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Kunz, Tanja, and Marek Fuchs. "Dynamic Instructions in Check-All-That-Apply Questions." Social Science Computer Review 37, no. 1 (January 5, 2018): 104–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0894439317748890.
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Check-all-that-apply questions are one of the most commonly used question formats in self-administered surveys. They are especially valuable because they allow respondents to select several responses from a list of alternatives that they consider applicable. In this study, we assessed the effectiveness of different types of instructions requesting a specific number of responses to a check-all-that-apply question in a web survey. We compared “static” instructions that are always visible together with the question stem, “dynamic” instructions that instantly appear once respondents start answering the question, and “combined” instructions taking advantage of both static and dynamic instructions. Findings showed that in view of respondent compliance with the instruction, the combination of a static and dynamic instruction is most effective. However, findings also revealed that the specific number of responses requested in the instruction has to be taken into account as a decisive factor influencing the response selection process and ultimately data quality.
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Seninde, Denis Richard, and Edgar Chambers. "Comparing the Rate-All-That-Apply and Rate-All-Statements Question Formats across Five Countries." Foods 10, no. 4 (March 25, 2021): 702. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods10040702.
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Rate All That Apply (RATA) is a derivative of the popularly used Check-All-That-Apply (CATA) question format. For RATA, consumers select all terms or statements that apply from a given list and then continue to rate those selected based on how much they apply. With Rate All Statements (RATING), a widely used standard format for testing, consumers are asked to rate all terms or statements according to how much they apply. Little is known of how the RATA and RATING question formats compare in terms of aspects such as attribute discrimination and sample differentiation. An online survey using either a RATA or RATING question format was conducted in five countries (Brazil, China, India, Spain, and the USA). Each respondent was randomly assigned one of the two question formats (n = 200 per country per format). Motivations for eating items that belong to five food groups (starch-rich, protein-rich, dairy, fruits and vegetables, and desserts) were assessed. More “apply” responses were found for all eating motivation constructs within RATING data than RATA data. Additionally, the standard indices showed that RATING discriminated more among motivations than RATA. Further, the RATING question format showed better discrimination ability among samples for all motivation constructs than RATA within all five countries. Generally, mean scores for motivations were higher when RATA was used, suggesting that consumers who might choose low numbers in the RATING method decide not to check the term in RATA. More investigation into the validity of RATA and RATING data is needed before use of either question format over the other can be recommended.
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Purzner, T., J. Purzner, Y. Cho, J. Elias, and M. Scott. "CNSS Chair’s Select Abstract Presentations." Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques 42, S1 (May 2015): S11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cjn.2015.75.
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Background: The hedgehog pathway (Hh) is an important developmental signaling pathway that is commonly dysregulated in brain tumors, most notably in medulloblastomas. To identify novel therapeutic targets within the Hh pathway, we performed the first quantitative proteome-wide evaluation of phosphorylation events resulting from in vitro SHH administration and occurring throughout Hh-driven cerebellar development in vivo. Methods: Multiplexed quantitative mass spectrometry was done using Tandem Mass Tags 10-plex reagents, TiO2 phosphopeptide enrichment and HPLC-MS/MS/MS. Results: Motif analysis of 2-fold changing phosphorylation events suggested casein kinase 2 (CK2) was responsible for mediating 45% of all changes in phosphorylation. Epistasis studies revealed that CK2 activity is necessary for hedgehog signaling and affects terminal signaling components, thereby circumventing challenges of emergence of resistance and a priori resistance that are commonly encountered with existing small molecule inhibitors in medulloblastoma. In vivo, mice harboring MB allografts resistant to current therapies showed near-complete cessation of tumor growth in response to a CK2 inhibitor. Conclusion: Our use of developmental phosphoproteomics revealed casein kinase 2 as a key regulator of hedgehog signaling and therapeutic target in medulloblastoma. Our success establishes a foundation for us, and others, to apply a similar approach in different tumor initiating pathways.
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Seninde, Denis Richard, and Edgar Chambers. "A Comparison of the Percentage of “Yes” (Agree) Responses and Importance of Attributes (Constructs) Determined Using Check-All-That-Apply and Check-All-Statements (Yes/No) Question Formats in Five Countries." Foods 9, no. 11 (October 28, 2020): 1566. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods9111566.
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Check All That Apply (CATA) has become a popular type of questionnaire response in sensory/consumer research in recent years. However, some authors have pointed out potential problems with the method. An online survey using either a Check-All-That-Apply (CATA) or Check-All-Statements (CAS) format for questions was conducted to provide a deeper understanding of the response data using the two question formats. With CATA, respondents select all terms or statements that apply from a given list, while, with CAS, respondents must respond (e.g., yes/no or agree/disagree) to each term or statement to show that it applies or does not apply. Respondents from five countries (Brazil, China, India, Spain, and the USA) were randomly assigned one of the two question formats (N = 200 per country per method). Motivations for eating items that belong to five food groups (starchy, protein, dairy, fruits, and desserts) were assessed. Results showed that CAS had higher percentages of “agree” responses than CATA. Also, the response ratio of CAS and CATA data was different, suggesting that interpretations of the data from each response type would also be different. Respondents in the USA, China, and Spain took longer to complete the CAS questionnaire, while respondents in Brazil and India had similar time durations for the two question formats. Overall, the CATA format was liked slightly more than the CAS format and fewer respondents dropped out of the survey when using the CATA response type. These findings suggest that the CATA format is quick and relatively easy for consumers to complete. However, it provokes fewer “apply” responses, which some psychologists suggest underestimates applicable terms or statements and CATA provides a different interpretation of data than the CAS format that requires consumers to respond to each term or statement. Further, CAS may overestimate the applicable terms. Consumer insights collected using CATA and CAS can lead to different decisions due to differences in data interpretation by researchers (e.g., marketers, nutritionists, product developers, and sensory scientists). More investigation is needed for the CATA and CAS question formats.
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Zhu, Yitan, Thomas Brettin, Yvonne A. Evrard, Fangfang Xia, Alexander Partin, Maulik Shukla, Hyunseung Yoo, James H. Doroshow, and Rick L. Stevens. "Enhanced Co-Expression Extrapolation (COXEN) Gene Selection Method for Building Anti-Cancer Drug Response Prediction Models." Genes 11, no. 9 (September 11, 2020): 1070. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes11091070.
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The co-expression extrapolation (COXEN) method has been successfully used in multiple studies to select genes for predicting the response of tumor cells to a specific drug treatment. Here, we enhance the COXEN method to select genes that are predictive of the efficacies of multiple drugs for building general drug response prediction models that are not specific to a particular drug. The enhanced COXEN method first ranks the genes according to their prediction power for each individual drug and then takes a union of top predictive genes of all the drugs, among which the algorithm further selects genes whose co-expression patterns are well preserved between cancer cases for building prediction models. We apply the proposed method on benchmark in vitro drug screening datasets and compare the performance of prediction models built based on the genes selected by the enhanced COXEN method to that of models built on genes selected by the original COXEN method and randomly picked genes. Models built with the enhanced COXEN method always present a statistically significantly improved prediction performance (adjusted p-value ≤ 0.05). Our results demonstrate the enhanced COXEN method can dramatically increase the power of gene expression data for predicting drug response.
