A Study of School District Compliance Efforts with the Americans with Disabilities Act in Illinois Schools

The problem of compliance with state and federal statutes while maintaining a healthy financial picture in a school district has long been a challenge for the educational community. The passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) is an example of legislation which has caused school districts to evaluate their educational program as it relates to accessibility, opportunity and accommodations of people with special needs. Indeed, this statutory compliance also challenges school districts to comply while maintaining a sound financial basis. The constraints of funding has made the ADA an even greater challenge than some statutes. This study was conducted to investigate the requirements necessary for a school district to legally comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Information gathered from various unit school districts in geographical sections throughout Illinois assisted in achieving this objective. In addition, a review of the available literature and research pertaining to this topic was made in order that legal requirements which exist due to this act were clearly understood and adhered to in the final compliance recommendations made to Iroquois Community School District# 9 in Watseka, Illinois. The ultimate goal was to present a complete plan for compliance with the statutory demands of the ADA in a reasonable and fiscally sound manner. The researcher surveyed a random sample of unit school districts in Illinois, performed a complete review of the literature related to this topic and attended a two day compliance seminar related to this topic in order to fully investigate the ADA and meet the study goals and objectives. Forty-five surveys were sent to unit school districts in Illinois. Fifteen surveys were sent to each of three geographic areas within the state. Twenty-five surveys were returned which is a 56% response rate. The findings of the study were used to assist in developing an ADA compliance plan for Unit # 9 as well as developing recommendations for Unit # 9 with regards to financing this compliance effort. The results of this field experience will help to educate and inform school district boards and administrators about the requirements of the ADA. The writer concluded that while the ADA could significantly effect a school district, few districts fully understand the requirements of this legislation. In addition, even fewer school districts have made an effort to comply with the ADA. Actually, only a small percentage of school districts have taken steps to comply

La valoración del Sistema Simplificado de Puntuación de Intervención Terapéutica y los incidentes ocurridos en los pacientes en la Unidad de Cuidados Intermedios de un hospital de Lima, 2019

En la unidad de cuidados intermedios (UCIN se manejan pacientes en una situación crítica, por ello se requiere que el personal de salud encargado del cuidado realice una valoración holística, exhaustiva, para identificar posibles alteraciones o complicaciones con la ayuda de instrumentos, escalas, herramientas que permitan identificar problemas de manera oportuna. Uno de estos instrumentos más utilizados en los servicios de UCIN es el Sistema Simplificado de Puntuación de Intervención Terapéutica (TISS-28), siendo un método para medir la intensidad del tratamiento cuantificado de las intervenciones, que sirven para vigilar la carga de trabajo y establecer asignación enfermera-paciente adecuada. Además, mide indirectamente la gravedad de la enfermedad, así como los costos hospitalarios. Ello permitirá que el profesional de enfermería brinde un cuidado oportuno y de calidad, evitando un evento o circunstancia que ocasione o podría haber ocasionado un daño innecesario al paciente, es decir se produzca un incidente. Por ello, el presente trabajo tiene como objetivo determinar la relación que existe entre la valoración del TISS-28 y los incidentes ocurridos en los pacientes del servicio de UCIN del Hospital Nacional Edgardo Rebagliati Martins (HNERM). Es de diseño no experimental y de tipo correlacional. La muestra está constituida por toda la población del servicio de Unidad de Cuidados Intermedios del HNERM. Los instrumentos que se utilizará serán el TISS-28 y una lista de recolección de datos para los incidentes. Se realizó la validación, de la investigación, por juez experto y la confiabilidad mediante el Alfa de Crombach, en una muestra piloto de 11 pacientes. Los resultados de la investigación serán beneficiosos para el personal de enfermería que trabaja en el servicio de UCIN, ya que se conocerá la relación entre el TISS-28 y los incidentes que se produzcan en el servicio.Trabajo académicoLIMAUnidad de Posgrado de Ciencias de la SaludGestión del cuidado enfermero e innovación tecnológica para el cuidad

Adicción a las redes sociales y comunicación familiar en los estudiantes de secundaria de la I.E Jerónimo Zavala de Combapata – 2022

