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May Alm interview, tape 2
No full textMay Alm was born May Buelow in Mirror, Alberta to Edward and Hilda, who died of influenza in 1918. May became a Registered Nurse before moving to Chewelah, Washington and working for Dr. Merle B. Snyder. May enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps during the War and served in England before moving with Allied forces to Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge. After she returned from the War, she married Maruice Alm, also of Chewelah. When Maurice died in 1956, May returned to nursing. After her youngest child, Marie, graduated from high school, May moved to Spokane where she worked for the Veteran’s Hospital until her retirement in 1981. May moved to Northern California in the 2000s to live near her daughter, Marie. May died in Centennial, Colorado in 2019
Charlie May Simon materials
No full textThis collection contains materials relating to Arkansas author Charlie May Simon
Safety first: combining task models of medical devices with numeracy skills and technical competence
No full textWe propose that by more closely aligning interdisciplinary work in (a) numeracy education for medication dosage calculations and (b) model-driven design for medical devices that are used for delivery of medication we may help address the incident-rate in incorrect medication calculations and delivery, given that such devices commonly require the user to engage with numerical information via a digital interface. We demonstrate the use of task models as a way of supporting safe, effective and efficient delivery of medication to the patient, taking as our example the use of infusion and syringe pumps in Nursing. This work indicates a new way of facilitating knowledge transfer between numeracy education and medical device design and usage, using task models. We aim to support medical professionals’ and students’ numeracy education as well as to inform the design of medical devices based on a better understanding of the use and potential errors of medication delivery by trained professionals
Secondary Literacy Across the Curriculum
No full textThis paper discusses the challenges and possibilities attendant upon successfully implementing literacy across the curriculum initiatives – or ‘school language policies’ as they have come to be known – particularly at the secondary or high school level. It provides a theoretical background to these issues, exploring previous academic discussions of school language policies, and highlights key areas of concern as well as opportunity with respect to school implementation of such policies. As such, it provides a necessary conceptual background to the subsequent papers in this special issue, which focus upon the Secondary Schools’ Literacy Initiative (SSLI) – a New Zealand funded programme that aims to establish cross-curricular language and literacy policies in secondary schools
Impact of receiver cheating on the stability of ALM tree
No full textAbstract—Application Layer Multicast (ALM) is an effective supplement to IP Multicast, but it has the potential trouble of trust on end systems. For instance, multicast receivers may cheat in order to obtain a better position in the multicast tree. Receiver cheating may transform the multicast tree, and lead to its instability. We establish the cheating model of ALM receivers and analyze the stability of ALM tree when receiver cheating occurs. Simulation results show that receiver cheating has considerably negative effects on the stability of ALM tree. This discovery brings forward an issue in ALM study, that is, we should take receiver cheating into consideration to maintain a stable ALM tree when designing ALM protocols. I
The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Towards an industrial ALM (Application Lifecycle) Tool Integration
No full textContext. Application Lifecycle Management refers to the coordination of all aspects of software engineering, through a collection of integrated software development tools. More and more organizations are heavily relying on the ALM tools nowadays. Objectives. In this study we research ALM first as a business strategy, its roots, its advantages and disadvantages. As well as making a theoretical research, we seek out the setbacks of the practical side of ALM in order to find the areas needed for improvement, by investigating the ALM’s existing tools, interviewing ALM’s users, and using gained statistical data to derive practical facts about ALM. The goal of the thesis is to find out how ALM can be improved. Methods. The vast amount of sources, including articles, books, and journals is used to support our arguments and conclusions. A long online survey was carried with many participants to understand the practical side of ALM, as well as gain access to information about ALM’s setbacks. Results. The problems of ALM are recognized and named. Proposals are made in respect of how to deal with these problems. A list of what options need to be studied in the future, in order to improve the overall ALM design, and make it a powerful tool, is presented. A detailed plan for further research regarding this highly important issue is presented. Conclusions. We conclude that there are several ALM tool options on the market, all having their strengths and weaknesses. But in order for ALM to become an industrial solution and to be truly successful and effective in supporting the broader goals of the different organizations using it, the requests of the stakeholders towards deeper semantic integration between the various tool involved in the ALM processes need to be embodied in the current ALM offerings. We conclude that further research is needed in order to assess the proposals, and test the design ideas that are presented in the last chapter of this thesis.This thesis concerns the authors and stakeholders of ALM. With the technological achievements taking place every day, and competition being very high, it is important to get the software product ready for release on time and of good quality. The current tools for managing of the application’s lifecycle are incoherent in terms of tool integration. In this thesis we describe the setbacks of ALM, according to interviewed stakeholders and authors of journals, articles and books. We conclude our thesis with the several proposed design options that may succeed in making ALM strong and consistent in the future. The proposed design mainly concerns the integration problems, and provides several potential solutions, aiming at easy to use and integrate tools. Further research areas are explained, and stated
Explorando a nova PLOS-ALM Reports
No full text<p>Uma exploração da ferramenta PLOS-ALM Reports, que oferece métricas relacionadas a artigos publicados nos periódicos PLOS. Trabalho e pôster submetidos ao 4° Encontro Brasileiro de Bibliometria e Cientometria, realizado entre 14 e 16 de maio de 2014 em Recife, PE - Brasil.</p>
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<p>An exploration of the PLOS-ALM Reports tool, which offers metrics related to individual articles published in PLOS journals. Paper and poster presented at the 4th Brazilian Meeting on Bibliometrics and Scientometrics (EBBC4), in May 2014. [pt-br]</p
Dual Descent ALM and ADMM
No full textClassical primal-dual algorithms attempt to solve by alternatively minimizing over the primal variable
through primal descent and maximizing the dual variable through dual
ascent. However, when is highly nonconvex with complex
constraints in , the minimization over may not achieve global
optimality, and hence the dual ascent step loses its valid intuition. This
observation motivates us to propose a new class of primal-dual algorithms for
nonconvex constrained optimization with the key feature to reverse dual ascent
to a conceptually new dual descent, in a sense, elevating the dual variable to
the same status as the primal variable. Surprisingly, this new dual scheme
achieves some best iteration complexities for solving nonconvex optimization
problems. In particular, when the dual descent step is scaled by a fractional
constant, we name it scaled dual descent (SDD), otherwise, unscaled dual
descent (UDD). For nonconvex multiblock optimization with nonlinear equality
constraints, we propose SDD-ADMM and show that it finds an
-stationary solution in iterations. The
complexity is further improved to and
under proper conditions. We also propose UDD-ALM,
combining UDD with ALM, for weakly convex minimization over affine constraints.
We show that UDD-ALM finds an -stationary solution in
iterations. These complexity bounds for both
algorithms either achieve or improve the best-known results in the ADMM and ALM
literature. Moreover, SDD-ADMM addresses a long-standing limitation of existing
ADMM frameworks
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