Elements of Effective Transfer Associate Degrees

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 (160) ◽  
pp. 5-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carrie B. Kisker ◽  
Richard L. Wagoner ◽  
Arthur M. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Associate Degrees ◽  
Effective Transfer

TRANSFER OF COMPETENCES (FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE) FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALISTS

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 663-669
Author(s):  
Hristina Milcheva ◽  
Pavlina Teneva ◽  
Katya Mollova ◽  
Albena Andonova
Keyword(s):  
Medical Science ◽  
Medical Laboratory ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
Significant Percentage ◽  
Real Application ◽  
Theory To Practice ◽  
Effective Transfer

Achieving the desired high quality of student education is a major goal and task of the higher medical schools. Training is a very factual process involving not only learning and material facilities, but also teaching staff and motivated students. The main objective in the preparation of healthcare students is the quality practical training that modern higher education has to provide. No less important is the student's opinion on the methods and tools used in their training. For this reason, the younger generation sets its requirements in its formation as a medical specialist. The modern lecturer must skillfully pass on knowledge so that a transfer of competences from theory to practice can be successfully accomplished. The purpose: Establish the students' opinion on the quality of the learning process, allowing an effective transfer of competences from theory to practice. Materials and Methods: The analyzes in this report are from an anonymous questionnaire conducted among 145 students from the Thracian University from the professional field "Health Care" - first, second and third courses specialty "Rehabilitator therapist", "Medical Laboratory assistant", "Geriatric Care" and " Nursing "during the summer semester of the school year 2017/18. MSExcel and StatGrafics were used to process the data. Results and Discussion: To achieve effective training, it is imperative for lectures to maintain a high level of competence and constantly get acquainted with developments in medical science. Students highly appreciate as the most important qualities of the teacher's ability to maintain the interest of students "; "Attitude towards students" and its "competence". A significant percentage of those surveyed believe that the theory, in theory, finds real application in practice. A significant percentage of those surveyed believe that the theory, to practice, finds real application in practice. The transfer of knowledge from theory to practice is a two-way information process between lecturers and students of scientific knowledge and practical skills. Finally, we can point out that the transfer of competence from theory to practice is a process influenced by a number of factors such as: the professional competencies of the academic lecturer and the clinical tutor; better collaboration between the higher medical school and the clinical base; organization of training. Maintaining the interest of the students in acquiring the medical profession is an important prerequisite for their subsequent successful realization.

scholarly journals Postsecondary Educational Attainment and Health among Younger U.S. Adults in the “College-for-All” Era

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 237802312110211
Author(s):  
Anna Zajacova ◽  
Elizabeth Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
High School Graduates ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Associate Degrees ◽  
Bachelor's Degrees ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
The Impact ◽  
High School Diplomas ◽  
Postsecondary Attainment

Population-health research has neglected differentiation within postsecondary educational attainments. This gap is critical to understanding health inequality because college experience with no degree, vocational/technical certificates, and associate degrees may affect health differently. We examine health across detailed postsecondary attainment levels. We analyze data on 14,750 respondents in Waves I and IV of the nationally representative Add Health panel spanning adolescence to ages 26 to 34. Multivariate regression and counterfactual approaches to minimize the impact of confounders estimate multiple health outcomes across postsecondary attainment levels. Compared to high school diplomas, we find significant returns to bachelor’s degrees for most health outcomes and smaller but largely significant returns to associate degrees. In contrast, adults with some college but no degree or with vocational/technical certificates do not have better physical health than high school graduates. Our findings highlight the stark differentiation within higher education as reflected by the disparate health outcomes in early adulthood.

scholarly journals Inclusive Higher Education and the Built Environment. A Research and Teaching Agenda for Gender Mainstreaming in Architecture Studies

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 2565 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Parra-Martínez ◽  
María-Elia Gutiérrez-Mozo ◽  
Ana Gilsanz-Díaz
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
University Education ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Mutual Care ◽  
Effective Transfer

As one of the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda, gender equality is a necessary foundation for a peaceful and sustainable world. The integration of the frameworks of analysis and action provided by gender perspective into the design, development and assessment of any program related to university education, research and management is essential to the fulfillment of both quality higher education and an effective transfer of knowledge and values to society. Starting from a standpoint of commitment to this progressive outlook, this essay focuses on the specific case of the University of Alicante, Spain, and on its Architecture studies. It seeks to underline the achievements of this institution in the fostering of a critical spirit and the empathy of its students by way of the implementation of gender perspective as a tool for the conception of complex, diverse and integrating projects, aligned to the objective of mutual care between people and the environment. This is crucial for the co-education of future generations of architects, who will play a central role in the definition of new practices and policies related to space and materials, which favor a more sustainable, inclusive and caring scenario for both humans and non-humans.

