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Sustaining organisational change: Teacher education in the Solomon Islands.
No full text"Sustainability is the capacity of education reform initiatives to continue" (Webster, Silova, Moyer, & McAllister, 2011, para. 12). In this article we reflect upon the process of organisational strengthening that was a key component of the Partnership between the Faculty of Education at the University of Waikato and the School of Education, Solomon Islands College of Higher Education. We argue that within the New Zealand Aid Programmei funded partnership, the building of mutually respectful relationships, building leadership capacity and the respect for and inclusion of indigenous cultural considerations were key to the organisational change process and its sustainability
MONITORING OWNERSHIP OF U.S. REAL ESTATE: A BIBLIOGRAPHY
No full textThis bibliography lists by author the source materials from the 3-volume report "Monitoring Foreign Ownership of U.S. Real Estate" prepared by the Economics, Statistics and Cooperatives Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1979. The bibliography, partially annotated, includes 497 references on subjects of foreign investment, real estate, and land data systems
Retraining displaced workers : what can developing countries learn from OECD nations?
No full textThe governments of most industrial countries provide financial support for adult training programs intended to retrain displaced workers. The author draws lessons from the experience of six industrial countries (Australia, Britain, Canada, Japan, Sweden, and the United States) on how to design and implement such retraining programs in low-income developing nations and middle-income countries. By retraining, the author means both improving job skills and remediating deficiencies in basic education. These are the lessons he emphasizes: Training programs should be independent of the educational system, with its rigid ties to degree requirements and academic schedules; links to employers must be developed and maintained so that trainees have marketable skills on completing the program. Training programs should be designed to minimize trainees'foregone earnings; basic education should be relevant to the jobs the trainees might seek. External providers of education must be made accountable - but with care; the system of accountability should also ensure that the needs of displaced workers most likely to suffer long-term unemployment are met. Not all displaced workers require relatively expansive retraining; some may need only inexpensive job-search assistance services. A permanent, institutionalized training system is preferable to short-term intervention.Labor Standards,Tertiary Education,ICT Policy and Strategies,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Teaching and Learning
Incorporating interactive demonstration applets into the mathematics classroom
No full textPlan B Paper. 2012. Master of Science in Education-Secondary Mathematics--University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Mathematics Department. ii + 108 leaves. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 94-98).Recognizing that the incorporation of technology into the modern mathematics classroom often falls far behind the ideal, the author outlines the history and reasons for the delay and lists some of the difficulties and concerns with the full implementation of technology in the classroom. She then conducts an exploration of the types of technology that are available for use in the classroom. This is followed up with a brief investigation of web-based technology types and a description of their strengths and weaknesses. The author then highlights research supporting the use of these technologies and the benefits for learning that they can provide. After identifying a digital library of dynamic visualization applets designed by teachers for use in the classroom, the Wolfram Demonstrations Project (Wolfram, 2012a), the author conducts an in-depth search of the website. The author uses this online digital library to construct a catalog of applets suitable for use in basic developmental college mathematics courses, as well as for intermediate and college algebra. The author gives descriptions of these applets, lists the courses that they might be suitable for, and rates the applets as to appropriateness, accuracy, interactivity, clarity, and ability to enhance understanding. She includes these findings along with a discussion as to the strengths and weaknesses of the different types of applications. Along with suggestions for uses of the applications in the classroom, the author also offers several lesson plans that incorporate inquiry-based and constructivist methods in order to utilize the applets in a classroom situation in a format recommended to optimize learning benefits for the students
Comments on Receiver antenna scan rate requirements needed to implement pulse chasing in a bistatic radar receiver
No full textFor original paper see D.S.Purdy, ibid., vol.37, no.1, pp.285-7 (2001). It is shown that by selecting a different time variable, the approximations the author claims to be in error are indeed accurate. A reply by D.S.Purdy to these comments is included
