The purpose of the present study was to examine the difference between a computer-mediated equivalence-based instruction (EBI) versus a human-mediated equivalence-based instruction. This study used two delivery methods to train stimulus relations across three stimulus classes with four members in each class per delivery method. The computer mediated EBI used Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 and the human-mediated training used printed stimuli on laminated paper cards delivered on a tabletop. Four participants were recruited from a university in southern Illinois. Results showed that the computer-mediated instruction was as effective as traditional human-mediated instructions. Implications for practitioners and suggestions for future research was discussed.

Les cellules solaires organiques sont une technologie très prometteuse grâce à leur faible-coût de fabrication, leur flexibilité et leur légèreté. Actuellement, elles ne sont qu’au stade du prototype à cause de leurs faibles rendements et leur courte durée de vie. L’une des voies les plus étudiées pour améliorer le rendement est la conception de nouveaux matériaux photo-actifs. Lors de cette thèse, deux séries de semi-conducteurs donneurs d’électrons. La première série comprend trois oligomères, chacun composé de trois unités de diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) qui est un chromophore très étudié dans la littérature. Ces oligomères ont la particularité d’absorber dans le proche infra-rouge. En intercalant différents groupements donneurs d’électrons entre les DPPs, différentes torsions sont obtenues le long de leur squelette. Ceci a permis d’établir qu’un oligomère plan a une plus grande cristallinité et par conséquent transporte mieux les charges, atteignant une mobilité de trou de 10-3 cm². V-1.s-1. Cependant, cette forte cristallinité entraîne une hétérojonction volumique défavorable et un faible rendement photovoltaïque (<1%). La deuxième série est composée de quatre petites molécules combinant une unité 3,3’-(ethane-1,2-diylidene)bis(indolin-2-one) (EBI) avec différents groupements donneurs d’électrons: thiophène (EBI-T), benzofurane (EBI-BF) and bithiophène (EBI-2T)). Les dérivés EBI ont été testés dans les transistors à effet de champ et dans les cellules solaires en tant que semi-conducteurs donneurs. La meilleure mobilité de trou de 0,021 cm².V-1.s-1 a été mesurée avec EBI-BF grâce à sa conformation plane alors que le PCE maximal de 1.92% est obtenu avec EBI-2T grâce à son large spectre d’absorption et une morphologie adéquate. / Organic solar cells appear as a promising technology within photovoltaic field owing to their low-cost fabrication and their great flexibility enabling a widespread distribution. For now, they are still at the prototype stage due to their limited efficiency and lifetimes. Many efforts were realized in designing new materials as they are involved in every steps of the photovoltaic process and thus they dictate the cell efficiency. Along this thesis, two series of electron-donating semi-conductors were designed and synthesized. The first series consist in three oligomers containing three diketopyrrolopyrrole units, a well-studied chromophore. Those oligomers absorb up to the near infra-red region, a very interesting feature for light harvesting. Through the engineering of electron-rich spacers, various twists were generated in the oligomers backbone. The oligomer showing a coplanar conformation appears to be the most crystalline and thus exhibits the best charge transport properties with a hole mobility of 10-3 cm².V-1.s-1.iiiHowever, bulk heterojunction organic solar cells, this high crystallinity results in an unfavorable morphology and a PCE inferior to 1%. As for the second series, the four small molecules combined 3,3’-(ethane-1,2-diylidene)bis(indolin-2-one) (EBI), an electron deficient unit, and various electron-rich units such as thiophene (EBI-T), benzofuran (EBI-BF) and bithiophene (EBI-2T). Among EBI derivatives, EBI-BF demonstrated the highest hole mobility of 0.021 cm².V-1.s-1 in field effect transistors due to its coplanar conformation. Meanwhile, in bulk heterojunction solar cells, the highest PCE of 1.92% was obtained with EBI-2T:PC61BM blend owing to a more appropriate morphology and the broadest absorption spectrum of EBI-2T.

There is a lag in implementation of evidence-based interventions (EBI) in public schools in the United States. This lag creates a gap between what has been scientifically supported and what has also been implemented in school settings by special education teachers and school psychologists. The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine if consultation and professional development resources and 2 elements of school culture (school climate and school characteristics) predict the implementation of EBIs. The study tested 7 potential predictor variables: professional development, consultation, school climate, inclusive characteristic, exclusive characteristic, bureaucratic characteristic, and adhocratic characteristic. Survey data from 137 middle school special education teachers and psychologists were analyzed using stepwise multiple linear regression analysis. Notable findings included that consultation accounted for 11% of the variance of EBI frequency alone, professional development accounted for 9%, and both combined accounted for 16%. Similarly, consultation accounted for 11% of the variance of implementation duration, professional development accounted for 8%, and both combined accounted for 15%. This study promotes positive social change through identifying ways for school administrators to increase school personnel's EBI implementation behavior: by investing in professional development and investing in consultation. Investments in these resources is predicted to improve school staffs' ability to better meet the complex educational needs of students with autism in least restrictive environments.

