The two-fold objective of this dissertation work has been to address both these shortcomings. They usually become exponentially localized for any amount of disorder, and have the property to tailor the electronic transport properties of DNA-based nanoelectronic devices. Design/methodology/approach: A descriptive survey design was used. Describes digital systems at gate, register transfer, and combinational block levels. Personalized Progressive Addition Lenses: Correlation between Performance and Design. The original configuration is composed of three lenses. Herein, three methods are discussed, namely Guyan, Improved Reduced System (IRS), and Hybrid. Nonlinear finite element simulations were performed to evaluate the effect of various boundary conditions, loading configurations, and material orientations on the geometric precision of geometries representing typical internal/external surfaces commonly incorporated into inflatable pathfinder system. 2.2 Design Approach The stated objectives were met by: 1. distributing the processing load among multiple Z80 single-board computers (SBCs). Volume II. For qualitative research, approximately 50% fell in the "other category" over the 25 years; in 2010, grounded theory (15, Towards a metadata scheme for the description of materials - the description of microstructures, Schmitz, Georg J.; Bttger, Bernd; Apel, Markus; Eiken, Janin; Laschet, Gottfried; Altenfeld, Ralph; Berger, Ralf; Boussinot, Guillaume; Viardin, Alexandre. We then focus on constructing synthetic multiplex networks, proposing a series of models to reproduce the correlations observed empirically and/or to assess their relevance. This increase is achieved by reduction of the numbers of pixels in the joint spatial encodings for the input TSD operands as well as reduction of the number of pixels used in the proposed matched spatial filters for the optical multipliers. We encourage further attempts to understand the strong effect of concrete descriptions for belief-inconsistent behaviour. Preservice Elementary Teachers Increase Descriptive Science Vocabulary by Making Descriptive Adjective Object Boxes, Rule, Audrey C.; Crisafulli, Sherry; DeCare, Heather; DeLeo, Tonya; Eastman, Keri; Farrell, Liz; Geblein, Jennifer; Gioia, Chelsea; Joyce, Ashley; Killian, Kali; Knoop, Kelly; LaRocca, Alison; Meyer, Katie; Miller, Julianne; Roth, Vicki; Throo, Julie; Van Arsdale, Jim; Walker, Malissa, Descriptive vocabulary is needed for communication and mental processing of science observations. This paper discusses only four elements tests three of which include joints and one that includes a tapering honeycomb core detail. Do all pure entangled states violate Bell's inequalities for correlation functions? Data were collected using translated questionnaires, and analyzed for descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation, and multiple regression analysis. A convenience sample of 240 community-dwelling adults aged 60 was recruited in May-July in 2012 in Hong Kong. Benjet, Corina; Borges, Guilherme; Medina-Mora, Mara Elena; Zambrano, Joaqun; Cruz, Carlos; Mndez, Enrique. The plasma system consisting of electrons, ions and negatively charged dust species is embedded in an ambient magnetic field. A correlational research design investigates relationships between variables without the researcher controlling or manipulating any of them. Studies published in 2005-2010 were compared as a cohort against studies published in 2011-2014, in terms of general characteristics and reporting quality. Despite the fact that TTM is typically a pediatric onset disorder, important questions remain about its phenomenology, comorbid symptoms, functional impact, and treatment utilization in youth. Correlation functionals contract the density towards the bond and the valence region thus taking negative charge out of the van der Waals region. His textbooks span across diverse topics in psychology and the behavioral sciences, including two introductory psychology texts (one upcoming), four statistics texts, two research methods texts, and multiple other texts bridging knowledge creation across health, health care, and well . The approach also permits the quantification of the loss of efficiency caused by mis-specifying the correlation parameter in the mixed-effects model. Given a vast search space of training templates, an iterative algorithm is used to synthesize a filter with an optimized performance in terms of several competing criteria. There were 142 paired samples of oral tracheal secretions. The common theme of the lectures is thus the importance of random matrix theory in a wide range of fields in and around physics.less, An Investigation of Nurses Job Satisfaction in a Private Hospital and Its Correlates, Background: Nurses job satisfaction and job stress are important issues regarding their turnovers. We employ CorrNet for several cross-language tasks and show that the representations learned using it perform better than the ones learned using other state-of-the-art approaches. Optical/Digital pattern recognition and tracking based on optical/digital correlation are a well-known techniques to detect, identify and localize a target object in a scene. Sketching