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Serving Youth Who Are Serving Time: A Study Of The Special Education Services For Incarcerated Youth In A Short-Term Care Facility, Sachiko Hoshide

Doctoral Dissertations

This study examined the communication between sending court and community schools of a County Office of Education’s (COE) Alternative Education program and the receiving juvenile detention facility of a county in a Western state and how the communication between the two facilities affected the level of special education services provided to incarcerated youth, specifically the occurrence of 30-day placement IEPs. The juvenile detention facility was selected as a site because it was a lighthouse program, one of the few chosen to pilot the juvenile detention alternatives initiative (JDAI). JDAI sought to lower the number of incarcerated youth through viable alternatives …

Investigation Of The Noise Floor Of The Standard Piv Cross-Correlation Algorithm, Kyle L. Jones

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

Particle image velocimetry (PIV) is a powerful measurement technique used to acquire instantaneous measurements of entire flow fields at a given instant in time. Quantifying the uncertainty and error in PIV is a critical part of realizing the full potential of PIV as a flow measurement technique.

The noise floor of PIV is the minimum amount of random error that can be achieved for a particular standard cross-correlation (SCC) algorithm. The noise floor of the SCC used by DaVis in correlating image pairs is explored. Two methods for creating image pairs for correlation are compared, namely pseudo image pairs and …

Web Based Virtual Environment For Education - S'Cape, Atul Thapliyal

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

Simulations provide an environment to experiment safely, openly, and repeatedly for learning mastery. However, many simulation environments experienced within a classroom fail to include automated assessment components or automated data collection. Even when assessments are included, often they fail to account for the unpredictable nature of decision-making within a complex, 3D, open-ended simulation environment. Embedding assessments within a virtual simulation environment poses several challenges. First, the program must provide assessments aligned with educational requirements that will not take the learner cognitively “away” from their activities. Second, the program must not detract from the game-like experience that learners find engaging. Third, …

Killing Them With Kindness: Examining "Consumer-Friendly" Arbitration Clauses After At&T; Mobility V. Concepcion, Myriam E. Gilles

Articles

The article focuses on the U.S. Supreme Court case AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, in which California's "Discover Bank rule" was struck by the Court under the Federal Arbitration Act, which was upheld by the California Supreme Court in the court case Discover Bank v. Superior Court. It provides information that the rule is a judge-made rule which depicts that class action waivers are unforceable in arbitration agreements if such agreements are mentioned in standard form consumer contracts.

Terminating Beyond The Limits: Cms Is Overreaching In Its Attempt To Regulate Acos According To Antitrust Standards, Benjamin M. Zegarelli

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

A New Paradigm: Domicile As The Exclusive Basis For The Exercise Of General Jurisdiction Over Individual Defendants, Emily Eng

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Law School Forum: William And Mary Law School, Davison M. Douglas

Popular Media

No abstract provided.

Histologic Findings In Biopsies/Resection Specimens From The Small Intestine With Special Emphasis On Celiac Disease: Experience From A Developing Country In South Asia, Huma Arshad, Zubair Ahmad

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Biopsies from the small intestine especially the duodenum are now being performed much more frequently than in the past. The most frequent reason for performing duodenal biopsies is to evaluate for malabsorption. In the last few years, increased awareness has resulted in more biopsies sent for evaluation of malabsorption, especially celiac disease (CD). In the duodenum, features of malabsorption (increased intraepithelial lymphocytes, villous shortening, and atrophy) were the most common histologic finding seen in 63.4% of cases. Serum tTG levels were available for correlation in 52.8% of cases. In patients with confirmed CD, 53.4% were MARSH IIIb, and 29.5% were …

Development And Validation Of Sunlight Exposure Measurement Questionnaire (Sem-Q) For Use In Adult Population Residing In Pakistan, Quratulain Humayun, Romaina Iqbal, Iqbal Azam, Aysha Habib Khan, Amna Rehana Siddiqui, Naila Baig Ansari

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Background: Vitamin D deficiency has been identified as a major public health problem worldwide. Sunlight is the main source of vitamin D and its measurement using dosimeters is expensive and difficult for use in population-based studies. Hence, the aim of this study was to develop and validate questionnaires to assess sunlight exposure in healthy individuals residing in Karachi, Pakistan.

