Sample records for written work orders

  1. The incidence and severity of errors in pharmacist-written discharge medication orders.

    PubMed

    Onatade, Raliat; Sawieres, Sara; Veck, Alexandra; Smith, Lindsay; Gore, Shivani; Al-Azeib, Sumiah

    2017-08-01

    Background Errors in discharge prescriptions are problematic. When hospital pharmacists write discharge prescriptions improvements are seen in the quality and efficiency of discharge. There is limited information on the incidence of errors in pharmacists' medication orders. Objective To investigate the extent and clinical significance of errors in pharmacist-written discharge medication orders. Setting 1000-bed teaching hospital in London, UK. Method Pharmacists in this London hospital routinely write discharge medication orders as part of the clinical pharmacy service. Convenient days, based on researcher availability, between October 2013 and January 2014 were selected. Pre-registration pharmacists reviewed all discharge medication orders written by pharmacists on these days and identified discrepancies between the medication history, inpatient chart, patient records and discharge summary. A senior clinical pharmacist confirmed the presence of an error. Each error was assigned a potential clinical significance rating (based on the NCCMERP scale) by a physician and an independent senior clinical pharmacist, working separately. Main outcome measure Incidence of errors in pharmacist-written discharge medication orders. Results 509 prescriptions, written by 51 pharmacists, containing 4258 discharge medication orders were assessed (8.4 orders per prescription). Ten prescriptions (2%), contained a total of ten erroneous orders (order error rate-0.2%). The pharmacist considered that one error had the potential to cause temporary harm (0.02% of all orders). The physician did not rate any of the errors with the potential to cause harm. Conclusion The incidence of errors in pharmacists' discharge medication orders was low. The quality, safety and policy implications of pharmacists routinely writing discharge medication orders should be further explored.

  2. Authorship Credit: A National Study of Social Work Educators' Beliefs

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Apgar, Dawn Hall; Congress, Elaine

    2005-01-01

    This study examines decisions by social work educators about authorship order and educators' views on other authorship issues. Results indicate the writing of the manuscript was viewed as the most important task in making decisions about authorship order. The majority believed that a written agreement is helpful before beginning research to decide…

  3. 48 CFR 52.243-4 - Changes.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... agency procedures. Changes (JUN 2007) (a) The Contracting Officer may, at any time, without notice to the sureties, if any, by written order designated or indicated to be a change order, make changes in the work... changed by any such order, the Contracting Officer shall make an equitable adjustment and modify the...

  4. 48 CFR 52.243-4 - Changes.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... agency procedures. Changes (JUN 2007) (a) The Contracting Officer may, at any time, without notice to the sureties, if any, by written order designated or indicated to be a change order, make changes in the work... changed by any such order, the Contracting Officer shall make an equitable adjustment and modify the...

  5. 48 CFR 52.243-4 - Changes.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... agency procedures. Changes (JUN 2007) (a) The Contracting Officer may, at any time, without notice to the sureties, if any, by written order designated or indicated to be a change order, make changes in the work... changed by any such order, the Contracting Officer shall make an equitable adjustment and modify the...

  6. 48 CFR 52.243-4 - Changes.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... agency procedures. Changes (JUN 2007) (a) The Contracting Officer may, at any time, without notice to the sureties, if any, by written order designated or indicated to be a change order, make changes in the work... changed by any such order, the Contracting Officer shall make an equitable adjustment and modify the...

  7. 48 CFR 1552.211-72 - Monthly progress report.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... for each work assignment or delivery order. (b) Specific discussions shall include difficulties... “Limitation of Funds” clauses requiring separate written notice to the Contracting Officer. (g) The reports...

  8. 48 CFR 1552.211-72 - Monthly progress report.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... for each work assignment or delivery order. (b) Specific discussions shall include difficulties... “Limitation of Funds” clauses requiring separate written notice to the Contracting Officer. (g) The reports...

  9. 48 CFR 1552.211-72 - Monthly progress report.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... for each work assignment or delivery order. (b) Specific discussions shall include difficulties... “Limitation of Funds” clauses requiring separate written notice to the Contracting Officer. (g) The reports...

  10. 48 CFR 1552.211-72 - Monthly progress report.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... for each work assignment or delivery order. (b) Specific discussions shall include difficulties... “Limitation of Funds” clauses requiring separate written notice to the Contracting Officer. (g) The reports...

  11. 46 CFR Sec. 8 - Extra work and changes.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... ACCOMPLISHMENT OF VESSEL REPAIRS UNDER NATIONAL SHIPPING AUTHORITY MASTER LUMP SUM REPAIR CONTRACT-NSA-LUMPSUMREP... work shall be directed by a written Change Order as provided in Article 6 of the NSA-LUMPSUMREP... Contractor may appeal such contract price or revised completion date as provided in Article 27 of the NSA...

  12. 46 CFR Sec. 8 - Extra work and changes.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... ACCOMPLISHMENT OF VESSEL REPAIRS UNDER NATIONAL SHIPPING AUTHORITY MASTER LUMP SUM REPAIR CONTRACT-NSA-LUMPSUMREP... work shall be directed by a written Change Order as provided in Article 6 of the NSA-LUMPSUMREP... Contractor may appeal such contract price or revised completion date as provided in Article 27 of the NSA...

  13. 46 CFR Sec. 8 - Extra work and changes.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... ACCOMPLISHMENT OF VESSEL REPAIRS UNDER NATIONAL SHIPPING AUTHORITY MASTER LUMP SUM REPAIR CONTRACT-NSA-LUMPSUMREP... work shall be directed by a written Change Order as provided in Article 6 of the NSA-LUMPSUMREP... Contractor may appeal such contract price or revised completion date as provided in Article 27 of the NSA...

  14. Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973. Job Corps Health Program. A Working Document for Standing Orders. Part 1. Standing Orders for Health Personnel.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC.

    Developed as the first of a two-part supplement to Technical Supplement Q for Standing Orders (TS-Q), this handbook of standing orders was designed to help health personnel at Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) Job Corps health centers meet the federal requirement that each center have a set of written standing orders on how to…

  15. 28 CFR 68.3 - Service of complaint, notice of hearing, written orders, and decisions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ..., written orders, and decisions. 68.3 Section 68.3 Judicial Administration DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (CONTINUED... DOCUMENT FRAUD § 68.3 Service of complaint, notice of hearing, written orders, and decisions. (a) Service of complaint, notice of hearing, written orders, and decisions shall be made by the Office of the...

  16. 28 CFR 68.3 - Service of complaint, notice of hearing, written orders, and decisions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ..., written orders, and decisions. 68.3 Section 68.3 Judicial Administration DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (CONTINUED... DOCUMENT FRAUD § 68.3 Service of complaint, notice of hearing, written orders, and decisions. (a) Service of complaint, notice of hearing, written orders, and decisions shall be made by the Office of the...

  17. 28 CFR 68.3 - Service of complaint, notice of hearing, written orders, and decisions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ..., written orders, and decisions. 68.3 Section 68.3 Judicial Administration DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (CONTINUED... DOCUMENT FRAUD § 68.3 Service of complaint, notice of hearing, written orders, and decisions. (a) Service of complaint, notice of hearing, written orders, and decisions shall be made by the Office of the...

  18. 28 CFR 68.3 - Service of complaint, notice of hearing, written orders, and decisions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ..., written orders, and decisions. 68.3 Section 68.3 Judicial Administration DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (CONTINUED... DOCUMENT FRAUD § 68.3 Service of complaint, notice of hearing, written orders, and decisions. (a) Service of complaint, notice of hearing, written orders, and decisions shall be made by the Office of the...

  19. 10 CFR 35.396 - Training for the parenteral administration of unsealed byproduct material requiring a written...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... radioactivity; (iv) Chemistry of byproduct material for medical use; and (v) Radiation biology; and (2) Has work...). The work experience must involve— (i) Ordering, receiving, and unpacking radioactive materials safely... meters; (iii) Calculating, measuring, and safely preparing patient or human research subject dosages; (iv...

  20. 10 CFR 35.396 - Training for the parenteral administration of unsealed byproduct material requiring a written...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... radioactivity; (iv) Chemistry of byproduct material for medical use; and (v) Radiation biology; and (2) Has work...). The work experience must involve— (i) Ordering, receiving, and unpacking radioactive materials safely... meters; (iii) Calculating, measuring, and safely preparing patient or human research subject dosages; (iv...

  1. 10 CFR 35.396 - Training for the parenteral administration of unsealed byproduct material requiring a written...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... radioactivity; (iv) Chemistry of byproduct material for medical use; and (v) Radiation biology; and (2) Has work...). The work experience must involve— (i) Ordering, receiving, and unpacking radioactive materials safely... meters; (iii) Calculating, measuring, and safely preparing patient or human research subject dosages; (iv...

  2. 10 CFR 35.396 - Training for the parenteral administration of unsealed byproduct material requiring a written...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... radioactivity; (iv) Chemistry of byproduct material for medical use; and (v) Radiation biology; and (2) Has work...). The work experience must involve— (i) Ordering, receiving, and unpacking radioactive materials safely... meters; (iii) Calculating, measuring, and safely preparing patient or human research subject dosages; (iv...

  3. 78 FR 16332 - Self-Regulatory Organizations; NYSE MKT LLC; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-03-14

    ... hand written format that in turn could be transmitted to a Floor Broker's EOC workstation for... Brokers could hand write order information into the Electronic Tablet upon receipt of an order, route the... communications interface between booth terminals and the Floor Broker work stations and hand held applications...

  4. 40 CFR Appendix C-2 to Subpart E... - Required Provisions-Construction Contracts

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... terms used in this clause have the following meanings: (1) The term Air Act means the Clean Air Act, as... court of competent jurisdiction, the Envrionmental Protection Agency or an Air or Water Pollution... performance of the work. (b) Any other written order or an oral order (which terms as used in this paragraph...

  5. 20 CFR 702.243 - Settlement application; how submitted, how approved, how disapproved, criteria.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... adjudicator shall serve on all parties a written statement or order containing the reasons for disapproval... limited to: (1) The claimant's age, education and work history; (2) The degree of the claimant's disability or impairment; (3) The availability of the type of work the claimant can do; (4) The cost and...

  6. Testing a Threshold: An Approximate Replication of Johnson, Mercado & Acevedo 2012

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Johnson, Mark D.; Nicodemus, Christine L.

    2016-01-01

    In order to better understand the role of working memory in second language (L2) written production, this study contributes to recent research attempting to apply Kellogg's model of working memory in first language (L1) writing to L2 writing research (Ellis & Yuan 2004; Ong & Zhang 2010; Johnson, Mercado & Acevedo 2012). This paper…

  7. The Impact of Project Work and the Writing Process Method on Writing Production

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Díaz Ramírez, Marcela

    2014-01-01

    This article presents the outcomes of an investigation whose main goal was to implement the methodology of project work and a process approach in order to improve writing production in an English class of Colombian university students since their diagnostic tests showed that their written production had the lowest score. Based on data collected,…

  8. 10 CFR 35.392 - Training for the oral administration of sodium iodide I-131 requiring a written directive in...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ...) Chemistry of byproduct material for medical use; and (v) Radiation biology; and (2) Has work experience...)(ii)(G)(1) or 35.390(b)(1)(ii)(G)(2). The work experience must involve— (i) Ordering, receiving, and... research subject dosages; (iv) Using administrative controls to prevent a medical event involving the use...

  9. 10 CFR 35.392 - Training for the oral administration of sodium iodide I-131 requiring a written directive in...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ...) Chemistry of byproduct material for medical use; and (v) Radiation biology; and (2) Has work experience...)(ii)(G)(1) or 35.390(b)(1)(ii)(G)(2). The work experience must involve— (i) Ordering, receiving, and... research subject dosages; (iv) Using administrative controls to prevent a medical event involving the use...

  10. 10 CFR 35.394 - Training for the oral administration of sodium iodide I-131 requiring a written directive in...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... pertaining to the use and measurement of radioactivity; (iv) Chemistry of byproduct material for medical use; and (v) Radiation biology; and (2) Has work experience, under the supervision of an authorized user... administering dosages as specified in § 35.390(b)(1)(ii)(G)(2). The work experience must involve— (i) Ordering...

  11. 10 CFR 35.392 - Training for the oral administration of sodium iodide I-131 requiring a written directive in...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ...) Chemistry of byproduct material for medical use; and (v) Radiation biology; and (2) Has work experience...)(ii)(G)(1) or 35.390(b)(1)(ii)(G)(2). The work experience must involve— (i) Ordering, receiving, and... research subject dosages; (iv) Using administrative controls to prevent a medical event involving the use...

  12. 10 CFR 35.394 - Training for the oral administration of sodium iodide I-131 requiring a written directive in...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... pertaining to the use and measurement of radioactivity; (iv) Chemistry of byproduct material for medical use; and (v) Radiation biology; and (2) Has work experience, under the supervision of an authorized user... administering dosages as specified in § 35.390(b)(1)(ii)(G)(2). The work experience must involve— (i) Ordering...

  13. 10 CFR 35.394 - Training for the oral administration of sodium iodide I-131 requiring a written directive in...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... pertaining to the use and measurement of radioactivity; (iv) Chemistry of byproduct material for medical use; and (v) Radiation biology; and (2) Has work experience, under the supervision of an authorized user... administering dosages as specified in § 35.390(b)(1)(ii)(G)(2). The work experience must involve— (i) Ordering...

  14. 10 CFR 35.392 - Training for the oral administration of sodium iodide I-131 requiring a written directive in...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ...) Chemistry of byproduct material for medical use; and (v) Radiation biology; and (2) Has work experience...)(ii)(G)(1) or 35.390(b)(1)(ii)(G)(2). The work experience must involve— (i) Ordering, receiving, and... research subject dosages; (iv) Using administrative controls to prevent a medical event involving the use...

  15. 48 CFR 217.7103-4 - Emergency work.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... Section 217.7103-4 Federal Acquisition Regulations System DEFENSE ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE CONTRACTING METHODS AND CONTRACT TYPES SPECIAL CONTRACTING METHODS Master Agreement for... soliciting offers, may issue a written job order to a contractor that has previously executed a master...

  16. 48 CFR 217.7103-4 - Emergency work.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... Section 217.7103-4 Federal Acquisition Regulations System DEFENSE ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE CONTRACTING METHODS AND CONTRACT TYPES SPECIAL CONTRACTING METHODS Master Agreement for... soliciting offers, may issue a written job order to a contractor that has previously executed a master...

  17. 48 CFR 217.7103-4 - Emergency work.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... Section 217.7103-4 Federal Acquisition Regulations System DEFENSE ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE CONTRACTING METHODS AND CONTRACT TYPES SPECIAL CONTRACTING METHODS Master Agreement for... soliciting offers, may issue a written job order to a contractor that has previously executed a master...

  18. SCP -- A Simple CCD Processing Package

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Lewis, J. R.

    This note describes a small set of programs, written at RGO, which deal with basic CCD frame processing (e.g. bias subtraction, flat fielding, trimming etc.). The need to process large numbers of CCD frames from devices such as FOS or ISIS in order to extract spectra has prompted the writing of routines which will do the basic hack-work with a minimal amount of interaction from the user. Although they were written with spectral data in mind, there are no ``spectrum-specific'' features in the software which means they can be applied to any CCD data.

  19. Active Engagement with Assessment and Feedback Can Improve Group-Work Outcomes and Boost Student Confidence

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Scott, G. W.

    2017-01-01

    This study involves evaluation of a novel iterative group-based learning task developed to enable students to actively engage with assessment and feedback in order to improve the quality of their written work. The students were all in the final semester of their final year of study and enrolled on either BSc Zoology or BSc Marine and Freshwater…

  20. 39 CFR 3005.21 - Authority to order depositions and responses to written interrogatories.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... written interrogatories. 3005.21 Section 3005.21 Postal Service POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION PERSONNEL PROCEDURES FOR COMPELLING PRODUCTION OF INFORMATION BY THE POSTAL SERVICE Depositions and Written Interrogatories § 3005.21 Authority to order depositions and responses to written interrogatories. The Chairman...

  1. Developing Strategies for Affordable Bandwidth.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Educause Quarterly, 2000

    2000-01-01

    Written by Educause's Net@EDU Broadband Pricing Working Group, this article discusses what institutions of higher education can do to develop good partnerships with broadband vendors in order to negotiate affordable pricing for increased bandwidth. Describes problems with the marketplace, examples from a few universities, and points to remember…

  2. Analyses of Third Order Bose-Einstein Correlation by Means of Coulomb Wave Function

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

    Biyajima, Minoru; Mizoguchi, Takuya; Suzuki, Naomichi

    2006-04-11

    In order to include a correction by the Coulomb interaction in Bose-Einstein correlation (BEC), the wave function for the Coulomb scattering were introduced in the quantum optical approach to BEC in the previous work. If we formulate the amplitude written by Coulomb wave functions according to the diagram for BEC in the plane wave formulation, the formula for 3{pi} -BEC becomes simpler than that of our previous work. We re-analyze the raw data of 3{pi} -BEC by NA44 and STAR Collaborations by this formula. Results are compared with the previous ones.

  3. Measuring the relationship between interruptions, multitasking and prescribing errors in an emergency department: a study protocol

    PubMed Central

    Raban, Magdalena Z; Walter, Scott R; Douglas, Heather E; Strumpman, Dana; Mackenzie, John; Westbrook, Johanna I

    2015-01-01

    Introduction Interruptions and multitasking are frequent in clinical settings, and have been shown in the cognitive psychology literature to affect performance, increasing the risk of error. However, comparatively less is known about their impact on errors in clinical work. This study will assess the relationship between prescribing errors, interruptions and multitasking in an emergency department (ED) using direct observations and chart review. Methods and analysis The study will be conducted in an ED of a 440-bed teaching hospital in Sydney, Australia. Doctors will be shadowed at proximity by observers for 2 h time intervals while they are working on day shift (between 0800 and 1800). Time stamped data on tasks, interruptions and multitasking will be recorded on a handheld computer using the validated Work Observation Method by Activity Timing (WOMBAT) tool. The prompts leading to interruptions and multitasking will also be recorded. When doctors prescribe medication, type of chart and chart sections written on, along with the patient's medical record number (MRN) will be recorded. A clinical pharmacist will access patient records and assess the medication orders for prescribing errors. The prescribing error rate will be calculated per prescribing task and is defined as the number of errors divided by the number of medication orders written during the prescribing task. The association between prescribing error rates, and rates of prompts, interruptions and multitasking will be assessed using statistical modelling. Ethics and dissemination Ethics approval has been obtained from the hospital research ethics committee. Eligible doctors will be provided with written information sheets and written consent will be obtained if they agree to participate. Doctor details and MRNs will be kept separate from the data on prescribing errors, and will not appear in the final data set for analysis. Study results will be disseminated in publications and feedback to the ED. PMID:26463224

  4. Measuring the relationship between interruptions, multitasking and prescribing errors in an emergency department: a study protocol.

    PubMed

    Raban, Magdalena Z; Walter, Scott R; Douglas, Heather E; Strumpman, Dana; Mackenzie, John; Westbrook, Johanna I

    2015-10-13

    Interruptions and multitasking are frequent in clinical settings, and have been shown in the cognitive psychology literature to affect performance, increasing the risk of error. However, comparatively less is known about their impact on errors in clinical work. This study will assess the relationship between prescribing errors, interruptions and multitasking in an emergency department (ED) using direct observations and chart review. The study will be conducted in an ED of a 440-bed teaching hospital in Sydney, Australia. Doctors will be shadowed at proximity by observers for 2 h time intervals while they are working on day shift (between 0800 and 1800). Time stamped data on tasks, interruptions and multitasking will be recorded on a handheld computer using the validated Work Observation Method by Activity Timing (WOMBAT) tool. The prompts leading to interruptions and multitasking will also be recorded. When doctors prescribe medication, type of chart and chart sections written on, along with the patient's medical record number (MRN) will be recorded. A clinical pharmacist will access patient records and assess the medication orders for prescribing errors. The prescribing error rate will be calculated per prescribing task and is defined as the number of errors divided by the number of medication orders written during the prescribing task. The association between prescribing error rates, and rates of prompts, interruptions and multitasking will be assessed using statistical modelling. Ethics approval has been obtained from the hospital research ethics committee. Eligible doctors will be provided with written information sheets and written consent will be obtained if they agree to participate. Doctor details and MRNs will be kept separate from the data on prescribing errors, and will not appear in the final data set for analysis. Study results will be disseminated in publications and feedback to the ED. Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions.

  5. Generic Skill Development and Learning/Assessment Process: Use of Rubrics and Student Validation

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Iborra Urios, Montserrat; Ramirez Rangel, Eliana; Bringué Tomàs, Roger; Tejero Salvador, Javier; Cunill García, Fidel; Fité Piquer, Carles

    2015-01-01

    To fulfill the European Higher Education context in the subject of the Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Degree of University of Barcelona named "Chemical Engineering Experimentation II" team work, written and oral communication generic skills were developed and assessed by means of rubrics. In order to appraise the methodological…

  6. Project EXCEL: Hotel Workers Literacy Enhancement Program. Final Performance Report.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Career Resources Development Center, Inc., San Francisco, CA.

    Project EXCEL is a federally-funded workplace literacy program involving hotel enterprises in the San Francisco (California) Bay area. Its focus is on identification and instruction of literacy skills essential to job success for limited-English-proficient (LEP) workers. Training is intended to enable employees to understand written work orders,…

  7. Project EXCEL: Sheraton Palace Hotel, Laundry Department. A Beginning Laundry Curriculum.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Career Resources Development Center, Inc., San Francisco, CA.

    Project EXCEL is a federally-funded workplace literacy program involving hotel enterprises in the San Francisco (California) Bay area. Its focus is on identification and instruction of literacy skills essential to job success for limited-English-proficient (LEP) workers. Training is intended to enable employees to understand written work orders,…

  8. Project EXCEL: Sheraton Wharf, Room Service Department. English Communication, Module 1.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Career Resources Development Center, Inc., San Francisco, CA.

    Project EXCEL is a federally-funded workplace literacy program involving hotel enterprises in the San Francisco (California) Bay area. Its focus is on identification and instruction of literacy skills essential to job success for limited-English-proficient (LEP) workers. Training is intended to enable employees to understand written work orders,…

  9. Project EXCEL: Westin St. Francis, Housekeeping Department. English Communication, Module 1.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Career Resources Development Center, Inc., San Francisco, CA.

    Project EXCEL is a federally-funded workplace literacy program involving hotel enterprises in the San Francisco (California) Bay area. Its focus is on identification and instruction of literacy skills essential to job success for limited-English-proficient (LEP) workers. Training is intended to enable employees to understand written work orders,…

  10. Project EXCEL: Westin St. Francis, Stewarding Department. English Communication, Module 1.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Career Resources Development Center, Inc., San Francisco, CA.

    Project EXCEL is a federally-funded workplace literacy program involving hotel enterprises in the San Francisco (California) Bay area. Its focus is on identification and instruction of literacy skills essential to job success for limited-English-proficient (LEP) workers. Training is intended to enable employees to understand written work orders,…

  11. 16 CFR 1025.23 - Motions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ...) Written motions. All written motions shall state with particularity the order, ruling, or action desired... opposes the granting of the requested order, ruling or action may file a written response to the motion... 16 Commercial Practices 2 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Motions. 1025.23 Section 1025.23 Commercial...

  12. 16 CFR 1025.23 - Motions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ...) Written motions. All written motions shall state with particularity the order, ruling, or action desired... opposes the granting of the requested order, ruling or action may file a written response to the motion... 16 Commercial Practices 2 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false Motions. 1025.23 Section 1025.23 Commercial...

  13. Work-In-Progress Peer Consult on EPA's Multimedia ...

    EPA Pesticide Factsheets

    This document is a compilation of responses from four external peer reviewers on EPA's "Multimedia Exposure Analysis to Inform a Public Health-Based Value for Lead in Drinking Water." It was delivered by Versar, Inc. under contract number EP-C-12-045 Task Order 91. Peer review report compiled, written and delivered by Versar, Inc to EPA.

  14. Improving Teacher Generated Objectives In Order That Learners May Self-Evaluate Better.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Alvir, Howard P.

    This report results from a meeting between five teachers who wanted to (a) dicuss performance and behavioral objectives, (b) work together outside their teaching fields, (c) edit objectives written by one another, and (d) develop materials that could be used in writing them. Five sample objectives are given, each dealing with a different…

  15. Project EXCEL: Holiday Inn at Union Square, Housekeeping Department. Safety and Security, Module 2.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Career Resources Development Center, Inc., San Francisco, CA.

    Project EXCEL is a federally-funded workplace literacy program involving hotel enterprises in the San Francisco (California) Bay area. Its focus is on identification and instruction of literacy skills essential to job success for limited-English-proficient (LEP) workers. Training is intended to enable employees to understand written work orders,…

  16. An Analysis of Spanish and German Learners' Errors. Working Papers on Bilingualism, No. 7.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    LoCoco, Veronica Gonzalez-Mena

    This study analyzes Spanish and German errors committed by adult native speakers of English enrolled in elementary and intermediate levels. Four written samples were collected for each target language, over a period of five months. Errors were categorized according to their possible source. Types of errors were ordered according to their…

  17. Project EXCEL: San Francisco Hilton and Towers, Stewarding Department. English Communication, Module 1.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Career Resources Development Center, Inc., San Francisco, CA.

    Project EXCEL is a federally-funded workplace literacy program involving hotel enterprises in the San Francisco (California) Bay area. Its focus is on identification and instruction of literacy skills essential to job success for limited-English-proficient (LEP) workers. Training is intended to enable employees to understand written work orders,…

  18. Project EXCEL: Holiday Inn at Fisherman's Wharf, Housekeeping Department: Improving Customer Service, Module 3.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Career Resources Development Center, Inc., San Francisco, CA.

    Project EXCEL is a federally-funded workplace literacy program involving hotel enterprises in the San Francisco (California) Bay area. Its focus is on identification and instruction of literacy skills essential to job success for limited-English-proficient (LEP) workers. Training is intended to enable employees to understand written work orders,…

  19. Project EXCEL: Holiday--Union Square, Housekeeping Department. English for Room Cleaners, Module 1.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Career Resources Development Center, Inc., San Francisco, CA.

    Project EXCEL is a federally-funded workplace literacy program involving hotel enterprises in the San Francisco (California) Bay area. Its focus is on identification and instruction of literacy skills essential to job success for limited-English-proficient (LEP) workers. Training is intended to enable employees to understand written work orders,…

  20. Classroom Data Analysis with the Five Strands of Mathematical Proficiency

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Groth, Randall E.

    2017-01-01

    Qualitative classroom data from video recordings and students' written work can play important roles in improving mathematics instruction. In order to take full advantage of these data sources, it is helpful to have a strong analytic lens to orient one's reflections on the data. One promising analytic lens is the National Research Council's five…

  1. SNS Proton Beam Window Disposal

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    Popova, Irina; Gallmeier, Franz X.; Trotter, Steven

    2017-09-01

    In order to support the disposal of the proton beam window assembly of the Spallation Neutron Source beamline to the target station, waste classification analyses are performed. The window has a limited life-time due to radiation-induced material damage. Analyses include calculation of the radionuclide inventory and shielding analyses for the transport package/container to ensure that the container is compliant with the transportation and waste management regulations. In order to automate this procedure and minimize manual work a script in Perl language was written.

  2. "Magnetic Reconnection Code: Applications to Sawtooth Oscillations, Error-Field Induced Islands, and the Dynamo Effect" - Final Technical Report

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    Fitzpatrick, Richard

    2007-09-24

    Dr. Fitzpatrick has written an MHD code in order to investigate the interaction of tearing modes with flow and external magnetic perturbations, which has been successfully benchmarked against both linear and nonlinear theory and used to investigate error-field penetration in flowing plasmas. The same code was used to investigate the so-called Taylor problem. He employed the University of Chicago's FLASH code to further investigate the Taylor problem, discovering a new aspect of the problem. Dr. Fitzpatrick has written a 2-D Hall MHD code and used it to investigate the collisionless Taylor problem. Dr. Waelbroeck has performed an investigation of themore » scaling of the error-field penetration threshold in collisionless plasmas. Paul Watson and Dr. Fitzpatrick have written a fully-implicit extended-MHD code using the PETSC framework. Five publications have resulted from this grant work.« less

  3. Assessing the reading comprehension of adults with learning disabilities.

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    Jones, F W; Long, K; Finlay, W M L

    2006-06-01

    This study's aim was to begin the process of measuring the reading comprehension of adults with mild and borderline learning disabilities, in order to generate information to help clinicians and other professionals to make written material for adults with learning disabilities more comprehensible. The Test for the Reception of Grammar (TROG), with items presented visually rather than orally, and the Reading Comprehension sub-test of the Wechsler Objective Reading Dimensions (WORD) battery were given to 24 service-users of a metropolitan community learning disability team who had an estimated IQ in the range 50-79. These tests were demonstrated to have satisfactory split-half reliability and convergent validity with this population, supporting both their use in this study and in clinical work. Data are presented concerning the distribution across the sample of reading-ages and the comprehension of written grammatical constructions. These data should be useful to those who are preparing written material for adults with learning disabilities.

  4. When Your Child Is Difficult: Solve Your Toughest Child-Raising Problems with a Four-Step Plan That Works.

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    Silberman, Mel

    Written for parents, this book discusses four steps for dealing with children's difficult behavior. The book is divided into two parts. Part 1, "The Building Blocks," discusses baseline perspectives parents need to establish in order to effectively deal with difficult behavior. Topics covered include: (1) parents' dual roles as caregivers and…

  5. Reading for Meaning: The Foundational Knowledge Every Teacher of Science Should Have

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    Patterson, Alexis; Roman, Diego; Friend, Michelle; Osborne, Jonathan; Donovan, Brian

    2018-01-01

    Reading is fundamental to science and not an adjunct to its practice. In other words, understanding the meaning of the various forms of written discourse employed in the creation, discussion, and communication of scientific knowledge is inherent to how science works. The language used in science, however, sets up a barrier, that in order to be…

  6. Inspector General - Personal Staff - Joint Staff - The National Guard

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    contacting the Office of The Inspector General The IG cannot action request with incomplete DA 1559s or AF Form 102s. In order to have an IG begin work on a matter, personnel must prepare a written IG Action General Action Request (DA 1559) Air Force - The Inspector General Personal and Fraud, Waste & Abuse

  7. Exploring a Literacy Website that Works: ReadWriteThink.org

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    Anderson, Rebecca S.; Balajthy, Ernest

    2007-01-01

    While it is easy to find lesson plans on the Internet, the quality of plans and the formats in which they are written vary considerably, and the process of sifting through the chaff in order to find the wheat can be time-consuming and discouraging. To address these concerns the authors of this Technology in Literacy column introduce…

  8. Let's Write It Right! A Student-Oriented Approach for Teaching Letterwriting Skills.

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    Christensen, Judie

    In the student-oriented approach to writing business letters, students work in small groups to write a series of letters. For the first letter, the groups take the role of consumers, writing letters to order merchandise. The letters are written on overhead transparencies and are then critiqued by the other teams, with an emphasis on constructive…

  9. The Copyright Handbook: How To Protect and Use Written Works. Third Edition.

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    Fishman, Stephen

    Based on the premise that anyone who works with words needs to understand copyright law, this handbook provides forms and step-by-step instructions for protecting all types of written expression under United States and international copyright law. The handbook discusses: (1) how to register a written work with the copyright office; (2) what types…

  10. Power User Interface

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    Pfister, Robin; McMahon, Joe

    2006-01-01

    Power User Interface 5.0 (PUI) is a system of middleware, written for expert users in the Earth-science community, PUI enables expedited ordering of data granules on the basis of specific granule-identifying information that the users already know or can assemble. PUI also enables expert users to perform quick searches for orderablegranule information for use in preparing orders. PUI 5.0 is available in two versions (note: PUI 6.0 has command-line mode only): a Web-based application program and a UNIX command-line- mode client program. Both versions include modules that perform data-granule-ordering functions in conjunction with external systems. The Web-based version works with Earth Observing System Clearing House (ECHO) metadata catalog and order-entry services and with an open-source order-service broker server component, called the Mercury Shopping Cart, that is provided separately by Oak Ridge National Laboratory through the Department of Energy. The command-line version works with the ECHO metadata and order-entry process service. Both versions of PUI ultimately use ECHO to process an order to be sent to a data provider. Ordered data are provided through means outside the PUI software system.

  11. Hedging to save face: a linguistic analysis of written comments on in-training evaluation reports.

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    Ginsburg, Shiphra; van der Vleuten, Cees; Eva, Kevin W; Lingard, Lorelei

    2016-03-01

    Written comments on residents' evaluations can be useful, yet the literature suggests that the language used by assessors is often vague and indirect. The branch of linguistics called pragmatics argues that much of our day to day language is not meant to be interpreted literally. Within pragmatics, the theory of 'politeness' suggests that non-literal language and other strategies are employed in order to 'save face'. We conducted a rigorous, in-depth analysis of a set of written in-training evaluation report (ITER) comments using Brown and Levinson's influential theory of 'politeness' to shed light on the phenomenon of vague language use in assessment. We coded text from 637 comment boxes from first year residents in internal medicine at one institution according to politeness theory. Non-literal language use was common and 'hedging', a key politeness strategy, was pervasive in comments about both high and low rated residents, suggesting that faculty may be working to 'save face' for themselves and their residents. Hedging and other politeness strategies are considered essential to smooth social functioning; their prevalence in our ITERs may reflect the difficult social context in which written assessments occur. This research raises questions regarding the 'optimal' construction of written comments by faculty.

  12. Dramatizing the Authentic Research of a Local Scientist to Urban Elementary Students through Professional Theater

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    Burgin, Stephen R.; Alonzo, Jenifer; Hill, Victoria J.

    2016-01-01

    This article focuses on the impact of a professional play that we developed in order to introduce elementary learners of an urban school to the research of a scientist working at a local university. The play was written in a way that might increase student understandings of the nature of science, scientific inquiry, the identity of scientists, and…

  13. 22 CFR 1002.4 - Written requests.

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    2010-04-01

    ... 22 Foreign Relations 2 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 true Written requests. 1002.4 Section 1002.4 Foreign Relations INTER-AMERICAN FOUNDATION AVAILABILITY OF RECORDS § 1002.4 Written requests. In order to facilitate the processing of written requests, every petitioner should: (a) Address his request to: General...

  14. 22 CFR 1502.4 - Written requests.

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    2010-04-01

    ... 22 Foreign Relations 2 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 true Written requests. 1502.4 Section 1502.4 Foreign Relations AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION AVAILABILITY OF RECORDS § 1502.4 Written requests. In order to facilitate the processing of written requests, every petitioner should: (a) Address his or her request to...

  15. Communication training in mute autistic adolescents using the written work.

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    LaVigna, G W

    1977-06-01

    The expressive and receptive use of three written words was taught to three mute autistic adolescents using a procedure based on Terrace's errorless discrimination model and Premack's language training with chimps. Expressive language was measured by the subject's selection of the appropriate word card from among the available alternatives when the corresponding object was presented. Receptive language was measured by the subject's selection of the appropriate object from among the available alternatives when the corresponding word card was presented. The sequence of the presentations and the order of placement of the available alternatives were randomized. The three subjects required 979, 1,791, and 1,644 trails, respectively, to master both the expressive and receptive use of the three words. The correct response rates for the three subjects over the entire training program were 92, 92, and 90%, respectively. It was concluded that, as concrete visual symbols, written words may provide a viable communication system for the mute autistic. The implications for treatment are discussed and suggestions for future research are made.

  16. 78 FR 38423 - Self-Regulatory Organizations; Chicago Board Options Exchange, Incorporated; Order Approving a...

