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Information Age Innovations: A Case Study of Online Professional Development.

An online professional development course, Telecommunications and Information Access, offers educators the opportunity to earn graduate credit, learn about an emerging technological field, and interact using a telecommunication network. This independent study course offered by the University of Oregon and the International Society for Technology in Education is designed to introduce educators to current classroom and personal uses of computer mediated communication (CMC), databases, and distance learning. Offered entirely online, the course uses the information technologies being studied, including electronic mail, computer conferencing, remote database searching, and information about distance education by satellite. Students reported positive response to the course and the technology as an effective way to learn material otherwise unavailable to them. They were pleased with the immediate feedback for their lessons. However, they expressed concerns about costs, technical difficulties, and general lack of support for implementation for telecommunications in education. (9 references) (Author/BBM) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * from the original document. ***************%*******.*********************************************** U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Rsearch and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) r This document has boon reproduced as received horn th.. Nerson or organization originating It t Miner changes 115,e been made to improve reproduction qualdy Points ot view or opinions Slat ed 0 this docu merit do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy Information Age Innovations: A Case Study of Online Professional Development Lynne Schrum Internet: Lschrum@oregon.uoregon.edu. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA., April, 1992 BEST COPY HAILABLe PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ER)C1.Information Age Innovations: A Case Study of Online Professional Development Lynne Schrum, University of Oregon

Topic: Online and Blended Learning
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Individuality-Preserving Gait Pattern Prediction Based on Gait Feature Transitions

This paper proposes a method for predicting individuality-preserving gait patterns. Physical rehabilitation can be performed using visual and/or physical instructions by physiotherapists or exoskeletal robots. However, a template-based rehabilitation may produce discomfort and pain in a patient because of deviations from the natural gait of each patient. Our work addresses this problem by predicting an individuality-preserving gait pattern for each patient. In this prediction, the transition of the gait patterns is modeled by associating the sequence of a 3D skeleton in gait with its continuous-value gait features (e.g., walking speed or step width). In the space of the prediction model, the arrangement of the gait patterns are optimized so that (1) similar gait patterns are close to each other and (2) the gait feature changes smoothly between neighboring gait patterns. This model allows to predict individuality-preserving gait patterns of each patient even if his/her various gait patterns are not available for prediction. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated quantitatively. with two datasets.

Topic: Gait Recognition and Analysis
Subfield: Biomedical Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Enhancing java call control with media server control functions

In this paper, we propose a novel abstraction layer for application service\nimplementation compliant with the Java Call Control (JCC) specifications. It\nsimplifies creation of multimedia services using the Session Initiation\nProtocol (SIP) and the Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP). In order to show\nits effectiveness, we have implemented a JCC Resource Adaptor for a JAIN\nService Logic Execution Environment (JSLEE), using the Mobicents application\nserver, which is the only existing open source JSLEE implementation.\nExperimental results, obtained by implementing a complex VoIP service, show\nboth a significant simplification of service implementation and improved\nperformance over legacy solutions.\n

Topic: Mobile Agent-Based Network Management
Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
CRNA awareness and experience with perioperative DNR orders.

Despite 2 decades of experience with do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders, some controversy regarding their use still remains. By using a mailed questionnaire to a randomized sample of 500 active members of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists, the present study explored the awareness, experiences, and opinions of nurse anesthetists regarding DNR orders for patients undergoing surgery. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the need for further education and discussion in this area. Of the 228 (45.6%) respondents, more than half had DNR policies at their facility, while the remainder reported no policy or were unsure whether a policy existed. Of those having policies, 67.2% indicated a policy of routine DNR suspension, approximately 20% had a policy of reevaluation, and the remainder were unsure of the type of policy. However, when asked what type of policy respondents thought was most appropriate, 54.2% favored a policy of reviewing the DNR order, with 95% advocating patient involvement in the reevaluation. Moreover, almost 90% of responding CRNAs indicated they would discuss DNR status with the patient before surgery. When a patient with a DNR order subsequently had an intraoperative cardiac event, 13% initiated resuscitation. Responding to a hypothetical question involving a patient with a DNR order, 42% to 48% of respondents indicated they would initiate resuscitative measures in such a situation depending on the cause of arrest.

Topic: Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
Subfield: Emergency Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
[High-dose immunoglobulins for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis: pilot study of 7 cases].

