ATTENTION CORRECTION POSSIBILITY IN PRIMARY SCHOOL DURING EDUCATING PROCESS IN SPECIAL SCHOOLS FOR PUPIL WITH INTELLECTUAL DISTURBANCES

Attention deviation for pupils with intellectual disabilities creates learning difficulties because pupils are not able to focus for long time, weakness and distraction of attention are typical, and it is difficult to switch from one activity to another. In order to reduce attention disorders, the authors offer the adjustment program and the working material „Development of Attention Features for Pupils with intellectual disabilities Mental Disabilities” for extra-curricular activities. The material was approbated in primary classes of special educational institutions for children with mental disabilities during the period from October 2014 to March 2015. The approbation results show that the program and the working material can be applied in attention disorders adjustment work with pupils with intellectual disabilities mental disabilities, because the levels of attention switching and division capacity, attention span and concentration have improved, despite the fact that the indicators still complied with the low attention switching and division capacities

Business Student And Practitioner Work Goals And Their Implications

The correspondence between individual work goals and available organizational rewards is a primary determinant of job satisfaction and motivation and is also likely to impact job performance. Differences between upper and lower division business students’ work goals suggest that changes had occurred as the students progressed through the curriculum that are likely to be functional for their work adjustment in modern organizations affected by current trends in job and organization design. However, some student priorities remained poorly matched with the available rewards and work requirements they are likely to find in these organizations.  The mismatched priorities contrasted sharply with those displayed by U.S. managers in a previous study

Coherent terabit communications with microresonator Kerr frequency combs

Optical frequency combs enable coherent data transmission on hundreds of wavelength channels and have the potential to revolutionize terabit communications. Generation of Kerr combs in nonlinear integrated microcavities represents a particularly promising option enabling line spacings of tens of GHz, compliant with wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) grids. However, Kerr combs may exhibit strong phase noise and multiplet spectral lines, and this has made high-speed data transmission impossible up to now. Recent work has shown that systematic adjustment of pump conditions enables low phase-noise Kerr combs with singlet spectral lines. Here we demonstrate that Kerr combs are suited for coherent data transmission with advanced modulation formats that pose stringent requirements on the spectral purity of the optical source. In a first experiment, we encode a data stream of 392 Gbit/s on subsequent lines of a Kerr comb using quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) and 16-state quadrature amplitude modulation (16QAM). A second experiment shows feedback-stabilization of a Kerr comb and transmission of a 1.44 Tbit/s data stream over a distance of up to 300 km. The results demonstrate that Kerr combs can meet the highly demanding requirements of multi-terabit/s coherent communications and thus offer a solution towards chip-scale terabit/s transceivers

NIOSH 1992 projects

This report presents information on the areas of scientific research, surveillance, and related studies in which NIOSH is working. The report highlights work being done in the areas of occupationally caused lung diseases, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, reproductive disorders, nervous system disorders, hearing loss, skin problems, psychological distress, musculoskeletal injuries, and severe traumatic injuries. Specific projects are also discussed and classified according to the division of NIOSH under which they fall (biomedical and behavioral science; physical sciences and engineering; respiratory disease; standards development and technology transfer; surveillance, hazard evaluations and field studies; safety research, and training and manpower development). A change or adjustment in the vision of NIOSH is briefly discussed as the Institute moves into the 1990s.NIOSHTIC no. 00212218Preface -- NIOSH facilities: Atlanta, Morgantown -- NIOSH facitlties: Cincinnati -- Introduction -- NIOSH planning format -- NIOSH organzation chart -- NIOSH division' mission statements -- Summaries of NIOSH strategies -- NIOSH projects by program areas -- NIOSH projects by division.1992826

Urban poverty, intervention strategies and the role of social work in the framework of structural adjustment: concepts, approaches and experiences

