The Effects of Collaboration between a Physical and Health Disabilities Teacher and a General Education Teacher On Students with Disabilities During a Pandemic and Remote Learning

The purpose of this study was to determine how student grades are impacted when teachers collaborate on a weekly basis. A group of 10 students with average intelligence would have been used in this study. They would have been split into two groups of 5. With one group, I would have provided weekly collaboration with the teachers. With the other group, I would have provided monthly collaboration. I would have tracked progress by monitoring student grades. The collaboration would have been provided through email, phone, and in-person consultation to resolve student concerns. Only students whose parents had signed informed consent would have participated in the study. Grades would have been monitored weekly for data research. Due to the events of COVID-19 and a move to distance learning, this research was not able to be conducted. Instead, data was collected through an auto-ethnography design to reflect my teaching experience during COVID-19 and distance learning

Fall Prevention in the Greenwich Hospital Emergency Department

Within the Emergency Department each year, there is a pattern of falls which often happen without warning. It is estimated that 700,000-1 million patient suffer from a fall each year. With a fast past and changing environment it is easy for assessments, such as fall risk, to slip through the cracks when in the Emergency Department. There is also a different experience for the patient and the way the receive care. In order to address this problem, research was done to look at the effect of falls on both the patient and the hospital. Each time a patient falls, it increases their length of stay at the hospital. This both increases hospital costs and hurts the patient’s recovery. It was found that often times increase in patient movement to different locations, multiple drugs and an unfamiliar environment create an atmosphere with increased fall risk. Preventing falls is something that should constantly be happening in the Emergency Department. It starts with the nurses and education on falls. Making sure that each person who has contact with patients knows how to help patient and prevent accidents. From here, at each point in a patient’s treatment there are interventions in place to prevent falls. By assessing these interventions and their effectiveness, it was possible to then create a display to reaffirm information related to falls

Clustering of H2SO4 with BX3 (X = H, F, Cl, Br, CN, OH) compounds creates strong acids and superacids

The interaction of H2SO4 with boron compounds including BH3, BF3, BCl3, BBr3, B(CN)(3) and B(OH)(3) was studied computationally using the omega B97xD density functional. All the BX3 compounds except B(OH)(3) bind to H2SO4 via both SOH center dot center dot center dot X hydrogen bonds, and interactions between the B atoms and the S=O oxygen atoms. B(OH)(3) interacts with H2SO4 solely through hydrogen bonds. B(CN)(3) and BCl3 exhibit the strongest and weakest interactions with H2SO4, respectively. Natural bond orbital (NBO) analysis shows that the relative weakness of the H2SO4- BCl3 interaction may be due to pi-bonding between the B and Cl atoms, and the occupation of the p(z) orbital of the B atom. The strong electron withdrawing groups CN in B(CN)(3) intensify electron deficiency of B atom and promote its tendency to capture electrons of oxygen atom of O=S group. Atoms in molecules (AIM) calculations show bond critical points (BCP) between the X groups of BX3 and the hydrogen atoms of H2SO4 for all cases except X = OH. Enthalpies and Gibbs free energies of deprotonation in the gas phase (Delta H-acid, Delta G(acid)) were calculated for (BX3)H2SO4 and (BX3)(2)H2SO4 complexes. These data revealed that clustering of BX3 with H2SO4 enhances the acidity of H2SO4 by about 9-58 kcal mol(-1). The (B(CN)(3))(2)H2SO4 cluster had Delta H-acid and Delta G(acid) values of 255.0 and 246.7 kcal mol(-1), respectively, and is the strongest Bronsted acids among the (BX3)(2)H2SO4 clusters.Peer reviewe

Clustering of HClO4 with Bronsted (H2SO4, HClO4, HNO3) and Lewis acids BX3 (X = H, F, Cl, Br, OH) : a DFT study

HClO4 is an important catalyst in organic chemistry, and also acts as a reservoir or sink species in atmospheric chlorine chemistry. In this study, we computationally investigate the interactions of Bronsted (H2SO4, HClO4, HNO3) and Lewis acids (BH3, BF3, BCl3, BBr3, B(OH)(3)) with HClO4 using the omega B97xD method and the aug-cc-pVDZ basis set. Different isomers of clusters with up to 4 molecules (tetramer) were optimized, and the most stable structures were determined. The enthalpies, Delta H, and Gibbs free energies, Delta G, of cluster formation were calculated in the gas phase at 298 K. Atoms in molecules (AIM) calculations find B-O bond critical points only in the (BH3)(n)HClO4 clusters, while formation of other clusters was based on hydrogen bonding interactions. (H2SO4)HClO4 and (B(OH)(3))HClO4, with formation enthalpies of -14.1 and -12.0 kcal mol(-1), were the most stable, and (BCl3)HClO4 with a formation enthalpy of -2.9 kcal mol(-1), was the least stable cluster among the dimers. Clustering of the Lewis and Bronsted acids with HClO4 enhanced its acidity, so that clustering of four HClO4 molecules and formation of (HClO4)(4) increases the acidity of HClO4 by about 35 kcal mol(-1). The most acidic dimer cluster found in the study was (BBr3)HClO4, with Delta H-acid of 275 kcal mol(-1); 26 kcal mol(-1) stronger than that of the HClO4 monomer.Peer reviewe

