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Close, but No Degree: Removing Barriers to Degree-Completion and Economic Advancement in New Jersey
Examines current policies, programs, and initiatives designed to facilitate degree completion by offering the option through employment and workforce development services. Recommends increased system alignment, funding, student supports, and flexibility
Investigating the Influence of Grammatical Aspect on Eye-Movements
Peopleâs ability to understand language is influenced by numerous factors, one of which is grammatical aspect. The present study focused on whether hearing the imperfective aspect (âThe man was slicing the vegetablesâ; ongoing action) versus the perfective aspect (âThe man had sliced the vegetablesâ; completed action) affects the activation of the mental representation of an outcome (e.g., a sliced carrot) and of the instrument used for a specific action (e.g., a knife for slicing). We conducted a visual-world paradigm eye-tracking study to investigate moment-by-moment language understanding (Heuttig et al., 2011). Participants listened to sentences such as those above while viewing four pictures on a computer screen. Each trial contained one picture depicting the instrument employed for the action mentioned in the sentence (a knife), one depicting the patient that is being acted upon (a carrot), and two unrelated distractors (a basket and a present). We measured the time course of participantsâ eye-movements to the pictures, as well as the duration of their fixations. Overall there was an increase in looks to the instruments for the imperfective over the perfective in the time period between the verb and the noun. However, there was no increase in looks to the patient in the perfective over the imperfective. Our results demonstrate that people are sensitive to grammatical aspect as the sentence unfolds, including as the verb is being heard. This suggests that aspect dynamically influences how people interpret and process events
Rocket instrumentation for the measurement of D-region electron density and collision frequencies Scientific report no. 244
Black Brant II sounding rocket instrumentation for measurement of D layer electron density and collision rat
Photonic qubits, qutrits and ququads accurately prepared and delivered on demand
Reliable encoding of information in quantum systems is crucial to all
approaches to quantum information processing or communication. This applies in
particular to photons used in linear optics quantum computing (LOQC), which is
scalable provided a deterministic single-photon emission and preparation is
available. Here, we show that narrowband photons deterministically emitted from
an atom-cavity system fulfill these requirements. Within their 500 ns coherence
time, we demonstrate a subdivision into d time bins of various amplitudes and
phases, which we use for encoding arbitrary qu-d-its. The latter is done
deterministically with a fidelity >95% for qubits, verified using a newly
developed time-resolved quantum-homodyne method.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Public Health England's recovery tools: potential teaching resources?
The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version.Training to combat chemical and radiation accidents, incidents or attacks is critical for health professionals
due to recent events involving these hazards or their use as unconventional weapons, such as the use of
the nerve agent novichok in Salisbury, UK. Health professionals need to have appropriate knowledge and
skills to effectively respond to future events involving any of these substances, which requires a rapid and
coordinated response from different professionals to protect the environment and minimise the number of
people exposed and reduce morbidity and mortality. However, despite chemical and radiation incidents
becoming increasingly prevalent, literature reviews have shown that there is a lack of teaching of
appropriate competences to face future crises in Europe, particularly amongst clinicians and other health
professionals that would be part of the initial response. Thus, De Montfort University (DMU, UK) in
collaboration with different academics from the University of AlcalĂĄ (Spain) and researchers from Public
Health England (PHE) with comprehensive experience in environmental decontamination and restoration,
have created a short training course for providing undergraduate/postgraduate students with basic skills
to respond to chemical incidents, basic skills that are based on the major competences recently identified
by the European Commission [1]. This novel training has been tested with students from different
backgrounds in various European universities, recording high degrees of acquisition of the various basic
competences that we developed to initially respond to chemical events [2]. To develop the practical part
of this chemical training, we have incorporated the novel guidance and methodology developed by PHE
to successfully tailor a protection and recovery response to any incident involving chemical substances,
which is available in the âUK Recovery Handbook for Chemical Incidentsâ [3] and its web-based tools:
âChemical Recovery Navigation Toolâ (CRNT, [4]) and âChemical Recovery Record Formâ (CRRF, [5]).
