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Nisbet, Elizabeth, Heather A. McKay, and Sara Haviland. "The Emergence of Local Practices in a Devolved Workforce Investment System: Barriers and Possibilities for Enhancing Degree Completion." Economic Development Quarterly 31, no. 3 (July 17, 2017): 183–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0891242417719831.
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Former President Obama’s 2020 Goal for the United States to have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world required that both new and disengaged college students attain degrees. The workforce development system could assist the latter by supporting credit-bearing education as training. Its ability to address this need depends on the controlled devolved structure established by the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, which allows states and local workforce investment areas to set priorities and make a range of choices bounded by federal constraints. Analyzing interview data with frontline staff, case managers, and leadership in workforce systems in four states, the authors identify obstacles and opportunities for supporting degree completion. Three federal Workforce Investment Act mandates are particularly influential: individual training accounts, eligible training provider lists, and emphasis on demand occupations. The authors also model factors such as local partnerships and staff knowledge that can mediate how policy and practice shape local workforce investment area support for college.
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Loss, Christopher P. "“No Operation in an Academic Ivory Tower”: World War II and the Politics of Social Knowledge." History of Education Quarterly 60, no. 2 (May 2020): 214–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/heq.2020.22.
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America's sprawling system of colleges and universities has been built on the ruins of war. After the American Revolution the cash-strapped central government sold land grants to raise revenue and build colleges and schools in newly conquered lands. During the Civil War, the federal government built on this earlier precedent when it passed the 1862 Morrill Land-Grant College Act, which created the nation's system of publicly supported land-grant colleges. And during Reconstruction, the Freedmen's Bureau, operating under the auspices of the War Department, aided former slaves in creating thousands of schools to help protect their hard-fought freedoms. Not only do “wars make states,” as sociologist Charles Tilly claimed, but wars have also shaped the politics of knowledge in the modern university in powerful and lasting ways.
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Zwick, Rebecca. "Assessment in American Higher Education: The Role of Admissions Tests." ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 683, no. 1 (May 2019): 130–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716219843469.
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In this article, I review the role of college admissions tests in the United States and consider the fairness issues surrounding their use. The two main tests are the SAT, first administered in 1926, and the ACT, first given in 1959. Scores on these tests have been shown to contribute to the prediction of college performance, but their role in the admissions process varies widely across colleges. Although test scores are consistently listed as one of the most important admissions factors in national surveys of postsecondary institutions, an increasing number of schools have adopted “test-optional” policies. At these institutions, test score requirements are seen as a barrier to campus diversity because of the large performance gaps among ethnic and socioeconomic groups. Fortunately, the decentralized higher education system in the United States can accommodate a wide range of admissions policies. It is essential, however, that the impact of admissions policy changes be studied and that the resource implications of these changes be thoroughly considered.
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Johnson, Eric, Lanel Menezes, Tim Routier, Mikaela Walter, and Keith White. "Going for the Gold." Muma Case Review 4 (2019): 001–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/4558.
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Dr. Ken Atwater, President of Hillsborough Community College (HCC), saw the email flash across his monitor, “2018-19 Performance Funding: Hillsborough Community College” sent from the Chancellor of the Florida College System (FCS). The email was 12 months in the making. In 2015, the Florida Legislature created the first performance funding-based incentive program in its General Appropriations Act (Laws of Florida Ch. 2015-232. (n.d.)). Proviso language required the State Board of Education to allocate performance funds pursuant to a performance funding model. The performance model had four performance funding metrics: retention, graduation, wages and job placement (see Exhibit 1). This one message would answer a burning question that had been lingering in the college’s top administrators’ minds: Where would the college land in another year of performance funding? Atwater contemplatively read the email, “A Bronze ranking, again.” This Bronze designation meant the college was not eligible for new state distributed performance funds meaning almost $2 million would not be appropriated to HCC. Atwater asked himself “what needs to be done so HCC is eligible for this funding?” The 2015 Florida Legislature inserted language into its General Appropriations Act creating the FCS’ performance funding-based incentive program. The direction of millions of dollars distributed throughout Florida colleges had been determined including a final ranking of Gold, Silver, Bronze or Purple for each college, with Gold being the highest ranking. This ranking determined whether HCC received millions in new dollars; money that in an environment of budget cuts to the entire FCS over the last two years would be extremely important to the students, faculty, and administrators across Hillsborough County. Atwater knew the college needed to improve its score, thus allowing HCC to move into a Silver or Gold category. The improvement in the score to gain the additional dollars boiled down to concentrated efforts in providing the best education for students while equipping faculty with the right resources to improve effectiveness. Atwater thought, "Easier said than done. I am faced with the proverbial chicken before the egg or egg before the chicken. I may need funding to make the necessary changes to improve the scores. However, without the necessary changes to show improvement in scores, we will not receive the funding." Regardless of the dilemma, the question had to be asked, "What strategies should be implemented to increase scores in the four performance metrics that the college would be judged on? Should the college expand tracking of the cohort of students that is examined? Should new student success initiatives be rolled out to help students?" Atwater wanted answers. He had approximately two million reasons why.
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Strömberg, David. "How the Electoral College Influences Campaigns and Policy: The Probability of Being Florida." American Economic Review 98, no. 3 (May 1, 2008): 769–807. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.98.3.769.
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This paper analyzes how US presidential candidates should allocate resources across states to maximize the probability of winning the election, by developing and estimating a probabilistic-voting model of political competition under the Electoral College system. Actual campaigns act in close agreement with the model. There is a 0.9 correlation between equilibrium and actual presidential campaign visits across states, both in 2000 and 2004. The paper shows how presidential candidate attention is affected by the states' number of electoral votes, forecasted state-election outcomes, and forecast uncertainty. It also analyzes the effects of a direct national popular vote for president. (JEL D72)
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Linzey, Kate. "Constructing Education: 1961-69." Architectural History Aotearoa 2 (October 3, 2005): 10–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.26686/aha.v2i0.6707.
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The 1960s were a time of great change and growth in New Zealand's tertiary eduction sector, and the university-based discipline of architecture was in no way exempt from this progress. In response to the Parry Report of 1959-1960, the New Zealand government passed the 1961 Universities Act, which dissolved the federated University of New Zealand. This Act opened the way for the independence of the four universities of Auckland, Victoria, Canterbury and Otago, and the two allied agricultural colleges of Massey and Lincoln. Under the federated university system, Auckland University College had been the centre of architectural training, and had delivered extramural course through colleges in the other centres. As the "disproportionate number" of extramural and part-time study had been criticisms levelled by the Parry Report, it was obvious that another School of Architecture would now be required, but where? Ever an argumentative association, members of the New Zealand Institute of Architects engaged in a lively debate on the choice, positing Victoria University in Wellington, and Canterbury University in Christchurch, as the major contenders. By the end of the decade university-based architectural training would expand at both Auckland and (the new) Wellington Schools, New Zealand's first PhD in Architecture would be conferred on Dr John Dickson, and many of the careers of architects and architectural academics who went on to construct the discipline as it is today, had begun.
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Wang, Xuan, Helmut Schneider, and Kenneth R. Walsh. "A Predictive Analytics Approach to Building a Decision Support System for Improving Graduation Rates at a Four-Year College." Journal of Organizational and End User Computing 32, no. 4 (October 2020): 43–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/joeuc.2020100103.
