Preparing Students for Workplace Challenges: Introducing a Module on the ADA

[Excerpt] This article has three specific purposes: first, to show the importance of the ADA to hospitality practitioners; second, to illustrate the need for hospitality educators to take a leading role in addressing issues regarding the employment of disabled people; and finally, to illustrate how hospitality educators can use this case method to not just discuss the substance of the law itself, but to actually involve students in issues surrounding this legislation. Only in this way will students begin to develop the strategies necessary to deal with the interpersonal implications and complexities of managing in the ADA era. This article describes the major provisions of the legislation. Then it presents a classroom module, and follows with a case that can be used to stimulate discussion in almost any management class

Ada and cyclic runtime scheduling

An important issue that must be faced while introducing Ada into the real time world is efficient and prodictable runtime behavior. One of the most effective methods employed during the traditional design of a real time system is the cyclic executive. The role cyclic scheduling might play in an Ada application in terms of currently available implementations and in terms of implementations that might be developed especially to support real time system development is examined. The cyclic executive solves many of the problems faced by real time designers, resulting in a system for which it is relatively easy to achieve approporiate timing behavior. Unfortunately a cyclic executive carries with it a very high maintenance penalty over the lifetime of the software that is schedules. Additionally, these cyclic systems tend to be quite fragil when any aspect of the system changes. The findings are presented of an ongoing SofTech investigation into Ada methods for real time system development. The topics covered include a description of the costs involved in using cyclic schedulers, the sources of these costs, and measures for future systems to avoid these costs without giving up the runtime performance of a cyclic system

Introducing the New and Improved Americans with Disabilities Act: Assessing the ADA Amendments Act of 2008

This essay summarizes the changes to the Americans with Disabilities made by the ADA Amendments Act of 2008. The Act represents the first substantive revision to the ADA since its inception and contains some dramatic changes. This essay summarizes those changes and makes some preliminary assessments as to how the new amendments are likely to alter the current interpretation of the ADA

Loma Linda University Dentistry - Volume 25, Number 1

Content: 8 | Ronald Secor Departs9 | Introducing Euni Cho12 | New Positions: Jessica Kim & Bonnie Retamozo14 | Natural Crowns as Provisional Restorations19 | A Generation of Implant Dentistry24 | Nick Caplanis Elected President, American Academy of Implant Dentistry36 | LLUSD at ADA in New Orleanshttps://scholarsrepository.llu.edu/articulator/1006/thumbnail.jp

ART/Ada design project, phase 1

An Ada-Based Expert System Building Tool Design Research Project was conducted. The goal was to investigate various issues in the context of the design of an Ada-based expert system building tool. An attempt was made to achieve a comprehensive understanding of the potential for embedding expert systems in Ada systems for eventual application in future projects. The current status of the project is described by introducing an operational prototype, ART/Ada. How the project was conducted is explained. The performance of the prototype is analyzed and compared with other related works. Future research directions are suggested

Strategies for Introducing Formal Methods into the ADA Life Cycle

This is the final report of a short study of the applicability of formal definition techniques to program development activities with specific emphasis on using the programming language Ada. The portion of the study here encompasses three elements: - A review of the various formal defition techniques; - A study of the existing and planned tools in programming development environments; - An examination of life cycle methodologies with the objective of inserting formalized techniques