in Design Journals: An Analysis of Visual Representations in the Product Design Process, Lau, Kimberly; Oehlberg, Lora; Agogino, Alice, This paper explores the sketching behavior of designers and the role of sketching in the design process. A detailed description of a video system for controlling space shuttle payloads and experiments is presented in the preliminary design review and critical design review, first and second engineering design reports respectively, and in the final report submitted jointly with the design package. Half (50.4%) of the cases utilized only outpatient services, 12.7% only inpatient services and the rest (36.9%) utilized both services. Methods and rigor issues underpinning qualitative description research are also appraised to provide the researcher with a systematic approach to conduct research utilizing this approach. This is a prerequisite to the successful customization of PALs to individual wearing preferences. The proposed joint spatial encodings allow one to reduce the SS computation rules involved in optical multiplication. However, empirically graphene is a weakly interacting semimetal, which leads to the question of how electron correlations take place in graphene at different length scales. Historic and regional examples of landscape description represent desirable insight for contemporary professional inventory work. The Houpt overall behavior and the Venham scores are global scales that properly measure children's behavior during dental sedation. Patient education initiatives should incorporate the values, beliefs, attitudes and customs reflective of an individual's country of origin to enhance the likelihood of producing desired. Positive correlation. Measures included demographic information, the Chinese Health Questionnaire, the General Functioning Scale of the Family Assessment Device, and a short version of the Chinese Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile. Validation of rapid descriptive sensory methods against conventional descriptive analyses: A systematic review. The importance of RN work engagement to promote quality and safety is widely recognized in healthcare. Here, we present a computer simulation study that examines the implications of adopting an effective one-component structural description of a polydisperse fluid. This description scheme can accommodate an essentially limitless number of descriptors in terms of features, semantics or metadata, and facilitate content-based search, index, and retrieval, among other capabilities, for both streamed or aggregated multimedia objects. Digital Systems Design Language (DDL) is implemented on the SEL-32 Computer Systems. The CES-D scale was applied for the assessment of depressive symptoms and the LESS instrument for stressful life events. We designed the Aragon Workers Health Study (AWHS) to characterize the factors associated with metabolic abnormalities and subclinical atherosclerosis in a middle aged population in Spain free of clinical cardiovascular disease. To develop quantitative design principles for guiding site-directed recombination of AAV capsids, we have examined how capsid structural perturbations predicted by the SCHEMA algorithm correlate with experimental measurements of disruption in seventeen chimeric capsid proteins. Inability to communicate needs was associated with helplessness (rs = .43). that changes. Thermal Design Approach. Geographic Correlation Between Large-Firm Commercial Spending and Medicare Spending. The design of real-valued minimum average correlation energy (RMACE) filter was investigated. These results provide insights for clinical leaders striving to support a culture of RN work engagement and quality care. We expected that the differences in the impact of concrete and abstract descriptions would be reduced or reversed, but instead we found that differences were largely absent. Sec. Unified theory for stochastic modelling of hydroclimatic processes: Preserving marginal distributions, Effective International Medical Disaster Relief: A Qualitative, Feasibility study of an Integrated Program for Aerospace vehicle, Is mind-mindedness trait-like or a quality of close relationships? Mean scores for RIME and clinical evaluations were calculated. Haubert, Lisa M; Jones, Kenneth; Moffatt-Bruce, Susan D. Medical students state the need for a clinically oriented anatomy class so to maximize their learning experience. In the survey and design phase of preliminary project construction, carrying out the evaluation and selection of green building design scheme, which is in accordance with the scientific and reasonable evaluation index system, can improve the ecological benefits of green building projects largely and effectively. 75 FR 43467 - Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability; Movie Captioning and Video Description. 73-84, Aug. 2003. Methods Medicare spending data at the hospital referral region (HRR) level were obtained from the Dartmouth Atlas. The four studies reported here sought to explore the nature of the construct of mind-mindedness. Supporting families in the ICU: a descriptive correlational study of informational support, anxiety, and satisfaction with care. Angeles International Airport 93.93 Description of area. Ground tools assist the controller in evaluating the traffic picture and determining appropriate PTM clearances to be issued. Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy is fundamental in many physical, chemical and biological studies of molecular diffusion. Small hole (electron) doping of the superlattice leads to a two-dimensional single-band situation with holes (electrons) residing on the Ni dx2-y2 (Ti dxy) orbital and coupled to antiferromagnetically correlated spins in the NiO2 layer. Numerous methods for generating TAMs have been developed in the literature. The overall communication system is described with performance analyses, communication operations, and experiment plans. The electron density distribution rho(r) generated by a DFT calculation was systematically studied by comparison with a series of reference densities obtained by wavefunction theory (WFT) methods that cover typical electron correlation effects. Logistic regression analysis after adjusting for socio-demographic characteristics confirmed that the responders who reported a high number (n = 12-21) of stressful life events during the previous year (OR = 2.64 95% CI: 1.02, 6.83) and a severe degree of stress due to these events (total LESS score > 351, OR = 3.03 95% CI: 1.66, 5.39) were more likely to manifest clinical depressive symptoms. These collective properties are due to the presence of long-range correlations, which are expected to be reflected somehow in their various spectra (electronic transmission, density of states, etc.) This study aimed to describe spatiotemporal correlates of pediatric violent injury in an urban community. We can show that such considerations are important, as they may strongly affect electronic properties such as the Kondo temperature. An automated methodology development. Intra-cluster correlation for the association between two variables was smaller than the descriptive intra-cluster correlation of each variable. 84-Contained Breathing Apparatus 84.70 Self-contained breathing apparatus; description. The proposed composite correlation filter does not involve any complicated mathematical analysis and computation which are often required in the design of correlation algorithms. We examine consequences of these differences for excess-entropy based scalings of shear viscosity, and we discuss how use of the multicomponent treatment reveals similarities between the corresponding dynamic scaling behaviors of attractive colloids and liquid water that the effective one-component analysis does not capture. Correlations Between Nutrition Habits, Anxiety and Metabolic Parameters in Greek Healthy Adults. Correlations in node properties, especially degree-degree correlations, have been thoroughly studied in single-layer networks. The most frequent adversity is economic adversity followed by witnessing domestic violence. QDA data for soy sauces were accurately predicted by projection to latent structure (PLS), with metabolite profiles serving as explanatory variables and QDA data set serving as a response variable. Based on the new Green Building Evaluation Standard which came into effect on January 1, 2015, the evaluation index system of green building design scheme is constructed taking into account the evaluation contents related to the green building design scheme. A judicious choice of the approximate quantum chemistry method depends upon the importance of dynamic and nondynamic correlation, which is usually assesed by scalar measures. PMID:27070494. This study examined the reasons for the failure of small businesses in Liberia. A multiple regression model revealed that higher descriptive norms, a more positive attitude toward pregaming, and stronger peer identification were significantly associated with greater pregaming frequency among drinkers. These mechanisms evolve typically on the femtosecond (1 fs=10(-15) s) or sub-femtosecond timescale. More revealing was the identification of distinct adaptation profiles among the HFA participants: those who had difficulty with all three levels, those who displayed Level 1 audience design but poor Level 2 and Level 3 design, and those demonstrated all three levels of audience design, like the majority of the comparison group. Both variables change in the same direction. This monolithicHARTMAN UNCLASSIFIED DRSMI/RR-SO-A-TR SBIE-AD-E950 083 N MMI LEYEL~ TECHNICAL REPORT RR-80-4 1l OPTICAL CORRELATION SEEKER Charles R. Christensen Richard LReport RR-80-4 ! Twenty (20) participants managed all stoma care aspects independently, 30 required some assistance, and four (4) required care by someone else. A novel mathematical representation of this scheme, introducing parametric correlation transformation functions, enables straightforward estimation of the parent-Gaussian process yielding the target process after the marginal back transformation, while it provides a general description that supersedes previous specific parameterizations, offering a simple, fast and efficient simulation procedure for every stationary process at any spatiotemporal scale. A total of 37 studies including 105 children were reviewed. The correlations are compared