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Te Rau Puawai 2002-2004: An evaluation
No full textEstablished in 1999 as a joint workforce initiative between the former Health Funding Authority and Massey University, Te Rau Puawai aimed to support 100 Maori students to graduate with mental health qualifications within a five year period. The goal of Te Rau Puawai is to contribute to the building of capacity for Maori in the mental health workforce. The programme exceeded its performance expectations in the first two years (1999-2001) with 56 bursars completing their qualifications. Bursars achieved an 80% pass rate compared with 65% for all students at Massey University as a whole. In 2004, this pass rate has continued, a significant achievement in light of increasing numbers of bursars being accepted and many without previously studying at the tertiary level.
In 2001 the Maori & Psychology Research Unit (MPRU) at the University of Waikato undertook an evaluation of Te Rau Puawai reporting on the programme's success and identifying any barriers the programme needed to address. The 2002 evaluation report outlines critical success factors and recommendations for improvement. In 2003 Te Rau Puawai negotiated further funding from the Mental Health Directorate (MeHD) of the Ministry of Health under the Mental Health Workforce Development Strategy (2002). Workforce development is critical in building capacity and capability in the mental health workforce to increase appropriately skilled workers required to meet the mental health needs of Maori communities. In 2004 the Ministry of Health requested a follow-up evaluation to provide a descriptive record of programme activities and progress from April 2002 to December 2004. This report provides an overview of Te Rau Puawai activities between 2002 and 2004; the progress and contributions made by bursars to the mental health workforce; and a reassessment of the programme's critical success factors
An evaluation of Te Rau Puawai workforce 100: Evaluation overview
No full textIn July 2001, the Maori & Psychology Research Unit of the University of Waikato was asked to conduct an evaluation of the Te Rau Puawai programme, a joint venture between the former Health Funding Authority and Massey University. The overall goal of the programme is to contribute at least 100 Maori graduates to the Maori mental health workforce within a five year period. The overall aim of the evaluation was to provide the Ministry of Health with a clearer understanding of the programme including: the perceived critical success factors, the barriers if any regarding Te Rau Puawai, the impact of the programme, the extent to which the programme may be transferable, gaps in the programme, and suggested improvements. Through archival search, questionnaire surveys and interviews, evaluative data was collected from major stakeholders in the Te Rau Puawai programme
Karl Heinrich Rau y el diagrama marshalliano de la oferta y la demanda
No full textEditada en la Fundación Empresa PúblicaEste trabajo muestra que el economista alemán Karl Heinrich Rau (1792-1870) merece ser justamente considerado como precursor del conocido diagrama marshalliano de la oferta y la demanda, o diagrama de las tijeras de Marshall. Marshall conoció la obra de Rau desde la temprana edad de su formación como economista, pero se refirió a él de forma incompleta y fuera de contexto, silenciando su pionera descripción gráfica del equilibrio competitivo. El artículo concluye poniendo de manifiesto que la conocida acusación schumpeteriana acerca de la falta de generosidad de Marshall con todos aquellos cuyos trabajos están íntimamente relacionados con el suyo se aplica igualmente al caso de Rau.This paper shows that the German economist Karl Heinrich Rau (1792-1870) deserves to be credited as precursor of the marshallian well-known diagram of the supply and demand, or Marshall's scissors diagram. Marshall was aware of Rau's work at an early stage in his economic studies, but he referred to him in an incomplete way and not where he should, silencing his pioneering graphic description of competitive equilibrium. The paper concludes by asserting that the well-known schumpeteriam claim on Marshall's lack of generosity with all those whose work was closely related to his own applies likewise to the case of Rau.Publicad
Charge transfer and chemical hardness along a substitution path in metastable Au-Sb alloys