El presente trabajo de investigación denominado “Adicción a las redes sociales y la comunicación familiar en la institución Jerónimo Zavala de Combapata, Canchis 2022” tiene el diseño no experimental descriptivo transeccional. Se ha trabajado con 17 estudiantes de la institución educativa en mención. Para ello, se utilizó la técnica de la encuesta y el instrumento de cuestionario. Aplicando esta por única vez. Cuyo propósito principal fue la describir la relación que existe entre la adicción a las redes sociales y la comunicación familiar en la institución Jerónimo Zavala de Combapata. Los resultados y análisis respectivos determinan que no hubo relación significativa entre la variable adición a las redes sociales y la comunicación familiar en los estudiantes de la institución educativa Jerónimo Zavala de Combapata, ya que la prueba estadística del chi cuadrado de Pearson tiene el P Valor = ,748 que es mayor a 0.05 por lo que se acepta la hipótesis nula y se rechaza la hipótesis de trabajo, no existiendo nivel de significancia

Geochemistry of small Canadian Arctic rivers with diverse geological and hydrological settings

Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2020. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 125(1), (2020): e2019JG005414, doi:10.1029/2019JG005414.A survey of 25 coastal‐draining rivers across the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (CAA) shows that these systems are distinct from the largest Arctic rivers that drain watersheds extending far south of the Arctic circle. Observations collected from 2014 to 2016 illustrate the influences of seasonal hydrology, bedrock geology, and landscape physiography on each river's inorganic geochemical characteristics. Summertime data show the impact of coincident gradients in lake cover and surficial geology on river geochemical signatures. In the north and central CAA, drainage basins are generally smaller, underlain by sedimentary bedrock, and their hydrology is driven by seasonal precipitation pulses that undergo little modification before they enter the coastal ocean. In the southern CAA, a high density of lakes stores water longer within the terrestrial system, permitting more modification of water isotope and geochemical characteristics. Annual time‐series observations from two CAA rivers reveal that their concentration‐discharge relationships differ compared with those of the largest Arctic rivers, suggesting that future projections of dissolved ion fluxes from CAA rivers to the Arctic Ocean may not be reliably made based on compositions of the largest Arctic rivers alone, and that rivers draining the CAA region will likely follow different trajectories of change under a warming climate. Understanding how these small, coastal‐draining river systems will respond to climate change is essential to fully evaluate the impact of changing freshwater inputs to the Arctic marine system.This work was only possible through a network of enthusiastic and devoted collaborators. Partners included Polar Knowledge Canada and the Canadian High Arctic Research Station, the Arctic Research Foundation, the Kugluktuk Angoniatit Association, and the Canadian Arctic GEOTRACES Program. We acknowledge support from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Coastal Ocean Institute, The G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation, Jane and James Orr, and the Woods Hole Research Center. Many thanks go to Austin Maniyogena, Angulalik Pedersen, Adrian Schimnowski, JS Moore, Les Harris, Oksana Schimnowski, as well as Barbara Adjun, Amanda Dumond, and Johnny Nivingalok, and the captains and crew of the research vessels CCGS Amundsen and R/V Martin Bergmann, all of whom supported our research and helped with sample collection. Special thanks also go to Valier Galy, Zhaohui “Aleck” Wang, Marty Davelaar, Michiyo Yamamoto‐Kawai, Hugh McLean, Mike Dempsey, Baba Pedersen, Maureen Soon, Katherine Hoering, Sean Sylva, Ekaterina Bulygina, and Anya Suslova for their invaluable contributions during field program planning, preparations, and laboratory analyses. Robert Max Holmes is thanked for many fruitful discussions. We also thank several anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on the paper's content and structure. All of the data presented in this paper can be found at https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.908497

GRADE equity guidelines 4: guidance on how to assess and address health equity within the evidence to decision process

