Research-Practice-Policy Partnerships for Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices in Child Welfare and Child Mental Health

Partnerships between researchers, practitioners, and policymakers represent a promising avenue for improving outcomes for young people and families.In a new report, Lawrence Palinkas, Cherry Short, and Marleen Wong of the University of Southern California's School of Social Work suggest that research-practice-policy partnerships may help narrow the gap between the development of evidence-based services for young people in the child welfare and mental health systems and the routine delivery of these services.Describing the structure and operations of partnerships, and the potential challenges to making them work, Palinkas and colleagues present three models of successful partnerships in the child welfare and mental health systems. Case studies for each model provide rich examples of the common elements and central themes that characterize the value of partnerships as a strategy for delivering high quality services in high demand settings

Interoperability Optimization and Service Enhancement in Vehicle Onboard Infortainment Systems

This paper presents an overview on optimizing interoperability between different applications for enhanced return-on-investment through utilization of business intelligence in conjunction with prognostics and health management methodology. Such implementation is particularly suitable for deployment in mass-produced vehicle onboard diagnostics system

How effective are our teaching methods for vocational education

In vocational education, students\u27 attitudes are often overlooked in its pedagogy deployment. The theme of this paper is to investigate how to measure the effectiveness of teaching in student\u27s affective domain. The research experiment was designed with time-span of 15 weeks. A set of questionnaires was designed as the instrument of the investigation. Prior to the experiment, students were split into two groups. Subsequently, these two groups of students went through different approaches of teaching. At the end of the experiment, the same questionnaires were used to probe students\u27 attitude. Data analysis was used to measure the shift of attitude before and after the experiment of these two groups of students. Apparently, one group of students has more positive attitude. However, data analysis shows we cannot conclude it was caused solely by imposing one particular teaching method. Likewise, even with the fact that many students of the experimental group favored one particular type of teaching method, there is no evidence that this teaching method can have higher impact in students\u27 attitude. This study provides a useful viewpoint in the planning and evaluation when conducting a novel teaching methodology

How effective are our teaching methods for vocational education

In vocational education, students\u27 attitudes are often overlooked in its pedagogy deployment. The theme of this paper is to investigate how to measure the effectiveness of teaching in student\u27s affective domain. The research experiment was designed with time-span of 15 weeks. A set of questionnaires was designed as the instrument of the investigation. Prior to the experiment, students were split into two groups. Subsequently, these two groups of students went through different approaches of teaching. At the end of the experiment, the same questionnaires were used to probe students\u27 attitude. Data analysis was used to measure the shift of attitude before and after the experiment of these two groups of students. Apparently, one group of students has more positive attitude. However, data analysis shows we cannot conclude it was caused solely by imposing one particular teaching method. Likewise, even with the fact that many students of the experimental group favored one particular type of teaching method, there is no evidence that this teaching method can have higher impact in students\u27 attitude. This study provides a useful viewpoint in the planning and evaluation when conducting a novel teaching methodology

The use of a laboratory approach for teaching engineering students

In this paper, the objective was to investigate the effectiveness of an alternative teaching method – lab-based teaching with a group of sub-degree students. A research experiment was designed, implemented and evaluated. The overall design for this experimental research is based on pretest-posttest model. In the design of this quasiexperiment, much effort was made to reduce the impacts of threats and practical constrains. Details teaching plan and delivery of the teaching are also discussed. At the end of the experiment, all students were examined on the module as part of their final year examination. This is the instrument used to collect students’ attainment. Data analysis was carried out to investigate whether there are aspects of significant difference caused by the effect of the labbased teaching. In conclusion, although there was greater improvement in attainment in the experimental group, it may be due to the initial difference of these two groups. Hence, there is no strong evidence that lab-based teaching is better than conventional teaching for cognitive learning

Three‐Atom Scattering in Gas‐Phase Electron Diffraction: A Tractable Limiting Case

The contribution of intramolecular multiple scattering in electron diffraction patterns of gas molecules is investigated by Glauber's method. An analytical expression for three‐atom scattering is derived for the limiting case in which the distance between atoms is large compared with atomic radii. This expression accounts well for the discrepancies between observed and conventionally calculated scattered intensities reported by Jacob and Bartell in the case of ReF6. The analogous four‐atom scattering is found to be very small.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/71249/2/JCPSA6-56-5-2364-1.pd

Molecular structure of phosphabenzene: Analysis combining electron diffraction and microwave data

The average (ra) structure of vapor phase C5H5P, the phosphorus congener of pyridine, was deduced. Vibrational corrections of diffraction data and rotational constants were made via a normal coordinate analysis based on an approximate quadratic force field. The heterocyclic molecule was found to be planar with principal structure parameters and uncertainties (2.5σ) of rg(C�P) = 1.733±0.003 Årg(C�P)=1.733±0.003Å, rg(C2�C3) = 1.413±0.010 Årg(C2�C3)=1.413±0.010Å, rg(C3�C4) = 1.384±0.012 Årg(C3�C4)=1.384±0.012Å, rg(C�H) = 1.122±0.015 Årg(C�H)=1.122±0.015Å, ∡CPC = 101.1°±0.3°∡CPC=101.1°±0.3°, ∡PCC = 124.4°±0.7°∡PCC=124.4°±0.7°, and ∡C2C3C4 = 123.7°±0.8°∡C2C3C4=123.7°±0.8°. Amplitudes of vibration were determined in the diffraction analysis as well as in the normal coordinate computation. A variety of different types of error matrices were computed to assess the effect of data correlations and the possible coupling, over and above scale factor shifts, between systematic errors in intensities and derived parameters. Conventional treatments of data correlations appear to lead to overoptimistic error estimates in the case of the longer internuclear distances. The structural characteristics of phosphabenzene are those expected for an aromatic molecule. Semiempirical molecular orbital calculations, adjusted to fit the experimental structure, suggest a small but significant involvement of phosphorus d orbitals in the π bonding.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/69578/2/JCPSA6-61-7-2840-1.pd