Antenna technology: Antenna design and scale model techniques

Prototype antenna design and methods of measuring and predicting antenna characteristics when mounted on space shuttle scale model

Omnidirectional microwave spacecraft antenna Patent

Microwave ominidirectional antenna for use on spacecraf

Fall Prevention Initiatives to Reduce the Number of Falls With or Without Injury on a Multi-Specialty Progressive Care Unit

Background: Literature searches have shown a correlation between high risk fall medications and care equipment (eg., sequential compression device) relating to falls with or without injury among adults 65 years and older. The cost of treating falls in the elderly in the United States in 2000 was more than $19 million and is estimated to increase to$54.9 billion by 2020. Falls is defined as preventable under the new healthcare guideline and is a non-reimbursable cost to hospitals. Aims: The purpose was to increase nurses’ knowledge on high risk fall medications, care equipment, and differentiating falls with or without injury. Method: A pre test and post test following interventions was developed and distributed to 53 nurses. A knowledge assessment was conducted using a pre test and post test to participating bedside nurses. Results: Results of this project indicated an overall increase in nursing knowledge with 100% of the post test answered correctly. Additionally, nursing staff felt the educational initiative was beneficial to their work environment. An increase in communication was found through utilization of the registered nurse and clinical partner report sheet. Early implementation of the extended falls precautions bundle showed a significant reduction in falls between its inception in 2013 and 2015. Conclusion: Falls are associated with consequences including increased hospital length of stay and non-reimbursement. In an effort to improve the standards of care relating to fall prevention, having a performance improvement project focusing on patient’s safety was positively received by nursing staff. The current emphasis on practicing in a safer environment and encouraging every one to remember that the greatest way to treat our patients is by following best standards of care. Having a falls precautions bundle incorporating the assessment of high risk medications, care equipment, and providing patient/family education has decreased our incidence of falls with and without injury

Description of Factors That Influenced the Ninth Grade Students\u27 Enrollment of the Industrial Arts Department in the City of Chesapeake

The purpose of this study was to determine why ninth graders chose not to enroll for an industrial arts class. The following questions gave guidance for the investigator to design a questionnaire: 1. Is the decision primarily made by the student? 2. Are there external influences such as peer pressures, parental advice, school guidance? 3. Has the student planned to enroll later? 4. Is the decision a temporary one

Junior Recital, Kiara Croswell, flute

The presentation of this junior recital will fulfill in part the requirements for the Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education. Kiara Croswell studies flute with Dr. Tabatha Easley

The Ethics of Jesus and the Plight of the Coal Miners

The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the ethics of Jesus and to describe conditions which have resulted from a failure to apply his teachings to an important phase of economic life. No attempt will be made to offer a panacea. Some of the limitations of this study should be noted. Attention will be confined to the bituminous coal industry. As the main interest in this thesis is ethical, it has been necessary to neglect many economic aspects of the problem. We are fully aware of the existence and importance of such questions, but they seem beyond the scope of this paper. In order to gain first-hand acquaintance with the life of the coal-miners and the problems of the industry, the writer paid twenty-one visits to the Hocking Valley district in southern Ohio. These trips were begun in September, 1932, and were continued through February, 1933

Phased array-fed antenna configuration study: Technology assessment

Spacecraft array fed reflector antenna systems were assessed for particular application to a multiple fixed spot beam/multiple scanning spot beam system. Reflector optics systems are reviewed in addition to an investigation of the feasibility of the use of monolithic microwave integrated circuit power amplifiers and phase shifters in each element of the array feed

The Acute Toxicity of Some Pesticides to Fish

Author Institution: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Division of Water Supply and Pollution Control Public Health Service, Robert A. Taft Sanitary Engineering Center, Cincinnati, OhioAcute static bioassays were conducted with 13 pesticides to determine their comparative toxicity to fish. There was a wide range in the toxicity of these compounds with 96-hour TLm values ranging from 0.0033 to 4.0 mg/1. Of the compounds tested, Thiodan, a chlorinated hydrocarbon, and Thimet, an organic phosphorus pesticide, were the most toxic; and Bayer 29493, an organic phosphorus compound, and Fermate, a carbamate, were the least toxic. In about half of these static tests, toxicity increased significantly with an increase of exposure time from 24 to 96 hours. The toxicity of the organic phosphorus and chlorinated hydrocarbon compounds did not appear to be influenced by the water quality characteristics (pH, hardness, alkalinity) examined. The toxicity of two of the carbamates was influenced by water quality characteristics

Industrial Wastes: BIO-ASSAYS FOR CONTROL OF INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENTS

Waste effluents from many industries are toxic to fish and other aquatic life. The control or treatment of these wastes for safe release into receiving waters presents a problem of consider able magnitude. Much effort has been expended by some industries to solve this problem, primarily through chemical analysis for possible toxic components and then generally by a search of the literature to find out how toxic a particular component may be. Unfortunately, this approach has not been successful, nor can it be expected to be productive of satisfactory answers

Insights from Aboriginal teaching assistants about the impact of the Bridging the Numeracy Gap Project in a Kimberley Catholic school

As part of the Bridging the Numeracy Gap Project, four Catholic schools in the Kimberley appointed Key Aboriginal Teaching Assistants in Numeracy who, along with a classroom teacher from the school, participated in a 6-day professional learning program aimed at developing their mathematics teaching and leadership. At the end of 2010, audio-taped conversations took place to gain insight about the impact of the Project on learning and teaching mathematics at the school. Analysis of these data demonstrated that Aboriginal Teaching Assistants had clear views about the positive impact of project and of how to improve Aboriginal students‟ opportunities to learn mathematics at school