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    2013-06-26

    ... ``retail communication'' as ``any written (including electronic) communication that is distributed or made... to update the definition of ``correspondence'' to ``any written (including electronic) communication... written [[Page 38424

  17. Coordinated observations of X-ray bright BL Lacertae objects

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    Urry, C. M.

    1986-01-01

    No new International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) observations were scheduled. The work on the spectral extraction routine was continued. The computer code was adapted from the RDAF PDP 11/44 computer to a VAX 11/750, in order that it run more quickly. A chapter on ultraviolet observations of blazars for a book celebrating the scientific accomplishment of IUE was written in colloboration. A copy of the final draft is attached.

  18. Your Name in Print--A Teen's Guide to Getting Published: The Only Writer's Guide Written by Teens for Teens!

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    Dunn, Danielle; Dunn, Jessica

    Written by two 15-year-old girls who have already seen their work published in various national magazines, this guide is the only resource for young writers written from the viewpoint of young writers. The guide covers everything from setting up a work space to getting organized to working with editors--it is a practical resource to help young…

  19. The Contribution of Verbal Working Memory to Deaf Children’s Oral and Written Production

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    Arfé, Barbara; Rossi, Cristina; Sicoli, Silvia

    2015-01-01

    This study investigated the contribution of verbal working memory to the oral and written story production of deaf children. Participants were 29 severely to profoundly deaf children aged 8–13 years and 29 hearing controls, matched for grade level. The children narrated a picture story orally and in writing and performed a reading comprehension test, the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fourth Edition forward digit span task, and a reading span task. Oral and written stories were analyzed at the microstructural (i.e., clause) and macrostructural (discourse) levels. Hearing children’s stories scored higher than deaf children’s at both levels. Verbal working memory skills contributed to deaf children’s oral and written production over and above age and reading comprehension skills. Verbal rehearsal skills (forward digit span) contributed significantly to deaf children’s ability to organize oral and written stories at the microstructural level; they also accounted for unique variance at the macrostructural level in writing. Written story production appeared to involve greater verbal working memory resources than oral story production. PMID:25802319

  20. Working Memory as a Predictor of Written Arithmetical Skills in Children: The Importance of Central Executive Functions

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    Andersson, Ulf

    2008-01-01

    Background: The study was conducted in an attempt to further our understanding of how working memory contributes to written arithmetical skills in children. Aim: The aim was to pinpoint the contribution of different central executive functions and to examine the contribution of the two subcomponents of children's written arithmetical skills.…

  1. The Psychometric Properties of the Agricultural Hazardous Occupations Order Certification Training Program Written Examinations

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    French, Brian F.; Breidenbach, Daniel H.; Field, William E.; Tormoehlen, Roger

    2007-01-01

    The written certification exam that accompanies the Gearing Up for Safety-Agricultural Production Safety Training for Youth curriculum was designed to partially meet the testing requirements of the Agricultural Hazardous Occupations Order (AgHOs) Certification Training Program. This curriculum and accompanying assessment tools are available for…

  2. 50 CFR 221.52 - What are the requirements for presenting testimony?

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    2010-10-01

    ... testimony? (a) Written direct testimony. Unless otherwise ordered by the ALJ, all direct hearing testimony must be prepared and submitted in written form. (1) Prepared written testimony must: (i) Have line numbers inserted in the left-hand margin of each page; (ii) Be authenticated by an affidavit or...

  3. On the interpretations of Langevin stochastic equation in different coordinate systems

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    Martínez, E.; López-Díaz, L.; Torres, L.; Alejos, O.

    2004-01-01

    The stochastic Langevin Landau-Lifshitz equation is usually utilized in micromagnetics formalism to account for thermal effects. Commonly, two different interpretations of the stochastic integrals can be made: Ito and Stratonovich. In this work, the Langevin-Landau-Lifshitz (LLL) equation is written in both Cartesian and Spherical coordinates. If Spherical coordinates are employed, the noise is additive, and therefore, Ito and Stratonovich solutions are equal. This is not the case when (LLL) equation is written in Cartesian coordinates. In this case, the Langevin equation must be interpreted in the Stratonovich sense in order to reproduce correct statistical results. Nevertheless, the statistics of the numerical results obtained from Euler-Ito and Euler-Stratonovich schemes are equivalent due to the additional numerical constraint imposed in Cartesian system after each time step, which itself assures that the magnitude of the magnetization is preserved.

  4. 'Do not attempt resuscitation'--do standardised order forms make a clinical difference above hand-written note entries?

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    Lewis, Keir Edward; Edwards, Victoria Middleton; Hall, Sian; Temblett, Paul; Hutchings, Hayley

    2009-01-01

    To quantify any effect of Standardised Order Forms (SOFs), versus hand-written note entries for 'Do Not Attempt Resuscitation'--on the selection and survival of remaining cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) attempts. A prospective, observational study in two UK Hospitals, comparing numbers, demographics and survival rates from CPR attempts for 2 years prior to and 2 years after the introduction of SOFs (the only change in DNAR policy). There were 133 CPR attempts, representing 0.30% of the 44,792 admissions, pre SOFs and 147 CPR attempts representing 0.32% of the 45,340 admissions following the SOFs (p=0.46). The median duration of a CPR attempt was 11min prior to and 15min following the SOFs (p=0.02). Of the CPR attempts, there was no change in mean age (p=0.34), proportions occurring outside working hours (p=0.70) or proportions presenting with an initial shockable rhythm (p=0.30). Survival to discharge following CPR was unchanged (p=0.23). The introduction of SOFs for DNAR orders was associated with a significantly longer duration of CPR (on average by 3-4min) but no difference in overall number, demographics or type of arrest or survival in the remaining CPR attempts.

  5. Drawing rocks at primary school: a tool for emerging misconceptions and promoting conceptual change

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    Benciolini, L.; Muscio, G.

    2012-04-01

    Drawing rocks at primary school: a tool for emerging misconceptions and promoting conceptual change Luca Benciolini Dipartimento di Fisica, Chimica e Ambiente, Università di Udine (Italy) and Giuseppe Muscio Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale (Udine, Italy) In order to investigate spontaneous ideas of children about rock samples, the Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale in collaboration with the Università di Udine submitted six classrooms of fifth and fourth grade-students to a specific test. One hundred thirty-three students without a specific background in Earth Sciences were asked to give a) a written description of a rock sample; b) a drawing of the sample; c) a written short story about the sample. The selected thirty-five samples in the opinion of the researchers contain 255 geologically relevant self-evident characters such as fossils, clastic textures, planar discontinuities and so on. Childs spontaneously described 209 geological characters. Forty-seven fifth-grade students (group A) have been previously followed specific training in multisensory description of objects and observed the 90% of the geologically relevant characters. Group B (forty-three fifth-grade) and group C (forty-three fourth-grade) on the contrary, without any previous instructions discovered the 77%. In order to follow childs building their knowledge through experience we found that the main problem was the lack of consistency between written and drawing description. Heterogeneities as evident as a magmatic contact have been correctly represented by the drawing but it has not been worth of any attention in the written description. On the contrary, written description may sometimes contain careful description of the clastic sedimentary process but these criteria are applied for example to a travertine, without any relations with observed characters. Descriptions and drawing of rock outcrops performed by university students demonstrate the persistence of this attitude. Thus, groups B and C were then asked to describe their drawings. We found encouraging progress stimulated by thinking on their own work. We suggest that drawing activities and laboratory book notes could represent useful strategies in order to stimulate specific skill in observing reality, and to understand complex and heterogeneous natural objects. Conceptual change is promoted by comparing children experiences with their previous ideas.

  6. 7 CFR 1.652 - What are the requirements for presenting testimony?

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    2010-01-01

    ... presenting testimony? (a) Written direct testimony. Unless otherwise ordered by the ALJ, all direct hearing testimony must be prepared and submitted in written form. (1) Prepared written testimony must: (i) Have line numbers inserted in the left-hand margin of each page; (ii) Be authenticated by an affidavit or...

  7. 7 CFR 900.40 - Written testimony and USDA data request requirements.

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    2011-01-01

    ... the day of appearance at the hearing. Industry requests for preparation of USDA data for a rulemaking... 7 Agriculture 8 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false Written testimony and USDA data request requirements... and Nut Marketing Agreements and Marketing Orders § 900.40 Written testimony and USDA data request...

  8. 7 CFR 900.40 - Written testimony and USDA data request requirements.

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    2010-01-01

    ... the day of appearance at the hearing. Industry requests for preparation of USDA data for a rulemaking... 7 Agriculture 8 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Written testimony and USDA data request requirements... and Nut Marketing Agreements and Marketing Orders § 900.40 Written testimony and USDA data request...

  9. The Written Communication Skills That Matter Most for Accountants

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    Riley, Tracey J.; Simons, Kathleen A.

    2016-01-01

    Given the importance of effective written communication skills to the discipline of accounting, faculty must emphasize these skills in their classroom in order to adequately prepare students for successful careers in the field. Since 2000, only two studies in the accounting literature have examined which written communication skills are needed by…

  10. 7 CFR 900.40 - Written testimony and USDA data request requirements.

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    2013-01-01

    ... 7 Agriculture 8 2013-01-01 2013-01-01 false Written testimony and USDA data request requirements... and Nut Marketing Agreements and Marketing Orders § 900.40 Written testimony and USDA data request... testimony, if prepared as an exhibit, and any other exhibits available to USDA before testimony is given on...

  11. 7 CFR 900.40 - Written testimony and USDA data request requirements.

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    2012-01-01

    ... 7 Agriculture 8 2012-01-01 2012-01-01 false Written testimony and USDA data request requirements... and Nut Marketing Agreements and Marketing Orders § 900.40 Written testimony and USDA data request... testimony, if prepared as an exhibit, and any other exhibits available to USDA before testimony is given on...

  12. 7 CFR 900.40 - Written testimony and USDA data request requirements.

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    2014-01-01

    ... 7 Agriculture 8 2014-01-01 2014-01-01 false Written testimony and USDA data request requirements... and Nut Marketing Agreements and Marketing Orders § 900.40 Written testimony and USDA data request... testimony, if prepared as an exhibit, and any other exhibits available to USDA before testimony is given on...

  13. Low-Order Aberrations in Band-limited Lyot Coronagraphs

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    Sivaramakrishnan, Anand; Soummer, Rémi; Sivaramakrishnan, Allic V.; Lloyd, James P.; Oppenheimer, Ben R.; Makidon, Russell B.

    2005-12-01

    We study the way Lyot coronagraphs with unapodized entrance pupils respond to small, low-order phase aberrations. This study is applicable to ground-based adaptive optics coronagraphs operating at 90% and higher Strehl ratios, as well as to some space-based coronagraphs with intrinsically higher Strehl ratio imaging. We utilize a second-order expansion of the monochromatic point-spread function (written as a power spectrum of a power series in the phase aberration over clear aperture) to derive analytical expressions for the response of a ``band-limited'' Lyot coronagraph (BLC) to small, low-order, phase aberrations. The BLC possesses a focal plane mask with an occulting spot whose opacity profile is a spatially band-limited function rather than a hard-edged, opaque disk. The BLC is, to first order, insensitive to tilt and astigmatism. Undersizing the stop in the reimaged pupil plane (the Lyot plane) following the focal plane mask can alleviate second-order effects of astigmatism, at the expense of system throughput and angular resolution. The optimal degree of such undersizing depends on individual instrument designs and goals. Our analytical work engenders physical insight and complements existing numerical work on this subject. Our methods can be extended to treat the passage of higher order aberrations through band-limited Lyot coronagraphs by using our polynomial decomposition or an analogous Fourier approach.

  14. Responding Effectively to Composition Students: Comparing Student Perceptions of Written and Audio Feedback

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    Bilbro, J.; Iluzada, C.; Clark, D. E.

    2013-01-01

    The authors compared student perceptions of audio and written feedback in order to assess what types of students may benefit from receiving audio feedback on their essays rather than written feedback. Many instructors previously have reported the advantages they see in audio feedback, but little quantitative research has been done on how the…

  15. Interplay among Technical, Socio-Emotional and Personal Factors in Written Feedback Research

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    Chong, Ivan

    2018-01-01

    The centrality of written feedback is clearly seen from the proliferation of research in the context of higher education. As an increasingly expanding field in research, the majority of written feedback studies have been interested in investigating the technical aspect of how feedback should be given in order to promote student learning. More…

  16. Exploring Agricultural Communications Students' Perceptions of Communication Apprehension and Writing Apprehension in the Classroom

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    Ahrens, Chelsey Ann; Meyers, Courtney; Irlbeck, Erica; Burris, Scott; Roach, David

    2016-01-01

    Employers have identified oral and written communications skills to be the most important skills graduates should possess when entering the workforce. In order for faculty to better understand their students' oral and written communications skills, they should understand what apprehension the students have toward oral and written communications.…

  17. Grammatical Complexity in Letters Written by People with Acquired Brain Impairment

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    Mortensen, Lynne

    2005-01-01

    This study investigated written language in the form of personal and formal letters written by 10 people who sustained a stroke and 10 people who sustained traumatic brain injury, and compared their performance with 15 non brain-damaged people. In order to explore the writing skills of these individuals from a sociocultural perspective, a…

  18. Working Words: A User's Guide to Written Communication at Work.

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    Hagston, Jan

    Writing a document that is clear and easy to understand is difficult. This resource book is a guide to making written material easier to read, understand, and use. The guide is targeted at those who write work-place documents--industry or TAFE (Technical and Further Education) trainers, managers, supervisors, union representatives or writers of…

  19. Grading Written Work: An Integral Part of Writing Workshop Practice

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    Robbins, Kristen

    2011-01-01

    This article chronicles how the process of reviewing and grading student written work became an integral part of a middle school teacher's writing workshop practice. In addition to discussing how reading student work can bring educators back to the heart of the profession (including the belief that spending time with drafts can reap more rewards…

  20. HDM/PASCAL Verification System User's Manual

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    Hare, D.

    1983-01-01

    The HDM/Pascal verification system is a tool for proving the correctness of programs written in PASCAL and specified in the Hierarchical Development Methodology (HDM). This document assumes an understanding of PASCAL, HDM, program verification, and the STP system. The steps toward verification which this tool provides are parsing programs and specifications, checking the static semantics, and generating verification conditions. Some support functions are provided such as maintaining a data base, status management, and editing. The system runs under the TOPS-20 and TENEX operating systems and is written in INTERLISP. However, no knowledge is assumed of these operating systems or of INTERLISP. The system requires three executable files, HDMVCG, PARSE, and STP. Optionally, the editor EMACS should be on the system in order for the editor to work. The file HDMVCG is invoked to run the system. The files PARSE and STP are used as lower forks to perform the functions of parsing and proving.

  1. [FIRST: a tool for facilitating reading comprehension in high-functioning autism spectrum disorder].

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    González-Navarro, Ana; Freire-Prudencio, Sandra; Gil, David; Martos-Pérez, Juan; Jordanova, Vesna; Cerga-Pashoja, Arlinda; Shishkova, Antoneta; Evans, Richard

    2014-02-24

    Numerous studies have been documenting during the last decades the difficulties of reading comprehension shown by people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), including those with preserved intelligence. These difficulties can condition their educational path and directly impact on social inclusion, autonomy and access to employment. This article presents the work developed by a multidisciplinary team under the framework of a project funded by the European Union. It is an explanatory document intended to justify the needs that the population with high-functioning ASD have to access written information. The project is developing a software (Open Book) designed not only 'for' people with ASD, but 'with' people with ASD. Both the child population as well as the adult population of persons with ASD show difficulties in all formal components of written language. The tool needs to be flexible and facilitate it's personalized use in order to respond to the great heterogeneity of this population.

  2. Work Experience Report

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    Guo, Daniel

    2017-01-01

    The NASA Platform for Autonomous Systems (NPAS) toolkit is currently being used at the NASA John C. Stennis Space Center (SSC) to develop the INSIGHT program, which will autonomously monitor and control the Nitrogen System of the High Pressure Gas Facility (HPGF) on site. The INSIGHT program is in need of generic timing capabilities in order to perform timing based actions such as pump usage timing and sequence step timing. The purpose of this project was to develop a timing module that could fulfill these requirements and be adaptable for expanded use in the future. The code was written in Gensym G2 software platform, the same as INSIGHT, and was written generically to ensure compatibility with any G2 program. Currently, the module has two timing capabilities, a stopwatch function and a countdown function. Although the module has gone through some functionality testing, actual integration of the module into NPAS and the INSIGHT program is contingent on the module passing later checks.

  3. Explicit evaluation of discontinuities in 2-D unsteady flows solved by the method of characteristics

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    Osnaghi, C.

    When shock waves appear in the numerical solution of flows, a choice is necessary between shock capturing techniques, possible when equations are written in conservative form, and shock fitting techniques. If the second one is preferred, e.g. in order to obtain better definition and more physical description of the shock evolution in time, the method of characteristics is advantageous in the vicinity of the shock and it seems natural to use this method everywhere. This choice requires to improve the efficiency of the numerical scheme in order to produce competitive codes, preserving accuracy and flexibility, which are intrinsic features of the method: this is the goal of the present work.

  4. Text Comprehension Mediates Morphological Awareness, Syntactic Processing, and Working Memory in Predicting Chinese Written Composition Performance

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    Guan, Connie Qun; Ye, Feifei; Wagner, Richard K.; Meng, Wanjin; Leong, Che Kan

    2014-01-01

    The goal of the present study was to test opposing views about four issues concerning predictors of individual differences in Chinese written composition: (a) Whether morphological awareness, syntactic processing, and working memory represent distinct and measureable constructs in Chinese or are just manifestations of general language ability; (b) whether they are important predictors of Chinese written composition, and if so, the relative magnitudes and independence of their predictive relations; (c) whether observed predictive relations are mediated by text comprehension; and (d) whether these relations vary or are developmentally invariant across three years of writing development. Based on analyses of the performance of students in grades 4 (n = 246), 5 (n = 242) and 6 (n = 261), the results supported morphological awareness, syntactic processing, and working memory as distinct yet correlated abilities that made independent contributions to predicting Chinese written composition, with working memory as the strongest predictor. However, predictive relations were mediated by text comprehension. The final model accounted for approximately 75 percent of the variance in Chinese written composition. The results were largely developmentally invariant across the three grades from which participants were drawn. PMID:25530630

  5. Mining Predictors of Success in Air Force Flight Training Regiments via Semantic Analysis of Instructor Evaluations

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    2018-03-01

    We apply our methodology to the criticism text written in the flight-training program student evaluations in order to construct a model that...factors. We apply our methodology to the criticism text written in the flight-training program student evaluations in order to construct a model...9 D. BINARY CLASSIFICATION AND FEATURE SELECTION ..........11 III. METHODOLOGY

  6. Working through. A process of restitution.

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    Gottesman, D M

    A number of authors, including Freud, have written about the process of working through but have left unsettled what is actually involved. I have attempted to outline the step-by-step process of working through, starting with recollection and repetition and ending with restitution and resolution. I have introduced the term restitution in order to give more importance to an already existing step in the working-throught process; it should not be looked upon as an artificial device. Restitution allows the patient to find appropriate gratification in present reality, and this helps him to relinquish the past. Rather than allowing the patient to "wallow in the muck of guilt," as Eveoleen Rexford suggests society "wallows" in its inability to help its children, restitution gives appropriate direction for change. It is a natural step in the successful resolution of treatment.

  7. PoMiN: A Post-Minkowskian N-Body Solver

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    Feng, Justin; Baumann, Mark; Hall, Bryton; Doss, Joel; Spencer, Lucas; Matzner, Richard

    2018-05-01

    PoMiN is a lightweight N-body code based on the Post-Minkowskian N-body Hamiltonian of Ledvinka, Schafer, and Bicak, which includes General Relativistic effects up to first order in Newton's constant G, and all orders in the speed of light c. PoMiN is a single file written in C and uses a fourth-order Runge-Kutta integration scheme. PoMiN has also been written to handle an arbitrary number of particles (both massive and massless) with a computational complexity that scales as O(N^2).

  8. Taking leave from work: the impact of culture on Japanese female nurses.

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    Mizuno-Lewis, Satomi; McAllister, Margaret

    2008-01-01

    This paper provides an overview of nurses' working conditions in Japan, exploring tensions between nurses' rights to take leave from work to fulfil family and personal needs and their actual ability to take such leave. It also considers possible effects of being restricted from taking such leave. Little has been written on the specific needs of nurses who are mothers in the Japanese work environment. Research has focussed on the effects of heavy, stressful workloads and long working hours leading to burnout, death from overwork and suicides in Japanese culture. However, research that considers unique cultural and female issues in Japan affecting nursing work has not been published. Discursive. The paper shows that there are many overlapping, complex issues affecting nurses working in Japan and their needs need to be considered and addressed in order to promote a healthier work environment, as well as a more humanistic environment. Workplace issues are relevant to recruitment and retention and better conditions are likely to improve hospital functioning.

  9. Critiche a Noam Chomsky: ieri e oggi (Criticism of Noam Chomsky: Yesterday and Today).

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    Titone, Renzo

    1991-01-01

    For the past 30 years, much has been written about the works of Noam Chomsky. A comparison is presented of the latest writings about Chomsky (in particular P.M.S. Hacker's 1990 work) with those written in the early 1960s. (CFM)

  10. Student Metacognitive Responses to Feedback: A Multiple Case Study

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    DeMello, Kate

    2017-01-01

    This study explored how undergraduate students perceive, self-regulate, and respond to feedback from instructors on written work. The general problem was that students in college are not prepared to practice metacognitive regulation to promote learning, particularly in the context of utilizing instructor feedback on written work to improve their…

  11. Assessing intern handover processes.

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    Habicht, Robert; Block, Lauren; Silva, Kathryn Novello; Oliver, Nora; Wu, Albert; Feldman, Leonard

    2016-06-01

    New standards for resident work hours set in 2011 changed the landscape of patient care in teaching hospitals, and resulted in new challenges for US residency training programmes to overcome. One such challenge was a dramatic increase in the number of patient handovers performed by residents. As a result, there is a renewed focus for clinical teachers to develop educational strategies to optimise the patient handover process and improve the quality of patient care and safety. In order to investigate current gaps in resident handovers, we examined the handover processes performed by medicine interns at two academic medical centres in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. We used trained observers to collect data on whether handovers were conducted face to face, with questions asked, in private locations, with written documentation, and without distractions or interruptions. Results were analysed using chi-square tests, and adjusted for clustering at the observer and intern levels. Interns successfully conducted handovers face to face (99.5%), asked questions (85.3%), used private locations (91%), included written handover documentation (95.8%) and did not experience distractions for the majority of the time (87.7%); however, interruptions were pervasive, occurring 41.3 per cent of the time. In order to investigate current gaps in resident handovers, we examined the handover processes performed by medicine interns Interns conducted patient handovers face to face, with questions asked, in private locations, with written documentation and without distractions the majority of the time; however, interruptions during the handover process were common. Exploring gaps at the individual programme level is a critical first step to develop effective teaching strategies to optimise handovers in residency. © 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

  12. The modality and redundancy effects in multimedia learning in children with dyslexia.

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    Knoop-van Campen, Carolien A N; Segers, Eliane; Verhoeven, Ludo

    2018-05-01

    The present study aimed to examine the modality and redundancy effects in multimedia learning in children with dyslexia in order to find out whether their learning benefits from written and/or spoken text with pictures. We compared study time and knowledge gain in 26 11-year-old children with dyslexia and 38 typically reading peers in a within-subjects design. All children were presented with a series of user-paced multimedia lessons in 3 conditions: pictorial information presented with (a) written text, (b) audio, or (c) combined text and audio. We also examined whether children's learning outcomes were related to their working memory. With respect to study time, we found modality and reversed redundancy effects. Children with dyslexia spent more time learning in the text condition, compared with the audio condition and the combined text-and-audio condition. Regarding knowledge gain, no modality or redundancy effects were evidenced. Although the groups differed on working memory, it did not influence the modality or redundancy effect on study time or knowledge gain. In multimedia learning, it thus is more efficient to provide children with dyslexia with audio or with auditory support. Copyright © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

  13. Chaotic time series analysis in economics: Balance and perspectives

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    Faggini, Marisa, E-mail: mfaggini@unisa.it

    2014-12-15

    The aim of the paper is not to review the large body of work concerning nonlinear time series analysis in economics, about which much has been written, but rather to focus on the new techniques developed to detect chaotic behaviours in economic data. More specifically, our attention will be devoted to reviewing some of these techniques and their application to economic and financial data in order to understand why chaos theory, after a period of growing interest, appears now not to be such an interesting and promising research area.

  14. Written Language Disorders: Speech-Language Pathologists' Training, Knowledge, and Confidence

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    Blood, Gordon W.; Mamett, Callie; Gordon, Rebecca; Blood, Ingrid M.

    2010-01-01

    Purpose: This study examined speech-language pathologists' (SLPs') perceptions of their (a) educational and clinical training in evaluating and treating written language disorders, (b) knowledge bases in this area, (c) sources of knowledge about written language disorders, (d) confidence levels, and (e) predictors of confidence in working with…

  15. Improving Spelling of High Frequency Words for Transfer in Written Work

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    DuBois, Kathleen; Erickson, Kristie; Jacobs, Monica

    2007-01-01

    This project describes a 12-week program developed to improve student spelling of high frequency words for transfer in written work across the curriculum. The targeted population consists of kindergarten, first, and third graders in two public elementary schools in a community located in central Illinois. Following an extensive literature review,…

  16. Developing a standard for de-identifying electronic patient records written in Swedish: precision, recall and F-measure in a manual and computerized annotation trial.

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    Velupillai, Sumithra; Dalianis, Hercules; Hassel, Martin; Nilsson, Gunnar H

    2009-12-01

    Electronic patient records (EPRs) contain a large amount of information written in free text. This information is considered very valuable for research but is also very sensitive since the free text parts may contain information that could reveal the identity of a patient. Therefore, methods for de-identifying EPRs are needed. The work presented here aims to perform a manual and automatic Protected Health Information (PHI)-annotation trial for EPRs written in Swedish. This study consists of two main parts: the initial creation of a manually PHI-annotated gold standard, and the porting and evaluation of an existing de-identification software written for American English to Swedish in a preliminary automatic de-identification trial. Results are measured with precision, recall and F-measure. This study reports fairly high Inter-Annotator Agreement (IAA) results on the manually created gold standard, especially for specific tags such as names. The average IAA over all tags was 0.65 F-measure (0.84 F-measure highest pairwise agreement). For name tags the average IAA was 0.80 F-measure (0.91 F-measure highest pairwise agreement). Porting a de-identification software written for American English to Swedish directly was unfortunately non-trivial, yielding poor results. Developing gold standard sets as well as automatic systems for de-identification tasks in Swedish is feasible. However, discussions and definitions on identifiable information is needed, as well as further developments both on the tag sets and the annotation guidelines, in order to get a reliable gold standard. A completely new de-identification software needs to be developed.

  17. 31 CFR 14.4 - Contents of request.

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    2010-07-01

    ... § 14.4 Contents of request. The formal written request shall be in the form of a letter or memorandum... forth that official's name, title, business address and business phone number. The request shall also... order shall be attached to the formal written request. ...

  18. [Knowledge on Loose Sheets in the Context of fixed Theories. Theodor Leber's Research of Inflammation].

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    Stahl, Dorina

    2016-09-01

    At the end of the nineteenth century, after twelve years of intensive research, the ophthalmologist Theodor Leber (1840-1917) established the chemotaxis of leukocytes as part of inflammation research. Although at the time his theory was smoothly enlisted into immunological research, up until now his name has been connected to chemotaxis only in the English-language literature. Leber was able to use his experimental system to develop a theory of the chemical attraction of the leukocytes during inflammation processes by the beginning of the 1880s, but his unconventional methodology-introducing chemically neutral contaminants in order to trigger inflammation in the eyes of rabbits-contradicted the basic bacteriological Denkstil (style of thought) of inflammation research at the time. Leber held fast to his research practice, which consisted of closely interlocking experimental and theoretical work. Only when an opening appeared in the bacteriological Denkstil was Leber able to transform his experimental observations, written on loose sheets of paper, into convincing evidence for his theory of inflammation. This micro-historical reconstruction of Leber's experimental and written work, based on his original lab protocols, opens up the research practice of a scientist who was not recognized by the established microbiological inflammation research of the time. Moreover, persistent factors in the generation of knowledge are revealed by connecting this micro-historical reconstruction with a macro-history analysis. Indeed Leber developed his specific paper technology in order to mobilise and stabilise the scientific findings gained through experiment because of the persistence of the bacteriological Denkstil.

  19. Thank You to Our 2017 Peer Reviewers

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    Hauck, Steven A.; Baratoux, David; Stanley, Sabine; Stanley

    2018-02-01

    Science operates best by sharing accurate new knowledge in clear ways. In order to check our assumptions, our methods, and our interpretations of the observations, experiments, analyses, and calculations that we do, we ask others to look at our work. We call this peer review—other experts who were not involved in a given study read and critically evaluate the descriptions of our work. They look for completeness, accuracy, whether work is new, and how clearly we have written the descriptions. We continue to be humbled by the time, effort, and careful insights that our colleagues share with each other through the process of peer review. In 2017, JGR Planets benefited from more than 610 reviews provided by 398 of our peers for papers submitted to the journal. Thank you all for your awesome efforts toward advancing planetary science now and for the future.

  20. The Contribution of Verbal Working Memory to Deaf Children's Oral and Written Production

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    Arfé, Barbara; Rossi, Cristina; Sicoli, Silvia

    2015-01-01

    This study investigated the contribution of verbal working memory to the oral and written story production of deaf children. Participants were 29 severely to profoundly deaf children aged 8-13 years and 29 hearing controls, matched for grade level. The children narrated a picture story orally and in writing and performed a reading comprehension…

  1. Relationships between Grades in the Components of Freshman Music Theory and Selected Background Variables.

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    Harrison, Carole S.

    1990-01-01

    Determines how academic ability, music experience, and musical aptitude contribute to grade prediction in the written-work, ear-training, sight-singing, and keyboard-harmonics portions of two college freshman music theory courses. Finds Scholastic Aptitude Test mathematics scores the best predictor of grades in written work and ear training.…

  2. Twenty Years of Tannen: An Extensive Bibliography of the Writings of Deborah F. Tannen, 1976-1995.

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    Cullum, Linda, Comp.; And Others

    This unannotated bibliography features 99 listings of books and articles on, among other topics, language, linguistics, conversation, and gender, all written by the influential sociolinguist, Deborah Tannen. It also offers 10 listings of works co-authored or co-edited by Tannen. Although the bibliography focuses on written works published in…

  3. Identifying the Unique Role of Orthographic Working Memory in a Componential Model of Hong Kong Kindergarteners' Chinese Written Spelling

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    Mo, Jianhong; McBride, Catherine; Yip, Laiying

    2018-01-01

    We sought to test a componential model of Chinese written spelling, including the role of orthographic working memory (OWM), among Hong Kong kindergartners. One hundred seventeen kindergartners were recruited. OWM was measured using a visual orthographic judgment and a delayed copying task. Orthographic knowledge, semantic knowledge, and…

  4. 10 CFR 1003.77 - Decision and Order.

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    2010-01-01

    ... relevant information received or obtained during the proceeding, the OHA will issue a Decision and Order... a written statement setting forth the relevant facts and legal basis for the Decision and Order...

  5. Difficulties in initial algebra learning in Indonesia

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    Jupri, Al; Drijvers, Paul; van den Heuvel-Panhuizen, Marja

    2014-12-01

    Within mathematics curricula, algebra has been widely recognized as one of the most difficult topics, which leads to learning difficulties worldwide. In Indonesia, algebra performance is an important issue. In the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2007, Indonesian students' achievement in the algebra domain was significantly below the average student performance in other Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore. This fact gave rise to this study which aims to investigate Indonesian students' difficulties in algebra. In order to do so, a literature study was carried out on students' difficulties in initial algebra. Next, an individual written test on algebra tasks was administered, followed by interviews. A sample of 51 grade VII Indonesian students worked the written test, and 37 of them were interviewed afterwards. Data analysis revealed that mathematization, i.e., the ability to translate back and forth between the world of the problem situation and the world of mathematics and to reorganize the mathematical system itself, constituted the most frequently observed difficulty in both the written test and the interview data. Other observed difficulties concerned understanding algebraic expressions, applying arithmetic operations in numerical and algebraic expressions, understanding the different meanings of the equal sign, and understanding variables. The consequences of these findings on both task design and further research in algebra education are discussed.

  6. A self-defining hierarchical data system

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    Bailey, J.

    1992-01-01

    The Self-Defining Data System (SDS) is a system which allows the creation of self-defining hierarchical data structures in a form which allows the data to be moved between different machine architectures. Because the structures are self-defining they can be used for communication between independent modules in a distributed system. Unlike disk-based hierarchical data systems such as Starlink's HDS, SDS works entirely in memory and is very fast. Data structures are created and manipulated as internal dynamic structures in memory managed by SDS itself. A structure may then be exported into a caller supplied memory buffer in a defined external format. This structure can be written as a file or sent as a message to another machine. It remains static in structure until it is reimported into SDS. SDS is written in portable C and has been run on a number of different machine architectures. Structures are portable between machines with SDS looking after conversion of byte order, floating point format, and alignment. A Fortran callable version is also available for some machines.

  7. 78 FR 22523 - Meeting of the Uniform Formulary Beneficiary Advisory Panel

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    ... Work Meeting will be closed to the public. Written Statements: Pursuant to 41 CFR 102-3.105(j) and 102-3.140, the public or interested organizations may submit written statements to the membership of the Panel at any time or in response to the stated agenda of a planned meeting. Written statements should be...

  8. 49 CFR Appendix C to Part 553 - Statement of Policy: Implementation of the United Nations/Economic Commission for Europe (UN/ECE...

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    2010-10-01

    ... 1. Notice Requesting Written Comment on Proposed Global Technical Regulations a. Proposals by the U.... Notice Requesting Written Comment on Recommended Global Technical Regulations If a working party of... comments and develop a U.S. position on the recommended technical regulation. 3. Notice Requesting Written...

  9. 47 CFR 76.939 - Truthful written statements and responses to requests of franchising authority.

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    2010-10-01

    ... requests of franchising authority. 76.939 Section 76.939 Telecommunication FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS... Regulation § 76.939 Truthful written statements and responses to requests of franchising authority. Cable operators shall comply with franchising authorities' and the Commission's requests for information, orders...

  10. Examining the contribution of handwriting and spelling to written expression in kindergarten children

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    AlOtaiba, Stephanie

    2011-01-01

    In this study, we examined the development of beginning writing skills in kindergarten children and the contribution of spelling and handwriting to these writing skills after accounting for early language, literacy, cognitive skills, and student characteristics. Two hundred and forty two children were given a battery of cognitive, oral language, reading, and writing measures. They exhibited a range of competency in spelling, handwriting, written expression, and in their ability to express ideas. Handwriting and spelling made statistically significant contributions to written expression, demonstrating the importance of these lower-order transcription skills to higher order text-generation skills from a very early age. The contributions of oral language and reading skills were not significant. Implications of these findings for writing development and instruction are addressed. PMID:23087544

  11. Review: Leon N. Cooper's Science and Human Experience: Values, Culture, and the Mind.

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    Lynch, Gary S

    2015-01-01

    Why are we reviewing a book written by someone who shared in the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on superconductivity? Because shortly after winning the prize, Leon N. Cooper transitioned into brain research-specifically, the biological basis of memory. He became director of the Brown University Institute for Brain and Neural Systems, whose interdisciplinary program allowed him to integrate research on the brain, physics, and even philosophy. His new book tackles a diverse spectrum of topics and questions, including these: Does science have limits? Where does order come from? Can we understand consciousness?

