In this component of the evaluation, the Circles of Care grantees assessed the feasibility of their model systems of care. The goal of the Feasibility Assessment was to assure that each model system of care was well designed with careful consideration of project goals, community resources and readiness, cultural competence and measurable outcomes.

In this paper, a radically new concept of Stiff Seismic Base Absorber (SBA) is proposed for seismic protection multistory building structures. An inerter first implemented, connecting directly the structure to ground. This results in decrease natural frequency structure, without decreasing its structural stiffness. Parallel, negative stiffness-based absorber used increase apparent damping behav...

In this study, we report on the results of studies in which two randomized groups of students are monitored while they solved exercises in a Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA) course. The first group did the exercises on the web and the second one in the classroom sessions. A web based system was employed that was able to give feedback and automatically assess the exercises. The research ques...

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To find feasible alternatives to the use of SF6 in medium voltage switchgear equipment, AREVA T&D and Tsinghua University has started a cooperation to investigate the feasibility of using vacuum. This paper focused on three main points of the design of the Vacuum Insulated Switchgear (VIS): the maintainability of vacuum system, the insulation performance, and the thermal behavior under operatin...