Iowa Natural Resources, Agency Performance Plan, 2007

Annual Report, Agency performance plan

Avaliação do curso de gerenciamento online na perspectiva dos egressos

RESUMO Objetivo Avaliar curso online na perspectiva do egresso e verificar a relação entre variáveis. Método Estudo quantitativo, descritivo e exploratório, aplicado aos participantes no final de três versões de um curso de atualização onlinena temática de Gerenciamento em Enfermagem. Resultados Os índices de satisfação nas três categorias elencadas, em três anos, apresentaram resultados acima de 75,0%. Os coeficientes obtidos indicaram alta consistência do questionário. Considerando o índice total, a categoria Desempenho do tutor foi a de índice mais alto. Fortes associações entre Autoavaliação e Desempenho do tutor, Autoavaliação e Programa do curso e Desempenho do tutor e Programa do curso foram identificadas. Não houve associação entre as três categorias referidas com as demais variáveis do estudo. Conclusão Os egressos demonstraram satisfação com o curso, que favoreceu a interação e a promoção do conhecimento coletivo no gerenciamento em enfermagem. Foram reconhecidos, também, aspectos que carecem de melhorias, com destaque à capacitação do tutor para mediar discussões e estimular o envolvimento do estudante ao longo do curso.

LSTA Five Year Plan 2008-2012, 2007

The 2008-2012 Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) Plan represents a blueprint for the State Library of Iowa’s federally funded activities over the next five years. We feel we have been successful in striking a balance between challenging ourselves to achieve more and being realistic about what we can actually accomplish with current human and financial resources. We have incorporated “Lessons Learned” from the previous five year plan. These include: • Continue to use LSTA funding primarily for projects of statewide impact, an emphasis based on input from the Iowa library community. • Consider carefully the ramifications of taking on additional projects. We have carefully selected a few, new projects. • Leverage staff resources and non-federal funding to carry out our LSTA plan. A number of programs and services identified in the plan also use state funding, including the State Data Center, Iowa Publications Online, Direct State Aid, Open Access and Access Plus. • Measure progress regularly and frequently. We plan to review our progress in implementing the plan at least quarterly and will ask the Iowa Commission of Libraries to review progress annually. • Write objectives that come closer to identifying impact. We believe our target outcomes are do-able and come closer to measuring impact.

Audit report on the Iowa Water Pollution Control Works Financing Program (Clean Water Program) and the Iowa Drinking Water Facilities Financing Program (Drinking Water Program), joint programs of the Iowa Finance Authority and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on the Iowa Water Pollution Control Works Financing Program (Clean Water Program) and the Iowa Drinking Water Facilities Financing Program (Drinking Water Program), joint programs of the Iowa Finance Authority and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, for the year ended June 30, 2006

State of Iowa Public Drinking Water Program 2005 Annual Compliance Report, Department of Natural Resources, June 2006

This report contains information about Iowa's public drinking water program for the calendar year 2005. Included in the report are descriptions of Iowa's systems, monitoring and reporting requirements of the systems, and violations incurred during the year. This report meets the federal Safe Drinking Water Act's requirement of an annual report on violations of national primary drinking water regulations by public water supply systems in Iowa.

Iowa's Hidden Water Resources, 2001

Water fact sheet for Iowa Department of Natural Resources and the Geological Bureau.

Aging and the lateralization of oscillatory activities related to external and internal motor preparation

Selection of action may rely on external guidance or be motivated internally, engaging partially distinct cerebral networks. With age, there is an increased allocation of sensorimotor processing resources, accompanied by a reduced differentiation between the two networks of action selection. The present study examines the age effects on the motor-related oscillatory patterns related to the preparation of externally and internally guided movements. Thirty-two older and 30 younger adults underwent three delayed motor tasks with S1 as preparatory and S2 as imperative cue: Full, laterality instructed by S1 (external guidance); Free, laterality freely selected (internal guidance); None, laterality instructed by S2 (no preparation). Electroencephalogram (EEG) was recorded using 64 surface electrodes. Motor-Related Amplitude Asymmetries (MRAA), indexing the lateralization of oscillatory activities, were analyzed within the S1-S2 interval in the mu (9-12 Hz) and low beta (15-20 Hz) motor-related frequency bands. Reaction times to S2 were slower in older than younger subjects, and slower in the Free than in the Full condition in older subjects only. In the Full condition, there were significant mu MRAA in both age groups, and significant low beta MRAA only in older adults. The Free condition was associated with large mu MRAA in younger adults and limited low beta MRAA in older adults. In younger subjects, the lateralization of mu activity in both Full and Free conditions indicated effective external and internal motor preparation. In older subjects, external motor preparation was associated with lateralization of low beta in addition with mu activity, compatible with an increase of motor-related resources. In contrast, absence of mu and limited low beta lateralization in internal motor preparation was concomitant with reaction time slowing and suggested less efficient cerebral processes subtending free movement selection in older adults, indicating reduced capacity for internally driven action with age.

