Home Childcarer Approval Scheme Application Form HCC1 (PDF 62.3KB)

Home Childcarer Approval Scheme Application Form HCC1

Cochrane Short Courses Training Application Form 2011

Application Form for Training Courses on Conducting Systematic Reviews, 2011.

Iowa Aircraft Registration Application Form, 2012

Unless specifically exempted, a certificate of registration is required to operate an aircraft in Iowa (in addition to being registered with the FAA). Aircraft registration laws are defined in Iowa Code Chapter 328. A general summary follows: Iowa residents and businesses must register an aircraft unless it is continuously located and operated beyond the boundaries of the state. Nonresident owners of aircraft providing the intrastate transportation of persons or property for compensation, the furnishing of services for compensation, or intrastate transportation of merchandise in Iowa, must register aircraft with the Iowa DOT prior to conducting those operations. Other visitors are exempt from registering aircraft in Iowa as long as their aircraft are not operated or controlled in the state for more than 30 days a year. Annual registration fees are based on aircraft age, original manufactured list price, and its type of use (personal or business). A one-time six percent use tax on the purchase price of the aircraft is collected at the time of registration. Aircraft registration fees (and aviation fuel taxes) are deposited into a State Aviation Fund to help fund aviation programs in Iowa such as airport development projects, the automated weather observing system (AWOS), runway markings, and windsocks

Proteome Analysis Database: online application of InterPro and CluSTr for the functional classification of proteins in whole genomes

The SWISS-PROT group at EBI has developed the Proteome Analysis Database utilising existing resources and providing comparative analysis of the predicted protein coding sequences of the complete genomes of bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/proteome/). The two main projects used, InterPro and CluSTr, give a new perspective on families, domains and sites and cover 31–67% (InterPro statistics) of the proteins from each of the complete genomes. CluSTr covers the three complete eukaryotic genomes and the incomplete human genome data. The Proteome Analysis Database is accompanied by a program that has been designed to carry out InterPro proteome comparisons for any one proteome against any other one or more of the proteomes in the database.

A dimensão afetiva nas representações sociais de docentes da pós-graduação em educação

Este estudo trata da dimensão afetiva nas representações sociais de docentes da pós-graduação em educação, especificamente de docentes dos Programas de Pós-Graduação em Educação da Universidade Federal do Pará e da Universidade do Estado do Pará. O objetivo desta investigação consistiu em analisar os processos constitutivos das representações sociais dos docentes dos PPGEDs sobre a afetividade, de modo a elucidar as implicações no trabalho que desenvolvem. É um estudo com foco nos processos psicossociais, nas formas de saber, conhecer e sentir advindas das construções e aquisições compartilhadas entre docentes, a partir das interações com o outro no seu contexto de trabalho. Como referencial teórico, adotamos a Teoria das Representações Sociais de Serge Moscovici (1978) referenciada na abordagem processual elaborada por Jodelet (2001) e colaboradores. Sobre a afetividade nos embasamos nos pressupostos de Freud e Wallon, estes concebem a afetividade como uma dimensão imprescindível no desenvolvimento humano, que se constitui a partir dos afetos e das relações afetivas, sujeitas a ambivalência dos sentimentos. Afetamos e somos afetados pelo amor, ódio, inveja, alegria, prazer, solidão, medo, fraternidade. É uma pesquisa qualitativa e quantitativa que buscou a compreensão dos sentidos e significados atribuídos pelos docentes pesquisados. Os instrumentos de coleta das informações foram: um formulário online e a entrevista de aprofundamento. A caracterização dos docentes participantes dos PPGEDs e as questões relacionadas à afetividade e o trabalho docente foram analisados por meio do software SPSS e, as informações das entrevistas foram submetidas à análise de conteúdo de acordo com Bardin (1977), Franco (2003) e Nascimento (2002). A partir das análises temáticas das falas dos docentes constatamos a existência de três dimensões que organizam as RS do grupo pesquisado, a saber: cognitiva, ético-política e relacional e, afetiva. Essas dimensões estruturam duas tendências centrais de objetivações e de ancoragens das representações dos docentes dos PPGED da UFPA e UEPA sobre a afetividade. A primeira indica uma forte tendência de ressignificação das representações sociais dos docentes sobre afetividade. Estas revelam imagens e sentidos assentados na partilha, no diálogo, no respeito dos docentes entre si. A segunda tendência indica que as representações sociais dos docentes estão ancoradas na racionalização dos processos psicossociais sobre a afetividade, ou seja, no universo reificado. Nesta tendência, prevalece o interesse dos subgrupos a partir das suas opiniões, crenças e ideologias. Estas duas tendências implicam em distintas relações afetivas no trabalho que realizam na pós-graduação em educação. Constatamos que a dinâmica que envolve a dimensão afetiva nas relações entre docentes nos programas de pós-graduação em educação contribui para a manutenção e/ou renovação das representações sociais partilhadas e comunicadas nestes contextos acadêmicos.