  12. Review: Leon N. Cooper’s Science and Human Experience: Values, Culture, and the Mind

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    Lynch, Gary S.

    2015-01-01

    Why are we reviewing a book written by someone who shared in the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on superconductivity? Because shortly after winning the prize, Leon N. Cooper transitioned into brain research—specifically, the biological basis of memory. He became director of the Brown University Institute for Brain and Neural Systems, whose interdisciplinary program allowed him to integrate research on the brain, physics, and even philosophy. His new book tackles a diverse spectrum of topics and questions, including these: Does science have limits? Where does order come from? Can we understand consciousness? PMID:27358665

  13. Effect of the Level of Inquiry of Lab Experiments on General Chemistry Students' Written Reflections

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    Xu, Haozhi; Talanquer, Vincente

    2013-01-01

    The central goal of this exploratory study was to characterize the effects of experiments involving different levels of inquiry on the nature of college students' written reflections about laboratory work. Data were collected in the form of individual lab reports written using a science writing heuristic template by a subset of the students…

  14. The Importance of Followership in Schools: First, Teacher Awareness

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    Crippen, Carolyn

    2012-01-01

    Many books have been written about various leadership characteristics, styles, outcomes, and purposes in schools. Much less has been written about followership. But, in order to have leaders, we must have followers. Understanding the leadership-followership dynamic in the school may promote inclusivity, transparent interaction, and authenticity…

  15. KURDISH READERS. PART III, KURDISH SHORT STORIES.

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    ABDULLA, JAMAL JALAL; MCCARUS, ERNEST N.

    THE SIX STORIES IN THIS COLLECTION ARE WRITTEN IN THE KURDISH DIALECT OF SULAIMANIA, THE LANGUAGE OF OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS AND TEXTBOOKS IN IRAQI KURDISTAN. THE VARIOUS THEMES INCLUDED ARE REPRESENTATIVE OF KURDISH CULTURE AND TRADITION. EACH SELECTION (WRITTEN IN KURDISH SCRIPT) IS FOLLOWED BY VOCABULARY AND EXPLANATORY NOTES IN ORDER OF…

  16. 75 FR 72987 - Brokers of Household Goods Transportation by Motor Vehicle

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    ... revise broker marketing materials, forms, and orders for service, including technical writing, Web site... are FMCSA-authorized household goods motor carriers with which the broker has a written agreement, as... broker has a written agreement, as required by Sec. 371.115. We agree that brokers should not...

  17. 48 CFR 213.7002 - Purchase orders.

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    2010-10-01

    ... 48 Federal Acquisition Regulations System 3 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Purchase orders. 213.7002... Acquisition Procedures Under the 8(a) Program 213.7002 Purchase orders. The contracting officer need not obtain a contractor's written acceptance of a purchase order or modification of a purchase order for an...

  18. Construction and material specification

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    2002-01-01

    These Construction and Material Specifications are written to the Bidder before award of the : Contract and to the Contractor after award of the Contract. The sentences that direct the Contractor to perform Work are written as commands. For example, ...

  19. Quality of Dying in Nursing Home Residents Dying with Dementia: Does Advanced Care Planning Matter? A Nationwide Postmortem Study

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    Vandervoort, An; Houttekier, Dirk; Vander Stichele, Robert; van der Steen, Jenny T.; Van den Block, Lieve

    2014-01-01

    Background Advance care planning is considered a central component of good quality palliative care and especially relevant for people who lose the capacity to make decisions at the end of life, which is the case for many nursing home residents with dementia. We set out to investigate to what extent (1) advance care planning in the form of written advance patient directives and verbal communication with patient and/or relatives about future care and (2) the existence of written advance general practitioner orders are related to the quality of dying of nursing home residents with dementia. Methods Cross-sectional study of deaths (2010) using random cluster-sampling. Representative sample of nursing homes in Flanders, Belgium. Deaths of residents with dementia in a three-month period were reported; for each the nurse most involved in care, GP and closest relative completed structured questionnaires. Findings We identified 101 deaths of residents with dementia in 69 nursing homes (58% response rate). A written advance patient directive was present for 17.5%, GP-orders for 56.7%. Controlling for socio-demographic/clinical characteristics in multivariate regression analyses, chances of having a higher mean rating of emotional well-being (less fear and anxiety) on the Comfort Assessment in Dying with Dementia scale were three times higher with a written advance patient directive and more specifically when having a do-not-resuscitate order (AOR 3.45; CI,1.1–11) than for those without either (AOR 2.99; CI,1.1–8.3). We found no association between verbal communication or having a GP order and quality of dying. Conclusion For nursing home residents with dementia there is a strong association between having a written advance directive and quality of dying. Where wishes are written, relatives report lower levels of emotional distress at the end of life. These results underpin the importance of advance care planning for people with dementia and beginning this process as early as possible. PMID:24614884

  20. Racial variation in the use of do-not-resuscitate orders.

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    Shepardson, L B; Gordon, H S; Ibrahim, S A; Harper, D L; Rosenthal, G E

    1999-01-01

    To compare the use of do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders in African-American and white patients using a large, multisite, community-based sample. Our sample included 90,821 consecutive admissions to 30 hospitals in a large metropolitan region with six nonsurgical conditions from 1993 through 1995. Demographic and clinical data were abstracted from medical records. Admission severity of illness was measured using multivariate risk-adjustment models with excellent discrimination (receiver-operating characteristic curve areas, 0.82-0.88). Multiple logistic regression analysis was used to determine the independent association between race and use of DNR orders, adjusting for age, admission severity, and other covariates. In all patients, the rate of DNR orders was lower in African Americans than whites (9% vs 18%; p <.001). Rates of orders were also lower ( p <. 001) among African Americans in analyses stratified by age, gender, diagnosis, severity of illness, and in-hospital death. After adjusting for severity and other important covariates, the odds of a DNR order remained lower ( p <.001) for African-Americans relative to whites for all diagnoses, ranging from 0.38 for obstructive airway disease to 0.71 for gastrointestinal hemorrhage. Results were similar in analyses limited to orders written by the first, second, or seventh hospital day. Finally, among patients with DNR orders, African Americans were less likely to have orders written on the first hospital day and more likely to have orders written on subsequent days. The use of DNR orders was substantially lower in African Americans than in whites, even after adjusting for severity of illness and other covariates. Identification of factors underlying such differences will improve our understanding of the degree to which expectations for care differ in African American and white patients.

  1. Development of Software to Model AXAF-I Image Quality

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    Geary, Joseph; Hawkins, Lamar; Ahmad, Anees; Gong, Qian

    1997-01-01

    This report describes work conducted on Delivery Order 181 between October 1996 through June 1997. During this period software was written to: compute axial PSD's from RDOS AXAF-I mirror surface maps; plot axial surface errors and compute PSD's from HDOS "Big 8" axial scans; plot PSD's from FITS format PSD files; plot band-limited RMS vs axial and azimuthal position for multiple PSD files; combine and organize PSD's from multiple mirror surface measurements formatted as input to GRAZTRACE; modify GRAZTRACE to read FITS formatted PSD files; evaluate AXAF-I test results; improve and expand the capabilities of the GT x-ray mirror analysis package. During this period work began on a more user-friendly manual for the GT program, and improvements were made to the on-line help manual.

  2. Oral and Written Discourse Skills in Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children: The Role of Reading and Verbal Working Memory

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    Arfé, Barbara

    2015-01-01

    This study examined the discourse skills of deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) children by comparing their oral and written narratives produced for the wordless picture book, "Frog, Where Are You?" (Mayer, 1969), with those of school-age-matched hearing peers. The written stories produced by 42 Italian 7- to 15-year-old children with…

  3. 26 CFR 1.165-4 - Decline in value of stock.

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    2012-04-01

    ... authorities may require that stock owned by such organizations be charged off as worthless or written down to... deducting the loss under section 165(a) merely because, in obedience to the specific orders or general policy of such supervisory authorities, the value of the stock is written down to a nominal amount...

  4. 26 CFR 1.165-4 - Decline in value of stock.

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    2010-04-01

    ... authorities may require that stock owned by such organizations be charged off as worthless or written down to... deducting the loss under section 165(a) merely because, in obedience to the specific orders or general policy of such supervisory authorities, the value of the stock is written down to a nominal amount...

  5. 26 CFR 1.165-4 - Decline in value of stock.

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    2011-04-01

    ... authorities may require that stock owned by such organizations be charged off as worthless or written down to... deducting the loss under section 165(a) merely because, in obedience to the specific orders or general policy of such supervisory authorities, the value of the stock is written down to a nominal amount...

  6. 26 CFR 1.165-4 - Decline in value of stock.

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    2013-04-01

    ... authorities may require that stock owned by such organizations be charged off as worthless or written down to... deducting the loss under section 165(a) merely because, in obedience to the specific orders or general policy of such supervisory authorities, the value of the stock is written down to a nominal amount...

  7. 26 CFR 1.165-4 - Decline in value of stock.

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    2014-04-01

    ... authorities may require that stock owned by such organizations be charged off as worthless or written down to... deducting the loss under section 165(a) merely because, in obedience to the specific orders or general policy of such supervisory authorities, the value of the stock is written down to a nominal amount...

  8. 77 FR 12216 - Milk in the Mideast Marketing Area; Recommended Decision and Opportunity To File Written...

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Agricultural Marketing Service 7 CFR Part 1033 [Docket No. AO-11-0333; AMS-DA-11-0067; DA-11-04] Milk in the Mideast Marketing Area; Recommended Decision and Opportunity To File Written Exceptions on Proposed Amendments to Tentative Marketing Agreement and Order AGENCY...

  9. 10 CFR 2.1310 - Notice of hearing consisting of written comments.

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    2010-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 1 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Notice of hearing consisting of written comments. 2.1310 Section 2.1310 Energy NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION RULES OF PRACTICE FOR DOMESTIC LICENSING PROCEEDINGS AND ISSUANCE OF ORDERS Procedures for Hearings on License Transfer Applications § 2.1310 Notice of...

  10. 10 CFR 2.1310 - Notice of hearing consisting of written comments.

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    2011-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 1 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false Notice of hearing consisting of written comments. 2.1310 Section 2.1310 Energy NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION RULES OF PRACTICE FOR DOMESTIC LICENSING PROCEEDINGS AND ISSUANCE OF ORDERS Procedures for Hearings on License Transfer Applications § 2.1310 Notice of...

  11. Effects of Verbal and Written Performance Feedback on Treatment Adherence: Practical Application of Two Delivery Formats

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    Kaufman, Dahlia; Codding, Robin S.; Markus, Keith A.; Tryon, Georgiana Shick; Kyse, Eden Nagler

    2013-01-01

    Verbal and written performance feedback for improving preschool and kindergarten teachers' treatment integrity of behavior plans was compared using a combined multiple-baseline and multiple-treatment design across teacher-student dyads with order counterbalanced as within-series conditions. Supplemental generalized least square regression analyses…

  12. 48 CFR 22.1203-3 - Waiver.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... subpart would not serve the purposes of Executive Order 13495 or would impair the ability of the Federal... not be appropriate. The waiver must be reflected in a written analysis as described in 29 CFR 9.4(d)(4... of Labor with a copy of its written analysis no later than five business days after the solicitation...

  13. Learners' Uses of Two Types of Written Feedback on a L2 Writing Revision Task

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    Sachs, Rebecca; Polio, Charlene

    2007-01-01

    This study examines the effectiveness of written error corrections versus reformulations of second language learners' writing as two means of improving learners' grammatical accuracy on a three-stage composition-comparison-revision task. Concurrent verbal protocols were employed during the comparison stage in order to study the learners' reported…

  14. Macrophage Efferocytosis and Prostate Cancer Bone Metastasis

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2018-03-01

    which is being actively revised for submission and another being written and submitted in early 2018. 1. Previous work by the prior PI Jacqueline...proinflammatory cytokines such as CXCL5 by activating Stat3 and NF-κB(p65) signaling. Administration of a dimerizer ligand (AP20187) triggered...second manuscript from this work has been written, and is actively being revised for submission. This manuscript also focuses on the role of

  15. 75 FR 11608 - Self-Regulatory Organizations; International Securities Exchange, LLC; Notice of Filing and...

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    ... contingency orders that have no priority on the book. Such orders are maintained in the system and remain....1(d)(3) (Minimum Quantity Orders). Like all-or-none orders, minimum quantity orders are contingency... Interested persons are invited to submit written data, views, and arguments concerning the foregoing...

  16. Environmental Response Laboratory Network (ERLN) Basic Ordering Agreement Example

    EPA Pesticide Factsheets

    A BOA is a written instrument of understanding between EPA and a laboratory that contains terms and clauses applying to all future orders, a description of services to be provided, and methods for pricing, issuing, and delivering future orders.

  17. Are written and spoken recall of text equivalent?

    PubMed

    Kellogg, Ronald T

    2007-01-01

    Writing is less practiced than speaking, graphemic codes are activated only in writing, and the retrieved representations of the text must be maintained in working memory longer because handwritten output is slower than speech. These extra demands on working memory could result in less effort being given to retrieval during written compared with spoken text recall. To test this hypothesis, college students read or heard Bartlett's "War of the Ghosts" and then recalled the text in writing or speech. Spoken recall produced more accurately recalled propositions and more major distortions (e.g., inferences) than written recall. The results suggest that writing reduces the retrieval effort given to reconstructing the propositions of a text.

  18. Order of accuracy of QUICK and related convection-diffusion schemes

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    Leonard, B. P.

    1993-01-01

    This report attempts to correct some misunderstandings that have appeared in the literature concerning the order of accuracy of the QUICK scheme for steady-state convective modeling. Other related convection-diffusion schemes are also considered. The original one-dimensional QUICK scheme written in terms of nodal-point values of the convected variable (with a 1/8-factor multiplying the 'curvature' term) is indeed a third-order representation of the finite volume formulation of the convection operator average across the control volume, written naturally in flux-difference form. An alternative single-point upwind difference scheme (SPUDS) using node values (with a 1/6-factor) is a third-order representation of the finite difference single-point formulation; this can be written in a pseudo-flux difference form. These are both third-order convection schemes; however, the QUICK finite volume convection operator is 33 percent more accurate than the single-point implementation of SPUDS. Another finite volume scheme, writing convective fluxes in terms of cell-average values, requires a 1/6-factor for third-order accuracy. For completeness, one can also write a single-point formulation of the convective derivative in terms of cell averages, and then express this in pseudo-flux difference form; for third-order accuracy, this requires a curvature factor of 5/24. Diffusion operators are also considered in both single-point and finite volume formulations. Finite volume formulations are found to be significantly more accurate. For example, classical second-order central differencing for the second derivative is exactly twice as accurate in a finite volume formulation as it is in single-point.

  19. 10 CFR 430.56 - Decision and order.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... Exemptions § 430.56 Decision and order. (a) Upon consideration of the application and other relevant information received or obtained, the Secretary shall issue an order granting or denying the application. (b) The order shall include a written statement setting forth the relevant facts and the legal basis of...

  20. 76 FR 57716 - Notice of Availability of a Draft Companion Manual for Executive Order 11988 Floodplain...

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    2011-09-16

    ... companion manual to provide agency-wide guidance for executing compliance with Executive Order 11988... procedures and guidance in accordance with specific sections of Executive Order 11988 and Executive Order.... ADDRESSES: Written comments should be sent to Emily Johannes, Senior Environmental Technical Advisor, NOAA...

  1. Work Habits Are Valid Components of Evaluations of Anesthesia Residents Based on Faculty Anesthesiologists' Daily Written Comments About Residents.

    PubMed

    Dexter, Franklin; Masursky, Danielle; Szeluga, Debra; Hindman, Bradley J

    2016-05-01

    In our department, faculty anesthesiologists routinely evaluate the resident physicians with whom they worked in an operative setting the day before, providing numerical scores to questions. The faculty can also enter a written comment if so desired. Because residents' work habits are important to anesthesiology program directors, and work habits can improve with feedback, we hypothesized that faculty comments would include the theme of the anesthesia resident's work habits. We analyzed all 6692 faculty comments from January 1, 2011, to June 30, 2015. We quantified use of the theme of Dannefer et al.'s work habit scale, specifically the words and phrases in the scale, and synonyms to the words. Approximately half (50.7% [lower 99.99% confidence limit, 48.4%]) of faculty comments contained the theme of work habits. Multiple sensitivity analyses were performed excluding individual faculty, residents, and words. The lower confidence limits for comments containing the theme were each >42.7%. Although faculty anesthesiologists completed (numerical) questions based on the American College of Graduate Medical Education competencies to evaluate residents, an important percentage of written comments included the theme of work habits. The implication is that the theme has validity as one component of the routine evaluation of anesthesia residents.

  2. Meaningful Written Communication by Administrators

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Keil, Virginia L.; McConnahan, Wendell R.

    2006-01-01

    Fifty-eight principals participated in this pilot study designed to examine the nature of school administrators' current practices in written communication. Work samples were examined against ISLLC standards that call for competency in facilitating vision, communicating culture and instruction, managing the organization, developing collaboration…

  3. 29 CFR 789.5 - “* * * acquired * * * in good faith * * * for value without notice * * *.”

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... 29 Labor 3 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false â* * * acquired * * * in good faith * * * for value without... OF 1938, RELATING TO WRITTEN ASSURANCES § 789.5 “* * * acquired * * * in good faith * * * for value... the goods in good faith in reliance on the specified written assurance in order to be accorded the...

  4. 29 CFR 789.5 - “* * * acquired * * * in good faith * * * for value without notice * * *.”

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... 29 Labor 3 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false â* * * acquired * * * in good faith * * * for value without... OF 1938, RELATING TO WRITTEN ASSURANCES § 789.5 “* * * acquired * * * in good faith * * * for value... the goods in good faith in reliance on the specified written assurance in order to be accorded the...

  5. 29 CFR 789.5 - “* * * acquired * * * in good faith * * * for value without notice * * *.”

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... 29 Labor 3 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false â* * * acquired * * * in good faith * * * for value without... OF 1938, RELATING TO WRITTEN ASSURANCES § 789.5 “* * * acquired * * * in good faith * * * for value... the goods in good faith in reliance on the specified written assurance in order to be accorded the...

  6. 29 CFR 789.5 - “* * * acquired * * * in good faith * * * for value without notice * * *.”

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... 29 Labor 3 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false â* * * acquired * * * in good faith * * * for value without... OF 1938, RELATING TO WRITTEN ASSURANCES § 789.5 “* * * acquired * * * in good faith * * * for value... the goods in good faith in reliance on the specified written assurance in order to be accorded the...

  7. 75 FR 73126 - Certain Video Displays, Components Thereof, and Products Containing Same; Notice of Commission...

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    ... Determination in Part and Set a Schedule for Filing Written Submissions on the Issues Under Review and on Remedy... receiving written submissions that address the form of remedy, if any, that should be ordered. If a party.... No. 2843 (Dec. 1994) (Commission Opinion). If the Commission contemplates some form of remedy, it...

  8. An Explanation of the Effectiveness of Written Corrective Feedback in Second-Language Acquisition

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Wagner, Jason

    2016-01-01

    The purpose of this study is to provide a theoretical explanation for the effectiveness of Written Corrective Feedback (WCF) in increasing second-language (L2) students' grammatical accuracy. WCF is examined via Skill Acquisition Theory (SAT) in order to account for uneven patterns of its effectiveness. As the study demonstrates, WCF is effective…

  9. 76 FR 78909 - Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Northern New Mexico

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    2011-12-20

    ... Period. 1:45 p.m. Old Business. Written Reports. Other Items. 2 p.m. New Business, Ralph Phelps. 2:30 p.m... meeting at the telephone number listed above. Written statements may be filed with the Board either before... facilitate the orderly conduct of business. Individuals wishing to make public comments will be provided a...

  10. 75 FR 9886 - Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Northern New Mexico

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2010-03-04

    .... Old Business Written reports Other items 1:45 p.m. New Business 2 p.m. Overview of Los Alamos National... Santistevan at least seven days in advance of the meeting at the telephone number listed above. Written... conduct the meeting in a fashion that will facilitate the orderly conduct of business. Individuals wishing...

  11. Metanotes (Written Languaging) in a Translation Task: Do L2 Proficiency and Task Outcome Matter?

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Ishikawa, Masako

    2015-01-01

    Languaging has been identified as a contributor to language learning. Yet, compared to oral languaging, such as collaborative dialogs in contextualized settings, little seems to be known about written languaging. In order to fill this gap, this study investigates languaging in the form of "metanotes," that is, metatalk in a written…

  12. 10 CFR 2.1321 - Participation and schedule for submission in a hearing consisting of written comments.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 1 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false Participation and schedule for submission in a hearing consisting of written comments. 2.1321 Section 2.1321 Energy NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION RULES OF PRACTICE FOR DOMESTIC LICENSING PROCEEDINGS AND ISSUANCE OF ORDERS Procedures for Hearings on License Transfer...

  13. 10 CFR 2.1321 - Participation and schedule for submission in a hearing consisting of written comments.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 1 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Participation and schedule for submission in a hearing consisting of written comments. 2.1321 Section 2.1321 Energy NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION RULES OF PRACTICE FOR DOMESTIC LICENSING PROCEEDINGS AND ISSUANCE OF ORDERS Procedures for Hearings on License Transfer...

  14. 16 CFR 700.11 - Written warranty, service contract, and insurance distinguished for purposes of compliance under...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... the consumer product and the consumer must not give any consideration beyond the purchase price of the consumer product in order to benefit from the agreement. It is not a requirement of the Act that an... agreements which may provide similar coverage of consumer products, the written warranty, and the service...

  15. 40 CFR 179.87 - Procedures for preliminary conference.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... forth each person who has been identified as a witness whose oral or written testimony will be offered by the party at the hearing, with a full curriculum vitae for each and a summary of the expected... presiding officer shall issue and file under § 179.80 a written order reciting the actions taken at each...

  16. Cognitive Levels and Approaches Taken by Students Failing Written Examinations in Mathematics

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Roegner, Katherine

    2013-01-01

    A study was conducted at the Technical University Berlin involving students who twice failed the written examination in the first semester course Linear Algebra for Engineers in order to better understand the reasons behind their failure. The study considered student understanding in terms of Bloom's taxonomy and the ways in which students…

  17. A premier analysis of supersymmetric closed string tachyon cosmology

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Vázquez-Báez, V.; Ramírez, C.

    2018-04-01

    From a previously found worldline supersymmetric formulation for the effective action of the closed string tachyon in a FRW background, the Hamiltonian of the theory is constructed, by means of the Dirac procedure, and written in a quantum version. Using the supersymmetry algebra we are able to find solutions to the Wheeler-DeWitt equation via a more simple set of first order differential equations. Finally, for the k = 0 case, we compute the expectation value of the scale factor with a suitably potential also favored in the present literature. We give some interpretations of the results and state future work lines on this matter.

  18. Distribution of a Generic Mission Planning and Scheduling Toolkit for Astronomical Spacecraft

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Kleiner, Steven C.

    1996-01-01

    Work is progressing as outlined in the proposal for this contract. A working planning and scheduling system has been documented and packaged and made available to the WIRE Small Explorer group at JPL, the FUSE group at JHU, the NASA/GSFC Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics and the Advanced Planning and Scheduling Branch at STScI. The package is running successfully on the WIRE computer system. It is expected that the WIRE will reuse significant portions of the SWAS code in its system. This scheduling system itself was tested successfully against the spacecraft hardware in December 1995. A fully automatic scheduling module has been developed and is being added to the toolkit. In order to maximize reuse, the code is being reorganized during the current build into object-oriented class libraries. A paper describing the toolkit has been written and is included in the software distribution. We have experienced interference between the export and production versions of the toolkit. We will be requesting permission to reprogram funds in order to purchase a standalone PC onto which to offload the export version.

  19. PoMiN: A Post-Minkowskian N-body Solver

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Feng, Justin; Baumann, Mark; Hall, Bryton; Doss, Joel; Spencer, Lucas; Matzner, Richard

    2018-06-01

    In this paper, we introduce PoMiN, a lightweight N-body code based on the post-Minkowskian N-body Hamiltonian of Ledvinka et al., which includes general relativistic effects up to first order in Newton’s constant G, and all orders in the speed of light c. PoMiN is written in C and uses a fourth-order Runge–Kutta integration scheme. PoMiN has also been written to handle an arbitrary number of particles (both massive and massless), with a computational complexity that scales as O(N 2). We describe the methods we used to simplify and organize the Hamiltonian, and the tests we performed (convergence, conservation, and analytical comparison tests) to validate the code.

  20. 78 FR 66968 - In the Matter of Landon E. Brittain; Order Prohibiting Involvement In NRC-Licensed Activities...

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    2013-11-07

    ... apprehended in Venezuela, and has been extradited to the United States. As of the date of this Order, Mr... Enforcement Policy. Any person adversely affected by this Order may submit a written answer within 30 days...

  1. Dynamics of a new family of iterative processes for quadratic polynomials

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Gutiérrez, J. M.; Hernández, M. A.; Romero, N.

    2010-03-01

    In this work we show the presence of the well-known Catalan numbers in the study of the convergence and the dynamical behavior of a family of iterative methods for solving nonlinear equations. In fact, we introduce a family of methods, depending on a parameter . These methods reach the order of convergence m+2 when they are applied to quadratic polynomials with different roots. Newton's and Chebyshev's methods appear as particular choices of the family appear for m=0 and m=1, respectively. We make both analytical and graphical studies of these methods, which give rise to rational functions defined in the extended complex plane. Firstly, we prove that the coefficients of the aforementioned family of iterative processes can be written in terms of the Catalan numbers. Secondly, we make an incursion into its dynamical behavior. In fact, we show that the rational maps related to these methods can be written in terms of the entries of the Catalan triangle. Next we analyze its general convergence, by including some computer plots showing the intricate structure of the Universal Julia sets associated with the methods.

  2. NLO perturbativity bounds on quartic couplings in renormalizable theories with Φ 4 -like scalar sectors

    DOE PAGES

    Murphy, Christopher W.

    2017-08-17

    The apparent breakdown of unitarity in low order perturbation theory is often is used to place bounds on the parameters of a theory. In this work we give an algorithm for approximately computing the next-to-leading order (NLO) perturbativity bounds on the quartic couplings of a renormalizable theory whose scalar sector is Φ 4 -like. And by this we mean theories where either there are no cubic scalar interactions, or the cubic couplings are related to the quartic couplings through spontaneous symmetry breaking. Furthermore, the quantity that tests where perturbation theory breaks down itself can be written as a perturbative series,more » and having the NLO terms allows one to test how well the series converges. We also present a simple example to illustrate the effect of considering these bounds at different orders in perturbation theory. For example, there is a noticeable difference in the viable parameter when the square of the NLO piece is included versus when it is not.« less

  3. 48 CFR 42.1302 - Suspension of work.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... Delay of Work 42.1302 Suspension of work. A suspension of work under a construction or architect... suspension is unreasonable, the contractor may submit a written claim for increases in the cost of...

  4. 48 CFR 42.1302 - Suspension of work.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... Delay of Work 42.1302 Suspension of work. A suspension of work under a construction or architect... suspension is unreasonable, the contractor may submit a written claim for increases in the cost of...

  5. 48 CFR 42.1302 - Suspension of work.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... Delay of Work 42.1302 Suspension of work. A suspension of work under a construction or architect... suspension is unreasonable, the contractor may submit a written claim for increases in the cost of...

  6. 48 CFR 42.1302 - Suspension of work.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... Delay of Work 42.1302 Suspension of work. A suspension of work under a construction or architect... suspension is unreasonable, the contractor may submit a written claim for increases in the cost of...

  7. 48 CFR 42.1302 - Suspension of work.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... Delay of Work 42.1302 Suspension of work. A suspension of work under a construction or architect... suspension is unreasonable, the contractor may submit a written claim for increases in the cost of...

  8. Embeddings of the "New Massive Gravity"

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Dalmazi, D.; Mendonça, E. L.

    2016-07-01

    Here we apply different types of embeddings of the equations of motion of the linearized "New Massive Gravity" in order to generate alternative and even higher-order (in derivatives) massive gravity theories in D=2+1. In the first part of the work we use the Weyl symmetry as a guiding principle for the embeddings. First we show that a Noether gauge embedding of the Weyl symmetry leads to a sixth-order model in derivatives with either a massive or a massless ghost, according to the chosen overall sign of the theory. On the other hand, if the Weyl symmetry is implemented by means of a Stueckelberg field we obtain a new scalar-tensor model for massive gravitons. It is ghost-free and Weyl invariant at the linearized level around Minkowski space. The model can be nonlinearly completed into a scalar field coupled to the NMG theory. The elimination of the scalar field leads to a nonlocal modification of the NMG. In the second part of the work we prove to all orders in derivatives that there is no local, ghost-free embedding of the linearized NMG equations of motion around Minkowski space when written in terms of one symmetric tensor. Regarding that point, NMG differs from the Fierz-Pauli theory, since in the latter case we can replace the Einstein-Hilbert action by specific f(R,Box R) generalizations and still keep the theory ghost-free at the linearized level.

  9. 39 CFR 952.23 - Proposed findings and conclusions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... fact, conclusions of law, orders and supporting reasons either in oral or written form in the... submit proposed findings of fact, conclusions of law, orders, and supporting reasons. Unless given orally, the date set for filing of proposed findings of fact, conclusions of law, orders and supporting...

  10. [The quality of medication orders--can it be improved?].

    PubMed

    Vaknin, Ofra; Wingart-Emerel, Efrat; Stern, Zvi

    2003-07-01

    Medication errors are a common cause of morbidity and mortality among patients. Medication administration in hospitals is a complicated procedure with the possibility of error at each step. Errors are most commonly found at the prescription and transcription stages, although it is known that most errors can easily be avoided through strict adherence to standardized procedure guidelines. In examination of medication errors reported in the hospital in the year 2000, we found that 38% reported to have resulted from transcription errors. In the year 2001, the hospital initiated a program designed to identify faulty process of orders in an effort to improve the quality and effectiveness of the medication administration process. As part of this program, it was decided to check and evaluate the quality of the written doctor's orders and the transcription of those orders to the nursing cadre, in various hospital units. The study was conducted using a questionnaire which checked compliance to hospital standards with regard to the medication administration process, as applied to 6 units over the course of 8 weeks. Results of the survey showed poor compliance to guidelines on the part of doctors and nurses. Only 18% of doctors' orders in the study and 37% of the nurses' transcriptions were written according to standards. The Emergency Department showed an even lower compliance with only 3% of doctors' orders and 25% of nurses' transcriptions complying to standards. As a result of this study, it was decided to initiate an intensive in-service teaching course to refresh the staff's knowledge of medication administration guidelines. In the future it is recommended that hand-written orders be replaced by computerized orders in an effort to limit the chance of error.

  11. The Associations Between the Religious Background, Social Supports, and Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders in Taiwan

    PubMed Central

    Lin, Kuan-Han; Chen, Yih-Sharng; Chou, Nai-Kuan; Huang, Sheng-Jean; Wu, Chau-Chung; Chen, Yen-Yuan

    2016-01-01

    Abstract Prior studies have demonstrated important implications related to religiosity and a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) decision. However, the association between patients’ religious background and DNR decisions is vague. In particular, the association between the religious background of Buddhism/Daoism and DNR decisions has never been examined. The objective of this study was to examine the association between patients’ religious background and their DNR decisions, with a particular focus on Buddhism/Daoism. The medical records of the patients who were admitted to the 3 surgical intensive care units (SICU) in a university-affiliated medical center located at Northern Taiwan from June 1, 2011 to December 31, 2013 were retrospectively collected. We compared the clinical/demographic variables of DNR patients with those of non-DNR patients using the Student t test or χ2 test depending on the scale of the variables. We used multivariate logistic regression analysis to examine the association between the religious backgrounds and DNR decisions. A sample of 1909 patients was collected: 122 patients had a DNR order; and 1787 patients did not have a DNR order. Old age (P = 0.02), unemployment (P = 0.02), admission diagnosis of “nonoperative, cardiac failure/insufficiency” (P = 0.03), and severe acute illness at SICU admission (P < 0.01) were significantly associated with signing of DNR orders. Patients’ religious background of Buddhism/Daoism (P = 0.04), married marital status (P = 0.02), and admission diagnosis of “postoperative, major surgery” (P = 0.02) were less likely to have a DNR order written during their SICU stay. Furthermore, patients with poor social support, as indicated by marital and working status, were more likely to consent to a DNR order during SICU stay. This study showed that the religious background of Buddhism/Daoism was significantly associated with a lower likelihood of consenting to a DNR, and poor social support was significantly associated with a higher likelihood of having a DNR order written during SICU stay. PMID:26817913

  12. The Associations Between the Religious Background, Social Supports, and Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders in Taiwan: An Observational Study.

    PubMed

    Lin, Kuan-Han; Chen, Yih-Sharng; Chou, Nai-Kuan; Huang, Sheng-Jean; Wu, Chau-Chung; Chen, Yen-Yuan

    2016-01-01

    Prior studies have demonstrated important implications related to religiosity and a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) decision. However, the association between patients' religious background and DNR decisions is vague. In particular, the association between the religious background of Buddhism/Daoism and DNR decisions has never been examined. The objective of this study was to examine the association between patients' religious background and their DNR decisions, with a particular focus on Buddhism/Daoism.The medical records of the patients who were admitted to the 3 surgical intensive care units (SICU) in a university-affiliated medical center located at Northern Taiwan from June 1, 2011 to December 31, 2013 were retrospectively collected. We compared the clinical/demographic variables of DNR patients with those of non-DNR patients using the Student t test or χ test depending on the scale of the variables. We used multivariate logistic regression analysis to examine the association between the religious backgrounds and DNR decisions.A sample of 1909 patients was collected: 122 patients had a DNR order; and 1787 patients did not have a DNR order. Old age (P = 0.02), unemployment (P = 0.02), admission diagnosis of "nonoperative, cardiac failure/insufficiency" (P = 0.03), and severe acute illness at SICU admission (P < 0.01) were significantly associated with signing of DNR orders. Patients' religious background of Buddhism/Daoism (P = 0.04), married marital status (P = 0.02), and admission diagnosis of "postoperative, major surgery" (P = 0.02) were less likely to have a DNR order written during their SICU stay. Furthermore, patients with poor social support, as indicated by marital and working status, were more likely to consent to a DNR order during SICU stay.This study showed that the religious background of Buddhism/Daoism was significantly associated with a lower likelihood of consenting to a DNR, and poor social support was significantly associated with a higher likelihood of having a DNR order written during SICU stay.

  13. Working towards a 'fit note': an experimental vignette survey of GPs.

    PubMed

    Sallis, Anna; Birkin, Richard; Munir, Fehmidah

    2010-04-01

    The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has designed a trial medical statement. To compare fitness for work assessment outcomes and written advice across current and trial medical statements. To examine the use of and suggestions to improve the trial medical statement. Comparative study with a two-way mixed design using questionnaire-based vignettes presenting GPs with three hypothetical sick leave cases (back pain, depression, combined back pain and depression) and medical statements (current or trial). The questionnaire also gathered GP views of using the trial Med 3. Nine primary care organisations (PCOs) in England, Scotland, and Wales. Five hundred and eighty-three GPs employed in PCOs in summer 2008 were randomised to receive a current or trial Med 3 postal questionnaire. GPs assessed vignette patients' fitness for work using the questionnaire medical statements. GPs using the trial Med 3 were less likely to advise refraining from work and more likely to provide written fitness for work advice compared to GPs using the current Med 3 form. Date sections of the trial Med 3 were used inconsistently, and a return to work date was unclear. GPs wanted further clarification of the implications of assessing a case as 'fit for some work' and its relationship to employers' willingness to follow GP advice about work. The study indicates a revised form may reduce the number of patients advised to refrain from work and increase the provision of written fitness for work information.

