties...

40 CFR 267.16 - What training must my employees have?

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... feed cut-off systems. (iii) Communications or alarm systems. (iv) Response to fires or explosions. (v... section. This description must include the requisite skill, education, or other qualifications, and duties...

Experimental Basis for IED Particle Model

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Zheng-Johansson, J.

2009-03-01

The internally electrodynamic (IED) particle model is built on three experimental facts: a) electric charges present in all matter particles, b) an accelerated charge generates electromagnetic (EM) waves by Maxwell's equations and Planck energy equation, and c) source motion gives Doppler effect. A set of well-kwon basic particle equations have been predicted based on first-principles solutions for IED particle (e.g. J Phys CS128, 012019, 2008); the equations are long experimentally validated. A critical review of the key experiments suggests that the IED process underlies these equations not just sufficiently but also necessarily. E.g.: 1) A free IED electron solution is a plane wave ψ= Ce^i(kdX-φT) requisite for producing the diffraction fringe in a Davisson-Germer experiment, and of also all basic point-like attributes facilitated by a linear momentum kd and the model structure. It needs not further be a wave packet which produces not a diffraction fringe. 2)The radial partial EM waves, hence the total ψ, of an IED electron will, on both EM theory and experiment basis -not by assumption, enter two slits at the same time, as is requisite for an electron to interfere with itself as shown in double slit experiments. 3) On annihilation, an electron converts (from mass m) to a radiation energy φ without an acceleration which is externally observable and yet requisite by EM theory. So a charge oscillation of frequency φ and its EM waves must regularly present internal of a normal electron, whence the IED model.

Multimodal Alexia: Neuropsychological Mechanisms and Implications for Treatment

PubMed Central

Kim, Esther S.; Rapcsak, Steven Z.; Andersen, Sarah; Beeson, Pélagie M.

2011-01-01

Letter-by-letter (LBL) reading is the phenomenon whereby individuals with acquired alexia decode words by sequential identification of component letters. In cases where letter recognition or letter naming is impaired, however, a LBL reading approach is obviated, resulting in a nearly complete inability to read, or global alexia. In some such cases, a treatment strategy wherein letter tracing is used to provide tactile and/or kinesthetic input has resulted in improved letter identification. In this study, a kinesthetic treatment approach was implemented with an individual who presented with severe alexia in the context of relatively preserved recognition of orally spelled words, and mildly impaired oral/written spelling. Eight weeks of kinesthetic treatment resulted in improved letter identification accuracy and oral reading of trained words; however, the participant remained unable to successfully decode untrained words. Further testing revealed that, in addition to the visual-verbal disconnection that resulted in impaired word reading and letter naming, her limited ability to derive benefit from the kinesthetic strategy was attributable to a disconnection that prevented access to letter names from kinesthetic input. We propose that this kinesthetic-verbal disconnection resulted from damage to the left parietal lobe and underlying white matter, a neuroanatomical feature that is not typically observed in patients with global alexia or classic LBL reading. This unfortunate combination of visual-verbal and kinesthetic-verbal disconnections demonstrated in this individual resulted in a persistent multimodal alexia syndrome that was resistant to behavioral treatment. To our knowledge, this is the first case in which the nature of this form of multimodal alexia has been fully characterized, and our findings provide guidance regarding the requisite cognitive skills and lesion profiles that are likely to be associated with a positive response to tactile/kinesthetic treatment. PMID:21952194

Multimodal alexia: neuropsychological mechanisms and implications for treatment.

PubMed

Kim, Esther S; Rapcsak, Steven Z; Andersen, Sarah; Beeson, Pélagie M

2011-11-01

Letter-by-letter (LBL) reading is the phenomenon whereby individuals with acquired alexia decode words by sequential identification of component letters. In cases where letter recognition or letter naming is impaired, however, a LBL reading approach is obviated, resulting in a nearly complete inability to read, or global alexia. In some such cases, a treatment strategy wherein letter tracing is used to provide tactile and/or kinesthetic input has resulted in improved letter identification. In this study, a kinesthetic treatment approach was implemented with an individual who presented with severe alexia in the context of relatively preserved recognition of orally spelled words, and mildly impaired oral/written spelling. Eight weeks of kinesthetic treatment resulted in improved letter identification accuracy and oral reading of trained words; however, the participant remained unable to successfully decode untrained words. Further testing revealed that, in addition to the visual-verbal disconnection that resulted in impaired word reading and letter naming, her limited ability to derive benefit from the kinesthetic strategy was attributable to a disconnection that prevented access to letter names from kinesthetic input. We propose that this kinesthetic-verbal disconnection resulted from damage to the left parietal lobe and underlying white matter, a neuroanatomical feature that is not typically observed in patients with global alexia or classic LBL reading. This unfortunate combination of visual-verbal and kinesthetic-verbal disconnections demonstrated in this individual resulted in a persistent multimodal alexia syndrome that was resistant to behavioral treatment. To our knowledge, this is the first case in which the nature of this form of multimodal alexia has been fully characterized, and our findings provide guidance regarding the requisite cognitive skills and lesion profiles that are likely to be associated with a positive response to tactile/kinesthetic treatment. Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

USTRANSCOM 2007 Annual Report

DTIC Science & Technology

2007-01-01

USTRANSCOM recently completed another successful Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore (JLOTS) exercise in Puerto Quetzal , Guatemala. Planning for the exercise...to track requisitions through the system and enable effective decisions exercise in Puerto Quetzal , Guatemala. • Efficiency. Using wise

14 CFR 217.7 - Certification.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

... signed by an officer of the air carrier with the requisite authority over the collection of data and preparation of reports to ensure the validity and accuracy of the reported data. [53 FR 46294, Nov. 16, 1988...

14 CFR 217.7 - Certification.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... signed by an officer of the air carrier with the requisite authority over the collection of data and preparation of reports to ensure the validity and accuracy of the reported data. [53 FR 46294, Nov. 16, 1988...

48 CFR 13.305-4 - Procedures.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

... Section 13.305-4 Federal Acquisition Regulations System FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION CONTRACTING METHODS AND CONTRACT TYPES SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION PROCEDURES Simplified Acquisition Methods 13.305-4... purchase requisition, contracting officer verification statement, or other agency approved method of...

48 CFR 1953.370 - The Broadcasting Board of Governors forms.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

... IAAR. List of IAAR Forms 1953.370-21The Broadcasting Board of Governors Form IA-21, Abstract of Quotations. 1953.370-44The Broadcasting Board of Governors Form IA-44, Requisition-Purchase—Order-Invoice for...

48 CFR 1953.370 - The Broadcasting Board of Governors forms.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-10-01

... IAAR. List of IAAR Forms 1953.370-21The Broadcasting Board of Governors Form IA-21, Abstract of Quotations. 1953.370-44The Broadcasting Board of Governors Form IA-44, Requisition-Purchase—Order-Invoice for...

33 CFR 19.04 - Vessels requisitioned by the United States for emergency evacuation.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

..., DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY GENERAL WAIVERS OF NAVIGATION AND VESSEL INSPECTION LAWS AND REGULATIONS 1... the Acting Secretary of Defense, dated November 21, 1951, made under the provisions of section 1 of...

75 FR 52969 - Final Environmental Impact Statement; Prisoners Harbor Wetland Restoration, Santa Cruz Island...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2010-08-30

... approximately 3 acres of coastal wetland on Santa Cruz Island, Channel Islands National Park. The requisite no-action ``wait period'' was initiated April 16, 2010, with the Environmental Protection Agency's Federal...

Particle trapping: A key requisite of structure formation and stability of Vlasov–Poisson plasmas

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

Schamel, Hans, E-mail: hans.schamel@uni-bayreuth.de

2015-04-15

Particle trapping is shown to control the existence of undamped coherent structures in Vlasov–Poisson plasmas and thereby affects the onset of plasma instability beyond the realm of linear Landau theory.

37 CFR 1.51 - General requisites of an application.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... of the inventor or inventors, (see § 1.41(a)(2)), (iii) The residence of each named inventor, (iv) The title of the invention, (v) The name and registration number of the attorney or agent (if...

32 CFR 1624.2 - Issuance of induction orders.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... numbers and at such times as will assure that such call or requisition is filled. The names contained in... INDUCTIONS § 1624.2 Issuance of induction orders. The Director of Selective Service, upon receipt of a call...

Method for mounting laser fusion targets for irradiation

DOEpatents

Fries, R. Jay; Farnum, Eugene H.; McCall, Gene H.

1977-07-26

Methods for preparing laser fusion targets of the ball-and-disk type are disclosed. Such targets are suitable for irradiation with one or two laser beams to produce the requisite uniform compression of the fuel material.

Stockpile stewardship past, present, and future

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

Adams, Marvin L., E-mail: mladams@tamu.edu

2014-05-09

The U.S. National Academies released a report in 2012 on technical issues related to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. One important question addressed therein is whether the U.S. could maintain a safe, secure, and reliable nuclear-weapons stockpile in the absence of nuclear-explosion testing. Here we discuss two main conclusions from the 2012 Academies report, which we paraphrase as follows: 1) Provided that sufficient resources and a national commitment to stockpile stewardship are in place, the U.S. has the technical capabilities to maintain a safe, secure, and reliable stockpile of nuclear weapons into the foreseeable future without nuclear-explosion testing. 2) Doingmore » this would require: a) a strong weapons science and engineering program that addresses gaps in understanding; b) an outstanding workforce that applies deep and broad weapons expertise to deliver solutions to stockpile problems; c) a vigorous, stable surveillance program that delivers the requisite data; d) production facilities that meet stewardship needs. We emphasize that these conclusions are independent of CTBT ratification-they apply provided only that the U.S. continues its nuclear-explosion moratorium.« less

[Spatiotemporal changes of wetlands in Hangzhou Bay Industrial Belt].

PubMed

Lu, Zhang-Wei; Wu, Ci-Fang; Yue, Wen-Ze; Liu, Yong; Ren, Li-Yan

2009-07-01

By using RS and GIS techniques, the spatiotemporal changes of wetlands in Hangzhou Bay Industrial Belt, one of the most developed zones in Zhejiang Province, from 1990 to 2005 were studied. There was a frequent conversion between the wetlands and other land use types and between the wetlands themselves, mainly manifested in the conversion between wetland and farmland, and from wetland to construction land and from tidal flat to aquiculture area. The comparative advantage of other land use types and the policy of cultivated land's requisition-compensation balance decided the inherent mechanisms of these spatiotemporal changes. Driven by the aquaculture's comparative advantage to traditional agriculture, large areas of inland farmland and of the tidal flat along the coast of Hangzhou Bay were reclaimed into aquiculture area, and the rapid expansion of construction land, limited land resources, and the implement of cultivated land's requisition-compensation balance policy induced the wetlands being occupied.

[The standardization of medical care and the training of medical personnel].

PubMed

Korbut, V B; Tyts, V V; Boĭshenko, V A

1997-09-01

The medical specialist training at all levels (medical orderly, doctor's assistant, general practitioner, doctors) should be based on the medical care standards. Preliminary studies in the field of military medicine standards have demonstrated that the medical service of the Armed Forces of Russia needs medical resources' standards, structure and organization standards, technology standards. Military medical service resources' standards should reflect the requisitions for: all medical specialists' qualification, equipment and material for medical set-ups, field medical systems, drugs, etc. Standards for structures and organization should include requisitions for: command and control systems in military formations' and task forces' medical services and their information support; health-care and evacuation functions, sanitary control and anti-epidemic measures and personnel health protection. Technology standards development could improve and regulate the health care procedures in the process of evacuation. Standards' development will help to solve the problem of the data-base for the military medicine education system and medical research.

Laminar-airflow equipment certification: what the pharmacist needs to know.

PubMed

Bryan, D; Marback, R C

1984-07-01

The basic information pharmacy practitioners need to determine the suitability and applicability of laminar-airflow equipment test standards and procedures is presented. The operative guideline for any laminar-flow clean bench (LFCB) certification is the cleanroom and work station requirements for controlled environments as defined by the federal government under Federal Standard 209b (FS 209b). FS 209b outlines the tests, test procedures, and acceptable performance ranges for all LFCB equipment. National Sanitation Foundation Standard Number 49 (NSF 49) is used in the certification of biological-safety cabinets (BSCs). NSF 49 covers those aspects of safety, maintenance, performance, and testing that are unique BSCs. To monitor certification properly, practitioners should be familiar with these standards and the air-velocity profile, high-efficiency particulate air filter performance, noise output, light, and electrical test procedures. A review of the requisite knowledge, experience, and reputation of certifying agents is presented, along with an outline of all the necessary procedures, equipment, and documentation to be used in the process. A thorough test report should be issued upon unit certification. As pharmacy practitioners are responsible for all other aspects of quality assurance, they should also be capable of auditing these certifications to ensure the aseptic quality of products compounded in the laminar-airflow environment.

Low Density Supersonic Decelerator Parachute Decelerator System

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Gallon, John C.; Clark, Ian G.; Rivellini, Tommaso P.; Adams, Douglas S.; Witkowski, Allen

2013-01-01

The Low Density Supersonic Decelerator Project has undertaken the task of developing and testing a large supersonic ringsail parachute. The parachute under development is intended to provide mission planners more options for parachutes larger than the Mars Science Laboratory's 21.5m parachute. During its development, this new parachute will be taken through a series of tests in order to bring the parachute to a TRL-6 readiness level and make the technology available for future Mars missions. This effort is primarily focused on two tests, a subsonic structural verification test done at sea level atmospheric conditions and a supersonic flight behind a blunt body in low-density atmospheric conditions. The preferred method of deploying a parachute behind a decelerating blunt body robotic spacecraft in a supersonic flow-field is via mortar deployment. Due to the configuration constraints in the design of the test vehicle used in the supersonic testing it is not possible to perform a mortar deployment. As a result of this limitation an alternative deployment process using a ballute as a pilot is being developed. The intent in this alternate approach is to preserve the requisite features of a mortar deployment during canopy extraction in a supersonic flow. Doing so will allow future Mars missions to either choose to mortar deploy or pilot deploy the parachute that is being developed.

Ordering molecular genetic tests and reporting results: practices in laboratory and clinical settings.

PubMed

Lubin, Ira M; Caggana, Michele; Constantin, Carolyn; Gross, Susan J; Lyon, Elaine; Pagon, Roberta A; Trotter, Tracy L; Wilson, Jean Amos; McGovern, Margaret M

2008-09-01

Previous studies have suggested that patient care may be compromised as a consequence of poor communication between clinicians and laboratory professionals in cases in which molecular genetic test results are reported. To understand better the contributing factors to such compromised care, we investigated both pre- and postanalytical processes using cystic fibrosis mutation analysis as our model. We found that although the majority of test requisition forms requested patient/family information that was necessary for the proper interpretation of test results, in many cases, these data were not provided by the individuals filling out the forms. We found instances in which result reports for simulated diagnostic testing described individuals as carriers where only a single mutation was found with no comment pertaining to a diagnosis of cystic fibrosis. Similarly, reports based on simulated scenarios for carrier testing were problematic when no mutations were identified, and the patient's race/ethnicity and family history were not discussed in reference to residual risk of disease. Remarkably, a pilot survey of obstetrician-gynecologists revealed that office staff, including secretaries, often helped order genetic tests and reported test results to patients, raising questions about what efforts are undertaken to ensure personnel competency. These findings are reviewed in light of what efforts should be taken to improve the quality of test-ordering and result-reporting practices.

Experimental Basis for IED Particle Model

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Zheng-Johansson, J.

2009-05-01

The internally electrodynamic (IED) particle model is built on three experimental facts: a) electric charges present in all matter particles, b) an accelerated charge generates electromagnetic (EM) waves by Maxwell's equations and Planck energy equation, and c) source motion gives Doppler effect. A set of well-kwon basic particle equations have been predicted based on first-principles solutions for IED particle (e.g. arxiv:0812.3951, J Phys CS128, 012019, 2008); the equations are long experimentally validated. A critical review of the key experiments suggests that the IED process underlies these equations not just sufficiently but also necessarily. E.g.: 1) A free IED electron solution is a plane wave ψ= Ce^i(kdX-φT) requisite for producing the diffraction fringe in a Davisson-Germer experiment, and of also all basic point-like attributes facilitated by a linear momentum kd and the model structure. It needs not further be a wave packet which produces not a diffraction fringe. 2)The radial partial EM waves, hence the total ψ, of an IED electron will, on both EM theory and experiment basis -not by assumption, enter two slits at the same time, as is requisite for an electron to interfere with itself as shown in double slit experiments. 3) On annihilation, an electron converts (from mass m) to a radiation energy φ without an acceleration which is externally observable and yet requisite by EM theory. So a charge oscillation of frequency φ and its EM waves must regularly present internal of a normal electron, whence the IED model.

Retrieving and routing quantum information in a quantum network

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Sazim, S.; Chiranjeevi, V.; Chakrabarty, I.; Srinathan, K.

2015-12-01

In extant quantum secret sharing protocols, once the secret is shared in a quantum network ( qnet) it cannot be retrieved, even if the dealer wishes that his/her secret no longer be available in the network. For instance, if the dealer is part of the two qnets, say {{Q}}_1 and {{Q}}_2 and he/she subsequently finds that {{Q}}_2 is more reliable than {{Q}}_1, he/she may wish to transfer all her secrets from {{Q}}_1 to {{Q}}_2. Known protocols are inadequate to address such a revocation. In this work we address this problem by designing a protocol that enables the source/dealer to bring back the information shared in the network, if desired. Unlike classical revocation, the no-cloning theorem automatically ensures that the secret is no longer shared in the network. The implications of our results are multi-fold. One interesting implication of our technique is the possibility of routing qubits in asynchronous qnets. By asynchrony we mean that the requisite data/resources are intermittently available (but not necessarily simultaneously) in the qnet. For example, we show that a source S can send quantum information to a destination R even though (a) S and R share no quantum resource, (b) R's identity is unknown to S at the time of sending the message, but is subsequently decided, (c) S herself can be R at a later date and/or in a different location to bequeath her information (`backed-up' in the qnet) and (d) importantly, the path chosen for routing the secret may hit a dead end due to resource constraints, congestion, etc., (therefore the information needs to be back-tracked and sent along an alternate path). Another implication of our technique is the possibility of using insecure resources. For instance, if the quantum memory within an organization is insufficient, it may safely store (using our protocol) its private information with a neighboring organization without (a) revealing critical data to the host and (b) losing control over retrieving the data. Putting the two implications together, namely routing and secure storage, it is possible to envision applications like quantum mail (qmail) as an outsourced service.

Foreign direct investment, development, and overshoot.

PubMed

McKinney, Laura A

2014-09-01

Overshoot of the earth's carrying capacity is an acute concern for sustainability initiatives that seek to equalize access to the natural resources that are requisite to meet the basic needs of humanity. Demands on nature that exceed ecological capacities compromise critical ecosystem functions that provision the inputs necessary for life. This paper draws on concepts and analytical frameworks from the natural, physical, and social sciences to assess the drivers of sustainability at the global and national level. Integrative theoretical predictions are tested in a structural equation model that advances empirical research on overshoot and outflows of foreign investments that is relatively lacking in the literature. Findings highlight the differential impacts of key aspects of economic globalization on both development and overshoot across nations. Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Development and validation of an instrument to assess future orientation and resilience in adolescence.

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Di Maggio, Ilaria; Ginevra, Maria Cristina; Nota, Laura; Soresi, Salvatore

2016-08-01

The study is aimed at providing the development and initial validation of the Design My Future (DMF), which may be administered in career counseling and research activities to assess adolescents' future orientation and resilience. Two studies with two independent samples of Italian adolescents were conducted to examine psychometric requisites of DMF. Specifically, in the first study, after developing items and examined the content validity, the factorial structure, reliability and discriminant validity of the DMF were tested. In the second study, the measurement invariance across gender, conducing a sequence of nested CFA models, was evaluated. Results showed good psychometric support for the instrument with Italian adolescents. Copyright © 2016 The Foundation for Professionals in Services for Adolescents. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

High pressure mechanical seal

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Babel, Henry W. (Inventor); Anderson, Raymond H. (Inventor)

1996-01-01

A relatively impervious mechanical seal is formed between the outer surface of a tube and the inside surface of a mechanical fitting of a high pressure fluid or hydraulic system by applying a very thin soft metal layer onto the outer surface of the hard metal tube and/or inner surface of the hard metal fitting. The thickness of such thin metal layer is independent of the size of the tube and/or fittings. Many metals and alloys of those metals exhibit the requisite softness, including silver, gold, tin, platinum, indium, rhodium and cadmium. Suitably, the coating is about 0.0025 millimeters (0.10 mils) in thickness. After compression, the tube and fitting combination exhibits very low leak rates on the order or 10.sup.-8 cubic centimeters per second or less as measured using the Helium leak test.