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Although graduation rates have interested stakeholders, educational researchers, and policymakers for some time, little progress has been made on the overall graduation rate at four-year state colleges. Even though selective admission based on academic indicators such as high school GPA and ACT/SAT have widely been used in the USA for years, and recent statistics show that less than 40% of students graduate from four-year state colleges in four years in the US. The authors propose using an ensemble of analytic models that considers cost as a better form of analysis that can be used as input to decision support systems to inform decision makers and help them choose intervention methods. This article uses ten years of data for 10,000 students and applies ten analytical models to find the best predictor of at-risk students. This research also uses the receiver operating characteristic curve to help determine the most cost-effective trade-off between false positive and false negative levels.
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McNamara, Erica J., Andrew Stewart, E. Greer Gay, James Banasiak, Bryan E. Palis, and Stephen B. Edge. "The rapid quality reporting system: Assessing and improving the quality of cancer care with a prospective clinical performance tracking and reporting system." Journal of Clinical Oncology 30, no. 34_suppl (December 1, 2012): 286. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jco.2012.30.34_suppl.286.
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286 Background: The Rapid Quality Reporting System (RQRS), developed by The Commission on Cancer of The American College of Surgeons, allows accredited cancer programs to prospectively monitor adherence to five National Quality Forum endorsed quality of care metrics for breast (BC) and colon (CC) cancer. This study assesses differences in performance rates by patient populations and demonstrates the impact a prospective clinical performance tracking system can have in impacting care. Methods: RQRS tracks and measures compliance with the following measures: Radiation therapy within one year of diagnosis (dx) for women <70 receiving breast conserving surgery for BC (BCS/RT); hormone therapy within one year of dx for AJCC T1c, N0M0, or stage II or II; hormone receptor positive BC (HT); multi-agent chemotherapy within four months of dx; age < 70; hormone receptor negative BC (MAC); adjuvant chemotherapy within four months of dx; age <80; AJCC stage III CC (ACT); pathologic examination of ≥12 regional lymph nodes for surgically resected CC (12RLN). 64,129 RQRS measure eligible cases diagnosed from 2006 to 2010 from 64 RQRS beta test centers were assessed. Performances rates, before and after implementing the RQRS beta test, were compared by patient demographics. Results: Between 2006 to 2010, compliance rates increased significantly for all five measures, ranging from a 16% increase for MAC to 36% for HT. Prior to RQRS participation, BCS/RT, HT and ACT compliance was significantly lower in patients of other races cf. to white and black; for MAC, other races were lower cf. to white. By 2010 a difference by race remained only in BCS/RT. Payer status and age also impact care. Private insurance cases were more likely to receive compliant care for BCS/RT, MAC and 12RLN; with Medicare for HT (p<.05). Age impacted HT (<40 less likely) and ACT (70-79 less likely cf. to 40-49) (p<.05). Conclusions: Increased performance rates show a system which promotes the ability to track patients in real clinical time can improve quality of care. By using RQRS to prospectively monitor expected adjuvant care, programs can proactively intervene and address potential issues that could impede delivery of timely standard of care.
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James, Scon C. "A Party System Perspective on the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887: The Democracy, Electoral College Competition, and the Politics of Coalition Maintenance." Studies in American Political Development 6, no. 1 (1992): 163–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0898588x0000078x.
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The literature on the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 is curiously at odds with our understanding of the politics of the Gilded Age. Labels like “the party period” and phrases such as “the triumph of organizational politics” and the “full flowering of the American party state” attest to the vibrant partisan life of the late 19th century. Stephen Skowronek offers one important reason for this state of affairs: The nature of electoral competition in these years further extended the hegemony of party concerns over governmental operations. More than ever before, the calculations of those in power were wedded to the imperatives of maintaining efficiency in state and local political machines and of forging a national coalition from these machines for presidential elections.
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Nikulicheva, N. V., O. I. Dyakova, and O. S. Glukhovskaya. "Organization of Distance Learning in School, College, University." Open Education 24, no. 5 (October 28, 2020): 4–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.21686/1818-4243-2020-5-4-17.
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The purpose of research is to study and illustrate the main stages of implementing distance learning (DL) in schools, colleges, and universities using examples of real educational organizations. Materials for the study were the results of the authors’ work on the implementation of DL in the educational process of their organizations. The methodological work was based on the DL theoretical foundations of E.S. Polat scientific school and her followers. To achieve this goal and solve problems, the following groups of research methods were used:– theoretical: analysis of psychological, pedagogical, methodological literature, regulatory documents in the aspect of the problem under study; modeling of distance learning in educational organizations, systematization of scientific and theoretical and experimental data; classification of selected components and characteristics;– empirical-diagnostic (survey); observational (observation-direct and indirect, long and short-term);– statistical: measurement of the obtained data (collection of statistical material); determination and processing of quantitative and qualitative indicators of the experiment.The theory and practice of DL in Russia has been going on for over 20 years. When implementing DL in an educational organization, it is important to study the main concepts of DL in Russian and foreign scientific schools, determine the implementation strategy, but not to act “blindly”. A huge problem comes to the fore: the lack of readiness of the teaching staff to comprehend and master modern pedagogical and information technologies for organizing the distance learning process. The absence of the development concept of a pedagogical system for the majority of heads of educational organizations allows for some confusion in the submission and control of educational material, the process is aggravated by the lack of full-fledged consultations, as a result of which many participants in the educational process are dissatisfied with the results. Instead of the stage of serious system design, lecturers limit themselves to digitizing ready-made traditional lectures, conducting them in the “talking head” mode with reading the theory from the screen, introducing an automated testing system or any number of tasks “from the textbook” with the message “send a photo of the completed task”, which, of course, cannot lead to a high-quality learning process. Most lecturers try to transfer all the elements of the full-time learning system to the distance learning system automatically when changing the form of training, which is basically impossible when changing the environment. The new learning environment has different capabilities and requires the lecturer to plan differently, present information, and organize monitoring and record results.The results of the study allowed us to identify general trends in the organization of DL at all levels of education and specific problems typical for particular levels. The main issue in organization DL at school was the creation of the learning environment (technical support, Internet, organization of DL pedagogical system) as well as methodological support of DL process (training lecturers in DL methodology). In higher education institutions and colleges, the main problem turned out to be stimulating the teaching staff to master the methodological and technical foundations of DL, since the majority of lecturers clearly lacked motivation to provide a high-quality DL. In conclusion, it should be noted that for further development of distance learning, the management of organizations needs to think about developing economic mechanisms for paying developers of distance learning courses and lecturers, working out copyright protection for created distance learning courses, training lecturers in the methodology for developing and conducting distance learning courses, purchasing professional DLS (distance learning systems) with a guarantee of technical support from developers for several years and customization for the needs of the organization. There is also a need for a system of benefits and incentives for distance lecturers on health protection and incentives for further high-quality work.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "ACT College System"
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Barringer, Albert Lee. "Implementation of the Workforce Investment Act at the Houston Community College system an examination of changing college roles /." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3026193.
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Fleenor, Mavis Winona. "A Quantitative Analysis of Crime Rates in American Colleges and Universities With and Without Residential College Systems." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2009. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1851.