No full textIn the present study the synthesis of metastable alloys of the noble metal Au and the semimetal Sb is realized by using high pressure techniques. The influence of An on bulk Sb is shown experimentally by stepwise substitution. In addition to the effect of the most electronegative noble metal on Pauling's scale in the binary Au-Sb phases, some ternary compounds with In, Sn, As, and Te in addition to An and Sb are discussed. The experiments are planned to obtain a better knowledge on the reasons for building up a simple cubic Sb partial lattice, and their crystallographic results are used to construct model structures for new electronic structure calculations from first principles on the metastable pi-phases. Using the LCAO-CO ansatz and density-functional methods, we study total energies, band structures, densities of states and charge transfer properties according to Bader's method by integrating zero flux surfaces. Finally, from electronic band structure analysis, the quantities "chemical potential" mu, and "chemical hardness", eta, are derived according to the original ideas of Pearson and Parr and are applied to solid state problems using special points of the Brillouin zones within a band structure approximation for the first time. The results are shown to support the experimental findings about the substitution path within the system Au-Sb
Temperature dependence of the solvation dynamics in alkylcyanobiphenyls
No full textEarlier investigations of the solvation dynamics of the cationic dye rhodamine 700 in the isotropic phase of the nematogenic substance: octylcyanobiphenyl (Rau, J., Ferrante, C., Deeg, F. W., Brauchle, C. J. Phys. Chem. B 1999, 103, 931) have shown that in this liquid two different contributions to the solvation dynamics exist. The slower one can-be explained in terms of polar solvation, while the second one Is not yet fully understood. The latter one is temperature independent from the nematic-isotropic phase transition temperature. up to 20 K above the transition temperature. We present in this paper two different approaches to a better understanding of the solvation dynamics of the alkylcyanobiphenyls. First, it was investigated if a different member of the family of the alkylcyanobiphenyls, butylcyanobiphenyl, exhibits similar dynamic behavior. To check the possible influence of the probe chromophore, the neutral dye coumarin 153 was dissolved in octylcyanobiphenyl for a second set of measurements. The time-resolved dynamic Stokes shift S(t) was measured above the nematic-isotropic phase transition. Butylcyanobiphenyl with the probe chromophore rhodamine 700 -and octylcyanobiphenyl with coumarin 153 show qualitatively the same contributions as found in the solution of rhodamine 700 in octylcyanobiphenyl. From this, we conclude that the peculiar dynamics observed is characteristic for the whole family of the alkylcyanobiphenyls and not only for a special system of probe molecule and Liquid. In addition to the solvation dynamics the temperature dependence of the rotational relaxation times of the dye molecules was recorded
Transient Simulation Of A Solar-Hybrid Tower Power Plant With Open Volumetric Receiver At The Location Barstow
No full textIn this work the transient simulations of four hybrid solar tower power plant concepts with open-volumetric receiver technology
for a location in Barstow-Daggett, USA, are presented. The open-volumetric receiver uses ambient air as heat transfer fluid and
the hybridization is realized with a gas turbine. The Rankine cycle is heated by solar-heated air and/or by the gas turbine’s flue
gases. The plant can be operated in solar-only, hybrid parallel or combined cycle-only mode as well as in any intermediate load levels where the solar portion can vary between 0 to 100%. The simulated plant is based on the configuration of a solar-hybrid power tower project, which is in planning for a site in Northern Algeria. The meteorological data for Barstow-Daggett was taken from the software meteonorm. The solar power tower simulation tool has been developed in the simulation environment MATLAB/Simulink and is validated
Panorama of St. Pierre, showing Pelee, the volcanic mountain Martinique, W. I.
No full textOriginal photograph by William H. Rau, 190
Characterisation of speckle-based X-ray phase-contrast imaging
No full textWe present a study on the influence of different scan and reconstruction parameters on the image quality of the differential phase signals obtained from speckle-based X-ray phase-contrast imaging measurements in single-shot as well as 2D and 1D speckle-stepping modes. In particular, the effects of the analysis window size and the number of diffuser steps on the spatial resolution and signal sensitivity of images of a phantom sample are investigated and discussed. It is shown that the trade-off between spatial resolution, scan time and simplicity of the setup has to carefully be addressed for each specific experiment
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