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Developing professionalism in a college of business: The implementation of a professionalism recognition program: Working paper series--11-06
This paper explores the importance of developing professionalism attributes among business students and the implementation of a program designed to incentivize professionalism behaviors during undergraduate study at a college of business. The "Professionalism Recognition Program" (PRP) was established as a co-curricular activity to promote, evaluate, recognize and reward professionalism behaviors of students. We also describe the key aspects of the program's development and implementation, noting the key resources and constituencies involved as well as considerations for the adoption of similar programs elsewhere. It is hoped that the lessons learned during our implementation and communicated in this manuscript will help others to successfully develop and implement their own programs to improve the professionalism behaviors of students
Dilution effects in HoYSnO: from the Spin Ice to the single-ion magnet
A study of the modifications of the magnetic properties of
HoYSnO upon varying the concentration of diamagnetic
Y ions is presented. Magnetization and specific heat measurements show
that the Spin Ice ground-state is only weakly affected by doping for , even if non-negligible changes in the crystal field at Ho occur.
In this low doping range SR relaxation measurements evidence a
modification in the low-temperature dynamics with respect to the one observed
in the pure Spin Ice. For , or at high temperature, the dynamics
involve fluctuations among Ho crystal field levels which give rise to a
characteristic peak in Sn nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate. In this
doping limit also the changes in Ho magnetic moment suggest a variation
of the crystal field parameters.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, proceedings of HFM2008 Conferenc
Violence Ă lâencontre du personnel des Ă©tablissements mĂ©dico-sociaux et des centres mĂ©dico-sociaux du Canton de Vaud. SynthĂšse des rĂ©sultats
PrĂ©sentĂ© au Grand Conseil du Canton de Vaud lors de la sĂ©ance du 30 juin 2015, le postulat « Philippe Vuillemin et consorts â Pour une meilleure protection du personnel soignant en EMS » part du constat que, si la maltraitance des personnes ĂągĂ©es est dĂ©sormais reconnue et apprĂ©hendĂ©e par les diffĂ©rents acteurs concernĂ©s, celle Ă lâĂ©gard des soignant-e-s et des personnels travaillant en Ă©tablissements mĂ©dico-sociaux (EMS) et dans les centres mĂ©dico-sociaux (CMS) est plus rarement Ă©voquĂ©e publiquement.
Certain-e-s professionnel-le-s (par exemple : policier-Ăšre-s, enseignant-e-s, personnels des Ă©tablissements de santĂ©) prĂ©sentent des risques accrus dâĂȘtre confrontĂ©s Ă des actes de violence Ă leur Ă©gard. Le travail isolĂ© et le contact avec des clients, en particulier lorsque ces derniers sont sous lâemprise de la drogue ou de lâalcool, quand ils sont connus pour avoir eu un passĂ© violent ou quâils souffrent de maladies pouvant ĂȘtre associĂ©es Ă des comportements agressifs constituent ainsi des facteurs de risque. Le risque dâĂȘtre confrontĂ© Ă la violence ou Ă des comportements agressifs concerne aussi les professionnel-le-s en contact avec des personnes atteintes dans leur santĂ©, Ă domicile ou en institution. Des enquĂȘtes menĂ©es dans les Ă©tablissements mĂ©dico-sociaux (EMS) ou auprĂšs des professionnel-le-s du maintien Ă domicile, Ă lâĂ©tranger et en Suisse rapportent des taux relativement Ă©levĂ©s dâexposition Ă la violence chez les soignant-e-s. On ne dispose en revanche dâaucune donnĂ©e concernant cette problĂ©matique pour la Suisse Romande ou pour le Canton de Vaud
Violence Ă lâencontre du personnel des EMS et des CMS du Canton de Vaud
PrĂ©sentĂ© au Grand Conseil du Canton de Vaud lors de la sĂ©ance du 30 juin 2015, le postulat « Philippe Vuillemin et consorts â Pour une meilleure protection du personnel soignant en EMS » part du constat que, si la maltraitance des personnes ĂągĂ©es est dĂ©sormais reconnue et apprĂ©hendĂ©e par les diffĂ©rents acteurs concernĂ©s, celle Ă lâĂ©gard des soignant-e-s et des
personnels travaillant en établissements médico-sociaux (EMS) et dans les centres médico-sociaux (CMS) est plus rarement évoquée publiquement