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Snyder, Kevin, Steve McKelvey, and William Sutton. "All together now? Exploring sales and marketing integration." Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal 6, no. 1 (March 14, 2016): 2–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/sbm-08-2013-0027.
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Purpose – Building on prior research in interactions between sales and marketing departments, the purpose of this paper is to investigate departmental alignment among professional hockey teams. By using a single industry sample, the authors are able to identify high and low performers, along with structural antecedents that lead to higher alignment (Rouse and Daellenbach, 1999). Expiring inventory, customer knowledge, and volatile demand enhance the need for alignment and suggest opportunities for innovative mechanisms to share information among departments (Mullin et al., 2007). Design/methodology/approach – Through the usage of Kotler et al.’s (2006) survey instrument, the authors survey NHL Vice Presidents of sales and marketing to assess levels of structural alignment. The authors further explores strategies for alignment through qualitative interviews of select team executives. Findings – The authors find examples of high alignment, achieved through structural elements of proximity, cross-functional tasks, financial incentives, and new technologies. The qualitative interviews provide insight into how organizations attempt to create high levels of alignment. Originality/value – These results help advance the literature by identifying high performers and going inside organizations for the source of a competitive advantage, thus following Rouse and Dallenbach’s (1999) approach for theory development. The authors also contributes by identifying strategies for practitioners to apply as they attempt to design optimal work structures.
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Rose, Steven. "Moving on from old dichotomies: beyond nature-nurture towards a lifeline perspective." British Journal of Psychiatry 178, S40 (April 2001): s3—s7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.178.40.s3.
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BackgroundGenetics is increasingly being used to explain human behaviours, with growing enthusiasm for what could be termed ‘genetic determinism’, which an ultra-Darwinist approach seeks to apply to all aspects of the human condition.AimsTo consider the validity of the claims concerning the genetics of human behaviour and psychological distress.MethodA critical review of the current assumptions about the relative contributions of genetics and the environment.Results and conclusionsOrganisms are in constant interaction with their environment: that is, organisms select environments just as environments select organisms. Like organisms, environments evolve and are homeodynamic rather than homeostatic; both ‘genome’ and ‘envirome’ are abstractions from this continuous dialectic.
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Vazquez, Angela, and Gregorio Iglesias. "A HOLISTIC METHOD TO SELECT TIDAL STREAM ENERGY HOTSPOTS." Coastal Engineering Proceedings, no. 35 (June 23, 2017): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.9753/icce.v35.management.5.
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Potential areas for tidal stream energy development are conventionally selected on the basis of resource assessments. For all the importance of the resource, there are other elements (technological, economic, spatial, etc.) that must be taken into account in this selection. The objective of the present work is to develop a new methodology to select tidal stream hotspots accounting for all these relevant elements, and to apply it to a case study, showing in the process how the potential for tidal energy development can be fundamentally altered by technological, economic and spatial constraints. The case study is conducted in the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary (UK), one of the regions with the largest tidal resource in the world. First, the most energetic areas are identified by means of a hydrodynamics model, calibrated and validated with field data. Second, the method calculates the energy that can be harnessed in these areas by means of a geospatial Matlab-based program designed ad hoc, and on the basis of the power curve and dimensions of a specific tidal turbine. Third, the spatial distribution of the levelised cost of energy (LCOE) is calculated, and a number of locations are selected as potential tidal sites. The fourth element in the approach is the consideration of restrictions due to overlap with other marine uses, such as shipping. As a result, potential conflict-free areas for tidal stream energy exploitation at an economical cost are identified. Thus, the case study illustrates this holistic approach to selecting tidal stream sites and the importance of elements other than the resource, which – for all its relevance – is shown to not guarantee by itself the potential for tidal stream energy development.
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Rubel, Laurie H., and Betina A. Zolkower. "On Blocks, Stairs, and Beyond: Learning about the Significance of Representations." Mathematics Teacher 101, no. 5 (December 2007): 340–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/mt.101.5.0340.
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The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (2000) recommends that students at all grade levels be provided with instructional programs that enable them to “create and use representations to organize, record, and communicate mathematical ideas; select, apply, and translate among mathematical representations to solve problems; and use representations to model and interpret physical, social, and mathematical phenomena” (p. 67). This article describes a particular classroom activity used to highlight the significance of mathematical representations.
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Marshall, David D., Kim Iles, and John F. Bell. "Using a large-angle gauge to select trees for measurement in variable plot sampling." Canadian Journal of Forest Research 34, no. 4 (April 1, 2004): 840–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/x03-240.
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Variable plot sampling has been widely used for many years. It was recognized, early in its application, that the process of getting stand volume could be divided into two components, counting trees to get basal area per unit area and measuring trees to get volume/basal area ratios (VBARs). It was further recognized that these two components had different amounts of variation and therefore should be sampled at different intensities. The fact that basal area per unit area is almost always more variable than the VBARs of individual trees has led to the widespread practice of counting trees on all plots and subsampling trees for VBAR measurements, typically by measuring all the trees on every third or fourth plot. This article presents an alternative, the "big BAF method," which uses a larger basal-area-factor angle gauge to do a second sweep of each plot to select the trees to be measured for VBAR. This procedure spreads the tree measurements throughout the stand and is thus more statistically efficient. The method is simple to apply, requires no additional computations, and is easy to audit. Two case-study examples are used to demonstrate the method.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Select all that apply"
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Tindall, Catherine F. "Are All Immigrants Criminals? Societal Perceptions Across Select Social Groups." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2011. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3019.
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This study explores the perceptions toward immigrant criminality in Utah of four distinct social groups: state legislators, immigrants, law enforcement personnel, and incarcerated immigrants. Each group was examined separately and found to have a variety of perceptions among their members. Themes emerged that provided insight into the overlap and complexity of these differences across social groups. Legislators appeared the most dichotomous: some believed immigration and crime to be positively correlated, especially for undocumented immigrants, while others perceived no such connection. Among immigrants, perceptions were extremely diverse, but generally represented by reference to an unsubstantiated stereotype that immigrants committed crime at a higher rate than non-immigrants, though there were wide gaps in other areas within this group. For law enforcement, perceptions varied according to social distance and the degree of interaction with immigrants: those officers who dealt more intimately with immigrants had more sympathetic and nuanced perceptions. Incarcerated immigrants represented a diversity of perceptions with complexities similar to those manifested in the immigrant group; but overall, most did not consider themselves to be criminal. Future research is suggested and recommended.
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Calkins, Saige. "Designing Surveys on Youth Immigration Reform: Lessons from the 2016 CCES Anomaly." 2020. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/955.
