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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Initial Placement"”.
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Floor Planning and Global Routing in an Automated Chip Design System
… structure layout, the system is divided into initial placement, initial floorplan construction and a floorplan packing. A new analytical model is introduced for the initial placement. Unlike previous analytical methods in which modules are modeled as points, the area of each module as well as …
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Charting a Path to Success: How Alternative Methods of Mathematics Placement Impact the Academic Success of Community College Students
Results indicated that an institutional placement policy prescribing placement by an examination of multiple measures consisting of placement test score and self-reported high school preparation resulted in student placement into higher-level mathematics courses with equal academic success when …
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Impact of a selected remedial mathematics course on Accuplacer re-test results
… course offered at a selected community college. Initial placement test scores were compared with scores resulting from a placement retest after completion of the remedial course. While the majority of students placed higher on the retest, the most significant increases were achieved by students …
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Resiliency in Rural Northern California County Community and Continuation School Graduates: Experiences and Characteristics of Resiliency Among Successful Graduates
… and behaviors associated with alternative school placement, (b) developmental assets or “protective factors” (Benard, 1997) acquired since initial placement in an alternative school, and (c) what or who created the “conditions of empowerment” (Benard, 1997) enabling resiliency in the graduate.</p> …
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Antecedents of success in the associate degree and certification programs at Gloucester County New Jersey Community College
… College gave each student a state mandated placement examination in Reading Comprehension, English Composition, and Mathematics Computation and placed those students who failed the exams in pre-collegiate developmental courses hoping thereby to prepare them for regular collegiate level work. …
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Field observations of the early-age behavior of jointed plain concrete pavements
… width and growth during the first 72 hours from initial placement. Re-evaluation of the Phase I theoretical pavement analysis and early-age concrete material property developments were also required by additional laboratory testing, slab behavior and actual strain measurement data collection.;The …
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Optimizing The Performance Of A Chip Shooter Machine
… new solution approach to determine the component placement sequence and feeder assignment for a turret style Chip Shooter machine often used in PCB assembly systems. This solution approach can be integrated into a process planning system to reduce assembly time and improve productivity. The Chip …
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The Effect of Programmed Instruction about Pacemakers given in the Hospital Setting on the Immediate and Delayed Retention of Information on Patients with Permanent Cardiac Pacemakers
… patients composing group A, hospitalized for initial placement of permanent cardiac pacemakers, was studied. A programmed instructional test was prepared by the investiga- tors for this population. The question under study was, does programmed instruction for pacemaker patients affect …
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Effects of Occlusal Splints and Occlusal Equilibration on Skeletal Muscles in TMJ Patients
… horizontal arm adduction and hip flexion at the initial placement, both at the .05 level of significance. After the patients were asymptomatic, all three notions tested stronger with the splint versus the original occlusion at the .05 level of significance. Following occlusal equilibration the …
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The use of adaptive behavior information by school psychologists in the psychological evaluation of secondary age students
… important sources of information regarding the initial identification and programming of students placed in special education classes. Because the adaptive behavior instruments developed for public school use have emphasized the initial placement/ identification of elementary age students, it …
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Impact of DNA accessibility and sequence on eukaryotic origin licensing
… not known. To gain additional insights into the initial placement of the Mcm2-7 complex, we used a method to create DNA-protein roadblocks at defined positions within origin DNA. Because both ORC and Mcm2-7 must encircle DNA, these roadblocks prevent stable DNA association. When a single …
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Diagnostic Comparison Between Free Speech Samples and Imitation Tasks
… subjects were tested with the key words in the initial position of a sentence versus the key word in the middle or end of the sentence. This proved to be a significant factor. Initial placement consistently lead to greater success. </p> <p>Test-retest reliability for the free speech sample and …
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Parents' Perceptions of Communication Practices with School Professionals during Initial Years of Special Education Placement.
… many issues, including parental issues. Initially parents had to fight to be heard when addressing the needs and concerns of their child. Now parents are considered a crucial part of the special education process.</p><p>The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the thoughts and …
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Emotional availability: foster caregiving experiences
… for successful adolescent foster care placement--from initial placement of an adolescent to age eighteen or emancipation from foster care, as mandated by the state of Colorado. Emotional availability of foster caregivers and the phenomenon's impact are critical when anticipating …
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The synthesis of nearest neighbour compliant quantum circuits
… reduce the time taken to find an initial placement, a method of random sampling was proposed. The distribution of the swap costs for random circuits was modelled as a normal distribution to approximate how many random placements need to be inspected in order to find one within a …
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Three Essays at the Intersection of Child Welfare and Public Policy
… at entry, disability status, reason for removal, initial case goal, initial placement type, Title I school status, and their urbanicity are all associated with educational instability.</p>
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BUILDING EFFICIENT AND COST-EFFECTIVE CLOUD-BASED BIG DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
… system, that utilizes workload-aware data placement and replication to minimize the number of distributed transactions that incorporates a suite of novel techniques to significantly reduce the overheads incurred both during the initial placement of data, and during query execution at …
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Knotless bidirectional barbed versus smooth polypropylene three-loop pulley sutures for repair of canine gastrocnemius tendon
… loading and the suture backed out from its initial placement. Two (6%) barbed sutures broke under tension during testing. With regards to the smooth polypropylene, 31/33 constructs failed by suture material pulling through the tendon. In these cases, the knot and suture material remained …