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Showing 1 to 20 of 97 for “"new program"”.
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Housing assistance and the creation of household wealth
… aims to develop the framework of a housing program designed to help current recipients of rental subsidies begin to build household wealth through homeownership. Its core beneficiaries are households in Boston and Cambridge earning between 60% and 80% of the area median income. It also …
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Designing a task-based syllabus and materials for Tyndale Level 1
… the Tyndale St. George's Community Centre with a program it could adopt for its Level 1 adult ESL course by adapting a structural/functional set of materials and syllabus to reflect a different approach. It is by exploring and putting into practice current thinking and research in syllabus design, …
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Building energy calculator : a design tool for energy analysis of residential buildings in Developing countries
… In developing countries, enormous numbers of new residential buildings are being constructed each year, and many of these buildings perform very poorly in terms of energy efficiency. One of the major barriers to better building designs is the lack of tools to aid architects during the …
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Examination of the implementation of a job-related social skills program in high school classes for students categorized as cognitively impaired: a case study approach
A job-related social skills program for high school students with mild cognitive impairments, using a range of media materials has been implemented in several school districts in Virginia. The program, developed under the auspices of the U.S. Office of Special Education Programs, will be examined …
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Program Inference and Regeneration via Active Learning
… life cycle, including the development of new software, detection and elimination of defects and security vulnerabilities in existing software, maintenance of legacy software, and integration of existing software into more contexts, with the quality of the resulting software still leaving …
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Fast program for sequence alignment using partition function posterior probabilities
… and fast execution. The existing Probalign program is a highly accurate tool for sequence alignment of both proteins and nucleotides. However, the time for execution is fairly high. The focus is therefore, to reduce the running time of the existing version of Probalign, maintaining its …
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Reading recovery: An orchestration of literacy for the "at risk" first grader
Reading Recovery is a relatively new program in California as it was only introduced in 1991-1992 school year. Its growth in the last four years has been gratifying, but still there are many who do not know what Reading Recovery is and how it is different from the other programs that have been used …
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Architectural Dissection and Intervention: Old Wiehle Brewery
… mediate the old through the intervention of the new?" By using methods of dissection, one is able to deconstruct the layers of a historic situation and identify key elements of the old in an effort to provoke a dialog with elements of the new. The historic artifact, in this case an abandoned …
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Teacher Professional Development and The Seven 21st Century Survival Skills: A Program Evaluation
… leadership determined by the evaluation of the program. Outcomes of this study outline an essential new program and a change in policy that is needed to support student success in every area of post-high school life.</p>
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A Critical Palimpsest: Reconstruing an Existing Spatial Condition
… possibilities of palimpsest through layering new construction upon extant. The existing building, a neglected warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky, is challenged by a new program that is intended to subdivide the vast, horizontal space and reconstrue the two distinctly ordered systems to …
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Architectural visualisation toolkit for 3D Studio Max users
… Batzal Roof Designer. This thesis details a new program which has been developed to automate the modelling and rendering of the architectural visualisation process. The tool created for this thesis is written in MAXScript and runs along side 3D Studio Max. N.B.: Audio files were attached to …
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Development of an integrated building energy simulation with optimal central plant control
… of computer-based building energy analysis programs is to assist heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) engineers in the design process and to help researchers develop more effective and efficient methods of controlling a building's environment. One such program is BLAST (Building …
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The elements of variety: as studied through the design of a community learning center
Each new program carries a set of inherent issues which must influence the choice, exploration and manifestation of a thesis. Some issues contributing to design include questions of the physical and social site as well as of the particular programme. Distinctions within design are frequently linked …
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Oligonucleotide Design for Whole Genome Tiling Arrays
… known to exist in a contiguous region. Current programs for designing oligonucleotides for tiling arrays are not able to produce results that are close to optimal since they allow oligonucleotides that are too similar with non-targets, thus enabling unwanted cross-hybridization. We present a new …
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F.D. Roosevelt School Student Handbook
… indicates that an appropriate orientation to a new program which includes a clear definition of goals and expectations has a positive effect on emotional and psychological adjustment of new students.</p> <p>The Educational Supervisor of the F.D. Roosevelt School recognized the need for a student …
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The effectiveness of reading programs for the intermediate remedial student
Research on remedial reading programs has a controversial history. Although extensive research has been conducted on pull-out programs, far less research has evaluated remedial reading programs within the regular classroom. This study investigated whether using the basal or a new program, Project …
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Bidding at the prison auction house: An exchange of prisoners' and university students' perceptions of crime and punishment
During the spring of 2006, a new program was instated at West Virginia University that provided an arena for undergraduate Criminology majors and residents of a correctional facility to discuss and learn about issues within the criminal justice system. The class took place at a correctional …
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Meeting Joint Commission Compliance by Improving the Chart Audit Process
… improvement team focused on ensuring that the new electronic process was user-friendly, encompassed all the quality areas needed, and allowed charts to be reviewed more quickly. Once the electronic audit was implemented, preliminary surveys showed that nurses were pleased with the new program …
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ReHABit : claiming endangered structures in Washington DC to rethink subsidized housing
… thesis responds to that crisis by proposing a new program of subsidized housing that differs from the historically large scale, myopic solutions of the last century by attempting to claim under-used buildings in Washington that have the potential to re-invigorate the city. Endangered structures …
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