Objective: The aim of this paper is to provide detailed guidance on how to incorporate health equity within the GRADE (Grading Recommendations Assessment and Development Evidence) evidence to decision process. Study design and setting: We developed this guidance based on the GRADE evidence to decision (EtD) framework, iteratively reviewing and modifying draft documents, in person discussion of project group members and input from other GRADE members. Results: Considering the impact on health equity may be required, both in general guidelines, and guidelines that focus on disadvantaged populations. We suggest two approaches to incorporate equity considerations: 1) assessing the potential impact of interventions on equity and; 2) incorporating equity considerations when judging or weighing each of the evidence to decision criteria. We provide guidance and include illustrative examples. Conclusion: Guideline panels should consider the impact of recommendations on health equity with attention to remote and underserviced settings and disadvantaged populations. Guideline panels may wish to incorporate equity judgments across the evidence to decision framework

Electrical properties of extended defects in strain relaxed GeSn

We report the electrical properties of 60 degrees dislocations originating from the +1.2% lattice mismatch between an unintentionally doped, 315 nm thick Ge0.922Sn0.078 layer (58% relaxed) and the underlying Ge substrate, using deep level transient spectroscopy. The 60 degrees dislocations are found to be split into Shockley partials, binding a stacking fault. The dislocations exhibit a band-like distribution of electronic states in the bandgap, with the highest occupied defect state at similar to E-V + 0.15 eV, indicating no interaction with point defects in the dislocation's strain field. A small capture cross-section of 1.5 x 10(-19) cm(2) with a capture barrier of 60 meV is observed, indicating a donor-like nature of the defect-states. Thus, these dislocation-states are not the source of unintentional p-type doping in the Ge0.922Sn0.078 layer. Importantly, we show that the resolved 60 degrees dislocation-states act as a source of leakage current by thermally generating minority electrons via the Shockley-ReadHall mechanism

GRADE equity guidelines 3: considering health equity in GRADE guideline development: rating the certainty of synthesized evidence

Objectives: The aim of this paper is to describe a conceptual framework for how to consider health equity in the Grading Recommendations Assessment and Development Evidence (GRADE) guideline development process. Study Design and Setting: Consensus-based guidance developed by the GRADE working group members and other methodologists. Results: We developed consensus-based guidance to help address health equity when rating the certainty of synthesized evidence (i.e., quality of evidence). When health inequity is determined to be a concern by stakeholders, we propose five methods for explicitly assessing health equity: (1) include health equity as an outcome; (2) consider patient-important outcomes relevant to health equity; (3) assess differences in the relative effect size of the treatment; (4) assess differences in baseline risk and the differing impacts on absolute effects; and (5) assess indirectness of evidence to disadvantaged populations and/or settings. Conclusion: The most important priority for research on health inequity and guidelines is to identify and document examples where health equity has been considered explicitly in guidelines. Although there is a weak scientific evidence base for assessing health equity, this should not discourage the explicit consideration of how guidelines and recommendations affect the most vulnerable members of society

Survey of Period Variations of Superhumps in SU UMa-Type Dwarf Novae. II: The Second Year (2009-2010)

As an extension of the project in Kato et al. (2009, arXiv:0905.1757), we collected times of superhump maxima for 61 SU UMa-type dwarf novae mainly observed during the 2009-2010 season. The newly obtained data confirmed the basic findings reported in Kato et al. (2009): the presence of stages A-C, as well as the predominance of positive period derivatives during stage B in systems with superhump periods shorter than 0.07 d. There was a systematic difference in period derivatives for systems with superhump periods longer than 0.075 d between this study and Kato et al. (2009). We suggest that this difference is possibly caused by the relative lack of frequently outbursting SU UMa-type dwarf novae in this period regime in the present study. We recorded a strong beat phenomenon during the 2009 superoutburst of IY UMa. The close correlation between the beat period and superhump period suggests that the changing angular velocity of the apsidal motion of the elliptical disk is responsible for the variation of superhump periods. We also described three new WZ Sge-type objects with established early superhumps and one with likely early superhumps. We also suggest that two systems, VX For and EL UMa, are WZ Sge-type dwarf novae with multiple rebrightenings. The O-C variation in OT J213806.6+261957 suggests that the frequent absence of rebrightenings in very short-Porb objects can be a result of sustained superoutburst plateau at the epoch when usual SU UMa-type dwarf novae return to quiescence preceding a rebrightening. We also present a formulation for a variety of Bayesian extension to traditional period analyses.Comment: 63 pages, 77 figures, 1 appendix, Accepted for publication in PASJ, data correctio