Consumer Advisory Bulletin, Protect Kids' Privacy Online, January 2008

The Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Division receives hundreds of calls and consumer complaints every year. Follow these tips to avoid unexpected expense and disappointments. This record is about: Protect Kids' Privacy Online

Online problem-based learning : perceptions of nursing educators /

A qualitative study was conducted to detennine 5 nursing educators' perceptions about the online application of a problem-based learning strategy in undergraduate nursing education. The question asked in the study was: Can the essential elements of face-to-face problem-based learning be supported in an online format? The data for this study came from 2 individual tape-recorded interviews with each of the 5 participants over a 3-month period and from a researchjournaI. The educators felt that student-centered learning and critical thinking could be supported within an online format. However, they noted that challenges could exist in terms of developing tutor roles, fostering student self-direction, facilitating group process and connections, and incorporating a nursing philosophy of online learning. The importance of tailoring an online problem-based learning course to reflect educators' philosophies and values in nursing emerged as an important theme from the interview responses. Overall, the participants suggested that an ideal environment would blend both face-to-face and online elements and that fewer elements would be offered in the first 2 years of the nursing program. They described a hybrid model of problem-based learning in which the online component could be used to support face-to-face sessions.

INFO2009 Resource Brief

Set of briefs used to select focus of activity in coursework 2 Copy of questions you will need to answer to make your selection for topic allocation Link to online Google form where you enter your choices etc.

TIMESAFE

TimeSafe es una aplicación móvil diseñada especialmente para las tiendas Carulla, la cual tiene como finalidad introducir una nueva modalidad de compra en el mercado. A diferencia de las formas tradicionales de compra, TimeSafe le permitirá al usuario estar presente en el supermercado para hacer sus compras, dándole la autonomía para registrar sus productos, pero el principal diferenciador será que el usuario tendrá la posibilidad de realizar el pago online, sin tener la necesidad de pasar por una registradora.

Validação de protocolo de assistência para pessoas com úlcera venosa na atenção primária

People with venous ulcers constitute as an important public health problem, its treatment is onerous and require assistance provided by trained professionals, systematized through protocols, however what lies in the assistance is that the management of this group of people differs from that preconized in the scientific literature, interfering with wound healing and quality of life of affected. In this sense, the construction of a assistance protocol specific to people with venous ulcers (VU) can help professionals of the Family Health Strategy both in patient assessment as and in establishment of quality assistance. Thus, this study aimed to analyse the validity of a multiprofessional assistance protocol for people with venous ulcers in primary care by health professionals using Delphi technique. This is a quantitative study, the methodological type conducted in two steps: first step related to integrative literature review to subsidize the development of the protocol, then these aspects were organized and proposed to the judges of the study through the Delphi technique. The study was initiated after approval by the Research Ethics Committee. The first step was performed between August and September 2012, in the virtual library of health, in the page of the Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel, of Municipal Health Secretariat and international guidelines of associations and in the subsequent step carried out between September 2012 to January 2013, was performed search by Lattes platform of the National Council of Technological and Scientific Development, in order to identify health professionals in Brazil who act as judges of the instrument and then, via online, the form was submitted to them.The sample for the second step was 51 judges in the first round and 35 for the second round Delphi. The analysis was done by adopting Kappa index ≥ 0.81 and Content Validity Index (CVI)> 0.80. In the first submission for the judges, items that did not reach Kappa and CVI established were: request / realization / test results, demographic data, medical history, risk factors, verification of pain / vital signs / pulse / infection signs / lesion location/ edema and pain treatment. After removal of items which have not obtained Kappa or CVI index established, it was found achieving optimal levels of these index for the categories. In the next step was the ressubmissão of protocol to judges through the Delphi technique in it was found that, of the 15 categories of the protocol, 12 presented higher scores in Delphi 2 phase and the other three categories remained the same Kappa and IVC of the previous phase. As for the average of evaluation requirements of the protocol was found that the scores assigned by the judges were higher in the second phase in nine of the 10 items, remaining the same in only one of the items indicating validity of the instrument before the consensus of the judges. Thus, we accepted the alternative hypothesis in this study, as they were obtained in the second Delphi phase the validity index greater than or equal to the Delphi 1 phase. The formulation of this assistance protocol valid and reproducible will enable a reorganization and redesign of assistance, with standardization of actions and continuity of care for persons with venous ulcers in primary health care