  14. 44 CFR 206.208 - Direct Federal assistance.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... shall be submitted by the Grantee to the Regional Administrator and shall include: (1) A written... written agreement. (c) Implementation. (1) If the Regional Administrator approves the request, a mission... Regional Administrator. (2) If all or any part of the requested work falls within the statutory authority...

  15. 44 CFR 206.208 - Direct Federal assistance.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... shall be submitted by the Grantee to the Regional Administrator and shall include: (1) A written... written agreement. (c) Implementation. (1) If the Regional Administrator approves the request, a mission... Regional Administrator. (2) If all or any part of the requested work falls within the statutory authority...

  16. 44 CFR 206.208 - Direct Federal assistance.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... shall be submitted by the Grantee to the Regional Administrator and shall include: (1) A written... written agreement. (c) Implementation. (1) If the Regional Administrator approves the request, a mission... Regional Administrator. (2) If all or any part of the requested work falls within the statutory authority...

  17. 44 CFR 206.208 - Direct Federal assistance.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... shall be submitted by the Grantee to the Regional Administrator and shall include: (1) A written... written agreement. (c) Implementation. (1) If the Regional Administrator approves the request, a mission... Regional Administrator. (2) If all or any part of the requested work falls within the statutory authority...

  18. 39 CFR 952.23 - Proposed findings and conclusions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... law, orders and supporting reasons either in oral or written form in the discretion of the presiding... fact, conclusions of law, orders, and supporting reasons. Unless given orally, the date set for filing of proposed findings of fact, conclusions of law, orders and supporting reasons shall be within 15...

  19. 20 CFR 501.6 - Decisions and orders.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... 20 Employees' Benefits 3 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Decisions and orders. 501.6 Section 501.6 Employees' Benefits EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR RULES OF PROCEDURE § 501.6 Decisions and orders. (a) Decisions. A decision of the Board will contain a written opinion setting forth...

  20. 43 CFR 4.201 - Definitions.

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    ... means a person who is deceased. Decision or order (or decision and order) means: (1) A written document issued by a judge making determinations as to heirs, wills, devisees, and the claims of creditors, and ordering distribution of trust or restricted land or trust personalty; (2) The decision issued by an...

  1. An Investigation of Factors Affecting How Engineers and Scientists Seek Information

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    Anderson, Claire J; Glassman, Myron; McAfee, R. Bruce; Pinelli, Thomas

    2001-01-01

    This study investigated how 872 US aerospace scientists and engineers select information carriers. When considering oral and written information carriers, the principle of least effort was supported with a strong preference for oral communication over written communication. In examining how the respondents select written carriers, the decision to use or not to use a written carrier was found to be primarily a function of the perceived importance of the carrier's information to a person's work. Task uncertainty and task complexity were found to be significant, but not the primary nor a totally consistent criteria. The perceived quality and accessibility of written carriers were not found significant. The findings reinforce the need for firms to hire knowledgeable employees, to provide them with comprehensive training programs, and to develop formal and informal communication networks.

  2. Statistical Debugging

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    2008-03-01

    in all parts of the program except the predicates. B. PRELIMINARY EXPERIMENTATION Working with the hand written program initially to get a feel...PROBLEM STATEMENT AND MOTIVATION .......................................2 II. RELATED WORK ...ISOLATION.........................................7 III. PRELIMINARY WORK

  3. Dramatizing the Authentic Research of a Local Scientist to Urban Elementary Students Through Professional Theater

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    Burgin, Stephen R.; Alonzo, Jenifer; Hill, Victoria J.

    2016-12-01

    This article focuses on the impact of a professional play that we developed in order to introduce elementary learners of an urban school to the research of a scientist working at a local university. The play was written in a way that might increase student understandings of the nature of science, scientific inquiry, the identity of scientists, and the work that scientists do. We collected pre-and post-play questionnaire responses and drawings of scientists from third and fourth grade students who attended the play. We also interviewed five of the ten teachers whose students attended the play. Findings indicated that most of these teachers felt strongly that their students had learned about scientific inquiry, the identity of scientists, and the work that scientists do as a result of attending the play. However, less than half of the student questionnaires and drawings of scientists indicated such growth as a result of the play. That being said, numerous students were able to tell us what they learned from the play and many questionnaire responses and drawings indicated such learning. Implications for partnerships between schools and university faculty from various disciplines in order to develop potentially impactful plays that portray authentic scientific research are discussed.

  4. Program Helps Decompose Complex Design Systems

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    Rogers, James L., Jr.; Hall, Laura E.

    1995-01-01

    DeMAID (Design Manager's Aid for Intelligent Decomposition) computer program is knowledge-based software system for ordering sequence of modules and identifying possible multilevel structure for design problems such as large platforms in outer space. Groups modular subsystems on basis of interactions among them. Saves considerable amount of money and time in total design process, particularly in new design problem in which order of modules has not been defined. Originally written for design problems, also applicable to problems containing modules (processes) that take inputs and generate outputs. Available in three machine versions: Macintosh written in Symantec's Think C 3.01, Sun, and SGI IRIS in C language.

  5. Opening New Doors. Friends through Writing.

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    British Columbia Buildings Corp., Victoria.

    This publication contains 37 stories, vignettes, and poems written by participants in the British Columbia Buildings Corporation Workplace Language Program. The pieces center on family, work, people, and places and were written by people who decided to learn how to improve their language skills. They represent slices of employees' lives as they…

  6. A Vocational Approach to Written Communications. Final Report.

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    Hutkin, Ronald M., Comp.

    Students' cognitive and affective development in achieving written communication objectives in the context of the world of work were compared with the same objectives placed in a liberal arts context. The research project involved four groups of students at Platte Technical Community College. Two experimental groups completed the cognitive…

  7. Poverty-Related Topics Found in Dissertations: A Bibliography.

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    O'Neill, Mara, Comp.; And Others

    Arranged alphabetically by main topic, this bibliography cites 322 doctoral dissertations, written between 1970 and 1974, pertaining to various aspects of poverty. Where possible, annotations have been written to present the kernel idea of the work. Im many instances, additional subject headings which reflect important secondary thrusts are also…

  8. Linguistic Perspectives on Literacy: A Systemic-Functional Approach.

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    Halliday, M. A. K.

    Literacy is examined from the viewpoint of systemic linguistics. It is proposed that "literacy" means intervening in the social processes by working with written language, and this can not be accomplished by an individual alone. "Using written language" can not be isolated from "using language." While sociologically,…

  9. Designing Automated Guidance to Promote Productive Revision of Science Explanations

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    Tansomboon, Charissa; Gerard, Libby F.; Vitale, Jonathan M.; Linn, Marcia C.

    2017-01-01

    Supporting students to revise their written explanations in science can help students to integrate disparate ideas and develop a coherent, generative account of complex scientific topics. Using natural language processing to analyze student written work, we compare forms of automated guidance designed to motivate productive revision and help…

  10. Micro-PROUST.

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    Johnson, W. Lewis; Soloway, Elliot

    This detailed description of a microcomputer version of PROUST (Program Understander for Students), a knowledge-based system that finds nonsyntactic bugs in Pascal programs written by novice programmers, presents the inner workings of Micro-PROUST, which was written in Golden LISP for the IBM-PC (512K). The contents include: (1) a reprint of an…

  11. VOCATIONAL ADJUSTMENT AND THE DEAF--A GUIDE AND ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY.

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    LERMAN, ALAN

    WRITTEN FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN THE VOCATIONAL TRAINING, PLACEMENT, REHABILITATION, AND EVALUATION OF DEAF WORKERS, THE GUIDE REVIEWS LITERATURE WRITTEN ON WORK ADJUSTMENT, VOCATIONAL INTERESTS, PLACEMENT, STATUS, AND ADJUSTMENT OF DEAF ADULTS. A CRITIQUE OF STUDIES ON DEAF WORKERS AND EVALUATION OF VARIOUS INFORMATION-GATHERING TECHNIQUES…

  12. From Thoughts to Words.

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    Glaus, Marlene

    The activities presented in this book, designed to help children translate their thoughts into spoken and written words, can supplement an elementary teacher's own language arts lessons. Objectives for each activity are listed, with the general focus of the many oral activities being to develop a rich verbal background for future written work. The…

  13. The Presentation of Projects by High School Pupils in a Gifted Programme.

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    Peires, Juliette

    Guidelines are offered for helping gifted high school students present oral and written presentations of individual learning projects. Students need to work toward a goal and accept responsibility for presenting the project formally. Written reports foster discipline, completed projects, and documentation for further study. Verbal reports offer…

  14. Instructional Leadership: A Learning-Centered Guide.

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    Hoy, Anita Woolfolk; Hoy, Wayne Kolter

    This book was written with the assumption that teachers and administrators must work as colleagues to improve instruction and learning in schools. It was written to be consistent with the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) standards for school administrators, especially Standards 1 and 2, which emphasize a learning-centered…

  15. Integrating Written Communication Skills: Working towards a Whole of Course Approach

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    Harris, Anne

    2016-01-01

    Australian universities, through their graduate attributes, claim that graduates have the ability to communicate, an attribute encompassing, at the least, written and oral literacies. Despite this claim, Australian universities have been criticised over the past decade for their lack of rigour in assessing this attribute; a criticism generally…

  16. Fast large scale structure perturbation theory using one-dimensional fast Fourier transforms

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    Schmittfull, Marcel; Vlah, Zvonimir; McDonald, Patrick

    The usual fluid equations describing the large-scale evolution of mass density in the universe can be written as local in the density, velocity divergence, and velocity potential fields. As a result, the perturbative expansion in small density fluctuations, usually written in terms of convolutions in Fourier space, can be written as a series of products of these fields evaluated at the same location in configuration space. Based on this, we establish a new method to numerically evaluate the 1-loop power spectrum (i.e., Fourier transform of the 2-point correlation function) with one-dimensional fast Fourier transforms. This is exact and a fewmore » orders of magnitude faster than previously used numerical approaches. Numerical results of the new method are in excellent agreement with the standard quadrature integration method. This fast model evaluation can in principle be extended to higher loop order where existing codes become painfully slow. Our approach follows by writing higher order corrections to the 2-point correlation function as, e.g., the correlation between two second-order fields or the correlation between a linear and a third-order field. These are then decomposed into products of correlations of linear fields and derivatives of linear fields. In conclusion, the method can also be viewed as evaluating three-dimensional Fourier space convolutions using products in configuration space, which may also be useful in other contexts where similar integrals appear.« less

  17. Fast large scale structure perturbation theory using one-dimensional fast Fourier transforms

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    Schmittfull, Marcel; Vlah, Zvonimir; McDonald, Patrick

    2016-05-01

    The usual fluid equations describing the large-scale evolution of mass density in the universe can be written as local in the density, velocity divergence, and velocity potential fields. As a result, the perturbative expansion in small density fluctuations, usually written in terms of convolutions in Fourier space, can be written as a series of products of these fields evaluated at the same location in configuration space. Based on this, we establish a new method to numerically evaluate the 1-loop power spectrum (i.e., Fourier transform of the 2-point correlation function) with one-dimensional fast Fourier transforms. This is exact and a fewmore » orders of magnitude faster than previously used numerical approaches. Numerical results of the new method are in excellent agreement with the standard quadrature integration method. This fast model evaluation can in principle be extended to higher loop order where existing codes become painfully slow. Our approach follows by writing higher order corrections to the 2-point correlation function as, e.g., the correlation between two second-order fields or the correlation between a linear and a third-order field. These are then decomposed into products of correlations of linear fields and derivatives of linear fields. In conclusion, the method can also be viewed as evaluating three-dimensional Fourier space convolutions using products in configuration space, which may also be useful in other contexts where similar integrals appear.« less

  18. Unrelenting Expectations: A More Nuanced Understanding of the Broken Windows Theory of Cultural Management in Urban Education

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    Livermore, Craig

    2008-01-01

    Much has been written about the adaptation from criminology of the "Broken Windows" theory of order maintenance in successful urban educational models. Yet, the manner in which the theory is written and discussed often misses the nuances and feel of the theory as successfully applied. This misunderstanding has lead to its conflation with the "Zero…

  19. 76 FR 62777 - Forum-Trends and Causes of Observed Changes in Heat Waves, Cold Waves, Floods and Drought

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    ... public comments will be allotted based on the order in which RSVPs are received. Written comments may be submitted via email or in hardcopy and must be received by October 25, 2011. Please see addresses below... the forum must RSVP no later than 5 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, October 25, 2011. Deadline for Written Comments...

  20. MSFC personnel management tasks: Recruitment and orientation of new employees

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    Brindley, T. A.

    1980-01-01

    In order to encourage highly motivated young students to learn about NASA and consider it for a career, a formal program is to be initiated whereby selected students can work on a voluntary basis at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). The first task was to develop the working plan and procedures for this program, called Student Volunteer Service Program, in the writing of MSFC official guidelines, the Marshall Management Instruction (the MMI) which is a binding document that defines policy and establishes procedures and guidelines. Particular considerations written into the MMI after numerous consultations, interviews, and discussions about a satisfactory policy, include: arrangements to be made between the student, the school authorities, and concerned MSFC employees; management of the work assignments; and procedures for the student's welfare and safety. The second task was the development of a recruitment brochure for the attraction of new employees, especially scientists and engineers. The third task assigned was to develop a plan called Orientation of New Employees.

  1. [Need for Information about Medical Rehabilitation of Persons with German Pension Insurance: a Written Survey].

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    Walther, Anna Lena; Falk, Johannes; Deck, Ruth

    2017-07-26

    Aim In order to acquire target group-specific information on rehabilitation for members of the German pension insurance, they were asked about their ideas about medical rehabilitation and desired information regarding subjects and kind of information transfer. Method The core of the project was a written survey of members of the German pension insurance. N=600 insured people were invited to participate in the study. The questionnaire was developed in a qualitative pre-study. Results N=196 questionnaires were evaluated. Recovery of working ability was mentioned by most persons as the aim of medical rehabilitation. The most common idea regarding indication for rehabilitation was a specific operation. Physiotherapy was most often considered as therapy during medical rehabilitation. Information about formal steps, realistic aims and rehabilitation clinics were important. A conversation with their physician, written information material and a website were the preferred information pathways. Two-thirds of participants thought that information about medical rehabilitation was important even though they had no rehabilitation indication at the time of survey. Conclusion The identified target-related information needs can be considered in a need-oriented development of information material. These can contribute to an informed decision for members of the German pension insurance for or against medical rehabilitation or an application for rehabilitation. Moreover, patient-oriented information can contribute to more successful rehabilitation participation, higher satisfaction with and a better rating of medical rehabilitation. © Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York.

  2. A systematic review of interventions to improve recall of medical advice in healthcare consultations.

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    Watson, Philip W B; McKinstry, Brian

    2009-06-01

    In order for patients to adhere to healthcare advice, it is essential that they are able to recall this following a consultation. Although psychological research exists which highlights techniques and factors postulated to influence recall, only a limited body of work has been conducted to evaluate their effectiveness in a clinical context. To carry out a systematic review of intervention trials designed to enhance recall of medical information. We searched Medline (1950-April 2007); Embase (1980-April 2007); Cinahl (1982-April 2007); PsychINFO (1969-2007); and the Cochrane Library Collection. Secondary searches were made through reference to relevant journals and reference lists from relevant papers/review papers. From 69 papers provisionally identified, 34 papers met the inclusion criteria. Nine recall interventions had been evaluated (audio recordings, written materials, adjunct questions, prompt sheets, visual aids, cognitive strategies, rehearsal, communication styles and personalized teaching). Despite the experimental and theoretical evidence which could have informed cognitive interventions to enhance recall of healthcare advice, most studies primarily focused on the use of written and/or audio-recorded medical instructions. Although the majority of studies supported these approaches insofar as they enhanced recall, the findings were equivocal. While written and tape-recorded instructions appear to improve recall in most situations, a dearth of interventions incorporating psychological theory was readily apparent. Further research is required in clinical settings to determine if cognitive interventions based on a more over-arching psychological model of recall are effective.

  3. Grammatical Deviations in the Spoken and Written Language of Hebrew-Speaking Children With Hearing Impairments.

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    Tur-Kaspa, Hana; Dromi, Esther

    2001-04-01

    The present study reports a detailed analysis of written and spoken language samples of Hebrew-speaking children aged 11-13 years who are deaf. It focuses on the description of various grammatical deviations in the two modalities. Participants were 13 students with hearing impairments (HI) attending special classrooms integrated into two elementary schools in Tel Aviv, Israel, and 9 students with normal hearing (NH) in regular classes in these same schools. Spoken and written language samples were collected from all participants using the same five preplanned elicitation probes. Students with HI were found to display significantly more grammatical deviations than their NH peers in both their spoken and written language samples. Most importantly, between-modality differences were noted. The participants with HI exhibited significantly more grammatical deviations in their written language samples than in their spoken samples. However, the distribution of grammatical deviations across categories was similar in the two modalities. The most common grammatical deviations in order of their frequency were failure to supply obligatory morphological markers, failure to mark grammatical agreement, and the omission of a major syntactic constituent in a sentence. Word order violations were rarely recorded in the Hebrew samples. Performance differences in the two modalities encourage clinicians and teachers to facilitate target linguistic forms in diverse communication contexts. Furthermore, the identification of linguistic targets for intervention must be based on the unique grammatical structure of the target language.

  4. 39 CFR 952.23 - Proposed findings and conclusions.

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    2013-07-01

    ..., conclusions of law, orders and supporting reasons either in oral or written form in the discretion of the... findings of fact, conclusions of law, orders, and supporting reasons. Unless given orally, the date set for filing of proposed findings of fact, conclusions of law, orders and supporting reasons shall be within 30...

  5. 39 CFR 952.23 - Proposed findings and conclusions.

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    2012-07-01

    ..., conclusions of law, orders and supporting reasons either in oral or written form in the discretion of the... findings of fact, conclusions of law, orders, and supporting reasons. Unless given orally, the date set for filing of proposed findings of fact, conclusions of law, orders and supporting reasons shall be within 30...

  6. 39 CFR 952.23 - Proposed findings and conclusions.

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    2014-07-01

    ..., conclusions of law, orders and supporting reasons either in oral or written form in the discretion of the... findings of fact, conclusions of law, orders, and supporting reasons. Unless given orally, the date set for filing of proposed findings of fact, conclusions of law, orders and supporting reasons shall be within 30...

  7. Do-not-resuscitate orders in an extended-care study group.

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    Meyers, R M; Lurie, N; Breitenbucher, R B; Waring, C J

    1990-09-01

    We examined the charts of 911 nursing home patients in Hennepin County, Minnesota, to determine the prevalence of written do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders. Information regarding demographic characteristics, and whether a surrogate decisionmaker was available and participated in the decision, was also collected. Twenty-seven percent of patients had DNR orders. Ninety percent of all patients had potentially available surrogate decisionmakers. However, for 31% of patients with DNR orders, there was no documentation of patient or surrogate participation in the DNR decision. Univariate analysis identified female sex; increased age, level of care (skilled versus intermediate), presence of a potential surrogate decisionmaker, and increasing length of time since nursing home admission as factors associated with presence of DNR orders. When a logistic regression model was used, increased age, increased length of time since nursing home admission, skilled versus intermediate level of care, and presence of a surrogate decisionmaker were independently associated with presence of DNR status. Several variables are independently associated with written DNR orders; their relationship to the factors physicians use in decision making requires further study.

  8. [Orality and writing: argumentation in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder].

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    Gallardo-Paúls, Beatriz; Moreno-Campos, Verónica

    2014-02-24

    This work takes a deeper look at the differences in the linguistic competence of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in terms of both orality and writing. The purpose of this study is to check whether, in oral tasks, these children present the same problems related to inhibition and self-regulation as those pointed out in research working with written data. Likewise it seeks to describe those problems (lack of appropriateness, inappropriate production) as they appear in our oral data. A written and an oral argumentation produced by 25 participants between 9 and 11 years of age were analysed. In the written task, the children wrote their argumentations, and in the oral task their argumentative interaction with a collaborator was videotaped and later the types of arguments used in each case (logical, fallacies, sanctioning or moralist) were analysed. There is an obvious difference between the results in the two tests, which suggests the need to review the verbal evaluation mechanisms and to complete the written results with oral skill tests. The problems normally associated with written tasks do not appear in oral language; participants are able to follow the discursive thread and to provide new arguments related with the topic. The data obtained highlight the added difficulty of a written task for children with ADHD, the reliability of the oral results with regard to linguistic skills, and the need to use both types of data in evaluations.

  9. Sub-30 nm patterning of molecular resists based on crosslinking through tip based oxidation

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    Lorenzoni, Matteo; Wagner, Daniel; Neuber, Christian; Schmidt, Hans-Werner; Perez-Murano, Francesc

    2018-06-01

    Oxidation Scanning Probe Lithography (o-SPL) is an established method employed for device patterning at the nanometer scale. It represents a feasible and inexpensive alternative to standard lithographic techniques such as electron beam lithography (EBL) and nanoimprint lithography (NIL). In this work we applied non-contact o-SPL to an engineered class of molecular resists in order to obtain crosslinking by electrochemical driven oxidation. By patterning and developing various resist formulas we were able to obtain a reliable negative tone resist behavior based on local oxidation. Under optimal conditions, directly written patterns can routinely reach sub-30 nm lateral resolution, while the final developed features result wider, approaching 50 nm width.

  10. The Salty Science of the Aluminum-Air Battery

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    Chasteen, Stephanie V.; Chasteen, N. Dennis; Doherty, Paul

    2008-12-01

    Fruit batteries and saltwater batteries are excellent ways to explore simple circuits in the classroom. These are examples of air batteries in which metal reacts with oxygen in the air in order to generate free electrons, which flow through an external circuit and do work. Students are typically told that the salt or fruit water acts as an electrolyte to bring electrons from the anode to the cathode. That's true, but it leaves the battery as a black box. Physics teachers often don't have the background to explain the chemistry behind these batteries. We've written this paper to explore the electrochemistry behind an air battery using copper cathode, aluminum anode, and saltwater.

  11. 14 CFR 13.127 - Reports, decisions and orders.

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    2011-01-01

    ... Section 13.127 Aeronautics and Space FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION... Investigation § 13.127 Reports, decisions and orders. The Presiding Officer shall issue a written report based... publication as prescribed by section 313(b) of the Federal Aviation Act. ...

  12. 14 CFR 13.127 - Reports, decisions and orders.

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    2010-01-01

    ... Section 13.127 Aeronautics and Space FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION... Investigation § 13.127 Reports, decisions and orders. The Presiding Officer shall issue a written report based... publication as prescribed by section 313(b) of the Federal Aviation Act. ...

  13. 14 CFR 13.127 - Reports, decisions and orders.

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    2012-01-01

    ... Section 13.127 Aeronautics and Space FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION... Investigation § 13.127 Reports, decisions and orders. The Presiding Officer shall issue a written report based... publication as prescribed by section 313(b) of the Federal Aviation Act. ...

  14. 14 CFR 13.127 - Reports, decisions and orders.

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    2014-01-01

    ... Section 13.127 Aeronautics and Space FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION... Investigation § 13.127 Reports, decisions and orders. The Presiding Officer shall issue a written report based... publication as prescribed by section 313(b) of the Federal Aviation Act. ...

  15. 14 CFR 13.127 - Reports, decisions and orders.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... Section 13.127 Aeronautics and Space FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION... Investigation § 13.127 Reports, decisions and orders. The Presiding Officer shall issue a written report based... publication as prescribed by section 313(b) of the Federal Aviation Act. ...

  16. [Try to discuss manipulation of the "Feijing Zouqi" needling technique].

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    Zhou, Dan; Gao, Ying; Wang, Fu-chun

    2008-03-01

    Based on description of "Feijing Zouqi" needling methods in Jin Zhen Fu (Rhyme Prose of Golden Needle) written by Xu Feng, and explain and analyze the descriptions of "Feijing Zouqi" needling method in Zhenjiu Juying (A Collection of Gems in Acu-Moxibustion) written by Gao Wu, Zhenjiu Wendui written by Wang Ji, Zhenjiu Dacheng (Great Compendium on Acu-Moxibustion) written by Yang Ji-zhou, Yixue Rumen (Elementary Medicine) written by LI Chan and many other works, summarize the technique characteristics of all the "Feijing Zouqi" needling methods. The characteristic of "Qinglong Baiwei" needling method is " first toward the left, then toward the right, slowly move or adjust with the hand"; and "Baihu Yaotou" needling method emphasizes "Tuifang Jinyuan" and "Yaozhen "; key point of "Canggui Tanxue" needling method is "Zuanti Sifang"; Chifeng Yingyuan" needling method emphasizes "Siwei Feixuan".

  17. Written object naming, spelling to dictation, and immediate copying: Different tasks, different pathways?

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    Bonin, Patrick; Méot, Alain; Lagarrigue, Aurélie; Roux, Sébastien

    2015-01-01

    We report an investigation of cross-task comparisons of handwritten latencies in written object naming, spelling to dictation, and immediate copying. In three separate sessions, adults had to write down a list of concrete nouns from their corresponding pictures (written naming), from their spoken (spelling to dictation) and from their visual presentation (immediate copying). Linear mixed models without random slopes were performed on the latencies in order to study and compare within-task fixed effects. By-participants random slopes were then included to investigate individual differences within and across tasks. Overall, the findings suggest that written naming, spelling to dictation, and copying all involve a lexical pathway, but that written naming relies on this pathway more than the other two tasks do. Only spelling to dictation strongly involves a nonlexical pathway. Finally, the analyses performed at the level of participants indicate that, depending on the type of task, the slower participants are more or less influenced by certain psycholinguistic variables.

  18. Job retention vocational rehabilitation for employed people with inflammatory arthritis (WORK-IA): a feasibility randomized controlled trial.

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    Hammond, Alison; O'Brien, Rachel; Woodbridge, Sarah; Bradshaw, Lucy; Prior, Yeliz; Radford, Kate; Culley, June; Whitham, Diane; Ruth Pulikottil-Jacob

    2017-07-21

    Inflammatory arthritis leads to work disability, absenteeism and presenteeism (i.e. at-work productivity loss) at high cost to individuals, employers and society. A trial of job retention vocational rehabilitation (VR) in the United States identified this helped people keep working. The effectiveness of this VR in countries with different socioeconomic policies and conditions, and its impact on absenteeism, presenteeism and health, are unknown. This feasibility study tested the acceptability of this VR, modified for the United Kingdom, compared to written advice about managing work problems. To help plan a randomized controlled trial, we tested screening, recruitment, intervention delivery, response rates, applicability of the control intervention and identified the relevant primary outcome. A feasibility randomized controlled trial with rheumatoid, psoriatic or inflammatory arthritis patients randomized to receive either job retention VR or written information only (the WORK-IA trial). Following three days VR training, rheumatology occupational therapists provided individualised VR on a one to one basis. VR included work assessment, activity diaries and action planning, and (as applicable) arthritis self-management in the workplace, ergonomics, fatigue and stress management, orthoses, employment rights and support services, assistive technology, work modifications, psychological and disclosure support, workplace visits and employer liaison. Fifty five (10%) people were recruited from 539 screened. Follow-up response rates were acceptable at 80%. VR was delivered with fidelity. VR was more acceptable than written advice only (7.8 versus 6.7). VR took on average 4 h at a cost of £135 per person. Outcome assessment indicated VR was better than written advice in reducing presenteeism (Work Limitations Questionnaire (WLQ) change score mean: VR = -12.4 (SD 13.2); control = -2.5 (SD 15.9), absenteeism, perceived risk of job loss and improving pain and health status, indicating proof of concept. The preferred primary outcome measure was the WLQ, a presenteeism measure. This brief job retention VR is a credible and acceptable intervention for people with inflammatory arthritis with concerns about continuing to work due to arthritis. ISRCTN 76777720 . Registered 21.9.12.

  19. Written Identification of Errors to Learn Professional Procedures in VET

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    Boldrini, Elena; Cattaneo, Alberto

    2013-01-01

    Research has demonstrated that the use of worked-out examples to present errors has great potential for procedural knowledge acquirement. Nevertheless, the identification of errors alone does not directly enhance a deep learning process if it is not adequately scaffolded by written self-explanations. We hypothesised that in learning a professional…

  20. Exploring Speech Recognition Technology: Children with Learning and Emotional/Behavioral Disorders.

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    Faris-Cole, Debra; Lewis, Rena

    2001-01-01

    Intermediate grade students with disabilities in written expression and emotional/behavioral disorders were trained to use discrete or continuous speech input devices for written work. The study found extreme variability in the fidelity of the devices, PowerSecretary and Dragon NaturallySpeaking ranging from 49 percent to 87 percent. Both devices…

  1. Hold on to This!: Strategies for Teacher Feedback in Online Dance Courses

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    Risner, Doug

    2014-01-01

    Drawn from current research on web-based learning, this practical article presents applied research and informed applications for online dance educators engaged in undergraduate and graduate dance education course work. With a focus on written assessment feedback, the author provides a review of recent literature, an overview of written feedback…

  2. Fidelity of Implementation: Bringing Written Curriculum Materials into the Equation

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    Superfine, Alison Castro; Marshall, Anne Marie; Kelso, Cathy

    2015-01-01

    Fidelity of curriculum implementation (FOI) is an important area of research because of the critical role it plays in understanding how and why curriculum materials work and how they can be improved. This analysis explores written features within the Math Trailblazers curriculum that may influence the ways teachers implement mathematics curriculum…

  3. Effect of Written Presentation on Performance in Introductory Physics

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    Stewart, John; Ballard, Shawn

    2010-01-01

    This study examined the written work of students in the introductory calculus-based electricity and magnetism course at the University of Arkansas. The students' solutions to hourly exams were divided into a small set of countable features organized into three major categories, mathematics, language, and graphics. Each category was further divided…

  4. 75 FR 57803 - Preparation for International Conference on Harmonisation Steering Committee and Expert Working...

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    2010-09-22

    ... Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002, email: [email protected] , or FAX: 301-595-7937... name, address, telephone, and fax number), written material, and requests to make oral presentations to... either hardcopy or on CD-ROM, after submission of a Freedom of Information request. Written requests are...

  5. Cognitive work analysis to evaluate the problem of patient falls in an inpatient setting

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    Lopez, Karen Dunn; Cary, Michael P; Kanak, Mary F

    2010-01-01

    Objective To identify factors in the nursing work domain that contribute to the problem of inpatient falls, aside from patient risk, using cognitive work analysis. Design A mix of qualitative and quantitative methods were used to identify work constraints imposed on nurses, which may underlie patient falls. Measurements Data collection was done on a neurology unit staffed by 27 registered nurses and utilized field observations, focus groups, time–motion studies and written surveys (AHRQ Hospital Survey on Patient Culture, NASA-TLX, and custom Nursing Knowledge of Fall Prevention Subscale). Results Four major constraints were identified that inhibit nurses' ability to prevent patient falls. All constraints relate to work processes and the physical work environment, opposed to safety culture or nursing knowledge, as currently emphasized. The constraints were: cognitive ‘head data’, temporal workload, inconsistencies in written and verbal transfer of patient data, and limitations in the physical environment. To deal with these constraints, the nurses tend to employ four workarounds: written and mental chunking schemas, bed alarms, informal querying of the previous care nurse, and informal video and audio surveillance. These workarounds reflect systemic design flaws and may only be minimally effective in decreasing risk to patients. Conclusion Cognitive engineering techniques helped identify seemingly hidden constraints in the work domain that impact the problem of patient falls. System redesign strategies aimed at improving work processes and environmental limitations hold promise for decreasing the incidence of falls in inpatient nursing units. PMID:20442150

  6. Cognitive work analysis to evaluate the problem of patient falls in an inpatient setting.

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    Lopez, Karen Dunn; Gerling, Gregory J; Cary, Michael P; Kanak, Mary F

    2010-01-01

    To identify factors in the nursing work domain that contribute to the problem of inpatient falls, aside from patient risk, using cognitive work analysis. A mix of qualitative and quantitative methods were used to identify work constraints imposed on nurses, which may underlie patient falls. Data collection was done on a neurology unit staffed by 27 registered nurses and utilized field observations, focus groups, time-motion studies and written surveys (AHRQ Hospital Survey on Patient Culture, NASA-TLX, and custom Nursing Knowledge of Fall Prevention Subscale). Four major constraints were identified that inhibit nurses' ability to prevent patient falls. All constraints relate to work processes and the physical work environment, opposed to safety culture or nursing knowledge, as currently emphasized. The constraints were: cognitive 'head data', temporal workload, inconsistencies in written and verbal transfer of patient data, and limitations in the physical environment. To deal with these constraints, the nurses tend to employ four workarounds: written and mental chunking schemas, bed alarms, informal querying of the previous care nurse, and informal video and audio surveillance. These workarounds reflect systemic design flaws and may only be minimally effective in decreasing risk to patients. Cognitive engineering techniques helped identify seemingly hidden constraints in the work domain that impact the problem of patient falls. System redesign strategies aimed at improving work processes and environmental limitations hold promise for decreasing the incidence of falls in inpatient nursing units.

  7. 16 CFR 3.22 - Motions.

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    2010-01-01

    ... Commission so orders. (c) Content. All written motions shall state the particular order, ruling, or action... 16 Commercial Practices 1 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Motions. 3.22 Section 3.22 Commercial... ADJUDICATIVE PROCEEDINGS Prehearing Procedures; Motions; Interlocutory Appeals; Summary Decisions § 3.22...

  8. 16 CFR 3.22 - Motions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... Commission so orders. (c) Content. All written motions shall state the particular order, ruling, or action... 16 Commercial Practices 1 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false Motions. 3.22 Section 3.22 Commercial... ADJUDICATIVE PROCEEDINGS Prehearing Procedures; Motions; Interlocutory Appeals; Summary Decisions § 3.22...

  9. Interactive Graphics Analysis for Aircraft Design

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    Townsend, J. C.

    1983-01-01

    Program uses higher-order far field drag minimization. Computer program WDES WDEM preliminary aerodynamic design tool for one or two interacting, subsonic lifting surfaces. Subcritical wing design code employs higher-order far-field drag minimization technique. Linearized aerodynamic theory used. Program written in FORTRAN IV.

  10. Differential verbal, visual, and spatial working memory in written language production.

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    Raulerson, Bascom A; Donovan, Michael J; Whiteford, Alison P; Kellogg, Ronald T

    2010-02-01

    The contributions of verbal, visual, and spatial working memory to written language production were investigated. Participants composed definitions for nouns while concurrently performing a task which required updating, storing, and retrieving information coded either verbally, visually, or spatially. The present study extended past findings by showing the linguistic encoding of planned conceptual content makes its largest demand on verbal working memory for both low and high frequency nouns. Kellogg, Olive, and Piolat in 2007 found that concrete nouns place substantial demands on visual working memory when imaging the nouns' referents during planning, whereas abstract nouns make no demand. The current study further showed that this pattern was not an artifact of visual working memory being sensitive to manipulation of just any lexical property of the noun prompts. In contrast to past results, writing made a small but detectible demand on spatial working memory.

  11. 28 CFR 68.54 - Administrative review of a final order of an Administrative Law Judge in cases arising under...

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    2012-07-01

    ... 5 U.S.C. 557, to review any final order of an Administrative Law Judge in accordance with the... Administrative Hearing Officer may review an Administrative Law Judge's final order on his or her own initiative... Administrative Law Judge's order. This notification shall state the issues to be reviewed. (b) Written and oral...

  12. 28 CFR 68.54 - Administrative review of a final order of an Administrative Law Judge in cases arising under...

