934 research outputs found
Juvenile problem/needs analysis : Oregon
No full textsubmitted to: Youth Development Division, Oregon Department of Education ; submitted by: Adrian J. Johnson, M.S.W. Lisa M. Lucas, B. A. Juliette R. Mackin, Ph.D.Title from PDF cover (viewed on February 1, 2023).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Retracted article: Students' learning styles and academic performance in Readings in Philippine History: Basis for a proposed course syllabus enhancement
No full textThe article entitled “Students’ learning styles and academic performance in Readings in Philippine History: Basis for a proposed course syllabus enhancement” (Volume 4, Issue 1, December 2022, pp. 45-51) written by Adrian Ote, Margie M. Lepangge, Nobelen Joy M. Marsonia, Sheena Joy C. Pagran, Jennilyn C. Se, and Jason A. Romero has been retracted at the request of the Corresponding Author
Transcriptomic and proteomic response of the organohalide respiring bacterium Desulfoluna spongiiphila to growth with 2,6-dibromophenol as electron acceptor
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LA RELATION ENTRE LES ADVERBES ET LES VOCABULAIRES FONDAMENTAL ET REPRÉSENTATIF DE LA LANGUE ROUMAINE
No full textThe Relationship between Adverbs and the Representative and fundamental Romanian Language Vocabulary In his study, the author intends to present the position occupied by adverbs, within the Romanian fundamental and representative vocabulary framework, as parts of speech that offer, at the utterance level, important information that makes reference, among others, to time, place and space. As often observed, adverbs not only facili tate communication, but also carry a deictic function. To a great extent, this approach is synchronic and uses data offered by two research papers that present a statistical analysis (Al. Graur, 1954 and M. Sala, 1988) of the current Romanian language voca bulary, based on well - determined criteria
A relativistic density functional study on the uranium hexafluoride and plutonium hexafluoride monomer and dimer species
No full textA study on the UF6 monomer and dimer was carried out within the density functional method. The U-F distance in the UF6 monomer was optimized at different levels of theory, pointwise, assuming octahedral geometry, (1) by using an all-electron basis for both U and F in a nonrelativistic calculation; (2) by using a relativistic effective core potential (RECP) on U and nonrelativistic effective core potential (ECP) on the fluorines; and (3) by using RECP on the U atom and an all-electron basis on the F atoms. Atomization energies of 23.11, 33.92, and 35.66 eV were obtained at the three levels, respectively. Relativistic effects lead to about a 50% increase in the atomization energy. For the UF6 dimer, the potential energy curve, as a function of the intermolecular U-U distance, was computed at level 2, and the rotational barrier between the two monomers was determined. Similar calculations were performed on the corresponding PuF6 species. Comparisons are made with experiment and other theoretical studies, where available
Mobile Learning Applications Audit
No full textWhile mobile learning (m-learning) applications have proven their value in educational activities, there is a need to measure their reliability, accessibility and further more their trustworthiness. Mobile devices are far more vulnerable then classic computers and present inconvenient interfaces due to their size, hardware limitations and their mobile connectivity. Mobile learning applications should be audited to determine if they should be trusted or not, while multimedia contents like automatic speech recognition (ASR) can improve their accessibility. This article will start with a brief introduction on m-learning applications, then it will present the audit process for m-learning applications, it will iterate their specific security threats, it will define the ASR process, and it will elaborate how ASR can enhance accessibility of these types of applications.IT Audit, Software Testing, Penetration Testing, Mobile Applications, Multimedia, Automatic Speech Recognition
Factors affecting the permanence of livestock projects undertaken by Heifer International-Mexico
No full textDue to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to [email protected], referencing the URI of the item.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 103-105).Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.Heifer International-Mexico (HI-M), a hunger-relieving non-profit organization, collaborates with the Direccin�� General de Educacin�� Tecnolg��ica Agropecuaria-Durango (DGETA) to establish livestock projects involving resource-poor families in the state of Durango, Mexico. This study identified and analyzed the factors affecting the permanence of hog and dairy cow projects in four communities in the state of Durango, Mexico. The researcher interviewed seven project managers and 35 beneficiaries to identify the factors affecting the permanence of livestock projects. From their responses, the researcher developed a list of 22 factors that promoted the permanence of the livestock projects. Key points included personal interaction between beneficiaries in the group(s) and project manager(s), knowledge and skills obtained from workshops, and household economics. The researcher developed a separate list of 20 factors that inhibited the permanence of the livestock projects. Key points included difficulties in livestock production and poor personal interaction and communication between beneficiaries and project managers. Two diagrams illustrate the commonalities and differences advocated by the two groups for both lists. Beneficiaries and project managers shared eight of the 14 factors advocated to promote the permanence of livestock projects. Beneficiaries had four factors unique to their group and the project managers had two factors unique to their group. Beneficiaries and project managers shared seven of the 13 factors advocated to inhibit the permanence of livestock projects. Four factors were unique to beneficiaries while two factors were unique to project managers. The researcher used a force field analysis based concept labeled the "line of permanence," to illustrate the factors affecting the permanence of HI-M's livestock projects in the communities. Community A was the only location where the interviewees identified more factors inhibiting the permanence of a livestock project. Community A was also the only community that no longer had animals HI-M donated to the community. In contrast to Community A, project managers and beneficiaries in Communities A, B, and C each identified more factors that promoted the permanence of the livestock projects. The author made recommendations based on the findings of the study for HI-M and DGETA to improve the manner by which they undertake livestock projects
The Federal Reserve's Primary Dealer Credit Facility
No full textAs liquidity conditions in the "repo market"--the market where broker-dealers obtain financing for their securities--deteriorated following the near-bankruptcy of Bear Stearns in March 2008, the Federal Reserve took the step of creating a special facility to provide overnight loans to dealers that have a trading relationship with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Six months later, in the wake of new strains in the repo market, the Fed expanded the facility by broadening the types of collateral accepted for loans. Both initiatives were designed to help restore the orderly functioning of the market and to prevent the spillover of distress to other financial firms.Federal Reserve Bank of New York ; Loans ; Financial crises ; Brokers
MAGIC: an integrated computational environment for the modelling of heavy-atom chemistry
No full textThe nuclear industry has enormous challenges to address in understanding its waste products and their safe disposal. It is extremely expensive and difficult to work with such waste products. As computational chemistry has made so many advances in the last 30 years, the question arises as to whether it can start to answer some of the basic questions. It was in this context that British Nuclear Fuels plc approached the quantum chemistry group at the University of Cambridge. After initial considerations, it was decided to write an entirely new quantum chemistry package to address these fundamental problems. The MAGIC program has been written to model as accurately as possible the properties of heavy-atom (in particular, actinide) complexes in realistic environments. Major requirements were the need to include relativistic effects for which several investigations have been carried out by quantum chemists in recent years. A severe difficulty is the high angular momentum of the occupied orbitals in the actinides. It was also believed that it was very important to include the effects of electron correlation. Again much progress has been made by quantum chemists with this problem. Therefore this code was written to take into account all these advances in a simple enough way that calculations on realistic systems are possible. The program is the result of a collaboration between British Nuclear Fuels plc and the University of Cambridge. The program has been developed with a view to making the implementation of new ideas as straightforward as possible. Hence, the code has a simple modular structure. Individual modules may of course be combined in a script to run more complicated procedures, such as a self-consistent field (SCF) procedure. The aim of such an approach is to maximize the time spent in the science compared with that spent interfacing with the computer code. For the end user a simple graphical user interface through Cerius# is provided. Standard features of the input may be selected easily from individual menus for each module. It is also possible to access more advanced features. Comprehensive help facilities are available within the interface. Use of the visualization tools helps not only to see the results of calculations on large molecules more clearly, but also to present them in a concise and clear way. The program has been developed on an SG workstation, but it has been extended to run in parallel on a Cray T3E. This paper is the basic paper which describes in detail the philosophy, science and implementation of the MAGIC project. At the end, sample calculations are reported. Furthermore suggestions are made about how this program may, even at this stage, be used to address problems with actinides in the nuclear industry. In order to place the development of the MAGIC project in context and to make adequate recognition of the contribution of others, this article contains considerable material of a review nature, a brief history of the development of quantum chemistry and density function theory, the treatment of core electrons and relativistic effects, the evaluation of integrals, the treatment of solvent effects and the convergence of the SCF iterations. All are written with calculations on actinide complexes as the ultimate goal
Improving Error Detection in Deep Learning Based Radiotherapy Autocontouring Using Bayesian Uncertainty
No full textBayesian Neural Nets (BNN) are increasingly used for robust organ auto-contouring. Uncertainty heatmaps extracted from BNNs have been shown to correspond to inaccurate regions. To help speed up the mandatory quality assessment (QA) of contours in radiotherapy, these heatmaps could be used as stimuli to direct visual attention of clinicians to potential inaccuracies. In practice, this is non-trivial to achieve since many accurate regions also exhibit uncertainty. To influence the output uncertainty of a BNN, we propose a modified accuracy-versus-uncertainty (AvU) metric as an additional objective during model training that penalizes both accurate regions exhibiting uncertainty as well as inaccurate regions exhibiting certainty. For evaluation, we use an uncertainty-ROC curve that can help differentiate between Bayesian models by comparing the probability of uncertainty in inaccurate versus accurate regions. We train and evaluate a FlipOut BNN model on the MICCAI2015 Head and Neck Segmentation challenge dataset and on the DeepMind-TCIA dataset, and observed an increase in the AUC of uncertainty-ROC curves by 5.6% and 5.9%, respectively, when using the AvU objective. The AvU objective primarily reduced false positives regions (uncertain and accurate), drawing less visual attention to these regions, thereby potentially improving the speed of error detection.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Computer Graphics and VisualisationPattern Recognition and Bioinformatic
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