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Effective Assessment Plan Leading to Strong Reform of Petroleum Engineering Graduate Program
The Bob L. Herd Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas Tech University has made a lot of significant actions of improvement to its graduate program that was motivated by a systematic SACSCOC assessment plan. This paper shows how the SACSCOC assessment plan aided in making continuous actions of improvement and as a conclusion of these actions, how the current graduate curriculum plan was improved. This paper highlights the details of the graduate department assessment plan, such as how graduate program objectives are assessed, what assessment tools are used, when data are gathered and evaluated, and when actions of improvement are made. This paper will also detail how the analysis of data was utilized in making actions of continuous improvement. At the end of the paper examples of the significant actions of improvement made based on the department assessment and evaluation plan are presented.Cockrell School of Engineerin
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The Business Situation in Texas; Marketing in Mexico; Texas Construction: Using Solar EnergyBureau of Business Researc
Analyzing Crop Revenue Safety Net Program Alternatives and Impacts on Producers and Program Costs
This study evaluates the policy effects of alternative program designs for federal revenue-based farm income safety net programs. Eight representative farms across Nebraska are used to stochastically simulate the financial impact of changing the current farm crop revenue-based safety net with a state revenue trigger against potential alternative programs involving guarantees at the district, county, or farm level. Results indicate that decreasing the aggregation of the revenue guarantee increases expected farm-level payments and program costs for the revenue-based safety net.agricultural policy, farm bill, farm programs, government payments, representative farms, risk management, simulation, Agricultural and Food Policy, Farm Management, Risk and Uncertainty, Q12, Q18,
Risk of cancer following primary total hip replacement or primary resurfacing arthroplasty of the hip : A retrospective cohort study in Scotland
Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Lee Barnsdale, Doug Clark, and Richard Dobbie for advice and assistance with data preparation before analysis, and to the three anonymous referees for their helpful comments and suggestions.Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Multiple cancer site comparison of adjusted survival by hospital of treatment: an East Anglian study
We performed a preliminary investigation into which hospitals would benefit frominvestment and development, and which should have services restricted, with respect to the implementation of the CalmanâHine strategy of specialist cancer care. A retrospective study approach was used implementing uniform definitions for colon, rectal, breast, melanoma, bladder and ovarian cancers. A total of 14 527 cases registered by the East Anglian cancer registry and diagnosed between 1989 and 1993 were included. The cases were analysed in two age groups (< 75, 75+ years) and two hospital groups: group 1, those treated at hospitals with radiotherapy and oncology departments; group 2, other district general hospitals. Adjusted hazard ratios derived from Cox's proportional hazards model and adjusted conditional survival curves were presented. We found that afterdjustment for age, sex and tumour stage at diagnosis, survival up to 5 years after diagnosis was usually worse in group 2 hospitals and significantly so for patients aged < 75 years with breast, ovarian and rectal tumours. Hospital workload produced little significant effect independently from hospital group. Analysing the selected cancer sites using uniform definitions and consistent staging supports the view that the strategy proposed in the CalmanâHine report is likely to be beneficial, but particular priority for change should be given to younger patients with breast, ovarian and rectal tumours. © 2000 Cancer Research Campaig
Crush
In Crush, a stunning collection of erotic poems and queer meditations delineating Stocktonâ and Gilsonâs mutual crushing on each other, but also all of the ways in which, sweetly and also sadly, affection ameliorates the anguishes that, despite our deepest devotions, are never constant, Stockton and Gilson write, In Aranye Fradenburgâs words, Shakespeareâs sonnets describe âthe love you feel for inappropriate objects: for someone thirty years older, thirty years younger. The kind of love that makes a fool, a pervert, a stalker out of you.