A framework ensemble facilitates high Pt utilization in a low Pt loading fuel cell

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 2957-2963
Author(s):  
Jian Wang ◽  
Guangping Wu ◽  
Wenhui Xuan ◽  
Lishan Peng ◽  
Yong Feng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fuel Cell ◽  
Phase Field ◽  
Active Sites ◽  
Catalyst Layer ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
Pt Utilization ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Low Pt Loading ◽  
Effective Transfer

Rationally designing the structure of catalyst layer in MEA to achieve the dispersion of active sites at the cross of three-phase field and the effective transfer network paths for protons through catalysts and catalyst layer.

Research on Interfacial Bond Behavior of Prestressed CFRP Sheets Strengthened SRC Beams under Symmetry Concentrated Loads

2011 ◽  
Vol 94-96 ◽  
pp. 1012-1017
Author(s):  
Na Ha ◽  
Shen Yuan Fu ◽  
Lian Guang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Interfacial Shear ◽  
Initial Strain ◽  
Concentrated Loads ◽  
Interfacial Bond ◽  
Steel Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Cfrp Sheets ◽  
Calculation Results ◽  
Minimum Potential ◽  
Effective Transfer ◽  
Prestressed Cfrp Sheets

The main form of interfacial bond stress between prestressed CFRP sheets and the beams of steel reinforced concrete(SRC) are interfacial shear and peel-off stress. The effective transfer of adhesive stress is the fundamental to ensure the structure bearing capacity improved after strengthened. According to the principle of minimum potential energy and combining with the mechanical behavior of prestressed CFRP sheets and the beams of SRC, the calculated formulas of interfacial shear and peel-off stress are deduced under symmetry concentrated loads. The influences of initial strain and the layer of CFRP sheets are discussed. The calculation results show that the effective availability of CFRP sheets is increased with the initial strain increasing under the load. And the interfacial shear and peel-off stress of beam-end are increased simultaneously with the initial strain and the layers of CFRP sheets increasing, which lead to the ends of beams occurred peel-off failure easily.

Effective Transfer Learning Algorithm in Spiking Neural Networks

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Qiugang Zhan ◽  
Guisong Liu ◽  
Xiurui Xie ◽  
Guolin Sun ◽  
Huajin Tang
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Transfer Learning ◽  
Learning Algorithm ◽  
Spiking Neural Networks ◽  
Effective Transfer

Monitoring the socio-economic development as a priority of official statistics

2015 ◽  
Vol 60 (8) ◽  
pp. 12-24
Author(s):  
Renata Bielak ◽  
Ewa Czumaj
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Information Share ◽  
Official Statistics ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
High Quality Information ◽  
Effective Transfer ◽  
Transfer Of Information

The mission of official statistics is to provide credible, reliable, independent and high-quality information on the state and changes in society, the economy and the environment, meet the needs of domestic and foreign users. Fulfillment of this obligation is reflected in the work of the current official statistics and in development activities. Monitoring of the socio-economic development requires continuous adaptation of statistics to the changing reality and the description of the phenomena and processes. The role of official statistics in the modern world goes far beyond the implementation of the research. Measuring sustainable development and information support for development policy are tangible examples of the undertaken challenges. The form and manner of data presentation have increasing importance for the effective transfer of information. To answer the need to improve communication with users, the CSO is implementing new systems of information share. The article describes, among others, ”Strateg” and ”Knowledge Databases”.

Bridging the Technology Transfer Gap

1993 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 176-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Leonard
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Cost Benefits ◽  
Trading Company ◽  
Transfer Of Technology ◽  
Maximum Benefit ◽  
Effective Transfer ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Achieve Maximum Benefit

The cost–benefits of academic–industry alliances are examined as well as the mechanisms to achieve maximum benefit to all the participants. Strategies to ensure the effective transfer of technology from universities to enterprises are reviewed and suggestions on how these might be refined and supported are offered. The article also touches on the role of a university trading company which can be pivotal in enhancing and expanding academic–industry links.

scholarly journals RFaNet: Receptive Field-Aware Network with Finger Attention for Fingerspelling Recognition Using a Depth Sensor

