Orientation: Meeting the needs of students

Orientation is defined as an adjustment or adaptation to a new environment, situation, custom, or set of ideas. It is also defined as introductory instruction concerning a new situation. These definitions aptly apply to college orientation purposes and goals; however, the process of orientation has gone far beyond this in its scope and usage in the modern college setting. The first orientation course on record was at Boston University in 1888 while the first known course offered for credit was established at Reed College in 1911. Orientation programs have grown steadily in depth and scope since that time. The creators of these early programs faced many issues that are still relevant in planning programs. These concerns center around the purposes, goals, and content of the program as well as the social and academic support of the student

Implementing Norm-Governed Multi-Agent Systems

The actions and interactions of independently acting agents in a multi-agent system must be managed if the agents are to function effectively in their shared environment. Norms, which define the obligatory, prohibited and permitted actions for an agent to perform, have been suggested as a possible method for regulating the actions of agents. Norms are local rules designed to govern the actions of individual agents whilst also allowing the agents to achieve a coherent global behaviour. However, there appear to be very few instances of norm-governed multi-agent systems beyond theoretical examples. We describe an implementation strategy for allowing autonomous agents to take a set of norms into account when determining their actions. These norms are implemented using directives, which are local rules specifying actions for an agent to perform depending on its current state. Agents using directives are implemented in a simulation test bed, called Sinatra. Using Sinatra, we investigate the ability of directives to manage agent actions. We begin with directives to manage agent interactions. We find that when agents rely on only local rules they will encounter situations where the local rules are unable to achieve the desired global behaviour. We show how a centralised control mechanism can be used to manage agent interactions that are not successfully handled by directives. Controllers, with a global view of the interaction, instruct the individual agents how to act. We also investigate the use of an existing planning tool to implement the resolution mechanism of a controller. We investigate the ability of directives to coordinate the actions of agents in order to achieve a global objective more effectively. Finally, we present a case study of how directives can be used to determine the actions of autonomous mobile robots.Open Acces

Operational value creation in private equity: exploratory research gauging the divergence in perceived prioritization of private equity´s operational improvement measures in normal and recessionary economic conditions

Empirical research wasconducted detailing, ranking, and evaluatingoperational improvement measuresin Private Equity. Forty-two operational PE experts were surveyed, gaugingthe relative prioritization attributed to these measures in normal and recessionary conditions. Ranking these found a strong focus toward cash preserving strategies in economic down turns. Scatter plot analyses crossing evaluation metrics of Potential Money Multiple Uplift, Complexity, Delivery Risk, Senior Time Commitment found no clear conclusion on PE tendencies toward quick wins or larger plays. Additionally, an operational PE to traditional PE historical performance comparison was conducted finding quite consistent outperformance by operational PE funds from 2000 –2017

July 2022 Table of Contents Newsletter - Acquisitions

Welcome to the first email edition of the DePauw Libraries newsletter- The Table of Contents! Published monthly, we will be highlighting various services that the library provides, along with staff spotlights, and thoughts from our dean, Brooke Cox, and emeriti librarians. In July\u27s issue we are focusing on Acquisitions, the department that does all of the libraries\u27 purchasing of databases, books, and materials. To see current and previous issues you can check out the Table of Contents Collection in our Digital Repository: https://scholarship.depauw.edu/library_news

Pembuatan Kamus Dangerous Speech Berdasarkan Aspek

Dangerous speech, atau ujaran berbahaya, yang merupakan bagian dari ujaran kebencian, merupakan suatu ujaran yang dapat meningkatkan risiko seseorang atau suatu kelompok orang melakukan kejahatan terhadap orang lain atau kelompok orang lainnya. Dalam dangerous speech ini, terdapat 2 aspek konteks, yaitu sosial dan historis, serta 5 aspek pesan, yaitu dehumanisasi, tuduhan, serangan terhadap wanita dan anak-anak, loyalitas kelompok, dan ancaman terhadap suatu kelompok. Dangerous speech sendiri marak ditemukan di media sosial seperti Twitter. Pada pengerjaan Kerja Praktik ini, penulis telah membuat suatu kamus yang berisikan kata-kata kunci untuk masing-masing aspek dangerous speech. Kamus tersebut berbentuk suatu file excel dan memuat kata-kata n-gram untuk setiap aspek dangerous speech, serta pola kalimat untuk n-gram yang paling sering muncul dengan cara Part-of-speech (POS) tagging yang dapat dianalisis lebih lanjut dan dipergunakan seperlunya pada penelitian kedepannya

Rapidly Rotating Lenses: Repeating features in the lightcurves of short period binary microlenses

Microlensing is most sensitive to binary lenses with relatively large orbital separations, and as such, typical binary microlensing events show little or no orbital motion during the event. However, despite the strength of binary microlensing features falling off rapidly as the lens separation decreases, we show that it is possible to detect repeating features in the lightcurve of binary microlenses that complete several orbits during the microlensing event. We investigate the lightcurve features of such Rapidly Rotating Lens (RRL) events. We derive analytical limits on the range of parameters where these effects are detectable, and confirm these numerically. Using a population synthesis Galactic model we estimate the RRL event rate for a ground-based and space-based microlensing survey to be 0.32fb and 7.8fb events per year respectively, assuming year-round monitoring and where fb is the binary fraction. We detail how RRL event parameters can be quickly estimated from their lightcurves, and suggest a method to model RRL events using timing measurements of lightcurve features. Modelling RRL lightcurves will yield the lens orbital period and possibly measurements of all orbital elements including the inclination and eccentricity. Measurement of the period from the lightcurve allows a mass-distance relation to be defined, which when combined with a measurement of microlens parallax or finite source effects, can yield a mass measurement to a two-fold degeneracy. With sub-percent accuracy photometry it is possible to detect planetary companions, but the likelihood of this is very small.Comment: 16 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS. Equation 21 simplifie

Cognitive Impairment in Heart Failure: Issues of Measurement and Etiology

Background: Clinicians need easy methods of screening for cognitive impairment in patients with heart failure. If correlates of cognitive impairment could be identified, more patients with early cognitive impairment could be treated before the problem interfered with adherence to treatment. Objectives: To describe cognitive impairment in patients with heart failure, to explore the usefulness of 4 measures of cognitive impairment, and to assess correlates of cognitive impairment. Methods: A descriptive, correlational design was used. Four screening measures of cognition were assessed in 42 patients with heart failure: Commands subtest and Complex Ideational Material subtest of the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination, Mini-Mental State Examination, and Draw-a-Clock Test. Cognitive impairment was defined as performance less than the standardized (T-score) cutoff point on at least 1 of the 4 measures. Possible correlates of cognitive impairment included age, education, hypotension, fluid overload (serum osmolality Results: Cognitive impairment was detected in 12 (28.6%) of 42 participants. The 4 screening tests varied in effectiveness, but the Draw-a-Clock Test indicated impairment in 50% of the 12 impaired patients. A summed standardized score for the 4 measures was not significantly associated with age, education, hypotension, fluid overload, or dehydration in this sample. Conclusions: Cognitive impairment is relatively common in patients with heart failure. The Draw-a-Clock Test was most useful in detecting cognitive impairment, although it cannot be used to detect problems with verbal learning or delayed recall and should not be used as the sole screening method for patients with heart failure. Correlates of cognitive impairment require further study