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The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the residential college system to determine if there was any association between campus crime and the residential house system. The specific problem of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the residential college system in mitigating campus violence. The intent of this study was to analyze the statistical relationship between crime reports from colleges and universities where on-campus housing was structured into residential colleges or house systems and crime reports from comparable colleges and universities without the residential design. Data collection consisted of a Web-based nationwide survey conducted annually by the U.S. Department of Education. Data collected for this study were for 2006. The 2 groups of institutions that made up the population for this study were 27 colleges that incorporated some variation of the residential college system or house system matched with 27 comparable institutions without the residential system.
The results indicated there were significant differences between institutions with residential college systems and those without such systems for the on-campus aggravated assault offenses and the on campus residence halls aggravated assault offenses. Findings showed fewer aggravated assaults in the group of institutions with residential college systems. A 3rd statistically significant difference was found in the category of arrests for the on-campus residence halls liquor law violations, with the group of nonresidential institutions showing fewer arrests than those without the residential college housing design.
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Brocklebank, R. J., and n/a. "The ACT year 12 certificate : a student based review." University of Canberra. Education, 1985. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060613.133106.
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The aim of this Field Study is to establish the
extent to which Year 12 students understand and appreciate
the ACT College System of senior secondary and the
information which appears on the ACT Year 12 Certificate.
In order to provide the reader with a basis for
understanding what happens over the final two years of
secondary education in the ACT the author has established
the historical context that gave rise to the establishment
of the Secondary Colleges in the ACT. This brief history
outlines the causes and reasons which led to separation
from the NSW state system of education and the decision
to develop a different approach to the provision of
education for students in Year 11 and 12.
To provide an idea of how the system works a description
of what makes up the College System is provided.
This includes an explanation of how the colleges relate
to the high schools, their curriculum, the accreditation
of courses, assessment and certification. The role of
the ACT Schools Accrediting Agency is explained in the
way it underpins the credibility of the system and of
how it carries the responsibility for the final generation
of the ACT Year 12 Certificate.
While this study looks at the system some seven
years after it began, earlier evaluations had taken place
which examined matters linked with the ACT Year 12
Certificate. In writing this report the author reviews
two important assessments of the system, one of the
role of the ACT Schools Accrediting Agency and the other
concerned with the success of the Colleges as educational
institutions from a student viewpoint. The author also
attempts to compare the changes which came with the ACT
College System with recent developments and current
thinking about senior secondary education in other Australian
states.
The major part of the Field Study was a survey of
a sample of Year 12 students at the end of 1983 to
establish the extent to which they understood the aspects
of the system they had been a part of for two years. The
data and findings of this survey are presented.
The report concludes with an outline of the most
recent changes, developments and reactions which in some
way affect the system. At the end of the conclusion,
the author presents a list of recommendations aimed at
overcoming some of the problems pin-pointed in the report.
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Campbell, Alistair B. "Performance enhancement of the task assessment process through the application of an electronic performance support system." Connect to thesis, 2008. http://portal.ecu.edu.au/adt-public/adt-ECU2008.0008.html.
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Lorenzen, Michael E. "A balancing act: Managing the tension between competitive outcomes and educational development in collegiate athletics." Scholarly Commons, 2010. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2418.
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Student-athletes have the opportunity for significant development that can enhance their undergraduate experience through participation in intercollegiate athletics. The commercial and cultural influence of professional sports has, however, increasingly challenged the efforts of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to maintain a developmental focus. Some college sports, particularly football and men's basketball, are now relied upon to generate revenue, which requires successful outcomes and accountability to commercial interests. The disproportionate influence of those revenue sports on Division I athletic culture challenges the credibility of all collegiate sports as appropriate components of higher education. This case study examines the women's gymnastics team at a large Division I institution, Big State University (BSU), over the course of the 2010 season. BSU Gymnastics has achieved sufficient competitive success that the coaches were subject to similar pressure to that which their football and basketball colleagues experienced. The study is a qualitative investigation of the leadership and mentoring practices of the coaching staff, particularly in regard to their ability to maintain a focus on student-athlete development in the face of external pressure from various stakeholders to prioritize winning. Using control systems theory and a new typology of sport, the researcher interviewed coaches and student-athletes, analyzed BSU's 2010 season, and found that the coaches consistently prioritized the developmental experience of their student-athletes. A significant additional finding of the study is that coaches play a critical buffering role, sheltering student-athletes from influences that might otherwise undermine the beneficial aspects of intercollegiate athletics participation.
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Donnan, Peter Anthony. "Conducting assessment online educational developers' perspectives /." Access electronically, 2007. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20070913.134619/index.html.
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Buranaburivast, Vorapoj. "Applying social capital to electronic networks of practice : blog communities." UWA Business School, 2009. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2009.0209.
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Blogging is a recent phenomenon with research currently focusing on how it facilitates both personal and organisational knowledge exchange (Aimeur, Brassard & Paquet 2005; Hsu & Lin 2008). Social capital is shown to be a crucial factor facilitating knowledge transfer (Nahapiet and Ghoshal 1998). Blogging is a new social communication technology enabling individuals to collaborate and share knowledge. This research investigates how three dimensions of social capital affect individual knowledge sharing in weblog communities. In particular, it explores how individuals exploit weblogs as a tool for conversational knowledge management in educational institutions. Following Wasko & Faraj's (2005) study, the conceptual model is developed by setting eight independent variables from social capital dimensions and a dependent variable is set from individual behaviour in online knowledge sharing. Eight hypotheses are developed to test the relationship between these variables. A quantitative approach was applied for data collection and analysis. For data collection, an online survey was published in several Australian university weblog communities. An additional paper-based survey was distributed to the respondents in order to gain adequate sample size. For data analysis, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was applied to eliminate measurement items that shared a significant residual value with other measurement items. Further, the models obtained from confirmatory factor analysis were used to test the hypotheses by multiple regression analysis. Results from multiple regression analysis on online knowledge sharing suggest that trust, personal reputation and enjoy helping are positively associated with individual online knowledge sharing. The stepwise estimation procedure was further adapted in the regression model. The results show that four independent variables became significant to the study. These four significant variables were individual expertise, trust, personal reputation and enjoy helping. Lastly, several limitations in this study such as the sample of university online setting and respondents' activities on weblogs are discussed. These limitations lead to the direction of future research provided in conclusion of this study.
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Follins, Craig Thomas. "An analysis of the expectations and actual experiences of students in welfare to work programs: a community college case study." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/1988.
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Pierce/Maberly, Raylene M. "Market microstructure and day-of-the-week return patterns : submitted to the University of Canterbury as a thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Finance in the College of Accountancy, Finance and Information Systems /." 2006. http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/etd/adt-NZCU20060222.143013.
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Maguraushe, Kudakwashe. "Development of a diagnostic instrument and privacy model for student personal information privacy perceptions at a Zimbabwean university." Thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27557.
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Orientation: The safety of any natural being with respect to the processing of their personal information is an essential human right as specified in the Zimbabwe Data Protection Act (ZDPA) bill. Once enacted, the ZDPA bill will affect universities as public entities. It will
directly impact how personal information is collected and processed. The bill will be fundamental in understanding the privacy perceptions of students in relation to privacy awareness, privacy expectations and confidence within university. These need to be understood to give guidelines to universities on the implementation of the ZPDA.
Problem Statement: The current constitution and the ZDPA are not sufficient to give organisations guidelines on ensuring personal information privacy. There is need for guidelines to help organisations and institutions to implement and comply with the provisions
of the ZDPA in the context of Zimbabwe. The privacy regulations, regarded as the three concepts (awareness, expectations and confidence), were used to determine the student perceptions. These three concepts have not been researched before in the privacy context
and the relationship between the three concepts has not as yet been established.
