Redefining Roles, Responsibilities, and Authority of School Leaders

Addresses the core challenges faced by principals and other school leaders faced with high expectations and accountability and inconsistent or limited support, based on current research literature in the field

George W. Saunders, Jr. 1926 – 2010

Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/144286/1/lob20112019.pd

Determining the Strategies Used in the Game Spot the Missing Object (SMO) by ADHD, and Non-ADHD in Adults: An Eye-Tracking Technology Study

• Typical evaluations of ADHD consist of behavior self-report rating scales, a measure of cognitive or intellectual functioning, and specific performance measures designed to measure attention. • However, some research shows that current performance measures of ADHD have low specificity and sensitivity and are generally not helpful in diagnosing ADHD in adults (Lipszyc & Schachar, 2010). • This project is designed to determine if a non-verbal, user-friendly visual search task, combined with eye-tracking technology, can help increase the diagnostic utility of performance-based measures. • The study evaluated the effectiveness of Eye-Tracking Technology as a reliable technique to discriminate ADHD in young adults. In specific, we determined if fixation rate (i.e., number of fixations per second) is different between those that have ADHD (meet criteria on the Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale; ASRS) and those with no diagnosis of ADHD while completing a visual search task “Spot the Missing Object.” • Spot the Missing Object (SMO) is an adaptation of the Spot the Differenc

Water turbidity detection using ERTS-1 imagery

ERTS-1 images of two federal reservoirs in Kansas exhibit good correlation with suspended load. The major reservoirs in Kansas, as well as in other Great Plains states, are playing increasingly important roles in flood control, recreation, agriculture, and urban water supply. Satellite imagery may prove useful for acquiring timely low cost water quality data required for optimum management of these fresh water resources

Ian C. Levy, Rita George-Tvrtković, Donald F. Duclow (eds.), Nicholas of Cusa and Islam. Polemic and Dialogue in the Late Middle Ages, (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 183), Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2014. 251 pp. ISBN 9789004274761 (HBK)

Review of: Ian C. Levy, Rita George-Tvrtković, Donald F. Duclow (eds.), Nicholas of Cusa and Islam. Polemic and Dialogue in the Late Middle Ages, (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 183), Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2014. 251 pp. ISBN 9789004274761 (HBK

REMOTE IN-CELL SAMPLING IMPROVEMENTS PROGRAM AT THESAVANNAH RIVER SITE (SRS) DEFENSE WASTE PROCESSING FACILITY (DWPF)

Remote Systems Engineering (RSE) of the Savannah River National Lab (SRNL) in combination with the Defense Waste Processing Facility(DWPF) Engineering and Operations has evaluated the existing equipment and processes used in the facility sample cells for 'pulling' samples from the radioactive waste stream and performing equipment in-cell repairs/replacements. RSE has designed and tested equipment for improving remote in-cell sampling evolutions and reducing the time required for in-cell maintenance of existing equipment. The equipment within the present process tank sampling system has been in constant use since the facility start-up over 17 years ago. At present, the method for taking samples within the sample cells produces excessive maintenance and downtime due to frequent failures relative to the sampling station equipment and manipulator. Location and orientation of many sampling stations within the sample cells is not conducive to manipulator operation. The overextension of manipulators required to perform many in-cell operations is a major cause of manipulator failures. To improve sampling operations and reduce downtime due to equipment maintenance, a Portable Sampling Station (PSS), wireless in-cell cameras, and new commercially available sampling technology has been designed, developed and/or adapted and tested. The uniqueness of the design(s), the results of the scoping tests, and the benefits relative to in-cell operation and reduction of waste are presented

RetroMine, or how to provide in-depth retrospective studies from Medline in a glance: the hepcidin use-case

International audienceThe rapid expansion of biomedical literature has provoked an increased development of advanced text mining tools to rapidly extract relevant events from the continuously increasing amount of knowledge published periodically in PubMed. However, bioinvestigators are still reluctant to use these tools for two reasons: i) a large volume of events is often extracted upon a query, and this volume is hard to manage, and ii) background events dominate search results and overshadow more pertinent published information, especially for domain experts. In this paper, we propose an approach that incorporates the temporal dimension of published events to the process of information extraction to improve data selection and prioritize more pertinent periodically published knowledge for scientists. Indeed, instead of providing the total knowledge associated with a PubMed query, which is usually a mix of trivial background information and non-background information, we propose a method that incorporates time and selects non background and highly relevant biological entities and events published over time for bioinvestigators. Before excluding background events from the total knowledge extracted, a quantification of their amount is also provided. This work is illustrated by a case study regarding Hepcidin gene publications over a decade, a duration that is sufficiently long enough to generate alternative views on the overall data extracted

Enemies or Colleagues? the 15M and the Podemos hipothesys

Through an ethnography and participant observation in Madrid, Malaga and Cordoba about 15M (since 2011) and Podemos (since 2014) the article analyzes the tensions that cross the attempted to take the indignant movement to political institutions. We show that these tensions are understood from the place and the meaning of consensus in the movement of the indignados, partially hidden by the criticism of the lack of effectiveness of the movement and its refusal to adopt a political strategy based on the institutional representation. Through consensus, the 15M unveils, besides the concept of Multitude to which was primarily associated, an irrepresentable imaginary of a society of equals. If we understand the consensus as the key element of indignados political significance, we wonder how the hegemonic translation proposed by Podemos could be claimed from that imaginary

SBEAMS-Microarray: database software supporting genomic expression analyses for systems biology

BACKGROUND: The biological information in genomic expression data can be understood, and computationally extracted, in the context of systems of interacting molecules. The automation of this information extraction requires high throughput management and analysis of genomic expression data, and integration of these data with other data types. RESULTS: SBEAMS-Microarray, a module of the open-source Systems Biology Experiment Analysis Management System (SBEAMS), enables MIAME-compliant storage, management, analysis, and integration of high-throughput genomic expression data. It is interoperable with the Cytoscape network integration, visualization, analysis, and modeling software platform. CONCLUSION: SBEAMS-Microarray provides end-to-end support for genomic expression analyses for network-based systems biology research