against the open-literature data, where appropriate. The present Integrated Reservoir Description (IRD) is focussed on delivering the next level of detail that will impact the understanding of the localmore reservoir architecture and dynamic performance of each well. When using a descriptive design, the researcher focuses on describing the case or situation they are studying. Linguistic bias is the differential use of linguistic abstraction (as defined by the Linguistic Category Model) to describe the same behaviour for members of different groups. The chemical results were compared with sensory data. These results suggest that the sequence space accessed by recombination of divergent AAV serotypes is rich in capsid chimeras that assemble into 60-mer capsids and package viral genomes. Higher scores on the LESS scale were associated with more frequent reports of clinical depressive symptoms (x2=70.63, df=4, p351, OR=3.03 95% CI: 1.66, 5.39) were more likely to manifest clinical depressive symptoms. The overall system design, the design of the individual program modules, and the routines in the ATLAS system library are described. He is a national award-winning author and research scholar. The property of any material is essentially determined by its microstructure. In this study, the design of Geschke et al. Also included are the procedures for performing these analyses using MSC/NASTRAN. Correlational Research Design - Methods, Types The nurses job satisfaction was negatively correlated with their job stress and intention to quit; whereas, the nurses job stress was positively correlated with their intention to quit. The proportion of studies concluding for similarity of the RDM with CDP ranged from 0% to 100%. Independent descriptive (correlational) and functional (experimental) analyses were conducted to determine the extent to which the two methods would yield data supporting similar conclusions about variables maintaining the self-injurious behavior (SIB . We extend our prior discussion of symmetric cumulants and compute as yet unmeasured symmetric cumulants. As a component of the BigEarth platform, WorDeL (Workflow Description Language) [3] is intended to offer a flexible, compact and modular approach to the task definition process. Bradshaw, Carmel; Atkinson, Sandra; Doody, Owen. To identify the relationships among functional disability, chronic daily stress, coping strategies, beliefs about personal control, social support, and life satisfaction in older women with osteoarthritis. This paper presents the findings of a research on the attitudes of design students toward the use of computers in design and its correlates. Overview of Nonexperimental Research - Research Methods in Psychology Such correlations are intrinsically multiplex, and we first study them empirically by constructing and analyzing several multiplex networks from the real world. In-situation safety behaviors play an important role in the maintenance of anxiety because they prevent patients from experiencing unambiguous disconfirmation of their unrealistic beliefs about feared catastrophes. The Computer Aided Design and Test (CADAT) system at NASA MSFC is used for the LSI design. The SSF power system is radically different from previous spacecraft power systems in both the size and complexity of the system. Description of intervention, random sequence generation, and the details regarding recruitment were also deficient; less than 50% of studies fulfilled all criteria. Involving parents in children's pain management is essential to achieve optimal outcomes. Nonlinear batch simulation analysis shows the control law exhibits good performance and meets most of the design guidelines over the entire range of angle-of-attack. The description and synthesis of the hardware architecture uses the XC3S1200E family Spartan 3E FPGA from Xilinx Manufacturer. Following validation rating of appropriateness of interventions and quantitative rankings of first-, second-, and third-line approaches, participants provided substantive handwritten narrative comments about listed interventions. Reservoir description work at sanction time concentrated on supporting the case that the field could be developed commercially with the minimum number of wells. 2004 Photon Correlation and Scattering Conference, Meyer, William (Editor); Smart, Anthony (Editor); Wegdam, Gerard (Editor); Dogariu, Aristide (Editor); Carpenter, Bradley (Editor). Descriptive Analysis of Single Subject Research Designs: 1983-2007, Single subject research methodology is commonly used and cited in special education courses and journals. Setting Participants were recruited from a medical-surgical intensive care unit in the Midwest United States. This research was conducted as a survey using a descriptive method in order to ascertain the views of school managers and teachers about the correlation between school managers' communication skills and school culture in, The AP Descriptive Chemistry Question: Student Errors, For over a decade, the authors have been involved in a design theory experiment providing software for high school students preparing for the descriptive question on the Advanced Placement (AP) chemistry examination.