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Public School Choice and Desegregation in Arkansas
Public school choice is an umbrella term for policies that allow students to enroll in a public school other than their residentially-assigned school. Public school choice, also called openenrollment, is typically divided into two categories: intra-district choice, transfers to schools in the same district, and inter-district choice, transfers to schools in other districts
Peirce's evolutionary pragmatic idealism
In this paper I synthesize a unified system out of Peirce's life work, and name it “Peirce's Evolutionary Pragmatic Idealism”. Peirce developed this philosophy in four stages: (I) His 1868–69 theory that cognition is a continuous and infinite social semiotic process, in which Man is a sign.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/43816/1/11229_2004_Article_BF00413590.pd
A study of polymers containing silicon- nitrogen bonds Annual summary report, May 4, 1965 - May 3, 1966
Polymers containing silicon-nitrogen bonds as elastomers with high thermal stability for aerospace application
Teleology and logical mechanism
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/43835/1/11229_2004_Article_BF00869605.pd
Performance of All Student Subgroups in Arkansas: Moving Beyond Achievement Gaps
The 2013-14 school year marks ten years since the Arkansas General Assembly passed legislation to construct a new K-12 funding system in response to a 2002 Arkansas Supreme Court ruling in the decades-long court case, Lake View School District No. 25 v. Huckabee. The General Assembly established a foundation formula to provide adequate funding to districts across the state and created categorical funding to provide additional equity funding to districts based on need. In doing so, the state provides additional funding to districts based on the number of students that are English Language Learners, in alternative learning environments, or from low-income households (National School Lunch Act funding). With the post-Lake View funding structure, the state seeks to equalize educational opportunities for all students
HERMIES-3: A step toward autonomous mobility, manipulation, and perception
HERMIES-III is an autonomous robot comprised of a seven degree-of-freedom (DOF) manipulator designed for human scale tasks, a laser range finder, a sonar array, an omni-directional wheel-driven chassis, multiple cameras, and a dual computer system containing a 16-node hypercube expandable to 128 nodes. The current experimental program involves performance of human-scale tasks (e.g., valve manipulation, use of tools), integration of a dexterous manipulator and platform motion in geometrically complex environments, and effective use of multiple cooperating robots (HERMIES-IIB and HERMIES-III). The environment in which the robots operate has been designed to include multiple valves, pipes, meters, obstacles on the floor, valves occluded from view, and multiple paths of differing navigation complexity. The ongoing research program supports the development of autonomous capability for HERMIES-IIB and III to perform complex navigation and manipulation under time constraints, while dealing with imprecise sensory information
Wagon-Based Silage Yield Mapping System
Rosana G. Moreira, Editor-in-Chief; Texas A&M UniversityThis is a paper from International Commission of Agricultural Engineering (CIGR, Commission Internationale du Genie Rural) E-Journal Volume 7 (2005): Wagon-Based Silage Yield Mapping System by W. S. Lee, J. K. Schueller, T. F. Burk
Ground motion selection for simulation-based seismic hazard and structural reliability assessment
This paper examines four methods by which ground motions can be selected for
dynamic seismic response analyses of engineered systems when the underlying
seismic hazard is quantified via ground motion simulation rather than empirical
ground motion prediction equations. Even with simulation-based seismic hazard, a
ground motion selection process is still required in order to extract a small number of
time series from the much larger set developed as part of the hazard calculation. Four
specific methods are presented for ground motion selection from simulation-based
seismic hazard analyses, and pros and cons of each are discussed via a simple and
reproducible illustrative example. One of the four methods (method 1 ‘direct
analysis’) provides a ‘benchmark’ result (i.e. using all simulated ground motions),
enabling the consistency of the other three more efficient selection methods to be
addressed. Method 2 (‘stratified sampling’) is a relatively simple way to achieve a
significant reduction in the number of ground motions required through selecting
subsets of ground motions binned based on an intensity measure, IM. Method 3
(‘simple multiple stripes’) has the benefit of being consistent with conventional
seismic assessment practice using as-recorded ground motions, but both methods 2
and 3 are strongly dependent on the efficiency of the conditioning IM to predict the
seismic responses of interest. Method 4 (‘GCIM-based selection’) is consistent with
‘advanced’ selection methods used for as-recorded ground motions, and selects
subsets of ground motions based on multiple IMs, thus overcoming this limitation in
methods 2 and 3
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