Evaluation of the Effect of Court-Ordered Mediation and Proactive Case Management on the Pace of Civil Tort Litigation in Lake County, Indiana, An

This author conducted a survey of mediators working with the courts in Lake County, Indiana in 1993-1994. At that time, thirty-four civil mediators were listed with the court administrator\u27s office. The mediators were asked to track mediation cases for six months and to record the number of cases that had been referred to them for mediation, the number of cases actually mediated, the number settled, and the time to settlement after the referral to mediatio

Like. Comment.Share. Transforming Engagaement at The Museum

An examination of how museums can change how they relate to the public, through engagement opportunities

Przemysł gazowniczy we Lwowie w latach 1856–1914: przyczynek do dziejów industrializacji miasta

Tekst omawia proces instalowania w przestrzeni miejskiej Lwowa oświetlenia gazowego oraz budowę i późniejsze modernizacje gazowni. Historię przemysłu gazowniczego we Lwowie charakteryzują podobne zjawiska społeczne i gospodarcze jak w przypadku innych miast austro-węgierskich i niemieckich (konflikty inwestora z miejskim samorządem i odbiorcami gazu, komunalizacja gazowni). Lwowskie gazownictwo na tle innych miast wyróżnia użycie nietypowych surowców do produkcji gazu (drewna, a później olejów naftowych) oraz stosunkowo późno występujący wzrost produkcji (po 1898 r.), będący skutkiem większej dostępności gazu zarówno dla miasta, jak i prywatnych odbiorców. The text discusses the installation of gas lighting in the urban space of Lviv, together with the construction and later modernisations of the city’s gasworks. The history of gas industry in Lviv is characterised by social and economic phenomena similar to those of other Austro-Hungarian and German cities (conflicts between the investor, municipal government, and gas consumers, communalisation of the gasworks). What distinguishes the gas supply system of Lviv from those of other cities was the use of non-standard resources to gas production (wood, and then petroleum oils), and a relatively late rise in production (after 1898), resulting from the increased availability of gas to both the city, and private users.Tekst omawia proces instalowania w przestrzeni miejskiej Lwowa oświetlenia gazowego oraz budowę i późniejsze modernizacje gazowni. Historię przemysłu gazowniczego we Lwowie charakteryzują podobne zjawiska społeczne i gospodarcze jak w przypadku innych miast austro-węgierskich i niemieckich (konflikty inwestora z miejskim samorządem i odbiorcami gazu, komunalizacja gazowni). Lwowskie gazownictwo na tle innych miast wyróżnia użycie nietypowych surowców do produkcji gazu (drewna, a później olejów naftowych) oraz stosunkowo późno występujący wzrost produkcji (po 1898 r.), będący skutkiem większej dostępności gazu zarówno dla miasta, jak i prywatnych odbiorców. The text discusses the installation of gas lighting in the urban space of Lviv, together with the construction and later modernisations of the city’s gasworks. The history of gas industry in Lviv is characterised by social and economic phenomena similar to those of other Austro-Hungarian and German cities (conflicts between the investor, municipal government, and gas consumers, communalisation of the gasworks). What distinguishes the gas supply system of Lviv from those of other cities was the use of non-standard resources to gas production (wood, and then petroleum oils), and a relatively late rise in production (after 1898), resulting from the increased availability of gas to both the city, and private users

Efektivitas Model Pembelajaran Project Based Learning Berbasis STEM dan Tidak Berbasis STEM terhadap Kemampuan Berpikir Kritis Siswa

 Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji keefektifan penggunaan model pembelajaran PJBL (Project Based Learning) berbasis STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathemathic) dan tidak berbasis STEM terhadap keterampilan berpikir kritis siswa kelas IV. Populasi gugus Gajah Mada kecamatan Sidomukti kota Salatiga, dengan sampel SD Negeri Dukuh 01 Salatiga sebagai kelompok eksperimen berjumlah 32 siswa dan SD Negeri Kecandran 01 Salatiga sebagai kelompok kontrol berjumlah 33 siswa. Penelitian ini yang menggunakan Quasi Eksperimental dengan desain penelitian Non-equivalen Control Group Desain untuk mengetahui keberhasilan pengujian perlu dilakukan Pre-test dan Post-test. Hasil penelitian dilihat dari uji independen T tes dengan signifikansi 0,038 < 0,05 menggunakan SPSS 20 for Windows yang berarti terdapat pengaruh yang signifikan sehingga H0 ditolak dan H1 diterima serta hasil rata-rata pre-test ke post-test pada kelompok eksperiemen yang meningkat sebesar 13,38 sedangkan pada kelompok kontrol meningkat sebesar 7,51.Penggunaan model pembelajaran PJBL berbasis STEM lebih efektif dalam meningkatkan keterampilan berpikir kritis siswa kelas IV muatan pembelajaran IPA. 

