Potential conflicts of interest: Dr Tu: Advisor and speaker: Allergan, Astellas, Pfizer, Medtronic, Coloplast, Researcher: Astellas, Pfizer, Allergan, Coloplast, Gynecare, Cook Myosite, Mednotric; Dr Carlson: Advisor and speaker: Allergan, AMS, Astellas, Pfizer, Researcher: Astellas, Cook Myosite, Pfizer; Dr Gajewski: Medtronic, Pfizer, Lilly, Astellas, Watson, Allergan; Dr Jolivet: Advisor and...

We present the concept of an efficiency and coordination advisor for autonomic computing approaches for dynamic optimization problems. The problem scenarios targeted contain recurring tasks that our advisor identifies over several runs of the autonomous system thus giving it some limited way to “look into the future”. If the solutions created by the autonomous agents are much worse than the opt...

Although greeting parents by name facilitates subsequent parent-teacher communication, baseline measures revealed that 4 preschool teachers never or rarely greeted parents by name during morning check-in. To promote frequent and accurate use of parents' names by teachers, the effects of a fully automated computerized assessment and programmed instruction (CAPI) intervention were evaluated in a ...

Introduction In the 16 years since the first Education for All conference at Jomtien, national governments and international donors have invested billions of dollars in programs and reforms designed to improve access to quality education, with a focus on basic education. These education programs have implemented activities designed to address many of the common obstacles to education: school co...

[Cp(*)RhCl(PTA)(2)]X (PTA = 7-phospha-1,3,5-triazaadamantane) undergoes an H/D exchange process between the methyl groups of Cp(*) and D(2)O whose rate depends on the coordinating ability of the counterion X(-). Kinetic studies and DFT calculations indicate that deuteration involves the abstraction of a Me-Cp(*) proton by a coordinated OH(-); the formation of the latter seems to be facilitated ...

Teacher still has a prominent role in shaping the generations and teacher education institutions handle the responsibility of transformation of teachers. Teachers must have a thorough basis of the content and pedagogic practices for processing the knowledge to the level of students. This paper explores more effective ways of imparting content knowledge among elementary student teachers by compa...

The Photolithography Advisor is a program for the diagnosis and correction of negative resist photolithography defects occurring during integrated circuit fabrication. Given a set of observed symptoms on a wafer, the Advisor diagnoses defects due to these symptoms and recommends corrective action for each. An early prototype of the program was tested in a research lab, where experimental ICs we...