High intravenous doses (400 mg/kg) of gammaglobulin (IVIG) were administered monthly for six months to 7 patients with severe rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In all cases, previous treatment with NSAIDs and corticosteroids and in 3 of them with gold and/or methotrexate had been ineffective. A 50 per cent improvement of Ritchie index was obtained in 6/7 patients, morning stiffness was reduced from greater than 2 hours to less than 30 minutes in 6/7 patients. Swollen joints and Lee index improved in all patients. ESR did not show any change but RCP improved in 6/7 patients. The study of lymphocyte subpopulation showed no substantial changes in CD20+, CD3+, CD4 and CD8 cells as well as in CD4/CD8 ratio and a significant increase in 2H4+T cells without changes in 4B4+ subpopulation. IVIG improved the clinical and laboratory features of patients with severe RA. The major problem raised by IVIG therapy is its high cost suggesting that this therapy should only be applied in well selected patients with RA.

Topic: Immunodeficiency and Autoimmune Disorders
Subfield: Immunology
Field: Immunology and Microbiology
Domain: Life Sciences
The difficult crossroads of decisions at COVID-19: how can the deontology implicit in Evidence-Based Medicine help us to understand the different attitudes of doctors at this time?

ABSTRACT One of the struggles faced by physicians in clinical decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic is how to deal with already available or lacking scientific evidence. The COVID-19 pandemic has a large impact in the routine of the many health services, including surgery, which demanded changes in assist protocols. Questions began to arise about well-established surgery conducts due to situations related to SARS-COV-2 infection, and, according to public health measures that are necessary to fight the pandemic. In situations of scarce available evidence, it is natural for us to have to deal with systematically more fragile, provisory and bias-susceptible information. Considering the principles that guide Evidence Based Medicine and Bioethical, the authors analyze the complexity of the medical decision-making during this time. Medical conducts must be adapted to the context of fighting the pandemic and consider patients and healthcare providers exposure and well-being and, lastly, the conservation of resources. The authors conclude that acceptance and tolerance to divergence is commendable, being a path to achieving unity in the diversity of medicine in times of little safe knowledge.

Topic: COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
Subfield: Oncology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
New Approach for Passivation of Ga&lt;inf&gt;2&lt;/inf&gt;O&lt;inf&gt;3&lt;/inf&gt;-In&lt;inf&gt;2&lt;/inf&gt;O&lt;inf&gt;3&lt;/inf&gt;-ZnO Thin Film Transistors

We successfully integrate the Ga <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sub> O <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">3</sub> -In <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sub> O <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">3</sub> -ZnO (GIZO) thin film transistors (TFTs) under conventional dry etching and passivation process using a novel capping layer. The passivated TFT shows a superior stability performance which has the threshold voltage shift of less than 0.6 V at 3 uA and 60degC in 100 hours. This is very promising results for applications in driving TFT for large area active matrix OLED display.

Topic: ZnO doping and properties
Subfield: Materials Chemistry
Field: Materials Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Test and Evaluation of Field-Deployable Infectious Disease Diagnostic Assays in Support of the Joint Biological Agent Identification and Diagnosis System (JBAIDS): Malaria (Plasmodium/JBAIDS)

Abstract : A Plasmodium genus dual-fluorogenic, hydrolysis probe (TaqMan) polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay was developed using real-time PCR instrumentation (MiniOpticon Real-Time PCR System, Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA). The Plasmodium genus assay is sensitive, specific, and provides rapid detection from infected mosquitoes and malaria patient blood. Operational applications are FHP disease surveillance and ultimately molecular-based diagnostics. A unique ISS rRNA gene sequence conserved in Plasmodium species was targeted for the design of oligonucleotide primers and probe. The LoD of the Plasmodium genus TaqMan assay was established at 10 genome equivalents using P. vivax plasmid and P. falciparum plasmid. The assay was 100% (17/17) concordant in testing using a diverse panel of Plasmodium species and strains prepared as plasmid control DNA. The assay was 100% (5/5) sensitive and 100% (13/13) specific in testing with a diverse panel of human malaria Plasmodium species and non-malaria pathogens. No cross-reaction occurred with human blood samples. Transfer to the RAPID/JBAIDS presents no technical challenges.