Angular velocity estimation based on star vector with improved current statistical model Kalman filter.

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Zhang, Hao; Niu, Yanxiong; Lu, Jiazhen; Zhang, He

2016-11-20

Angular velocity information is a requisite for a spacecraft guidance, navigation, and control system. In this paper, an approach for angular velocity estimation based merely on star vector measurement with an improved current statistical model Kalman filter is proposed. High-precision angular velocity estimation can be achieved under dynamic conditions. The amount of calculation is also reduced compared to a Kalman filter. Different trajectories are simulated to test this approach, and experiments with real starry sky observation are implemented for further confirmation. The estimation accuracy is proved to be better than 10^-4  rad/s under various conditions. Both the simulation and the experiment demonstrate that the described approach is effective and shows an excellent performance under both static and dynamic conditions.

Vulval Elephantiasis: A Case Report

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Mohan, Harsh; Bisht, Bhumika; Goel, Poonam; Garg, Geeta

2012-01-01

Introduction. Elephantiasis is a chronic manifestation of filariasis; it commonly affects limbs, scrotum, and trunk. Females have lower incidence of filarial infection. Vulval elephantiasis due to filariasis is still rarer. It is difficult to make the diagnosis on histopathology alone, more so in view of the fact that the parasite is usually not identified in tissue sections. Identification of microfilariae in night samples of peripheral blood or seropositivity for filarial antigen is requisite for the correct diagnosis. Case Presentation. A young female presented with progressively increasing vulval swelling over a period of two years. The swelling was soft and measured 5 × 6 cm. Other possible differential diagnoses were excluded, and ancillary tests were performed to reach a conclusive diagnosis of vulval elephantiasis on histopathology. Conclusion. Vulval elephantiasis due to filariasis is rare. Its diagnosis on histopathology is more often by exclusion. High index of suspicion on microscopic findings and corelation with relevant diagnostic tests are required to reach the correct diagnosis. PMID:23198192

Atomic and vibrational origins of mechanical toughness in bioactive cement during setting

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Tian, Kun V.; Yang, Bin; Yue, Yuanzheng; Bowron, Daniel T.; Mayers, Jerry; Donnan, Robert S.; Dobó-Nagy, Csaba; Nicholson, John W.; Fang, De-Cai; Greer, A. Lindsay; Chass, Gregory A.; Greaves, G. Neville

2015-01-01

Bioactive glass ionomer cements (GICs) have been in widespread use for ∼40 years in dentistry and medicine. However, these composites fall short of the toughness needed for permanent implants. Significant impediment to improvement has been the requisite use of conventional destructive mechanical testing, which is necessarily retrospective. Here we show quantitatively, through the novel use of calorimetry, terahertz (THz) spectroscopy and neutron scattering, how GIC's developing fracture toughness during setting is related to interfacial THz dynamics, changing atomic cohesion and fluctuating interfacial configurations. Contrary to convention, we find setting is non-monotonic, characterized by abrupt features not previously detected, including a glass–polymer coupling point, an early setting point, where decreasing toughness unexpectedly recovers, followed by stress-induced weakening of interfaces. Subsequently, toughness declines asymptotically to long-term fracture test values. We expect the insight afforded by these in situ non-destructive techniques will assist in raising understanding of the setting mechanisms and associated dynamics of cementitious materials. PMID:26548704

Development of the Formation of Categories by Normal and Retarded Persons

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Winters, John J., Jr.; Brzoska, Mary Anne

1976-01-01

Investigated the development and fragmentation of categories over chronological and mental age without the requisite of free recall. Kindergarten, fourth grade, ninth grade and retarded students labeled and categorized chromatic slides of picturable objects. (GO)

Communication: Facilitating Intelligent Business Dialogue.

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Hulbert, Jack E.

1979-01-01

Discusses effective oral communication as a prime requisite for business management success. Both speaking and listening skills are needed to encourage intercommunication, invite feedback, respond to other opinions, and solicit participation to contribute to the manager's decisions for organizational action. (MF)

An Analysis of the Logistics Requisition Process

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2011-06-01

California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington • U. S. West Territories - American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern, Guam, Johnston Atoll , Marianas...U.S. Pacific Territories - Includes American Samoa (supported by FISC Norfolk), Atoll , Commonwealth of Northern Marianas Islands, Guam, Johnston

RAPID ON-SITE METHODS OF CHEMICAL ANALYSIS

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The analysis of potentially hazardous air, water and soil samples collected and shipped to service laboratories off-site is time consuming and expensive. This Chapter addresses the practical alternative of performing the requisite analytical services on-site. The most significant...

The undergraduate degree project--preparing dental students for professional work and postgraduate studies?

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Franzén, C

2014-11-01

The undergraduate degree project is a requisite part of higher education in Sweden, designed to prepare students for professional work and postgraduate studies. This article examines the extent to which the degree project in Swedish dental education helps students achieve these purposes. The focus was on the students' choice of topics and research methods as well as their ability to reflect on the implications of their results for dental practice. Degree projects from three of the four Swedish dental schools were analysed using content analysis. The students' topics concerned clinical dentistry, biomedicine, educational issues and public oral health. Quantitative research methods were used more often than qualitative ones. Some of the degree projects were based on literature reviews. Students demonstrated shortcomings in their reflections on the implications of their results for dental practice. The level of reflection was particularly low in one of the schools; this may be because the students in this school were not expected to reflect on the results. The degree project gives the students an opportunity to develop their knowledge on a topic relevant to dentistry, to be trained in conducting research and to reflect on scientific knowledge in relation to dentistry. However, this study shows the need of assessment criteria that urge the students to reflect on the link between science and clinical work and motivate them to learn to reflect so they become critical thinkers. It is also suggested that dental students should learn more about qualitative research methods. © 2014 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

The Human Microbiome and Understanding the 16S rRNA Gene in Translational Nursing Science.

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Ames, Nancy J; Ranucci, Alexandra; Moriyama, Brad; Wallen, Gwenyth R

As more is understood regarding the human microbiome, it is increasingly important for nurse scientists and healthcare practitioners to analyze these microbial communities and their role in health and disease. 16S rRNA sequencing is a key methodology in identifying these bacterial populations that has recently transitioned from use primarily in research to having increased utility in clinical settings. The objectives of this review are to (a) describe 16S rRNA sequencing and its role in answering research questions important to nursing science; (b) provide an overview of the oral, lung, and gut microbiomes and relevant research; and (c) identify future implications for microbiome research and 16S sequencing in translational nursing science. Sequencing using the 16S rRNA gene has revolutionized research and allowed scientists to easily and reliably characterize complex bacterial communities. This type of research has recently entered the clinical setting, one of the best examples involving the use of 16S sequencing to identify resistant pathogens, thereby improving the accuracy of bacterial identification in infection control. Clinical microbiota research and related requisite methods are of particular relevance to nurse scientists-individuals uniquely positioned to utilize these techniques in future studies in clinical settings.

A model linking clinical workforce skill mix planning to health and health care dynamics.

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Masnick, Keith; McDonnell, Geoff

2010-04-30

In an attempt to devise a simpler computable tool to assist workforce planners in determining what might be an appropriate mix of health service skills, our discussion led us to consider the implications of skill mixing and workforce composition beyond the 'stock and flow' approach of much workforce planning activity. Taking a dynamic systems approach, we were able to address the interactions, delays and feedbacks that influence the balance between the major components of health and health care. We linked clinical workforce requirements to clinical workforce workload, taking into account the requisite facilities, technologies, other material resources and their funding to support clinical care microsystems; gave recognition to productivity and quality issues; took cognisance of policies, governance and power concerns in the establishment and operation of the health care system; and, going back to the individual, gave due attention to personal behaviour and biology within the socio-political family environment. We have produced the broad endogenous systems model of health and health care which will enable human resource planners to operate within real world variables. We are now considering the development of simple, computable national versions of this model.

Dialogue concerning the survival of the one great world system: a study of the post-war scientific and theological perception of time scales as a relevant moral category in analyzing the dilemmas of the nuclear age

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Cummins, D.J.F.

1985-01-01

This thesis seeks to extend the search for the moral implications inherent in the development, possession, and the threatened use of physical/astrophysical processes and in current understandings of the evolution of the physical universe. The nature of normal/theological discussion will not be a primary concern although clearly some residual position that such discussion is meaningful is presupposed. Neither is the nature of science or the scientific method at issue. It is assumed that both theology and science have long since negotiated the confidence crises of adolescence, and have mustered the requisite self-esteem regarding their respective disciplines. The aim of thismore » work is to present the concept of time scales as a relevant moral category. It investigates the use of this concept and its relationship to the other categories developed in the relevant scientific literature. The question is raised as to the validity of and the future of the concept of time scales as a common moral ground.« less

Targeting change: Assessing a faculty learning community focused on increasing statistics content in life science curricula.

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Parker, Loran Carleton; Gleichsner, Alyssa M; Adedokun, Omolola A; Forney, James

2016-11-12

Transformation of research in all biological fields necessitates the design, analysis and, interpretation of large data sets. Preparing students with the requisite skills in experimental design, statistical analysis, and interpretation, and mathematical reasoning will require both curricular reform and faculty who are willing and able to integrate mathematical and statistical concepts into their life science courses. A new Faculty Learning Community (FLC) was constituted each year for four years to assist in the transformation of the life sciences curriculum and faculty at a large, Midwestern research university. Participants were interviewed after participation and surveyed before and after participation to assess the impact of the FLC on their attitudes toward teaching, perceived pedagogical skills, and planned teaching practice. Overall, the FLC had a meaningful positive impact on participants' attitudes toward teaching, knowledge about teaching, and perceived pedagogical skills. Interestingly, confidence for viewing the classroom as a site for research about teaching declined. Implications for the creation and development of FLCs for science faculty are discussed. © 2016 by The International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 44(6):517-525, 2016. © 2016 The International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Mutated cancer autoantigen implicated cause of paraneoplastic myasthenia gravis.

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Zekeridou, Anastasia; Griesmann, Guy E; Lennon, Vanda A

2018-05-09

Anti-tumor immune responses are postulated to initiate paraneoplastic neurological disorders when proteins normally restricted to neural cells are expressed as oncoproteins. Mutated oncopeptides could bypass self-tolerant T-cells to activate cytotoxic effector T-lymphocytes and requisite helper T-lymphocytes to stimulate autoantibody production by B-lymphocytes. We investigated muscle-type nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AChR) antigen expression at transcriptional and protein levels in a small-cell lung cancer line (SCLC) established from a patient with AChR-IgG-positive myasthenia gravis. I We identified mRNA transcripts encoding the two AChR α1-subunit isoforms, and seven alternative-splicing products, three yielding premature stop codons. Despite detecting native muscle-type AChR pentamers in the tumor, we did not identify mutant α1-peptides. However, we found α1-subunit-derived peptides bound to tumor MHC1-protein. In a control SCLC from an ANNA-1(anti-Hu)-IgG-positive patient, we identified MHC1-complexed Hu protein-derived peptides, but not AChR peptides. Our findings support onconeural protein products as pertinent immunogens initiating paraneoplastic neurological autoimmunity. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Bridging the Gap: Formation of Voluminous Pseudotachylitic Rocks in Tectonic and Impact Settings

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Vogt, B.; Shipton, Z. K.; Reimold, W. U.

2015-09-01

Pseudotachylitic breccias (PTBs) from the Outer Hebrides Fault Zone, Scotland, show structural similarities to impact PTBs. In both impact and tectonic settings, processes additional to friction heat melting are requisite for the formation of PTBs.

Myths, Misconceptions, and Realities about Public Procurement Automation.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Bonner, Larry

1989-01-01

Meaningful public procurement and inventory management automation encompasses all purchasing and materials management processes, including bidder selection; bidder responsiveness tracking; preparation of bid solicitations; bid tabulation; the tracking of requisitions, bid solicitations, and deliveries; and item purchasing history reports. (MLH)

A Construction Grammar for the Classroom

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Holme, Randal

2010-01-01

Construction grammars (Lakoff, Women, fire and dangerous things: What categories reveal about the Mind, University of Chicago Press, 1987; Langacker, Foundations of cognitive grammar: Theoretical pre-requisites, Stanford University Press, 1987; Croft, Radical construction grammar: Syntactic theory in typological perspective, Oxford University…

Software Assurance Curriculum Project Volume 4: Community College Education

DTIC Science & Technology

2011-09-01

no previous programming or computer science experience expected) • Precalculus -ready (that is, proficiency sufficient to enter college-level... precalculus course) • English Composition I-ready (that is, proficiency sufficient to enter college-level English I course) Co-Requisite Discrete

Building Intercultural Competency in the Language Immersion Montessori Classroom

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Carver-Akers, Kateri

2013-01-01

In her article entitled, "Theoretical Reflections: Intercultural Framework / Model" Darla Deardorff provides the Pyramid Model of Cultural Competency. At the bottom of the pyramid she places three "Requisite Attitudes," which support the remaining three blocks above ("Knowledge & Comprehension/Skills,"…

Commentary: Prerequisite Knowledge

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Taylor, Ann T. S.

2013-01-01

Most biochemistry, genetics, cell biology, and molecular biology classes have extensive prerequisite or co-requisite requirements, often including introductory chemistry, introductory biology, and organic chemistry coursework. But what is the function of these prerequisites? While it seems logical that a basic understanding of biological and…

41 CFR 101-26.507-1 - Submission of requisitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... for security equipment covered by the latest edition of Federal specifications AA-F-357, AA-F-358, AA-F-363, AA-S-1518, and AA-D-600, and interim Federal specifications AA-F-00364 and AA-C-001697 shall...

41 CFR 101-26.507-1 - Submission of requisitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... for security equipment covered by the latest edition of Federal specifications AA-F-357, AA-F-358, AA-F-363, AA-S-1518, and AA-D-600, and interim Federal specifications AA-F-00364 and AA-C-001697 shall...

41 CFR 101-26.507-1 - Submission of requisitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... for security equipment covered by the latest edition of Federal specifications AA-F-357, AA-F-358, AA-F-363, AA-S-1518, and AA-D-600, and interim Federal specifications AA-F-00364 and AA-C-001697 shall...

41 CFR 101-26.507-1 - Submission of requisitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... for security equipment covered by the latest edition of Federal specifications AA-F-357, AA-F-358, AA-F-363, AA-S-1518, and AA-D-600, and interim Federal specifications AA-F-00364 and AA-C-001697 shall...

32 CFR 575.1 - Military Academy.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... sound education in the arts and sciences requisite for continued professional and intellectual growth... judgment to take appropriate action in the absence of instructions or supervision. (7) Physical and moral courage. (8) The physical strength, endurance, and conditioning habits required of a soldier. ...

32 CFR 575.1 - Military Academy.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... sound education in the arts and sciences requisite for continued professional and intellectual growth... judgment to take appropriate action in the absence of instructions or supervision. (7) Physical and moral courage. (8) The physical strength, endurance, and conditioning habits required of a soldier. ...

32 CFR 575.1 - Military Academy.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... sound education in the arts and sciences requisite for continued professional and intellectual growth... judgment to take appropriate action in the absence of instructions or supervision. (7) Physical and moral courage. (8) The physical strength, endurance, and conditioning habits required of a soldier. ...

32 CFR 575.1 - Military Academy.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... sound education in the arts and sciences requisite for continued professional and intellectual growth... judgment to take appropriate action in the absence of instructions or supervision. (7) Physical and moral courage. (8) The physical strength, endurance, and conditioning habits required of a soldier. ...

32 CFR 575.1 - Military Academy.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... sound education in the arts and sciences requisite for continued professional and intellectual growth... judgment to take appropriate action in the absence of instructions or supervision. (7) Physical and moral courage. (8) The physical strength, endurance, and conditioning habits required of a soldier. ...

A roughness-corrected index of relative bed stability for regional stream surveys

EPA Science Inventory

Quantitative regional assessments of streambed sedimentation and its likely causes are hampered because field investigations typically lack the requisite sample size, measurements, or precision for sound geomorphic and statistical interpretation. We adapted an index of relative b...

What Mathematical Competencies Are Needed for Success in College.

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Garofalo, Joe

1990-01-01

Identifies requisite math skills for a microeconomics course, offering samples of supply curves, demand curves, equilibrium prices, elasticity, and complex graph problems. Recommends developmental mathematics competencies, including problem solving, reasoning, connections, communication, number and operation sense, algebra, relationships,…

41 CFR 101-26.507-1 - Submission of requisitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... for security equipment covered by the latest edition of Federal specifications AA-F-357, AA-F-358, AA-F-363, AA-S-1518, and AA-D-600, and interim Federal specifications AA-F-00364 and AA-C-001697 shall...

Pre-examination factors affecting molecular diagnostic test results and interpretation: A case-based approach.

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Payne, Deborah A; Baluchova, Katarina; Peoc'h, Katell H; van Schaik, Ron H N; Chan, K C Allen; Maekawa, Masato; Mamotte, Cyril; Russomando, Graciela; Rousseau, François; Ahmad-Nejad, Parviz

2017-04-01

Multiple organizations produce guidance documents that provide opportunities to harmonize quality practices for diagnostic testing. The International Organization for Standardization ISO 15189 standard addresses requirements for quality in management and technical aspects of the clinical laboratory. One technical aspect addresses the complexities of the pre-examination phase prior to diagnostic testing. The Committee for Molecular Diagnostics of the International Federation for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (also known as, IFCC C-MD) conducted a survey of international molecular laboratories and determined ISO 15189 to be the most referenced guidance document. In this review, the IFCC C-MD provides case-based examples illustrating the value of select pre-examination processes as these processes relate to molecular diagnostic testing. Case-based examples in infectious disease, oncology, inherited disease and pharmacogenomics address the utility of: 1) providing information to patients and users, 2) designing requisition forms, 3) obtaining informed consent and 4) maintaining sample integrity prior to testing. The pre-examination phase requires extensive and consistent communication between the laboratory, the healthcare provider and the end user. The clinical vignettes presented in this paper illustrate the value of applying select ISO 15189 recommendations for general laboratory to the more specialized area of Molecular Diagnostics. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Certification of High School Coaches.

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Maetozo, Matthew G., Ed.

Approximately one-fourth of all head coaches of junior and senior high school teams have had no professional preparation for such responsibility. Professional groups are urging certification or endorsement requirements beyond present requisites for teaching certification. This publication presents eight professional viewpoints on various aspects…

Modeling gypsy moth seasonality

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J. A. Logan; D. R. Gray

1991-01-01

Maintaining an appropriate seasonality is perhaps the most basic ecological requisite for insects living in temperate environments. The basic ecological importance of seasonality is enough to justify expending considerable effort to accurately model the processes involved. For insects of significant economic consequence, seasonality assumes additional importance...

48 CFR 537.201 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

..., recent performance of work of similar size and scope, specific training and other factors that the contracting officer determines are necessary to the successful performance of the task or contract at issue.... Requisite training and capability means training and capability necessary to successfully perform the task...