Death before dismount? : mechanization, force employment, and counterinsurgency outcomes in Iraq
No full textThesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 2011.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (p. 100-105).Recent research suggests that heavily mechanized armies perform worse in counterinsurgency campaigns than those that use fewer vehicles. The U.S. military's 2007 operations in Iraq, however, present an empirical quandary for the mechanization hypothesis: a vehicle-heavy army proved able to suppress an insurgency, allowing Iraqi leaders to work towards a long-term political solution. This paper argues that force employment, not mechanization, drives counterinsurgency outcomes-what matters is not that armies have many vehicles or soldiers, but how they choose to use them. When heavily mechanized forces change their tactics and doctrine to line up with counterinsurgency principles, shifting from an enemy-centric to a population-centric approach, outcomes dramatically improve while military-wide mechanization levels remain constant. Using an original dataset, this paper conducts a large-n regression analysis of the impacts of mechanization at the provincial level in Iraq, and finds little support for the mechanization hypothesis. A subsequent comparative case study, of the heavily mechanized 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment's operations in Tall Afar and the light infantry 82nd Airborne Division's operations in Fallujah, indicate that force employment rather than mechanization is a key indicator of counterinsurgency outcomes. The finding has important implications for force structure policy, as it indicates that mechanized forces can indeed conduct successful counterinsurgency campaigns.by Raphael E. Moyer.S.M
On the onset of type I edge localized modes
No full textThe onset of type I edge localized modes (ELMs) is investigated on the DIII-D tokamak. A fast imaging camera is used with an integration time of 1 νs and a time between frames of about 15 νs continuously recording for a period of 1.3 s. It is observed that type I ELMs onset starts with a precursor oscillation at the mid-plane caused by a toroidally rotating localized structure with a spatial scale increasing with time. This is confirmed by the toroidal set of magnetic probes and continues until the filamentary structure(s) strongly interacts with the first wall at the outer mid-plane. This triggers a strong plasma-wall interaction that later spreads to affect the whole scrape-off layer. The properties of the observed localized structure(s) are in good agreement with the ballooning finger structure occurring in the early non-linear phase of the peeling-ballooning instability. © 2009 IAEA, Vienna.Wakatani M, 1999, NUCL FUSION, V39, P2175, DOI 10.1088-0029-5515-39-12-302; Antar GY, 2006, PHYS PLASMAS, V13, DOI 10.1063-1.2198210; Becoulet M, 2003, PLASMA PHYS CONTR F, V45, pA93, DOI 10.1088-0741-3335-45-12A-007; Coda S, 2001, NUCL FUSION, V41, P1885, DOI 10.1088-0029-5515-41-12-316; Cowley S, 1996, PHYS PLASMAS, V3, P1848, DOI 10.1063-1.871980; Cowley SC, 2003, PLASMA PHYS CONTR F, V45, pA31, DOI 10.1088-0741-3335-45-12A-003; Eich T, 2005, PLASMA PHYS CONTR F, V47, P815, DOI 10.1088-0741-3335-47-6-007; Hill DN, 1997, J NUCL MATER, V241, P182, DOI 10.1016-S0022-3115(97)80039-6; Kirk A, 2005, PLASMA PHYS CONTR F, V47, P315, DOI 10.1088-0741-3335-47-2-008; Kirk A, 2005, PLASMA PHYS CONTR F, V47, P995, DOI 10.1088-0741-3335-47-7-003; Leonard AW, 2003, PHYS PLASMAS, V10, P1765, DOI 10.1063-1.1567723; Snyder PB, 2005, PHYS PLASMAS, V12, DOI 10.1063-1.1873792; Solomon WM, 2004, REV SCI INSTRUM, V75, P3481, DOI 10.1063-1.1790042; Wade MR, 2005, PHYS REV LETT, V94, DOI 10.1103-PhysRevLett.94.225001; Zohm H, 1996, PLASMA PHYS CONTR F, V38, P1213, DOI 10.1088-0741-3335-38-8-01234
Managing pollution control in Brazil : the potential use of taxes and fines by federal and state governments
No full textThe authors make a case for federal monitoring of state environmental agencies'(SEPAs') performance because of the tradeoff for the states between the need to raise revenue from taxes on local output and the need to limit pollution. They also show that fines and taxes assigned respectively to the federal and state governments can improve firms'compliance and SEPA's performance, and hence environmental quality, without damaging state revenue, and perhaps even improving it. For their analysis, the authors rely on numerical policy simulations based on an analytical framework designed as a multilevel Stackelberg game. This framework reproduces the hierarchical structure of pollution control policies in Brazil, where the federal environmental protection agency relies on SEPAs to ensure that federally defined minimum ambient standards are met locally. The numerical simulations are based on a case study of the food, and the printing and publishing industries.Urban Services to the Poor,Environmental Economics&Policies,Water and Industry,Pollution Management&Control,Health Monitoring&Evaluation
Cryo-EM structure of a helicase loading intermediate containing ORC-Cdc6-Cdt1-MCM2-7 bound to DNA
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