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    2014-07-01

    ... 5 U.S.C. 557, to review any final order of an Administrative Law Judge in accordance with the... Administrative Hearing Officer may review an Administrative Law Judge's final order on his or her own initiative... Administrative Law Judge's order. This notification shall state the issues to be reviewed. (b) Written and oral...

  13. 28 CFR 68.54 - Administrative review of a final order of an Administrative Law Judge in cases arising under...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... 5 U.S.C. 557, to review any final order of an Administrative Law Judge in accordance with the... Administrative Hearing Officer may review an Administrative Law Judge's final order on his or her own initiative... Administrative Law Judge's order. This notification shall state the issues to be reviewed. (b) Written and oral...

  14. 28 CFR 68.54 - Administrative review of a final order of an Administrative Law Judge in cases arising under...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... 5 U.S.C. 557, to review any final order of an Administrative Law Judge in accordance with the... Administrative Hearing Officer may review an Administrative Law Judge's final order on his or her own initiative... Administrative Law Judge's order. This notification shall state the issues to be reviewed. (b) Written and oral...

  15. Improving the quality of the order-writing process for inpatient orders and outpatient prescriptions.

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    Meyer, T A

    2000-12-15

    Because many preventable medication errors occur at the ordering stage, a program for improving the quality of writing inpatient orders and outpatient prescriptions at one institution was developed. To determine whether potential problems existed in the order-writing process for inpatients, all physician orders for a seven-day period in 1997 were reviewed (n = 3740). More than 10% of all orders had illegible handwriting or were written with a felt-tip pen, which makes NCR copies difficult to read. Other potential errors were also identified. Following educational programs for physicians and residents focusing on the importance of writing orders clearly, physician orders were reviewed for a 24-hour period (n = 654). The use of felt-tip pens decreased to 1.37% of all orders, and no orders had illegible handwriting. A similar quality improvement approach was used to evaluate the outpatient prescription-writing process. A review of all new prescriptions for a consecutive seven-day period at a local hospital-owned community pharmacy (n = 1425) revealed that about 15% of the prescriptions had illegible handwriting and roughly 10% were incomplete. Additional data were gathered through a survey sent to 71 outside provider pharmacies requesting information on problems related to prescriptions written by physicians from the institution; 66% responded. Failure to print prescriber name (96%), illegible signature (94%), failure to include DEA number (89%), and illegible handwriting other than signature (69%) were reported as the main problems. Each physician was given a self-inking name stamp to use when writing prescriptions. In addition, educational programs covering examples of poorly written prescriptions and the legal requirements of a prescription were held for physicians and residents. A follow-up survey showed that 72% of pharmacies saw stamps being used; when stamps were not used, however, illegible signatures continued to be a problem. Follow-up reviews of outpatient prescriptions indicate improvements in handwriting and completeness, but continuing educational efforts are needed. The quality of order writing for inpatients and outpatients continues to be monitored on a regular basis. Ongoing educational programs, follow-up reminders, and feedback to physicians have greatly improved the prescription-writing habits of physicians.

  16. Electrocutaneous stimulation system for Braille reading.

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    Echenique, Ana Maria; Graffigna, Juan Pablo; Mut, Vicente

    2010-01-01

    This work is an assistive technology for people with visual disabilities and aims to facilitate access to written information in order to achieve better social inclusion and integration into work and educational activities. Two methods of electrical stimulation (by current and voltage) of the mechanoreceptors was tested to obtain tactile sensations on the fingertip. Current and voltage stimulation were tested in a Braille cell and line prototype, respectively. These prototypes are evaluated in 33 blind and visually impaired subjects. The result of experimentation with both methods showed that electrical stimulation causes sensations of touch defined in the fingertip. Better results in the Braille characters reading were obtained with current stimulation (85% accuracy). However this form of stimulation causes uncomfortable sensations. The latter feeling was minimized with the method of voltage stimulation, but with low efficiency (50% accuracy) in terms of identification of the characters. We concluded that electrical stimulation is a promising method for the development of a simple and unexpensive Braille reading system for blind people. We observed that voltage stimulation is preferred by the users. However, more experimental tests must be carry out in order to find the optimum values of the stimulus parameters and increase the accuracy the Braille characters reading.

  17. A hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin method for modeling fluid-structure interaction

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    Sheldon, Jason P.; Miller, Scott T.; Pitt, Jonathan S.

    2016-12-01

    This work presents a novel application of the hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) finite element method to the multi-physics simulation of coupled fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems. Recent applications of the HDG method have primarily been for single-physics problems including both solids and fluids, which are necessary building blocks for FSI modeling. Utilizing these established models, HDG formulations for linear elastostatics, a nonlinear elastodynamic model, and arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian Navier-Stokes are derived. The elasticity formulations are written in a Lagrangian reference frame, with the nonlinear formulation restricted to hyperelastic materials. With these individual solid and fluid formulations, the remaining challenge in FSI modeling is coupling together their disparate mathematics on the fluid-solid interface. This coupling is presented, along with the resultant HDG FSI formulation. Verification of the component models, through the method of manufactured solutions, is performed and each model is shown to converge at the expected rate. The individual components, along with the complete FSI model, are then compared to the benchmark problems proposed by Turek and Hron [1]. The solutions from the HDG formulation presented in this work trend towards the benchmark as the spatial polynomial order and the temporal order of integration are increased.

  18. Diet and dietetics in al-Andalus.

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    Salas-Salvadó, Jordi; Huetos-Solano, Maria D; García-Lorda, Pilar; Bulló, Mònica

    2006-08-01

    Al-Andalus society (711-1492) based its idea of health on the wisdom of Classical Greece, the Hippocratic-Galenic theories, as well as the Persian and Hindu cultures. The twelfth century in al-Andalus is considered to be the most prolific period for works of a scientific and technical nature. At the time, the main treatises on dietetics were written and this science reached its widest expression with such leading figures as Ibn Wāfīd, Avenzoar, Averroes and Maimonides, whose works revealed the first scientific knowledge on the nutritional processes of the human body. Diet was regarded as being essential for health and the prevention of disease. Dietary guidelines were written for different age groups, different body types and different seasons of the year. The amount of food to be ingested, the number of meals recommended and the order in which the food should be consumed were all issues that were discussed. A variety of foods were thought to have medicinal properties, some of which are known today. The diet in al-Andalus was varied and very probably made a substantial contribution to the origin of the present-day Mediterranean diet, rich in olive oil, wholemeal cereals, fruit and vegetables, fish, lamb, poultry, nuts and spices. We also find that many of the terms in current use in diet and agriculture are a living testimony to the Arabic influence, as are many of the dishes of our varied Mediterranean gastronomy.

  19. A Study of Imaging Interferometer Simulators

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    Allen, Ronald J.

    2002-01-01

    Several new space science mission concepts under development at NASA-GSFC for astronomy are intended to carry out synthetic imaging using Michelson interferometers or direct (Fizeau) imaging with sparse apertures. Examples of these mission concepts include the Stellar Imager (SI), the Space Infrared Interferometric Telescope (SPIRIT), the Submillimeter Probe of the Evolution of Cosmic Structure (SPECS), and the Fourier-Kelvin Stellar Interferometer (FKSI). We have been developing computer-based simulators for these missions. These simulators are aimed at providing a quantitative evaluation of the imaging capabilities of the mission by modelling the performance on different realistic targets in terms of sensitivity, angular resolution, and dynamic range. Both Fizeau and Michelson modes of operation can be considered. Our work is based on adapting a computer simulator called imSIM, which was initially written for the Space Interferometer Mission in order to simulate the imaging mode of new missions such as those listed. In a recent GSFC-funded study we have successfully written a preliminary version of a simulator SISIM for the Stellar Imager and carried out some preliminary studies with it. In a separately funded study we have also been applying these methods to SPECS/SPIRIT.

  20. An explorative study of factors contributing to the job satisfaction of primary care midwives.

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    Warmelink, J Catja; Hoijtink, Kirsten; Noppers, Marloes; Wiegers, Therese A; de Cock, T Paul; Klomp, Trudy; Hutton, Eileen K

    2015-04-01

    the main objectives of our study was to gain an understanding of how primary care midwives in the Netherlands feel about their work and to identify factors associated with primary care midwives׳ job satisfaction and areas for improvement. a qualitative analysis was used, based on the constructivist/interpretative paradigm. Three open-ended questions in written or online questionnaire, analysed to identify factors that are linked with job satisfaction, were as follows: 'What are you very satisfied with, in your work as a midwife?', 'What would you most like to change about your work as a midwife?' and 'What could be improved in your work?'. 20 of the 519 primary care practices in the Netherlands in May 2010 were included. at these participating practices 99 of 108 midwives returned a written or online questionnaire. in general, most of the participating primary care midwives were satisfied with their job. The factors positively associated with their job satisfaction were their direct contact with clients, the supportive co-operation and teamwork with immediate colleagues, the organisation of and innovation within their practice group and the independence, autonomy, freedom, variety and opportunities that they experienced in their work. Regarding improvements, the midwives desired a reduction in non-client-related activities, such as paperwork and meetings. They wanted a lower level of work pressure, and a reduced case-load in order to have more time to devote to individual clients׳ needs. Participants identified that co-operation with other partners in the health care system could also be improved. our knowledge, our study is the first explorative study on factors associated with job satisfaction of primary care midwives. While there are several studies on job satisfaction in health care; little is known about the working conditions of midwives in primary care settings. Although the participating primary care midwives in the Netherlands were satisfied with their job, areas for improvement were identified. The results of our study can be relevant for countries that have a comparable obstetric system as in the Netherlands, or are implementing or scaling up midwifery-led care. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

  1. 48 CFR 2052.216-72 - Task order procedures.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ...; (5) Technical skills required; and (6) Estimated level of effort. (b) Task order technical proposal. By the date specified in the TORFP, the contractor shall deliver to the contracting officer a written or verbal (as specified in the TORFP technical proposal submittal instructions) technical proposal...

  2. The Colour of Words.

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    Farrar, Bernice Lever

    Students from the ages of 13 or 14 onward need to know the "colours of words" which can let them live fully in the rainbow of life, thus eliminating student fears associated with written language and of being pawns of those who have the power of words, especially written words. Colour coding the eight basic types of work that words can…

  3. "Listen to This!" Utilizing Audio Recordings to Improve Instructor Feedback on Writing in Mathematics

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    Weld, Christopher

    2014-01-01

    Providing audio files in lieu of written remarks on graded assignments is arguably a more effective means of feedback, allowing students to better process and understand the critique and improve their future work. With emerging technologies and software, this audio feedback alternative to the traditional paradigm of providing written comments…

  4. Supervisors' On-Script Feedback Comments on Drafts of Dissertations: Socialising Students into the Academic Discourse Community

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    Basturkmen, Helen; East, Martin; Bitchener, John

    2014-01-01

    Supervising masters and doctoral dissertations is a key function of teaching in higher education and giving written feedback on draft sections is an essential component of this function. However, the specific types of response that supervisors give to their dissertation students' written work have received limited research interest to date. The…

  5. Student Perceptions of the Use of Writing in a Differential Equations Course

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    DeDieu, Lauren; Lovric, Miroslav

    2018-01-01

    The use of writing to learn mathematics at the university-level is a pedagogical tool that has been gaining momentum. The setting of this study is a second-year differential equations class where written assignments have been incorporated into the course. By analyzing survey results and students' written work, we examine the extent to which…

  6. Adolescents Composing Fiction in Digital Game and Written Formats: Tacit, Explicit and Metacognitive Strategies

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    McClay, Jill Kedersha; Mackey, Margaret; Carbonaro, Mike; Szafron, Duane; Schaeffer, Jonathan

    2007-01-01

    This article reports on a study of 23 tenth-grade students who created fiction in digital game and written formats. The researchers observed them at work, analysed their stories in both formats, and interviewed selected students to learn what affordances and constraints they demonstrate and/or articulate in such authoring. The students used…

  7. Writing for the Public: Teacher Editorializing as a Pathway to Professional Development

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    Perrillo, Jonna

    2010-01-01

    Teacher-written editorial columns in local newspapers can challenge the broad, simplistic conceptions of the profession that have been encouraged by contemporary politics and that obscure the real work of teachers. The publication of such columns written by a diverse group of teachers in the West Texas Writing Project has proved an important tool…

  8. The Indians of California, A Critical Bibliography.

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    Heizer, Robert F.

    Everything ever written, or to be written, about the American Indians of California is in some way a record of the history of these people. A full bibliography of California Indian history, therefore, would run to a volume of substantial size. This bibliographical essay is a guide to some works of basic importance for introducing the reader to the…

  9. 38 CFR 21.8080 - Requirement for an individualized written plan of vocational rehabilitation.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... CP or VRC will work in consultation with each child for whom a vocational goal is feasible to develop...'s vocational training needs. The CP or VRC will develop this individualized written plan of.... If training is necessary, the CP or VRC will explore a range of possibilities, to include paid and...

  10. 38 CFR 21.8080 - Requirement for an individualized written plan of vocational rehabilitation.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... of vocational rehabilitation. (a) General. A CP or VRC will work in consultation with each child for... rehabilitation services and assistance to meet the child's vocational training needs. The CP or VRC will develop... written plan of vocational rehabilitation. If training is necessary, the CP or VRC will explore a range of...

  11. 38 CFR 21.8080 - Requirement for an individualized written plan of vocational rehabilitation.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... CP or VRC will work in consultation with each child for whom a vocational goal is feasible to develop...'s vocational training needs. The CP or VRC will develop this individualized written plan of.... If training is necessary, the CP or VRC will explore a range of possibilities, to include paid and...

  12. 38 CFR 21.8080 - Requirement for an individualized written plan of vocational rehabilitation.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... CP or VRC will work in consultation with each child for whom a vocational goal is feasible to develop...'s vocational training needs. The CP or VRC will develop this individualized written plan of.... If training is necessary, the CP or VRC will explore a range of possibilities, to include paid and...

  13. 38 CFR 21.8080 - Requirement for an individualized written plan of vocational rehabilitation.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... CP or VRC will work in consultation with each child for whom a vocational goal is feasible to develop...'s vocational training needs. The CP or VRC will develop this individualized written plan of.... If training is necessary, the CP or VRC will explore a range of possibilities, to include paid and...

  14. Using Online Studio Groups to Improve Writing Competency: A Pilot Study in a Quality Improvement Methods Course

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    Kovach, Jamison V.; Miley, Michelle; Ramos, Miguel A.

    2012-01-01

    Communication skills are a significant contributor to an individual's success in the workplace. Unfortunately, students often have trouble expressing their ideas in written form and the poor quality of students' written work often impedes the learning process. This pilot study investigates the use of online writing studios within a quality…

  15. Gender/Genre: The Lack of Gendered Register in Texts Requiring Genre Knowledge

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    Larson, Brian N.

    2016-01-01

    Some studies have found characteristics of written texts that vary with author gender, echoing popular beliefs about essential gender differences that are reinforced in popular works of some scholarly authors. This article reports a study examining texts (N = 193) written in the same genre--a legal memorandum--by women and men with similar…

  16. "I Feel if I Say This in My Essay It's Not Going to Be as Strong": Multi-Voicedness, "Oral Rehearsal" and Year 13 Students' Written Arguments

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    Carroll, James Edward

    2017-01-01

    Jim Carroll was concerned that A-level textbooks failed to provide his students with a model of the multi-voicedness that characterises written history. In order to show his students that historians constantly engage in argument as they write, Carroll turned to academic scholarship for models of multi-voiced history. Carroll explains here how he…

  17. Relation of a†a terms to higher-order terms in the adiabatic expansion for large-amplitude collective motion

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    Sato, Koichi

    2017-12-01

    We investigate the relation of a^\\dagger a terms in the collective operator to the higher-order terms in the adiabatic self-consistent collective coordinate (ASCC) method. In the ASCC method, a state vector is written as e^{i\\hat G(q,p,n)}|φ(q)> with \\hat G(q,p,n), which is a function of the collective coordinate q, its conjugate momentum p, and the particle number n. According to the generalized Thouless theorem, \\hat G can be written as a linear combination of two-quasiparticle creation and annihilation operators a^\\dagger_μ a^\\dagger_ν and a_ν a_μ. We show that, if a^\\dagger a terms are included in \\hat G(q,p,n), it corresponds to the higher-order terms in the adiabatic expansion of \\hat G. This relation serves as a prescription to determine the higher-order collective operators from the a^\\dagger a part of the collective operator, once it is given, without solving the higher-order equations of motion.

  18. Pushing Critical Thinking Skills With Multiple-Choice Questions: Does Bloom's Taxonomy Work?

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    Zaidi, Nikki L Bibler; Grob, Karri L; Monrad, Seetha M; Kurtz, Joshua B; Tai, Andrew; Ahmed, Asra Z; Gruppen, Larry D; Santen, Sally A

    2018-06-01

    Medical school assessments should foster the development of higher-order thinking skills to support clinical reasoning and a solid foundation of knowledge. Multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are commonly used to assess student learning, and well-written MCQs can support learner engagement in higher levels of cognitive reasoning such as application or synthesis of knowledge. Bloom's taxonomy has been used to identify MCQs that assess students' critical thinking skills, with evidence suggesting that higher-order MCQs support a deeper conceptual understanding of scientific process skills. Similarly, clinical practice also requires learners to develop higher-order thinking skills that include all of Bloom's levels. Faculty question writers and examinees may approach the same material differently based on varying levels of knowledge and expertise, and these differences can influence the cognitive levels being measured by MCQs. Consequently, faculty question writers may perceive that certain MCQs require higher-order thinking skills to process the question, whereas examinees may only need to employ lower-order thinking skills to render a correct response. Likewise, seemingly lower-order questions may actually require higher-order thinking skills to respond correctly. In this Perspective, the authors describe some of the cognitive processes examinees use to respond to MCQs. The authors propose that various factors affect both the question writer and examinee's interaction with test material and subsequent cognitive processes necessary to answer a question.

  19. Modeling the development of written language

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    Puranik, Cynthia S.; Foorman, Barbara; Foster, Elizabeth; Wilson, Laura Gehron; Tschinkel, Erika; Kantor, Patricia Thatcher

    2011-01-01

    Alternative models of the structure of individual and developmental differences of written composition and handwriting fluency were tested using confirmatory factor analysis of writing samples provided by first- and fourth-grade students. For both groups, a five-factor model provided the best fit to the data. Four of the factors represented aspects of written composition: macro-organization (use of top sentence and number and ordering of ideas), productivity (number and diversity of words used), complexity (mean length of T-unit and syntactic density), and spelling and punctuation. The fifth factor represented handwriting fluency. Handwriting fluency was correlated with written composition factors at both grades. The magnitude of developmental differences between first grade and fourth grade expressed as effect sizes varied for variables representing the five constructs: large effect sizes were found for productivity and handwriting fluency variables; moderate effect sizes were found for complexity and macro-organization variables; and minimal effect sizes were found for spelling and punctuation variables. PMID:22228924

  20. 76 FR 6796 - Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations

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    2011-02-08

    ... perform the ``Quantitative Survey of Physician Practices in Laboratory Test Ordering and Interpretation... technology. Written comments should be received within 60 days of this notice. Proposed Project Quantitative Survey of Physician Practices in Laboratory Test Ordering and Interpretation-NEW-the Office of...

  1. Hybrid High-Order methods for finite deformations of hyperelastic materials

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    Abbas, Mickaël; Ern, Alexandre; Pignet, Nicolas

    2018-01-01

    We devise and evaluate numerically Hybrid High-Order (HHO) methods for hyperelastic materials undergoing finite deformations. The HHO methods use as discrete unknowns piecewise polynomials of order k≥1 on the mesh skeleton, together with cell-based polynomials that can be eliminated locally by static condensation. The discrete problem is written as the minimization of a broken nonlinear elastic energy where a local reconstruction of the displacement gradient is used. Two HHO methods are considered: a stabilized method where the gradient is reconstructed as a tensor-valued polynomial of order k and a stabilization is added to the discrete energy functional, and an unstabilized method which reconstructs a stable higher-order gradient and circumvents the need for stabilization. Both methods satisfy the principle of virtual work locally with equilibrated tractions. We present a numerical study of the two HHO methods on test cases with known solution and on more challenging three-dimensional test cases including finite deformations with strong shear layers and cavitating voids. We assess the computational efficiency of both methods, and we compare our results to those obtained with an industrial software using conforming finite elements and to results from the literature. The two HHO methods exhibit robust behavior in the quasi-incompressible regime.

  2. 12 CFR 391.13 - Issuance of orders to correct deficiencies and to take or refrain from taking other actions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... general. The FDIC shall provide a State savings association prior written notice of the FDIC's intention to issue an order requiring the State savings association to correct a safety and soundness... savings association shall have such time to respond to a proposed order as provided by the FDIC under...

  3. 12 CFR 391.13 - Issuance of orders to correct deficiencies and to take or refrain from taking other actions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... general. The FDIC shall provide a State savings association prior written notice of the FDIC's intention to issue an order requiring the State savings association to correct a safety and soundness... savings association shall have such time to respond to a proposed order as provided by the FDIC under...

  4. 12 CFR 391.13 - Issuance of orders to correct deficiencies and to take or refrain from taking other actions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... general. The FDIC shall provide a State savings association prior written notice of the FDIC's intention to issue an order requiring the State savings association to correct a safety and soundness... savings association shall have such time to respond to a proposed order as provided by the FDIC under...

  5. 10 CFR 501.101 - Proceedings to modify or rescind a rule or order.

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    2010-01-01

    ..., however, if, in its discretion, OFE considers that a public hearing will advance its evaluation of the... rescind a rule or order does not warrant commencement of a proceeding, it will deny the request and issue... rescission of a rule or order, it will give notice, either by service of a written notice or by oral...

  6. 20 CFR 332.3 - Mileage and work restrictions.

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    2011-04-01

    ... 20 Employees' Benefits 1 2011-04-01 2011-04-01 false Mileage and work restrictions. 332.3 Section... INSURANCE ACT MILEAGE OR WORK RESTRICTIONS AND STAND-BY OR LAY-OVER RULES § 332.3 Mileage and work... solely because of the application to him of a mileage or work restriction agreed upon in a written...

  7. He Works, She Works: Successful Strategies for Working Couples.

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    Carter, Jaine; Carter, James D.

    This book, written jointly by a working professional couple, looks at the reality of two-career marriages and explores strategies to help couples develop optimally in their careers and in their personal lives. The book is organized in three sections. The first section examines the challenges facing working couples--their role expectations and…

  8. A systematic review of interventions to improve recall of medical advice in healthcare consultations

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    Watson, Philip WB; McKinstry, Brian

    2009-01-01

    Abstract Background In order for patients to adhere to healthcare advice, it is essential that they are able to recall this following a consultation. Although psychological research exists which highlights techniques and factors postulated to influence recall, only a limited body of work has been conducted to evaluate their effectiveness in a clinical context. Aim To carry out a systematic review of intervention trials designed to enhance recall of medical information. Methods We searched Medline (1950–April 2007); Embase (1980–April 2007); Cinahl (1982–April 2007); PsychINFO (1969–2007); and the Cochrane Library Collection. Secondary searches were made through reference to relevant journals and reference lists from relevant papers/review papers. Results From 69 papers provisionally identified, 34 papers met the inclusion criteria. Nine recall interventions had been evaluated (audio recordings, written materials, adjunct questions, prompt sheets, visual aids, cognitive strategies, rehearsal, communication styles and personalized teaching). Despite the experimental and theoretical evidence which could have informed cognitive interventions to enhance recall of healthcare advice, most studies primarily focused on the use of written and/or audio-recorded medical instructions. Although the majority of studies supported these approaches insofar as they enhanced recall, the findings were equivocal. Conclusion While written and tape-recorded instructions appear to improve recall in most situations, a dearth of interventions incorporating psychological theory was readily apparent. Further research is required in clinical settings to determine if cognitive interventions based on a more over-arching psychological model of recall are effective. PMID:19531618

  9. Using Student Work to Develop Teachers' Knowledge of Algebra

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    Herbel-Eisenmann, Beth A.; Phillips, Elizabeth Difanis

    2005-01-01

    This article describes a set of learning activities that use algebraic problems and written student work to help preservice and in-service teachers understand students' algebraic thinking. (Contains 4 figures.)

  10. Snapshots from Tanzania.

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    Bjorkquist, David C.

    This paper describes work in a Tanzanian village for the purpose of gaining a clearer view of work and the societal incentives for work in the United States. It is written for those who work, those who prepare others for work, those who teach and counsel about work, and those who advocate for consideration of worker needs in the design and…

  11. Usefulness of head injury instruction forms in home observation of mild head injuries.

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    Warren, D; Kissoon, N

    1989-06-01

    We prospectively studied a group of patients with mild head injury discharged for home observation to determine whether written instructions assisted in recall of signs and symptoms, increased patient satisfaction, or resulted in any additional benefit over verbal explanations alone. We also evaluated the level of comprehension required to understand the written instructions in their present form. Over a three-month period, 72 patients (43 male, 29 female) with a mean age of 4.4 (SD +/- 3.9) years were studied. In addition to verbal explanations for all parents, 38 parents received written instructions. Each group remembered 4/7 (57%) of signs and symptoms and was equally satisfied with verbal explanations. The majority (84%) of parents who received instruction sheets intended to keep these for further reference. Low recall of two instructions may be due to poor comprehension of the language used. We conclude that written instructions (1) did not add significantly to recall, (2) may provide reassurance to parents, and (3) need to be written in simple lay terms in order to be understood by the parents/patients served.

  12. From Mexican "Talleres de Artesanos" to ESL Writer's Workshop. Fulbright-Hays Summer Seminars Abroad, 1999 (Mexico).

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    Murphy, Kathleen P.

    This curriculum unit is adaptable for students in grades 1-12, from Mexico, Latin America, or any culture using the Roman alphabet in their written language. The unit proposes that students of limited English proficiency will transition from visual and tactile work to written English production. Using culturally familiar activities to enhance…

  13. A Heteroglossic Theory of Proto-Genbun Itchi in Edo and Early Meiji Writings

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    Hansen, Kelly J.

    2009-01-01

    Genbun itchi is conventionally described as an early Meiji-period movement which sought to rid written Japanese of archaic forms, and instead develop a written style closer to the spoken vernacular of the time. The overwhelming bulk of critical work on genbun itchi has centered around the introduction of Western literature during this period as…

  14. Contribution of Oral Language Skills, Linguistic Skills, and Transcription Skills to Chinese Written Composition among Fourth-Grade Students

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    Yeung, Pui-sze; Ho, Connie Suk-han; Chan, David Wai-ock; Chung, Kevin Kien-hoa

    2013-01-01

    The present study aimed to investigate the contribution of oral language skills, linguistic skills, and transcription skills to Chinese written composition among Grade 4 students in Hong Kong. Measures assessing verbal working memory, oral language skills, linguistic skills (i.e., syntactic skills and discourse skills), transcription skills (i.e.,…

  15. 76 FR 67558 - Proposed Information Collection (Application for Work-Study Allowance) Activity: Comment Request

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    ... (Application for Work-Study Allowance) Activity: Comment Request AGENCY: Veterans Benefits Administration... claimant's eligibility for work-study benefits. DATES: Written comments and recommendations on the proposed... use of other forms of information technology. Titles: a. Application for Work-Study Allowance, VA Form...

  16. Interactive digital signal processor

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    Mish, W. H.; Wenger, R. M.; Behannon, K. W.; Byrnes, J. B.

    1982-01-01

    The Interactive Digital Signal Processor (IDSP) is examined. It consists of a set of time series analysis Operators each of which operates on an input file to produce an output file. The operators can be executed in any order that makes sense and recursively, if desired. The operators are the various algorithms used in digital time series analysis work. User written operators can be easily interfaced to the sysatem. The system can be operated both interactively and in batch mode. In IDSP a file can consist of up to n (currently n=8) simultaneous time series. IDSP currently includes over thirty standard operators that range from Fourier transform operations, design and application of digital filters, eigenvalue analysis, to operators that provide graphical output, allow batch operation, editing and display information.

  17. 76 FR 5850 - Self-Regulatory Organizations; Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.; Order Approving a...

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    ... (Customer Account Information) and Incorporated NYSE Rule 410 (Records of Orders). In addition, the proposed...) (Requirements) as FINRA Rule 4511 (General Requirements), NASD Rule 3110(c) (Customer Account Information) as FINRA Rule 4512 (Customer Account Information), NASD Rules 3110(d) (Record of Written Complaints) and...

  18. 31 CFR 501.705 - Service and filing.

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    2010-07-01

    ... the attention of the person making the filing. (d) Service of written orders or decisions issued by... Proceedings, and other related orders and decisions, or any amendments or supplements thereto, to be served... service signed and dated by the individual making such service, stating the method of service and the...

  19. 76 FR 30102 - Polyethylene Retail Carrier Bags From Thailand: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty...

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    .... See the ``Selection of Respondents'' section below. The order on PRCBs from Thailand was revoked in... establishments, e.g., grocery, drug, convenience, department, specialty retail, discount stores, and restaurants... convenience and customs purposes, the written description of the scope of the order is dispositive. Selection...

  20. 25 CFR 11.300 - Complaints.

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    2014-04-01

    ... 25 Indians 1 2014-04-01 2014-04-01 false Complaints. 11.300 Section 11.300 Indians BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR LAW AND ORDER COURTS OF INDIAN OFFENSES AND LAW AND ORDER CODE Criminal Procedure § 11.300 Complaints. (a) A complaint is a written statement of the essential facts...

  1. Simulation Higher Order Language Requirements Study.

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    Goodenough, John B.; Braun, Christine L.

    The definitions provided for high order language (HOL) requirements for programming flight training simulators are based on the analysis of programs written for a variety of simulators. Examples drawn from these programs are used to justify the need for certain HOL capabilities. A description of the general structure and organization of the…

  2. 78 FR 37242 - Request for Public Comments: Interagency Review of Exclusion Order Enforcement Process

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    ... OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET Request for Public Comments: Interagency Review of Exclusion Order Enforcement Process AGENCY: Office of the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, Executive Office of the President, OMB. ACTION: Request for written submissions from the public. SUMMARY: The...

  3. 49 CFR 453.3 - Detention orders and other orders.

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    2011-10-01

    ... OF HOMELAND SECURITY SAFETY APPROVAL OF CARGO CONTAINERS CONTROL AND ENFORCEMENT § 453.3 Detention... maximum extent practicable, make provisions to avoid loss or damage to cargo. (b) Written notice of any..., or other person having actual control over the container involved. Prompt notification is also given...

  4. 49 CFR 453.3 - Detention orders and other orders.

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    2010-10-01

    ... OF HOMELAND SECURITY SAFETY APPROVAL OF CARGO CONTAINERS CONTROL AND ENFORCEMENT § 453.3 Detention... maximum extent practicable, make provisions to avoid loss or damage to cargo. (b) Written notice of any..., or other person having actual control over the container involved. Prompt notification is also given...

  5. 49 CFR 453.3 - Detention orders and other orders.

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    2014-10-01

    ... OF HOMELAND SECURITY SAFETY APPROVAL OF CARGO CONTAINERS CONTROL AND ENFORCEMENT § 453.3 Detention... maximum extent practicable, make provisions to avoid loss or damage to cargo. (b) Written notice of any..., or other person having actual control over the container involved. Prompt notification is also given...

  6. 49 CFR 453.3 - Detention orders and other orders.

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    2012-10-01

    ... OF HOMELAND SECURITY SAFETY APPROVAL OF CARGO CONTAINERS CONTROL AND ENFORCEMENT § 453.3 Detention... maximum extent practicable, make provisions to avoid loss or damage to cargo. (b) Written notice of any..., or other person having actual control over the container involved. Prompt notification is also given...

  7. 49 CFR 453.3 - Detention orders and other orders.

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    2013-10-01

    ... OF HOMELAND SECURITY SAFETY APPROVAL OF CARGO CONTAINERS CONTROL AND ENFORCEMENT § 453.3 Detention... maximum extent practicable, make provisions to avoid loss or damage to cargo. (b) Written notice of any..., or other person having actual control over the container involved. Prompt notification is also given...

  8. 21 CFR 810.10 - Cease distribution and notification order.

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    2013-04-01

    ..., including, where known: (i) The brand name of the device; (ii) The common name, classification name, or...) A copy of any written communication used by the person named in the order to notify health professionals and device user facilities; (7) A proposed strategy for complying with the cease distribution and...

  9. 21 CFR 810.10 - Cease distribution and notification order.

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    2012-04-01

    ..., including, where known: (i) The brand name of the device; (ii) The common name, classification name, or...) A copy of any written communication used by the person named in the order to notify health professionals and device user facilities; (7) A proposed strategy for complying with the cease distribution and...

  10. 21 CFR 810.10 - Cease distribution and notification order.

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    2014-04-01

    ..., including, where known: (i) The brand name of the device; (ii) The common name, classification name, or...) A copy of any written communication used by the person named in the order to notify health professionals and device user facilities; (7) A proposed strategy for complying with the cease distribution and...

  11. Patient-Centered Imaging: Shared Decision Making for Cardiac Imaging Procedures with Exposure to Ionizing Radiation

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    Einstein, Andrew J.; Berman, Daniel S.; Min, James K.; Hendel, Robert C.; Gerber, Thomas C.; Carr, J. Jeffrey; Cerqueira, Manuel D.; Cullom, S. James; DeKemp, Robert; Dickert, Neal; Dorbala, Sharmila; Garcia, Ernest V.; Gibbons, Raymond J.; Halliburton, Sandra S.; Hausleiter, Jörg; Heller, Gary V.; Jerome, Scott; Lesser, John R.; Fazel, Reza; Raff, Gilbert L.; Tilkemeier, Peter; Williams, Kim A.; Shaw, Leslee J.

    2014-01-01

    Objective To identify key components of a radiation accountability framework fostering patient-centered imaging and shared decision-making in cardiac imaging. Background An NIH-NHLBI/NCI-sponsored symposium was held in November 2012 to address these issues. Methods Symposium participants, working in three tracks, identified key components of a framework to target critical radiation safety issues for the patient, the laboratory, and the larger population of patients with known or suspected cardiovascular disease. Results Use of ionizing radiation during an imaging procedure should be disclosed to all patients by the ordering provider at the time of ordering, and reinforced by the performing provider team. An imaging protocol with effective dose ≤3mSv is considered very low risk, not warranting extensive discussion or written consent. However, a protocol effective dose <20mSv was proposed as a level requiring particular attention in terms of shared decision-making and either formal discussion or written informed consent. Laboratory reporting of radiation dosimetry is a critical component of creating a quality laboratory fostering a patient-centered environment with transparent procedural methodology. Efforts should be directed to avoiding testing involving radiation, in patients with inappropriate indications. Standardized reporting and diagnostic reference levels for computed tomography and nuclear cardiology are important for the goal of public reporting of laboratory radiation dose levels in conjunction with diagnostic performance. Conclusions The development of cardiac imaging technologies revolutionized cardiology practice by allowing routine, noninvasive assessment of myocardial perfusion and anatomy. It is now incumbent upon the imaging community to create an accountability framework to safely drive appropriate imaging utilization. PMID:24530677

  12. Business Process Improvement Applied to Written Temporary Duty Travel Orders within the United States Air Force

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    1993-12-01

    Generally Accepted Process While neither DoD Directives nor USAF Regulations specify exact mandatory TDY order processing methods, most USAF units...functional input. Finally, TDY order processing functional experts at Hanscom, Los Angeles and McClellan AFBs provided inputs based on their experiences...current electronic auditing capabilities. 81 DTPS Initiative. This DFAS-initiated action to standardize TDY order processing throughout DoD is currently

  13. Spin-dependent post-Newtonian parameters from EMRI computation in Kerr background

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    Friedman, John; Le Tiec, Alexandre; Shah, Abhay

    2013-04-01

    Because the extreme mass-ratio inspiral (EMRI) approximation is accurate to all orders in v/c, it can be used to find high order post-Newtonian parameters that are not yet analytically accessible. We report here on progress in computing spin-dependent, conservative, post-Newtonian parameters from a radiation-gauge computation for a particle in circular orbit in a family of Kerr geometries. For a particle with 4-velocity u^α= U k^α, with k^α the helical Killing vector of the perturbed spacetime, the renormalized perturbation δU, when written as a function of the particle's angular velocity, is invariant under gauge transformations generated by helically symmetric vectors. The EMRI computations are done in a modified radiation gauge. Extracted parameters are compared to previously known and newly computed spin-dependent post-Newtonian terms. This work is modeled on earlier computations by Blanchet, Detweiler, Le Tiec and Whiting of spin-independent terms for a particle in circular orbit in a Schwarzschild geometry.

