Civil service reform at Los Angeles

Los Angeles Studies

Writings on Los Angeles highlight the city as a flashpoint for theoretical and empirical research on postmodernism, post-Fordism, globalization, urban spatial development, cultural heterogeneity, and symbolic mediation. This essay reviews a selection of books and articles that take Los Angeles as their topic of study and argues that these writings signal the emergence of a specialty field that ...

Take-off engine particle emission indices for in-service aircraft at Los Angeles International Airport

We present ground-based, advected aircraft engine emissions from flights taking off at Los Angeles International Airport. 275 discrete engine take-off plumes were observed on 18 and 25 May 2014 at a distance of 400 m downwind of the runway. CO2 measurements are used to convert the aerosol data into plume-average emissions indices that are suitable for modelling aircraft emissions. Total and non...

Artificial Intelligence Research at the University of California, Los Angeles

Research in AI within the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Los Angeles is loosely composed of three interacting and cooperating groups: (1) the Artifical Intelligence Laboratory, at 3677 Boelter Hall, which is concerned mainly with natural language processing and cognitive modelling, (2) the Cognitive Systems Laboratory, at 4731 Boelter Hall, which studies the nature...

University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine.

Professional Identity at Los Angeles College of Chiropractic

OBJECTIVE The objective of this article is to describe chiropractic professional identity as espoused by the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic. DISCUSSION Professional identity is a construct that begins formation prior to career selection, can be considered the backbone of health care education, and has been linked to career success. Los Angeles College of Chiropractic's professional ident...