Undergraduate course catalog (Florida International University). [2014-2015]

This catalog contains a description of the various policies, undergraduate programs, degree requirements, and course offerings at Florida International University during the 2014-2015 academic year.

Graduate course catalog (Florida International University). [2014-2015]

This catalog contains a description of the various policies, graduate programs, degree requirements, and course offerings at Florida International University during the 2014-2015 academic year.

Information Presentation Features and Comprehensibility of Hospital Report Cards: Design Analysis and Online Survey Among Users

Background: Improving the transparency of information about the quality of health care providers is one way to improve health care quality. It is assumed that Internet information steers patients toward better-performing health care providers and will motivate providers to improve quality. However, the effect of public reporting on hospital quality is still small. One of the reasons is that users find it difficult to understand the formats in which information is presented. Objective: We analyzed the presentation of risk-adjusted mortality rate (RAMR) for coronary angiography in the 10 most commonly used German public report cards to analyze the impact of information presentation features on their comprehensibility. We wanted to determine which information presentation features were utilized, were preferred by users, led to better comprehension, and had similar effects to those reported in evidence-based recommendations described in the literature. Methods: The study consisted of 5 steps: (1) identification of best-practice evidence about the presentation of information on hospital report cards; (2) selection of a single risk-adjusted quality indicator; (3) selection of a sample of designs adopted by German public report cards; (4) identification of the information presentation elements used in public reporting initiatives in Germany; and (5) an online panel completed an online questionnaire that was conducted to determine if respondents were able to identify the hospital with the lowest RAMR and if respondents’ hospital choices were associated with particular information design elements. Results: Evidence-based recommendations were made relating to the following information presentation features relevant to report cards: evaluative table with symbols, tables without symbols, bar charts, bar charts without symbols, bar charts with symbols, symbols, evaluative word labels, highlighting, order of providers, high values to indicate good performance, explicit statements of whether high or low values indicate good performance, and incomplete data (“N/A” as a value). When investigating the RAMR in a sample of 10 hospitals’ report cards, 7 of these information presentation features were identified. Of these, 5 information presentation features improved comprehensibility in a manner reported previously in literature. Conclusions: To our knowledge, this is the first study to systematically analyze the most commonly used public reporting card designs used in Germany. Best-practice evidence identified in international literature was in agreement with 5 findings about German report card designs: (1) avoid tables without symbols, (2) include bar charts with symbols, (3) state explicitly whether high or low values indicate good performance or provide a “good quality” range, (4) avoid incomplete data (N/A given as a value), and (5) rank hospitals by performance. However, these findings are preliminary and should be subject of further evaluation. The implementation of 4 of these recommendations should not present insurmountable obstacles. However, ranking hospitals by performance may present substantial difficulties.

Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program Recipe Cards

These are cards giving recipes for fruit and vegetable dishes. Recipes include: confetti bean salsa, Mediterranean quinoa salad, minty watermelon cucumber salad, quick refrigerator pickles, broccoli salad, apple, cranberry and almond coleslaw, farmers’ market pasta salad, roasted beet and butter bean hummus, spinach and strawberry pecan salad, okra, avocado and tomato salad, plum-berry mint smoothie and crispy baked vegetables.