Research purpose: The main aim of the study was to develop and validate an Information Privacy Perception Survey (IPPS) diagnostic tool and a Student Personal Information Privacy Perception (SPIPP) model to give guidelines to universities on how they can implement the ZDPA and aid universities in comprehending student privacy perceptions to safeguard personal information and assist in giving effect to their privacy constitutional right.
Research Methodology: A quantitative research method was used in a deductive research approach where a survey research strategy was applied using the IPPS instrument for data collection. The IPPS instrument was designed with 54 items that were developed from the
literature. The preliminary instrument was taken through both the expert review and pilot study. Using the non-probability convenience sampling method, 287 students participated in the final survey. SPSS version 25 was used for data analysis. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were done. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was used to validate the
instrument while confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and the structural equation modelling (SEM) were used to validate the model.
Main findings: diagnostic instrument was validated and resulted in seven new factors, namely university confidence (UC), privacy expectations (PE), individual awareness (IA), external awareness (EA), privacy awareness (PA), practice confidence (PC) and correctness expectations (CE). Students indicated that they had high expectations of the university on privacy. The new factors showed a high level of awareness of privacy and had low confidence in the university safeguarding their personal information privacy. A SPIPP
empirical model was also validated using structural equation modelling (SEM) and it indicated an average overall good fit between the proposed SPIPP conceptual model and the empirically derived SPIPP model
Contribution: A diagnostic instrument that measures the perceptions (privacy awareness, expectations and confidence of students) was developed and validated. This study further contributed a model for information privacy perceptions that illustrates the relationship
between the three concepts (awareness, expectations and confidence). Other universities can use the model to ascertain the perceptions of students on privacy. This research also contributes to improvement in the personal information protection of students processed by
universities. The results will aid university management and information regulators to implement measures to create a culture of privacy and to protect student data in line with regulatory requirements and best practice.School of Computing
Ph. D. (Information Systems)
Books on the topic "ACT College System"
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1968-, Anderson Kenneth M., Moulthrop Stuart, and Blustein James, eds. Hypertext 2002: Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, June 11th-15th, 2002, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2002.
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Gerasimov, Sergey, and Irina Skovorodkina. Tolerance education in Junior schoolchildren. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1084985.
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The textbook presents the methodology of solving the problem of formation of tolerance in children of primary school age, the analysis of the legal framework of education for peace, non-violence, human rights and tolerance. Special attention is paid to the theoretical and practical aspects of tolerance in primary school children, didactic tools, the characteristics of the system of pedagogical means of education of tolerance at pupils of elementary school.
Consists of a Preface, three chapters, conclusion, Glossary, bibliography and applications. Includes tables and diagrams that can be used in practical lessons with students of pedagogical colleges and universities. Each paragraph has a list of questions for self-examination and in-depth study delineated in this range of problems, exercises, assignments, a list of recommended literature.
Intended for students of pedagogical colleges and educational institutions of higher education, and also for listeners of system of improvement of qualification and retraining of teachers.
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ACM, SIGCPR Conference on the Management of Information Systems Personnel (1988 College Park Md ). Proceedings of the 1988 ACM SIGCPR Conference on the Management of Information Systems Personnel, April 7-8, 1988, College Park, Maryland. New York, N.Y: ACM Press, 1988.
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Grudtsyna, Lyudmila, Alyeksandr CHyernyavskiy, and Dmitriy Pashentsev. State. Civil society. Right. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/22011.
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The monograph is devoted to the study of the role of government in shaping,
support and development of Russia´s civil society institutions. by the authors
E practical examples and using the theoretical and legal structures proved the leading role of the state in the formation of Russian civil society, which is based in Russia "from below", according to the classical western models, and "from above", taking into account the centuries-old traditions and the history of the Russian people and the Russian statehood.
The state acts as the management system in relation
to civil society as a managed system. However, civil society functions as a self-regulating social system, the determining state. The fact that civil society - self-regulating system, and at the same time controlled, there is no contradiction.
The book will be of interest to lawyers, political scientists, sociologists, public servants, students, graduate students and faculty of liberal arts colleges and faculties, as well as all interested in the development of civil society in Russia and the role of the state in this process.
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Commission, California Postsecondary Education. Commission comments on the systems' preliminary funding gap reports: A report to the legislature and governor in response to supplemental report language of the 1991 Budget Act. Sacramento, Calif: California Postsecondary Education Commission, 1992.
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Kuncevskaya, Irina. Regenerative therapy of cerebral disorders in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at the stage of sanatorium rehabilitation. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1045706.
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The monograph first presents modern concepts of comprehensive rehabilitation therapy of cerebral disorders in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at the stage of sanatorium rehabilitation. Using these data in the practice of medicine will improve the effectiveness of diagnostics, therapy and rehabilitation of cerebral disorders in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and to provide the students, residents, and graduate students of medical schools, neurologists, physiatrists, pulmonologists, internists, rehabilitation specialists, relevant professional competence.
Designed for doctors, students and teachers of medical colleges and universities, and will also be useful for the system of training and retraining of medical workers.
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Digital and Wireless Network Technology Program Act of 2003: Report of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on S. 196. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2003.
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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Digital and Wireless Network Technology Program Act of 2003: Report of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on S. 196. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2003.
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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Digital and Wireless Network Technology Program Act of 2003: Report of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on S. 196. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2003.
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H.R. 2183, Minority Serving Institution Digital and Wireless Technology Opportunity Act of 2003: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Research, Committee on Science, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, July 9, 2003. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2003.
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Chun, Edna B. "Diversity and Inclusion: The Balancing Act Between Governing Boards and College or University Administration." In Systemic Racism, 79–109. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59410-5_4.
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Affia, Abasi-amefon O., Raimundas Matulevičius, and Rando Tõnisson. "Security Risk Estimation and Management in Autonomous Driving Vehicles." In Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, 11–19. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79108-7_2.
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AbstractAutonomous vehicles (AV) are intelligent information systems that perceive, collect, generate and disseminate information to improve knowledge to act autonomously and provide its required services of mobility, safety, and comfort to humans. This paper combines the security risk management (ISSRM) and operationally critical threat, asset, and vulnerability evaluation (OCTAVE allegro) methods to define and assess the AV protected assets, security risks, and countermeasures.
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Wrigley, Walter. "Space Navigation in the Solar System." In Contemporary Geodesy: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the Harvard College Observatory-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 1-2, 1958, 87–90. Washington D. C.: American Geophysical Union, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/gm004p0087.
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Elliott, Willliam, and Melinda Lewis. "Moving from the Status Quo to a 21st-Century Financial Aid System." In Making Education Work for the Poor. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190621568.003.0008.
