The results of building evaluation and feed back have been used for centuries, particularly following a major building failure. These evaluations have resulted in regulations that historically have often been the only systematic and research-based source of direction to building design. Regulations evolved into building codes, which began to control critical aspects of buildings. Over the years...

The development of information technology, such as iPad applications, facilitates the implementation of constructivist teaching methods. Thus, the present study developed a “prediction–observation–explanation” (POE) inquiry-based learning mode to teach science concepts using the iPad2. The study used the “attention-to-affect” model with a self-report measure to determine the antecedent factor –...

In 2007, Kaiser Permanente's (KP) Southern California Region designed and implemented a systematic in-reach program, the Proactive Office Encounter (POE), to address the growing needs of its three million patients for preventive care and management of chronic disease. The program sought staff from both primary and specialty care departments to proactively identify gaps in care and to assist phy...

Three-phase unbalance is an important power quality issue that can cause many negative effects to the power system. Effective mitigation and management of voltage unbalance will benefit from the knowledge of how the unbalanced sources contribute to the voltage asymmetry at the point of evaluation (POE). In this paper, a method is proposed to assess the overall unbalance contribution of the mult...

A simple and fast protocol for the preparation of a large-size mutant library for directed evolution in Escherichia coli was developed based on the DNA multimers generated by prolonged overlap extension polymerase chain reaction (POE-PCR). This protocol comprised the following: (i) a linear DNA mutant library was generated by error-prone PCR or shuffling, and a linear vector backbone was prepar...

This paper explores the application of oblivious equilibrium to concentrated industries. We define an extended notion of oblivious equilibrium that we call partially oblivious equilibrium (POE) that allows for there to be a set of “dominant firms”, whose firm states are always monitored by every other firm in the market. We perform computational experiments that show that POE are often close to...

Introduction of more effective and standardized assessment methods for testing students' performance in Africa's medical institutions has been hampered by severe financial and personnel shortages. Nevertheless, some African institutions have recognized the problem and are now revising their medical curricula, and, therefore, their assessment methods. These institutions, and those yet to come, n...

OBJECTIVE To describe the frequency, characteristics, and patient outcomes for women who accessed Emergency Medical Services (EMS) for obstetric emergencies at the ports of entry (POE) between El Paso, Texas, United States of America, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. METHODS A descriptive study of women 12-49 years of age for whom an EMS ambulance was called to an El Paso POE location fr...

Class of cellular automata (CA) for modeling reaction diffusion systems has been presented. The construction of the CA is general enough to be applicable to large class of reaction diffusion equation s. Tne automata are based on running average procedure and on probabilistic table look up to implement diffusion reactions. The evolution of probabilistic CA simulates a spatially distributed proce...