  14. Employment-related information for clients receiving mental health services and clinicians.

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    King, Joanne; Cleary, Catherine; Harris, Meredith G; Lloyd, Chris; Waghorn, Geoff

    2011-01-01

    Clients receiving public mental health services and clinicians require information to facilitate client access to suitable employment services. However, little is known about the specific employment-related information needs of these groups. This study aimed to identify employment-related information needs among clients, clinicians and employment specialists, with a view to developing a new vocational information resource. Employment-related information needs were identified via a series of focus group consultations with clients, clinicians, and employment specialists (n=23). Focus group discussions were guided by a common semi-structured interview schedule. Several categories of information need were identified: countering incorrect beliefs about work; benefits of work; disclosure and managing personal information; impact of earnings on welfare entitlements; employment service pathways; job preparation, planning and selection; and managing illness once working. Clear preferences were expressed about effective means of communicating the key messages in written material. This investigation confirmed the need for information tailored to clients and clinicians in order to activate clients' employment journey and to help them make informed decisions about vocational assistance.

  15. Writing Assignments with a Metacognitive Component Enhance Learning in a Large Introductory Biology Course

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    Mynlieff, Michelle; Manogaran, Anita L.; St. Maurice, Martin

    2014-01-01

    Writing assignments, including note taking and written recall, should enhance retention of knowledge, whereas analytical writing tasks with metacognitive aspects should enhance higher-order thinking. In this study, we assessed how certain writing-intensive “interventions,” such as written exam corrections and peer-reviewed writing assignments using Calibrated Peer Review and including a metacognitive component, improve student learning. We designed and tested the possible benefits of these approaches using control and experimental variables across and between our three-section introductory biology course. Based on assessment, students who corrected exam questions showed significant improvement on postexam assessment compared with their nonparticipating peers. Differences were also observed between students participating in written and discussion-based exercises. Students with low ACT scores benefited equally from written and discussion-based exam corrections, whereas students with midrange to high ACT scores benefited more from written than discussion-based exam corrections. Students scored higher on topics learned via peer-reviewed writing assignments relative to learning in an active classroom discussion or traditional lecture. However, students with low ACT scores (17–23) did not show the same benefit from peer-reviewed written essays as the other students. These changes offer significant student learning benefits with minimal additional effort by the instructors. PMID:26086661

  16. Solving Ordinary Differential Equations

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    Krogh, F. T.

    1987-01-01

    Initial-value ordinary differential equation solution via variable order Adams method (SIVA/DIVA) package is collection of subroutines for solution of nonstiff ordinary differential equations. There are versions for single-precision and double-precision arithmetic. Requires fewer evaluations of derivatives than other variable-order Adams predictor/ corrector methods. Option for direct integration of second-order equations makes integration of trajectory problems significantly more efficient. Written in FORTRAN 77.

  17. 12 CFR 170.4 - Issuance of orders to correct deficiencies and to take or refrain from taking other actions.

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    2013-01-01

    ...) Notice of intent to issue order—(1) In general. The OCC shall provide a Federal savings association prior written notice of the OCC's intention to issue an order requiring the savings association to correct a... the FDI Act. The savings association shall have such time to respond to a proposed order as provided...

  18. 12 CFR 170.4 - Issuance of orders to correct deficiencies and to take or refrain from taking other actions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ...) Notice of intent to issue order—(1) In general. The OCC shall provide a Federal savings association prior written notice of the OCC's intention to issue an order requiring the savings association to correct a... the FDI Act. The savings association shall have such time to respond to a proposed order as provided...

  19. 12 CFR 170.4 - Issuance of orders to correct deficiencies and to take or refrain from taking other actions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ...) Notice of intent to issue order—(1) In general. The OCC shall provide a Federal savings association prior written notice of the OCC's intention to issue an order requiring the savings association to correct a... the FDI Act. The savings association shall have such time to respond to a proposed order as provided...

  20. Exhibit Positive Work Attitudes. Work Skills: Work Maturity Skills Competency 2.0. Connections. School and Work Transitions.

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    Lankard, Bettina A.

    This learning module is one of a series that teaches the competencies of "Job Search Skills," part of the "Work Skills" package--a set of competency-based instructional materials written for low-level readers that prepares students with specific job search and job keeping skills. ("Work Skills" is part of the "Connections" package, which…

  1. What Every Middle School Teacher Needs to Know about Reading Tests (From Someone Who Has Written Them)

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    Fuhrken, Charles

    2011-01-01

    Tests require a special kind of savvy, a kind of critical thinking and knowledge application that is not always a part of classroom reading experiences. Who better to teach you how to prepare your students for reading tests than someone who has written them? Charles Fuhrken has spent years working with several major testing companies and…

  2. Speech-Act and Text-Act Theory: "Theme-ing" in Freshman Composition.

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    Horner, Winifred B.

    In contrast to a speech-act theory that is limited by a simple speaker/hearer relationship, a text-act theory of written language allows for the historical or personal context of a writer and reader, both in the written work itself and in the act of reading. This theory can be applied to theme writing, essay examinations, and revision in the…

  3. An Analysis of Students' Perceptions of the Value and Efficacy of Instructors' Auditory and Text-Based Feedback Modalities across Multiple Conceptual Levels

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    Ice, Phil; Swan, Karen; Diaz, Sebastian; Kupczynski, Lori; Swan-Dagen, Allison

    2010-01-01

    This article used work from the writing assessment literature to develop a framework for assessing the impact and perceived value of written, audio, and combined written and audio feedback strategies across four global and 22 discrete dimensions of feedback. Using a quasi-experimental research design, students at three U.S. universities were…

  4. Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education = la Revue canadienne pour l'etude de l'education des adultes. 1987-1994.

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    Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 1994

    1994-01-01

    These 17 issues include feature articles and perspectives on the study of adult education, as well as book reviews/recensions of works related to adult education. Some articles are written in English, and some are written in French. Among the feature articles included are the following: "The Fifties: Pivotal Decade in Canadian Adult…

  5. Conference Rules, Part 2: How to Present Papers at a Scholarly Conference

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    Kerber, Linda K.

    2008-01-01

    The purpose of the seven rules discussed in this article is to enable the presenter to embrace his/her anxieties and put them to work: (1) Observe time limits scrupulously; (2) Write for the real audience (a paper written for the ears to hear is different from a paper written for the eyes to read); (3) Rehearse; (4) Refrain from fidgeting; (5)…

  6. First impressions count: does FAIRness affect adaptation of clinical clerks in their first clinical placement?

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    Edafe, Ovie; Mistry, Natasha; Chan, Philip

    2013-09-01

    FAIRness (Feedback, Activity, Individualisation, Relevance) teaching is a structured program, comprising series of classes in which student work is anonymised and reviewed by the whole class, as well as students receiving private feedback on their written work. The class work emphasises logic, structure and order in history and examination, with a diagnostic and management focus. The effect of FAIRness teaching methods on the adaptation of medical students entering their first clinical rotations was studied. 18 students in FAIRness placements and 72 students in conventional placements, all in medical/surgical units in the same University teaching hospital were studied. They completed questionnaires relating to effectiveness and quality of clinical teaching. Some students additionally attended focus groups, at the start of placement to discuss their expectations, and after 3 weeks, to discuss their adaptation to the clinical learning environment. All students entering clinical placements had low expectations of their future teaching. Students in standard placements still expressed negative attitudes after 3 weeks, while students on FAIRness placements felt positive. Students in FAIRness placements scored significantly higher on questions related to feedback and review of student work. FAIRness teaching practices help students to adapt to their first clinical placements.

  7. The application of generalized, cyclic, and modified numerical integration algorithms to problems of satellite orbit computation

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    Chesler, L.; Pierce, S.

    1971-01-01

    Generalized, cyclic, and modified multistep numerical integration methods are developed and evaluated for application to problems of satellite orbit computation. Generalized methods are compared with the presently utilized Cowell methods; new cyclic methods are developed for special second-order differential equations; and several modified methods are developed and applied to orbit computation problems. Special computer programs were written to generate coefficients for these methods, and subroutines were written which allow use of these methods with NASA's GEOSTAR computer program.

  8. 40 CFR 35.936-14 - Force account work.

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    2011-07-01

    ... 40 Protection of Environment 1 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Force account work. 35.936-14 Section... ASSISTANCE STATE AND LOCAL ASSISTANCE Grants for Construction of Treatment Works-Clean Water Act § 35.936-14 Force account work. (a) A grantee must secure the project officer's prior written approval for use of...

  9. 20 CFR 411.450 - What is an Individual Work Plan?

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    2011-04-01

    ... 20 Employees' Benefits 2 2011-04-01 2011-04-01 false What is an Individual Work Plan? 411.450 Section 411.450 Employees' Benefits SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION THE TICKET TO WORK AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY... work plan (IWP) is a required written document signed by an employment network (EN) (other than a State...

  10. 20 CFR 411.450 - What is an Individual Work Plan?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... 20 Employees' Benefits 2 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false What is an Individual Work Plan? 411.450 Section 411.450 Employees' Benefits SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION THE TICKET TO WORK AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY... work plan (IWP) is a required written document signed by an employment network (EN) (other than a State...

  11. 48 CFR 52.249-10 - Default (Fixed-Price Construction).

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    2010-10-01

    ... Government may, by written notice to the Contractor, terminate the right to proceed with the work (or the... the work within the specified time, whether or not the Contractor's right to proceed with the work is..., whether or not the Contractor's right to proceed with the work is terminated. This liability includes any...

  12. 16 CFR 3.46 - Proposed findings, conclusions, and order.

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    2011-01-01

    ... page at which the Administrative Law Judge ruled on the exhibit's admissibility or a citation to any written order in which such ruling was made; (4) The transcript pages at which the exhibit is discussed... transcript pages at which any testimony of the witness appears; and (4) A statement whether the exhibit has...

  13. 16 CFR 3.46 - Proposed findings, conclusions, and order.

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    2010-01-01

    ... page at which the Administrative Law Judge ruled on the exhibit's admissibility or a citation to any written order in which such ruling was made; (4) The transcript pages at which the exhibit is discussed... transcript pages at which any testimony of the witness appears; and (4) A statement whether the exhibit has...

  14. 16 CFR 3.46 - Proposed findings, conclusions, and order.

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    2013-01-01

    ... page at which the Administrative Law Judge ruled on the exhibit's admissibility or a citation to any written order in which such ruling was made; (4) The transcript pages at which the exhibit is discussed... transcript pages at which any testimony of the witness appears; and (4) A statement whether the exhibit has...

  15. 16 CFR 3.46 - Proposed findings, conclusions, and order.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... page at which the Administrative Law Judge ruled on the exhibit's admissibility or a citation to any written order in which such ruling was made; (4) The transcript pages at which the exhibit is discussed... transcript pages at which any testimony of the witness appears; and (4) A statement whether the exhibit has...

  16. 14 CFR 17.17 - Initial protest procedures.

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    2010-01-01

    ... protected information and the issuance of any needed protective order; (4) Encourage the parties to use ADR... Resolution for Acquisition— (1) A joint statement that they have decided to pursue ADR proceedings in lieu of adjudication in order to resolve the protest; or (2) Joint or separate written explanations as to why ADR...

  17. 14 CFR 17.17 - Initial protest procedures.

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    2011-01-01

    ... protected information and the issuance of any needed protective order; (4) Encourage the parties to use ADR... Resolution for Acquisition— (1) A joint statement that they have decided to pursue ADR proceedings in lieu of adjudication in order to resolve the protest; or (2) Joint or separate written explanations as to why ADR...

  18. 75 FR 43590 - Self-Regulatory Organizations; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of Proposed Rule...

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    ... PHLX, Inc. Relating to Order Re-Entry July 20, 2010. Pursuant to section 19(b)(1) of the Securities... a system enhancement that automatically re-enters unexecuted contracts when, after trading at the..., upon the written instruction of the member that initially submitted the order, re-submit unexecuted...

  19. Land and Liberty: The Ordinances of the 1780s.

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    Sheehan, Bernard W.

    The U.S. Constitution established the broad legal frame for the U.S. political order; the ordinances provided the indispensable means for the expansion of that order across the continent. The first effort at organizing the northwest occurred in 1784. Written by Thomas Jefferson, the Ordinance of 1784 defined the stages through which territories…

  20. 78 FR 56745 - Bradley D. Bastow, D. O., South Haven, Michigan; Confirmatory Order Modifying License

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    2013-09-13

    ... or document justification for not implementing the recommended actions. C. Safety Culture C.1. Within 30 days of the date of the Order, the licensee will document a written Safety Culture Policy that... concerned individual understands why the concern cannot be resolved. The Safety Culture Policy must iterate...

  1. A High-Resolution Capability for Large-Eddy Simulation of Jet Flows

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    DeBonis, James R.

    2011-01-01

    A large-eddy simulation (LES) code that utilizes high-resolution numerical schemes is described and applied to a compressible jet flow. The code is written in a general manner such that the accuracy/resolution of the simulation can be selected by the user. Time discretization is performed using a family of low-dispersion Runge-Kutta schemes, selectable from first- to fourth-order. Spatial discretization is performed using central differencing schemes. Both standard schemes, second- to twelfth-order (3 to 13 point stencils) and Dispersion Relation Preserving schemes from 7 to 13 point stencils are available. The code is written in Fortran 90 and uses hybrid MPI/OpenMP parallelization. The code is applied to the simulation of a Mach 0.9 jet flow. Four-stage third-order Runge-Kutta time stepping and the 13 point DRP spatial discretization scheme of Bogey and Bailly are used. The high resolution numerics used allows for the use of relatively sparse grids. Three levels of grid resolution are examined, 3.5, 6.5, and 9.2 million points. Mean flow, first-order turbulent statistics and turbulent spectra are reported. Good agreement with experimental data for mean flow and first-order turbulent statistics is shown.

  2. Isaac Newton: Man, Myth, and Mathematics.

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    Rickey, V. Frederick

    1987-01-01

    This article was written in part to celebrate the anniversaries of landmark mathematical works by Newton and Descartes. It's other purpose is to dispel some myths about Sir Isaac Newton and to encourage readers to read Newton's works. (PK)

  3. Optimization of analytical laboratory work using computer networking and databasing

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    Upp, D.L.; Metcalf, R.A.

    1996-06-01

    The Health Physics Analysis Laboratory (HPAL) performs around 600,000 analyses for radioactive nuclides each year at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Analysis matrices vary from nasal swipes, air filters, work area swipes, liquids, to the bottoms of shoes and cat litter. HPAL uses 8 liquid scintillation counters, 8 gas proportional counters, and 9 high purity germanium detectors in 5 laboratories to perform these analyses. HPAL has developed a computer network between the labs and software to produce analysis results. The software and hardware package includes barcode sample tracking, log-in, chain of custody, analysis calculations, analysis result printing, and utility programs.more » All data are written to a database, mirrored on a central server, and eventually written to CD-ROM to provide for online historical results. This system has greatly reduced the work required to provide for analysis results as well as improving the quality of the work performed.« less

  4. Using the Van Hiele theory to analyze primary school teachers' written work on geometrical proof problems

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    Jupri, A.

    2018-05-01

    The lack of ability of primary school teachers in deductive thinking, such as doing geometrical proof, is an indispensable issue to be dealt with. In this paper, we report on results of a three-step of the field document study. The study was part of a pilot study for improving deductive thinking ability of primary school teachers. First, we designed geometrical proof problems adapted from literature. Second, we administered an individual written test involving nine master students of primary education program, in which they are having experiences as primary school mathematics teachers. Finally, we analyzed the written work from the view of the Van Hiele theory. The results revealed that even if about the half of the teachers show ability in doing formal proof, still the rest provides inappropriate proving. For further investigation, we wonder whether primary school teachers would show better deductive thinking if the teaching of geometry is designed in a systematic and appropriate manner according to the Van Hiele theory.

  5. Practical management of chemicals and hazardous wastes: An environmental and safety professional`s guide

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    Kuhre, W.L.

    This book was written to help the environmental and safety student learn about the field and to help the working professional manage hazardous material and waste issues. For example, one issue that will impact virtually all of these people mentioned is the upcoming environmental standardization movement. The International Standards Organization (ISO) is in the process of adding comprehensive environmental and hazardous waste management systems to their future certification requirements. Most industries worldwide will be working hard to achieve this new level of environmental management. This book presents many of the systems needed to receive certification. In order to properly managemore » hazardous waste, it is important to consider the entire life cycle, including when the waste was a useful chemical or hazardous material. Waste minimization is built upon this concept. Understanding the entire life cycle is also important in terms of liability, since many regulations hold generators responsible from cradle to grave. This book takes the life-cycle concept even further, in order to provide additional insight. The discussion starts with the conception of the chemical and traces its evolution into a waste and even past disposal. At this point the story continues into the afterlife, where responsibility still remains.« less

  6. Process and product in writing--a methodological contribution to the assessment of written narratives in 8-12-year-old Swedish children using ScriptLog.

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    Asker-Arnason, Lena; Wengelin, Asa; Sahlén, Birgitta

    2008-01-01

    Twenty-seven children, with typical language development (TLD), 8-10 years old and 10-12 years old, were assessed with keystroke-logging in order to investigate their narrative writing. Measures of the writing process and the written product were used. One purpose was to explore how children produce written narratives in on-line production, and to relate the writing process to the written product. The results showed that those children who produced the final text faster, also wrote stories that comprised of more words. In the group of older children, children with better narrative ability used less pause time than those with worse ability, and the girls were faster writers than the boys. We believe that keystroke-logging gives valuable information for the assessment of young children's writing and that it is a potentially valid assessment tool for children from about 10 years of age.

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  8. Embedded Creative Workers and Creative Work in Education

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    Goldsmith, Ben; Bridgstock, Ruth

    2015-01-01

    This article is concerned with the many connections between creative work and workers, and education work and industries. Employment in the education sector has long been recognised as a significant element in creative workers' portfolio careers. Much has been written, for example, about the positive contribution of "artists in schools"…

  9. A Call for Conducting Multivariate Mixed Analyses

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    Onwuegbuzie, Anthony J.

    2016-01-01

    Several authors have written methodological works that provide an introductory- and/or intermediate-level guide to conducting mixed analyses. Although these works have been useful for beginning and emergent mixed researchers, with very few exceptions, works are lacking that describe and illustrate advanced-level mixed analysis approaches. Thus,…

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  15. Maria Mitchell: A New Scholarly Biography

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    Welther, Barbara L.

    2007-12-01

    Margaret Moore Booker has researched, written, and just published a proper biography of "America's First Woman Astronomer." To the diaries, notes, and lectures that Maria Mitchell wrote, Booker has added details from other historical sources and pulled together a very stylish, well-written, and illuminating volume. This paper will review some of the well-known details of Mitchell's life and show how Booker's work sheds new light on her subject's persona.

  16. How Should the History of Education Be Written? Some Reflections about the Nature of the Discipline from the Perspective of the Reception of Our Work

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    Depaepe, Marc

    2004-01-01

    How should history of education be written? To put the question is far more easier than to provide a concrete answer. In contemporary research, there continue to be pedagogistic complaints about finding answers to present-day educational problems via history. In our view, such an ahistorical utilitarianism as well as the legitimizing and/or…

  17. [Psychoanalysis is a precious thread, fragile but precious": Vittorio Benussi and the Inventory of psychoanalysis (1926-1927)].

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    Trizzino, Antonino

    2008-01-01

    The lessons of psychoanalysis held by Vittorio Benussi in Padua between 1926 and 1927 reveal the other aspect of his interests: that which regards psychoanalysis and its method. These unpublished lessons, which we are printing here for the first time, are preserved in the historical Archives of Italian psychology of the Università di Milano-Bicocca. I have assigned to them the title of Inventario di psicanalisi (Inventory of Psychoanalysis) for their character, unprecedented in the Italy of the 1920s, of a first record of the lexical and theoretical world of psychoanalysis. Since they were not intended for publication, the lessons were written without the urgency of ordering facts and interpretations, and without resorting to the rhetoric of linguistic conventions. A reading of them makes evident how the Benussian attempt to integrate experimental psychology and analytic method is still unresolved. In these pages everything is shown in an incipient stage, in a contracted and intricate prose; while things are complicated by the hermetism of the style, the terminological oscillations, the theoretical density; and yet, these unpublished notes should be read like a palimpsest in which each word has been written, erased, and rewritten, in a work that remains unique in twentieth-century European psychology.

  18. Cancer inpatients morphine usage: a new England area survey.

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    Trollor, John

    2003-08-01

    This is a one year study of the use of morphine in cancer patients in 10 inpatient facilities in the New England Area Health Service in the north-west of New South Wales. The study explored 170 admissions relating to 122 patients, most of whom were cared for by their general practitioners. The use of morphine in these cancer patients was compared with the recommendations made by the expert working group of the European Association of Palliative Care.1 Those items which matched the recommendations included the initial doses for new users of morphine and the subcutaneous route being the preferred parenteral route. The data in this study differed from the recommendations in that only half of the patients received the immediate release morphine when first given oral morphine, only 43% had orders for immediate release oral morphine for breakthrough pain (with a variable frequency) and a significant number of orders for parenteral and immediate release oral morphine for breakthrough pain were outside the recommended doses (100% and 86.2%, respectively). Written orders for immediate release oral and parenteral morphine involved a dose range in significant numbers while only 30% of patients had orders for parenteral morphine for breakthrough pain. There was a low use of fixed interval variable dose (FIVD) morphine charts despite these being available in most facilities.

  19. Boundary-layer equations in generalized curvilinear coordinates

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    Panaras, Argyris G.

    1987-01-01

    A set of higher-order boundary-layer equations is derived valid for three-dimensional compressible flows. The equations are written in a generalized curvilinear coordinate system, in which the surface coordinates are nonorthogonal; the third axis is restricted to be normal to the surface. Also, higher-order viscous terms which are retained depend on the surface curvature of the body. Thus, the equations are suitable for the calculation of the boundary layer about arbitrary vehicles. As a starting point, the Navier-Stokes equations are derived in a tensorian notation. Then by means of an order-of-magnitude analysis, the boundary-layer equations are developed. To provide an interface between the analytical partial differentiation notation and the compact tensor notation, a brief review of the most essential theorems of the tensor analysis related to the equations of the fluid dynamics is given. Many useful quantities, such as the contravariant and the covariant metrics and the physical velocity components, are written in both notations.

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  2. High Working Memory Load Impairs Language Processing during a Simulated Piloting Task: An ERP and Pupillometry Study

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    Causse, Mickaël; Peysakhovich, Vsevolod; Fabre, Eve F.

    2016-01-01

    Given the important amount of visual and auditory linguistic information that pilots have to process, operating an aircraft generates a high working-memory load (WML). In this context, the ability to focus attention on relevant information and to remain responsive to concurrent stimuli might be altered. Consequently, understanding the effects of WML on the processing of both linguistic targets and distractors is of particular interest in the study of pilot performance. In the present work, participants performed a simplified piloting task in which they had to follow one of three colored aircraft, according to specific written instructions (i.e., the written word for the color corresponding to the color of one of the aircraft) and to ignore either congruent or incongruent concurrent auditory distractors (i.e., a spoken name of color). The WML was manipulated with an n-back sub-task. Participants were instructed to apply the current written instruction in the low WML condition, and the 2-back written instruction in the high WML condition. Electrophysiological results revealed a major effect of WML at behavioral (i.e., decline of piloting performance), electrophysiological, and autonomic levels (i.e., greater pupil diameter). Increased WML consumed resources that could not be allocated to the processing of the linguistic stimuli, as indexed by lower P300/P600 amplitudes. Also, significantly, lower P600 responses were measured in incongruent vs. congruent trials in the low WML condition, showing a higher difficulty reorienting attention toward the written instruction, but this effect was canceled in the high WML condition. This suppression of interference in the high load condition is in line with the engagement/distraction trade-off model. We propose that P300/P600 components could be reliable indicators of WML and that they allow an estimation of its impact on the processing of linguistic stimuli. PMID:27252639

  3. High Working Memory Load Impairs Language Processing during a Simulated Piloting Task: An ERP and Pupillometry Study.

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    Causse, Mickaël; Peysakhovich, Vsevolod; Fabre, Eve F

    2016-01-01

    Given the important amount of visual and auditory linguistic information that pilots have to process, operating an aircraft generates a high working-memory load (WML). In this context, the ability to focus attention on relevant information and to remain responsive to concurrent stimuli might be altered. Consequently, understanding the effects of WML on the processing of both linguistic targets and distractors is of particular interest in the study of pilot performance. In the present work, participants performed a simplified piloting task in which they had to follow one of three colored aircraft, according to specific written instructions (i.e., the written word for the color corresponding to the color of one of the aircraft) and to ignore either congruent or incongruent concurrent auditory distractors (i.e., a spoken name of color). The WML was manipulated with an n-back sub-task. Participants were instructed to apply the current written instruction in the low WML condition, and the 2-back written instruction in the high WML condition. Electrophysiological results revealed a major effect of WML at behavioral (i.e., decline of piloting performance), electrophysiological, and autonomic levels (i.e., greater pupil diameter). Increased WML consumed resources that could not be allocated to the processing of the linguistic stimuli, as indexed by lower P300/P600 amplitudes. Also, significantly, lower P600 responses were measured in incongruent vs. congruent trials in the low WML condition, showing a higher difficulty reorienting attention toward the written instruction, but this effect was canceled in the high WML condition. This suppression of interference in the high load condition is in line with the engagement/distraction trade-off model. We propose that P300/P600 components could be reliable indicators of WML and that they allow an estimation of its impact on the processing of linguistic stimuli.

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  5. A fabrication guide for planar silicon quantum dot heterostructures

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    Spruijtenburg, Paul C.; Amitonov, Sergey V.; van der Wiel, Wilfred G.; Zwanenburg, Floris A.

    2018-04-01

    We describe important considerations to create top-down fabricated planar quantum dots in silicon, often not discussed in detail in literature. The subtle interplay between intrinsic material properties, interfaces and fabrication processes plays a crucial role in the formation of electrostatically defined quantum dots. Processes such as oxidation, physical vapor deposition and atomic-layer deposition must be tailored in order to prevent unwanted side effects such as defects, disorder and dewetting. In two directly related manuscripts written in parallel we use techniques described in this work to create depletion-mode quantum dots in intrinsic silicon, and low-disorder silicon quantum dots defined with palladium gates. While we discuss three different planar gate structures, the general principles also apply to 0D and 1D systems, such as self-assembled islands and nanowires.

  6. Full three-body problem in effective-field-theory models of gravity

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    Battista, Emmanuele; Esposito, Giampiero

    2014-10-01

    Recent work in the literature has studied the restricted three-body problem within the framework of effective-field-theory models of gravity. This paper extends such a program by considering the full three-body problem, when the Newtonian potential is replaced by a more general central potential which depends on the mutual separations of the three bodies. The general form of the equations of motion is written down, and they are studied when the interaction potential reduces to the quantum-corrected central potential considered recently in the literature. A recursive algorithm is found for solving the associated variational equations, which describe small departures from given periodic solutions of the equations of motion. Our scheme involves repeated application of a 2×2 matrix of first-order linear differential operators.

  7. Three-dimensional direct laser written graphitic electrical contacts to randomly distributed components

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    Dorin, Bryce; Parkinson, Patrick; Scully, Patricia

    2018-04-01

    The development of cost-effective electrical packaging for randomly distributed micro/nano-scale devices is a widely recognized challenge for fabrication technologies. Three-dimensional direct laser writing (DLW) has been proposed as a solution to this challenge, and has enabled the creation of rapid and low resistance graphitic wires within commercial polyimide substrates. In this work, we utilize the DLW technique to electrically contact three fully encapsulated and randomly positioned light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in a one-step process. The resolution of the contacts is in the order of 20 μ m, with an average circuit resistance of 29 ± 18 kΩ per LED contacted. The speed and simplicity of this technique is promising to meet the needs of future microelectronics and device packaging.

  8. General Household Emergency Preparedness: A Comparison Between Veterans and Nonveterans

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    Der-Martirosian, Claudia; Strine, Tara; Atia, Mangwi; Chu, Karen; Mitchell, Michael N.; Dobalian, Aram

    2015-01-01

    Background Despite federal and local efforts to educate the public to prepare for major emergencies, many US households remain unprepared for such occurrences. United States Armed Forces veterans are at particular risk during public health emergencies as they are more likely than the general population to have multiple health conditions. Methods This study compares general levels of household emergency preparedness between veterans and nonveterans by focusing on seven surrogate measures of household emergency preparedness (a 3-day supply of food, water, and prescription medications, a battery-operated radio and flashlight, a written evacuation plan, and an expressed willingness to leave the community during a mandatory evacuation). This study used data from the 2006 through 2010 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), a state representative, random sample of adults aged 18 and older living in 14 states. Results The majority of veteran and nonveteran households had a 3-day supply of food (88% vs 82%, respectively) and prescription medications (95% vs 89%, respectively), access to a working, battery-operated radio (82% vs 77%, respectively) and flashlight (97% vs 95%, respectively), and were willing to leave the community during a mandatory evacuation (91% vs 96%, respectively). These populations were far less likely to have a 3-day supply of water (61% vs 52%, respectively) and a written evacuation plan (24% vs 21%, respectively). After adjusting for various sociodemographic covariates, general health status, and disability status, households with veterans were significantly more likely than households without veterans to have 3-day supplies of food, water, and prescription medications, and a written evacuation plan; less likely to indicate that they would leave their community during a mandatory evacuation; and equally likely to have a working, battery-operated radio and fiashlight. Conclusion These findings suggest that veteran households appear to be better prepared for emergencies than do nonveteran households, although the lower expressed likelihood of veterans households to evacuate when ordered to do so may place them at a somewhat greater risk of harm during such events. Further research should examine household preparedness among other vulnerable groups including subgroups of veteran populations and the reasons why their preparedness may differ from the general population. PMID:24642181

  9. General household emergency preparedness: a comparison between veterans and nonveterans.

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    Der-Martirosian, Claudia; Strine, Tara; Atia, Mangwi; Chu, Karen; Mitchell, Michael N; Dobalian, Aram

    2014-04-01

    Despite federal and local efforts to educate the public to prepare for major emergencies, many US households remain unprepared for such occurrences. United States Armed Forces veterans are at particular risk during public health emergencies as they are more likely than the general population to have multiple health conditions. This study compares general levels of household emergency preparedness between veterans and nonveterans by focusing on seven surrogate measures of household emergency preparedness (a 3-day supply of food, water, and prescription medications, a battery-operated radio and flashlight, a written evacuation plan, and an expressed willingness to leave the community during a mandatory evacuation). This study used data from the 2006 through 2010 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), a state representative, random sample of adults aged 18 and older living in 14 states. The majority of veteran and nonveteran households had a 3-day supply of food (88% vs 82%, respectively) and prescription medications (95% vs 89%, respectively), access to a working, battery-operated radio (82% vs 77%, respectively) and flashlight (97% vs 95%, respectively), and were willing to leave the community during a mandatory evacuation (91% vs 96%, respectively). These populations were far less likely to have a 3-day supply of water (61% vs 52%, respectively) and a written evacuation plan (24% vs 21%, respectively). After adjusting for various sociodemographic covariates, general health status, and disability status, households with veterans were significantly more likely than households without veterans to have 3-day supplies of food, water, and prescription medications, and a written evacuation plan; less likely to indicate that they would leave their community during a mandatory evacuation; and equally likely to have a working, battery-operated radio and flashlight. These findings suggest that veteran households appear to be better prepared for emergencies than do nonveteran households, although the lower expressed likelihood of veterans households to evacuate when ordered to do so may place them at a somewhat greater risk of harm during such events. Further research should examine household preparedness among other vulnerable groups including subgroups of veteran populations and the reasons why their preparedness may differ from the general population.

  10. Annealing-Based Electrical Tuning of Cobalt-Carbon Deposits Grown by Focused-Electron-Beam-Induced Deposition.

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    Puydinger Dos Santos, Marcos V; Velo, Murilo F; Domingos, Renan D; Zhang, Yucheng; Maeder, Xavier; Guerra-Nuñez, Carlos; Best, James P; Béron, Fanny; Pirota, Kleber R; Moshkalev, Stanislav; Diniz, José A; Utke, Ivo

    2016-11-30

    An effective postgrowth electrical tuning, via an oxygen releasing method, to enhance the content of non-noble metals in deposits directly written with gas-assisted focused-electron-beam-induced deposition (FEBID) is presented. It represents a novel and reproducible method for improving the electrical transport properties of Co-C deposits. The metal content and electrical properties of Co-C-O nanodeposits obtained by electron-induced dissociation of volatile Co 2 (CO) 8 precursor adsorbate molecules were reproducibly tuned by applying postgrowth annealing processes at 100 °C, 200 °C, and 300 °C under high-vacuum for 10 min. Advanced thin film EDX analysis showed that during the annealing process predominantly oxygen is released from the Co-C-O deposits, yielding an atomic ratio of Co:C:O = 100:16:1 (85:14:1) with respect to the atomic composition of as-written Co:C:O = 100:21:28 (67:14:19). In-depth Raman analysis suggests that the amorphous carbon contained in the as-written deposit turns into graphite nanocrystals with size of about 22.4 nm with annealing temperature. Remarkably, these microstructural changes allow for tuning of the electrical resistivity of the deposits over 3 orders of magnitude from 26 mΩ cm down to 26 μΩ cm, achieving a residual resistivity of ρ 2K /ρ 300 K = 0.56, close to the value of 0.53 for pure Co films with similar dimensions, making it especially interesting and advantageous over the numerous works already published for applications such as advanced scanning-probe systems, magnetic memory, storage, and ferroelectric tunnel junction memristors, as the graphitic matrix protects the cobalt from being oxidized under an ambient atmosphere.

  11. Quasi-interferometric scheme improved by fiber Bragg grating written on macrostructure defect in silica multimode optical fiber operating in a few-mode regime

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    Evtushenko, Alexander S.; Faskhutdinov, Lenar M.; Kafarova, Anastasia M.; Kuznetzov, Artem A.; Minaeva, Alina Yu.; Sevruk, Nikita L.; Nureev, Ilnur I.; Vasilets, Alexander A.; Andreev, Vladimir A.; Morozov, Oleg G.; Burdin, Vladimir A.; Bourdine, Anton V.

    2017-04-01

    This work presents results of experimental approbation of earlier on proposed modified fiber optic stress sensor based on a few-mode effects occurring during laser-excited optical signal propagation over silica multimode optical fiber (MMF). Modification is concerned with a passage to quasi-interferometric scheme realized by two multimode Y-couplers with equalized arm lengths improved by fiber Bragg grating (FBG) written on preliminary formed precision macrostructure defects in silica multimode graded-index optical fibers and special offset launching conditions providing laser-based excitation of higher-order modes. The "arms" of quasi-interferometer are two equalized lengths of MMF Cat. OM2 with great central dip of refractive index profile and strong pulse splitting due to high differential mode delay (DMD). We tested FBGs with Bragg wavelength both 1310 nm and 1550 nm written over tapers or up-tapers preliminary formed in short pieces of MMF Cat. OM2+/OM3 and further jointed to the end of one of the arms before output Y-coupler. Researches were focused on comparison analysis of pulse responses under changing of selected excited mode mixing and power diffusion processes due to stress distributed action to sensor fiber depending. Here we considered FBGs not only as particular wavelength reflector during spectral response measurement but also as local periodic microstructure defect which strongly effects on few-mode signal components mixing process also improved by combination with macro-defect like taper or up-taper that should provide response variation. Some results pulse response measurements produced for different scheme configuration and their comparison analysis are represented.

