As it was indicated in [5], A. Odlyzko asks for which values of N the set A contains all residue classes (modp). The conjecture is that one can take N to be as small as p1/2+ε, for any positive ε and p > c with some c = c(ε). From the result of Rudnick and Zaharescu [4] it follows that in Odlyzko’s problem one can take N = c0p logp for some absolute constant c0. One of the main results of [5] i...

We will examine the subset FQ,p of Farey fractions of order Q consisting of those fractions whose denominators are not divisible by a fixed prime p. In particular, we will provide an asymptotic result on the distribution of H−tuples of consecutive fractions in FQ,p, as Q → ∞.

This paper presents the results of an exploratory empirical field test of the K-C Model of customer contact (Kellogg, 1991; Kellogg & Chase, 1995) in a hospital setting. Seventy service workers in seven departments of a regional hospital were surveyed regarding the elements of the K-C Model based on their perceptions of a "typical" service encounter with a customer/patient. Service worker SCORE...

Measuring personality is a complex task. Besides difficult content-based problems there are some psychometric issues to be met, i. e. socially desirable answering tendencies. The present study uses simulation-based objective personality measurement to meet these psychometric issues. Computer-based “guard” and “stray” scenars are developed and tested in two samples of Special Forces applicants r...

Brain based teaching and learning strategies have been presenting themselves at an increasing rate within our school systems. Educators need to focus on at-risk and special education students and identify strategies that are effective with these populations. Two African American special education students attending school at an urban school within the Rochester City School District participated...

I am always attempting to develop new and better ways to teach beginning teachers “all there is to know” about child development and special education. Over the years this process has lead me to feel more and more disillusioned. I am convinced that we need a total revamp of how we approach teaching educational psychology and propose that our discipline re-define what is considered to be essenti...

This paper presents a limited case study examining the causal inference of student mobility on standardized test performance, within one middle-class high school in suburban Connecticut. Administrative data were used from a district public high school enrolling 319 10th graders in 2010. Propensity score methods were used to estimate the causal effect of student mobility on Math, Science, Readin...

This report summarizes the proceedings of the first day of the Metagenomics, Metadata and MetaAnalysis (M3) workshop held at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology 2010 conference. The second day, which was dedicated to the inaugural meeting of the BioSharing initiative is presented in a separate report. The Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) hosted the first day of this Special Interest...

PURPOSE Under the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA; as amended, 2004), speech-language pathology services may be either special education or a related service. Given the absence of guidance documents or research on this issue, the purposes of this clinical exchange are to (a) present and analyze the IDEA definitions related to speech-language pathologists (SLPs) and their roles...