Methods: Two questionnaires with seven important items for sunlight exposure assessment were developed. Fifty four healthy adults were enrolled based on their reported sunlight exposure (high = 17, moderate = 18, low = 19) from Aga Khan University, Karachi. Over four …

Philosophy Of Resolving The Forces Of Contradiction In The Theory Of The Organization, Saad Ali Al-Anzi, Amer Ali Al-Atwi

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The currentresearch aimsto providea philosophical andknowledge framework to explain the issue oforganizationsdealingwithParadoxphenomenaby focusingon five mainaspects.Thefirstdeals withthe concept of paradox,and thesecond aspectdeals with thetypes offorces paradox.Whilethe third aspect regardssubject ofthe philosophy ofparadox in organization theory andthe fourth side deals with methods of solving the paradox.Finally,the lastsideis exposedto the subject ofthe paradoxesof the threeprovided by thestudy(Lewis, 2000)which isa paradoxlearning, andorganizing paradoxand identity paradox.The study concludesthat theprocess of solvingthe paradox requires fromorganizations to achievingfollowerssimultaneous for poles ofthe paradox.

Relationship And Impact Of The Analysis And Evaluation Jobs With Employees Performance: Survey Study, Ghanem Arzouki Anis, Hussein Walid Hussein

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The aim the research that definition on the impact a lot of Analysis and evaluation jobs impact in support the employees performance the property that are Analysis and evaluation jobs is one of the jobs however of the human resource management on organization and the impact footpace big on the chractericties and performance of the people and the impact that success of the organization , And here problem stool of the research in the omission the role for the Analysis and evaluation jobs impact in support the employees performance from the upward management in the organization , Polls were adopted …

Financial Corruption And Investment Opportunities In The Iraqi Economy, Rajaa Abdullah Issa

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

Corruption is one of the barriers to economic growth and investment opportunities, and after the most serious security and stability, that corruption plagued the Iraqi economy is striking and has roots since the eighties of the last century to the present day. The study aimed to identify practical impact of corruption on investment in the Iraqi economy and revealed the possibilities and obstacles to investment in Iraq and clarify the investment opportunities at the level of Iraq and the impact of corruption on investments. The focus will be on the statement of the extent of corruption and investment in Iraq …

Budget Deficiency And Its Treatment Prospects And Policies With Reference To Iraq (2003-2012), Salim Abd Salem

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

Developed and underdevelopment countries, on equal terms, face the problem of budget deficiency. Budget deficiency means that the public expenditure surpasses the public revenues. This, on the international level, is one of the most serious economic problems with many direct effects on the national economy, and depends, basically, on its finance chosen method. Looking for a solution to this problem, for this reason and many other ones, has been highlighted in spite of the many attempts to reduce the role of the governmental expenditure. Budget deficiency can not be attributed to a single unique cause since it is complex phenomenons …

International Cooperation In The Face Of Internet Crimes, Wissam Aldien Aloklah

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

In the early 1960s, the Internet emerged for non-commercial purposes before undergoing a staggering evolution in recent years; what began as a modest network has expanded into a global infrastructure encompassing millions of users, transforming from a mere academic research tool into an integrated environment for investment, labor, production, media, and information retrieval. During its inception, priority was given to network construction and expansion rather than security; however, following its public availability, the phenomenon of "cybercrime"—committed either on or through the network—emerged, characterized by innovative methods, rapid execution, ease of concealment, and the ability to erase digital footprints across diverse …

Estimation Of Coefficients And Scale Parameter For Linear (Type 1) Extreme Value Regression Model For Largest Values With Applications, Fatima Jasim Mohammed, Adel Ahmed Haddow

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

In this paper we estimate the coefficients and scale parameter in linear regression model depending on the residuals are of type 1 of extreme value distribution for the largest values . This can be regard as an improvement for the studies with the smallest values . We study two estimation methods ( OLS & MLE ) where we resort to Newton – Raphson (NR) and Fisher Scoring methods to get MLE estimate because the difficulty of using the usual approach with MLE . The relative efficiency criterion is considered beside to the statistical inference procedures for the extreme value regression …