Phosphorus Determination by Derivative Activation Analysis: A Multifaceted Radiochemical Application.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Kleppinger, E. W.; And Others

1984-01-01

Although determination of phosphorus is important in biology, physiology, and environmental science, traditional gravimetric and colorimetric methods are cumbersome and lack the requisite sensitivity. Therefore, a derivative activation analysis method is suggested. Background information, procedures, and results are provided. (JN)

Raising Global Citizens: Focus on Cultural Competency

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Koprucu, Sirin

2009-01-01

Corporate leaders of high-growth initiative employment sectors, such as advanced manufacturing, aerospace, automotive, biotechnology, health care, hospitality, information technology, and homeland security, are not the only ones who list intercultural communication and management skills as business requisites. The entrepreneurs who are expected to…

Method of identifying hairpin DNA probes by partial fold analysis

DOEpatents

Miller, Benjamin L [Penfield, NY; Strohsahl, Christopher M [Saugerties, NY

2009-10-06

Method of identifying molecular beacons in which a secondary structure prediction algorithm is employed to identify oligonucleotide sequences within a target gene having the requisite hairpin structure. Isolated oligonucleotides, molecular beacons prepared from those oligonucleotides, and their use are also disclosed.

Method of identifying hairpin DNA probes by partial fold analysis

DOEpatents

Miller, Benjamin L.; Strohsahl, Christopher M.

2008-10-28

Methods of identifying molecular beacons in which a secondary structure prediction algorithm is employed to identify oligonucleotide sequences within a target gene having the requisite hairpin structure. Isolated oligonucleotides, molecular beacons prepared from those oligonucleotides, and their use are also disclosed.

8 CFR 1003.102 - Grounds.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-01-01

... of the questions involved, and the skill requisite to perform the legal service properly; the... communication and at the beginning and ending of any recorded communication. Such advertising material or... with reckless disregard makes a false or misleading communication about his or her qualifications or...

8 CFR 1003.102 - Grounds.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

... of the questions involved, and the skill requisite to perform the legal service properly; the... communication and at the beginning and ending of any recorded communication. Such advertising material or... with reckless disregard makes a false or misleading communication about his or her qualifications or...

Developing Distinctive Degrees

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Goodchild, Lester F.; Chambers, Crystal Renée; Freeman, Sydney, Jr.

2016-01-01

Understanding one's competitive stance in a globally competitive environment provides the requisite awareness to maintain both competitive edge and institutional responsiveness. In this chapter, three case studies are presented to provide examples of ways in which strategic scanning can enhance the academic program development process and how…

Perceptions and experiences of pregnant women about routine HIV testing and counselling in Ghimbi town, Ethiopia: a qualitative study.

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Mitiku, Israel; Addissie, Adamu; Molla, Mitike

2017-02-16

Ethiopia has implemented routine HIV testing and counselling using a provider initiated HIV testing ('opt-out' approach) to achieve high coverage of testing and prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. However, women's perceptions and experiences with this approach have not been well studied. We conducted a qualitative study to explore pregnant women's perceptions and experiences of routine HIV testing and counselling in Ghimbi town, Ethiopia, in May 2013. In-depth interviews were held with 28 women tested for HIV at antenatal clinics (ANC), as well as four health workers involved in routine HIV testing and counselling. Data were analyzed using the content analysis approach. We found that most women perceived routine HIV testing and counselling beneficial for women as well as unborn babies. Some women perceived HIV testing as compulsory and a prerequisite to receive delivery care services. On the other hand, health workers reported that they try to emphasise the importance HIV testing during pre-test counselling in order to gain women's acceptance. However, both health workers and ANC clients perceived that the pre-test counselling was limited. Routine HIV testing and counselling during pregnancy is well acceptable among pregnant women in the study setting. However, there is a sense of obligation as women felt the HIV testing is a pre-requisite for delivery services. This may be related to the limited pre-test counselling. There is a need to strengthen pre-test counselling to ensure that HIV testing is implemented in a way that ensures pregnant women's autonomy and maximize opportunities for primary prevention of HIV.

An audit of blood bank services.

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Kumar, Alok; Sharma, Satish; Ingole, Narayan; Gangane, Nitin

2014-01-01

An audit is a written series of simple, direct questions, which when answered and reviewed, tell whether the laboratory is performing its procedures, activities, and policies correctly and on time. The aim of this study is to briefly highlight the importance of audit in blood bank services. An Audit of Blood Bank Services was carried out in a Blood bank of the tertiary care hospital, Central India by using the tool kit, (comprised of checklists) developed by Directorate General of Health Services, Dhaka WHO, July 2008. After going through these checklists, we observed that there is no system for assessing the training needs of staff in the blood bank. There was no provision for duty doctor's room, expert room, medical technologist room and duty care service. There was no checklist for routine check for observation of hemolysis and deterioration of blood and plasma. There was no facility for separate private interview to exclude sexual disease in the donor. Requisition forms were not properly filled for blood transfusion indications. There was no facility for notification of donors who are permanently deferred. There were no records documented for donors who are either temporarily or permanently deferred on the basis of either clinical examination, history, or serological examination. It was found that wearing of apron, cap, and mask was not done properly except in serology laboratory. When the requisition forms for blood transfusions were audited, it was found that many requisition forms were without indications. Regular audit of blood bank services needs to be initiated in all blood banks and the results needs to be discussed among the managements, colleagues, and staffs of blood bank. These results will provide a good opportunity for finding strategies in improving the blood bank services with appropriate and safe use of blood.

An audit of blood bank services

PubMed Central

Kumar, Alok; Sharma, Satish; Ingole, Narayan; Gangane, Nitin

2014-01-01

Background: An audit is a written series of simple, direct questions, which when answered and reviewed, tell whether the laboratory is performing its procedures, activities, and policies correctly and on time. Aim: The aim of this study is to briefly highlight the importance of audit in blood bank services. Materials and Methods: An Audit of Blood Bank Services was carried out in a Blood bank of the tertiary care hospital, Central India by using the tool kit, (comprised of checklists) developed by Directorate General of Health Services, Dhaka WHO, July 2008. Results: After going through these checklists, we observed that there is no system for assessing the training needs of staff in the blood bank. There was no provision for duty doctor's room, expert room, medical technologist room and duty care service. There was no checklist for routine check for observation of hemolysis and deterioration of blood and plasma. There was no facility for separate private interview to exclude sexual disease in the donor. Requisition forms were not properly filled for blood transfusion indications. There was no facility for notification of donors who are permanently deferred. There were no records documented for donors who are either temporarily or permanently deferred on the basis of either clinical examination, history, or serological examination. It was found that wearing of apron, cap, and mask was not done properly except in serology laboratory. When the requisition forms for blood transfusions were audited, it was found that many requisition forms were without indications. Conclusion: Regular audit of blood bank services needs to be initiated in all blood banks and the results needs to be discussed among the managements, colleagues, and staffs of blood bank. These results will provide a good opportunity for finding strategies in improving the blood bank services with appropriate and safe use of blood. PMID:24741651

Impact of patient questionnaires on completeness of clinical information and identification of causes of pain during outpatient abdominopelvic CT interpretation.

PubMed

Doshi, Ankur M; Huang, Chenchan; Ginocchio, Luke; Shanbhogue, Krishna; Rosenkrantz, Andrew B

2017-12-01

To evaluate the impact of questionnaires completed by patients at the time of abdominopelvic CT performed for abdominal pain on the completeness of clinical information and the identification of potential causes of pain, compared with order requisitions alone. 100 outpatient CT examinations performed for the evaluation of abdominal pain were retrospectively reviewed. The specificity of the location of pain was compared between the order requisition and patient questionnaire. An abdominal imaging fellow (Reader 1) and abdominal radiologist (Reader 2) reviewed the examinations independently in two sessions 6 weeks apart (one with only the order requisition and one also with the questionnaire). Readers recorded identified causes of pain and rated their confidence in interpretation (1-5 scale; least to greatest confidence). In 30% of patients, the questionnaire provided a more specific location for pain. Among these, the pain was localized to a specific quadrant in 40%. With having access to the questionnaire, both readers identified additional causes for pain not identified in session 1 (Reader 1, 8.6% [7/81]; Reader 2 5.3% [4/75]). Additional identified causes of pain included diverticulitis, cystitis, peritoneal implants, epiploic appendagitis, osseous metastatic disease, umbilical hernia, gastritis, and SMA syndrome. Confidence in interpretation was significantly greater using the questionnaire for both readers (Reader 1: 4.8 ± 0.6 vs. 4.0 ± 0.5; Reader 2: 4.9 ± 0.3 vs. 4.7 ± 0.5, p < 0.001). Patient questionnaires provide additional relevant clinical history, increased diagnostic yield, and improve radiologists' confidence. Radiology practices are encouraged to implement questionnaires and make these readily available to radiologists at the time of interpretation.

The essential value of long-term experimental data for hydrology and water management

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Tetzlaff, D.; Carey, S. K.; McNamara, J. P.; Laudon, H.; Soulsby, C.

2017-12-01

Observations and data from long-term experimental watersheds are the foundation of hydrology as a geoscience. They allow us to benchmark process understanding, observe trends and natural cycles, and are pre-requisites for testing predictive models. Long-term experimental watersheds also are places where new measurement technologies are developed. These studies offer a crucial evidence base for understanding and managing the provision of clean water supplies; predicting and mitigating the effects of floods, and protecting ecosystem services provided by rivers and wetlands. They also show how to manage land and water in an integrated, sustainable way that reduces environmental and economic costs. We present a number of compelling examples illustrating how hydrologic process understanding has been generated through comparing hypotheses to data, and how this understanding has been essential for managing water supplies, floods, and ecosystem services today.

Combinatorial Enzyme Design Probes Allostery and Cooperativity in the Trypsin Fold

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

Page, Michael J.; Di Cera, Enrico; St. Louis-MED)

2010-06-14

Converting one enzyme into another is challenging due to the uneven distribution of important amino acids for function in both protein sequence and structure. We report a strategy for protein engineering allowing an organized mixing and matching of genetic material that leverages lower throughput with increased quality of screens. Our approach successfully tested the contribution of each surface-exposed loop in the trypsin fold alone and the cooperativity of their combinations towards building the substrate selectivity and Na{sup +}-dependent allosteric activation of the protease domain of human coagulation factor Xa into a bacterial trypsin. As the created proteases lack additional proteinmore » domains and protein co-factor activation mechanism requisite for the complexity of blood coagulation, they are stepping-stones towards further understanding and engineering of artificial clotting factors.« less

Chemical vapor infiltration of TiB{sub 2} fibrous composites

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

Besmann, T.M.

1997-04-01

This program is designed to develop a Hall-Heroult aluminum smelting cathode with substantially improved properties. The carbon cathodes in current use require significant anode-to-cathode spacing in order to prevent shorting, causing significant electrical inefficiencies. This is due to the non-wettability of carbon by aluminum which causes instability in the cathodic aluminum pad. It is suggested that a fiber reinforced-TiB{sub 2} matrix composite would have the requisite wettability, strength, strain-to-failure, cost, and lifetime to solve this problem. The approach selected to fabricate such a cathode material is chemical vapor infiltration (CVI). This process produces high purity matrix TiB{sub 2} without damagingmore » the relatively fragile fibers. The program is designed to evaluate potential fiber reinforcements, fabricate test specimens, and scale the process to provide demonstration components.« less

Hormone preparation, dosage calculation, and injection technique for induced spawning of foodfish

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Reliable spawning and fry production of food species is critical for successful commercial production. Environmental stimuli often fail to trigger the requisite hormone cascades for gamete formation, final oocyte maturation, and ovulation in fish held under captive conditions. In general, enviro...

Interactive Visualization of Dependencies

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Moreno, Camilo Arango; Bischof, Walter F.; Hoover, H. James

2012-01-01

We present an interactive tool for browsing course requisites as a case study of dependency visualization. This tool uses multiple interactive visualizations to allow the user to explore the dependencies between courses. A usability study revealed that the proposed browser provides significant advantages over traditional methods, in terms of…

Integrating Critical Spreadsheet Competencies into the Accounting Curriculum

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Walters, L. Melissa; Pergola, Teresa M.

2012-01-01

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the International Accounting Education Standards Board (IAESB) identify spreadsheet technology as a key information technology (IT) competency for accounting professionals. However requisite spreadsheet competencies are not specifically defined by the AICPA or IAESB nor are they…

Spending Smart

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Grush, Mary

2009-01-01

There is no doubt that eProcurement technology has turned cumbersome paper-based processes into highly connected online systems. The most basic parameters of eProcurement range from shopping for or sourcing goods, to creating purchase requisitions and getting them approved, to placing orders with suppliers, to receiving invoices--all…

Conditional Independence in Applied Probability.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Pfeiffer, Paul E.

This material assumes the user has the background provided by a good undergraduate course in applied probability. It is felt that introductory courses in calculus, linear algebra, and perhaps some differential equations should provide the requisite experience and proficiency with mathematical concepts, notation, and argument. The document is…

Education for Participation: Third World Perspectives.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Swee-Hin, Toh

1987-01-01

Argues that developing nations' educational systems have fallen short of providing requisite skills, knowledge, and values for citizen participation in social, economic, political, and cultural development. Suggests alternative educational structures which would better serve the basic needs and rights of the poor majorities in developing nations.…

48 CFR 252.251-7000 - Ordering from Government supply sources.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-10-01

... contracts, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) Office of Information Resources Management... Management System (DLMS) Supplement to Federal Implementation Convention 511R, Requisition; and acknowledge... 48 Federal Acquisition Regulations System 3 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false Ordering from Government...

48 CFR 252.251-7000 - Ordering from Government supply sources.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-10-01

... contracts, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) Office of Information Resources Management... Management System (DLMS) Supplement to Federal Implementation Convention 511R, Requisition; and acknowledge... 48 Federal Acquisition Regulations System 3 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false Ordering from Government...

48 CFR 252.251-7000 - Ordering from Government supply sources.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-10-01

... contracts, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) Office of Information Resources Management... Management System (DLMS) Supplement to Federal Implementation Convention 511R, Requisition; and acknowledge... 48 Federal Acquisition Regulations System 3 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false Ordering from Government...

APPLICATION OF CYCLODEXTRIN-MODIFIED MICELLAR ELECTRONKINETIC CHROMATOGRAPHY TO THE SEPARATIONS OF SELECTED NEUTRAL PESTICIDES AND THEIR ENANTIOMERS

EPA Science Inventory

The environmental chemistry of chiral pesticides is receiving increased attention - enantiomeric ratios are being measured and enantioselective degradation processes are being reported. The requisite analysis involves separation of the various enantiomers. Mixtures of three class...

48 CFR 1845.7102 - Instructions for preparing DD Form 1419.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

... AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION CONTRACT MANAGEMENT GOVERNMENT PROPERTY Forms Preparation 1845.7102... item requested. Block 3. Enter the manufacturer's model style, or catalog number assigned to the equipment being requisitioned. Always use the model number, if available. The style number is the next...

48 CFR 1845.502-70 - Contractor-acquired property.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

... 48 Federal Acquisition Regulations System 6 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 true Contractor-acquired... Possession of Contractors 1845.502-70 Contractor-acquired property. All contractor-acquired property must be... contractor-acquired. (2) Submission of DD Form 1419, DOD Industrial Plant Requisition, or equivalent format...

7 CFR 301.38-3 - Protected areas.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

..., DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE DOMESTIC QUARANTINE NOTICES Black Stem Rust § 301.38-3 Protected areas. (a) The... rust-susceptible plants of the genera Berberis, Mahoberberis, and Mahonia under the cooperative Federal... ensure that they are free of rust-susceptible plants. During the requisite nursery inspections, all...

7 CFR 301.38-3 - Protected areas.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

..., DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE DOMESTIC QUARANTINE NOTICES Black Stem Rust § 301.38-3 Protected areas. (a) The... rust-susceptible plants of the genera Berberis, Mahoberberis, and Mahonia under the cooperative Federal... ensure that they are free of rust-susceptible plants. During the requisite nursery inspections, all...

7 CFR 301.38-3 - Protected areas.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-01-01

..., DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE DOMESTIC QUARANTINE NOTICES Black Stem Rust § 301.38-3 Protected areas. (a) The... rust-susceptible plants of the genera Berberis, Mahoberberis, and Mahonia under the cooperative Federal... ensure that they are free of rust-susceptible plants. During the requisite nursery inspections, all...

7 CFR 301.38-3 - Protected areas.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-01-01

..., DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE DOMESTIC QUARANTINE NOTICES Black Stem Rust § 301.38-3 Protected areas. (a) The... rust-susceptible plants of the genera Berberis, Mahoberberis, and Mahonia under the cooperative Federal... ensure that they are free of rust-susceptible plants. During the requisite nursery inspections, all...

7 CFR 301.38-3 - Protected areas.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

..., DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE DOMESTIC QUARANTINE NOTICES Black Stem Rust § 301.38-3 Protected areas. (a) The... rust-susceptible plants of the genera Berberis, Mahoberberis, and Mahonia under the cooperative Federal... ensure that they are free of rust-susceptible plants. During the requisite nursery inspections, all...

Requisite Skills and Knowledge for Entry-Level IT Auditors

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Merhout, Jeffrey W.; Buchman, Sarah E.

2007-01-01

Information technology auditing has become a career in high demand in recent years due to factors such as increasing compliance requirements with regards to information technology governance. Nonetheless, many information technology, management information systems, and accounting information systems educators may not have paid significant…

Chemical Equilibrium in Supramolecular Systems as Studied by NMR Spectrometry

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Gonzalez-Gaitano, Gustavo; Tardajos, Gloria

2004-01-01

Undergraduate students are required to study the chemical balance in supramolecular assemblies constituting two or more interacting species, by using proton NMR spectrometry. A good knowledge of physical chemistry, fundamentals of chemical balance, and NMR are pre-requisites for conducting this study.

[Errors in laboratory daily practice].

PubMed

Larrose, C; Le Carrer, D

2007-01-01

Legislation set by GBEA (Guide de bonne exécution des analyses) requires that, before performing analysis, the laboratory directors have to check both the nature of the samples and the patients identity. The data processing of requisition forms, which identifies key errors, was established in 2000 and in 2002 by the specialized biochemistry laboratory, also with the contribution of the reception centre for biological samples. The laboratories follow a strict criteria of defining acceptability as a starting point for the reception to then check requisition forms and biological samples. All errors are logged into the laboratory database and analysis report are sent to the care unit specifying the problems and the consequences they have on the analysis. The data is then assessed by the laboratory directors to produce monthly or annual statistical reports. This indicates the number of errors, which are then indexed to patient files to reveal the specific problem areas, therefore allowing the laboratory directors to teach the nurses and enable corrective action.

Extrapolating the Trends of Test Drop Data with Opening Shock Factor Calculations: the Case of the Orion Main and Drogue Parachutes Inflating to 1st Reefed Stage

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Potvin, Jean; Ray, Eric

2017-01-01

We describe a new calculation of the opening shock factor C (sub k) characterizing the inflation performance of NASA's Orion spacecraft main and drogue parachutes opening under a reefing constraint (1st stage reefing), as currently tested in the Capsule Parachute Assembly System (CPAS) program. This calculation is based on an application of the Momentum-Impulse Theorem at low mass ratio (R (sub m) is less than 10 (sup -1)) and on an earlier analysis of the opening performance of drogues decelerating point masses and inflating along horizontal trajectories. Herein we extend the reach of the Theorem to include the effects of payload drag and gravitational impulse during near-vertical motion - both important pre-requisites for CPAS parachute analysis. The result is a family of C (sub k) versus R (sub m) curves which can be used for extrapolating beyond the drop-tested envelope. The paper proves this claim in the case of the CPAS Mains and Drogues opening while trailing either a Parachute Compartment Drop Test Vehicle or a Parachute Test Vehicle (an Orion capsule boiler plate). It is seen that in all cases the values of the opening shock factor can be extrapolated over a range in mass ratio that is at least twice that of the test drop data.

[Testing of medicinal products produced from pooled plasma].

PubMed

Unkelbach, U; Hunfeld, A; Breitner-Ruddock, S

2014-10-01

Medicinal products produced from human plasma fall under the administrative batch release procedure of the competent authority. In Germany, this has been carried out since 1995 by the Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI), the responsible state control agency for blood products. Medicinal products released for the European and national market are tested for quality, efficacy and safety. Experimental testing of the final product and the starting materials, the plasma pools, as well as control of the production documentation guarantee a constantly high product safety. In the 28,000 batches tested since the beginning of the state controlled batch release testing of these blood products at the PEI, there has been no transmission of infectious viruses (HIV, HBV and HCV) to any patient. The batch release has made a contribution to the improvement of product quality. This procedure is still an important tool to ensure safety of blood products. The PEI is integrated in the batch release network of the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & Health Care (EDQM) in Strasbourg. Regulations and guidelines for official control authority batch release (OCABR) ensure harmonized procedures for mutual recognition of batch release on the European level. The EU certificates and German national certificates are requested and accepted in over 70 countries worldwide. Experimental testing in the EU and the requisite certificates have developed into a seal of quality for the world market.

Antibacterial activity of some selected medicinal plants of Pakistan

PubMed Central

2011-01-01

Background Screening of the ethnobotenical plants is a pre-requisite to evaluate their therapeutic potential and it can lead to the isolation of new bioactive compounds. Methods The crude extracts and fractions of six medicinal important plants (Arisaema flavum, Debregeasia salicifolia, Carissa opaca, Pistacia integerrima, Aesculus indica, and Toona ciliata) were tested against three Gram positive and two Gram negative ATCC bacterial species using the agar well diffusion method. Results The crude extract of P. integerrima and A. indica were active against all tested bacterial strains (12-23 mm zone of inhibition). Other four plant's crude extracts (Arisaema flavum, Debregeasia salicifolia, Carissa opaca, and Toona ciliata) were active against different bacterial strains. The crude extracts showed varying level of bactericidal activity. The aqueous fractions of A. indica and P. integerrima crude extract showed maximum activity (19.66 and 16 mm, respectively) against B. subtilis, while the chloroform fractions of T. ciliata and D. salicifolia presented good antibacterial activities (13-17 mm zone of inhibition) against all the bacterial cultures tested. Conclusion The methanol fraction of Pistacia integerrima, chloroform fractions of Debregeasia salicifolia &Toona ciliata and aqueous fraction of Aesculus indica are suitable candidates for the development of novel antibacterial compounds. PMID:21718504

Professionalization: Whose Responsibility?

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Carter, Marcia J.; And Others

One requisite of a profession is that its practitioners hold a credential certifying that the individual is competent to provide needed services. In the fields of health, physical education, recreation, and dance, diverse groups compete in credentialing practitioners. The four papers in this collection discuss who is, or should be, responsible for…

Insolubilized enzymes for food synthesis

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Marshall, D. L.

1972-01-01

Cellulose matrix with numerous enzyme-coated silica particles of colloidal size permanently bound at various sites within matrix was produced that has high activity and possesses requisite physical characteristics for filtration or column operations. Product also allows coupling step in synthesis of edible food to proceed under mild conditions.

A Learning Democracy

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

de Groot, Lucy

2009-01-01

Adult learning, in all its forms, is a pre-requisite for a dynamic local democracy where councils play a crucial role, politically, socially, and culturally. Local government has recognised that investment in adult learning provides significant benefits for the wider welfare and wellbeing of the community. This investment has not come solely…

48 CFR 651.701 - Policy.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-10-01

... 48 Federal Acquisition Regulations System 4 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Policy. 651.701 Section... Travel Requisitions 651.701 Policy. (a) It is the Department's policy that contractors shall not: (1... of a proper voucher. (c) This policy does not apply to personal services contractor; provided, that...

Formation of Nanoparticles by Thin Film Dewetting

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Swaminathan, Parasuraman

2009-01-01

The synthesis and assembly of nanostructures has been extensively researched because of the potential for developing new device arrays and the myriad applications they might entail. Fundamental physical laws, however, dictate the combinations of materials/substrates that provide the requisite conditions, especially in physical vapor deposition. To…

41 CFR 101-26.206 - GSA assistance.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... PROGRAM 26.2-Federal Requisitioning System § 101-26.206 GSA assistance. Agency field activities should... addresses of GSA regional offices are listed in each of the volumes of the GSA Supply Catalog. Agency....206 Section 101-26.206 Public Contracts and Property Management Federal Property Management...

41 CFR 101-26.206 - GSA assistance.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... PROGRAM 26.2-Federal Requisitioning System § 101-26.206 GSA assistance. Agency field activities should... addresses of GSA regional offices are listed in each of the volumes of the GSA Supply Catalog. Agency....206 Section 101-26.206 Public Contracts and Property Management Federal Property Management...

41 CFR 101-26.206 - GSA assistance.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... PROGRAM 26.2-Federal Requisitioning System § 101-26.206 GSA assistance. Agency field activities should... addresses of GSA regional offices are listed in each of the volumes of the GSA Supply Catalog. Agency....206 Section 101-26.206 Public Contracts and Property Management Federal Property Management...

41 CFR 101-26.206 - GSA assistance.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... PROGRAM 26.2-Federal Requisitioning System § 101-26.206 GSA assistance. Agency field activities should... addresses of GSA regional offices are listed in each of the volumes of the GSA Supply Catalog. Agency....206 Section 101-26.206 Public Contracts and Property Management Federal Property Management...

41 CFR 101-26.206 - GSA assistance.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... PROGRAM 26.2-Federal Requisitioning System § 101-26.206 GSA assistance. Agency field activities should... addresses of GSA regional offices are listed in each of the volumes of the GSA Supply Catalog. Agency....206 Section 101-26.206 Public Contracts and Property Management Federal Property Management...

Continuous instream monitoring of nutrients and sediment in the agricultural watersheds

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Pollutants concentrations and loads in the watersheds vary considerably with time and space. Accurate and timely information on the magnitude of pollutants in water resources is a pre-requisite for understanding the drivers of the pollutant loads and making informed water resource management decisio...

Absolute, Extreme-Ultraviolet Solar Spectral Irradiance Monitor (AESSIM)

DTIC Science & Technology

1994-04-01

molecular constituents [Meier 1991]. This radiation is the principal source of energy for producing and maintaining the complex, time-dependent, thermal...158.4 nm emisions for interstellar wind studies. After -2005, there is unlikely to be sufficient power to provide the requisite heating of the scan

48 CFR 4.705-3 - Acquisition and supply records.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

... 48 Federal Acquisition Regulations System 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Acquisition and supply... GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS Contractor Records Retention 4.705-3 Acquisition and supply records. (a) Store requisitions for materials, supplies, equipment, and services: Retain 2 years. (b) Work orders for...

13 CFR 500.207 - Application evaluation.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

... upon the following evaluation factors, in order of importance: (1) The ability of the Borrower to repay... (3) Adequacy of the underwriting analysis performed by the Lender in preparing the application and the ability of the Lender to administer the loan in full compliance with the requisite standard of...

13 CFR 500.207 - Application evaluation.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

... upon the following evaluation factors, in order of importance: (1) The ability of the Borrower to repay... (3) Adequacy of the underwriting analysis performed by the Lender in preparing the application and the ability of the Lender to administer the loan in full compliance with the requisite standard of...

13 CFR 500.207 - Application evaluation.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-01-01

... upon the following evaluation factors, in order of importance: (1) The ability of the Borrower to repay... (3) Adequacy of the underwriting analysis performed by the Lender in preparing the application and the ability of the Lender to administer the loan in full compliance with the requisite standard of...

13 CFR 500.207 - Application evaluation.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-01-01

... upon the following evaluation factors, in order of importance: (1) The ability of the Borrower to repay... (3) Adequacy of the underwriting analysis performed by the Lender in preparing the application and the ability of the Lender to administer the loan in full compliance with the requisite standard of...

13 CFR 500.207 - Application evaluation.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... upon the following evaluation factors, in order of importance: (1) The ability of the Borrower to repay... (3) Adequacy of the underwriting analysis performed by the Lender in preparing the application and the ability of the Lender to administer the loan in full compliance with the requisite standard of...

76 FR 20710 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comments Requested: U.S. Official...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2011-04-13

... II Controlled Substances (Accountable Forms); Order Form Requisition DEA Form 222, 222a, Controlled... Justice (DOJ), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), will be submitting the following information...: DEA Forms 222 and 222a. Component: Office of Diversion Control, Drug Enforcement Administration...

New Mexico Math Remediation Taskforce Report

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

New Mexico Higher Education Department, 2016

2016-01-01

The Math Remediation Task Force is comprised of faculty from two-year, four-year comprehensive, and four-year flagship higher education institutions throughout the state of New Mexico. Its members have varying levels of experience with designing/implementing multiple math remediation programs including traditional, co-requisite and acceleration…

Watch--Don't Copy.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Moos, Lejf

International comparisons present the paradox that while such efforts encourage reflection on their own norms, values, and insights, researchers may lack the requisite knowledge to similarly engage a new culture. This work reviews school-leadership research that points to commonalities and differences in social and cultural trends in Denmark,…

Content Analysis of Informed Consent for Whole Genome Sequencing Offered by Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing Companies.

PubMed

Niemiec, Emilia; Borry, Pascal; Pinxten, Wim; Howard, Heidi Carmen

2016-12-01

Whole exome sequencing (WES) and whole genome sequencing (WGS) have become increasingly available in the research and clinical settings and are now also being offered by direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing (GT) companies. This offer can be perceived as amplifying the already identified concerns regarding adequacy of informed consent (IC) for both WES/WGS and the DTC GT context. We performed a qualitative content analysis of Websites of four companies offering WES/WGS DTC regarding the following elements of IC: pre-test counseling, benefits and risks, and incidental findings (IFs). The analysis revealed concerns, including the potential lack of pre-test counseling in three of the companies studied, missing relevant information in the risks and benefits sections, and potentially misleading information for consumers. Regarding IFs, only one company, which provides opportunistic screening, provides basic information about their management. In conclusion, some of the information (and related practices) present on the companies' Web pages salient to the consent process are not adequate in reference to recommendations for IC for WGS or WES in the clinical context. Requisite resources should be allocated to ensure that commercial companies are offering high-throughput sequencing under responsible conditions, including an adequate consent process. © 2016 WILEY PERIODICALS, INC.

Microbicide Safety/Efficacy studies in animals -macaques and small animal models

PubMed Central

Veazey, Ronald S.

2009-01-01

Purpose of review A number of microbicide candidates have failed to prevent HIV transmission in human clinical trials, and there is uncertainty as to how many additional trials can be supported by the field. Regardless, there are far too many microbicide candidates in development, and a logical and consistent method for screening and selecting candidates for human clinical trials is desperately needed. However, the unique host and cell specificity of HIV provides challenges for microbicide safety and efficacy screening, that can only be addressed by rigorous testing in relevant laboratory animal models. Recent findings A number of laboratory animal model systems ranging from rodents to nonhuman primates, and single versus multiple dose challenges have recently been developed to test microbicide candidates. These models have shed light on both the safety and efficacy of candidate microbicides as well as the early mechanisms involved in transmission. This article summarizes the major advantages and disadvantages of the relevant animal models for microbicide safety and efficacy testing. Summary Currently, nonhuman primates are the only relevant and effective laboratory model for screening microbicide candidates. Given the consistent failures of prior strategies, it is now clear that rigorous safety and efficacy testing in nonhuman primates should be a pre-requisite for advancing additional microbicide candidates to human clinical trials. PMID:19373023

High-entropy ejections from magnetized proto-neutron star winds: implications for heavy element nucleosynthesis

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Thompson, Todd A.; ud-Doula, Asif

2018-06-01

Although initially thought to be promising for production of the r-process nuclei, standard models of neutrino-heated winds from proto-neutron stars (PNSs) do not reach the requisite neutron-to-seed ratio for production of the lanthanides and actinides. However, the abundance distribution created by the r-, rp-, or νp-processes in PNS winds depends sensitively on the entropy and dynamical expansion time-scale of the flow, which may be strongly affected by high magnetic fields. Here, we present results from magnetohydrodynamic simulations of non-rotating neutrino-heated PNS winds with strong dipole magnetic fields from 1014 to 1016 G, and assess their role in altering the conditions for nucleosynthesis. The strong field forms a closed zone and helmet streamer configuration at the equator, with episodic dynamical mass ejections in toroidal plasmoids. We find dramatically enhanced entropy in these regions and conditions favourable for third-peak r-process nucleosynthesis if the wind is neutron-rich. If instead the wind is proton-rich, the conditions will affect the abundances from the νp-process. We quantify the distribution of ejected matter in entropy and dynamical expansion time-scale, and the critical magnetic field strength required to affect the entropy. For B ≳1015 G, we find that ≳10-6 M⊙ and up to ˜10-5 M⊙ of high-entropy material is ejected per highly magnetized neutron star birth in the wind phase, providing a mechanism for prompt heavy element enrichment of the universe. Former binary companions identified within (magnetar-hosting) supernova remnants, the remnants themselves, and runaway stars may exhibit overabundances. We provide a comparison with a semi-analytic model of plasmoid eruption and discuss implications and extensions.

ENGULFMENT OF APOPTOTIC CELLS BY MACROPHAGES: A ROLE OF MICRO-RNA-21 IN THE RESOLUTION OF WOUND INFLAMMATION1

PubMed Central

Das, Amitava; Ganesh, Kasturi; Khanna, Savita; Sen, Chandan K.; Roy, Sashwati

2014-01-01

SUMMARY At an injury-site, efficient clearance of apoptotic cells by wound macrophages or efferocytosis is a pre-requisite for the timely resolution of inflammation. Emerging evidence indicates that miR-21 may regulate the inflammatory response. In this work, we sought to elucidate the significance of miR-21 in the regulation of efferocytosis mediated suppression of innate immune response, a key process implicated in resolving inflammation following injury. An increased expression of inducible miR-21 was noted in post-efferocytotic peripheral blood monocyte-derived macrophages (MDM). Such induction of miR-21 was associated with silencing of its target genes PTEN and PDCD4. Successful efferocytosis of apoptotic cells by MDM resulted in the suppression of LPS-induced NF-κB activation and TNFα expression. Interestingly, bolstering of miR-21 levels alone using miR mimic resulted in significant suppression of LPS-induced TNFα expression and NFκB activation. We report that efferocytosis-induced miR-21, by silencing PTEN and GSK3β, tempers LPS-induced inflammatory response. Macrophage efferocytosis is known to trigger the release of anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10. This study demonstrates that following successful efferocytosis, miR-21 induction in macrophages silence PDCD4 favoring cJun-AP1 activity which in turn results in elevated production of anti-inflammatory IL-10. In summary, this work provides direct evidence implicating miRNA in the process of turning-on an anti-inflammatory phenotype in the post-efferocytotic macrophage. Elevated macrophage miR-21 promotes efferocytosis and silences target genes PTEN and PDCD4 which in turn accounts for a net anti-inflammatory phenotype. Findings of this study highlight the significance of miRNAs in the resolution of wound inflammation. PMID:24391209

Investigating the Binarity of S0-2: Implications for Its Origins and Robustness as a Probe of the Laws of Gravity around a Supermassive Black Hole

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Chu, Devin S.; Do, Tuan; Hees, Aurelien; Ghez, Andrea; Naoz, Smadar; Witzel, Gunther; Sakai, Shoko; Chappell, Samantha; Gautam, Abhimat K.; Lu, Jessica R.; Matthews, Keith

2018-02-01

The star S0-2, which orbits the supermassive black hole (SMBH) in our Galaxy with a period of 16 years, provides the strongest constraint on both the mass of the SMBH and the distance to the Galactic center. S0-2 will soon provide the first measurement of relativistic effects near a SMBH. We report the first limits on the binarity of S0-2 from radial velocity (RV) monitoring, which has implications for both understanding its origin and robustness as a probe of the central gravitational field. With 87 RV measurements, which include 12 new observations that we present, we have the requisite data set to look for RV variations from S0-2‧s orbital model. Using a Lomb–Scargle analysis and orbit-fitting for potential binaries, we detect no RV variation beyond S0-2‧s orbital motion and do not find any significant periodic signal. The lack of a binary companion does not currently distinguish different formation scenarios for S0-2. The upper limit on the mass of a companion star ({M}{comp}) still allowed by our results has a median upper limit of {M}{comp} sin i ≤ 1.6 M ⊙ for periods between 1 and 150 days, the longest period to avoid tidal break-up of the binary. We also investigate the impact of the remaining allowed binary system on the measurement of the relativistic redshift at S0-2‧s closest approach in 2018. While binary star systems are important to consider for this experiment, we find that plausible binaries for S0-2 will not alter a 5σ detection of the relativistic redshift.

Community College Technical Mathematics Project. Final Report.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Self, Samuel L.

The purpose of the research project was to develop an applied or technical mathematics curriculum which would meet the needs of vocational-technical students at the community college level. The research project was divided into three distinct phases: Identifying the mathematical concepts requisite for job-entry competencies in each of the…

Learning Progressions & Climate Change

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Parker, Joyce M.; de los Santos, Elizabeth X.; Anderson, Charles W.

2015-01-01

Our society is currently having serious debates about sources of energy and global climate change. But do students (and the public) have the requisite knowledge to engage these issues as informed citizenry? The learning-progression research summarized here indicates that only 10% of high school students typically have a level of understanding…

An Evaluation of Human Act Generation Performance.

DTIC Science & Technology

1981-08-15

and solution. Di-gion S 1974, IL 632-643. Tulving , E. & Pearlstone , Z. Availability versus accessibility of information in mnory for words. Journal 2L...would be "available" in memory, but not neccessarily "accessible" ( Tulving and Pearlatone, 1966). In other words, we believe that the requisite

Supporting Inclusive Practicum Experiences for International Students across the Social Sciences: Building Industry Capacity

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Felton, Kathleen; Harrison, Gai

2017-01-01

Practicum experiences are critical learning environments for developing requisite skills, knowledge, behaviours and attitudes across the professions. Evidence suggests that international students in professional social and behavioural science programs struggle across a number of dimensions while on practicum. Key issues for these students coalesce…

Social Science Data Archives and Libraries: A View to the Future.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Clark, Barton M.

1982-01-01

Discusses factors militating against integration of social science data archives and libraries in near future, noting usage of materials, access requisite skills of librarians, economic stability of archives, existing structures which manage social science data archives. Role of librarians, data access tools, and cataloging of machine-readable…

Sarah's Story: One Teacher's Enactment of TPACK+ in a History Classroom

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Van Vaerenewyck, Leah M.; Shinas, Valerie Harlow; Steckel, Barbara

2017-01-01

This article presents a descriptive case study that describes a secondary history teacher's expression of sociocultural-oriented technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) in the classroom, the execution of which we describe as TPACK+. TPACK+ describes sociocultural-oriented teacher knowledge requisite for the dynamic execution of TPACK…

Entrepreneurship Education Can Business Schools Meet the Challenge

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Kirby, David A.

2004-01-01

Examines the characteristics and role of the entrepreneur and the challenges for business schools posed by the need to develop more enterprising individuals. Argues that the traditional education system stultifies rather than develops the requisite attributes and skills to produce entrepreneurs, and proposes that if entrepreneurs are to be…

47 CFR 27.1214 - EBS spectrum leasing arrangements and grandfathered leases.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

... not employ channel loading technology. (3) The licensee may shift its requisite EBS educational usage... educational use requirements in light of changes in educational needs, technology, and other relevant factors... Educational Broadband Service § 27.1214 EBS spectrum leasing arrangements and grandfathered leases. (a) A...

77 FR 58109 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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2012-09-19

... Regulation Supplement (DFARS) part 245, Government Property, and the following related clauses and forms: DD Form 1149, Requisition and Invoice/Shipping Document; DD Form 1348-1A, DoD Single Line item Release/Receipt Document; DD Form 1639, Scrap Warranty; DD Form 1640, Request for Plant Clearance; DD Form 1641...

77 FR 6094 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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2012-02-07

... Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) part 245, Government Property; DD Form 1149, Requisition and Invoice/Shipping Document; DD Form 1348-1A, DoD Single Line item Release/Receipt Document; DD Form 1637, Notice of Acceptance of Inventory Schedules; DD Form 1639, Scrap Warranty; DD Form 1640, Request for Plant Clearance...

Promoting the Affective Domain within Online Education

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Roche, Stephen H.

2013-01-01

In the past decade Higher Education Institutions have experienced tremendous growth in enrollments. To meet this demand, many higher education institutions have embraced online education and its requisite technologies. Online education has matured, and studies focusing on the cognitive domain indicate that distance education is as effective as the…

76 FR 66349 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Requests for Comments: Clearance of Renewed Approval of...

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2011-10-26

... Qualification Requirements for Check Airmen and Flight Instructors AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA... would otherwise qualify as flight instructors or check airmen, but who are not medically eligible to hold the requisite medical certificate, to perform flight instructor or check airmen functions in a...

AMPS Supporting Research and Technology (SR and T) report. Atmospheric, Magnetospheric and Plasmas in Space (AMPS) definition study

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

1976-01-01

A listing of candidate technology areas that require additional study is presented. These candidate tasks, identified during the AMPS Phase B studies, are requisites to the design, development, and operation of the AMPS concept selected for preliminary design.

77 FR 4065 - Self-Regulatory Organizations; Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.; Notice of Filing of...

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2012-01-26

... placement, provide relevant disclosures to each investor prior to sale describing the anticipated use of... disclosure documents did not contain the requisite information about the offering expenses and use of... investor a separate disclosure document containing this information. FINRA Rule 5123 also would have...

Addressing Psychosocial Factors with Library Mentoring

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Farrell, Bridget; Alabi, Jaena; Whaley, Pambanisha; Jenda, Claudine

2017-01-01

The majority of articles on mentoring in the library and information science field address career development by emphasizing the orientation process for new librarians and building the requisite skills for a specific job. Few articles deal with the psychological and social challenges that many early-career and minority librarians face, which can…

Worklife Visions. Redefining Work for the Information Economy.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Hallett, Jeffrey J.

The changing economy is affecting everyone's life, especially from the standpoint of prospects for earning a living and pursuing a meaningful career. A clear understanding of the changing nature and dimensions of work is a necessary requisite to planning careers, managing employees, and developing effective employment policies. Preparing for the…

Atmosphere, Science (Experimental): 5343.08.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Reese, Sandra Kay

This unit of instruction deals with a study of the general atmosphere by layers with an emphasis on physical characteristics. The formation of layers in the atmosphere and the energy relationships that exist between them are also discussed. No requisites for prior course work, experience, or courses to be taken concurrently are required for…

Knowledge of Effective Educational Leadership Practices

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Barton, Leigh T.

2013-01-01

This is the second part of a study conducted by Barton and Cox (2012) investigating administrative credential candidates' pre and post self-assessment results. Candidates who successfully complete principal preparation programs should possess the requisite knowledge and skills to assume leadership positions in P-12 schools. This study was designed…

From Noise to Order: The Psychological Development of Knowledge and Phenocopy in Biology

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Piaget, Jean

1975-01-01

Shows that one of the most general processes in the development of cognitive structures consists in replacing exogenous knowledge by endogenous reconstructions that reconstitute the same forms but incorporate them into systems whose internal composition is a pre-requisite. Biologically equivalent process is discussed. (Author/AM)

41 CFR 101-26.200 - Scope of subpart.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 2 2014-07-01 2012-07-01 true Scope of subpart. 101-26... Regulations System FEDERAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS SUPPLY AND PROCUREMENT 26-PROCUREMENT SOURCES AND PROGRAM 26.2-Federal Requisitioning System § 101-26.200 Scope of subpart. This subpart prescribes a...

41 CFR 101-26.200 - Scope of subpart.

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2012-07-01

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41 CFR 101-26.200 - Scope of subpart.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 true Scope of subpart. 101-26... Regulations System FEDERAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS SUPPLY AND PROCUREMENT 26-PROCUREMENT SOURCES AND PROGRAM 26.2-Federal Requisitioning System § 101-26.200 Scope of subpart. This subpart prescribes a...

41 CFR 101-26.200 - Scope of subpart.

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2011-07-01

... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 2 2011-07-01 2007-07-01 true Scope of subpart. 101-26... Regulations System FEDERAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS SUPPLY AND PROCUREMENT 26-PROCUREMENT SOURCES AND PROGRAM 26.2-Federal Requisitioning System § 101-26.200 Scope of subpart. This subpart prescribes a...

37 CFR 11.105 - Fees.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

..., the novelty and difficulty of the questions involved, and the skill requisite to perform the legal... communicated to the client, preferably in writing, before or within a reasonable time after commencing the... matter in which a contingent fee is prohibited by law. A contingent fee agreement shall be in a writing...

37 CFR 11.105 - Fees.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

..., the novelty and difficulty of the questions involved, and the skill requisite to perform the legal... communicated to the client, preferably in writing, before or within a reasonable time after commencing the... matter in which a contingent fee is prohibited by law. A contingent fee agreement shall be in a writing...

Forest research notes, Pacific Northwest Forest Experiment Station, No. 02, March 11, 1929.

Treesearch

1929-01-01

One of the greatest obstacles to the control of fire in the Douglas fir region is the snags on the logged-off lands and old burns, To make such land safe for reforestation", it is a prime requisite to get down the snags.

Students as Co-Inquirers: A Requisite Threshold Concept in Educational Development?

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Werder, Carmen; Thibou, Shevell; Kaufer, Blair

2012-01-01

For over a decade, Western Washington University has sponsored the Teaching-Learning Academy, bringing students, faculty, staff, and community members together as co-inquirers into overarching questions about teaching and learning. In this safe space, participants frame one research question of interest each year; sharing their perspectives and…

78 FR 62736 - Self-Regulatory Organizations; Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board; Notice of Filing of a...

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2013-10-22

... Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, to Ronald W. Smith, Corporate Secretary, Municipal... requisite corporate authority of the purchaser of bonds to provide a consent, thereby reducing the burden on... letters were received from: BondView.com (``BondView''); Government Finance Officers Association (``GFOA...

Low-Latency Embedded Vision Processor (LLEVS)

DTIC Science & Technology

2016-03-01

26 3.2.3 Task 3 Projected Performance Analysis of FPGA- based Vision Processor ........... 31 3.2.3.1 Algorithms Latency Analysis ...Programmable Gate Array Custom Hardware for Real- Time Multiresolution Analysis . ............................................... 35...conduct data analysis for performance projections. The data acquired through measurements , simulation and estimation provide the requisite platform for

48 CFR 1852.245-70 - Contractor requests for Government-owned equipment.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

... the equipment and the reasons why contractor-owned property cannot be used, citing the applicable FAR... 1419, DOD Industrial Plant Equipment Requisition, or equivalent format, for each item requested and (ii... Government-owned equipment. 1852.245-70 Section 1852.245-70 Federal Acquisition Regulations System NATIONAL...

75 FR 26272 - Final Environmental Impact Statement; Environmental Education Center, Yosemite National Park...

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2010-05-11

...; Environmental Education Center, Yosemite National Park, Mariposa County, CA; Notice of Approval of Record of...-190, as amended) and the regulations promulgated by the Council on Environmental Quality (40 CFR 1505... education center in Yosemite National Park. The requisite no-action ``wait period'' was initiated February...

Teacher Performance Assessment Instruments: A Guide to Interpretation.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Capie, William; And Others

This manual was prepared to assist in the development of skills requisite to rating the performance of student or beginning teachers. The activities prescribed in the manual are intended to enable experienced teachers to describe the spectrum of performances indicative of the 18 competencies subsumed in the Teacher Performance Assessment…

29 CFR 780.906 - Requisites for exemption generally.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... transportation must be transportation “from the farm”; and (c) The destination to which the fruits or vegetables are transported must be “a place of first processing or first marketing”; and (d) The transportation must be from the farm to such destination “within the same State”. ...

Entry-Level Jobs, Mobility, and Urban Minority Unemployment.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Kasarda, John D.

1983-01-01

Documents the extent of urban transportation and entry-level job losses in major cities. Describes the mismatch between educational requisites of newer growth industries and educational background of urban minorities, and highlights the role of this mismatch in the increase in urban minority unemployment and welfare dependency. (EF)

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus nonstructural protein 2 (nsp2) topology and selective isoform integration in artificial membranes

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Membrane modification of host subcellular compartments is critical to the replication of many RNA viruses. Enveloped viruses additionally require the ability to requisition cellular membranes during egress for the development of infectious progeny. Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus...

The Correlated Lecture Laboratory Series in Diagnostic Radiological Physics.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Lamel, David A.; And Others

This series in diagnostic radiological physics has been designed to provide the physics background requisite for the proper conduct of medical diagnostic x-ray examinations. The basic goal of the series is to bridge physics theory and radiological practice, achieved by combining pertinent lecture material with laboratory exercises that illustrate…

Discussing Active Learning from the Practitioner's Perspective

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Bamba, Priscilla

2015-01-01

The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of how active learning took place in a class containing specific readings,cooperative and collaborative group work, and a writing assignment for college students at a Northern Virginia Community College campus (NVCC). Requisite knowledge, skills, learner characteristics, brain-based learning, and…

Affective Components Perceived to Be Important in Today's Global Society from a Cross-Cultural Perspective

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Wallenberg-Lerner, Helena

2013-01-01

Global competencies, with differences in terminology by various researchers, had been frequently investigated, primarily from an American-biased perspective. Little or no defining research existed that identified requisite, universally agreed upon global competencies, or identified what affective components were perceived to be important cross…

Human Ecology and the Health Dangers, Health Service Aide: 8007.03.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL.

This unit of instruction deals primarily with environmental influence. The course includes instruction on communicable diseases, prevention of diseases, and the optimal environment (pure food, water, air, waste disposal methods, pesticides, radioactivity, and the effects the laws governing each one have on human life). No requisite for prior…

41 CFR 101-26.100-1 - Procurement of lowest cost items.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... similar items to meet particular end-use requirements under the GSA stock program, special order program... functional end-use procurement needs of the various ordering agencies. Therefore, in submitting requisitions... source from which the lowest cost item can be obtained which will adequately serve the functional end-use...

International Students and "The Presentation of Self" across Cultures

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Kamara, Abu

2017-01-01

Findings from this qualitative research study suggest that some international students view social and academic interactions not simply as mediums for absorbing requisite sociocultural and academic norms, and discipline knowledge, but also as stages for expressing their varied identities. As a result, whenever students' ability to present their…

Filling the knowledge gap: Integrating quantitative genetics and genomics in graduate education and outreach

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The genomics revolution provides vital tools to address global food security. Yet to be incorporated into livestock breeding, molecular techniques need to be integrated into a quantitative genetics framework. Within the U.S., with shrinking faculty numbers with the requisite skills, the capacity to ...

An Integrated Forensics Approach To Fingerprint PCB Sources In Sediments Using RSC And ACF

EPA Science Inventory

Determing the original source of contamination to a heterogeneous matrix matrix such as sediment is a requirement for both clean-up and compliance programs. Identifying the source of sediment contaminants in industrial settings is a pre-requisite to implementing any proposed se...

Kentucky Teacher Leadership Framework

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Kentucky Department of Education, 2015

2015-01-01

The mission of teacher leadership is to elevate teachers as experts and leaders in and beyond the classroom. This framework contains six spheres or dimensions, each describing a set of dispositions, core beliefs, knowledge base, requisite skills and unique roles for teacher leaders. While the spheres are interrelated, with each one broadening the…

Accessible Microscopy Workstation for Students and Scientists with Mobility Impairments

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Duerstock, Bradley S.

2006-01-01

An integrated accessible microscopy workstation was designed and developed to allow persons with mobility impairments to control all aspects of light microscopy with minimal human assistance. This system, named AccessScope, is capable of performing brightfield and fluorescence microscopy, image analysis, and tissue morphometry requisite for…

41 CFR 101-25.107 - Guidelines for requisitioning and proper use of consumable or low cost items.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... needs. Attache cases, Ball point pens and refills, Brief cases, Binders, Carbon paper, Dictionaries, Felt tip markers, Felt tip pens and refills, File folders, Letterex, Letter openers, Pads (paper), Paper clips, Pencils, Pencil sharpeners, Portfolios (leather, plastic, and writing pads), Rubber bands...

41 CFR 101-25.107 - Guidelines for requisitioning and proper use of consumable or low cost items.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... needs. Attache cases, Ball point pens and refills, Brief cases, Binders, Carbon paper, Dictionaries, Felt tip markers, Felt tip pens and refills, File folders, Letterex, Letter openers, Pads (paper), Paper clips, Pencils, Pencil sharpeners, Portfolios (leather, plastic, and writing pads), Rubber bands...

41 CFR 101-25.107 - Guidelines for requisitioning and proper use of consumable or low cost items.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... needs. Attache cases, Ball point pens and refills, Brief cases, Binders, Carbon paper, Dictionaries, Felt tip markers, Felt tip pens and refills, File folders, Letterex, Letter openers, Pads (paper), Paper clips, Pencils, Pencil sharpeners, Portfolios (leather, plastic, and writing pads), Rubber bands...

41 CFR 101-25.107 - Guidelines for requisitioning and proper use of consumable or low cost items.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... needs. Attache cases, Ball point pens and refills, Brief cases, Binders, Carbon paper, Dictionaries, Felt tip markers, Felt tip pens and refills, File folders, Letterex, Letter openers, Pads (paper), Paper clips, Pencils, Pencil sharpeners, Portfolios (leather, plastic, and writing pads), Rubber bands...

A Taxonomy of Technical Assistance Skills.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Ogden, Evelyn; Musumeci, Marilyn

To operationalize the Technical Assistance Brokerage System, the first major task called for the development of a taxonomy of training and technical assistance services specifying requisite skills and skill clusters by the dimensions of client type, stages of dissemination, and levels of experience. From a literature search approximately 400…

12 CFR 721.3 - What categories of activities are preapproved as incidental powers necessary or requisite to...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

..., employees and data processing. (e) Financial counseling services. Financial counseling services means advice... financial matters. Financial counseling services may include income tax preparation service, electronic tax filing for your members, counseling regarding estate and retirement planning, investment counseling, and...

Preparing Teachers for a Multicultural Society: A Model for Teacher Education

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Leer, Elizabeth Berg

2009-01-01

Although teachers may strive to create inclusive, multi-cultural classrooms, they may lack the requisite knowledge and skills to successfully accomplish the task. Drawing on case study research that illuminates challenges encountered by White teachers of multicultural literature, I propose a comprehensive diversity component for teacher education.…

Fragmentation and Interrogation as an Approach to Integration

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Wallick, Karl; Zaretsky, Michael

2010-01-01

This article tracks the generative role of research and fragmentation as a means for integrating technology and form within an architecture technology lecture class and a co-requisite design studio. The complexity of teaching building systems integration within a design studio context is achieved by removing any expectation of building design…

Impact of Cybernetics on Information Science, and Vice Versa.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Heilprin, Laurence B.

The impact of cybernetics on information science occurs chiefly through the concepts of variety, the law of requisite variety, and theory of transformations. Through these it pervades every aspect of information science. However, other basic sciences such as physics, biology, psychology are in their spheres equally pervasive, and information…

New Information Management Opportunities in a Changing World.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Breen, Charlotte; Farragher, Ailish; McQuaid, Mairead; Callanan, Michelle; Burke, Mary A.

2002-01-01

Evaluates the gap between traditional library and information studies (LIS) skills and the evolving needs of the information technology workplace. Discusses whether graduates with LIS training are perceived as having the requisite skills and personalities to perform as knowledge managers and information managers in the private sector based on…

Innovative Classroom Strategies That Prepare College Graduates for Workplace Success

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Rateau, Richard J.; Kaufman, Eric K.; Cletzer, D. Adam

2015-01-01

In our increasingly competitive and rapidly changing world, it is critical that college graduates enter the workforce with the requisite skills for lasting success. However, recent studies suggest employers increasingly identify a workforce readiness gap in core applied skills, which must be bridged by company investment. Teaching strategies that…

Critical Thinking as a Leadership Attribute.

PubMed

Werner, Stacy H; Bleich, Michael R

2017-01-01

Leaders are tasked with making decisions that have substantial impact on an organization's well-being. Decision making requires critical thinking and requisite action taking. The nature of critical thinking and how professional development educators can strengthen this attribute are presented. J Contin Educ Nurs. 2017;48(1):9-11. Copyright 2017, SLACK Incorporated.

27 CFR 70.143 - Definitions.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... general. The term security interest means any interest in property acquired by contract for the purpose of... any rule or principle of local law which permits the relation back or the making of any requisite... protected under local law against a subsequent judgment lien (as provided in paragraph (a)(2) of this...

Employment Support as Knowledge Creation

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

O'Brien, John; Callahan, Michael

2010-01-01

Traditional practice in employment of persons with disabilities has been to assess the skills and interests of the job seeker in relation to normative standards or to others. That comparative approach often results in job seekers with significant developmental disabilities being viewed as having few skills and lacking requisite work readiness,…

Sustainable Technology: Community Surveys of Requisite Skills, Spring 2000.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Pezzoli, Jean A.; Ainsworth, Don

The goal of this study was to obtain feedback from relevant community businesses regarding skills needed by employees in Sustainable Technologies. Survey results will help design the innovative Sustainable Technologies curriculum, which is under development at the Maui Community College. In the fall 1999 semester, the Sustainable Technologies…

A Criminal Law Approach to Terrorism in Brazil

DTIC Science & Technology

2014-12-01

Israeli Embassy, killing 29 and hurting over 250; and the second, in 1994, when a suicide terrorist in a car bomb drove into AMIA (Argentina-Israel...requisite. The main concern regarding the law is the possibility of adversely affecting civil rights. In the model, we can avoid this temptation and

Facilitating Interdisciplinary Learning: Lessons from Project Kaleidoscope

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Kezar, Adrianna; Elrod, Susan

2012-01-01

Many major funding organizations, policymakers, government agencies, and other higher education stakeholders want higher education to encourage interdisciplinary learning so that students graduate with the requisite skills to take on complex jobs in science, policy, business, and industry. Calls for this kind of change have been most urgent within…

An Analysis of Class II Supplies Requisitions in the Korean Army’s Organizational Supply

DTIC Science & Technology

2009-03-26

five methods for qualitative research : Case study , Ethnography , 45 Phenomenological study , Grounded theory , and...Approaches .. 42 Table 9 Five Qualitative Research Methods ..................................................................... 45 Table 10 Six...Content analysis. Table 9 provides a brief overview of the five methods . Table 9 Five Qualitative

Haeckel or Hennig? The Gordian Knot of Characters, Development, and Procedures in Phylogeny.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Dupuis, Claude

1984-01-01

Discusses the conditions for validating customary phylogenetic procedures. Concludes that the requisites of homogeneity and completeness for proved short lineages seem satisfied by the Hennigian but not the Haeckelian procedure. The epistemological antinomy of the two procedures is emphasized for the first time. (Author/RH)

76 FR 35913 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comments Requested: U.S. Official...

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2011-06-20

... II Controlled Substances (Accountable Forms); Order Form Requisition; DEA Form 222, 222a, Controlled... Justice (DOJ), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will be submitting the following information... applicable component of the Department sponsoring the collection: Form number: DEA Forms 222 and 222a...

Conference on Functional Literacy in the Community College Setting (Los Alamitos, California, July 1978).

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Knoell, Dorothy M.; And Others

The conference papers included in this collection address issues of concern to literacy development in the community college. "Functional Literacy and Persistence in the Community College," by Dorothy M. Knoell, raises questions about student persistence in the absence of requisite skills. "Training Perspective on Functional…

Orderly Thinking about a Chaotic System.

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Cohen, Arthur M.

Half of all students who begin college in America--and an even higher proportion of underrepresetned minorities--matriculate at community colleges. If the bachelor's degree is a requisite for major social and economic advancement, then transfer must be an essential community college mission. Calculating the transfer rate is important as a measure…

43 CFR 2521.7 - Amendments.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-10-01

.... (a) To enlarge area of desert-land entry. Amendment for the purpose of enlarging the area of a desert... lands which seemed to be worthy of the expenditure requisite for that purpose, said lands having since... declaration, his purpose to procure the cancellation, through contest or relinquishment, of an entry embracing...