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Even with clear advantages to using internet based survey research, there are still some uncertainties to which survey methods are most conducive to an online platform. Most survey method literature, whether focusing on online, telephone, or in-person formats, tend to observe little to no differences between using various survey modes and survey results. Despite this, there is little research focused on the interaction effect between survey formatting, in terms of design and framing, and public opinion on social issues, specifically child immigration policies - a recent topic of popular debate. This paper examines an anomalous result found within the 2016 Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES) public opinion immigration question focusing on a DACA-related policy, where support was evenly split on the typically highly favored policy. To decipher the unprecedented result, an experimental survey design was conducted via Qualtrics by comparing various survey formats (single-style, forced choice, Likert scale) and inclusionary policy details to the original CCES “select all that apply” matrix style. By comparing the experimental polls, the results indicated that the “select all that apply” matrix again produced anomalous results, while the various other methods produced a breakdown similar to typical DACA-related polling data. These findings have necessary implications for future survey designs and those examining public opinion on child immigration policies.
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Chang, Wan-Hsin, and 張萬鑫. "Apply Multi-Criteria Decision Making to Select the Software Development Methodology." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/46459366916669359274.
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碩士開南大學
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Abstract For many years, computer related hardware manufacturing has always been the core of Taiwan’s information technology industry. Therefore, computer hardware companies always had an advantage over computer software companies on government funding. With the significant increase of computer hardware demand and the decrease in revenue of the products, many Taiwanese companies shifted their factories to China for lower labor rates. Because of this phenomenon in the recent years, experts pointed that a change of technological development focus from hardware to software is necessary for Taiwan’s future information technology economy. So far, the software industry in Taiwan focuses mainly on coding part of the software development and lacks the concentration on software development methodologies. This inexperience in software development methodology resulted in poor financial management, insufficient software upgrades, and compromised qualities of the systems. This research suggests the benefits of software development methodologies, and collects the criterion standards of the methodologies in the current software industry. The last, using Analytical Hierarchy Process of Multi-Criteria Decision Making to choose software development methodologies. The results of these methodologies will be the reference of choosing the software development methodologies.
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Yu, Chien-Chung, and 于建中. "Apply the AHP Method to Explore the Select Standard of Medium Director of Recreational Hotel." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/16255834241911896194.
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碩士樹德科技大學
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The mankind''s industry development, social from the original agriculture, changed a business model because of the Industrial Revolution, now rises of the service industry, the labor market almost puts into the service industry. Service industry inclusive of all category, such as people need of food, dress, live and so on. It may be a kind of newly arisen business model of service industry. But, service industry personnel''s differences is hard to standardize, therefore want to do to be systematic and have the organization, efficient management, is that the item is huge and needs the engineering of making use of the intelligence. In recent years because of the living standard exaltation of the people, leisure industry along with the week rest the change for 2 days, stimulate the sightseeing tour of widely accepted. However, because of the consumer''s consciousness upsurge, request of service quality fine, therefore the character and profession of the employee also needs to be promoted, when the leisure industry wants the service quality improvement, medium rank the supervisor''s professional ability and career attitude, become important human resource management direction of operating. When recreational hotel selecting the medium rank managers, overwhelming majority all by top executive decision of its enterprise, how become the rank in the recreational hotel excellent candidate for supervisor to select, or top executive of recreational hotel how should choose the person whom the needs, this thesis use the AHP method to investigate, through 12 recreational hotel industries expert, to evaluate the profession, loyalty and coordination degree are three factors, the valuation influences of the weight. The research suggests as a result that "the coordination degree" for has the initiative the factor of consideration, and choose "reach degree" in 19 key index signs more important, the second is "obedience", the third is "self-development". All the three factors belongs to the "loyalty". Therefore in addition to needing the leadership power and communication power of having "coordination degree", under the "loyalty" factor of the centrifugal forces and executions is also the important index sign for selecting. The select standard and general rule, is the conclusion and suggestion for this thesis.
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Lee, Wei-Chun, and 李瑋駿. "Apply Taguchi Method To Select Parameters To Construct Neural Network Chiller\'s Power Consumption Forecasting Model." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4dysr2.
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碩士國立勤益科技大學
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Taiwan is surrounded by the sea and the power grid is independent, so it cannot purchase electricity from neighboring countries when electricity is insufficient. In recent years, with the development of Taiwan’s economy and the improvement of people’s quality of life, electricity consumption has continued to grow. People’s opposition to nuclear power and difficulty of thermal power plant expansion, on the one hand, people hope to have stable power supply for Taiwan's power grid. Therefore, the government, businesses, and people must begin to save energy. This part of energy conservation must start with understanding the situation of electricity consumption, by predicting the data of electricity consumption, and then propose effective measures for energy saving. With the global warming, and the temperature rises year by year. There are many high-tech industries and skyscraper towers in Taiwan, at the moment, the central air-conditioning system is extremely important. Among the power consumption of the building, the power consumption of the central air-conditioning accounts for 50% of the building’s electricity consumption, of which the chiller’s power accounts for 60% of the central air conditioning's power consumption. Therefore, this study collects sample data for each half-hour of the working hours of 2017/7/31~8/4 （8:00~16:59）, and selected important parameters among many parameters affecting power consumption of chiller’s power through the Taguchi method. The data of its important parameters are modeled by neural networks in the following two ways: 1. Using K-means clustering method to divide two groups and three groups, and using neural network to construct power consumption prediction model with clustering data; 2. The neural network is used to construct a power consumption prediction model with ungrouped data. In this study, by two-period, three-period, and four-period moving average methods were used to estimate the parameters of chiller’s power and combine neural network to predict the amount of electricity in the next period. The prediction results show that the power consumption predicted by the two-period moving average method for estimating the parameters of chiller's power by K-means clustering method divided into three groups neural network model electricity forecast MAD is 1.78 KW and MAPE is 1.32%, which is a better prediction model.
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Waters, Michael S. "How and why students select, apply, and translate among mathematical representations in problem solving while learning algebra in a computer algebra system learning environment /." 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3129133.
Full textBooks on the topic "Select all that apply"
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Understanding wood finishing: How to select and apply the right finish. Pleasantville, N.Y: Reader's Digest, 1999.
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Flexner, Bob. Understanding wood finishing: How to select and apply the right finish. Emmaus, Pa: Rodale Press, 1994.
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Zeva, Oelbaum, ed. The herb guide: How to find, select, grow, apply, dry, brew and cook with nearly 300 herbs. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Paperbacks, 2001.
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Berk, Sally Ann. The herb guide: How to find, select, grow, apply, dry, brew and cook with nearly 300 herbs. New York: Tess Press/Black Dog & Leventhal, 2010.
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Morgan, Lane. Winter harvest cookbook: How to select and prepare fresh seasonal produce all winter long. 2nd ed. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2010.
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Winter harvest cookbook: How to select and prepare fresh seasonal produce all winter long. Seattle, WA: Sasquatch Books, 1990.
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Fuller's Literary Emporium, American Book & Music Store. New & select catalogue of valuable standard & miscellaneous books, in all the various departments of literature. [Halifax, N.S.?: s.n., 1994.
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Savageau, David. Retirement places rated: All you need to plan your retirement or select your second home. 3rd ed. New York: Prentice Hall Press, 1990.
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Nadeem, Tariq. Canadian immigration made easy: How to immigrate into Canada (all classes) : how to apply, with settlement guide & employment search strategies for skilled workers. [Scarborough, ON]: Self-Help Publishers, 2003.
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Developing accessible applications with SAP NetWeaver: [complete reference chapters for all SAP UI libraries and their usage ; development, testing, and system configuration ; legal standards and how to apply them]. Bonn: Galileo Press, 2007.
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Graniero, Paolo, and Marco Gärtler. "Prediction of Batch Processes Runtime Applying Dynamic Time Warping and Survival Analysis." In Machine Learning for Cyber Physical Systems, 53–61. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-62746-4_6.
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AbstractBatch runs corresponding to the same recipe usually have different duration. The data collected by the sensors that equip batch production lines reflects this fact: time series with different lengths and unsynchronized events. Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) is an algorithm successfully used, in batch monitoring too, to synchronize and map to a standard time axis two series, an action called alignment. The online alignment of running batches, although interesting, gives no information on the remaining time frame of the batch, such as its total runtime, or time-to-end. We notice that this problem is similar to the one addressed by Survival Analysis (SA), a statistical technique of standard use in clinical studies to model time-to-event data. Machine Learning (ML) algorithms adapted to survival data exist, with increased predictive performance with respect to classical formulations. We apply a SA-ML-based system to the problem of predicting the time-to-end of a running batch, and show a new application of DTW. The information returned by openended DTW can be used to select relevant data samples for the SA-ML system, without negatively affecting the predictive performance and decreasing the computational cost with respect to the same SA-ML system that uses all the data available. We tested the system on a real-world dataset coming from a chemical plant.
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Hoffmann, Christine. "What Is Clickbait? (Check All that Apply)." In Stupid Humanism, 109–28. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63751-8_5.
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Reinert, Audrey. "All Are Welcome but Terms and Conditions Apply." In Advancing Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice Through Human Systems Engineering, 109–12. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2020.: CRC Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9780429425905-8.
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Buck, Dominic, and Sarah E. Kemp. "Check-All-That-Apply and Free Choice Description." In Descriptive Analysis in Sensory Evaluation, 579–607. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118991657.ch17.
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Gressel, Jonathan. "Catch 22: All Doses Select for Resistance. When Will This Happen and How To Slow Evolution?" In ACS Symposium Series, 61–72. Washington, DC: American Chemical Society, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bk-2017-1249.ch005.
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Marsan, M. Ajmone, A. Bianco, E. Leonardi, F. Neri, and A. Nucci. "Efficient Multi-Hop Scheduling Algorithms for All-Optical WDM/TDM Broadcast-and-Select Networks with Arbitrary Transceiver Tuning Latencies." In Optical Networks: Design and Modelling, 57–72. New York, NY: Springer US, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35398-2_7.
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Muñoz, Melissa, Elizabeth Cieniewicz, and James E. Faust. "Diseases and disease management." In Cut flowers and foliages, 258–315. Wallingford: CABI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789247602.0006.
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Abstract This chapter describes the general principles of disease management that apply to all pathogens, followed by a detailed description of the major pathogens, which fall into 4 broad categories, i.e. fungi/oomycetes, bacteria/phytoplasma, viruses and nematodes. The most important diseases of cut flowers, their causal microorganisms, symptoms and signs, epidemiology and management practices are addressed and organized by the primary tissues affected.
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Blumer, Lindsay A. "Service-Learning in Action." In Advances in Educational Marketing, Administration, and Leadership, 104–13. IGI Global, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0874-8.ch005.
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This case study explores a unique service-learning program from inception to evaluation through the in-depth examination of community relationships, outcomes students have attained and the ongoing community benefits. The case study demonstrates specific service-learning implementation techniques and reflection processes that challenge students to apply their experiences to their own educational goals and experiences. At Ripon College the Center for Social Responsibility supervises a successful and innovative service-learning program; the Storybook program. In collaboration with the Green Lake County Correctional Facility (GLCCF) this program has college students meet with inmates to select and practice reading children's books on video. The book and recording are sent to the inmate's child(ren) to maintain familial relationships during incarceration. Based firmly in adult literacy pedagogy this service-learning experience has multiple simultaneous psycho-social outcomes for all involved.
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Gottschalk, Petter. "Officer-to-Officer Systems." In Knowledge Management Systems in Law Enforcement, 132–56. IGI Global, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-307-4.ch006.
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Officer-to-officer systems are found at Stage 2 of the stages-of-growth model for knowledge management technology. Information about who knows what is made available to all police officers, and to selected, outside partners. At Stage 2, organizations apply the personalization strategy, which implies that knowledge is tied to the person who developed it, and is shared mainly through person-to-person contact.
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Chen, Edward T. "When Is It a Good Fit to Apply the Scrum Approach to Project Management." In Advances in Systems Analysis, Software Engineering, and High Performance Computing, 84–98. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4885-1.ch006.
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This chapter discusses how the method selected to manage a project can play a role in the success of that project. Certain projects are better suited to particular models of project management. The traditional, or “waterfall,” approach; the agile approach; and a more refined agile approach known as Scrum, which will be evaluated. The Scrum approach to project management is gaining a lot of momentum in recent years but all projects may not be well suited for this method. By analyzing the different styles of project management, a discussion of the benefits and pitfalls of each approach will be completed as well as how those characteristics may contribute to risks. An examination of project types, project roles, and project management experience will be completed to provide insight for when the Scrum approach to project management is most appropriate to contribute to the overall success of a project and when it may be best to apply a different management style.
Conference papers on the topic "Select all that apply"
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Simoni, Roberto, Henrique Simas, and Daniel Martins. "Selecting Kinematic Structures of Parallel Manipulators Using Symmetry and Connectivity." In ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2015-46019.
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This paper presents an application of symmetry and connectivity to select kinematic structures of parallel manipulators. One kinematic chain can originate several mechanisms and each mechanism can originate several parallel manipulators and, in early stages of conceptual design, it is difficult to decide what is the most promising one. Hunt [1] introduced the concept of connectivity and, since then, the connectivity has been used as an important parameter to select the most appropriated parallel manipulators to develop determined task. However, it is difficult to analyze non isomorphic parallel manipulators from the connectivity matrix. In this sense, in this paper, we apply symmetry to reduce the set of parallel manipulators to a manageable few with the desired connectivity. As a result, all promising parallel manipulators originating from a kinematic chain can be analyzed without isomorphisms.
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Bułat, Radosław, and Łukasz Popławski. "Sustainable Development of Rural Communities in Poland – an Attempt to Apply Genetic Algorithms and Expert Systems in Decision Making Process." In Contemporary Issues in Business, Management and Education. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/cbme.2017.049.