â Letâs start here, for much of this description applies to Petrarchan conventions as well. Letâs start here, with this affective entrance into the poems and the impossibility of dispossessing the otherâs voice in the manufacture of oneâs own machine. Letâs start here, with a vision of poems as indexes of crushes rendered inappropriate, unhealthy by some gradation of difference and level of intensity. With the question of what distinguishes a crush from love if both turn you into a different self. Under oak trees and sunlight, in coffee shops and locker rooms, steam rooms and seminar rooms, and in conversation with Milton, Shakespeare, Frank OâHara, Narcissus, Allen Ginsberg, Jacques Derrida, Aranye Fradenburg, Mary Magdalene, Freud, Oscar Wilde, JosĂ© Esteban Muñoz, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Elton John, and Prince, among other poets, harlots, saints, and scholars, Stockton and Gilson explore the ways in which friendship, desire, falling, swerving, possession, holding, faggoting, falling, longing, poeming, and crushing open the self to queerly utopic, if also difficult, deflections â other, more improbable modes of being, as Foucault might have said
Is the Scottish population living dangerously? Prevalence of multiple risk factors: the Scottish Health Survey 2003
<b>Background:</b>
Risk factors are often considered individually, we aimed to investigate the prevalence of combinations of multiple behavioural risk factors and their association with socioeconomic determinants.<p></p>
<b>Methods:</b>
Multinomial logistic regression was used to model the associations between socioeconomic factors and multiple risk factors from data in the Scottish Health Survey 2003. Prevalence of five main behavioural risk factors - smoking alcohol, diet, overweight/obesity, and physical inactivity, and the odds in relation to demographic, individual and area socioeconomic factors.<p></p>
<b>Results:</b>
Full data were available on 6,574 subjects (80.7% of the survey sample). Nearly the whole adult population (97.5%) reported to have at least one behavioural risk factor; while 55% have three or more risk factors; and nearly 20% have four or all five risk factors. The most important determinants for having four or five multiple risk factors were low educational attainment which conferred around a 3-fold increased odds compared to high education; and residence in the most deprived communities (relative to least deprived) which had greater than 3-fold increased odds.<p></p>
<b>Conclusions:</b>
The prevalence of multiple behavioural risk factors was high and the prevalence of absence of all risk factors very low. These behavioural patterns were socioeconomically determined. Policy to address factors needs to be joined up and better consider underlying socioeconomic circumstances.<p></p>
Extremely Red Objects in Two Quasar Fields at z ~ 1.5
We present an investigation of the properties and environments of bright
extremely red objects (EROs) found in the fields of the quasars TXS 0145+386
and 4C 15.55, both at z ~ 1.4. There is marginal evidence from Chandra ACIS
imaging for hot cluster gas with a luminosity of a few 10^44 ergs/s in the
field of 4C 15.55. The TXS 0145+386 field has an upper limit at a similar
value, but it also clearly shows an overdensity of faint galaxies. None of the
EROs are detected as X-ray sources. For two of the EROs that have
spectral-energy distributions and rest-frame near-UV spectra that show that
they are strongly dominated by old stellar populations, we determine
radial-surface-brightness profiles from adaptive-optics images. Both of these
galaxies are best fit by profiles close to exponentials, plus a compact nucleus
comprising ~30% of the total light in one case and 8% in the other. Neither is
well fit by an r^1/4-law profile. This apparent evidence for the formation of
massive ~2 X 10^11 disks of old stars in the early universe indicates that at
least some galaxies formed essentially monolithically, with high star-formation
rates sustained over a few 10^8 years, and without the aid of major mergers.Comment: 25 pages, 13 figures, accepted to Ap
Perceived, anticipated and experienced stigma: exploring manifestations and implications for young people's sexual and reproductive health and access to care in North-Western Tanzania
This work was conducted under the HPP, a five-year cooperative agreement supported by United States Agency for International Development [grant number AID-OAA-A-10-00067]
Civility and Academic Freedom: Who Defines the Former (and How) May Imperil Rights to the Latter
An alarming occurrence in academia involves the discipline of faculty, under the guise of violating civility or collegiality codes, for engaging in what should be protected academic free speech. This often occurs when unprincipled and/or corporate-minded administrators seek to punish or dissuade faculty from challenging or questioning their decisions or policy initiatives, or for speaking up about policy violations or lack of due process. The ambiguity of terms such as civility and collegiality, when selectively defined by administrators, can be used to stifle, dissuade or punish academic free speech. Ways to identify and address these problems are presented
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