A workshop paper on the impact of structural adjustment programmes on urban poverty reduction initiatives in Africa.Structural adjustment and economic reform have been at the centre of the policy agenda in many African countries since the early 1980s. In an era of scarce resources, African policy-makers have the task to reconcile what their citizens need with what countries can afford. Although this dilemma must be confronted in any economy, the gravity of the African situation has made the process of political and economic accommodation particularly difficult and painful. Although some of the programmes of development include social aspects, they seem to be inefficient due to their social welfare and safety-net orientation. This situation particularly affects urban populations whose conditions of life are decreasing day-by-day. This paper, on the one hand, analyses the implications of structural adjustment programmes for urban poverty and the policies and strategies for urban poverty alleviation. On the other hand it gives general approaches for innovative policies and social work within the process of urban poverty alleviation.Overseas Development Administration, British Development Division (Central Africa) (The British Council

Needs Assessment of Novice Teachers: Basis for A Model Assistance Program

This study aimed to assess the needs of novice teachers in the public elementary schools in District II-A of Division of Antipolo City which served as basis for the formulation of a proposed model assistance program. The needs of the novice teachers were classified into: job-related needs, professional development needs, environmental-related needs, social adjustment needs, and understanding legal rights. The independents variables in this study include age, sex, and work experience. The study employed a valid and reliable researcher made questionnaire-checklist to assess the needs of novice teachers which was supplemented by semi-structured interview. The results of the study revealed that majority of the respondents are female ages 26 years old and above, and have teaching experience. The needs of novice teachers with respect to job-related, professional development, environment-related, social adjustment and understanding legal rights are all interpreted as Much Needed. The test failed to accept the null hypothesis when novice teachers were grouped by sex.  This is true for understanding legal rights needs. Similarly, for age, the test failed to accept the null hypothesis for social adjustment needs.  The same for work experience, the null hypothesis is rejected in terms of job-related needs. The result of questions raised for the needs of the novice teachers to programs and must need materials for teachers obtained a high affirmative response with many having 100% assenting reply. Based on the findings, it was concluded that there is a significant difference on the needs of novice teachers in terms of understanding legal rights when grouped by sex; in terms of social adjustment when grouped by age and in terms of job-related needs when grouped by work experience.   Keywords: Needs Assessment, Novice Teachers, Model Assistance Progra

Structural poverty and female prisoners - implications for fieldwork - the case of Lesotho

A workshop paper on gender and structural poverty in Lesotho penitentiaries.This paper addresses the case of female prisoners incarcerated in the Female Prison in Maseru, Lesotho. Attention is given to the link between structural poverty and its impact on female prisoners. The increasingly negative impact of structural adjustment programmes in exacerbating the lives of women and children in cited. A brief overview of the literature ’ s current thinking of female criminals is used to introduce the section on the Maseru Female Prison’s study. The paper concludes with a discussion of the importance of work with this population.Overseas Development Administration; British Development Division (Central Africa

Transition from Collegiate Track & Field: an Examination of Values and Commitment

This study provides a glimpse into psychological factors some of the 100,000 student-athletes who leave collegiate sport each year may face and adds to current understandings of ways to best serve collegiate student-athletes prior to their departure from collegiate sport. Drawing from the theories of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and The Minnesota Theory of Work Adjustment, the study utilizes a population of former NCAA Division 1, 2, 3 and NAIA student-athletes to offer an in-depth look at the transition away from collegiate track and field. Mediation analysis was utilized to explore the interplay between commitment to values driven behavior, psychological wellbeing and the vocational construct Correspondence. Results are discussed from traditional and contemporary viewpoints, and limitations and suggestions for future research are provided