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All scientific projects have the need of operating on large matrices of data. This article has the aim to establish if there is a correct and useful scientific method of data management by utilizing genetic computations and/or artificial intelligence expert systems in the sustainable development of selected rural areas in Poland, using a cross-field project of economic development and IT. It discusses the methods of preparing of the data from their most basic form, data manipulation, database operations in the form of genetic operators, custom scripting and working algorithms, getting the answers from the multi-criterion analysis. There are also further case studies, achievable with the methodology, as a successful example of the right set of methodologically correct tools. Also a consideration if there is a potential for its possible usage on economic and social analysis in the aspect of sustainable development.
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Papatzimos, Alexios Koltsidopoulos, Tariq Dawood, and Philipp R. Thies. "Operational Data to Maintenance Optimization: Closing the Loop in Offshore Wind O&M." In ASME 2018 1st International Offshore Wind Technical Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/iowtc2018-1058.
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Offshore wind assets have reached multi-GW scale and additional capacity is being installed and developed. To achieve demanding cost of energy targets, awarded by competitive auctions, the operation and maintenance (O&M) of these assets has to become increasingly efficient, whilst ensuring compliance and effectiveness. Existing offshore wind farm assets generate a significant amount of inhomogeneous data related to O&M processes. These data contain rich information about the condition of the assets, which is rarely fully utilized by the operators and service providers. Academic and industrial research and development efforts have led to a suite of tools trying to apply sensor data and build machine learning models to diagnose, trend and predict component failures. This study presents a decision support framework incorporating a range of different supervised and un-supervised learning algorithms. The aim is to provide guidance for asset owners on how to select the most relevant datasets, apply and choose the different machine learning algorithms and how to integrate the data stream with daily maintenance procedures. The presented methodology is tested on a real case example of an offshore wind turbine gearbox replacement at Teesside offshore wind farm. The study uses k-nearest neighbour (kNN) and support vector machine (SVM) algorithms to detect the fault using supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) data and an autoregressive model for the vibration data of the condition monitoring system (CMS). The implementation of all the algorithms has resulted in an accuracy higher than 94%. The results of this paper will be of interest to offshore wind farm developers and operators to streamline and optimize their O&M planning activities for their assets and reduce the associated costs.
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Ogorodov, Stanislav, Stanislav Ogorodov, Vassily Arkhipov, Vassily Arkhipov, Alisa Baranskaya, Alisa Baranskaya, Osip Kokin, Osip Kokin, Natalia Shabanova, and Natalia Shabanova. "COMPREHENSIVE MONITORING OF ICE GOUGING BOTTOM RELIEF AT KEY SITES OF OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE COASTAL-SHELF ZONE OF THE RUSSIAN ARCTIC SEAS." In Managing risks to coastal regions and communities in a changing world. Academus Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.21610/conferencearticle_58b4317496a9e.
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Ice gouging is a dangerous natural process typical for the coastal-shelf zone of the Russian Arctic; because it leads to damaging of the infrastructure it can also be related to the category of catastrophic processes. To lower the risks of occurrence and to prevent emergencies and their consequences, comprehensive monitoring of the dangerous natural processes is necessary. With all lithologic and geomorphologic conditions being equal, the intensity of the ice gouging on the bottom is mostly determined by the changing condition, area and thickness of the ice cover. To assess the real intensity of the ice gouging impact during a given ice season, repeated sounding of the sea bottom topography is necessary; it helps to select the ice gouges which were created in the period between the two consequent observations. At present, the methods and technologies of the monitoring of ice gouging processes are not standardized, and the monitoring, if it is conducted, is often sporadic and lacks systematization. Therefore, the development of a united technology of comprehensive monitoring of ice gouging processes in the coastal and shelf zone is one of the most important tasks of the modern science and practice. Our team was the first one to apply such integrative technology in 2005-2015 in the framework of investigations for the purpose of construction of the underwater gas pipeline at its crossing of the Baydaratskaya Bay, Kara Sea.
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Ogorodov, Stanislav, Stanislav Ogorodov, Vassily Arkhipov, Vassily Arkhipov, Alisa Baranskaya, Alisa Baranskaya, Osip Kokin, Osip Kokin, Natalia Shabanova, and Natalia Shabanova. "COMPREHENSIVE MONITORING OF ICE GOUGING BOTTOM RELIEF AT KEY SITES OF OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE COASTAL-SHELF ZONE OF THE RUSSIAN ARCTIC SEAS." In Managing risks to coastal regions and communities in a changing world. Academus Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.31519/conferencearticle_5b1b93ba05f812.34997366.
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Ice gouging is a dangerous natural process typical for the coastal-shelf zone of the Russian Arctic; because it leads to damaging of the infrastructure it can also be related to the category of catastrophic processes. To lower the risks of occurrence and to prevent emergencies and their consequences, comprehensive monitoring of the dangerous natural processes is necessary. With all lithologic and geomorphologic conditions being equal, the intensity of the ice gouging on the bottom is mostly determined by the changing condition, area and thickness of the ice cover. To assess the real intensity of the ice gouging impact during a given ice season, repeated sounding of the sea bottom topography is necessary; it helps to select the ice gouges which were created in the period between the two consequent observations. At present, the methods and technologies of the monitoring of ice gouging processes are not standardized, and the monitoring, if it is conducted, is often sporadic and lacks systematization. Therefore, the development of a united technology of comprehensive monitoring of ice gouging processes in the coastal and shelf zone is one of the most important tasks of the modern science and practice. Our team was the first one to apply such integrative technology in 2005-2015 in the framework of investigations for the purpose of construction of the underwater gas pipeline at its crossing of the Baydaratskaya Bay, Kara Sea.
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Sheng, Xin, Xiaojin Huang, Zhencai An, and Yin Guo. "Study on an Optimization Algorithm of Generating Test Vectors for Digital Reactor Protection System Testing." In 16th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone16-48098.
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As a safety-critical system for the NPP, the digital Reactor Protection System (RPS) has replaced the traditional analog Reactor Protection System in the most newly-built NPPs. A new type digital RPS developed by INET, Tsinghua University, must pass the hardware qualification and software Verification & Validation (V&V) to satisfy the requirements of quality criterion and safety laws. The stimulation/response testing method is always used in the integration testing phase of software V&V. The test vectors group would be very large if the digital RPS has many input variables. Therefore, In order to find out all of the failure of software, the less testing vectors would be benefit to limit the testing time and cost. A black box model is always be used for those systems with few known information for the Conner. All testing vectors would be generated by nature sequence. The black box model has good features. It does not rely on any prior knowledge about the objective system. However, the black box model may increase the average number of test vectors and average time to find out all of the failure. If a grey box model can be adopted in the testing process, a lot of known information of the objective system can be used and the test time would be saved prominently. As independent developed digital RPS by INET, there is enough information of the testing objects, which can be used to apply the grey box model on the digital RPS testing procedure and to generate the test vectors. An optimization algorithm of test vectors generating is as follows: a) Firstly, a different weight factors would be set to different combination of input variables by expert knowledge and logic design rules; b) Secondly, a particle movement algorithm is used to optimize, compare and select random test vectors by weight factors. The primary simulation results indicate that the average testing time and the number of test vectors are both less than the normal test strategy which based on the black box model. The optimization algorithm of test vectors generating based on the particle movement may be more efficient to find out all of the failure. Therefore, the testing cost and time would be saved in consequence.
