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Needs Assessment Survey Result for Alaska State Victim Assistance Academy
State Victim Assistance Academies (SVAAâs) offer coursework and training in victimology, victimsâ rights, and victim services in order to meet the needs of victim service providers and allied professionals (Office for Victims of Crime). With state and federal funding, Victims for
Justice began the development of a State Victim Assistance Academy for Alaska in 2008. An important first step in the development of a State Victim Assistance Academy is to conduct a needs assessment survey to identify the most important topics to include in coursework and training. This brief report highlights the results of the Alaska needs assessment survey conducted by the UAA Justice Center in 2009
Innovation sustainability in challenging health-care contexts : embedding clinically led change in routine practice
The need for organizational innovation as a means of improving health-care quality and containing costs is widely recognized, but while a growing body of research has improved knowledge of implementation, very little has considered the challenges involved in sustaining change â especially organizational change led âbottom-upâ by frontline clinicians. This study addresses this lacuna, taking a longitudinal, qualitative case-study approach to understanding the paths to sustainability of four organizational innovations. It highlights the importance of the interaction between organizational context, nature of the innovation and strategies deployed in achieving sustainability. It discusses how positional influence of service leads, complexity of innovation, networks of support, embedding in existing systems, and proactive responses to changing circumstances can interact to sustain change. In the absence of cast-iron evidence of effectiveness, wider notions of value may be successfully invoked to sustain innovation. Sustainability requires continuing effort through time, rather than representing a final state to be achieved. Our study offers new insights into the process of sustainability of organizational change, and elucidates the complement of strategies needed to make bottom-up change last in challenging contexts replete with competing priorities
Soliton solutions of Calogero model in harmonic potential
A classical Calogero model in an external harmonic potential is known to be
integrable for any number of particles. We consider here reductions which play
a role of "soliton" solutions of the model. We obtain these solutions both for
the model with finite number of particles and in a hydrodynamic limit. In the
latter limit the model is described by hydrodynamic equations on continuous
density and velocity fields. Soliton solutions in this case are finite
dimensional reductions of the hydrodynamic model and describe the propagation
of lumps of density and velocity in the nontrivial background.Comment: 25 pages, 2 figure
Medium information from anisotropic flow and jet quenching in relativistic heavy ion collisions
Within a multiphase transport (AMPT) model, where the initial conditions are
obtained from the recently updated HIJING 2.0 model, the recent anisotropic
flow and suppression data for charged hadrons in Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC
center of mass energy of 2.76 TeV are explored to constrain the properties of
the partonic medium formed. In contrast to RHIC, the measured centrality
dependence of charged hadron multiplicity dN_ch/deta at LHC provides severe
constraint to the largely uncertain gluon shadowing parameter s_g. We find
final-state parton scatterings reduce considerably hadron yield at midrapidity
and enforces a smaller s_g to be consistent with dN_ch/deta data at LHC. With
the parton shadowing so constrained, hadron production and flow over a wide
transverse momenta range are investigated in AMPT. The model calculations for
the elliptic and triangular flow are found to be in excellent agreement with
the RHIC data, and predictions for the flow coefficients v_n(p_T, cent) at LHC
are given. The magnitude and pattern of suppression of the hadrons in AMPT are
found consistent with the measurements at RHIC. However, the suppression is
distinctly overpredicted in Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC energy. Reduction of
the QCD coupling constant alpha_s by ~30% in the higher temperature plasma
formed at LHC reproduces the measured hadron suppression.Comment: Talk given by Subrata Pal at the 11th International Conference on
Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (NN2012), San Antonio, Texas, USA, May 27-June 1,
2012. To appear in the NN2012 Proceedings in Journal of Physics: Conference
Series (JPCS
Vetoes for Inspiral Triggers in LIGO Data
Presented is a summary of studies by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration's
Inspiral Analysis Group on the development of possible vetoes to be used in
evaluation of data from the first two LIGO science data runs. Numerous
environmental monitor signals and interferometer control channels have been
analyzed in order to characterize the interferometers' performance. The results
of studies on selected data segments are provided in this paper. The vetoes
used in the compact binary inspiral analyses of LIGO's S1 and S2 science data
runs are presented and discussed.Comment: Submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity for the GWDAW-8
proceeding
Recent results on the search for continuous sources with LIGO and GEO600
An overview of the searches for continuous gravitational wave signals in LIGO
and GEO 600 performed on different recent science runs and results are
presented. This includes both searching for gravitational waves from known
pulsars as well as blind searches over a wide parameter space.Comment: TAUP2005 Proceedings to be published in Journal of Physics:
Conference Serie
Child development and the aims of road safety education
Pedestrian accidents are one of the most prominent causes of premature injury, handicap and death in the modern world. In children, the problem is so severe that pedestrian accidents are widely regarded as the most serious of all health risks facing children in developed countries. Not surprisingly, educational measures have long been advocated as a means of teaching children how to cope with traffic and substantial resources have been devoted to their development and provision. Unfortunately, there seems to be a widespread view at the present time that education has not achieved as much as had been hoped and that there may even be quite strict limits to what can be achieved through education. This would, of course, shift the emphasis away from education altogether towards engineering or urban planning measures aimed at creating an intrinsically safer environment in which the need for education might be reduced or even eliminated. However, whilst engineering measures undoubtedly have a major role to play in the effort to reduce accidents, this outlook is both overly optimistic about the benefits of engineering and overly pessimistic about the limitations of education. At the same time, a fresh analysis is clearly required both of the aims and methods of contemporary road safety education. The present report is designed to provide such an analysis and to establish a framework within which further debate and research can take place
Teaching Index Numbers to economists
Economic statistics are frequently reported in the form of index numbers. This article considers how the field of Index Numbers should be approached in the teaching of a general economic degree. While the topic finds a natural home in statistics modules, it is emphasised that the area can also be referred to in the teaching of other areas of economics. It is also emphasised that the differences between Index Numbers theory and the practice of compiling economic statistics such as inflation can help students gain a better understanding of applied economic statistics. Methods for assessing learning in the area are also considered and available material to support teaching is also summarised
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