Developing Visual Creative Literacies through Integrating Art-Based Inquiry

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Smilan, Cathy

2016-01-01

Visual literacy and the ability to think creatively are critical skills requisite to full participation and communication in the twenty-first century. Learning experiences that integrate studio-based inquiry and other academic concepts can develop discipline skills as well as communication skills of deciphering visual cues and de/re-constructing…

12 CFR 721.3 - What categories of activities are preapproved as incidental powers necessary or requisite to...

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2011-01-01

..., employees and data processing. (e) Financial counseling services. Financial counseling services means advice..., debt suspension agreements, letters of credit and leases. (h) Marketing activities. Marketing... and services you offer to your members. Marketing activities may include advertising and other...

EUCOM Keystone: Connecting Across Services Enabling Timely Horizontal & Vertical Integration, Product Reference Guide, Revision 1

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2015-09-01

or Core hosting can be outsourced for those sites that do not have the requisite information technology infrastructure. Contact Information...Resiliency and Response A-4 ACRONYM DEFINITION MOU Memorandum of Understanding MP Military Police MWR Morale, Welfare and Recreation NETCOM Network

Students' Precollege Engagement and the Development of a Global Perspective

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Engberg, Mark E.; Davidson, Lisa M.

2016-01-01

Given the growing emphasis on internationalization and the requisite intercultural skills and temperament necessary in a global society, this study examines the relationship between precollege engagement and entering dispositions on a developmentally based set of global perspective outcomes. Based on a multi-institutional sample of 3,131 entering,…

Comparison of Experimental Surface and Flow Field Measurements to Computational Results of the Juncture Flow Model

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Roozeboom, Nettie H.; Lee, Henry C.; Simurda, Laura J.; Zilliac, Gregory G.; Pulliam, Thomas H.

2016-01-01

Wing-body juncture flow fields on commercial aircraft configurations are challenging to compute accurately. The NASA Advanced Air Vehicle Program's juncture flow committee is designing an experiment to provide data to improve Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling in the juncture flow region. Preliminary design of the model was done using CFD, yet CFD tends to over-predict the separation in the juncture flow region. Risk reduction wind tunnel tests were requisitioned by the committee to obtain a better understanding of the flow characteristics of the designed models. NASA Ames Research Center's Fluid Mechanics Lab performed one of the risk reduction tests. The results of one case, accompanied by CFD simulations, are presented in this paper. Experimental results suggest the wall mounted wind tunnel model produces a thicker boundary layer on the fuselage than the CFD predictions, resulting in a larger wing horseshoe vortex suppressing the side of body separation in the juncture flow region. Compared to experimental results, CFD predicts a thinner boundary layer on the fuselage generates a weaker wing horseshoe vortex resulting in a larger side of body separation.

Beck Self-Esteem Scale-Short Form: Development and psychometric evaluation of a scale for the assessment of self-concept in schizophrenia.

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Thomas, Elizabeth C; Murakami-Brundage, Jessica; Bertolami, Nina; Beck, Aaron T; Grant, Paul M

2018-05-01

A requisite step for testing cognitive theories regarding the role of self-concept in schizophrenia is the development of measures that follow a cognitive conceptualization and better capture the multifaceted nature of this construct. The purpose of this study was to examine the psychometric properties a new self-concept measure, the Beck Self-Esteem Scale-Short Form (BSES-SF), based on a sample of 204 individuals with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. We evaluated the BSES-SF's dimensionality, internal consistency reliability, and construct and divergent validity using confirmatory factor analysis, Cronbach's alpha, Pearson correlations, independent samples t-tests, and one-way analysis of variance. Findings indicate that the 10-item BSES-SF is a reliable and valid measure of self-concept that is appropriate for a broad group of individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Following cognitive theory, the scale demonstrated significant relationships with delusion severity, motivation, and depression, further signifying its utility for research and practice efforts that are designed to address psychopathology in schizophrenia. Copyright © 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Developing Scientific Reasoning Through Drawing Cross-Sections

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Hannula, K. A.

2012-12-01

Cross-sections and 3D models of subsurface geology are typically based on incomplete information (whether surface geologic mapping, well logs, or geophysical data). Creating and evaluating those models requires spatial and quantitative thinking skills (including penetrative thinking, understanding of horizontality, mental rotation and animation, and scaling). However, evaluating the reasonableness of a cross-section or 3D structural model also requires consideration of multiple possible geometries and geologic histories. Teaching students to create good models requires application of the scientific methods of the geosciences (such as evaluation of multiple hypotheses and combining evidence from multiple techniques). Teaching these critical thinking skills, especially combined with teaching spatial thinking skills, is challenging. My Structural Geology and Advanced Structural Geology courses have taken two different approaches to developing both the abilities to visualize and to test multiple models. In the final project in Structural Geology (a 3rd year course with a pre-requisite sophomore mapping course), students create a viable cross-section across part of the Wyoming thrust belt by hand, based on a published 1:62,500 geologic map. The cross-section must meet a number of geometric criteria (such as the template constraint), but is not required to balance. Each student tries many potential geometries while trying to find a viable solution. In most cases, the students don't visualize the implications of the geometries that they try, but have to draw them and then erase their work if it does not meet the criteria for validity. The Advanced Structural Geology course used Midland Valley's Move suite to test the cross-sections that they made in Structural Geology, mostly using the flexural slip unfolding algorithm and testing whether the resulting line lengths balanced. In both exercises, students seemed more confident in the quality of their cross-sections when the sections were easy to visualize. Students in Structural Geology are proud of their cross-sections once they were inked and colored. Students in Advanced Structural Geology were confident in their digitized cross-sections, even before they had tried to balance them or had tested whether they were kinematically plausible. In both cases, visually attractive models seemed easier to believe. Three-dimensional models seemed even more convincing: if students could visualize the model, they also thought it should work geometrically and kinematically, whether they had tested it or not. Students were more inclined to test their models when they had a clear set of criteria that would indicate success or failure. However, future development of new ideas about the kinematic and/or mechanical development of structures may force the students to also decide which criteria fit their problem the best. Combining both kinds of critical thinking (evaluating techniques and evaluating their results) in the same assignment may be challenging.

High pressure mechanical seal

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Babel, Henry W. (Inventor); Fuson, Phillip L. (Inventor); Chickles, Colin D. (Inventor); Jones, Cherie A. (Inventor); Anderson, Raymond H. (Inventor)

1995-01-01

A relatively impervious mechanical seal is formed between the outer surface of a tube and the inside surface of a mechanical fitting of a high pressure fluid or hydraulic system by applying a very thin soft metal layer onto the outer surface of the hard metal tube and/or inner surface of the hard metal fitting, prior to swaging the fitting onto the tube. The thickness of such thin metal layer is independent of the size of the tube and/or fittings. Many metals and alloys of those metals exhibit the requisite softness, including silver, gold, nickel, tin, platinum, indium, rhodium and cadmium. Suitably, the coating is about 0.0025 millimeters (0.10 mils) in thickness. After swaging, the tube and fitting combination exhibits very low leak rates on the order or 10.sup.-8 cubic centimeters per second or less as meaured using the Helium leak test.

The experimental program for high pressure gas filled radio frequency cavities for muon cooling channels

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Freemire, B.; Chung, M.; Hanlet, P. M.

An intense beam of muons is needed to provide a luminosity on the order of 10 34 cm -2s -1 for a multi-TeV collider. Because muons produced by colliding a multi-MW proton beam with a target made of carbon or mercury have a large phase space, significant six dimensional cooling is required. Through ionization cooling—the only cooling method that works within the lifetime of the muon—and emittance exchange, the desired emittances for a Higgs Factory or higher energy collider are attainable. A cooling channel utilizing gas filled radio frequency cavities has been designed to deliver the requisite cool muon beam.more » Technology development of these RF cavities has progressed from breakdown studies, through beam tests, to dielectric loaded and reentrant cavity designs. The results of these experiments are summarized.« less

Some guidance on preparing validation plans for the DART Full System Models.

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Gray, Genetha Anne; Hough, Patricia Diane; Hills, Richard Guy

2009-03-01

Planning is an important part of computational model verification and validation (V&V) and the requisite planning document is vital for effectively executing the plan. The document provides a means of communicating intent to the typically large group of people, from program management to analysts to test engineers, who must work together to complete the validation activities. This report provides guidelines for writing a validation plan. It describes the components of such a plan and includes important references and resources. While the initial target audience is the DART Full System Model teams in the nuclear weapons program, the guidelines are generallymore » applicable to other modeling efforts. Our goal in writing this document is to provide a framework for consistency in validation plans across weapon systems, different types of models, and different scenarios. Specific details contained in any given validation plan will vary according to application requirements and available resources.« less

Artificial fluid properties for large-eddy simulation of compressible turbulent mixing

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Cook, Andrew W.

2007-05-01

An alternative methodology is described for large-eddy simulation (LES) of flows involving shocks, turbulence, and mixing. In lieu of filtering the governing equations, it is postulated that the large-scale behavior of a LES fluid, i.e., a fluid with artificial properties, will be similar to that of a real fluid, provided the artificial properties obey certain constraints. The artificial properties consist of modifications to the shear viscosity, bulk viscosity, thermal conductivity, and species diffusivity of a fluid. The modified transport coefficients are designed to damp out high wavenumber modes, close to the resolution limit, without corrupting lower modes. Requisite behavior of the artificial properties is discussed and results are shown for a variety of test problems, each designed to exercise different aspects of the models. When combined with a tenth-order compact scheme, the overall method exhibits excellent resolution characteristics for turbulent mixing, while capturing shocks and material interfaces in a crisp fashion.

The experimental program for high pressure gas filled radio frequency cavities for muon cooling channels

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Freemire, B.; Chung, M.; Hanlet, P. M.; ...

2018-01-30

An intense beam of muons is needed to provide a luminosity on the order of 10 34 cm -2s -1 for a multi-TeV collider. Because muons produced by colliding a multi-MW proton beam with a target made of carbon or mercury have a large phase space, significant six dimensional cooling is required. Through ionization cooling—the only cooling method that works within the lifetime of the muon—and emittance exchange, the desired emittances for a Higgs Factory or higher energy collider are attainable. A cooling channel utilizing gas filled radio frequency cavities has been designed to deliver the requisite cool muon beam.more » Technology development of these RF cavities has progressed from breakdown studies, through beam tests, to dielectric loaded and reentrant cavity designs. The results of these experiments are summarized.« less

Finite element simulation of adaptive aerospace structures with SMA actuators

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Frautschi, Jason; Seelecke, Stefan

2003-07-01

The particular demands of aerospace engineering have spawned many of the developments in the field of adaptive structures. Shape memory alloys are particularly attractive as actuators in these types of structures due to their large strains, high specific work output and potential for structural integration. However, the requisite extensive physical testing has slowed development of potential applications and highlighted the need for a simulation tool for feasibility studies. In this paper we present an implementation of an extended version of the M'ller-Achenbach SMA model into a commercial finite element code suitable for such studies. Interaction between the SMA model and the solution algorithm for the global FE equations is thoroughly investigated with respect to the effect of tolerances and time step size on convergence, computational cost and accuracy. Finally, a simulation of a SMA-actuated flexible trailing edge of an aircraft wing modeled with beam elements is presented.

Structural Diagnosis

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

1987-01-01

All over the world, officials charged with preserving historical structures are faced with a problem of environmental contamination of building materials that cause structural deterioration. First requisite for preserving the structure is identification of the nature of contaminants. A "non-invasive"technique based on space technology has been developed and tested. It employs a neutron source and a gamma ray detector. Placed on one side of the wall to be examined, the source fires neutrons created by the decay of a radioactive isotope. As they pass through the wall, the neutrons collide with atoms and the atoms, depending on their type, emit various kinds of gamma rays. These rays are identified by the gamma ray detector on the other side of the wall. Energy of the rays shows the kind of element present. The intensity level indicates the quantity. Composition of the contaminants within the walls is determined by a multichannel analyzer.

Magnetic purification of curcumin from Curcuma longa rhizome by novel naked maghemite nanoparticles.

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Magro, Massimiliano; Campos, Rene; Baratella, Davide; Ferreira, Maria Izabela; Bonaiuto, Emanuela; Corraducci, Vittorino; Uliana, Maíra Rodrigues; Lima, Giuseppina Pace Pereira; Santagata, Silvia; Sambo, Paolo; Vianello, Fabio

2015-01-28

Naked maghemite nanoparticles, namely, surface active maghemite nanoparticles (SAMNs), characterized by a diameter of about 10 nm, possessing peculiar colloidal stability, surface chemistry, and superparamagnetism, present fundamental requisites for the development of effective magnetic purification processes for biomolecules in complex matrices. Polyphenolic molecules presenting functionalities with different proclivities toward iron chelation were studied as probes for testing SAMN suitability for magnetic purification. Thus, the binding efficiency and reversibility on SAMNs of phenolic compounds of interest in the pharmaceutical and food industries, namely, catechin, tyrosine, hydroxytyrosine, ferulic acid, coumaric acid, rosmarinic acid, naringenin, curcumin, and cyanidin-3-glucoside, were evaluated. Curcumin emerged as an elective compound, suitable for magnetic purification by SAMNs from complex matrices. A combination of curcumin, demethoxycurcumin, and bis-demethoxycurcumin was recovered by a single magnetic purification step from extracts of Curcuma longa rhizomes, with a purity >98% and a purification yield of 45%, curcumin being >80% of the total purified curcuminoids.

Exergy analysis of hybrid nanofluids with optimum concentration in a plate heat exchanger

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Kumar, Vikas; Tiwari, Arun Kumar; Ghosh, Subrata Kumar

2018-06-01

This paper highlights an investigation on the comparative analyses of exergetic performance with optimum volume concentration of hybrid nanofluids in a plate heat exchanger (PHE). Different types of hybrid nanofluids (Al2O3 + MWCNT/water, TiO2 + MWCNT/water, ZnO + MWCNT/water, and CeO2 + MWCNT/water) as coolant have been tested. Proportion of 0.75% of nanofluid has been found to be the optimum volume concentration. The requisite thermal and physical properties of the hybrid nanofluids were measured at 35 °C. Various exergetic performance parameters have been examined for comparing different hybrid nanofluids. The highest reduction in exergy loss of CeO2 + MWCNT/water hybrid nanofluid has been obtained at a concentration of about 24.75%. Entropy generation decreased with the increase in volume concentration. The results established that CeO2 + MWCNT/water hybrid nanofluid can be a promising coolant for exergetic performances in a PHE.

The role of intracellular calcium phosphate in osteoblast-mediated bone apatite formation

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Boonrungsiman, Suwimon; Gentleman, Eileen; Carzaniga, Raffaella; Evans, Nicholas D.; McComb, David W.; Porter, Alexandra E.; Stevens, Molly M.

2012-01-01

Mineralization is a ubiquitous process in the animal kingdom and is fundamental to human development and health. Dysfunctional or aberrant mineralization leads to a variety of medical problems, and so an understanding of these processes is essential to their mitigation. Osteoblasts create the nano-composite structure of bone by secreting a collagenous extracellular matrix (ECM) on which apatite crystals subsequently form. However, despite their requisite function in building bone and decades of observations describing intracellular calcium phosphate, the precise role osteoblasts play in mediating bone apatite formation remains largely unknown. To better understand the relationship between intracellular and extracellular mineralization, we combined a sample-preparation method that simultaneously preserved mineral, ions, and ECM with nano-analytical electron microscopy techniques to examine osteoblasts in an in vitro model of bone formation. We identified calcium phosphate both within osteoblast mitochondrial granules and intracellular vesicles that transported material to the ECM. Moreover, we observed calcium-containing vesicles conjoining mitochondria, which also contained calcium, suggesting a storage and transport mechanism. Our observations further highlight the important relationship between intracellular calcium phosphate in osteoblasts and their role in mineralizing the ECM. These observations may have important implications in deciphering both how normal bone forms and in understanding pathological mineralization. PMID:22879397

The Human Microbiome and Understanding the 16S rRNA Gene in Translational Nursing Science

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Ames, Nancy J.; Ranucci, Alexandra; Moriyama, Brad; Wallen, Gwenyth R.

2017-01-01

Background As more is understood regarding the human microbiome, it is increasingly important for nurse scientists and health care practitioners to analyze these microbial communities and their role in health and disease.16S rRNA sequencing is a key methodology in identifying these bacterial populations that has recently transitioned from use primarily in research to having increased utility in clinical settings. Objectives The objectives of this review are to: (a) describe 16S rRNA sequencing and its role in answering research questions important to nursing science; (b) provide an overview of the oral, lung and gut microbiomes and relevant research; and (c) identify future implications for microbiome research and 16S sequencing in translational nursing science. Discussion Sequencing using the 16S rRNA gene has revolutionized research and allowed scientists to easily and reliably characterize complex bacterial communities. This type of research has recently entered the clinical setting, one of the best examples involving the use of 16S sequencing to identify resistant pathogens, thereby improving the accuracy of bacterial identification in infection control. Clinical microbiota research and related requisite methods are of particular relevance to nurse scientists—individuals uniquely positioned to utilize these techniques in future studies in clinical settings. PMID:28252578

Current understanding of dysbiosis in disease in human and animal models

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DeGruttola, Arianna K.; Low, Daren; Mizoguchi, Atsushi; Mizoguchi, Emiko

2016-01-01

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is an intestinal inflammatory condition that affects over two million people in the United States. Although the etiology and pathogenesis of IBD are still largely unknown, dysregulated host/enteric microbial interactions are requisite for the development of IBD. So far, many researchers have tried to identify a precise relationship between IBD and an imbalance of the intestinal microbiota, termed “dysbiosis”. In spite of the extensive efforts, it is still largely unknown about the interplay among microbes, their hosts, and their environments, and whether dysbiosis is a causal factor or an effect of IBD. Recently, deep-sequencing analyses of the microbiota in IBD patients have been instrumental in characterizing the strong association between dysbiosis and IBD development, although it is still unable to identify specific-associated species level changes in most cases. Based on many recent reports, dysbiosis of the commensal microbiota is implicated in the pathogenesis of several diseases, including IBD, obesity, and allergic disorders, in both human and animal models. In this review article, we have focused on explaining the multiple types of dysbiosis, as well as dysbiosis-related diseases and potential treatments in order to apply this knowledge to understand a possible cause and potentially find therapeutic strategies for IBD as well as the other dysbiosis-related diseases. PMID:27070911

Advances in light-curing units: four generations of LED lights and clinical implications for optimizing their use: Part 2. From present to future.

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Shortall, Adrian C; Palin, Will M; Jacquot, Bruno; Pelissier, Bruno

2012-01-01

The first part of this series of two described the history of light curing in dentistry and developments in LED lights since their introduction over 20 years ago. Current second- and third-generation LED light units have progressively replaced their halogen lamp predecessors because of their inherent advantages. The background to this, together with the clinical issues relating to light curing and the possible solutions, are outlined in the second part of this article. Finally, the innovative features of what may be seen as the first of a new fourth-generation of LED lights are described and guidance is given for the practitioner on what factors to consider when seeking to purchase a new LED light activation unit. Adequate curing in depth is fundamental to clinical success with any light-activated restoration. To achieve this goal predictably, an appropriate light source needs to be combined with materials knowledge, requisite clinical skills and attention to detail throughout the entire restoration process. As dentists increasingly use light-cured direct composites to restore large posterior restorations they need to appreciate the issues central to effective and efficient light curing and to know what to look for when seeking to purchase a new light-curing unit.

The human tyrosine kinase Kit and its gatekeeper mutant T670I, show different kinetic properties: Implications for drug design.

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Kissova, Miroslava; Maga, Giovanni; Crespan, Emmanuele

2016-10-01

The tyrosine kinase Kit, a receptor for Stem Cell Factor, is involved, among others, in processes associated to cell survival, proliferation and migration. Upon physiological conditions, the activity of Kit is tightly regulated. However, primary mutations that lead to its constitutive activation are the causal oncogenic driver of gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GISTs). GISTs are known to be refractory to conventional therapies but the introduction of Imatinib, a selective inhibitor of tyrosine kinases Abl and Kit, significantly ameliorated the treatment options of GISTs patients. However, the acquisition of secondary mutations renders Kit resistant towards all available drugs. Mutation involving gatekeeper residues (such as V654a and T670I) influence both the structure and the catalytic activity of the enzyme. Therefore, detailed knowledge of the enzymatic properties of the mutant forms, in comparison with the wild type enzyme, is an important pre-requisite for the rational development of specific inhibitors. In this paper we report a thorough kinetic analysis of the reaction catalyzed by the Kit kinase and its gatekeeper mutated form T670I. Our results revealed the different mechanisms of action of these two enzymes and may open a new avenue for the future design of specific Kit inhibitors. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Shallow transient liquid water environments on present-day mars, and their implications for life

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Jones, Eriita G.

