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Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Dr. Glendon Swarthout
No full textHosted by Roger M. Busfield, MSU Assistant Professor of Speech and Theater, Meet the Author is designed to introduce a general audience to a contemporary author and their work through in-depth interviews. This episode features a conversation between Dr. Glendon Swarthout, prolific author and English professor at MSU, and assistant professors Sam S. Baskett and Theodore B. Strandness
Säg till om du önskar tolk - Kommunikation i neonatalvård mellan föräldrar och vårdpersonal när språkbarriärer föreligger
No full textFamily-centred neonatal care encourages parents to participate in the care of their child. When language barriers exist between healthcare personnel and parents, a third party is needed to achieve satisfactory communication. Difficulties in direct communication increase the risk of misunderstanding between healthcare personnel and parents, and may lead to elevated anxiety among parents. The overarching objective of this dissertation was to increase knowledge concerning the communication difficulties that arise between parents and healthcare personnel when language barriers are present. Study I is a quantitative questionnaire study analysing the use of interpreters and awareness of the guidelines for their use. Study II is a qualitative interview study describing the experiences of care personnel regarding communication with parents. Study III is a qualitative interview study of parents who speak Arabic through an interpreter, describing their experiences of having their child under care in the neonatal ward and communicating with care providers. Study IV is a qualitative observational study elucidating the communication difficulties that arise between healthcare personnel and parents when their child is under care in the neonatal ward and language barriers are present. The results show that healthcare personnel lack guidelines for the use of interpreters, and that interpreters are mainly used in the context of medically oriented discussions. Healthcare personnel expressed anxiety and frustration because the information they wished to communicate to parents was misunderstood. The parents expressed gratitude for the warmth and concern of the healthcare personnel despite inadequate communication. Communication was complicated by the constant need to have a third party present to interpret. Our observations revealed that language was not the only significant barrier, and that cultural differences could also lead to misunderstandings. Cultural interpreters or cultural navigators were used to facilitate communication; they were not trained interpreters, but did speak several frequently occurring languages. These individuals were made available to the parents and were able to interpret situations that could arise during nursing care, or to clarify when misunderstandings arose between parents and healthcare personnel. When the father spoke Swedish but the mother did not, the father often wished to interpret for his partner; however, such offers were rarely accepted by healthcare personnel, who instead preferred to call in an interpreter.
The results of the study suggest that parents who encounter language barriers should be offered the services of an interpreter for discussions related to medical issues or to the care and treatment of the child. Information must be available in the parents’ native language, and parents must also be given the opportunity to participate in the care of their child, which requires complete
understanding of all communications. Parents should be provided with the opportunity to speak their minds, should they so desire. Healthcare personnel must also be aware of how vulnerable parents with language barriers may become when information cannot be directly conveyed
Sensitivity analysis of separable traffic equilibrium equilibria with application to bilevel optimization in network design
No full textWe provide a sensitivity analysis of separable traffic equilibrium models with travel cost and demand parameters. We establish that while equilibrium link flows may not always be directionally differentiable (even when the link travel costs are strictly increasing), travel demands and link costs are; this improves the general results of Patriksson [Patriksson, M., 2004. Sensitivity analysis of traffic equilibria. Transportation Science 37, 258-281]. The new results contradict common belief that equilibrium cost and demand sensitivities hinge on that of equilibrium flows. The paper by Tobin and Friesz [Tobin, R.L., Friesz, T.L., 1988. Sensitivity analysis for equilibrium network flow. Transportation Science 22, 242-250] brought the classic non-linear programming subject of sensitivity analysis to transportation science. Theirs is still the most widely used device by which "gradients" of traffic equilibrium solutions are calculated, for use in bilevel transportation planning applications such as network design, origin-destination (OD) matrix estimation and problems where link tolls are imposed on the users in order to reach a traffic management objective. However, it is not widely understood that the regularity conditions proposed by them are stronger than necessary. Also, users of their method sometimes misunderstand its limitations and are not aware of the computational advantages offered by more recent methods. In fact, a more often applicable formula was proposed already by Qiu and Magnanti [Qiu, Y., Magnanti, T.L., 1989. Sensitivity analysis for variational inequalities defined on polyhedral sets. Mathematics of Operations Research 14, 410-432], and Bell and Iida [Bell, M.G.H., Iida, Y., 1997. Transportation Network Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK] describe one of the cases in practice in which the formula by Tobin and Friesz would not be able to generate sensitivity information, because one of their regularity conditions fails to hold. This paper provides an overview of this formula, and illustrates by means of examples that there are several cases where it is not applicable. Our findings are illustrated with small numerical examples, as are our own analysis. The findings of this paper are hoped to motivate replacing the previous approach with the more often applicable one, not only because of this fact but equally importantly because it is intuitive and also can be much more efficiently utilized: the sensitivity problem that provides the directional derivative is a linearized traffic equilibrium problem, and the sensitivity information can be generated efficiently by only slightly modifying a state-of-the-art traffic equilibrium solver. This is essential for bringing the use of sensitivity analysis in transportation planning beyond the solution of only toy problems. We finally utilize a new sensitivity solver in the preliminary testing of a simple heuristic for bilevel optimization in continuous traffic network design, and compare it favourably to previous heuristics on known small-scale problems.
Simulation of thermal plant optimization and hydraulic aspects of thermal distribution loops for large campuses
No full textFollowing an introduction, the author describes Texas A&M University and its utilities system. After that, the author presents how to construct simulation models for chilled water and heating hot water distribution systems. The simulation model was used in a $2.3 million Ross Street chilled water pipe replacement project at Texas A&M University. A second project conducted at the University of Texas at San Antonio was used as an example to demonstrate how to identify and design an optimal distribution system by using a simulation model. The author found that the minor losses of these closed loop thermal distribution systems are significantly higher than potable water distribution systems. In the second part of the report, the author presents the latest development of software called the Plant Optimization Program, which can simulate cogeneration plant operation, estimate its operation cost and provide optimized operation suggestions. The author also developed detailed simulation models for a gas turbine and heat recovery steam generator and identified significant potential savings. Finally, the author also used a steam turbine as an example to present a multi-regression method on constructing simulation models by using basic statistics and optimization algorithms. This report presents a survey of the author??s working experience at the Energy Systems Laboratory (ESL) at Texas A&M University during the period of January 2002 through March 2004. The purpose of the above work was to allow the author to become familiar with the practice of engineering. The result is that the author knows how to complete a project from start to finish and understands how both technical and nontechnical aspects of a project need to be considered in order to ensure a quality deliverable and bring a project to successful completion. This report concludes that the objectives of the internship were successfully accomplished and that the requirements for the degree of Degree of Engineering have been satisfied
Intern experience at CH���M Hill, Inc.: an internship report
No full textIncludes author's vita"Submitted to the College of Engineering of Texas A&M University in partial
fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Engineering."Includes bibliographical referencesA review of the author's internship experience with CH���M HILL, Inc.
during the period September 1975 through May 1976 is presented. During this nine month
internship the author worked as an Engineer II in the Industrial Processes discipline of this
large consulting engineering firm... The author's prime responsibility was as one of three
lead design engineers on the design of a large wastewater treatment facility for a pulp mill
in Hoquiam, Washington owned by ITT Rayonier Inc. The work generally consisted of the design
of individual treatment units and associated piping and pumping. The purpose of the project
was to provide wastewater treatment capabilities that would satisfy the effluent limitations
(standards) imposed upon the mill by the State of Washington Department of Ecology and the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The author's assignment also entailed necessary
interaction with the project manager and other CH���M HILL design engineers and support staff
members, the client's representatives, and representatives of two other consulting engineering
firms working on the project. Thus, the internship position at CH���M HILL provided considerable
experience coordinating the author's work with the work of other engineers, guiding the design
and administrative efforts of a support staff, and interacting regularly with the client and
other consulting firms. This broad exposure to a variety of engineering and organizational
problems provided a valuable educational experience
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