There is a lag in implementation of evidence-based interventions (EBI) in public schools in the United States. This lag creates a gap between what has been scientifically supported and what has also been implemented in school settings by special education teachers and school psychologists. The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine if consultation and professional development resources and 2 elements of school culture (school climate and school characteristics) predict the implementation of EBIs. The study tested 7 potential predictor variables: professional development, consultation, school climate, inclusive characteristic, exclusive characteristic, bureaucratic characteristic, and adhocratic characteristic. Survey data from 137 middle school special education teachers and psychologists were analyzed using stepwise multiple linear regression analysis. Notable findings included that consultation accounted for 11% of the variance of EBI frequency alone, professional development accounted for 9%, and both combined accounted for 16%. Similarly, consultation accounted for 11% of the variance of implementation duration, professional development accounted for 8%, and both combined accounted for 15%. This study promotes positive social change through identifying ways for school administrators to increase school personnel's EBI implementation behavior: by investing in professional development and investing in consultation. Investments in these resources is predicted to improve school staffs' ability to better meet the complex educational needs of students with autism in least restrictive environments.

Equivalence based instruction (EBI) has been demonstrated as an effective method for teaching various skills to a wide range of clinical and non-clinical populations. Recent research suggests deictic framing, or perspective switching skills, can be taught to typically and atypically developing children using an EBI teaching paradigm, however the protocols for teaching deictic framing tend to be very long. This study evaluated the effectiveness of a brief EBI and errorless learning program to teach deictic framing to a young woman with learning disabilities. A secondary purpose of this study was to determine if training on one deictic framing program would improve responding on skills that involve other deictic frames. The participant completed a pre and post-test before and after mastering one of four tested EBI programs. Results indicate that EBI is effective in teaching deictic frames, as derived relations emerged following training. The participant’s performance on other skills did not improve. These results also lend support to multiple exemplar teaching. Limitations and future directions for research are discussed.

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / This research charts the political and visual economies of asọ ebì in urban Lagos from 1960 to 2010. Under political economy I address the politics of asọ ebì dress in Lagos: the contestations surrounding the use of asọ ebì among friends, family members, organizations, among others. Under visual economy I engage the role of photography and other visual cultural practices in the practice of asọ ebì. From the 1960s asọ ebì began to be redefined in line with the cultural and socio-economic changes that came with late global capitalism. Within asọ ebì practice in the city of Lagos meanings of friendship, solidarity, camaraderie and wealth have undergone radical transformation as more people migrate to the city after Nigeria’s independence. From the 1970s through the 1980s, individuals were compelled by the economic conditions to adopt new modes of asọ ebì practice. For example new types of textile materials used for asọ ebì expanded to include cheaper textiles imported from China and elsewhere. Instead of offering aso ebi free, individuals sold it to their friends and within such transactions, politics of exclusion and inclusion ensued. From the 1990s through the 2000s, the rise of digital photography and the emergence of radical printing technology ushered a new mode of fashioning asọ ebì. In the process, photography and fashion magazines became a means of negotiating sartorial elegance and cosmopolitan modernity. In this thesis, therefore, the central argument resides in the contestations surrounding the use and meanings of asọ ebì within these transformations in the city of Lagos.

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The aim of this work is to describe the basic mechanisms of memory management and access to peripherals via EBI at the ARM9 microcontroller family. It is a solution for connecting physical ethernet interface, SD / MMC card to the device and design a development kit with the ability to connect a hard or SSD drive. The second part is aimed at operating system Linux, its modification for the ARM9 family of microcontrollers and installing software packages.

The ability to accurately predict dose from electron backscatter created by internal lead shielding utilized during various superficial electron beam treatments (EBT), such as lip carcinoma, is required to avoid the possibility of an overdose. Methods for predicting this dose include the use of empirical equations or physically measuring the electron backscatter factor (EBF) and upstream electron backscatter intensity (EBI). The EBF and upstream EBI are defined as the ratio of dose at, or upstream, from the shielding interface with and without the shielding present respectively. The accuracy of these equations for the local treatment machines was recognised as an area that required verification; in addition the ability of XiO's electron Monte Carlo (eMC) treatment planning algorithm to handle lead interfaces was examined. A Monte Carlo simulation using the EGSnrc package of a Siemens Artiste Linac was developed for 6, 9, 12, and 15 MeV electron energies and was verified against physical measurements to within an accuracy of 2 % and 2 mm. Electron backscatter dose distributions were predicated using the MC model, Gafchromic film, and XiO eMC, which when compared showed that XiO's eMC could not accurately calculate dose at the lead interface. Several MC simulations of lead interfaces at different depths, corresponding to energies of 0.2-14 MeV at the interfaces, were used to validate the accuracy of the equations, with the results concluding that the equation could not accurately predict EBF and EBI values, especially at low energies. From this data, an equation was derived to allow estimation of the EBF and upstream EBI, which agreed to within 1.3 % for the EBF values and can predict the upstream EBI to a clinically acceptable level for all energies.

This work presents the building up of basic biological units DNA, RNA and proteins as well as their function. Provided data are kept in biological databases which are connected worldwide to supply preferable communication along with all kinds of available information to be used in the scientific research. The secret of alive is hidden in genes coded in sequences of nucleotides. Genes enable the creation of proteins which are made of sequences of amino-acids. The wide-spread methods of comparing these sequences are FASTA and BLAST algorithms. Their base is used for the PSProt program which is described in this work. PSProt program is the tool for comparing the sequences of proteins. First it is necessary to synthesise the protein from the DNA oligonucleotide because it codes the surveyed protein. The most similar proteins are searched out by heuristic of hitpoints, then their final score that is essential for aligning is modified by semiglobal alignment algorithm.