... report states that the Assessment Committee, as a starting point, used the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory s (SEDL) “Reading Assessment Database for Grades K-2: Statewide Assessments” ... as the “Assessment Committee.” The report includes an analysis of 29 assessments Of these 29, the Assessment Committee found 24 to have “‘sufficient evidence’ for use as screening, diagnosis, ... students learn to read 3) To provide assistance to SEAs and LEAs in selecting or administering screening, diagnostic, and classroom-based instructional reading assessments 4) To provide assistance...
... illegal drugs and often consume various substances together [5] The Drug Checking service includes free substance analysis and consultations or counseling sessions with a social worker from the Streetwork ... at least one being an illegal substance, such as cocaine, ecstasy, amphetamines or opiates The collected data were analyzed using SPSS statistical software for Windows, release 17 (SPSS Inc, ... first point of contact with the social support system for many users Facilitating access for this target group through Drug Checking services legitimizes the costs associated with the sophisticated...
... Building Business Case After the preliminary assessments the second stage is the last predevelopment stage In this stage the studies are more detailed Firstly a study of user needs and wants is conduced ... but a desk research which is based only in the existing recourses Secondly a preliminary technical assessment is con-ducted The technical assessment is focused on the conceptual assessment and ... official sources will be compiled and processed in order to give firm grounds for the reasons and findings of the thesis Thesis structure Aside from the introduction and conclusion, the thesis consist...
... Analysis on user s needs and wants Preliminary technical assessment Competitive advantage Preliminary financial and business assessment Technical assessment Case of UberPOP in Netherlands Dutch ... reactions Push ambassadors and professors with supportive messages • Personal outreach to tier policymakers to drive message home Figure 3.5: Uber 's communication phases - stakeholders - activities ... Case of UberPOP in Netherlands Case of UberPOP in Netherlands • UberPOP - First launched in Netherlands - Function as “carpool” service Scoping Building Business Case Preliminary market assessment...
... Digital Signal Processor 509 Fixed versus Floating Point 514 C versus Assembly 520 How Fast are DSPs? 526 The Digital Signal Processor Market 531 Chapter 29 Getting Started with DSPs ... mind Many everyday DSP applications are discussed: digital filters, neural networks, data compression, audio and image processing, etc As much as possible, these chapters stand on their own, ... entire book to solve a specific problem Support by Analog Devices The Second Edition of this book includes two new chapters on Digital Signal Processors, microprocessors specifically designed to carry...
... phase remaining after acid suspension separation was used for investigations on the clarification of turbid waters [11,12] The model aqueous solutions with determined concentrations of potassium ... metals and sorptive surfaces Orthophosphates when reacted with metals give solid metal orthophosphates, they also take part in reactions of complexation and sorptive reactions on the surfaces Polyphosphates ... its oxygen atoms replace hydroxy groups on the surface So, it is possible that P301o ions could combine with or bonds on the surface Optimization of the process The optimum conditions for phosphate...
... juice caused gastrointestinal distress in several persons (FDA, 1997a–c) Companies have recalled fruit drinks because pieces of glass or plastic were found in the products The presence of glass in ... previous sections of this document is much greater than the conÞrmed number of illnesses PESTICIDES Pesticides are usually applied to plants to combat insects, plant diseases, and weed growth to assist ... most part, these regulations set out broad statements of general applicability to all food processing on matters such as sanitation, facilities, equipment and utensils, processes, and controls...
... Discussing Sponsor-Reported Sex-Related Analyses of Differences in Drug Response (All figures in percent) Safety Efficacy Pharmacokinetics No discussion of analyses of differences in drug response ... differences disappeared when weight was taken into account In all of these cases of weight-related differences in men and women s responses to drugs, the sponsors asserted that no dose adjustments were ... address the results of sex-related analyses conducted by NDA sponsors Until recently, FDA has also lacked procedures to determine whether the reviews of its medical officers adequately discuss sex...
