How do young people (in the region) form their views on future learning and career options?

The research informed the activities of the Regional Employment and Skills Partnership, and more specifically to “inform the future development of labour market intelligence (LMI) to support the provision of employment related information advice and guidance (IAG) to support young people”. This report provides the 14 – 19 Commission with a literature review which: • highlights the core principles of young people’s decision-making processes; • takes into consideration research which discusses the cognitive changes that young people undergo between the ages of 14 -19; • focuses on structural issues, which affect young peoples views on future work and learning options; • Investigates the significance of place and locale in the formation of young people’s views and decision making in a manner that is mindful of the identity of the North East region

Strategies to improve the quality of initial teacher education for teachers in the education and training sector (further education and skills)

This report details the Inquiring Teachers, Inquiring Learners project which was developed to support partner institutions to develop and apply a culture of action research within their organisation. The underlying principle of the project was professionalism and in particular the promotion and development of teachers’ professional identities and attitudes as the key to the enhancement of student learning, above all, a vision of the ‘inquiring teacher’. Inquiring teachers it is felt are more likely to develop inquiring learners. Teachers are best placed to know about their subjects and their learners’ needs within their local contexts. The project aimed to support partners of the School of Education to develop the skills and knowledge to define and undertake an action research project that would contribute to improving ITE within their context.Education and Training Foundatio

Pastoral care for young people in the workplace.

This research sets out to explore the range and type of support that employers have in place to support young people’s transition from education to the workplace. As well as exploring the traditional support through induction and training we have also examined additional support which we have defined as pastoral care. Emerging from the research with there was a dissatisfaction for young people with the preparation that they had received prior to leaving education. The grievances centred around two key areas: that schools often focus on academic achievement and transition to university rather than to employment; and topics such as making pension arrangements and dealing with tax and NI contributions were reported as not being adequately discussed at school/college. These activities are core parts of working life for everyone and need addressing so that young people understand and can make informed decisions about their financial futures. Young people are generally happy with the support that they receive from employers. Almost one third of the young people surveyed had a mentor or buddy appointed when they started work and all young interviewees stated that they were aware of someone they could go to for pastoral and/or other kinds of support. Although most had not needed to access such support themselves. Sometimes the person offering support was doing so in an ‘official’ capacity, as someone who had been appointed by the employer or was someone in a managerial role. Sometimes, support was provided more informally, by a ‘mate’ or older colleague, which was often reported as the most valuable type of support.SEMT

Determiniation of Flouride Ion in Well Waters of Eastwood School District, Wood, County, Ohio

Author Institution: Eastwood Local Schools ; Chemistry Department, University of ToledoThe purpose of this investigation was to determine the amount of fluoride ion present in the well water of Eastwood Local School District, Wood County, Ohio. Ninety-two water samples were gathered from separate wells in the district and analyzed for fluoride content. Fluoride determination was made with a fluoride ion-selective electrode using a direct potentiometric method. pH measurements were also made upon the samples. Fluoride levels were found to range from 0.6 to 3.8 parts per million. pH measurements varied from 6.91 to 8.30

An evalaution of BookTrust additional needs resources

This report explores reading for pleasure among children with special educational needs through an evaluation of BookTrust's additional needs resources.The BookTrus

Docking control of an autonomous underwater vehicle using reinforcement learning

To achieve persistent systems in the future, autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) will need to autonomously dock onto a charging station. Here, reinforcement learning strategies were applied for the first time to control the docking of an AUV onto a fixed platform in a simulation environment. Two reinforcement learning schemes were investigated: one with continuous state and action spaces, deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG), and one with continuous state but discrete action spaces, deep Q network (DQN). For DQN, the discrete actions were selected as step changes in the control input signals. The performance of the reinforcement learning strategies was compared with classical and optimal control techniques. The control actions selected by DDPG suffer from chattering effects due to a hyperbolic tangent layer in the actor. Conversely, DQN presents the best compromise between short docking time and low control effort, whilst meeting the docking requirements. Whereas the reinforcement learning algorithms present a very high computational cost at training time, they are five orders of magnitude faster than optimal control at deployment time, thus enabling an on-line implementation. Therefore, reinforcement learning achieves a performance similar to optimal control at a much lower computational cost at deployment, whilst also presenting a more general framework

NOx control systems and methods for controlling NOx emissions

An exhaust aftertreatment system comprising a selective reduction catalyst, a NOx sensor or an NH3 sensor, a urea injector, and a dosing control unit, wherein the dosing control unit calculates the rate of urea injection by estimating the concentrations of NO and NO2 in the exhaust downstream of the SCR catalyst.https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/patents/1013/thumbnail.jp

The World Bank and Its Critics: the Case of Sub-Saharan Africa

In 1981, as Sub-Saharan Africa continued in its downward spiral of economic demise, the World Bank issued a major study on the causes of Africa's economic woes and potential short-term steps to alleviate them. The World Bank's Accelerated Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Agenda for Action. In this paper, the authors dissect a number of the major controversies engendered by the World Bank Report, by presenting and evaluating the differences between the authors of the Report and critics of the Report.Center for Research on Economic Development, University of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/100718/1/ECON187.pd