Apollo experience report guidance and control systems: Lunar module abort guidance system

The history of a unique development program that produced an operational fixed guidance system of inertial quality is presented. Each phase of development, beginning with requirement definition and concluding with qualification and testing, is addressed, and developmental problems are emphasized. Software generation and mission operations are described, and specifications for the inertial reference unit are included, as are flight performance results. Significant program observations are noted

Nitrogen oxides and PAN in plumes from boreal fires during ARCTAS-B and their impact on ozone: an integrated analysis of aircraft and satellite observations

We determine enhancement ratios for NO_x, PAN, and other NO_y species from boreal biomass burning using aircraft data obtained during the ARCTAS-B campaign and examine the impact of these emissions on tropospheric ozone in the Arctic. We find an initial emission factor for NO_x of 1.06 g NO per kg dry matter (DM) burned, much lower than previous observations of boreal plumes, and also one third the value recommended for extratropical fires. Our analysis provides the first observational confirmation of rapid PAN formation in a boreal smoke plume, with 40% of the initial NO_x emissions being converted to PAN in the first few hours after emission. We find little clear evidence for ozone formation in the boreal smoke plumes during ARCTAS-B in either aircraft or satellite observations, or in model simulations. Only a third of the smoke plumes observed by the NASA DC8 showed a correlation between ozone and CO, and ozone was depleted in the plumes as often as it was enhanced. Special observations from the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) also show little evidence for enhanced ozone in boreal smoke plumes between 15 June and 15 July 2008. Of the 22 plumes observed by TES, only 4 showed ozone increasing within the smoke plumes, and even in those cases it was unclear that the increase was caused by fire emissions. Using the GEOS-Chem atmospheric chemistry model, we show that boreal fires during ARCTAS-B had little impact on the median ozone profile measured over Canada, and had little impact on ozone within the smoke plumes observed by TES

Is either direct photolysis or photocatalysed H-shift of peroxyl radicals a competitive pathway in the troposphere?

Peroxyl radicals (ROO.) are key intermediates in atmospheric chemistry, with relatively long lifetimes compared to most other radical species. In this study, we use multireference quantum chemical methods to investigate whether photolysis can compete with well-established ROO. sink reactions. We assume that the photolysis channel is always ROO. + h nu => RO + O(P-3). Our results show that the maximal value of the cross-section for this channel is sigma = 1.3 x 10(-18) cm(2) at 240 nm for five atmospherically representative peroxyl radicals: CH3OO., C(O)HCH2OO., CH3CH2OO., HC(O)OO. and CH3C(O)OO.. These values agree with experiments to within a factor of 2. The rate constant of photolysis in the troposphere is around 10(-5) s(-1) for all five ROO.. As the lifetime of peroxyl radicals in the troposphere is typically less than 100 s, photolysis is thus not a competitive process. Furthermore, we investigate whether or not electronic excitation to the first excited state (D-1) by infrared radiation can facilitate various H-shift reactions, leading, for example, in the case of CH3OO. to formation of O.H and CH2O or HOO. and CH2 products. While the activation barriers for H-shifts in the D-1 state may be lower than in the ground state (D-0), we find that H-shifts are unlikely to be competitive with decay back to the D-0 state through internal conversion, as this has a rate of the order of 10(13) s(-1) for all studied systems.Peer reviewe

Hopf Bifurcation and Chaos in Tabu Learning Neuron Models

In this paper, we consider the nonlinear dynamical behaviors of some tabu leaning neuron models. We first consider a tabu learning single neuron model. By choosing the memory decay rate as a bifurcation parameter, we prove that Hopf bifurcation occurs in the neuron. The stability of the bifurcating periodic solutions and the direction of the Hopf bifurcation are determined by applying the normal form theory. We give a numerical example to verify the theoretical analysis. Then, we demonstrate the chaotic behavior in such a neuron with sinusoidal external input, via computer simulations. Finally, we study the chaotic behaviors in tabu learning two-neuron models, with linear and quadratic proximity functions respectively.Comment: 14 pages, 13 figures, Accepted by International Journal of Bifurcation and Chao