A Study of the Preparedness and Efficacy of Middle School Teachers to Teach Literacy Skills

This study examined the preparedness of middle school teachers to teach literacy strategies to middle school students. The study also examined the significance between teacher licensure pathways and their self-efficacy level as it relates to using literacy strategies in content areas. This was a mixed methods study using quantitative data collected through a survey. The survey measured the efficacy level of teachers as it relates to teaching literacy skills. The qualitative data were collected through focus groups. The research questions examined (a) how middle school teachers rate their self-efficacy as it relates to the use of literacy strategies; (b) the preparedness of middle school English language arts (ELA), science, and social studies teachers to address literacy skills; and (c) how the efficacy level of a traditionally prepared teacher compares to that of a non-traditionally prepared teacher. Data analysis indicated that ELA teachers rate their efficacy high, but there were mixed opinions from all teachers regarding the integration of literacy skills. It was noted that content teachers do not have the training needed to integrate effective literacy strategies into their instruction. Overall, teachers did not feel prepared to teach literacy skills at the completion of their teacher preparation courses, regardless of their licensure program unless they had a K-6 teaching license. There was no significance found comparing self-efficacy to licensure pathway

Evaluation of Google Glass Technical Limitations on Their Integration in Medical Systems

[EN] Google Glass is a wearable sensor presented to facilitate access to information and assist while performing complex tasks. Despite the withdrawal of Google in supporting the product, today there are multiple applications and much research analyzing the potential impact of this technology in different fields of medicine. Google Glass satisfies the need of managing and having rapid access to real-time information in different health care scenarios. Among the most common applications are access to electronic medical records, display monitorizations, decision support and remote consultation in specialties ranging from ophthalmology to surgery and teaching. The device enables a user-friendly hands-free interaction with remote health information systems and broadcasting medical interventions and consultations from a first-person point of view. However, scientific evidence highlights important technical limitations in its use and integration, such as failure in connectivity, poor reception of images and automatic restart of the device. This article presents a technical study on the aforementioned limitations (specifically on the latency, reliability and performance) on two standard communication schemes in order to categorize and identify the sources of the problems. Results have allowed us to obtain a basis to define requirements for medical applications to prevent network, computational and processing failures associated with the use of Google Glass.Authors would like to acknowledge the Laboratory for the Analysis for Human Behavior (www.sabien.upv.es/lach) and the Operative Program FEDER 2007/2013, for providing the necessary materials to undertake the presented research. 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Method of Determining the Extent to which a Nickel Structure has been Attached by a Fluorine-Containing Gas

The method of determining the extent to which a nickel structure has been attacked by a halogen containing gas to which it has been exposed which comprises preparing a quantity of water substantially free from dissolved oxygen, passing ammonia gas through a cuprammonium solution to produce ammonia substantially free from oxygen, dissolving said oxygen-free ammonia in said water to produce a saturated aqueous ammonia solution free from uncombined oxygen, treating at least a portion of said nickel structure of predetermined weight with said solution to dissolve nickel compounds from the surface of said structure without dissolving an appreciable amount of said nickel and analyzing the resulting solution to determine the quantity of said nickel compounds that was associated with said said portion of said structure to determine the proportion of combined nickel in said nickel structure

The preparation of molybdenum hexafluoride /

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2002 Research Honors Program Abstracts

Faculty in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University mentor and guide undergraduate students who have chosen to pursue a research project and graduate with honors. These abstracts reflect the depth of their scholarship and intellectual ability. The research projects encompass work in animal science, biological science, entomology, natural resources, physical science, plant science, and social science