The Atacama Desert, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes in northern Chile and southern Peru, is one of the driest regions on the planet. In spite of the extreme aridity, the Atacama is traversed by the Rio Loa, a...
Mot-clé:
antimony isotopes, Atacama Desert, Chuquicamata, El Tatio, Rio Loa et sequential extraction
Assujettir:
Contaminated sediments -- Chile -- Loa River, Trace elements in water -- Chile -- Loa River, Environmental geochemistry -- Chile -- Loa River et Water -- Pollution -- Chile -- Loa River
Under Finding of Fact 6 of the Petition and Order for Termination of Sex Offender Registration, North Carolina Superior Court Judges are required to make a determination of the potential risk posed by offenders petitioning the...
Mot-clé:
Judicial risk assessment, NC petition for removal from NCSOR, risk factors for sexual recidivism, sex offender legislation, Sex offender registration et sex offense recidivism
Assujettir:
Sex offenders -- Legal status, laws, etc -- North Carolina, Sex offenders -- Rehabilitation -- North Carolina, Judicial discretion -- North Carolina et Judges -- North Carolina -- Attitudes
The spruce-fir moss spider (Microhexura montivaga) is a federally endangered species of spider found only in the high-elevation Southern Appalachian spruce-fir forests on North-facing slopes underneath moss mats. Despite this...
The characteristics of a leadership development challenge for America's community colleges have been well-documented in the literature. A worldwide population aging trend, college leader retirements, and an ineffective system...
Mot-clé:
Community colleges, Leadership, Management, Organizational development, Succession planning et Training
Assujettir:
Community college administrators -- In-service training -- North Carolina et Educational leadership -- North Carolina
Professional learning communities (PLCs) provide schools with a tool to meet the professional development needs of their teachers through ongoing, job-embedded staff development designed to improve instruction and student...
Mot-clé:
Elementary Schools, PLC, Principal et Professional Learning Community
Assujettir:
Professional learning communities et Elementary school teachers -- In-service training
The bit error rate of a digital signal is the number of bits received incorrectly divided by the total number of bits received. A Bit Error Rate Tester (BERT) is a piece of equipment designed to calculate the bit error rate of...
Mot-clé:
4B5B, BERT et FPGA
Assujettir:
Telecommunication, Natural language processing et Field programmable gate arrays
Formaldehyde testing in poor communities can be limited by the capital costs of laboratory grade instruments. Not having access to these instruments could result in the water supply not being tested, which can lead to health...
Assujettir:
Formaldehyde -- Spectra, Spectrum analysis et Formaldehyde -- Testing
Airborne analytes are often hard to measure due to their small concentrations (ppm-ppb), espe-cially those in our atmosphere. Airborne analytes such as ozone, nitrogen dioxide, and black car-bon are commonly studied for their...
Mot-clé:
CES, CRDS et Low-cost
Assujettir:
Cavity-ringdown spectroscopy, Analytical chemistry et Spectrum analysis—Instruments
This study investigated the development and utility of the Explicit Bias Scale for Law Enforcement Officers (EBLEO), designed to measure and quantify explicit racial bias in public safety members as part of a pre-employment...
Assujettir:
Racism in law enforcement, Discrimination in law enforcement, Police, Employee screening et Social perception—Testing
Several classes of bactericidal antibiotics increase oxidative stress in bacteria by upregulating the production of reactive oxygen species. Reactive oxygen species are also produced by host immune cells as protection against...
Mot-clé:
fluorescence, oxidative stress et Superoxide dismutase