  12. Fabrication and Characterization of Linear and Nonlinear Photonic Devices in Fused Silica by Femtosecond Laser Writing

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    Ng, Jason Clement

    Femtosecond laser processing is a flexible, three-dimensional (3D) fabrication technique used to make integrated low-loss photonic devices in fused silica. My work expanded the suite of available optical devices through the design and optimization of linear optical components such as low-loss (< 0.5 dB) curved waveguides, directional couplers (DCs), and Mach-Zehnder interferometers (MZIs). The robustness and consistency of this maturing fabrication process was also reinforced through the scalable design and integration of a more complex, multi-component flat-top interleaver over a wide >70-nm spectral window. My work further complemented femtosecond laser processing with the development of nonlinear device capabilities. While thermal poling is a well known process, significant challenges had restricted the development of nonlinear devices in fused silica. The laser writing process would erase the induced nonlinearity (erasing) while a written waveguide core acted as a barrier to the thermal poling process (blocking). Using second harmonic (SH) microscopy, the effectiveness of thermal poling on laser-written waveguides was systematically analyzed leading to the technique of "double poling", which effectively overcomes the two challenges of erasing and blocking. In this new process the substrate is poled before and after waveguide writing to restore the induced nonlinearity within the vicinity of the waveguide to enable effective poling for inducing a second-order nonlinearity (SON) in fused silica. A new flexible, femtosecond laser based erasure process was also developed to enable quasi-phase matching and to form arbitrarily chirped gratings. Following this result, second harmonic generation (SHG) in a quasiphase-matched (QPM) femtosecond laser written waveguide device was demonstrated. SHG in a chirped QPM structure was also demonstrated to illustrate the flexibility of the femtosecond laser writing technique. These are the first demonstration of frequency doubling in an all-femtosecond-laser-written structure. A maximum SHG conversion efficiency of 1.3 +/- 0.1x10 -11/W-cm-2 was achieved for the fundamental wavelength of 1552.8 nm with a phase-matching bandwidth of 4.4 nm for a 10.0-mm-long waveguide. For a shorter sample, an effective SON of chi(2) = 0:020 +/- 0:002 pm/V was measured. The results collectively demonstrate the versatility of femtosecond laser additive and subtractive fabrication and opens up the development of integrated nonlinear applications and photonic devices for future lab-on-a-chip and lab-in-a-fiber devices.

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    ... of the month in which the written examination was held. Time spent outside the United States and its... volunteer service, or required active regular or reserve military service (to a maximum of the limit of such...-order register 18 months after the date of placement on the rank-order register. Time spent in civilian...

  17. 22 CFR 11.1 - Junior Foreign Service officer career candidate appointments.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-04-01

    ... of the month in which the written examination was held. Time spent outside the United States and its... volunteer service, or required active regular or reserve military service (to a maximum of the limit of such...-order register 18 months after the date of placement on the rank-order register. Time spent in civilian...

  18. 22 CFR 11.1 - Junior Foreign Service officer career candidate appointments.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... of the month in which the written examination was held. Time spent outside the United States and its... volunteer service, or required active regular or reserve military service (to a maximum of the limit of such...-order register 18 months after the date of placement on the rank-order register. Time spent in civilian...

  19. Visual and Phonological Similarity Effects in Verbal Immediate Serial Recall: A Test with Kanji Materials

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Saito, Satoru; Logie, Robert H.; Morita, Aiko; Law, Anna

    2008-01-01

    In a series of three experiments, native speakers of Japanese performed serial ordered written recall of visually presented Japanese kanji characters that varied systematically in visual and phonological similarity. Overall effects of phonological similarity were observed for retention of serial order under silent reading in Experiments 1 and 3…

  20. 78 FR 78451 - Self-Regulatory Organizations; Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.; Notice of Filing of...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-12-26

    ..., written notice to FINRA Market Operations of its intention to withdraw as a Registered Reporting ADF ECN... rejection by the ADF Trading Center. As such, an incoming order that fully posts to the book of that ADF... book of that ADF Trading Center, and is subsequently cancelled, corrected, etc., the order reporting...

  1. Virginia Henderson and her timeless writings.

    PubMed

    Halloran, E J

    1996-01-01

    This paper provides a reflection on the written works of Miss Virginia Avenel Henderson. Miss Henderson is a nurse, a scientist, an artist and a quintessential human being--all traits which informed her written output. Nursing practice, research and education were all subjects of her extensive chronicle. The four-volume Nursing Studies Index is her contribution to nursing research. The Index was sandwiched between two revisions of Principles and Practice of Nursing (5th and 6th eds), the placement of which caused the Index to focus on practice and the Principles (6th ed.) to be based on research. The sixth edition of Principles, written with Gladys Nite and 17 contributors, is considered the most important single professional document written in the twentieth century. The book synthesizes nursing practice, education, theory and research in an age when many nurses are challenged by the seeming incongruity in these essential professional functions.

  2. 40 CFR 13.9 - Initial notice.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... written initial notice to the debtor. Unless otherwise provided by agreement, contract or order, the... paid within 30 days of the date mailed or hand-delivered; (4) That interest charges and, except for...

  3. 43 CFR 5473.1 - Application.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... for Cutting and Removal § 5473.1 Application. In order to be considered, written requests for extension shall be delivered to the appropriate BLM office prior to the expiration of the time for cutting...

  4. Linkages: Effective Keys to Success.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Tindall, Lloyd W.

    1986-01-01

    Discusses various elements of linkages: informal agreements; formal written agreements; making agreements work; the non-financial agreement; how linkages work at the elementary, secondary, and postsecondary levels in Wisconsin; mandated linkages; and the importance of linkages in the vocational education and training arena. (CT)

  5. Experiencias en Lenguaje Para su Nino ed Edad Pre-escolar. Parte I: Actividades Para la Casa. (Language Experiences for Your Preschooler. Part I: Activities at Home.)

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

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

    The purpose of this manuscript (written in Spanish) is to encourage the development of communication skills of preschool children by introducing their parents to a number of learning activities suitable for home use. It is written to be used by an instructor who is working with preschool parents. The activities, which are designed to be…

  6. The Origins of the Standards Movement in the United States: Adoption of the Written Test and Its Influence on Class Work

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    Miyamoto, Kenichiro

    2008-01-01

    Every state in the United States, under the NCLB act, has set state standards and is testing all students in grades 3-8. Students are given printed questions to which they write answers with a pencil on an answer sheet. These written tests are usually given to determine the academic achievements of students. This paper traces the early history of…

  7. Classroom Applications: Will Taping and Replaying Their Speeches Help My Fourth Grade Students with Organizing Their Written Work?

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Wirth, Harold E.

    A fourth-grade teacher developed a unit on writing designed to help his students go from oral to written text after finding that only 4 of the 22 in his classroom had the organizational and writing skills to get their ideas on paper. The basis of the unit was a unique problem which the teacher himself was trying to solve in real life; namely, how…

  8. Teaching Direct Practice Techniques for Work with Elders with Alzheimer's Disease: A Simulated Group Experience.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Kane, Michael N.

    2003-01-01

    A role-play exercise about Alzheimer's disease was designed to teach group work with memory-impaired elders. Written comments from 26 social work students revealed four outcomes: demystifying practical knowledge, respect for diversity among memory-impaired individuals, increased awareness of elders' internal states, and awareness of the challenges…

  9. Discourse Appropriation and Category Boundary Work: Casual Teachers in the Market

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    Charteris, Jennifer; Jenkins, Kathryn; Jones, Marguerite; Bannister-Tyrrell, Michelle

    2017-01-01

    With the increasing casualisation of the teacher labour force, there is little written on the experiences of casual teachers and the challenges they face in brokering professional identities within constantly shifting and uncertain work contexts. Being a category bound casual teacher (a product of category boundary work) is a complex subject…

  10. 40 CFR 63.7294 - What work practice standard must I meet for soaking?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... prepare and operate at all times according to a written work practice plan for soaking. Each plan must... 40 Protection of Environment 14 2012-07-01 2011-07-01 true What work practice standard must I meet... (CONTINUED) AIR PROGRAMS (CONTINUED) NATIONAL EMISSION STANDARDS FOR HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS FOR SOURCE...

  11. 40 CFR 63.7294 - What work practice standard must I meet for soaking?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... prepare and operate at all times according to a written work practice plan for soaking. Each plan must... 40 Protection of Environment 14 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false What work practice standard must I... (CONTINUED) AIR PROGRAMS (CONTINUED) NATIONAL EMISSION STANDARDS FOR HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS FOR SOURCE...

  12. 40 CFR 63.7294 - What work practice standard must I meet for soaking?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... prepare and operate at all times according to a written work practice plan for soaking. Each plan must... 40 Protection of Environment 13 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false What work practice standard must I... (CONTINUED) AIR PROGRAMS (CONTINUED) NATIONAL EMISSION STANDARDS FOR HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS FOR SOURCE...

  13. 40 CFR 63.7294 - What work practice standard must I meet for soaking?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... prepare and operate at all times according to a written work practice plan for soaking. Each plan must... 40 Protection of Environment 13 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false What work practice standard must I... (CONTINUED) AIR PROGRAMS (CONTINUED) NATIONAL EMISSION STANDARDS FOR HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS FOR SOURCE...

  14. Statistics and Data Interpretation for Social Work

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Rosenthal, James A.

    2011-01-01

    Written by a social worker for social work students, this is a nuts and bolts guide to statistics that presents complex calculations and concepts in clear, easy-to-understand language. It includes numerous examples, data sets, and issues that students will encounter in social work practice. The first section introduces basic concepts and terms to…

  15. Transportable Applications Environment Plus, Version 5.1

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    1994-01-01

    Transportable Applications Environment Plus (TAE+) computer program providing integrated, portable programming environment for developing and running application programs based on interactive windows, text, and graphical objects. Enables both programmers and nonprogrammers to construct own custom application interfaces easily and to move interfaces and application programs to different computers. Used to define corporate user interface, with noticeable improvements in application developer's and end user's learning curves. Main components are; WorkBench, What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) software tool for design and layout of user interface; and WPT (Window Programming Tools) Package, set of callable subroutines controlling user interface of application program. WorkBench and WPT's written in C++, and remaining code written in C.

  16. Self-assessed competency at working with a medical interpreter is not associated with knowledge of good practice.

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    Hudelson, Patricia; Perneger, Thomas; Kolly, Véronique; Perron, Noëlle Junod

    2012-01-01

    Specific knowledge and skills are needed to work effectively with an interpreter, but most doctors have received limited training. Self-assessed competency may not accurately identify training needs. The purpose of this study is to explore the association between self-assessed competency at working with an interpreter and the ability to identify elements of good practice, using a written vignette. A mailed questionnaire was sent to 619 doctors and medical students in Geneva, Switzerland. 58.6% of respondents considered themselves to be highly competent at working with a professional interpreter, but 22% failed to mention even one element of good practice in response to the vignette, and only 39% could name more than one. There was no association between self-rated competency and number of elements mentioned. Training efforts should challenge the assumption that working with an interpreter is intuitive. Evaluation of clinicians' ability to work with an interpreter should not be limited to self-ratings. In the context of large-scale surveys, written vignettes may provide a simple method for identifying knowledge of good practice and topics requiring further training.

  17. 14 CFR 232.5 - Filing and service of applications, answers, and replies.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... TRANSPORTATION (AVIATION PROCEEDINGS) ECONOMIC REGULATIONS TRANSPORTATION OF MAIL, REVIEW OF ORDERS OF POSTMASTER... written application, answer, or reply filed under this part, and the formal specifications of papers...

  18. Clinical Evidence in Guardianship of Older Adults Is Inadequate: Findings From a Tri-State Study

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    Moye, Jennifer; Wood, Stacey; Edelstein, Barry; Armesto, Jorge C.; Bower, Emily H.; Harrison, Julie A.; Wood, Erica

    2014-01-01

    Purpose This preliminary study compared clinical evaluations for guardianship in three states with varying levels of statutory reform. Design and Methods Case files for 298 cases of adult guardianship were reviewed in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Colorado, three states with varying degrees of statutory reform. The quality and content of the written clinical evidence for guardianship and the hearing outcome were recorded. Results The quality of the written clinical evidence for guardianship was best in Colorado, the state with the most progressive statutory reform, earning a grade of B in our ratings, and worst in Massachusetts, a state with minimal reform, earning a grade of D – with nearly two thirds of the written evidence illegible. Information on specific functional deficits was frequently missing and conclusory statements were common. Information about the individual’s key values and preferences was almost never provided, and individuals were rarely present at the hearing. Limited orders were used for 34% of the cases in Colorado, associated with more complete clinical testimony, but such orders were used in only 1 case in either Massachusetts or Pennsylvania. Implications In this study, states with progressive statutes that promote functional assessment are associated with increased quality of clinical testimony and use of limited orders. A continuing dialogue between clinical and legal professionals is needed to advance reform in guardianship, and thereby provide for the needs and protect the rights of adults who face guardianship proceedings. PMID:17989402

  19. Consumer Preferences for Written and Oral Information about Allergens When Eating Out.

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    Begen, Fiona M; Barnett, Julie; Payne, Ros; Roy, Debbie; Gowland, M Hazel; Lucas, Jane S

    2016-01-01

    Avoiding food allergens when eating outside the home presents particular difficulties for food allergic (FA) and intolerant (FI) consumers and a lack of allergen information in restaurants and takeaways causes unnecessary restrictions. Across Europe, legislation effective from December 2014, aims to improve allergen information by requiring providers of non-prepacked foods to supply information related to allergen content within their foods. Using in-depth interviews with 60 FA/FI adults and 15 parents/carers of FA/FI children, we aimed to identify FA/FI consumers' preferences for written and/or verbal allergen information when eating out or ordering takeaway food. A complex and dynamic set of preferences and practices for written and verbal allergen information was identified. Overwhelmingly, written information was favoured in the first instance, but credible personal/verbal communication was highly valued and essential to a good eating out experience. Adequate written information facilitated implicit trust in subsequent verbal information. Where written information was limited, FA/FIs depended on social cues to assess the reliability of verbal information resources, and defaulted to tried and tested allergen avoidance strategies when these were deemed unreliable. Understanding the subtle negotiations and difficulties encountered by FA/FIs when eating out can serve as a guide for legislators and food providers; by encouraging provision of clear written and verbal allergen information, and training of proactive, allergen-aware staff. This, in tandem with legal requirements for allergen information provision, paves the way for FA/FIs to feel more confident in eating out choices; and to experience improved eating out experiences.

  20. Consumer Preferences for Written and Oral Information about Allergens When Eating Out

    PubMed Central

    Begen, Fiona M.; Barnett, Julie; Payne, Ros; Roy, Debbie; Gowland, M. Hazel; Lucas, Jane S.

    2016-01-01

    Background Avoiding food allergens when eating outside the home presents particular difficulties for food allergic (FA) and intolerant (FI) consumers and a lack of allergen information in restaurants and takeaways causes unnecessary restrictions. Across Europe, legislation effective from December 2014, aims to improve allergen information by requiring providers of non-prepacked foods to supply information related to allergen content within their foods. Methods Using in-depth interviews with 60 FA/FI adults and 15 parents/carers of FA/FI children, we aimed to identify FA/FI consumers’ preferences for written and/or verbal allergen information when eating out or ordering takeaway food. Results A complex and dynamic set of preferences and practices for written and verbal allergen information was identified. Overwhelmingly, written information was favoured in the first instance, but credible personal/verbal communication was highly valued and essential to a good eating out experience. Adequate written information facilitated implicit trust in subsequent verbal information. Where written information was limited, FA/FIs depended on social cues to assess the reliability of verbal information resources, and defaulted to tried and tested allergen avoidance strategies when these were deemed unreliable. Conclusion Understanding the subtle negotiations and difficulties encountered by FA/FIs when eating out can serve as a guide for legislators and food providers; by encouraging provision of clear written and verbal allergen information, and training of proactive, allergen-aware staff. This, in tandem with legal requirements for allergen information provision, paves the way for FA/FIs to feel more confident in eating out choices; and to experience improved eating out experiences. PMID:27223698

  1. Forensic entomology: implementing quality assurance for expertise work.

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    Gaudry, Emmanuel; Dourel, Laurent

    2013-09-01

    The Department of Forensic Entomology (Institut de Recherche Criminelle de la Gendarmerie Nationale, France) was accredited by the French Committee of Accreditation (Cofrac's Healthcare section) in October 2007 on the basis of NF EN ISO/CEI 17025 standard. It was the first accreditation in this specific field of forensic sciences in France and in Europe. The present paper introduces the accreditation process in forensic entomology (FE) through the experience of the Department of Forensic Entomology. Based upon the identification of necrophagous insects and the study of their biology, FE must, as any other expertise work in forensic sciences, demonstrate integrity and good working practice to satisfy both the courts and the scientific community. FE does not, strictly speaking, follow an analytical method. This could explain why, to make up for a lack of appropriate quality reference, a specific documentation was drafted and written by the staff of the Department of Forensic Entomology in order to define working methods complying with quality standards (testing methods). A quality assurance system is laborious to set up and maintain and can be perceived as complex, time-consuming and never-ending. However, a survey performed in 2011 revealed that the accreditation process in the frame of expertise work has led to new well-defined working habits, based on an effort at transparency. It also requires constant questioning and a proactive approach, both profitable for customers (magistrates, investigators) and analysts (forensic entomologists).

  2. Statistical Policy Working Paper 25. Data Editing Workshop and Exposition

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    1996-12-01

    Statistical Policy Working Paper 25 is the written record of the Data Editing Workshop and Exposition held March 22, 1996, at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Conference and Training Center. The program consisted of 44 oral presentations and 19 s...

  3. 77 FR 3010 - In the Matter of Mr. Francis Guilbeau; Order Prohibiting Involvement in NRC-Licensed Activities

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2012-01-20

    ... request a predecisional enforcement conference or request alternative dispute resolution (ADR) with the... the absence of any request for hearing or ADR, or written approval of an extension of time in which to... hearing or ADR is requested, the effective date of this Order shall be determined in accordance with the...

  4. Methods of Reflection about Service Learning: Guided vs. Free, Dialogic vs. Expressive, and Public vs. Private

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    Sturgill, Amanda; Motley, Phillip

    2014-01-01

    Reflection is a key component of service learning, but research shows that in order to maximize learning, the reflection must be of high quality. This paper compares the affordances of three different models of written reflection in engendering students' higher-order thought processes. Student reflections were compared across axes of guided versus…

  5. 43 CFR 30.101 - What definitions do I need to know?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ....S.C. 450f or 458cc. Attorney decision maker (ADM) means an attorney with OHA who conducts a summary proceeding and renders a decision that is subject to de novo review by an administrative law judge or Indian... person who is deceased. Decision or order (or decision and order) means: (1) A written document issued by...

  6. 12 CFR 570.4 - Issuance of orders to correct deficiencies and to take or refrain from taking other actions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... determines that a different period is appropriate in light of the safety and soundness of the savings... intent to issue order—(1) In general. The OTS shall provide a savings association prior written notice of the OTS's intention to issue an order requiring the savings association to correct a safety and...

  7. 12 CFR 570.4 - Issuance of orders to correct deficiencies and to take or refrain from taking other actions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... determines that a different period is appropriate in light of the safety and soundness of the savings... intent to issue order—(1) In general. The OTS shall provide a savings association prior written notice of the OTS's intention to issue an order requiring the savings association to correct a safety and...

  8. 12 CFR 570.4 - Issuance of orders to correct deficiencies and to take or refrain from taking other actions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... determines that a different period is appropriate in light of the safety and soundness of the savings... intent to issue order—(1) In general. The OTS shall provide a savings association prior written notice of the OTS's intention to issue an order requiring the savings association to correct a safety and...

  9. 12 CFR 570.4 - Issuance of orders to correct deficiencies and to take or refrain from taking other actions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... determines that a different period is appropriate in light of the safety and soundness of the savings... intent to issue order—(1) In general. The OTS shall provide a savings association prior written notice of the OTS's intention to issue an order requiring the savings association to correct a safety and...

  10. 12 CFR 570.4 - Issuance of orders to correct deficiencies and to take or refrain from taking other actions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... determines that a different period is appropriate in light of the safety and soundness of the savings... intent to issue order—(1) In general. The OTS shall provide a savings association prior written notice of the OTS's intention to issue an order requiring the savings association to correct a safety and...

  11. 76 FR 81929 - San Fernando Valley Area 2; Notice of Proposed Administrative Order on Consent Re: 4057 and 4059...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-12-29

    ... the Trust on ability to pay grounds. Under the Agreement, the Trust will pay $1500 (one thousand five... notice of a proposed administrative order on consent (Agreement)with the Spirito Family Trust and Alice C...: EPA will receive written comments relating to the settlement until January 30, 2012. EPA will consider...

  12. 48 CFR 1552.211-80 - Data standards for the transmission of laboratory measurement results.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... this contract. Copies of the Order may be obtained by written request to: Office of Information Resources Management, Information Management and Systems Division, Mail Code (3404), Ariel Rios Building...

  13. 48 CFR 1552.211-80 - Data standards for the transmission of laboratory measurement results.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... this contract. Copies of the Order may be obtained by written request to: Office of Information Resources Management, Information Management and Systems Division, Mail Code (3404), Ariel Rios Building...

  14. 48 CFR 1552.211-80 - Data standards for the transmission of laboratory measurement results.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... this contract. Copies of the Order may be obtained by written request to: Office of Information Resources Management, Information Management and Systems Division, Mail Code (3404), Ariel Rios Building...

  15. Fundamental limits in heat-assisted magnetic recording and methods to overcome it with exchange spring structures

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    Suess, D.; Abert, C.; Bruckner, F.

    2015-04-28

    The switching probability of magnetic elements for heat-assisted recording with pulsed laser heating was investigated. It was found that FePt elements with a diameter of 5 nm and a height of 10 nm show, at a field of 0.5 T, thermally written-in errors of 12%, which is significantly too large for bit-patterned magnetic recording. Thermally written-in errors can be decreased if larger-head fields are applied. However, larger fields lead to an increase in the fundamental thermal jitter. This leads to a dilemma between thermally written-in errors and fundamental thermal jitter. This dilemma can be partly relaxed by increasing the thickness of the FePtmore » film up to 30 nm. For realistic head fields, it is found that the fundamental thermal jitter is in the same order of magnitude of the fundamental thermal jitter in conventional recording, which is about 0.5–0.8 nm. Composite structures consisting of high Curie top layer and FePt as a hard magnetic storage layer can reduce the thermally written-in errors to be smaller than 10{sup −4} if the damping constant is increased in the soft layer. Large damping may be realized by doping with rare earth elements. Similar to single FePt grains in composite structure, an increase of switching probability is sacrificed by an increase of thermal jitter. Structures utilizing first-order phase transitions breaking the thermal jitter and writability dilemma are discussed.« less

  16. VESUVIO Data Analysis Goes MANTID

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Jackson, S.; Krzystyniak, M.; Seel, A. G.; Gigg, M.; Richards, S. E.; Fernandez-Alonso, F.

    2014-12-01

    This paper describes ongoing efforts to implement the reduction and analysis of neutron Compton scattering data within the MANTID framework. Recently, extensive work has been carried out to integrate the bespoke data reduction and analysis routines written for VESUVIO with the MANTID framework. While the programs described in this document are designed to replicate the functionality of the Fortran and Genie routines already in use, most of them have been written from scratch and are not based on the original code base.

  17. Want to Improve Undergraduate Thesis Writing? Engage Students and Their Faculty Readers in Scientific Peer Review

    PubMed Central

    Reynolds, Julie A.; Thompson, Robert J.

    2011-01-01

    One of the best opportunities that undergraduates have to learn to write like a scientist is to write a thesis after participating in faculty-mentored undergraduate research. But developing writing skills doesn't happen automatically, and there are significant challenges associated with offering writing courses and with individualized mentoring. We present a hybrid model in which students have the structural support of a course plus the personalized benefits of working one-on-one with faculty. To optimize these one-on-one interactions, the course uses BioTAP, the Biology Thesis Assessment Protocol, to structure engagement in scientific peer review. By assessing theses written by students who took this course and comparable students who did not, we found that our approach not only improved student writing but also helped faculty members across the department—not only those teaching the course—to work more effectively and efficiently with student writers. Students who enrolled in this course were more likely to earn highest honors than students who only worked one-on-one with faculty. Further, students in the course scored significantly better on all higher-order writing and critical-thinking skills assessed. PMID:21633069

  18. Want to improve undergraduate thesis writing? Engage students and their faculty readers in scientific peer review.

    PubMed

    Reynolds, Julie A; Thompson, Robert J

    2011-01-01

    One of the best opportunities that undergraduates have to learn to write like a scientist is to write a thesis after participating in faculty-mentored undergraduate research. But developing writing skills doesn't happen automatically, and there are significant challenges associated with offering writing courses and with individualized mentoring. We present a hybrid model in which students have the structural support of a course plus the personalized benefits of working one-on-one with faculty. To optimize these one-on-one interactions, the course uses BioTAP, the Biology Thesis Assessment Protocol, to structure engagement in scientific peer review. By assessing theses written by students who took this course and comparable students who did not, we found that our approach not only improved student writing but also helped faculty members across the department--not only those teaching the course--to work more effectively and efficiently with student writers. Students who enrolled in this course were more likely to earn highest honors than students who only worked one-on-one with faculty. Further, students in the course scored significantly better on all higher-order writing and critical-thinking skills assessed.

  19. Helen Primrose LeVesconte: occupational therapy clinician, educator, and maker of history.

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    Friedland, Judith; Rais, Hadassah

    2005-06-01

    The Canadian history of our profession is not well known and our identity is thought to suffer as a result. Helen Primrose LeVesconte (7896-1982) is one pioneer in our development whose story has not been told. Our purpose is to explore LeVesconte's life and work in order to expand knowledge of our roots and thereby strengthen our identity. Using interpretive biography methods we draw on LeVesconte's own writings, articles written about her, and archival documents to describe turning point moments in her life and to display meaningful patterns in her work. LeVesconte's work as a clinician and her role and reputation as an educator, show her to have been a strong and visionary leader. Her views on the client's role, the importance of the therapist-client relationship, prevention, community-based programs, and vocational rehabilitation are of particular interest. Because LeVesconte educated over 1,850 students while director of the occupational therapy program at the University of Toronto, her influence has been felt throughout the country. Her perspective is compared to current practice; and questions are raised as to aspects of her legacy and philosophy that might now be reconsidered.

  20. A Tribute to David Tiedeman

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Jepsen, David A.

    2008-01-01

    This tribute to Tiedeman takes the form of an invitation to read his written work. The author concludes that Tiedeman's body of work is unique and paradoxical, abstract and challenging, and deeply practical. He offered principles intended to change the way counselors think about careers and career development.

  1. Glimpses into the transition world: New graduate nurses' written reflections.

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    Walton, Jo Ann; Lindsay, Natalie; Hales, Caz; Rook, Helen

    2018-01-01

    This study was born out of our reflections as educators responsible for helping new graduate nurses transition into their first year of professional practice through a formal education programme. Finding ourselves wondering about many of the questions the students raised with us, we set about looking more closely at what could be gleaned from the students' experience, captured in their written work over the course of a year. To identify the challenges and learning experiences revealed in reflective assignments written by new graduate nurses undertaking a postgraduate course as part of their transition to registered nurse practice. Data consisted of the written work of two cohorts of students who had completed a postgraduate university course as part of their transition to new graduate practice in New Zealand. Fifty four reflective essays completed by twenty seven participating students were collected and their contents analysed thematically. Five key themes were identified. The students' reflections noted individual attributes - personal and professional strengths and weaknesses; professional behaviour - actions such as engaging help and support, advocating for patients' needs and safety and putting their own feelings aside; situational challenges such as communication difficulties, both systemic and interpersonal, and the pressure of competing demands. Students also identified rewards - results they experienced such as achieving the nursing outcomes they desired, and commented on reflection as a useful tool. The findings shed light on the experiences of new graduates, and how they fare through this critical phase of career development. Challenges relating to the emotional labour of nursing work are particularly evident. In addition the reflective essay is shown to be a powerful tool for assisting both new graduate nurses and their lecturers to reflect on the learning opportunities inherent in current clinical practice environments. Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

  2. Gender Patterns in Provider Role Attitudes and Behavior

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    Loscocco, Karyn; Spitze, Glenna

    2007-01-01

    Although much has been written on rapidly changing work and family roles, relatively little is known about the provider side of the work-family nexus. Using data from a study of gender, work, and family among the self-employed, we examine abstract and specific attitudes as well as behavior relating to the provider role. Results show gender…

  3. The Idea of America: Four Questions for Student Artists

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    Olson, Christa; Reichard, William

    2006-01-01

    While artists and academics have produced a wide range of work trying to understand national and individual identity, very little has been written about the experiences of student artists as they work to make sense of their particular political, social, and artistic identities and put them to work in the world. This article takes up that question,…

  4. Social Work Practice with Groups: A Clinical Perspective. Second Edition.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Reid, Kenneth E.

    This guide is written for beginning and advanced social work students, as well as battle-weary social workers. It instructs practitioners in how to do social work with groups and how to integrate small-group theory and therapeutic principles in such a way that is therapeutic and life enhancing. The wide-ranging concepts and skills presented here…

  5. New Working Practices: Benchmarking Flexible Scheduling, Staffing, and Work Location in an International Context. Workscape 21: The Ecology of New Ways of Working.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Becker, Franklin; Quinn, Kristen L.; Rappaport, Andrew J.; Sims, William R.

    This report identifies the range and extent of innovative workplace practices in place among 16 international organizations participating in the International Workplace Studies Program (IWSP). Information comes from interviews with organization representatives, written reports, summaries prepared by the organizations, and an extensive literature…

  6. Learning to Teach Nothing in Particular: A Uniquely American Educational Dilemma

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    Cohen, David K.

    2011-01-01

    When inspectors visit construction sites to assess the quality of work, they do so against the building code, which typically is written out in detail and used to guide work and teach apprentices. When attending physicians supervise interns as they take patients' histories or check their blood pressure, they compare the interns' work with…

  7. DroidSafe

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2016-12-01

    branches of our work . 3.1 Understanding Sensitive API Call and API Information Usage Android applications are written in a type- safe language (Java...directly invoke resolved targets. Because DroidSafe works with a comprehensive model of the Android environment , it supports precise resolution of...STATEMENT. FOR THE CHIEF ENGINEER: / S / / S / MARK K. WILLIAMS WARREN H. DEBANY, JR. Work Unit Manager

  8. Employers Talk about Building a School-to-Work System: Voices from the Field.

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    Wills, Joan L., Ed.

    This document contains background information on the school-to-work (STW) movement and 20 essays written by employers and intermediaries involved in STW program planning and implementation. Four points are highlighted: (1) it takes time to assemble an STW system; (2) the number of students participating in structured work-based learning remains…

  9. [Genealogy of the Books of Practica medicinae in Europe before the End of 18th Century: From the Origin to the Disappearance].

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    Sakai, Tatsuo

    2015-09-01

    The Practica medicinae represented the books written in Europe before the end of 18th century that dealt with individual deseases. In total, 100 Practica books, written by 95 authors, were collected and divided into four periods from the early 11th to the end of 18th century. The first Practica book was written at the Salernitan medical school on the basis of ancient medical books in the basic style, dealing with regional deseases arranged in "a capite ad calcem" manner, as well as with the fevers. The basic style comprised a majority in the first period and decreased gradually, becoming a minority in the 3rd and 4th periods. Sennert's practica was the largest and it elaborated with precise construction. The additional categories, such as female, children, and surgical deseases increased in the later periods. Those written in non-basic style based on pathogenesis or in alphabetical order also increased in the later periods. The practica books changed slightly and gradually, indicating the essential consistency of the concepts of diseases in these periods.

  10. Lyme Disease Testing in a High-Incidence State: Clinician Knowledge and Patterns.

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    Conant, Joanna L; Powers, Julia; Sharp, Gregory; Mead, Paul S; Nelson, Christina A

    2018-02-17

    Lyme disease (LD) incidence is increasing, but data suggest some clinicians are not fully aware of recommended procedures for ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests. The study objective was to assess clinicians' knowledge and practices regarding LD testing in a high-incidence region. We distributed surveys to 1,142 clinicians in the University of Vermont Medical Center region, of which 144 were completed (12.6% response rate). We also examined LD laboratory test results and logs of calls to laboratory customer service over a period of 2.5 years and 6 months, respectively. Most clinicians demonstrated basic knowledge of diagnostic protocols, but many misinterpreted Western blot results. For example, 42.4% incorrectly interpreted a positive immunoglobulin M result as an overall positive test in a patient with longstanding symptoms. Many also reported receiving patient requests for unvalidated tests. Additional education and modifications to LD test ordering and reporting systems would likely reduce errors and improve patient care. © American Society for Clinical Pathology, 2018. This work is written by (a) US Government employee(s) and is in the public domain in the US.

  11. Shielding of Sensitive Electronic Devices in Magnetic Nanoparticle Hyperthermia Using Arrays of Coils

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    Spirou, S. V.; Tsialios, P.; Loudos, G.

    2015-09-01

    In Magnetic Nanoparticle Hyperthermia (MNH) an externally applied electromagnetic field transfers energy to the magnetic nanoparticles in the body, which in turn convert this energy into heat, thus locally heating the tissue they are located in. This external electromagnetic field is sufficiently strong so as to cause interference and affect sensitive electronic equipment. Standard shielding of magnetic fields involves Faraday cages or coating with high-permeability shielding alloys; however, these techniques cannot be used with optically sensitive devices, such as those employed in Optical Coherence Tomography or radionuclide imaging. In this work we present a method to achieve magnetic shielding using an array of coils. The magnetic field generated by a single coil was calculated using the COMSOL physics simulation toolkit. Software was written in C/C++ to import the single-coil data, and then calculate the positions, number of turns and currents in the shielding coils in order to minimize the magnetic field strength at the desired location. Simulations and calculations have shown that just two shielding coils can reduce the magnetic field by 2-3 orders of magnitude.

  12. Demonstration of a stand-alone cylindrical fiber coil for optical amplifiers

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    Laxton, Steven R.; Bravo, Tyler; Madsen, Christi K.

    2015-08-01

    The design, fabrication and measurement of a cylindrical fiber coil structure is presented that has applications for compact fiber-optic amplifiers. A multimode fiber is used as a surrogate for a dual clad, rare-earth doped fiber for coil fabrication and optical testing. A ray trace algorithm, written in Python, was used to simulate the behavior of light travelling along the waveguide path. An in-house fabrication method was developed using 3D printed parts designed in SolidWorks and assembled with Arduino-controlled stepper motors for coil winding. Ultraviolet-cured epoxy was used to bind the coils into a rigid cylinder. Bend losses are introduced by the coil, and a measurement of the losses for two coil lengths was obtained experimentally. The measurements confirm that bend losses through a multimode fiber, representative of pump light propagating in a dual-clad rare-earth doped fiber, are relatively wavelength independent over a large spectral range and that higher order modes are extinguished quickly while lower order modes transmit through the windings with relatively low loss.

