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Raising standards and tackling workload: a national agreement: time for standards
"This document represents an historic national Agreement between Government, employers and school workforce unions to help schools, teachers and support staff meet the
challenges that lie ahead. It promises joint action, designed to help every school across the country to raise standards and tackle workload issues. Action will take place across England and Wales and will take account of the different circumstances from school to school. Proposals in this Agreement for changes to the School Teachers’ Pay and
Conditions Document will apply equally to teachers in England and Wales." - introduction
Improved Time-Domain Accuracy Standards for Model Gravitational Waveforms
Model gravitational waveforms must be accurate enough to be useful for
detection of signals and measurement of their parameters, so appropriate
accuracy standards are needed. Yet these standards should not be unnecessarily
restrictive, making them impractical for the numerical and analytical modelers
to meet. The work of Lindblom, Owen, and Brown [Phys. Rev. D 78, 124020 (2008)]
is extended by deriving new waveform accuracy standards which are significantly
less restrictive while still ensuring the quality needed for gravitational-wave
data analysis. These new standards are formulated as bounds on certain norms of
the time-domain waveform errors, which makes it possible to enforce them in
situations where frequency-domain errors may be difficult or impossible to
estimate reliably. These standards are less restrictive by about a factor of 20
than the previously published time-domain standards for detection, and up to a
factor of 60 for measurement. These new standards should therefore be much
easier to use effectively.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figure
Frequency and time standards based on stored ions
The method of ion storage provides a basis for excellent time and frequency standards. This is due to the ability to confine ions for long periods of time without the usual perturbations associated with confinement (e.g., wall shifts). In addition, Doppler effects can be greatly suppressed. The use of stored ions for microwave frequency standards and the future possibilities for an optical frequency standard based on stored ions are addressed
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Compensatory Time vs. Cash Wages: Amending the Fair Labor Standards Act?
In the 108th Congress, two work hours flexibility bills have been introduced: S. 317 by Senator Gregg and H.R. 1119 by Representative Biggert. Both bills deal with a compensatory time off option (comp time) — though the Gregg proposal is somewhat broader, projecting other changes in the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) as well. This report is limited to consideration of the issue of comp time
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