Essays on Spatial Economics

The three chapters of my dissertation study factors that contribute to the uneven distribution of economic activities across space. In the first chapter, I study why firms are more productive in larger cities, by focusing on a potential explanation first proposed by Adam Smith: Larger cities facilitate greater division of labor within firms. Using a dataset of Brazilian firms, I first document that division of labor is indeed robustly correlated with city size, controlling for firm size. I propose a theoretical model in which this relationship is generated by both a selection effect---firms endogenously sort across space, choosing different extents of division of labor---and a treatment effect---larger cities increase division of labor for all firms, by reducing the costs associated with greater division of labor. The model embeds a theory of firms' choice of the optimal division of labor in a spatial equilibrium model. Structural estimates derived from the model show that division of labor accounts for 16\% of the productivity advantage of larger cities in Brazil, half of which is due to firm sorting and the other half to the treatment effect of city size. The theory also generates a set of auxiliary predictions of firms' responses to a reduction in the cost of division of labor. Exploiting a quasi-experiment that changes the cost of division of labor within cities---the gradual roll-out of broadband internet infrastructure---I find causal empirical support for these predictions, validating the model. Finally, the quasi-experiment also provides out-of-sample validation for the structural estimation. The estimated model predicts changes in the average division of labor within different cities in response to the new broadband internet infrastructure, which I find are similar to the actual changes. The second chapter, co-authored with Ariel Burstein, Gordon Hanson and Jonathan Vogel, studies how occupation (or industry) tradability shapes local labor-market adjustment to immigration. Theoretically, we derive a simple condition under which the arrival of foreign-born labor into a region crowds native-born workers out of (or into) immigrant-intensive jobs, thus lowering (or raising) relative wages in these occupations, and explain why this process differs within tradable versus within nontradable activities. Using data for U.S. commuting zones over the period 1980 to 2012, we find that consistent with our theory a local influx of immigrants crowds out employment of native-born workers in more relative to less immigrant-intensive nontradable jobs, but has no such effect within tradable occupations. Further analysis of occupation labor payments is consistent with adjustment to immigration within tradables occurring more through changes in output (versus changes in prices) when compared to adjustment within nontradables, thus confirming our model's theoretical mechanism. We then use an extended quantitative model to interpret the magnitudes of our reduced-form estimates and to aggregate up the consequences of counterfactual changes in U.S. immigration from the region-occupation level to the region-level. The third chapter proposes a new channel through which improvements in transportation or communications technologies affect skill distribution across space. In this joint work with Yang Jiao, we start with the empirical observations that substantial skill and occupation relocation took place across U.S. cities during past decades. In particular, big cities attract more skilled workers and become more specialized in cognitive-intensive occupations. Motivated by empirical literature on the association between modern communications technology adoption and production fragmentation, we develop a spatial equilibrium model with domestic production fragmentation to analyze the impact of a reduction in the costs of cross-city production teams---e.g., communications cost---on spatial distribution of skills and economic activities. The model generates predictions consistent with the observed empirical patterns, including more spatial segregation of skilled and unskilled workers, and occupation specialization across U.S. cities over time. In contrast to findings in the international offshoring literature, in which there are winners and losers, we find that under regularities conditions, there are Pareto welfare gains for all agents with heterogeneous skills, together with a substantial measured labor productivity increase at the aggregate level

Analysis of the impact of the structural adjustment programme on urban poverty and social work fieldwork in Zambia

A conference paper on the impact of economic structural adjustment policies on the urban poor in Zambia.This paper analyses the impact of the Structural Adjustment Programme(s) (SAPs) on urban poor and fieldwork in Zambia. Socio-economic analysts have come to terms with the reality that the decade of the 1980s in most African countries, including Zambia, should be considered as one of considerable economic adjustment which has provided difficult economic environments. In some cases the decade is considered a “lost decade” as any socio-economic progress made in the 1960s and early 1970s had been lost and undermined by the unprecedented economic crisis (Osei-Hwedie and Ndulo, 1989). Despite Africa’s abundant natural resources, African countries continue to suffer appalling socio-economic conditions. It is observed that sixteen of the World’s poorest twenty nations are in Africa. The trend towards economic and social disintegration is the stark outline being presented in the 1990s as most African countries approach their third decade of independence amid signs that even modest achievements of the early post-colonial era have been lost. Levy in Times of Zambia March 1,1993 observed that comparisons with other developing regions, most notably Asia, leave Africa staggering paces behind, despite the continent’s natural resources. Sub-Saharan Africa contributes only 1,5% of the world’s economic output, roughly equivalent to that of Belgium, and accounts for only 1% of world trade. This has occurred over a period when trade has become the motor of development for other developing countries and regions. Hence, to better understand the impact of the structural adjustment programme on Zambia, and in particular the urban poor and social work fieldwork, it is essential to draw attention to certain geographical, historical and political features. In the subsequent section a brief background to these features is given.Funded by Overseas Development Administration; British Development Division (Central Africa