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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"MCAS"”.
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Organizational sense making : responsibilities to the MCAS reform in the Massachusetts public schools
… Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) a system of standards and accountability passed by the Massachusetts state legislature as part of the Education Reform Act, 1993. Conceptually the dissertation draws from foundational studies of public schooling, which establish education as a …
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An evaluation of the Aviation Maintenance Climate Assessment Survey (MCAS), applies to the 3rd Marine Air Wing
… of the Maintenance Climate Assessment Survey (MCAS). This survey is designed to capture maintainer perceptions of safety. This thesis analyzes the results of 977 responses to MCAS given to the 3rd Marine Air Wing (MAW) maintenance personnel. In addition, it explores the MCAS's relationship with …
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Massachusetts School District responses to standards-based reform : issues of implementation and the impact of the MCAS
… grade levels across five subject areas. The MCAS test included a high-stakes component, which meant that all tenth graders were required to pass the exams in order to graduate beginning in the year 2003. With the year 2003 rapidly approaching, districts across the state are attempting to …
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Application of Dupont’s Dirty Dozen Framework to Commercial Aviation Maintenance Incidents
… the 2017 Maintenance Climate Awareness Survey (MCAS) (subjective). The MER and MOSA reports were coded by aviation maintenance subject matter experts (SMEs) using the 12 Dirty Dozen categories as the coding scheme, while the MCAS responses were parsed according to the precondition category they …
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Endothelin-1 and Hypoxic Vascular Remodeling in Ovine Fetal Cerebral Arteries
… ETAdependent manner in Middle Cerebral Arteries (MCAs). ET-1 also exerts trophic effects on ovine fetal cerebrovasculature in organ culture in a PKC-dependent manner by inducing hypertrophy and increasing medial thicknesses, more in normoxic than hypoxic MCAs. ET-1-induced increase in arterial …
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Comparative study of base community relations in Japan
… controversy at four different U.S. installations MCAS Futenma, Kadena Air Base, Naval Station Yokosuka, and MCAS Iwakuni. It identifies five causal factors historical anti-militarism, major crimes, civil nuisance, aviation safety, and community profile. I assess the impact of these factors at the …
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The evolutionary dynamics of clonal haematopoiesis and its progression to acute myeloid leukaemia
… haematopoiesis. Mosaic chromosomal alterations (mCAs) can also be important drivers in AML and ~3\% of individuals aged ~40-70 have a clonally expanded mCA detectable in >1% of their blood cells. We therefore adapted our framework to quantify the mutation rates and fitness effects of mCAs in …
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An analysis of the effect of budget reductions on military force structure realignment
… cost as compared to dual-site plans that include MCAS Kaneohe Bay as a P-3 receiver site. Also, the effect of BRAC-related MILCON deferrals will be to significantly increase OMN and MPN account costs over the FYDP by forcing the delay of base closures.
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Assessment of high-value near-term engineering innovations for Indian sanitation
… that contribute to sustainable sanitation, and MCAs are often very context-specific, non-quantitative, and used primarily for comparative purposes. The SaNI framework enables analysis of cost of sanitation systems vs. population density to yield underserved populations and perform an MCA-like …
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Vascular receptor changes in ischemic stroke
… of ET(B) receptors. 2. Organ culture of rat MCAs induces a time-dependent upregulation of contractile ET(B) receptors. The phenomenon is due to de novo transcription of the receptors and is partly dependent on PKC. 3. bFGF increases the ET(A) and ET(B) receptor mRNA expression in rat cerebral …
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Characterization of arsenic-binding siderophores from environmental bacteria and evaluation of their role in arsenic tolerance
… activity. To detect the latter, a new method (As-mCAS) was set up, based on the Chrome Azurol S (CAS) test, an assay to detect iron-chelating activity of siderophores. After testing the extracts, R. erythropolis S43 was selected as the strain with the best arsenic-binding activity. For the …
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Searching for deep understanding : implementing a mechanical engineering design process in K9-K12 physics classrooms to identify and improve levels of physics intuition and content
… same students tended to do very well in their MCAS (Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System) as well as in the framework of traditional classroom testing and assignments. Conclusions can be drawn from this thesis work that although students can demonstrate proficiency of bodies of …
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MAPK and pro-inflammatory mediators in the walls of brain blood vessels following cerebral ischemia
… in the SMCs of the middle cerebral arteries (MCAs) and in associated microvessels within the ischemic region (Figure 3) and not in vessels on the contralateral side. This was confirmed with western blot analysis that showed the protein levels of MMP-9 and TIMP-1 were significantly increased in …