... Kokkinidis, Lefteris Sidirourgos and Vassilis Christophides ular design of descriptive schemata based on the mechanism of namespaces; (b) allows easy reuse or refinement of existing schemata through subsumption ... opportunities for The ICS-FORTH SQPeer Middleware 21 SQPeer query plans, as well as possible architectural alternatives for static or self-adaptive RDF /S- based P2P database systems Several issues remain ... George Kokkinidis, Lefteris Sidirourgos and Vassilis Christophides Path Patterns Class Path Patterns $C $C{X} $C{X;$D} Interpretation {c | c is a schema class} {[c, x] | c a schema class, x in the...
... only in drug resistance, the cleavage site was considered as R type sequences were assayed as substrates of HIV-1 PR using competitive assays (Table 3) Natural variations of this cleavage site (peptides ... this site is evolutionarily optimized for efficient hydrolysis, as most of the substitutions in the sequence resulted in less efficient cleavage, and none of the substitutions resulted in substantially ... hypothesis that cleavage at these sites might be the rate limiting step of Gag processing [9] Others also reported that peptides representing these cleavage sites are not efficient substrates of...
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... Professional history Registration status; most states require licensing, and some firms have multistate licenses Professional affiliations Key personnel Total number of staff Number of registered ... posttensioned slabs are designed, recording and verifying stressing operations and sampling and inspection of posttensioning strands For structural steel and miscellaneous metals, tests will ... architect s and owner s expectations ■ A question and answer opportunity for the bidders to discuss conflicts, inconsistencies, omissions, and unclear items in the plans and specifications so the...
... polymyositis and dermatomyositis are associated with myositic-specific auto-antibodies Infectious myositis (interstitial focal myositis) is caused by such infectious agents as mycoses, parasites, ... of photosensitivity reactions and fixed drug reactions In assessing patients with blisters it is important to distinguish the condition from primary bullous diseases such as pemphigus and pemphigoid ... The terms considered here refer to adverse drug reactions that affect the skin prominently and are at times severe Systemic disorders such as serum sickness may have skin manifestations but not...
... the transverse region is the same as that in the towards region Figure presents the ratios of the predictions of various MC models to the measurements for the observables shown in Fig Statistical ... the soft processes is extracted from the tracking and the muon systems of the CMS detector and thus the derived observables are insensitive to the uncertainties of the calorimetric measurements ... measured in the pseudorapidity range || < 2.4 with a detection system consisting of three subsystems: Drift Tubes, Cathode Strip Chambers, and Resistive Plate Chambers Matching track segments...
... releases of hazardous chemicals Covered employers must identify those processes that pose the greatest risks and begin evaluating those first PHAs must be completed as soon as possible At least ... manner, (e) Process hazard analysis (1) The employer shall perform an initial process hazard analysis (hazard evaluation) on processes covered by this standard The process hazard analysis shall be ... includes such considerations as extent of the process hazards, number of potentially affected employees, age of the process, and operating history of the process The process hazard analysis shall...
... accessing drugs, and some suggest that it has recently become harder to smuggle drugs IDUs said that when drugs are available, mainly via guards, inmates share needles, makeshift or otherwise, ... Public Security system deploys some 17,000 policemen in anti -drug squads.26 In 2004, the authorities took into custody at least 273,000 drug users IDUs say that police frequently detain drug users ... among Injecting Drug Users in High Risk Countries: An Assessment of the Evidence,” National Academies Press, 2006 31 Sun Junyi, Wen Aiyu and Shen Hulili “Analysis of 272 cases of swallowing foreign...
... information should reveal a preference for easy-to -process stimuli Several studies bear on this issue Some of these studies explored processing ease of different forms of symmetry, such as symmetry ... of processing fluency may serve as a nonanalytic basis for both judgments Summary and Conclusions In sum, we propose that aesthetic pleasure is a function of the perceiver 's processing dynamics: ... can process an object, the more positive is his or her aesthetic response This proposal entails four specific assumptions First, objects differ in the fluency with which they can be processed...