  13. User's Manual for PCSMS (Parallel Complex Sparse Matrix Solver). Version 1.

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Reddy, C. J.

    2000-01-01

    PCSMS (Parallel Complex Sparse Matrix Solver) is a computer code written to make use of the existing real sparse direct solvers to solve complex, sparse matrix linear equations. PCSMS converts complex matrices into real matrices and use real, sparse direct matrix solvers to factor and solve the real matrices. The solution vector is reconverted to complex numbers. Though, this utility is written for Silicon Graphics (SGI) real sparse matrix solution routines, it is general in nature and can be easily modified to work with any real sparse matrix solver. The User's Manual is written to make the user acquainted with the installation and operation of the code. Driver routines are given to aid the users to integrate PCSMS routines in their own codes.

  14. Tracing And Control Of Engineering Requirements

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Turner, Philip R.; Stoller, Richard L.; Neville, Ted; Boyle, Karen A.

    1991-01-01

    TRACER (Tracing and Control of Engineering Requirements) is data-base/word-processing software system created to document and maintain order of both requirements and descriptions associated with engineering project. Implemented on IBM PC under PC-DOS. Written with CLIPPER.

  15. 47 CFR 1.355 - Documents in foreign language.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... a language other than English, which shall be filed in any proceeding, or in response to any order, shall be filed in the language in which it is written together with an English translation thereof duly...

  16. 75 FR 73045 - Magnesium Metal From the People's Republic of China: Rescission of Antidumping Duty...

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    2010-11-29

    ... produced by recycling magnesium-based scrap into magnesium metal. The magnesium covered by this order... convenience and customs purposes, the written description of the merchandise is dispositive. Rescission of the...

  17. 4 CFR 22.16 - Hearings [Rule 16].

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... prolongation of the presentation of evidence, it may, by written order or by ruling from the bench, prescribe a... number or applicable numerical markings used in the § 22.4 [Rule 4] file. Documents not contained within...

  18. Every scientist is a memory researcher: Suggestions for making research more memorable.

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    Madan, Christopher R

    2015-01-01

    Independent of the actual results, some scientific articles are more memorable than others. As anyone who has written an article collaboratively knows, there are numerous ways a manuscript can be written to convey the same general ideas. To aid with this, many scientific writing books and editorials provide advice, often anecdotal, on how to make articles more memorable. Here I ground these suggestions with empirical support from memory research. Specifically, I suggest that researchers consider how to emphasize their work's novelty, strive to describe their work using concrete, easy-to-understand terms, and use caution when attempting to evoke an emotional response in the reader. I also discuss considerations in title selections and conference presentations.

  19. Comparative implementation of Handwritten and Machine written Gurmukhi text utilizing appropriate parameters

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Kaur, Jaswinder; Jagdev, Gagandeep, Dr.

    2018-01-01

    Optical character recognition is concerned with the recognition of optically processed characters. The recognition is done offline after the writing or printing has been completed, unlike online recognition where the computer has to recognize the characters instantly as they are drawn. The performance of character recognition depends upon the quality of scanned documents. The preprocessing steps are used for removing low-frequency background noise and normalizing the intensity of individual scanned documents. Several filters are used for reducing certain image details and enabling an easier or faster evaluation. The primary aim of the research work is to recognize handwritten and machine written characters and differentiate them. The language opted for the research work is Punjabi Gurmukhi and tool utilized is Matlab.

  20. Improved patient notes from medical students during web-based teaching using faculty-calibrated peer review and self-assessment.

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    McCarty, Teresita; Parkes, Marie V; Anderson, Teresa T; Mines, Jan; Skipper, Betty J; Grebosky, James

    2005-10-01

    This study examines the effectiveness of Calibrated Peer Review (CPR), a Web-based writing development program, to teach and assess medical students' patient note-writing skills in a standardized fashion. At the end of the clerkship year, 67 medical students were divided into three groups, introduced to CPR, and instructed in patient note-writing. Students then wrote notes for three clinical cases, presented in different order to each group. After training on faculty-calibrated standards, students evaluated their peers' notes and their own notes. Trained faculty, blinded to author, order, and group, also graded student notes. Faculty gave lower scores than students, but both groups found students' scores improved significantly from the first to the third note written. Student-written patient notes improved in quality while using CPR. The program uses approaches valued in medicine (accurate peer review and self-reflection) to enhance performance.

  1. Using Peer Feedback to Improve Students' Scientific Inquiry

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Tasker, Tammy Q.; Herrenkohl, Leslie Rupert

    2016-02-01

    This article examines a 7th grade teacher's pedagogical practices to support her students to provide peer feedback to one another using technology during scientific inquiry. This research is part of a larger study in which teachers in California and Washington and their classes engaged in inquiry projects using a Web-based system called Web of Inquiry. Videotapes of classroom lessons and artifacts such as student work were collected as part of the corpus of data. In the case examined, Ms. E supports her students to collectively define "meaningful feedback," thereby improving the quality of feedback that was provided in the future. This is especially timely, given the attention in Next Generation Science Standards to cross-cutting concepts and practices that require students discuss and debate ideas with each other in order to improve their understanding and their written inquiry reports (NGSS, 2013).

  2. [Selected aspects of computer-assisted literature management].

    PubMed

    Reiss, M; Reiss, G

    1998-01-01

    We want to report about our own experiences with a database manager. Bibliography database managers are used to manage information resources: specifically, to maintain a database to references and create bibliographies and reference lists for written works. A database manager allows to enter summary information (record) for articles, book sections, books, dissertations, conference proceedings, and so on. Other features that may be included in a database manager include the ability to import references from different sources, such as MEDLINE. The word processing components allow to generate reference list and bibliographies in a variety of different styles, generates a reference list from a word processor manuscript. The function and the use of the software package EndNote 2 for Windows are described. Its advantages in fulfilling different requirements for the citation style and the sort order of reference lists are emphasized.

  3. 40 CFR 63.306 - Work practice standards.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... November 15, 1993, each owner or operator shall prepare and submit a written emission control work practice... inspections, the method to be used to evaluate conformance with operating specifications for each type of... with hand-luted doors, procedures for luting and reluting, as necessary to prevent exceedances; (vi...

  4. Motivation in Work Organizations.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Lawler, Edward E., III

    Written with the student audience in mind, this book is about the motivational determinants of behavior in work organizations. For practicing managers, helpful information may be found in the chapters dealing with day-to-day motivational problems. Three chapters deal specifically with motivational theory, and five chapters emphasize research and…

  5. 40 CFR 63.1654 - Operational and work practice standards.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ....1650(e). The requirement for the owner or operator to operate the facility according to a written... 40 Protection of Environment 12 2011-07-01 2009-07-01 true Operational and work practice standards... PROGRAMS (CONTINUED) NATIONAL EMISSION STANDARDS FOR HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS FOR SOURCE CATEGORIES...

  6. 40 CFR 63.1654 - Operational and work practice standards.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ....1650(e). The requirement for the owner or operator to operate the facility according to a written... 40 Protection of Environment 12 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 true Operational and work practice standards... PROGRAMS (CONTINUED) NATIONAL EMISSION STANDARDS FOR HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS FOR SOURCE CATEGORIES...

  7. 40 CFR 63.1654 - Operational and work practice standards.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... according to a written fugitive dust control plan must be incorporated in the operating permit for the... 40 Protection of Environment 13 2013-07-01 2012-07-01 true Operational and work practice standards... PROGRAMS (CONTINUED) NATIONAL EMISSION STANDARDS FOR HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS FOR SOURCE CATEGORIES...

  8. Neural bases of orthographic long-term memory and working memory in dysgraphia

    PubMed Central

    Purcell, Jeremy; Hillis, Argye E.; Capasso, Rita; Miceli, Gabriele

    2016-01-01

    Spelling a word involves the retrieval of information about the word’s letters and their order from long-term memory as well as the maintenance and processing of this information by working memory in preparation for serial production by the motor system. While it is known that brain lesions may selectively affect orthographic long-term memory and working memory processes, relatively little is known about the neurotopographic distribution of the substrates that support these cognitive processes, or the lesions that give rise to the distinct forms of dysgraphia that affect these cognitive processes. To examine these issues, this study uses a voxel-based mapping approach to analyse the lesion distribution of 27 individuals with dysgraphia subsequent to stroke, who were identified on the basis of their behavioural profiles alone, as suffering from deficits only affecting either orthographic long-term or working memory, as well as six other individuals with deficits affecting both sets of processes. The findings provide, for the first time, clear evidence of substrates that selectively support orthographic long-term and working memory processes, with orthographic long-term memory deficits centred in either the left posterior inferior frontal region or left ventral temporal cortex, and orthographic working memory deficits primarily arising from lesions of the left parietal cortex centred on the intraparietal sulcus. These findings also contribute to our understanding of the relationship between the neural instantiation of written language processes and spoken language, working memory and other cognitive skills. PMID:26685156

  9. A new non-iterative reconstruction method for the electrical impedance tomography problem

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Ferreira, A. D.; Novotny, A. A.

    2017-03-01

    The electrical impedance tomography (EIT) problem consists in determining the distribution of the electrical conductivity of a medium subject to a set of current fluxes, from measurements of the corresponding electrical potentials on its boundary. EIT is probably the most studied inverse problem since the fundamental works by Calderón from the 1980s. It has many relevant applications in medicine (detection of tumors), geophysics (localization of mineral deposits) and engineering (detection of corrosion in structures). In this work, we are interested in reconstructing a number of anomalies with different electrical conductivity from the background. Since the EIT problem is written in the form of an overdetermined boundary value problem, the idea is to rewrite it as a topology optimization problem. In particular, a shape functional measuring the misfit between the boundary measurements and the electrical potentials obtained from the model is minimized with respect to a set of ball-shaped anomalies by using the concept of topological derivatives. It means that the objective functional is expanded and then truncated up to the second order term, leading to a quadratic and strictly convex form with respect to the parameters under consideration. Thus, a trivial optimization step leads to a non-iterative second order reconstruction algorithm. As a result, the reconstruction process becomes very robust with respect to noisy data and independent of any initial guess. Finally, in order to show the effectiveness of the devised reconstruction algorithm, some numerical experiments into two spatial dimensions are presented, taking into account total and partial boundary measurements.

  10. Quantifying the Quality Difference between L1 and L2 Essays: A Rating Procedure with Bilingual Raters and L1 and L2 Benchmark Essays

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    Tillema, Marion; van den Bergh, Huub; Rijlaarsdam, Gert; Sanders, Ted

    2013-01-01

    It is the consensus that, as a result of the extra constraints placed on working memory, texts written in a second language (L2) are usually of lower quality than texts written in the first language (L1) by the same writer. However, no method is currently available for quantifying the quality difference between L1 and L2 texts. In the present…

  11. Nursing mathematics: the importance of application.

    PubMed

    Hutton, B M

    This study explores the effectiveness of a revision programme in nursing mathematics for student nurses. Students who took the revision programme achieved a marked improvement in test results, although some still scored low in written tests. When interviewed, the students reported that they had difficulty applying written work in the classroom to actual calculations in the workplace. They found that only by 'doing' mathematics did the theory make sense. The author recommends that students should be encouraged to maximise the opportunities to practise mathematics in the clinical setting.

  12. PDSparc: A Drop-in Replacement for LEON3 Written Using Synopsys Processor Designer

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2015-08-18

    Written Using  Synopsys Processor Designer1  David Whelihan, Ph.D. and Kate Thurmer  MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, USA    ABSTRACT  Microprocessors ...internet-enabled appliances has opened a significant new niche: the Application Specific Standard Product (ASSP) microprocessor . These processors... microprocessor is a small part of a working system and requires peripherals such as DRAM controllers and communication sub-systems to properly carry out its

  13. Speech-language therapy for adolescents with written-language difficulties: the South African context.

    PubMed

    Erasmus, D; Schutte, L; van der Merwe, M; Geertsema, S

    2013-12-01

    To investigate whether privately practising speech-language therapists in South Africa are fulfilling their role of identification, assessment and intervention for adolescents with written-language and reading difficulties. Further needs concerning training with regard to this population group were also determined. A survey study was conducted, using a self-administered questionnaire. Twenty-two currently practising speech-language therapists who are registered members of the South African Speech-Language-Hearing Association (SASLHA) participated in the study. The respondents indicated that they are aware of their role regarding adolescents with written-language difficulties. However, they feel that South-African speech-language therapists are not fulfilling this role. Existing assessment tools and interventions for written-language difficulties are described as inadequate, and culturally and age inappropriate. Yet, the majority of the respondents feel that they are adequately equipped to work with adolescents with written-language difficulties, based on their own experience, self-study and secondary training. The respondents feel that training regarding effective collaboration with teachers is necessary to establish specific roles, and to promote speech-language therapy for adolescents among teachers. Further research is needed in developing appropriate assessment and intervention tools as well as improvement of training at an undergraduate level.

  14. Written exposure therapy for veterans diagnosed with PTSD: a pilot study.

    PubMed

    Sloan, Denise M; Lee, Daniel J; Litwack, Scott D; Sawyer, Alice T; Marx, Brian P

    2013-12-01

    There is a need to identify alternative treatment options for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), especially among veterans where PTSD tends to be more difficult to treat and dropout rates are especially high. One potential alternative is written exposure therapy, a brief intervention shown to treat PTSD among civilians effectively. This study investigated the feasibility and tolerability of written exposure therapy in an uncontrolled trial with a sample of 7 male veterans diagnosed with PTSD. Findings indicated that written exposure therapy was well tolerated and well received. Only 1 of the 7 veterans dropped out of treatment, no adverse events occurred during the course of treatment, and veterans provided high treatment satisfaction ratings. Clinically significant improvements in PTSD symptom severity were observed for 4 veterans at posttreatment and 6 veterans at the 3-month follow up. Moreover, 5 of the 7 veterans no longer met diagnostic criteria for PTSD 3 months following treatment. These findings suggest that written exposure therapy holds promise as a brief, well tolerated treatment for veterans with PTSD. However, additional research using randomized controlled trial methodology is needed to confirm its efficacy. Published 2013. This article is a US Government work and is in the public domain in the USA.

  15. Is handwriting constrained by phonology? Evidence from Stroop tasks with written responses and Chinese characters

    PubMed Central

    Damian, Markus F.; Qu, Qingqing

    2013-01-01

    To what extent is handwritten word production based on phonological codes? A few studies conducted in Western languages have recently provided evidence showing that phonology contributes to the retrieval of graphemic properties in written output tasks. Less is known about how orthographic production works in languages with non-alphabetic scripts such as written Chinese. We report a Stroop study in which Chinese participants wrote the color of characters on a digital graphic tablet; characters were either neutral, or homophonic to the target (congruent), or homophonic to an alternative (incongruent). Facilitation was found from congruent homophonic distractors, but only when the homophone shared the same tone with the target. This finding suggests a contribution of phonology to written word production. A second experiment served as a control experiment to exclude the possibility that the effect in Experiment 1 had an exclusively semantic locus. Overall, the findings offer new insight into the relative contribution of phonology to handwriting, particularly in non-Western languages. PMID:24146660

  16. Handbook for National Unions of Students on Students with a Migrant or Ethnic Minority Background

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Maoláin, Aengus Ó.; Popescu, Cristi; Bergan, Gabriela; Sallinen, Jyri; Savola, Pauliina; de Bruijn, Simone; Dalen, Svea; Servant, Thibaut; Grønne, Viktor

    2016-01-01

    This handbook has been written by the European Student's Union's Ethnic Minorities Working Group (EMWG) based on the work it conducted from its establishment at ESU's Board Meeting 57 in 2009 until its expiration at the Board Meeting 64 in 2013. The work was undertaken by representatives from ESU's members SAMOK (Finland), NUSUK (UK), LSVb (the…

  17. Implicit and Explicit Use of the Strengths Perspective in Social Work Education

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    Probst, Barbara

    2010-01-01

    Most of the literature on the strengths perspective has addressed issues of practice; far less has been written about the role of the strengths perspective in social work education. Empirical studies have tended to focus on content analysis of texts and syllabi rather than data obtained directly from social work faculty. To address this gap, the…

  18. Intersecting Work and Learning: Assembling Advanced Liberal Regimes of Governing Workers in Australia

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    Reich, Ann

    2008-01-01

    Much had been written over the past few years on the intersections of work and learning. This article suggests that the analysis of the intersections of work and learning can benefit greatly from understanding the ways in which governing workers as individuals and populations has changed in Western liberal democracies in the latter part of the…

  19. Tensions Between Validity and Outcomes: Teacher Assessment of Written Work of Recently Arrived Immigrant ESL Students

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    Arkoudis, Sophie; O'Loughlin, Kieran

    2004-01-01

    This article reports on a collaborative study involving ESL teachers in an Australian English Language Centre as they work through some of their concerns about reliability and validity in their assessment practices. The focus of this article is on how teachers work with the Curriculum Standards Framework (CSF) as an assessment tool. The discussion…

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

    Paquette, Douglas; Remien, Jason; Foley, Brian

    BNL prepares an annual Site Environmental Report (SER) in accordance with DOE Order 231.1B, Environment, Safety and Health Reporting. The report is written to inform the public, regulators, employees, and other stakeholders of the Laboratory’s environmental performance during the calendar year in review.

  1. 7 CFR 1220.213 - Establishment and membership.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ....213 Agriculture Regulations of the Department of Agriculture (Continued) AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (MARKETING AGREEMENTS AND ORDERS; MISCELLANEOUS COMMODITIES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE SOYBEAN... written agreement to serve on the Committee and to disclose any relationship with any soybean entity or...

  2. Energy use and emissions of traffic and transport

    DOT National Transportation Integrated Search

    1997-01-01

    This report, written by order of the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment, forms the basis of a realistic comparison of energy-efficiency and emissions of the different passenger and freight transport modes. Text in Dutch; summary in...

  3. Credit for Learning Gained in Life and Work Experience.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Strange, John

    1980-01-01

    Prime features of sound college programs that assess for credit the prior experiential learning of adults are outlined. Faculty judgment underlies all evaluation methods, which include oral exams, written reports, actual performance, or appraisals of advanced professional knowledge. Work of the Council for the Advancement of Experiential Learning…

  4. Teaching American Ethnic Literatures: Nineteen Essays.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Maitino, John R., Ed.; Peck, David R., Ed.

    This book features scholarly criticism on works by 19 famous authors, such as N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Amy Tan, and more. These authors' works are widely taught, but little critical comment is yet available about them. Written specifically for instructors in literature courses,…

  5. NASA Ames Summer High School Apprenticeship Research Program

    NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

    Powell, P.

    1985-01-01

    The Summer High School Apprenticeship Research Program (SHARP) is described. This program is designed to provide engineering experience for gifted female and minority high school students. The students from this work study program which features trips, lectures, written reports, and job experience describe their individual work with their mentors.

  6. 10 CFR 26.27 - Written policy and procedures.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... available include, but are not limited to, posting the policy in multiple work areas, providing individuals... stress, fatigue, or illness, and the use of prescription and over-the-counter medications that could..., sale, or possession of illegal drugs; (ii) Consumed alcohol to excess before the mandatory pre-work...

  7. 10 CFR 26.27 - Written policy and procedures.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... available include, but are not limited to, posting the policy in multiple work areas, providing individuals... stress, fatigue, or illness, and the use of prescription and over-the-counter medications that could..., sale, or possession of illegal drugs; (ii) Consumed alcohol to excess before the mandatory pre-work...

  8. 10 CFR 26.27 - Written policy and procedures.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... available include, but are not limited to, posting the policy in multiple work areas, providing individuals... stress, fatigue, or illness, and the use of prescription and over-the-counter medications that could..., sale, or possession of illegal drugs; (ii) Consumed alcohol to excess before the mandatory pre-work...

  9. Equilibrium Partitioning: What's it Good for and How do you Know if it Works?

    EPA Science Inventory

    Much has been written about the use of equilibrium partitioning (EqP) as an approach for deriving sediment quality guidelines, and about whether guidelines so derived “work.” The purpose of this presentation is to discuss issues relevant to judging whether equilibrium partitioni...

  10. 75 FR 2923 - Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee Public Meeting

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    2010-01-19

    ... 1-2, 2010 to complete its work of providing information, concepts and ideas to the Agency relating... work on Task 10-01, provide information, concepts and ideas to FMCSA relating to the HOS requirements.../or written comments, information, concepts and ideas the Agency should consider in developing the...

  11. Conducting Research: A Handbook for School Social Workers.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    McCullagh, James G., Ed.; Allen-Meares, Paula, Ed.

    This handbook on conducting research was written for school social workers and contains these articles: (1) "The School Social Work Practitioner and Research: An Overview" (Elizabeth Timberlake and Lewis Carr); (2) "Defining Empirically Based Practice" (Deborah Siegel); (3) "Future Research in School Social Work Services: An Update" (Christine…

  12. 40 CFR 80.1450 - What are the registration requirements under the RFS program?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... professional work experience in the chemical engineering field or related to renewable fuel production. (B) For... third-party engineering review and written report and verification of the information provided pursuant... professional engineer licensed in the United States with professional work experience in the chemical...

  13. 40 CFR 63.7505 - What are my general requirements for complying with this subpart?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... emission limits (including operating limits) and the work practice standards in this subpart at all times... you have an applicable emission limit or work practice standard, you must develop a written startup... AGENCY (CONTINUED) AIR PROGRAMS (CONTINUED) NATIONAL EMISSION STANDARDS FOR HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS FOR...

  14. 40 CFR 63.1451 - How do I demonstrate initial compliance with the emission limitations, work practice standards...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... written operation and maintenance plan required under § 63.1447(b) detailed descriptions of the procedures... with the emission limitations, work practice standards, and operation and maintenance requirements that... (CONTINUED) AIR PROGRAMS (CONTINUED) NATIONAL EMISSION STANDARDS FOR HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS FOR SOURCE...

  15. 40 CFR 63.1451 - How do I demonstrate initial compliance with the emission limitations, work practice standards...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... written operation and maintenance plan required under § 63.1447(b) detailed descriptions of the procedures... with the emission limitations, work practice standards, and operation and maintenance requirements that... (CONTINUED) AIR PROGRAMS (CONTINUED) NATIONAL EMISSION STANDARDS FOR HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS FOR SOURCE...

  16. 40 CFR 63.1451 - How do I demonstrate initial compliance with the emission limitations, work practice standards...

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    ... written operation and maintenance plan required under § 63.1447(b) detailed descriptions of the procedures... compliance with the emission limitations, work practice standards, and operation and maintenance requirements... (CONTINUED) AIR PROGRAMS (CONTINUED) NATIONAL EMISSION STANDARDS FOR HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS FOR SOURCE...

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  20. Get the Balance Right.

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    Haddock, Rebecca Jaurigue

    Today work goes on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and is about acceleration and access. Workers need balance more than ever. In fact, recent college graduates value work/life balance as their key factor in selecting employers. This paper, written for career counselors, defines balance as encompassing emotional, spiritual, physical, and…

  1. 40 CFR 63.7700 - What work practice standards must I meet?

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    ... (CONTINUED) National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Iron and Steel Foundries Work..., slitter, or other materials that do not include post-consumer automotive body scrap, post-consumer engine... written plan for the selection and inspection of iron and steel scrap to minimize, to the extent...

  2. 40 CFR 63.7700 - What work practice standards must I meet?

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    2013-07-01

    ... (CONTINUED) National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Iron and Steel Foundries Work..., slitter, or other materials that do not include post-consumer automotive body scrap, post-consumer engine... written plan for the selection and inspection of iron and steel scrap to minimize, to the extent...

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    2012-07-01

    ... (CONTINUED) National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Iron and Steel Foundries Work..., slitter, or other materials that do not include post-consumer automotive body scrap, post-consumer engine... written plan for the selection and inspection of iron and steel scrap to minimize, to the extent...

  4. Writing Better Lab Reports

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    Porter, Rhiannon; Guarienti, Kristy; Brydon, Barbara; Robb, Jeanine; Royston, Ann; Painter, Heidi; Sutherland, Alex; Passmore, Cynthia; Smith, Martin H.

    2010-01-01

    As science teachers at a suburban California high school, the authors were concerned about the lab report conclusions written by their upper-level chemistry, biology, and ecology students--which were consistently of poor quality. Their work lacked inferences derived from data and support for their concluding statements. Working as part of a…

  5. 43 CFR 418.29 - Project management.

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    2011-10-01

    ... determination by the Bureau, the Bureau may take over from the District the care, operation, maintenance, and management of the diversion and outlet works (Derby Dam and Lahontan Dam/Reservoir) or any or all of the.... Following written notification from the Bureau, the care, operation, and maintenance of the works may be...

  6. The Relationships between Work Team Strategic Intent and Work Team Performance

    DTIC Science & Technology

    2007-04-30

    objectives (Bennis & Biederman , 1997). In the classic written about teams, The Wisdom of Teams, authors Jon R. Katzenbach and Nicholas K. Smith identify...School Press. Bennis, W. G. (1985). Leaders: The strategies for taking charge. New York: Harper and Row. Bennis, W. G., & Biederman , P. W. (1997

  7. Utilization of Optimization for Design of Morphing Wing Structures for Enhanced Flight

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    Detrick, Matthew Scott

    Conventional aircraft control surfaces constrain maneuverability. This work is a comprehensive study that looks at both smart material and conventional actuation methods to achieve wing twist to potentially improve flight capability using minimal actuation energy while allowing minimal wing deformation under aerodynamic loading. A continuous wing is used in order to reduce drag while allowing the aircraft to more closely approximate the wing deformation used by birds while loitering. The morphing wing for this work consists of a skin supported by an underlying truss structure whose goal is to achieve a given roll moment using less actuation energy than conventional control surfaces. A structural optimization code has been written in order to achieve minimal wing deformation under aerodynamic loading while allowing wing twist under actuation. The multi-objective cost function for the optimization consists of terms that ensure small deformation under aerodynamic loading, small change in airfoil shape during wing twist, a linear variation of wing twist along the length of the wing, small deviation from the desired wing twist, minimal number of truss members, minimal wing weight, and minimal actuation energy. Hydraulic cylinders and a two member linkage driven by a DC motor are tested separately to provide actuation. Since the goal of the current work is simply to provide a roll moment, only one actuator is implemented along the wing span. Optimization is also used to find the best location within the truss structure for the actuator. The active structure produced by optimization is then compared to simulated and experimental results from other researchers as well as characteristics of conventional aircraft.

  8. Progression in Complexity: Contextualizing Sustainable Marine Resources Management in a 10th Grade Classroom

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    Bravo-Torija, Beatriz; Jiménez-Aleixandre, María-Pilar

    2012-01-01

    Sustainable management of marine resources raises great challenges. Working with this socio-scientific issue in the classroom requires students to apply complex models about energy flow and trophic pyramids in order to understand that food chains represent transfer of energy, to construct meanings for sustainable resources management through discourse, and to connect them to actions and decisions in a real-life context. In this paper we examine the process of elaboration of plans for resources management in a marine ecosystem by 10th grade students (15-16 year) in the context of solving an authentic task. A complete class ( N = 14) worked in a sequence about ecosystems. Working in small groups, the students made models of energy flow and trophic pyramids, and used them to solve the problem of feeding a small community for a long time. Data collection included videotaping and audiotaping of all of the sessions, and collecting the students' written productions. The research objective is to examine the process of designing a plan for sustainable resources management in terms of the discursive moves of the students across stages in contextualizing practices, or different degrees of complexity (Jiménez-Aleixandre & Reigosa International Journal of Science Education, 14(1): 51-61 2006), understood as transformations from theoretical statements to decisions about the plan. The analysis of students' discursive moves shows how the groups progressed through stages of connecting different models, between them and with the context, in order to solve the task. The challenges related to taking this sustainability issue to the classroom are discussed.

  9. [The students' page. Notes about patient records and the production and reproduction of knowledge. Written and oral presentations].

    PubMed

    de Almeida, L B; dos Santos, E S; Alves, D de B

    1995-01-01

    This paper relates a description about nursing notes in pactients promptuaries in relation to the distribution/reproduction/production process of knowledge in nursing. It was developed on an Intensive Care Unity from a Hospital in the teaching/assistance Sanitary District Barra/Rio Vermelho (Salvador-Bahia). The basic premise is that the nursing personal work superficial and sporadic notes just related to patients. Distribution/ reproduction/production process, that happen in the nursing work process isn't considered by it devaluation or just because, for nursing agents, only information about technical procedures related to patient care, expresses the nursing knowledge and so, must be registered. In order to reach the objective, 30% of the promptuaries of patients discharge from the ICU were studied and the nursing team was interviewed, during the months-november, december 1994. The analysis indicates that the way how the nursing notes are been made, results in hard communication among agents of health area and contributes to disqualify the nursing assistance that is given to patients, besides to limit the advance of the distribution/reproduction/production of knowledge in nursing.

  10. Highly Parallel Alternating Directions Algorithm for Time Dependent Problems

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    Ganzha, M.; Georgiev, K.; Lirkov, I.; Margenov, S.; Paprzycki, M.

    2011-11-01

    In our work, we consider the time dependent Stokes equation on a finite time interval and on a uniform rectangular mesh, written in terms of velocity and pressure. For this problem, a parallel algorithm based on a novel direction splitting approach is developed. Here, the pressure equation is derived from a perturbed form of the continuity equation, in which the incompressibility constraint is penalized in a negative norm induced by the direction splitting. The scheme used in the algorithm is composed of two parts: (i) velocity prediction, and (ii) pressure correction. This is a Crank-Nicolson-type two-stage time integration scheme for two and three dimensional parabolic problems in which the second-order derivative, with respect to each space variable, is treated implicitly while the other variable is made explicit at each time sub-step. In order to achieve a good parallel performance the solution of the Poison problem for the pressure correction is replaced by solving a sequence of one-dimensional second order elliptic boundary value problems in each spatial direction. The parallel code is implemented using the standard MPI functions and tested on two modern parallel computer systems. The performed numerical tests demonstrate good level of parallel efficiency and scalability of the studied direction-splitting-based algorithm.

  11. MATHEMATICAL ROUTINES FOR ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS

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    Kantak, A. V.

    1994-01-01

    The purpose of this package is to provide the scientific and engineering community with a library of programs useful for performing routine mathematical manipulations. This collection of programs will enable scientists to concentrate on their work without having to write their own routines for solving common problems, thus saving considerable amounts of time. This package contains sixteen subroutines. Each is separately documented with descriptions of the invoking subroutine call, its required parameters, and a sample test program. The functions available include: maxima, minima, and sort of vectors; factorials; random number generator (uniform or Gaussian distribution); complimentary error function; fast Fourier Transformation; Simpson's Rule integration; matrix determinate and inversion; Bessel function (J Bessel function for any order, and modified Bessel function for zero order); roots of a polynomial; roots of non-linear equation; and the solution of first order ordinary differential equations using Hamming's predictor-corrector method. There is also a subroutine for using a dot matrix printer to plot a given set of y values for a uniformly increasing x value. This package is written in FORTRAN 77 (Super Soft Small System FORTRAN compiler) for batch execution and has been implemented on the IBM PC computer series under MS-DOS with a central memory requirement of approximately 28K of 8 bit bytes for all subroutines. This program was developed in 1986.

  12. EGRAM- ECHELLE SPECTROGRAPH DESIGN AID

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    Dantzler, A. A.

    1994-01-01

    EGRAM aids in the design of spectrographic systems that utilize an echelle-first order cross disperser combination. This optical combination causes a two dimensional echellogram to fall on a detector. EGRAM describes the echellogram with enough detail to allow the user to effectively judge the feasibility of the spectrograph's design. By iteratively altering system parameters, the desired echellogram can be achieved without making a physical model. EGRAM calculates system parameters which are accurate to the first order and compare favorably to results from ray tracing techniques. The spectrographic system modelled by EGRAM consists of an entrance aperture, collimator, echelle, cross dispersion grating, focusing options, and a detector. The system is assumed to be free of aberrations and the echelle, cross disperser, and detector should be planar. The EGRAM program is menu driven and has a HELP facility. The user is prompted for information such as minimum and maximum wavelengths, slit dimensions, ruling frequencies, detector geometry, and angle of incidence. EGRAM calculates the resolving power and range of order numbers covered by the echellogram. A numerical map is also produced. This tabulates the order number, slit bandpass, and high/middle/low wavelengths. EGRAM can also compute the centroid coordinates of a specific wavelength and order (or vice versa). EGRAM is written for interactive execution and is written in Microsoft BASIC A. It has been implemented on an IBM PC series computer operating under DOS. EGRAM was developed in 1985.

  13. Brain Decoding-Classification of Hand Written Digits from fMRI Data Employing Bayesian Networks

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    Yargholi, Elahe'; Hossein-Zadeh, Gholam-Ali

    2016-01-01

    We are frequently exposed to hand written digits 0–9 in today's modern life. Success in decoding-classification of hand written digits helps us understand the corresponding brain mechanisms and processes and assists seriously in designing more efficient brain–computer interfaces. However, all digits belong to the same semantic category and similarity in appearance of hand written digits makes this decoding-classification a challenging problem. In present study, for the first time, augmented naïve Bayes classifier is used for classification of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) measurements to decode the hand written digits which took advantage of brain connectivity information in decoding-classification. fMRI was recorded from three healthy participants, with an age range of 25–30. Results in different brain lobes (frontal, occipital, parietal, and temporal) show that utilizing connectivity information significantly improves decoding-classification and capability of different brain lobes in decoding-classification of hand written digits were compared to each other. In addition, in each lobe the most contributing areas and brain connectivities were determined and connectivities with short distances between their endpoints were recognized to be more efficient. Moreover, data driven method was applied to investigate the similarity of brain areas in responding to stimuli and this revealed both similarly active areas and active mechanisms during this experiment. Interesting finding was that during the experiment of watching hand written digits, there were some active networks (visual, working memory, motor, and language processing), but the most relevant one to the task was language processing network according to the voxel selection. PMID:27468261

  14. Argumentation in undergraduate chemistry laboratories

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    Walker, Joi Phelps

    To address the need for reform in undergraduate science education a new instructional model called Argument-Driven Inquiry (ADI) was developed and then implemented in a undergraduate chemistry course at a community college in the southeastern United States (Sampson, Walker, & Grooms, 2009; Walker, Sampson, & Zimmerman, in press). The ADI instructional model is designed to give a more central place to argumentation and the role of argument in the social construction of scientific knowledge. This research investigated the growth in the quality of the student generated arguments and the scientific argumentation that took place over the course of a semester. Students enrolled in two sections of General Chemistry I laboratory at the community college participated in this study. The students worked in collaborative groups of three or four. The students were given a variation of the same performance task three times during the semester in order to measure individual ability to use evidence and justify their choice of evidence with appropriate rationale. Five ADI investigations took place during the semester and the laboratory reports for each were collected from each student and the argument section of each report was scored. All the student groups were video recorded five times during the semester as they generated and evaluated arguments and the quality of the group argumentation was assessed using an instrument called the Assessment of Scientific Argumentation in the Classroom (ASAC) observation protocol. As time was the independent variable in this study a repeated measure ANOVA was used to evaluate the significance of student improvement in each area (argumentation, written argument and performance task) over the course of the semester (Trochim, 1999). In addition, a multiple regression analysis was conducted to evaluate how well the ASAC scores predicted individual scores on both the performance task and the written arguments (Green & Salkind, 2005). There was significant growth over the course of the semester in all three measures, performance-based assessment, written argument and oral argumentation. There also was a significant correlation between written and oral arguments that was used to generate a linear model using oral argumentation as a predictor of written argument. The results of this suggest that the use of an integrated instructional model such as ADI can have a positive impact on the quality of the arguments students include in their investigation reports, the argumentation they engage in during lab activities, and their overall performance on tasks that require them to develop and support a valid conclusion with genuine evidence.

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