PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine the degree of professional preparation among clinical instructors employed in baccalaureate dental hygiene programs in the U.S. and to examine clinical instructors' and students' perceived need for educational preparation. The data-generating sample consisted of 285 dental hygiene clinical students and 76 dental hygiene clinical instructors fr...

In this paper, we present selected findings from our usage analysis of an online English Language Teaching (ELT) workbook. We focus on how teachers assign activities and how learners complete them.

Various concentrations (100, 500, 1000, 5000 and 10000 ppm) of boric acid were tested in laboratory to check its potential as a slow-acting toxicant against subterranean termite, Heterotermes indicola (Rhinotermitidae: Isoptera). Under the tested concentrations, ELT 50 (Effective Lethal Dose to kill 50% of the exposed termites) values ranged from 2.7 to 5.4 days while ELT 90 were 4.5 and 9.1 da...

This paper proposes large deviation optimal properties of the empirical likelihood testing (ELT) moment selection procedures for moment restriction models. Since the parameter spaces of the moment selection problem is discrete, the conventional Pitman-type local alternative approach is not very helpful. By applying the theory of large deviations, we analyze convergence rates of the error probab...

The discussion in this talk follows from a recent contract to study control strategies for the segmented primary mirror of the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), in a comprehensive realistic setting. The talk starts by describing this application and naturally relates it to a distributed systems approach. Then it describes several specific issues and solutions for the control of the E-...

The original MASS course on which this text is based ran for 14 weeks, with three 50-minute lectures in each week (given by the second author). This structure has been preserved in the present book and may be used as a rough guide if you wish to use this book as the text for a class. However, some circumstances of the original course are worth noting. As part of the MASS program, the students, ...