Impact Of Electronic Commerce In Imposition Of Taxes, Suhad Kashkoul Abid

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

That the possibility of imposing a tax on electronic commerce is increasing interest in it by governments in developed and developing countries alike, and there is interest in a logical by governments and bodies of taxation, in particular in developing countries erosion potential tax in the tax base resulting from the adoption of e-commerce if not mutation rules and tax legislation, local and international to take into account this important economic developments and how to keep up, said the combination of the taxation system is the only way to increase revenue needed to finance government spending on goods and services …

Comparing Several Nonlinear Estimators For Regression Function, Munaf Yousif Hmood, Marwan Abdul Hameed Ashour

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The aim of this paper is to estimate a nonlinear regression function of the Export of the crude oil Saudi (in Million Barrels) as a function of the number of discovered fields. Through studying the behavior of the data we show that its behavior was not followed a linear pattern or can put it in a known form so far there was no possibility to see a general trend resulting from such exports. We use different nonlinear estimators to estimate a regression function, Local linear estimator, Semi-parametric as well as an artificial neural network estimator (ANN). The results proved that …

The Role Of Intellectual Capital In The Performance Of Small And Medium Enterprises Research Filed In Small And Medium Enterprises In Baghdad, Salah Al-Din Al-Kubaisy, Inas Khodair Abbas

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The Research aims to determine role of The Intellectual capital in the performance of small and medium enterprises , to achieve this goal through a researcher from the theoretical literature and studies related to the construction of the scheme shows the hypothetical relationship between the variables, which was adopted by the independent variable intellectual capital, distributed four variable are:( human capital, structure capital ,customer capital, innovation capital) as well as four variable (the financial perspective, the customer perspective, process perspective ,the learning & growth perspective) The study were getting to many results as bellow :the intellectual capital in the small …

Estimate The Area Unit Function Of Productivity For The Potato Crop In Anbar Province (For The Autumn Season 2008 / 2009), Afaf Saleh Al-Hani, Asmaa Tareq Al-Baldawi

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The aim of this research is to estimate the area unit function of productivity for the potato crop in Anbar province for the autumn season (2008 / 2009) Anbar province has been chosen as an applied model for the study due to its well known in cultivating potato crop , and the data were collected through a random sample about (10%) from the study society with a (150) farmers, The results indicated that the double logarithmic formula was the best representative of the relationship between crop productivity and independent variables (quantity of potato tubers , quantity of herbicides stuffs, quantity …

Critical Success Factors Of Strategic Information System And It’S Relation With Strategic Decisions Effectiveness, Salwa Hani Alsamarai

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The organization uses many techniques and methods to ensure that they will succeed and adapted with velocity change in the internal and external environment by decision taking, especially strategic decisions. Strategic decisions are very important for organization success because it can predict the future and deal with uncertainty, in this circumstances they need accurate and comprehensive information to make effective strategic decision. To achieve that purpose it must owned successful Strategic Information System ( SIS ) and determined the critical success factors for this system ,which can assisted the worker to focus on the important activities to develop it. This …

The Economic Feasibility Of The Beekeeping Project Using The Method Of Mobile Promiscuous, Hameed Ubaid Abed, Mamoun Ahmed Jaber, Ayed Neamah Owaid

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

An update of our research is the first to develop and reform the agricultural sector . and promoting production and productivity of this sector multi-sources , which is the management and beekeeping one source . Been applied to the style of beekeeping mobile promiscuous includes twentieth cell in the Iraqe project of mussiab . in which there exist a variety of crops and trees . Experiment had proved successful and led to raise the level of npoduction of single Dell of the honey to 49 kg over the previous year and surpassed the average production percell in the province of …

An Analytical Study Of The Reality Of Chemical Industries In Iraq For The Period (1995-2007), Mohammed Ali Jasim, Amer Shebl Zaya Paul

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

Is the chemical industries of great importance for the economy of any country, through what is borne by these industries is an important part of the changes contained in the industrial output of transfer and, moreover, that these industries are overlaps and intricacies of sector-wide with the rest of the manufacturing sectors, with agriculture and services , through the offering of these industries produce Production requirements intervention such as chemical fertilizer used in the production of agricultural crops, in addition to the various areas for the use of phosphorus in the food industry, to the extent that it is difficult …

Finding The Best Estimation Of Generalized For Failure Rates By Using Simulation, Faten Farouk Albadri, Ola Ali Faraj