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Guirguis, David, Mohamed Aly, Karim Hamza, and Hesham Hegazi. "Image Matching Assessment of Attainable Topology via Kriging-Interpolated Level-Sets." In ASME 2014 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2014-34622.
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Level-set methods are domain classification techniques that are gaining popularity in the recent years for structural topology optimization. Level sets classify a domain into two or more categories (such as material and void) by examining the value of a scalar level-set function (LSF) defined in the entire design domain. In most level-set formulations, a large number of design variables, or degrees of freedom is used to define the LSF, which implicitly defines the structure. The large number of design variables makes non-gradient optimization techniques all but ineffective. Kriging-interpolated level sets (KLS) on the other hand are formulated with an objective to enable non-gradient optimization by defining the design variables as the LSF values at few select locations (knot points) and using a Kriging model to interpolate the LSF in the rest of the design domain. A downside of concern when adopting KLS, is that using too few knot points may limit the capability to represent complex shapes, while using too many knot points may cause difficulty for non-gradient optimization. This paper presents a study of the effect of number and layout of the knot points in KLS on the capability to represent complex topologies in single and multi-component structures. Image matching error metrics are employed to assess the degree of mismatch between target topologies and those best-attainable via KLS. Results are presented in a catalogue-style in order to facilitate appropriate selection of knot-points by designers wishing to apply KLS for topology optimization.
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Zhao, Jianing, Jun Guo, and Weimeng Sun. "Analysis of Running Energy Consumption of Fresh Air Cooling Systems." In ASME 2005 International Solar Energy Conference. ASMEDC, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/isec2005-76144.
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Utilization of renewable energy becomes more and more attractive and crucial for sustainable buildings. A cooling system, using outdoor fresh air and combining with the conventional all-air system or running along during different seasons, is discussed in this study. Running energy consumption of this system is analyzed by a mathematical model using the Genetic Algorithm (GA) combined with the traditional Lagrange method. To evaluate and apply this new system, energy consumption of the chiller unit, water and air sub-systems, as well as the total energy consumption of such a system is compared with that of the conventional all-air system. Consequently, the total energy consumption is selected as the criterion of energy efficiency. The results show that the cooling system bears considerably energy efficient, and that it reduces energy consumption at least 14% and 12%, compared with the constant air volume and variable air volume system, respectively.
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Bielecki, Dustin, Prakhar Jaiswal, and Rahul Rai. "Binary Image Recognition Utilizing Computer Generated Templates." In ASME 2017 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2017-67983.
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This paper covers a method of taking images of physical parts which are then preprocessed and compared against CAD generated templates. A pseudo milling operation was performed on discretized points along CAD generated mill paths to create binary image templates. The computer-generated images were then tested against one another as a preliminarily sorting technique. This was done to reduce the number of sorting approaches used, by selecting the most reliable and discerning ones, and discarding the others. To apply the selected sorting methods for comparing CAD generated images and the images of physical parts, a translational and scaling normalization technique was implemented. Rotational variation occurs while scanning physical parts and it was addressed using two different techniques: first by determination of best rotation based on modified-Hausdorff distance (MHD); and second by comparing against all CAD based images for all template rotations. The proposed approach for automated sorting of physical parts was demonstrated by categorizing multiple geometries.
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Park, Moon Soo, Chang-Sun Kang, and Joo-Hyun Moon. "Development of the Methodology for Application of Revised Source Term to Operating Nuclear Power Plants in Korea." In 12th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. ASMEDC, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone12-49309.
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Considering the current trend in applying the revised source term proposed by NUREG-1465 to the nuclear power plants in the U. S., it is expected that the revised source term will be applied to the Korean operating nuclear power plants in the near future, even though the exact time can not be estimated. To meet the future technical demands, it is necessary to prepare the technical system including the related regulatory requirements in advance. In this research, therefore, it is intended to develop the methodology to apply the revised source term to operating nuclear power plants in Korea. Several principles were established to develop the application methodologies. First, it is not necessary to modify the existing regulations about source term (i.e., any back-fitting to operating nuclear plants is not necessary). Second, if the pertinent margin of safety is guaranteed, the revised source term suggested by NUREG-1465 may be useful to full application. Finally, a part of revised source term could be selected to application based on the technical feasibility. As the results of this research, several methodologies to apply the revised source term to the Korean operating nuclear power plants have been developed, which include 1) the selective (or limited) application to use only some of all the characteristics of the revised source term, such as release timing of fission products and chemical form of radio-iodine and 2) the full application to use all the characteristics of the revised source term. The developed methodologies are actually applied to Ulchin 9&4 units and their application feasibilities are reviewed. The results of this research are used as either a manual in establishing the plan and the procedure for applying the revised source term to the domestic nuclear plant from the utility’s viewpoint; or a technical basis of revising the related regulations from the regulatory body’s viewpoint.
Reports on the topic "Select all that apply"
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Brewer, Mike, and Gillian Paull. Submission to the Work and Pensions Select Committee Inquiry: 'How can suitable, affordable childcare be provided for all parents who need it to enable them to work?'. Institute for Fiscal Studies, March 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1920/bn.ifs.2003.0034.
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Shen, Dong, Zhuang Xiong, Yangyang Liu, Yan Leng, Houbo Deng, Song Wang, Xiangtong Meng, and Tiejun Liu. Efficacy and safety of Chinese herbal medicine combined with Sorafenib in the treatment of primary liver cancer: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis. INPLASY - International Platform of Registered Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Protocols, September 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.37766/inplasy2021.9.0024.
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The aim of this systematic review is to compare Chinese herbal medicine combined with Sorafenib in terms of efficacy and acceptability in the primary liver cancer to better inform clinical practice. To this end, the proposed systematic review will address the following question: Which is the best choice to reduce Efficacy and safety in Patients with primary liver cancer, Chinese herbal medicine combined with Sorafenib or Sorafenib.this systematic review and meta-analysis will evaluate the efficacy and Sorafenib combined with Chinese herbal medicine in the treatment of PLC. Information sources: We will search the following databases from inception up to September 8, 2021: PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, AMED, Cochrane Library, CNKI, VIP, CBM, and Wanfang. There will be no restrictions regarding publication date or language. We will apply a combination of medical keywords and words, including "Sorafenib", "Chinese herbal medicine" and "primary liver cancer". Additionally, we will manually search all reference lists from relevant systematic reviews to find other eligible studies.
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Heston, Roxanne. Mapping U.S. Multinationals’ Global AI R&D Activity. Center for Security and Emerging Technology, December 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.51593/20190008.