Sistema de recomendação de produtos online baseado em palavras-chave

This project aims to explore the many methods used for the development of recommendation systems to user ’ s items and apply the content - based recommendation method on a prototype system whose purpose is to recommend books to users. This paper exposes the most popular methods for creating systems capable of providing items (products) according to user preferences, such as collaborat ive filtering and content - based. It also point different techniques that can be applied to calculate the similarity between two entities, for items or users, as the Pearson ’s method, calculating the cosine of vectors and more recently, a proposal to use a Bayesian system under a Dirichlet distribution. In addition, this work has the purpose to go through various points on the design of an online application, or a website, dealing not only oriented algorithms issues, but also the definition of development to ols and techniques to improve the user’s experience. The tools used for the development of the page are listed, and a topic about web design is also discussed in order to emphasize the importance of the layout of the application. At the end, some examples of recommender systems are presented for curiosity , learning and research purposes

Student Performance in Traditional vs. Online Format: Evidence from an MBA Level Introductory Economics Class

All previous studies comparing online and face-to-face format for instruction of economics compared courses that were either online or face-to-face format and regressed exam scores on selected student characteristics. This approach is subject to the econometric problems of self-selection omitted unobserved variables. Our study uses two methods to deal with these problems. First we eliminate self-selection bias by using students from a course that uses both instruction formats. Second, we use the exam questions as the unit of observation, and eliminate omitted variable bias by using an indicator variable for each student to capture the effect of differences in unobserved student characteristics on learning outcomes. We report the finding that students had a significantly greater chance of answering a question correctly if it came from a chapter covered online.

A practice-based culminating experience: Writing a HRSA grant application with Texas Organ Sharing Alliance for public education efforts to increase solid organ donation

In November 2010, nearly 110,000 people in the United States were waiting for organs for transplantation. Despite the fact that the organ donor registration rate has doubled in the last year, Texas has the lowest registration rate in the nation. Due to the need for improved registration rates in Texas, this practice-based culminating experience was to write an application for federal funding for the central Texas organ procurement organization, Texas Organ Sharing Alliance. The culminating experience has two levels of significance for public health – (1) to engage in an activity to promote organ donation registration, and (2) to provide professional experience in grant writing. ^ The process began with a literature review. The review was to identify successful intervention activities in motivating organ donation registration that could be used in intervention design for the grant application. Conclusions derived from the literature review included (1) the need to specifically encourage family discussions, (2) religious and community leaders can be leveraged to facilitate organ donation conversations in families, (3) communication content must be culturally sensitive and (4) ethnic disparities in transplantation must be acknowledged and discussed.^ Post the literature review; the experience followed a five step process of developing the grant application. The steps included securing permission to proceed, assembling a project team, creation of a project plan and timeline, writing each element of the grant application including the design of proposed intervention activities, and completion of the federal grant application. ^ After the grant application was written, an evaluation of the grant writing process was conducted. Opportunities for improvement were identified. The first opportunity was the need for better timeline management to allow for review of the application by an independent party, iterative development of the budget proposal, and development of collaborative partnerships. Another improvement opportunity was the management of conflict regarding the design of the intervention that stemmed from marketing versus evidence-based approaches. The most important improvement opportunity was the need to develop a more exhaustive evaluation plan.^ Eight supplementary files are attached to appendices: Feasibility Discussion in Appendix 1, Grant Guidance and Workshop Notes in Appendix 2, Presentation to Texas Organ Sharing Alliance in Appendix 3, Team Recruitment Presentation in Appendix 5, Grant Project Narrative in Appendix 7, Federal Application Form in Appendix 8, and Budget Workbook with Budget Narrative in Appendix 9.^