This paper describes a new attrition screen for nonhigh school diploma graduate (NHSDG) applicants for service in the U.S. Army. A sample of 21,432 NHSDG Army accessions from FY00 through FY03 was used in the model development process. The new screen combines several indicators of adaptability from the motivational, mental, and physical fitness domains to forecast the likelihood of an NHSDG app...

The Department of Preventive Medicine of the University of the West Indies was established in 1957 with the idea of improving undergraduate teaching facilities to enable medical students to study patients in their homes and social environment. The authors describe the two public health diploma programs available at the University and cite pertinent enrollment and geographic distribution statist...

Background After the education reform started in 2009 in Hong Kong, there were some major effects on the Higher Diploma Programs offered by the Applied Science Discipline, Institute of Vocational Education (IVE). First, the duration of the Higher Diploma Programs was shortened to two years. Second, the science knowledge background of DSE graduates became diversified owing to the change of the c...

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly influencing human beings and are changing our attitudes towards these technologies. The purpose of this article is to understand the factors influencing the use of ICTs in agricultural extension through a descriptive research method. The populations were 320 individuals of agricultural Extension Workers (EWs) of Isfahan province...

The study examined the utilization of information and communication technologies by agricultural extension workers in Niger State, Nigeria. To achieve the study objective, 206 respondents were proportionately and randomly selected from the three agricultural zones in the State through multi-stage sampling technique. Validated questionnaire with reliability coefficient of 0.81 was used to collec...

Urban computing is an emerging multi-disciplinary research field that focuses on computing and digital networks in urban landscapes, and on the cultural and social impact this has on the city. This diploma is an exploration into this field.

Students at Vienna University of Technology can avail themselves (free of charge) of viewing their design projects by means of endoscope. While doing so basic knowledge on the endoscopic rendering technique is furnished, not only resulting in considerations regarding possibilities and limitations of endoscopic infrastructure, but also sounding out the conditions that prove suited already throug...

The Graduate Diploma in Education Technology (GDipEdTech) was developed in 1993 as an open and distance programme to meet the needs of teachers in the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors. The programme aims to integrate the use of new and emerging technologies into their classroom programmes. It has gone through a number of developments in order to keep pace with changing technologies. From...

As part of a larger study of mercury (Hg) biogeochemistry and bioaccumulation in agricultural (rice growing) and non-agricultural wetlands in California's Central Valley, USA, seasonal and spatial controls on methylmercury (MeHg) production were examined in surface sediment. Three types of shallowly-flooded agricultural wetlands (white rice, wild rice, and fallow fields) and two types of manage...