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With the creation of the first federal student loans as part of the National Defense Education Act of 1958, the US postsecondary financial aid system was set on a path from which it has not fundamentally deviated in the intervening decades. While college financing has trended almost inexorably toward greater reliance on student borrowing as costs have outpaced families’ incomes, the major components of the financing “mix” have remained unchanged. Financial aid policy is sometimes tweaked around the edges to lighten the burden of student debt, give colleges a competitive edge, or address undesirable disincentives. For the most part, however, these reforms bear more resemblance to the classic “shell game” than to authentic innovations. What American students need are more powerful tools with which to approach their futures—tools that help them prepare for higher education, persist to completion, and then leverage returns on their degrees. What they get, however, are repackaged versions of the same blunt instruments. While everyone wants improved outcomes from our financial aid investments, the nation’s apparent inability or unwillingness to innovate truly novel approaches to paying for higher education stands in the way of progress. The goal of financial aid policy has been narrowly framed as only helping young adults pay for college, a low bar that completely ignores the role financial aid could play in influencing early education, postsecondary completion, and post-college financial health. As a result, instead of receiving support at critical junctures along the opportunity pipeline to a prosperous adulthood, students are largely left to their own devices except at the moment when the tuition bill becomes due. To capitalize on the resulting missed opportunities, the United States needs more than different loan repayment schedules or loosened rules on grant disbursement. What we need is a fundamental shift in how we think about financing higher education and what we believe about why it matters.
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Desai, Pranav D. "Engaging With Stakeholders for Developing an Effective Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Universities Based in Rural Setup." In Rural Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Digital Era, 252–69. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4942-1.ch014.
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This chapter proposes a new model that promotes and develops an entrepreneurial ecosystem in universities based in rural setup. The entrepreneurial universities could accomplish the status as an innovative environment center by collaborating with new businesses. Universities in rural areas can introduce business training, college business hatcheries, and college endeavor government-common society cooperation that enabled entrepreneurial behaviors. The target of a business college filling in as a pioneering entrepreneurial eco-system development center is to animate financial advancement, produce work, and make imaginative innovation-based endeavors or acting as an administration organization. While these services can be provided through a university, a university in a rural set up has an opportunity to act as a center for the economic development in rural areas. Attention is set on the need to create solid coordinated effort among key partners for making progress in building a viable enterprising system.
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Foley, Edward B. "An Exploration of Alternatives." In Presidential Elections and Majority Rule, 135–54. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190060152.003.0008.
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A constitutional amendment to replace the Electoral College is not feasible, at least for the foreseeable future. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact plan, as a method of nullifying the Electoral College without a constitutional amendment, is a seriously flawed idea for several reasons, the most significant of which is that it would award the presidency to a plurality winner of the national popular vote. Thus, if there were a three-way split in the popular vote—for example, 43 percent, 42 percent, 15 percent—the compact would award the presidency to the candidate with 43 percent even though 57 percent of the electorate strongly opposed that candidate. The fear that an independent candidate could cause Trump’s re-election even when roughly 60 percent of voters oppose this, because the opposition is split among two (or more) candidates, applies equally to the existing system and the compact. Litigation is unlikely to eliminate plurality winner-take-all. States must act.
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Willetts, David. "Getting in to University." In A University Education. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198767268.003.0013.
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Our system of university admissions is medieval—and was created in 1961 when UCAS, originally called UCCA (the Universities Central Council on Admissions, now the Universities and Colleges Admissions Services), was set up. We have a single national system of competitive application to university, based on the assumption that most students will move away from home. It is very different from the classic Continental and American model in which you go to your local college or university for a tertiary education, which is neither highly selective nor highly specialized. Nearly half of American undergraduates study at a two-year college and then obtain what we would have called an ordinary degree. If they have higher ACT or SAT scores they are more likely to start at a university providing a full four-year course from the beginning but this is still likely to be in their home state and open to students who can arrive after two years at a college. Then if they really have an aptitude for academic study and wish to specialize or need to get a professional qualification they do a postgraduate Masters course: perhaps at this point they may move out of the state. Ask an American professional where they went to university and you will be told which business or law or medical school they went to as a postgraduate. But they may well have started their undergraduate studies somewhere very different and much closer to home. And their whole time in higher education is likely to have been longer than in England. The English system by contrast is the medieval model of a young gentleman leaving home (or boarding school—meaning it would be very peculiar to return home for university) to go to Oxford or Cambridge. It has been shaped by a long history as a unitary state with very few universities and nationwide migration of students to get to them. It is so deeply embedded that the decision to set up the nationwide admissions system provoked very little discussion or challenge. So that medieval model now applies to a million English undergraduates and over a hundred universities.
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Boyer, Ernest L. "The Student as Scholar." In Rethinking Liberal Education. Oxford University Press, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195097726.003.0012.
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While I thought about this conference, my mind drifted back to fall 1956, when I became academic dean at one of the world's smallest higher learning institutions, a tiny college of arts and sciences in southern California. During my first month on the job, the faculty curriculum committee met to review the college's requirements for graduation. In an act of unrestrained innocence, I asked why we had a "distribution requirement" for all students. A senior professor replied, "We borrowed it from Pomona College" (our prestigious neighbor down the road). I then asked where Pomona got it and was told, "From Harvard"—which gave me a basic lesson about higher education policymaking that's stood me in good stead for almost forty years. Liberal education is one of the most enduring and widely shared visions in American higher learning. Almost everyone agrees that beyond acquiring competence in a special field, undergraduates must be broadly informed, discover relationships across the disciplines, form values, and advance the common good. It's also true, however, that this inspired vision of liberal learning, which is powerfully reaffirmed in almost all college mission statements, is under siege on many fronts. The decline in the quality of the nation's schools surely has weakened liberal education, as has the growing emphasis on careerism and credentials. Also, the cultural fragmentation in America today makes it especially difficult for academics to bring to undergraduate education a sense of coherence and shared purpose. In 1920 Archibald MacLeish diagnosed the problem this way: 'There can be no educational postulates so long as there are no generally accepted postulates of life itself." Beyond all of these impediments, it is my own impression that the most serious challenge to liberal education on most campuses is the system of faculty rewards. And I remain convinced that liberal learning will be renewed only as faculty members who teach undergraduates and spend time with incoming students are rewarded for such efforts. But before considering how this ambitious goal might be accomplished, I would like to take a backward glance and reflect on how priorities of the professoriate have changed through the years.
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Halstead, Tammy J. "Requisite Metamorphoses." In Young Adult Development at the School-to-Work Transition, 443–60. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190941512.003.0020.
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Emerging adults who are at the intersection of college and work face a complex and challenging transition. In addition to finding employment, graduates seek to define and explore long-term career paths, form personal and professional identities, develop new support systems, and learn the mores and culture of the new environment of work. They approach these challenges while also moving through emerging adulthood, a development phase that precedes the feeling of being fully adult. In short, a successful college-to-work transition requires graduates to move through a series of metamorphoses. This chapter explores these metamorphoses and the experiences of graduates who are experiencing them. It also suggests ways colleges and universities can support the needs of their students and graduates and things emerging adults can do themselves to foster their successful metamorphoses.
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Martucci, Francesco. "Non-EU Legal Instruments (EFSF, ESM, AND Fiscal Compact)." In The EU Law of Economic and Monetary Union. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198793748.003.0015.