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The statistical distributions study aimed to obtain on best descriptions of variable sets phenomena, which each of them got one behavior of that distributions . The estimation operations study for that distributions considered of important things which could n't canceled in variable behavior study, as result this research came as trial for reaching to best method for information distribution estimation which is generalized linear failure rate distribution, throughout studying the theoretical sides by depending on statistical posteriori methods like greatest ability, minimum squares method and Mixing method (suggested method). The research has contained such a comparing between sixth estimations methods …

Residential Grid-Tied With Battery Backup Photovoltaic System, Thomas Stobuagh

Electrical Engineering

When power outages occur, many homes are left without power for some time as they are dependent on the power grid. This project aims to design a residential grid tied battery backup photovoltaic system that will provide up to 7.2kW in an area that gets 5.36-5.49 kWh/m2/day [1] to support a home with an average daily usage of 28.4 kWh/day. To effectively use this system the house remains connected to the electric utility at all times, so any power needed above what the solar system can produce is simply drawn from the utility. It includes battery backup or uninterruptible power …

Examining Slot Machine Play With Varying Percentages Of Losses Disguised As Wins, Johnna L. Dunning

Research Papers

When playing on multiline slot machine games, small “wins” often amount to less than the original spin wager, which results in a financial loss to the gambler. However, the gambler may feel as if he is winning because these “wins” are paired with audio-visual feedback. The influence of losses disguised as wins was examined to determine if this had an influence on latency, trial ratings, and the number of trials played. Thirty-one participants played a minimum of 50 trials on a simulated multi-line slot machine. The participants were divided into three groups with 16%, 30%, and 46% of trials being …

Reassessing The Impact Of Inflation Targeting In Emerging Market Economies, Babatunde Aiyemo

Research Papers

In this paper, we subject a seeming consensus on the impact of inflation targeting in emerging market economies to some robustness assessments. First we report performance along carefully redefined country brackets, we find little evidence to support the notion that economies with inflation targeting policies performed better than non-targeting economies in terms of GDP growth, inflation and economic volatility. In fact, there is a suggestion in the results that amongst certain clusters of economies, certain restrictive aspects of the policy actually inhibit growth

In a subsequent assessment, we control for extent of development using specific country proxies but equally observe, …

Elite Athletes' Survival Advantage: Could Be Shared By All Through Physical Activity, Adrian E. Bauman, Steven N. Blair

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Regular Homotopy Of Closed Curves On Surfaces, Katherine Kylee Zebedeo

Boise State University Theses and Dissertations

The use of rotation numbers in the classification of regular closed curves in the plane up to regular homotopy sparked the investigation of winding numbers to classify regular closed curves on other surfaces. Chillingworth [1] defined winding numbers for regular closed curves on particular surfaces and used them to classify orientation preserving regular closed curves that are based at a fixed point and direction. We define geometrically a group structure of the set of equivalence classes of regular closed curves based at a fixed point and direction. We prove this group structure coincides with the one introduced by Smale [9] …

Evaluation Of Multiple Schedules With Naturally Occurring And Contrived Discriminative Stimuli Following Functional Communication Training, Kenneth D. Shamlian Psyd

All Student Scholarship

The purpose of this dissertation is to describe a doctoral research study designed to compare use of contrived and naturally occurring discriminative stimuli when using multiple schedules to thin reinforcement following functional communication training and their subsequent efficacy when introduced to novel contexts. Results indicated for one participant training with contrived stimuli was most effective, both contrived and naturally occurring stimuli were similarly effective for a second, and further modifications of a) pairing specific therapists to training conditions and, (b) adding toys during EXT components were necessary for either training condition to be effective for a third. For one participant, …

Electron Self-Trapping In Ge2 Se3 And Its Role In Ag And Sn Incorporation, Arthur H. Edwards, Kristy A. Campbell, Andrew C. Pineda

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

We present a set of density functional theory (DFT) calculations on the electronic structure of Ag and Sn in Ge₂ Se₃ in a periodic model. We show that electron self-trapping is a persistent feature in the presence of many defects. Ag and Sn autoionize upon entering Ge₂ Se₃ becoming Ag₊ and Sn₂₊ , respectively, and the freed electrons self trap at the lowest energy site. Both Ag and Sn can substitute for Ge, and we present formation energies as a function of Fermi level that show that Sn can substantially alter the incorporation of …