A note on entropic force and brane cosmology
Recently Verlinde proposed that gravity is an entropic force caused by
information changes when a material body moves away from the holographic
screen. In this note we apply this argument to brane cosmology, and show that
the cosmological equation can be derived from this holographic scenario.Comment: 5 pages, no figures;references adde
Church-Rosser Systems, Codes with Bounded Synchronization Delay and Local Rees Extensions
What is the common link, if there is any, between Church-Rosser systems,
prefix codes with bounded synchronization delay, and local Rees extensions? The
first obvious answer is that each of these notions relates to topics of
interest for WORDS: Church-Rosser systems are certain rewriting systems over
words, codes are given by sets of words which form a basis of a free submonoid
in the free monoid of all words (over a given alphabet) and local Rees
extensions provide structural insight into regular languages over words. So, it
seems to be a legitimate title for an extended abstract presented at the
conference WORDS 2017. However, this work is more ambitious, it outlines some
less obvious but much more interesting link between these topics. This link is
based on a structure theory of finite monoids with varieties of groups and the
concept of local divisors playing a prominent role. Parts of this work appeared
in a similar form in conference proceedings where proofs and further material
can be found.Comment: Extended abstract of an invited talk given at WORDS 201
Tunneling magnetoresistance in diluted magnetic semiconductor tunnel junctions
Using the spin-polarized tunneling model and taking into account the basic
physics of ferromagnetic semiconductors, we study the temperature dependence of
the tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) in the diluted magnetic semiconductor
(DMS) trilayer heterostructure system (Ga,Mn)As/AlAs/(Ga,Mn)As. The
experimentally observed TMR ratio is in reasonable agreement with our result
based on the typical material parameters. It is also shown that the TMR ratio
has a strong dependence on both the itinerant-carrier density and the magnetic
ion density in the DMS electrodes. This can provide a potential way to achieve
larger TMR ratio by optimally adjusting the material parameters.Comment: 5 pages (RevTex), 3 figures (eps), submitted to PR
Complexity of Left-Ideal, Suffix-Closed and Suffix-Free Regular Languages
A language over an alphabet is suffix-convex if, for any words
, whenever and are in , then so is .
Suffix-convex languages include three special cases: left-ideal, suffix-closed,
and suffix-free languages. We examine complexity properties of these three
special classes of suffix-convex regular languages. In particular, we study the
quotient/state complexity of boolean operations, product (concatenation), star,
and reversal on these languages, as well as the size of their syntactic
semigroups, and the quotient complexity of their atoms.Comment: 20 pages, 11 figures, 1 table. arXiv admin note: text overlap with
arXiv:1605.0669
An Adaptive Observer-based Robust Estimator of Multi-sinusoidal Signals
This paper presents an adaptive observer-based
robust estimation methodology of the amplitudes, frequencies
and phases of biased multi-sinusoidal signals in presence of
bounded perturbations on the measurement. The parameters of
the sinusoidal components are estimated on-line and the update
laws are individually controlled by an excitation-based switching
logic enabling the update of a parameter only when the measured
signal is sufficiently informative. This way doing, the algorithm
is able to tackle the problem of over-parametrization (i.e., when
the internal model accounts for a number of sinusoids that is
larger than the true spectral content) or temporarily fading
sinusoidal components. The stability analysis proves the existence
of a tuning parameter set for which the estimator\u2019s dynamics are
input-to-state stable with respect to bounded measurement disturbances.
The performance of the proposed estimation approach
is evaluated and compared with other existing tools by extensive
simulation trials and real-time experiments
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