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‘Another Legal Monster?’ That was the question asked by the Law Department of the European University Institute on 16 February 2012 in a debate about the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union (TSCG), also known as the Fiscal Compact Treaty. On 2 March 2012, twenty-five Member States of the European Union minus the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic signed the TSCG. A month before, on 2 February 2012, the euro area Member States signed the Treaty Establishing the European Stability Mechanism (ESM Treaty), another legal monster. In both cases, the monstrosity lies in the fact that Member States have preferred to conclude an international treaty, rather than to use the European Union (EU) institutional system. Why did the European Commission not propose a legislative act to establish a financial assistance mechanism in the Eurozone and strengthen the fiscal discipline in the EU? Does this mean the end of community method and a victory for the intergovernmental method? As Herman Van Rompuy commented about the crisis; ‘often the choice is not between the community method and the intergovernmental method, but between a co-ordinated European position and nothing at all’. In 2010, Angela Merkel defended her vision of a new ‘Union Method’ in a speech held at the College of Europe. This approach can be defined by the following description: ‘co-ordinated action in a spirit of solidarity–each of us in the area for which we are responsible but all working towards the same goal’. Each of us means the European institutions and Member States. The new ‘Euro-international’ treaties (or inter se treaties) raise a number of questions regarding their compatibility with EU law, implications for the Union legal system, institutional balance, national sovereignty and democratic accountability. These questions are all the more important because international treaties raise a number of questions on their compatibility with EU law, implications for the Union legal system and institutional balance.
Conference papers on the topic "ACT College System"
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Stein, Samuel A., Gary M. Weiss, Yiwen Chen, and Daniel D. Leeds. "A College Major Recommendation System." In RecSys '20: Fourteenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3383313.3418488.
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Shea, Aidan Patrick. "A Visual System for Mining Crime Mining across College Campuses." In the 2017 ACM International Conference. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3055167.3055185.
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Hou, Yunfei, Yan Zhang, Kimberly Collins, and Mihaela Popescu. "Demo Abstract: Building a Smart Parking System on College Campus." In 2020 IEEE/ACM Fifth International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI). IEEE, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/iotdi49375.2020.00040.
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Bernardin, John D., Snezana Konecni, and Roger Wiens. "Design and Testing of a Prototype Atmospheric Gas Collection Apparatus for a Mission to Mars." In ASME 2006 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2006-14499.
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A novel spacecraft, the Sample Collection for Investigation of Mars (SCIM), was proposed for the collection and return of atmospheric gas and dust samples from the martian atmosphere. The SCIM mission, part of NASA's Mars Exploration Strategy, would allow scientists to greatly enhance our understanding of Mars' water, climate, and geological evolution by studying the element and isotopic composition of the gas and dust. The SCIM spacecraft was proposed to collect its samples during a single high-speed pass through the martian atmosphere at an altitude of 37 km and return the samples back to earth. For the atmospheric gas sampling aspect the SCIM employs the Atmospheric Collection Experiment (ACE), a dual-component apparatus consisting of a passive and a cryogenic sorption gas collection system. Each of these systems possesses a collection vessel that is initially under high vacuum. At the time of entry into the martian atmosphere, valves on SCIM open and gas flows into the parallel-plumbed passive and cryogenic sorption gas collection systems. The passive system simply allows the incoming gas to fill an initially evacuated 1 Liter vessel. The cryogenic sorption system employs a Joule-Thompson cryocooler and sorption medium that initially condenses and captures the incoming gas. As the SCIM begins to exit the atmosphere isolation valves close and trap the gas samples in their collection systems for the return journey back to earth. The minimum SCIM mission goal was to collect 100 cm3 @STP(≈ 0.2 g) of martian atmospheric gas and the ACE was being designed to gather 1000 cm3 @STP (≈ 2.0 g) using both the passive and cryogenic systems. The volumes referred to above correspond to standard temperature and pressure on Earth (e.g., STP). The goals of this study were to prove the gas collection concepts mentioned above and develop the numerical and experimental tools to allow for the optimization of a flight worthy ACE. This paper discusses the design, analysis, and testing of a prototype ACE. First, more specific details on the design and testing methodology for the prototype are presented. Next, the development of a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model is discussed. Finally, empirical pressure data from the prototype tests are used to assess the performances of the passive and cryogenic sorption gas collection systems and are compared to numerical pressure predictions to provide a benchmark for the CFD model. Results indicate that the prototype ACE is capable of meeting the design goal of 1000 cm3 @STP (2.0 g) of total gas collection.
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Cheng, Yu-Chen, and Pen-Hsiu Grace Chao. "A Model for Ligament Fibroblast Migration Into Provisional Matrix." In ASME 2011 Summer Bioengineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/sbc2011-53858.
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Many strategies have been proposed to enhance the healing capability of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). A novel treatment option, called enhanced primary repair, places a provisional matrix at the tear site to promote cell infiltration of the wound and aims to reestablish the structure-function relationship of the ACL [1]. This approach of guided tissue regeneration offers great potential benefits of retaining the complex native tissue matrix structure, innervation, and vascularization as compared with grafts. A major aspect of this procedure is enhancing ligament fibroblast infiltration into the matrix material and promoting matrix synthesis. We have previously demonstrated that applied electric fields (EFs) enhance knee ligament fibroblast migration, alignment, and collagen gene expressions on planar substrates [2]. In the current study, we developed a new system to simulate cell infiltration from the tissue to a provisional collagen matrix. An EF was applied across the construct to investigate its effects of on ACL fibroblast migration into the provisional matrix.
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Aziz, Ahmad Akmal, Khairul Anuar Mohamad, and Afishah Alias. "Obstacle Detection System for Railways using IoT Sensors." In Conference on Faculty Electric and Electronic 2020/1. Penerbit UTHM, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.30880/eeee.2020.01.01.007.
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Accidents that involve trains on the railway is a crucial issue and need to be avoided. Detecting obstacles is vitally essential nearby and on the railway to ensure the smooth running of the trains. Thus, Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB) has provided a safety system by relying on visual inspection to monitor the railway. This project aims to provide an alternative precaution measurement that can aid the railway's existing safety system. The project uses two mediums to collect and monitor data about the detecting obstacles nearby and on the railway. The first medium used in this project is the IoT-based system by using FavorIoT as a cloud server platform at the prototype for storing and monitoring data about the distance between obstacles and the prototype. Another medium used is a radar display by using Processing Software to display the distance between obstacles and the device in the range between 0 – 40 cm. Three ultrasonic sensors are used to provide a dependable notification system to detect the obstacles nearby and on the railway, which placed at the front, right and left sides. Arduino IDE is used to program Arduino NodeMCU, which acts as the brain of the system. The system commands the three ultrasonic sensors to detect the distance between obstacles and the device and send the data via Wifi to the FavorIoT as a cloud server. The prototype managed to collect data in a data stream of FavorIoT and monitor data in the radar display form.
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Ji, Huan. "Study on Construction of Online Teaching Evaluation Index System of Independent Colleges." In 2016 3rd International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2016). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/icelaic-16.2017.56.
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Suddrey, Gavin, and Nicole Robinson. "A Software System for Human-Robot Interaction To Collect Research Data." In HRI '20: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3371382.3378287.
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Ali, Azad, and Frederick Kohun. "Comparing Two Program Contents with IT2005 Body of Knowledge." In InSITE 2008: Informing Science + IT Education Conference. Informing Science Institute, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/3189.
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Academic computing programs often want to keep pace with technological changes by frequently updating their program contents. These program changes are often reactionary and lack uniform standards. Thus some of the changes are often rolled back and, as a result, face additional changes shortly after their implementation. A helpful strategy in computer program updates is to utilize a standard curriculum to gauge and benchmark the program. This paper compares the content of two technology programs with a standard curriculum developed by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and other organizations including, AIS, AITP, IEEE and ABET-CAC. The paper examines the content of two technology programs: The T echnology Support and Training program (TST) at Eberly College of Business - Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP), and the Computer Information Systems (CIS) and Information Sciences (IS) programs in the School of Communications and Information Technology at Robert Morris University (RMU). It then compares the content of both programs with the Computing Curricula Information - Information T echnology Volume (IT2005) Body of Knowledge.