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Many factors influence where U.S. tech multinational corporations decide to conduct their global artificial intelligence research and development (R&D). Company AI labs are spread all over the world, especially in North America, Europe and Asia. But in contrast to AI labs, most company AI staff remain concentrated in the United States. Roxanne Heston and Remco Zwetsloot explain where these companies conduct AI R&D, why they select particular locations, and how they establish their presence there. The report is accompanied by a new open-source dataset of more than 60 AI R&D labs run by these companies worldwide.
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Atuhurra, Julius, and Michelle Kaffenberger. System (In)Coherence: Quantifying the Alignment of Primary Education Curriculum Standards, Examinations, and Instruction in Two East African Countries. Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), December 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35489/bsg-rise-wp_2020/057.
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Improvements in instructional coherence have been shown to have large impacts on student learning, yet analysis of such coherence, especially in developing countries and at a systems level, is rare. We use an established methodology, the Surveys of Enacted Curriculum (SEC), and apply it to a developing country context to systematically analyze and quantify the content and coherence of the primary curriculum standards, national examinations, and actual teaching delivered in the classroom in Uganda and Tanzania. We find high levels of incoherence across all three instructional components. In Uganda, for example, only four of the fourteen topics in the English curriculum standards appear on the primary leaving exam, and two of the highest-priority topics in the standards are completely omitted from the exams. In Tanzania, only three of fourteen English topics are covered on the exam, and all are assessed at the “memorization” level. Rather than aligning with either the curriculum standards or exams, teachers’ classroom instruction is poorly aligned with both. Teachers tend to cover broad swathes of content and levels of cognitive demand, unrelated to the structure of either the curriculum standards or exams. An exception is Uganda mathematics, for which standards, exams, and teacher instruction are all well aligned. By shedding light on alignment deficits in the two countries, these results draw attention to a policy area that has previously attracted little (if any) attention in many developing countries’ education policy reform efforts. In addition to providing empirical results for Uganda and Tanzania, this study provides a proof-of-concept for the use of the SEC methodology as a diagnostic tool in developing countries, helping education systems identify areas of instructional (in)coherence and informing efforts to improve coherence for learning.
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Mudge, Christopher R., and Kurt D. Getsinger. Comparison of Generic and Proprietary Aquatic Herbicides for Control of Invasive Vegetation : Part 2. Emergent Plants. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), November 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/39679.
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Aquatic herbicides are one of the most effective and widespread ways to manage nuisance vegetation in the US After the active ingredient is selected, often there are numerous proprietary and generic branded products to select from. To date, limited efforts have been made to compare the efficacy of brand name and generic herbicides head to head; therefore, at tot al of 20 mesocosm trials were conducted to evaluate various 2,4 -D, glyphosate, imazapyr, and triclopyr products against alligatorweed (Alternanthera philoxeroides (Mart.) Griseb.), southern cattail (hereafter referred to as cattail, Typha domingensis Pers.), and creeping water primrose (hereafter referred as primrose, Ludwigia peploides (Kunth) P.H. Raven). All active ingredients were applied to foliage at broadcast rates commonly used in applications to public waters. Proprietary and generic 2,4 -D, glyphosate, imazapyr, and triclopyr were efficacious and provided 39 to 99% control of alligatorweed, cattail and primrose in 19 of the 20 trials. There were no significant differences i n product performance except glyphosate vs. alligatorweed (trial 1, Rodeo vs. Roundup Custom) and glyphosate vs. cattail (trial 1, Rodeo vs. Glyphosate 5.4). These results demonstrate under small -scale conditions, the majority of the generic and proprietary herbicides provided similar control of emergent vegetation, regardless of active ingredient
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Boettcher, Seth J., Courtney Gately, Alexandra L. Lizano, Alexis Long, and Alexis Yelvington. Part 2: Water Recycling Technical Report for Direct Non-Potable Use. Edited by Gabriel Eckstein. Texas A&M University School of Law Program in Natural Resources Systems, May 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.37419/eenrs.brackishgroundwater.p2.
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This Water Recycling Technical Report examines the legal frameworks that affect water recycling in Texas. The goal of this report is to provide insight into the legal and regulatory barriers, challenges, and opportunities for these technologies to go online. Each water recycling implementation site has to find ways of complying with various laws and regulations. The information in this Report comes from the study of water recycling facilities currently operating in Texas, as well as extensive research into available literature and documents from various agencies. While there is no updated “one-stop-shop” resource that provides detailed information on all the necessary permits to build, operate, and maintain such facilities, this Technical Report aims to compile the existing, available information in an organized and accessible fashion. The Water Recycling Technical Report is the second of three reports that make up the work product of a project undertaken by students at Texas A&M University School of Law in a select capstone seminar. These reports examine regulations surrounding desalination and water recycling. The companion report entitled Brackish Groundwater Desalination Technical Report highlights building, operating, and monitoring requirements for desalination facilities in Texas. Finally, the Case Study Report expands on regulations in San Antonio and El Paso where these water alternatives are in place.
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Boettcher, Seth J., Courtney Gately, Alexandra L. Lizano, Alexis Long, and Alexis Yelvington. Part 1: Brackish Groundwater Desalination Technical Report. Edited by Gabriel Eckstein. Texas A&M University School of Law Program in Natural Resources Systems, May 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.37419/eenrs.brackishgroundwater.p1.
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This Brackish Groundwater Desalination Technical Report examines the legal frameworks that affect desalination in Texas. The goal of this report is to provide insight into the legal and regulatory barriers, challenges, and opportunities for these technologies to go online. Each desalination implementation site has to find ways of complying with various laws and regulations. The information in this Report comes from the study of brackish groundwater desalination facilities currently operating in Texas, as well as extensive research into available literature and documents from various agencies. While there is no updated “one-stop-shop” resource that provides detailed information on all the necessary permits to build, operate, and maintain such facilities, this Technical Report aims to compile the existing, available information in an organized and accessible fashion. The Brackish Groundwater Desalination Technical Report is the first of three reports that make up the work product of a project undertaken by students at Texas A&M University School of Law in a select capstone seminar. These reports examine regulations surrounding desalination and water recycling. The companion report entitled Water Recycling Technical Report highlights building, operating, and monitoring requirements for water recycling facilities in Texas. Finally, the Case Study Report expands on regulations in San Antonio and El Paso where these water alternatives are in place.
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Mirel, Lisa, Cindy Zhang, Christine Cox, Ye Yeats, Félix Suad El Burai, and Golden Cordell. Comparative analysis of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey public-use and restricted-use linked mortality files. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.), May 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.15620/cdc:104744.