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (21) ◽  
pp. 2815
Author(s):  
Shih-Hung Yang ◽  
Yao-Mao Cheng ◽  
Jyun-We Huang ◽  
Yon-Ping Chen
Keyword(s):  
Receptive Field ◽  
American Sign Language ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Receptive Fields ◽  
Depth Image ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Feature Maps ◽  
Depth Sensor ◽  
Depth Images ◽  
Effective Transfer

Automatic fingerspelling recognition tackles the communication barrier between deaf and hearing individuals. However, the accuracy of fingerspelling recognition is reduced by high intra-class variability and low inter-class variability. In the existing methods, regular convolutional kernels, which have limited receptive fields (RFs) and often cannot detect subtle discriminative details, are applied to learn features. In this study, we propose a receptive field-aware network with finger attention (RFaNet) that highlights the finger regions and builds inter-finger relations. To highlight the discriminative details of these fingers, RFaNet reweights the low-level features of the hand depth image with those of the non-forearm image and improves finger localization, even when the wrist is occluded. RFaNet captures neighboring and inter-region dependencies between fingers in high-level features. An atrous convolution procedure enlarges the RFs at multiple scales and a non-local operation computes the interactions between multi-scale feature maps, thereby facilitating the building of inter-finger relations. Thus, the representation of a sign is invariant to viewpoint changes, which are primarily responsible for intra-class variability. On an American Sign Language fingerspelling dataset, RFaNet achieved 1.77% higher classification accuracy than state-of-the-art methods. RFaNet achieved effective transfer learning when the number of labeled depth images was insufficient. The fingerspelling representation of a depth image can be effectively transferred from large- to small-scale datasets via highlighting the finger regions and building inter-finger relations, thereby reducing the requirement for expensive fingerspelling annotations.

scholarly journals An assessment of the carbon balance of arctic tundra: comparisons among observations, process models, and atmospheric inversions

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 4543-4594 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. D. McGuire ◽  
T. R. Christensen ◽  
D. Hayes ◽  
A. Heroult ◽  
E. Euskirchen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Surface ◽  
Arctic Tundra ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Atmospheric Co2 ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Uncertainty Estimates ◽  
Effective Transfer ◽  
And Inversion ◽  
Process Based Models ◽  
Observation Networks

Abstract. Although arctic tundra has been estimated to cover only 8% of the global land surface, the large and potentially labile carbon pools currently stored in tundra soils have the potential for large emissions of carbon (C) under a warming climate. These emissions as radiatively active greenhouse gases in the form of both CO2 and CH4 could amplify global warming. Given the potential sensitivity of these ecosystems to climate change and the expectation that the Arctic will experience appreciable warming over the next century, it is important to assess whether responses of C exchange in tundra regions are likely to enhance or mitigate warming. In this study we compared analyses of C exchange of Arctic tundra between 1990–1999 and 2000–2006 among observations, regional and global applications of process-based terrestrial biosphere models, and atmospheric inversion models. Syntheses of the compilation of flux observations and of inversion model results indicate that the annual exchange of CO2 between arctic tundra and the atmosphere has large uncertainties that cannot be distinguished from neutral balance. The mean estimate from an ensemble of process-based model simulations suggests that arctic tundra acted as a sink for atmospheric CO2 in recent decades, but based on the uncertainty estimates it cannot be determined with confidence whether these ecosystems represent a weak or a strong sink. Tundra was 0.6 °C warmer in the 2000s compared to the 1990s. The central estimates of the observations, process-based models, and inversion models each identify stronger sinks in the 2000s compared with the 1990s. Similarly, the observations and the applications of regional process-based models suggest that CH4 emissions from arctic tundra have increased from the 1990s to 2000s. Based on our analyses of the estimates from observations, process-based models, and inversion models, we estimate that arctic tundra was a sink for atmospheric CO2 of 110 Tg C yr−1 (uncertainty between a sink of 291 Tg C yr−1 and a source of 80 Tg C yr−1) and a source of CH4 to the atmosphere of 19 Tg C yr−1 (uncertainty between sources of 8 and 29 Tg C yr−1). The suite of analyses conducted in this study indicate that it is clearly important to reduce uncertainties in the observations, process-based models, and inversions in order to better understand the degree to which Arctic tundra is influencing atmospheric CO2 and CH4 concentrations. The reduction of uncertainties can be accomplished through (1) the strategic placement of more CO2 and CH4 monitoring stations to reduce uncertainties in inversions, (2) improved observation networks of ground-based measurements of CO2 and CH4 exchange to understand exchange in response to disturbance and across gradients of hydrological variability, and (3) the effective transfer of information from enhanced observation networks into process-based models to improve the simulation of CO2 and CH4 exchange from arctic tundra to the atmosphere.

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