Bacteria in Iowa's Water Resources, 2003

This fact sheet answers questions such as, is it safe to swim in the water and who is monitoring the beaches in Iowa

Comércio Electrónico: Reservas Online da Agência Krioula

O trabalho que ora se apresenta, Comércio Electrónico: Reservas Online da Agência Aliança Krioula”, é um trabalho de final do curso, para obtenção de grau de Licenciatura em Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação. O objectivo deste trabalho é a elaboração de um site de Comércio Electrónico para a agência de viagem Aliança Krioula, de forma a possibilitar as pessoas efectuarem as suas Reservas Online.Para a elaboração do mesmo, foi utilizado a ferramenta Joomla, visto que é uma ferramenta gratuita e muito poderosa, que serve para conceber sites de forma rápida e eficiente. Também o trabalho tem como principal propósito, conceptualizar alguns termos relacionados com o Comercio Electrónico. O projecto procura mostrar a importância do Comércio Electrónico nas sociedades modernas. A realização deste trabalho possibilitou a chegada de conclusões importantes sobre vários aspectos de Comércio Electrónico e Gestão de Conteúdo, mais concretamente a ferramenta Joomla que serviu de suporte para o Website.

Sistema de Inscrição para Prova de Ingresso Online

Este trabalho visa apresentar o desenvolvimento de um Sistema de Inscrição Para a Prova de Ingresso Online, dando um especial enfoque à inscrição e selecção dos candidatos para a prova de ingresso na Uni-CV. A situação actual da gestão de inscrição para prova de ingresso era efectuada manualmente, sendo que isto causa alguns constrangimentos. Considera-se que deve primar para uma gestão mais eficiente. Neste sentido, define-se como objectivo o desenvolvimento desse Sistema de Inscrição para Prova de Ingresso Online na Uni-CV. Para o efeito, analisa-se neste trabalho o sistema actual numa perspectiva de concepção de uma aplicação que atenda as necessidades específicas e reais desta Instituição. Várias abordagens foram conceptualmente discutidas num referencial teórico para elaboração do sistema, tendo sido privilegiados os conhecimentos apreendidos durante a formação académica designadamente nas disciplinas Técnicas de Programação, Base de Dados, Sistemas de Informação, Desenvolvimento de Projectos Informáticos, Desenvolvimento avançado de aplicações internet, Planeamento e gestão de projectos, Projectos e Metodologias de Desenvolvimento de Sistemas de Informação. A análise do sistema e a geração de documentação da base de dados foram realizadas com os recursos das ferramentas de desenvolvimento. Para o desenvolvimento do sistema foram utilizados as linguagens de programação PHP, HTML, UML. Para a base de dados que elegeu-se o MySQL. Fundamentou-se essa opção, pelo facto de serem tecnologias modernas e que proporcionam ao sistema uma grande fiabilidade e também porque a Instituição utiliza-se as mesmas tecnologias, o que facilita as coisas.

Audit report on the Iowa Department of Natural Resources for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on the Iowa Department of Natural Resources for the year ended June 30, 2006

Gross – to – Net Payroll Calculation Program Human Resources Information System (HRIS), 2000

Gross-to-Net is a payroll calculator modeled after the actual payroll calculation used for state employees’ paychecks. This calculator can be used to project changes in net pay when there are changes in pay amounts, hours worked, mandatory and voluntary deductions, including all pre-tax deductions such as retirement, insurances, deferred compensation or flexible spending plans. Federal and state tax withholding, retirement rates, OASDI and Medicare (FICA) are calculated using current rates.

Is the person trade-off a valid method for allocating health care resources? Some caveats

The Person Trade-Off (PTO) is a methodology aimed at measuring thesocial value of health states. The rest of methodologies would measure individualutility and would be less appropriate for taking resource allocation decisions.However few studies have been conducted to test the validity of the method.We present a pilot study with this objective. The study is based on theresult of interviews to 30 undergraduate students in Economics. We judgethe validity of PTO answers by their adequacy to three hypothesis of rationality.First, we show that, given certain rationality assumptions, PTO answersshould be predicted from answers to Standard Gamble questions. This firsthypothesis is not verified. The second hypothesis is that PTO answersshould not vary with different frames of equivalent PTO questions. Thissecond hypothesis is also not verified. Our third hypothesis is that PTOvalues should predict social preferences for allocating resources betweenpatients. This hypothesis is verified. The evidence on the validity of themethod is then conflicting.