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"Objectives—Linking national survey data with administrative data sources enables researchers to conduct analyses that would not be possible with each data source alone. Recently, the Data Linkage Program at the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) released updated Linked Mortality Files, including the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data linked to the National Death Index mortality files. Two versions of the files were released: restricted-use files available through NCHS and Federal Statistical Research Data Centers and public-use files. To reduce the reidentification risk, statistical disclosure limitation methods were applied to the public-use files before they were released. This included limiting the amount of mortality information available and perturbing cause of death and follow-up time for select records. Methods—To assess the comparability of the restricted-use and public-use files, relative hazard ratios for all-cause and cause-specific mortality using Cox proportional hazards models were estimated and compared. Results—The comparative analysis found that the two data files yield similar descriptive and model results. Suggested citation: Mirel LB, Zhang C, Cox CS, Ye Y, El Burai Félix S, Golden C. Comparative analysis of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey public-use and restricted-use linked mortality files. National Health Statistics Reports; no 155. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15620/cdc:104744. CS323656 nhsr155-508.pdf"
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Brophy, Kenny, and Alison Sheridan, eds. Neolithic Scotland: ScARF Panel Report. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, June 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.9750/scarf.06.2012.196.
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The main recommendations of the Panel report can be summarised as follows: The Overall Picture: more needs to be understood about the process of acculturation of indigenous communities; about the Atlantic, Breton strand of Neolithisation; about the ‘how and why’ of the spread of Grooved Ware use and its associated practices and traditions; and about reactions to Continental Beaker novelties which appeared from the 25th century. The Detailed Picture: Our understanding of developments in different parts of Scotland is very uneven, with Shetland and the north-west mainland being in particular need of targeted research. Also, here and elsewhere in Scotland, the chronology of developments needs to be clarified, especially as regards developments in the Hebrides. Lifeways and Lifestyles: Research needs to be directed towards filling the substantial gaps in our understanding of: i) subsistence strategies; ii) landscape use (including issues of population size and distribution); iii) environmental change and its consequences – and in particular issues of sea level rise, peat formation and woodland regeneration; and iv) the nature and organisation of the places where people lived; and to track changes over time in all of these. Material Culture and Use of Resources: In addition to fine-tuning our characterisation of material culture and resource use (and its changes over the course of the Neolithic), we need to apply a wider range of analytical approaches in order to discover more about manufacture and use.Some basic questions still need to be addressed (e.g. the chronology of felsite use in Shetland; what kind of pottery was in use, c 3000–2500, in areas where Grooved Ware was not used, etc.) and are outlined in the relevant section of the document. Our knowledge of organic artefacts is very limited, so research in waterlogged contexts is desirable. Identity, Society, Belief Systems: Basic questions about the organisation of society need to be addressed: are we dealing with communities that started out as egalitarian, but (in some regions) became socially differentiated? Can we identify acculturated indigenous people? How much mobility, and what kind of mobility, was there at different times during the Neolithic? And our chronology of certain monument types and key sites (including the Ring of Brodgar, despite its recent excavation) requires to be clarified, especially since we now know that certain types of monument (including Clava cairns) were not built during the Neolithic. The way in which certain types of site (e.g. large palisaded enclosures) were used remains to be clarified. Research and methodological issues: There is still much ignorance of the results of past and current research, so more effective means of dissemination are required. Basic inventory information (e.g. the Scottish Human Remains Database) needs to be compiled, and Canmore and museum database information needs to be updated and expanded – and, where not already available online, placed online, preferably with a Scottish Neolithic e-hub that directs the enquirer to all the available sources of information. The Historic Scotland on-line radiocarbon date inventory needs to be resurrected and kept up to date. Under-used resources, including the rich aerial photography archive in the NMRS, need to have their potential fully exploited. Multi-disciplinary, collaborative research (and the application of GIS modelling to spatial data in order to process the results) is vital if we are to escape from the current ‘silo’ approach and address key research questions from a range of perspectives; and awareness of relevant research outside Scotland is essential if we are to avoid reinventing the wheel. Our perspective needs to encompass multi-scale approaches, so that ScARF Neolithic Panel Report iv developments within Scotland can be understood at a local, regional and wider level. Most importantly, the right questions need to be framed, and the right research strategies need to be developed, in order to extract the maximum amount of information about the Scottish Neolithic.
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Henderson, Tim, Mincent Santucci, Tim Connors, and Justin Tweet. National Park Service geologic type section inventory: Chihuahuan Desert Inventory & Monitoring Network. National Park Service, April 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/nrr-2285306.
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A fundamental responsibility of the National Park Service is to ensure that park resources are preserved, protected, and managed in consideration of the resources themselves and for the benefit and enjoyment by the public. Through the inventory, monitoring, and study of park resources, we gain a greater understanding of the scope, significance, distribution, and management issues associated with these resources and their use. This baseline of natural resource information is available to inform park managers, scientists, stakeholders, and the public about the conditions of these resources and the factors or activities which may threaten or influence their stability. There are several different categories of geologic or stratigraphic units (supergroup, group, formation, member, bed) which represent a hierarchical system of classification. The mapping of stratigraphic units involves the evaluation of lithologies, bedding properties, thickness, geographic distribution, and other factors. If a new mappable geologic unit is identified, it may be described and named through a rigorously defined process that is standardized and codified by the professional geologic community (North American Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature 2005). In most instances when a new geologic unit such as a formation is described and named in the scientific literature, a specific and well-exposed section of the unit is designated as the type section or type locality (see Definitions). The type section is an important reference section for a named geologic unit which presents a relatively complete and representative profile for this unit. The type or reference section is important both historically and scientifically, and should be recorded such that other researchers may evaluate it in the future. Therefore, this inventory of geologic type sections in NPS areas is an important effort in documenting these locations in order that NPS staff recognize and protect these areas for future studies. The documentation of all geologic type sections throughout the 423 units of the NPS is an ambitious undertaking. The strategy for this project is to select a subset of parks to begin research for the occurrence of geologic type sections within particular parks. The focus adopted for completing the baseline inventories throughout the NPS was centered on the 32 inventory and monitoring networks (I&M) established during the late 1990s. The I&M networks are clusters of parks within a defined geographic area based on the ecoregions of North America (Fenneman 1946; Bailey 1976; Omernik 1987). These networks share similar physical resources (geology, hydrology, climate), biological resources (flora, fauna), and ecological characteristics. Specialists familiar with the resources and ecological parameters of the network, and associated parks, work with park staff to support network level activities (inventory, monitoring, research, data management). Adopting a network-based approach to inventories worked well when the NPS undertook paleontological resource inventories for the 32 I&M networks. The network approach is also being applied to the inventory for the geologic type sections in the NPS. The planning team from the NPS Geologic Resources Division who proposed and designed this inventory selected the Greater Yellowstone Inventory and Monitoring Network (GRYN) as the pilot network for initiating this project. Through the research undertaken to identify the geologic type sections within the parks of the GRYN, methodologies for data mining and reporting on these resources was established. Methodologies and reporting adopted for the GRYN have been used in the development of this type section inventory for the Chihuahuan Desert Inventory & Monitoring Network. The goal of this project is to consolidate information pertaining to geologic type sections which occur within NPS-administered areas, in order that this information is available throughout the NPS...