Singly generated quasivarieties and residuated structures

A quasivariety K of algebras has the joint embedding property (JEP) iff it is generated by a single algebra A. It is structurally complete iff the free countably generated algebra in K can serve as A. A consequence of this demand, called "passive structural completeness" (PSC), is that the nontrivial members of K all satisfy the same existential positive sentences. We prove that if K is PSC then it still has the JEP, and if it has the JEP and its nontrivial members lack trivial subalgebras, then its relatively simple members all belong to the universal class generated by one of them. Under these conditions, if K is relatively semisimple then it is generated by one K-simple algebra. It is a minimal quasivariety if, moreover, it is PSC but fails to unify some finite set of equations. We also prove that a quasivariety of finite type, with a finite nontrivial member, is PSC iff its nontrivial members have a common retract. The theory is then applied to the variety of De Morgan monoids, where we isolate the sub(quasi)varieties that are PSC and those that have the JEP, while throwing fresh light on those that are structurally complete. The results illuminate the extension lattices of intuitionistic and relevance logics

Inter-rater reliability of the Dysexecutive Questionnaire (DEX): comparative data from non-clinician respondents – all raters are not equal

Primary objective: The Dysexecutive Questionnaire (DEX) is used to obtain information about executive and emotional problems after neuropathology. The DEX is self-completed by the patient (DEX-S) and an independent rater such as a family member (DEX-I). This study examined the level of inter-rater agreement between either two or three non-clinician raters on the DEX-I in order to establish the reliability of DEX-I ratings. Methods and procedures: Family members and/or carers of 60 people with mixed neuropathology completed the DEX-I. For each patient, DEX-I ratings were obtained from either two or three raters who knew the person well prior to brain injury. Main outcomes and results: We obtained two independent-ratings for 60 patients and three independent-ratings for 36 patients. Intra-class correlations revealed that there was only a modest level of agreement for items, subscale and total DEX scores between raters for their particular family member. Several individual DEX items had low reliability and ratings for the emotion sub-scale had the lowest level of agreement. Conclusions: Independent DEX ratings completed by two or more non-clinician raters show only moderate correlation. Suggestions are made for improving the reliability of DEX-I ratings.</p

Different measures of auditory and visual stroop interference and their relationship to speech intelligibility in noise

Inhibition – the ability to suppress goal-irrelevant information – is thought to be an important cognitive skill in many situations, including speech-in-noise (SiN) perception. One way to measure inhibition is by means of Stroop tasks, in which one stimulus dimension must be named while a second, more prepotent dimension is ignored. The to-be-ignored dimension may be relevant or irrelevant to the target dimension, and the inhibition measure – Stroop interference (SI) – is calculated as the reaction time difference between the relevant and irrelevant conditions. Both SiN perception and inhibition are suggested to worsen with age, yet attempts to connect age-related declines in these two abilities have produced mixed results. We suggest that the inconsistencies between studies may be due to methodological issues surrounding the use of Stroop tasks. First, the relationship between SI and SiN perception may differ depending on the modality of the Stroop task; second, the traditional SI measure may not account for generalized slowing or sensory declines, and thus may not provide a pure interference measure. We investigated both claims in a group of 50 older adults, who performed two Stroop tasks (visual and auditory) and two SiN perception tasks. For each Stroop task, we calculated interference scores using both the traditional difference measure and methods designed to address its various problems, and compared the ability of these different scoring methods to predict SiN performance, alone and in combination with hearing ability. Results from the two Stroop tasks were uncorrelated and had different relationships to SiN perception. Changing the scoring method altered the nature of the predictive relationship between Stroop scores and SiN perception, which was additionally influenced by hearing ability. These findings raise questions about the extent to which different Stroop tasks and/or scoring methods measure the same aspect of cognition. They also highlight the importance of considering additional variables such as hearing ability when analysing cognitive variables

Aging and Error Processing: Age Related Increase in the Variability of the Error-Negativity Is Not Accompanied by Increase in Response Variability

Background: Several studies report an amplitude reduction of the error negativity (Ne or ERN), an event-related potential occurring after erroneous responses, in older participants. In earlier studies it was shown that the Ne can be explained by a single independent component. In the present study we aimed to investigate whether the Ne reduction usually found in older subjects is due to an altered component structure, i.e., a true alteration in response monitoring in older subjects. Methodology/Principal Findings: Two age groups conducted two tasks with different stimulus response mappings and task difficulty. Both groups received fully balanced speed or accuracy instructions and an individually adapted deadline in both tasks. Event-related potentials, Independent Component analysis of EEG-data and between trial variability of the Ne were combined with analysis of error rates, coefficients of variation of RT-data and ex-Gaussian fittings to reaction times. The Ne was examined by means of ICA and PCA, yielding a prominent independent component on error trials, the Ne-IC. The Ne-IC was smaller in the older than the younger subjects for both speed and accuracy instructions. Also, the Ne-IC contributed to a much lesser extent to the Ne in older than in younger subjects. RT distribution parameters were not related to Ne/ERP-variability. Conclusions/Significance: The results show a genuine reduction as well as a different component structure of the Ne in older compared to young subjects. This reduction is not reflected in behaviour, apart from a general slowing of olde

Aging, working memory capacity and the proactive control of recollection:An event-related potential study

The present study investigated the role of working memory capacity (WMC) in the control of recollection in young and older adults. We used electroencephalographic event-related potentials (ERPs) to examine the effects of age and of individual differences in WMC on the ability to prioritize recollection according to current goals. Targets in a recognition exclusion task were words encoded using two alternative decisions. The left parietal ERP old/new effect was used as an electrophysiological index of recollection, and the selectivity of recollection measured in terms of the difference in its magnitude according to whether recognized items were targets or non-targets. Young adults with higher WMC showed greater recollection selectivity than those with lower WMC, while older adults showed nonselective recollection which did not vary with WMC. The data suggest that aging impairs the ability to engage cognitive control effectively to prioritize what will be recollected