The ACRL committee appointment process

Due process hearing officers: characteristics, needs, and appointment criteria.

Characteristics and training needs of due process hearing officers in North Carolina were surveyed. It was found that current regulations governing appointments of hearing officers are insufficient to ensure appointment of qualified and impartial persons. Criteria were analyzed and suggestions for training and appointments are made. ANN P. TURNBULL is Research Associate, Bureau of Child Researc...

16-899C ACRL Tetris Reinforcement Learner

Our approach to this problem was to use reinforcement learning with a function approximator to approximate the state value function [RSS98]. In our case, a +1 reward was given for every completed line, so that the value function would encode the long-term number of lines that is going to be completed by the algorithm. In order to achieve this, we extract features from the game state, and use gr...

The 10-minute appointment.

An Ethics Committee in the Third Sector: Process and pitfalls

This article describes the lessons learned from introducing and establishing an ethics committee in a large third sector care provider. The article hopes to encourage other organisations to introduce similar committees and to help avoid potential problems and give advice on how to navigate others. It also hopes to give researchers and students insight into how a committee works and therefore pe...

The Challenges of e-Appointment: Process Modeling, Infrastructure, and Organizational Context

This contribution focuses on the question why eappointment has not (yet) become a “killer application”. It reports on two strategic efforts to introduce e-appointment applications in a given environment: (1) the Hamburg city state administration seeking to improve its e-government services through allowing citizens to make appointments with administrative staff, and (2) the Hamburg medical asso...