2018-05-01

The identification and characterisation of subsurface liquid water environments on Mars are of high scientific interest. Such environments have the potential to support microbial life, and, more broadly, to develop our understanding of the habitability of planets and moons beyond Earth. Given our current state of knowledge of life on Earth, three pre-requisites are necessary for an environment to be considered 'habitable' and therefore capable of supporting terrestrial-like life: energy, biogenic elements, and liquid water with a sufficiently high water activity. The surface of Mars today is predominately cold and dry, and any liquid water exposed to the atmosphere will vaporise or freeze on timescales of hours to days. These conditions have likely persisted for much of the last 10 million years, and perhaps longer. Despite this, briny liquid water flows (Recurrent Slope Linea) have been observed in a number of locations in the present-day. This review examines evidence from the Phoenix Lander (2008) and the Mars Science Laboratory (2012-current), to assess the occurrence of habitable conditions in the shallow Martian regolith. It will be argued that shallow, transient, liquid water brines are potentially habitable by microbial life, are likely a widespread occurrence on Mars, and that future exploration aimed at finding present-day habitable conditions and potential biology should 'follow the salt'.

A role for extracellular amastigotes in the immunopathology of Chagas disease.

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Scharfstein, J; Morrot, A

1999-01-01

In spite of the growing knowledge obtained about immune control of Trypanosoma cruzi infection, the mechanisms responsible for the variable clinico-pathological expression of Chagas disease remain unknown. In a twist from previous concepts, recent studies indicated that tissue parasitism is a pre-requisite for the development of chronic myocarditis. This fundamental concept, together with the realization that T. cruzi organisms consist of genetically heterogeneous clones, offers a new framework for studies of molecular pathogenesis. In the present article, we will discuss in general terms the possible implications of genetic variability of T. cruzi antigens and proteases to immunopathology. Peptide epitopes from a highly polymorphic subfamily of trans-sialidase (TS) antigens were recently identified as targets of killer T cell (CTL) responses, both in mice and humans. While some class I MHC restricted CTL recognize epitopes derived from amastigote-specific TS-related antigens (TSRA), others are targeted to peptide epitopes originating from trypomastigote-specific TSRA. A mechanistic hypothesis is proposed to explain how the functional activity and specificity of class I MHC restricted killer T cells may control the extent to which tissue are exposed to prematurely released amastigotes. Chronic immunopathology may be exacerbated due the progressive accumulation of amastigote-derived antigens and pro-inflammatory molecules (eg. GPI-mucins and kinin-releasing proteases) in dead macrophage bodies.

Clinical guidelines as a tool for legal liability. An international perspective.

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Davies, Jonathan

2009-12-01

Clinical guidelines are statements that have been systematically developed and which aim to assist clinicians in making decisions about treatment for specific conditions. They are linked to evidence and are meant to facilitate good medical practice. A key issue that follows is how lawyers and the courts might use such guidelinesin medical litigation. The multiplicity of opinions and scientific professions requiring expertise might influence the expert submitting an opinion to base his opinion on scientific theses which have not been recognized scientifically, are not based on facts and are not supported by professional literature. Medical evidence has to be methodically based and reliable. In recent years the medical community has developed a new field called "Evidence Based Medicine", meaning, use of medical information based on the best information in the medical literature relevant to the condition being treated. Evidence Based Medicine distinguishes between recognized scientific theories and what is called "Junk Science". Clinical Guidelines are of value in systematizing medical procedures, mainly those which may have legal implications. In other procedures Guidelines may serve the Court as a source of sound information, provided they are the product of a recognized professional body, and proven to bear no relation to a body which may have interests in the delivery of healthcare. Clinical guidelines are set as normative standards and used as a tool to indicate the standard of care at the time. They can be used as a tool for assessment of the questionable conduct. Guidelines are consulted by courts because they provide evidence of standards justified in relation to evidence rather than custom, this helps the courts test the expert evidence that radically strengthen the normative dynamic of the law in actions alleging medical negligence. As clinical practice guidelines become more and more prevalent, some authors believe they will define the requisite "standard of care" for medical treatment and impact medical malpractice litigation. They may even replace expert testimony.

Clinical brain MR imaging prescriptions in Talairach space: technologist- and computer-driven methods.

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Weiss, Kenneth L; Pan, Hai; Storrs, Judd; Strub, William; Weiss, Jane L; Jia, Li; Eldevik, O Petter

2003-05-01

Variability in patient head positioning may yield substantial interstudy image variance in the clinical setting. We describe and test three-step technologist and computer-automated algorithms designed to image the brain in a standard reference system and reduce variance. Triple oblique axial images obtained parallel to the Talairach anterior commissure (AC)-posterior commissure (PC) plane were reviewed in a prospective analysis of 126 consecutive patients. Requisite roll, yaw, and pitch correction, as three authors determined independently and subsequently by consensus, were compared with the technologists' actual graphical prescriptions and those generated by a novel computer automated three-step (CATS) program. Automated pitch determinations generated with Statistical Parametric Mapping '99 (SPM'99) were also compared. Requisite pitch correction (15.2 degrees +/- 10.2 degrees ) far exceeded that for roll (-0.6 degrees +/- 3.7 degrees ) and yaw (-0.9 degrees +/- 4.7 degrees ) in terms of magnitude and variance (P <.001). Technologist and computer-generated prescriptions substantially reduced interpatient image variance with regard to roll (3.4 degrees and 3.9 degrees vs 13.5 degrees ), yaw (0.6 degrees and 2.5 degrees vs 22.3 degrees ), and pitch (28.6 degrees, 18.5 degrees with CATS, and 59.3 degrees with SPM'99 vs 104 degrees ). CATS performed worse than the technologists in yaw prescription, and it was equivalent in roll and pitch prescriptions. Talairach prescriptions better approximated standard CT canthomeatal angulations (9 degrees vs 24 degrees ) and provided more efficient brain coverage than that of routine axial imaging. Brain MR prescriptions corrected for direct roll, yaw, and Talairach AC-PC pitch can be readily achieved by trained technologists or automated computer algorithms. This ability will substantially reduce interpatient variance, allow better approximation of standard CT angulation, and yield more efficient brain coverage than that of routine clinical axial imaging.

The Effect of Prerequisite Pharmacodynamics Course Timing on Student Performance in Pharmacotherapy Courses.

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Kelsch, Michael P; Sylvester, Robert K

2016-08-25

Objective. To evaluate the impact that decreasing the time from 12 to three months between prerequisite pharmacodynamics courses and their corresponding pharmacotherapy courses had on overall student performance in the pharmacotherapy courses measured by course examination scores. Methods. Two cohorts of second-professional year (P2) and third professional year (P3) classes, respectively, following different curriculum plans, simultaneously took two pharmacotherapy courses (infectious disease and neoplastic disease). Admission data (age, gender, prior bachelor's degree status, grade point average (GPA), Pharmacy College Admission Test (PCAT) score, and interview score) were collected to establish baseline characteristics between the two cohorts. Examination scores in the corresponding prerequisite pharmacodynamics and pharmacotherapy courses were also collected. The variable was the difference in time each cohort experienced between the prerequisite pharmacodynamics courses and the subsequent pharmacotherapy courses. Results. No difference was found in baseline admission characteristics between the two cohorts, except for increased average age, which favored the P2 cohort. In the infectious disease pharmacotherapy course, the P3 cohort performed better than the P2 cohort as measured by average examination scores. In the neoplastic disease pharmacotherapy course, the P3 cohort also achieved significant higher average examination scores than the P2 cohort. The P3 cohort achieved higher overall scores than the P2 cohort in both courses despite a longer interval between the applicable pharmacodynamic and pharmacotherapy courses (12 months vs 3 months, respectively). Conclusion. Shortening the time interval from 12 months to three months between prerequisite and requisite courses did not result in improved, or even equivalent, academic performance relative to the P2 cohort that had only a 3-month interval between courses. Placing like content closer together, as the only intervention, is not enough to ensure improved student performance measured by examination scores in corresponding requisite courses.

The Effect of Prerequisite Pharmacodynamics Course Timing on Student Performance in Pharmacotherapy Courses

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Sylvester, Robert K.

2016-01-01

Objective. To evaluate the impact that decreasing the time from 12 to three months between prerequisite pharmacodynamics courses and their corresponding pharmacotherapy courses had on overall student performance in the pharmacotherapy courses measured by course examination scores. Methods. Two cohorts of second-professional year (P2) and third professional year (P3) classes, respectively, following different curriculum plans, simultaneously took two pharmacotherapy courses (infectious disease and neoplastic disease). Admission data (age, gender, prior bachelor’s degree status, grade point average (GPA), Pharmacy College Admission Test (PCAT) score, and interview score) were collected to establish baseline characteristics between the two cohorts. Examination scores in the corresponding prerequisite pharmacodynamics and pharmacotherapy courses were also collected. The variable was the difference in time each cohort experienced between the prerequisite pharmacodynamics courses and the subsequent pharmacotherapy courses. Results. No difference was found in baseline admission characteristics between the two cohorts, except for increased average age, which favored the P2 cohort. In the infectious disease pharmacotherapy course, the P3 cohort performed better than the P2 cohort as measured by average examination scores. In the neoplastic disease pharmacotherapy course, the P3 cohort also achieved significant higher average examination scores than the P2 cohort. The P3 cohort achieved higher overall scores than the P2 cohort in both courses despite a longer interval between the applicable pharmacodynamic and pharmacotherapy courses (12 months vs 3 months, respectively). Conclusion. Shortening the time interval from 12 months to three months between prerequisite and requisite courses did not result in improved, or even equivalent, academic performance relative to the P2 cohort that had only a 3-month interval between courses. Placing like content closer together, as the only intervention, is not enough to ensure improved student performance measured by examination scores in corresponding requisite courses. PMID:27667836

Examining the Mismatch between the Training and Assessment of Band and Orchestra Conductors in Michigan

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Becher, Eric A.

2011-01-01

The dissertation builds on the research literature studying conductor training and the musical attributes requisite for adequate conducting skill and musical performance. The study also provides evidence that effective tools for evaluation of band and orchestra conductors are prevalent throughout the music education literature. Public school…

Nonviolent Action as a Necessary Component in Educating for Democracy

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Peterson, Barbara A.

2014-01-01

Educating for democracy, seen within a liberal democratic framework, requires that students develop the requisite knowledge and skills to recognize injustice and work effectively to oppose it. Stitzlein's notion of dissent is examined in conjunction with Kahne and Westheimer's argument for teaching democratic capacities by actively…

How Does the Supply Requisitioning Process Affect Average Customer Wait Time Onboard U.S. Navy Destroyers?

DTIC Science & Technology

2013-05-07

warfare qualifications SWSCO and NASO. Next, LCDR Saucedo reported to the Fleet Industrial Supply Center, San Diego, where she assumed the duties as the...16  D.  NAVAL TACTICAL COMMAND SUPPORT SYSTEM .................. 17  1.  Operational Maintenance ...21  4.  Method

Best Practices for Learning Physiology: Combining Classroom and Online Methods

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Anderson, Lisa C.; Kirchbaum, Kathleen E.

2017-01-01

Physiology is a requisite course for many professional allied health programs and is a foundational science for learning pathophysiology, health assessment, and pharmacology. Given the demand for online learning in the health sciences, it is important to evaluate the efficacy of online and in-class teaching methods, especially as they are combined…

Examination of the Nexus between Academic Libraries and Accreditation: Lessons from Nigeria

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Nkiko, Christopher; Ilo, Promise; Idiegbeyan-Ose, Jerome; Segun-Adeniran, Chidi

2015-01-01

The article investigated the nexus between academic libraries and accreditation in the higher institutions with special focus on the Nigerian experience. It showed that all accreditation agencies place a high premium on library provisions as a major component of requisite benchmarks in determining the status of the program or institutions being…

Holy Psychopathology Batman: The Pedagogical Use of Comic Books in the Teaching of Abnormal Psychology

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Rahman, Reece O.; Zeglin, Robert J.

2014-01-01

Many undergraduate psychology students eventually choose a career providing clinical mental health services. A background in abnormal psychology (psychopathology) is helpful and requisite in these graduate academic and future professional venues. The creativity needed to adequately teach the complex material covered in most abnormal psychology…

Development of a Rift Valley fever virus viremia challenge model in sheep and goats

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Rift valley fever virus (RVFV), a member of the family Bunyaviridae, causes severe to fatal disease in newborn ruminants, as well as abortions in pregnant animals; both preventable by vaccination. Availability of a challenge model is a pre-requisite for vaccine efficacy trials. Several modes of ino...

Social Studies in the Elementary School.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Ediger, Marlow

Since the world is "shrinking" in size due to better transportation and communication, it is important for students to study world issues in the social studies. Problems on the world scene make it imperative that pupils have the requisite understandings, skills, and attitudes to engage in problem-solving activities in the classroom. Teachers,…

Science, Levels 7-12. Secondary Core Curriculum Standards.

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Utah State Board of Education, Salt Lake City. Div. of Curriculum and Instruction.

This document presents the core science curriculum standards which must be completed by all students as a requisite for graduation from Utah's secondary schools. Contained within are the elementary and secondary school program of studies and high school graduation requirements. Each course entry for grades 7-12 contains: course title, unit of…

The Importance of Financial Literacy

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Kezar, Adrianna; Yang, Hannah

2010-01-01

In this article, the authors argue that campus communities must play a more active role in developing financial literacy than they currently do--and not just by providing counseling in moments of emergency. They argue that financial literacy, as a life skill, as a requisite to citizenship, and as a critical intellectual competency, is an essential…

Revisiting the Media Generation: Youth Media Use and Computational Literacy Instruction

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Jenson, Jennifer; Droumeva, Milena

2017-01-01

An ongoing challenge of 21st century learning is ensuring everyone has the requisite skills to participate in a digital, knowledge-based economy. Once an anathema to parents and teachers, digital games are increasingly at the forefront of conversations about ways to address student engagement and provoke challenges to media pedagogies. While…

Cooperative Learning in Graduate Student Projects: Comparing Synchronous versus Asynchronous Collaboration

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Strang, Kenneth

2013-01-01

Cooperative learning was applied in a graduate project management course to compare the effectiveness of asynchronous versus synchronous online team meetings. An experiment was constructed to allocate students to project teams while ensuring there was a balance of requisite skills, namely systems analysis and design along with HTML/Javascript…

WATER TREATMENT

DOEpatents

Pitman, R.W.; Conley, W.R. Jr.

1962-12-01

An automated system for adding clarifying chemicals to water in a water treatment plant is described. To a sample of the floc suspension polyacrylamide or similar filter aid chemicals are added, and the sample is then put through a fast filter. The resulting filtrate has the requisite properties for monitoring in an optical turbidimeter to control the automated system. (AEC)

Benefits of Using the "NADE Self-Evaluation Guides" for Program Development, Improvement, and Evaluation

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Neuburger, Jane

2018-01-01

The "NADE Self-Evaluation Guides" are a compendium of best practices in four areas: (1) Tutoring Services; (2) Course-based Learning Assistance; (3) the Teaching & Learning Process; and (4) Developmental Coursework, also recently known as transitional, co-requisite, accelerated, or bridge programs, all of which are…

Report of a Resident Health-Medical Care Survey. Southwest New Mexico Community Health Education Systems.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Poulsen, Roger L.

This survey was conducted to provide informational inputs for planning and establishing a community health education system in southwest New Mexico. Information was gathered concerning the opinions of typical area residents regarding needed health-medical care facilities, personnel training needs, services, personnel requisite to their well-being,…

The Use of Factorial Forecasting to Predict Public Response

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Weiss, David J.

2012-01-01

Policies that call for members of the public to change their behavior fail if people don't change; predictions of whether the requisite changes will take place are needed prior to implementation. I propose to solve the prediction problem with Factorial Forecasting, a version of functional measurement methodology that employs group designs. Aspects…

Nursing III. A Course of Study. Health Occupations Education.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Rogers, Helen V.

This curriculum guide for instructors provides a course of study (Nursing III) requisite for the third and concluding portion of a 1-year practical nursing curriculum designed to continue opportunities for career mobility in the health occupations. Content is in three sections: (1) Medical Surgical Nursing II, (2) Mental Health Nursing, and (3)…

41 CFR 101-25.107 - Guidelines for requisitioning and proper use of consumable or low cost items.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... are not considered inventory) are subject to accounting and inventory record controls in accordance with applicable provisions of law and the principles and standards prescribed by the General Accounting... to officials at a responsible supervisory level to ensure that supply requirements are justified on...

Validating Teacher Performativity through Lifelong School-University Collaboration

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Lewis, Theodore

2013-01-01

The main point of this article is that more credence should be given in teacher education to performative dimensions of teaching. I agree with David Carr (1999) that the requisite capabilities are probably best learned in actual schools. I employ Turnbull's (2000) conception of performativity, which speaks of tacit cultural learning. Following…

Examining the Technique Class: Re-Examining Feedback

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Barr, Sherrie

2009-01-01

The technique class can be an amalgam of frustration and joy, cautious imitation and mindless replication, being right and being wrong. Competing requisites, such as a desire for expressive freedom in relation to the demand that a movement be precisely structured, can unwittingly create a tension between teachers and students. The reasons for such…

Developing Pre-Requisites for Empathy: Increasing Awareness of Self, the Body and the Perspectives of Others

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McNaughton, Susan Maree

2016-01-01

Empathy is an important affective attribute for graduates entering future practice with diverse populations. Self- and bodily awareness and the ability to take others' perspectives are essential for developing, maintaining and encouraging the cognitive, affective and motivational elements of empathy. This paper presents a thematic analysis of…

The Challenge and the Opportunity of Lexical Inferencing in Language Minority Students

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Shahar-Yames, Daphna; Prior, Anat

2018-01-01

Lexical inferencing from text is a powerful tool for vocabulary and reading comprehension enhancement. Lexical inferencing relies on the pre-requisite skills of reading and existing vocabulary, and is also linked to non-verbal inferencing abilities and reading comprehension. In this study, we examined whether Fifth-grade Russian-speaking language…

Migration: Pre-Requisite for Rural Economic Regeneration?

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Stockdale, Aileen

2006-01-01

Migration from and to depopulating areas is related to the prospects for rural economic regeneration. The focus is on whether or not migration processes give rise to the necessary human capital required for successful endogenous development. Data from Scottish case studies pertaining to in-, out- and return migrants are analysed. Only by leaving…

CATO--A General User Interface for CAS

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Janetzko, Hans-Dieter

2015-01-01

CATO is a new user interface, developed by the author as a response to the significant difficulties faced by scientists, engineers, and students in their usage of computer algebra (CA) systems. Their tendency to use CA systems only occasionally means that they are unfamiliar with requisite grammar and syntax these systems require. The author…

The Energy of Substituted Ethanes. Asymmetry Orbitals

PubMed Central

Salem, Lionel; Hoffmann, Roald; Otto, Peter

1973-01-01

The leading terms in the energy of a general substituted ethane are derived in explicit form as a function of the torsional angle θ, the substituent electronegativities, and their mutual overlaps. The energy is found to be the sum of all four overlaps between pairs of asymmetry orbitals, and satisfies the requisite symmetry properties. PMID:16592060

7 CFR Appendix A to Subpart C of... - Model Form of Loan Contract for Electric Distribution Borrowers

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... business makes such qualification necessary; (iii) has all requisite corporate and legal power to own and... transactions contemplated thereby have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action and shall not... corporate documents and proceedings of the Borrower necessary for duly authorizing the execution, delivery...