These innovative resources aid the user to select effective protection, decontamination and restoration
techniques or strategies from a pool of up-to-date options applicable to different environments according
to the physicochemical properties of the chemical(s) involved and the area affected. The CRNT is
accompanied by the CRRF, which facilitates collection and analysis of the necessary data to inform
decisions, and an e-learning resource named âChemical Recovery: Backgroundâ (CRB, [6]), which could
facilitate the learning of environmental decontamination and restoration. We are currently developing a
short training course to cover minor radiation incidents; this radiation training will follow the same methods
used to develop the chemical training, but with the specific PHE recovery tools to tackle such events,
specifically the âUK Recovery Handbooks for Radiation Incidentsâ [7] and its associated web-based tools
âRadiation Recovery Navigation Toolâ (Rad RNT, [8]), one for each environment: food production systems,
inhabited areas and drinking water supplies. This communication will explore the use of the PHEâs
Recovery Navigation Tools as potential resources to facilitate the acquisition of basic knowledge to tailor
protection and recovery interventions for minor chemical and radiation incidents to protect the public
Radiation dose enhancement in megavoltage radiation therapy using au, gd, pt, ag, and bi nanoparticles of various concentration level
A digital phantom was created from a CT scan of a patientâs head and employed together with GATE 8.2 Monte Carlo modeling of a linear accelerator of nominal 6 MV energy to simulate an irradiation geometry for a typical tumor volume centrally within the brain region. Although simplistic in arrangement, this setup was considered appropriate to demonstrate the dose enhancements that may be expected for megavoltage external beam radiation therapy for nanoparticles (NP) of different elemental composition and concentration. Ag, Gd, Pt, Au and Bi were modeled in concentrations varying from 15 mg NP / gram tissue to 70 mg NP / gram tissue. The maximum Average Dose Enhancement Factor (ADEF) to the Gross Tumour Volume (GTV) observed was 3 % for 70 mg NP / gram tissue of Bi
Media(ted) fabrications: How the science-media symbiosis helped âsellâ cord banking
This paper considers the problematic role of the scienceâmedia symbiosis in the dissemination of misleading and emotionally manipulative information regarding services offered by CordBank, New Zealand's only umbilical cord blood banking facility. As this case study illustrates, the growing reliance of health and science reporters on the knowledge capital of medical specialists, biogenetic researchers, and scientists potentially enhances the ability of âexpertâ sources to set the agenda for media representations of emerging medical and scientific developments, and may undermine the editorial independence of journalists and editors, many of whom in this case failed to critically evaluate deeply problematic claims regarding the current and future benefits of cord banking. Heavy reliance on established media frames of anecdotal personalization and technoboosterism also reinforced a proscience journalistic culture in which claims by key sources were uncritically reiterated and amplified, with journalistic assessments of the value of cord banking emphasizing potential benefits for individual consumers. It is argued that use of these media frames potentially detracts from due consideration of the broader social, ethical, legal, and health implications of emerging biomedical developments, along with the professional, personal, and increasingly also financial interests at stake in their public promotion, given the growing commercialization of biogenetic technologies
Nutrition process improvements for adult inpatients with inborn errors of metabolism using the i-PARIHS framework
This project aimed to implement consensus recommendations and innovations that improve dietetic services to promote timely referral to optimise nutritional management for adult inpatients with inborn errors of metabolism (IEM).The i-PARIHS framework was used to identify service gaps, implement innovations and evaluate the innovations within this single-site study. The constructs of this framework are: (i) review of the evidence; (ii) recognising patients and staff knowledge and attitudes; (iii) acknowledging the local context; and (iv) the facilitators role. This included a literature review and metabolic centre service comparisons to investigate dietetic referral and foodservice processes to inform the innovation. A 12-month chart audit (6 months retrospective and prospective of implemented innovation, respectively) to evaluate newly established dietetic referral and IEM nutrition provision procedures was also completed.The innovations implemented encompassed a clinical alert triggering urgent referral, nutrition sick day plans and metabolic diet and formula prescription via an 'alert' tab in electronic records. Eleven metabolic protein-restricted diets and nine formula recipes were introduced. Prior to the innovations, only 53% (n = 19/36) of inpatients with IEM were assessed by the dietitian and received appropriate nutrition within 24 hours. Following implementation of the innovations, 100% (n = 11/11) of inpatients with IEM received timely dietetic assessment and therapeutic nutrition.Implementation of innovations developed using the i-PARIHS framework is effective in timely notification of the metabolic dietitian of referrals. This ensures optimal nutritional management during admissions which is required in this group of high-risk patients
A relativistic study of Bessel beams
We present a fully relativistic analysis of Bessel beams revealing some
noteworthy features that are not explicit in the standard description. It is
shown that there is a reference frame in which the field takes a particularly
simple form, the wave appearing to rotate in circles. The concepts of
polarization and angular momentum for Bessel beams is also reanalyzed.Comment: 11 pages, 2 fig
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