Topic: Malaria Research and Control
Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Isotretinoin: A Reappraisal

Isotretinoin is remarkably effective in the treatment of severe cystic acne, however, many complications have been observed during treatment and new toxic effects have been reported. Hypertriglyceridemia associated with decreases in high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol has occurred in 25 percent of patients and requires monitoring during treatment. Painful erosions with granulation tissue recently have been reported in patients with severe acne. Other complications have included corneal opacities, pseudotumor cerebri, hypercalcemia, photosensitivity reactions, abnormal liver function tests, and skeletal hyperostosis. Isotretinoin is teratogenic and should be avoided during pregnancy. With the increasing acceptance and use of isotretinoin for cystic acne, as well as related disorders (inflammatory papulopustular acne with scarring, gram-negative folliculitis, and acne rosacea), a reevaluation of isotretinoin aimed at reducing complications is in order. Patient selection criteria and guidelines directed at reducing these complications are presented.

Topic: Acne and Rosacea Treatments and Effects
Subfield: Dermatology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
HOW DO YOU COLLECT AND USE PUBLIC INFORMATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRANSPORTATION PLANS AND PROGRAMS

The research and findings of this study stem from an attempt to answer the question of how do you collect and use public information in the development of transportation plans and programs, posed by the Arizona Department of Transportation. This document attempts to answer this question using a variety of methodologies. The findings from a comprehensive literature review, telephone interviews, a mail survey, and two focus groups are presented. The final recommendations can be found in Chapter seven. In sum, the research conclusively supports the following: Enhancing citizen participation in the transportation planning process, although difficult, is a worthwhile endeavor. Public participation should be done in a variety of case-specific and innovative ways other than the traditional form of public meetings and hearings. By increasing and better utilizing public input into the planning process, an agency increases the chances of program and planning success.

Topic: American Environmental and Regional History
Subfield: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Removing some heavy elements from their chemical solutions by benzimidazole azo reagent

Abstract In this articl, we synthezied an azo- benzimidazole reagent to remove the lead and cadmium ions from therir solutions. The yeled of the reagent was high reching 80%. The infrared spectroscopy refres to exit important groups such as hydroxy, N-H, C=N, C=C and azo group which give the color for the regeant. The X-RD spectroscopy indicates crystaline nature of the azo- benzimidazole reagent. The azo- benzimidazole reagent exhibted amisaing ability to remove the cadmium ions in large range of the concentrations and at low concentrations of lead ions with high sensetivity.

Topic: Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal
Subfield: Water Science and Technology
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Bistable arches for morphing applications

This article examines the bistable behavior of an arch for morphing applications. The arch has a cosine profile, is clamped at both ends, and is restrained axially by a spring at one end. Fabrication and testing of several Delrin and NiTiNOL arch specimens (with varying arch height, thickness, and spring stiffness) were followed by ANSYS finite element modeling, and the ANSYS simulation results showed good overall agreement with the test results. A parametric study was conducted using the ANSYS model to assess the influence of arch thickness, height, and spring stiffness on the bistable behavior. The results indicated that lower arch thickness, larger arch height, and higher spring stiffness tend to promote bistability; lower arch thickness and height reduce peak strains as the arch moves between equilibrium states, but increasing spring stiffness has a smaller effect; and higher arch thickness, height, and spring stiffness increase the snap-through force, which in turn increases the actuation force requirement as well as load carrying capability of the bistable morphing arch. If the arch slenderness ratio is unchanged, change in arch span (size) does not change the maximum stress while increasing the peak snap-through force proportionally.

Topic: Aeroelasticity and Vibration Control
Subfield: Aerospace Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Structured Domain Adaptation With Online Relation Regularization for Unsupervised Person Re-ID

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims at adapting the model trained on a labeled source-domain dataset to an unlabeled target-domain dataset. The task of UDA on open-set person reidentification (re-ID) is even more challenging as the identities (classes) do not have overlap between the two domains. One major research direction was based on domain translation, which, however, has fallen out of favor in recent years due to inferior performance compared with pseudo-label-based methods. We argue that domain translation has great potential on exploiting valuable source-domain data but the existing methods did not provide proper regularization on the translation process. Specifically, previous methods only focus on maintaining the identities of the translated images while ignoring the intersample relations during translation. To tackle the challenges, we propose an end-to-end structured domain adaptation framework with an online relation-consistency regularization term. During training, the person feature encoder is optimized to model intersample relations on-the-fly for supervising relation-consistency domain translation, which in turn improves the encoder with informative translated images. The encoder can be further improved with pseudo labels, where the source-to-target translated images with ground-truth identities and target-domain images with pseudo identities are jointly used for training. In the experiments, our proposed framework is shown to achieve state-of-the-art performance on multiple UDA tasks of person re-ID. With the synthetic→real translated images from our structured domain-translation network, we achieved second place in the Visual Domain Adaptation Challenge (VisDA) in 2020.

