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Investigating Use of the Transdisciplinary Approach in the Public School System: Assessment of the Interaction Between the Physical Therapist and the Regular Education Teacher
The purpose of our research was to determine the extent that physical therapists utilize components of the transdisciplinary approach in their interaction with regular education teachers when working with children kindergarten through sixth grade who participate in regular education classes. 325 surveys were distributed to physical therapists in the Midwest region of the United States who work in a school environment. 46% of the surveys were returned and met our inclusion criteria. Our results showed that 28.7% of the respondents indicated use of the transdisciplinary approach. 41% of the respondents reported presence of a written philosophy. 9% of the therapists reported meeting on a weekly basis. 20% of the respondents use a transdisciplinary goal setting strategy. 39% stated that both the therapist and the teacher are present at 75-100% of team meetings. 72% of the therapists document every treatment session. 11% of respondents stated that therapy notes are reviewed by the regular education teacher and 28.5% of the therapists reported that teams keep notes in a central location that can be easily accessed by all team members. We concluded that therapists are beginning to utilize components of the transdisciplinary approach and that therapists have a desire to increase the interaction between themselves and the regular education teacher but find that time and availability constraints cause the ideal interaction to be unrealistic
Cold guided beams of water isotopologs
Electrostatic velocity filtering and guiding is an established technique to
produce high fluxes of cold polar molecules. In this paper we clarify different
aspects of this technique by comparing experiments to detailed calculations. In
the experiment, we produce cold guided beams of the three water isotopologs
H2O, D2O and HDO. Their different rotational constants and orientations of
electric dipole moments lead to remarkably different Stark shift properties,
despite the molecules being very similar in a chemical sense. Therefore, the
signals of the guided water isotopologs differ on an absolute scale and also
exhibit characteristic electrode voltage dependencies. We find excellent
agreement between the relative guided fractions and voltage dependencies of the
investigated isotopologs and predictions made by our theoretical model of
electrostatic velocity filtering.Comment: 14 pages, 13 figures; small changes to the text, updated reference
Construction and Measurements of an Improved Vacuum-Swing-Adsorption Radon-Mitigation System
In order to reduce backgrounds from radon-daughter plate-out onto detector
surfaces, an ultra-low-radon cleanroom is being commissioned at the South
Dakota School of Mines and Technology. An improved vacuum-swing-adsorption
radon mitigation system and cleanroom build upon a previous design implemented
at Syracuse University that achieved radon levels of
0.2Bqm. This improved system will employ a better pump and
larger carbon beds feeding a redesigned cleanroom with an internal HVAC unit
and aged water for humidification. With the rebuilt (original) radon mitigation
system, the new low-radon cleanroom has already achieved a 300
reduction from an input activity of Bqm to a
cleanroom activity of Bqm.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings of Low Radioactivity Techniques (LRT)
2015, Seattle, WA, March 18-20, 201
The role of quenching time in the evolution of the mass-size relation of passive galaxies from the WISP survey
We analyze how passive galaxies at z 1.5 populate the mass-size plane
as a function of their stellar age, to understand if the observed size growth
with time can be explained with the appearance of larger quenched galaxies at
lower redshift. We use a sample of 32 passive galaxies extracted from the Wide
Field Camera 3 Infrared Spectroscopic Parallel (WISP) survey with spectroscopic
redshift 1.3 z 2.05, specific star-formation rates lower
than 0.01 Gyr, and stellar masses above 4.5 10
M. All galaxies have spectrally determined stellar ages from fitting of
their rest-frame optical spectra and photometry with stellar population models.
When dividing our sample into young (age 2.1 Gyr) and old (age 2.1
Gyr) galaxies we do not find a significant trend in the distributions of the
difference between the observed radius and the one predicted by the mass-size
relation. This result indicates that the relation between the galaxy age and
its distance from the mass-size relation, if it exists, is rather shallow, with
a slope alpha -0.6. At face value, this finding suggests that
multiple dry and/or wet minor mergers, rather than the appearance of newly
quenched galaxies, are mainly responsible for the observed time evolution of
the mass-size relation in passive galaxies.Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters; 6 pages, 3 figures, 1 tabl
Verification of a Distortion in the Microstructure of GaN Detected by EXAFS Using Ab Initio Density Functional Theory Calculations
X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) measurements on a series of epitaxially grown GaN samples have shown a distortion in the microstructure of GaN. More specifically the central N atom is 4-fold coordinated but the four Ga atoms are not equidistant. It has been shown that 2.9 to 3.5 of them (depending on the growth conditions) are found in the expected from XRD distance of 1.94 A and the remaining are at a distance longer by approximately 15%. Second derivative calculation of the conformation energy using the Density Functional Theory (DFT) is used to investigate if the symmetric GaN cluster as given by XRD is the most energetically favorable configuration and if not which distorted structure corresponds to the most energetically favorable one. A very good agreement between DFT results and experimental XAFS spectra has been found. Generalization this technique to other dislocated clusters is also discussed
Symmetry adapted ro-vibrational basis functions for variational nuclear motion calculations: TROVE approach
We present a general, numerically motivated approach to the construction of
symmetry adapted basis functions for solving ro-vibrational Schr\"{o}dinger
equations. The approach is based on the property of the Hamiltonian operator to
commute with the complete set of symmetry operators and hence to reflect the
symmetry of the system. The symmetry adapted ro-vibrational basis set is
constructed numerically by solving a set of reduced vibrational eigenvalue
problems. In order to assign the irreducible representations associated with
these eigenfunctions, their symmetry properties are probed on a grid of
molecular geometries with the corresponding symmetry operations. The
transformation matrices are re-constructed by solving over-determined systems
of linear equations related to the transformation properties of the
corresponding wavefunctions on the grid. Our method is implemented in the
variational approach TROVE and has been successfully applied to a number of
problems covering the most important molecular symmetry groups. Several
examples are used to illustrate the procedure, which can be easily applied to
different types of coordinates, basis sets, and molecular systems
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Evaluating Banking Websites Privacy Statements – A New Zealand Perspective on Ensuring Business Confidence
Because banks deal with highly personal detailed and sensitive information, they need to establish and maintain the confidence of their customers more assiduously than most other businesses. The rise of internet banking and the advantages to be gained from the garnering of personal data from websites places banks in a position to exploit customer data in a way that might infringe ethical considerations. This investigation analyses the website privacy statements of New Zealand banks in terms of the provisions of the New Zealand Privacy Act. The intention was to find an objective basis for the assessment of business integrity, to explore how confidence in electronic commerce can be assured. The investigation finds that the use of privacy legislation principles as a means of evaluating website privacy statements is revealing and convincing. It is considered that customer confidence will increasingly impact on Internet businesses, and business integrity as demonstrated by comprehensive and relevant privacy statements will go a long way to provide those assurances
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