Poliittisten ilmausten kääntäminen House of Cards -televisiosarjassa

Tässä pro gradu -tutkielmassani tutkin, miten Yhdysvaltain poliittiseen järjestelmään liittyvät ilmaukset on käännetty erään tv-sarjan ranskan- ja suomenkielisiin tekstityksiin. Tutkimusaineistona on amerikkalainen tv-sarja House of Cards, jonka on alun perin julkaissut suoratoistopalvelu Netflix. Suomenkieliset tekstitykset on kerätty Suomen Netflixistä, ranskankieliset amazon.com -sivulta ostetulta DVD:ltä. Tutkimuskohteena ovat ilmauksissa käytetyt käännösstrategiat. Oletan, että ilmaukset on käännetty joko virallisia vastineita hyväksi käyttäen tai yleistämällä. Pohjaan tutkimuksen Pedersenin (2011, 75) käännösstrategialuokitteluun. Valitsin aiheen, koska olen kiinnostunut poliittisista järjestelmistä ja halusin tietää, millä tavoin tietyn valtion politiikkaan liittyvät ilmaukset on käännetty hyvin perinteisen valtavirtaisen saippuasarjan tekstityksiin. Teoriaosuudessa esittelen tutkimukseen liittyvien maiden poliittiset järjestelmät tai lähinnä hieman niiden toimintaa sekä pääinstituutiot. Tämä auttaa lukijaa ymmärtämään paremmin tv-sarjassa käytettyjä ilmauksia. Poliittisten järjestelmien selvitys osoittaa myös itse tutkimuksessa, onko niiden eroilla vaikutusta käännöksiin. Lisäksi kerron audiovisuaalisesta kääntämisestä, vertailen dubbausta ja tekstittämistä sekä erittelen tekstittämisen haasteita. Varsinkin tekniikan luomat rajoitteet kuten tilanpuute vaikuttavat lopputulokseen. Lopulta käyn läpi, mitä ovat käännösstrategiat, millä tavoin ne vaikuttavat käännökseen ja miten niitä on luokiteltu. Lopuksi vertailen luokitteluja ja kerron, miksi pohjasin tutkimukseni Pedersenin (2011, 75) luokitteluun. Tutkimuksessa esittelen ilmausten kääntämistä käännösstrategioiden kautta. Kuten oletinkin, moniin ilmauksiin löytyy virallinen vastine. Mielenkiintoinen tulos oli kuitenkin, että sekä suomen- että ranskankielen kääntäjä on käyttänyt hyvin selkeästi tiettyä strategiaa tietyn ilmauksen kohdalla. Monesti tämä strategia on lisäksi ollut sama molemmissa käännöksissä. Tutkimuksesta tämä käy ilmi esimerkkirepliikeistä, joita olen kerännyt taulukoihin. Taulukoista näkyy kaikki tutkimukseen liittyvät kielet: englanti, suomi ja ranska. Mielenkiintoista olisi nähdä, onko esimerkiksi sarjan toisella kaudella ilmaukset käännetty samoja käännösstrategioita käyttäen tai millä tavoin politiikkaan liittyviä ilmauksia käsitellään muiden kielten tekstityksissä. Saattaa olla, että tämän kaltaisen valtavirtaan sopivan tv-sarjan tekstitykset ovat hyvin samanlaisia, jokin toisenlainen tv-ohjelma tai elokuva voisi käyttää täysin eri käännösstrategioita.

The devil's picture-books. A history of playing cards,

Mode of access: Internet.

Hoyle's games : illustrated edition. Embracing all the most modern modes of play, and the rules practised at the present time, in billiards, whist, draughts, cribbage, backgammon, and all other fashionable games; together with sixteen games adapted to the new Yankee-notion cards. Also the whole of Frer̀e's chess hand-book. Containing, besides elementary instruction and the laws of chess, about fifty select games by the first players, endings of games, and the defeat of the muzio gambit. Also, thirty-six of the choicest chess problems, and a description of, and rules for, four-handed chess /

Classified for chess; Frère's chess hand-book, p. 229-324.

The compleat gamester : or, Full and easy instructions for playing at above twenty several games upon the cards with variety of diverting fancies and tricks upon the same now first added ; as likewise at all the games on the tables, together with the royal game of chess and billiards.

Mode of access: Internet.

Improved Electronics for the Hall A Detectors at JLab: Summing Modules and VDC Amplifier/Discriminator Cards

Testing of summing electronics and VDC A/D Cards was performed to assure proper functioning and operation within defined parameters. In both the summing modules and the VDC A/D cards, testing for minimum threshold voltage for each channel and crosstalk between neighboring channels was performed. Additionally, the modules were installed in Hall A with input signals from shower detectors arranged to establish a trigger by summing signals together with the use of tested modules. Testing involved utilizing a pulser to mimic PMT signals, a discriminator, an attenuator, a scaler, a level translator, an oscilloscope, a high voltage power supply, and a special apparatus used to power and send signal to the A/D cards. After testing, modules were obtained that meet necessary criteria for use in the APEX experiment, and the A/D cards obtained were determined to have adequate specifications for their utilization, with specific results included in the appendix.

Políticas educativas, trabajo docente y cotidiano escolar : Cuesta, Carolina y Sawaya, Sandra (comps.) (2016): Lectura y escritura como prácticas culturales. La investigación y sus contribuciones para la formación docente. Buenos Aires, Edulp, pp. 101. Libro digital disponible en: http://libros.unlp.edu.ar/ index.php/unlp/catalog/book/512

Fil: Marcos Bernasconi, Luisina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

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Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program Recipe Cards

These are cards giving recipes for fruit and vegetable dishes. Recipes include: confetti bean salsa, Mediterranean quinoa salad, minty watermelon cucumber salad, quick refrigerator pickles, broccoli salad, apple, cranberry and almond coleslaw, farmers’ market pasta salad, roasted beet and butter bean hummus, spinach and strawberry pecan salad, okra, avocado and tomato salad, plum-berry mint smoothie and crispy baked vegetables.