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Song, Yiman. "Discussion on the Curriculum System of qModern Apprenticeshipq Educational Model in Accounting Major of Higher Vocational Colleges." In 4th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Intercultural Communication (ICELAIC 2017). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/icelaic-17.2017.71.
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Bruder, Brittany L., Katherine L. Brodie, Tyler J. Hesser, Nicholas J. Spore, Matthew W. Farthing, and Alexander D. Renaud. guiBath y : A Graphical User Interface to Estimate Nearshore Bathymetry from Hovering Unmanned Aerial System Imagery. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/39700.
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This US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, technical report details guiBathy, a graphical user interface to estimate nearshore bathymetry from imagery collected via a hovering Unmanned Aerial System (UAS). guiBathy provides an end-to-end solution for non-subject-matter-experts to utilize commercia-off-the-shelf UAS to collect quantitative imagery of the nearshore by packaging robust photogrammetric and signal-processing algorithms into an easy-to-use software interface. This report begins by providing brief background on coastal imaging and the photogrammetry and bathymetric inversion algorithms guiBathy utilizes, as well as UAS data collection requirements. The report then describes guiBathy software specifications, features, and workflow. Example guiBathy applications conclude the report with UAS bathymetry measurements taken during the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season, which compare favorably (root mean square error = 0.44 to 0.72 m; bias = -0.35 to -0.11 m) with in situ survey measurements. guiBathy is a standalone executable software for Windows 10 platforms and will be freely available at www.github.com/erdc.
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Nagahi, Morteza, Raed Jaradat, Mohammad Nagahisarchoghaei, Ghodsieh Ghanbari, Sujan Poudyal, and Simon Goerger. Effect of individual differences in predicting engineering students' performance : a case of education for sustainable development. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), May 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/40700.
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The academic performance of engineering students continues to receive attention in the literature. Despite that, there is a lack of studies in the literature investigating the simultaneous relationship between students' systems thinking (ST) skills, Five-Factor Model (FFM) personality traits, proactive personality scale, academic, demographic, family background factors, and their potential impact on academic performance. Three established instruments, namely, ST skills instrument with seven dimensions, FFM traits with five dimensions, and proactive personality with one dimension, along with a demographic survey, have been administrated for data collection. A cross-sectional web-based study applying Qualtrics has been developed to gather data from engineering students. To demonstrate the prediction power of the ST skills, FFM traits, proactive personality, academic, demographics, and family background factors on the academic performance of engineering students, two unsupervised learning algorithms applied. The study results identify that these unsupervised algorithms succeeded to cluster engineering students' performance regarding primary skills and characteristics. In other words, the variables used in this study are able to predict the academic performance of engineering students. This study also has provided significant implications and contributions to engineering education and education sustainable development bodies of knowledge. First, the study presents a better perception of engineering students' academic performance. The aim is to assist educators, teachers, mentors, college authorities, and other involved parties to discover students' individual differences for a more efficient education and guidance environment. Second, by a closer examination at the level of systemic thinking and its connection with FFM traits, proactive personality, academic, and demographic characteristics, understanding engineering students' skillset would be assisted better in the domain of sustainable education.
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Job, Jacob. Mesa Verde National Park: Acoustic monitoring report. National Park Service, July 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/nrr-2286703.
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In 2015, the Natural Sounds and Night Skies Division (NSNSD) received a request to collect baseline acoustical data at Mesa Verde National Park (MEVE). Between July and August 2015, as well as February and March 2016, three acoustical monitoring systems were deployed throughout the park, however one site (MEVE002) stopped recording after a couple days during the summer due to wildlife interference. The goal of the study was to establish a baseline soundscape inventory of backcountry and frontcountry sites within the park. This inventory will be used to establish indicators and thresholds of soundscape quality that will support the park and NSNSD in developing a comprehensive approach to protecting the acoustic environment through soundscape management planning. Additionally, results of this study will help the park identify major sources of noise within the park, as well as provide a baseline understanding of the acoustical environment as a whole for use in potential future comparative studies. In this deployment, sound pressure level (SPL) was measured continuously every second by a calibrated sound level meter. Other equipment included an anemometer to collect wind speed and a digital audio recorder collecting continuous recordings to document sound sources. In this document, “sound pressure level” refers to broadband (12.5 Hz–20 kHz), A-weighted, 1-second time averaged sound level (LAeq, 1s), and hereafter referred to as “sound level.” Sound levels are measured on a logarithmic scale relative to the reference sound pressure for atmospheric sources, 20 μPa. The logarithmic scale is a useful way to express the wide range of sound pressures perceived by the human ear. Sound levels are reported in decibels (dB). A-weighting is applied to sound levels in order to account for the response of the human ear (Harris, 1998). To approximate human hearing sensitivity, A-weighting discounts sounds below 1 kHz and above 6 kHz. Trained technicians calculated time audible metrics after monitoring was complete. See Methods section for protocol details, equipment specifications, and metric calculations. Median existing (LA50) and natural ambient (LAnat) metrics are also reported for daytime (7:00–19:00) and nighttime (19:00–7:00). Prominent noise sources at the two backcountry sites (MEVE001 and MEVE002) included vehicles and aircraft, while building and vehicle predominated at the frontcountry site (MEVE003). Table 1 displays time audible values for each of these noise sources during the monitoring period, as well as ambient sound levels. In determining the current conditions of an acoustical environment, it is informative to examine how often sound levels exceed certain values. Table 2 reports the percent of time that measured levels at the three monitoring locations were above four key values.
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Jung, Carina, Matthew Carr, Eric Fleischman, and Chandler Roesch. Response of the green June beetle and its gut microbiome to RDX and phenanthrene. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), November 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/38799.
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Green June beetles are a cosmopolitan pest in the United States. Adults are voracious consumers of tree and vine fruit, while their larvae can dam-age and inadvertently consume root systems, particularly those of grasses, as they move through the soil and forage for detritus. Larvae ingest and process large volumes of soil while in the process of feeding. Due to their intimate contact with the soil it was hypothesized that soil contaminants that are known animal toxins would perturb the larval and affect their overall health and survival. Studies of this kind are important contribu-tions to the development of new model organisms and our understanding of interactions between the environment, contaminants, gut microbiome, and animal development, health, and survival. It is important to continue to develop relevant model organisms for monitoring toxicity as regulations for working with vertebrates becomes more prohibitive. In this study green June beetle larvae were exposed to RDX and phenanthrene through-out their entire soil-bound development, starting within the first few days of hatching through to their emergence as adults. The overall findings included that even at high concentrations, RDX and phenanthrene (25 ppm) exerted no significant effect on body weight or survival. Also, there was lit-tle apparent effect of RDX and phenanthrene on the bacterial microbiome, and no statistical association with measurable health effects. Nevertheless, the green June beetle is an interesting model for soil toxicity experiments in the future as is it easy to collect, house, and handle.
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Wells, Aaron, Tracy Christopherson, Gerald Frost, Matthew Macander, Susan Ives, Robert McNown, and Erin Johnson. Ecological land survey and soils inventory for Katmai National Park and Preserve, 2016–2017. National Park Service, September 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/nrr-2287466.
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This study was conducted to inventory, classify, and map soils and vegetation within the ecosystems of Katmai National Park and Preserve (KATM) using an ecological land survey (ELS) approach. The ecosystem classes identified in the ELS effort were mapped across the park, using an archive of Geo-graphic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) datasets pertaining to land cover, topography, surficial geology, and glacial history. The description and mapping of the landform-vegetation-soil relationships identified in the ELS work provides tools to support the design and implementation of future field- and RS-based studies, facilitates further analysis and contextualization of existing data, and will help inform natural resource management decisions. We collected information on the geomorphic, topographic, hydrologic, pedologic, and vegetation characteristics of ecosystems using a dataset of 724 field plots, of which 407 were sampled by ABR, Inc.—Environmental Research and Services (ABR) staff in 2016–2017, and 317 were from existing, ancillary datasets. ABR field plots were located along transects that were selected using a gradient-direct sampling scheme (Austin and Heligers 1989) to collect data for the range of ecological conditions present within KATM, and to provide the data needed to interpret ecosystem and soils development. The field plot dataset encompassed all of the major environmental gradients and landscape histories present in KATM. Individual state-factors (e.g., soil pH, slope aspect) and other ecosystem components (e.g., geomorphic unit, vegetation species composition and structure) were measured or categorized using standard classification systems developed for Alaska. We described and analyzed the hierarchical relationships among the ecosystem components to classify 92 Plot Ecotypes (local-scale ecosystems) that best partitioned the variation in soils, vegetation, and disturbance properties observed at the field plots. From the 92 Plot Ecotypes, we developed classifications of Map Ecotypes and Disturbance Landscapes that could be mapped across the park. Additionally, using an existing surficial geology map for KATM, we developed a map of Generalized Soil Texture by aggregating similar surficial geology classes into a reduced set of classes representing the predominant soil textures in each. We then intersected the Ecotype map with the General-ized Soil Texture Map in a GIS and aggregated combinations of Map Ecotypes with similar soils to derive and map Soil Landscapes and Soil Great Groups. The classification of Great Groups captures information on the soil as a whole, as opposed to the subgroup classification which focuses on the properties of specific horizons (Soil Survey Staff 1999). Of the 724 plots included in the Ecotype analysis, sufficient soils data for classifying soil subgroups was available for 467 plots. Soils from 8 orders of soil taxonomy were encountered during the field sampling: Alfisols (<1% of the mapped area), Andisols (3%), Entisols (45%), Gelisols (<1%), Histosols (12%), Inceptisols (22%), Mollisols (<1%), and Spodosols (16%). Within these 8 Soil Orders, field plots corresponded to a total of 74 Soil Subgroups, the most common of which were Typic Cryaquents, Typic Cryorthents, Histic Cryaquepts, Vitrandic Cryorthents, and Typic Cryofluvents.
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Yan, Yujie, and Jerome F. Hajjar. Automated Damage Assessment and Structural Modeling of Bridges with Visual Sensing Technology. Northeastern University, May 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.17760/d20410114.
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Recent advances in visual sensing technology have gained much attention in the field of bridge inspection and management. Coupled with advanced robotic systems, state-of-the-art visual sensors can be used to obtain accurate documentation of bridges without the need for any special equipment or traffic closure. The captured visual sensor data can be post-processed to gather meaningful information for the bridge structures and hence to support bridge inspection and management. However, state-of-the-practice data postprocessing approaches require substantial manual operations, which can be time-consuming and expensive. The main objective of this study is to develop methods and algorithms to automate the post-processing of the visual sensor data towards the extraction of three main categories of information: 1) object information such as object identity, shapes, and spatial relationships - a novel heuristic-based method is proposed to automate the detection and recognition of main structural elements of steel girder bridges in both terrestrial and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based laser scanning data. Domain knowledge on the geometric and topological constraints of the structural elements is modeled and utilized as heuristics to guide the search as well as to reject erroneous detection results. 2) structural damage information, such as damage locations and quantities - to support the assessment of damage associated with small deformations, an advanced crack assessment method is proposed to enable automated detection and quantification of concrete cracks in critical structural elements based on UAV-based visual sensor data. In terms of damage associated with large deformations, based on the surface normal-based method proposed in Guldur et al. (2014), a new algorithm is developed to enhance the robustness of damage assessment for structural elements with curved surfaces. 3) three-dimensional volumetric models - the object information extracted from the laser scanning data is exploited to create a complete geometric representation for each structural element. In addition, mesh generation algorithms are developed to automatically convert the geometric representations into conformal all-hexahedron finite element meshes, which can be finally assembled to create a finite element model of the entire bridge. To validate the effectiveness of the developed methods and algorithms, several field data collections have been conducted to collect both the visual sensor data and the physical measurements from experimental specimens and in-service bridges. The data were collected using both terrestrial laser scanners combined with images, and laser scanners and cameras mounted to unmanned aerial vehicles.
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Some complex approaches to training micro-cycles formation among cadetsweightlifters taking into account biotypes. Ilyas N. Ibragimov, Zinaida M. Kuznetsova, Ilsiyar Sh. Mutaeva, March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14526/2070-4798-2021-16-1-39-46.
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Training cadets-weightlifters at all stages has a multipurpose orientation, that is why it is important to define and plan a rational combination of the training means use. Distribution of such micro structures in the cycle of training, as the days, months of training, provides effective volume, intensity and other values of physical load distribution. The structure of training cadets-weightlifters is based on taking into account the regularities and principles of sports training as the condition for physical readiness and working capacity increase. Any power oriented sports demands components characteristics in the structure of micro cycles. We consider the methodology of the training lessons organization by the example of the micro cycle of training taking into account bioenergetic profile of cadets-weightlifters. We revealed the necessity to distribute the macro cycle to structural components as the condition for the effectiveness of different variants of the training effects distribution. Materials and methods. We analyzed the range of training lessons among cadets-weightlifters in order to create the variants of gradual training problems solution according to the kinds of training. We analyzed training programs of cadets taking into consideration the level of readiness and their bioenergetic profiles. We created the content of the training work in the micro cycle of the preparatory period for cadets-weightlifters with different bioenergetic profiles. The main material of the research includes the ratio of the training effects volume in one micro cycle taking into account cadets’ bioenergetic profile. Cadets-weightlifters from Tyumen Higher Military-Engineering Command College (military Institute) took part in the research (Tyumen, Russia). Results. We created the content of the training work by the example of one micro cycle for cadets-weightlifters taking into account bioenergetic profile. The created variant of the training loads structure includes the main means of training taking into account the kind of training. Realization orientation in five regimens of work fulfillment with the effectiveness estimation of a total load within one lesson and a week in general is estimated according to a point system. Conclusion. The created variant of a micro cycle considers kinds of training realization taking into account the percentage of the ratio. Taking into account bioenergetic profiles helps to discuss strong and weak sides of muscle activity energy supply mechanisms. We consider the ability to fulfill a long-term aerobic load among the representatives of the 1st and the 2nd bioenergetic profiles. The representatives of the 3rd and the 4th biotype are inclined to fulfill the mixed load. The representatives of the 5th biotype are characterized by higher degree of anaerobic abilities demonstration. The technology of planning the means taking into account the regimens of work realization with point system helps to increase physical working capacity and rehabilitation processes in cadets’ organisms.