Topic: Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods
Subfield: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Stature of caucasian elderly estimated by scapula length from Chest X-ray

Stature is an important biological characteristic considered in the clinical activities. Height (h)is frequently hard to measure in the elderly population or in people with skeletal deformities and vertebral fractures. Furthermore it represents also a key point in forensic evaluations. Our aim was to provide an equation in order to predict human height based on the Longitudinal Scapular Diameter(LSD) measured through a Chest X-ray (CX) in an elderly Italian population. We enrolled 60 patients (age > 65 years) who underwent a standard CX. An average LSD was obtained on the basis of the measurements of left and right scapula. Stature was measured in standard conditions by a calibrated stadiometer in all patients. A linear predictive model was employed to estimate stature by LSD. The predictive equation for stature estimation [cm] from LSD [cm] was: h=2.969*LSD+116.7. The linear regression was significant (p <; 0.01) and the correlation coefficient was 0.75. In order to assess the performance of the proposed model, we compared our results with the values obtained in the same population with a largely employed approach, i.e., the Chumlea's method. Considering the whole population, the mean error using LSD equation was 4.4 cm vs 4.6 cm from Chumlea's. The proposed linear relationship between human height and LSD measured by CX can be considered valid in elderly patients, showing comparable results to the Chumlea's method.

Topic: Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Optimal Scheduling of Intergroup Pumping of PV Complementary Wells Based on Improved NSGA-III Algorithm

<title>Abstract</title> In the mid-to-late production stage of oil and gas fields, wells suffering from insufficient fluid supply experience a significant increase in energy consumption due to frequent start-stop operations. Under the dual-carbon strategy, PV-grid complementary power supply faces a critical contradiction between the volatility of photovoltaic generation and the dynamic mismatch with intermittent pumping schedules. How to effectively couple the unstable power supply characteristics of PV-grid energy with the stable production requirements of oil wells is a key challenge for optimizing intermittent pumping scheduling under PV-grid complementarity. Therefore, this study proposes an intermittent pumping optimization framework based on PV-grid coordinated power supply. By integrating a spatiotemporal attention-based forecasting module to accurately capture photovoltaic fluctuations and considering production constraints at both the supply and demand sides, a two-stage robust optimization scheduling model with pre-scheduling and dynamic adjustment is established. The model is solved using an improved NSGA-III algorithm to generate coordinated PV-grid well group intermittent pumping strategies, enabling efficient collaborative operation and cost optimization of oil well production systems under PV-grid complementarity. Experimental results demonstrate that, compared with the original intermittent pumping regime, the proposed approach reduces costs by 35.18%, achieves a PV power utilization rate of 78.34%, and realizes an electricity saving rate of 33.91%. Hence, the integrated “forecast-optimization” model presented in this paper holds significant implications for the integrated development of oil and gas and new energy sources.

Topic: Photovoltaic System Optimization Techniques
Subfield: Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Field: Energy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Privacy-Preserving Deployment Mechanism for Service Function Chains Across Multiple Domains

Network function virtualization (NFV) has attracted attention because of its flexible configuration and management of network functions. Based on NFV, the service function chain (SFC) defines a group of virtual network functions (VNFs) connected sequentially, enabling flexible customization and provisioning of network services. In the large-scale and heterogeneous Internet of Things (IoT) environment, e.g., industrial IoT, servers provided by a single infrastructure provider (InP) cannot support the deployment of all VNFs, and SFCs must be deployed across multiple domains. However, SFCs deployed across multiple domains will inevitably bring privacy leakage and resource coordination difficulties, thereby reducing the efficiency of network services. To address these issues, this paper proposes a privacy-preserving deployment mechanism (PPDM) for SFCs that achieves near-optimal SFC deployment across multiple domains while protecting resource and topology privacy. PPDM first performs virtual resource prediction and forms the service intention response matrix (SIRM) based on SFC requests (SFCRs). Second, the multi-domain controller (MDC) discovers a near-optimal SFCs deployment strategy by deep Q-network (DQN) using SIRM as input to protect domains' privacy. Finally, the learned strategies are distributed to intra-domain controllers (IDCs) to implement specific services. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms privacy-preserving and non-privacy-preserving methods.

Topic: Software-Defined Networks and 5G
Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences