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Overcoming Design Challenges And Construction Risks During Closure Of The Hennepin West Ash Pond System, Lucas P. Carr, Victor A. Modeer, Collin Carson

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.

Pump-And-Treat Design Considerations And Challenges For A Closed Ccr Ash Pond, Benjamin K. Amos, Lane Dorman, Jeremy Gasser, Trey Singleton

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.

Evaluation Of Methods To Differentiate Ccr From Native Soil Or Fill With Similar Visual/Physical Characteristics To Successfully Facilitate Ccr Removal, Trenton M. Godwin, Stephen K. Wilson, Kevin M. Stephenson

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.

Lessons Learned On What Excavation Volume Of Ccr To Expect During Your Pond Closure, Matt Bleything

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.

Tools For Evaluating Hydrogeology Of Limestone Aquifer Systems, Benjamin Grove, Mark Densmore

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.

Multi-Functional Carrier - Id-05922, Christian Mohr

Defensive Publications Series

The invention relates to a cooktop assembly for a cooking appliance. The cooktop assembly comprises a multi-functional carrier, a top glass-ceramic, an induction coil(s), an electronic power board, a power electronics housing, a connector box, and a user interface(s). The multi-functional carrier has an improved single frame structure to hold all the cooktop components together and is directly glued onto the larger surface of the top glass-ceramic. The multi-functional carrier comprises several cut-outs sections, fixation points, and promise springs intended to achieve fully automatic assembly of the cooktop components with precise alignments. Unlike the conventional cooktops with manual assembly and …

The Reality Of Practising Distance-Learning Skills Among Teachers And Their Attitudes Toward It In Qasabat Alsalt Schools In The Light Of Corona Pandemic, Khalil Jamil Al-Saeeda

Al-Balqa Journal for Research and Studies البلقاء للبحوث والدراسات

This study aims at unfolding the reality of practising distance-learning skills among teachers and their attitudes toward it in Qasabat Alsalt schools in the light of Corona pandemic. Analytic descriptive approach was utilised to achieve the study aims and a questionnaire tool was used to collect the required data. Results revealed that teachers in Qasabat Alsalt schools practise distance-learning skills in the educational process since the pandemic has started and the traditional teaching approach has stopped in Jordan. Furthermore, the teachers’ attitudes towards using distance learning were positive in delivering learning in the light of the pandemic. The study recommends …

Punishment And Precautionary Measures, Fathi Tawfiq Alfaouri, Mohammad Abdlkarim Afif

Al-Balqa Journal for Research and Studies البلقاء للبحوث والدراسات

This study addresses the issue of the relationship between precautionary measures and criminal punishment. It addresses the issue from two prospections; first, it highlights the question as to whether it is possible to apply one of the above-mentioned components to the exclusion of the other in order to limit criminal risks. Second, it addresses the issue of a combination of precautionary measures along with criminal punishment especially in controversial cases where by the judge have been granted the authority to deal with. Thus, this study deals with the problem at two levels; first, it addresses the concept and meaning of …

Banks Responsibility In The Collection Of The Commercial Paper Contract, Wa’Ed Ghaleb Al-Shawabkeh

Al-Balqa Journal for Research and Studies البلقاء للبحوث والدراسات

The importance of studying this contract is to establish the legal nature of the bank’s responsibility when it fails to collect the value of the commercial paper, and to know the role and direction of the judiciary in that respect. The study relied on the element of analysis and education in a brief scientific way. The purpose of the study is to examine the legal basis for the Bank’s responsibility in the collection contract and the general provisions for this responsibility resulting for it, and to cover that responsibility in all its aspects. The study relies on the analytical method …

Perceptions Of Esp Instructors Regarding Implementation Of English As A Lingua Franca In The Classrooms Of Saudi Universities, Haifa Al-Nofaie

Al-Balqa Journal for Research and Studies البلقاء للبحوث والدراسات

The expansion of international relationships in Saudi Arabia has led to a recognition of the need to rethink the way that English is taught. This study aims at identifying the perceptions of English language instructors regarding the integration of the teaching of English as a lingua franca (ELF) with English for specific purposes (ESP) classrooms at Saudi universities in order to strengthen global connectivity. A 14-item questionnaire was administered to 50 ESP instructors working at 14 Saudi universities, and of these respondents, six were interviewed. It was found that many of the instructors were aware of the value of teaching …

Estimating The Optimal Size Of The Tax Burden In Jordan Using The Laffer Curve During The Period (2020-1980)., Saleh Yahya Al-Freijat

Al-Balqa Journal for Research and Studies البلقاء للبحوث والدراسات

This study aims to measure the optimal tax burden of the Jordanian economy using time series data from 1980 to 2020. Laffer curve was utilized to measure the optimal size of tax revenues in Jordan, the optimal size of income tax and the current tax burden compared to the optimal size of tax. To this end, a standard model was used to estimate Laffer curve and a fully modified ordinary least squared model (FMOLS) was used to estimate the parameters. The results indicated that the current tax rates are lower than their optimal size. Income tax levels in Jordan are …

The Importance Of Disseminating Entrepreneurial Education, Fadila Boutora

Al-Balqa Journal for Research and Studies البلقاء للبحوث والدراسات

This study aims at shedding light at the significant role of the House of Entrepreneurship, at the Algerian University, in spreading the entrepreneurial culture. The study takes the House of Entrepreneurship, at Tebessa University, as its case. The House purports to spread the entrepreneurial thought amongst prospective graduate students. The educational process aims at providing students with the necessary knowledge and skills, and motivating them to start their entrepreneurial projects. This method is represented in developing entrepreneurial attitudes and values, as well as having knowledge related to entrepreneurship amongst students of universities. The study revealed that entrepreneurial education plays a …

The Impact Of Disclosure Of Social Responsibility Cost On The Quality Of Accounting Information At The Sudanese Telecommunication Companies, Omer Alsir Alhassan Mohammed, Fatihelelah Mohammed Ahmed

Al-Balqa Journal for Research and Studies البلقاء للبحوث والدراسات

This study aims at analyzing the reality of accounting disclosure with respect to the social responsibility concerning four dimensions: community service cost, personnel service cost, customer service cost and environmental service cost, and to figuring out that effect on the quality of accounting information at the Sudanese telecommunications companies. The study followed the analytical descriptive approach to describe and analyze this phenomenon by using a questionnaire, where 200 questionnaires were distributed and 180 were analyzed. The main findings of the study came as follows: these companies are very interested in the variables of the study regarding the disclosure of social …

Degree Of Satisfaction Of Elderly About The Services Provided To Them In Social Care Houses In White Beds Association, Yousef Mohammed Al-Shurman, Ferdous Hasan Omari

Al-Balqa Journal for Research and Studies البلقاء للبحوث والدراسات

This study aims at identifying the degree of satisfaction of the elderly about the (social, health, entertainment, psychological) services provided to them in social care houses. The sample of the study includes all residents of the White Beds Association for the care of the elderly in Amman. The researcher designed a questionnaire to use in the interviews with the elderly. The questionnaire has four items, and each item includes a group of questions about the service provided to them. The researcher interviewed all the members of the White Beds Association, whose health condition allowed this, (75 elderly people: 44 men …

The Effect Of The Negotiation Strategy On Value-Based Management Among The Principals Of Public Schools In Zarqa Governorate, Ali Saleh Alkhawaldeh, Saleh Swailem Al-Sharafat

Al-Balqa Journal for Research and Studies البلقاء للبحوث والدراسات

The purpose of this study was to look into the impact of the negotiation strategy on value-based management among principals of government schools in the Directorate of Education in the Ruseifeh District of Zarqa Governorate. The descriptive analytical method was used by the researcher. To collect data, a questionnaire was developed. The study’s sample consists of (156) male and female government school teachers from the directorate of education in the Rusaifa district of Zarqa Governorate. The data was analyzed using the SPSS program. The degree of application of the negotiation strategy with government school directors in the Education Directorate in …

Content Analysis Of Directed Reading Thinking Activity (Drta) Techniques In Action Pack 10 Student’S Book, Khaldoun Ali Al-Janaydeh, Dina Abdl Hameed Al-Jamal

Al-Balqa Journal for Research and Studies البلقاء للبحوث والدراسات

This study aims at analyzing the content of the Student’s Book of Action Pack 10 in the Jordanian context in terms of the reading activities. This study explores exactly to what extent the techniques of the Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) strategy (prediction, reading, confirmation and justification) are included and presented in Action Pack 10. The study used the descriptive methodology in analyzing the content of the reading activities. The findings showed that the techniques of the DRTA strategy are presented implicitly and explicitly in the Student’s Book of Action Pack 10. The study also showed that the levels of …

The Multiplicity Of Grammatical Faces In Case Issue Between Sibawaieh And Late Grammarians, Mutasem Basem Gwadareh

Al-Balqa Journal for Research and Studies البلقاء للبحوث والدراسات

This research deals with the difference between Sibawaieh’s making in the Multiplicity of the grammatical faces in the case issues. And the making of late grammarians in that Multiplicity. It stands at the reality of the transformation from multiple faces to monotheism and reveals the causes of this multiplicity and how it appeared in contextual and linguistic conditions, and shows how it absent and defaced by all the late grammarians. The research shows that both makings relate to the nature of the language whose grammar was written, and the extent to which its people at all times need that plurality. …

Energy Harvesting Battery-Less Smart Card With Vicinity Communication Capability, Yuexi Chen, Mustafa Top

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure focusses to simplifying the user's ability to make payments, accumulate rewards, or authentication by including information relating to multiple cards, and allowing the user to conveniently select a card among the multiple cards by operation of a user input unit, and to use various payment methods. The method includes performing predictive analysis/ early detection of discounts, promotion. Further, sorts and displays the Card Program Promotion Advertisement (CPPA) that may match the card of the user to obtain the offers. Also, identifies the user area of interest based on the time that he/she may spend in front of …

Input Lift-Off Detection And Drift Compensation For Presence-Sensitive Devices, Mingyuan Zhong, Wenxin Feng, Shumin Zhai

Defensive Publications Series

A mobile computing device (e.g., smartwatch, smartphone, tablet computer, laptop computer with touchscreen input, etc.) may determine when a user has lifted their finger, pen, pencil, stylus, or other input element from a presence-sensitive input device (e.g., resistive touchscreens, surface acoustic wave touchscreens, capacitive touchscreens, projective capacitance touchscreens, pressure sensitive screens, acoustic pulse recognition screens, etc.) and may compensate for drift in the touch centroid resulting from the lifting off of the input element. The mobile computing device may use a sliding window analysis, a recurrent neural network, or other algorithms to determine when a user has begun moving the …

Operating System-Level Survey Platform, Krishna Shukla

Defensive Publications Series

An operating system (OS) of a computing device (e.g., a smartphone, mobile phone, a tablet computer, a laptop computer, a wearable device, etc.) may provide a survey platform that applications installed at the computing device can use to generate customizable, general-purpose surveys. For instance, the OS may allow the applications to perform a library call or a remote procedure call (RPC) to generate a customizable survey graphical user interface (GUI), which may be overlay-based, notification-based, etc. In some examples, the OS may control (e.g., restrict, limit, regulate, etc.) usage of the survey platform by the applications based on OS-wide permissions …

Content-Based Display Color Enhancement Using Dynamic Memory Color Protection, Farnaz Agahian, Daniel Solomon

Defensive Publications Series

A computing device (e.g., a smartphone, a laptop computer, a tablet computer, a smartwatch, etc.) may apply color enhancement (e.g., by modifying digital values of red, green, and blue additive primaries to increase color saturation of colors originally in the sRGB color space) to content (e.g., an image, a video, etc.) without causing objects within the content to appear unrealistic to a user. For example, the computing device may apply a machine learning model to label objects (e.g., based on image features) within the content. Based on the labels, the computing device may determine whether color enhancement should be applied …

Defining And Enforcing Privacy Restrictions For Software Applications, Eugenio Marchiori

Defensive Publications Series

This publication describes systems and techniques for defining and enforcing privacy restrictions for software applications that can execute on different versions of an operating system, including versions of operating systems that do not natively support enforcement of privacy features and restrictions for software applications. Applications may be written using a software development kit (SDK), which may include a library that defines application programming interfaces (APIs) and privacy characteristics of the features of the applications built using such APIs. The applications written using the SDK may execute within containers that apply constraints to actions that applications executing within the containers can …

The Impact Of Various Food Additive Chemicals On The Heart Rates Of Daphnia Magna, Vignesh Tiruvannamalai '24

Methods in Scientific Inquiry

The purpose of this experiment was to determine the effects that common food additive chemicals have on the heart rates of Daphnia magna, considering that there are health concerns for humans regarding numerous food additives. Various food additives that have different purposes were used, as was a control group. In order to conduct this experiment, solutions for each of these chemicals were created based on the concentrations found in processed food. Three Daphnia magna were exposed to each solution for 20, 25, and 30 minutes respectively, and the heart rate of each was recorded using a microscope. The hypothesis was …

Gatekeeping Experiences Latina Superintendents Encountered As They Attained Their Superintendent Position, Julie Corona

Dissertations

Purpose: The purpose of this qualitative multicase study was to describe the career path progression and the gatekeeping experiences as Latinas advanced to a superintendent position. The second purpose of this study was to describe the gatekeeping experiences of Latina superintendents’ application and interview process of their superintendency. Additionally, this study described Latina superintendents’ gatekeeping experiences of gender and ethnicity. Last, this study examined the strategies that Latina superintendents used as they ascended to their superintendent positions. Methodology: This phenomenological multicase study was conducted through interviews of five Latina superintendents of California public schools. The researcher selected a qualitative method …

Factors Affecting The Special Endurance Of The Body Structure Of Football Players Aged 18-19 Years, Sirozhiddin Nuritdinovich Pulatov

Eurasian Journal of Sport Science

Purpose: To study the effect of changes in the body of players aged 18-19 on a special level of endurance at different stages of the annual cycle.

Methods: Pedagogical control, pedagogical testing, anthropology, mathematical and statistical methods were used in the experiment.

Results: One of the components of the player's performance is the structure of the body. The analysis showed the following: 12% of the players had a normal fat mass, and 16% of the players had an average level. In 72% of the players, the amount of fat mass significantly exceeded the norm. At the same time, the highest …

Implications Of The Nuclear Pore Barrier For Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Malignancy And Therapy, Silvio Terra Stefanello, Isabelle Luchtefeld, Ivan Liashkovich, Ihab Azzam, Etmar Bulk, Gonzalo Rosso, Caren Rigon Mizdal, Victor Shahin

Nanotechnology In Medicine III: Enabling Next Generation Therapies

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Industry Perspective On The Future Of Organ-On-Chip Applications, Thomas Neuman

Nanotechnology In Medicine III: Enabling Next Generation Therapies

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Using Group Interviews To Innovate The Selection Process For New Graduate Nurses, Karen T. Descent

DNP Qualifying Manuscripts

A pilot program in two hospitals using a group interview approach for new graduate nurse selection enabled multidisciplinary leadership participation. The interview process incorporated structured behavioral and scenario-based questions. The pilot shortened the traditional one-to-one interview process by 70% and improved retention one year from hire by 17.5%.

The Economic Impact Of The North Central West Virginia Airport Expansion, Eric Bowen

Bureau of Business & Economic Research

The North Central West Virginia (NCWV) Airport in Clarksburg/Bridgeport has experienced rapid growth over the last decade. The number of airline passengers through the airport increased nearly four-fold between 2010 and 2019. The airport was also chosen as the primary US hub for the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries airplane refurbishment facility, which services airplanes from most major airlines.

Because of this rapid growth, the NCWV Airport has begun construction on a new terminal building in order to handle the increased traffic through the area. In this report, we provide an economic impact estimate of the terminal’s expansion and associated growth in …

Three Paths To Open Access, Shannon M. Smith

ScholarWorks Publications

An information sheet that outlines the path to making your research open access according to the type of journal in which your work is published.