Qualifications, critiques, and reforms: The rhetoric surrounding the New Zealand qualifications authority

Bobby Elliott Scottish Qualifications Authority

Two New Weak Constraint Qualifications and Applications

We present two new constraint qualifications (CQ) that are weaker than the recently introduced Relaxed Constant Positive Linear Dependence (RCPLD) constraint qualification. RCPLD is based on the assumption that many subsets of the gradients of the active constraints preserve positive linear dependence locally. A major open question was to identify the exact set of gradients whose properties had...

Unofficial Qualifications

Teacher Retention and Qualifications

In upcoming years, the United States will experience an unprecedented teacher shortage, meaning that the country will need to supplement its teaching force with approximately two million new teachers. The massive shortage will come as a result of increasing student enrollments, mounting retirement rates of current teachers, and high rates of attrition for beginning teachers. Additionally, the N...

Authors' qualifications in IJS

patent vessels. 3. The authors state that the infra-popliteal region evaluation was not included in their study. The importance of assessing distal run-off in arterial occlusive disease is crucial for prognostic purposes in addition to strategic planning of revascularization procedures. Although the most difficult portion of a Doppler evaluation, it needs to be performed with great patience, al...