Data processing system for the intensity monitoring spectrometer flown on the Orbiting Geophysical Observatory-F (OGO-F) satellite

The system is discussed which was developed to process digitized telemetry data from the intensity monitoring spectrometer flown on the Orbiting Geophysical Observatory (OGO-F) Satellite. Functional descriptions and operating instructions are included for each program in the system

An Event Study Analysis of American Bank Holding Company Equity Returns upon Basel III Announcement

This study examines the trading activity of a large cross section of American bank holding companies upon various sub-events associated with the introduction of Basel III. An event study methodology was applied to various sub-composite portfolios, as determined by regulatory capitalization and leverage ratios. The results suggest that statically significant abnormal negative returns occurred on the announcement to negotiate due to heightened regulatory uncertainty, especially amongst the least capitalized and highest leveraged banks. However, this effect is complemented by statically significant positive returns upon the release of the initial guidelines. Reactions to subsequent events report to be less significant

Title IX at Fifty: Reimagining Institutional Liability Under Karasek\u27s Pre-Assault Theory

Unfortunately, sexual misconduct remains a pervasive problem on college campuses throughout the country. While victims of sexual harassment and assault can report these incidents to their university, these institutions often fail to respond adequately. Investigations into the alleged misconduct are often unnecessarily delayed and school officials neglect to inform victims about the status of their cases. Even more troubling, institutions opt to impose informal sanctions on perpetrators without consulting victims. In such instances, students can hold educational institutions accountable for these deficiencies by suing under Title IX. This is easier said than done. Typically, a plaintiff must prove that their university acted with deliberate indifference in responding to their report. To do so, a plaintiff must show that the institution had actual notice of the reported misconduct. Courts often decline to find that the institution had actual notice, even when the school was aware of the perpetrator’s previous misconduct. A new theory of institutional liability from the Ninth Circuit poses a new avenue for plaintiffs suing universities under Title IX. Under the pre-assault theory, a plaintiff argues that their institution maintained a policy of deliberate indifference to sexual misconduct that heightened their risk of victimization. Thus, a plaintiff does not need to show that the school responded with deliberate indifference to a reported instance of sexual misconduct. This Note argues that the pre-assault theory presents a better approach to hold institutions accountable than the more typical post-assault theory of liability. Though not without its flaws, the pre-assault theory should be employed by victims across the country to hold their educational institutions accountable

Mitigating Spillover Effects of a General Warning on Accuracy Judgements of True News Headlines

My study sought to analyze whether the inclusion of the generic source (e.g., blog post, academic journal, etc) of headlines posted on social media sites influenced people’s accuracy judgments of true and false news headlines regarding the COVID-19 vaccine and whether that source information would help mitigate the previously demonstrated spillover effect that warning users of the potential for false news information on social media reduced people’s accuracy ratings of both true and false news headlines. Participants completed questionnaires each containing 6 true and 6 false headlines. Half of the participants first saw a general warning as described above. Additionally, participants either did or did not receive source information for each headline. Three generic sources were used: Blog Post, Politically Affiliated National News Source, or Medical Journal. Participants were able to accurately distinguish between true and false headlines across all conditions and the presentation of a general warning significantly decreased accuracy judgments for both true and false headlines. Although the mere inclusion of headline sources did not significantly affect accuracy judgments as has been previously reported, source had a significant impact on participants’ accuracy judgments such that headlines associated with Medical Journals were rated as significantly more accurate than headlines attributed to Blog Posts or Politically Affiliated National News Sources regardless of whether the headlines were true or false

SPEAK UP: AN EVALUATION OF TEACHING ENGAGEMENT TO CHILDREN IN AN ACADEMIC SETTING

Shyness is characterized by anxious and reluctant behaviors that may put children at risk for underperforming academically. Previous research has observed that active behavioral engagement in the classroom improves academic performance, however, shy children show deficits in this type of engagement. The current study examined whether behavior skills training (i.e., instruction, modeling, rehearsal and feedback) improved active engaged behavior in pre-K and kindergarten-age children using a multiple baseline across participants design. Four children between 3 to 5 years of age with varying shy behaviors as reported by their parents were asked to complete a series of math worksheets prior to and during intervention. Participants’ hand -raising and question asking were measured. Due to limitations, it is unclear whether the present study’s BST protocol was effective in increasing engagement. Future research should examine the use of BST, in-situ training, and application of skills in the natural setting

Getting Ready for Total Joint Replacement Surgery: A Pre-operative Education Program

Today\u27s health care system is in a state of constant flux attempting to merge, decrease jobs and increase profits. A method to accomplish the goal for increased profits is to have a decline in the number of days any patient remains in the hospital. One such facility attempting to achieve this goal is a 340 bed acute care hospital in the Midwest. ln the view of the author it seems possible for the physical and occupational therapy departments to have the ability to improve outcomes and decrease the total amount of time any patient remains hospitalized. With this in mind, the author suggests an approach by which the physical medicine department can develop programs to accomplish the goals outlined. Upon examination., total joint replacement comprises one of the five most common diagnoses at the site hospital. Therefore, the plan the author offers attempts to address the total joint population. The concept is a pre-surgical education program to answer patient questions, alleviate patient fears, and instruct patients in therapeutic exercises to improve strength prior to surgery. The following culminating project describes in detail its conceptualization through implementation as well as ideas for future development of such a program

Bounding inconsistency using a novel threshold metric for dead reckoning update packet generation

Human-to-human interaction across distributed applications requires that sufficient consistency be maintained among participants in the face of network characteristics such as latency and limited bandwidth. The level of inconsistency arising from the network is proportional to the network delay, and thus a function of bandwidth consumption. Distributed simulation has often used a bandwidth reduction technique known as dead reckoning that combines approximation and estimation in the communication of entity movement to reduce network traffic, and thus improve consistency. However, unless carefully tuned to application and network characteristics, such an approach can introduce more inconsistency than it avoids. The key tuning metric is the distance threshold. This paper questions the suitability of the standard distance threshold as a metric for use in the dead reckoning scheme. Using a model relating entity path curvature and inconsistency, a major performance related limitation of the distance threshold technique is highlighted. We then propose an alternative time—space threshold criterion. The time—space threshold is demonstrated, through simulation, to perform better for low curvature movement. However, it too has a limitation. Based on this, we further propose a novel hybrid scheme. Through simulation and live trials, this scheme is shown to perform well across a range of curvature values, and places bounds on both the spatial and absolute inconsistency arising from dead reckoning

Independent particle descriptions of tunneling from a many-body perspective

Currents across thin insulators are commonly taken as single electrons moving across classically forbidden regions; this independent particle picture is well-known to describe most tunneling phenomena. Examining quantum transport from a different perspective, i.e., by explicit treatment of electron-electron interactions, we evaluate different single particle approximations with specific application to tunneling in metal-molecule-metal junctions. We find maximizing the overlap of a Slater determinant composed of single particle states to the many-body current-carrying state is more important than energy minimization for defining single particle approximations in a system with open boundary conditions. Thus the most suitable single particle effective potential is not one commonly in use by electronic structure methods, such as the Hartree-Fock or Kohn-Sham approximations.Comment: 4+ pages, 4 figures; accepted to Phys. Rev. B Rapid Communication