Quality here, there and everywhere: the application of a multi-dimensional learning tool to learning disability health services

The following paper examines the applicability of Maxwell’s (1984) Multi-dimensional Quality Evaluation model to community learning disability health services. The model defines seven dimensions against which the quality of any given service can be measured. Effectiveness, Efficiency, Economy, Equity, Access to Services, Appropriateness and Social Acceptability. A number of examples in relation to community learning disability services are given and discussed

Low-complexity RLS algorithms using dichotomous coordinate descent iterations

In this paper, we derive low-complexity recursive least squares (RLS) adaptive filtering algorithms. We express the RLS problem in terms of auxiliary normal equations with respect to increments of the filter weights and apply this approach to the exponentially weighted and sliding window cases to derive new RLS techniques. For solving the auxiliary equations, line search methods are used. We first consider conjugate gradient iterations with a complexity of O(N-2) operations per sample; N being the number of the filter weights. To reduce the complexity and make the algorithms more suitable for finite precision implementation, we propose a new dichotomous coordinate descent (DCD) algorithm and apply it to the auxiliary equations. This results in a transversal RLS adaptive filter with complexity as low as 3N multiplications per sample, which is only slightly higher than the complexity of the least mean squares (LMS) algorithm (2N multiplications). Simulations are used to compare the performance of the proposed algorithms against the classical RLS and known advanced adaptive algorithms. Fixed-point FPGA implementation of the proposed DCD-based RLS algorithm is also discussed and results of such implementation are presented

Iowa Agriculturist 61.04

Learning from Machines 4 Corn, Corn, Corn and More Corn 6 Communications - the Link to an Improving Agriculture 8 From Desire to the Drawing Board 11 March of Agriculture 12https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/iowaagriculturist/1028/thumbnail.jp

Iowa Agriculturist

Horses Are Back In the Picture 5 Extension Changes With The Times 6 Processing The Meat We Eat 8 From Freshman To Graduate in 15 Months 10 Both Farms and Farmers Change 12 A Little Ribbin\u27 from Your Typewriter 13https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/iowaagriculturist/1031/thumbnail.jp

Iowa Agriculturist 61.06

Real Guys in Agriculture 4 Where Ag Students Are From 6 Farm Problems Aren\u27t Unique to Iowa 8 Farm Background Helps in Ag Engineering 10 March of Agriculture 12https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/iowaagriculturist/1026/thumbnail.jp

Landlubbers as Pirates: the Lack of High Seas Requirement for the Incitement and Intentional Facilitation of Piracy

This commentary seeks to explain and evaluate the reasoning behind the recent finding, in United States v. Ali Mohamed Ali, that acts amounting to the intentional facilitation or incitement of piracy can constitute piracy in international law, and are subject to universal jurisdiction, even when those acts occurred within the territorial jurisdiction of a State. It argues that the decision has a sound basis in the orthodox rules of treaty interpretation. Although some have argued that universal jurisdiction can inhere over acts of piracy only where those acts of piracy occur beyond territorial jurisdiction, there is a strong legal and principled basis for the contrary conclusion. The decision invites a wider discussion of the limits of intentional facilitation, brief consideration of which suggests that the lack of a high seas requirement is likely to be expedient and unproblematic

NITROS An Innovative Training Program to Enhance Rotorcraft Safety

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The First Appearance in Ohio of the Theory of Continental Glaciation

Author Institution: Department of Geology, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801Louis Agassiz published his "glacial theory" in Etudes sur les glaciers in October, 1840. Edward Hitchcock wrote approvingly of the theory in 1841 and reproduced some of the Agassiz plates. Professor Samuel St. John of Western Reserve College reproduced one of the Hitchcock glacier plates and wrote favorably of the theory and described glacial drift in general in the first geology textbook published in Ohio, in 1851 at Hudson. St. John's influence was particularly important in the career of his student, John Strong Newberry, the famous geologist. Newberry's interest in glacial deposits, and especially in the origin of kames, may be traced to St. John, his geology teacher