However, the calculation and the realization of such structures requires particular knowledge and experience. That is why the construction of such structures is something exceptional. In addition to the anisotropy of material wood, the spatial structure of laminated and screwed beams has a structural anisotropy. They constitute highly unspecified static systems. Currently the engineer does not ...

Educators who work in community settings often encounter participants with a wide array of individual leadership beliefs, attitudes, and experiences. Given this situation, one of the challenges we face is to identify effective methods and tools to teach leadership in community and organizational settings. As an educator, it is important to understand and use quality scholarship and theory in le...

The following paper is an account of a commercially successful and viable expert system entitled FRED (Feedback Reporter Evaluating Development). Expert systems offer a consistent approach to providing feedback to individuals that people with personal biases and emotions may find difficult to achieve. The text used in the expert system is sensitive and carefully worded by a team of skilled prof...

We present a novel and effective method for modeling a developable surface to simulate paper bending in interactive and animation applications. The method exploits the representation of a developable surface as the envelope of rectifying planes of a curve in 3D, which is therefore necessarily a geodesic on the surface. We manipulate the geodesic to provide intuitive shape control for modeling p...

Experiential learning, an effective method in business and MIS courses, has been limited by instructional formats and teaching resources. But with the advent of Web 2.0 and its rich set of social networking and mass authoring tools, a shift in learning from delivery to experience is forming. In this paper, we propose an experience-based, outcome-driven pedagogical model that is particularly sui...

What is the best method for doing simulation research? This has been the basis of a continuing debate within the social science research community. Resolving it is important if the community is to demonstrate clearly that simulation is an effective method for research in the social sciences. In this paper, we tackle the question from a historical and philosophical perspective. We argue that the...

3. An effective method to separate the free hormone from the hormone bound to the protein. The total amount of the labelled hormone preparation and the binding protein, followed by separation of the bound from unbound hormone. By measuring the radioactivity in each fraction, one obtains a bound: unbound ratio which is referred to a standard curve to obtain the concentration of the hormone in th...

The Health Problem: There is often a lack of capacity to see follow-up patients within a specified time frame due to pressures of clinical resources. As a result, many patients waiting for routine follow-up have their appointments delayed. In some cases a formal face-to-face follow-up appointment may not be necessary. In addition, telephone consultation may be considered preferable by patients ...

Outcomes of this empirical study demonstrated that executive coaching is an effective method of leadership development. One hundred fourteen executives and 42 coaches were surveyed using instruments designed to gather both quantitative and qualitative data. Results indicated that executive change occurred in 5 areas: people management, relationships with managers, goal setting and prioritizatio...

As a widely used groundwater flow model, MODFLOW offers a set of packages to simulate hydrologic stresses, inflows and outflows, to a groundwater system. Specifically, MODFLOW lacks a general method to process areally distributed recharge and discharge to groundwater. One solution would be to create a new package for MODFLOW. Alternatively, it is also possible to make the best use of existing c...