Culture, Personality, Health, and Family Dynamics: Cultural Competence in the Selection of Culturally Sensitive Treatments

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Sperry, Len

2010-01-01

Cultural sensitivity and cultural competence in the selection of culturally sensitive treatments is a requisite for effective counseling practice in working with diverse clients and their families, particularly when clients present with health issues or medical problems. Described here is a strategy for selecting culturally sensitive treatments…

The Effect of Disability Insurance on Health Investment: Evidence from the Veterans Benefits Administration's Disability Compensation Program

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Singleton, Perry

2009-01-01

I examine whether individuals respond to monetary incentives to detect latent medical conditions. The effect is identified by a policy that deemed diabetes associated with herbicide exposure a compensable disability under the Veterans Benefits Administration's Disability Compensation program. Since a diagnosis is a requisite for benefit…

Key Issues in the Practice of College Student Personnel: A Commitment to Excellence.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Creamer, Don G.

The first "Student Personnel Point of View" (1937) still stands as the premiere statement of excellence for the student personnel profession. Several propositions are requisites to achieving the goal of development in students. Students, professional staff, and institutions must all achieve their goals. The environment must be…

Central Regional Annual Research Conference in Agricultural Education Proceedings (41st, Chicago, Illinois, February 22-23, 1987).

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Michigan State Univ., East Lansing. Dept. of Agricultural and Extension Education.

This proceedings contains 18 papers on agricultural research issues selected by panel review plus the keynote address, a conference summary, and the conference agenda. The following papers are included: "Research in Agricultural Education: Requisites for Further Progress" (Warmbrod--keynote address); "Marketing Agricultural Education" (Casey,…

Teens Telling Tales: How Maternal and Peer Audiences Support Narrative Identity Development

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

McLean, Kate C.; Jennings, Lauren E.

2012-01-01

Prior research has shown that parents help children to develop the requisite skills to construct an autobiographical self in past event conversations, yet research in adolescence is lacking. Further, friendships increase in importance during adolescence, and these new relationships may play a role in narrative identity development. The current…

41 CFR 105-54.203-3 - Submission to Library of Congress.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 3 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Submission to Library of... Submission to Library of Congress. The GSA Committee Management Officer furnishes a copy of each charter to the Library of Congress when or shortly after copies are filed with the requisite committees of the...

41 CFR 105-54.203-3 - Submission to Library of Congress.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 3 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false Submission to Library of... Submission to Library of Congress. The GSA Committee Management Officer furnishes a copy of each charter to the Library of Congress when or shortly after copies are filed with the requisite committees of the...

41 CFR 105-54.203-3 - Submission to Library of Congress.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 3 2012-01-01 2012-01-01 false Submission to Library of... Submission to Library of Congress. The GSA Committee Management Officer furnishes a copy of each charter to the Library of Congress when or shortly after copies are filed with the requisite committees of the...

41 CFR 105-54.203-3 - Submission to Library of Congress.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-01-01

... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 3 2014-01-01 2014-01-01 false Submission to Library of... Submission to Library of Congress. The GSA Committee Management Officer furnishes a copy of each charter to the Library of Congress when or shortly after copies are filed with the requisite committees of the...

41 CFR 105-54.203-3 - Submission to Library of Congress.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 3 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Submission to Library of... Submission to Library of Congress. The GSA Committee Management Officer furnishes a copy of each charter to the Library of Congress when or shortly after copies are filed with the requisite committees of the...

Reasonable Accommodation of Disabled Employees: A Comprehensive Case Law Reference.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Shaw, Brian C.

In 1990 the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) became law to ensure the full participation and equal opportunity of the disabled in the United States. Among its many requirements is the obligation on employers, including school districts, to provide those applicants and employees with disabilities who possess the requisite skill, education,…

Drive Beam Shaping and Witness Bunch Generation for the Plasma Wakefield Accelerator

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

England, R. J.; Frederico, J.; Hogan, M. J.

2010-11-04

High transformer ratio operation of the plasma wake field accelerator requires a tailored drive beam current profile followed by a short witness bunch. We discuss techniques for generating the requisite dual bunches and for obtaining the desired drive beam profile, with emphasis on the FACET experiment at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

32 CFR Appendix D to Part 651 - Public Participation Plan

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... involvement is a requisite element of the scoping process (40 CFR 1501.7(a)(1)). (6) Preparation of EAs will... of the preparation of environmental analyses and the tentative planning and decision-making schedule... responsible for matters related to the scoping process. If they are not the same as the proponent of the...

29 CFR 452.97 - Secret ballot.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... 29 Labor 2 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Secret ballot. 452.97 Section 452.97 Labor Regulations... OF 1959 Election Procedures; Rights of Members § 452.97 Secret ballot. (a) A prime requisite of elections regulated by title IV is that they be held by secret ballot among the members or in appropriate...

29 CFR 452.97 - Secret ballot.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... 29 Labor 2 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Secret ballot. 452.97 Section 452.97 Labor Regulations... OF 1959 Election Procedures; Rights of Members § 452.97 Secret ballot. (a) A prime requisite of elections regulated by title IV is that they be held by secret ballot among the members or in appropriate...

29 CFR 452.97 - Secret ballot.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... 29 Labor 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Secret ballot. 452.97 Section 452.97 Labor Regulations... OF 1959 Election Procedures; Rights of Members § 452.97 Secret ballot. (a) A prime requisite of elections regulated by title IV is that they be held by secret ballot among the members or in appropriate...

29 CFR 452.97 - Secret ballot.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... 29 Labor 2 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false Secret ballot. 452.97 Section 452.97 Labor Regulations... OF 1959 Election Procedures; Rights of Members § 452.97 Secret ballot. (a) A prime requisite of elections regulated by title IV is that they be held by secret ballot among the members or in appropriate...

29 CFR 452.97 - Secret ballot.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... 29 Labor 2 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Secret ballot. 452.97 Section 452.97 Labor Regulations... OF 1959 Election Procedures; Rights of Members § 452.97 Secret ballot. (a) A prime requisite of elections regulated by title IV is that they be held by secret ballot among the members or in appropriate...

SWREGAP DATA TO ESTIMATE CHANGE IN WATERSHED CONDITION FOR SELECTED NEVADA WATERSHEDS USING A GIS-BASED HYDROLOGIC MODELING APPROACH

EPA Science Inventory

Planning and assessment in land and water resource management are an important contemporary requisite for almost all natural resource agencies. An overview of the utility of SWReGAP data for watershed assessment and conservation will be presented using specific examples in Nevad...

Let History Reign

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Manzo, Kathleen Kennedy

2008-01-01

Spanish River High School is one of 40 U.S. History Schools and 21 affiliates around the country that get resources and academic support from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. The schools require participating students to take a U.S. history course each year, in addition to any requisites in world history and other subjects. The…

A Community of Practice Approach to Learning Programming

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Chen, Gwo-Dong; Li, Liang-Yi; Wang, Chin-Yea

2012-01-01

In programming courses, teaching students who have varied levels of knowledge and skills the requisite competencies to perform in real-world software development teams is indeed difficult. To address this problem, this paper proposes a community of practice (CoP) approach and provides some guidelines to simulate a real-world CoP in a blended…

Language Learning of Children with Typical Development Using a Deductive Metalinguistic Procedure

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Finestack, Lizbeth H.

2014-01-01

Purpose: In the current study, the author aimed to determine whether 4- to 6-year-old typically developing children possess requisite problem-solving and language abilities to produce, generalize, and retain a novel verb inflection when taught using an explicit, deductive teaching procedure. Method: Study participants included a cross-sectional…

INTEGRATED MULTIMEDIA DECISION-MAKING FOR HUMAN AND ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT: A NATIONAL-SCALE STUDY OF LAND APPLICATION OF ARSENIC-BEARING WASTES

EPA Science Inventory

Requisite to the development and application of sound waste management policies, decision-makers must discern the impact of a given waste management approach upon both human and ecological receptors. To configure such policies solely upon the assessment of impact to humans, for ...

Targeting Change: Assessing a Faculty Learning Community Focused on Increasing Statistics Content in Life Science Curricula

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Parker, Loran Carleton; Gleichsner, Alyssa M.; Adedokun, Omolola A.; Forney, James

2016-01-01

Transformation of research in all biological fields necessitates the design, analysis and, interpretation of large data sets. Preparing students with the requisite skills in experimental design, statistical analysis, and interpretation, and mathematical reasoning will require both curricular reform and faculty who are willing and able to integrate…

Differentiated Instruction: Effects on Primary Students' Mathematics Achievement

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Maxey, Katherine S.

2013-01-01

Low mathematics achievement is a concern of educators and the general public because many Americans are emerging from school without the requisite mathematics skills to function well in our complex, quickly changing society. Individuals with low math abilities are more likely to be unemployed and be a burden to fellow taxpayers. Educators and…

Literacy Education and Sustainable Development in Developing Societies

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Oghenekohwo, Jonathan E.; Frank-Oputu, Ekima A.

2017-01-01

The development of a literate society is a pre-requisite for the emergence of a knowledge economy. The thesis advanced in this paper is that, without massive investment and promotion of literacy education, development that is targeted at the 17-point sustainable development goals (SDGs) will be bereft of citizen's empowerment, engagement,…

77 FR 39205 - Public Hearings for Proposed Rules-National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2012-07-02

... Matter AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Announcement of public hearings. SUMMARY... Standards for Particulate Matter,'' that is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on June 29... standards (NAAQS) for particulate matter (PM) to provide requisite protection of public health and welfare...

76 FR 13424 - Notice of Submission of Proposed Information Collection to OMB; Requisition for Disbursement of...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2011-03-11

... Advance/ Loan Funds AGENCY: Office of the Chief Information Officer, HUD. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The proposed information collection requirement described below has been submitted to the Office of Management... monthly) to HUD during construction to obtain Section 202/811 capital advance/ loan funds. This collection...

Perception of Entrepreneurial Training beyond the Domain of Undergraduate Programme in Estate Management and Valuation

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Bioku, Joseph Olufemi; Ataguba, Joseph Obaje; Ogungbenro, Matthew Taiwo

2016-01-01

Undergraduates at the Federal Polytechnic Idah in Nigeria are trained in vocations outside their domain programmes in connection with the entrepreneurship development course as pre-requisite for their graduation. This study assessed students' perception of entrepreneurship training in vocations beyond those taught within the core estate management…

Impact of the Cybernetic Law of Requisite Variety on a Theory of Information Science.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Heilprin, Laurence B.

Search for an integrated, comprehensive theory of information science (IS) has so far been unsuccessful. Appearance of a theory has been retarded by one central constraint, the large number of disciplines concerned with human communication. Crossdisciplinary interdependence occurs in two ways: theoretical relation of IS phenomena to a given…

12 CFR 708a.5 - Notice to NCUA.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... of directors approves a proposal to convert, it must provide the Regional Director with notice of its... part of the notice required by § 708a.5(a) if its state chartering law permits it to convert to a..., including any internal governance requirements, such as the requisite membership vote for conversion and the...

Developing Training Exemplars for the Requisite Components of Visual Threat Detection

DTIC Science & Technology

2012-09-01

construed as an official Department of the Army position, unless so designated by other authorized documents. i REPORT DOCUMENTATION PAGE 1... Design ............................................................................................................................. 34...activities in the OE. This report presents the findings from the final research phase and consists of a discussion of the design and development of the

Zwei Jahre Vorschulenglisch in Koeln (Two Years of Preschool English in Cologne)

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Schoen, Eva-Maria

1977-01-01

Discusses types of "play-work" in the preschool group, typical difficulties, problems of space and time, desirable requisites with respect to the children, and cooperation with parents. Positive in tone, the report ends with recommendations to use every opportunity for foreign language learning in preschool. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Revival of the Position Paper: Aligning Curricula and Professional Competencies

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Powell, Vonda

2012-01-01

As public relations professions advance toward new media platforms, one traditional tool--the backgrounder/position paper (more technically termed white paper) remains a compelling vehicle to impart enduring professional competencies. Moreover, the skills requisite to produce a white paper can be deployed in a variety of new and traditional media…

On the Ability To Infer Deficiency in Mathematics From Performance in Physics Using Hierarchies

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Riban, David M.

1971-01-01

Presents the procedures, results, and conclusions of a study designed to see if mathematical deficiencies can be inferred from PSSC students' performance by using a hierarchical model of requisite skills. Assuming inferences were possible, remediation was given. No effect due to remediation was observed but analysis indicated incidental learning…

Playing the Numbers: Remediation--No Easy Answers

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Doyle, William R.

2012-01-01

Should remediation in higher education be ended? A recent report from Complete College America says exactly that. The authors call for all public institutions of higher education in the United States to stop offering it and instead ensure that students who need extra help take co-requisite requirements, such as extra tutoring. Their…

78 FR 23283 - Request for Nominations To Serve on Board of Trustees for the Cobell Education Scholarship Fund

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2013-04-18

....9 billion to the Cobell Education Scholarship Fund based on the dollar amount of land purchased... best boards are a mix of characteristics, skills, experiences, and diversity. Individuals who are..., finance, education or public service; should possess the requisite intelligence, education and experience...

Teachers' Perspectives Regarding the Decline in Boys' Participation in Post-Compulsory Rigorous Mathematics Subjects

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Easey, Michael

2013-01-01

This paper explores the decline in boys' participation in post-compulsory rigorous mathematics using the perspectives of eight experienced teachers at an independent, boys' College located in Brisbane, Queensland. This study coincides with concerns regarding the decline in suitably qualified tertiary graduates with requisite mathematical skills…

10 CFR 2.340 - Initial decision in certain contested proceedings; immediate effectiveness of initial decisions...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... those matters, the Commission, the Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation or Director, Office of... Nuclear Reactor Regulation, as appropriate, after making the requisite findings, will issue, deny or... acceptance criteria in nuclear power reactor combined licenses. In any initial decision under § 52.103(g) of...

10 CFR 2.340 - Initial decision in certain contested proceedings; immediate effectiveness of initial decisions...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

... those matters, the Commission, the Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation or Director, Office of... Nuclear Reactor Regulation, as appropriate, after making the requisite findings, will issue, deny or... acceptance criteria in nuclear power reactor combined licenses. In any initial decision under § 52.103(g) of...

10 CFR 2.340 - Initial decision in certain contested proceedings; immediate effectiveness of initial decisions...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

... those matters, the Commission, the Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation or Director, Office of... Nuclear Reactor Regulation, as appropriate, after making the requisite findings, will issue, deny or... acceptance criteria in nuclear power reactor combined licenses. In any initial decision under § 52.103(g) of...

Teachers Curriculum Guide for Field Ecology.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Bemiss, Clair W.

Focusing upon a working knowledge of ecological principles as a requisite for today's society, this teacher's guide suggests numerous field studies which make pertinent use of these principles. It is designed to serve as an aid in planning student-centered activities which allow for understanding and improving the ecosystem in which they are an…

Stereoselective total synthesis of Oxylipin from open chain gluco-configured building block.

PubMed

Borkar, Santosh Ramdas; Aidhen, Indrapal Singh

2017-04-18

Total synthesis of naturally occurring Oxylipin has been achieved from open chain gluco-configured building block which is readily assembled from inexpensive and commercially available D-(+)-gluconolactone. Grignard reaction and Wittig olefination reactions are key steps for the requisite CC bond formation. Copyright © 2017. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

Community Needs Assessment Office Administration & Technology (OAT).

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Pezzoli, J. A.; Lum, Ku'uipo; Meyer, Diane

The purpose of this survey was to obtain from employers the requisite skills and potential employment demand for office workers on Maui. Of particular interest was: (1) the assessment of various clerical skills and computer software in its relevance to the Office Administration & Technology (OAT) curriculum at Maui Community College; and (2)…

Substereotypes and Requisite Management Characteristics.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Pardine, Peter; And Others

A sample of 407 (224 males and 183 females with a median age of 29.4 years) part-time business students enrolled in evening programs at 3 colleges were surveyed to determine whether the attributes of successful middle managers correspond more strongly with the attributes of career women than with those of women in general. The students were…

Reliability, Risk and Cost Trade-Offs for Composite Designs

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Shiao, Michael C.; Singhal, Surendra N.; Chamis, Christos C.

1996-01-01

Risk and cost trade-offs have been simulated using a probabilistic method. The probabilistic method accounts for all naturally-occurring uncertainties including those in constituent material properties, fabrication variables, structure geometry and loading conditions. The probability density function of first buckling load for a set of uncertain variables is computed. The probabilistic sensitivity factors of uncertain variables to the first buckling load is calculated. The reliability-based cost for a composite fuselage panel is defined and minimized with respect to requisite design parameters. The optimization is achieved by solving a system of nonlinear algebraic equations whose coefficients are functions of probabilistic sensitivity factors. With optimum design parameters such as the mean and coefficient of variation (representing range of scatter) of uncertain variables, the most efficient and economical manufacturing procedure can be selected. In this paper, optimum values of the requisite design parameters for a predetermined cost due to failure occurrence are computationally determined. The results for the fuselage panel analysis show that the higher the cost due to failure occurrence, the smaller the optimum coefficient of variation of fiber modulus (design parameter) in longitudinal direction.

Assessment of the requisites of microbiology based infectious disease training under the pressure of consultation needs

PubMed Central

2011-01-01

Background Training of infectious disease (ID) specialists is structured on classical clinical microbiology training in Turkey and ID specialists work as clinical microbiologists at the same time. Hence, this study aimed to determine the clinical skills and knowledge required by clinical microbiologists. Methods A cross-sectional study was carried out between June 1, 2010 and September 15, 2010 in 32 ID departments in Turkey. Only patients hospitalized and followed up in the ID departments between January-June 2010 who required consultation with other disciplines were included. Results A total of 605 patients undergoing 1343 consultations were included, with pulmonology, neurology, cardiology, gastroenterology, nephrology, dermatology, haematology, and endocrinology being the most frequent consultation specialties. The consultation patterns were quite similar and were not affected by either the nature of infections or the critical clinical status of ID patients. Conclusions The results of our study show that certain internal medicine subdisciplines such as pulmonology, neurology and dermatology appear to be the principal clinical requisites in the training of ID specialists, rather than internal medicine as a whole. PMID:22177310

Area balance and strain in an extensional fault system: Strategies for improved oil recovery in fractured chalk, Gilbertown Field, southwestern Alabama -- Year 2. Annual report, March 1997--March 1998

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

Pashin, J.C.; Raymond, D.E.; Rindsberg, A.K.

1998-09-01

Gilbertown Field is the oldest oil field in Alabama and has produced oil from fractured chalk of the Cretaceous Selma Group and glauconitic sandstone of the Eutaw Formation. Nearly all of Gilbertown Field is still in primary recovery, although waterflooding has been attempted locally. The objective of this project is to analyze the geologic structure and burial history of Mesozoic and Tertiary strata in Gilbertown Field and adjacent areas in order to suggest ways in which oil recovery can be improved. Indeed, the decline of oil production to marginally economic levels in recent years has made this type of analysismore » timely and practical. Key technical advancements being sought include understanding the relationship of requisite strain to production in Gilbertown reservoirs, incorporation of synsedimentary growth factors into models of area balance, quantification of the relationship between requisite strain and bed curvature, determination of the timing of hydrocarbon generation, and identification of the avenues and mechanisms of fluid transport.« less

Active Control of Mixing and Combustion, from Mechanisms to Implementation

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Ghoniem, Ahmed F.

2001-11-01

Implementation of active control in complex processes, of the type encountered in high Reynolds number mixing and combustion, is predicated upon the identification of the underlying mechanisms and the construction of reduced order models that capture their essential characteristics. The mechanisms of interest must be shown to be amenable to external actuations, allowing optimal control strategies to exploit the delicate interactions that lead to the desired outcome. Reduced order models are utilized in defining the form and requisite attributes of actuation, its relationship to the monitoring system and the relevant control algorithms embedded in a feedforward or a feedback loop. The talk will review recent work on active control of mixing in combustion devices in which strong shear zones concur with mixing, combustion stabilization and flame anchoring. The underlying mechanisms, e.g., stability of shear flows, formation/evolution of large vortical structures in separating and swirling flows, their mutual interactions with acoustic fields, flame fronts and chemical kinetics, etc., are discussed in light of their key roles in mixing, burning enhancement/suppression, and combustion instability. Subtle attributes of combustion mechanisms are used to suggest the requisite control strategies.